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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: if Father accused of | :00:00. | :00:23. | |
seriously sexually abusing his children tells a cold rain caught he | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
is innocent. A mother's response to the guilty | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
plea by the man that killed her son. Just get him out of court, I don't | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
want to have to look at him. Teachers voice their dismay as they | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
can Unity Project runs out of funds. And they are booming coal exports | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
fuels the Belfast Harbour. And we will hear from the jackal. And | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
weather warnings have been issued across Northern Ireland, starting | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
with heavy rain tomorrow. I will be back with the details. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
A father accused of sexually abusing his own children and allowing other | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
men to do the same says he was numb with shock when he first heard | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
His son and daughter allege he raped them, and sexually abused | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Their uncle and another man, described as a family friend | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
are also facing charges of abusing the girl. | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
David Maxwell reports from Coleraine Crown Court. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
Nellie two weeks on, this trial has now heard from all of the accused. | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
Today, the father of the two alleged victims, who faces around 40 charges | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
of sexual abuse and cruelty, told the court he only ever had overnight | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
access to the children for a brief period after he separated from his | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
wife. He said they never stayed over after 1994 because he was a party | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
animal who liked to go out with friends. A prosecution lawyer | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
describe that as a pack of lies. It was put to him that for years he had | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
used his daughter as a sexual plaything and allowed other men to | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
rape her. He replied that was absolutely untrue. The father of the | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
alleged victim said he was numb with shock when he first heard some of | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
the allegations in 1998. He said he thought the whole matter would be | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
cleared up in ten minutes. He says he didn't even ask for a solicitor. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Asked why his daughter would make up such serious allegations of sexual | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
abuse, he said he did not know and described her as having a good | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
imagination. The uncle of the alleged victims also gave evidence | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
today. He faces charges connected to his niece. He said she was either | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
lying or mistaken because he has never attended parties where | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
children were abused. He said, I never in my life touched that wee | :02:48. | :02:57. | |
girl. I hardly knew her. Both men were asked about sexually abusing | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
her sister when she was a child. Earlier this week it emerged that | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
they had pleaded guilty to charges of abuse carried out in the 70s. One | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
has admitted attempting to rape his sister. The DUP has made a formal | :03:10. | :03:25. | |
complaint against a member of Parliament who claimed that they may | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
have been responsible for a number of gay and lesbian people taking | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
their lives. This came about this afternoon cheering and evidence | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
session at Stormont by the Justice committee. That committee is | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
examining the human trafficking bill. That would make it illegal to | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
pay for sex in Northern Ireland. Today, Doctor Graham Allison, from | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Queens University, was giving evidence. He has concerns about | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
large parts of the bill. It transpires that he wrote an e-mail | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
to another witness who was supporting the bill. The DUP have | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
obtained by e-mail and its contents have alarmed and angered them. | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
Today, the contents were read out. In terms of gay and lesbian politics | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
that I have an interest in, they are one of the most repressive and | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
socially backwards parties you can imagine. The next word I use because | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
it is deeply offensive, it is a swear word. Who knows how many gays | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
and lesbians young people in Northern Ireland have committed | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
suicide the cause of this bloody party? I can also remember not long | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
ago, five or six years, that the party, the DUP, was claiming that | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
rape within marriage was impossible. They are simply latching on to idea | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
about sex that prescribes to biblical teaching. How did he | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
respond? He accepts he wrote the e-mail, he said he wrote it out of | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
frustration. He denied it was abusive and said he was trying to | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
persuade a previous witness to change their position. I thought I | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
was trying to reason with them. There are a number of issues I feel | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
strongly about and I thought I could maybe pork her around or whatever. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
There are a number of fundamental issues where she and the DUP do not | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
agree -- talk her around. He may agree on the criminalisation of | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
paying for sex, but there are other issues where you do not. What | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
happens next? They continue to hear evidence, and the DUP say they have | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
complained to Queens University, where he works. Enda Kenny has met | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
