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BBC News at Six so it's goodbye from me | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: Northern Ireland's richest | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
man, Lord Ballyedmond is among four people killed in a helicopter crash | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
in England. I'm live at the scene. It's emerged | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
the Conservative peer had raised concerns about the safety of the | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
helicopter which crashed. An under-car booby trap bomb is | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
found on a road in West Belfast. Two self-confessed paedophile | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
brothers are jailed for over 50 years for child abuse. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
A workman is rescued after he got stuck 50 feet above the ground while | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
painting a lighthouse in County Down. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
On the day Northern Ireland and Newry land an historic one-two at | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
the Cheltenham Festival, all-time leading jockey Ruby Walsh lands in | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
hospital with a broken arm. Another cloudy day today, but | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
tomorrow is looking very nice indeed. I'll have all the details | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
just before 7pm. Investigators have spent the day | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
sifting through the wreckage of last night's helicopter crash in England | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
in which four people were killed, including Northern Ireland's richest | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
man, Lord Ballyedmond, Eddie Haughey. A County Down man, Declan | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
Small from Mayobridge, also lost his life. The helicopter came down in a | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
field near the Conservative peer's home in Norfolk. Our reporter Chris | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
Page is near the scene. People living in this normally quiet part | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
of rural England cannot quite believe today that it has been the | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
scene of such a catastrophic crash. The accident almost 24 hours ago | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
killed Lord by Ben and -- Lord Ballyedmond, and three men who | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
worked for the firm he ran. Today police and asked by fax accident | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
investigators have been examining the wreck of the helicopter. It | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
looks like no-one on board the helicopter had a chance of surviving | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
the crash. The aircraft smashed into the ground, just minutes into its | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
flight to Northern Ireland and just yards from Lord Ballyedmond's | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
English country mansion. Just over there is Gillingham Hall, a stately | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
home owned by the family. The helicopter took off on the grounds | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
of the estate. It is not clear what went wrong when it was in the air | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
but the helicopter came down in the field just beyond those trees. There | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
was thick fog here last night, but today conditions improved, giving | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
the police the chance to do their work. Close examinations of the | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
scene are taking place, including support from parental officers. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Specialists detect those from the major investigations team are | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
leading the investigation to support the coroner while local officers | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
manage traffic. Lord Ballyedmond died along with one of his | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
employees, Declan Small, who was 42 and from Mayobridge. Two crew | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
members were also killed. This is the aircraft which crashed, taking | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
off from Gillingham Hall recently. It was an AgustaWestland AW139. It's | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
emerged that last year, Lord Ballyedmond raised concerns about an | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
AgustaWestland helicopter which he owned. He claimed it had a number of | :03:29. | :03:39. | |
problems, including a hole in able aid, and an oil leak. And -- in a | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
blade. Asked the manufacturer for a refund. The company say they are | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
making investigations internally. The Air Accident Investigation | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
branch are trying to find out what caused the accident. This afternoon, | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
the emergency services removed the bodies from the wreckage. Four | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
families are in mourning after this countryside tragedy. Lord | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
Ballyedmond's firm have released the names of the two crewmen who died. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
They were Captain Carl Dickerson and Captain Lee Hoyle. The manufacturers | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
of the helicopter say the art corporately with the investigation | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
and say they crash could have been caused by a number of factors, | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
including technical and human air. -- human mistake. | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
Paying tribute to Eddie Haughey, the First Minister Peter Robinson | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
described him as a significant employer who will be greatly missed. | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
Martin McGuinness said it was a shocking tragedy and a tremendous | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
loss. Management at the company he founded, Norbert laboratory, say | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
they took pride in his extraordinary legacy. | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
The flags over Norbert flew at half-mast today as the workforce and | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the people of Newry came to terms with the tragedy. While four people | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
died in the crash, the focus today was an Lord Ballyedmond, who was one | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
of Northern Ireland's richest men. He founded and ran this worldwide | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
pharmaceutical company. He was a great model of what can be achieved | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
coming from a humble background to great things in his chosen area, but | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
he was also very generous with his time and his energy, he spent a lot | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
of time promoting Northern Ireland as a place to do business across the | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
world. The conference here in 95, he gave a taste of his recipe for | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
