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BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:22. | |
Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
The mother of a woman murdered by her former partner says her daughter | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Celebrations as the families of two care homes | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
threatened with closure receive good news. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
challenge taken by two gay couples to the ban on same sex marriage. | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
Wrangling ahead of the launch of a new taxi service here which has | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
swept the globe, and the Antrim | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
schoolboy with a shot at playing for Real Madrid. | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
And the weekends weather will be dominated by Storm Desmond. | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
The mother of Jean Quigley, who was killed by her former | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
partner, has been describing the moment when she found her daughter's | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Yesterday in Dublin, Stephen Cahoon, who is originally from Magherafelt, | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
was convicted of murdering the pregnant mother of four children. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Our reporter in the North-West, Keiron Tourish, has been speaking | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
The family of Jean Quigley say they're relieved | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Yesterday her former partner Stephen Cahoon was found guilty for a second | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
The victim's body was found by her mother, naked and bruised, | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
That's just the way I phoned her. There was blood here, blood there. | :01:51. | :02:05. | |
She was just called and I just wanted to lift but I couldn't. I had | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
to find a girl, at 30 years of age, no matter who her mother was, with | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
four children, it could never be and I couldn't let go of her. It was | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
like somebody had cut a piece of my heart out. You don't expect to find | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
what I found and it was horrendous. This CCTV footage shows | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
the last images of Jean Quigley She was 30 years old and ten | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
weeks pregnant with his child. Cahoon has a history | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
of violence against women. He beat her beyond recognition | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
in 1997 when she was 18. At the trial Stephen Cahoon told | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
the jury that he "saw red" when she told him the baby | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
she was expecting wasn't his. So he said he | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
"grabbed and pushed" her He admitted strangling her | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
but denied her murder. However, the prosecution told | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
the jury that that there was evidence of "violence from beginning | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
to end" at the scene. Arrested in the Republic, | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
Cahoon opted for a trial in Dublin. The first jury failed to reach | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
a verdict. A subsequent conviction was quashed | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
at appeal because of a technicality. Yesterday another jury, the third, | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
found him guilty. He's been sentenced to life | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
imprisonment, He should just rot in hell. He | :03:26. | :03:39. | |
should stay in that prison and never get out, but he will, it's the law, | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
when he has done his time he is free to leave. And what do you think of | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
that? It's a joke. A life should mean a life. He should stay in there | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
forever. He will come out and do it to somebody else. He has the form | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
four. He should never be left out because he is a danger to women. And | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
I don't care who the wee girl is, no mother wants her daughter for a | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
punch bag. You real not for somebody else to abuse. The family say they | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
remain steadfast in their determination to preserve the memory | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
of a wonderful woman who was loved by many. | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
A second man has appeared in court accused of attempting to murder | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
David Jordan from Pomeroy is accused of being involved | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
in a booby trap bombing which left the officer seriously injured. | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
Another man, Gavin Coyle from Omagh, faced a similar charge yesterday. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Reporting from today's hearing, Gordon Adair. | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
It was an almost miracle escape. The constable targeted in this attack is | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
now back on front line duties. He dragged himself out of his burning | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
car and was then helped to safety by passing motorists. The police say | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
this man, David Jordan from Pomeroy, was involved in planting the bomb. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
He denies it and through his lawyer said his arrest was what he called | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
internment remand. A detective Sergeant said she believed she could | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
connect him with the charges. David Jordan neither stood nor spoke | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
during the hearing. He did wave and smile to a large group of supporters | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
in the public an array, among them several prominent dissident | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
republicans including Belfast man the fennel and to others of the | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
gunman Colin Duffy. Another man, Gavin Coyle from Homer, was in court | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
yesterday on the same charge. The police say the attack was a joint | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
enterprise between them. David Jordan's lawyer refused to accept | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
detectives had done enough to connect his client to the attack and | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
questioned the evidence in some detail. Several times the district | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
judge step down to remind him this was not a trial. The judge ruled | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
there was a case to answer. Bail was abused with the detective citing | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
what she called the heightened threat posed by dissident | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
republicans is one reason behind the objection. David Jordan was then | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
remanded in custody. There have been jubilant scenes | :06:26. | :06:36. | |
outside a care home in Ballynahinch following the news it has been saved | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
from closure. Another home in the same group has also been sold as a | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
growing concern. There are still plans to close five other homes by | :06:47. | :06:47. | |
the end of February. You could hear the relief today, | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
in the clink of glasses It was all | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
in stark contrast to last week, when Four Seasons announced Oakridge care | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
home and Antrim Care Home were among But the revelation that both would | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
be sold as a going concern and remain open left Norma Shiels, | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
