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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor and Noel | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
Thompson. The headlines this Friday evening. The penalty for falling | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
foul of planning laws. This man is going to jail for a year. Why | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
questions are being asked in Europe about the Titanic Signature | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
building. Who wants a get out of jail card? It might surprise you to | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
learn it's the prison officers. The Policing Board comes under fire for | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
running up a six figure legal bill. Manchester United's Sir Alex | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Ferguson pays tribute to the longest-serving boss in local | :00:43. | :00:52. | |
football. Well done, amazing achievement. Good luck and keep | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
going. It isn't easy but keep going. Be aware of ice forming on roads | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
and footpaths tonight. A warning is in force. I'll have more shortly. A | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
County Tyrone man has been sent to jail for a year for not paying a | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
planning fine. Fergal O'Neill converted outbuildings on his land | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
in Ardboe without permission. When we asked the Department of the | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Environment if he was the first person to be jailed for this, a | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
spokesman said they weren't aware of anyone else. Louise Cullen has | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
more. These are the terraced houses for which Fergal O'Neill has been | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
sent to prison. During the Second World War they were used as an | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
ancillary barracks and soldiers were billeted here by the worked at | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
the local airfield. Some years ago, Mr O'Neill converted them into | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
houses and began work and one other houses is complete. When the | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Planning Service find out, they declare this an unauthorised | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
dwelling and ordered the building to be removed. Since then, Mr Neil | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
has been in court on numerous occasions, appealing the notice to | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
demolish the building. He was given a fine of �15,000 for refusing to | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
comply with that and because he has not paid that fine, he has been | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
imprisoned and will serve one year. It is believed he is appealing that | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
sentence and that case will be heard in January. It's not the | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
first time a building on the site has been subject to a demolition | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
notice. Some years ago, about building had to be removed and a | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
barn here is also facing possible abolition. It is believed to be the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
first time that anybody has ever been jailed in Northern Ireland for | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
non-payment of a planning compliance fine. The time spent in | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
jail will clear the fine but the building was still be subject to a | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
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demolition notice when Mr O'Neill is released. In what will certainly | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
be seen as a confirmation of the low state of morale in the Prison | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Service, Newsline has learned that 99% of the officers eligible for | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
the recently announced redundancy package have indicated they would | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
be prepared to take it. Enhanced lump sums are on offer to encourage | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
the longest-serving officers to leave. Vincent Kearney has this | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
exclusive report. There are around 1800 prison officers in Northern | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Ireland. The Prison Service hopes 540 of them will volunteer to | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
retire early. To make way for new recruits on lower salaries. Last | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
month, ate lobster redundancy scheme targeted at around 650 of | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
the highest paid members of staff aged over 50. The response exceeded | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
the expectations of the service. 99% of the officers eligible to | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
apply for the scheme have lodged formal expressions of interest and | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
asked for details of the financial package. That does not mean they | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
have signed up for voluntary redundancy but it does suggest they | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
like the sound of what is on offer. The sums on offer are much lower | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
than the packages for police officers under the Patten | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
redundancy scheme. But they are more generous than standard public | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
sector pension schemes. Payments will depend on lengths of service | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
and salary. The most experienced but receive a lump sum of more than | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
�55,000. They would have been entitled to this anyway as part of | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
the Civil Service early retirement scheme. They were also received a | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
number of enhanced payments. Equivalent to 21 months' salary. It | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
brings the total to just over �120,000. Plus an annual pension of | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
�18,800. The Prison Service says this redundancy scheme is essential | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
for a new beginning. The fact that nearly every eligible officer has | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
expressed an interest means the Prison Service will be confident it | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
can achieve its am without the need for compulsory redundancies. That | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
could provoke industrial action and opposition from Unionist | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
politicians. On the downside, it could also mean that many of the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
officers are unhappy with the direction the service is taking and | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
do not want to be part of it. The Prison Officers' the express an | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
interest in the scheme will each receive details of how much their | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
packages worth early next month. They will then have four weeks to | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
