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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Noel Thompson. The headlines

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this Friday evening: $WHITE Why a dramatic increase in the price of

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alcohol is on the cards. A man described as a train spotter is

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remanded on terrorism charges. Sir Reg Empey angers the Scottish

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Nationalists with his views on independence. And caught on camera

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- using CCTV to crack down on poachers. Rory McIlroy has problems

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with the sand in Abu Dhabi but is still in contention. And we meet

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the Belfast ice hockey chalking up a giant number of appearances

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tonight. And finally the last weekend in January has arrived,

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find out if the weather will be wintry or hint at spring. The price

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of alcohol could be about to soar. It's part of an initiative to

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tackle of alcohol abuse by setting a minimum price, on both sides of

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the border. Ministers in Belfast and Dublin hope it will be

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introduced by the end of the year, and will mean that no one can sell

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alcohol for less than around 50 pence per unit. A unit is

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equivalent to half a pint of ordinary-strength beer. So will it

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really have an impact? Natasha Sayee has been finding out. At the

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moment a unit of alcohol can cost as little as 16 pence. It is cheap,

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it is plentiful and both Stormont and the republic's Government plan

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to stem its flow by making drinks like cider, beer and own brand

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spirits less affordable. In Northern Ireland a bottle of strong

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cider can be purchased for �2.30. Increasing the minimum price to 50

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pence a unit would make it �7. But according to the health ministers

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on both sides of the borderer the annual cost of alcohol abuse is 4.7

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billion euro. So will setting a minimum price make a difference?

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is a silly tax, it is hitting the ordinary people. I don't think it

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will do much good. What about yourself, will it affect how you

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buy? No. If people are going to drink, they will find the money

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somewhere. Not if they keep receiving money as registered

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alcoholics, they will find a way. But the Department of Health think

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it will worth. Our issue with price is some drinks are very affordable.

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Especially for young people. The effect to set a price would be to

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increase that price and make the availability of that drink harder.

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The plans should be in place by the end of the year. When the minimum

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price of a unit of alcohol will be exactly the same on both sides of

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the border. A man who has been described as a loner and a train

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spotter has appeared in court on terrorism charges. He was arrested

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near Downpatrick by the PSNI's serious crime branch. Our District

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journalist Claire Savage reports. 27-year-old Ryan Lavery from

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Downpatrick is accused of collecting information likely to be

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of use to a person committing or me pairing - epreparing an act of

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terrorism. The police say he had photograph of vehicles coming in

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and out of this army baifplts he is accused of having a list of vehicle

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registration numbers. Today at court, Ryan Lavery's defence argued

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his client was a train spotter, a loaner and a nerd with no friends.

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He said of his client, if he was put beside an airt - airport he

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would take pictures of planes. The accused father wo, at the Baracks.

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- works. The judge refused bail in case Ryan Lavery committed further

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offences. He said a mie court judge could decide if he was a train

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spotter. -- High Court judge. A bail application will be heard next

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week. The former Ulster Unionist leader Reg Empey has been called

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grossly irresponsible for claiming that independence for Scotland

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could re-ignite conflict in Northern Ireland. The present

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leader, Tom Elliott, recently got into bother when he said the

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Scottish Nationalist Leader Alex Salmond was a bigger threat to the

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Union that the IRA. Here's Gareth Gordon. In tt Scottish Parliament

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this week history beckoned. people who live in Scotland are the

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best people too make decision about their own future O that there can

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be no doubt. But in the House of Lords a former Ulster unionist

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leader said independence for Scotland could spell dire

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consequences for Northern Ireland. We have spent decades overcoming

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nationalist terrorism. And we after years and years managed to settle

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down our community. I don't wish to exaggerate, but if the Scottish

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nationalists were to succeed, it could reignite the difficulties

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that we have managed to overcome. Those sentiments have not gone down

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well in Scotland, where the Scottish nationalists. The words

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used were daft, crazy and irresponsible. To use such language

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in a situation in Northern Ireland, but over something as unrelated as

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Scottish independence strikes me as simply daft. Sir Reg Empey is not

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usually accused of being like this. One academic said he is surprised.

