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It was this sermon in 2014 that landed Pastor McConnell in court.

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Now people say there are good Muslims in Britain,

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that may be so, but I don't trust them.

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But it wasn't just what he said - it was the fact the sermon

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The judge accepted Pastor McConnell thought he was preaching

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to his congregation and not the whole internet.

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But he said he words caused him to lose the run of himself

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and he should be more careful in the future.

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That was one particular message I've preached.

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Look at the thousands of messages I have preached and had listened to

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and I've even said worse things than that and it has gone out.

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Elsewhere in the sermon, Pastor McConnell's criticism

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Islam is heathen, Islam is satanic, a doctrine spawned in hell.

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And while the judge said he was absolutely entitled

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to criticise another faith, he'd not set out clear reasons why -

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instead he said he'd indulged in nothing more than

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Judge McNally said if a Muslim had described Christianity in the same

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way, there would have been such a tornado of abuse it would make

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the reaction to Pastor McConnell's words look like an April shower.

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Members of his congregation have supported him throughout.

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His solicitor said the trial had taken its toll

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You can only expect justice in the next world, but on this

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occasion the law and justice have come together, this gentleman has

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taken a principled stand, he has carried the can for this

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to the detriment of his health for nearly two years and he is to be

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congratulated, we are greatly relieved that justice was done.

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A statement from the Belfast Islamic this afternoon said:

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As he left, Pastor McConnell thanked his supporters and said

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he would continue to spread the word of God around the world.

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On Good Morning Ulster tomorrow on BBC Radio Ulster,

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there'll be an interview with a Muslim cleric who travelled

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to Belfast to support Pastor McConnell.

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The Rivers Agency says the level of Lough Neagh is at a 30-year high

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For more than a week, agency workers have been

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pumping water away from homes along the shore.

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Our agriculture and environment correspondent

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Several rivers converge at Derrytresk near Coalisland

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That's a lot of water and much of it has backed up

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That's meant misery for the people living in a few houses who've relied

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on the sandbags and pumps provided by the Rivers Agency

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No water has got in yet, but it has been close,

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as 72-year-old Jimmy Quinn explained.

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Only for the bags and the pumps, it would be it.

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It's not looking well when the swans are going by the window,

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Further west and in Fermanagh, the Agriculture Minister took

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to a tractor to navigate flooded roads that have isolated around

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a dozen homes at Inishroosk, near Lisnaskea.

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This has been the only way in and out of this community

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Among the people she met, Gerry McManus, whose

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She's 87 and needs care four times a day.

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Can't get in, so I take time off work and look after her.

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To give you a sense of the scale of flooding,

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It is normally about 45 square kilometres but is now

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It is clear to me there are other things we need to look at

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In the past, in '09 some roads were raised by about a metre,

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now two metres in some instances but you can see those roads

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are underwater again, so has it been raised high enough?

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Those are questions for another time.

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For now, the people of Fermanagh and around the shores of Lough Neagh

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must pull together to get through the immediate difficulties.

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And with the prospect of more rain, there's not much sign of the roads

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The woman who died in a two-car crash in County Down yesterday

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She was well known in and around Donaghadee,

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A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of

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The collision happened on the A2 dual carriageway

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Belfast City Council has voted to invite the Northern Ireland

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and the Republic of Ireland soccer squads to a joint reception at City

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Hall to mark their qualification for the Euro finals.

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A unionist move to include England and Wales

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The Northern Ireland team has already been to City Hall

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to mark their qualification for the finals.

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However, that was before the Republic also qualified.

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That led to an SDLP motion to bring both teams to City Hall for a joint

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reception to honour their unique double qualification.

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During tonight's council meeting unionists argued the motion

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was a controversial gimmick and it was politicking

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by nationalists in the run-up to this year's elections.

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But the DUP and Ulster Unionist amendments were defeated

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Northern Ireland qualified first and the Republic qualified two weeks

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after, so it is about bringing people together, welcoming people it

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is a unique situation and we should appreciate the achievement may never

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be seen again. It could be more appropriate to write to England,

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Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, congratulating

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all teams on qualifying because to try to hold any event, logistically

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that will be difficult. There are people in Belfast that support the

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Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and support both. We were

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disappointed that some politicians use this to make political gains but

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are delighted that tolerance and common sense revealed. The final

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details of the invitations are still to be worked out, but the closer we

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get to the finals in France, it would appear that there will be less

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likelihood of getting both teams together at City Hall.

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Rugby, and the winger Tommy Bowe has ruled himself out

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Speaking tonight at an Ulster rugby supporters event, he said

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he won't recover in time from recent knee surgery.

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There is no point rushing it, it will take what time it takes and at

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the minute to be back for the start of February will be pretty unlikely.

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The latest weather prospects now, with Barra Best.

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The rain has eased off for most of us and it will be a dry if chilly

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night. Temperatures in the countryside will fall to below

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freezing. For some of us tomorrow morning there may be a hatcher

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frost, also fog which may cause visibility issues first thing.

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Tomorrow there will be heavy rain later in the day but to begin with

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we expect a dry start for much of us, maybe the odd patch of wet

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weather across Antrim and County Down, not commenting too much, in

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fact it is a good start to the day, maybe boggy conditions in the Irish

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Midlands, not bad for England and Wales but up on the east coast we

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see showers and for western Scotland much better. Across Ireland it will

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go downhill as the next band of rain pushes in by mid afternoon, reaching

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Northern Ireland around tea-time and eventually that will push its way

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across all places. Some of it will be heavy and last for up to nine

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hours in places, so the Met Office has issued a weather warning, there

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could be flooding and disruption. Most of that will clear away in time

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for Thursday, it may be a cold day but drier and sunshine to look

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forward to but also scattered showers. It will be a similar

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picture for Friday and

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