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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: Not | :00:00. | :00:29. | |
enough staff, bullying, a dysfunctional health care system - | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
that's what the staff say. Can a cure be found for the Royal's A? A | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
woman recalls how she was beaten black and blue by nuns at a | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
children's home. He made and lost billions, now Sean | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Quinn testifies against the men accused over the collapse of the | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Anglo Irish Bank. Could an elite cycling race be on a | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
collision course with politics here? Ireland are two-thirds of the way to | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
a Triple Crown after mauling the Six Nations champions. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
It's a busy week of weather. There are warnings of both ice and snow in | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
the next 24 hours. Find out how this affects you later in the programme. | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
A highly critical report into the Emergency Department at the Royal | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Victoria Hospital has found that at times not enough doctors and nurses | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
are available to properly treat patients. The review was ordered by | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
the Health Minister after a major incident was declared over a patient | :01:20. | :01:32. | |
backlog last month. Staff who were interviewed raised concerns about | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
staffing levels, bullying, intolerable pressure and a | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
dysfunctional health care system. We'll hear live from the Health | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Minister shortly, but, first, I'm joined by our health correspondent | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
Marie Louise Connolly, who has been reporting extensively on the | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
Accident and Emergency system. Does this finally confirm what many | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
people suspected? Yes, it does. What people have been saying for almost | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
two years, that the emergency department at the Royal Victoria | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
Hospital has been simmering away like a pressure cooker for some | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
time. A number of recent incidents have pushed it over the edge and has | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
triggered this response from the Minister. We have had the public | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
stories from patients telling of their experience at the accident and | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
emergency departments, we have had whistle-blowers speaking out. Lasted | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
till birth we leaked report from the College of emergency medicine that | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
was a damning report into what was happening at the hospital. Then | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
there was the major incident declared about a fortnight ago. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Also, according to Sinn Fein, it is no coincidence that the response by | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
the Minister comes just a day before the BBC Spotlight gram -- Spotlight | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
programme. What needs to happen to finally resolve these major A | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
problems? According to those who work in the Department, the nurses | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
and. Tourist, simply don't want to be listened to. They say they have | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
the solution but it comes down to those who will be carrying out the | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
review to take on board but they are saying. They are working at the | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
Department at the tough times and they said they can supply the | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
cancerous if only some managers will lessen. | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
Later in the programme, you'll have a story with a positive side to the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
Health Service. Yes, a story about what happened when a group of medics | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
collided with information technology consultants. | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
The Health Minister Edwin Poots joins me now live from Stormont. Not | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
enough doctors and nurses. This is a damning report. I embarrassed argued | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
by X? I instructed that the report should happen, so I welcome its | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
findings stop we identified that there were robbed is that we needed | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
to. This report comes on the back of a major incident. I have | :04:00. | :04:13. | |
conversations with staff. I welcome the opportunity for the trust to be | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
able to respond to the findings of this report. The major incident you | :04:18. | :04:28. | |
prepared to, you described it as a one off. Surely you can still | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
believe that. What happened at that incident was over the course of | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
three days 380 people were admitted to the hospital. There was a backlog | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
that caused that event. So it is not a one off? I understand that the | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
hospital can operate under huge pressure is and those pressures are | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
significant. Staff sometimes can feel that they are overburdened by | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
the pressures that exist and we want to respond to that and make sure | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
that the working environment is the best possible. This report is new, | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
but the findings are not. People who have been on the front line have | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
been telling us and used for 18 months about these problems. What we | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
are looking at, in terms of how we can raise staff morale, make sure | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
staff are listened to, say hi staff can engage in their work and have a | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
reasonable life outside it. We all have a role to play in this. | :05:41. | :05:53. | |
Everybody has a role to ensure that hospitals operate well. Someday | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
people might need for a genuine reason. How would you respond to | :06:00. | :06:10. | |
people who have asked you today if your responses simply because of the | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
programme going out tomorrow night. It is a bit of a coincidence, isn't | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
it? I went to the hospital the day after the incident and engaged the | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
staff. I did not know Spotlight was producing a programme. Minister, | :06:32. | :06:44. | |
there we must leave it. The first woman to give evidence to | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
the Historical Abuse Inquiry has described how she was beaten black | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
and blue by a nun in a home in Londonderry. She said she realised | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
the nun enjoyed it when she cried, so she stopped crying when she was | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
beaten. The woman, who is now 58, lived in the home from the age of | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
two for 12 years. BBC Newsline's Tara Mills reports. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
You may find some of the detail upsetting. | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
Nazareth-in Bishop Street, home to hundreds of Young Boys and girls. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
One of them, now 58, said she was a bright child with good grades but a | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