success. If you look at the island of Ireland, you can build a | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
reasonable business, that if you want to become a multinational | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
company, you can do it from Northern Ireland, you can do with very | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
successfully but you can't -- you must go abroad to sell. This was one | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
of four plants here in Newry. The company employs 1700 people | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
worldwide with 1000 of those based in Northern Ireland. He was not just | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
a major employer here but a major figure within the world of business | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
in Northern Ireland. The man was a self-starter. He started, in his own | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
words, with a briefcase and a price list and he went out there. He grew | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
it all himself. He was a formidable and assertive individual but his | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
passion for growing the company, nothing would get in his way and he | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
built an amazing business. There was little in the wake of comments and | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
going is outside his home near Rostrevor today. It is believed he | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
was flying home to hear when his helicopter crashed last night. We | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
woke to terrible news that we have lost one of our own, one who had | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
built an empire from scratch who had been very generous to a local | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
committee. I phoned him someone who was very driven and text in what he | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
wanted to achieve for himself and his company. He always treated me | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
with respect. This is not the first time it has been linked to an | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
aircraft today. In 1996 at helicopter owned by the company | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
crashed into a mountainside near Carlingford in the Republic, killing | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
three crewmen. Today staff and students at Newry regional College | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
remembered a sponsor and a friend. I was talking to him a few months | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
back, and we launched the apprenticeship programme and he was | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
full of enthusiasm for that of allotment and those developments | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
continuing in the context of higher operable chips. We will miss him. | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
Lord Ballyedmond has gone but his influence in South down and further | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
afield is likely to live on. John Campbell, our economics and | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
business editor, is here. John, put into context his success and his | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
legacy? We often talk about businesses which are high-tech and | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
do exports and employ people and pay good wages, and that is what the | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
hockey created. He started that was not in the 1960s and 1970s, a time | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
when Northern Ireland was not a good place to do business and he built | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
that up. He was also taking on some of the biggest pharmaceutical | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
companies in the world and his legacy is hundreds of jobs and | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
millions of pounds in salary is paid into the economy, so you cannot | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
underestimate what he achieved. Originally from Dundalk, he was a | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
pretty tough character by all accounts. Yes, he was a | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
single-minded and driven man and those attributes helped build this | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
business. He could be abrasive, he was not beyond going to the court to | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
defend his business or his name, but other people speaking about today | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
spoke about a man of great hospitality and generosity. Thank | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
you, John Campbell. The Police Federation, which | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
represents police officers, has warned them and the public to be | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
vigilant after the discovery of a bomb in Belfast today. The under-car | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
booby trap device was found on a road in the west of the city. It's | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
believed it had fallen from a vehicle at breakfast time. Conor | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Macauley reports. The under-car booby trap was found lying on | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Black's Road in West Belfast at around 8am this morning. The road | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
was closed and a number of houses were cleared as army bomb disposal | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
experts were called to defuse it. A lengthy security operation was | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
needed before the area could be declared safe. This is yards from a | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
bus stop where kids were standing waiting to go to school, where | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
parents were bringing children to school and where people were | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
travelling. Black's Road is close to Woodbourne PSNI station. Detectives | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
have declined to be drawn on whether one of their officers on the way to | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
work may have been the target, but the union which represents rank and | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
file police says it can't be ruled out. They've told their members and | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
the public to stay vigilant and report anything suspicious. | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
Two brothers found guilty of a series of sex offences against | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
family members have been jailed for a total of over 50 years. The men | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
were told by a judge that their actions showed a level of cruelty | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
and depravity which would not be tolerated by society. The men can't | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
be named to protect their victims, who were all children when they were | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
abused. David Maxwell has followed the case. Remind us of the scale and | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
nature of the charges in this case. There were over 60 charges in this | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
case and both men were found guilty of multiple counts of rape. Before | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
the trial began, he pleaded guilty to a string of sex offences against | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
