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That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me and on BBC | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Tonight's top stories: As Lough Neagh breaks its banks, | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
businesses bear the brunt - is enough being done to stem | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
It is heartbreaking for everybody that is on the premises. We are | :00:20. | :00:36. | |
small businesses and at that whole lives into this. It is | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
The farmer who fears his flock may be buried below this landslide. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
The lethal arsenal of dissident republican weapons seized | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
You can turn up the heat - energy bills look set to drop. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Also on the programme: Darren Clarke pays tribute to the late | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Christy O'Connor Junior, who inspired a generation | :00:54. | :00:54. | |
After a rare dry day, tonight the rain returns. | :00:55. | :01:11. | |
The Met Office has issued another severe weather warning. | :01:12. | :01:21. | |
Flood-hit businesses on the shores of Lough Neagh have questioned | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
whether enough was done to prevent rising waters brought | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
The lough's water level is at a 30-year-high. | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
On the southern shore, several business properties have | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
Our Agriculture and Environment Correspondent, Conor Macauley, | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
This bike shop is one of four businesses that have been inundated | :01:41. | :01:58. | |
by the rising waters of temp one temp two Marina in Lurgan. A lot of | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
questions are being asked today about how the level of temp one is | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
regulated and if anything could've been done that would have prevented | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
this. Temp one had reached record heights | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
after the rain storms but neither water has reached the businesses on | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
the shore. They have been inundated, putting 20 jobs here at risk. Is | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
heartbreaking for everybody here on the premises. We are small | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
businesses. We have the dirt lies into this. It is heart-wrenching. In | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
the interim we will have to look at laying people off. I can't sustain | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
wages going out, I still have to pay my rent, rates and all the other | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
overheads. There is no income. People can come in through the shop | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
door. Temp one, the biggest in the British Isles, is at the 30 year | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
high. Its levels are being controlled by these gates. Question | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
to being asked if the gate should've been opened earlier. With the amount | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
of water forecast, was a sufficient? The answer would clearly seem to be | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
known. There are other reasons I'm sure why the floodgates were not | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
opened earlier. Maybe people would just caught a surprise. The agency | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
responsible says they acted appropriately. 43% of the landmass | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
of Northern Ireland trained in the temp one. In situations where we had | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
heavy rain across the catchment it is inevitable that we will get | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
rising water and associated flooding. It is heartbreaking for | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
the owners, some of them have been here for two decades, one only moved | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
in a Christmas. Some flood relief money has come from central | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
government. The executive has been called to hurry up and decide how it | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
will be spent. We want to know Will they be helped in the aftermath? | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Will they get help to ensure that the businesses open game? If there | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
is any money, it will be of little comfort to business people. They | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
can't even start a clear up until the level of temp one starts to | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
fall. Executive ministers will meet | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
tomorrow in Cookstown. They are coming together with the chief | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
executives of the various councils to look at the response to the | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
flooding and see if any lessons might be learnt. The SDLP is still | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
holding out for a full executive meeting in relation to the flood | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
response. They say ?1.3 million is available for flood relief in | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Northern Ireland and the executive needs to get a move on and start | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
hitting some decisions about how and where that money should be spent. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
A sheep farmer whose land in the Glens of Antrim has been | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
partly destroyed by a landslide days it could be months before he's able | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
He believes 23 of his flock are buried underneath and, | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
with more rain forecast, he's worried the land could further | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
slip onto the public road and property below. | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
This farmer knows the land like the back of his hand. It has been in his | :05:09. | :05:21. | |
family for generations. In weather like this it is only accessible by | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
quad bike. Imagine his horror when he find this. A landslide. And this | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
is where his sheep had been grazing. Behind us that could be seven to ten | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
feet of material discharged. Somewhere in the middle of this I | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
presume there are 23 sheep missing at the moment and I can only presume | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
they are in there somewhere. Until we get machinery here, and I can't | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
