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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: A father and uncle are | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
found guilty of a series of sex offences against two children. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
I'm live in Coleraine with the latest. | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
Also on the programme this evening: tributes are paid to the actress | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Leila Webster, who has died at the age of 90. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
The GAA says it wishes it had handled the concerns of residents at | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Casement Park differently. As a shared education campus gets under | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
way neuroma, we find out how the Scottish system has been working. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
-- neuroma. As the Ulster captain Johann Muller confirms he's hanging | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
up his boots, Paul O'Connell returns to lead Ireland against Wales. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
And we get some more sunshine to enjoy tomorrow, but the next batch | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
of wet and windy weather is just waiting to pounce. | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
A horrific sex abuse case has ended at Coleraine Crown Court with two | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
brothers both convicted of a string of offences. The victims were the | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
son and daughter of one of the men. The trial came about after they went | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
to the police in 2012 and said they'd been subjected to years of | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
abuse as children. For legal reasons, we cannot tell you the | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
names of those convicted. David Maxwell has been following the | :01:38. | :01:49. | |
trial. Yes, the jury here at Coleraine Crown Court have been | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
deliberating for the best part of two days after a three-week trial, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
but by mid-afternoon they reached majority verdicts in most of the | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
charges, which included rape. You may find some of the details | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
distressing. This trial heard stories of | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
unimaginable abuse against two children. At one point, the female | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
victim told the court she was raped by men during drunken parties as | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
they watched pornography. Her brother told the court he too was | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
regularly sexually assaulted and threatened that if he told anyone, | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
the same would be done to a younger brother. The jury also heard of how | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
both children were punched and had cigarettes stubbed out on their | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
bodies by those who were supposed to love them. This abuse went on for | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
years during the 1990s, stopping only when contact with their father | :02:32. | :02:41. | |
was completely severed in 1997. The daughter made initial complaints to | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
police and social services the following year, but the full horror | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
of what had happened wasn't revealed until both children made statements | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
to the authorities in May 2012. 15 years on, there was little physical | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
evidence which could be called upon in this trial. No forensic or DNA | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
testing could be carried out. And a medical examination of the daughter | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
who said she was raped 1000 times proved inconclusive. But the jury in | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
this trial did hear from both those who made the claims of abuse and all | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
of the accused. Today they decided the victims were telling the truth | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
about the cruelty they suffered growing up with a father and uncle | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
who would use them for their own sexual gratification. They found the | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
father guilty of 31 offences in total and the uncle guilty of seven | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
charges. The day before this trial began, both of these men pleaded | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
guilty to a series of offences against their own sister in the | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
1970s and 1980s. . All three of the victims were in court today. Two of | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
them wept as the verdict was delivered. Jurors were told that due | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
to the graphic nature of this trial they need never serve on a jury | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
panel again. Both of the men convicted today will be sentenced | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
next month. You're watching BBC Newsline. Coming | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
up shortly: The business lobby demands urgent action as a Stormont | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
plan fails to spark export growth. Tributes have been paid to the | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Belfast actress and comedienne Leila Webster, who died this morning. She | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
was 90 years old. She had a varied career, working alongside | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
world-famous stars like Bob Hope and Josef Locke. Mervyn Jess's report | :04:27. | :04:38. | |
starts with Leila herself. Maybe you could tell us what shape is the | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
world in? My mammy says a hell of a shape. That is the broad Belfast | :04:45. | :04:56. | |
accent. Leila Webster was one of Northern Ireland's best known and | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
most admired entertainers. She was a singer, an actress and a comedienne. | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
He says I would love to run my fingers through your hair. I said | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
just said there and I will throw it over to you. Dennison Mahood was a | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
manager in the Arts Theatre in Belfast when Leila was treading the | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
boards. The likes of Liam Neeson, giving Nesbitt, Dan Gordon, I used | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
to watch them at the side of the stage and they would watch her | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
timing and they said they learned a lot from her timing. It was superb. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Born in Rutland Street in the Lower Ormeau, she went on to appear | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
alongside -- she had a difficult childhood. | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
