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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline, with Donna Traynor and Sarah | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
Travers. The headlines: A former Secretary | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
of State claims victory after he was taken to court for criticising | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
a judge. A Government lawyer who brought the | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
case defends his decision. This was an important case do bring and one | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
where the outcome today entirely vindicates the decision to bring | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
the proceedings. A bereaved mother says her son's killers are | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
destroying the image of Londonderry. In my eyes this is a murder. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
A doctor in the case of the death of a severely disabled teenager | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
admits she may have kept some details back. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Why this famous old Belfast jail will soon be distilling a drop of | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
the hard stuff. Racing is under way at the 2012 | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
North-West 200. Join me live on the grid later in the programme. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
And we have another grey, cold and damp day to come on Friday, but | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
will it improve for the weekend? An extraordinary legal action which | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
pitted a former Secretary of State against Stormont's most senior | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
legal adviser has been settled. The Attorney General, John Larkin, had | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
been trying to prosecute Peter Hain over critical remarks he made in | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
his memoirs about a judge. Mr Larkin's move was heavily | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
criticised by politicians at Stormont and Westminster. Today the | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
two sides reached a compromise. Mr Hain claimed it was victory for | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
freedom of speech. The Attorney General defended his decision to | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
take the case. Our political correspondent, Gareth Gordon, was | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
at the High Court. They say there is no such thing as bad publicity. | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
Peter Hain certainly got plenty when he attacked Lord Justice | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
Gervin in his memoir. The Attorney General brought contempt of court | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
proceedings under an ancient charge of scad liesing a court. The -- | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
canned liesing a court. -- scand liesing a court. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
The former Secretary of State said he never intended to question the | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
judge's motivation or capabilities. Nor was it his intention to | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
undermine the administration of just in this Northern Ireland or | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
the independence of the judiciary. The case which had angered Mr Hain | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
was a judicial review in 200 of his appointment of Bertha McDougall. He | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
said in his letter it came in the middle of difficult political | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
negotiation and he was exasperated by the way the judge had handled it. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Mr Hain's legal team wanted the case withdrawn. Mr Larkin said it | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
should remain on the books. After two adjournments he got his way, | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
but only after an assurance he wouldn't proceed at a later date. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
Peter Hain said he was delighted that taxpayers had been spared the | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
expense of a longer hearing. Mr Larkin on the other hand claimed he | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
had been vindicated. People are free of course to express their | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
views about any proceedings that I take. They did so. Did it cause me | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
to change course? No. Not at all. What caused me to change course was | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
the shift in Mr Hain's stance. You may recall that when the Lord Chief | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
Justice published his statement setting out his concerns, the one- | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
word response to that was, "Baloney" from Mr Hain. We've moved | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
from baloney to a disavowal. what now for his future as Attorney | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
General? If I'm reappointed, fantastic. I have to keep my eye | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
focused on my term and I'm determined to focus on the work | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
that I have to do. This case has attracted an extraordinary amount | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
of attention. In the end both sides deny they climbed down. The only | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
real question now is, what has it done for the relationship between | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Mr Larkin and the people who appointed him Attorney General? | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
First place - the executive? The mother of a man murdered by the | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
vigilante group, Republican Action Against Drugs, says they're a gang | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
of thugs who are ruining the image of Derry. -- Londonderry. This week | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
the police have admitted they are struggling to deal with the threat | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
from RAAD, who've been targeting mainly young men in the north-west. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Some have been exiled, threatened or shot. The police say its proving | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
difficult to convict the vigilantes. Here's our north-west reporter, | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
Keiron Tourish. The family of Andrew Alan say there are no words | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
to express their grief at the loss of a much-loved family member. The | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
24-year-old father of two young children, a boy and a girl aged six | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
and four, was the first victim of the RAAD campaign to lose his life | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
in the north-west. He was shot dead at his home in County Donegal in | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
February. His mother has nothing but contempt for RAAD, or | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
Republican Action Against Drugs. They tried to say he was a drug | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
dealer, which I know he wasn't. He never had a penny. Anybody will | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
tell you, he was always borrowing money. That was their way of the | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
trying to justify what they had done but there is no justification | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
for this, so there isn't. Now I'm left without a son and the children | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
without a father. It's devastating. RAAD has targeted mainly young men | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
in the city. In the last year police believe they've been behind | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
eight shootings and three assaults. Most of those singled out are too | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
afraid to speak on camera, but one 21-year-old man who admitted drug | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
dealing and stealing cars told the BBC about a death athlete he | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
received. There was a threat against my life. A death threat. To | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
my house. They said I'm going to be shot. Nobody likes them but they | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
probably hate me for what I've done. In this case a threat was lifted | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
when a community organisation intervened. Given the experience of | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
40 years of conflict, shooting drug dealers isn't going to cure the | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
problem of drugs in our community. The police say RAAD are largely | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
