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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
A Dungiven man targeted in a pipe bomb attack says he doesn't | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
The principals of four Bangor schools write to parents warning | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
them some of their children are being sold drugs. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
What has startled us of the most has been the approach of a year it boy. | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
And 11 or 12-year-old. That is frightening for myself and my | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
colleagues. The scam which robbed one | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
pensioner of her life savings. Two people remain critically ill | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
after a car crashes into a film Our broadband coverage is getting | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
better, but there's still big regional differences within | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
Northern Ireland. The ties that bind Belfast and | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
Boston, as American colleges' ice And it's been | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
an incredibly mild start to December - I'll have a full forecast | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
for you later in the programme. A man who was targeted in an | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
overnight pipe-bomb attack says he The device was left on the doorstep | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
of the family home in Dungiven. His partner and their two-year-old | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
daughter were inside at the time. With more details, here's our | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish. It's understood that a pipe bomb was | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
left on the doorstep of this family home at Ard Na Smoll in Dungiven | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
sometime yesterday evening. The alert was raised | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
when a neighbour noticed two wheelie bins on fire | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
and called the emergency services. The victim | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
of the attack says his partner and their two-year-old daughter were | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
in the house at the time. It is terrifying, they thought that | :01:59. | :02:09. | |
what could have happened. I am glad it didn't happen. I have been | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
standing here in a shell of a person at the minute. It really hit me this | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
morning. We don't cause anybody harm. Try to be nice to everybody. | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
The police say the lives of the local fire fighters were also | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
put at risk when they arrived to deal with the fire. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
A sister of the victim says those who carried | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
it out could have killed a mother and her two-year-old daughter. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
I think it is really sick. My family lives in that house and somebody | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
tries to kill them. They are terrified and scared like anyone | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
else would be if someone was setting a bomb outside your house. I could | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
have lost my family. It is really sad thinking about it. | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
The police are still investigating a motive for this latest attack. | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
Two other incidents where devices were found in the Dungiven area this | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
month have been blamed on dissident republicans. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
I am saying to these groups, sit down and analyse what they are doing | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
to their own community. There are 150 houses here. Ask the people in | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
these houses. Police have praised it patients of local people and have | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
issued an appeal for information. They want to appeal to anyone who | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
noticed any suspicious activity in or around this area last night to | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
get in touch. Garda searches related to dissident | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
republicans are going on in County Monaghan, | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
where assault rifles, mortars Gardai say it was a "significant | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
find" just outside Scotstown. The searches follow the arrest | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
of a 43-year-old man last week. He was later charged with IRA | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
membership. The principals of four schools | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
in Bangor have written to parents warning them that some of | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the students are being sold drugs. The police are investigating reports | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
that it's happening Here's our Education Correspondent, | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
Robbie Meredith. It's a place used by hundreds of | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
people every day to get to and from school but it is also a place where | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
children as young as 11 have been offered drugs. In a letter sent out | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
to parents yesterday and published this morning in the Belfort | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
telegraph, headteachers said drug abuse was becoming a serious | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
problem. They said the PSNI it had recently received reports that year | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
Eight pupils had been approached by people not at the school nearby. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
This is a community issue. Not just one school. Four schools, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
approximately 4000 pupils across these goals. At the bus station, a | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
lot of people go through that every day. It is important for the local | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
community and parents to solve this problem. It was parents at Bangor | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Grammar school who first noticed this was happening. We noticed the | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
approach of a year Eight boy. And 11 or 12-year-old. But as for myself, | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
and reputable colleagues, very frightening. Now she wants more | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
action from the police. Realistically PSNI funds have been | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
cut and possibly this is one of the areas of casualties. Over there to | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
see much more visibility. The bus station is very busy first thing in | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
