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Good evening. Roads are being blocked again by | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
loyalists in Belfast and elsewhere. This was the scene in the east of | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
the city. More in a moment. Also: Belfast traders urge an end to flag | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
protests after a weekend of disruption. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
A former director of Northern Ireland Water libelled by Sinn pain | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
-- Sinn Fein is awarded �80,000. The family of an IRA man shot dead | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
say and report shows shocking failings in the investigation. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Ulster's rugby team loses their unbeaten record and one of their | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
star players to injury. And it has been a mild day of | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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whether but will the rest of the Loyalist protesters have blocked | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
roads in the greater Belfast area this evening, two weeks after | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Belfast City Council voted to restrict the flying of the Union | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
flag at city hall. There are also reports of protests in Londonderry | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
and elsewhere. For the latest on the disruption to commuters in | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Belfast, we are joined on the phone by a BBC Radio Ulster's traffic and | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
travel reporter. Which areas are badly affected this evening? | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
The Albert Bridge Road and Temple Moore Avenue are blocked. Bell's | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
Bridge is not passable. In the south, Armagh road is blocked at | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
the Embankment. In the city centre, avoid great Victoria Street and | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
Bridge Street, you cannot pass them. Police have closed some roads | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
because of a protest. In Londonderry, a road into the city | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
is blocked. Reports are that Ballyclare town-centre is | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
gridlocked. If she has any updates, we will | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
return to her this evening. The DUP and Ulster Unionist party | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
leaders are understood to be meeting the leaders of the loyal | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
orders around now. There is speculation about an announcement | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
of a Unionist forum later this week which would seek to redress the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
flak's dispute and other issues like the low rate of voter | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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registration -- the flag's dispute. We will look at the impact street | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
protests are having on business shortly, but first Mervyn Jess | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
looks at what happened at the weekend in Belfast. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
With just over a week until Christmas, the atmosphere was far | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
from festive at City Hall at the weekend. Loyalists came from all | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
parts of Belfast for the city centre protest rally. Hundreds | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
gathered in front of the building that is at the centre of the | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
dispute, carrying the Union flag that is only allowed to be flowed | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
at City Hall on designated days of the year. There was traffic | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
disruption, however shopping continued in the city centre. The | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
Christmas market remained open throughout the protest. The police | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
had warned that blocking the roads around City Hall was illegal. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
However, fears over confrontation appeared to be quickly defused by | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
loyalist leaders and senior officers on the ground. The protest | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
lasted one hour. Up to 1,000 people marched around City Hall. People | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
came here to have peaceful protests. We have all sorts of orders in | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
place. I am trying to make sure people understand and stay legal | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
within this. A prayers for peace vigil was held at city hall at the | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
weekend with hundreds of people linking hands as they encircled the | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
building. There must be another way to try to understand where all of | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
these feelings and fears come from. The last thing we want to do is | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
manipulate and exploit them, and I fear that has been happening. | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Families gathered outside City Hall yesterday in support of calls for | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
peace and a halt to street protests. Meanwhile the First and Deputy | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
First Ministers are arranging a meeting of the main Stormont party | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
leaders tomorrow with a view to them calling for an end to the flag | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
protests. A source close to the deputy first minister says he is of | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
the view that the UDF is behind the protest activity and the attempted | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
murder of a woman police officer on duty outside an east Belfast of | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
this last week. Pubs and shops in Belfast are | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
reporting business down by up to one-fifth as protests continue. Our | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Business correspondent reports that the disruption is changing spending | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
habits. After yet another weekend of | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
disruption, traders in Belfast have had once again been counting the | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
cost. A bomb scare made this avenue resembled a ghost town on what | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
should have been one of the busiest shopping days of the year. This was | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
on top of the Union Flag protests, which are hitting traders in the | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
pocket. One business reported custom at the weekend was down by | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
15% on the same time last year. December should make up for the | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
losses from January. In December we need to make more money to make up | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
for a moment in January, but we have not been making that money. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
That is someone's wages that we are losing. I would say we have lost | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
�1,000, two or 3 members' wages. We cannot carry on like that. Fears of | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
being caught up in trouble are changing spending habits, making | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
shoppers more focused. It appears people are not spending as much | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
time in the city centre when they are not shopping, and are not | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
staying so late in the evenings. When they shop, they are targeting | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
specific items, so it is less casual and spontaneous. The revenue | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
lost to Belfast is not all being spent in towns and shopping centres | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
elsewhere. In fact, some of it could be leaving Northern Ireland | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
altogether. The other thing that is happening, it is becoming more | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
obvious, this year there is more mail order by the internet, and I | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
think these protests have encouraged people to experiment | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
with the internet. And with people becoming reluctant to go out, pubs | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
