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Good evening. A main news this Friday evening.

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Jennifer Cardy parents talk about coping with the trauma of the last

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30 years. Robert Black stole the life of our daughter, but he will

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never steal our lives for our family's lives. We will continue to

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live. Live from Dublin, the Labour veteran Michael D Higgins will be

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elected Ireland's ninth president. Karen Walsh is told she must serve

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at least 20 years for murdering a Maire Rankin.

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First tonight we return to the horrific killing of a nine-year-old

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Jennifer Cardy outside Lisburn the third tick -- 30 years ago.

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Yesterday Robert Black was convicted of her murder. He was

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already serving life for the abduction and murder of three other

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girls. Jennifer's parents had been speaking to the BBC. During the

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interview they talked about their Christian faith, and said sitting

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through the trial was like losing her again every day. We asked them

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how they had coped with their loss? To be very honest, there were days

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I wished that my whole family could have it ended. Everyone, not only

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struggled, but every one had a painful, painful experience. I can

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remember when we were looking for Jennifer, and we thought we were

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looking for a body. I can remember we went down, my brother-in-law

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arrived one day, and he said, I want you to come down with me to

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the nerve centre where they were searching. We went down, and only

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walk through the door and there was a flap on. They asked us to leave.

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That is when they had found the body. I can remember the excitement

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of that, that I would be seeing her again. Then I had to go with a

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police woman to identify the body. I can remember anxiously waiting

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just to see her again. And it was in McRae gather no more. I can

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remember that day. Going there with my wife to see her in the morgue. I

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can remember the awfulness of that. They brought her out for me to see,

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and they can remember I collapsed. I know what that means, you just

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want to dive. You wanted to finish, you want it to go away and it will

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not. You have to wake up another day, to live through it another day.

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That was horrendous. I can remember it like yesterday. When Jennifer

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was murdered, I remember talking to the police and one of the first

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things I said to them was, this is fearful. The person who has

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murdered Jennifer has either done it before, and will do it again.

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No-one does this as A1 off. In all those days of the trial. Did he

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ever occurred to? No. Never once did he look at us. He was just so

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cold and unemotional. All he did was sit and listen and drink water.

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On occasion he dropped his head, he was not even embarrassed. The other

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thing is, we were just talking about this last night, when we lost

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Jenifer it was awful. But we have to say, that over the last six

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weeks was like losing her each and every day. And we both reckon that

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it has been that worse for us on this occasion. So difficult to

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explain that when people say, yes, you'll be glad of closure. In one

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sense, that is right. But the fear of it. And I know Andrew is with me

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on this, the fear of seeing the face of the man who murdered her,

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the fear of seeing the face that she last saw, the fear of hearing

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the exacts of what happened to her. No, I think Andrew and I, we had

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come through it and we would have easily backed off. And that was

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painful. But the last six weeks had been particularly, I do not know

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the best for deepest words to say how we felt. When we heard the

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interviews and his own voice saying what he had done, or what he had

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fantasised to do too little children. Some of the things are we

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heard wouldn't have even been in our imagination. Will you be

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haunted by what you have heard? pray that we will not. I have said

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many times that one of the lovely promises in the scriptures is that

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the Lord it gives us a piece in this world that passes

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understanding. Has it undermined your faith in people and goodness?

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Never. That will never before stop Robert Black stole the life of our

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daughter, but he will never steal my life. He will never steal our

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lives for our family's lives. We will live and a witness for the

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Lord. The parents of the Jennifer Cardy on the trauma of her death

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and the horror of hearing details during Robert Black's trial. How

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did the police bring Robert Black to justice. The first interviewed

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him in 1996, but it will was a review in 2002 that have led to the

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key breakthrough. Many different strands of evidence were pulled

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together to make a ground-breaking prosecution. Our district

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journalist has followed this case and spent this morning talking to

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the detective team behind the investigation.

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The Serious crime sweet, but PSNI's was Secure interviewed facility. In

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May 2005 it was practically locked down for three days as police

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turned all available resources on one man, Robert Black. The

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interviews came three years into a review of the Jennifer Cardy case

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and produced key moments like Robert Black's admission he was in

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Northern Ireland. So, you would have been in Ireland from the

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morning of Wednesday 12th August until that evening? Yes.

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interview strategy took almost a year to write. Did not get an

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absolute cut and dry admission from. We got 95% of the material that we

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wanted. The interviews were very central in the prosecution case.

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Raymond Murray has spent almost a decade of bringing black to justice.

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His links to the case stretch right back to the very day in 1981 that

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her body was found here. The first police officer to reach the scene

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that was a want Eric Murray, the Serjeant at Hillsborough station

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and Eric's father. Now retired, he was a regular visitor to Robert

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Black's child. It was an emotional moment for him, as it was for many

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of his former colleagues, including this retired detective who worked

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on the early stages of the investigations. What did it mean

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the yesterday to see someone court, even 30 years on. It was the

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elation. It was a relation to see the satisfaction for the family. I

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have become a personal friend to the family since that time and it

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was great satisfaction from a police point of view to have a

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conviction. I am very privileged in the line of work I do, I have

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investigated quite a few murders, and when you work with families

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when you deliver a result for them you bring closure. I would have to

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say, and 9.5 year investigation, from the beginning of that review

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and taking it all the way through, it is probably the most satisfying

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case I have fought on to date for. Robert Black has been linked to

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other cases. This landmark success could now see more cases reviewed.

