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Tonight's top stories: The friend of a west Belfast mugging victim | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
says the woman is now too scared to leave her own home. | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
She doesn't like to do it unless somebody is with her, like one of | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
the daughters. Even ensuring the day. -- even ensuring the day. | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
Rail investigators and the PSNI are trying to find out how digger | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
equipment was left on the Lisburn to Portadown line this morning | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
I'm here at the MAC in Belfast city centre which is going to cost | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
?1 million of public money to be fixed. | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
It has hosted concerts and cultural events. But will a new plan for | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Ebrington create a leaving -- breathing, living hope? Mixed | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
fortunes for a champions on day one of the Dubai Desert Classic. | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Also on the programme: After a dull, grey day today, Friday starts | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Hello and welcome to the programme this Thursday evening. | :01:24. | :01:35. | |
The sight of many people on the streets of Belfast last night | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
underlined the fear among pensioners after number of muggings in the | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
area. One woman who suffered a broken wrist are still too | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
traumatised to talk about her attack. The PSNI have today | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
responded. It is a weekly lunch club in Saint | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
Peter's Parish Hall. A serious matter is under discussion. You pull | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
that out... The safety officers from the City Council giving advice and | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
personal alarms. It is all because of too violent muggings of senior | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
citizens and several house burglaries in recent weeks. In the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
first incident, 78-year-old for us so laid suffered a broken wrist. She | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
was pushed to the ground cheering a mugging. The best friends say she | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
cannot talk about what happened without crying. She is scared to go | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
out unless somebody is with her, one of her daughters. Even in the | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
daytime. Just last Friday, 76 old Maureen Shepherd was left of the | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
broken jaw after being attacked in an alleyway of the streets. The two | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
incidents have left pensioners feeling vulnerable. Our neighbours | :02:48. | :03:00. | |
have all agree that if we going anywhere, one will keep an eye on | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
the house and we will have each other's phone numbers just in case | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
of an emergency. Last night several hundred people attended a rally to | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
show their support for victims of crime. And while people are | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
undoubtedly worried, the police say it is important to keep the | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
incidents in perspective. We want to do is reassure the community that | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
both those incidents are under investigation those investigations | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
remain alive and we are taken very seriously. But they are only a small | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
number of incidents, not in any way we downplay their seriousness, but | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
we don't greater fear of crime unnecessarily. Back in Saint | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Peter's, and it's a full house for the bingo. A determination in the | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
face of fear to live life as normal. Volunteers have mounted a mercy | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
mission to save horses stranded They brought hay and feed | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
to the animals stuck on an island This report by our agriculture | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
and environment correspondent Conor Macauley contains some images | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
which you may find upsetting. The distress call had come in after | :04:08. | :04:17. | |
locals became aware of the stranded horses, laden down with he and walls | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
feed, volunteers from the community rescue service that off on a mercy | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
mission into Lough Beg near Toome. It is a wide and shallow lake with | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
lots of little Ireland's. It took us a while to locate the one we wanted. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
There were 13 horses there, three of them were dead, lying out in the | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
open under heavy plastic. The ground was cut to ribbons and was no | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
grazing. The conditions are not ideal, the horses are friendly | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
enough and approachable enough, but they're certainly not starving. They | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
definitely need to be moved on soon as possible. They need shifting to a | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
better location, somewhere where there is extra food for them. First | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
examination, the horses do not seem to be in to buy their condition. The | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
ground on they were marooned is in a shocking state. We do not know who | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
owns these horses and we're not sure how they got here. One theory is | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
that they may have forwarded across a causeway at low water in the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
autumn. By the time they had grazed the Ireland down, the winter floods | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
had raised the levels, pruning them. We would hope that someone will come | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
out and do something a bit more substantial, I know the water has | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
cut everything off here and it has certainly created a dilemma for the | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
owner of the horses as well. Samir had been left before we arrived, but | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
these animals in need moving to dry ground if they are not endure | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
further suffering. The welfare of horses in all the responsibility of | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
councils, in this case, the Mid Ulster Council. It said its welfare | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
officers have perceived -- receive the conflict and worth investigating | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
kits. -- were investigating it. An investigation's underway | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
into how a train collided with construction equipment | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
