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This is BBC Newsline. The headlines this Tuesday evening... | :00:15. | :00:26. | |
Another death under investigation in the Royal's emergency department. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
A murder trial hears how this man was beaten until he was | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
unrecognisable. We find out how families here are | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
worse off than they were a decade ago. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Look out there is a Wallaby about. In fact, to act on the loose in | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
County Down. It's foggy and soggy in Sochi, where | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Kelly Gallagher couldn't quite match yesterdays heroics at the Paralympic | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Games. And there's more frost and fog to | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
come tonight, but the sun'll come out tomorrow. Full details shortly. | :00:56. | :01:07. | |
BBC Newsline can reveal another elderly female patient at the Royal | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Victoria Hospital has died on a hospital trolley, where a delay in | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
treating her could be a contributing factor in her death. That brings the | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
number of such recent incidents to six. Our health correspondent is | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
with me now. What can you tell us? Concern has been raised over the | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
treatment of an elderly woman brought to the Royal Victoria | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Hospital's emergency department last month. It was during the night. The | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
emergency department was extremely busy. Concern has been raced because | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
it took four hours before the lady was seen I a consultant. She died | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
several hours later. There is concern because she died alone and | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
none of her family had been contacted. So concerned are certain | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
members of staff within the emergency department that they have | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
sought legal advice over how the department is being run. Also, over | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
their own jobs and also, over patient safety. | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
There were other developments at the Royal today. | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
Just weeks after telling this programme that he would not resign, | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
the Chief Executive of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
announced he's quitting and moving to a new post in | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
England. While it's there to treat critically | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
ill patients, most recently the emergency department itself has also | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
been in a critical condition. There's been a litany of problems. | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
In October, the BBC revealed the College of Emergency Medicine | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
report, which described the ED as being "non sustainable." There were | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
also "breached waiting time targets," "too few senior medical | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
staff," a major incident was called in January, and then news that | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
waiting times had possibly contributed in the deaths of five | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
patients last year. After all that, Colm Donaghy insisted he wouldn't | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
resign. If I feel that I can't continue to deliver added benefit to | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
the population of Belfast and to the patients who depend on us for care, | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
I think that is the time when I would go. At the helm, Colm Donaghy | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
is running what's effectively a billion pound industry. Spending | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
about ?3 million daily with a staff of over 20,000, the Belfast Trust is | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
the second largest in the UK. From this former health trust chair, it's | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
a thankless task. He has nothing to prove. He did an excellent job in | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
the Southern trust and the Northern trust. This is the most difficult | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
job in Northern Ireland that he took on. I do not think anyone else could | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
do it any better. I do believe they will struggle to get someone to take | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
it on. According to politicians, the health service requires stability. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
There are issues around bed shortages. They need more staff. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
There are clear recommendations that need action. The BBC understands | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
there may be further change come June, when the department's | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
permanent secretary Andrew McCormick is involved in a reshuffle. And with | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
the Health Board's Chief Executive John Compton retiring next month, | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
the spotlight will be fixed on one man. I think the leadership must | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
come from the ministerial level. I think the minister needs to take | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
positive decisions to safeguard and secure at the delivery of services | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
for the patients within all of Northern Ireland. Colm Donaghy's | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
future remains in health, when he's due to take up the post of Chief | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Executive of a foundation trust in England. | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
The key witness in the trial of two men accused of beating and Armagh | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
man to death say it was the victim who started the fight. But the | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
witness, the former girlfriend of one of the defendants, said what had | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
happened had become more than a fight. | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
Lindsay Bell was walking along this path with Michael Wilson and her | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
then boyfriend, Gareth McKinney, when she spotted Lee Smith comment | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
across this bridge. She says she saw him and Michael Wilson, who not a | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
soldier, square up to each other. -- who is now a soldier. She said a | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
fight began and she urged Gareth McKinney to break it up, but | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
instead, he joined in and the two men quickly overpowered Mr Smyth. | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
They said -- she said Michael Wilson Kempthorne punching and kicking. The | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