say there trade is down some 20%. We cannot afford a hit like this. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
The issue is not for us to comment on, but the impact is and we need a | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
quick resolution. The busy city centre streets today masked the | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
concerns of many Belfast traders. They can only hope for a last | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
minute change in fortunes. But with only seven shopping days left until | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
Christmas, time is running out. Almost 40 people have lost their | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
jobs at a Belfast engineering firm. FIN Engineering was based on | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Saintfield Road in the south of the city. It was placed into | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
administration earlier this month and has now ceased to trade with | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
the loss of 37 jobs. The firm had been trading since 1990, providing | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
specialist engineering services to the construction industry. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
You're watching BBC Newsline. Still to come on the programme: | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
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No cheer for Derry pub owners at A former director of NI Water who | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
was libelled by Sinn Fein has been awarded �80,000 in damages. Declan | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Gormley sued the party because of what had been written in two press | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
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releases. Julie McCullough reports. Declan Gormley left court today | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
�80,000 richer. But the businessman said it was never about the money, | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
just about clearing his good name. I am immensely relieved, pleased, | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
delighted. It is a complete vindication of the position I have | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
held, and that think, more importantly, that award which was | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
given to me by the ordinary men and women of the jury reflects how | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
badly they felt I have been treated Iraq this process so I've regarded | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
as a complete vindication of the position I have held. Mr Gormley | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
had been one of four non-executive directors at NI Water who were all | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
sacked in 2010 by depend regional development minister, Mafi. He | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
claimed he was later defamed by Sinn Fein -- the develop the | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
minister, Murphy. He claimed he was defamed in a press release that | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
supported his dismissal. Following a ten-day hearing at Belfast High | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
Court, the jury found in his favour. Today, the jury had one more job to | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
do and that was to decide how much compensation Declan Gormley should | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
be paid. After considering for just 25 minutes, they settled on �80,000. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
But the judge also directed that Sinn Fein should pay legal costs, | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
which will end up costing the party even more, because that some is | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
said to be running into six figures. A 44-year-old Londonderry man who | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
admitted a car bomb attack has been sentenced to 13 years in jail. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Philip O'Donnell, of Baldrick Crescent, pleaded guilty to causing | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
an explosion likely to endanger life outside the city's Strand Road | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
Police Station. He also admitted other charges, including hijacking. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
No-one was injured in the attack in August 2010, but substantial damage | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
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was caused to the city centre. The family of a man shot dead in | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
1970 to save a report by the Historical Enquiries Team reveals | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
significant new information about his murder. Lewry Leonard, a member | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
of the IRA, was shot by loyalists in his shop. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Lily Leonard was lurk -- was working late in his butcher shop | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
when he was shot dead and his body dumped in a fridge. He was active | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
in the south Fermanagh brigade of the IRA and his family suspect he | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
was targeted by loyalists as a result of sheep -- of security | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
force collusion. Today they released findings of the report | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
that says he was almost certainly killed were two loyalists from | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
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Belfast. Two strangers from Belfast drove to a sleepy village in | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
December 1972, he was definitely targeted. Were you aware he was in | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
the IRA at the time of his death? It was not something that was | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
discussed, really. It was a difficult time. While there is no | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
proof of collusion, the ADT has found significant failings in the | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
investigation. It describes the loyalist as high priority suspects | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
but they were never arrested, even though four bullets were found in a | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
hire car when it was returned after the murder. The Leonard family save | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
the RUC turned a blind eye and that even the most basic of | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
investigations could have prevented another killing. Mr Leonard's | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
family believe the failure to arrest and question the two | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
suspects meant they were free to kill again. The following year, | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
intelligence suggests they were also responsible for the murder of | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
Jim Murphy. We simply want the truth to come out, because there | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
has been a shadow over this murder for so long. The family say they | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
now need time to consider all of the new information they have been | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
given. An inspection report on Maghaberry | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
prison says standards are better, but still not good enough. The | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
latest assessment lists continuing concern about the safety of | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
prisoners and the way they are treated, with Catholics being | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
treated less favourably than Protestant inmates. The Prison | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Service says it is confident the problems can be addressed. Our Home | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
Affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney reports. | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
Three years ago, inspector said Maghaberry was one of the worst | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
performing presence in the UK. A report published today says | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
progress has been made, but much more is needed. Some progress, and | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
I would pay tribute to the efforts that have been made by the Governor, | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
and senior managers at Maghaberry. It is still not where it needs to | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
be. Significant work still needs to be done to turn it into the sort of | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
prison that we are expecting. Inspectors say the prison still | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
does not provide a sufficiently safe environment for those held | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
