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perhaps 48 hours of drier weather for many of us. But between now and | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline. The DUP's response to the | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
Haass proposals. More work needed but they're not giving up. A | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
suspended sentence for Marian McGlinchey - security cameras show | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
her buying the phone used by the Real IRA to claim a double murder. A | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
man gets jail for raping his cousin when she was a child. She says other | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
victims of sex abuse should report it. You have to come forward. During | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
the lives, your own family. The bitter dispute that's split one of | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
our rescue charities. Back to his best. Will Rory be ready for Ulster | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Rugby's big game this Friday? And some quieter weather on the way at | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
last! But not before some overnight The day after the Ulster Unionist | :01:05. | :01:27. | |
party rejected the Haass proposals, the DUP gave its reaction, deciding | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
to keep its options open. Peter Robinson said it was a case of not | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
yet - adding more work was required on the package to tackle problems | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
over flags, parading and the past. Our political correspondent Martina | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Purdy has the latest. 40 years ago today the Ulster Unionist leader | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
resigned after his party rejected the Sunningdale power-sharing deal. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
This was seen as a slap in the face and the mediator quit. Fast forward | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
to 2014 and the Ulster Unionist party and leader stand together over | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
its rejection of the Haass Proposals on flags, parading and the past, | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
branding them on file and unacceptable. It is up to the First | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Minister and the giddy First Minister. They commissioned it. They | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
have the report. It is up to them and not us to tell the people of | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Northern Ireland what they intend to do, and I don't think the people of | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
Northern Ireland who have seen in decision after indecision, will | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
accept Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness being indecisive about | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
how they deal with this. Others involved in the talks process were | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
scathing about the Ulster Unionist position. This is Mike Nesbitt's | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
Pontius Pilate moment. He has washed his hands of Richard Haass and | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
O'Sullivan, and the rest of us have to get on with it. With the | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
implementation of it, with the two governments and the other parties. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
That is the way to go. Whether he was being disingenuous or heat is | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
the captive of extreme elements in the society. According to this | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
victim campaigner who kept a close eye on the Richard Haass talks, the | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Ulster Unionists made the right decision. There is very little in it | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
for the Unionist, Protestant, loyalist people, whatever you want | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
to call us, so the fact that they have now listen to the victims, this | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
is what it has all been about, the past, and who is affected most? The | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
victims. As for the EU period and his team, they announced they were | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
not yet ready to ditch the Haass Proposals just yet. We are not | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
afraid to say no that -- when we get proposals put forward that we do not | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
agree with and we are not going to go belly up just because somebody | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
lands a paper on our desk and says this is the final version. There are | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
many things within the document that we can support, and others that we | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
cannot and we want to work on the ones that we cannot agree to CF | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
there is a way forward that is acceptable to other political | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
parties. The largest nationalist party wants to implement the | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
proposals, not more ago she ages. The negotiations are over, they have | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
been going on for 4-6 months, right up until Christmas. Who's going to | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
ask Richard Haass back? He has made it clear, and he was right. That is | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
why he put a time frame on it. The split between the DUP and the Ulster | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Unionist party is not as serious as the difference between Peter | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
Robinson and Martin McGuinness about how to proceed. But the DUP saying | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
that negotiations must continue and Sinn Fein insisting that they are | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
over. Expect stalemate on the horizon. | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
The veteran republican Marian McGlinchey has been given a | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
suspended sentence for helping dissident republicans. In November, | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
the 59-year-old from Stockman's Avenue in Belfast, admitted | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
providing a mobile phone which was used by the Real IRA to claim | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
responsibility for the murders of two soldiers at Massereene Army | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
barracks. Our reporter Will Leitch was in the court. March 2009 in | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Tesco, Newtownabbey, and security cameras capture Marian McGlinchey | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
buying a mobile phone. In November she admitted she knew it would be | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
used by a terrorist group. Someone else used it to ring media | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
