:00:00. > :00:22.Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline:
:00:23. > :00:28.The moment gunman opened fire at a boxing weigh-in, killing one man and
:00:29. > :00:29.wounding two others. We have a reporter in Dublin.
:00:30. > :00:32.Dealing with the past - young voters give their views
:00:33. > :00:38.as a Troubles victim says it's time to reconsider some form of amnesty.
:00:39. > :00:44.I think that South Africa took the right course when they decided to
:00:45. > :00:47.draw a line under the past by declaring very firmly in the
:00:48. > :00:51.transitional constitution that an amnesty would be granted.
:00:52. > :00:53.New rules are coming in for hailing a taxi
:00:54. > :00:56.late at night in Belfast city centre - we'll have the details.
:00:57. > :00:58.Actor Liam Neeson appeals for everyone in his home town
:00:59. > :01:01.to get behind a jobs rally tomorrow.
:01:02. > :01:03.Overlooked for the World Cup, but Andrew Trimble
:01:04. > :01:11.has pushed his way back into Ireland Six Nations team.
:01:12. > :01:18.And it is turning drier after today, but it may not stay that way at the
:01:19. > :01:20.weekend. I will have the weather details shortly.
:01:21. > :01:22.Gunmen disguised as police officers opened fire on boxing fans in Dublin
:01:23. > :01:26.this afternoon, killing one man and wounding two others.
:01:27. > :01:29.It happened in a hotel at a weigh-in ceremony
:01:30. > :01:39.Our Dublin Correspondent Shane Harrison has more on this.
:01:40. > :01:48.He is at the scene and we hope to go to him shortly. Shane is there, can
:01:49. > :01:54.you tell us what happened in Well, it was at half past two this
:01:55. > :02:03.afternoon that the guard I say there was a weigh-in behind me for a
:02:04. > :02:09.number of flights tomorrow night and what happened was two men dressed as
:02:10. > :02:11.Gardai arrived at the scene and started firing. We have some footage
:02:12. > :02:46.and it really is quite shocking. Now, there were a number of sports
:02:47. > :02:51.fans there, people interested in the fight and of course, some sports
:02:52. > :02:56.journalist, including the BBC Radio Foyle journalist Kevin McAnena. You
:02:57. > :02:59.join me now, what did you see? I was coming out of the main room where
:03:00. > :03:04.the weigh-in had happened because most of the main fighters had
:03:05. > :03:08.finished, but some were still and I was walking through the corridor
:03:09. > :03:11.into the lobby and panic developed, people started running and running
:03:12. > :03:14.and pushing and shoving each other and I didn't know what had happened,
:03:15. > :03:19.I thought maybe a fist fight had broken out. I know they were
:03:20. > :03:25.shooting in the main room before. Then outside, I heard two gunshots
:03:26. > :03:29.and two gunmen in Gardai U came through the lobby to my left. One of
:03:30. > :03:33.them ran forward, he looked as if he was about to go into the restaurant
:03:34. > :03:38.part and then he turned and one guy was running through the lobby and he
:03:39. > :03:43.just shot him in the leg. He was maybe six feet in front of me, just
:03:44. > :03:47.over there. He seemed to shoot him so indiscriminately that I thought,
:03:48. > :03:50.is this actually the Gardai, because he didn't look at who he was
:03:51. > :03:56.shooting? I jumped over the receptionist's desk and he was
:03:57. > :04:00.shouting, don't shoot, don't shoot. The gunman leaned over the
:04:01. > :04:07.receptionist's desk, was pointing down at me and I was screaming,
:04:08. > :04:11."Don't shoot, don't shoot," and he said something to me and at this
:04:12. > :04:14.point, everyone else had run away. I was looking straight down the
:04:15. > :04:18.barrel, he was pointing the gun straight at me and I was terrified
:04:19. > :04:22.and I lay there for a while and it stayed quiet so I scuttled off to
:04:23. > :04:25.the back, there was a room in there and I hid with the receptionist or
:04:26. > :04:30.maybe an hour before we rang the Gardai and they told us it was OK to
:04:31. > :04:35.get out. How'd you feel now? It must have been terrifying experience.
