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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline.

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The key role played by our golfers in the Ryder Cup victory.

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The Orange Order says sorry after a bans man is pictured urinating

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upside a Catholic church. Still some showers around this

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evening and overnight. But will the dry up for the week ahead? Find out

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shortly. In an incredible final day at the

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Ryder Cup, Europe's golfers beat the US to retain the trophy with

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the contingent from Northern Ireland playing their part in the

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astonishing come-back. Although it took a police car to get one of

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them to the course, and just in the nick of time! If you're sensitive

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to flash photography, be advised that there is some in this report

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from Stephen Watson, who is in Illinois for BBC Newsline.

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Champagne celebrations in Chicago. Time for Rory McIlroy it to start

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the Ryder Cup party. A Yes! But the day of golfing drama could have

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been so different. The world's best player had to be rushed to the

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course in a police car after he made a mistake over his tee-off

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time. After his caddie and everybody else waited nervously,

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Rory McIlroy it made it with just minutes to spare. Sometimes maybe

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it is good not to get here and go through the worry, and to show up.

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The best part of this thing was the crowds, chanting, "central time-

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zone"! When he got his breath, the 23-year-old from Hollywood produced

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He beat his inform American opponent, Bradley. He kept Europe

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on course for an extraordinary comeback. And when German Martin

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claimed that eventually got the crucial part, an unforgettable

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Ryder Cup triumph was complete -- Martin Kaymer the. I was worried, I

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had 20 minutes to get there, usually it is half-an-hour. I got

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there with a few minutes to spare so it was fine. Obviously to

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contribute to this tally of 14, It is just an incredible

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performance. Disappointing for myself but it is a team effort at

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the end of the day, and just incredible scenes. 24 hours ago,

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this was all over. It is all over now. We will read this man wasn't

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going to turn up? -- were you worried? It did cross my mind!

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Obviously he got his time wrong. He does not need to warm up. Rolls

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Royces do not need any warming up! Actually, I did not have much time

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to think about it. I had a couple of putts and a way I went. I had a

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stretch in the back of the police car! When was the last time you

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were in one of those? Not for a long time. Not ever actually! It

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has been an unbelievable team effort this week.... Northern

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Ireland! LAUGHTER. The fans could not quite believe

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what they had witnessed. I flew my dad over from Ireland just to watch

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it! And there and there was another very proud Ulsterman at the heart

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of it all. He played very well, he is the number one. To watch him

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take on that rolled today and, I felt privileged to be walking right

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beside him today. So it Europe keep their hands on the Ryder Cup in the

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most spectacular fashion. It was sporting drama at its very best.

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The next Ryder Cup is in Gleneagles in Scotland in two years' time and

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there could be an Northern Ireland European team captain, as Darren

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Clarke is hotly tipped to fulfil that role.

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A senior member of the Orange Order today apologised to a Catholic

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priest and his parishioners after a bandsman was pictured urinating at

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the gates of the church. But there was no apology for widespread

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breaches of a Parades Commission determination, forbidding bands

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from playing anything but hymns during part of Saturday's Ulster

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Covenant rally. It was the biggest Orange gathering in Belfast for

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many years and passed without serious incident.

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This is a bird's-eye view of the covenant parade. Six miles long

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from City Hall to the grounds of Stormont, a celebration of the

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stand against home wrought a century ago. We still want to be

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part of the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland, Britishness is

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still a big part of who we are today. A big security operation was

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mounted, because of a national protest stage at a Catholic Church

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over the behaviour of loyalist fans earlier this year. 14 bands took

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part in this section of the march and they played hymns. The Parades

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Commission had outlawed anything else. But the way some bands acted

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attracted criticism. Some of them were a bit exuberant but the

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process was more respected than it had been before, but it can be

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sometimes interpreted by members of the community as insulting.

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Commission had also ruled him so the outside St Matthew's Catholic

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Church. -- hymns. It defied its legal determination for this leg of

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the parade. One bandsman was also photographed urinating at the

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church gate. We are disappointed that a bandsman was urinating

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through the church gates. I was disappointed to see that some of

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the bands that were passing and few were abating by the Parades

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Commission ruling were shouted at for not playing party tunes.