imagine machinery will be able to access the stand until the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
springtime, there will be a complete impact on the loss of forage. It is | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
not the first time the weather has taken its toll on its livelihood. In | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
2012 we had severe snow and suffered catastrophic losses, livestock and | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
stuff. Back at that time there was money released to help us through | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
that, and adore help, yes. Still, you can't get over the loss, bad | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
effect on your flock. He has insurance but it does not cover what | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
is regarded as an act of God. Has he thought about calling it a day? Lots | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
of times, but home is home. Where you are reared you always want to | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
come back to. It is where my heart lies. With more heavy rain forecast | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
the real concern is that this land could slide further onto the road | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
and the properties surrounding it. Jeff will be here with the full | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
forecast before the end of the programme. | :07:10. | :07:10. | |
Gardai have warned that dissident republican paramilitaries | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
are becoming increasingly skilled at making bombs. | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
Officers today held a press conference and showed a sample | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
A lethal and deadly capability. Gardai today put on a display of | :07:17. | :07:29. | |
selection weapons seized from dissident republicans over the last | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
two years. Rocket launchers, life -- life. -- rifles, rocket launchers | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
and a beer keg bomb. The beer keg was ready for use in Northern | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
Ireland. It was found, within three or 400 metres of the border to take | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
over the border to cause damage and potential injury and murder to | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
people living in Northern Ireland. Although gardai say they have had | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
significant success in disrupting attacks, there is concern that | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
dissident republicans are becoming more skilled at our making. I can | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
say with confidence that our interventions and the rest have, | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
without doubt, save lives. When you look at some of these devices and | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
the way they are operated, it shows an increasing sign of sophistication | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
in relation to engineering. I suppose the finding of such items | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
such as detonators are indicative of the business that these people are | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
in. 22 people have been charged in connection with dissident activity. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
The gardai today as the public to be even more vigilant. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has denied trying to stop IRA victims | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
getting any financial compensation from Libya. | :08:51. | :08:51. | |
Mr Blair's comments come in written evidence | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
to the Westminster Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
It's examining the role of the UK Government in seeking compensation | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
for the victims of IRA attacks, made possible by the provision | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
of Semtex explosives and other weapons by the regime | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
led by the former Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi. | :09:03. | :09:20. | |
Some IRA victim said he feels let down by successive UK Government | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
because whilst the United States was able to negotiate a ?1 billion | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
financial compensation package from Colonel Gaddafi for its citizens who | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
had fallen victim to the Lockerbie bombing or another Libyan led | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
attack, when London normalised its relations with Tripoli there was no | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
financial compensation for victims of Semtex attacks, the explosive | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
provided to the IRA from Colonel Gaddafi. Some MPs and law firms are | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
saying that Tony Blair has questions to answer about all of this. In a | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
letter to the committee he says that he completely denies trying to stop | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
IRA victims getting compensation from Libya. He said any temp two | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
implicate him in stopping IRA victims from getting compensation is | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
wrong. The committee has invited Tony Blair to appear before it to | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
answer questions on this matter. Two former residents of a children's | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
home in Lisburn claim they were sexually abused | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
there by a member of the army. They were giving evidence | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry by video | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
link from Australia. Our reporter Kevin Sharkey was at | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
today's hearings in Banbridge. Lewis Byrne has long been the army | :10:36. | :10:48. | |
headquarters in Northern Ireland and two men who were children at Manor | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
house a soldier from the local barracks abuse them and other | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
children. The enquiry heard today that the soldier would visit the | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
care home regularly. He wore his army uniform and a trench coat. The | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
witnesses explained how the soldier was coming. He groomed them by | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
buying them gift and sweets. Later he sexually abused them in a and in | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
a bedroom. One of the men said that as children were just pieces of meat | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
to the soldier. The man told the enquiry that as a child he was not | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
allowed to tell anyone what he described as the terrible things | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
