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Good evening - the headlines on BBC Newsline: | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
The funeral is held of a West Belfast man beaten | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
A seven-year-old boy dies in a road accident in County Fermanagh. | :00:19. | :00:31. | |
The BBC's Sports Personality of the Year is hosted in Belfast | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
for the first time - with some well known and some not | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
These are people you see on TV all the time and just to be able to | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
share a stage with them, in some believable. Sports personality of | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
the year has now gone, but what will be the lasting impact for Belfast? | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
A quarter of a million passengers are coming through the three local | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
airports as families and friends reunite for the festive season - | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
# Nearly 2000 years ago, under a starlit sky. | :01:04. | :01:23. | |
We have a Christmas Carol from pupils of | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
And only four more sleeps until the big day - | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
I'll be back with the latest on the Christmas forecast. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
A priest has urged young people in West Belfast not to take the law | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
He was speaking at the funeral of Christopher Meli, | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
who was beaten to death in Twinbrook where he was visiting friends. | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
The young men's family also called for no retaliation for his murder, | :01:50. | :01:49. | |
One of the teenagers accused of Christopher Meli's murder | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Another had bail refused amid fears that he would re-offend. | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
Family and friends gathered outside the Mealy family home off | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
the Springfield Road this morning. They stood silently as the coffin | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
of 20-year-old Christopher Mealy was carried outside, | :02:16. | :02:16. | |
before being placed in a horse-drawn hearse. | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
A lone piper walked ahead of the cortege playing a lament. | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
At the Church of the Annunciation in nearby New Barnsley, | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
more people joined the mourners filing in for the Requiem Mass. | :02:32. | :02:32. | |
During the service, the parish curate Father Aidan Denny spoke | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
of what he called a stupid group of teenagers who did this horrible | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
deed, and he went on to urge young people in the area not to take | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
the law into their hands, echoing calls for no retaliation | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
from the victim's family. The priest also spoke of the sudden | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
and tragic loss which the family are having to come to terms with. | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
Nothing can prepare us for something like this and naturally we ask why | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
it happened. And there is a tendency to say, it is the will of God. But | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
As the cortege moved away not will this tragedy to happen. | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
As the cortege moved away from the church for the burial, | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
Christopher Mealy's mother Vannessa clutched a photograph | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
of her son in one hand, while placing the other | :03:25. | :03:25. | |
on his coffin as she followed it down the road towards | :03:26. | :03:25. | |
the city cemetery. The police say they have | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
significantly increased patrols in West Belfast since the murder | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
of Christopher Mealy. Local political and community | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
leaders have expressed concern following an attack on another group | :03:41. | :03:40. | |
of teenagers at the weekend, The police were in the Twinbrook | :03:41. | :03:50. | |
area yesterday, close to where Christopher Mealy died. | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
They were appealing for information about his murder. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
Officers have also been spending more time in the wider West Belfast | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
area in recent days. Over a week after the murder, | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
there are political concerns about about vigilantes. | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
There are people from armed groups going about in cars appear, like | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
vigilantes, all week. This has to stop. They have to stop doing this | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
because they are intimidating people and people in this area are very | :04:24. | :04:23. | |
fearful for their children. On the nearby Stewardstown Road, | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
a teenager was attacked and beaten by a number of people | :04:31. | :04:31. | |
early yesterday morning. He suffered a suspected broken nose. | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
Today the police have appealed to the wider local community in the | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
area to help reduce tensions. In turn, the local community has called | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
These community workers into the area over the coming days. | :04:47. | :04:46. | |
These community workers are finalising arrangements | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
for a big Christmas community event here tonight. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
But they've also been shifting their focus to the deal | :04:54. | :04:54. | |
with the fallout from the unforeseen events of recent days. | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
There is increased attention. We had a very large group of volunteers out | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
on Friday night in the area of reassuring people. | :05:06. | :05:06. | |
And the community leaders say they're trying to show people | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
a different way forward to help them get over the dangers on the streets. | :05:13. | :05:13. | |
Maybe they shouldn't be hanging about in their gangs and shouldn't | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
be drinking on the streets and drinking in areas where that happens | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