organisations and claim responsibilities for the murders of | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
two soldiers at in Antrim, the day before. Two years later and she is | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
on camera again, this time holding a speech at an Easter time | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
commemoration by dissident republicans in Londonderry. Her | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
trial was due to have taken place but the guilty plea made that | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
unnecessary. Today, sentencing took place instead. For providing | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
property for the purposes of terrorism, 12 months, for | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
encouraging support for a prescribed organisation, the Real IRA, nine | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
months, running concurrently and suspended for three years. The | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
judge's reasons for that included what he called her deteriorating | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
health. The judge said she had arthritis and had been undergoing | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
intense psychiatric treatment and suffering from severe depression | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
especially when in prison. He indicated that, given the | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
significant medical problems he would not be returning her to | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
custody. The Old Bailey bombings of 1973, for which she received two | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
light sentences. She was later released on licence. The judge said | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
he was aware of this and her imprisonment in 2011 by breaking | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
that licence, and along with her medical reports, consider that the | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
risk of reoffending was low. Throughout sentencing, Marian | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
McGlinchey stood impassively in the dock between two prison officers. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
She nodded once to indicate she understood when the judge told her | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
not to be involved in any further criminality, and then telling her | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
that she was free to go. She left court some hours later, seen here in | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
the brown coat surrounded by supporters. The court heard that she | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
told Doctor Sheena longer has any wish to be involved in politics. | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
Despite today's sentencing and previous fiddles, the investigations | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
into the Massereene Army barracks murders remains open. -- previous | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
acquittals. A woman who was repeatedly raped and | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
physically abused by her cousin when she was a child has welcomed the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
man's 11-year prison sentence. Frankie McFadden from the Shantallow | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
area started the ten years of abuse when his cousin was six years old. | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
Martina Johnston has waived her right to anonymity to expose | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
McFadden's crimes and has encouraged others suffering abuse to report it. | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
This report from to our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish. Martina | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
Johnston said her childhood was ruined after she was abused and | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
tormented over a 10-year period. It began when she was just six years of | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
age. The abuser was her cousin who was meant to be baby-sitting her at | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
a house in the bogside. I was six and then I was seven for the first | :08:30. | :08:42. | |
one. Horrendous, horrendous. The people around me that I loved, that | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
was the worst, everyone that was hurt by it. The man who carried out | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
the abuse was Frankie McFadden, 54, from Shantallow. He was seen at an | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
earlier court appearance. He admitted a series of offences which | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
included indecent assault, gross indecency and threats to kill. It | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
began in 1975 when he was 16. The abuse had a devastating effect on | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
his victim. Paranoid. Depression. And just literally scared. | :09:20. | :09:32. | |
Always looking over my shoulder now. The judge said that Frankie McFadden | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
knew that what he was doing was wrong, and that the victim, Martina | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Johnston, was young when the abuse started and within 12 months, | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
McFadden was raping her on a regular basis over a three-year period. The | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
judge said it was clear there was a degree of planning and premeditation | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
in his offending and he gave a and lollipops. He also used violence | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
against her by pushing her downstairs and giving her a black | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
eye. This was done, said the judge, to make sure that she did not | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
disclose the abuse. To be honest with you I did not think anything of | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
him. I'm just glad now that he cannot touch anybody else. If there | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
are any people, there is so much help out there that they have to | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
come forward. They have to get these people off the streets. They have | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
ruined families, they have ruined lives. And still to come on the | :10:34. | :10:46. | |
programme before seven o'clock. Our car parked near Belfast city airport | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
has been operating for more than two years, but now it has been refused | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
planning permission. I will have the story. The bankrupt billionaire Sean | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
Quinn has condemned the latest attack on property which used to be | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
part of his business empire. A bus was set on fire at the entrance to | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
factories near Ballyconnell between Counties Cavan and Fermanagh. Mr | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Quinn said those carrying out the attacks were not acting in his name. | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
Here's our south-west reporter Julian Fowler. The bus was set on | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
