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Good evening, this is Newsline. The headlines this Wednesday evening: A | 0:00:11 | 0:00:17 | |
man has died after his car plunged into the canal at Newry in County | 0:00:17 | 0:00:23 | |
Down. Also on the programme. A dramatic | 0:00:24 | 0:00:29 | |
turnaround for the dairy Fleadh bid, can the show still go on? Fears of | 0:00:29 | 0:00:36 | |
a double-dip recession hit the local economy. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:40 | |
Scotland's First Minister sets out his stall for the referendum. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
An Irish club in disarray, Donegal Celtic's former manager tells us | 0:00:44 | 0:00:48 | |
why he has walked away for all good. And as cold weather moves in from | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
the West, we can look forward to ice in places tomorrow morning and | 0:00:52 | 0:01:02 | |
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First tonight, a fatal accident in County Down. A man's body has been | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
recovered from the Newry Canal when his car left the Bson denied Omeath | 0:01:08 | 0:01:15 | |
Road. It was sealed off by the police and by Gardai -- left the | 0:01:15 | 0:01:19 | |
B79 Omeath Road. Our reporter is by the scene. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:25 | |
behind me here is the Omeath Road going out of Newry. Within the past | 0:01:25 | 0:01:29 | |
30 minutes, police confirmed to me that the body of a man had been | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
recovered in its operation. He is thought to be around his sixties. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:38 | |
This accent seems to have happened at around 2 o'clock this afternoon. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
We are not sure the circumstances but the car left the road and went | 0:01:42 | 0:01:47 | |
into the canal. The emergency services were called in, Ambulance | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
Personnel, fire service and specialist died teams as well as | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
police from both sides of the border. The PSNI called on their | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
colleagues on the other side of the border to close the road on that | 0:01:59 | 0:02:05 | |
side. The road remains closed here. As I said, within the past 30 | 0:02:05 | 0:02:12 | |
minutes we have heard that that man has died. This Road going towards | 0:02:12 | 0:02:16 | |
or Meath has claimed lives in this manner in the past. Joining me is | 0:02:16 | 0:02:23 | |
the Mayor of Newry. Charlie, this is a road that has had fatalities | 0:02:23 | 0:02:28 | |
and in this manner in the past. there is a history on this road. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
Quite a number of incidents and near-misses. Obviously what | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
happened here is a tragedy, we do not know the full circumstances but | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
the man has lost his life. early indications that a car had | 0:02:40 | 0:02:46 | |
entered the canal around Victoria locks. We are responsible for the | 0:02:46 | 0:02:52 | |
maintenance of that and the council have kept me up-to-date what the | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
circumstances were and it has transpired that the car left the | 0:02:55 | 0:03:01 | |
road, emergency services discovered that one person was in that they | 0:03:01 | 0:03:07 | |
were taken from it. The name has not been released, they are a male. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
As you can see, the road remains closed and the police operation is | 0:03:11 | 0:03:17 | |
still ongoing. Eunan McConville reporting. What a | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
difference 48 hours makes in Londonderry. On Sunday, the Ulster | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
Council of Comhaltas Ceoiltoiri Eireann which organises the All- | 0:03:25 | 0:03:30 | |
Ireland Fleadh said it would not support Derry's bid to host the | 0:03:30 | 0:03:35 | |
event. But it then reversed the decision and so bitter the | 0:03:35 | 0:03:40 | |
application. But there's hot competition from other places -- | 0:03:40 | 0:03:45 | |
and submitted the RUN. The local branch voted to support | 0:03:45 | 0:03:50 | |
the application to host the Fleadh next Wednesday at -- last Wednesday. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
Ahead of the council meeting, two bombs exploded in the City and the | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
council said security fears meant they could not support the | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
application. But last night that decision was | 0:03:59 | 0:04:04 | |
reversed and we were told the vote was unanimous. It is understood the | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness that a letter to the | 0:04:06 | 0:04:11 | |
council urging them to reconsider. The U-turn has been welcomed in the | 0:04:11 | 0:04:19 | |
city. We went through have the city can provide for the Fleadh in 2013 | 0:04:19 | 0:04:29 | |
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and we are now safe to say that we We have put a fantastic document | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
together and it was presented to the people in Derry, they were | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
happy with it and it addressed the issues, they were happy we could | 0:04:38 | 0:04:43 | |
deliver the Fleadh in Derry. If the bid is successful, it would be in | 0:04:43 | 0:04:48 | |
Derry while it holds the UK City of Culture title. The OK it will not | 0:04:48 | 0:04:52 | |