on the line between Lisburn The railway line has | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
been closed all day. A bus substitution service | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
is in place but commuters have This is the spots are just outside | :06:14. | :06:26. | |
Lisburn, where the 625 Belfast to Portadown train hit a large piece of | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
excavation machinery on the track. After hitting the machinery, the | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
train and then travelled around 250 metres to where it came to a stop, | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
right here. Then, the driver, conduct and seven passengers on | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
board had to make their way off the train in the dark and walk around | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
the kilometres to the next level crossing. Shattered windows, shocked | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
and shaken passengers and staff, but thankfully, no one was injured. It | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
is not that difficult to leave -- to move -- for a piece of machinery to | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
derail a train. I'm fully stayed on the trucks and we are looking at | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
something less serious than it could have been. Health and Safety | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
Executive, Translink and the PSNI are all involved in trying to find | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
exactly how and why such a large piece of equipment ended up on the | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
tracks. It appears it was a bit of a digger on the line, the train struck | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
at at around 6:55am. We are not clear how it arrived on the line and | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
it will be investigated fully. And because of that ongoing | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
investigation, the line between Lisburn and Portadown will remain | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
closed. But some substitutions will be in place. -- bus substitutions. | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Almost a million pounds of public money is needed to repair a landmark | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
arts building which opened less than four years ago. | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
The figure was revealed in a letter to MLAs, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
who were also told that a small part of the roof of the MAC in Belfast | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Our arts correspondent Robbie Meredith is outside the MAC | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Yes, a very popular building, a landmark building in Belfast. You | :08:09. | :08:19. | |
can see it lit up behind me, people are going in and out. Dublin in 2012 | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
at a cost of just over ?70 million. A lot of money came from the public | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
purse, but about a year ago, it was noticed some parts of the stone | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
cladding on the front were falling off. Netting was put up, MLAs in the | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
culture committee were told it will cost six and a year ago, it was | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
noticed some parts of the stone cladding on the front were falling | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
off. Netting was put up, MLAs in the culture committee were told it would | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
cost six and ?1000 to fix the exterior in November. But today, | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
they got more details about the final bill and it is substantially | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
more. It is an award-winning builder, | :08:52. | :08:51. | |
belittle can currently be seen of it. Preparing the facade of the MAC | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
is going to come at a cost to the public purse. And that it MLAs said | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
that the Arts Council is seeking additional funding of almost | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
?940,000. That is work including the replacement of the stone facade. | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
They were told this was because pursuing liability for the work is | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
likely to be lengthy. Many MLAs are not happy. Another million pounds of | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
public money has to be spent on it. Absolutely. It is to not be | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
defective, not fit for purpose. I'm totally against forking out money, | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
nearly ?1 million, for something that they had literally no reason | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
to. The letter also said an aluminium panel was dislodged from | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
the roof and blown into the square jury by winds-macro last Friday. One | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
of the questions is why do we have to pay this million pounds, there's | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
a discussion about who is liable. And if it wasn't urgent, you | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
wouldn't pay now. But with a windy weather last week, you have to make | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
sure this building is safe. That is our paramount concern and the big | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
question to be answered. No one from the MAC was available for an | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
interview this Mac -- afternoon, but a statement, they said they would | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
remain open for business as usual. The MAC say the show will go on, but | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
why does the money has to come from the public purse? It is a question | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
of timing. Our legal proceedings going on to establish liability for | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
Bush about the cost of the work. It needs to be done right away. It | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
seems that the car, despite the culture committee MLAs unhappiness | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
is going to have to foot the bill for the exterior repair work to the | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
MAC. The Chief Constable has urged | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
politicians to act quickly to agree George Hamilton says it should not | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
be left to the police to deal Our Home Affairs Correspondent | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Vincent Kearney reports. The policing board's job is to hold | :10:52. | :11:03. | |
the PSNI to account for its actions in the present. But today, once | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
again, the focus was very much on the past. We have entered the New | :11:07. | :11:16. | |
Year, but collectively as the society, the bus remains unresolved. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
As is often the case, the past dominated today's meeting. In an | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
interview for the BBC, the Chief Constable said it was up to the | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
politicians to find a solution. I always say is my responsibility to | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
try and finish the business of the politicians, but actually, in the | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
absence of political agreement or some infrastructure to deal with it, | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