:04:36. > :04:39.Absolutely terrifying at the time, my whole body was shaking. I feel
:04:40. > :04:45.OKed now but probably tomorrow and the next day, the full trauma will
:04:46. > :04:49.hit you. I have never had a near death experience before so for me it
:04:50. > :04:53.was terrifying, but for everyone there, terrifying and someone has
:04:54. > :04:58.lost their life as well. I can tell you that a man has lost his life,
:04:59. > :05:03.two people are injured with suspected gunshot wounds. They are
:05:04. > :05:08.being treated in hospitals nearby. As to who carried it out, Gardai are
:05:09. > :05:13.obviously linking it to gangland crime and they suspect it may be
:05:14. > :05:18.linked to the killing of a gangland figure from Dublin, Gary Hutch, in
:05:19. > :05:21.southern Spain late last year. Shane Harrison, our Dublin
:05:22. > :05:28.correspondent there. A Queen's University academic has
:05:29. > :05:30.said the mounting costs of investigating deaths
:05:31. > :05:32.during the Troubles means politicians should reconsider
:05:33. > :05:34.the idea of some form of amnesty. Professor Adrian Guelke,
:05:35. > :05:36.who himself survived a paramilitary murder attempt, says the future
:05:37. > :05:44.is more important than the past. He says the mounting cost of
:05:45. > :05:56.investigating the past means politicians stood consider such a
:05:57. > :06:01.step. The gunman who tried to kill Adrian Guelke had never been found.
:06:02. > :06:07.He was upstairs in his flat when the loyalist gunmen who shot him
:06:08. > :06:11.mistakenly thought he was working for the IRA. He survived and today,
:06:12. > :06:13.his focus is on the future, not the past. I'm just happy to move on and
:06:14. > :06:19.I don't see any purpose in pursuing people
:06:20. > :06:22.involved in my particular case. I think South Africa took the right
:06:23. > :06:27.course when they decided to draw a line under the past by declaring
:06:28. > :06:32.very firmly in the transitional constitution that an amnesty would
:06:33. > :06:36.be granted. Victims' groups very commonly want both truth and
:06:37. > :06:40.justice. What people have to understand is they are more likely
:06:41. > :06:44.to get truth is they are more willing to be more flexible about
:06:45. > :06:48.justice and I think the cost of trying to deal with the past, we do
:06:49. > :06:52.need a different approached the one that is being currently used.
:06:53. > :06:57.Dealing with the past has already been expensive, but many believe it
:06:58. > :07:02.is a price worth paying. Enquiries have been held into bloody Sunday
:07:03. > :07:07.and deaths of Robert Hammell, Billy Wright and Rosemary Nelson, at a
:07:08. > :07:12.total cost of more than ?300 million. And millions more have been
:07:13. > :07:17.spent on inquests, ombudsman investigations, Victims' groups, the
:07:18. > :07:22.Victims commissioner, B Historical Enquiries Team and a range of other
:07:23. > :07:26.troubles related investigations. The next one will be the so-called steak
:07:27. > :07:32.knife inquiry. Police say it will cost around ?35 billion. What isn't
:07:33. > :07:35.clear is who is going to be paying for it. At the same time,
:07:36. > :07:38.politicians still can't agree on a final framework for dealing with the
:07:39. > :07:43.past, but some kind of amnesty has little support. We are very clear as
:07:44. > :07:49.a party that that is not about to happen. There will be no amnesty, no
:07:50. > :07:53.rewriting of history in Northern Ireland and we will continue to
:07:54. > :07:57.fight with the Victims for justice. For more than 20 years, politicians
:07:58. > :08:00.have been grappling with just how to deal with the past. It hasn't always
:08:01. > :08:05.been their number one priority but the fact that the issue is now right
:08:06. > :08:07.at the top of the political agenda at Stormont is in one way a sign of
:08:08. > :08:09.progress. Getting a consensus on how
:08:10. > :08:12.we deal with the past is, at the moment, beyond
:08:13. > :08:14.the reach of those who lived Well, sixth-formers gathered
:08:15. > :08:21.in Belfast today to talk But as our Education Correspondent
:08:22. > :08:25.Robbie Meredith discovered, they have plenty to say
:08:26. > :08:38.about the past as well. Your question is, what are three key
:08:39. > :08:39.issues in Belfast that need to be addressed?