regularly. Just days from Christmas, | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
this is a community hoping for an end to the tensions of recent | :05:28. | :05:28. | |
days and a return to normality. A community in County Fermanagh | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
is mourning the loss of a seven year old boy who was who was killed | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
in a road accident yesterday. He was hit by a car | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
on Latone Road near Belcoo. Here's our south west | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
reporter Julian Fowler. Seven-year-old Ryan McGovern lived | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
with his parents and two brothers on the road between Garrison | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
and Belcoo, a few miles from where he was killed. | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
Ryan was struck by a car which was travelling along the road yesterday | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
lunchtime. He was brought to hospital, where he later died. | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
This latest tragedy on our roads has left another family, | :06:14. | :06:14. | |
another community, devastated. Here are just heartbroken. I'm | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
talking on my own behalf of the half of the old community, I cannot | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
imagine or believe how they are feeling, because I have a small boy | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
at the same age, they were in the same class and they play together, | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
it's very sad, very, very sad. And for the school beside us as well, my | :06:41. | :06:41. | |
sweet it would've been full of the joy of Christmas. Yes, the school | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
play and the children running about playing, words can't describe it. | :06:51. | :06:51. | |
I'm just devastated. The police in Enniskillen have | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
appealed for anyone who witnessed the accidnet to contact them. | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
Julian Fowler, BBC Newsline, Garrison. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Still to come on the programme this evening Stephen Watson's | :07:03. | :07:02. | |
We'll hear from Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill and reflect | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
on Ulster Rugby's European triumph in France. | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
The Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has praised the prominent | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
republican Thomas "Slab" Murphy for, what he called, 'his invaluable | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
The South Armagh man was convicted last week on nine counts of tax | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
evasion by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin. | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
Here's Our Political Editor Mark Devenport. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
For decades, Thomas "Slab" Murphy, here wearing a cap, has been | :07:42. | :07:41. | |
regarded as a leading republican on the border between South Armagh | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Last week, the farmer was convicted of nine charges of tax evasion. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
But Sinn Fein said he'd been treated unfairly. | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
Gerry Adams criticised the decision to deal with his case at | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
the Dublin Special Criminal Court, which operates with | :07:58. | :07:57. | |
British, Irish and Stormont ministers faced questions | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
today about the handling of Tom Murphy's case. | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
Martin McGuinness said his support had been vital to what he called | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
the amazing progress achieved in the last 20 years. | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
It wouldn't have happened without the support of people like Tom | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
Murphy and we need to understand that. Tom Murphy has found himself | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
before a court on revenue matters. There have been others who have | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
found himself before courts, business people, but none of them | :08:40. | :08:39. | |
are to be described as criminals. However, other ministers didn't | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
share Sinn Fein's concerns Peter Robinson reckoned it | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
would have been sheer madness to have heard the Murphy case | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
in front of a jury. I don't think it would have been any | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
different result had there been a jury, I think a jury would've been | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
much more suspect will to pressures. There are very good reasons and have | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
been for a number of years as to why we have had special criminal courts | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
and we will continue to have them. It's important in the context of | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
bringing people to justice that every effort is made to ensure that | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
we can bring an end to this port is crime within communities. | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
The ministers have confirmed that a new joint task force intended to | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
tackle met paramilitary crime will have its next meeting next month. | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
Some stories in brief next and a man who confessed to a number | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
of IRA-related offences in the 1990s has been given | :09:44. | :09:43. | |
42-year-old Christopher Paul O'Kane from Woodland Avenue | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
in Londonderry admitted playing a role in several attacks | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
against the security forces, including assisting offenders | :09:51. | :09:51. | |
in the aftermath of a police officer's murder. | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
A van driver was injured during a hijacking in Carrickfergus. | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
He was threatened with a handgun on Belfast Road, told to drive | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
to the Glencairn Road in North Belfast where the contents | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
It was a big night for local sport at the BBC Sports Personality | :10:06. | :10:21. | |
of the Year ceremony in Belfast last night. | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