the families of several people killed by soldiers in the ballot if | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
the area of west Belfast in August 1971. After the discussion, they | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
welcomed his support. Shane Harrison joins us now. What else can you tell | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
us? The valley mercy killings were and remain very controversial. A | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
priest and a mother of aid were shot dead by The Parachute Regiment over | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
a three-day period. Today's meeting follows a proposal from the | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
relatives of the victims to the UK and Irish governments that an | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
independent panel be set up to investigate what happened. Relatives | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
of the 11 people shot dead, accompanied by representatives of | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Sinn Fein, the SDLP and The Alliance party, emerged from government | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
buildings this afternoon after a 90 minute meeting with BT -- Enda Kenny | :06:20. | :06:31. | |
pleased. He has agreed to look at the documents surrounding the | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
circumstances, the aftermath and context of the killings and he has | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
also confirmed in a statement he has agreed to put their case before an | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
independent panel to his British counterpart, David Cameron. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
Detectives investigating the deaths of 13 unarmed civilians by soldiers | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
on Bloody Sunday are looking for statements from more than 1000 | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
witnesses to the saddle inquiry. The police say it is necessary to | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
interview witnesses again because they cannot use testimony given to | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
the inquiry in a criminal investigation. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
The mother of a teenager who died from carbon monoxide poisoning says | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
she's relieved she didn't have to sit through a full trial | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
of the gas fitter who was charged with causing his death. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
This week he pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her son | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
Aaron Davidson and his friend Neil McFerran in Castlerock in 2010. | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
Their holiday apartment had a defective flue in a gas boiler. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
The boy's mothers have been instrumental | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
in getting carbon monoxide detectors mandatory in newly built homes. | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
An emotional moment for the families, just out of court where | :07:27. | :07:46. | |
the man who had consistently denied responsibility for the deaths of | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
their two sons pleaded guilty to the manslaughter. Aaron Davidson and | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Neil McFerran were overcome by carbon monoxide, the silent killer. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
The family is just thankful the agony of sitting through a lengthy | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
trial which was set for next week had been averted. I don't know how I | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
could cope, going in, day in and day out to the trial. It was a relief | :08:07. | :08:16. | |
that he did plead guilty. But it was left until last minute. What was it | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
like in the public gallery when you heard him plead guilty? Our heads | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
were just down. You could hear the odd whimper. We went, though, my | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
goodness, just get him out of court, I just don't want to have to look at | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
him. It is so hard to look at somebody that is responsible for | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
your child's death. The lifelong friends, along with another friend | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
who survived, went to Castle Rock for time out before their A-level | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
results. The day their bodies were found is one that his mother will | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
never forget. Getting him on the floor, trying to get them outside | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
the patio doors. The emergency services working at them. I can | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
remember every single bit of it. Every mother is probably watching | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
you now wondering where you get your stuff from. I honestly don't know. | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
He would have wanted me to go on. He would have said, we have to do | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
something so this doesn't happen again. Along with Neal's mother, she | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
set up a charity to raise awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
If you can start this charity up, tell people what happened with | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
carbon monoxide, how to protect themselves against it, have to check | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
their boiler, if they can get a detector up, you're going to save a | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
life and then we will not have died in vain. I think that is what the | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
boys would have wanted. Aaron would have been 22 next week. His A-level | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
results were good enough to get him into Queens University to study | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
engineering. He should have been finishing his degree this year. | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
George Brown will be sentenced next month. | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
The Stormont Executive met today with the row over the recruitment | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
of the next Chief Constable up for discussion. | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
The Justice Minister had said he was changing the recruitment criteria to | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
allow applications from officers who had not worked | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
The DUP and Sinn Fein accused the Alliance minister of usurping | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Mark Devenport is at Stormont for us. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Well, just to explain this, on Monday, when David Ford announced he | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
was dropping this minimum criteria, he said that this would give the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Policing Board more flexibility in going about the business of choosing | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
a successor for Matt Baggott, who has confirmed he is stepping down. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