made up of former experienced members of the Provisional IRA. | :06:53. | :07:03. | |
They plate a small geographical area, in places like the Bogside. | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
The PSNI says it's struggling to deal with the threat. So fa | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
there've been two convictions. The area's senior police officer says | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
it is not good enough. disappointed with our level of | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
success with the conviction rate. I want to reassure people this is a | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
priority for us. We'll continue to do everything we can, and to appeal | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
to the community to give us that extra help that might just make the | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
difference in us being able to catch these people and stop what | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
they are doing. The family of Andrew Alan would strongly support | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
that view. A doctor at the centre of a case | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
involving the death of a severely disabled teenager has admitted she | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
may have withheld some details about how she examined the child, | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
in order to protect her professional reputation. Rebecca | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
McKeown died in hospital in March 2001. Her grandparents are accused | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
of causing her death following an alleged sexual assault. Will Leitch | :07:53. | :08:03. | |
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reports. This is Dr Mary Donnelly, the GP whose evidence today came to | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
the foreon this case. As a lo come she was asked to examine 14-year- | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
old Rebecca McKeown in March 2001, shortly before she was admitted to | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
hospital. At her home Rebekah, who was profoundly disabled, was | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
reported to be bleeding heavily. Dr Donnelly told the court she was | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
always worried that her statement was incomplete and potentially | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
misleading, leaving out the extent of her full examination of Rebekah. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
She now knows that her examination of the child was unusual and | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
abnormal but didn't realise it at the time. The court heard Dr | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
Connolly had given evidence at Rebekah's inquest but didn't take | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
the opportunity to set the record straight. The coroner had wanted to | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
pursue whether the examination could have contributed to Rebekah's | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
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Later Dr Donnelly was asked about a child protection review of the case | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
in 2007 where again she withheld some information. She admitted that | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
once more she could have said more. Will the defence barrister asked if | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
her answers weren't 1 million miles from being canned it, clear and | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
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complete. She said, "I could have Rebekah's grandparents are charged | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
with her manslaughter. The case continues. | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
You're watching BBC Newsline. Still to come on the programme: These | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
pensioners show us how their moves are helping people with dementia | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
and depression. And so close to winning the big | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
prize. Ulster's players prepare for Saturday's Heineken Cup final | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
against Leinster. Former prisoners once lost | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
privileges for making alcohol, but now Belfast's Crumlin Road jail is | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
to be turned into the city's first new distillery in almost 100 years. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
Peter laverry wants to sink �5 million into turning a wing of jail | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
into a business that can turn out hundreds of thousands of bottles of | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
whisky every year. Since 1845 it's been home to some | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
of our most infamous prisoners. It was designed by the same man who | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
came up with Queen's University, but it was never designed to deal | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
with the hundreds of loyalists and republicans remanded there during | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
the Troubles and it struggled to contain them. Now hate a new role | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
as a distillery and tourist attraction. The man behind it, | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Belfast lottery millionaire, Peter laverry. It's 16 years since he won | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
�10 million on the National Lottery That time he's diversifyed into | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
lots of businesses, including whisky. He has two brands produced | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
in County Louth. This �5 million development will see that work | :11:30. | :11:39. | |
coming back to Belfast. We'll have two malt (Inaudible) 25,000 cases | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
of whisky a year. A blend of whisky, 300,000 barrels of whisky. In five | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
years the first bottle of whisky will be ready. The plan is to | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
convert a wing into a small distillery. There'll also be a | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
centre, tasting room and commercial outlets. The distillery will create | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
around five jobs. The other interests another 55. This �5 | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
million development means it's the first time in 75 years that whisky | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
will have been distiled in Belfast. Given the history of this jail it's | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
probably fair to say it is not the first time that whisky will have | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
been produced on this wing. At the launch a junior Minister | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
told the guests her husband had spent time in A wing as a | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
republican prisoner. Its conversion to a distillery, she said, sheed | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
how far things have moved on. Changed times at Crumlin Road jail. | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Now, you will rarely hear a farmer admit they are making money - fair | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
play. But the local agricultural sector has been thriving in the | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
last few years, while the rest of the economy has suffered. Last year | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
over 20%, but are the good times drawing to a close? | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
While many sectors of the economy have been struggling, it's a | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
different story for Northern Ireland's biggest export industry, | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
which is based on farming and too processing. Many sectors have been | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
forced to lay people off, but food firms like this pork plant in | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
Cookstown have been hiring staff to help meet new export orders. Trade | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
made possible by a 25 % fall in the value of the pound, which has | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
helped make our produce better value abroad, especially in Europe. | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
In the last four years the number of people working in the farming | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
and food sector has grown by nearly 3.5 %. Compare that to the rest of | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
the economy, where the number of jobs has shrink by more than 5%. | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
And sales - since 2007 in farming and food they've risen 15%. In | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
manufacturing, there's been a plunge of more than 20%. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