their sister in the 1970s and 1980s but they always denied the charges | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
against the two other victims, who weren't the son and daughter of one | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
of the men. The court heard from those victims who described | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
childhoods blighted with sexual and physical abuse, where cigarettes | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
were stubbed out on them, they were forced to watch recordings of | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
themselves being sexually abused. The jury believed the victims and | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
found the men guilty of most of those charges. What did the judge | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
have to say today? The judge said of the father that his rape, cruelty | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
and abuse revealed a level of deprived behaviour which is almost | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
unprecedented. The actions were described as cold, cynical, evil | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
exportation. The judge sentenced the father of the two victims to 28 | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
years in jail and his brother to 23 years. Both men will appeal their | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
sentences. A man was rescued from a lighthouse | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
on the County Down coast this morning. The workman got stuck 50 | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
feet above the ground while he was painting St John's Point Lighthouse | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
in Killough. Claire Savage reports. Emergency crews got the call this | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
morning to say a man had been injured and was hanging off the side | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
of the lighthouse. He was suspended for more than a hour and a half, | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
before specialist rescue fire crews got him down. It is understood the | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
man had been painting when a gust of wind caught him and spun him around | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
and he crashed into the building, hurting himself. Time was critical | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
for us. We were aware due to a medical condition he might have that | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
we had to get him down quickly, so it was a matter of working with | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
first responding crews to stabilise and they helped us with the system | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
above, so a team effort to get him down as quickly as possible. Our | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
main concern was suspension trauma, which can be associated with hanging | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
for that amount of time. He was lucky he had colleagues with them | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
and a safety harness in place when this happened. The man's now being | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
treated at the Downe Hospital and is said to be in a stable condition. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
There's been a new development this evening relating to the problems at | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
the Royal Victoria Hospital's Emergency Department. We have | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
learned that legal action is being taken against the Belfast Health | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Trust. Our correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly is at the | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
Royal. Tell us more. We know now that a senior medical consultant who | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
works in the emergency department behind me here and a patient have | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
both instructed solicitors to start formal legal proceedings against the | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Belfast health trust. According to a statement, the action relates to | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
negligence at the hospital and a systematic failure which has left | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
patients suffering avoidable harm and according to the statement, | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
deprivation of their basic human rights. This list is say they have | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
evidence which show appalling standards of care and also an | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
environment which the solicitors described as being toxic for both | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
patients and those who work within the emergency department. They say | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
due to the evidence they have, they are now calling for a full public | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
inquiry. Explain how serious this is or could be. I think this is pretty | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
serious. While it is not unheard of for patients to take medical | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
negligence cases, as a senior medic said to me, it is virtually unheard | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
of for one of their own to take a case against the Belfast health | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
trust. I think this is perhaps a first for the trust and in a | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
statement from the trust, they said we are still awaiting correspondence | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
from the solicitor and they wanted to remind the public they are | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
cooperating with a full investigation either health | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
regulators. Local politicians have been paying | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
tribute to the veteran Labour politician Tony Benn, who died this | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
morning after a long illness. He was 88. During his political career, Mr | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
Benn gave support to Sinn Fein and was an advocate for a united | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
Ireland. Mark Simpson reports. Shoulder to shoulder with Gerry | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
Adams. That is how many people on this side of the Irish Sea will | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
member Tony Benn. Some liked him for it, others were outraged. But Tony | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
Benn always did his own thing. So the minister has no power anyway. he | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
knew she would not win much support when he invited the Sinn Fein | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
president to Westminster but he did it anyway. Irish and liked his | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
style. he disavowed hereditary peerage, he left himself outside the | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
pay of British governance because he took a political principle stance. | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
When he came to Belfast, he stayed with a local politics teacher, | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
Michael Kennedy. Does he think Tony Benn should go down in Irish history | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
is simply a friend to Irish -- Sinn Fein politicians? Mode, not at all, | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
he was a friend of working-class people. He had close contacts and | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