She suffered a nervous breakdown and suffered from agoraphobia which | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
meant she wouldn't leave the house. One day her father arrived with the | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
piano and an entertainer was born who would go one to appear with | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
stars like Josef Locke and Bob Hope. The night I worked with Bob Hope. | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
Bob Hope was one of the biggest stars on the planet and he turned up | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
at the Empire and she was on the same bill so she knocked on his | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
dressing room door. He opened it and she didn't know what to save because | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
she knew what he was thinking. We were commenting on the staff or | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
Leila in Glen Gall Street, like the Holywood walk of Fame, there is | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Leila. That's a lovely coat you have on. Is it hard to keep clean? Leila | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Webster died this morning, aged 90. Leila Webster, described today as | :06:33. | :06:43. | |
the last of the great showgirls. A 63-year-old man has died in a road | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
crash near Aughnacloy. He was walking on Monaghan Road at about | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
10:30am this morning when he was hit by a car. A 51-year-old man has been | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
arrested in connection with the incident. The police have appealed | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
for witnesses to the collision to contact them. Members of the | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Policing Board have voted to formally reject a plan by the | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Justice Minister to introduce new rules for the appointment of a new | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Chief Constable. David Ford had sparked a political row when he said | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
he wanted to change the rules shortly after Matt Baggott announced | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
his intention to retire. Our home affairs correspondent Vincent | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Kearney reports. There were smiles and best wishes for a Matt Baggott | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
at the first meeting of the Policing Board since he announced his | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
intention to retire. Then a reminder he is not yet yesterday's man. You | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
haven't left yet and there is still work to be done and a lot of | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
discussions to be had in the coming weeks. The process to replace them | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
will start next month. Justice Minister David Ford has said he | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
planned to change the rules and remove a requirement for applicants | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
to have served at least two years as an Assistant Chief Constable outside | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Northern Ireland. The board today agreed to reject that proposal and | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
told the minister it intends to use the existing rules for this process. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
That means Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton, who was not up to | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
date's meeting, is the only senior PSNI officer who can apply. It is | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
understood the board would like the process to be complete by June. | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Deputy Chief Constable Judith Gillespie will also retire next | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
month. Sitting beside her today or two contenders for her job, | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
assistant chief constables Alistair Fenley and will care. Just two seats | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
away, another possible runner, Drew Harris. The First and Deputy First | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
Ministers told David Ford they will make the final decision on proposed | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
changes to the rules for pointing the next Chief Constable. They have | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
now written to him saying they intend sticking to the current rules | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
which means any change is very unlikely. | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
And an update on a story we brought you last month on prison service | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
pay. Staff who joined after 2002 are to get a special payment because of | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the threat from dissident republicans. The move comes in the | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
week that a man appeared in court charged with killing David Black, | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
the first prison officer to be murdered by paramilitaries in nearly | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
20 years. The Justice Minister says the required ?1.6 million for the | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
security payments have been found in the current budget. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
A leading official in the GAA says the organisation could have done | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
better in its handling of negotiations with residents opposed | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
to the redevelopment of Casement Park in West Belfast. And he has | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
told the BBC he takes responsibility. It's understood the | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
association is considering offering to buy the homes of some people | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
living next to the ?75 million project. With this exclusive report, | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. The game is up for | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
the old Casement Park, closed now to all but workmen. And this will be | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
the new Casement Park. ?75 million, 38,000 seats. But there's a problem. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Residents whose homes skirt the proposed arena say they've been | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
overlooked. Anger spilled over when two Executive ministers came to | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
announce planning permission had been granted. This woman has invited | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Planning Minister Mark H Durkan to visit her home. She fears the rear | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
extension used by her son, who has walking difficulties, will lose all | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
its natural light. We are not a statistic. This is our life. Our son | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
is in this room quite a bit and we want him to come but we have had no | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