that were done to him. The man spoke to him about the impact it has had | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
on him all his life, and the relationship he has -- it is had on | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
with his son, not being able to cuddle him. Another man who was nine | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
years old when he was at the home described similar sexual abuse. A | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
third witness said that the children were accused of being wicked than | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
making up the stories. An unreserved apology has been given from the | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
charge for what happened. The soldier was described as an | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
opportunistic and devious abuser. When the witness was asked if the | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
staff knew about the abuse from the soldier, he replied, yes, they were | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
friends with the soldier. A two-year-old boy's died | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
after being crushed by a falling chest of drawers at his home | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
in Cloughmills last night. Archie Tafts was taken to hospital, | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
but he died from his injuries. Once a week he attended a mother | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
and toddler group in the town. One of the group's organisers said | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
he would be sorely missed. Archie was a happy little fella. | :12:30. | :12:42. | |
Very smiley and pleasant. I did a little bit of singing each week at | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
the end of the session and Archie was always up singing and dancing. | :12:48. | :12:48. | |
He seemed to enjoy it, anyway. The electricity supplier SSE | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
is cutting its prices from next week and bills from other energy | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
suppliers are also set to fall. The Utility Regulator is reviewing | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
electricity and gas tariffs and will make an | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
announcement next month. Our Economics and Business Editor, | :13:00. | :13:00. | |
John Campbell, is here. Temp one, the second-biggest | :13:01. | :13:12. | |
electricity supplier here, are going to cut paces by the 1% from Monday, | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
that comes on top of an 8% that they delivered last year. What is | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
underpinning this is that wholesale energy prices, what is paid for | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
energy on the world markets, is continuing to fall. Natural gas is | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
down by 20% compared to this time last year. What about the other | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
suppliers? The Utility Regulator, which has the power to set prices or | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
influence prices amongst the big suppliers, it is undertaking a | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
review that will report next month. Because those prices are coming down | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
globally, they should combine locally as well. It is the job of | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
the regulator to make sure that the process rebates reflect the | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
wholesale costs that the suppliers are paying. Electricity prices | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
charged by power NI should come down substantially and there will be a | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
fall in gas prices amongst the two big gas companies here. The smaller | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
companies may well cut their prices as a response to the bad. Generally | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
what we are continuing to see is energy prices are still coming down. | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
It's set to be another difficult year for schools when it | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
The education budget is being reduced by just under 4% | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
The cut was revealed at a Stormont committee today, | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
as our Education Correspondent Robbie Meredith reports. | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
A New Year but one that comes with the stark warning. On a | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
like-for-like basis with 2015-16, the budget for next year means a net | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
cash production of ?72 million, which is 3.8%. The education budget | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
is a big one at just under ?2 billion. While his departmental | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
officials were facing the education committee, the minister, John | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
O'Dowd, was on radio this morning. Around 800 teachers may leave under | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
two separate redundancy schemes. There is little detail yet over | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
where else savings are needed. We have announced the scheme about | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
newly qualified teachers. And the voluntary exit scheme will be in | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
place as well. That will help us manage costs in and around the | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
Department for Education. Schools will need to know their budgets so | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
they can make decisions about their own internal budgets. I hope to be | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
able to inform schools in early February. There was some good news | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
today. There will be more money for building projects meaning that some | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
of those long delayed new schools and repairs will get the green | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
light. Otherwise, most schools are again going to have to do more with | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
Otherwise, most schools are again going to have to do more with less. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
A legal action on behalf of the 14 so called 'hooded men', | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
who claim they were tortured in the 1970s, is facing another delay. | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
Six of the men were at the High Court today for a judicial | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
review challenging the failure of the police and the Government | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
to investigate the torture allegations. | :16:21. | :16:21. | |
They want a formal admission that they were tortured | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
Lawyers for the Government asked for extra time for what they call | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