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Next on the programme we focus on their presidential election and it

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looks like the winner is Michael D Higgins from the Labour Party. His

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nearest rival, Sean Gallagher, has conceded defeat. It looks like a

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big victory for the veteran politician.

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This was supposed to be a two horse race and Ireland was braced for a

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tense day, but it did not turn out like that. Last week's clear

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favourite Sean Gallagher had just melted away. Sinn Fein's Martin

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McGuinness looks set to take third place. Our political correspondent

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has been following the day's developments.

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The evidence was clear from very early on. Lovers of political

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cliffhangers could look elsewhere. I am quite certain the next

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President will be Michael D Higgins. I would like to send my love and

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congratulations to him and his family. I also think it is a good

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day for Ireland. Michael D Higgins's camp did not deny it.

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was great to see the similarity of votes coming out of different

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polling stations and to see that reflected across the country. I

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think Donegal is the only area that is bucking the trend. An RTE poll

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suggests that more than a quarter of the voters changed their minds

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in the final week of campaigning. This infamous campaign --

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television debate did it for her Sean Gallagher. What I have done, I

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may well have delivered the photograph, if he gives me an

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envelope... After a bruising campaign where his fiery past was

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continually raised, Martin McGuinness was set to accept a

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People are entitled to raise any issue they want in the course of

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these campaigns. What I would like to see is these issues been dealt

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with after the campaign as well. at the age of 70 when most people

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would be happy with retirement, Michael D Higgins, politician and

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poet is about to write a new chapter as the next President of

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Well, I'm joined now by our political editor, Mark Devenport,

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and by Irish Times political correspondent, Harry McGee. This

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will be remembered as an election which was lost and not one. It was

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a case of defeat being snatched from the jaws of victory. Sean

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Gallagher was so far ahead last weekend and the election slipped

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away from him. Presidential elections are all that credibility

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and all about personality and it was a very brutal and a better

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campaign, in which the floors and credibility gaps were ruthlessly

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exposed. Sean Gallagher had difficulties in relation to

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explaining his a business career and in the electorate's's eyes, he

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failed that task. Michael D Higgins looks like you will get 40%, with

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Shaun Gallagher slipping down to perhaps half of that. Sinn Fein

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looking at some would G14 and 18%. Will they be pleased with that? --

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somewhere between 14 and 18%. Therefore it increased in the

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general election by at least 15%. After all the criticism that Martin

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McGuinness to the, he was still in there as a player. They may say

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that they made a bit of a splash and next time around they might

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attract more or transfers. There is talk of our having ambitions for

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Europe, but given all the difficulties that she has faced,

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and then on we getting three or 4% of the vote, it has been a bad day

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for her. Michael D Higgins is such a blank page for the people of

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Ireland. What qualities will he bring? He conforms to the image of

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a president that we used to have. An elder statesman, an experienced

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politician. He has been on the scene for 40 years, so he will have

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no difficulties with the constitutional aspects of the job.

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In terms of that symbolic aspects of the job, he is also a poet, he

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has his own unique vision of what it means to be Irish. It remains to

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be seen. You can find out what you might want to know on the BBC News

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website. There are reactions from the candidates and also what hour

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listeners and viewers think about it all.

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The woman who murdered the Newry pensioner Maire Rankin is to serve

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at least 20 years in prison. The minimum sentence was handed down

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today to Karen Walsh, a neighbour of the 81-year-old, who was

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convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering her on Christmas day

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2008. Conor Macauley reports. Darren Walsh had relentlessly as it

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-- protested her innocence. -- Karen Walsh. Her victim was beaten

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with the family crucifix and sexually assaulted. She was found

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at her family home on Christmas Day 2008. Today, the Justice said that

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she had been an independent woman whose life had been viciously ended

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by a killer in a drunken rage. The Justice said that she had inflicted

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at sustained and brutal attack on a frail and vulnerable person. She

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had staged arrant sexual assault to cover her tracks, which was an

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aggravating factor in what was already a great case. We are

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pleased with the longer sentence and that it reflects the severity

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of her murder. Society is protected from a very dangerous woman.

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Rankin say that Karen Walsh has always protested her innocence and

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the expect her to continue to do so. And there is a documentary on the

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Rankin case here on BBC One Northern Ireland next Monday night

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at 10:35pm, after our late news. It is called A Family Trial, the

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Murder of Maire Rankin. Northern Ireland's annual Poppy

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Appeal has been launched by the Secretary of State at Hillsborough

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Castle. The legion hopes to raise more than one million pounds

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locally this year for military veterans and families. Helping

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launch the appeal, with her two daughters, was Brenda Hale, whose

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husband Mark was killed while serving in Afghanistan two years

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ago. Golfer Rory McIlroy has his eyes

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set on winning $2 million. Here's Stephen Watson.