The Policing Board members were taken by surprise. They disagreed | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
with this and felt that the justice minister was invading their patch. | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
One the DUP Policing Board member talked about him behaving as a | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
little Nero. They took the unusual step of stepping in and saying they | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
were calling the matter into investigation. After the meeting, | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
David Ford said that what he was now turning a draft determination, | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
rather than a decision already done and dusted, would be subjected to | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
consultation with Policing Board members and senior police | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
representatives. They would look, over the course of the next two | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
weeks, at his plan. I trust that we will ensure that no action which is | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
taken, nothing that is done by the executive, will be seen to damage | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
the integrity of the policing and justice system in Northern Ireland. | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
We are aware of the sensitivities of that and it is something I am | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
concerned to protect. What do you see happening next? Obviously he | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
will now write to those consultees. This will presumably come back to | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
the next executive meeting in a fortnight. Both sides to this | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
argument have brought themselves a bit of breathing space, but there is | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
still a disagreement inasmuch as the justice minister feels this was a | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
decision that he can properly take on his own, and a spokesperson for | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
the first and deputy first ministers emphasised that the substance and | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
timing of the final decision on this matter rests with the executive. | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
This will lower over, if ultimately they agree on the substance of David | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Ford's suggested change. If they still disagree in a fortnight, we | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
could still have a difficult decision for the ministers. David | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
Ford will be on The View tonight after BBC Newsline. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
The end of funding means the end of a scheme that employed teachers to | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
be shared by Kubla Khan controlled primary school schools. | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
The project had been judged a big success in getting schools, | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
pupils and parents of different religions to mingle. | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
As our education correspondent Maggie Taggart reports, | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
there's a worry the good effects will quickly fade away. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Protestant and Catholic pupils can sometimes go to their whole time in | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
school without making friends with children from the other | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
denomination. To change that, hundreds of thousands of pounds paid | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
for ten teachers, shared between 23 schools in rural County Antrim. The | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
children were working together on numeracy and then doing things like | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
PE together. 40 miles away, three schools joined forces to give | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
children a cross community experience which they now miss. I | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
sometimes see them if I go to the pool, the leisure centre or German. | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Otherwise we are not really together any more. I liked it. It was | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
different for us. We never mixed the religions before. The shared teacher | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
scheme cost almost ?400,000, paid for by charities. Once that year was | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
up, the ten shared teachers had to go. I think it's very | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
disappointing. I realise there are priorities on finances and budgets | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
from every quarter. What we would dearly have loved to have been able | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
to do is continue this. How are we going to solve this problem? This is | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
the sort of mixed class made possible by special funding. Now the | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
money has dried up, the schools are having to dig into their own budgets | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
to pay for a much smaller. It is money that has been cut back to keep | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
the scheme going in other schools. The children have been much more | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
comfortable with each other. A little girl came in and she had not | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
played with the next-door neighbour on the farm next door. And now they | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
are great friends. Parents have also become closer. We have met as two | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
PTAs. I think the board of governors have also met each other. PTAs have | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
gone a bit further. We left just before Christmas and we have come | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
off with an activity for next week, the two families of both schools to | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
get together on a beetle drive. The organisers of the scheme hope the | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
foundations have been laid for good relations, but there is a question | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
of that. It has quickly been eroded away, because the children no longer | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
work together closely. Although we have a professional relationship, | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
the process is not there any more. The bottom line is that the money | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
from the International Fund For Ireland has ended, that the | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
Department for Education says it is looking at ideas for shared | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
education in future. Trade at Belfast Harbour has been | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
boosted by imports of coal from North America. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Cargo loads like this grain shipment have helped make Belfast Harbour in | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
