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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline. Our main headlines... The trial of | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
a couple accused of killing their granddaughter hears of the arrest | :00:26. | :00:35. | |
of another family member. The Vatican moves to rein in Father | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Brian D'Arcy. Claims that a schoolboy has been the victim of | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
anti-Semitic bullying. There is increasing concern over the future | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
of a major airline at Belfast City Airport. And here at the Giant's | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Causeway Visitor Centre, I will be live with the results of a trial. | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
And we will be joined by two star players from Ulster Rugby. And I | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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will have the weather details The trial of an elderly couple | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
accused of killing their granddaughter has been told that | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
another family member was once arrested in connection with the | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
girl's death. David and Sarah Johnston, from Glengormley, denied | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
the charges against them. There granddaughter, Rebecca McKeown, was | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
a severely disabled 14-year-old, who died in hospital in 2001. Today | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
the court was told that one of the child's brothers was once | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
questioned about her death. Evidence today not from the | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
grandparents are accused of child cruelty, but from her mother, under | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
cross-examination from the defence team. She was taken through her | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
daughter's condition once again, including the days leading up to | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
her death. She told the court how in January 2008, almost seven years | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
later, the police came to her home and said they were reopening the | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
case of Rebecca McKeown. She was interviewed for several hours at | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
the police station. Under cross- examination, she explained how she | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
was unable to remember everything about the day because she had been | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
in shock. The barrister agreed that Mrs McKeown had been shocked, | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
pointing out that the police had just told her that her induced son | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
was about to be arrested on suspicion of the murder of Rebecca, | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
that his fingerprint had been found in a nappy she had been wearing | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
when staying at her grandparents. Mrs McKeown was asked whether she | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
had changed some of her evidence, to avoid suspicion falling on her | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
son. She said, I had no reason to protect him because he did not do | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
anything. The barrister insisted, I suggest she was in the dining room, | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
out of your view, for around an hour. She replied, and I suggest | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
that is wrong. It also emerged that in December 2006, Stewart had once | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
threatened his stepfather with a knife in retaliation for a beating. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
But Stewart is not on trial, his maternal grandparents still are. | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
The hearing resumes next week. One of Ireland's best known priests, | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
the broadcaster and newspaper columnist Father Brian D'Arcy, has | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
been rebuked by the Vatican. It has ordered that all church related | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
material he publishes should be cleared in advance. The Catholic | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
Church is cracking down on Irish priests it believes are challenging | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
its teachings. This report from Julian O'Neill. There is another | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
big festival coming up, around the same time... Father Brian D'Arcy | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
has been on the BBC's air waves for years, he is a regular contributor | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
to BBC Radio 2, amongst others. But it is his weekly column for this | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
newspaper which has grabbed attention in Rome. It is not just | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
that he has been outspoken against mandatory celibacy. He has also | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
been a vocal critic of how the Church has handled sex abuse and | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
its teachings on contraception. But now, it has earned him an official | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
rebuke. According to the Catholic newspaper the Tablet, this move | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
follows an anonymous complaint which was made last year. As a | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
result, one cardinal responsible for church doctrine has conveyed | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
dissatisfaction with four of Father Brian D'Arcy's newspaper articles. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
He is based outside Enniskillen, at the Grand monastery. He was | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
celebrating Mass here today, and while he confirmed the story, he | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
said he did not wish to be interviewed. One of the priest's | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
superiors said that he was co- operating with an edict that all | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
his writings must be approved in advance. He said Father Brian | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
D'Arcy had not been silenced, and he remained a priest of good | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
standing. Both the Sunday World and the BBC were asked today if they | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
were aware that the material of Father Brian D'Arcy now needed | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
prior approval from the church. Neither would comment. The mother | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
of a teenager who was assaulted and subjected to anti-Semitic abuse | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
says her son has been left badly shaken by the experience. Matthew | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Lough was bullied at school after he revealed that his great great | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
grandmother was Jewish. This report from Conor Macauley. 14-year-old | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Matthew Lough started to get anti- Semitic abuse last year when he | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
told his class his great great grandmother was Jewish during a | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
history lesson on the Holocaust. The name-calling culminated in two | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
assaults by separate boys, the latest last month. He has been left | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