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Orange Order said sorry in person to the local priest. What exactly

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is it you were apologising for? behaviour of the bans man, what he

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did in public should not happen but particularly against a place of

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worship. It was wrong. Did you cover the conduct of the band and a

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kind of music it was playing? think there was a police

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investigation and I would not wish to prejudice any investigation.

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PSNI gathered video evidence. The PSNI it were not the only people

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here are observing what went on on Saturday. The Parades Commission

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had ears and eyes on the ground also, and its chairman says he is

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awaiting reports on what went wrong. Why there breaches of the

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determination? I have had some reports but I will not comment

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until we get police reports and other representation. I think

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people will draw their own conclusions to that but it is

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important we gather all of the evidence. Speaking on Saturday, the

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chief constable was pleased at how the day had gone. I have seen a lot

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of people with smiles on their face participating and going about their

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business and at the moment, it is a dignified parade and I am the very

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grateful for that. There was another act of vandalism at Clifton

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Street overnight. Paint was thrown on what the order said was a

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reaction to the parade on Saturday. In a few minutes, head-to-head in

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the debate over gay marriage. After Stormont rejects the idea, we hear

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from those in favour and those again here in the studio. -- and

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those against. Tributes have been paid to David

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Mills, the former Irish league footballer, who was murdered in

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Ballynahinch yesterday. The 47- year-old who used to be manager of

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his local team in Drumaness suffered head injuries in an

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assault. A 30-year-old man was arrested. Claire Savage reports.

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A hard-working, popular, likeable, well-loved character. That is how

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the Friends of David Mills have described him. He had a love of

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golf, cricket, darts and football. In their 80s and 90s he played

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football and was on the field when Portadown hosted a top flight

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Portuguese team. He made 150 appearances for them. He always

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gave 100%. He was a big player for us in the early years when we first

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did the double. It was important for us. He was respected on and off

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the pitch and everyone is in shock. This morning at the scene in

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Ballynahinch when he was attacked, a number of people left flowers and

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note to him and his family. A murder investigation is under way

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as the police try to find out what happened. One local councillor knew

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him., personal perspective, I know the family well. They are very well

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known in the Ballynahinch area and I would like to take this

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opportunity to extend my sympathy on behalf of the people, to the

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extended family and everybody, that it is a sad loss and a terrible

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tragedy. In his early years he played for Drumaness. Meanwhile,

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Drumaness Mills football club have said tributes have also been paid.

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The retail chain JJB Sports is to close ten of its 12 stores in

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Northern Ireland with the loss of 150 jobs. All three of its Belfast

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shops are to shut. One of the group's two Londonderry stores will

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remain open, along with shops in Antrim and Lisburn, securing 65

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jobs. The troubled retailer has sold 20 of its stores in Britain to

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Sports Direct. 133 stores across the UK will close with the loss of

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2,200. Jobs. The man who went up against Mike

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Nesbitt for the Ulster Unionist leadership has been stripped of his

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deputy leader's position. The move against the South Down MLA John

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McCallister follows a speech which criticised unionist unity. Mark

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Devenport is at Stormont. What led to this?

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It was a speech made by John McCallister on Saturday night, in

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which he said the Ulster Unionists were according to some sleepwalking

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towards Unionist unity. John McCallister spoke about recent show

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at events, statements and commemorations in relation to the

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Big Parade and the Ulster Covenant, involving the leaders of the two

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main Unionist parties, and he said they gave the impression that the

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Unionist unity train had left the station, with the Ulster Unionists

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in the passenger seat. Yesterday I spoke to John McCallister and he

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denied that his comments amounted to an assault on Mike Nesbitt's

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Most of these events were in the process of organising before Mike

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Nesbitt became leader, so it is not a criticism of that, it is a

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warning that we are saying, look, there is a perception out there and

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the perception with commentators is that we could be heading down a

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certain route, which we are not. Obviously Mike Nesbitt thinks it is

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an attack on him and that is why he's sacked him.

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Yes, he was very swift to take that action against John McCallister. He

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said the leader had taken many complaints about the phrase,

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sleepwalking towards Unionist unity. John McCallister says he is

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disappointed about what has happened but recognises that Mike

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Nesbitt has the right to remove him from his position. We understand

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that John McCallister is standing down as health spokesman for the

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party, an act which I think shows he is disappointed about the way

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things have turned out. Still to come on the programme:

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Plucked from obscurity. Find out how this bunch of would-be actors

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A gang locked into a men in the backyard of a Newry bar last night

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and then said the building on fire. Today, the police said the men

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could have been seriously injured, and the pub was badly damaged in

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the arson attack. When the Fire and Rescue Service

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arrived, the bar was well ablaze. The damage is extensive. The roof

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is off and the interior is gone. The fire was started around 11:30pm.

