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spells and it will get warmer -- sunny spells. A story with a happy | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
ending. Now | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline. | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
No sign of a solution to the health budget crisis. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
We hear from those at the sharp end of medical care. | :00:21. | :00:35. | |
And from inside this emergency department. | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
I'm live with those working on the front line who say further | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
20 years after the first IRA cease-fire, how much have things | :00:40. | :00:52. | |
changed on the border? I've come to Newry to find out. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Ahead of the weekend's All Ireland Gaelic Football semi-final we look | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
And as we start the last weekend of summer 2014, it looks | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
like we can expect a good deal of dry weather, but not all the time. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Good evening and welcome to the programme. | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
The crisis at the health service over budget | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
Last night, we brought details of the services the Health Minister | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
Edwin Poots believes he will have to sacrifice unless he gets more money | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
from the Assembly, among them, cuts to care packages for the elderly, | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
pay freezes for staff and fewer agency staff. Tonight, | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
we'll bring you the views of those already under pressure. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Our health correspondent Marie Louise Connolly is at | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
It is an emergency Department, just like this one, which would feel the | :01:39. | :01:55. | |
impact of those cuts first. If they do go ahead. The man who runs this | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
department here is Sean McGovern, thank you for joining us. Today your | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
colleagues have described those potential cuts as catastrophic. Is | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
that how you see it? I wouldn't use those terms. I would say they are | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
challenging. These cuts, reported to be around ?140 million, represents | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
3.4% of the budget, so it is a significant amount of money. We have | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
heard a lot of doom and gloom forecast this week, but let's look | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
forward. If the cuts go ahead, how would the Department or hospital | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
cope? We have a number of recommendations in relation to this | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
scenario where you could consider the GPs working here, or recruiting | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
staff from other areas coming into the emergency department as | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
training, and the advancement of nurse practitioners. Will there be | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
money to facilitate that? We have to look at this in the round. It is up | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
to the politicians, the public and professionals to prioritise what | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
they want from the health care service, and to keep focusing on | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
patient outcomes. What can the public to do help themselves as the | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
winter pressures loom? There's a number of patients that comment | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
because of frustration with their GP. -- that come in. If they didn't | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
come here, that would alleviate the pressure is on urgency departments. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
Thank you for that. At Lee, what happens in here impacts on those in | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
the community. -- ultimately, what happens here. Our correspondent has | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
been meeting some of those anti-receiving care but two are | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
calling for speedy action. Type 1 diabetes requires constant | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
monitoring. With most patients being seen by day but it nurse in the | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
first year. But for some appointment delays mean an anxious wait. It's | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
supposed to be reviewed every three months, but I saw her last in March | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
this year and I was due another appointment in June or July. I | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
didn't get an appointment. When I rang, they said they couldn't get an | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
appointment until December. So, instead of having three monthly | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
appointments, it is going to be and nine monthly appointment. In a | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
statement, the trust said.... The patient inclined council here | :04:27. | :04:49. | |
says that from April 2013, to August this year, it received 363 | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
complaints about general waiting times. It is feared this will get | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
worse. This resource Centre in Londonderry provides a range of | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
services to the elderly and they, too, could be under threat. One | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
manager says mixed messages about care in the community are not | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
helping. The Department of Health and the Assembly are cutting | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
services to older people. It is a massive contradiction, and a massive | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
impact on older people in the next 10-15 years. And it will be a cut | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
too far for many here. It's difficult, so it is. I would like to | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
have seen more things for the older people, older pensioners. And to | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
brighten up their lives. It is a message she hopes will be heard at | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
Stormont. These cuts will affect those in hospital and out in the | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
community. Linda Robinson is with me. Can you envisage the domiciliary | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
care packages which could also be cut being pushed even further to the | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
edge? Age and I are saying they are at the brink. People are waiting | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
with complex needs and dementia at home for these care packages, | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
individuals who are saying fair packages have been cut, and it is | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
about cutting those individuals that are living at home. There isn't very | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
much can do inside 15 minutes, is the? Very little, and you will know | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
that there is very little you can do particularly with someone with | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
dementia or physical needs, which means it isn't to get to the toilet, | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
get breakfast or get to bed. The road map for care in Northern | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Ireland was about transforming your care. How viable, rarely, now is | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
that road plan if these cuts no ahead? I think there are lots of us | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
that will be challenging and saying that where is transforming your | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
care? This road map doesn't look like it is transforming anyone's | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
care. We wanted to keep people at home for longer with good quality | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
care, and these cuts do not reflect that. Thank you. We've had the views | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
this evening of those clinicians inside a hospital setting like this, | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
and also the impact of those potential cuts out and about in the | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
community. It is quite for a Friday evening but the extra staff are | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
