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independent Scotland. That is all from the News at six, so | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline. | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
Four cars belonging to foreign nationals are set on fire in North | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Belfast. This man says he won't be intimidated. I am not afraid from | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
nobody. An inquiry hears distressing evidence of physical and sexual | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
abuse at a children's home run by nuns. A change of UK government | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
policy over Syrian refugees. We hear from one family who've been in | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Belfast for more than a year seeking asylum. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
The Ulster Bank boss admits that there will be more branch closures. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
As Russia promises unprecedented security at the Winter Olympics, our | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
top snowboarder outlines her concerns. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
And tomorrow's weather may not be perfect but it's the best of the | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
next few days. A Polish man whose car was destroyed | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
in an arson attack in North Belfast last night says he's considering | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
leaving Northern Ireland. His vehicle was one of four targeted in | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
an attack which the police are treating as a hate crime. A man has | :01:21. | :01:32. | |
been arrested. He has been a released on police bail. Far from | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
home, for families try to make a life in Northern Ireland. They live | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
on this stretch of road. Late last night, four cars were set alight. It | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
is being treated as a hate crime, and the police are back again this | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
morning. Four different cars with one thing in common, they are all | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
owned by foreign national families, who work here and live here trying | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
to make ends meet, and they are really angry about what happened. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Seeking refuge from war Afghanistan, it has not been an easy transition | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
for this man and his young family. He has been living in Northern | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Ireland for 15 years, and this is not the first time he has been | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
targeted. Someone burned my house previously as well, and I came from | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
work and I saw my house was burnt. The you intend to stay? -- do you | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
intend to stay? Yes. I am not afraid of nobody. The damage to this car is | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
extensive. They are just thankful the fire and rescue service was able | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
to prevent the fire from spreading to the property. For the young | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Polish family living here, it is too close to home. We have been in this | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
house for about six weeks to the and I have lived here -- six weeks, and | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
I have lived here for six years. I do not know what to say. I am in | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
shock. I want to move as fast as I can from that house. Originally from | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Slovakia, this man examined the damage of the car he so desperately | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
needs for work. No work, no car. No good. | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
A man who was jailed for shooting dead his former partner in | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Portstewart has had his murder conviction quashed. 51-year-old Fred | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
McClenaghan, from Broad Street in Magherafelt, will now face a retrial | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
over the killing of Marion Millican at a laundrette three years ago. No | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
further details of the decision reached by the Court of Appeal can | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
be reported for legal reasons. The inquiry into historical abuse | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
has been told that those in charge of young boys at Termonbacca | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
children's home in Londonderry behaved like the Taliban. The | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
inquiry, which is investigating abuse at a number of children's | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
homes in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1995, heard today from a man who | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
went into Termonbacca as a young boy in 1950. Some people may find | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
details in this report distressing. Desperate cries from scared children | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
regularly rang through the corridors of this building. The claim came | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
from a witness who gave his description of what happened while | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
he lived here as a child. He said it became the Holocaust of his lost | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
childhood. The environment of Nazareth House was such that no-one | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
was safe at any time. I was not safe. Since his childhood, the | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
alleged victim has tried to cope with his experience of the | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
institution, and today, he revealed his story to the inquiry. He told | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
how he was once hit over the head with a steel ladle, leaving blood | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
gushing from the wound. He then spoke of sex abuse. He said he | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
witnessed a boy of eight years being abused, and he said he saw a | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
ten-year-old boy being raped. He said he was so terrified he | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
delivered the wet himself many nights to avoid being sexually | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
abused. -- he tried to wedge himself. He described those in | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
charge as like the Taliban, he said, because of their fundamentalism and | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
sadism. Then, addressing the chairman of the inquiry, asked, in | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
the name of God and humanity, I ask the free world, how did any church | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
organisation is like that on me? The man said that as a 60-year-old he | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
told a priest what he had seen and the priest told him, you must never | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
speak about that. -- 16-year-old. He then added, you are the product of a | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
syntenic relationship. The entire experience left him with hermetic | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
memories. -- Satanic relationship. The entire experience left him with | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
traumatic memories. One boy would start crying for his mother in bed, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
