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The headlines on BBC Newsline: Walking free from court - | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
the evangelical pastor accused of making grossly offensive | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
I'm very happy, very happy at today's verdict. | :00:21. | :00:32. | |
All hands to the pumps in the fight against the rising | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Only for the banks and the pumps, it would be here. | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
How the crisis in the care sector is putting our | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
We're live at Belfast City Hall as the council kicks around | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
a controversial plan to honour two football teams. | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
100 years after the Battle of the Somme, reports from the trenches of | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
the 32nd Ulster Division here in France. | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
World champion cyclist Martyn Irvine tells us why | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
And a welcome break from wet weather is on the way, but for how long? | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
Find out shortly. The evangelical pastor | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
James McConnell has been found not guilty of making "grossly offensive" | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
remarks about Muslims. The 78-year-old from Newtownabbey | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
was charged 18 months ago following a sermon at | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
the Whitewell Tabernacle Church. Today the legal process | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
came to an end as Pastor McConnell at the end | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
of his trial, a free man. The judge, Liam McNally, | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
ruled his comments were offensive, but not "grossly" offensive - | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
the definition required For a while there I thought | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
the judge was going to put me down because there was two policemen | :01:49. | :02:01. | |
sitting behind me and I thought this is it, and then he turned around | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
and I was amazed he said twice not It was this sermon in 2014 that | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
landed Pastor McConnell in court. Now people say there | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
are good Muslims in Britain, that may be so, but | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
I don't trust them. But it wasn't just what he said - | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
it was the fact the sermon The judge accepted Pastor McConnell | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
thought he was preaching to his congregation and not | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
the whole internet. But he said he words caused him | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
to lose the run of himself and he should be more | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
careful in the future. That was one particular message I've | :02:38. | :02:49. | |
preached. Look at the thousands of messages | :02:50. | :02:50. | |
I have preached and I listen to and I have even said worse things | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
than that and it has gone out. Elsewhere in the sermon, | :02:54. | :03:05. | |
Pastor McConnell's criticism Is Lamb is heaving, say tannic, a | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
doctrine spawned in hell. -- is Lamb is heaving. | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
And while the judge said he was absolutely entitled | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
to criticise another faith, he'd not set out clear reasons why - | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
instead he said he'd indulged in nothing more than | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Judge McNally said if a Muslim had described Christianity in the same | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
way there would have been such a tornado of abuse it would make | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
the reaction to Pastor McConnell's words look like an April shower. | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
Members of his congregation have supported him throughout. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
his solicitor said the trial had taken its toll | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
You can only expect justice in the next world, | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
but on this occasion the law and justice have come together, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
this gentleman has taken a principled stand, | :03:56. | :03:56. | |
he has carried the can for this to the detriment | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
of his health for nearly two years and he is to be | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
congratulated, we are greatly relieved that justice was done. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
The judge, I believe, he didn't do it lightly, | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
he took it over the holidays and he came | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
with the decision that he saw nothing that would be | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
A statement from the Belfast Islamic this afternoon said: | :04:13. | :04:31. | |
As he left, Pastor McConnell thanked his supporters and said | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
he would continue to spread the word of God around the world. | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
The Rivers Agency says the level of Lough Neagh is at a 30-year high | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
They're pumping water away from a number of homes along | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
the shore in an attempt to save them. | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
And the Agriculture Minister went to Fermanagh today to see | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
for herself the impact on communities isolated | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
Our Agriculture and Environment correspondent Conor Macauley reports | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
Several rivers converge at Derrytresk near Coalisland before | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
That's a lot of water and much of it has backed up | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
That's meant misery for the people living in a few houses who've relied | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
on the sandbags and pumps provided by the Rivers Agency | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
No water has got in yet, but it has been close, | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
as 72-year-old Jimmy Quinn explained. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Only for the bags and that pumps, it would be. It's not looking well when | :05:35. | :05:47. | |
the Swans are going by the window, watching Coronation Street. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
Further west and in Fermanagh, the Agriculture Minister took | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
to a tractor to navigate flooded roads that have isolated around | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
a dozen homes at Inishroosk, near Lisnaskea. | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
This has been the only way in and out of this community | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Among the people she met, Gerry McManus, whose 87-year-old | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
And that's a big problem. She's 87 and needs care for times a day. | :06:06. | :06:22. | |
Can't get in, so I take time off work and look after her. Hope | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
difficult hazard in getting access? Tractors every day. To give you a | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
sense of the scale of flooding, this is Upper Lough Erne, it is normally | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
about 45 square kilometres but is now twice that size. It is clear to | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
me there are other things we need to look at like roads being raised. In | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
the past some roads were raised by about a metre, now two metres in | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
some instances but you can see those roads are underwater again so has it | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
being raised high enough? Those are questions for another time | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
