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Good evening. A main news this Friday evening. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Jennifer Cardy parents talk about coping with the trauma of the last | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
30 years. Robert Black stole the life of our daughter, but he will | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
never steal our lives for our family's lives. We will continue to | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
live. Live from Dublin, the Labour veteran Michael D Higgins will be | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
elected Ireland's ninth president. Karen Walsh is told she must serve | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
at least 20 years for murdering a Maire Rankin. | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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First tonight we return to the horrific killing of a nine-year-old | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Jennifer Cardy outside Lisburn the third tick -- 30 years ago. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Yesterday Robert Black was convicted of her murder. He was | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
already serving life for the abduction and murder of three other | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
girls. Jennifer's parents had been speaking to the BBC. During the | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
interview they talked about their Christian faith, and said sitting | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
through the trial was like losing her again every day. We asked them | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
how they had coped with their loss? To be very honest, there were days | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
I wished that my whole family could have it ended. Everyone, not only | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
struggled, but every one had a painful, painful experience. I can | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
remember when we were looking for Jennifer, and we thought we were | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
looking for a body. I can remember we went down, my brother-in-law | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
arrived one day, and he said, I want you to come down with me to | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
the nerve centre where they were searching. We went down, and only | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
walk through the door and there was a flap on. They asked us to leave. | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
That is when they had found the body. I can remember the excitement | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
of that, that I would be seeing her again. Then I had to go with a | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
police woman to identify the body. I can remember anxiously waiting | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
just to see her again. And it was in McRae gather no more. I can | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
remember that day. Going there with my wife to see her in the morgue. I | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
can remember the awfulness of that. They brought her out for me to see, | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
and they can remember I collapsed. I know what that means, you just | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
want to dive. You wanted to finish, you want it to go away and it will | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
not. You have to wake up another day, to live through it another day. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
That was horrendous. I can remember it like yesterday. When Jennifer | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
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was murdered, I remember talking to the police and one of the first | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
things I said to them was, this is fearful. The person who has | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
murdered Jennifer has either done it before, and will do it again. | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
No-one does this as A1 off. In all those days of the trial. Did he | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
ever occurred to? No. Never once did he look at us. He was just so | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
cold and unemotional. All he did was sit and listen and drink water. | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
On occasion he dropped his head, he was not even embarrassed. The other | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
thing is, we were just talking about this last night, when we lost | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
Jenifer it was awful. But we have to say, that over the last six | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
weeks was like losing her each and every day. And we both reckon that | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
it has been that worse for us on this occasion. So difficult to | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
explain that when people say, yes, you'll be glad of closure. In one | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
sense, that is right. But the fear of it. And I know Andrew is with me | :05:14. | :05:23. | |
on this, the fear of seeing the face of the man who murdered her, | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
the fear of seeing the face that she last saw, the fear of hearing | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
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the exacts of what happened to her. No, I think Andrew and I, we had | :05:41. | :05:51. | |
come through it and we would have easily backed off. And that was | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
painful. But the last six weeks had been particularly, I do not know | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
the best for deepest words to say how we felt. When we heard the | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
interviews and his own voice saying what he had done, or what he had | :06:11. | :06:20. | |
fantasised to do too little children. Some of the things are we | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
heard wouldn't have even been in our imagination. Will you be | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
haunted by what you have heard? pray that we will not. I have said | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
many times that one of the lovely promises in the scriptures is that | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
the Lord it gives us a piece in this world that passes | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
understanding. Has it undermined your faith in people and goodness? | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
Never. That will never before stop Robert Black stole the life of our | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
daughter, but he will never steal my life. He will never steal our | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
lives for our family's lives. We will live and a witness for the | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
Lord. The parents of the Jennifer Cardy on the trauma of her death | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
and the horror of hearing details during Robert Black's trial. How | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
did the police bring Robert Black to justice. The first interviewed | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
him in 1996, but it will was a review in 2002 that have led to the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
key breakthrough. Many different strands of evidence were pulled | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
together to make a ground-breaking prosecution. Our district | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
