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A police officer has been charged in connection with the murder

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The officer, who is a woman, will appear in court

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James McDonagh died after being assaulted outside

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Earlier this evening, the police said that a 33-year-old

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woman had been charged with perverting the course

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of justice and withholding information about the killing.

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It's now been revealed that she's a police officer,

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and it's understood she has been suspended from the force.

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An extra ?1.6 million is being given to private companies who run

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They've been calling for additional funding for some time,

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and the money will also go towards to providing care

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Here's our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly.

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You all right? Go.

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It might look like child's play, but caring for the elderly

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Presently, the difficulty is recruiting highly-trained staff

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especially as demand for places continues growing.

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Our residents are getting younger and staying longer,

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that is it, and continuity of staff, it is important.

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According to staff, the hourly rate of no more than ?6.70 does not make

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There are better hourly rates needed to enhance and make more

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People like myself and the rest of the staff that work here.

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It is hoped that the ?1.6 million investment today aimed

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at the independent, or private sector, will address some

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of these challenges. How will the money be used?

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The hourly rate that health Trusts currently pay domiciliary care homes

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Currently it is not clear how residential care home owners

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The big question is if employees pass the financial benefit

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We will do our best to renumerate staff as best we can.

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They do a difficult job, often under difficult circumstances

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and they deserve to be well paid for what they do.

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The health minister said since meeting the sector

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of the different challenges, including recruitment.

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He said the package should bring stability to the sector and reassure

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residents and families that all is being done to make sure

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The financial package today will receive more of a boost

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on 1st April when the Department of Health says

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it will make additional money available in order to

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cope with the impact of the national living wage.

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It means for the over 25s working in this sector,

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the hourly rate will increase from ?6.70 per hour

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Good news for the workers but according to the owners

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of places like this, it is a major challenge.

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While employers welcome the cash boost today,

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they call for the entire system to be reassessed.

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There is a need for an independent review, a root and branch review

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of the structure and model of the support of the social care

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The much-needed investment today is a significant nod

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from the department that at last they are trying to prioritise caring

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A 33-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder

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The body of 48-year-old Anthony McErlain was found at a flat

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In court in Coleraine today was Christopher Patrick Keenan,

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No bail application was made and he'll appear in court

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The police have been granted extra time to question a 50-year-old man

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Storm Henry - has been making his presence felt today -

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causing some travel disruption and strong gusts

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We'll have a forecast shortly but earlier this

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evening our reporter David Maxwell went to Carrickfergus to see

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what conditions were like on the coast.

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Storm Henry should be leaving soon and he hasn't gone yet and

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Carrickfergus getting a pummelling this evening. The highest wind gusts

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were recorded at 75 mph and with winds like that, you can expect some

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damage and trees have been brought down across Northern Ireland

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including one this evening outside Lisburn. There will be damaging

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gusts overnight. There have not been the power outages we saw with storm

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Gertrude last week, with 20,000 people disconnected. They say there

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are special teams of engineers on tonight and an escalation plan in

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place. The PS and I are warning truck drivers to take care,

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especially those in high sided vehicles on motorways and Translink

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have diverted some of their bus services off the motorways this

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evening. The 212 service has been diverted in north Belfast. The good

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news is, it should be an improving picture overnight, the weather

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warning remaining in place until 10am tomorrow morning so we have not

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seen the end of the gales but storm Henry certainly on his way.

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Michelle Gildernew has been dropped as a Sinn Fein candidate

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for the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency in May's Assembly

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She's been replaced by the current MLA, Phil Flanagan.

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A Sinn Fein selection convention last night in Enniskillen last night

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reversed a decision taken back in the middle of December.

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Speaking to me earlier, our political editor,

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Mark Devenport, told me the move had come as a surprise.

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It has been a topsy-turvy time for Sinn Fein.

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She lost her seat in Westminster last year to Tom Elliott.

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The Unionist handed eight. -- candidate.

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Then it looked like she would make a dramatic comeback in the middle

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of December, when she was selected instead of Flanagan to come forward

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as one of the candidates for the Assembly elections.

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But the ruling council ordered a rerun because apparently

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there were complaints about procedural errors.

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That decision taken in December has been turned around,

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with Phil Flanagan back on the ticket along with Sean Lynch

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and John Feeley. Michelle Gildernew losing out.

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Any sense at all about what her future might hold?

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Given her high profile - she is not just

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a former MP but a former Stormont Agriculture Minister -

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you would think that Sinn Fein would look to find a place for her.