and you would hear him crying, and the next boy would start, and it | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
resulted in all of the boys, including myself, though we did not | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
have any idea what a mother was, would cry out for our mothers. Did | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
that echo around the dormitory? Several times a night. The man also | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
told of how later in life he made a discovery about his family. Two of | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
his others were also at the home while he was there, and five of his | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
sisters were at a nearby home he visited occasionally. He never knew | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
and the nuns did not tell them. A man accused of raping a child in | :06:52. | :07:01. | |
the 1990s has told a court the alleged victim is lying. He's one of | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
three men facing a series of sexual abuse charges. The alleged victims | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
are a brother and sister. Today the only defendant not related to them | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
took the witness box and told the jury at Coleraine Crown Court the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
man accused is innocent of all charges. | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Today was the first time one of the defendants has given evidence. He is | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
described as a family friend, and faces charges in connection to the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
alleged female victim. He said he first met her father in the early | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
90s while out socialising. In later months, he would go back to the | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
man's house once the pub shot. He confirmed to the court that while | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
socialising there, he would drink and watch pornography, and on one | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
occasion, played a card game, but he denied any allegations of sexually | :07:49. | :08:00. | |
used -- abusing a child. The man said that the allegations were true | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
and the shark are untrue and never happened. He admitted he was aware | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
of children, saying he had seen them when he picked up their father to | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
play golf, but that he did not know them well. He revealed he was first | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
made aware that allegations were being made against him when to | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
unknown individuals shouted at him in a shopping centre. The defendant | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
was asked what impact the allegations have had on him and he | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
said the last 20 months had been bad for him and his family and rebuild | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
the was taking -- and revealed he was taking medication for anxiety. | :08:35. | :08:44. | |
In 1998, the alleged victim was 13, and she showed a photograph from | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
around that time. She was asked why she did not say more at the time and | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
replied that she was scared and ashamed I did not think she had the | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
words for what had happened. -- and ashamed, and did not think | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
she had the words for what has happened. | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
Plenty still to come before seven, including: Londonderry's year of | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
City of Culture brought world-class entertainment to the city, but did | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
it ring both sides of the divide closer together? -- bring both | :09:15. | :09:25. | |
sides. The bus driver who blacked-out causing his double | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
decker to crash and topple over on Belfast's Albert Bridge has won an | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
unfair dismissal case. The Industrial Tribunal has found that | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
following the incident in August 2011, and a subsequent black out at | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
work, Ernest Wardlow was unilaterally redeployed to a | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
Cleaners post. The Tribunal found that this mounted to a dismissal | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
that was automatically and substantively unfair. Mr Wardlow was | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
awarded over ?37,000 in compensation. | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that hundreds of the most | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
needy Syrians in refugee camps will be allowed into the UK. The move | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
follows mounting pressure for more to be done to help the 2.5 million | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
refugees whose lives have been impacted on by conflict in the | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
Middle Eastern country. We report on the plight of one Syrian who is | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
currently seeking asylum here in Northern Ireland. | :10:12. | :10:23. | |
The scale of the humanitarian crisis... The government is to allow | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
several -- several hundred of the most needy to come to the UK on | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
temporary visas for at least three years. It is estimated there are | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
3500 Syrian refugee asylum seekers already in the UK. This man is one | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
of them. He and his family ended up in Belfast after paying 1500 euros | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
to someone on the black market. I come to the UK just to save my | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
family. How did you get here? It was difficult, very difficult and very | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
expensive. We paid about 1,500 euros to get us just to the UK. We do not | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
have a choice. I come for my children. I think the best place, to | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
come here, and we paid a lot of money to come here, but I do not | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
know. The real life is not like our dream. During the past year, the | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
children have been integrating into the local community, attending a | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
nearby primary school. They quickly speak English. I think they speak | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
English only. I told them they speak English now. You can ask her if you | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
want. Tell me a little bit about your school. It is really good, and | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
today for my lunch I got chicken curry. What is your favourite | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
subject in school? Free time. This man says the situation has been made | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
worse by not knowing what has happened to his family left behind | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
in Syria. My mother, all of the family, I do not know where they | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
stay. Not really. I have one sister in Lebanon now and I have another | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
one in Turkey, and the rest of the family are in Syria, I don't know | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
where. The family say they have already had their asylum request | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