whose parents are residents here, It's so difficult, first double to | :07:06. | :07:19. | |
find a place for nursing, which is impossible to get, and to find two | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
places was proving really difficult, so it has been a huge | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
roller-coaster. I don't really know how I feel at the moment but | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
certainly relieved. I'm just so glad she is somewhere she feels safe and | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
where the staff know her, that is such an important thing with | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Alzheimer's, they know when she is having a good day, when she is | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
having a bad day, how to settle her. To go somewhere else they would | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
have to learn that over again. A lot of us were scared if we had to move | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
our relatives at this stage. Everybody in this home has dementia | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
so they were going to go through a huge upheaval and it could have | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
killed them. clouds were | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
gathering over its business when it revealed | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
a ?500 million debt. It's the largest operator | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
of care homes in the UK. Hutchinson Care Homes has agreed to | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
buy Antrim Care Home, which has 33 residents and 60 staff, | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
while Oakridge, which has 59 residents and 80 staff, is being | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
sold to The Spa Nursing Home Group. It's clear that they are in the | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
market for sale. I don't know what that means. We have two homes being | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
sold as a going concern and that is good for bulletins and staff but we | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
do not know if that is Kate the case with the other homes. Celebrations | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
were tempered by the act that five other homes are still earmarked for | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
closure. Relatives of residence here said they would do all they could to | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
help those families who are still affected. | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
Still ahead on the programme this evening: | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
The special arrangements for the refugees coming here from Syria. | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
Judgment has been reserved in a legal challenge to Northern | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
The action has been taken by two gay couples, who were the first to enter | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
They claim the current legislation is in breach of their human rights. | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
Rick Faragher was at the High Court in Belfast. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Ten years ago, Northern Ireland was seen by many as leading the way | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Belfast City Hall was the venue for the UK's first civil partnership. | :09:34. | :09:45. | |
This was soon followed by two other couples. Yesterday a lawyer | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
representing like a couple said the lack of same sex marriage was having | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
a serious mental, and emotional impact on some gay couples. | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
He said the current legislation made Northern Ireland a blot on the map, | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
a backward-looking, divisive and divided society. | :10:08. | :10:08. | |
David McMillen QC also highlighted the Assembly's recent majority vote | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
in favour of same-sex marriage, and said he thought it was clear | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
that the majority of society supports this. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Mr Justice O'Hara heard the case in tandem with another who want | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
their marriage in England to be recognised here. | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
It is a breach of the right to be treated equally but ordered the law | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
and not to face discrimination in the right to phoned a family. | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
Amnesty International is clear this is a breach of human rights | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
standards and we hope the judge sees it similarly. | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
Today, a lawyer representing the Department of Finance and Personnel | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
said Northern Ireland already recognised homosexual couples via | :10:48. | :10:48. | |
civil partnerships, that this satisfies the European Convention on | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Human Rights, and there was no legal obligation to | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
Tony McGleenan QC also claimed a court intervention | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Our love is equal. It is not any less. We're not here today to look | :11:00. | :11:15. | |
for a religious ceremony, we are here for civil marriage and for our | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
love to be represented as equal. Mr Justice O'Hara said there was | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
a lot to be considered in both cases and will deliver | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
his judgement in the New Year. A woman has died in a road crash in | :11:24. | :11:37. | |
Portland known this morning. A man who arrived at the scene fell ill | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
and also died. The police said they knew each other but were not | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
related. A 21-year-old man was arrested. -- Portland known. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Two men have appeared in court over the discovery | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
of a bomb at the Waterfoot Hotel in Londonderry in October. | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
41-year-old Darren Poleon from Kells in County Antrim | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
and 34-year-old Brian Walsh from Dunshaughlin in County Meath | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
Newtownards Magistrates' Court has been told that police officers have | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
over a million indecent images to sift through | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
from a manual that was discovered at the home of a part-time cleaner | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Gary Carruthers from Victoria Street in Belfast was | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
A special police team will be monitoring the safety | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
of refugees from Syria to arrive in Northern Ireland. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
The first of them will be here in ten days. | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
In all, 100 people fleeing the conflict in the Middle East | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
Those coming this month are of mixed religions and they will eventually | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
be housed in areas of North, West and South Belfast - areas described | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
Imagine leaving these war-torn streets for some like these - | :12:43. | :12:54. | |
The first ten families fleeing the Syrian conflict arrive | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
on the 15th, on a chartered flight from the Lebanon, | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
51 people including five children under five, one of them a baby. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Some will be Christian, some Muslim - all will have passed | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
a two-stage security process before entering the UK. | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
The PSNI has accepted that their arrival could attract the | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
It's recently formed a special team which will help them settle. | :13:19. | :13:30. | |