decide whether to accept. Newsline has learned that the flagship | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Titanic Signature building in Belfast could be facing a �20 | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
million EU funding shortfall. An application for grants towards the | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
cost of the building is being queried by the European Commission. | :05:24. | :05:34. | |
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Kevin Magee has this exclusive report. Work on a landmark | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
signature building is almost finished and is due to open to the | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
public as a scheduled next March. But behind the scenes, the funding | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
it is costing around �80 million and the Executive is paying for a | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
large part of that. But questions have been raised in Europe about to | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
grant application for almost a quarter of the overall cost. | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
According to an influential report due out soon, an application for EU | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
funding for 24 million euros has been queried by the Commission. In | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
its view, there was a lack of competition in the tendering for | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
the construction of the building. Something the Department of | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
Enterprise denies. It says it is optimistic it can address this | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
query and that is why it did not inform the Stormont Enterprise | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
Committee. I certainly was not appraised of this. And it really is | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
a very serious situation that the Department is in. If it does not | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
get the 20 million euros from Europe, which it hoped to do, I | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
hope the department had anticipated at least that they might be in this | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
situation, though obviously the position has not yet been clarified. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
I hope the Department made plans to make this. The funding application | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
is being examined by legal advisers on both sides. In a report due to | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
be published next week, the enterprise department says if it's | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
legal arguments are unsuccessful, it will provide the funding from | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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other sources. The question is, from where? The new deal to | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
safeguard the Euro could leave Northern Ireland at a disadvantage. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
The UK's decision not to join the Eurozone countries and others in | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
having closer fiscal coordination may also put paid to moves to | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
reduce corporation tax. Before we came on air, Jim Fitzpatrick | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
explained what the Euro agreement means for us. It will require | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
economic acrobatics. Northern Ireland as part of the UK but the | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Republic is a huge trading partner but we now have these camps, the UK | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
on one side and the Republic and the rest of the eurozone and some | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
other countries on the other. They head in different directions. We | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
have our foot in both camps and we will have to learn how to do the | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
splits. How do we maintain all those trade links with the Republic, | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
cross-border business, all of that activity, while we are in the UK, | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
heading perhaps in the opposite direction. What implications could | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
this have for us, attracting investment here? It does have | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
indications because it changes the selling basis for Northern Ireland. | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Companies that want to be at the heart of Europe will not | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
necessarily choose you. And companies that want to be at the | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
heart of the UK will not either. We are disadvantaged on both fronts. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
There are complications perhaps with Corporation Tax. What about | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
that? Those levels, North and South? The reason for trying to get | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Corporation Tax powers to Stormont has been that we are competing with | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
the Republic and its lower rate. Now, the Republic could be under | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
pressure to harmonise with the rest of Europe. What happens for | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Northern Ireland? Does it make it easier for us? But lessons the | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
argument for getting the powers here in the first place. It also | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
delays the argument, already complicated by what is happening | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
throughout the UK and in relation to Scotland, now perhaps the | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
argument for getting Corporation Tax powers here is complicated by | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
what is happening elsewhere in Europe. J M Fitzpatrick. The former | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
head of the Anglo-Irish Bank, Sean Fitzpatrick, has been arrested as | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
part of an investigation into alleged financial irregularities. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
He was arrested by appointment this morning at Bray Garda Station in | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
County Wicklow. It is the second time he has been detained in | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
connection with alleged irregularities at the bank. You're | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
watching BBC Newsline. Still to come on the programme. A wintry | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
weekend is in store. What's it like where you are? And as one of our | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
best-known sports stars battles it out on the green, we meet an | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
Olympic hopeful and star of the future. The Policing Board has been | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
criticised for running up a six- figure legal bill fighting a fair | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
employment case which it eventually settled after five years. The BBC | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
can reveal that an investigation by the Audit Office questioned whether | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
the cost to the public purse was allowed to mount without | :10:07. | :10:16. | |
consideration and control. Julian O'Neill has the story. Journalist | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Chris Ryder took a case against the Policing Board after he failed to | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