- for now, the people of Fermanagh and around the shores of Lough Neagh | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
must pull together to get And with the prospect of more rain, | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
there's not much sign of the roads The pressure on hospital emergency | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
departments is being linked to the difficulty in getting care | :07:14. | :07:27. | |
packages for elderly people either They cannot be moved out of hospital | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
unless there is One care company told our | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
reporter Maggie Taggart Another predicts a lack | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
of finance will put it out The care sector complains that | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
funding has steadily reduced and the prospect of soon having | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
to pay a higher minimum wage will be Already it is not seen | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
as an attractive job to many and there are problems recruiting | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
care staff, so some say they can't Senior doctors say there's | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
a knock-on effect in hospitals. If elderly people are ready to be | :08:01. | :08:16. | |
discharged from hospital but cannot look after themselves at home, there | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
are two main options. Around 9000 people are in residential homes, | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
around 23,000 get domiciliary care. If those are not possible, they have | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
to stay in hospital and that is part of the reason for the current | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
logjam. The issue in the hospitals relates to delayed discharges due to | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
unavailability of care packages to support people when they come home | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
and also the issue of releasing people from hospital to care homes. | :08:52. | :08:52. | |
Pauline Shepherd has her finger on the pulse - | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
she represents more than 250 care providers. | :08:56. | :08:56. | |
One company owner told me the system is imploding and another predicted | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
he would have to go out of business within months. | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
There have been a number of domiciliary care providers who are | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
looking to sell their businesses, if that happens the impact back to the | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
hospitals will increase. The care sector is to meet | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
the Health Minister next week to plead its case but it fears | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
no-one is listening to its concerns. Allegations of abuse at a Protestant | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
children's home have been revealed The home was run by a mission group | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
within the Church of Ireland The Historical Institutional Abuse | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Inquiry has opened public hearings into allegations of sexual | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
and physical abuse Children were shipped to Australia | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
in the middle of the last century Among those sent to the other side | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
of the world - two young boys They are among a number of people | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
who say they were abused there by some staff, | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
visitors and some other children. The focus on a former Church of | :10:01. | :10:15. | |
Ireland home illustrates how this inquiry continues to unwrap the | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
history of society in Northern Ireland, and the narrative is a | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
broad one. Previously Catholic state-run institutions, Barnardo's | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
charity and today a former Protestant children's home. | :10:30. | :10:30. | |
One of the former child migrants gave evidence to the Inquiry | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
He claimed that he became a teenage prostitute after suffering abuse | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
at Manor House and further abuse at a Presbyterian church | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
farm training home, after he arrived in Australia. | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
Another man alleged that he was tied with a rope, attached to a brick | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
and tied to his bed at night, to prevent him from | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
Public hearings at this inquiry are now into their third year and will | :10:48. | :11:00. | |
continue until the summer. Then the chairman will write his report and | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
he must presented to the office of the First and Deputy First Minister | :11:05. | :11:05. | |
by January. A memorial service has been held | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
to remember ten workmen who murdered in Kingsmills in County | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Armagh 40 years ago. The victims, who were all | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Protestant, were shot dead when an IRA gang | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
ambushed their minibus. Here's our south east | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
reporter Gordon Adair. With their faces set | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
against the bitter January cold, those who lost loved ones | :11:26. | :11:38. | |
at Kingsmills paused In my memory's eye I can see | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
the uncontrollable grief of families whose loved ones had | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
been so cruelly taken, sons, husbands, fathers, | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
decent hard-working men. He was only 19 when he | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
was killed that night. His mother and sister-in-law | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
say their desire to see justice done | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
has never dimmed. They killed three of my family, | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
not one, because my mother My mother was putting dinner | :12:11. | :12:22. | |
out for him and forgot, things like that, you know, | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
so we're just looking for justice. And for Mrs Lemmon, wife | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
of Joe Lemmon, 93 years of age, very unwell today, would love to be | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
here but it isn't possible, she has always asked | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
the question - why? A number of statements were read out | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
on behalf of those now too elderly or infirm to attend services | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
like today's and it's very clear that even four decades on, | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
people still struggle to come to terms with what happened on this | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
lonely stretch of road. Belfast City Councillors have been | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
debating whether to host a joint civic reception for | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
the Northern Ireland Both sides have qualified for this | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
summer's European Championship Our reporter Rick Faragher | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
is at the City Hall. The debate is ongoing although we | :13:21. | :13:36. | |
expect a vote shortly. The question is, should a joint Civic reception | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
for both the old teams on this island be held at the faster the | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
whole? In November a reception was held for Northern Ireland after they | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
qualified for Euro 2016. The Republic then qualified by play-offs | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
and this is what put forward the SDLP motion of a joint reception, | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
supported by Sinn Fein and Alliance, although unionists have argued | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
