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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Noel Thompson and Donna | 0:00:11 | 0:00:17 | |
Traynor. The headlines this Tuesday evening: The source of the | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
infection which killed four babies in neonatal units here has been | 0:00:19 | 0:00:24 | |
identified as sink taps. A Strabane man is jalied for life | 0:00:24 | 0:00:30 | |
for a brutal dissident republican murder in Donegal four years ago. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
Another turn of the screw for motorists, as botched car repairs | 0:00:32 | 0:00:41 | |
pile on the financial pressure. A short trip from Coney Island to | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
the Oscars for one local film maker. By webcam from the West Indies, we | 0:00:45 | 0:00:52 | |
hear from the first Irish woman to row across the Atlantic. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:58 | |
We have the giants of motorcycle racing up at the Giant's Causeway. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:03 | |
And cricket Ireland say it is time to give us the all important Test | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
status. And although it's been another mild | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
day with even suggestions of spring, we are expecting some wintry | 0:01:08 | 0:01:14 | |
weather later this week. I'll have all the details. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
A number of sink taps were the source of the infection that killed | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
three babies at the Royal Victoria Hospital's neo-natal unit in the | 0:01:19 | 0:01:29 | |
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past fortnight. A fourth infant died before Christmas in | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
Altanagelvin Hospital where again the infection has been traced to | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
taps at a sink. Pseudomonas is a bacterial infection that's widely | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
found in soil and stagnant water. The health minister told the | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
Assembly today there's no evidence that the bacterium is in the water | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
system at the Royal. And he emphasised that patients should | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
attend the hospital as normal. In a moment we'll talk to the minister | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
who's in our studio this evening. But first our Health Correspondent, | 0:01:50 | 0:01:56 | |
Marie-Louise Connolly, reports on today's developments. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:01 | |
Tiny and pressures, premature babies just like these are at the | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
centre of a major health scare. Born fighting for their lives there | 0:02:05 | 0:02:13 | |
now battling across the potentially fatal bacterial infection, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
Pseudomonas. Six cases have been confirmed with a 7th case suspected. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:24 | |
Also confirmed is the source of the infection. The Health Minister of | 0:02:24 | 0:02:30 | |
said it had been traced to the taps. The team are in the process of | 0:02:30 | 0:02:36 | |
removing and replacing all taps in the affected area. Pseudomonas has | 0:02:36 | 0:02:46 | |
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also been traced to the Altnagelvin neonatal unit in Londonderry. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
However this infant had a different strain of the infection that is | 0:02:51 | 0:02:57 | |
currently being investigated in Belfast. The cases in Londonderry | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
prompted the Chief Medical Officer to write to all health Trusts on | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
December 22nd about water sources and the potential infection risk to | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
patients. The letter reminded staff about good practice in dealing with | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
water systems in order to minimise and manage the risk of | 0:03:13 | 0:03:18 | |
contamination by it organisms such as Pseudomonas. However the letter | 0:03:18 | 0:03:25 | |
does not state that a child had died. When we identified the | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
incident in Altnagelvin and became aware that this was related to a | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
tap within the unit, we really should the guidance to all the | 0:03:34 | 0:03:40 | |