about to start their shift, and it will get it easier. | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
Well, to put some of the spending debate in context, | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell is here. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
Let's start with the health department budget, wasn't | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
It was protected. Thinking back to 2011, the Executive was facing a | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
tough spending environment, all departments were going to face 8% | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
cuts. The Executive decided health was too important, the budget would | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
continue to rise by the rate of inflation every year, which is what | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
has happened, and as a result of the departments have had faced up to 20% | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
cuts. At health was protected in the 2011 budget. If that's the case, why | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
has this current process, about? -- current crisis, about? Some would | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
say the health executive hasn't been good with managing its budget. But | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
there are other factors at play. There is limitless demand for health | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
services and all health systems across the world face this problem | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
of these demands. And there are issues about how the population is | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
changing, it is growing with many more older people, which means there | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
are more expensive conditions to treat and last longer. The rate of | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
increase in spending tends to face greater pressures than other | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
services, and it is also useful to look at the UK spending context for | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
health. Some research carried out lately said that between 2000-20 -- | :09:03. | :09:15. | |
2009, the spending cuts were open. The -- they said we spent more on | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
people. But spending started to fall | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
2009-2011. They give you a good idea of the context of what is really | :09:30. | :09:30. | |
happening to health spending. What's the picture over the coming | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
months and years? There will be cuts to public services budgets up until | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
2018 - 2019, and that is unavoidable. What is going to happen | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
in the next couple of months is there is another spending round in | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Stormont. There will be another round of budget there. We will need | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
a four year budget, and a lot of work will be completed by Christmas. | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Given the political difficulties we have at Stormont, it will be a big | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
challenge for the Stormont to agree on the budget. | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
We asked for an interview with Simon Hamilton but he was unavailable. | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
So, what will it take at a political level to resolve this | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
It's not the first time our politicians have been confronted | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
Kevin Sharkey's been getting the views | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
This is in the first time there's been a funding shortage but this | :10:32. | :10:41. | |
time the impact is more serious. How can our politicians resolve their | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
differences and provide the money needed to avert cutbacks? This | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
former political adviser believes the problem must be addressed as a | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
single issue. If the health funding crisis and other issues to do with | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
budgets are drawn into a discussion around parades, flags, and he | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
passed, then I think we could have a real problem because that intensity | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
and complexity of the negotiation is very difficult to resolve, so they | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
need to deal with these issues on health now, and they need to deal | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
with them away from any other issues in order to get them resolved. | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Politicians don't always agree at Stormont but there have been times | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
when the parties have managed to work out a way forward like the foot | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
and mouth crisis during a previous administration. There was total | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
corporation. I didn't experience any attempt at party political scoring. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Everyone worked together and that is how you face a crisis. You face a | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
crisis like I did, and this should be phased by all the parties working | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
together. The public will watch to see of that kind of cross-party | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Corporation helps to resolve this health crisis. Many people, | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
including politicians, will be returning to work in September. One | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
thing is for sure. The politicians are returning to Stormont with a lot | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
The Republic's Justice minister, Frances Fitzgerald, | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
has said she's disturbed by a report that, within the last | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
year, a member of the Gardai texted sensitive information to | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
It's understood the information was about two dissident suspects | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
For more, we're joined now by our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison. | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Details are still emerging on this story, what's the latest? | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
Well, this is highly embarrassing for the Garda, coming less than 12 | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
months that an unnamed officer had passed on information to the IRA | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
about the murders of two senior RUC officers in the 1980s pollution. In | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
this latest incident of alleged collusion, it's reported that a | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
rogue officer text did the IRA about two dissident republicans being held | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
in custody within the past 12 months. The man at the centre of | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
this has reportedly left the force. But it is understood from the | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Department of Justice that he is under criminal investigation at the | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
moment in relation to this and in relation to another matter. No | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
disciplinary action was taken against him whilst he was still a | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
serving officer, and the Justice Minister has asked the acting | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
commissioner for a full report on the matter. | :13:30. | :13:30. | |
Thank you. The 20th anniversary of the first | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
IRA ceasefire is on Sunday. This week on BBC Newsline, | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
we've been looking back Tonight, | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
we're looking at the impact. Mark Simpson has been to Newry to | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
see how more peaceful times have changed life in the city | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
on the border. The cease-fire has changed the | :13:45. | :14:07. | |
landscape here. Within ten years, house prices have troubled. Some | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
development land was selling for ?1 million an acre. Today there are | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
still flags on lamp posts, but they are new flags, flying for pride | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
weekend. So much has changed in the past 20 years. During the dark days | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