answer. Now, for the first time, the GAA has said it wished it had | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
handled the concerns in a different way. I would pull my hands up and | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
say perhaps there are things we could've done better in terms of | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
engaging the residents. I led that process but I assure everyone the G8 | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
have been transparent and open in everything we have done. We have | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
knocked on 300 daughters and had a three-week consultation process. We | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
went above and beyond what we have to do in the consultation process. | :11:18. | :11:17. | |
It is a matter of regret we find to do in the consultation process. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
ourselves in the situation where we have local GAA members who are | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
opposed to this project and I want them to discuss this with us and we | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
will alleviate their concerns. I understand the GAA is currently | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
rethinking its strategy to the point where it might offer to buy some of | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
the residents' houses. This is one of the homes worst affected. So | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
would they sell? We have to think about it. I do not think we can | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
continue living here with a development that scale in the side | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
garden. The GAA wants to avoid the threat of legal action, which could | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
endanger its 2016 target date. And you can see more on that story | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
on The View tonight at 10:35pm just after our late BBC Newsline | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
bulletin. Still ahead on the programme before 7pm: Why the only | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
way is up for a local motorcyclist who's signed for a new team in the | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
World Superbike series. A leading business organisation says | :12:16. | :12:25. | |
the Stormont Executive is failing on one of its key economic policies - | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
helping more firms export goods overseas. It's calling for an urgent | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
action plan, as our business correspondent Julian O'Neill | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
reports. EMS Recycle might be based in Tyrone, but it sells waste | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
treatment products to the world. Recently, Nigeria was added to its | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
customer list. Business abroad has created jobs at home. Any company | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
that has a proven product entering the world market should not depend | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
on the European market. Stormont want more firms to think big. Our | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
exports to the eurozone have been falling. New territory has been | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
explored like the Middle East and India. But overall, fewer companies | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
are exporting than two years ago, and Stormont's aim to increase | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
exports by 20% by 2015 is proving a huge struggle. Mark Nodder is boss | :13:24. | :13:33. | |
of export growth is one of the main | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
cornerstones of the economic recovery plan, but a question has | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
been raised about whether the economic strategy is matching | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
expectations. Mark Nodder is president of the Chamber of | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
Commerce. He says an urgent action plan is needed and claimed the | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Republic gave its firms better help. Does he detect any alarm at missing | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
targets? Has anybody pushed the red button in the Executive? I am not | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
hearing it if they have. The model may be South, that is where we | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
should look first. The Economy Minister disagrees. I am looking | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
forward to having a dialogue with the Chamber of Commerce about where | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
we can deal with issues together. I have worked with them and I am | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
surprised they went to the committee before it they came to me. Just 3% | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
of all local firms fly the flag in overseas markets. A debate has now | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
been opened on how to meet the challenge. | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Danske Bank has made a profit in Northern Ireland this year. It's the | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
first time that's happened since the financial crash in 2008. The pre-tax | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
profit was nearly ?11.5 million. The bank had to pay off nearly ?50 | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
million worth of bad debt - a lot less than in previous years. I think | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
we made some fundamentally good decisions earlier on in the cycle | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
about recognising the level of bad debt we had and trying to provide | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
for it as early as possible, but also the fact there is no more bad | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
news emerging, and that is driven by the overall economic situation | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
settling down and now starting to improve. | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
The Sinn Fein President says Peter Robinson has a choice over how he | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
conducts himself as First Minister. The DUP have rejected criticism from | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
Martin McGuinness that the First Minister is dancing to the tune of | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
loyalist extremists. Gerry Adams says his party colleague was | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
speaking the truth. For a Unionist leader to step into a dispensation | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
based on equality, there is a choice to be made, whether you embrace that | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
and go forward or whether you try to minimise it, dilutive, contract that | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
and unfortunately, sometimes the most extreme elements, the most | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
negative and fundamentalist elements set the agenda. And you can hear | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
more of that interview with Gerry Adams tomorrow on Inside Politics on | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
BBC Radio Ulster tomorrow evening. Most children here are educated with | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