very shaken, he is still very nervous and jumpy. He finds it very | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
difficult to concentrate, he has Asperger's, so, the fact that it is | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
not just one attacked for him, his mind replays that constantly for | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
him. The family say the boy who was altered their son was suspended for | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
ting -- for two days. Matthew did not return to the college for | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
around 1.5 weeks. The matter may be closed as far as the school is | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
concerned, but Matthew Lough's family says the police | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
investigation into the assault of their son is continuing. Northern | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Ireland's Jewish community is small, and it has been shocked. It is | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
prevalent, yes, for the size of the community, it is really rather | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
alarming that these things are still happening. Matthew's mother | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
says they have some concerns about how Carrickfergus College handled | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
the incident, but nobody at the school was available for comment. | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
Uncertainty surrounds the future of the airline Bmibaby, one of the | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
largest airlines flying out of the last City Airport. -- flying out of | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
Belfast City Airport. This report from our business correspondent | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
Kevin Magee. The airline industry has suffered in the recession, and | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
there could be more turbulence on the way. The George Best Belfast | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
City Airport was dealt a body-blow 18 months ago, when Ryan Lowe | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
pulled out, taking a third of the business with it. It has just been | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
recovering from that but now, there are concerns about the future of | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
another airline, Bmibaby. International airlines group, which | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
owns British Airways, took it over as part of a bigger deal, but they | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
do not want to hold on to it. does not form part of our plans are | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
in the long term. Bmibaby is primarily based on Leger | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
destinations, no-frills services, which is not one of our focus areas. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
Our ambition is to sell it. So far, no buyer has been found. The chief | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
executive of the group, was not sounding optimistic today. I will | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
be honest with you, I think it will be difficult to see a deal being | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
done, but not impossible. We're still in discussions with a couple | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
of parties who are interested in buying the aligned. We will | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
continue to see what we can do over the next few weeks. Bmibaby's | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
domestic routes from Belfast include London Stansted and | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Birmingham. It also flies to European destinations, mostly | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
holiday destinations. In terms of jobs, Bmibaby does not have many | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
jobs at Belfast City Airport, but it is important in terms of revenue, | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
accounting for one in five passengers, even more in the summer. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
The uncertainty over the future of Bmibaby will be causing concern at | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
the airport. They will be hoping some sort of a deal can be cobbled | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
together soon. You're watching BBC Newsline. Still | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
to come - we are greening the new visitors' centre at the Giant's | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
Causeway, from the roof down. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
Cornwall have been visiting one of Belfast's oldest churches, and | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
getting an unusual gift. The Department of Health has been | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
told it must not expect voluntary groups to plug the gaps that the | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
Government will not fund. An increasing number of health care | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
projects are being funded by grants and charity fund-raising. One | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
project which was launched today is aimed at helping people cope with | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
depression. It is entirely paid for by the Big Lottery Fund. As Marie- | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
Louise Connolly reports, such partnerships could be the only way | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
to deliver this type of care in the future. Michael O'Neill has found | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
friends and a purpose in life. After years of battling depression, | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
it was this community centre, not medication, which gave him the | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
therapy he needs. Not only better for him, but cheaper for the Health | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
Service. I have had relapses in the last six or seven years, but they | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
are minor compared to what it was like previously. It gives us hope | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
that we're doing something in the community, and not in a hospital | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
bed. Somebody quoted it would be something like �1,500 a week for a | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
hospital bed. This is something like �40 a week. It is the type of | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
approach which the Department of Health wants to encourage. A big | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
lottery grant, not government funding, means that this service | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
will be able to be rolled out into every health trust. But the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
voluntary sector is warning it cannot be left to fill in gaps | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
which the Government cannot afford to fund. We need people to put | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
their money where it is needed. We know from the Banford review that | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
more money needs to go into mental her services. We know this model | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
works, so we need the money to roll this out across the services. | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
who? By government. Standing alongside the charity and the | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
sponsor, the minister admits his department cannot do everything on | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
its own. We will want to have partners, we will want to work with | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
partners. We want to work with our partners on this issue. But for | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