lifetime of beatings ruined any chance of a bright future. She said | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
she was beaten black and blue I won none in particular. She said the | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
none with punch and kick with anything she could lay her hands on. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
She said that she realised she enjoyed it when I cried, so she | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
stopped. She said: Central to this evidence was a | :07:44. | :07:56. | |
tragic tale of separation. It was only when her older sister was about | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
to leave Nazareth house that she discovered she even had a sister. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
She spent the last 45 years trying to track her down with no success. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
The youngest witness to give evidence so far said this afternoon | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
that children at the home were given scolding or freezing showers and not | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
in cupboards as punishment. The 46 the role described his life as | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
chaotic. Saying that the first nun who met him when he entered the home | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
was like something from the Gestapo and put the fear of God into him. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
When his mother died, the none would not -- the none would let -- the | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
none would not let him go to the funeral for the week. He said the | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
only positive thing on leaving the home was to get back to his mother | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
's home, no matter how dysfunctional it was. The human story of children | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
being separated from their siblings is becoming a common theme in this | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
enquiry. More witnesses will come to Banbridge to give evidence tomorrow. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
He was once Ireland's richest mild, but lost billions investing in Anglo | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
Irish Bank. Today, Sean Quinn gave evidence against three former | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
executives of the bank which needed the biggest bailout in the history | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
of the Republic, costing taxpayers over three billion Euro. Our Dublin | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
correspondent Shane Harrison was in court today. Shane, why was Sean | :09:19. | :09:31. | |
Quinn giving evidence at this trial? The fate of the Queen family and the | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
anguish -- and the Anglo Irish Bank became interlinked in 2008. Sean | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Quinn lost control of the family business because of his 2.4 billion | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
euros gamble on the share price and the Anglo Irish Bank continuing to | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
rise. He said he thought the Anglo bank was marvellous institution and | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
he took a fairly conservative approach initially to his, yet in | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
2008 the control 29% of the bank. He said that although the share price | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
had fallen by 40% he still invested in the bank because its profits were | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
up to 46% and he regarded that as significant. The prosecution case is | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
that in trying to Delhi -- trying to dilute the shareholding of Sean | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
Quinn, they illegally meant money to buy a shares of him. Did Sean Quinn | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
give any indication that he regretted his involvement with the | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
bank? He did. There was laughter in the court when he said how times | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
change, when he was once listed as the 200 richest people in the world. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
He said that he regarded his experience with the bankers at the | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Asko that cost 3.2 William Euro in 2007 and 2008. He said he had been a | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
full and blamed angle for everything that had happened to him and his | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
family. He said he was told that the bank was profitable by people who | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
knew it was in trouble. The Council for one of the defendant said that | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
his recollection was at odds with some of the official records only | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
was told that some of his evidence was more relevant to the family 's | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
forthcoming civil action against the bank than appropriate for this | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
trial. Mr Quinn has updated his evidence and has been succeeded in | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
the witness box by his son, Sean Quinn junior. | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Still to come on the programme: The push to keep the Giro d'Italia cycle | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
race from pedalling into politics. The recovery of Northern Ireland's | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
private sector gained momentum at the start of this year, according to | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
a survey of businesses. The improving economic picture could | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
mean, after years of wage freezes or pay cuts, that some people finally | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
get a pay rise. With the details, here's our Economics and Business | :11:58. | :12:08. | |
Editor, John Campbell. 100 new jobs were announced at this | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
car parts factory in Carrickfergus last week. This survey suggest that | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
the private sector as a whole is growing and creating jobs. The | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
survey is known as the purchasing managers index. It tracks the | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
performance of a panel of firms asking about enslaved new orders, | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
employment and exports. In January, firms experienced their fastest rate | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
of growth in almost ten years. Companies also reported their | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
fastest with the job creation since 2007. With more job opportunities, | :12:43. | :12:51. | |
will companies have two raise wages? Many people will be hoping so | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
because when you account for inflation the typical full-time wage | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
in the private sector has fallen by 12% over the last six years. The | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
public sector has not suffered so greatly. The typical full-time wage | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
is still down by 5%, so is this the year that trend will be reversed? | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
Throughout the downturn and you probably saw the software set | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
tours, pharmaceuticals, they have had no demand shortage and the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
problem has been a shortage of supply of skilled workers. They have | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
been getting above inflation pay rises throughout the downturn. While | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
they will still receive those, it will broaden out into other sect | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
tours and ultimately, throughout the economy as a whole. The private | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
sector is recovering in the public sector to them is still much | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
austerity to come. Wage rises in the public sector are limited to just 1% | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
until the middle of 2016. If you rely on the government for your | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
income, it could be years before there is much | :14:00. | :13:59. | |