the morning, late afternoon, servicing our four schools and the | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
wider area. That basic visibility would be a necessity. PSNI officers | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
won't have to go far to try and stop schoolchildren being offered drugs | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
here because it has been happening right across the road from Bangor's | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
police station. I understand the concerns that led to this letter and | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
I ask people to contact us and the schools to help us with our | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
resources, to kick drugs out of circulation. Will you be mounting | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
more patrols in the area? We do it based on the threat to public and | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
how we can best target our resources intelligently to keep people safe. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
While it is shocking that drugs are being dealt to such young children, | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
schools hope that by highlighting this, it will make schools, parents, | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
pupils and police more vigilant. Members of a loyalist flute band | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
have successfully appealed convictions for provocatively | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
playing a sectarian tune outside Charges had been brought against | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
the 12 members of the Young Conway Volunteers, following an incident | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
during a 12th of July parade. This is the incident | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
which led to the 13 men being accused of a provocative act likely | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
to cause public disorder. They denied playing a rendition | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
of the Famine Song. Instead, | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
they claimed to have been performing The band leader on the day | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
of the parade was the only one He said they'd been forced to stop | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
outside the church because He said they started up the Beach | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Boys tune to ward off lethargy. On April 13, | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
defendants were all convicted. Three of them receiving five-month | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
suspended prison sentences. A challenge to the convictions was | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
due to be heard in court today. Prosecutors did not oppose | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
the band members' challenge to That was because they agreed to | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
keep the peace for two years. If they don't abide by that, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
they could be jailed Scams cost Northern Ireland | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
economy an estimated ?100 million To warn others, a victim who was | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
robbed of her life savings of ?180,000 has taken a courageous step | :07:51. | :08:00. | |
in telling what happened to her. She's been speaking to the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
BBC Spotlight reporter Chris Moore. This is Elizabeth. We are not using | :08:05. | :08:18. | |
her full name. She is a 75-year-old widow and she has lost her life | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
savings. It is like being hypnotised. You're going to be | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
winning this big amount of money and you will be able to buy what you | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
want when you get it. Elizabeth first fell victim to a mail scam. | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
Here's how it works. You receive a letter like this one which appears | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
to guarantee you a cash sum of ?20,000. It could be as much as a | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
quarter of a quarter of ?1 million. This one,, ?3 million. It is all | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
yours for ?25 which you are invited to send in a pre-addressed envelope | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
provided. The PSNI say once the money has been mailed, there was | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
little hope of ever seeing it again. They say this is an advanced payment | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
fraud. We will follow the money trail, but very often, invariably, | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
that money is moved and it is dissipated and dispersed many times | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
over through multiple bank accounts which eventually become untraceable. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Scammers share details of their victims, and soon Elizabeth was the | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
subject of a telephone scam that over ?103,000. The first caller said | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
he was David. He said he was a judge working on behalf of what he | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
described as the Ministry of Justice. Professor Stephen Lee from | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Exeter University has studied scam victims and the scammers. Anyone can | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
fall victim to a scam. If you've got something to lose, there is someone | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
out there who is trying to kick it off you. Scams cost Northern Ireland | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
and estimated ?100 million per year. And you can see more on that | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
Spotlight story on BBC One at The DUP will have a new leader in | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
just over a fortnight. The The party has released some detail | :10:02. | :10:19. | |
on how it intends to replace Peter Robinson. Mark Devenport is at | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
Stormont. How will this pan out? Peter Robinson's successor will be | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
chosen by the DUP's 46 most senior elected citadels. MLAs, MPs and | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
solitary MEP. Nominations are now open. Of two of the members of the | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
so-called electrical college. -- electoral college. You can go ahead | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
on the evening of December the 17th in East Belfast. Whoever is picked | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
will be ratified by the slightly bigger DUP executive also on that | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
same evening. When it comes to frontrunners, any surprises? I don't | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
think so. The hot money is all on the current deputy leader Nigel | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
Dodds. If he does get the job, they will have to be a separate election | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
at a different time for the deputy leadership post. Peter Robinson will | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
remain as First Minister until the New Year. We're not expecting him to | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