people like Michael, it is not enough. The Big Lottery Fund | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
insists that by stepping in, they can help bridge the gap, but only | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
in the short term. We can help organisers of projects like this to | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
undertake innovative projects, things which the department might | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
not yet be in a position to fund, but in time might decide to be | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
worth funding. If the Department of Health is to meet its targets, and | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
within the constraints of its budget, it is highly likely we will | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
be seeing more partnerships just like this one. The question is, | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
when the grant money runs out, will the Government be able to pick up | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
the tab to make sure that schemes like this one can continue? On the | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
subject of government spending, will Northern Ireland be one of the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
hardest-hit regions as a result of the welfare reforms being enacted | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
by the Westminster government? That is certainly the view of the | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Children's Commissioner, Mrs the families of at least 6,500 children | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
will lose money. I have met children who sometimes have to go | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
to bed on Wednesday night when there is no food in the house, or | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
when they have no electricity until the next morning, until the mother | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
gets her benefit. It is already happening. We're saying that this | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
welfare reform will actually exacerbate that situation. So the | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
one third of children that we already have in poverty will be | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
increasing by significant numbers if this Welfare Reform Bill goes | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
through. The commission's numbers are disputed by the Stormont | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
minister with responsibility for welfare. How come you dispute those | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
figures, Minister? We need to have a good conversation about this, but | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
it is important that stakeholders do so in a realistic way. If you | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
look at the report that has been commissioned by the Children's | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
Commissioner, it quotes a figure of 6,500. In fact, when you look in | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
the document, there is no evidence, no back-up, no explanation as to | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
where that figure has come from. What number would you put on the | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
number of families which will be losing out? There are good things | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
in welfare reform, and things which are not so good. But if you take | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
the positive side of it for a moment, and this report today | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
ignores the positive side, the figures which we have from the | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Department for Work and Pensions in London suggests that for murder | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
Northern Ireland, the production of universal credit, the good part, | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
will actually take 10,000 children in Northern Ireland out of poverty. | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
But the latest figures show we have 40,000 children in poverty. So, do | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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you think that no-one will lose out If we can reduce that figure by | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
10,000 through the introduction of universal credit then that is a | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
good thing. It will produce a simpler more effective system and | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
will remove the current benefit trap which stops some people | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
getting back into employment. has the Executive not grabbed a | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
hold of this? In Northern Ireland we have more households with | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
disabilities and mental health problems than in Britain. Why has | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
this been left as the remit of the Westminster Government? We have | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
taken charge of it. We are about to introduce a Northern Ireland | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Welfare Reform Bill into the Assembly. That will be subject to | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
full scrutiny. We have made it absolutely clear it will be fully | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
scrutinised in the Assembly. As we take it through we will be looking | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
to see what can be done to mitigate against any detrimental effects of | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
welfare reform. That is why we have a sub-committee looking at what we | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
can do to make it most fitted to the needs of modern Ireland. So it | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
may not be as bad as the children's commissioner is making out? You may | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
make changes which are regional variations? I think there are | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
things we can do in terms of operational issues which can make | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
it more suitable for Northern Ireland because there are | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
differences here from the rest of the United Kingdom. We are entitled | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
to the same benefits here in Northern Ireland as the rest of the | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
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United Kingdom and subject to the same conditions. Thank you. He will | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
go head-to-head with the commissioner for children tonight | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
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on Park's and Minds. -- Hearts and Minds. The St Patrick's Centre in | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
Downpatrick has been saved from the immediate threat of closure. There | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
were fears that a reduction in council funding would mean the end | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
of the attraction but now attempts are continuing to secure its future. | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
Our district journalist, Francis Gorman, has more. Since this centre | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
opened they have had �100,000 per year for running costs from the | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
council but that has been cut by �20,000. It has been said they may | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
have to close their doors. But one MP said they could be run more | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
efficiently. I think the problem has been the board constantly | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