against this, saying it would take away from the reception already | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
posted, discredit it and make the council looked disorganised, | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
although all worst the Republic of Ireland the best of luck. | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
Nationalists say a joint reception the presents both main traditions | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
and affects allegiances of football supporters. This is the first time | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Northern Ireland and the Republic have qualified for the same major | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
tournament, fantastic news for the managers, both men from Northern | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Ireland and both who will attend a reception at Dublin City Council | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
after the tournament, but it remains to be seen if a single event will be | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
held here in Belfast. We will see shortly. | :14:51. | :14:51. | |
A prominent SDLP politician will not be putting forward his name | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
for re-election to the Assembly in May. | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
Alban Maginness has represented North Belfast since 1998. | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
He says he believes it's the right time for him to leave. | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
After more than 30 years as an elected politician, | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
Alban Maginness says it may now be time to consider his memoirs. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
He certainly wrote his own piece of history in 1997 | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
when he became Belfast's first nationalist Lord Mayor. | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
I reject that criticism of me as chairman of this council. You can | :15:19. | :15:33. | |
reject it. You produce the evidence of that. | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
He has other hair-raising moments as well, like the time | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
he had his famous moustache shaved off for Children in Need. | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Is there a doctor in the house? Where is Alasdair McDonnell? No, | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
please, I want a real doctor! Alistair, for give me. | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Like Alasdair McDonnell, Alban Maginness will soon be gone | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
I think it's the right time for me to move on and allow somebody to | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
take up the leadership in terms of being MLA for North Belfast and I | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
have complete confidence in any of the people I have suggested to you, | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
that they would be very good as MLA 's, so I have no qualms about | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
leaving the Assembly, it will be in good hands. And Stormont is set for | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
a major changing of the guard before the next elections in May. Of the | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
108 MLAs, 30 will not be standing, and that number could rise. Only in | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
Lagan Valley and North Antrim May voters have the chance to stand | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
again. As of now, only one sitting MLA will be putting their name on | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
the ballot paper this time around in South Belfast. Already the hot | :17:06. | :17:15. | |
favourite to succeed all but McGuinness is Nichola Mallon, like | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
him, a former Lord where. -- mayor. Three weeks ago today a group | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
of Syrian refugees came to Northern Ireland - | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
part of the UK government's response 51 arrived in Belfast | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
from camps in Lebanon. 11 of the children are | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
under the age of five. Ten Syrian families arrived in | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
Belfast on a dark December afternoon. They spent their first | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
few days at a Welcome Centre. Three weeks on, one person who knows them | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
is Michelle James, who has been working closely with the families. | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
Things are busy, we moved families out of the Welcome Centre after a | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
few days, into communities and we are completely overwhelmed with the | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
support our communities have offered the families. They have been | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
welcomed, neighbourly it was Christmas, people were at doors with | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
presence, gets, offering help, children are now making friends. | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
English is not the barrier. Very humbled to be involved in this piece | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
of work. We were brought in a few weeks before the families were due | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
to arrive and we are learning a lot, working closely with partners in the | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
community and in the wider voluntary sector because we want to make sure | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
these families feel welcome and that we can meet their needs. And they | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
have specific needs, coming from dreadful circumstances. We don't | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
know the full story yet and I don't know how long it will take for some | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
families to share their full stories. We are starting to get some | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
information and offer the support families need and will post them to | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
special support if needed. And there is a second group of refugees due to | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
arrive here before April, expected to settle up in the Northwest. | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
Next, the first of our special reports this week marking | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
the centenary year of significant events in our history. | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
The Battle of the Somme claimed tens of thousands of lives - | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
many of them from the 36th Ulster Division. | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
Recently our reporter Mervyn Jess visited the Somme | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
in northern France and the memorial tower built to honour those who died | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
in one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
At 20 past seven on the morning of the 1st of July 1916, men of the | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
36th Ulster Division were among the 100,000 Allied soldiers who went | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
over the top to face the German army on the slopes of the Somme. It was | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
to become known as the bloodiest day of the British Army. It is only when | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
you climb into the trench that you start to get a sense of what it was | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
like for those men fighting in them during the Battle of the Somme. Just | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
over the top was the full horror of war and a few hundred yards that way | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
is the final proof of that. The day after the battle began, 60,000 | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Commonwealth soldiers have become casualties of war with 20,000 of | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
them killed. Among the dead more than 2000 Ulster men, but the battle | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
raged on and insert timbre, the 16th Irish division, made up of soldiers | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
from Southern counties, suffered nearly 4500 casualties with nearly | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
