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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Noel Thompson and Sarah | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
Travers. The headlines this Tuesday evening: | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
A passport to free degrees, how sixth formers heading to Scottish | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
universities could avoid paying for tuition. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
The pensioner who died during a burglary suffered a heart attack. | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
Neighbours pay an emotional tribute. I just cannot get it out of my mind. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
The great rates rip-off, businesses claim they're being pushed to the | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
brink by high taxes. More harrowing details emerge at | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
the trial of the elderly couple accused of killing their disabled | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
granddaughter. I am live in Belfast at the new | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Titanic Building Wedd two sports are gearing up for a big summer. It | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
has been milder than normal on the 1st May but will it stay that way | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
tomorrow? Sixth form pupils in Northern | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Ireland have been told they qualify for free university tuition in | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Scotland, if they hold a Republic of Ireland passport. European Union | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
rules have created the loophole. With a saving of up to �30,000 at | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
stake for the average course, its no surprise that for students of | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
any political persuasion, the Irish passport is suddenly a hot ticket. | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
Our education correspondent, Maggie Taggart has this exclusive report. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
The Scottish Parliament so Scottish students will not pay university | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
fees but those from other parts of the UK must pay at least �27,000 | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
for their degree courses. However, the dual Irish, British nationality | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
available to Northern Ireland pupils appears to provide a | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
loophole. Our inquiries to education bodies show that some say | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
it pupils should have lived in that country for three years but it may | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
not be insisted on. The official policy of the Scottish parliament | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
is the nationality of the student takes precedence over where they | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
live. The situation is confused and a at this school students who | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
applied to Scottish universities that contradictory responses. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
told us that these would be free and there would be no problem but | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Dundee said they were but excepted. Even close to the border with | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
Republic of Ireland, boys with Irish passports are in a quandary. | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
This seven the questionnaire online to determine my fee status and I | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
filled it in and it came back to make but I would be considered a UK | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
national. 70 miles away, students in Belfast are told a different | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
tale. Most in this school have British passports but the lure of | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
three tuition has encouraged some to apply for Irish passports. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
waiting on getting an Irish passport. I have run the Edinburgh | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
University and ask them about my fee situation and they said they | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
will accept it if I send a photocopy of my Irish passport. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
contacted Glasgow to find out what was going on with the Irish | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
passport situation and they were fine with it. They said it was in | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
the passport off we will be eligible for the new the situation. | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
Despite assurances, teachers are not totally convinced. I think it | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
is a terrible shame for people caught in this situation because | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
there are young people at the heart of this. It is a pretty big deal if | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
you are trying to make a decision about which university to go to. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Even if they are classified as an EU student and get free tuition in | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Scotland, they could still get a student loan as a Northern Ireland | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
citizen. Maggie is with us now. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
What have the Scottish government the same about this? They have | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
confirmed that Northern Ireland students with a passport are | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
eligible for free education. There have been vague warnings saying the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
main aim is to provide free tuition to Scottish students and the aim is | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
not to give it to Northern Ireland students. He said the Government is | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
trying to find a way of getting an EU management fee but they have not | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
worked out a legal way of doing it. He has warned the students that | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
they should not play fast and loose with their offer of a university | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
place just in case. We asked if they could claim EU citizenship | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
without living in the Republic of Ireland. Playing fast and loose, | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
would that be someone who switches from a UK student to again be used | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
student. Yes. The universities have control of admissions so there is | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
no absolute on this. They can be none because universities have | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
different rules. They base their ambitions on their criteria. The | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
University of Scotland's view is that residency is an important part | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
of the qualification. It has not gone down entirely well in Northern | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Ireland. No, there is another thing students have to worry about. If | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
they applied as a UK resident and then suddenly changed to Republic | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