Trusts across Northern Ireland, reminding them of the information. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:45 | |
I understand that you never get over losing a baby. Considering | 0:03:45 | 0:03:49 | |
that for babies across northern Arnaud died, did authorities act | 0:03:49 | 0:03:54 | |
quickly enough? The fact is that three babies died in a short space | 0:03:54 | 0:03:59 | |
of time. The source of the infection in two different sides | 0:03:59 | 0:04:07 | |
was the same. Could more have been done between the baby dying in | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
Altnagelvin to three babies dying in the Royal? It has also emerged | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
that a baby's have traces of the infection on their skin. This does | 0:04:14 | 0:04:21 | |
not mean they are infected but they are being closely monitored. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:26 | |
We are trying our best to get rid of the infection. So hopefully in | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
the next few days it will be all clear and the babies will get | 0:04:30 | 0:04:35 | |
better. Sink taps at the neonatal unit at the Royal Lodge has | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
replaced one year ago. The health minister says that lessons must be | 0:04:39 | 0:04:44 | |
learned and it is crucial that that happens immediately. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
And we have heard that a 7th case has been confirmed this evening | 0:04:47 | 0:04:54 | |
with me now is the health minister, Edwin Poots. When the baby died in | 0:04:54 | 0:04:59 | |
Altnagelvin, did you inform the other hospitals of that fact? | 0:04:59 | 0:05:04 | |
the chief medical officer wrote to the other hospitals advising them | 0:05:04 | 0:05:10 | |
to take the maximum precautions and reminding them of a previous letter | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
they had received in 2010. Why did did not say that the baby had died | 0:05:14 | 0:05:20 | |
and the source was linked to the taps? I think the best person to | 0:05:20 | 0:05:29 | |
ask about that is the chief medical officer. He has been writing to the | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
hospitals to inform them of the need to have maximum hygiene to | 0:05:33 | 0:05:38 | |
insure it that they minimise the risk of Pseudomonas. Sadly in the | 0:05:38 | 0:05:42 | |
case of the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital, there has been an | 0:05:42 | 0:05:46 | |
outbreak and the consequences has been that babies have died. Our | 0:05:46 | 0:05:50 | |
task at this moment is to get on top of that and insure that other | 0:05:50 | 0:05:54 | |
babies are not infected and we identify the source of the problem | 0:05:54 | 0:05:59 | |
and that is what we have been doing. But questions have been raised, or | 0:05:59 | 0:06:04 | |
whether enough has been done. Given that the baby died in up Miguel was | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
just before Christmas, it was there not an urgency to tell the other | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
hospitals that a baby had died from his back to real infection, the | 0:06:12 | 0:06:17 | |
source was the taps, you should take a look at your taps. Would | 0:06:17 | 0:06:24 | |
that have made a difference? 22nd December the source was not | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
absolutely conclusive. It was believed to be the taps in that | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
area of the hospital that it had happened. So they gave the best | 0:06:32 | 0:06:37 | |
advice that was available to them at that time. What we're finding | 0:06:37 | 0:06:43 | |
even currently is that things change our by hour, it is a fluid | 0:06:43 | 0:06:48 | |
situation. I sought to get all the information out as I have received | 0:06:48 | 0:06:53 | |
it. Sometimes it later transpires that that changes and these | 0:06:53 | 0:06:57 | |
situations are fluid. You announced in the Assembly today that | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
ultraviolet light taps, new modern task will be fit is that the | 0:07:02 | 0:07:07 | |
neonatal unit in the Royal. What about the other neonatal units? | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
ABBA it also going to get these taps that would kill the infection? | 0:07:11 | 0:07:16 | |
We will Rooker that case by case, but there is a certain logic to it. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
They are expensive taps but what price do you put on life and | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
especially that of vulnerable babies? It is certainly something | 0:07:24 | 0:07:29 | |
we will be looking at. He made a point of praising the medical staff | 0:07:29 | 0:07:35 | |