it all defaults to the police. We are so close that we will work with | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
everybody in a way that can be agreed upon, but can't actually get | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
the last 100 yards. It would be good if we could, because people are | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
suffering and people have stories to tell, there is information and | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
victims need to hear to bring some closure to their pain and trauma and | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
loss. A Chief Constable from the past has also urged politicians to | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
deal with the issue. He was speaking in an interview for the BBC | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
programmer to be broadcast tonight. Politicians on all sides to | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
represent all the communities need to sit around and come up with a | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
solution. It certainly won't happen without clear, joined a political | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
leadership. The Government has said ?150 million funding set aside for | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
bodies to deal with the past will be released -- will not be released | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
until politicians reach an agreement. The Chief Constable says | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
he does not believe it is the responsibility of the PSNI to deal | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
with the past. But until politicians can agree how to do it, it will | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
remain his problem. And there'll be more on that story | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
on The View at 10.45pm The First Minister says she supports | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
Shankill bomb victims in their search for the truth | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
after an allegation the RUC had After meeting some of the families, | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Arlene Foster said she would support them | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
in their quest to get the Police Ombudsman | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
to carry out an inquiry. Of course I have been and continue | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
to be a long-term supporter of the RUC and the police service of | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
Northern Ireland, that doesn't take away from the fact there were a few | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
bad apples around at that particular point in time. Therefore we need to | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
get to the truth of this. I hear what the Chief Constable has to say | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
in relation to the allegation, but when you listen to the families and | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
how they have been traumatised in you, we have to give them beyond a | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
reasonable doubt the certainty that did not happen. If it did, we need | :13:40. | :13:40. | |
to find out that as well. The amalgamation of two grammar | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
schools in Enniskillen has divided Yesterday, a High Court judge | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
rejected a bid to prevent the merger Now parents are being urged | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
to get behind the plans for the new Enniskillen | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
Royal Grammar School. Here's our south west | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
reporter, Julian Fowler. Those opposed to the amalgamation | :13:56. | :14:07. | |
took their campaign to Stormont, and again a petition signed by 7000 | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
people. Former collegiate pupil Arlene Foster said that the decision | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
to close a school that was successful and oversubscribed was | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
bizarre. But yesterday, a High Court judge said the decision was neither | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
irrational or unlawful and urged the leadership of the Collegiate to | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
devote its efforts to ensure the new school will fulfil its potential. In | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
response, the school's principle, Elizabeth Armstrong, said that while | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
many will be deeply disappointed by the judgment, we go forward from it | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
in our resolute and undaunted spirit of strong service to all young | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
people as we seek to establish the new school. Initially, the | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Enniskillen while Grammar School will operate on a split site, but | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
there are plans to build a single new school for 900 pupils. The | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
amalgamation has a role was potential, but getting there is | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
difficult. So far, it has been very painful for summer and now the | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
healing can begin. But the vision could take years to become a | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
reality. This is the sight of another new school in Enniskillen | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
are more than a decade after it was promised. Building will not begin | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
for another year at least. He ate pupils join a school in September | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
will all come here to the site of the Collegiate. But it is not clear | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
if they will ever get to see a new school building. The process could | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
take at least five years. Three possible sites are being considered. | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
The Department for Education said the new grammar school is too early | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
in the planning stage to estimate when construction is likely to | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
commence. They said it is worth noting that if the obvious change | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
for Kane. Rapid change in the skill and have not been resistant for a | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
decade, this project will be much further advanced. Would be. | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
Planning permission was approved last month for more development | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
at the former Ebrington army site in Londonderry. | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
The Environment Minister Mark Durkan says the blueprint will be | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
a boost for business and tourism in the area. | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
But not everyone's happy with the pace of development. | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
Donna's been to Ebrington to hear more. | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
Have over the past 13 years, this place has been transformed from a | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
derelict army barracks into an open public space. But that is about it. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
That company charged by the Government to regenerate this area | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
is no more, after official scrutiny of its practices. One business that | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