be a stamp on the Fleadh, it will be an independent event taking | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
place in the City of Culture but we must also remind ourselves that we | 0:04:56 | 0:05:06 | |
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have 50 branches or Oireachtas in People watch it on television but | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
to have places competing from all over Ireland for various prizes, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
the All-Ireland Fleadh would be fantastic. The decision will be | 0:05:17 | 0:05:23 | |
taken this weekend. Derry will need 16 votes to beat the rival bids. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:29 | |
People here are hoping their chances have not been harmed. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
So should Derry win the vote on Saturday and what would it mean for | 0:05:33 | 0:05:38 | |
the city and surrounding area? The town of Cavan preparing to host | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
this year's Fleadh. That will be three in the road. Our reporter has | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
been finding out about the biggest Irish music festival. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:53 | |
The cultural carnival on the streets of Cavan. For the last two | 0:05:53 | 0:06:01 | |
years, the town has been filled with hundreds and thousands of Ms - | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
- musicians. All musical traditions have been represented. Last year, | 0:06:06 | 0:06:15 | |
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the sound of pipers and lamb big On a cold, wet January day, the | 0:06:18 | 0:06:24 | |
contrast with those scenes last summer could not be greater. The | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
plans are already on way this year for holding this year's Fleadh. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:33 | |
He began 60 years ago as a competition. Mallarme car workshops | 0:06:33 | 0:06:42 | |
Street and Damon and other forms and entertainment. We had hundreds | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
of events that cater for everybody, not just the traditional music | 0:06:46 | 0:06:52 | |
lovers. Events for families, drama, theatre, craft, Heritage, tourism, | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
and so there is somebody for everybody and that is what the | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
Fleadh has become an that is what it can bring to a town. It brings | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
visitors from all over the world and is a wonderful opportunity to | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
showcase what you have on your doorstep. It is held over 10 days | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
in August and has provided a huge boost for the local economy. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
Fleadh for the last couple of years has been an immense opportunity for | 0:07:13 | 0:07:19 | |
the town. People would have spent in the region of 35 million euro | 0:07:19 | 0:07:24 | |
which is huge. Last year, 325,000 people attended here in Cavan and | 0:07:24 | 0:07:31 | |
we would have estimated a spend of 40 million euro. Whether Derry will | 0:07:31 | 0:07:37 | |
get the chance to host this for the first time north of the border now | 0:07:37 | 0:07:47 | |
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Bad news for the UK economy today, the latest GDP figures showed it is | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
still shrinking and that means for the last quarter of 2011 there were | 0:07:53 | 0:07:58 | |
fewer product being manufactured and fewer services been delivered. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
How is Northern Ireland doing? Our reporter has visited Belfast's | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
Titanic Quarter, an area which has experienced boom and bust before. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:13 | |
How many times have you heard the 20 12th phrase, that it will be | 0:08:13 | 0:08:18 | |
Northern Ireland's you? It would be nice to hear something positive and | 0:08:18 | 0:08:24 | |
to many, the Titanic signature project is more than just a shiny | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
building. It represents hope for the future. Pretty much like the | 0:08:28 | 0:08:33 | |
Titanic did. But we all know what happened there. So is our economy | 0:08:33 | 0:08:38 | |
about to sink or swim? People do not have a lot to spend, there are | 0:08:38 | 0:08:43 | |
fewer jobs, we have lost 6% of our jobs in the private sector in the | 0:08:43 | 0:08:50 | |
past four years. There are major problems and this is how we get the | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
regeneration going and we are doing it in an area which has to be part | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
of the building blocks to make it work for stopping at this area is | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
still suffering from the hangover caused by the crash and the | 0:09:00 | 0:09:09 | |
property market. Dozens of luxury apartments are empty. But in the | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
same neighbourhood, battles are being fought to redress the balance. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:17 | |
It is hoped that a new factory at this site will boost the local area | 0:09:17 | 0:09:22 | |
and the economy. When it is finished, 300 people will work here | 0:09:22 | 0:09:28 | |
building wind term -- wind turbines for a Danish company. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
