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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor and Noel Thomson. | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
A pensioner is left dead after a break-in at his Coleraine home. | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
Bible have the details. Also on the programme... | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Two bombs left by dissident republicans - police say one of | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
them would have killed anyone within 50 metres. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
A man with a history of extreme violence against women is convicted | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
of murdering his ex-partner. Beaten in last year's general | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
election, Peter Robinson bows out of a rematch with the Alliance | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Party. We see what happens to these old | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
greens at their final halt. May 19th is a red-letter day for | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Ulster rugby fans - the Heineken Rugby Cup final against Leinster. | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
The man who helped him to victory against -- on Saturday will join us | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
in the studio, captain at Johan Muller. | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
Added has been a drier than average people, but will it stay that way? | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
-- a drier than average people. A 72-year-old man who died after | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
confronting a burglar in his home in Coleraine was Bertie Acheson. | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
Police are treating his death as murder. Mr Acheson scuffled with | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
the intruder who broke into his house in the Mountsandel area in | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
the early hours of this morning. His wife was in the house but was | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
unhurt. Our journalist -- correspondent is at the scene. What | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
is the latest you can tell us? We know that a man came to this | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
quiet cul-de-sac at 1:30am this morning with the intention of | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
breaking into the house at the end of the row. And he did that and | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
that led to the death of Bertie Acheson. The police say the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
intruder was five feet 10, he was wearing a dark blue court and a | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
light grey jogging bottoms. He entered through a window at the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
back of the house, and this afternoon the police told us what | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
they thought happened next. We have established that Mr Acheson | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
left the bedroom on hearing the noise of breaking glass, where he | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
was then accosted by an unknown person who entered his house. It is | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
our assessment that Mr Acheson was then subject to an assault. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Following the assault the unknown person then entered a bedroom, | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
where he then accosted Mr Acheson's wife, a 70-year-old lady. The | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
person demanded money, stole her purse and then fled from the scene. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
After she left the bedroom and found her husband collapsed on the | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
kitchen floor. Tell us little about Bertie Acheson. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Bertie Acheson lived here with his wife, Sheila. She was 70 and they | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
had been married for 44 years. In recent years, she has had some | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
serious health problems, and Bertie Acheson has become a full-time | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
carer. I understood that in his working life he worked for the | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
electricity board, and after he retired he became a chimney sweep. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
A lot of people in this area we know him through that. He is a | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
well-liked figure. What you hear over and over again is the fact | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
that he was a carer for his wife and he was so dedicated to her, and | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
clearly that dedication continued right to the end, with fatal | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
consequences. What are people seeing? Obviously a | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
quiet area there. We are right on the road skirts of | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Coleraine, a quiet, residential area, so it has come as a great | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
shock to people, particularly those who knew him well. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
He was a lovely, lovely man, and we had many a conversation when he was | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
passing in the morning, he was really into dogs, and he had a wee | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
dog himself. He was a nice man, at his wife is a lovely lady, as well. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
I used to work with his daughter, and I have known him for a long | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
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time, since the late 1980s. He used to do my chimney for me. I would | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
have... He knew me very well and he would always put his hand up when | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
there was driving past. A very caring man, looks after his wife, | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
takes her everywhere. Ansell, all afternoon forensic | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
teams have been going in and out of the property gathering all the | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
evidence. Within the last half hour police teams were calling in this | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
field to the right of me, gathering all the evidence they can. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Police say they really need the help of the community if someone is | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
to be convicted for the screen. The police say lives have certainly | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
been saved by the discovery of a huge bomb in Newry, and an | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
undercard booby-trap device in Belfast. They were recovered in | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
separate operations aimed at dissident republicans. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Three separate police operations with one common factor - the | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
dissident republicans. Reminders of the threat they pose and their | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
intention to carry out further attacks. A 600 lbs bomb abandoned | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
in this a bank in Newry on Thursday was twice the size of the device | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
that caused widespread damage when it exploded outside Newry | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
courthouse two years ago. It is not clear what the target was or why | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
the device was abandoned. The police will not comment on whether | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