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Four men forced the owner and other staff into the backyard, sprinkled

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petrol around the place and set it alight. A gang fled, leaving the

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staff to fend for themselves. have fire crews were met with a

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well-developed fire. They tried to gain access to the front of the

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premises and tried to gain access to the rear. They discovered there

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were two people trapped in the backyard. The fire crews got an

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extension ladder and rescued them, and got on with tackling the fire.

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The police are trying to establish a motive for the attack, which came

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after an earlier altercation involving some people who had been

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drinking there. One man who was in the bar last night said shortly

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before the arson attack, a number of people who had been drinking in

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the premises were asked to leave. As they did so, they did minor

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damage. They smashed a television and broke the front windows of the

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bar as they went out. It is still not known whether that is linked to

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the more serious incident which followed. For people to almost lose

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their lives as well as their livelihood, it is out reached -- it

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has Ardgrange the local community. Detectives said the earlier

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incident is a primary line of inquiry. The this is arson with

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intent to endanger life. There was a possibility that the staff could

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have been injured as a result of this. The staff members were taken

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to hospital, where they were treated for smoke inhalation and

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shock. The Assembly has voted against

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allowing gay people to get married in Northern Ireland. Plans are well

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advanced to legalise gay marriage in England, Scotland and Wales, but

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a proposal put forward by the Green Party and Sinn Fein to allow the

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same thing Kabul who was defeated. The vote was taken on a vast --

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cross-community basis and with the vast majority of Unionists against

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it, it failed. Members of the gay community held a demonstration

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today. Among those taking part were Maurice Dixon and Paul Finlay. They

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are having a settled partnership ceremony next year. They said they

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would like to be able to get married. I just want to be treated

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equally. I have always been brought up in a Christian family, and I do

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not want to feel I'm being discriminated against. I want to

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have the same relationship that my mum and dad had.

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With me is Jim Allister and John O'Doherty, from the Rainbow Project.

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Jim Allister, putting religious belief to the site, how concerned

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argued that the perception in Northern Ireland is now at on a

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moral issue, people do not have equal rights? In is not an issue of

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equality. This is not about equality, this is about perversion

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of marriage. Marriage is hysterically and accurately the

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union of one man and one woman. -- historically. This is an assault on

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that, to say that two men or two women can married. The ultimate

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logic of that position, if it is an equality position, is that if a man

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says, there are two people I love, I want to have a polygamous

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marriage, are we to say, equality, we have to let them do that? It is

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an absurd proposition to be quit the marriage of a man at a woman to

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the relationship of two men of the same sex. Why do gay people want to

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get married? Civil partnerships, we have about 100 every year? Once

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again, it is really damaging dangerous language in relation to

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gay people. The same arguments we have been hearing today, we heard

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around the introduction of civil partnerships. We heard it would

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lead to polygamy and the legalisation of bestiality. None of

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those things are reality. Gay people want equal marriage.

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Everybody wants equal marriage, wants to be treated equally. If we

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are tax payers an important members of the society and we want to be

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treated equally. Are partnerships should not be recognised as any

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different from those as the heterosexual committee. The other

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point that Jim makes about marriage is not true. Divorce was something

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was -- that was not always available. He is a religion and

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moral issues not separate from equality under law? I absolutely

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and emotion is clear. The motion called for the introduction of

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civil marriage for everyone at included protections for faith

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based organisations and religious groups to decide whether or not to

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hold the partnerships. We are going to be left behind by Scotland,

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Wales and England. We are going to be left behind and different from

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the rest of the United Kingdom if we keep our objections to a gay

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marriage. Legislators have to legislate in accordance with the

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morals and standards of the area they legislate for. It is quite

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clear that in Northern Ireland there is no appetite to change the

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fundamental description of marriage. And indeed throughout the world, it

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is very much a minority that have any concept of same-sex marriage.