I know where they will be settled temporarily. Those addresses are | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
passed to us for suitability and we will do all we can to enable the | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
effective settlement of those refugees in Northern Ireland. I hope | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
we have a warm welcome but also a sensitive one. A number of us have | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
been out in camps in Jordan and realise people have been through | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
from already and Bob to help people settle here. -- and want to help. | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
The Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme offers | :14:05. | :14:05. | |
The Syrian refugees will be entitled to work. | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
With Home Office funding they'll have access to benefits and housing | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
support, and they'll have health care and places in local schools. | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
They can apply for an integration loan to cover | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
They'll also have the freedom to move around the UK. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
The families due to move into streets across Belfast will | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
have fled great danger, looking for a new start in safety. | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Many groups are working together to make sure that happens. | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
The top racer determined to walk up the aisle | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
The taxi firm Uber will be launched in Belfast from next week. | :14:45. | :14:56. | |
The US company already operates in more than 300 cities worldwide, | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
The business, which is based around a smartphone app, has caused | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
Our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell reports. | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
Uber is a smartphone app which connects taxi drivers to their | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
It's shaken up the industry across the world. | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
That's prompted protests from existing operators, | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
who accuse Uber of playing fast and loose with taxi regulations. | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
The firm's now been granted a licence to operate here. | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
In a statement the Department of the Environment said: | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
That means drivers must be properly qualified, | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
as shown on this sign-up form the company was handing out today. | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
But one of Belfast's biggest operators thinks it won't mean | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
There is good to be no new drivers on the road next Saturday night, so | :15:57. | :16:10. | |
this and say that people are talking about the end of the problems at | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
once a.m., nothing will change. A similar number of cars will be on | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
the road in Belfast. -- one a.m.. There could still be a bump | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
in the road for Uber. New rules due to take effect in May | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
next year mean that all taxis must A recent statement | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
from the Environment Minister suggests that smartphones, | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
which are at the centre of Uber's So the company may yet have | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
a fight on its hands. The dream of playing | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
for the world famous football team Real Madrid could become a reality | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
for a young County Antrim boy. Here he is - Mark Norris, who is | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
11 years old and from Whitehead. He has been invited for a trial | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
by the Spanish club next year. Mark is certainly talented but how | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
did he fare against our reporter It's a long way from Carrick | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Grammar School to the Bernabeu. But Mark Norris has begun | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
a journey which could lead to Mark first caught the eye of Madrid | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
at a coaching camp while My dad has some connections with the | :17:11. | :17:32. | |
Real Madrid people and they saw my videos and said they liked me. | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
It all started for Mark at junior side Whitehead Eagles, and | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
then Greenisland FC before being snapped up by Linfield Academy. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Mark knows the competition will be tough but | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
he's out to impress Real Madrid when he goes there on trial next spring. | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
I'm going over in May and trial with them one week and | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Just like his lookalike hero Ronaldo, | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
It all looks promising but Mark also knows the value of education. | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
He's keen on art, music and learning Spanish. | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Now that could come in very handy in Madrid. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
Whether or not that the bulk carrier works out, we would like to thank | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
Mark will look back fondly on his school days here, playing with his | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
other classmates -- the football career. | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
From here on, the football gets tougher. | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
Let's see how Mark fares against a 16-stone stopper. | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
So watch out for that name, Mark Norris, and grab a selfie | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
Yes, remember that name, Mark Norris. | :18:42. | :18:58. | |
Just a correction for you. Earlier we said a man from Kells had connect | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
-- appeared in court in connection with a Waterford bomb. We should | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
have said Kells in County Meath and are willing to apologise for any | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
confusion. It's an important night for Ulster | :19:15. | :19:15. | |
rugby - they're in action Thomas Niblock is at the Kingspan | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
stadium in Belfast. Good evening. Ulster have lost two | :19:19. | :19:33. | |
games on the bounce to Toulouse at third would be very bad, and it | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
would be a perfect engagement present for one of their supporters. | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
The Holywood golfer Rory McIlroy has got engaged | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
He's been going out with Erica Stoll for more than a year. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
The couple were recently at Windsor Park supporting the | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
He visited Paris, drop to one knee and asked her to marry him, and she | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
said yes. Congratulations to them both. As I mentioned, there is an | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
important rugby game taking place. Stephen Ferris joins me now. They | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
lost the previous two. All the other sides are above them in the table. | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
Are we talking about a crisis? No, but there would be disappointment. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
There is a lot of expect patient, if you look at Leinster and Munster, | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
supporters are not getting behind them, this team needs to perform. | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
Why do you feel it has gone so wrong this season? I do not feel it is | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
gone so wrong but there is inconsistency. If you look at the | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