of Ireland, there may be a problem because there is in some | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
universities a cap on publicly- funded places so they may find | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
there is more competition for the place they want but if they go for | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
the fee-paying option which will cost them a lot of money at least | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
there may not be so many people competing for the places and they | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
are consider this extra numbers on top of the Scottish ones. Gregory | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Campbell has said because Northern Ireland students are entitled to | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
have both Irish and UK citizenship, Scotland should make a special case | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
and allow free tuition to all Northern Ireland students, | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
including those who would not feel comfortable Uplyme for a Northern | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
Ireland passport. He's as open the floodgates and let everybody in. | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
Thank you very much. And if you are a student intending | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
to study in Scotland, or indeed an interested parent, you can join the | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
conversation on our Facebook page. The daughter of the murdered | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Coleraine pensioner Bertie Acheson has described what's happened to | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
her family as a living nightmare. The 72-year-old died from a heart | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
attack after being assaulted by a man who broke into his home in the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
early hours of Sunday morning. Our reporter David Maxwell is in | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Coleraine. As you say, within the last couple | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
of hours the police have revealed details of the post mortem | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
examination which was carried out on Mr Addison today. It revealed he | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
died of a heart attack. -- Bertie Acheson. The heart attack was | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
precipitated by a emotional stress due to the assault. The police are | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
saying they are treating this death as murder. I had the opportunity to | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
speak to Bertie Acheson's daughter. She did not wish to be interviewed | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
on camera but she says it has had an devastating effect on the family | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
and calls it a living nightmare. She says her father was a quiet man | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
and a family just need time now to come to terms with what has | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
happened. The police cordon in this quiet cul-de-sac has been reduced | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
and only Bertie Acheson's house is cordoned off and that has given me | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
the opportunity to speak to some neighbours and a close friend. | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
will be sadly missed here. By me especially. In the summer time he | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
would come out and sit with me. I am very emotional about it. Just | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
tell you the truth. I hope the culprit that done it is caught and | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
punished. This is a very good area to live. We have never had any | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
trouble. Until now. That was the very emotional words of a neighbour | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
here. That is echoed on any doorstep that to call that in this | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
street. The man they are looking for was in his late teens or early | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
twenties, on the night in question he was wearing a dark blue jacket | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
and light grey jogging bottoms. The police are saying today that what | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
they need is more help from the local community. They believe that | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
someone somewhere has a vital piece of information and they are calling | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
on them to come forward, specifically what they want to find | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
his Mrs Thatcher some's red purse which was taken on the night. It | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
was red and contained cash and credit cards in her name. They say | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
that is a vital clue in solving this crime. | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
You're watching BBC Newsline, still to come on the programme: | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
And Northern Ireland's most dangerous job is... | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
Farming? Why does it still claim one life a | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
month? With a motor Cycling raise the just | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
around the corner, join me in at the Titanic Building to meet the | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
biggest stars. The trial of the elderly couple | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
accused of causing the death of their severely disabled grand- | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
daughter has heard more harrowing details about the family's | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
background. David and Sarah Johnston, from Carwood Drive in | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Glengormley, are charged with the manslaughter of Rebecca McKeown, | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
who died 11 years ago. Today it emerged that Rebecca's stepfather | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
took his own life. Chris Page was in the court. | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
Today was the third day for this woman in the witness box. She is | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
the mother of the victim and the daughter of the accused. The couple, | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
in their late eighties, are charged with the manslaughter of their | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
granddaughter 11 years ago. Under cross-examination from a defence | :09:59. | :10:08. | |
barrister, Rebecca McKeown's mother said her stepmother -- stepfather | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
took his own life in 2008. She said he had suffered mental problems | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
after having a stroke. She was also questioned about a medical | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
examination which a doctor carried out on Rebecca McKeown at her home | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
before she was admitted to hospital. The barrister produced a document | :10:30. | :10:40. | |
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She agreed that she felt that at the time she made the statement and | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
she said Rebecca did not seem distressed before the examination | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