1200 killed, more Irishman died I think with Allied divisions. People | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
from Ireland North and South regularly visit the War graves, some | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
of them for the first time. W forever. -- love you forever. It's | :21:15. | :21:25. | |
very moving, no matter how many times you do it, it still affects | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
you. You were in a cemetery with a lady who had never been here, we | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
both came out in tears. An Armistice Day each year, a ceremony at the | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
Ulster Tower is attended by people from France and reverent Ireland. It | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
is very moving because when you think of those junk lads leaving | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
home, smiling and they just walked into hell. TRANSLATION: We realise | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
as you get older all these men came here freely to help us hold onto our | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
freedom in France and in the world, but particularly in France. It | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
showed union between the countries to keep our freedom and our | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
fraternity. The attack was at half past seven across the track up to | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
the German wire, and few men but any further, but to Victoria crosses | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
were one over there, and one was the only surviving the sea in the | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
battle. Stories about the battle continued to be told, such was the | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
slaughter that the memory was seared into the communities the soldiers | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
came from. Tomorrow we have another special | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
report marking events in 1916 The end of the competitive road | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
for a great cyclist. Yes, Martyn Irvine has announced his | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
retirement from competitive racing. A World Track Champion in 2013, | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
the Newtownards rider also won two world silver medals | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
in a fine career. But he hasn't made it | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
to the Olympics in Brazil this year, and now has decided to stop | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
cycling altogether. It was little under three years ago | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
in Belarus that Martyn Irvine created are cycling history. Can | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
Martyn Irvine do it? My word, he can! Martyn Irvine is the world | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
champion. But injuries and failure to qualify for the Rio Olympics | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
means has decided to retire. It's massive beak has I was never a | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
professional but an amateur who rode professionally, and then when I | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
missed the Olympic slot, it was like if you are not even an amateur in | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
the Olympics it is impossible, so that was a big swinger, and then the | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
motivation, the dream was to bury the Demons of underperforming in the | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
last game, that is why I took so long to make my mind up, but I think | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
it is the right season. But his place in sporting history books is | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
assured, the first man from Northern Ireland to be a world track cycling | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
champion. I regret not soaking that up more because looking back it was | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
easy because I trade under Andy Sparks, I trained so hard that | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
racing was easy and I needed that to give me a bit of confidence and kept | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
winning things after that, I have a lot of medals that could never have | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
happened, so it is a good story, it is up to me to keep reminding people | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
it can be done, so I am happy. A maverick who will long inspire | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
future Irish cyclists. Yes, let's hope so. | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
Tonight's game between Carrick Rangers and Dungannon Swifts | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
in the Danske Bank Irish Premiership has been postponed. | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
The game will be rescheduled in due course but it's the seventh | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
successive time Carrick have been unable to play at their ground. | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
They now haven't played at home game there since October 31st last year. | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
Finally, Royal County Down has been declared the current number one golf | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
course in the world by a panel of nearly 2000 experts. | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
It even finished ahead of Augusta National, | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
venue for the US Masters of course, which ended up in the number 2 spot. | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
I'm sure the Irish Open had a lot to do with that. | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
We have seen a lot of flooding, people need some dry weather. We | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
have some promising weather for the next 24 hours but one figure that | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
will not surprise you, December was almost the wettest in a hundred | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
years, beaten by 1919 by three millimetres. Today we have one or | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
two patches of wet weather tonight but it will clear away and turned | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
chilly, especially for the sky clears, allowing temperatures to | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
fall below freezing. Some pockets of mist or fog developed but if you are | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
heading out tonight, to cut some night skate photographs like this, | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
you may not need the umbrella but you will need warm clothes. Tomorrow | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
will be a chilly start, there will be more rain later on, for the | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
beginning of the day it will be dry for most of us although a little | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
chilly, taking a while for fog to clear away and then into the | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
afternoon dry weather and sunshine, temperatures about normal with light | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
winds and it will stay dry until the middle of the afternoon. Towards | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
evening it will turn more unsettled, we will see rain creep up into | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
Fermanagh and tyrants and slowly moved east through the night, some | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
of that rain heavy and persistent as lasting for a few hours, so the Met | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
Office has issued a weather warning. There may be further disruption and | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
flooding in some areas and surface spray on the roads. As that rain | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
leaves colder air behind, we will have sleet and snow for hill is | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
elsewhere wet and chilly on Thursday. Overall it is not too bad, | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
largely dry, more sunshine with the old scattered showers and it will be | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
like that again for Friday and Saturday. More flooding, difficult | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
times for many people. You can also keep in contact with us | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
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