But is the farming and food boom at risk because of what's happening | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
with the euro? An event at the Balmoral Show, industry leaders | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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acknoged Northern Ireland's The Greek crisis under threat that | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
the euro will plummet against sterling will impact on Derry | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
prices and all live stock prices and the Derry food industry. Sheep- | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
shearing is always popular at the fair. The falling euro is hitting | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
our farmers hard. The value of a lamb is now around �70. The falling | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
euro will also wipe an estimated �20 million of European farm | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
subsidies here this year. That means less money circulating in our | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
rural economy. We will certainly see a short term issue that we have | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
to work too. We are still very confident in the medium to long | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
term. The mood may still be bullish but the optimism is now tempered by | :15:05. | :15:15. | |
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the euro crisis. Next we introduce you to a dance company like no | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
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People who've been badly injured in the Troubles say they're | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
experiencing more stress and upset as a result of changes to the | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
disability benefits system. Campaigners for victims have handed | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
in a petition to Stormont to highlight what they say is a | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
staggering shortfall in services for those injured. Chris Page | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
reports. Almost 4,000 people died in the Troubles but the injured may | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
run into many more. Many still live with pain, physical and | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
psychological. This bomb attack on a taxi in 1991 led to this man with | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
just one leg. He said the trauma was bad enough but now he is | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
worried about financial pain as well because of changes to benefits. | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
You're frightened that something will come through the door in case | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
it is a bill or some form of something from the Welfare Reform | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
Bill. It is just pressure after pressure. There are very little | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
people you can turn to. Nobody seems to want to help us. Today, he | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
and other victims were at Stormont to ask MLAs to take action. A | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
research group has commissioned research that says there is a big | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
shortfall in services. The organisation has also warned that | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
the reassessment process is putting a strain on people with lifelong | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
injuries. People have to do with what has happened to them and the | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
trauma of being reassessed and going through that and having to | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
explain it time and time again what happened in relation to their | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
injuries. It is very difficult. We would urge people to take priority | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
on the issue. He these people have criticised what they see at the | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
lack of potential -- political will to help them. Today they are in | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
Stormont and next week they will go to the Dail and Downing Street. | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
They hope their stories will have a significant impact in the places of | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
power. Next we introduce you to a dance | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
company like no other. The Black Widows Dance Company are | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
silver haired, the youngest member is 85 and they all suffer from | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
dementia. The dance company is taking part in | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
an International conference in Belfast which is focussing on how | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
art can complement conventional medications when treating people | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
with dementia, depression, even cancer. Our Health Correspondent, | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
Marie-Louise Connolly is at rehearsals at Stranmillis College | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
in Belfast. Good evening. None of us like being | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
ill, but just imagine how access to the arts, such as dancing, flinging | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
and even painting might help you, not only cope better with you | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
illness, but also help you back on the road to recovery. That is the | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
thinking behind a major international conference that is | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
taking play for this week in Belfast. Some of you might need a | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
little bit of convincing so let us hear from the experts. Am joined by | :18:13. | :18:23. | |
Jenny and yet and also a dancer. Who can benefit by this? Anybody | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
can really benefit from it, people with cancer, dementia, again people | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
with mental health, young people in care. Just a whole range of people. | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
Earlier we heard from the Black Widows Dance Company who focus | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
really on that dementia. What can they get out of it? They can get | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
physical fitness. Dance is very important terms of physical fitness. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
Also coming together and having fun. It is a great activity for | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
enhancing mood. You are one of the dancers, why do you like dancing? | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
It is an opportunity to help you relax and a wonderful experience to | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
go to wonderful places such as at the Opera House and Stranmillis | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
College and Queen's University and also I would recommend anybody to | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
join in the dance company. important is it to get out and meet | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
people, it is more than taking meditation isn't it? It is | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
absolutely critical to get out and about and meet people and also to | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
tap into your creativity is something that people are really | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
beginning to realise. Whenever you combine with artists and creativity | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
are really enhances your well-being. Thank you very much. The conference | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
is continuing at the Theatre tomorrow but the curtain is due to | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
go up here tomorrow -- in less than 15 minutes. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
Thank you very much. Good luck to all of the dancers here. | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
The weather was not the best for all of us but think of the bikers | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
up at the North-West 200! Terrible for practice and with the start of | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
racing this evening into classes, let's hope it has improved. What is | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
it like? Grey skies at the moment but thankfully it is not currently | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
reigning. There was horrible conditions for practice earlier on | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
today but so far so good. It is the first ever Thursday night racing. | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
The super stock classes currently taking place and they are about to | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
come into the final lap. Next up is a super twin race with two local | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