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They have rules about wanting more than 30% of the candidates

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But that is across all elections rather than any

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We did hear rumours they might shift her next door to Mid Ulster

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because Martin McGuinness has gone back to his home constituency,

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She continues to work for Sinn Fein in a backroom capacity but no sign

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People across Britain and Ireland have been expressing their sadness

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at the death of Terry Wogan. The veteran broadcaster died yesterday

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from cancer. He spent most of his career in London but made several

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programmes on this side of the Irish sea.

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Terry Wogan was born in Limerick but grew up there and in London where he

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began his broadcasting life. Most of his long career was with the BBC,

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from a DJ on his breakfast show to the Eurovision contest narrator.

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Where he showed his sardonic style. A series of programmes featured a

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round trip of Ireland and one stop was that the Titanic port in Belfast

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where he was moved by the story of a defendant. Terry seemed to be very

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interested in my particular family story, the fact my great-grandfather

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had given my grandfather two pennies before he sailed on Titanic and of

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course he did not come back. Terry was keen to hold those pennies and

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he did seem moved by the story. He had a chat show for ten years and in

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1995, appeared on BBC Northern Ireland with the late Jerry Anderson

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discussing an infamous appearance by George best. When he came out, I

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went across to meet him and he was footless. Children In Need was one

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of his passions and he resented it for more than three decades. He has

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fronted Children In Need since it started in 1980, 34 years and last

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year, in November, was the first time he hasn't been there but he's

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very much with us in spirit and always will be. In Limerick, the

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city of his birth, a book of condolence was opened in memory of

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the local boy who, although long gone, have never forgot his roots.

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Parents are being urged to know how to deal with a child who takes

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a seizure called a febrile convulsion.

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They're caused by a high temperature and can affect children up

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Two-year-old Hannah is completely fine now.

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Three weeks ago, she took a febrile seizure in the middle of the night.

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Her mum Tracey, a nurse, did not know what was happening.

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She was foaming at the mouth. Her lips were blue.

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Luckily enough the seizure only lasted about a minute.

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She went into a deep sleep but was unresponsive.

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I could not understand why my daughter was taking a seizure.

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She is a perfectly healthy child. I thought she was dying.

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That is what most parents believe but in fact it is a more common

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They are a type of seizure which can happen in children between six

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months and five years, with a temperature.

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Just putting it in perspective, one in 50 children would have had

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it by the age of five in the UK and Ireland.

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When we were filming at the hospital, baby Jake

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was being monitored after having one.

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If your child does have a seizure it is important to do

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a number of things. Call for help.

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Get the child into the recovery position.

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Janine, you are a doctor on the children's ward and Kathryn,

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Show me how to put her in the recovery position.

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Put the arm closest to you up to the head.

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Bring the hand across the body and the back of the

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Roll the child onto the side and open the airway.

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I think every parent should be trained in the first aid on how

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In antenatal classes they should cover this.

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If you know your child is not well, keep their temperature under

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Hello, good evening, it certainly has been a blustery

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and lively start to the new week thanks to Storm Henry which drifts

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to the north of Scotland through tonight.

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Still some tightly packed isobars there, indicating very strong,

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even quite stormy winds and they carry on into tomorrow.

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So we still have a wind warning in place through tonight,

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into tomorrow morning, potential for further disruption

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with tree debris on roads and some pretty nasty crosswinds.

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Now, we have seen the peak of the winds this evening,

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nevertheless, still severe gale force gusts through the night,

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Showers rattling through as well but enough breeze to prevent

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temperatures from dipping much lower than three or 4 degrees so it should

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Into tomorrow, those showers soon roll away which will give us some

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sunshine, but not particularly warm, we will still have a cold wind

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blowing and during the morning, to begin with, they are still

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in that warning category, still gusting up to 60 mph.

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But as you can see, it turns dry and bright.

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A few showers speeding across parts of the Republic of Ireland,

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showery rain for northern Scotland, turning to sleet and snow over

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the Scottish mountains and although the warnings have

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For southern Scotland, and the rest of England -

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maybe a couple of showers in Wales - generally it is dry and quite funny

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maybe a couple of showers in Wales - generally it is dry and quite sunny

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Come the afternoon, for Northern Ireland,

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the winds ease a little bit but it is still a gusty,

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cold-feeling day, even with the sunshine, highs only

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And then in the evening time, showers do develop, some of those

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turning wintry on the hills, the wind is picking up.

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But they ease down again on Wednesday which does look

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Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25am in the morning during

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