they had intelligence information and mounted a large operation that | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
made it impossible for the bombers to reach their destination. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
Whatever the target, the police say the result could have been | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
devastation. If that device had initiated, | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
wherever that would be, anyone within 50 metres would have been | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
killed immediately. Anyone within 100 metres would have been | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
seriously injured. The image of damage to infrastructure of | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
buildings roundabout would have been significant. Yes, it had real | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
potential to kill. As army bomb experts were diffusing | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
the Newry device, a booby trap was found under a car in a garage in | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
north Belfast on Friday. It is understood the car was sold | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
recently and that the current owner was not the intended target. The | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
police do not believe a member of the security forces previously | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
owned the car, and they are working on the theory the attempted bombing | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
maybe drugs related. On the same day, guns, ammunition and drugs | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
were found in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast. It is understood the | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
searches were mounted after police received intelligence about | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
dissident republican activity. Three incidents involving dissident | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
republicans over a short period of time. The police say that is not | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
the result of co-ordinated activity. My assessment is that it is a | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
coincidence. It is not co- ordination or orchestrated in any | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
way that we can understand at this present time, that is the way it | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
looks. The police are relieved that these | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
attempted attacks failed and save lives have been saved. But whether | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
or not they are connected, these incidents demonstrate that | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
dissidents continued to pose a threat. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
A man who chalked a pregnant woman to death has been jailed for her | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
murder. Stephen Cahoon killed Jean Quigley at her home in Londonderry | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
almost four years ago. He was arrested in County Donegal shortly | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
after the killing and opted to be tried at Dublin's Central Criminal | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Court. Today the court heard that Stephen Cahoon had a history of | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
extreme violence against women. This report contains some images | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
you may find distressing. This CCTV footage shows the last | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
images of Jean Quigley shortly before the 30-year-old mother of | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
four was murdered. Her mother found her daughter's | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
naked and bruised body at her home in Demi on 26th July, 2008. Shortly | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
beforehand, Jean, who was ten weeks pregnant, had broken up with | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
Stephen Cahoon, after she had described him as a nutter. He is | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
seen here in an old photographs. Stephen Cahoon was arrested in | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
County Donegal and opted to be tried in the Republic. He admitted | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
at the Central Court in Dublin killing the mother of four, but | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
denied murder. In reaching their guilty of murder verdict, the jury | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
of seven women and five men dismissed his story that he had | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
strangled her to death in a fit of rage, he says, only after she had | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
told him that the trial she was carrying was not his and that she | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
was going to have an abortion anyway. The jury clearly decided | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
the killing was premeditated. There were tears from Jean | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Quigley's family as their victim impact statements were read out in | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
court. They spoke of her as a loving daughter, sister and mother | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
to four. They said Stephen Cahoon's decision not to be tried in | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
Northern Ireland greatly inconvenience them and upset their | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
routine of looking after Jean's children. They also said they were | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
upset at hearing details of Jean's 6 live discussed in court. A | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
Stephen Cahoon has a history of violence against women. Then 18, | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
this woman's face was beating beyond recognition by him in 1997. | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
His sentence was increased to five years for that in Northern Ireland, | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
and for beating up a four per -- former partner, the mother of his | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
child. Before being led away, the judge described Stephen Cahoon as a | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
threat to society in general, and women in particular. | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Still to come on the programme... I will be showing you what happens | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
when a busy local train reaches the end of the line. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Can history repeat itself with another Ulster victory in the | :10:24. | :10:33. | |
Belfast crown court has heard that a couple accused of the | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
manslaughter of their granddaughter when at her bedside when she died. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
David and Sarah Johnston from Newtownabbey are charged over the | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
death of 14-year-old Rebecca McKeown. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
This is David and Sarah Johnston, who are 88 and 86 respectively. | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
They are accused of causing the death of their severely disabled | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
granddaughter, Rebecca McKeown, who was 14. She died of pneumonia in | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
the March 2001. The prosecution claims this was the result of an | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
alleged sexual assault. Cheryl Michie won his their daughter, and | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Rebecca's mother, and was in the witness box for the second day | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