journalist has followed this case and spent this morning talking to | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
the detective team behind the investigation. | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
The Serious crime sweet, but PSNI's was Secure interviewed facility. In | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
May 2005 it was practically locked down for three days as police | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
turned all available resources on one man, Robert Black. The | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
interviews came three years into a review of the Jennifer Cardy case | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
and produced key moments like Robert Black's admission he was in | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
Northern Ireland. So, you would have been in Ireland from the | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
morning of Wednesday 12th August until that evening? Yes. | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
interview strategy took almost a year to write. Did not get an | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
absolute cut and dry admission from. We got 95% of the material that we | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
wanted. The interviews were very central in the prosecution case. | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
Raymond Murray has spent almost a decade of bringing black to justice. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
His links to the case stretch right back to the very day in 1981 that | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
her body was found here. The first police officer to reach the scene | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
that was a want Eric Murray, the Serjeant at Hillsborough station | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
and Eric's father. Now retired, he was a regular visitor to Robert | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
Black's child. It was an emotional moment for him, as it was for many | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
of his former colleagues, including this retired detective who worked | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
on the early stages of the investigations. What did it mean | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
the yesterday to see someone court, even 30 years on. It was the | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
elation. It was a relation to see the satisfaction for the family. I | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
have become a personal friend to the family since that time and it | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
was great satisfaction from a police point of view to have a | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
conviction. I am very privileged in the line of work I do, I have | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
investigated quite a few murders, and when you work with families | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
when you deliver a result for them you bring closure. I would have to | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
say, and 9.5 year investigation, from the beginning of that review | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
and taking it all the way through, it is probably the most satisfying | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
case I have fought on to date for. Robert Black has been linked to | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
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other cases. This landmark success could now see more cases reviewed. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Next on the programme we focus on their presidential election and it | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
looks like the winner is Michael D Higgins from the Labour Party. His | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
nearest rival, Sean Gallagher, has conceded defeat. It looks like a | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
big victory for the veteran politician. | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
This was supposed to be a two horse race and Ireland was braced for a | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
tense day, but it did not turn out like that. Last week's clear | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
favourite Sean Gallagher had just melted away. Sinn Fein's Martin | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
McGuinness looks set to take third place. Our political correspondent | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
has been following the day's developments. | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
The evidence was clear from very early on. Lovers of political | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
cliffhangers could look elsewhere. I am quite certain the next | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
President will be Michael D Higgins. I would like to send my love and | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
congratulations to him and his family. I also think it is a good | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
day for Ireland. Michael D Higgins's camp did not deny it. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
was great to see the similarity of votes coming out of different | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
polling stations and to see that reflected across the country. I | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
think Donegal is the only area that is bucking the trend. An RTE poll | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
suggests that more than a quarter of the voters changed their minds | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
in the final week of campaigning. This infamous campaign -- | :11:55. | :12:05. | |
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television debate did it for her Sean Gallagher. What I have done, I | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
may well have delivered the photograph, if he gives me an | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
envelope... After a bruising campaign where his fiery past was | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
continually raised, Martin McGuinness was set to accept a | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
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People are entitled to raise any issue they want in the course of | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
these campaigns. What I would like to see is these issues been dealt | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
with after the campaign as well. at the age of 70 when most people | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
would be happy with retirement, Michael D Higgins, politician and | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
poet is about to write a new chapter as the next President of | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
Well, I'm joined now by our political editor, Mark Devenport, | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
and by Irish Times political correspondent, Harry McGee. This | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
will be remembered as an election which was lost and not one. It was | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
a case of defeat being snatched from the jaws of victory. Sean | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
Gallagher was so far ahead last weekend and the election slipped | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
away from him. Presidential elections are all that credibility | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
and all about personality and it was a very brutal and a better | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
campaign, in which the floors and credibility gaps were ruthlessly | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
exposed. Sean Gallagher had difficulties in relation to | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
explaining his a business career and in the electorate's's eyes, he | :13:45. | :13:55. | |