And further signs of recovery elsewhere, he might they are | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
repairing two ships and a tanker bringing much-needed employment. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:45 | |
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The question is, will there be more Today's GDP figures have led | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
economists to talk about fears of a double-dip recession. So where will | 0:09:49 | 0:09:53 | |
that leave the Stormont Executive strategy of shrinking the public | 0:09:53 | 0:09:57 | |
sector and growing of Private Business? I am joined by | 0:09:57 | 0:10:02 | |
Westminster by the Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson. If there is a double- | 0:10:02 | 0:10:06 | |
dip recession, will that change of strategy? First of all, let's get | 0:10:06 | 0:10:13 | |
this in context. The IMF has said that the UK economy is likely to do | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
better than many of the other European economies because we are | 0:10:16 | 0:10:20 | |
not tied to the euro. Secondly, they are not predicting that there | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
will be a reduction in output, they are simply saying it will not grow | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
as fast as the Government has anticipated. And thirdly, you have | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
to look at what has happened in Northern Ireland in the economy | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
over the past year. Remember we have had the first year of the | 0:10:35 | 0:10:40 | |
austerity measures. Despite that, we have retained jobs in the public | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
sector and one of the reasons for that is we have imposed a pay | 0:10:43 | 0:10:49 | |
freeze which kept people in work although their pay did not go up. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:55 | |
Yet public sector jobs are under threat. How will the private sector | 0:10:55 | 0:11:00 | |
make up the deficit? In context, the private sector job losses have | 0:11:00 | 0:11:04 | |
not been what people predicted and we finished up this year with as | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
many people employed in the Northern Ireland Civil Service as | 0:11:07 | 0:11:12 | |
we did in the beginning of the year despite the fact we have cut | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
ministerial budget bike 4% over that year. But if you look at what | 0:11:16 | 0:11:21 | |
we have done with the private sector, we have pumped what money | 0:11:21 | 0:11:26 | |
we can in to the private sector to keep construction jobs going in the | 0:11:26 | 0:11:36 | |
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Titanic Quarter. And elsewhere. There's now and would investment | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
being attracted at twice the rate you expect Northern Ireland to be | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
able to do in comparison with the rest of the United Kingdom. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
Manufacturing industry is experiencing an increase in output | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
and that output is going increasingly to part of the world | 0:11:52 | 0:11:58 | |
where the economy is growing and therefore we are holding out more | 0:11:58 | 0:12:06 | |
prospect for future sales because of getting our ft in the market. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:14 | |
Sorry to interrupt you, but when the Government produced come in, | 0:12:14 | 0:12:18 | |
where all the growth come from? Particularly in small and medium- | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
sized businesses to make up the bulk of our are,? That is the whole | 0:12:21 | 0:12:30 | |
point. By investing in the infrastructure -- our economy. We | 0:12:30 | 0:12:37 | |
have tourists coming into areas every year and in doing so we will | 0:12:37 | 0:12:42 | |
generate private sector jobs so we are investing in infrastructure to | 0:12:42 | 0:12:47 | |
them and to then have sustainable work in part of Northern Ireland. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:52 | |
The tourist industry, manufacturing, in the future. At that the | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
Executive some time should be given credit for looking and planning | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
ahead for putting money into sound infrastructure programmes which in | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
turn will help us to grow the private sector economy and get a | 0:13:03 | 0:13:09 | |
better balance. There's more to be done, I accept that. Many more | 0:13:09 | 0:13:14 | |
hurdles and battles on the way but I don't think people should p | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
entirely focusing on the gloomy aspect of the economic prospects. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
Let's look at some of the things we are doing to bring positive | 0:13:21 | 0:13:31 | |
outcomes for Northern Ireland. You are watching BBC Newsline and | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
still to come on the programme: Why researchers are taking the | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
temperature at these temporary terraced houses. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
Look who got lost on the way to the Arctic Circle, and ended up in | 0:13:41 | 0:13:51 | |
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The biggest decision for the Scottish people in 300 years - | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