has set up here has told us it was a tough task, because of red tape and | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
bureaucracy. Will this new development plan" more private | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
enterprise here? This report from our Northwest reporter. BBC Radio | :16:38. | :16:49. | |
one's big weekend was just one of the many highlights cheering city of | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
culture year in 2013. This square has played host to many events as | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
thousands have gathered to celebrate and enjoy this shed space. None of | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
you are holding of 12 served it when I did, are you? Joe the troubles, | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
1000 soldiers were stationed here. But the former Mercury base was | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
handed over to the Stormont Executive in 2003 as part of the | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
peace process. This 26 acre site had huge potential. One young | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
entrepreneur who is now -- who has now established a restaurant said he | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
found it too much red tape when he started the business. We said it | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
need to be open within four or five months and it ended up being just | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
under a year. That was very frustrating. We saw first and | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
however what the levels of bureaucracy were in terms of opening | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
a building here and eventually, with the push strongly to get it through | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
and we were just at the tipping point. But then we opened in May | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
2000 15. A creative hope has been established in Ebrington, there are | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
many companies were 43 people. The company charged with developing a | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
massive site has now been wound up with the council all to be taking | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
responsibility for its growth. An independent report claimed they had | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
not been focusing on its core function in developing the site. | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
Criticism is warranted, but the report was overly critical. What it | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
does do is devalue the past work that the staff have delivered. Mark | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
Durkan is now approved plans for the entire site's development with | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
housing, offices, cafes and restaurants as well as a hotel, | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
museum and arts facilities. The Londonderry Chamber of Commerce says | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
Central Government must now help attract investment to this largest | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
regeneration site in the city. When the site was handed over, shortly | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
afterwards, we had another big is global recessions and that has had | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
an impact and has not been private-sector money been able to go | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
into that, so it has been left to Government and they have had | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
challengers, too. It very frustrating. So, frustration in many | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
quarters about the apparent lack of development on this massive site. | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
The challenge now is to try and entice those in the private sector | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
that have so far resisted a move onto this iconic waterfront sites. | :19:20. | :19:32. | |
With us now is the Minister approved the application and a financial | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
journalist, Paul Gosling. It is a greater vision, but is there a real | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
need 40s in that plan? It is a great vision, and there is a real need. I | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
was delighted last month to be in a position where I could give approval | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
for the development framework for this vast site of great potential. I | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
fear is vitally important that everyone works to ensure that | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
vision, the great vision is realised. It is a vision, but what | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
incentives are you giving to businesses and private enterprise to | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
take that leap of faith and develop the business on this side of the | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
river when they could do it across the way? I think we should look at | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
every avenue as a means of developing the site. We have seen | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
enterprise that is granted and should be explored for this city and | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
in particular for this site. Paul, what would developing a site into a | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
tourism and business hub mean for the local economy here and the wider | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
economy? If it could attract people from outside the area, businesses | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
and investment into the city, it could be transformative for the | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
city. This is an incredibly important site. But the development | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
has been so slow. It was granted to the city in 2003, in maybe 2033 | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
before development is completed. This is a snail's Payson has really | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
let the city down. The difficulty though, we have heard from the | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
businesses, is the red tape and bureaucracy. That will put | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
businesses. What can be done to encourage them? We need to | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
streamline the system. They're having complex from businesses that | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
want to move him but were unable to. There have also been complaints from | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
people that they were hampered by procedure and bureaucracy. Ministers | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
need to look at the systems in place and streamline them and enable | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
people who want to get things done to do it. Minister, finally, it is a | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
risk to set up the business year, but you're a local man. Who has | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
spoken to you on what sort of interest has been voiced to you that | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
people want to come here? There has been huge interest in this site from | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
commercial and community and arts -based organisations. There's a huge | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
interest in this site. They recognise the potential of it and | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
the beautiful location of it. Thank you for joining me. I was a quite a | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