had friends within the Unionist committee. Ian Paisley would be an | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
example I would put on board. They got on personally. There was a | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
respect for him, even among his enemies. One Unionist MP said I may | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
have hated every word he said but I admired the way he said it. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
The US President says he and his administration are disappointed that | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
multiparty talks on flags parading and the past failed to reach | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
agreement. The American President urged the parties to continue to | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
work and negotiate. The remarks come as he prepares to host St Patrick's | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
Day celebrations in the White House this evening. Our political | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
correspondent Martina Purdy has the latest from Washington. Barack Obama | :17:31. | :17:44. | |
has kept the first and debited First Minister is guessing about whether | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
he would join them for talks at the White House but there was a welcome | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
mat for the Taoiseach who met the American resident to discuss a range | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
of issues. I was disappointed, the US government was disappointed. But | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
we're urging parties to continue to work and I know that the good | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
influence coming from Dublin will have to encourage them to move out | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
of the past and get the kind of future that Northern Ireland so | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
richly deserves. The mood was more upbeat last night. The ministers met | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
up with guests but the message was the same. my prayer is make all of | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
us have the wisdom to see the past scars and the courage to keep moving | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
forward until peace is permanent and all in the North can fully enjoyed | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
the dignity they deserve in the future that is shared. Later, at the | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
Northern Ireland bureau breakfast, the First Minister and beauty First | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
Minister insisted they too wanted deal. We all recognise there is work | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
to be done. The issues are yet unresolved. Our issues that we have | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
to face up to. We have to find a solution to them. We will continue | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
to work until we do. I have no intention of forsaking the | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
tremendous work that was done which certainly points us in the right | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
direction of where we need to go. The finer details of how we do | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
that, but as a challenge for all the parties, it is a challenge of | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
leadership. One thing they immediately agree on, this Belfast | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
teenager is an inspiration, she is still winning plaudits for that | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
speech she delivered last year. And she is on her way to the White | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
House. I am so excited to be able to say that in my first time in | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
America, I will get to be in the White House with the president. It | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
is an amazing opportunity and I am so thankful and grateful to be where | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
I am. The much and as they to between the Deputy First Minister | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
and the First Minister and the president has been taking place in | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
the White House but there is no confirmation as to whether President | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
Obama has dropped in. The Finance Minister Simon Hamilton | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
has sounded a warning about future cuts in public spending. He's told a | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
business event in Belfast that what lies ahead will eclipse the last | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
four years of austerity. Here's our economics and business editor John | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
Campbell. The economy is slowly growing again. | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
Jobs are being created at places like this technology firm in | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
Belfast. The housing market is finally stabilising and consumer | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
confidence seems to be increasing. So, that means everything's all | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
right now? Well, just hold on a moment. A modest economic recovery | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
isn't enough to radically change the government's spending plans. The | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Chancellor's big aim is to close the gap between what the government | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
spends and what it raises in tax. And that's a long and painful | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
process. The Chancellor's plan involves nine years of cutbacks but | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
five years of that are still to come. And only 46% of planned cuts | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
or tax rises have been implemented so far. That's what's prompted the | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
Finance Minister's warning. Further austerity runs the risk of heading | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
towards front-line services and none of us want to see that happen. It | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
presents us with an opportunity to reform how we do things in the | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
public sector and improve our public sector delivery and use different | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
methods, better collaboration across departments and being much more | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
innovative within the set -- public sector. This is the reality of | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
public sector cost cutting - job losses at the DVA in Coleraine. So, | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
is there more of this on the way? The Finance Minister says not | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
necessarily. But as time goes on, and after all the easy savings have | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
been made, some fear there could be more bad news. Coleraine was | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
devastated, is this the best politicians can do, and then warn us | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
about the future? There will be nothing left of Northern Ireland | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
after four more years. It is disgraceful. One -- Stormont is | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
going to have to live with shrinking budgets. Ministers will soon be | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
considering detailed proposals for public sector reform. And what that | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