turned down once, but it is up for appeal next month, and they hope the | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
change in the government's tack might work in their favour. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Still to come on the programme tonight: Find out why this London | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
based soprano went back to school today. | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
Ulster Bank's Chief Executive has told an inquiry into the Northern | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Ireland banking industry that he will have to close more branches. | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
The Westminster inquiry is looking at the way banks in Northern Ireland | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
are run, access to banking in rural communities and provision of finance | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
to business. Did the bank make clear today how | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
many branches would have to close? The boss of the bank was not able to | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
get that detail. He did have one very striking figure, by the end of | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
last year, just 16% of all the transactions the bank carry out | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
happen in a branch, so that means the vast majority of transactions | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
being done by the bank are happening online, and mobile phones, on the | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
phone itself or a hole in the wall, soap branch closures are being | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
driven by customer demand. We will not know the more detail about this | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
until later Lex -- next month when there is a big review of the banks | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
across Northern Ireland, and the night -- we might know more then. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
The MPs who were questioning the bank today wanted to know if | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
something like the IT fiasco of 2012 happening again. What the bank told | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
them is, since that happens, their parent company, RBS, has spent a | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
fortune on IT systems. They say it will take about another two years | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
before they are happy that the systems are robust enough, but they | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
are no longer so dependent on the systems, so if they fall over, they | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
should not suffer the same consequences that they did in 2012. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
Some slightly attorneys today, some new figures suggesting there was a | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
Bert in the economy over the summer. Really striking figures. They are | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
like the local version of GDP, which gives us a number for the growth of | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
the economy in northern islands. It grew by 1.6% between July and | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
September. -- in Northern Ireland. For the last three years, those | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
numbers are pretty striking, and when we compare them to read figures | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
in the UK, a are twice as fast than in the summer months, and we are | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
getting great in all parts of the economy. The service sector had a | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
good time. Manufacturing was having a good time and even the | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
construction sector was growing. One slight note of caution, these are | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
just the figures for one quarter, and our economy was really badly | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
damaged in the recession, and is still 10% smaller than it was in | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
2007. The Londonderry classical singer Margaret Keys returned to her | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
roots today as an ambassador for the Prince of Wales charity which | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
promotes Children and the Arts. The former teacher, who's now making a | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
name for herself as a Soprano in London, said a new project to get | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
young children involved in the arts was inspiring. Our North-West | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
reporter, Keiron Tourish, caught up with her. I'm here to congratulate | :15:41. | :15:50. | |
you today on the fantastic work you have been doing. It is like going | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
back to the classroom for Margaret Keys as she prays children for their | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
artistic efforts for the Prince Charles charity. They had been | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
working in conjunction with this gallery to produce an array of work. | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Everything from paintings to clay models. Art is something that I | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
certainly have always enjoyed as a child. And obviously, as an adult | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
now, it is my career. So I think particularly getting children to | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
begin from a very young age is something which is very necessary. | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
If we are to create children of the future with some kind of creative | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
and artistic flair. It's all about inspiring confidence and promoting | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
creativity. Our teacher came in and we did work. We did artwork. It has | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
good crack. It felt really, really great. I was going to be proud of | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
myself. My mum will be proud of me too. The exhibition of 's work | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
continues at Centre for contemporary Art. So good news for the Arts in | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
Derry. But what impact did the UK City of Culture have on community | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
relations. Organisers promised a lasting legacy for the city. More | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
than ?16 million was spent. What difference did it make and did it | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
help bring the two sides of the Foyle closer together? Our reporter | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Mark Simpson has been to Londonderry to find out. It has one big party. | :17:23. | :17:37. | |
And it lasted a whole year. But did it make any real difference? The two | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
names of the city came together, but what about the people? These people | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
all work on the waterside. They had some involvement in the city of | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
culture events, but did people from a Protestant and unionist background | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
really feel part of the big year? I think everybody was. One of the | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
things which came out of it, whether you call it Londonderry or Derry, | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
people looked at it in a different way. I played in three events in the | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
city. I did something in the Cathedral with a band. As a | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
musician, I had a great time. From a pot of some perspective, you get a | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
