21/06/2014

Download Subtitles

Transcript

:00:00. > :00:00.I'm back with the late news at 10.10.

:00:00. > :00:09.One of the Guildford Four, Gerry Conlon, has died in Belfast.

:00:10. > :00:14.Mr Conlon spent 15 years in jail for IRA bombings in England in 1974.

:00:15. > :00:18.Their convictions were quashed in 1989.

:00:19. > :00:35.The images were powerful, the emotion of a wronged man clearly

:00:36. > :00:40.visible as Gerry Conlon walked out of the Old Bailey to meet the

:00:41. > :00:44.waiting media. I was imprisoned for 15 years for something I did not do,

:00:45. > :00:53.something I did not then anything about. They had been wrongly

:00:54. > :00:56.convicted of the 1974 pub bombings. It was to be 15 years before those

:00:57. > :01:08.convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal. Who is this? Gerry

:01:09. > :01:16.Conlon. Do you have anything to say? I have cleared my conscience, I

:01:17. > :01:24.advise you to do the same. Their story was told in the film In The

:01:25. > :01:36.Name Of The Father. His father, urges Eppie Conlon --

:01:37. > :01:48.Giuseppe Conlon was caught up in it. In a statement issued through a news

:01:49. > :01:55.agency, Gerry Conlon's family said that the 15 years he spent in prison

:01:56. > :01:58.wrongly had forced the world to open its closed eyes to the injustices

:01:59. > :02:05.that had been done. In recent years, Mr Conlon had taken interest in

:02:06. > :02:11.cases around the world where there had been claimed injustices. He did

:02:12. > :02:31.not cry about his own situation, he opened up the public mind. Mr

:02:32. > :02:35.Conlon, who was 60, died in Belfast this morning after an illness.

:02:36. > :02:38.Two men have been assaulted on the Lagan Towpath in Lisburn

:02:39. > :02:42.in what police say is a possible racially-motivated hate crime.

:02:43. > :02:45.Two men in their 30s, who are believed to be Polish,

:02:46. > :02:48.needed medical treatment after being assaulted by a group of men

:02:49. > :02:53.on the path between Bridge Street and Hill Street early this morning.

:02:54. > :03:01.Northern Ireland's Armed Forces Day in Newtownards.

:03:02. > :03:04.It began with a parade by serving members and veterans

:03:05. > :03:09.As well as military demonstrations, vintage vehicles,

:03:10. > :03:13.and historical re-enactments, there was music and entertainment.

:03:14. > :03:15.Highlights included an aerial display

:03:16. > :03:19.and a mock assault by land and air troops.

:03:20. > :03:23.Golf and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell

:03:24. > :03:27.is currently in third place in the Irish Open golf tournament in Cork.

:03:28. > :03:29.Stephen Watson has been following the third day's play

:03:30. > :03:43.A golfer from Northern Ireland has not won the Irish Open since Fred

:03:44. > :03:45.Daly 68 years ago. Now a player from the same town

:03:46. > :03:51.Daly 68 years ago. Now a player from repeating that achievement. The

:03:52. > :04:04.popular Graeme McDowell lies in third place, just to macro shots of

:04:05. > :04:07.the -- to macro shots of the lead. I love to give the fans what they want

:04:08. > :04:14.-- I would love to give the fans what they want. It will be tough

:04:15. > :04:24.there are a lot of great players. I need to stay patient and who knows,

:04:25. > :04:33.we will have some fun when we do it. There is another player in

:04:34. > :04:43.contention. He is four shots from the lead. I have played with big

:04:44. > :04:53.names and beaten them all, so I will go out tomorrow and play my game.

:04:54. > :04:59.Now here's Barra Best with the weather forecast.

:05:00. > :05:04.We have had plenty of dry and bright weather today.

:05:05. > :05:14.The longest day of the year. Form here on in, the days will get

:05:15. > :05:20.shorter until Christmas. Under some clear skies overnight, temperatures

:05:21. > :05:25.will dip into single figures. I tomorrow morning, there will be the

:05:26. > :05:29.odd pocket of mist or fog around but that will lift through the morning.

:05:30. > :05:34.Tomorrow, mainly dry and bright. There will be more cloud around on

:05:35. > :05:37.Sunday than today but there will be brighter spells and the odd spell of

:05:38. > :05:42.sunshine. Across Britain and Ireland, it is a largely settled day

:05:43. > :05:46.as high pressure remains in control. The exception is Scotland, cloudy

:05:47. > :05:51.with some wet weather for Northern areas. Drier and brighter elsewhere

:05:52. > :05:57.and warmer as well, temperatures in the mid-20s in the South. The cloud

:05:58. > :06:00.may be thick enough to give one or two showers, to just keep the

:06:01. > :06:05.umbrella handy in case was not the showers will be few and far between.

:06:06. > :06:09.In any sunshine tomorrow, they could be highs of 19 or 20 Celsius.

:06:10. > :06:13.Pressured was the north coast because of the onshore breezes. Into

:06:14. > :06:20.Monday, a few showers here and there. Many paces will stay dry with

:06:21. > :06:25.temperatures of 19 or 20 Celsius. Again, cool on the coast because of

:06:26. > :06:28.the onshore breezes. It is later in the week that we will see a

:06:29. > :06:30.breakdown in the weather with more wet weather on the way.

:06:31. > :06:33.BBC Newsline will be back tomorrow at a 7:15pm.

:06:34. > :06:36.You can keep up to date with local news on BBC Radio Ulster

:06:37. > :06:40.From everyone on the BBC Newsline team, goodbye.

:06:41. > :06:44.It's over now, you're out of your agony.

:06:45. > :06:50.I'll help you along. P-E-T... Peter... Peter Cap...

:06:51. > :06:54.Well, you wouldn't have got it, would you?