that cried out in pain during it. The prosecution claims that | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
Rebecca's death from pneumonia was the result of a sexual assault | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
carried out by one or both grand parents. David Johnston and Sarah | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
Johnston denied charges of manslaughter and child cruelty. The | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
trial continues tomorrow. Living and working on a farm can be | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
a hard life and also a dangerous one. There have been 100 deaths | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
from agricultural incidents since 1996. A farm safety partnership has | :11:18. | :11:28. | |
been set up to tackle the issue. William may have lost an arm in an | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
accident but he counts himself as one of the lucky ones. Accidents | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
have claimed 100 lives a farms here in the past 16 years. He survived | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
and now he helps other victims and their families come to terms with | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
their pain. I could feel her tugging sensation and I knew | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
automatically it was caught. I looked up at the tractor to | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Jonathan who was sitting in the tractor and he stopped the track to | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
quickly but as soon as I had spoken, the next thing I realised was I was | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
lying on the ground face down into the mark. I remember opening my | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
eyes because one of my eyes had been damaged and I could see | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
Jonathan moving away from me and I had the sensation of was the end of | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
my life and I was passing away. I realised I was still in the same | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
place and I got on to my feet and I look down and Amazonian my | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
underwear and a pair of socks. I looked around and I could see an | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
arm lying there which belonged to me. Many families have lived with | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
the results of serious accidents and this -- fatalities continue at | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
the rate of one a month. In the past few years, farm deaths have | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
been 50% of all death that a work- related. Older farmers are | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
particularly at risk. Farming is a solitary occupation. I suppose | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
farmers sometimes think they need to get the job done and they will | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
do things that they really shouldn't be doing. Launching a new | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
farm safety partnership, ministers said the majority of deaths | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
involved machinery, light stock all falls. The new partnership plans a | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
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campaign to convince farmers to work safety. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
A man has admitted stabbing a former Fermanagh GAA player to | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
death at a party. Gary Moane from Brookeborough pleaded guilty to the | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
manslaughter of Ciaran Woods. With more, here's our Fermanagh District | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Journalist Julian Fowler. This was the scene of the killing | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
the day after the attack. A late night party at this house which | :13:40. | :13:48. | |
ended in tragedy. It was here that 36-year-old Kieran Woods, a father | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
of one and a former GAA player was stabbed to death. Today Gary Moane | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
was due to stand trial for murder. Instead his guilty plea to | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
manslaughter was accepted by the prosecution. The judge told the | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
jury that the prosecution accepted that he suffered from an | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
abnormality of mind which impaired his responsibility for his actions. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
The decision to accept the guilty to manslaughter plea followed a | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
number of psychiatric reports and the prosecution said it had been | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
taken in consultation with the police and the family. Gary Moane | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
was detained a short time after the attack when he was stopped by | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
police in a car. At his first court appearance he expressed regret over | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
the death and shock at the tragic events that unfolded. He also | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
admitted charges of attacking a woman and threatening to kill | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
another man as well as hijacking a car and drink driving. Sentencing | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
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Nowhere is the impact of the recession more obvious than on the | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
high streets of our towns and cities. The steepest downturn since | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
the 1930s has combined with the shift to internet shopping to | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
devastating effect. But while many landlords have cut rents, | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
politicians are demanding the same property taxes and have postponed a | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
rates revaluation until 2015. Here's our Business and Economics | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
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Editor Jim Fitzpatrick. Small businesses are feeling the | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
pinch. There is what cost they cannot cut out - rates. There is no | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
negotiation whatsoever. This city centre street is | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
benefiting from the fact that when rates were at last set, the nearby | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
shopping magnate of the square had not opened. So rates are relatively | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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low. If you have seen where our rates are, you have seen lots of | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
new retailers come into this area because it is competitive. | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
A re-evaluation of rates is not on the cards until 2015. We would | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
still want to get the same amount of money from business rates, it | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
would simply mean the amount you paid per pound would double for. | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
Alliance councillor Tom Deacon believes it local Government | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
offered rates holidays for a limited period, it would achieve | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