there. They point out there is no effective strategy to tackle the | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
problem of bullying. The report says there means to be more | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
activities for prisoners, half of whom spent -- spend up to 20 hours | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
a day locked in their cells. It says there is an imbalance in the | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
way that Catholic and Protestant prisoners are treated. Inspectors | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
say Catholic prisoners have less access to work and education | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
activities and are more likely to be punished for their behaviour and | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
the refused home leave. Is the head of the Prison Service disappointed | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
at the pace of progress? No, we are not disappointed because change of | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
this type will inevitably be slower than we might hope, because it | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
needs to be real change that can be met, so we are not disappointed, we | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
are optimistic and we are clear about what needs to be done and we | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
know we can do it. Today's report makes 93 recommendations for | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
improvement. After a highly critical report three years ago, | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
the Prison Service said it would be judged on its performance the next | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
time inspectors came calling. Now they have done so, a lot more work | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
remains to be done. Inspectors say they have been encouraged by what | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
they describe as green shoots of recovery but they say does shoots | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
are in the early stages and need lots of support to grow. | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
Belfast had its row over the Christmas market and complaints | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
that it did not have enough local vendors. Now, Londonderry's festive | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
market is in the spotlight. In this case, local publicans are | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
complaining that their trade is being hit. Here is our North-West | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
reporter, Keiron Tourish. The continental market was | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
established by council tip at some festive sparkle, but the decision | :15:24. | :15:33. | |
to allow a temporary pub has caused controversy. publicans argued its | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
has affected their trade. We are not against the market, it is a | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
good thing for the city and hopefully will bring in more | :15:41. | :15:50. | |
football, but in relation to that, in the last 21 days, we have had | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
six pub should down in the last 18 months. The council has been unfair. | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
The organisers insist the stalls will boost the economy. | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
understand where they are coming from and I empathise with them, | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
that I think if they bear with us they will see that the extra people | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
that we bring into the City will compensate for whatever they | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
thought we would take away from them. The same with the city | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
shoppers, we will bring enough people into the city to make up for | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
any... No-one is it to take trade from anyone else, the point is to | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
bring more trade to the city. far, it seems shoppers have been | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
impressed was stuck it is great to see, it adds to what is on offer | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
for the City over Christmas. It is very, very pleasant to walk through | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
and look at the different things for Christmas. It is gorgeous. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
think it is great to have something to come to in the town on a | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Saturday apart from the usual shops. The market is great. I know there | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
has been a continental market in Belfast for years, it is good to | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
see Derry organising this. It is wonderful. It is fantastic, the | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
food and drink and atmosphere is fantastic, the best thing I have | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
seen for a long time. The council says it has consulted over the | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
licensing issue and believes that the pub opening hours were agreed. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
So far, the council says there has been a positive response to the | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Christmas market. Still to come on the programme | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
before 7pm: Why the recovery of these | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
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instruments is music to one man's It was not a good weekend for | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
Ireland's would be teams. It is a where Terence, Ulster's | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
four provinces all asked. Ulster lost to Northampton, lost | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
their unbeaten record, and could well have lost one of their star | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
players for a lengthy period. Tommy Bowe will undergo knee surgery next | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
week after landing awkwardly during their European Cup game at | :17:53. | :18:02. | |
Ravenhill. He is a major doubt for Ireland's Six Nations campaign. | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
Thomas Kane reports. It was a side that no Ulster Irish | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
rugby fan will have wanted to see. The Ravenhill crowd chanted Tommy | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Bowe's name as he was stretchered off the field. The severity of the | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
injury was apparent almost straight away, as Tommy Bowe collapsed late | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
in the game. It was a match in which Ulster had plenty of chances | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
to win. It was never on target. often, though, uncharacteristic | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
errors let the home side down. another handling error in attack by | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
Ulster. We still created opportunities, try-scoring and | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
penalties, and unfortunately we were not able to take them. We have | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
won games in the past like that, and that is why it is disappointing. | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
Two games to go, so if we cannot get the results, we will not | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
qualify. We are still in control, it is about us lifting our levels a | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
few notches to make sure we qualified. | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
It is almost a month until the remaining games against Glasgow, | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
but before that it is back to back derby games in the pro 12 against | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
Munster and Leinster. They will bounce back with a win | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
against Leicester, I am sure. -- against Leinster. | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
This weekend's football action was all about the Reds. And by that I | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
mean leaders Cliftonville, keeping up their relentless pace at the top | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
of the table, and the cards being flourished at Shamrock Park. Denise | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
Watson reports. Cliftonville kept the seven-point | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
gap that the top of the table. Two first half goals from an unlikely | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
source set them on bridge to a 3-1 win. The confidence is high so we | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
go into every game expecting to win, but we also have our feet on the | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
ground. We know that one slip-up can change everything. We want to | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