be shortlisted for interview for a job as director of communications. | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
He ended up winning damages and then complained to the Audit Office | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
when he discovered the boy spent �152,000 in legal costs fighting | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
him over five years. There is a certain profligacy about the way | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
money is spent on legal fees. I think there is a runaway horse that | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
needs to be tied up and stabled. And that proper value for money is | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
obtained. And that legal fees are kept under control. In many cases, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
they are exorbitant. The Audit Office drilled into the figures and | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
found the board initially estimated its fees at 40-�45,000. Within one | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
year, that had soared to �152,000. The board settled for �35,000 and | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
also paid Chris Ryder's legal costs, just �12,000. Bringing the total | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
outlay from the public purse to �197,000. Today, a board committee | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
met behind closed doors and on the table was the Audit Office findings. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
They reveal that they could have been better value for money | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
considerations. The office could not find any justification for the | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
board hurrying but senior and junior legal counsel. It also | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
identified other shortcomings, like not informing the Department of | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Justice in or about the high costs. And questioning whether they be | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
allowed to spiral without consideration. We have to make sure | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
that the taxpayer isn't seen as a soft touch, particularly when it | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
comes to the issuing of legal costs. The issue of making sure it doesn't | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
happen again means I have taken heart that the interim Chief | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Executive is like in the process of setting up a commission to take a | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
look at this specific issue. And certainly I think we will be | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
waiting with great anticipation to see the outcome. So the board is | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
promising to learn lessons. It is also pledging to give a fuller | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
explanation of what happened to the Public Accounts Committee at | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Stormont. The mother of a baby girl who was murdered in Enniskillen has | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
appeared in court with her former boyfriend to face charges arising | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
out of the death. The child was killed two years ago this weekend. | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
Millie Martin was just 15 months old when she was killed. On the | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
night of her death she was taken from this house in Enniskillen to | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
the local hospital. By the time she arrived she was in a lifeless | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
condition and could not be saved. The man accused of murdering her is | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
32-year-old Barry Michael McCarney, originally from County Tyrone. At | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
the time of the toddler's death, he was the boyfriend of Millie's | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
mother and has always protested his innocence. He is also charged with | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Seriously sexually assaulting the young child. Millie's mother, | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
Rachel, now with an address in Cheshire, is accused of wilful | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
neglect. She has since given birth to another baby. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
Today, Barry Michael McCarney and Rachel Martin appeared at a court | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
in Belfast to have the charges put formally to them. Both deny having | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
any part in the Millie's death. Their trial is due to begin next | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
year. In Dublin, the DUP MP Jeffrey | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Donaldson has told at the Smithwick Tribunal former British agent in | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
the IRA told him a Garda sergeant in dark -- been done Doc had passed | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
a number of -- information on the organisation. The tribunal is | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
investigating alleged collusion in the murder of two senior RUC | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
officers in 1989. Our reporter joined us live from Dublin. What | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
did Mr Donaldson have to say about the evidence of previous witnesses | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
who describes Kevin Fulton as a fantasist or intelligence nuisance. | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
Bristol Donaldson said he had a will concerns about the rare but -- | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
reliability of Kevin Fulton. He said he was able to verify it | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
the voracity of his information with as it -- senior RUC member. He | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
said there was a difference between falsely picking out information and | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
information that was faults. He said he had an open mind on | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
collusion and that the tribunal would determine what information | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
was accurate. Did Mr Donaldson denied that he had | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
effectively turned into a prosecutor by naming the sergeant? | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
That is right. 11 years ago when Mr Donaldson stood in the Haydn -- | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
House of conduct -- House of Commons and named a Garda officer, | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
he has denied collusion. It was said he had committed one of the | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
most egregious acts of parliamentary privilege abuse since | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
the Bill of Rights. He refuted that suggestion. He denied that he had | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
somehow contributed to the murders by Ewing's -- using Owen Corrigan | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
as bait of. The that is not the case. In the | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
House of Commons and made clear that my decision to be | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
disinformation in the public domain was with one purpose - to secured | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
agreement to a public inquiry. I achieved that objective and it is | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