A Lifetime Achievement Award was given to the recently retired | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Lisa McAlister was there for BBC Newsline. | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
Among the big winners on the night Northern Ireland Manager Michael | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
O'Neill who was named Coach of the Year after qualifying | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
for next summer's European Championships in France. | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
To bring an event like this to Belfast is something special. | :10:54. | :10:53. | |
To be here on the stage as the manager of my country | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
and to be going to France is very special for me as well, | :11:01. | :11:00. | |
And the local triumphs didn't stop there. | :11:01. | :11:09. | |
Holywood golfer Rory McIlroy presented champion jockey AP McCoy | :11:10. | :11:09. | |
To any young people watching tonight's show or that are here this | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
evening, all that I can say is make the sacrifices | :11:18. | :11:18. | |
The Unsung Hero Award went to West Belfast man Damien Lindsay | :11:19. | :11:33. | |
who set up a football club to try and get young people | :11:34. | :11:34. | |
These are people you see on TV all the time. | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
Just to be able to go and share a stage with a lot of them | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
I sort of choked because I had things I wanted to say and thank | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
a lot of people and things like that there and I couldn't wait | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
I probably would have burst out crying or something. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
Outside the arena Deputy First Minister Martin McGuiness joined | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
around 30 people protesting over the nomination of Tyson Fury | :12:07. | :12:07. | |
after the heavyweight champion made controversial comments | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
On the red carpet though there was a sense that holding it | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
We all grew up with the Sports Personality of the Year | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
awards and the timing, it coincides with Northern Ireland | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
qualifying and Michael O'Neill's achievement. | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
Although Andy Murray was named Sports Personality of the Year, | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
Northern Ireland's sporting success was definitely on display. | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
Belfast City Council and Tourism NI paid almost ?250,000 to help pay | :12:55. | :12:54. | |
BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson asks if it was worth the spend. | :12:55. | :13:07. | |
More than 7,000 people were there. Seven million watched it on TV. | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
And for the star guests having brekfast in Belfast the day | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
after the night before, there was high praise | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
for the host city. It was huge. I think it puts Belfast | :13:21. | :13:30. | |
into a good light. I've gone the last four or five of these things | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
and Belfast was easily the best atmosphere. Thank you! | :13:37. | :13:37. | |
One of the biggest cheers of the night was for eight-year-old | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Bailey Matthews, who, despite having cerebral palsy, | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
recently completed a triathlon. His family have been | :13:46. | :13:45. | |
here for four days. The question is would | :13:46. | :13:46. | |
they come back. Over to you. Would you like to come | :13:47. | :14:01. | |
to Belfast again? It's been an absolutely brilliant time that we've | :14:02. | :14:02. | |
been here. We came on Friday. Absolutely fabulous time. The old | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
Getting the stars here is one thing, stereotype of Belfast is long gone. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Getting the stars here is one thing, getting them back is another. | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
We are a normal city, we have great things to offer so many people. I | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
can't wait to have some of these guys back to stay with us. | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
# Oh, Danny boy. They put almost one quarter of ?1 | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
million into the cost of hosting busway's event. But was it worth it? | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
Think it was incredible value for money. I think if we'd have to look | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
at what we've have to spend in terms of advertising to reach an audience | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
of that skill, we would be spending millions, if not tens of millions of | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
pounds. The show was now over, and while some are clearing up, others | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
are adding up what the benefit might be. The reality is, there is no way | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
of connectivity exactly how much money is going to be made for the | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
Northern Ireland economy, but one thing is clear. Lastly's event will | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
have enhanced the reputation of Belfast as a place for a great night | :15:13. | :15:13. | |
out. With less than a week | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
to go before Christmas, it's the busiest day of the year | :15:21. | :15:20. | |
at our local airports, as people travel home | :15:21. | :15:21. | |
for the holidays. Maggie Taggart joins us now | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
from Belfast International Airport. Yes, and as you can hear, there are | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
some seasonal songs going on from a charity in the background. This is | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
said to be the busiest day of the season. Monday has more planes than | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
any other day, more flights, but a slight stutter here are full to the | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
brim and I have been speaking to some people and the reunions. | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
Christmas jumpers were very involved today. Even novelty hats were | :15:51. | :15:51. | |
popular. What are we celebrating here? I'm coming home from | :15:52. | :16:01. | |
university. There you go! Some newer passengers were eagerly anticipated | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
in this season of family get-togethers. That was quite a | :16:08. | :16:08. | |
welcome! Where are you all coming from? Liverpool and Australia. She's | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