be replaced until then. The favoured for that job is the current Finance | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
Minister Arlene Foster. Thank you. The Health Minister has said there | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
are concerns that the courts are "seeking to make law | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
and trying to almost usurp His comment follows yesterday's | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
High Court finding that the abortion The Assembly must now take | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
a fresh look at the legislation to Andy West assesses | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
what may happen next. Northern Ireland's abortion laws are | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
currently based on the Offences Since then, there have been slight | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
changes through the courts, but still it is illegal | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
in NI to have an abortion unless the woman's life is at risk, or | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
there is a permanent or serious risk But some will see yesterday's ruling | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
from the judge Mr Justice Horner as putting pressure on the Assembly | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
to change legislation to also allow a termination | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
following rape or incest or if there He said the current law was | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
in breach of Article Eight of In reality, what kind of weight | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
does his ruling really carry? He said yesterday, | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
"This court is not being asked to Does that mean a judge's ruling is | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
powerless to force It cannot force the Government to | :12:37. | :12:55. | |
change the law except it can put heavy pressure on the Government by | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
saying if you pursue the line you are currently adopting, you will be | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Court of Human Rights is likely to come out and confirm that. Are you | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
going to continue to violate European Convention law, terribly | :13:12. | :13:12. | |
embarrassing. Embarrassing or not, | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
the final decision on changing And that's only | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
if politicians believe a change The law as it currently stands can | :13:17. | :13:30. | |
permit termination of pregnancy in certain limited circumstances | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
including fatal fatal abnormalities or sexual crimes where there is an | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
impact on the mother's physical health or a long-term mental health. | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
Whether the law needs to be changed or not, the Health Minister says | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
the Assembly won't be pressured by the courts. | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
We would be concerned that we have a situation where the courts are | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
seeking to make law in Northern Ireland and almost usurped the | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
Democratic recess and the will of people in Northern Ireland through | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
the ballot box and people they lacked in Stormont. Elect. | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
In the meantime, doctors and midwives are waiting | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
for draft guidelines from the Department of Health on | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
where they stand while the political and legal process rolls on. | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
The Department of Justice says it's considering | :14:18. | :14:18. | |
an appeal against yesterday's ruling, as is the Attorney General - | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
In a fortnight's time, the High Court will make its | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
decision on whether new abortion legislation needs to be written. | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
But it's clear that whatever it rules, there's no guarantee that | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
the law will be changed quickly or, indeed, at all. | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
For the time being, women seeking an abortion | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
in cases of fatal foetal abnormality or following a sexual crime must | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
Two people are still in intensive care in hospital | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
following last night's incident in South Belfast when a car drove into | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
As Maggie Taggart reports, the car crashed through a metal | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
A Belfast film production company had been working | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
on a crime reconstruction for an RTE television programme. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
They were using young actors from a local extras agency, and working | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
As they stood at the junction of Falcon Road and Apollo Road, | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
A major incident was declared and witnesses say the emergency | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
One described the scene as horrifying | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
We were able to respond because other ambulances from out of town or | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
at the Royal Victoria Hospital and were able to assist at the scene. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
When the crash happened at 8:30pm last night, witnesses said that many | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
people were pushed through the metal railings at the bakery here. A few | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
workers were on their smoke break and ran to help those who were | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
injured. Two people remained critically ill in intensive care. It | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
is understood one suffered fractures and facial injuries and was in | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
theatre for five hours. Two others were in a stable condition and two | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
others have been released from hospital. A man was arrested but | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
released pending further enquiries. Police have looked at security | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
footage from the bakery security cameras. RTE confirmed that an | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
independent production company had been filming on their behalf that | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
night. They say they cannot comment further but that the thoughts are | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
with those involved and the affected families. News coming in this | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
evening of a serious crash on the main A-1 road between Newry and | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
Belfast. Three vehicles are involved. The road is closed. Police | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