at the hospitals. We have had different reports, people | 0:07:35 | 0:07:40 | |
criticising hygiene and standards of care. Do you think they could | 0:07:40 | 0:07:45 | |
have done more to prevent what happened? All of these things will | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
be tested in due course. What we have identified is the source of | 0:07:49 | 0:07:55 | |
the problem as being around the taps. What we need to identify is | 0:07:55 | 0:08:00 | |
how that happened. More work will be done on that. And we will go | 0:08:00 | 0:08:05 | |
through all of this thoroughly because it is incumbent upon us to | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
do that to ensure that next year and the following year we do not | 0:08:08 | 0:08:15 | |
have a similar incident. That we ensure it does not happen again. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
A Strabane man has been jailed for life by the Special Criminal Court | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
in Dublin for the dissident republican murder of a man four | 0:08:20 | 0:08:23 | |
years ago. Andrew Burns, who was also from Strabane, was shot twice | 0:08:23 | 0:08:28 | |
in the back in a church car park in County Donegal. With more details | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
on the case here's our Dublin reporter, Jennifer O'Leary. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
The body of Andrew Burns was found by teenagers at this church car | 0:08:34 | 0:08:40 | |
park at Donnyloop in Castlefin in February 2008. The 27-year-old | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
painter and decorator was involved in the dissident republican group, | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
Oglaigh na Eireann. So too was the man who had driven him there from | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
Strabane, Martin Kelly. He was told to bring Andrew Burns across the | 0:08:50 | 0:08:55 | |
border for a punishment shooting. Three men were waiting. Martin | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
Kelly witnessed the shooting, brought the three men away and | 0:08:58 | 0:09:02 | |
helped dispose of the murder weapon. The 37-year-old was interviewed by | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
officers from the Gardai and the PSNI at a hotel in Ballymena, where | 0:09:05 | 0:09:09 | |
he admitted what he had done. Martin Kelly also named the others | 0:09:09 | 0:09:18 | |
involved. Gardai say the investigation is continuing. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
this instance witnesses did come forward and gave excellent evidence. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:27 | |
The court accepted all their evidence and I would ask people to | 0:09:27 | 0:09:31 | |
have full confidence in their evidence and the statements will be | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
treated totally in confidence. family of Andrew Burns left the | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
court today after telling the three judges of the pain and trauma they | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
are still suffering, four years after the murder of their brother | 0:09:39 | 0:09:43 | |
and son. You're watching BBC Newsline, still | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
to come on the programme. Why the Irish cricket squad is | 0:09:47 | 0:09:53 | |
hoping to hit the ICC for six. And we talk to the first Irish | 0:09:53 | 0:10:03 | |
woman to row across the Atlantic, via webcam from the West Indies. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:07 | |
Stormont had no police cover for a short time this afternoon when | 0:10:07 | 0:10:12 | |
officers were withdrawn in an alleged row over where the officers | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
are accommodated. Our political Correspondent is here. The a | 0:10:16 | 0:10:20 | |
authorities are trying to play down this unusual incident but it is | 0:10:20 | 0:10:25 | |
clear that for a time this afternoon police cover was in deep | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
withdrawn from Parliament Buildings. An Assembly spokesperson says the | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
Pierson might temporarily remove the officers for operational | 0:10:31 | 0:10:36 | |
reasons. Other security staff remained at their post. But the | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
Ulster Unionist MLA Ross Hussey says it was a fight over | 0:10:40 | 0:10:46 | |
accommodation. Police officers had been removed from the Rome that | 0:10:46 | 0:10:50 | |
they had been using for years and moved into a side room. The room | 0:10:51 | 0:10:56 | |
they had been offered is totally wrong. And we understand that there | 0:10:56 | 0:11:06 | |
