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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline. | :00:14. | :00:25. | |
Fein president, is found guilty of raping his daughter more than 30 | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
years ago. One of the mess bridge stooges cycling races is coming here | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
next year. -- one of the most prestigious races is coming here | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
next year. Face-to-face with the drugs problem in our prisons. I went | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
into the cell. The smell was quite strong. The young man was of his | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
head. The Dungannon woman accused of drug smuggling is in court again. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
The latest from our reporter in Peru. The European Cup in turmoil. | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
We hear what the Irish provinces make of the current rugby crisis. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
And a damp old start to October with more heavy rain in the forecast over | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
the next couple of days, bringing the threat of localised flooding. | :01:12. | :01:21. | |
First, our main story, and the brother of the Sinn Fein President | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Gerry Adams has been found guilty of raping and abusing a daughter more | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
than 30 years ago. 58-year-old Liam Adams from Belfast had denied ten | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
charges of rape, indecent assault and gross indecency against his | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
daughter Aine, who had waived her right to anonymity. Today, a jury | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
decided he was guilty of all of them. Will Leitch was in the court | :01:40. | :01:49. | |
for BBC Newsline. Liam Adams walk through the morning | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
rain into court in Belfast, knowing the jury would be trying to decide | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
if he had raped and sexually assaulted his daughter on your Adams | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
when she was less than ten, from 1977 to 1983. She had told her | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
mother Sally about it in 1996 and a statement was made in 1987. That was | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
never pursued. They'd confronted Liam Adams that March. Liam's elder | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
brother confronted him, too. Liam Adams denied it. He denied it when | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
the police arrested him in 2007 in connection with these allegations. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
He fought extradition from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland in | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
2011. He denied it in court this year. And he denied it consistently | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
during this trial. For his part, Gerry Adams had publicly supported | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
his niece. In an earlier trial this year, he had testified. But Gerry | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
Adams was not called as a witness in this trial. Liam Adams knew that the | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
jury would be deciding if they believed his denials and the defence | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
case. They didn't. After four hours and ten minutes, the jury returned | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
to court as the ten counts were read out, the foreman said each time, | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
"guilty." As Aine and her family held hands and sobbed, the judge | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
ordered Liam Adams to be so down. Aine was accompanied by her family | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
as the police officer in front of the reporters read out a statement. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
I do not think this is a celebration. It has caused anguish | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
to all of those involved. I can now begin my life at 40. And later | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
arrested the memory of the five-year-old girl who was abused. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
In the year since all of this began, Liam Adams split from his first wife | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
and, despite some meetings over the years, is largely estranged from the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
children of that marriage. He has been remanded in custody for | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
presentence reports. His daughter been remanded in custody for | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
Aine has said she wanted a father to admit to what he had done. A mother | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
herself, she will be picking up the pieces and going on with her life. | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
Her father will be paying the price for the way he lighted it. -- for | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
the way he lighted it. This case drew in the Sinn Fein | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
leader and shone a spotlight the Adams family. Unlike the first | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
trial, this time Gerry Adams did not appear in the witness box. From the | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
point his niece made her allegations until today's verdict, the affair | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
has over-shadowed the family of Ireland's longest serving political | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
leader. Our correspondent Shane Harrison has been looking at some of | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
leader. Our correspondent Shane the issues raised. | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
The funeral of Gerry Adams senior and a show of family and political | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
unity. But Gerry Adams Junior, the president of Sinn Fein, had been | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
aware for some time of two very dark family secrets. Since 1987, that his | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
brother Liam had sexually abused his young daughter, Aine, and since the | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
1990s, that his father was also an abuser. In 2009, the Sinn Fein | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
leader went public. In the Court of dealing with the issue of Aine and | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
the injustice done to her, a family member told me that they had been | :05:18. | :05:27. | |
abused. And I immediately brought all my siblings together. And we | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
tried to deal with that. Then I went and spoke to my father about it. I | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
confronted him. The nature of the abuse by your father, what was it? | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
It was physical. It was psychological and emotional. And it | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
was sexual. And one of the big questions is why didn't I notice | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
it? Brothers, sisters? I don't want to deal with the detail. The Sinn | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
Fein leader made those remarks at a time when his brother had fled south | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
to avoid charges of sexually abusing his daughter, Aine. Liam Adams was | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
later extradited. It was here on a rainy day while out for a walk in | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