now up to the inquiry to establish the facts. | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Mr Donaldson also said his motivation was to find out the | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
truth of what had happened. The tribunal resumes hearing evidence | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
from further witnesses next week. It is not offer we have the | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson on the programme, but he | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
is on tonight pay in trouble -- tribute to a local football boss. | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
Yes, a big landmark this weekend for Ronnie McFall, the manager of | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Portadown Football Club, celebrating an amazing 25 years in | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
the job. He is the second longest serving manager in Europe, beating | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
only -- beaten only by Sir Alex Ferguson. They may be working at | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
different levels, but have one thing in common - both are not | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
ready to retire just yet. It is a remarkable footballing | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
story of success and long service. Ronnie McFall has guided Portadown | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
to 24 trophies in 25 years. He has been in the job just six weeks less | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
than sir Alex Ferguson, who recorded a special message for his | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
Irish lead counterpart to watch this afternoon. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Ronnie, I would like to congratulate you on reaching that | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
milestone I experienced a few weeks ago, 25 we it -- 25 years. I know | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
exactly what you have gone through, the emotions, frustrations, bad | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
days, good days, you get them all in a 25 you spell. The amazing | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
thing is, you have survived and shown a fantastic determination and | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
conviction to get through, because it is not an easy profession, as I | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
know. Keep going. That is what Ronnie is planning to | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
do, with the club he transformed a quarter of a century ago. | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
When I took of her they were at the bottom of the table. They were a | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
poor side. Not really quality players, and within three-and-a- | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
half years we had won the League and turned it all around. I said | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
then to try and keep it going because you create your own | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
pressure. You have your highs and lows, you could days and bad days, | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
but you have to bring your own perspective to that. The most | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
important thing is your health, as well as that holds, my enthusiasm | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
and hunger is as strong as ever. I intend to keep going. | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
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Ronnie will celebrate his anniversary and is 1.285th game in | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
charge against Glentoran, the club that sacked him all those years ago. | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
This man was not even born when Ronnie McFall started as manager of | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Portadown - Rory McIlroy, with his eyes on the price of finishing the | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
season as Europe's Cup golfer. He is joint third in the second round | :18:55. | :19:05. | |
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of the Dubai World Championship. -- You see the way he dips into it? | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Michael Bannon once again passing on his golfing expertise. Just like | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
he did with Rory Michael Wright when he was a child. And today as a | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
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major winner, hoping to win that the race to go by. -- Dubai. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Rory McIlroy's exploits on the course have brought him success and | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
his coach Michael Banham, the 2011 European Court of the year. The I | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
enjoyed teaching everyone, it is for everyone. | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
It is great to introduce young girls and boys and teach people of | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
all ages and standards. To see Rory McIlroy Blair he is, it is the | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
pinnacle of what I have been able to achieve. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Today the world number one, Luke Donald, put Rory McIlroy under | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
pressure. He has made it three in a role at | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
the 18th. How significant will that be come Sunday afternoon? | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
However, raw meat in turn is keeping the pressure on him. -- | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
Rory McIlroy in turn. But he struggled towards the end of | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
the round, getting a bogey on the 17th and here again at the 18th. He | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
is tied third, five shots off the lead in a competition he simply | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
needs to win. He will be in the wit -- in the mix | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
at the weekend, no doubt. Mark Allen is in the semi-final of | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
the UK snooker championships after a dramatic quarter-final victory | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
over Marco Fu last night. He had a bit of luck in the fifth frame of a | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
tight match. He came from 5-4 down to win the 6-5. He will play Ricky | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Walden for a place in the final tomorrow. Earlier this week, Mark | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
Allen was referred to the game's governing body following a | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
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controversial outburst against the sniggered chairman, Barry Hearn. | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
Ulster are to play Bere Alston Trekkers in the Heineken Cup. It is | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
the first of two games against the Italians. Also need to win both | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
games to qualify for the competition. | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
We need to get 10 points over the next two weeks, and the only thing | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
we worry about is Friday night. We are not looking ahead to much at | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
this stage, where we will end up and how many points we have to get. | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
At this stage all the focus is on our game at home. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
You can listen to live coverage on that game on BBC also at medium | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