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are negotiations to try to resolve this. Clearly you would not remove | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
them from this building, there are plenty of rooms available. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
spokesperson for the PSNI it said that they are happy with the | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
accommodation for the officers deployed here. The assemblies to | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
the officers were away from the post for a very short period of | 0:11:21 | 0:11:26 | |
time. But Mr Hussey said it lasted between three and four hours and he | 0:11:26 | 0:11:31 | |
intends raising the incident with the chief constable. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
Next to your home, running a car is the biggest expense facing many of | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
us. When repairs are not carried out properly, the cost of putting | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
them right can run into thousands of pounds. Our consumer | 0:11:40 | 0:11:41 | |
correspondent, Martin Cassidy, reports on the growing level of | 0:11:41 | 0:11:47 | |
complaints about botched repairs. He looks at the battle motorists | 0:11:47 | 0:11:54 | |
face to get their money back and their cars back on the road. | 0:11:54 | 0:12:00 | |
Pretty horrendous, to be honest. Frightening for the owner. This is | 0:12:00 | 0:12:04 | |
a forensic engineer at work. In this case he has been called in to | 0:12:04 | 0:12:08 | |
find out why a replacement gearbox has blown up after just a few miles. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:13 | |
The owner of the car believes the garage forgot to put oil in a | 0:12:13 | 0:12:17 | |
replacement part, an error which had catastrophic consequences. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:23 | |
Armagh Trust appeared -- perfect not appear directly in front of the | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
camera but took us on a drive to recreate the moment that the | 0:12:26 | 0:12:32 | |
gearbox exploded. I have never been so scared in my life. There was a | 0:12:32 | 0:12:37 | |
massive bang coming from underneath the car. The car lurched forward | 0:12:37 | 0:12:45 | |
and I was slowing down. I looked in my rear-view mirror to see a piece | 0:12:45 | 0:12:51 | |
of metal flying up from the back of my car. It is a disturbing memory. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
But the cost of getting the car back on the road is fast becoming | 0:12:54 | 0:13:00 | |
another nightmare. Not only is she now faced with the bill for | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
replacing the gearbox, which have already been replaced, but she also | 0:13:04 | 0:13:11 | |
now has other damage which has to be paid for. A car of this age, | 0:13:11 | 0:13:15 | |
we're actually getting close to the value of the car. Complaints about | 0:13:15 | 0:13:19 | |
shoddy workmanship are on the increase was DUP as cars become | 0:13:19 | 0:13:24 | |
more complex, some mechanics seemed to be struggling to stay abreast of | 0:13:24 | 0:13:29 | |
the new technologies. Unfortunately car repairs are a big issue for | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
Trading Standards and in the last 12 months we have received at least | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
1000 complaints in relation to faults in second-hand cars. Of | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
those complaints at least one-third have been in relation to car | 0:13:41 | 0:13:46 | |
repairs and servicing. While garages like this do a good job, | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
when problems occur, it time pressure can be a contributing | 0:13:50 | 0:13:57 | |
factor. The majority of dealers now have the equipment supplied by the | 0:13:57 | 0:14:04 | |
manufacturer. It is all about fault-finding, where the garage | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
present plugs in the diagnostic equipment which gives him a series | 0:14:08 | 0:14:11 | |
of codes and he den can interpret exactly what the fault is. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:18 | |
Unfortunately it does not always work. It is still down to the | 0:14:18 | 0:14:22 | |
professionalism of the mechanic. Whilst consumer law does provide | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
protection from motorists, insisting on an accurate fault | 0:14:27 | 0:14:35 | |
diagnosis and a written quotation The Belfast director Terry George | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
is celebrating an Oscar nomination. His short film The Shore was filmed | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
near Killough and is one of five films in the live action short | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