lot more involvement than we ever thought we would. -- Protestant. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Going forward, I don't think that will change now. It will be us going | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
forward. I think people are making the most of it. The Derry side feels | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
far close of it ever has been. This former priest is from the other side | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
of the river, and were surprised at how people from both banks of the | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
Foyle came together. Those who are against it because it was the UK | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
city of culture, and those who are against it because it was two areas, | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
I think all of them got involved. The big question is will they stay | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
involved? Were those relationships, which were improved, helps, | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
encourage, will they stay? The problems here run deep. And the | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
reality is that one year of culture is not going to solve decades of | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
division. Dissident Republicans bombed the city of culture's office | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
two years ago but, in the end, it didn't disrupt any of the actual | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
events. Stephen Marchand was in charge of policing the city last | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
year, so what was his secret of success? People power. The people in | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
the region came to the events in their thousands and they came to | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
look at the festival. When the public support events like that, it | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
is people power, people who wanted the city of culture. It wasn't a | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
year of complete harmony. But it was 12 months when people in the city | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
with two names, seemed to edge a little closer. Protestors have | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
gathered outside Ards Borough Council in support of the under | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
threat Exploris centre. The visitor attraction in Portaferry is | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
earmarked for closure because of a lack of funds. Our reporter Conor | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
Macauley is at the council building in Newtownards. The future this | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
tourist attraction has been in doubt for some time. First of all, give us | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
the background to the story. Yes, as you say, the aquarium has been under | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
threat since September of last year. It has 18 staff but has run a | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
deficit of ?600,000 a year, and towards the end of the year, Ards | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Borough Council said they might not be able to continue to afford to run | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
it and might have to close. That led to a huge public outcry for that you | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
consider protesters here behind me and also an offer from the | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
Department of the Environment that Iraq be but some public money into | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
it. Capital grant to help refurbishment of the premises, and | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
also some help with running costs of the Seal Sanctuary. The processes | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
around that has led it -- to this council meeting tonight. Some people | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
say it's madness to close after 26 years. What exactly is happening | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
this evening? Essentially, what happened the council was told to go | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
away and come up with a business case for the long-term viability of | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
the aquarium. It was being done by a subcommittee which is bringing about | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
report to the council tonight for ratification. If the council doesn't | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
ratify that, then the business case will have to go to the Northern | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
Ireland executive who will look at it, see if there is nothing to | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
persuade them to release those promised public funds, but as far as | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
the people here are concerned, they say you need to hurry up and get on | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
with it because they want some commitment about the long-term | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
viability of what is, as far as they are concerned, and very important | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
tourism resource in that area. If the council votes to ratify that | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
report, there will public the another state execution for the | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
aquarium while we sort this out and see whether the executive is | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
prepared to release that public money. Thank you. The Winter | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
Olympics and Paralympics get underway in just over a week's time | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
in Sochi in Russia. Three athletes from Northern Ireland will be | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
competing as part of Team GB. Tonight we hear from one of them. | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
Thomas Niblock's here. Well, We've already heard from figure skater | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
Jenna McCorkill, and alpine skier Kelly Gallagher. Tonight its | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
snowboarder Aimee Fuller, who's due to arrive in Sochi tomorrow. And | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
she's admitted to being apprehensive. Fears of a terrorist | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
attack at the Games were heightened last month by a twin bomb attack on | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
the nearby city of Volgograd, which killed 34 people. Organisers have | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
promised the venue will be the most secure on the planet. Nial Foster | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
reports. It's been a tough track to the top four Aimee Fuller. But every | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
step along the way, the 22-year-old has proved she is perfectly | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
comfortable at the very highest level. Their main focus in Russia is | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
on the slopes. But security is an issue. It's a little bit concerning. | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
Definitely, I'm aware of the risks, but I have heard the security | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
measures are really good, so I think it's just about being smart and | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
staying in the right place. At the end of the day, we are going there | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
to the best we can in our sport, so I'm just going to try to stay | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
focused as I can on the job I'm going there to do. And just enjoy | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
it. She qualified for the 56 strong Great Britain team in Colorado last | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