an "extensive trawl recovering material". | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
The men are angry at the further delay. | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
This has been going on now for 45 and a half years. In the interim, | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
four of our friends have died. Two more are in bad condition, one with | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
a bad heart condition, one with all timers disease. I think they are | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
going to with the all of us dies, but we will not stop. If we don't | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
make it, our families will keep pushing it. -- Alzheimer's disease. | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
In the second part of our series reflecting on the events of 1916, | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
The rebellion against British failed at the time, but within five years | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
Ireland was partitioned and 26 counties were granted self-rule. | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson reports from Dublin on what's being done | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
Remember one thing it is not the law of Ireland it is the guiding | :17:19. | :17:31. | |
principle for future government. The minders of 1916 run around Dublin | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
and this year volunteers will a chance to look back at what really | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
happened. We call at Easter week because essentially it started on | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Easter Monday and this surrender was on Saturday. Other areas in Dublin | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
did not surrender until the Sunday. We call it the week, in essence. Six | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
days that Shook and empire is afraid she will often hear. In three days | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
of fighting much of the centre of Dublin went into rooms. The rebels | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
were well organised, even producing their own newspaper. 100 years on, | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
the Irish government has drawn up a programme of events to mark the | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
centenary and the minister in charge is a Protestant from County | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
Monaghan. I am an Ulster woman. I come from a Presbyterian family so I | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
am very conscious of the sensitivities. I think it is a great | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
opportunity for us to come together, reflect on our shared history. So | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
much of history in 1916 is intertwined. We all live together at | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
the past, but I think what is important is that we look | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
ambitiously to the future. Like many aspects of Irish history, the S2 -- | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Easter Rising is divisive. Is there a danger that this year's | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
commemorations could actually do more harm than good? Historians say | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
the time is now right to debate the lessons of 1916. I think we are | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
prepared to be critical about it. Was justified? Can you get away from | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
the fact that there wasn't a democratic mandate it? Issues like | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
that, we are prepared to interrogate those night in a much more critical | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
way. That is what good history is about. As long as we continue | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
commemorating 1969 that we should not be worried. The timing of the | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
rising well Britain was at war has been debated at length over the | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
years. They spent a good couple of days shooting down... This tourist | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
guide deals with the timing issue on his 1916 walking tour. You have to | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
remember, many women, their husbands or fighting for King and country. | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
They were angry at these guys who had stabbed England in the back. I | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
ever, the best time to stab an empire is during her time of need. | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Don't wait full she regroups, kept her while she is down. 1916 will be | :20:02. | :20:13. | |
marked this year at events on both sides of the border. A border which, | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
of course, 100 years ago did not exist. | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
On tomorrow's programme we look at one of the more unusual personal | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
stories revealed in this year of centenaries and find out | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
where you can go to trace your family's history. | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Now sport and a sad day for Irish golf. | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
Yes, one of the most popular players in the game | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
The 67-year-old is best remembered for his role in helping Europe | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
retain the Ryder Cup in 1989, as well as inspiring the current | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
He will be remembered as an Irish golfing great. Christy O'Connor, his | :20:44. | :21:00. | |
second to the 18th. And for an iconic moment in European golf. Is | :21:01. | :21:13. | |
that the right club? This shot famously sealed victory over Fred | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
Couples and helped Europe retained the Ryder Cup. We all grew up | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
watching the two iron he hit into the Belfry, one of the most Hamish | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
shots any Irish golfer hit. His whole character will be missed. He | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
was always a huge supporter of Irish golf and always had a friendly | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
smile, always a good word. He was a genuinely good man. From golf's | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
famous O'Connor family, Christy Junior had a professional career | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
spanning four decades as the game moved into the modern era. Christy | :21:49. | :21:58. | |
O'Connor Junior was a larger-than-life character. He was | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
meant torture me when I first came onto, him Eamon Darcy looked after | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
me. They showed me the ropes. He will be sadly missed. The current | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
Ryder Cup captain was one of many to pay tribute to one of the great | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