that's how Scotland's First Minister, the SNP's Alex Salmond, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
described the referendum on independence when he unveiled the | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
proposed wording of the question on the ballot paper in the Scottish | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
Parliament today. He also suggested there could be a question on | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
whether the Holyrood Parliament should have more powers, short of | 0:14:05 | 0:14:09 | |
independence. Our political reporter Stephen Walker gave me the | 0:14:09 | 0:14:17 | |
details from Edinburgh. Who Alex Salmond wanted a very simple and | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
straightforward question on the ballot paper and you give those | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
details today. The question that he wants is do | 0:14:24 | 0:14:30 | |
you agree that Scotland should be an independent country? That is the | 0:14:30 | 0:14:35 | |
question he wants. He also wants consultation on this issue of | 0:14:35 | 0:14:40 | |
devolution maximum, was caught and gets more Paris from London, but it | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
is not quite fully independent. He also wants people to think about | 0:14:45 | 0:14:50 | |
whether 16 and 17 year-olds should be allowed to vote in this | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
referendum in 2014. He wants people to have a long think about these | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
issues. Up big concern to Northern | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
Ireland's, what are the potential repercussions? Obviously, people | 0:15:01 | 0:15:05 | |
from a unionist persuasion are really worried that this is the | 0:15:05 | 0:15:10 | |
start of the break-up of the Union. People like Peter Robinson has | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
already said that he may come here and campaign against it. Unionists | 0:15:14 | 0:15:24 | |
are worried thinking about what's happening today, but opinion polls | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
in Scotland have been against independence. Nationalists are | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
looking at this and watching anxiously to see how this debate | 0:15:30 | 0:15:35 | |
develops. Nationalists are not prepared to get involved as much as | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
Unionists are, and Martin McGuinness has been on record to | 0:15:38 | 0:15:43 | |
say that local politicians should stay clear of this debate. There is | 0:15:44 | 0:15:49 | |
argument about when this referendum might be held. What is there might | 0:15:49 | 0:15:54 | |
be time table? What will happen is there will be this consultation | 0:15:54 | 0:16:04 | |
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which will last until May. If things go according to plan and | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
discussions with London and Edinburgh go well, then you could | 0:16:09 | 0:16:14 | |
see a bill next year, then finally the referendum in the bottom of | 0:16:14 | 0:16:24 | |
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2014. Next a project to help us cope with | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
massive home heating bills. Insulation is the key to keeping | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
the place warm, but that is a problem for tens of thousands of | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
houses built long before cavity walls were the norm. Eyebrows were | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
raised when the University of Ulster said it was building new | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
homes without cavity walls, but as our environment correspondent, Mike | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
McKimm, explains, it is all part of the pursuit of knowledge. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
This House in Belfast looks just like many homes around Northern | 0:16:46 | 0:16:53 | |
Ireland, but it is unique because copying to its -- copying its | 0:16:53 | 0:16:58 | |
features to the last Beech Hill, these two houses are a copy of it | 0:16:58 | 0:17:08 | |
based at the University of Ulster. 20 % of homes in the United Kingdom | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
don't have a cup of tea, so we have to find a solution on how to keep | 0:17:12 | 0:17:20 | |
them. We want to be able to find solutions so we can retrofit homes | 0:17:20 | 0:17:25 | |
that are comfortable for the people inside them, and the still have a | 0:17:25 | 0:17:29 | |
floor area that is usable. Many of these older homes are not begin | 0:17:29 | 0:17:35 | |
side. The problem is this is the outside wall and it is only at | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
brick thick. So, how do you keep it warm and put in isolation on it | 0:17:39 | 0:17:44 | |
without coming back into the room? Every part of the House is | 0:17:44 | 0:17:48 | |
monitored for temperature in juice. Families will be living in them | 0:17:48 | 0:17:53 | |
full time, but we researchers contest lots of different measures. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:58 | |
When he insulate internally, you have to start moving architraves | 0:17:58 | 0:18:03 | |
and radiators and all the electrics have to be moved. There is a lot of | 0:18:03 | 0:18:08 | |
work insulating inside. The end of each terrace has an empty chamber | 0:18:08 | 0:18:15 | |
kept to a temperature as if there was another house at the end. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
very impressed by what they have put together here with support from | 0:18:19 | 0:18:24 | |