?40 million business. 2013 is a strong year for trading. Coal was | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
the star performer. Imports rocketed, made possible by the | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
harbour spending millions to make it capable of taking larger shipments. | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
For the coal project we spent just under ?10 million. We made this | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
wharf, we deepened our main channel so the larger vessels can come in. | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
Finally we have bought the largest crane in Northern Ireland. Shipments | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
rose to 2.7 million tonnes. That is an increase of 150% in one year. | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
Taking all types of goods together, the port handled 23 million tonnes, | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
a new record. This is what is helping to fuel the harbour's | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
economic growth. Hill route power station burns coal to supply our | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
power. We got that business from the port in the West of Scotland. | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
Previously it was shipped in and then shipped over. That coal now | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
goes into Belfast because we have the capability to get those | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
shipments. The harbour as invested around ?100 million and facilities. | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
One of its latest projects, a new facility at Alexander Dock, is now | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
facing a delay after test uncovered potential land contamination. It is | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
a setback, but a minor one in terms of the overall business. The port | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
now handles three quarters of the seaborne trade. It begins, coming | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
off a year in which the economy has improved. | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
On Monday, we showed you country music fans in Dungannon queuing for | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Garth Brooks tickets, ahead of his comeback concerts in Dublin. Well, | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
today, the waiting finally ended. And as Mark Simpson reports, 200,000 | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
tickets were snapped up in just two hours. | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
No wonder they are so happy. It has been a very cold week to be camping | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
outside. And these Garth Brooks fans have not just been queueing for | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
tickets for themselves, but for friends. GARTH BROOKS MUSIC PLAYS. | :18:15. | :18:34. | |
Thousands of people were waiting when the tickets went on sale. Why? | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
Because the music is fantastic. And maybe for his looks as well for some | :18:42. | :18:50. | |
of the women? He is just brilliant. So it is his music, not his looks? | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
Yes, his music. This shop has been open for nearly two hours but people | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
are still queueing. I finally got the tickets that I wanted so I could | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
not be more happy. But some other fans were left is appointed. All the | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
tickets are sold out. No joy. What happens next? I think he should put | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
on another show, maybe come to the North. That seems unlikely, but then | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
again this is a man who said 12 years ago he was never performing | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
again. Gavin Andrews is next with the sport | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
and he has news of a world title eliminator in April for the Belfast | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
boxer Carl Frampton in front of his home crowd. | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
Friday April the 4th is the date for your diary on a big weekend of | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
sport. The night before the Ulster rugby play their European Cup | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
Signed, sealed and delivered, Carl Frampton's go at a title shot is now | :20:05. | :20:15. | |
on the cards. First though, a double world champion stands in his way. He | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
is coming here to win. He knows how to win ugly as well if he wants to. | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
He has gone into the opponents backyard a few times as well, so it | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
will be my hardest fight to date but I believe I am improving all the | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
time. Get rid of this guy, and we can start thinking about Santa Cruz. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
Barry McGuigan knows about managing a boxer and he believes he can take | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
Carl Frampton to real heights. We know that the WBC champion at his | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
weight is a phenomenal fighter, and we feel Carl could fight that -- | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
could win that fight. First though, he must beat Hugo Cazares. It is not | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
just about winning, it is about how you win. The WBA champion is another | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
possible fight, but not seen. I would rather fight Santa Cruz van | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
quick. I have been trying to make that fight for a long time. If I win | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
the WBC title, I promise I will fight the WBA champion. For now | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
though, he will turn his attention to Hugo Cazares and no one else. | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
It might be early in 2014, but it looks like it could be an exciting | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
season ahead for Rory McIlroy. The 24-year-old shot an opening round of | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
63 in the Dubai Desert classic to leave him two ahead at the top of | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
the leaderboard. Thomas Kane reports. | :22:02. | :22:02. | |
After his round, Rory McIlroy said this was close to his best and when | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
a two-time major winner is that the top of his game, he is simply | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
unstoppable. This stunning shot setup is only eagle of the day. It | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
was his lowest round in over three years, hitting seven birdies along | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
the way. It is a combination of everything, of building momentum at | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
the end of last year. It has been a good off-season, great start to the | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
season, and hopefully I can keep it going. I played very well from tee | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