teams who have played the last few years, our way form this season has | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
cost us so far. Bit of a wedding theme tonight | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
on Newsline. Stephen Ferris recently became | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
engaged, we have also mentioned Rory McIlroy. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Toomebridge motorcyclist Eugene Laverty is also getting | :21:15. | :21:15. | |
married but the lead-up to Mondays wedding hasn't been much fun | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
following a high speed crash in Spain last weekend. | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
The final wedding alterations for Eugene Laverty, but this was a suit | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
fitting with a difference. It is not often the groom sports a plaster | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
cast on the big day. That will not go through that way. In some ways it | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
couldn't happen at a better time because it is the off-season but | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
there is the small matter of the wedding, you only plan to do with | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
once in your life and unfortunately I will be injured. I have cancelled | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
the honeymoon because I could not enjoy it there in comfort, it is | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
better to be home. Home is now Monaco, but he knows he was lucky | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
after last week's high-speed crash. Fortunate to be able to walk away | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
from the accident. They had to put metalwork in my left wrist but what | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
was annoying me more was the right shoulder, which is fractured and | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
dislocated, concussion and the rest of it takes a few days to settle in. | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
Laverty has competed for different teams in the last few seasons with | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
varying degrees of success. He wants to recapture the form that took to | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
motorcycling's Premier class. He is determined to get back to the top. | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
But for now, his mind will obviously be elsewhere. And the best of luck | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
to Eugene on Monday. Now, as a sport mixed martial arts | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
might divide opinion, but there can be no denying its popularity | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
in one North Belfast club where MMA has encouraged some teenagers | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
off the streets and into the GYM. has encouraged some teenagers | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
off the streets and into the gym. With every passing day, MMA - | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
or mixed martial arts - It's now regarded | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
as the world's fastest growing sport but its effects are much bigger than | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
just keeping fit. This is teenager Mark Bingham, | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
and MMA has changed his life. Before I came to the gym I was | :23:25. | :23:38. | |
hanging around with the wrong crowd, heavily involved with drink and | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
drugs, anti-social behaviour on street corners, bored with nothing | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
to do and then I found the gym and began getting factor. It taught me | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
you didn't have to be on street corners causing havoc to get fun, | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
you didn't have to take drugs to get high, you could get it through the | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
gym and your community and hard work. When you see these young guys | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
getting inspired, and they are enjoying it, we have kids in here | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
from 6pm until 10:30pm, it is better than being on the streets. | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
The sport, of course, has a much wider appeal than just | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
Norman Park and, specifically, World UFC Champion Conor McGregor | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Very few will make it to the very top, but the sport is providing | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
Martial arts changed everyone's life in here. Everyone sees the public | :24:25. | :24:39. | |
image of MMA and people like Conor McGregor, but that is the very few | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
elite mode of people. What we give them in there is a package where | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
they can get grades, have a social life, it is open every night of the | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
week and they can excel in their own way and in their own time. | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
Whether it's becoming a European Champion, like Leah McCourt, or top | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
or just for fun, MMA, it seems, is here to stay. | :25:00. | :25:11. | |
Ulster against Edinburgh will be live on BBC Two at 7:30pm. | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
And if you are playing sport outdoors this weekend I hope your | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
The field at the Collegeland O'Rahilly | :25:21. | :25:35. | |
club in County Armagh is more like a swimming pool. | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
The first batch of nasty weather has arrived. Here is an aid weather | :25:39. | :25:53. | |
system, so it will be the early hours of Sunday before it moves away | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
from us. Warnings have been issued for strong winds and heavy rain and | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
it is the accumulation of that rain on saturated ground, by the end of | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
the weekend there could be over 60 millimetres, especially across the | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
West, so there could be flooding in many areas and strong winds have | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
already brought trees down, so pretty nasty to the night, the dust | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
at extreme as Barack, rain relentless at times across the West | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
although winds will drop a little towards the end of the night, but | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
they will pick up again tomorrow, and the rain looks as if it will be | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
on the road today on Saturday, heavy and persistent in the West, perhaps | :26:36. | :26:45. | |
one or two dry patches by the Ards Peninsula, but hopefully you don't | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
have anything to do out orders. If you have any Christmas decorations | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
outside it might you worth tying them down tonight because the wind | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
and rain could easily damage things. The air overhead is mild, | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
temperatures in double figures but with the wind and rain, it will feel | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
very unpleasant. Another rotten night tomorrow night, wet and windy, | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
you see the rain building up across the West although by the early hours | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
of Sunday things begin to calm down and write up. So it is not all bad | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
news, there will be 12 showers on Sunday, especially along the north | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
coast, but there will be dry weather and sunshine to, with a drop in | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
temperature as well as a drop in the wind, and another area of wet and | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
windy weather is coming back on Monday. Oh dear. Our late summary is | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
at 10:25pm. Whatever you are doing this weekend, even putting up the | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
Christmas tree, enjoy. Take care. | :27:50. | :27:52. |