fire, blocking the entrance to the Quinn thermal installation and | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
packaging plant at about half past five this morning. No damage was | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
caused to company property and the bus was moved to one side to allow | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
business to continue whilst Gardai carried out an investigation. Four | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
weeks ago that you'll tanker was driven into the company's | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
headquarters and set on fire. The Company said it believed these | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
attacks were part of a campaign to reinstate Sean Quinn, but said this | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
makes no sense and will not happen and called on the former owner to | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
condemn these latest incidents. In response, Sean Quinn issued a | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
statement in which he said he wished to reiterate in the most categorical | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
terms that he condemns these are lawful act and that those | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
responsible for not acting in his name. -- these unlawful acts. Sean | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
Quinn has a great deal of support in his community. There is concern | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
about the impact these attacks could have on jobs, and fears that if they | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
continue, then someone could be seriously hurt or killed. The local | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
MP says it is time for these attacks to stop. People should listen to | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Sean and desist from carrying out these criminal activities and help | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
us to protect and strengthen jobs in the area. The response to the | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
attacks has sparked a war of words over the role of Anglo Irish bank | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
and the collapse of the Quinn Empire. Sean Quinn claims the bank | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
operated a covert, underhand takeover of his companies. AVentas | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
Says that the bank has no hand in the running of the business. The | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
dispute goes back to the Marshall Court in Dublin in the coming | :13:02. | :13:14. | |
months. -- the commercial court. A police officer has been given an | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
informed warning after an incident during a contentious Orange parade | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
last summer. The officer was the driver of a landrover in the Carrick | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Hill area of Belfast. The Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly was carried on the | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
front of it for a time, after trying to speak to police. Yesterday, | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
because of his actions, the MLA was also given an informed warning which | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
is a formal reprimand by the police. It's not a conviction but remains on | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
record for 12 months. Over 1100 people have contacted a | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
helpline set up by the Belfast Health Trust following a patient | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
recall in December. Those affected had attended the Belfast City | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
Hospital for a bladder camera test during 2012 and 2013. The Trust said | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
they were treating the matter as serious after three patients | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
received a late cancer diagnosis. An independent review is underway into | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
why patients had to be recalled. The number of new cars sold here | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
rose by more than ten per cent in 2013, according to industry figures. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
More than 52,000 cars were sold in 2013 compared to less than 48,000 in | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
2012. New car registrations are seen as an important measure of consumer | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
spending here. In the first case of its kind five | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
members of the Lough Neagh lifeboat crew have been expelled by the | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
charity watchdog and accused of trying to scupper the rescue | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
service. As our investigations reporter Kevin Magee discovered, the | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
charity is in the middle of an internal row that has split the | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
organisation. With almost 80 miles of coastline Lough Neagh is the | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
largest freshwater lake in the British Isles. It can also be | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
dangerous for those who use it but the Lough Neagh rescue is always on | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
hand. On its bases it and heard more than 20 distress calls last year. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
But under the surface, the charity is in the grip of a bitter dispute. | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
It got so bad at one stage that locks were changed at one of the | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
life of stations and funds were frozen in the bank account. Before | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
that began with accusations that the number -- a number of crew members | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
were attempting to form a breakaway group to take over the running of | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
this proposed new station in Antrim. That breakaway group went to the | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
Charity commission with a list of grievances but cause the allegations | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
they made were considered to be unfounded, they themselves became | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
the focus of an investigation. They now stand accused of trying to bring | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
the charity down. Five crew members, some of them seem here attending a | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
meeting about the keys, have been expelled by the dirty watchdog after | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
its initial enquiries accused them of working to undermine the | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
lifeboat. We at no time have posed any risk to the charity and we are | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
the charity. The charity is not odds and equipment, the charity is | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
membership and with 450 years experience of this is being excluded | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