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Rory McIlroy remains on target for the biggest prize money at any golf

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tournament. Today he shot a three- under 69 to take a two-stroke lead

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after the second round of the Shanghai Masters invitational. He

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had four birdies on the back nine, one following this magnificent chip

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on the 11th, And another followed after this second shot of the par-

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four 15th. McIlroy goes into the weekend at 11 under, chasing that

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record first prize of �1.25 million. Ireland defeated Australia by a

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record 44 points in the first international rules test in

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Melbourne. It is the hybrid game played between Gaelic Footballers

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and Aussie Rules players. The Irish scored four goals to take control

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of the two game series, as Thomas Kane reports. After a heady defeat

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in 12 months ago, it was evident from early on that island were

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considerably more confident this time around. The Donegal captain

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was the first to find the net. While Australia seemed to struggle

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with the round ball, the tourists looked perfectly at home. There was

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very little of the aggression and physicality which had been trade

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marks of this CDs in the past. -- series. As the game began to peter

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out, goal number three in the 4th quarter. The experience of Stephen

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MacDonald was crucial and the our man -- Armagh man came through.

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This Sunday sees the clash of Ulster's two most successful gaelic

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football clubs of the past 25 years. Crossmaglen, the current All-

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Ireland champions, take on St Galls, the winners in 2010. Thomas Niblock

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has been to meet a key player from each side, starting with the most

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successful club player ever. The team that does that one is

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going out into the field to do 20 laps. All right? And I am keeping

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the score. Whether it is scoring a goal, helping their club through 14

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county and an amazing five All- Ireland club championships, were

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teaching adults with learning disabilities, the message in South

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Armagh is exactly the same. Sport is at serious business. If think

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we're going as well now as we have been in four or five years. You

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would have to say that this team is right up there. Why are you still

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playing? I do not know what it is. I would have regretted it if I had

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played a part -- if I had not played a part. Why not? You are a

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long time retired. He is looking for more. To the club lot

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championship games, they love their football. You believe you can

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defeat them? Of course I do. We want to be back there, we know that

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we're good enough. It is not beyond us, but it will be tough to put

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them back to back. For one team, that the journey to Dublin will end

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this Sunday. -- of the journey to Dublin will end this Sunday.

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After hitting Linfield for six in midweek, Cliftonville are very much

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the team of the moment. As promised we will show you those goals

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tonight. But can they continue their free scoring away to

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Portadown tomorrow in the Carling Premiership. Gavin Andrews reports.

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It was a record-breaking night for the red. A hat-trick for the

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teenager. The coaches keeping things in perspective. -- the coach

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is keeping things in perspective. There are highs and lows. We'll

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look forward to the final in one month's time. They are back on the

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road and expecting it to be tough. It is also difficult place to go.

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They are playing well by all accounts. It is a difficult place

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to go. We call and hopefully we'll be able to get if you. And close

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the gap on the team's cup of us. -- on the teams above us.

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Six of Ulster's Rugby World Cup players have gone straight into the

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starting line-up for tomorrows Rabo Direct Pro 12 game. Ulster are

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hoping to get back to winning ways against the Scarlets in Wales.

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has been a while. Ulster are coming off two or a three defeats now.

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Live commentary on the game on a Radio Ulster.

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There will be a couple of notable changes to next year's NorthWest

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200 Motorcycle race. There will be daytime practice on Tuesday for the

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first time ever, and two races staged on Thursday night.

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This weekend the clocks go back. That means less shorter days. Let's

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get the weather forecast with The Rain is back this weekend. This

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is the people's part in Ballymena. The sun is now gone. We have

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already got some Rain around. Nothing particularly to worry about

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at the moment. There will be some heavy Rain at times tonight. There

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are no warnings out. The other feature of the weather tonight is

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the wind. It is mild, much milder than the last night. Cloudy skies,

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and there is likely to be some heavy bursts and showers. Still

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some fairly blustery wind so but temperatures are above average. A

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little bit of sunshine in some places also before the end of the

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day. Tomorrow night if you are out and enjoying fireworks, it will be

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largely dry and fairly breezy. It will be wet on Sunday. It will

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become a heavier on that Sunday night into Monday. Stay tuned to

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BBC Newsline weather throughout the weekend. Now we end the programme

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by going back to Noel in Dublin on the Irish presidential election as

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we heard earlier the certain winner This will be remembered as the side

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of the envelope. Yes, that was the moment when Shaun Gallagher lost it.

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In many ways it was unfair, because there has never been any suggestion

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that he did anything illegal. That word, on full, reminded viewers

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into all kinds of inquiries into alleged corruption in the past. It

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was the business of that word and the way that he slowly but surely

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changed his tune which made a very bad impression. Let us look forward.

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Michael D Higgins is a virtual stranger to many people in the

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north, how will that relationship work? The last Duke presidents have

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