prosecution say he was prone and defenceless. When he was found, he | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
was covered in blood to such an extent that a police officer said he | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
was unrecognisable. The court heard that Mr Smyth, who was 30 at the | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
time, had been an injecting heroin user who had been treading heavily | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
that day. His former girlfriend gave evidence about how he had been | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
involved in an argument at a party the evening before. She said when | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
they got home, summary through a garden ornament at their house and | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
it smashed off a wall. -- somebody through a garden ornament. He went | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
out angry. He said at one point, the police came across him and forced | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
him to drop a stick that he had been brandishing. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
The poorest households here may be about ?1,000 a year worse off than | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
they were a decade ago. That's according to research from the | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
financial consultancy PwC, which looks at the impact of rising prices | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
and falling wages. Our economics and business editor John Campbell has | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
been looking at the figures. What was the report specifically | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
looking at? We know one of the most painful economic trends of the past | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
few years has been the fact that the price of everything has been going | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
up, particularly food and fuel. Wages have not kept pace. What PWC | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
wanted to see is who has been hardest hit. What they found is that | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
the poorest households saw a cumulative price rise of 40%, | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
meanwhile richer households saw prices going up by 32%. The reason | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
the less well-off households have been hit hardest because they have | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
to spend a larger proportion of earnings on food and fuel, the very | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
things that have seen the steepest price rises. We have this issue with | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
fuel prices. There is a phenomenon known as fuel poverty. It means if | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
you have to spend more than 10% of your household income on fuel, you | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
are defined as being in fuel poverty. In Northern Ireland we have | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
a particular problem with that. 42% of households are defined as being | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
in fuel poverty. In England it is to 15%. It is a problem for us. Part of | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
that is down to our reliance on home heating oil? Ella Mike PWC point to | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
the fact that the gas network year is under developed in comparison to | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
other parts of the UK. It means consumers have to rely on home | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
heating oil, which can be expensive. If you think, you get the best value | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
from a big Phil of oil. Households cannot do that so they cannot get | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
such good value. If you have to buy an oil drum, those are really bad | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
value. Are things going to get better or worse? It is a mixed bag. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
If you look at the fact that inflation has eased and it is at 2%, | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
the employment market is improving, but there are still a few years of | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
austerity to come. There are more cuts to come and a few of those will | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
be focused on welfare and Social Security. That will be a hit for the | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
poorer households. You're watching BBC Newsline, still | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
to come... We hear high benefits chits are | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
leaving thousands of families here without a home. -- we hear how | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
benefits cheats. Tributes have been paid to a woman | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
from County Down, who died after falling from a cliff while on | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
holiday. Mary Bradley Verhoeven was heavily involved with charity and | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
church work in her home town of Dromore. Chris Page reports. | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
Mary Bradley Verhoeven was a big part of her community. She was | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
involved in churches, charities and much else. Mrs Verhoeven was on | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
holiday in the island of Cape Verde, off the coast of Africa, when she | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
fell from a cliff. She was 61. The fact she touched many lives comes | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
across in this book of condolences, which has been placed in a shop run | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
by a charity she worked for. Gail Redmond is chair of the charity, Via | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Wings, and a close friend of Mrs Verhoeven. I don't truthfully think | :09:34. | :09:43. | |
there are words that would put in a contribution which would show fully | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
the work she did. She was a supporter, a carer and a giver, but | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
she was my friend and an amazing friend. Among those who knew her, | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
which seemed to be most people in this area, there's a deep sense of | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
loss. Devastation. The line that comes up constantly is there will be | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
a hole in the community. She had a son and a daughter with her husband, | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
Marc. Mary Bradley Verhoeven was well liked, well respected and much | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
admired here in Dromore. News of her sudden death has caused great | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
sadness in this town. Arrangements are now being made for her funeral. | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
The Minister for Education has confirmed that GCSE and A-level | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
exams here will stay much the same, at a time when England and Wales are | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
making dramatic changes. John O'Dowd says he wants pupils in Northern | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
Ireland to have a choice of exam styles. But in primary schools, he | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
is facing criticism about computer based tests. This report from our | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