from the charity at the minute. The commission is not giving the members | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
access to the charity and how they want to serve it. According to the | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
commission, among the false claims made work that electricity bills for | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
the station were higher than it should have them. After | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
investigation, this allegation was not upheld. All those expelled have | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
been given a list or the removal. One must choose -- told his | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
judgement had been coloured over the commission called a nefarious | :16:37. | :16:48. | |
organisation. Querymac I am a Mason and I am proud being a Mason because | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
of all the charity work that we do. For that allegation to be made to me | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
without an investigation, and looking at the evidence they | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
provided, I think it is nonsense. Charity regulator confirmed its | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
investigation is ongoing. Throughout the investigation, the main charity | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
has kept up its life-saving work and has declined to be interviewed but | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
said it continues to operate to high standards. The fallout is not over. | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
The group are now appealing the decision and hope to be reinstated | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
as members of the lifeboat service they are accused of trying to | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
scupper. Planners have decided that a car | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
park, which runs a shuttle bus to and from Belfast City Airport, can | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
no longer operate and they have reversed their planning permission | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
decision. The car park has been in existence for more than two years. | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
The Environment Minister has backed the planners' action but the chair | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
of the Assembly's Environment Committee is amazed at the decision. | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
Chris Page reports. The store has a huge car parked next to Belfast City | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Airport and the businessmen saw the opportunity and least the top floor. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
It is cheaper than the nearby airport car parking. Planners | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
initially approved the owner has not been told planning permission has | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
been refused and he cannot understand why. The problem is that | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
planners tell me you must prove there is a need and I would have | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
thought with all the business we are having, hundreds of cars each day, | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
that there is a demand and there is a need for an alternative car park. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
The planners change of course happened after the issue went to | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
Belfast City Council. DUP councillor asked for it to be deferred so | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
planners could meet with airport officials. The DUP has said that the | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
council did not lodge an objection against the planning application. In | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
a statement, the report said while we welcome competition it must | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
adhere to the same planning restrictions at the airport operates | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
within. Car parking in Belfast city airport is competitively priced with | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
significant savings were booking online. The environment and Mr said | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
he was conscience how this looked from the outside but he backed the | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
planners saying they must make decisions based on planning policy. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
However the chair of the Environment Committee said she was very | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
surprised by what happened. I think this was enterprising, using this | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
top floor of the car park. It is always empty. I thought it was good | :19:32. | :19:44. | |
to make use of it. I find it really amazing that planners have now | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
turned this down. By the time being, the car park stays open | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
because the owner is appealing against the decision. But if he | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
loses the appeal, it will eventually close. | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
Ulster have been handed a huge boost ahead of a crunch European Cup game | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
this weekend. Stephen is here with more. | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
He broke his arm during Ireland's narrow loss to New Zealand during | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
the November rugby internationals. The day afterwards Rory Best told | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
this programme he was determined to battle his way back from injury to | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
be fit for Ulster's crunch European double bill over the next two weeks. | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
And six weeks later he was true to his word. Remarkably Best is back in | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
contention to make his return and could be involved against | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Montpellier this Friday. Thomas Kane reports. It is fair to say that most | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
people took it easy over Christmas but that festive period was all | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
about intensive rehabilitation by this man. The hard work was worth | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
it. He was cleared by the specialist and that has healed. We are loading | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
some work on it and seeing how it goes and he is progressing so we | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
will see how that goes. There is a possibility he could play this | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
weekend. He will not be rushed and Ulster will manage his comeback. All | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
good players, if you get the best out of them and monitor them, we | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
will do what is best for him. If we are going to get full value out of | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
him we must look after him in moments like this. We will make sure | :21:30. | :21:38. | |