of the Troubles, this was an all too familiar sight. Death and | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
destruction in Newry. Hill Street was, and is, one of the main | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
shopping streets. This man runs a shoe shop here. His son Gregory was | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
born just before the cease-fire. This family business has been here | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
in good times and in bad. We were burnt down, collateral damage from | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
bombs, in the 70s and 80s. They were dreadful days. You never knew | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
whether you are going to be open, you never knew whether you are going | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
to get a full day's trading. We experience things outside our door | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
that no human should see at any stage of their lives, and I always | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
aspired for Newry to be the same as London, to be the same as Brighton, | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
Norwich, Liverpool. That they would have the selection of shops, that it | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
would have the selection of people, that it would be an open and | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
welcoming society. And I have to say I feel we have achieved that. | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
Gregory, when you hear the stories of what Newry is to be like, what do | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
you think? It's almost like this imaginary nightmare world that I | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
have no experience of. So it is strange to have something is strange | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
to have so foreign because I work in the shop here from time to time as | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
well, so for me to imagine people from the army running past, or bombs | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
going off, it's so strange so I don't know how to feel about it. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
I've heard it so many times, it has normalised it for me. This used to | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
be a normal site around Newry, and 20 years ago, large military | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
watchtowers surrounded the border roads. Not any more. The border, of | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
course, is still here, it's just more difficult to see, and what the | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
past 20 years have brought is more cross-border traffic, and with it | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
more cross-border business. This Newry cafe opened the right time, | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
just before the cease-fire. Run by five sisters back in 1994, there | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
were very different negotiations going on here. Even from deciding | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
what soup we would be making the next day, that would be discussed in | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
depth. And it didn't matter. You are mindful of what was going on in the | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
news, and we hoped for a solution, and hoping for peace. We knew that | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
to some day we thought we were going to get married and have kids, and I | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
wanted to think they would be brought up in a different | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
environment that I grew up in. They started with one coffee shop. They | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
now have six. Phenomenal business over the last decade. We have been | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
through it all. Like everywhere else, it ebbs and flows, things have | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
slowed down, but not that much. In the space of 20 years, Newry has | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
gone from being a town to a city. It's more confident, more colourful, | :17:23. | :17:23. | |
and more upbeat. Previously confidential files have | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
revealed that the Northern Ireland Office had concerns | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
about Margaret Thatcher's commitment Official papers from 1985, which | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
have just been released, show that senior figures from the Secretary | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
of State Tom King to the Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
believed the deal offered more to Within days of the agreement, | :17:45. | :18:01. | |
Margaret Thatcher outed her advisers by being uncertain as to whether or | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
not she would defend the agreement. This is very disturbing. And with | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Tom King, who is trying to roll back on the negotiations which have been | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
progressed by his predecessor, Douglas Hurd, he's not happy about | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
an Irish presence in Belfast in terms of the secretary at, he | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
doesn't want the Irish government involved in parades, and he believes | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
much more has been given to the Irish than the British. And, | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
finally, the long-standing top civil servant, he discovers what is in the | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
agreement. He sees it as one-sided. And almost fell to destabilise | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
rather than stabilise the political situation. | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
Thieves have tried to steal an ATM in Castlerock in the early hours | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
It's thought that the tractor of a lorry was stolen | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
from the Newmills Road in Coleraine and then driven to a petrol station | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
It was reversed into the building a number of times | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
The lorry was found at premises at the Garvagh Road this morning and | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
We heard this week how scientists have used state | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
of the art technology to try to discover just why sheepdogs are | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
But next month we'll find out just which of them, the animals that is, | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
not the scientists, is literally top dog at the world | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
Our reporter Gordon Adair has been to the Mournes to meet one entrant. | :19:19. | :19:31. | |
Sheep. They can be an unruly lot. They have to be watched closely, | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
like this. But these particular sheep don't realise that they are | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
under the gaze of a potentially world beating team in Jim and his | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
dog. There is only a few of them that have that extra ability, it is | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
just think they have got or haven't got. A good dog has that extra | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
ability of doing things better. Has a good way with sheep. A cautious | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
approach and that type of thing. When you're walking the dog, you | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
find out which ones have it and which ones don't. The pair will | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
travel to the world sheepdog trials next week. This year, they are being | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
held in Scotland as part of the year-long homecoming event. There's | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
people all over the world, people from all over the world that go to | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
the World Championship. And it is anybody's guess. Dogs are used | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
everywhere and they are becoming more popular in different | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
countries. The trialling is getting more popular and there is more | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
often. What about these robots we have heard mentioned on the news? | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
They seem to think that they can work out the patterns that sheepdogs | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
can use. What do you think about them? I'd love to see them in the | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
mountains! Now, it's a big weekend of sport, | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
not least in Gaelic football, with former all Ireland winner with me to | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