pupils of their own religion, but a move to build schools which can be | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
shared by Catholics and Protestants is capturing the imagination of | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
some. The schools would remain separate but occupy the same | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
building. That would save money. The question is, would anyone agree to | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
it? As our education correspondent, Maggie Taggart reports, Scotland has | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
been creating shared campuses for more than a decade. Glasgow has a | :16:38. | :16:50. | |
history of religious conflict. As in Northern Ireland, Catholics and | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
Protestants don't always live in harmony but in the last ten years 35 | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
shared education campuses have grown up, for in Glasgow. Schools share | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
the same buildings and use the same front door but separate into their | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
own sections. They keep their own identity and classrooms at play, eat | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
and do project together. The children can come and learn about | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
the Catholic religion and lots of children from other faiths attend | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
Saracen school and can enjoy lessons together so retain autonomy as an | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
independent school but they can learn a lot from each other by being | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
on a shared campus. The printable of the school in this campus would like | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
to do further. Total integration would be the way forward if we could | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
find a way of doing that, that would be my ideal. I am sure there would | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
be some concerns about that but I think through negotiation and | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
discuss and it is not impossible. This playground is used jointly by | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
the Catholic and nondenominational schools but it is not left to them | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
to decide whether to mix or play together, appointed by the pupils in | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
Courage them to play together. Rivalry between Celtic and Rangers | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
has sparked violence but Celtic has sponsored interdenominational work | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
here. I went to a nomination school myself, -- eight nondenominational | :18:25. | :18:34. | |
school, and I don't want my boy growing up the same way. Pupils | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
don't like the thought of children growing up separately. They wouldn't | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
really get enough. There would be fights over what they believe in. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
The Catholic Church would prefer freestanding faith schools but a | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
shortage of money has left no other option if it wants new schools with | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
facilities. We live with our neighbours, we want to get on with | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
them but we don't want to live in the same house. As schools consider | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
shared campuses here, the advice from parents is to take it slowly. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
We spent two years working together as parents and meeting together to | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
build a relationship with each other to realise we are all singing from | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
the same hymn sheet. Schools in Northern Ireland can apply for | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
shared buildings as long as they have already begun cross committee | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
links. -- cross-community links. A school | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
football team in Upperlands might have a real advantage in its next | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
match. Ampertaine Primary has adopted the English Premiership side | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Aston Villa. And today the professional team, which also wears | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
claret and blue, sent over some of its coaches. It started as an idea | :19:51. | :20:00. | |
by teachers to use football to help educate children, working on things | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
like goal-scoring statistics for maths and nationalities for | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
geography. It is getting to know more about an English football club | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
in the top four, we have brought a few things to show them about the | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
history of Aston Villa. The youngsters were treated to a video | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
message by players and gifts from the club. My favourite part of today | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
was seeing Jeff outside. I like call coaching us and I really like the | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
games. Come what May for a villa in the league this season, they can | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
count on support from these new fans. | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
Maybe Aston Villa picked up some hints as well. Ulster's rugby | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
captain is to retire as the end of this season. But Ireland's captain | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
is back to face Wales. Gavin Andrews is here with the sport. | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
At 34, Johann Muller had been hinting strongly that he might be | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
about to call time on his illustrious career. Today came | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
confirmation that he's set to return to to South Africa and the family | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
farm. He'll be missed. But good news for the Irish captain. Another big | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
man. Paul O'Connell, who's also 34, shows no sign of slowing up. He's | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
back from illness to captain Ireland against Wales in this Saturdays six | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
nations grudge Andrew Trimble train this morning. | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
He started against Scotland last weekend and has been reworked with a | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
starting place this weekend against Wales. They are a big target for us | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
and some big opportunities for us, getting to and Viva and then | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
hopefully doing something similar, taking through phases putting them | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
under pressure but just making sure we put in a good performance. Johann | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