Political parties are being urged to take down their election posters | :14:00. | :14:15. | |
during the Giro d'Italia cycle race later this year. The race, which | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
starts in Belfast for the first time, coincides with the European | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
and local council election campaigns in May. | :14:22. | :14:33. | |
This promotional film shows how keen the organisers are to show off | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Northumberland's landmarks, but it clashes with the local and European | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
election campaigns. A very different type of scenery could be on show. | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
The UUP says all the race route should be kept clear of election | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
posters until the Giro d'Italia ends, two weeks before polling day. | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
We do not want the posters in the background, putting the blight on | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
this scenery, we want to show Northern Ireland and the best light. | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
They can see our beautiful faces on the TV, and we have two weeks after | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
the Giro d'Italia, so they have enough time. If there is to be a | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
poster freebooter, there has to be cross-party agreement, because there | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
is no point in two or three parties not putting their posters up and the | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
rest spoiling the show. If there is a deal, it would mean there would be | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
200 miles of roads and thousands of lamp posts without any election | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
posters. Day one of the race is from Belfast to Stormont and back. Day | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
two covers the largest area, from Belfast to the Causeway Coast and | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
back. Day three is from Armagh to Dublin. The traditional colour of | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
the Giro d'Italia is pink, cycling fans want to keep it that way, and | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
avoid any poster battles between Orange and Green. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
The Finance Minister Simon Hamilton has warned that failure to implement | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
the current welfare changes would cost the Executive more than ?1 | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
billion over the next five years. In a letter seen by the BBC, he also | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
warns the jobs of nearly 1,500 people employed by the Social | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Development Department could be under threat. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
What else does this letter say? Peer is the letter from Simon Hamilton, | :16:31. | :16:41. | |
he says he is alarmed by what he sees as the lack of concern amongst | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
his colleagues about the serious financial consequences of not | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
implementing welfare reforms. He gives that figure that you just | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
quoted, to put that into context, he says next year it will be equivalent | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
to hiring 2500 nurses or more than 2000 teachers. He highlights the | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
jobs threat to more than 1500 workers who are employed into | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
centres, processing welfare benefit claims in Belfast and Londonderry, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
but the Department for Work and Pensions maybe locate to Great | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
Britain. He says if more than Ireland had to design a separate | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
computer system, it could run well into the hundreds of millions of | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
pounds, it could be ?1.8 billion. Sinn Fein has already said they | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
think some of these figures are fantasy figures, serving the DDP's | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
agenda, but the Finance Minister feels he is deadly serious, that is | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
why he is pointing this out to his colleagues. | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
A group of medical consultants in Belfast have teamed up with IT | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
specialists to develop a mobile app that can identify where a doctor is | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
going wrong when interpreting X-rays. According to those behind | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
the training tool, it is the first of its kind in the world. The Health | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
Board says it's considering trialling the app across the health | :18:02. | :18:02. | |
service. So many different types of Apple | :18:03. | :18:16. | |
these days are fighting for a place on our iPad, including games, what | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
music we listen to, how we exercise, where we decide to eat out. At the | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
use of mobile apps on smartphones and tablets is even revolutionising | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
how health care is being delivered. This is the app up and running in a | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
local hospital. These medics are using it as a teaching tool. Areas | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
of weakness are identified and corrected, action that could save | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
lives. The most obvious abnormality is a soft tissue mass in the region | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
of the lower aspect of the neck. According to those behind it, it is | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
the first of its kind in the world. We can create bespoke tests to | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
follow up what the student or Doctor's weakness is, and retest | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
those. We can put in early corrective measures to find areas of | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
weakness, correct them and improve practice. While junior doctors are | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
trained into how to read x-rays, once they are qualified, there is no | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
way to monitor their performance. This will allow closer examination | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
of who is missing what. We are about to pilot it here, so we will know | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
but the results are assessed. I think it will improve the number of | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
potential discrepancies that are missed by junior doctors. At a | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
special unveiling instalment, there were high hopes it will be trialled | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
across the service. Very excited about the potential that tools like | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
this one have to keep professionals up to date. It gets tougher and | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
tougher to stay abreast of medical developments, so we are very | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
excited. As an iPad knows no boundaries, it has already been | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
downloaded in Australia. If you have looked at any sport at | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
this morning, it is two wins out of two for Ireland in the Six Nations. | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
Great win over Wales at the weekend. Yes. | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
The two tries in a 26-3 win came courtesy of Ulster's Chris Henry and | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
Paddy Jackson. Ireland will now head to Twickenham with confidence after | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
a performance full of positives, which saw the defending Six Nations | :20:27. | :20:27. | |
Champions dismantled. Come on, Wales! Command, Ireland! | :20:28. | :20:45. | |
With the forecast of heavy rain staying away, it had the makings of | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
a classic, but Ireland had different ideas, Jonathan Sexton kick them | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
