:00:00. > :00:00.A quick reminder, you can see more of that interview with Pele on BBC
:00:00. > :00:00.One at The world's most prestigious golf
:00:00. > :00:08.tournament, the Open Championship, is set to return to
:00:09. > :00:11.Northern Ireland for the first time Royal Portrush will host
:00:12. > :00:15.the competition, Well, we can go live now to Stephen
:00:16. > :00:24.Watson, who's at the US Open. This event gets underway tomorrow
:00:25. > :00:27.but it's the news of the biggest golf tournament in the world coming
:00:28. > :00:30.back to Northern Ireland Royal Portrush is set to go back
:00:31. > :00:37.on the Open rota. I understand the year it will
:00:38. > :00:40.stage the event is 2019. It's all been made possible
:00:41. > :00:46.because of a deal between Portrush, the R, golf's governing body,
:00:47. > :00:49.and the Stormont Executive, which Some of golf's global stars have
:00:50. > :01:07.been giving us their views All all the golf course and Royal
:01:08. > :01:11.Portrush is regarded as one of the finest in the world. It has only
:01:12. > :01:19.hosted the Open Championship once before but now they event is coming
:01:20. > :01:24.back. Darren Clarke won the tournament in 2011 and returned to
:01:25. > :01:30.Portrush to a heroes welcome. He is thrilled his home club has landed
:01:31. > :01:36.this global event. It is wonderful for the area, Northern Ireland, all
:01:37. > :01:43.of Ireland. It is one of the biggest sporting events in the world coming
:01:44. > :01:46.year. It is massive PR publicity. Pictures of Portrush being beamed
:01:47. > :01:49.around the world to people who have not seen how beautiful it is. It
:01:50. > :01:55.will hopefully will bring more people to the area. Darren Clarke is
:01:56. > :02:01.one of two golfers from Northern Ireland to have ever lifted the
:02:02. > :02:06.famous claret jug. The other was the late Fred Daly, who competed in the
:02:07. > :02:13.Open Championship the last time it was staged here 60 years ago. The
:02:14. > :02:20.Open Championship is held in Portrush. Fred Daly shows he is
:02:21. > :02:25.still the best in Britain. Tiger Woods is the world's best player. He
:02:26. > :02:31.has won the Open Championship three times and was delighted at the news.
:02:32. > :02:34.The Open Championship is set to go back to Northern Ireland for the
:02:35. > :02:42.second time in its history. Which course? Royal Portrush. Your Mac I
:02:43. > :02:48.don't think I have been there. As far north as I have been as Royal
:02:49. > :02:56.County Down. It would be pretty incredible.
:02:57. > :03:01.The sports governing body has previously turned Portrush town as a
:03:02. > :03:09.possible venue because of concerns over infrastructure. But the
:03:10. > :03:17.successful staging of the Irish Open in 2012 showed that the area was
:03:18. > :03:20.able to cope with hosting a major. The Irish Open was the first-ever
:03:21. > :03:26.sell-out event in the history of golf's European tour. In five years'
:03:27. > :03:30.time, the Open Championship will return to the North Coast.
:03:31. > :03:33.Of all our major golfing stars, this news is a dream come true
:03:34. > :03:40.He was born in Portrush and learned to play the game
:03:41. > :03:44.on the famous links course. Here's what he had to say.
:03:45. > :03:52.It is incredibly exciting growing up in Portrush it was a dream of mine
:03:53. > :03:57.to play a big tournament there. It was a wild pipe dream to have the
:03:58. > :04:02.Open Championship come back to Portrush. It speaks volumes about
:04:03. > :04:08.how far are Northern Ireland has, as a country. And Rory McIlroy also
:04:09. > :04:11.told me it would be the biggest achievement of his career if he
:04:12. > :04:16.could win their Open Championship at Portrush. The news is expected to be
:04:17. > :04:18.rubber-stamped next week. The members of Royal Portrush still
:04:19. > :04:21.have to officially back the plan, but tonight one prominent member
:04:22. > :04:31.welcomed the news. It is something we have been working
:04:32. > :04:37.towards over the last few years and I think it is great for the club and
:04:38. > :04:41.more importantly great for Portrush, Northern Ireland and Ireland from a
:04:42. > :04:47.tourism point of view. It is a wheel boost. -- real boost.
:04:48. > :04:50.And tomorrow there will be much more reaction to the return
:04:51. > :04:52.of golf's Open Championship to Royal Portrush, starting with
:04:53. > :04:56.In other news, Sinn Fein has confirmed that Martin McGuinness is
:04:57. > :04:59.to meet the Queen again when she visits at the end of the month.