education correspondent, Maggie Taggart. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
It's largely business as usual in Northern Ireland, in the face of | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
radical changes elsewhere in Great Britain. One big decision in England | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
is to go from lettered grades to numbers. Northern Ireland will stick | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
with the alphabet. A major change in England will use "all or nothing" | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
linear exams after two years. Northern Ireland will retain both | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
linear and bitesize modules. Michael Gove wants AS-levels to stand alone, | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Northern Ireland will continue to count AS and A2 towards the final | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
A-level. And from a situation of unlimited re-sits, only one will be | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
allowed. The Education Minister in England, Michael Gove, was accused | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
of making radical changes without enough consultation. Seems the | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
Education Minister here is keen to get agreement from all involved | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
before going ahead. A review showed little appetite for change. There | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
are worries that local pupils could be disadvantaged, but also a feeling | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
that keeping AS exams will be a boon. If you look at the comments | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
from Cambridge and Oxford University is in relation to AES and A-levels, | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
they would wish to see them maintained and we are retaining | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
them. It gives an advantage to our young people. The ill fated NILA and | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
NINA tests in primary schools had major problems because of too little | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
preparation, and too few computers. There may be agreement on the | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
A-levels and GCSEs, but unhappiness about the computer based tests. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
There are occasions when it can be the case when I agree with a | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
cautious attitude. I wish the same attitude had been taken in regards | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
to computer-based assessment, which is a failure. The NILAs and NINAs | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
will no longer be compulsory until the system passes all tests. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Tenants who falsely claim housing benefits are cheating homeless | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
families out of a chance of a permanent address. A BBC Spotlight | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
investigation has found thousands of social houses are being used in | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
benefits scams, and many of them are lying empty. In some cases, a couple | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
use the empty house to claim they live at separate addresses to get | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
extra benefits. In others, people are sub-letting properties they are | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
claiming housing benefit for. Enda McClafferty has the details. | :12:55. | :13:05. | |
Darren Keenan, his partner and their three children are one of the | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
thousands of families who have been waiting for a permanent. They have | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
moved 13 times in the past 12 years and are having to move the game. | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
Their landlord is selling the house where they live. I have been | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
begging. I have been round formalises begging me to let them -- | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
begging them to let me live in abandoned houses. I never thought | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
this is where we would live up 12 years ago, still moving from house | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
to house. Darren has been told by the Housing Executive that there are | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
no social houses available. But alternate's spotlight, we ask if | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
that really is the case. -- on tonight's Spotlight. There could be | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
enough homes as there are two has thousands of families, but they are | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
occupied by fraudsters. Tenancy fraud is the biggest scam in England | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
and where, costing 1.8 billion pounds every year, but nobody in | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Northern Ireland has ever looked for it. That was until the Auditor | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
General for Northern Ireland examined the problem last year. He | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
was not able to find any record of tenancy fraud. It was not coming up | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
on the agenda is of board meetings of the Housing Executive or housing | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
associations. No cases were being reported. Yet, we knew from England | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
and where is that there was a huge problem. Based on the figures for | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
England and is, he estimates they could -- there could be at least | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
2500 homes taken up here by those willing to cheat the system. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Spotlight's investigation suggests the number could be higher. The | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Housing Executive says tenancy fraud is a priority but admitted more | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
could have been done in the past. Might it be that this has not been | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
properly addressed in the past because the Housing Executive did | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
not want to see what they would find? Ella Magna Housing Executive | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
has never shirk its responsibility and has always tried do the right | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
thing. There has now been a strategy put in place to tackle fraud. | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
That is on BBC One tonight at 10:35pm. | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
Lady Justice Hallett has been appointed to conduct an independent | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
review of the On The Runs scheme, following the collapse of the John | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
Downey trial - one of the men accused of the IRA Hyde Park | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
bombing. Lady Hallett, who will report to the Secretary of State | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
Theresa Villiers, has a legal career spanning four decades. Grammar | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
school and Oxford educated, she was called to the Bar in 1972. She | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
became a QC in 1989. In 1998, she became the first woman to chair the | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Bar Council. The following year, she was appointed a High Court Judge. In | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