asking for more money rather than doing what I believe they should do | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
which is reduce their costs. I think the centre can be kept going | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
on the income available to it at the moment. Last night trustees of | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
the centre met with politicians to try to find a solution. Both sides | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
issued a statement saying they were committed to finding a resolution | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
to the problem. On a windy day on the north coast,like today, a | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
rooftop wouldn't be the best place to be. But that's where our | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
environment correspondent is, watching people planting grass. | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
He's up at the new visitors centre at the Giants Causeway where they | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
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are putting the finishing touches to its unusual roof. Mike. Indeed | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
it is very windy here. We are not in a grass field but on the top of | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
the visitors' centre, on the roof. They are planting grass here. Let's | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
find out what is going on. You are a deep cultivation officer, why are | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
you planting the roof in grass? thought it would fit in very well | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
with the landscape. Even from a short distance away we can see the | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
basalt columns and the grass roof. They say is not just any old grass | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
or soil? His it is local. It is to blend in with the surrounding | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
landscape. The grass actually has been brought up in batches, we can | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
see them playing it, it has been grown near by? All a 300 metres | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
away from here, it has been growing in a field since last autumn which | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
helps acclimatise the grass to the conditions up here as well. At you | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
hope that local plants and animals will make this their home? Because | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
it is sourced locally it is a very similar P.H. To the surrounding | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
area is so any flora or fauna from nearby will colonise on this site | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
very well. Finally, briefly, they are still working away, is it going | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
to be open in time for the big golf championship? The plan has always | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
been 2nd July but they are working very hard on site so it is possible | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
we could even open earlier. Things are going on here, these little | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
bits of grass are being sold do American tourists! The countdown is | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
on to Ulster rugby's European Cup semi final this weekend. Here's | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
Stephen Watson. The last time Ulster were in a Heinekin Cup semi | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
final they went on to lift the trophy. That was back in 1999. 13 | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
years on they've got a golden opportunity to win the competition | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
again. Standing in their way in the last four is Edinburgh. The Ulster | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
squad trained today at Ravenhill, without Chris Henry who appears | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
unlikely to play any part in Saturdays semi final. But Thomas | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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Kane is live with 2 players who will be on the pitch in Dublin. | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Back in 1999 every single member of the Ulster squad were given this | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
special piece of crystal but let's not get too far ahead of her cells. | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
These two were only teenagers at that time. What is it like going | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
into this match? I have not really thought about it to be honest. I am | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
just getting on with training and looking forward to each match. I | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
think that is the most important thing. You have played in some huge | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
matches for Ireland but how does this differ? I just prepare like I | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
always do for big games. We are playing some good stuff with Ulster | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
and we will just try and keep it going. 40,000 screaming fans will | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
definitely get us on the right track. How do you shield yourself | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
from that kind of hype? 20,000 fans? I do not want it to shield | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
myself from it. When you walk down the street you bump into strangers | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
and everybody is your best mate and witches you well. There is going to | :22:15. | :22:24. | |
be some buzz at the game. I want to be part of that. How difficult is | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
it going to be against Edinburgh? A lot of people make Ulster | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
favourites but obviously you will not be complacent? We were | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
favourites at the start of the season but to be in this position | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
now is still unbelievable. The more experience you get of this | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
tournament the more you realise how special it is and the more you play | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
you want to play more. You do not want it to end. And how will you | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
feel going onto the pitch on Saturday knowing you are in a | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
European Cup final? It will mean everything to me personally and I | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
think for every Ulster fan it will mean everything. The whole balance | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
will beat the air and we are so excited to be walking off the pitch. | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
It is unbelievable. Thank you very much for joining us. We will | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
continue our build up end tomorrow night's BBC Newsline. Lisa Kearney, | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
who we featured a week ago here on BBC Newsline, has qualified for the | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
womens judo competition at this summers Olympics. She will | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
represent Ireland at London 2012. It has been a two-year long | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
qualification process for the Belfast woman, which ended today | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
when she secured a spot during the European Championships in Russia. | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
The local motorcycle road racing season gets underway tomorrow with | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