look ahead. Sunday sees the winners | :21:06. | :21:15. | |
of the last two All Ireland Donegal, who won the title two years | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
ago, face current holders Dublin at To look forward to the game, | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
joining us is Oisin McConvill, Everybody says that this is a | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
straightforward Dublin win. Can the Ulster champions spring a surprise? | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
It's going to be tough for them to spring a surprise. Dublin have been | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
hugely impressive all year, Donegal not so. I think the intriguing thing | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
is what Donegal are going to bring to the table and the thing that | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
people are looking forward to. As games go, this is the one everybody | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
wants to see. What Donegal going to do? Are they going to play with 15 | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
defenders? Their style of play is often deemed by many to be negative. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
Can you see them being more adventurous? No, I can't. If | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
anything, they're going to be even more defensive. Chances like this, | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
they are going to be key. Any chance Donegal get, they are going to take | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
it. That is the chance they have now. Dublin, people have built up to | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
be unbeatable, but I don't know if that is the case. Donegal is the one | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
team that can test them. If Donegal are going to win, who were the key | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
players? If Donegal want to win, they need to get Michael Murphy on | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
the ball a lot. He is a player that turns games. There are very few | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
people that can grab a game by the scruff of the neck, and he is one of | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
those that can grab the game by the scruff of the neck and get his team | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
over the line. They will be very low reliant on him. Thank you. | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
World number one Rory McIlroy has continued his hot streak of form. | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
He's playing in the opening round of the Deutsche Bank Championship | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
And today got off to a flyer, with birdies on three | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
After this incredible approach on the first, he then holed | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
He is currently on two under par which leaves him four shots off the | :23:24. | :23:37. | |
lead going into the weekend. Another great effort thereby Rory McIlroy. | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
Stuart Olding will play his first game for Ulster | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
in ten months after being selected in the starting 15 to face Leinster | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
He's been out since November after rupturing a cruciate ligament. | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
The inter-provincial clash tomorrow is Ulster's last pre-season match | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
before the start of the new Guinness Pro12 season, when they will face | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
It is a rivalry is so fierce that even Kermit has been forced to | :23:54. | :24:08. | |
choose sides. Along with that star backing, the bragging rights have | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
belonged to Leinster. Time after time, they have blocked Ulster's | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
path to silverware but Ulster are desperate to reverse this trend, and | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
in Interprovincial is the perfect way to lead into the campaign. You | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
are playing the current champions. The most successful club in Europe | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
over the last five or six years, so you are playing top opposition. If | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
you can go away from home and put in a performance and beat a team like | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
that, it leaves you in good stead. They say it is a preseason friendly, | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
but I've have never known an Ulster-Leinster game that was a | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
friendly! There will be a lot of collisions, a lot of opportunity for | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
people on different sides. Ulster's up-and-coming talent has caught the | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
eye drink preseason. -- caught the eye cheering preseason. You couldn't | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
fault the work ethic of the younger eyes. Sometimes you have to | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
structure and is outside of rugby and that is going to be the big | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
challenge for them. Rugby, nothing else. For the newcomers and seasoned | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
pros, total focus will be required at the Stadium tomorrow afternoon. | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
The Coleraine brothers Richard and Peter Chambers have reached | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
the World Championship rowing final on Sunday as part of the | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
GB Lightweight Four crew. You can see them go for gold live | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
on BBC Two this Sunday. Finally, we'll have results and | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
goals from tonight's local football matches on our later bulletin. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Now the weekend weather. Some of us got more wet weather than others. | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
Many of us will enjoy dry spells during the evening. Some rain | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
threatening the north coast. Most of us stay dry. It will be a mild | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
night. A little bit breezy and the winds stay with us until Saturday | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
but it isn't a bad day. Largely dry with some sunny spells coming and | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
going. The best of the sunshine tomorrow morning. Brisk winds | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
towards the north coast. By the time we move into the afternoon, there is | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
a thin band of showers coming in from the West, pushing eastwards, | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
and some of us might avoid them altogether. If you get one, a | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
shouldn't be too heavy. It will brighten up getting into the middle | :26:35. | :26:46. | |
of the afternoon. If you're travelling, it would have unsettled | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
weather across Scotland, Wales and the central areas of England. | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
Elsewhere, dry and bright. For much of Ireland, looking at a dry | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
picture, one for the outdoors. Northern Ireland tomorrow evening, | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
some showers, eventually they will clear and a few of us will enjoy | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
some evening sunshine. Overnight into Sunday, the cloud comes in with | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
scattered showers. The temperature hold up to about 11 or 12, so not | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
too bad at promising start with a fair amount of cloud. Through the | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
day, we have this weak front coming in, bringing some stronger winds | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
during the day and some patchy light rain and drizzle, so prepare | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
yourself. By the evening, trying up in the West, with some sunshine is | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
developing. Once the wet weather clears away, for Monday, choose day | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
on Wednesday, we have little or no rain, and then we expect | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
temperatures to climb up to the mid-20s. | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
Our late summary is at 10:25pm. You can also keep in contact with | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
us via Facebook and Twitter. From BBC Newsline, goodnight. | :27:48. | :27:56. | |
He was just a big, honest, decent man. | :27:57. | :28:04. |