my department. I believe this will be a cutting-edge initiative and | 0:18:24 | 0:18:30 | |
terms of maximising our knowledge on how best to invest in homes to | 0:18:30 | 0:18:35 | |
make an energy-efficient. With 25 million single walled houses like | 0:18:35 | 0:18:39 | |
these across the UK, if the university can come up with a | 0:18:39 | 0:18:43 | |
workable solution, it could create substantial employment | 0:18:43 | 0:18:50 | |
opportunities. I live in an old house and | 0:18:50 | 0:18:55 | |
sometimes it feels that heating it is like tearing up five-pound | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
notes! France has its Champagne, Italy its | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
Parma ham, but as of today Northern Ireland is celebrating the | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
elevation of the humble Comber spud to the ranks of Europe's produce of | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
special quality. The move, which we have been waiting for, gives credit | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
for something very distinctive and allows the local food industry to | 0:19:10 | 0:19:12 | |
waken up to huge marketing possibilities. Our consumer | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
correspondent, Martin Cassidy, has been savouring the success with | 0:19:14 | 0:19:22 | |
farmers and restaurant owners. With their rich red sandstone soil | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
and sheltered by Strangford lock, these are the fields which produced | 0:19:25 | 0:19:31 | |
the famous convert potatoes. Price for their distinctive nutty flavour, | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
they have now been granted Protected Geographical indication | 0:19:35 | 0:19:41 | |
status. For farmers like this, it has been a painstaking process, but | 0:19:41 | 0:19:47 | |
now at last the Comber potato has been accepted into an elite group | 0:19:47 | 0:19:52 | |
of products, that include champagne and parma ham and Stilton cheese. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:57 | |
We have been waiting three years to get this and finally it has come. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:02 | |
We should be excited because hopefully it will make a lot of | 0:20:02 | 0:20:06 | |
difference. Since the Plantation of Ulster, early potatoes have been | 0:20:06 | 0:20:15 | |
grown here on land that was owned by the Hamiltons and Montgomery's. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:25 | |
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Europe now recognises this land as producing special early potatoes. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:31 | |
We had the potential of three products now a been on this list, | 0:20:31 | 0:20:39 | |
including Bramley apples. It is not just farmers who are celebrating | 0:20:39 | 0:20:43 | |
the success. Local restaurant owners see it as a significant | 0:20:43 | 0:20:48 | |
event. You would be surprised a number of tourists travel to | 0:20:48 | 0:20:56 | |
Strangford for the local delicacies, like the shellfish, lobsters and | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
oysters in Strangford. You get a lot of French and Spanish jurists | 0:20:59 | 0:21:04 | |
in the summer and I think if we can all go on to that bit additional, | 0:21:04 | 0:21:09 | |
potatoes, it is something else to shout about. Local food producers | 0:21:09 | 0:21:13 | |
might have been a little bit slower than their European rivals to | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
recognise the potential marketing advantages, but now with Lough | 0:21:16 | 0:21:23 | |
Neagh eels, conger potatoes and County Armagh apples, these | 0:21:23 | 0:21:31 | |
visitors are starting to get the recognition they deserve. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
Next to the ongoing difficulties at Donegal Celtic soccer club. As the | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
search begins for a new manager, the club's former boss has broken | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
his silence. Here's Austin O'Callaghan. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
Paddy Kelly says he believes the future of Donegal Celtic is now | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
under real threat. His comments come in his first public interview | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
since resigning as manager. Several other coaches at the club, along | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
with the football committee, have also stepped down in protest at how | 0:21:51 | 0:21:56 | |
Donegal Celtic is being run. Paddy Kelly has been speaking to our | 0:21:56 | 0:22:03 | |
reporter Thomas Kane. The players showed a united front | 0:22:03 | 0:22:07 | |
in their traditional Hoddle, but Donegal Celtic is very much a club | 0:22:07 | 0:22:13 | |
divided. Paddy Kenny felt he could no longer continue as manager. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:18 | |
There has been tensions between this social end of the club and the | 0:22:18 | 0:22:25 | |
people entered the club. When you ever go back? Most definitely not. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:30 | |
My time there is finished. I have been there 30 years and I think the | 0:22:30 | 0:22:36 | |
last two weeks has left a bad taste in my mouth. Some people say don't | 0:22:36 | 0:22:40 | |
say never, but I'm saying never because I will not set Mayford back | 0:22:40 | 0:22:44 | |
in the place. The fans have their own views and were concerned about | 0:22:44 | 0:22:52 | |
the effect that will have on the area. I hear people saying it is an | 0:22:52 | 0:22:57 | |