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He is a constructive unionist voice normally and if anything a calming

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influence. I think those remarks sounded very alarmist and almost

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panic-stricken. And I don't think they were designed to instil self-

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confidence in the unionist community, which at the best of

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times needs little encouragement to feel fearful. However much Alex

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Salmond would wish it was not so, it is clear the independence debate

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will not be for Scotland alone. Still to come on the programme: I'm

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live in Newcastle at a vintage car exhibition with a fascinating

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Titanic twist. And as the countdown to the Six Nations gets underway,

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I'm at the launch in Hillsbrough with Stephen Ferris, Paddy Wallace

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and Tom Court. Must try harder! That's the verdict of the Education

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Minister on the homework he handed out to the boards, asking them to

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carry out an audit of primary and secondary schools, to help build a

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picture of which ones, in these times of shrinking rolls, have a

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secure future. But John O'Dowd is unhappy with the reports and has

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asked the Boards to resubmit them. I asked our Education Correspondent

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Maggie Taggart if this was all about finding reasons to close

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schools. Well the minister would deny that. He says he wants to make

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decisions on the future, but he wants to know the facts first. That

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is why he asked the five boards the -- to look at each school and they

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have had three and a half months to come up with figures on the

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finances, the number of students and the success or otherwise of the

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schools. So that is what he has asked for. Burrless not happy with

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the result. Why not stkph He has said that it is far from a list of

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closures, but he has said that he wants to see what the prognosis is

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for the schools and what recommendations the boards would

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like to make. It seems the boards have given him the data and said,

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right it is over to you, to make up you minds about what should happen.

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But he wants them to make the proposals about what should happen.

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There is a suggestion that he is not happy about the extent of the

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financial information and it has been said to me that it may be cast

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too rosaway glow for some schools. -- rosy a glow for some schools.

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There has been some reaction. chair of the education committee

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said the thing is a mess and although it is obvious some schools

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will close, this system means that every school is worried and every

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school is looking over their shoulder and the SDLP said the list

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is masking a hit-list of schools for closure. That has been denied

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by the department. Thank you. Love them or hate them, wind turbines

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are becoming an ever more familiar sight across our landscape. To keep

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on the right side of the communities who live around the

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wind farms, developers offer funding for local projects. But as

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our Fermanagh District journalist Julian Fowler has found out,

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companies in Great Britain are paying out about four times more

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than companies in Northern Ireland. It is common practice for renewable

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energy company to pay money into a community fund so people beside

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wind farms get something in return. Research today reveals a big

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disParty between the amounts paid here compared to schemes in the

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rest of the UK. The money paid depends on the amount of

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electricity generated. Measured in megawatts a year. According to the

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research a typical amount paid to a local community is �500 per

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megawatt per year. In Scotland it is nearer �2,000 and sometimes more.

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Annual contributions was lower than in the rest of the UK and we found

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that models of ownship that exist in the rest of the UK don't exist

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in Northern Ireland. So in Scotland and in England, and Wales,

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communities might be able to own a turbine, part own a wind farm.

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village in Scotland which has benefited is Fintry. When a

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developer approached them to build turbines, they asked for an extra

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to be added for the community. community council budget was around

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�400 a year. We're now as long as the wind blows, looking, although

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we haven't paid for the turbine at say 50 to 60,000 a year. Fintry

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could receive more, enough to build a new school. These turbines

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dominate the village in Northern Ireland, but one local community

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group feels they should have got more. We were promised the village

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would be able to get a �1,000 per turbine to benefit the community.

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With running projects and different events in our village and that we

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would haven't to apply for the funding. But things changed when

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the planning went through and the turbines started to go up.

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community has to apply for a grant. One local renewable company is

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advertising for its community fund for projects that are energy

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efficient, or sustainable. Stormont has seat target to produce five

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times more electricity from renewables by 2020 and that means

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more turbines. But local communities will need to be

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convinced that they won't miss out Anyone trying to Bauch fish will

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not just have the B-list to look out for or -- to Porch fish will

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not just have the B-list to look out for. For those in the know this

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is happiness. These anglers are hoping to win a

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prize, but there is a problem. This lake has been decimated in recent

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years because of poaching. Most of the fish that have been caught a

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very small. The lake has been hit badly over

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the last number of years. Myself and my brother would have fished

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this lake a lot. Last year we fished the lake and we got nothing.

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There is no scientific evidence that poaching is affecting the

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stocks of fish. There was some legislation in place. It was not a

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serious problem. In the last five years it has become more

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significant. Their ages he is hitting back with cameras. Someone

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is setting and met in the river. They are removing fresh from the

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river. We have footage of anglers who have exceeded the limit.

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this case poachers are using stones to create an artificial bank in a

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river. We can retrieve the footage to see what is going on. Back here

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This week is the 70th anniversary of their arrival of US troops in

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Northern Ireland. The First Division's started to arrive in

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January 1942 before they headed on to North Africa. The second batch

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arrived in 1944 to train for the invasion of Europe. This exhibition

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is to remember the impact of this day. The UK had been isolated.

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Allies in Europe had been beaten. With the arrival of these trips

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there were powerful allies are visible in Northern Ireland. It was

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very heart-warming. And now for the sport.

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We will be speaking to some of the Ulster rugby players are very

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shortly. But first let us look at to Abu Dhabi golf Championship.

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Rory mac four Roy noticed a mistake himself. He responded like a

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champion. You saw the stance slightly closed

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there. For the second day running Rory McIlroy's radar went wrong.