the traditional curtain raiser the Cookstown 100. The event is | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
celebrating its 90th anniversary with one rider hoping to extend his | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
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record breaking run on his home circuit. In his impressive County | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Tyrone workshop this man is getting ready for his 20th season of racing. | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
He has won war times on the roads than any other Northern Ireland | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
rider. The way I see it I have got nothing to prove. There are a few | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
of the other riders who feel more pressure to beat me than I feel to | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
beat them. I suppose it will all depend on the day you who gets the | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
best start. If you do not get a good start when you go round the | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
first corner you can have a massive task on your hands. Last year E C | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
won a clean sweep of races at Cookstown in one of the most | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
impressive performances in the history of the event. I am not | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
putting any pressure on myself to go and win five races. If it | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
happens, it happens. I just hope I can get a good steady run. I want | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
to get a place in the north-west and BP T. I hope for a bit of good | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
weather to. The chances of the Northern Ireland Women's football | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
team qualifying for the European Championship finals next July are | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
now remote. They lost 1-0 at home to Hungary last night. The winner, | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
a penalty, came with virtually the last kick of the game. Denise | :25:29. | :25:38. | |
Watson was there. The Northern Ireland captain cannot be a to look | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
at the last gap -- last-gasp penalty. It was hut in who conceded | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
it. The spot kick was converted to the delight of team-mates. Northern | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
Ireland had been the better side. Miguel came agonisingly close in | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
the second half. Nelson was denied with a superb goal line clear and | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
spat in the end it was all in been. They came away with nothing. It was | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
very disappointing because the girls worked so hard. We are very | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
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proud of them. So, defeat for Northern Ireland in the cruellest | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
way possible, our last penalty in injury time. The need to go to | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
Iceland and Norway to get results but next up it is Bulgaria in the | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
middle of May. From the international ladies to a group of | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
Northern Ireland school girls hoping to follow in their footsteps. | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
125 first year pupils from five different schools in Belfast were | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
at The Dub today where they had the opportunity to play hockey, camogie, | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
rugby, gaelic and football. The multi-sports day has been set up to | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
encourage more girls to not only take part in sport but also to try | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
new ones. It is huge just to highlight ladies' sport in general. | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
Getting girls of this C Dowd, active and excited about sport. | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
That there is something out there for girls. There is so much out | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
there for boys but we want to hone in on getting girls active in this | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
age group. I'll be live in Dublin tomorrow with all the build up to | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
Ulster rugby European Cup semi- final against Edinburgh. The Prince | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have arrived for the first | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
part of their two day visit. The royal couple were in Belfast this | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
afternoon visiting the historical St George's Church. Natalie Lindo | :27:44. | :27:53. | |
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has more. The royal couple were greeted by the First Minister and | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
Dame Mary Peters. The Prince first visited the church in 1991. Back | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
then it had been badly damaged as a result of the Troubles. Since then | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
its transformation has mirrored that of Northern Ireland. The | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
Prince came today to inspect the building and hear about the work | :28:16. | :28:25. | |
being done in the community. He was presented with an English and Irish | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
version of the Book of Common Prayer. When he was here in 1991 he | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
sought the church in its previous State when it bore a lot of the | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
scars of the bombs that were common in this area. He has seen the | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
church now after a lot of restoration work and refurbishment | :28:45. | :28:53. | |
and he has noticed at huge change. The couple ended their visit by | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
signing the visitors' book and listening to the choir. Now for the | :28:58. | :29:05. | |
weather with Barra Best. We have had quite an unsettled day, | :29:05. | :29:12. | |
depending on where you are. Things are beginning to improve now with | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
much of the wet weather drifting away. Tonight it will become drier | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
and skies will clear so it will feel cold or perhaps with a frost | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
in the countryside. It will be a call the start to the rest of the | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
week but the good news is that Friday will be the best day of the | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
week. A bore it will feel called it will be bright and sunny throughout | :29:36. | :29:42. | |
the day. There will be one or two spots of cloud bubbling up and the | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
odd shower as a result. Temperatures peaking at around 11 | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
Celsius. Cooler towards the north coast with the onshore breeze. The | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
second half of the day will be largely dry and bright. Overnight | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
into Saturday the temperatures will fall back once again perhaps even | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
below freezing in parts of the north-west. Towards the cost it | :30:08. | :30:14. | |
will be cloudier saw not quite so chilly. A decent start to the | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
weekend but you will notice cloud beginning to build and with that | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
there will be more wet weather. Showers at first perhaps merging | :30:24. | :30:30. |