from Belfast. And you were in Australia? Yes, it's my sister 's | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
wedding. That arrived from Manchester. This is with Eliza. This | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
is my mother. She's here to welcome us home for Christmas. We are about | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
70% up previous year, so not a significant increase, and we are | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
seeing passengers coming from everywhere, domestic as people come | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
from London to Northern Ireland, regional airports. Very busy | :16:49. | :16:49. | |
overall. But what about the age-old question, if you're not at home, how | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
will Santa know where to come? He left a note for Santa to come to | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
Northern Ireland instead of Liverpool. Hopefully he gets! That | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
was a smart daddy. Belfast International Airport in 45,000 | :17:08. | :17:08. | |
passengers over the weekend alone. Over the three airports, the Belfast | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
international, Derry city and George Best airport, they will carry | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
250,000 passengers, lots of turkey, but the Christmas food and champagne | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
needed. Well, let's go back to the BBC sports awards. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
Among the biggest cheers of the evening, were those reserved | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
for Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill. | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
He won the Coach of the Year award for getting his side to the finals | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
of Euro 2016 next summer - and he said afterwards | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
that the recognition had come as a complete surprise. | :17:45. | :17:44. | |
I didn't expect this award, to be honest. There are a lot of fantastic | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
coaches in the room and we have had a magnificent campaign, it never -- | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
magnificent achievement by the players, but it reinforces how much | :17:59. | :17:59. | |
it means to the people of Northern Ireland that we are now going back | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
to the big stage and friends and it gets more focus. We do everything we | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
can to make them proud again once we get there. People in Northern | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
Ireland show their support, we saw that may, in the world saw as we saw | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
in the audience say, it is appreciated by people that they are | :18:19. | :18:19. | |
huge and thought thought it was fantastic. Standing with the trophy | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
in your hands, does it really make you reflect on what an incredible | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
year it has been? Yes, and possibly even longer. And for years I've been | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
in charge, the difficult times we had at the start, how we overcame | :18:39. | :18:39. | |
them and how we grew as a team. Seeing players grow from a pure | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
being on the periphery of the squad to become established players, as | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
the established players towing into top international players. It has | :18:54. | :18:54. | |
taken three or four years to do this, but we have shown over this | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
campaign and we won our group, a difficult group, we now have a team | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
that everyone in Northern Ireland can be proud of, it represents | :19:08. | :19:08. | |
everyone in Northern Ireland and come June we will be ready to play | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
again. A deserted victory. And in other one now. -- deserved victory. | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
Ulster recorded a famous win in France yesterday | :19:22. | :19:22. | |
as they completed back to back victories against Toulouse | :19:23. | :19:23. | |
The 25-23 triumph puts them right back in the mix for the knockout | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
stages of the competition with three games still to play. | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
In the first half, wave upon wave of Ulster pressure paid off. This | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
player dived in for the opening score. And in the second half, | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
Ulster appeared to take control of the game. A break by the impressive | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
Stuart McCluskey eventually set up another superb tries. And that is an | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
outstanding finish from a world-class winger. But the | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
four-time world European champions came back strongly and with a try in | :20:13. | :20:13. | |
a penalty, they took a 1-point lead in the contest. The revival was | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
short-lived, however. He is straight through! That is surely it! Ulster | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
scored the decisive try of the game. And the wind, just a third ever in | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
France, mean that Ulster now have a quarterfinal spot very much in their | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
sites once more. A great performance. | :20:36. | :20:35. | |
Champions Crusaders have opened up an eight-point gap at the top | :20:36. | :20:36. | |
of the Danskebank Irish Premiership table after closest rivals | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
Cliftonville dropped three points on Saturday. | :20:40. | :20:40. | |
Ballymena also emerged pointless from their game at home to Linfield, | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
but with the consolation of a strong contender for Goal of the Season. | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
The opening goal at the Showgrounds on Saturday was worth the price | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
of admission alone. That's a good effort, that's a very | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
good effort! That's a marvelous goal! United's tops marksmen, his | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
11th of the season! What a goal. To go one nil of, is that everything | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
you take from David, we know he can do it. All my time knowing him, | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
that's the best I've seen yet. He gave us a good start, into half time | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
we were one up. But in the second half we did not have the intensity | :21:28. | :21:27. | |
we had in the first paid the price. Visitors Linfield | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