to green and got the party going as well. All in all, it was a low score | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
and I know the scores have been no out there, so I will need something | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
similar the next few days to keep myself out there. The world number | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
one had a front row seat for the round of 63, playing alongside Rory. | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
Rory and I have become close friends over the last year or so because we | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
have played together in the FedEx cup quite a bit and our friendship | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
has taken off from there. That French it will be pushed to one side | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
for the next few days as the rest of the field try to catch the | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
magnificent Rory McIlroy. Ireland are raring to go for the Six | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
Nations. Joe Schmidt will name his line up for Sunday's opener against | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Scotland tomorrow. And judging by their current form at club level, | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
these players will be full of confidence. | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
Another six Nations and another year of optimism within the island camp. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
With free provincial sides in the top eight in Europe, there is no | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
reason why this group of players should not content -- content. You | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
get confidence when you are playing well for a very good club side. That | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
is nothing new for an island point of view. It is important we bring | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
that consistency and that we produce on the international level what we | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
do at club level. We have talked about -- talked a lot about it over | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
the years and not produced. Now is the time for that. If the winter | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
internationals are anything to go by, it is good signs. The all Blacks | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
came back against Ireland, leaving them the King for answers. Those | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
last couple of minutes was definitely the talking point for us | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
and we are going to look at ways we could have closed out the game | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
better. We will never play a perfect game, but we are taking the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
positives out of that so that we can drive on into this campaign. We | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
learned a lot from that. It was heartbreaking but it served a | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
purpose as well, of building our game and taking steps forward. And | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
that first step comes this Sunday against Scotland. | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
And I'll be reporting from Dublin with the team news tomorrow. | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
Finally, Paralympic skier Kelly Gallagher has been adding to her | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
medal collection again. She and guide Charlotte Evans won silver | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
today in the IPC Alpine Sking World Cup in France. That bodes well for | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
Sochi and the Winter Olympics. And that's the sport tonight. | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
We've been told by the Roads Service that the salting trucks will be out | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
tonight. Freezing temperatures are expected in some places. Let's get | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
the forecast from Cecilia. It has not been the warmest of days, | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
that is for sure. Temperatures around two or three degrees in most | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
places. That could lead to pockets of ice in | :25:37. | :25:49. | |
some places as the night goes on. Rain will move in overnight as | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
well, meaning that by tomorrow morning ice should not be a problem, | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
but there will be plenty of the wet stuff. 20 to 30 millimetres could | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
fall in some counties overnight. It is a very wet start at 8am. Heavy | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
rain across the West with the wind picking up as well. Temperatures up | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
to four or five degrees by then. The rain really pulling itself up by | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
that time of day. As that heavy rain arrives towards the East Coast, the | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
weighing -- the winds will increase. Combined with a high tide, | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
we could have overtopping of waves onto roads close to the coast. Heavy | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
rain and the onshore breeze bringing the sea onto shore could mean | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
another flooding problem. Potentially awful conditions on the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
roads tomorrow morning. In the afternoon, the showers are moving | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
away and the winds are easing as well. Sunset tomorrow at 5pm. The | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
days are gradually stretching out. For Saturday, we are looking at our | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
next morning, four winds. There could be peaks of 60 or 70 mph. That | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
is in the West, close to the intense area of low pressure on our | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
doorstep. Bringing in wintry showers on Saturday as well. Quite cold this | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
weekend, especially on Saturday with lots of showers around, but it does | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
get better on Sunday. If you have something to do this weekend, Sunday | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
is the better of the two days. That is when the men get on the green | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
shirt again as well at the Aviva. Our late summary is at 10.25pm. You | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
can also keep in contact with us via Facebook and Twitter. From BBC | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
Newsline, goodnight. Last year, True North brought you | :27:42. | :27:54. | |
the personal stories Turns out it was a wee, small, | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
piddly petrol bomb. I would like to see the wall | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
coming down for good. Lots of people believe that | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
there's a heaven and hell, and other people says | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
there's neither. | :28:12. | :28:14. |