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He paid the price. Two shot penalty. It was interesting. I did not get

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off to the greatest of start. I battled back really well. I made a

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stupid mistake on at nine. I played the back nine in very well. Overall

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it was not a bad score. That is really brave. This player is

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leading the Northern Ireland contingent.

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Graham Lyndall was a big mover. A three under-par round of 69 left

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him all smiles. Darren Clarke did not make the cut.

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Ireland's rugby squad are preparing for the start of the Six Nations

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Championship which gets under way next weekend.

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We have representatives of the Ulster contingent with us live.

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We have mapped in here at the launch. -- we have them here at the

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launch. You are in the form of your life at

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the moment. That must augur well for the Six Nations? I am feeling

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good. I am part of a good team. I am playing well. I am feeling

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confident and looking forward to the next two weeks. How will island

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cope without their talisman? -- how well Ireland cope? There is a lot

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of leadership. We will cope all right. The rivalry between Ireland

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and Wales has been notable. Why is that? You see the players week-in

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week-out. The competition is so fierce. Each team is capable of

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beating the other. Much has been made about a game

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been played on Easter Sunday. Is there an issue? It is not an issue

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to the players. You are in the form of your life. It is the Grand Slam

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achievable? We are not looking ahead of Wales. We will rest this

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weekend. Looking fit and looking formidable.

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Looking forward to it all starting. Tomorrow afternoon Coleraine fees

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Crusaders in the Irn Bru Cup Final. Join me for live coverage on BBC

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Two. We are in a good place at the

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moment. January has been good to us. Nothing inspires player more than

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getting results. This year we have been competing in it every game. We

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had too many draws in the league. On our day we are moving the ball

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about well. That will be required in the final. We need to take the

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game to the opposition. Graeme Walton was the first player to

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represent the Belfast Giants ice hockey team. Nine years later he is

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still an important part of his hometown side. Tonight the

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Dundonald based skater reaches a milestone.

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Graeme Walton is the kind of guy who set up goals rather than scores

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them. That has changed recently in training. He has now scored four

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goals over the past four weeks. That is more than he scored last

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season. He is about to make his 500 appearance for the Belfast Giants.

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It is great. Hopefully in the future more guys will make it.

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Their defence man is on sparkling form, but after 500 games is he

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getting to the stage where enough is enough? Some players can play

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for 30 years. I have got another year after this. You never know. I

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am enjoying it now. The team that is playing well. We're top of the

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league. 500 not out and top of the league. All is going well for the

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Belfast Giants and Graeme Walton. They are hoping for a repeat of

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2006 when they last won at the Elite League.

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Carl Frampton has his defence of his title against Kris Hughes. It

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will be a sell-out in London tomorrow. Carl Frampton is managed

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by Barry McGuigan. He is 5 ft 11. He is a southpaw. I

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have been training with guys who are a bit heavier. I have been

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sussing them out. I have come across every sort of style in the

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160 amateur fight. Tomorrow night Tyrone will try to

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overcome Derry. The Tyrone boss was keen to achieve early silverware.

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You can re- energise yourself. Hopefully we can be part of that to

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re energising. I am proud of the players. I told you it would be a

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busy weekend. We will be hearing a lot about the

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Titanic this year. Tonight our reporter is in the Newcastle where

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a ghost of a ship's past has appeared.

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There are 52 exhibits in this car exhibition. The one that is

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attracting all their attention is this vehicle. It is a Rolls-Royce

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from 19 -- from 1910. It has strong links to the Titanic.

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The current owner of the vehicle will tell us more.

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This car was ordered by the chairman of the Harland and Wolff

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shipyard. You can just imagine Hemp driving the car down to the

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shipyard and looking at the progress of the Titanic as it was

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being built. It would have been a sight to see in those days. What

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happened in the intervening years? After he died the car was turned

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into an ambulance. At one time the car that was used on a golf course.

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It was then converted into a breakdown vehicle. It was then sold

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it in the 1950s to a dealer who restored it and sold it to somebody

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in America. It was used on a cricket pitch and on a golf course.

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That is hard to believe. We had hoped to show you more but we have

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Ramos of time. If you want to get down here it is on tonight and also

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on Saturday and on Sunday. I wonder how many miles that as to

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I wonder how many miles that as to the gallon! Here is the weather: It

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will be a mixed weekend. At the It will be chilly. A sharp frosts

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to come. There could be some freezing fog. It will be a crisp

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and a dry start to the weekend. Cloud and rain will move into

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effect all of us by Sunday. Here is the weather front that is bringing

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in the rain. Cold air is being sacked in a from the Continent. --

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being taken in from the Continent. We may get some Hell's know. -- we

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may get some us know. -- snow. It is a cold start tomorrow.

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It will be dry. During the day the Reina will stay in the West but it

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will move eastwards tomorrow night. There may be some sleet for a time.

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