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failed that task. Michael D Higgins looks like you will get 40%, with | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
Shaun Gallagher slipping down to perhaps half of that. Sinn Fein | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
looking at some would G14 and 18%. Will they be pleased with that? -- | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
somewhere between 14 and 18%. Therefore it increased in the | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
general election by at least 15%. After all the criticism that Martin | :14:22. | :14:32. | |
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McGuinness to the, he was still in there as a player. They may say | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
that they made a bit of a splash and next time around they might | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
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attract more or transfers. There is talk of our having ambitions for | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Europe, but given all the difficulties that she has faced, | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
and then on we getting three or 4% of the vote, it has been a bad day | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
for her. Michael D Higgins is such a blank page for the people of | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
Ireland. What qualities will he bring? He conforms to the image of | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
a president that we used to have. An elder statesman, an experienced | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
politician. He has been on the scene for 40 years, so he will have | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
no difficulties with the constitutional aspects of the job. | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
In terms of that symbolic aspects of the job, he is also a poet, he | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
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has his own unique vision of what it means to be Irish. It remains to | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
be seen. You can find out what you might want to know on the BBC News | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
website. There are reactions from the candidates and also what hour | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
listeners and viewers think about it all. | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
The woman who murdered the Newry pensioner Maire Rankin is to serve | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
at least 20 years in prison. The minimum sentence was handed down | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
today to Karen Walsh, a neighbour of the 81-year-old, who was | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering her on Christmas day | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
2008. Conor Macauley reports. Darren Walsh had relentlessly as it | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
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-- protested her innocence. -- Karen Walsh. Her victim was beaten | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
with the family crucifix and sexually assaulted. She was found | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
at her family home on Christmas Day 2008. Today, the Justice said that | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
she had been an independent woman whose life had been viciously ended | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
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by a killer in a drunken rage. The Justice said that she had inflicted | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
at sustained and brutal attack on a frail and vulnerable person. She | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
had staged arrant sexual assault to cover her tracks, which was an | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
aggravating factor in what was already a great case. We are | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
pleased with the longer sentence and that it reflects the severity | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
of her murder. Society is protected from a very dangerous woman. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
Rankin say that Karen Walsh has always protested her innocence and | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
the expect her to continue to do so. And there is a documentary on the | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Rankin case here on BBC One Northern Ireland next Monday night | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
at 10:35pm, after our late news. It is called A Family Trial, the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Murder of Maire Rankin. Northern Ireland's annual Poppy | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
Appeal has been launched by the Secretary of State at Hillsborough | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Castle. The legion hopes to raise more than one million pounds | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
locally this year for military veterans and families. Helping | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
launch the appeal, with her two daughters, was Brenda Hale, whose | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
husband Mark was killed while serving in Afghanistan two years | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
ago. Golfer Rory McIlroy has his eyes | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
set on winning $2 million. Here's Stephen Watson. | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
Rory McIlroy remains on target for the biggest prize money at any golf | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
tournament. Today he shot a three- under 69 to take a two-stroke lead | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
after the second round of the Shanghai Masters invitational. He | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
had four birdies on the back nine, one following this magnificent chip | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
on the 11th, And another followed after this second shot of the par- | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
four 15th. McIlroy goes into the weekend at 11 under, chasing that | :18:45. | :18:54. | |
record first prize of �1.25 million. Ireland defeated Australia by a | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
record 44 points in the first international rules test in | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Melbourne. It is the hybrid game played between Gaelic Footballers | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
and Aussie Rules players. The Irish scored four goals to take control | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
of the two game series, as Thomas Kane reports. After a heady defeat | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
in 12 months ago, it was evident from early on that island were | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
considerably more confident this time around. The Donegal captain | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
was the first to find the net. While Australia seemed to struggle | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
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with the round ball, the tourists looked perfectly at home. There was | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
very little of the aggression and physicality which had been trade | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
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marks of this CDs in the past. -- series. As the game began to peter | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
out, goal number three in the 4th quarter. The experience of Stephen | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
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MacDonald was crucial and the our man -- Armagh man came through. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