finished up 3-1 winners - as David Healy's side were the only | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
team to go up in the table, rising to third. | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
But Cliftonville had a game to forget at the Oval, | :21:47. | :21:46. | |
losing 2-0 to Glentoran, Fra McCaffrey with the decisive | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
second strike for the home side. Which meant Crusaders, | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
1-0 winners on Friday night against Coleraine, could now | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
extend their lead to 11 points with a win on Boxing Day | :21:55. | :21:55. | |
against their North Belfast rivals. Nial Foster, BBC Newsline. | :21:56. | :21:56. | |
Finally, the Belfast Giants had a good weekend away from the SSE | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
Arena - they won back-to-back games in Edinburgh to get | :22:03. | :22:02. | |
their Elite League title challenge back on track. | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
Sorry, they were not in the SSD arena, there was a big event! | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
As well as the glamour at the sports awards yesterday, | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
we had the very glamourous wedding of a sports star and the former BBC | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
Northern Ireland presenter Christine Bleakley. | :22:27. | :22:27. | |
She married the footballer Frank Lampard in front of family | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
and friends at St Paul's Church in Knightsbridge in London. | :22:32. | :22:32. | |
The couple recently moved to the USA where he has signed | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
And we have yet more star-studded pictures | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
There was a fantastic spectacle last night with weather conditions | :22:42. | :22:42. | |
perfect for spotting the Northern Lights. | :22:43. | :22:43. | |
This video - taken by one of our viewers - | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
shows the aurora dancing in the sky above Derry. | :22:51. | :22:51. | |
The weather forecast is next with Cecilia Daly. | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
Thank you, the aurora borealis is nature's own Christmas lights. A | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
wonderful time to sea. Look fantastic. Judging by the number of | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
photographs we have received today, a lot of you got to see them as | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
well. The north coast is always a really good spot to see the aurora | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
borealis when conditions are just right, but last night the dishes | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
were so strong that even as far inland as new free, they were seen | :23:25. | :23:25. | |
as well. Conditions may not be as good tonight, unfortunately things | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
are going to get wet and windy. The rain moves in, some parts can expect | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
a good inch of rain. The ground is still saturated here, after the big | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
storm Desmond. It is still running in a number of places to more money, | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
wet and windy weather to come tomorrow night. It does not hang | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
around too long, but first thing in the morning it will be reigning in a | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
lot of places and likely to be a lot of service water and spray on the | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
roads, possibly some flooding. First thing we will have our highest | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
temperatures, the air gets drier and brighter, it will turn colder. Still | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
decent if you're out and about, eight or nine Celsius in many | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
places, blustery winds, lots of dry weather through the afternoon, some | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
sunshine. Some showers moving into the northwest as the afternoon goes | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
on. A lot of places may well get lucky tomorrow, especially across | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
Belfast on the South East. Not seen too many showers out all through the | :24:26. | :24:26. | |
day. But a combo quite heavy showers to come in tomorrow evening. Last | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
three wins, temperatures will fall and they will turn increasingly | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
wintry. Temperatures will be low on Wednesday morning to have a touch of | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
eyes. Colder as we head towards Christmas, a few flakes of snow | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
around on Christmas Eve, but at the moment, that looks like Christmas | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
table and a pretty soggy. Once bright and breezy, cold winds, some | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
sunshine as well. Christmas Eve, a lot of dry and crisp weather, though | :24:59. | :24:59. | |
showers starting to turn a bit wintry and snow on the hills. | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
We leave you this evening with the first of our annual | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Here you have pupils from Downpatrick Primary School. | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
# Nearly 2000 years ago, under a starlit sky. | :25:14. | :25:27. | |
# Many events were taking place as the angels had prophesied. | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
# And a gift was given from heaven to earth, | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
# So let us adore the Saviour born, Immanuel, here tonight. | :25:39. | :25:53. | |
# Heavenly ghost of angels, praising God on high. | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
# Sang of the promised child to come, the saviour Jesus Christ. | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
# And a gift was given from heaven to earth, | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
# So let us adore the Saviour born, Immanuel, here tonight. | :26:12. | :26:23. | |
# Darkness was over Bethlehem, brightly the star did shine. | :26:24. | :26:35. | |
# Showing the way to where he lay, in a manger for all to find. | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
# And a gift was given from heaven to earth, | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
# So let us adore the Saviour born, Immanuel, here tonight. | :26:45. | :26:57. | |
# Never before in history had there been such a sign. | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
# For God was born in human form for the sake of all mankind. | :27:05. | :27:21. | |
# And a gift was given from heaven to earth, | :27:22. | :27:30. | |
# So let us adore him, Christ the Lord, Immanuel, here tonight. | :27:31. | :27:43. |