today. She spoke of both that I know | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Rebecca spent in hospital before she died. -- she spoke of the time. | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
She said her parents visited Rebecca and both won at her bedside | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
when she passed away. She also confirmed that David Johnston gave | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
her the papers for his own grave so that Rebecca could be buried in it, | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
but a few days later they were arrested, and Mrs Neil Keeling said | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
a Social Services were ordered that the grandparents could not see | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
Rebecca's three siblings without another adult present. The jury was | :11:54. | :12:04. | |
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shown a note in which Mrs be Curate -- Mrs Mckeown wrote... | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
When asked why she had done this, she replied... David and Sarah | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
Johnston denied charges of manslaughter and child cruelty. The | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
It was the biggest election upset Northern Ireland had seen in years, | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
but now the First Minister, Peter Robinson, says he will not be | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
trying to win back his east Belfast parliamentary seat. He is our | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
Political Correspondent, Garth -- Gareth Gordon. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
This was the moment Peter Robinson's long reign as MP for | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
East Belfast ended and, he says, he will never tried to come back. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
don't intend to be a candidate. I am very happy with the work I am | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
doing as First Minister. I believe it is a full-time post, and I think | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
it is much more important for Northern Ireland that I remain in | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
that position than divide myself between that at Westminster. | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
The man who, in the DUP leader's seat -- words, borrowed the seed, | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
was not available for comment today. I think he was rejected at the last | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Westminster election in favour of more hard-working politics from | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
nylon, she will not take politics for granted. | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
The young man left is likely to be the DUP candidate. Gavin Robertson, | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
no relation come is said to be the Belfast lord Mayor in the next few | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
weeks. His proposals for boundary changes may see east Belfast become | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
south Belfast, making it has become more difficult. | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
He could not designed as seat more favourable to the Alliance Party. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
The Alliance Party should not have any complaints about the | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
proportional boundary changes. We have areas coming into south | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
Belfast, as is this area here. That should be a favourite trick Niall | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
Mellor. When over the next election comes | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
around, our number one target will be returning east Belfast to DUP | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
hands. But the job will fall to someone | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
else. And last year's Assembly elections, | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
Peter Robinson topped the poll, and the DUP easily beat alliance | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
without Niall me along in the field. In the general election, having won | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
the ballot paper together with the boundary changes mean it will be a | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
very difficult task for the DUP to avenge Mr Robinson's defeat. It | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
seems he can take much of the credit without taking the personal | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
Three men accused of badger bail outing have appeared in court. A | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
recent report by BBC Newsline showed what appeared to be badger | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
baiters caught in the act. These appear to be badger baiter, caught | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
in the act, shown in a recent report by BBC Newsline. They are | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
filmed by on 24th February this year. That is the same date in | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
which four men are accused of causing unnecessary suffering to a | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
ter rer dog and a badger. As well as interfering with the badger sett. | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
Appearing in court were 40-year-old Graham Arthur Officer. Brothers | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
Chris and Ryan Kirkwood from Island Street in Belfast. The youngest | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
Ryan is accused of resisting police. 39-year-old Darren Miller from | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Belfast. He didn't appear in court for medical reasons. The accused | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
only spoke to say they understood the charges. A Detective Constable | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
told the court this was an extreme and distressing case, and that the | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
USPCA said this was the worst case of animal cruelty it has seen in | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
many years. The District Judge told the accused they had to adhere to a | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
night-time curfew and had to desist from any hunting related activities. | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
They have all been released on bail to appear in court on 8th July. -- | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
June. Next it is the end of the line literally for trains that have | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
been carrying people mostly along the Larne route. The 450 series | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
have served their time but are being retired and cut up one by one | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
for scrap. For some, who travelled along them, these trains weren't | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
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the most popular. Nine tonnes of carriage already half what it was | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
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us -- once was. But now it meets 25 years ago, they were the shiny | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
new hope for Northern Ireland railways. The 450 series, in latter | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
years this train, number 8791 used to clatter its way up and down the | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
Larne line. The the last five to six years you would have seen them | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
operating on the Larne line, before that they would have been a day-to- | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
day feature for all passengers and you could have got nem anywhere in | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
the network. With time moving on the new trainers replacing them, | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