later extradited. It was here on a 2000 that Gerry Adams says his | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
brother confessed to sexually abusing his daughter, but claimed it | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
only happened once. Seven years later, the Sinn Fein leader, after | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
his party had voted to accept the PSNI, made his first statement to | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
the police about the abuse allegation. He left in self open to | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
the accusation of withholding information. It wasn't until 2009, | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
nine years after that Liam Adams information. It wasn't until 2009, | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
reported admission, that Gerry Adams, in a second statement, told | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
the police that his brother had confessed. He said he didn't see | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
Liam Adams as a danger to children. All I know is that my concern was to | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
ensure that nobody else was going to be abused, that those who had been | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
ensure that nobody else was going to abused had all the support they | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
needed, and it wasn't up to me to be the person who decides what course | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
of action to take. They had to take their own decision. In the years | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
since Liam Adams reported admission to his brother, he worked at youth | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
centres in west Belfast where Gerry Adams was the MP, and Dundalk, and | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
the centre said that they were unaware of the allegations and that | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
the centre said that they were he had been police checked. They say | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
they were also unaware of Liam Adams reported admission to his brother | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
that he was a child sex abuser. Gerry Adams says that because of | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Aine's accusation, she was estranged from his brother. And, that without | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
telling people why, he moved quickly to get him expelled from Sinn Fein. | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
During the first court case, Gerry to get him expelled from Sinn Fein. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Adams was shown several photographs of himself and his brother together. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
He was asked about several references to Liam Adams in his | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
autobiography. The Sinn Fein leader denied lying about the extent of | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
their dealings, saying he had never said there was no contact. Liam | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Adams at also not been expelled from Sinn Fein but was photographed and | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
written about in various articles in Dundalk and was involved in the | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
party in West Belfast. Gerry Adams has said he was unaware of his | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
party in West Belfast. Gerry Adams brother's Sinn Fein involvement in | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
the city, which she described as deplorable and reprehensible. The | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
first case collapsed for legal reasons in April. It is unlikely the | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
Sinn Fein leader will suffer at the polls. Most will probably see the | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
case as a family trauma. There is little question, though, that the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
person who has suffered most trauma is the victim, the young girl whose | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
private torments to centre stage. The eyes of the cycling world will | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
be on Northern Ireland next May when the prestigious Giro d'Italia rolls | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
into town for its spectacular opening stages. The route is due to | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
be officially unveiled in Milan next week, but BBC News has exclusive | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
details of the proposed circuit which moves from Belfast to Dublin | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
over three days. Day one and it's the grand opening. The race leaves | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
the Titanic visitor centre, up the Newtownards Road, to Stormont. And | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
then the 22 kilometre time trial finishes at the City Hall. Day two | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
and the riders head north towards the Giant's Causeway via Ballymena. | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
They return to Belfast along the Antrim Coast Road. Stage 3, the | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
final day, and the route takes the cyclists from Armagh along a 187 | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
final day, and the route takes the kilometre stage across the border | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
and ending up in Dublin. Kevin Magee has the full story. | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
has the The Giro d'Italia is one of the most | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
famous cycle races in the world and it begins in Northern Ireland next | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
May. The final route is due to be announced next week but here is a | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
cyclist side view of where the rich will go. We begin at the Titanic | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
building. It moves up to Newtownards Road, around the Stormont, and back | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
again into the city centre. A former champion cyclist owns a cycling shop | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
Newtownards Road. Would he have ever thought he would see the Giro | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
d'Italia? Never, in a million years. I've been in Italy, and I've seen | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
the Giro d'Italia, and they get -- and to get a part of it, it's | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
unbelievable. It's not going to be a bunch of cyclists going through. | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
These are some of the top pros in the world and it's unbelievable for | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
the people of Northern Ireland, for the Northern Ireland economy, for | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
tourism to be able to see our country that can support something | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
like this. They too will be a gruelling 200 kilometre circuit from | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Belfast to Bushmills, taking the Giant's Causeway before returning | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
back down, through Lan and Carrickfergus back to both fast. Day | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
three, a cross-border section begins in Armagh, crossing and fall kills | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
before moving on to Dublin and home to Naples. Such is the interest in | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
the pink jersey, the grand opening in Belfast could be viewed in more | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