are asking goods vehicles drivers heading south to use the rough | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
Ryland Rogue rather than small rural groups. -- rough Ryland. | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
A new report by the communications regulator has highlighted big | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
regional differences in Northern Ireland when it comes to broadband. | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
Our Business Correspondent, Julian O'Neill, | :16:57. | :16:57. | |
has been looking at the black spots for that and mobile phone coverage. | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
Ofcom says 7% of Northern Ireland is classed as a notspot, somewhere you | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
It's not quite that bad in Warrenpoint, | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
but it can be unpredictable, leading to frustration if the phone | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
With modern-day communications, everybody is reliant on mobiles and | :17:17. | :17:28. | |
3G, having e-mail on their phone. Not having good reception is | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
critical for all the businesses in this area. You don't want to miss a | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
sales call. Ofcom says our notspot problem is | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
not that bad compared to the UK as a whole, nor it seems is our broadband | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
coverage, now available to 77% Generally, | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
our broadband picture is improving. Ofcom says average download | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
speeds increased by 19% in 2015. And at their poorest in the | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Fermanagh and Omagh Council area. Relative to the other nations in the | :17:58. | :18:14. | |
UK, we do quite well. We are ahead of Scotland and just behind Wales in | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
terms of superfast broadband coverage. For mobiles we are a bit | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
worse off and a lot of that is to do with issues in terms of investment | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
and planning when networks were rolled out here. | :18:24. | :18:24. | |
Access to the internet also got easier on smartphones | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
in the course of the last year, as mobile operators improved | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
4G has started rolling out in urban areas, while Ofcom says 3G | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
coverage on networks has spread to take in 73% of Northern Ireland. | :18:35. | :18:50. | |
A new screening programme for babies is being trialled | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
The test aims to pick up congenital heart defects that wouldn't be found | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
It's hoped this will double the number of cases diagnosed, and | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
This little man is called Tony McCoy - he's no relation to the jockey. | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
But at just a few days old, he's in the spotlight. | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
The reason - a heart-screening test which is now | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
being done routinely at Daisy Hill Hospital's maternity unit. | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
It's the first hospital here to introduce | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
Babies throughout Northern Ireland get all these tests. They get | :19:25. | :19:39. | |
checked for hearing, limbs, etc. To be honest, I have never heard of any | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
babies dying of defective hearing but I have heard of babies dying of | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
undiagnosed heart conditions. I feel that the heart should be a mandatory | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
check. The test uses a simple relatively | :19:54. | :19:54. | |
inexpensive unit to detect oxygen Anything above 95% is deemed ok - | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
below that, and further tests will At the moment, many cases | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
of congential heart disease aren't Two thirds of them will have gone | :20:02. | :20:16. | |
home healthy looking, but still have congenital heart disease not picked | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
up. With this new screening, we hope that we can increase the rate of | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
pick-up up to three quarters of the babies who would be managed early, | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
the parents will know about it early and the outcome will be much better. | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
Five-year-old Terence McPolin is the picture of health now, | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
but just days after he left hospital as a baby, he had to be taken to | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
hospital in London for emergency surgery due to a heart defect. | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
It was a traumatic experience for his family. | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
If Daisy Hill hadn't have known that before he had left the hospital, | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
things could have been done a lot quicker. -- had have known. This | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
pilot programme will run until next September. After that it is hoped it | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
will be rolled out across the trust. College ice hockey proved such | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
a success over the weekend, Yes - the first annual | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
Friendship Four tournament at the SSE Arena in Belfast proved | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
to be a success with both local ice hockey fans and the TV networks | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
in Canada and North-East America. So, the plan now is to do | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
it all again in 2016. Two days, four games, over 20,000 | :21:32. | :21:45. | |
spectators. The River Hawks from Massachusetts emerged as the first | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
ever winners of the Bell pot. The event was such a success, plans are | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
already in place to do it all again next year. People over here don't | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
really get how big a deal college hockey or college sports are in the | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
US. For us to have achieved an event with a taxi favour points, those | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
college teams came up home gates at home to come to Belfast. So, for | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
me, the city needs to be incredibly proud, we are a sporting city. We | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
have had many big sporting events here. Why not keep going, because we | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
are setting ourselves a reputation across North America as being able | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
to deliver these types of events. And the organisers are keen to keep | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
up the Boston connection. Absolutely. The genesis of the | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