that is why they have been scrapped because time moves on. Now they are | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
taken one by one to this scrapyard, a far cry from the romantic names | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
they once boasted Belfast castle or Carrickfergus castle. At one time | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
this took people for day's shopping, to and from work, it maybe teem | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
them on their holidays but now it has reached the end of the line. | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
Maybe taken them. It sliced up everything is dropped into a huge | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
crushing machine. The metal from the trains you used to travel on | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
will probably end up in the recycled metals market in Spain. | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
Only the true enthusiast will miss the thump of the diesel engines in | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
these machines, rail travel today is quieter but the 450s are passing | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
into history and we were once glad of them. Condmed by the Fat | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
Controller! -- condemned. No insult! Now I am used to talking | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
about the All-Ireland final when it comes to Gaelic game bus an Al | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
ierpbd European Cup rugby final. It's a first with the victories by | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Ulster at Leinster at the weekend. Steven Watson has a special guest. | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
It sounds good. I am delighted to say Johann Muller join us live in | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
the Newsline studio. We will reflect on Saturday's victory and | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
look ahead o the final in a moment, but first the story of an amazing | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
day in Dublin, when 40,000 Ulster supporters travelled to cheer on | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
their team. They delivered a 22 points to 19 victory over Edinburgh. | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
On the 19th May. The lights will go out in Belfast again. Every body is | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
going to Twickenham. There was nothing ordinary about Saturday | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
from the scenes in the stadium, that started in Belfast on Saturday | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
morning. Train and bus tickets sold fourth the trip to Dublin, rarely | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
has Central Station been so busy. Special travel arrangements for a | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
special day for supporters. And the Ulster players. Who left their | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
hotel on St Stephen's green almost bewildered by the level of support. | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
And if they felt inspired leaving the team hotel, the scenes outside | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
the stadium were equally as impressive. But the atmosphere | :20:29. | :20:37. | |
inside camouflaged in white for the day, even better. South African | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
Pinaar according to his coach has nerves of steel. And he delivered. | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
Six kick, and all six perfect. What a start from Pinaar. Ulster were | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
fortunate at time, their try controversially allowed by the | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
referee, but Ulster's ruthlessness and commitment combined with | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
Pinaar's aura of calmness delivered on the second biggest stage in | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
European club rugby. This is the one that could send Ulster to the | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
final at Twickenham. If we could win the Heineken Cup with Ulster, | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
that would be the be-all-and-end- all for me. Ulster means a lot to | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
me, and it has done over the last eight years I have been playing. To | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
be involved with this team, this sort of special bunch of players is | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
brilliant.. I'll be honest with you, that was, that was unforgettable, | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
walking through the hotel, we could barely get on to the bus, you know | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
and the streets were lined, in red- and-white whole way to the stadium. | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
It was phenomenal. To see 45,000 people waving Ulster flags in the | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
ground, oh, incredible. Unforgettable too for some of | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
Ulster's former players. Dan cave said it was a humbling experience | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
for the players. They realise Tay are kustoedyoofpbs the Jersey. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
it means it up lifts everybody's lives. Makes you feel better. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Everybody has a smile on their face that, can only be a good thing. | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
there is one more big day to come. Well Johann Muller was delighted to | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
watch that with me. How important was that fantastic support we saw | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
there, especially leaving the hotel? It was really special day, | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
you know, I have played in a lot of big games in my career and that was | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
one of the best at moss fierce I have ever felt, in a build up to a | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
game. So you know, I don't think people realise how important it is | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
for us as players on the field, when you get 45,000 people | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
screaming and shouting it lifts you. It was a brilliant feeling and I | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
enjoyed it. Listening to a lot of your post match interviews and the | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
players' reactions it is obvious your faith is important to the team. | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
It is one thing I stand up for and believe in. It has carried me | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
through a lot of tough times and it is the same for a lot of other | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
players, and it is brilliant to have an opportunity to live out | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
what we believe in and not to be shy of it and you know, we have the | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
freedom of the squad and the respect for everybody which is | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
great to have a really good team environment. You have won the World | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Cup but where would winning the European Cup rank in your career | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
with Ulster? It would be right up there, if not bigger, just purely | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
because being the Dane of a side and playing -- captain of a side, I | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
played every now and again, but this will be massive, so, but in | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
saying that we haven't achieved anything yet. We are in the final | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