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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it is not a breach

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of human rights to deny the same- sex marriage. So, we are on the

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firmest possible ground, but the best ground to be on it is to

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acknowledge the historical and important position of marriage as a

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union between one man and one woman. Even if there was cross-community

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support, this would not have gone through in the Assembly today. The

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politicians are representing the electorate and they are saying no.

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That is the negative coming out of today. I prefer to focus on the

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positives. This is the first time that LGBT issues have been

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discussed in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Do you think it might

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change? Absolutely. Almost 50% of MLAs voting today supported the

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motion. Jim, what do you think? do not think people will change

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their mind about issues of conscience and principle. If they

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do, they haven't got much principle. The vote today was 50 against, 454.

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I would have liked to have seen a bigger margin. It was a victory to

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defeat an absurd proposition. Earlier in the programme we were

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reminded of the winning heroics of Europe's office in a Ryder Cup.

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They were not the only team snatching a late victory at the

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weekend. Now, more on the sport. Derry's camogie players are

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celebrating an All-Ireland title. It looked as if they are replayed

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final against Galway might be slipping away from them but in the

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closing moments of the match, this late Karen Kielt goal helped Derry

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to a dramatic one-point win, sparking a great scenes of

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celebration. Karen Qaeda's heroics earned warm praise from the captain.

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-- Karen Qaeda's heroics. She is a fantastic player. Today, she scored

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a goal when we needed it. She gave us the margin to get in front.

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It was a poignant weekend for another GAA team. The Lisnaskea M

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its Club in Fermanagh were contesting the senior match which

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was the first since our colleague, Brian of McLaughlan, was killed

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last month. Their opponents won by 15-1-4. Afterwards as a jester,

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Conor Foy invited Mark McKenna to wear -- lift the cup. -- as a

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gesture. Stephen Small has resigned after

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eight months in charge of Donegal Celtic. Celtic, who are second from

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bottom in the Premiership and without a win in their opening nine

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games, taken Lisburn Distillery this evening in the cadet and seed.

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Glentoran play Linfield. -- the County Antrim Shield.

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The EGGS Factor has come to town. Some spring chickens have been

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hand-picked, or HEN-picked, for a starring role on the stage. The

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feathers are flying at a forum in Garbutt.

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A chance to be plucked from obscurity. These chickens were

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preening themselves for their big audition and a chat -- the actors

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were ready to put them through their paces. I never thought I felt

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this way about you, Roger. I know, it feels weird for me to. A theatre

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company from Portstewart descended on a farm in Curva to find their

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perfect partners. -- Garvagh. Five feathered friends will be picked to

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go on tour for its new play. I want them to beat Real Character

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chicken's. It would be nice for them to have real personality and

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to be high energy and focal. loves the camera. When the actors

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looking for the next Gregory Peck? I am begging for an actor's chicken,

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a chicken ready and willing to work in the ensemble. Don't worry, we

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will sort them out if there is any trouble. Paul Rankin said he had no

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bother with them on television. They were dead but did not seem to

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cause problems, and I like that. This dark was turned down for

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having the wrong lock. But these ones seemed to take all of the

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right boxes! Let's have the critics do not give

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them a roasting. We have had a fair amount of

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showers Today. We still have some at the moment, but fewer than we

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have had. The remaining mostly consistent across parts of the

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North West, maybe into County Down in the night. Many areas staying

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dry as temperatures dip. Holding on to the unsettled team into tomorrow.

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But to begin with tomorrow, not too bad. Medicine spells about. --

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spells of sunshine about. Rain coming in from the south-west. Up

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to 28 mm of rain in power areas. It will be drier in South Down that

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everyone else. The rain will linger in northern areas. Overnight, some

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of it will linger. Some showers following behind. Tomorrow night,

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temperatures falling back once again to seven or eight degrees.

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Not especially chilly. At the cloud around, it will be higher in towns

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or cities. It will stay on settled towards the middle of the week but

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not as bad as today or tomorrow. On Wednesday although there will be

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some showers, there will be plenty of dry and bright weather around as

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well and spells of sunshine. It may fear: As temperatures only reach

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about 14 degrees. Sheltered areas not feeling too bad. Some showers

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on the horizon. High pressure is building for the weekend and it

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looks promising for Saturday if you have any outdoor events planned. We

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will keep the update on Twitter. -- Keep your updated.

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The mood was bright and for so many of us last night. We could not

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