more in the long run. It only takes about five years for the pay back | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
to come. I think we should take more courage. | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
Streets like this demonstrate the kind of economic activity that can | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
take place when rates are set at a reasonable level. But if Government | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
is set to take the same amount in rates each year, but no more firms | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
that put the ball, the more pressure is piled on those | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
remaining businesses. -- that go to the wall. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Unionists have rejected a call from the Deputy First Minister Martin | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
McGuinness for a debate about axing the post of Northern Ireland | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
Secretary. In a speech in London last night Mr | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
McGuinness argued that transferring the remaining powers of the | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Northern Ireland Office to the Stormont Executive would be a vote | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
of confidence in local politicians and a massive saving for the | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
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taxpayer. Here's our Political Editor Mark Devenport. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
The role of the Northern Ireland Office, and the Secretary of State, | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
has diminished. Before the transfer of justice powers two years ago, | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
the norm and powdered Office had 2000 staff and a budget of more | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
than �1 billion. After that, staff numbers fell to just over 160, and | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
the budget to �40 million. The Secretary of State still has a role | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
dealing with national security matters, lobbying for a cut in | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
corporation tax or explaining the impact of UK-wide welfare changes | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
on Northern Ireland. But Sinn Fein argues that the Northern Ireland | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
Office has passed its sell-by date. Power-sharing doesn't work. People | :18:21. | :18:31. | |
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have become more comfortable with Unionists however reject what they | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
believe is just another Brits out ploy. In it is important for | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
Northern Ireland to have his voice and some presence at the Cabinet | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
table, and for the Executive in some -- my view to have a person | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
they can relate to to deal directly with the Northern Ireland in the | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Cabinet as well. It does not make any sense at all from a Northern | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
Ireland this back to four stop from time to time there has been | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
speculation in London about the Northern Ireland, Scottish and | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Welsh Office to be merged into less than September 11th single | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
department of the region. However, it may ironically make | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Westminster politicians more conscious -- cautious about any | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
dramatic change. Some of the biggest names in | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
motorcycling and Gaelic football have gathered tonight in the | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Titanic building. Stephen Watson is there live for us. | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
In just over two weeks' time two of this summer's big sporting events | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
get under way - Gaelic football's Ulster Championship, and the | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
International North West 200 motorcycle race. Stars of both | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
sports are here in this impressive building to tell us what we can | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
expect this year. First to the bikes - in a moment I'll be talking | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
to one of the best known road racers in the world. But first, | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
here's how Dungannon's Ryan Farquhar started his season in | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
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style last weekend. The Cooks Thai 100 is the curtain- | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
raiser to the road racing season, and Ryan Farquhar has won more | :20:07. | :20:15. | |
times than any other rider. He was chased hard by England's Guy Martin. | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
He had won at the first Superbike race of the day, but was too late | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
on the brakes this time. As for cut road between the hedges to take the | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
honours in the feature event. win the big race of the day does | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
not get much bigger -- better. The team's done a fantastic job of all | :20:37. | :20:46. | |
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weekend. So four more visits to the winner's | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
podium for Ryan Farquhar, he now has his eye on an international | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
wind at the International North West 200. | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
Guy Martin and Jeremy McWilliams. Guide, you saw the circuit for the | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
first time yesterday. How much are you looking forward to it? I was | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
apprehensive before, but I had it right round it and it... I think in | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
your head you have this imagination that it will be real tough, but | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
Steve was so matter of fact about it and put me at my ease. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
We wish you well. One man who has raced the north-west and there are | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
many times his Guy Martin. You are a big fan of Engineering. You | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
enjoyed your tour of the Titanic Building. You would never have | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
thought here in the middle of Belfast what they had going on here. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
Fascinating. Can you get an international win at the North West | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
this year? We don't come here to finish second. We are here to win. | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
We are going to use it as a warm-up to the TT. Good to see you in | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
Belfast tonight. Enjoy the launch this evening. The day after the | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
International North West 200 is the start of Gaelic football's Ulster | :22:21. | :22:30. | |