which is fantastic but it is still three weeks to go before the 19th | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
May which is obviously D-Day. must be due a win against Leinster, | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
surely. We haven't got a great record against them. No, we don't. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
I think, you know, they are a brilliant side. We are not shying | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
away from that side, it is obviously European champion, they | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
have a brilliant squad and they showed on the weekend what quality | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
side they are, so going to be really tough but we are excited. | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
But confidence is the key thing, isn't and Ulster confident at the | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
moment. Yes, we have a good squad squad and hopefully we can take | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
that into the final and play really well. Thank you for joining us | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
tonight. It might have been saicsful weekend in Dublin for the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
rugby but not for the two Gaelic football teams taking part in the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
National League finals at Croke Park. In the division four decider | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
despite this goal from Owen Donnelly Fermanagh were beaten by | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
eight points. Tyrone also lost out to Leinster opposition as they were | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
defeated by Kildare in the Division Two final P They waited three weeks | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
to get their hands on it but Linfield lifted the most prized | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
possession np local football. Now they will try and add the Irish Cup | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
to their collection when they meet Crusaders in the final this | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
Saturday. The Gibson Cup is back at Windsor Park. Here we go, listen to | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
the cheer. It maybe their 51st league title but that didn't make | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
the celebrations any less meaningful for Linfield. Even a 2-0 | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
defeat to Glentoran didn't dampen their spirits. Callum Bernie headed | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
home both goals but it was of little consequence for the Blues | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
who finished 14 points clear. about the players. It is players | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
who the supporters come to see. It is players who they want to be | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
entertained by and we have been blessed with some fantastic | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
servants throughout the year, it is important we have an important part | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
to play but it down to what the players do. Joining Linfield in | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
Europe are Portadown and Cliftonville. Both were battling | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
for a second place finish but this sealed for it the Ports who won 3-2 | :26:23. | :26:32. | |
at Solitude. At the bottom of the table a draw for Dungannon Swifts | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
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assured their Premiership status. Ryan far qar added to his record | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
breaking number of wins at the Cookstown road race. He won four | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
races at the County tyre kus, we have a full roundup of that on | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
Newsline tomorrow. Graeme McDowell has withdrawn from the Wells Fargo | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
event at Quail Hollow. He says he needs a rest the word he used on | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
Twitter was undercooked. I know Johan and the rest of the team | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
won't be undercooked. I am sure they will not. Well done to them. | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
It is looks like quite a nice bright evening over Belfast as you | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
can see from our live shot overlooking the Titanic Quarter. It | :27:27. | :27:35. | |
is pretty clear, but we have the weather now. Let us see if the | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
weather now. Let us see if the clear weather is set to continue. | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
Yes, it had been decent and in Helen's Bay 16 degrees, that is | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
about three degrees above average. There will be more brighter spells | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
and sunshine to come tomorrow. As you can see there, the picture | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
today, the cloud fizzling away and that is what is giving us the | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
brighter spells and sunshine as we go into this evening. But as we go | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
into tonight, the cloud we gins to roll over and with that it acts | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
leek a blanket so it won't be too cold. Temperatures of seven or | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
eight. So not especially chilly, and there will be plenty of bright | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
weather. It will be a touch breezy as the wind continue to come in | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
from the east coast. So the best of the brighter and sunnier weather | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
first thing during the day. It will become cloudier from the south-east, | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
but despite that, it will still be bright we will still get sunshine. | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
Look at the temperatures again. 16, possibly 17 degrees in the west. | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
Further east with that breeze here, temperatures more round average for | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
the time of year. If you live in the south-east corner you will | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
notice that the cloud becoming grey as we go into the evening and that | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
is because we have a weather front edging northwards. It brings with | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
it outbreaks of rain, especially for parts of Down and Armagh, a bit | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
of a lull and then as we do into the early hours of Wednesday more | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
rain comes in. No frost to worry about, seven to nine degrees. That | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
rain lingers a fair while into Wednesday morning so it will be a | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
damp and grey start. That will eventually edge out and after that, | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
the bright weather comes out again and the sunshine for the afternoon, | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
maybe a bit cooler, 12 or 13 but those are average temperatures and | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
the breeze from the east will have died down as well. The good news is | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
for the rest of the week more sunny spells to come. Perhaps cloudier on | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
Friday but at least it is mostly dry as we go into the Bank Holiday | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
weekend. The weather for the the weekend coming up later in the week. | :29:34. | :29:40. |