than 150 countries in the world. The riders will get a good few of the | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
east of the city on the first aid. The race will go up and down the | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Newtownards Road. Not everybody is happy with the route. The MP for | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
West Belfast says his constituency is being ignored. I think it is very | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
unfair that West Belfast is not going to be touched. We live in this | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
part of city, lots of visitors come here every single week to look at | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
the whole culture of this part of the city. Yet, we are excluded. The | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
US to look at the whole culture of this part of the city. Yet, we are | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
excluded. The still the South down. this part of the city. Yet, we are | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
-- the SDLP called. It is the organisers who determine the route. | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
McCollum has made another appearance in court in Peru accused of trying | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
to smuggle £1.5 million worth of cocaine out of the country. The | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
20-year-old and her Scottish friend pleaded guilty to the charges last | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
week, hoping their admission would get any prospective prison sentence | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
reduced. But the prosecutors said they were not satisfied with their | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
pleas and asked for today's hearing to give them the chance to make a | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
more complete confession. Dan Collyns is reporting from the | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Peruvian capital Lima for us. What happened at today's hearing? Well, | :12:56. | :13:11. | |
as we understand it, the hearing is still taking place. This is the | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
third court hearing for these two young women, and it is being held in | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
this present behind me. It is a private hearing and there is no | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
access to the press or public. These two women are being cross-examined | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
by a judge about their guilty pleas which they gave last Tuesday, and | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
those keys have been called into question by prosecutors who are | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
asking for more information, and are particularly questioning the version | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
of events they gave in August soon particularly questioning the version | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
after their arrest, in which they talk about being the worst by an | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
armed gang in I be the and being forced to carry the cocaine. What do | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
you think is going to happen next? Based on what happened today, and we | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
have not been given any information about what the judge has decided, | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
this will be crucial for these young women. We may see a sentencing | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
hearing later this month. It may take longer. The judge may ask for | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
more court hearings to hear more evidence but this is extremely | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
important. If the guilty pleas are accepted, they could get a reduced | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
sentence. If this is an accepted, eight years would be reduced to six | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
years and eight months. Still ahead on the programme: Find | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
out why it was an historic day for Markethill's cattle mart. | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
offender's prison in Belfast. The Criminal Justice Inspector Brendan | :14:43. | :14:55. | |
McGuigan says that, after eight Criminal Justice Inspector Brendan | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
years, he is raising many of the same issues with prison management, | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
years, he is raising many of the including excessive strip searching | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
of women and its approach to tackling drugs. As our Home Affairs | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
Correspondent Vincent Kearney reports, during one visit the | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
inspector saw for himself the extent of the drugs problem. | :15:07. | :15:19. | |
A new director general and new recruits were hailed as a bright new | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
future for the prison service, but many of the same old problems | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
remain. Just over 180 young men and up to 70 women are held at separate | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
facilities. When inspectors visited in February, they were far from | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
impressed. Disappointed and frustrated with the inspection | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
because we did not see the improvements that we would have | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
because we did not see the hoped for. In 2011 we believed that | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
the prisons had turned a corner, but actually on this inspection we found | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
they had regressed. Report published today make a combined 156 | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
recommendations for improvement. Criticisms include a failure to | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
learn lessons from deaths in custody, and what is called | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
excessive strip searching of women prisoners. The director-general of | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
the prison service says that issue has been addressed. We have stopped | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
the routine strip searching of women prisoners. We now strip search women | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
prisoners on a risk basis, so where we think there is a need to do that. | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
We no longer do it routinely, so we have addressed that recommendation. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
There is also criticism of the approach to tackling the drugs | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
problem in the two prisons. The inspectorate had first-hand | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
experience during their visit. We visited the segregation unit. Staff | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
at that stage were dealing with a young man who they had found smoking | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
dope. I went into the cell and the smell was quite strong, and the | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
dope. I went into the cell and the young man was of his head. I spoke | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
to him, I asked him why he was in the segregation unit. He was in it | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
for abusing drugs. I asked why he continued to abuse drugs, and he | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
indicated that this was the only way he could get through his time at the | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