riders hoping to be in contention for that. One has raced here | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
throughout his career and the other is making his debut. Do you think | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
he knows where he's at? These men have been involved in bikes all | :20:47. | :20:56. | |
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their lives. One has won more national road races than anybody | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
else. McWilliams has completed at the top level as a short circuit | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
rider. He has gone out of his way to prepare a bike that is the same | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
as his bike. I cannot thank him enough. It is the only team I could | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
write for. He put the bike himself - Ricky put the bikes together | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
himself. He is not just helping others as a rider but he is also a | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
team manager. It put pressure on me on a different way. All winter I | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
have had the pressure to get the bikes prepared as best she can. It | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
was great getting Jeremy on board to come to the North-West 200 as a | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
newcomer. It is one of the biggest days in my racing career. We have | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
got four bikes out in the Super twin class. I am really nervous and | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
my head is doing 300 miles an hour. Hopefully, come tonight, it will | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
all be worthwhile. We will find out in a couple of hours of time if his | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
dream comes true. Few people know better than this man on how to win | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
here. What do you think of the first light racing? Thursday is a | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
great time to be racing. Two good races in super stock which -- we | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
are just in the end of the race. Then we will have Ireland's | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
favourite riders completing. eyes are on the skies. Describe | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
just how difficult it was in practice. Practice was very wet | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
this morning but consistent all round the lap. What we have now is | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
a circuit that is driving very fast and we hope it will stay dry for | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
the second race. Everybody has got their eyes on the surface and the | :22:47. | :22:56. | |
guys like Ryan far choir who is out there is out in this race and he is | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
looking out for Jeremy. You're not taking part this year said he would | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
you be looking out for? In my opinion it if you had to put a bet | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
on one person for sure there is juniper on the last chicane. He | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
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will be pushing hard for the ring. -- winner. Thank you very much. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
It's less than 48 hours to Ulster's biggest game for 13 years. | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
Saturday's Heineken Cup Final against the holders Leinster. Both | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
squads are at full strength for the big game and relishing the | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
challenge ahead, as Nial Foster reports. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
On an opportunity the Ulster players have been reflecting on an | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
opportunity that comes only once in a rugby player's career. I firmly | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
believe this could be our year. We are underdogs but we have done well | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
before and Leinster are an awesome side but I think if we pay to a | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
potential, I think it's not beyond the realms that we could win this | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
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tournament. Ulster have a certain South African. It is going to be | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
key when you have a guy who is able to knock over penalties from 55 and | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
60 out, you can't afford to be giving away silly penalties. This | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
is a massive opportunity for them to step up to the play does well. | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
They should do something that they threatened last year and have been | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
building over the last 10 years since they won in 99. Every time | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
you play I'll stay you have to front up to their back. Any time | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
you play them you really have to face hard combat up there. We will | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
not expect anything different. I am sure they will be coming forth with | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
everything they have got. All the ingredients are there for a classic | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
encounter. This is the first time in my time that both teams are | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
going to be at full strength or close to it anyway. From our point | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
of view, we are looking forward to it. They are a smashing rugby side | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
and there is no doubt about that. We are looking forward to playing | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
them. We are not going to make up the numbers, we are going to | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Twickenham to make sure that we perform. If they win there will be | :25:34. | :25:42. | |
no better way to end the reign of the coach. | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
We have a special piece from Twickenham on tomorrow night | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
programme. Meanwhile Graeme McDowell beat Robert Karlsson by | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
one hole in his first match at the Volvo Match Play Championship in | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
Spain. Alistair has just won the Super | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
stock in the last few moments. You can see more online. You can watch | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
full coverage. All eyes to the sky, tell we will not rain! | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
tell we will not rain! Let ask the man who knows. | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
I would love to say No But there is more to come but probably not as | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
much as today. Across many places this evening we have the patchy | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
rain continuing. It will become drier for a wee while overnight. No | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
frost to worry about tonight but we do it all again tomorrow. It will | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
be cold and grey and damp. It will probably not be as wet as today but | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
the patchy rain is coming and going right through the morning and into | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
the afternoon. Tomorrow we have a different feature. We have the | :26:51. | :26:59. | |
easterly winds along the east coast. It will feel cold. Further west a | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
few patches of rain as well. Temperatures are up to a packed | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
nine degrees. Little would change as we go into the second part of | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
the afternoon and evening. We will hold on to the patchy rain but as | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
we go through into tomorrow night and into the weekend, most of it | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
will clear away. The temperatures will be about the same as tonight. | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
Some of the cloud will linger -- linger overnight and we will have a | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
cloudy start on Saturday. It will clear away and then be an | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
improvement with temperatures beginning to each up into double | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
figures. On the eastern coast it will feel a bit fresher. At the end | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
of the weekend the sunny spells will start to come out. They will | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
spill over into the beginning of next week so we should be a good | :27:52. | :27:56. |