category. Our arts correspondent, Maggie Taggart, has been speaking | 0:14:45 | 0:14:54 | |
to the director and one of the stars of the film. Two years ago, | 0:14:54 | 0:15:00 | |
Terry George accused his own family cottage has a base for The Shore. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:05 | |
Now the 30 minute film has been nominated for an Oscar. It is the | 0:15:05 | 0:15:09 | |
story of a man who returns to Northern Ireland from a United | 0:15:09 | 0:15:17 | |
States, but with a dark secret. my agents and managers of people | 0:15:17 | 0:15:23 | |
out here cannot believe it. But I told them two years ago, the son, | 0:15:23 | 0:15:29 | |
but I want to make the short film and they thought I had lost my mind. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:37 | |
It is great, particularly for the local actors involved. The film | 0:15:37 | 0:15:45 | |
stars major local actors, including Ciaran Hands and Conleth Hill. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:50 | |
something so invested with love by the Terry George family, to be made | 0:15:50 | 0:15:55 | |
with such care, we had a brilliant time making it, and it is a nice | 0:15:55 | 0:16:01 | |
summation of all that work. other Irish film nominated his | 0:16:01 | 0:16:05 | |
Pentecost, of which tells the story of an altar boy torn between a | 0:16:05 | 0:16:11 | |
serving Mass and football. Five short films have been chosen from | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
among 107 entries for the award. And that's not all -the Belfast | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
born actior Kenneth Brannagh is up for a best supporting actor award | 0:16:19 | 0:16:27 | |
for his role in My Week with Marylin. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:34 | |
I have not seen that, and I have so many to see before the results! You | 0:16:34 | 0:16:38 | |
should be on the judging committee! By would be nice! | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
Now Stephen Watson is here with news about Ireland's cricket team | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
who are aiming for recognition as one of the sport's elite teams - to | 0:16:45 | 0:16:49 | |
take part in Test cricket. They've beaten Pakistan and England | 0:16:49 | 0:16:52 | |
at successive World Cups - now Ireland are applying to the | 0:16:52 | 0:16:56 | |
International Cricket Council for Test status by the year 2020. As an | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
associate member of the ICC, Ireland currently doesn't play the | 0:16:59 | 0:17:08 | |
full five-day version of the game. Ireland has enjoyed the role of | 0:17:08 | 0:17:16 | |
underdog in recent years. This is it! As both England and Pakistan | 0:17:16 | 0:17:24 | |
will testify. But now it wants more. Ireland is currently an associate | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
band of international cricket which means it gets to play one-day | 0:17:27 | 0:17:33 | |
internationals and 2020 games, but not Test matches. An unfortunate | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
consequence of their recent successes is that some of the | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
team's best players had been Lauder way to get the chance to play Test | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
cricket elsewhere. For Cricket Ireland there is only one way to | 0:17:44 | 0:17:49 | |
get around that. Test cricket is the old what form of the game. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:53 | |
Unless we aspire to that and tell our players to be as good as they | 0:17:53 | 0:17:58 | |
can become we are always going to lose our best players to England. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
do not think they are ready yet that within the next four or five | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
years, I do nothing they would have a choice. We have a lot are backing | 0:18:05 | 0:18:11 | |
about the way that we do things and our progress, S so I think that | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
five or six years from now a lot of people will be taking note that | 0:18:15 | 0:18:21 | |
Ireland are pushing for something that they set up six years before. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:25 | |
But it is a day that may come too late for some of the current | 0:18:25 | 0:18:32 | |
players. Eight years, 35, will have to wait and see. It is a long way | 0:18:32 | 0:18:39 | |
away and a lot can happen in that time. It is a great idea for | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
Cricket Ireland, gives them something to strive for both on and | 0:18:42 | 0:18:47 | |
off the field. 28 Fred believes it can afford to become the Test- | 0:18:47 | 0:18:53 | |