This Sunday sees the clash of Ulster's two most successful gaelic | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
football clubs of the past 25 years. Crossmaglen, the current All- | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
Ireland champions, take on St Galls, the winners in 2010. Thomas Niblock | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
has been to meet a key player from each side, starting with the most | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
successful club player ever. The team that does that one is | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
going out into the field to do 20 laps. All right? And I am keeping | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
the score. Whether it is scoring a goal, helping their club through 14 | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
county and an amazing five All- Ireland club championships, were | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
teaching adults with learning disabilities, the message in South | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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Armagh is exactly the same. Sport is at serious business. If think | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
we're going as well now as we have been in four or five years. You | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
would have to say that this team is right up there. Why are you still | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
playing? I do not know what it is. I would have regretted it if I had | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
played a part -- if I had not played a part. Why not? You are a | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
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long time retired. He is looking for more. To the club lot | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
championship games, they love their football. You believe you can | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
defeat them? Of course I do. We want to be back there, we know that | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
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we're good enough. It is not beyond us, but it will be tough to put | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
them back to back. For one team, that the journey to Dublin will end | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
this Sunday. -- of the journey to Dublin will end this Sunday. | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
After hitting Linfield for six in midweek, Cliftonville are very much | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
the team of the moment. As promised we will show you those goals | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
tonight. But can they continue their free scoring away to | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
Portadown tomorrow in the Carling Premiership. Gavin Andrews reports. | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
It was a record-breaking night for the red. A hat-trick for the | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
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teenager. The coaches keeping things in perspective. -- the coach | :23:02. | :23:11. | |
is keeping things in perspective. There are highs and lows. We'll | :23:11. | :23:19. | |
look forward to the final in one month's time. They are back on the | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
road and expecting it to be tough. It is also difficult place to go. | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
They are playing well by all accounts. It is a difficult place | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
to go. We call and hopefully we'll be able to get if you. And close | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
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the gap on the team's cup of us. -- on the teams above us. | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
Six of Ulster's Rugby World Cup players have gone straight into the | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
starting line-up for tomorrows Rabo Direct Pro 12 game. Ulster are | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
hoping to get back to winning ways against the Scarlets in Wales. | :23:59. | :24:09. | |
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has been a while. Ulster are coming off two or a three defeats now. | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
Live commentary on the game on a Radio Ulster. | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
There will be a couple of notable changes to next year's NorthWest | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
200 Motorcycle race. There will be daytime practice on Tuesday for the | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
first time ever, and two races staged on Thursday night. | :24:33. | :24:42. | |
This weekend the clocks go back. That means less shorter days. Let's | :24:42. | :24:52. | |
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get the weather forecast with The Rain is back this weekend. This | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
is the people's part in Ballymena. The sun is now gone. We have | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
already got some Rain around. Nothing particularly to worry about | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
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at the moment. There will be some heavy Rain at times tonight. There | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
are no warnings out. The other feature of the weather tonight is | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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the wind. It is mild, much milder than the last night. Cloudy skies, | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
and there is likely to be some heavy bursts and showers. Still | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
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some fairly blustery wind so but temperatures are above average. A | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
little bit of sunshine in some places also before the end of the | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
day. Tomorrow night if you are out and enjoying fireworks, it will be | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
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largely dry and fairly breezy. It will be wet on Sunday. It will | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
become a heavier on that Sunday night into Monday. Stay tuned to | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
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BBC Newsline weather throughout the weekend. Now we end the programme | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
by going back to Noel in Dublin on the Irish presidential election as | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
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we heard earlier the certain winner This will be remembered as the side | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
of the envelope. Yes, that was the moment when Shaun Gallagher lost it. | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
In many ways it was unfair, because there has never been any suggestion | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
that he did anything illegal. That word, on full, reminded viewers | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
into all kinds of inquiries into alleged corruption in the past. It | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
was the business of that word and the way that he slowly but surely | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
changed his tune which made a very bad impression. Let us look forward. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
Michael D Higgins is a virtual stranger to many people in the | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
north, how will that relationship work? The last Duke presidents have | :27:51. | :27:58. |