concept was born out of the Boston Belfast agreement. There are a lot | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
of good hockey teams in Boston and we would like to get them back | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
here, so, absolutely, we will go across to Boston in February and we | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
are hoping we will be able to announce that they are playing next | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
year. After this year's Friendship Four, there should be no shortages | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
of colleges willing to make the trip across the Atlantic. | :23:02. | :23:02. | |
Antrim's Mark Allen is out of the UK Snooker Championship in York. | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
The world number 11 has missed out on a place in the fourth round | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
after he was beaten this afternoon by Martin Gould of England | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Which means Allen misses out on an all-Northern Irish clash with | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
He made it into the last 16 with a 6-1 victory | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
There was a lot of positive noise from Croke Park | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
today aimed at promoting and growing the sport of hurling. | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
Beyond the traditional strongholds in Munster and Leinster, | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
the game only truly thrives in pockets in the Ards Peninsula, | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
But plans are afoot to change all that. | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
For those who play it, there is nothing quite like hurling, but | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
beyond the six or seven counties that can win an all Ireland title, | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
many now suggest hurling is the sixth sibling of the GAA. In Belfast | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
the game has flat line. Antrim last contested a senior all Ireland final | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
in 1989. Occasional spikes since. Now comes a plan. We need to protect | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
the game where it is strong and growing in many other areas and | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
develop the game. Based on all of that we have unashamedly come down | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
on the side that we will concentrate on youth development. The need to | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
play more games. This new competition, every county in Ireland | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
will take part under 17, it will cut will travel the number of games that | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
children at that age group will play. The critical thing is ensuring | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
that club players know who, when and where. They have a schedule of games | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
and the balance between the club and county schedule. They have to | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
optimise that balance. We have to bring certainty to fixtures and | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
people have been out who, when and where as I have said, to be able to | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
plan their lives. If we succeed in that we will do a good day 's work. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
The ambition and three-year plan aims to have the hurling landscape | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
revitalised by 2018. Cricket, Ireland's women had a | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
seven-wicket win over Zimbabwe today Beat Scotland next, | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
and they'll book a place Speaker that is the sport. You may | :25:01. | :25:15. | |
have noticed some flashes on screen. A | :25:16. | :25:15. | |
Now let's get a look at the weather forecast. | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
It is looking very mild tonight. Incredibly mild for the start of | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
December. Temperatures were up into the mid-teens across parts of County | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
Down. That is probably 10 Celsius up on yesterday and well above the | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
average for this time of year. Not really surprising. One of our | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
weather watchers spotted this rose in full bloom in South Belfast. | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Another surprise, that contrasts big time with this night, five years | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
ago. 2010, there is me going for a temperature of -10 Celsius in parts | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
of Tyrone. It big change tonight. No frost. Not too bad initially | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
tonight. Lots of dry spells but during the early hours rain was | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
weeping from the West. It will be raining first thing tomorrow | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
morning. But as heavy as this morning and it won't last too long. | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
It looks like a good part of the day will be pretty decent. At first it | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
is quite mild. First thing in the morning it is damp, drizzly but that | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
is when the across County Down, Armagh and parts of Belfast. West, | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
it is drier weather pushing through. As those clearer skies, long, | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
temperatures will start to fall. If anything, temperatures will be | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
highest first thing. Through the afternoon, probably settling around | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
eight or nine Celsius. Dropping down towards this time tomorrow night. | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
Cold tomorrow night. Frost in places. Not the minus ten suites of | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
five years ago but temperatures could get down to minus one or minus | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
two. Pretty frosty. He made it to scrape the car windscreen but much | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
of the day will be dry with sunshine and light winds. More like you would | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
expect it to be like at this time of year, temperatures close to average. | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Cold again on Thursday night and then towards the weekend, things get | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
more unsettled. Low pressure close by. Rain and wind are close by. The | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
next couple of days at least, it is looking fairly dry. But as you | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
weather this evening. Just an update on that crash on the day one. Three | :27:19. | :27:28. | |
people have been injured in a 2 vehicle head-on collision. More | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
details on that on our late summary here on BBC One at 10:25pm. You can | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
also keep in touch with us on Facebook and Twitter. From BBC | :27:39. | :27:39. | |
Newsline, | :27:40. | :27:41. |