few years ago and this is a derelict army site. If this plan goes ahead, | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
by 2033, this will be a hub for business and tourism. Let us wait | :22:10. | :22:10. | |
and see. Legendary local musician | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
Van Morrison was knighted by the Prince of Wales in a ceremony | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
at Buckingham Palace The 70-year-old was | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
recognised for his services to the music industry and tourism | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
in Northern Ireland. He described the honour | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
as "exhilarating" and "not bad for a blue-eyed soul | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
singer from East Belfast". Now sport, and our three | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
Major Champions all flirted with the top end of | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
the leaderboard in Dubai today. Here's Gavin Andrews | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
with the sport. Rory McIlroy recovered from a poor | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
start to post a four-under-par round of 68 as he began the defence | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
of his Dubai Desert Classic title. He's two shots off the lead, | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
and wasn't the only local player to make a move on the opening day, | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
as Gavin Andrews reports. When he is on the form, Rory McIlroy | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
is one of the longest hitters in the game. Sometimes that can cause. But | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
the world number two has a habit of getting out of trouble. I hit a lot | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
of my shots out there. I had an idea that that short a team is going to | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
go underwater, it came off way too hot for my liking, but yes, I stayed | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
positive because I had a great team shot. I said to my caddie that it | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
would be great to make birdie he and I was able to do that. I had a | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
couple of great shots on the front line which set me up and I just need | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
to tidy up to the bit in some areas. He certainly looks at home on the | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
course and did so when you picked his first professional win seven | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
years ago. The European Ryder Cup captain, Darren Clarke, got off to a | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
flying start in the desert and reached six under par but dropped | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
five shots late in his rounds. And the ever steady Graeme McDowell is | :23:51. | :23:51. | |
well placed after 300 parts at 69. While recuperating from a lengthy | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
injury hurling star Shane McNaughton A year on, he's set to appear | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
in a Lyric theatre production and has landed a part in the next | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
series of the BBC hit drama Before that, there's an All Ireland | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
semifinal to be played The loneliness of the long-distance | :24:07. | :24:22. | |
hurler. At 28, ravaged by injury and close to quitting the game he loved, | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
he sat down and up to treading the boards. I was out about a year and a | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
half, took a few classes did a few players in Belfast and recently just | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
got a small part in the film macro. It was a good experience and well | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
welcomed at the time. His contract prevents it from discussing Gillian | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
Anderson, but his team-mates are having fun. He's the next best thing | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
come up in Hollywood, so he's got a busy training and acting. I hope he | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
does well in Hollywood, all the best to him. In the clubhouse, he's just | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
another hurler. In the runway, these men are all stars, all dining at the | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
game's top table. For these squad, sporting immortality beckons. It is | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
the stuff of Hollywood. Ulster Rugby have confirmed that | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
centre Sammy Arnold has agreed to join Munster on a two-year | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
deal from this summer. Good evening. It has been a grey and | :25:32. | :25:44. | |
drop Dave, the drizzle and never terribly far away. We hold onto the | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
blanket of cloud tonight. The temperatures stay reasonably mild | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
overnight, but the breeze picks up around midnight head of this cold | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
front moving in which brings rain to all parts. That really sets the tone | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
for Friday's weather. Just about everybody will be waking up to some | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
rain tomorrow morning. It will clear late on, but if we're honest, this | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
front gets a bit stalled. Across the eastern half of Northern Ireland, | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
that could take a good while. Rain will continue on into the afternoon | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
tomorrow. Behind it, we get a bit of drier, brighter weather. It doesn't | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
help the temperatures much, because they are into cooler air. Because we | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
have those clearing skies towards dusk, it means that through the | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
first part of tomorrow night, temperatures will drop away quite | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
markedly. The chance of seeing a bit of ice forming by dawn on Saturday | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
morning, although we have this rain working its way in, so temperatures | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
will recover a little through the second half of the night. Saturday | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
is a bit of a damp squib. It will be grey and wet and a bit windy, too. | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
Not the most attractive way to start the weekend, this blanket is of rain | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
is sitting over us as we go through the day. Temperatures on the cool | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
side, highs of 7-8d. Not terribly nice. We've got plenty of weather | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
heading in our direction over the next few days, bit of a procession | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
of Atlantic low-pressure system is heading in our direction. But there | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
is a bit of a break towards Sunday and we have a gap between the fronts | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
and that means we should see something a bit brighter. So while | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
the rain continues through Saturday, Sunday at least promises to be dry | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
and brighter and I'm afraid it will no warmer. | :27:35. | :27:35. | |
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