see where we are come January. Crusaders remain a distant second | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
after a comfortable 3-1 home win. Coleraine are now up to 4th after | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
their 2-1 victory over Donegal Celtic. The only other neighbours | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
were Linfield, up to 5th -- the only other movers. But the most | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
drama was at Shamrock Park. Portadown had two men sent off, | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
including striker Darren Murray who had given the home side a 2-0 lead. | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
The visitors turned the game around with four goals in reply. Faced a | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
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third in the table. -- and they stay third. | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
As well as paying tribute to sport's big winners in 2012, the | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme last night remembered the | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
sportsmen and women who have passed away in the last 12 months. Among | :21:19. | :21:29. | |
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them, the Kerry Gaelic footballer Paidi O'Se, who died suddenly at | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
the weekend. In the 1970s and 80s, there was | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
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regard for Paidi O'Se and Kerry. He Today, in Belfast, Ulster's | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
footballers and hurlers of the future gathered for a new season of | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
colleges competition but they were remembering a player who helped | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
shape the spot's past. I remember my dad going out -- going on about | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
how he was such a great figure he when so many trophies. He is | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
obviously a top player. He was a great character, one of the best in | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
the G8 and one of the best players ever to put on a jersey in Gaelic | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
football. He will be sadly missed by everybody. Not everybody | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
watching last night's BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
will have recognised Paidi O'Se, but the small tribute struck a big | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
court we did community. It certainly did. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
Darren Clarke has finished 2012 with joint 5th place at the | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
Australian Open. But no joy for Rory McIlroy at Sports Personality | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
Next, an early Christmas present for a man who was left devastated | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
by a robbery in August. Ken Hopkins had one of the world's biggest | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
collections of accordions. Of the 30 instruments taken, 12 have been | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
found and returned by Gardai in County Meath. Claire Savage reports. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
Known across Europe as the accordion man, Ken Hopkins was | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
shocked when 30 of his accordions were stolen. He was duped into | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
leaving his house to meet two men who wanted to buy one. They didn't | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
appear and he found his instrument had been stolen when he returned | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
home. Some were worth more than �20,000. The House had been | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
ransacked and the accordions were gone. The place was wrecked, you | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
know? Today, he feels more in the festive spirit as 12 have now been | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
returned 10. It is like Christmas come early to get them, at least 12 | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
of them, back. I did not think I would see them again. What would | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
you like to say to the people that took them? Just to let me know | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
where they are so I can have them back again. I would be grateful to | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
get them back, no matter where they are. They were discovered under | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
plastic cover on waste ground near the coast. They were not dam, but | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
they were damaged because when they were taken they were not in the | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
cases. You can see the keys are broken. Ken taught himself the | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
accordion more than 40 years ago and has been all over the world | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
with them. He wants to thank the Gardai and remains hopeful he will | :24:37. | :24:46. | |
be reunited with his entire Before the weather, an update on | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the main news. Fresh loyalist protests over the flying of the | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Union flag at city hall. Demonstrations have been reported | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
in Greater Belfast, Londonderry and towns in County Antrim. For the | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
latest to the disruption to commuters, carried Martin from | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
their roads service traffic control centre -- Kevin Martin. | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
Victoria Street is blocked in the city centre. Protests are taking | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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place on the Albert Bridge Road. Police have closed the shore road | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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due to a protest. The Donegal Road is not passable. Dublin Road is | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
blocked now at Bridge Street. Prince William roundabout is | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
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blocked in Lisbon. Hightown Road is not passable. In Carrickfergus, and | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
the Shore Road has been closed by police. We are getting reports that | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
Ballyclare town centre is blocked by protesters. | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
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We will keep you updated on radio A mixed week of weather coming up. | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
It has been quite mild today. Temperatures will fall tonight, | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
some showers lurking around. They will die away, so the emphasis on a | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
dry night, but with falling temperatures we have an ice warning | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
in force from the Met Office, valid until Tuesday morning as well. Some | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
frost to come to light, temperatures in some areas falling | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
to freezing, may be a degree or so below. Fog will be the other half | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
of the equation, some dense areas of fog could develop and they will | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
be around tomorrow morning committee. Many places start in | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
white and frosty tomorrow. There will also be fog, those are the | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
hazards tomorrow morning. You might need to scrape your car windscreen. | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
It will feel colder compared to today, and the fog and frost make | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
linger for a good part of the morning if not through the day. | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
Hopefully, in most places, it will start to lift and the sun will | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
squeeze through. Temperatures a little bit down on today. It is | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
still dry, there with a chill in the air compared to today. Where | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
the fog hangs on, temperatures may struggle to get too much more than | :27:29. | :27:38. | |
perhaps four degrees. Potentially chilly. Temperatures will fall | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
briefly, because the next whether macrosystem is coming in, bringing | :27:42. | :27:51. | |
rain for Wednesday morning. -- the next weather system is coming in. | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
Lots of rain, big puddles, lots of surface water. The rain will clear | :27:55. | :28:00. |