prison. The prison service says tackling the drugs problem is a | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
priority, and that steps have already been taken in response to | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
what the inspectorate said. When it comes to reports criticising the | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
prison service here, it is like a case of deja vu. The two published | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
today are the latest in a long line of such reports. Each time, the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
prison service says it will address the issues raised. Sue McAllister | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
says she believes the new management team will ensure a more positive | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
outcome the next and the inspectorate visits. We now have in | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
place a brand-new management team, including a new governor and Deputy | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Governor. I have every confidence that in the next 12 months we will | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
be able to demonstrate real tangible, lasting improvements. | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
Inspectorate plan to return in the near future to assess progress. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
11 men have appeared in court charged with arson following a fire | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
at a house in Dungannon on Friday charged with arson following a fire | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
night. They are charged with entering a property in the | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
Springdale estate in Dungannon armed with baseball bats and setting fire | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
Springdale estate in Dungannon armed to the house. The men who are from | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
Poland have been living in Dublin. A police officer said he believed the | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
attack was the result of dispute between two groups in the Polish | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
community. Bail was refused and the men were remanded in custody. | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
They're due in court again later this month. | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
The SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell says his party deeply regrets any | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
hurt and distress caused by the actions of its councillors in | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
supporting the naming of a Newry play park after IRA hunger striker | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
Raymond McCreesh. Speaking during an Assembly debate on local government, | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
Dr McDonnell said the play park had Assembly debate on local government, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
been known by the hunger striker's name for a decade, but what might | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
have been understandable in local terms wasn't in wider terms. | :18:49. | :18:59. | |
Our representatives acted entirely terms wasn't in wider terms. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
in good faith. It was not in their thinking or their intention to cause | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
any hurt to anyone, and yet hurt and distress was called the macro | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
course. The SDLP deeply regret that. We're familiar with out of town | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
developments and their impact on our town centres. Well, in County Armagh | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
today, for the first time in its history, Markethill was without a | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
market at its heart. The famous sale yard has moved to a new site a | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
couple of miles away. Gordon Adair the surroundings might be new, but | :19:25. | :19:41. | |
the trade is old, familiar, and this morning, brisk. These are the first | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
animals to be sold in Markethill's Newmarket. The thing about it, | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
though, is that it is not in Markethill. Sites like this make | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
sense. I suppose you could look at it that this is like an out-of-town | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
shopping centre, but hopefully it will leave a bit more room for | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
traders in the town. Tuesday is used to mean hustle, bustle and some | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
would say Kate Russell for Markethill. Today, there was nothing | :20:12. | :20:23. | |
but an eerie quiet. It is as if we have lost something. As kids, we | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
would look around and see the animals. Farmers, they do many | :20:27. | :20:39. | |
things. It has hit this town hard. There was an issue with many people | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
trying to get parked, to get their children home from school, but you | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
know, we have two depend on the farmer. The farmer is the person who | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
gives us our food to live. If they can't get a book into the mart to | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
turn it into beef on the counter, you know, it is a bit short-sighted. | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
The mart will be missed in the town. The fact that we have left and a few | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
months ago the bank closed at the top of the town, that created | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
footfall in the town, which I think will be missed. Whatever the rights | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
and wrongs of the move, one thing is for certain, it is the end of an era | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
for this rural town, and the beginning of a new one for its | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
farmers. With the latest on the Postel big | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
change facing European rugby's top club competition, the Heineken club, | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
Stephen Watson is here. All we know at this stage is that | :21:43. | :21:52. | |
the Heineken Cup will go ahead this season. What format it takes after | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
that is still very much up in the air. The French and English clubs | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
are threatening to break away to form a new tournament. They want a | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
bigger share of the teams involved and revenue. But the current | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
uncertainty is a distraction for the players, as Nikki Gregg reports. | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
This is a Heineken Cup loans with a difference. For once, the debate is | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
not about favourites, upsets, or who will be lifting silverware in | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Cardiff next May, but whether the competition has a future. | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Anglo-French plans for a breakaway tournament are gathering momentum. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
It comes at a time when Irish provinces are negotiating new | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
contracts, and the task of holding on to star players and attracting | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
new signings is not being helped by uncertainty in Europe. It will have | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
new signings is not being helped by an influence. You want to play | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