playing nation. -- Cricket Ireland. Big changes to the race schedule at | 0:18:53 | 0:18:57 | |
this year's International North West 200 were confirmed today. For | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
the first time ever there will be racing over two days, with | 0:19:00 | 0:19:04 | |
additional day-time practice. And a top line up of riders was revealed | 0:19:04 | 0:19:14 | |
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for this year's high speed event. The giants of road racing at the | 0:19:15 | 0:19:20 | |
Giants Causeway. The perfect combination to start the countdown | 0:19:20 | 0:19:25 | |
to Ireland's biggest and most exciting outdoor sporting event. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:31 | |
And one of the stars of the show is home-grown. You hear the crowd, it | 0:19:31 | 0:19:38 | |
is like a big football match. It was really overwhelming and I | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
managed to chuck Mike loves the way, forgetting that I had another race | 0:19:41 | 0:19:48 | |
to go. More practice and racing has gone down well with the big names, | 0:19:48 | 0:19:55 | |
who cannot wait get back this May. It has a unique place. There is no | 0:19:55 | 0:20:00 | |
place like it in the world. Such long straights and you have to get | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
your head over the speed. All the testing their EDU can are really | 0:20:04 | 0:20:12 | |
prepare yourself for the North West 200. -- that you do. I am just | 0:20:12 | 0:20:17 | |
delighted to come back again. I want be pushing for the race when | 0:20:17 | 0:20:22 | |
this year. As always, BBC Northern Ireland will have every angle | 0:20:22 | 0:20:24 | |
covered on the north coast. Planning permission has been | 0:20:25 | 0:20:30 | |
secured for the first of three sports stadiums. Ravenhill rugby | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
ground will receive �14.7 million of funding to increase capacity to | 0:20:33 | 0:20:43 | |
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just over 18,000. Thomas Kane reports. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:51 | |
The environment minister, Alex Attwood, swapped his sued for an | 0:20:51 | 0:20:55 | |
all-star would be Jenny as politics and sport came together. These are | 0:20:55 | 0:21:01 | |
early images of what the new Ravenhill will look like. Ulster | 0:21:01 | 0:21:06 | |
rugby is on the up and up and we are adding to that story with a �15 | 0:21:06 | 0:21:11 | |
million investment, and 18,000 capacity stadium, two further | 0:21:11 | 0:21:16 | |
dramatised that Northern Ireland sport is on the up and up, be it | 0:21:16 | 0:21:26 | |
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golf, rugby or Gaelic sports. hoped that the area will benefit | 0:21:27 | 0:21:34 | |
during the war rebuilding process. We will be putting social clauses | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
into the contract, particularly for the construction industry at this | 0:21:38 | 0:21:43 | |
time. It is also good for young people and for the long term | 0:21:43 | 0:21:47 | |
unemployed, that it is not just about one particular section of the | 0:21:47 | 0:21:51 | |
community. Primarily it is a sporting development but it is also | 0:21:51 | 0:21:56 | |
a development for the GAA and four Soccer and four Rugby and for those | 0:21:56 | 0:22:02 | |
communities. The increased capacity is key to the future of Ulster. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:12 | |
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host eight European Cup quarter- final we need 15,000. To host a | 0:22:13 | 0:22:17 | |
tie-up to international we need 18,000. To be competitive with the | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
leading light in Europe we wreck we need 18,000 to generate enough | 0:22:21 | 0:22:27 | |
revenue to invest right across the game in Ulster. Work is due to | 0:22:27 | 0:22:32 | |
start later this year and is planned to be fully completed in | 0:22:32 | 0:22:38 | |
late 2015. It will look well when it is | 0:22:38 | 0:22:44 | |
finished. But I cannot see us all rushing to see Alex Attwood in an | 0:22:44 | 0:22:47 | |
Ulster shirt! Two days after she arrived in | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
Barbados at the end of her record breaking row across the Atlantic, | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
Kate Richardson from Portadown says she hasn't quite recovered her land | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
legs, but is already considering her next challenge. Kate was one of | 0:22:57 | 0:23:01 | |
a five-woman crew which took 45 days to cross the 3,000 miles from | 0:23:01 | 0:23:06 | |
the Canaries. They knocked a week off the previous record. The | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