internal feud between the social and football club. The Football | 0:22:57 | 0:23:02 | |
Club has brought a lot of people together. People have to decide if | 0:23:02 | 0:23:08 | |
self-interest is what they want, or will they open up a dialogue. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:14 | |
the pitch the club defeated Institute last night. The club will | 0:23:14 | 0:23:20 | |
carry on the matter what happens. The players are here and here to | 0:23:20 | 0:23:25 | |
stay. Me being in the inside for so long, I think I have a good idea of | 0:23:25 | 0:23:29 | |
what is going on and I think if something isn't being done | 0:23:29 | 0:23:34 | |
drastically, it could be the end. Officials will hold a crisis | 0:23:34 | 0:23:40 | |
meeting on Sunday to attempt to resolve the dispute. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
Nobody was available from the club today to speak to us. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
Several of rugby's international captains have been gathering in | 0:23:46 | 0:23:56 | |
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Rory McIlroy hopes to make a better start to 2012 than his girlfriend, | 0:23:58 | 0:24:00 | |
Caroline Wozniaki, did at the Australian Open tennis. McIlroy | 0:24:00 | 0:24:03 | |
begins his season in a few hours' time in the opening round of golf's | 0:24:03 | 0:24:06 | |
Abu Dhabi Championship. His playing partners for the first two rounds | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
will be world number one Luke Donald and Tiger Woods. I plagues | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
nine holes with Tiger Woods yesterday. The play with look | 0:24:13 | 0:24:17 | |
Donald and him will be great. It is a great field and a great way to | 0:24:17 | 0:24:23 | |
start the year. I am excited to get the new season up and running. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
Finally a reminder that on tomorrow night's BBC Newsline we will be | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
introducing you to this young footballer. He is from West Belfast, | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
but along with several other lucky boys and girls, he is bound for | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
Barcelona for the training trip of a lifetime and where they will get | 0:24:35 | 0:24:45 | |
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to rub shoulders with the great Nothing excites the local twitching | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
community, that's birdwatchers of course, more than the arrival of a | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
new bird on the block. As Francis Gorman reports, the binoculars are | 0:24:54 | 0:25:04 | |
being trained on an unusual visitor to County Down. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:11 | |
This is what all the excitement is about. Harry Ross's golf. It is a | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
long way from home inside the Arctic Circle. It breeds in Siberia | 0:25:15 | 0:25:20 | |
and usually flies to the North Pole for winter. This one may have had | 0:25:20 | 0:25:25 | |
problems with the satellite navigation! It is in Ardglass | 0:25:25 | 0:25:34 | |
harbour. My heart is just racing. It would be nice to get a look at | 0:25:34 | 0:25:42 | |
the birch. Part of the reason why I am interested is that so you can | 0:25:42 | 0:25:47 | |
see it again in the future if you happen to come across it. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:53 | |
Jazeera 1984 when we had a very rare bird also from the Arctic. But | 0:25:53 | 0:26:02 | |
this is even rarer. I don't think will happen again and my lifetime. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
If one possible explanation for this bird being here is because of | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
bad weather in the Arctic Circle. It is impossible to tell how long | 0:26:10 | 0:26:15 | |
it will stay in Ardglass, but while it is there, so too will be the | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
birdwatchers. Well, our polar friend has brought | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
some Arctic chill with it. Cecilia's here with a wintry | 0:26:21 | 0:26:31 | |
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It is already turning colder in parts of the West. It is not going | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
to be desperately unusual temperatures for January because we | 0:26:36 | 0:26:43 | |
have had a quite mild recently. We are expecting a frost and ice | 0:26:43 | 0:26:48 | |
tonight and there may even be some snow in places. We have had lots of | 0:26:48 | 0:26:57 | |
rain today and it is still remain in most places. This is our latest | 0:26:57 | 0:27:03 | |
radar. It is still wet, but it's the cure skies are starting to edge | 0:27:03 | 0:27:13 | |
him from the West. There is a warning for ice. So, the last of | 0:27:13 | 0:27:18 | |
the rain will cure away and the wind will ease, too. There will be | 0:27:18 | 0:27:24 | |
some showers around. Some of thick showers will have sleet and snow | 0:27:24 | 0:27:28 | |
mixed in. If you are travelling tomorrow morning over hills they | 0:27:28 | 0:27:34 | |
could be up to five centimetres of snow above 300 metres, but even at | 0:27:34 | 0:27:42 | |
lower levels that could be some slushy snow. It could be a bit of a | 0:27:42 | 0:27:52 | |
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nasty rash Park tomorrow. -- Rush hour. It will be brighter tomorrow | 0:27:57 | 0:28:02 | |
and the much more cheerful looking day. Temperatures will be | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
considerably lower after today at just five or six degrees. Things | 0:28:05 | 0:28:13 |