Muller has announced he will retire at the end of the season so how big | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
a whole will he leave at Ravenhill? He has been important for us the | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
last few years. He is a leader on the pitch but also off-the-peg, and | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
a lot of the boys will miss him. He is good for some older fellas like | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
myself and also younger guys coming through, he is important for their | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
allotment. Paul O'Connell has recovered from a chest infection and | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
starts. Gordon D'Arcy regained his place at inside centre to continue | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
the longest serving inside partnership in test rugby. | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
Although the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics doesn't take place | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
until tomorrow, local girl Amy Fuller was in action today. The | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
22-year-old from Bangor missed out on an automatic place in Sunday's | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
final of the snowboard slopestyle in Sochi. But she'll have a second | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
opportunity to qualify for the final over the weekend. There she goes. | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
Good luck to her. From the back roads around | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Toomebridge, to the majesty of Monaco, it seems the only way is up | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
for Northern Ireland Motorcyclist Eugene Laverty. And to the new | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
surroundings he can now add a new team. He's switched from Aprilia to | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Suzuki to try and become the first rider from here to win a World | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
Championship since the late Joey Dunlop back in 1986. We are normally | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
used to seeing Eugene Laverty travel much faster on two wheels, but this | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
is perfect preparation for him in an ideal location. Monaco has been his | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
base for the last year. Where he often trained alongside professional | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
cyclists and Olympic champions. I fell in love with the place. There | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
are a lot of sports guys here who just enjoy themselves. It is a | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
different Monaco to what I have known from TV, so I like it here. | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
You have roads, cycling from France into Italy is brewing. -- is | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
brilliant. He flew to Italy last week that back to England last | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
week. Trying to go one better than last season when he was just kept to | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
the title. Laverty does the double here. We had too many non-finishers | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
and they were costly but the second half couldn't have been better. We | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
have nine victories and have been fighting to achieve for a few years | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
now, world champion once in Supersport and twice in Superbike, | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
so I would love to emulate jewellery and bring the trophy home. For now | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
Monaco is home alongside his fiancee pepper, but if he wins this year, he | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
will be back to see his family in Toomebridge. We had some respite | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
from the rain and wind today but watch out, we are in for another | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
batch of horrible weather. What is the forecast? | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
batch of horrible weather. What is the There are lots of other words | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
you could use that I won't use them on live television. I heard the | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
words bring on Twitter a few times today. Hopefully that won't be the | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
kiss of death but it was nice to see sunshine to date across parts of the | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Republic and Northern Ireland. A couple of showers working their way | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
in so a few showers tonight but with quite clear skies we will see chilly | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
temperatures and were showers fall on those cold surfaces it will mean | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
a risk of ice tomorrow morning. A cold start tomorrow but we will see | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
sunshine. Things go downhill tomorrow night but a good part of | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
the day looks OK. To begin you may have to scrape car windscreens | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
tomorrow. There may be fog around as well but up in Antrim and towards | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
the north coast and parts of Londonderry and to Ron, but any | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
showers around early tomorrow will not be there for the day. They will | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
move away and a large part of the date will be dry with sunshine. Sun | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
will start to fade later and it will turn chilly as the breeze picks up. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
The reason is another area of low pressure in the Atlantic. That will | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
bring rain tomorrow night. It will stay with us through the weekend and | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
influence whether across Britain and Ireland, so here comes the rain | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
tomorrow night. Five or six hours, some of it heavy, strong if not gale | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
force winds and a high tide during the night, but if you are going to | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
Ravenhill tomorrow it will start to write and hopefully the rain will | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
hold off until most people get home. For Saturday's rugby down in Dublin, | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
it is a different date altogether. There will be heavy rain and | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
showers, and for most of us the weekend will bring wet weather. It | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
may start dry on Saturday but it may get wet throughout the day, bubbly | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
Sunday the better of the two days. There are lots of comments paying | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
tribute to leader Webster on our Facebook page. BBC Newsline is also | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
on Twitter. -- to Leila Webster. | :27:42. | :27:44. |