we do the right thing. With the six Nations approaching and the top | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
clubs battling it out for knockout places in the European Cup, the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
return of one of the world's best hookers comes at an ideal time for | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
Ireland and Ulster. He's one of our most talented Gaelic | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
footballers who also has become a goal scoring sensation in the Irish | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
League. Owen Bradley is wanted by both his county Derry to play gaelic | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
and by his club Coleraine to play soccer. But the seasons of the two | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
sports overlap so he had a tough decision to make. And Bradley, by | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
signing a contract extension with Coleraine, has picked the | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
professional game. He's spoken exclusively to Thomas Niblock. | :22:13. | :22:22. | |
Owen Bradley is a player who defines the free is marquee forward. -- | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
defines the phrase. One of the top Gillett footballers and Ulster for a | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
decade, he has recently switched his attention to soccer with Coleraine. | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
He has had a devastating effect. And with a choice to make, he has chosen | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
Coleraine. I have got a chance to play for Coleraine in the Irish | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
League last year and I am enjoying it. I am contracted to the end of | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
April, the start of May and I will follow that. -- Gaelic speakers. -- | :23:04. | :23:16. | |
footballers. I will not be playing for Derry this year. The first round | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
of the championship is against Donegal. Is that possible? I think | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
it is. I chatted with Brian last night. The way it was left is we | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
will chat whenever the Irish League is over. If you are playing well in | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
the club and there is no soccer, I do not see any problem. If I asked, | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
I would play. Simple economics play a factor. He is a father and | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
plasterer by trade and he is hoping to build a house next year. For | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
Coleraine committee gets paid, for Derry, he does not. When you are | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
playing soccer, it is nice and there is an amateur ethos in GAA. That is | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
good enough, I am happy enough. But it is nice to get recognised and get | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
some money for playing sport and soccer on Saturday. I am enjoying | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
it. This top scorer has admitted he would give serious consideration of | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
a longer contract was presented so for the short term at least, | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
Derry's loss is Coleraine's game. Crusaders have moved up to second in | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
the Irish Premiership table after an emphatic win over Dungannon Swifts | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
last night at Seaview. The North Belfast side scored twice in the | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
first half through Jordan Owens and Paul Heatley. They were always in | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
control thereafter, as they eventually ran out as five-one | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
winners. The victory moved them back up to within six points of the | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
league leaders Linfield, who they play in their next league game a | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
week today. May be if we lost today, we were out of running for the | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
league. But we know would be needed to do and tonight was a big step. We | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
will turn our attention to the next game and try and narrow the gap. We | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
gave away bad goals. We cannot do that and it is difficult coming | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
here, trying to compete. When you make the mistakes we made, you are | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
going to get what has happened. Crusaders thoroughly deserved | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
victory. We help them along the way. Cliftonville could leapfrog their | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
North Belfast rivals tonight and go back to second. They're away to | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
Glenavon and we'll have the result on the late bulletin. Probably a lot | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
of standing water around tonight but the worst is out of the way. Here is | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
the weather chart. It shows how this weather front is progressing. There | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
is an indication that the winds are easing but because there is little | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
pressure, we still have some showers. The first lot of showers | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
have already pushed their way from west to east but they had eased off | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
in intensity. Hopefully for all the stargazers out there tonight, it it | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
will be clear skies. Another batch of rain coming in later in the | :26:24. | :26:36. | |
night. Showers are edging their way eastwards towards Belfast and Antrim | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
through the second part of the night. Towards the end of the night, | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
most of the showers have faded and it will become drier. Temperatures | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
will fall accordingly and there could be the possibility of some | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
ground frost and icy patches. Tomorrow is a much more cheery day | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
and for many of us there will be dry and brighter weather. There may be | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
one or two showers along the North Coast but those will ease. With | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
lighter winds, temperatures will rise to about seven degrees. | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
Tomorrow night, it becomes misty and murky and it will be cold with the | :27:19. | :27:28. | |
possibility of some frost and ice. Mainly dry conditions with some | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
coastal showers on Thursday. Another batch of wind and rain moves in on | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
Friday and that could be followed by dry spells. | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
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