2005 she was appointed to the Court of Appeal, the fifth woman to hold | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
the position. In 2009, she took on her most public role having been | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
chosen to act as the coroner at the inquest into the deaths of 52 people | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
in the London bombings. Lady Hallett's report is due to be | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
completed by the end of May. Investigations are underway into | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
dredging for sand on Lough Neagh, with the government admitting it is | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
happening without proper planning approval. About one million tonnes a | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
year are removed for use in the construction industry, as our | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
business correspondent Julian O'Neill reports. | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
Lough Neagh - the biggest lake in the British Isles and a source for | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
sand. Several companies have been dredging here for decades, scooping | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
up a major commodity for the building trade. But now it emerges | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
this enterprise should require planning consent. It's a bit like | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
mining and according to conservationists, the Department of | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
the Environment has been failing to properly regulate what's been going | :16:56. | :17:05. | |
on in plain view. They have known that something is happening. These | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
sand operators have been on official DoE committees for years. It is not | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
as if they were hiding it. The DoE has capitulated and we want to know | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
why. It is not a job creation apartment, it is a Department for | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
the environment. About 300 jobs are directly or indirectly linked to | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
this activity. One MLA who has raised the issue says it must be | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
allowed to continue. It should certainly be allowed, because it is | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
the backbone of our construction industry. Our concerns are that it | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
is being dredged illegally. -- there are concerns. It has been regulated | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
for years. It needs monitoring and we need a partnership approach. A | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
spokesman for the dredging operators described the issue as a | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
technicality. According to the department, there is no evidence | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
dredging is harmful to ecology but it has commissioned studies. The | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
minister, Mark Durkan, says enforcement investigations are | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
taking place as there does seem to have been breaches of planning | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
regulations. He has been asked to meet those involved and it could be | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
he brings dredging into line with the law, or the law into line with | :18:21. | :18:30. | |
dredging. Now, if you live in County Down, | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
look out - there are two wallabies about! The mother and her joey | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
escaped from privately-owned land in Clough, near Newcastle. We sent Mark | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
Simpson on the search for the missing marsupials. | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Dave four of the search for the Walkabout Wallabies. They escaped in | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
Clough on Friday and have not been seen since. In nearby Newcastle, it | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
is the talk of the town. People have been searching. Several times. We | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
were out this morning at four. I saw on Facebook last night about them. I | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
thought I would have a little look around where we are because we are | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
close. But there was no sign. There does not seem to be anything yet. We | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
are keeping our eyes open and we are hopeful it will turn up because I | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
understand there was a baby. The joy is only four weeks old. Anyone who | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
spots them is advised not to approach them, but to immediately | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
contact the police. Eight wallaby is unlikely to attack a person. It | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
would be protective towards its young. The creature would be easily | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
spooked by dog walkers or whatever, into its proximity. How many do you | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
think we have in Northern Ireland? We have quite a few. They seem quite | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
good at getting out. There was one in Moy a few years ago which turned | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
up in Derry. There was one in Lurgan. Now there is one in Clough. | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
There are a number and they seem adept at getting out. The problem | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
for the search teams is that there are so many different places to | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
look. Miles upon miles of countryside. And if that was not bad | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
enough. You have also got the more mountains. The animals may well be a | :20:21. | :20:33. | |
long way from home. It is day one of Cheltenham. How are | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
the Irish doing? They are doing quite well. They have | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
begun well. Irish trainer Willie Mullins was, as expected, among the | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
winners. In the very first race of the day, the Supreme Novice's | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
Hurdle, Ruby Walsh rode Vautour to victory. And the same rider was on | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
the odds-on favourite Quevega as it romped to a historic sixth | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
consecutive Mares' Hurdle title, beating a record that had stood | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
since the '30s. In the big race of the day, Irish trainer Jessica | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
Harrington landed the prestigious Champion Hurdle, when the Barry | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
Geraghty-ridden Jezki held off AP McCoy on My Tent Or Yours. It means | :21:07. | :21:20. | |
everything. We have been lucky enough to win a couple of | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
Championship races and then to win this is fantastic. I had great faith | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
in the horse. I thought he was improving during the winter and | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