into an early lead. The pack more down the opposition with ruthless | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
efficiency. Simple tactics, delivered in style. You have made | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
the maul sexy again. I have always known it was sexy! It worked well | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
today, it does not always work like that. In conditions like that, it | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
can be really effective. Once you get ahead, it becomes even more | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
potent, because it is a way of keeping the ball and put on the | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
other team under pressure. Another driver set up a fitting finale, | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
Paddy Jackson with the second try, but there was no fanfare for the | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
victory. We have more to come, we showed a bit, not a whole lot. We | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
showed physicality and passion. That is what we have built this team on. | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
But there is a lot more rugby to play. We are far from the complete | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
article, we have a lot of work to do. I think we have got to recover | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
well now and start getting geared up for England. A quiet confidence this | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
building, they travel to Twickenham with a first triple Crown in five | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
years on the line. The only negative from Saturday, it | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
was confirmed today that Ulster's Dan Tuohy sustained a broken arm and | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
will now be out for several weeks. And one other piece of rugby news | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
tonight. Italian side Treviso is withdrawing from the Pro 12 at the | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
end of this season. The club said uncertainty over the future of the | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
competition is behind the decision. In local football, there were a few | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
surprises in the sixth round of the Irish Cup. Queens University won 2-0 | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
at Lisburn Distillery to reach the quarterfinal stage for the first | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
time ever. Holders Glentoran face a replay. And Ballymena caused an | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
upset away to Linfield. Ballymena stunned Linfield midway | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
through the first half, but this header. Although they restored | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
parity, it is the sky blues who are into the last eight, after this. He | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
is having a good season. He had a whole warble pre-season, his lung | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
collapsed, and he hurt his knee ligaments, he is still not 100% fit, | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
but he is hard to leave out of your team, he is erratic at times, but he | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
is a matchwinner, he can pull something out of the air. Crusaders | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
are also into the quarterfinals after a 4-0 victory, which featured | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
a hat-trick for Jordan Owens. Dungannon swifts beat, rain. Grant | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
Hutchinson with this fine strike for the first goal, although the winner | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
was not about controversy. -- not without controversy. Glentoran look | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
set to go through after they went 1-0 up, but the home side hit a | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
spectacular goal of their own to force a replay. | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
It was a packed weekend of action across all four divisions of the | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
National League. There were big wins for Tyrone and Derry in the top | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
tier, while Down edged out rivals Armagh in the All-Ulster derby. But | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
there was disappointment for the hurlers of Loughgiel, as they were | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
just pipped to a place in the All-Ireland club final. | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
What a difference a queue seconds can make. In injury time, pushing | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
for an equalising point, the Antrim champions were aborted a free. Only | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
to see it reversed moments later following a reaction of the ball. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
The midfielder was subsequently shown his second yellow card, and | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
they ran out of time to grab that vital school. It was a bitter pill | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
to swallow, after they put themselves back into the game. | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
Tyrone's Gaelic footballers continue to impress. In a repeat of the all | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
Ireland semifinal from last year, Mayo found them too hot to handle. A | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
5-point victory. In the first ever National League game held on a | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
Friday night, Armagh and Down battled it out in horrific | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
conditions. The injury time goal clinched victory. | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Finally, there was All-Ireland club success for one Ulster side at the | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
weekend, as the Gaelic footballers of True Gaels won the Intermediate | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
title at Croke Park. No rain today, at least I did not | :25:30. | :25:46. | |
see any, it must be a miracle! Maybe you were lucky, but there is | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
no end in sight to this onset of weather. A busy week of whether | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
coming up. More rain and strong wind coming up, and even some snow. It | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
will be around tomorrow. At the moment, it is cold and dry, but out | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
to the west, the next area of rain sweeps in. Some of it falls as snow | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
over the hills. Strong wind for a time, and behind it, the | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
temperatures dropped again. Any grid that is put down this evening may be | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
washed off or die looted. Very icy weather tomorrow morning. Whether | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
you are on foot or in the car. Snow showers developing as the day goes | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
on. To begin with, it is cold and icy. You will probably need to | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
scrape the car windscreen. And icy wind blowing, and there will already | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
be sleet or snow showers edging in. The showers will become increasingly | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
wintry and frequent as the day goes on. Blown through on quite a brisk | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
and cold wind. Most of the lying snow will be over the high ground, | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
but there could be sham flakes reaching the low ground. Tomorrow | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
evening, there could still be some snow around. It will turn icy | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
tomorrow night again. As if that was not enough, we look to the Atlantic. | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
Again, more low-pressure to the south of Ireland, that will sweep up | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
through the Republic of Ireland, and into Northern Ireland, bringing wet | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
and windy weather. We could see two to three inches of rain falling from | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
that system on Wednesday. The rest of the week is a bit drier. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
Our late summary is at 10:25pm. Good night. | :27:46. | :27:47. |