wave. The European -- the Badminton | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
Championships qualifying event is taking place in Lisburn over the | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
weekend. Over 250 badminton players from several countries are trying | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
to win a place at their games, including Northern Ireland's top | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
female player. She made her Olympic debut as a | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
teenager in Beijing. Now four years older and wiser, Donegal's Chloe | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Magee is on course to reach her second Olympic Games. If the | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
qualification deadline was to be instead of next April, she would be | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
going. But in badminton, the road to London is a marathon, not a | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
sprint. It is your best 10 tournaments | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
throughout the year, so if you have 10 good tournaments you are in | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
there. You can never be sure, you got what to say anything until you | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
see the list with your name on it. She is also trying to qualify with | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
her brother, Sam, for the mixed doubles in London, but it is the | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
single event which remains her objective. | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
Seoul, do you have to put friendships on hold with the people | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
behind you until you get there? Yes, badminton is an individual | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
sport, everyone is going for the same thank, and I don't think there | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
are too many real friends, but of course, it side of badminton you | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
can relax and it is all very chilled out. | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
With several bank high players in the drop in Lisburn this week it -- | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
this week, she is not expecting to win the Irish Open but Olympic | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
prospects remain strong. There was an impressive winner for | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
the Irish woman's hockey team today, they beat India 1-0 in the four- | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
nations tournament in Argentina. It is bound to be called at | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
Ravenhill tonight, hat and scarf to the ready. It may be too early to | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
predict at the moment if we will have a white Christmas like last | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
have a white Christmas like last year, but there were some flurries | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
today. Have a look at these pictures. They were taking a few | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
miles outside Belfast. Some vehicles were finding it difficult | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
to move on minor roads. People living close to the Saltburn will | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
be ready to deal with any more snow. Some are even looking forward to it. | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
I quite enjoy it, believe it or not. The snow appear last year in the | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
early part of the Year, over Christmas, and I am interested in | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
art, and the scene here was absolutely beautiful. The morning I | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
saw the snow melting, I was distraught. | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
There is still something magical when you see the first snowflakes | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
fall. Unfortunately we will not have snow, | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
the biggest issue over the next 24 hours is ice. We already have had | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
some tweets of treacherous conditions. The Met Office has | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
warned of icy conditions through this evening and overnight. Bear | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
that in mind if you're heading out. The blue on the map indicates how | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
cold it will be, especially in the east and south-east as temperatures | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
fall below zero. In northern areas and the West we will have cloud | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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cover, but still actually one or two Celsius. -- still at chilly. By | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
the weekend it will turn much cloudier and damp by the end of | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
Saturday. Further west, the cloud will roll in during the day. It | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
will be very grey at times. For the western areas during the first part | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
of the afternoon, light rain and drizzle at times. Until the evening | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
we will see outbreaks of rain, hitting parts of antrum and County | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
Down. -- County Antrim and County Down. Winds will make it feel | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
colder. Into Sunday, not quite as chilly. Temperatures dipping to one | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
or two Celsius, but as the cloud clears temperatures will fall Laura. | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
A touch of frost to developing in the countryside of parts of County | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
Down and County Fermanagh. Sunday will get off to a dry start, but it | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
during the day the showers will feed in from the north and west. | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
Into Monday, some of the showers will turn wintry, especially | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
towards the higher ground. Next week, we are looking out for the | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
next weather front edging its way in from the Atlantic. The winds | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
will pick up quite a bit. We will be looking at that over the weekend, | :26:55. | :27:05. | |
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so stay tuned to the forecasts. We are also on Twitter. Wrap up warm. | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
Before we go, a reminder of our main stories... | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
And a man has been sent to prison for a year after falling foul of | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
planning laws. But he failed to pay a fine over a set of buildings on | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
his land. his land. | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
The BBC has learned that 99 % of eligible prison officers have | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
expressed an interest in applying for the voluntary redundancy | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
package brought in to speed up reform of the Prison Service. | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
The Prime Minister David Cameron has defended his decision to block | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
an EU deal to tackle the eurozone crisis despite warnings it will | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
leave the UK isolated. That was BBC Newsline on 9th December, a | :27:45. | :27:52. |