against the best in the world, and if you are not going to get that | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
opportunity, it takes a bit away from you as a player and what you | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
want to achieve. The Heineken cup is a big part of the northern | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
hemisphere rugby and it is recognised worldwide. You want to | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
have a good European competition that complement the competition. | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
Hopefully this will be resolved. The English and French clubs argue that | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
it is easier for Celtic and Italian side to qualify for the existing | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
opposition. There is also disagreement about how revenue is | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
spent. Leinster manager was previously in charge of the Tigers, | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
and he says these issues have caused great frustration. It has always | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
been an issue for the English clubs. That was bandied around when | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
I was at Leinster. If we can tidy that up, we can work out who is | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
guaranteed, who is deserving of being in the top tournament, and | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
then it should be pretty easy to find solutions from that point on. | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
Today, the chief executive urged all parties to get around the table for | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
talks that will be held in Dublin later this month. He insists that | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
all sites must be willing to negotiate. The big Western is, | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
whether officials in France and England are still listening. -- the | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
big question is. Frank Dawson has resigned as the | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
manager of the Antrim gaelic football team after just one season | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
in charge. Antrim were relegated to Division Four of the Football League | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
and lost both their championship outings this year. Dawson had been | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
given a second season in charge by outings this year. Dawson had been | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
the county board in August. Today, he said he stepped down reluctantly | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
but said he felt the county board's ambitions did not match his own. | :24:19. | :24:32. | |
A year ago, Celtic beat Barcelona in one of the biggest upsets in the | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
Champions League. Today, that Catalan giants are welcomed back to | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Glasgow in the same conversation, but the Barcelona line-up will not | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
include their superstar who is injured. | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
Jonathan Rea confirmed today that he's staying with his Honda team for | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the World Superbike next season. Rea is currently recovering from a | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
broken leg he sustained while racing in Germany last month. He was lying | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
seventh in the championship before that injury. | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
Meanwhile, title challenger Eugene Laverty has confirmed to BBC | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Newsline that he's holding talks with Ducati about a possible switch | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
up to MotoGP in 2014. He's also been looking at that option with his | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
current team Aprilia. Here's Angie with the weather | :25:06. | :25:23. | |
forecast. Welcome to October. It really has | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
been a dismal start to the month, and we are not out of the woods yet. | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
Over the next couple of days, there is more rain in the forecast, and | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
places it is going to be fairly heavy, and the winds are going to be | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
a feature as well. Certainly those wins today, particularly across | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
parts of the East Coast, were a feature today. Of course, they have | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
been feeding in those bands of showery rain throughout the course | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
of the day too. They did ease for a little while in the afternoon, we | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
have if you cluster starting to develop once again, so this evening | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
is overcast, breezy and damp. We are just watching that rain, which may | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
tempt more persistent and heavy across many parts through the night. | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
tempt more persistent and heavy The East will be mostly in the | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
tempt more persistent and heavy firing line. We are talking Antrim, | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
through Belfast, down into County Armagh. They could be seen up to 30 | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
millimetres in some areas through the night. The Met office has issued | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
a cautionary rain warning. Big puddles and standing water on the | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
roads, and a risk of localised flooding as we head into the morning | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
rush hour for some. It'll be a windy day tomorrow, and pretty wet at | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
times. As we have already established, the wettest areas will | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
be in the morning. The West may get off to a dry start. By the time we | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
get too late morning, into the afternoon, even in the west we may | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
get some heavy showers developing. They are tracking eastwards, so | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
again the East areas will get bits and pieces of rain throughout the | :26:58. | :27:07. | |
day. A brisk southeasterly winds. Meanwhile, as those showers clear | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
from the west, we may see something a little bit brighter later in the | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
day, and the highs could reach 18 degrees. Still unsettled into | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
tomorrow night, and once again, the East looks like it is in the firing | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
line. All of us are at risk of some heavy spells of rain as we head into | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
Thursday, and those wins are still strong. But that could be the end of | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
it, and once it is for Friday, particular for the weekend, it is | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
looking more cheery. particular for the weekend, it is | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
Our late summary is at 10:25pm. You can also keep in contact with us via | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Facebook and Twitter. From BBC Newsline, good night. | :27:42. | :27:44. |