amazing thing about Kate is that she had never done any rowing | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
before she accepted the Atlantic challenge to raise money for | 0:23:12 | 0:23:16 | |
charities fighting human trafficking. On a rather dicey | 0:23:16 | 0:23:25 | |
webcam from Barbados, I asked her to sum up her experience. Through I | 0:23:25 | 0:23:29 | |
don't think you can put it into words. I'm still considering what | 0:23:29 | 0:23:36 | |
is the best way to describe it. Complete the overwhelming, horrific, | 0:23:36 | 0:23:42 | |
exciting, breathtaking, a once-in- a-lifetime experience. Carlos the | 0:23:42 | 0:23:49 | |
highlights and a low lights. Gosh! The best moment for me was when we | 0:23:49 | 0:23:54 | |
got a continuous updates of our progress. At the beginning Luan | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
fine across a where overtaking or the other boats so that was a real | 0:23:58 | 0:24:05 | |
motivation. Three were mileage had come down further and further and | 0:24:05 | 0:24:09 | |
we were getting closer and closer to land and there was a real | 0:24:10 | 0:24:16 | |
motivation. Also, seeing dolphins was amazing. The whole crossing had | 0:24:16 | 0:24:21 | |
been fairly quiet and we had not seem much wildlife and then all of | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
a sudden we saw these dolphins jumped out of the seat and circle | 0:24:25 | 0:24:34 | |
around about. The worst moment? There was a time early on when | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
there were a lot of technical problems and it was in very high | 0:24:39 | 0:24:44 | |
seas and stormy and I was still trying to adjust to the sea. I did | 0:24:44 | 0:24:51 | |
not have any Asian experience. So to have to deal with the technical | 0:24:51 | 0:24:58 | |
problems in a stormy sea was quite scary. You had not done any rain | 0:24:58 | 0:25:03 | |
before this adventure. You have been at sea for seven weeks. Are | 0:25:03 | 0:25:13 | |
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you ever going to row again? I took up rowing as soon as I said yes to | 0:25:13 | 0:25:17 | |
this challenge. To be honest, I'd really love it. I would like to | 0:25:17 | 0:25:25 | |
continue rowing when I get back home. Ocean rowing? Maybe in a few | 0:25:25 | 0:25:29 | |
years' time I would like to do it again. I would like to see what I | 0:25:29 | 0:25:34 | |
can do to make a better and make it faster. Who knows what is in store. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:40 | |
What is your next challenge? Gosh, the girls have already been talking | 0:25:40 | 0:25:44 | |
about it. Even when we were on the boat we were taught about what we | 0:25:44 | 0:25:50 | |
would do next, which is crazy. We are talking about doing a possible | 0:25:50 | 0:26:00 | |
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cycling route, cycling through all the trafficking areas. The nine-to- | 0:26:02 | 0:26:07 | |
five job will just have to wait. Yes, it is looking that way! Thanks | 0:26:07 | 0:26:15 | |
for a much. She is great, she has a real can-do attitude. Let us get | 0:26:15 | 0:26:24 | |
We have had another mild date but winter has not left to us even | 0:26:24 | 0:26:30 | |
though there are signs of spring around. We are expecting quite cold | 0:26:30 | 0:26:34 | |
and wintry weather later this week. Today there has been a steady | 0:26:34 | 0:26:39 | |
stream of cloud moving in from the Atlantic. It will stay around | 0:26:39 | 0:26:43 | |
tonight and it does mean chances of catching the Northern Lights | 0:26:43 | 0:26:49 | |
tonight are very limited. Tomorrow, if things are still good as far as | 0:26:49 | 0:26:55 | |
the magnetic forces are concerned, the skies will be clearer. We have | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
damp and drizzly weather to come tonight. Temperatures not much | 0:26:58 | 0:27:05 | |
lower than 819 degrees. This bunch of rain sitting at Atlantic will | 0:27:05 | 0:27:10 | |
come our way tomorrow. It is moving in from the West End East and the | 0:27:10 | 0:27:17 | |
winds are increasing as well. Not quite as mild as today with the | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
strengthening southerly winds and then the rain. The rain will make | 0:27:21 | 0:27:27 | |
its way over Easter errors by the afternoon. Temperatures of around | 0:27:27 | 0:27:37 | |
nine or ten degrees. By 3pm, it is raining heavily across Antrim and | 0:27:37 | 0:27:42 | |
down through Belfast. Strong and gusty winds. The rain starts to | 0:27:42 | 0:27:47 | |
lesson in the West and as that happens, towards evening, | 0:27:47 | 0:27:52 | |
temperatures will start to fall. So, as the rain clears away, there may | 0:27:52 | 0:27:56 | |
be a little bit of sleet and snow. Tomorrow night, temperatures fall | 0:27:56 | 0:28:01 |