:05:00. > :05:02.The Deputy First Minister said it was an opportunity to demonstrate
:05:03. > :05:06.mutual respect and to further build on the process of reconciliation.
:05:07. > :05:08.The five-year-old boy who died in a road accident in
:05:09. > :05:10.North Belfast this morning has been named as Conor O'Neill.
:05:11. > :05:12.It happened shortly before nine o'clock as he rode
:05:13. > :05:16.his bicycle in the residential area of Rosehead, near the Oldpark Road.
:05:17. > :05:27.The police say one vehicle was involved in the incident.
:05:28. > :05:34.He was a very likeable lively and social young man with a great zest
:05:35. > :05:37.for life. He had a smile that would light up any room.
:05:38. > :05:39.The Prime Minister says the granting of royal pardons to
:05:40. > :05:41.terrorist suspects were difficult decisions taken by previous
:05:42. > :05:44.governments and he says he doesn't want to unpick those decisions.
:05:45. > :05:47.He was responding in the Commons to the North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds.
:05:48. > :05:49.It has been revealed that some pardons were secretly given to
:05:50. > :05:55.paramilitaries in return for information.
:05:56. > :05:58.A woman sexually assaulted as a young child two decades ago
:05:59. > :06:01.has spoken about her ordeal in the hope that her attacker might
:06:02. > :06:08.Our reporter Ita Dungan has spoken to the woman,
:06:09. > :06:22.It is a beauty spot known locally as the nursery. In 19 94, a young girl
:06:23. > :06:24.was kicking a ball outside the community centre when she and her
:06:25. > :06:30.friend were approached by a stranger. Today, she described an
:06:31. > :06:45.ordeal she lived with for 20 years. He took me into a big Bush which was
:06:46. > :06:51.covered. He took out -- he told me he had a knife and said if I wasn't
:06:52. > :06:59.quiet he would use it. He put rope around me and tied me to a tree by
:07:00. > :07:07.my neck. I was hanging. I remember swinging on the tree and he was
:07:08. > :07:16.standing watching. At this point he must have listed a brick and busted
:07:17. > :07:20.my head. Police revealed photo fits of the man who carried out the
:07:21. > :07:24.attack. Police have released this impression of what he might look
:07:25. > :07:29.like now. I get angry thinking that he is still walking about 20 years
:07:30. > :07:36.later. Is he still in the area, does he know who I am? What happens here
:07:37. > :07:44.-- what happened here haunts a woman whose childhood was stolen. Police
:07:45. > :07:48.are urging anyone with any information to speak to them again.
:07:49. > :07:51.They are keen to speak to a couple who were walking their dog that day
:07:52. > :07:58.here. They believe any new information could help to secure a
:07:59. > :08:06.conviction. The police have seized cannabis
:08:07. > :08:14.plants worth thousands in Ballycastle. The find was made this
:08:15. > :08:19.afternoon in a business in the town. Time to find out if the warm weather
:08:20. > :08:39.is set to continue, here's Any isolated showers will fizzle out
:08:40. > :08:44.overnight. It might be cool in the morning tomorrow. Tomorrow will be
:08:45. > :08:50.dry and bright. With a bright start to Thursday. Through the day, the
:08:51. > :08:54.cloud works its way in so the sunshine becomes hazy. The high
:08:55. > :08:59.pressure is in charge throughout the day on Thursday. That means we will
:09:00. > :09:05.have some nice weather for this front moves and later on. Across the
:09:06. > :09:08.UK and Ireland, it is a really pleasant state just about
:09:09. > :09:15.everywhere. Decent temperatures for London and the south-east.
:09:16. > :09:20.Elsewhere, nice and bright skies. Showers working in from the west.
:09:21. > :09:24.They come in on Thursday evening, hinting at what is on the way for
:09:25. > :09:28.Friday cos we have a little bit of a change as the front comes through.
:09:29. > :09:33.The picture on Friday looks very different with rain spreading into
:09:34. > :09:40.all parts through the morning. It will brighten up later on. Friday is
:09:41. > :09:44.the odd day out, the one wet day in a line of some reasonably settled
:09:45. > :09:46.conditions and the high pressure is back in charge for the start of next
:09:47. > :09:47.week. You can keep up to date with
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:09:52. > :09:56.From BBC Newsline, goodnight.