means for jobs and services still remains to be seen. | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
It's been a day of cheers and tears at the Cheltenham Festival and we're | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
expecting something similar in Paris tomorrow. Mark Sidebottom is here | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
with the sport. Well, we want tears of joy. We are hopeful. It is going | :22:24. | :22:38. | |
to be a massive day for Brian O'Driscoll. He is island of Centre. | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
He will take his curtain call tomorrow. He says he cannot | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
guarantee there will not be tears. In the beautiful Paris sunshine, the | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
whole of France seems to be talking about Brian O'Driscoll. Ireland has | :22:57. | :23:08. | |
maxed top try scorer. After tomorrow, his error comes to an end | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
-- his era comes to an end. and would like to be thought of as a | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
committed, honest player that talked for the team. -- played for the | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
team. You can share the great days and the sad days and the pain of it | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
is never as bad when you share it. So, I know that that has been a | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
great thing but that will also be something I missed. So, it will end | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
where it all started. The last time Ireland won in France was in 2000 | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
when a future star announced his name on the world stage. Tomorrow, | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
it comes to an end. the best thing I can say is when you think of Brian | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
O'Driscoll, you think of 13. That is probably the best way. | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
He wants to go out on his own terms. He wants to be able to play at a | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
world-class level and has demonstrated that last week. I have | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
my fingers forced that he will demonstrate again. inside, there | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
will be more emotion this week but hopefully, I can keep it all in | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
check and projected in the best positive of ways in the performance. | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
I am sure there will be tears, whether you see them or not, we will | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
have to wait and see. Amongst all the nostalgia and sentiment, Ireland | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
have a serious job to do tomorrow. And that is to win the six Nations | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
championship and I can only be achieved by defeating France in | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
Paris. Considering Ireland have only managed to do that once over the | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
past 42 years shows how difficult that passed task has proven but it | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
will be a wonderful sendoff to the quite incredible career of Brian | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
O'Driscoll. That will be live on BBC One tomorrow. ?NEWLINE Live on BBC | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
One tomorrow, including more of that exclusive interview with Brian | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
O'Driscoll. And Ulster v Scarlets in the Rabo Pro 12 tonight is live on | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
BBC Two from 7pm. Now, even by Cheltenham's standards, it's been a | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
day of almost unprecedented drama in the Cotswolds - two jockeys ended up | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
in hospital and a Newry trio of father, son and trainer wrote their | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
own little piece of Festival history. Ruby Walsh, suffered a | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
fractured right arm after a heavy fall in the first race of the day. | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
The tumble from his mount resulted in a compound fracture. Further | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
drama came before the start of the Novice Hurdle when Port Melon | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
crashed into an enclosure packed with racegoers and sent the jockey | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
hurtling onto an area of hard concrete. He was taken to hospital | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
for x-rays. Then came the Gold Cup which was won by Lord Windemere by | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
the tightest of margins, coming in at 20 to one by a nose. Then, an | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
unprecedented success, Tammy's Hill owned by his dad Patrick came home | :26:13. | :26:27. | |
in the fox hunters Chase. Paul Jacob has broken his leg but there will be | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
something of a party in Newry this evening. The weather forecast is | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
next. It has been a bit of a great and blustery old day-to-day but all | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
the cloud cover we have had through the day means that as we go into the | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
ceiling, it will be really mild for the middle of March. Overnight close | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
tonight of seven or eight degrees which is pretty warm. All of that | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
cloud hangs around through the early part of the day tomorrow. But it | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
does get better and better as we go through Saturday. We wake up to a | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
blanket of cloud but it starts to break and then and the sun starts to | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
poke through. That has a positive impact on other temperatures as we | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
go through the day. Wherever you are Northern Ireland, you are in for a | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
nice, bright -- dry and bright day. A lovely day whatever you are up to | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
and that might involve watching little bit of rugby. It is | :27:27. | :27:37. | |
going to be a beautiful evening for watching the game. Full coverage on | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
the BBC. Saturday evening going into Sunday, we start to see Elizabeth | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
the change, little bit of rain starts to work its way in from the | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
west, and again a mild night. On Sunday, we might need the beautiful | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
spring flowers to give us a bit of a lift because it will have a bit more | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
of a grey feel to it. We'll have a bit of light rain before things | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
brighten up later in the day. Monday as well has a bit of rain in the | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
mix, too. Casting out I had to next week, the pick of the next few days | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
is going Our late summary is at 10.25pm. | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
To be Saturday. You can also keep in contact with us via Facebook and | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
Twitter. From BBC Newsline, goodnight. | :28:18. | :28:23. |