things had not quite gone his way. In a way, AP, because things went | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
wrong last time, he did not give him a hard race and maybe that made the | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
difference today. Yesterday she was on top of the world. Today, Kelly | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
Gallagher took a tumble. The snow on the slopes around Sochi | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
is proving very tricky to handle. Factor in a blanket of fog and | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
conditions even for sighted skiers are trying, and because of that many | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
back home are marvelling at Kelly's achievements to date, not least the | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
students from a Jordanstown school. From the hijinks and celebrations of | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
yesterday, it was back to earth with a bump this morning. Kelly is in | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
trouble. She caught the edge. But win or lose, on the shores of | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Jordanstown she is proving to be an inspiration. All of these students | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
who today visited the Sports Institue of NI, where Kelly trains, | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
are either visually impaired or deaf. She is like us. She accomplish | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
that. She showed that nothing is impossible if you stick at that. She | :22:43. | :22:54. | |
is good. Were you proud of her? Yes. It might inspire people from here to | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
do it like her and just get them enthusiastic. Has got you | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
enthusiastic? It has, considering that I can't see. I felt like she is | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
like us, she can't see very well and she is able to do this. If she can | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
do that, I could at least try to do something. It is going to be really | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
hard for her to see with the sun and the snow and she is really fast, | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
like 70 or 80 miles an hour. Weather permitting, Kelly and her guide, | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Charlotte Evans, have two more chances to win gold. | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Last night was a pretty poor one for Irish Premiership sides in the | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
Setanta cup. While in the Irish Cup, Glenavon are through to the | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
semifinal. A dramatic night at the Oval. First, | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
Jordan Stewart was brought down. Glentoran were awarded a penalty. | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
Magee took responsibility. He rifled it in and Glentoran had the lead at | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
half-time. In fact, they were in the lead for almost the entire match. | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
With just two minutes remaining, Chris Lindsay found the net. On the | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
90th minute, Glenn Aven won. -- Glenn Avant one. The Glentoran | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
manager was deeply unhappy. James McGrath had not been sent off. They | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
made the excuse that the ball had not been under control. His next | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
touch was to put it into the net so if that is not control I do not know | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
what is. They got it wrong. They are saying that earned turn are going | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
through a sticky patch. There is three players on the bench, so it is | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
not as if you can say that they are relying on youngsters. I am just | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
thankful that our boys did us proud. Also last night, Ballinamallard and | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
Crusaders. Coleraine -- Crusaders and Coleraine exited the sitar to | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
cut. E. | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
Finally, a statement from Ulster Rugby late this afternoon has | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
confirmed Nick Williams has returned to training following the conclusion | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
of an internal disciplinary process. Is the good weather going to | :25:36. | :25:36. | |
continue? More blue sky to come tomorrow. This | :25:37. | :25:46. | |
was the picture to weeks ago in County Fermanagh. This is the same | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
picture to date. You can see that the water has disappeared and the | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
road is back, so much better conditions for many of us through | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
today. Tonight, the clear skies will stay with us. It will be quite | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
chilly. Temperatures will fall to freezing and below across many | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
places, maybe as low as minus four. There will be a frost and maybe of | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
fog forming. Tomorrow will have a chilly start but will brighten up | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
into the afternoon. Some of the fog we see tomorrow morning could be | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
stubborn to peer and could cause visibility problems on the roads | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
first thing, something to bear in mind. In the afternoon, for many of | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
us the sun will be back out with clear blue skies. Temperatures back | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
up into double figures, A-level or 12 degrees. The wind stays quite | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
light. A good day for doing some gardening. There is a good sunny end | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
of the day towards the South East. For the north-west, cloud building | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
in. It will not bring rain but it will bring a milder night tomorrow | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
night. Temperatures will probably fall to lows of three degrees. Some | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
areas could be up to six degrees. Not as chilly tomorrow night, into | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
Thursday. The cloud will stay with us on Thursday. Quite a bit of it, | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
in fact. It will brighten up towards County Down and Belfast. For parts | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
of the north and west, we may get a touch of light rain or drizzle over | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
the Sperrins or the Donegal Hills. Most places will stay dry. The | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
cloudy conditions will stay in place into Friday and that we get. The | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
breeze picks up. There may be light rain or drizzle but the emphasis is | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
on dry weather to come. We are back at 10:25pm. Stay in | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
touch via Facebook and Twitter. Good night. Goodbye. | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
felt very pleasant. Temperatures are now falling | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
with loads of running, swimming and cycling events. | :27:53. | :27:56. |