week. And she believes her alternative training regime centred | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
at Sochi. It helps putting the work in on the slopes because you can | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
relate to those days where you have been pounding away in the gym. You | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
think, this is easier than that. I'm not in the gym, I'm on the slopes | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
and look at the surroundings. It's an honour to be wearing the sports | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
kit, and going to rush out to represent team GB. It's something I | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
absolutely love. -- Russia. Her career is on an upward curve and it | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
seems the sky is the limit for Aimee Fuller. We wish all the. Rugby. | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
Johnny Sexton who left Leinster this summer for a big money move to | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
France has admitted he felt like quitting Racing Metro in Paris and | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
returning home. Ireland open their RBS Six Nations campaign by hosting | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
Scotland in Dublin on Sunday, with this man expected to start fly-half. | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
Mark Sidebottom reports. The boy with ice in his veins has been slow | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
to settle in France. A change of scene and culture have left things | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
are just a little too topsy-turvy for his liking. Everything is just | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
stressful, tough going at the start. There been some games where I'm | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
walking in on Monday and telling them I'm going home. There's other | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
games where I have come off and thought, this is brilliant. I could | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
be here forever. His move to Paris pondered speculation of an exodus | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
from Ireland to France. He revealed Jamie he said and Sean O'Brien | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
sought his counsel on similar big-money moves. And he was glad | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
when he opted to spin the deals. -- Heaslip. They really stepped up to | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
the plate, the two lads. Playing for the provinces and the national team, | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
I hope to stay. The hope is this weekend that act in a green shirt | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
and Lansdowne Road, he will be more at home than ever. This weekend | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
marks the start of the Allianz Leagues in Gaelic football as the | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
new season gets into full swing. As for standout fixture from an Ulster | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
perspective, well that's an easy one. Old rivals Derry and Tyrone | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
clash at Celtic Park. Thomas Kane reports. Without many of the | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
established stars, a new look Tyrone give their supporters a glimpse into | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
the future during their cup campaign. The conveyor belt of | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
talent in the county is now said to be given a chance to impress and at | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
an even higher level. As a team, I think we are going to be a different | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
animal last year, we saw three or four new faces. This year, I think | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
we will see five or six which can only be good for Tyrone in terms of | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
who we can trust in the talent. I think there's another batch coming | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
behind them also. Derry have made a step up to division one. Their | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
opening two fixtures will be a serious test of their credentials. | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
Everyone is expecting us to go straight back down again. A big | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
first two games. We know we are up against it. If we put on a big | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
performance, we can get good results. In recent years, league | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
form has been the best indicator of success the following summer in a | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
championship. Something every county will be bearing in mind as they | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
prepare for the coming campaign. The match will be the live game on BBC | :27:18. | :27:29. | |
Radio Ulster at 6:30pm. Thomas, thanks very much. I love watching | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
those snowboarding pictures but never mind the snow come what about | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
the rain? Is it ever going to stop raining? | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
It's going to be very rainy by the time we get to the end of the week. | :27:41. | :27:49. | |
It's not going to be the wettest of nights tonight. Certainly not | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
compared to the last few nights. Yes, some showers around. Quite | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
chilly, though. Temperatures could get close to freezing. It's not | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
possible for there to be ice around tomorrow morning and these two doper | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
cabbie in the fields. A lot of us are feeling right at the moment. How | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
was supposed to like the puddles. Tomorrow isn't going to be nice. | :28:11. | :28:21. | |
Tomorrow, Chilean places. There will be some showers around Eastern | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
counties in particular. -- chilly in places. As you can see, 8am, | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
temperatures not too far away from freezing in parts of the country. | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
There could be a bit of ice and frost arriving. Through the day, | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
yes, you will need an umbrella. Showers, not heavy, and some dry and | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
bright spells, too, particularly over towards the east. Temperatures | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
just 4-5. Into what's coming our way for the weekend, a big area of low | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
pressure for the lots and lots of isobars abounded. Heavy rain on | :28:56. | :28:58. | |
Friday and then, as the low pressure comes towards us, some very strong | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
wind coming our way for this weekend. Already a heavy warning in | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
force, especially in the east. Look away if you don't like the rain | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
because it will be a wash-out. Localised flooding in Eastern | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
counties in particular. It may be a bit dry over the weekend but still | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
some showers around. Very windy. Possibly damaging winds on | :29:20. | :29:28. | |
Saturday. 60-70 mph wind. Still rain on Friday. Flooding in the east. | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
Heavy showers and scrawny winds on Saturday. If I had to pick a day out | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
of the weekend, Sunday is the best. It's a tough choice. | :29:38. | :29:47. | |
So the answer is, it's not going to stop raining. I buy. -- | :29:48. | :29:48. |