Championship. Thomas Niblock looks at this year's trough. | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
-- draw. A first Ulster Championship since | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
1992 for Donegal, but they will start the to past and 12 | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
Championship without Michael Murphy, ruled out through injury for a | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
repeat of last year's semi-final against Cavan. The impending | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
transfer of Johnston and the resignation of manager and his last | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
month, have dominated the headlines. For Cavan, waiting for the winners | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
of that preliminary round will be dairy, staying up in Division Two | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
by the skin of their teeth. They will have Bob Bradley brothers fit | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
again. Bradley's performance against our mark one of the | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
highlights of 2011. Unless you were from the orchard county. Mickey | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Hart with one defeat this year, lying in wait for arguably the tier | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
of the first round for. Brian McGregor and will not be here | :23:30. | :23:40. | |
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this summer, but Lonergan will. They play and train. -- Antrim. But | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
generally, it was his season to forget for the M Bradley, and the | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
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players who will travel in June. The 2010 or Ireland finalists visit | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Bristol Park hoping for nothing less than a win. | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
We have persuaded the manager has to join us. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
Peter, how much a unity forward to making your debut as a manager in | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
the Championship this year? Very much so. 2005 is the last time I | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
was involved in the Ulster Championship as a player, so I have | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
missed the buzz of being involved in the Ulster Championship. It is | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
unique to us all and I am looking forward to being involved again, | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
all be it in a different role. you feel that you are making | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
progress? We thought we were making progress until the final. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
Disappointed we did not get closer at the finish, but I have no doubt | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
that the experience will benefit the boys. Some of them acquitted | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
themselves very well. Some would feel that there was more in them. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
But we have nothing now but the Championship for these men to look | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
forward to for. You will not be doing a pizza any favours this | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
year? -- Peter any favours? It will be a big asked to go to anybody's | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
home patch, but we will give it in go. Have you ever sat on one of | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
these before? And I am surprised the owner is alarmingly on it. I | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
hope the suspension holds up? Ulster Championship is so special. | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
What is it about it for do? It is a knock out competition, all you did | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
in the league is forgotten. It if you were to win the National League | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
and lives in the first round of the Championship, it counts for nothing | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
in the league. It is the one everybody looks forward to. Isn't | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
it fantastic for Northern Ireland sport - the International North | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
West 200 and the Ulster Championship. Some weekend. | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
Hopefully we will provide some good entertainment. | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
Ulster play in that European Cup final the same weekend, May 19th, | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
May 20th. For the fans travelling to the North West 200, you will be | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
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able to watch Ulster live on the Bit of his split today. In the | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
north and the West we had the best of the weather, but in the South | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
East it has gradually clouded over, and beginning to turn a little bit | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
damp. Throughout the evening we will hold on to some of that damn | :26:53. | :27:01. | |
weather. Overnight, maybe for a few hours. -- damp weather. A lot of | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
cloud a round tonight. It won't be especially chilly, with loans of | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
seven or eight degrees. But cloud will stay tomorrow, it will be a | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
cloudier day. But there will be the odd brighter spell, maybe even the | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
odd glimmer of sunshine first thing. But will stay the course as we go | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
into the afternoon - but cloud will come and go but there will be the | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
odd break. The winds are fairly light, coming in from the north- | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
east. Temperatures will get up to a run 14 degrees, just above average | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
for the time of year. Typically they should be around 13. Tomorrow | :27:40. | :27:48. | |
evening and overnight it stays dry, perhaps staying chilly. Five or six | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
degrees around the coast. Further west we hold on to more cloud, | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
staying round about seven or eight degrees. Sole a much cloudier day | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
tomorrow, perhaps damp first thing, but Thursday is an improving | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
picture. Brighter weather settles in and we will have that sunshine. | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
With the the sunshine, temperatures will go up again, up to possibly 17 | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
degrees in parts of Fermanagh and parts of Armagh. Along the east | :28:18. | :28:25. | |
coast, a little bit cooler. If you don't have much to do on Thursday, | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
do enjoy that sunshine, because on Friday it will become a little bit | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
greyer and damper. Then it will turn cooler by day and night, just | :28:36. | :28:42. | |
in time for the bank holiday weekend. Do stay tuned to the | :28:42. | :28:48. | |
forecast, and you can get the latest on our Mac weather website. | :28:48. | :28:55. | |
We are also on Twitter. A special programme with its first | :28:55. | :29:02. | |
showing coming up at 10:30pm, on the shame of the Catholic Church. | :29:02. | :29:08. |