characters of the game and a man who made the Ryder Cup what it is today. | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
Rugby now and he was sacked by England last month, | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
now Andy Farrell is to join the Ireland set-up after | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
The former Rugby League and Union international will be defence coach | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
It's a role he filled with the 2013 British and Irish Lions | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Farrell spent four years with England as assistant coach | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
until he, and the rest of the coaching staff, | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
paid the price for England's World Cup embarrassment. | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
We've entered Olympic year and it's possible that Coleraine could be | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
sending as many as four rowers to Rio with Team GB. | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
That could include Alan Campbell, a bronze medallist in London four | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
years ago, and now looking to make a piece of Olympic history. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
That Brazilian summer seemed a long way off on an overcast Boxing Day | :23:03. | :23:16. | |
morning but the omens are good for Alan Campbell as he won this race on | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
the river bank for the first time. His aim is to be the first Olympian | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
from Northern Ireland to compete in four games. It is exciting to be the | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
first one to do it four times. It would be an honour to do that but | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
that is not the driving factor. The driving factor is to be part of the | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
Olympic Games and tried to win another medal. I did it in London, | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
it is possible to do it in real digital era. Will he be a single row | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
again awkwardly contemplate being a member of a crew boats? If the chief | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
coach came to me and said to me I want to put you in the crew boats, I | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
would say, yes. The opportunity is there. Standards have come up. I | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
would be foolish to neglect that. If you still came to me and said, get | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
your single going, make that work, I would relish the opportunity and do | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
everything I can to try to go out there and get the best performance | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
out of myself. His success along with Peter and Richard Chambers has | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
inspired others. A fourth: rain rower is open to make his first | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
Olympic appearance. Watching Allen, Richard and Peter race in London was | :24:33. | :24:43. | |
incredible. I watched it just up there. That was the inspiration I | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
needed to gets four years and just keep building and building, one call | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
after another. It would be amazing for the town and for Northern | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Ireland. And an opportunity to own hands: rain's Olympic rowing legacy. | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
And an opportunity to own hands: rain's Olympic rowing legacy. | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
Finally, history will be made in tonight's Bank | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup tie between Fermanagh and St Mary's | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
when Maggie Farrelly from Cavan will become the first female referee | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
to take charge of a senior men's inter-county game. | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
It was a rare dry day today but I'm afraid it will not last. The rain is | :25:17. | :25:35. | |
already starting to pushing across County Fermanagh so we have yet | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
another severe weather warning for rain tonight. This band of rain is | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
pushing slowly east through the night. It will take up to nine hours | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
to cheer us entirely. We are expecting between 20 and 40 | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
millimetres of rain. In normal circumstances that would not bother | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
us much but given the amount of water that there is in the ground at | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
the moment it does give the risk of localised flooding as we head | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
towards tomorrow morning. Once the rain clears away the temperatures | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
will drop and that will bring the risk of icy patches through the | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
early part of the morning. So, take a little bit of extra care on your | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
way to work tomorrow. Tomorrow itself will not be too bad. Brighter | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
conditions through the afternoon. Temperatures will be cooler than | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
they have been today. We will see highs of 5 degrees. At least the | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
skies will be brighter. In the Thursday evening and into Friday, | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
the temperatures will drop away again and it will be a cold night. | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Showers will work their way through the Irish Sea and by John on Friday | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
to be sleet or snow over the moor and in particular but elsewhere | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
there is the chance of a more widespread frost. Actually started | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
the but again it will be a reasonably bright day once things | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
get going. This is the picture on Friday morning. Again, the | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
temperatures not very warm so do wrap-up. Four or 5 degrees. All | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
change on Saturday as the next weather system heads in our | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
direction. Where things have been cold but dry, Saturday will be a | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
little bit more wet as the next blue heads in our direction. Towards the | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
second half of the weekend the downward trend in the temperatures | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
continues. Sunday will be cold. You can also keep in contact with us | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
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