:08:40. > :08:42.They were born at the time of the Good Friday Agreement.
:08:43. > :08:48.But has Northern Ireland moved forward enough during their lives?
:08:49. > :08:54.There are so many issues today that we need to focus on and I don't
:08:55. > :08:58.think there is enough focus on them, unique, funding, things that are
:08:59. > :09:02.important to students and important to young people. Now we have the
:09:03. > :09:06.lowering of the corporation Tax but not until 2017, so we need more
:09:07. > :09:11.things happening now to make Belfast attracted to people in the financial
:09:12. > :09:13.world. I do think things should have moved on and they haven't.
:09:14. > :09:16.These young people will be able to vote in elections for the first
:09:17. > :09:21.At the minute, there's political deadlock over how we deal
:09:22. > :09:24.with the past, the legacy of the Troubles and its cost.
:09:25. > :09:29.Does that matter to them or is it a source of frustration?
:09:30. > :09:36.At times, I sort of think we spend too much money and things like that.
:09:37. > :09:39.At the end of the day, in my opinion, the past should be in the
:09:40. > :09:44.past. There is only so much justice and rest you can get by
:09:45. > :09:49.investigating the past and it would be more worthwhile investing in the
:09:50. > :09:54.future. Do you feel we are being held back by the past? I do to an
:09:55. > :09:55.extent. But what happens in the past shapes the future but in a lot of
:09:56. > :09:56.places, yes. One of the organisers of today's
:09:57. > :10:04.event says politicians need It has gone even beyond frustration,
:10:05. > :10:08.these young people are looking forward. They don't have the
:10:09. > :10:11.experiences of some of us. I was going to school in the 1970s, this
:10:12. > :10:12.sort of thing was completely unthinkable. These young people are
:10:13. > :10:13.looking to the future. And there was even a blunt
:10:14. > :10:20.message for the media. If there is still a continual focus
:10:21. > :10:24.on the troubles and it is still brought up in the news and that the
:10:25. > :10:27.news always focus on it, it is still in people's heads and the more it is
:10:28. > :10:29.in people's heads, the more issues will arise from it. Food for
:10:30. > :10:31.thought. Five people escaped injury
:10:32. > :10:34.in a gun attack on a house Shots were fired at a house
:10:35. > :10:38.in Dill Avenue at about six o'clock, Two children were in the house
:10:39. > :10:49.at the time of the attack. New significant changes to taxi
:10:50. > :10:51.regulations You will be able to hail any taxi
:10:52. > :10:55.during certain hours of the weekend in Belfast City Centre
:10:56. > :11:08.without having a booking. It can be a confusing situation,
:11:09. > :11:15.which taxes can be hailed and which can't? Outside of Belfast, it is
:11:16. > :11:19.simple. All taxes can be waived down, but here in Belfast city
:11:20. > :11:22.centre, it is a bit different. Currently, only public higher taxes,
:11:23. > :11:27.or what we would know as black taxes, can be hailed on the streets.
:11:28. > :11:33.Other taxes have to be booked in advance. But that is about to be
:11:34. > :11:38.changed. What will change is that on a Friday and Saturday night, between
:11:39. > :11:41.the hours of 2359 and six o'clock the following day, and on public
:11:42. > :11:47.holidays, members of the public will be able to hail any taxi in the two
:11:48. > :11:51.mile zone within Belfast. Previously, that wasn't the case. We
:11:52. > :11:55.have done that because often demand outstrips supply and it is a way for
:11:56. > :12:00.the public to get a taxi quickly and get home as soon as they possibly
:12:01. > :12:04.can. This is the area in Belfast city centre covered by the new
:12:05. > :12:10.rules. Not everyone is happy about the change. If this is just to clear
:12:11. > :12:13.the streets, it is wrong, because if you are going to clear the streets,
:12:14. > :12:18.you must know that the clientele and the general public are getting into
:12:19. > :12:25.a legitimate taxi and that doesn't have that insurance. It is also
:12:26. > :12:29.introducing new signage that will look something like this, to deter
:12:30. > :12:30.those operating illegally. Black taxi drivers don't understand why
:12:31. > :12:32.they need it also. of the Derry city footballer
:12:33. > :12:37.Mark Farren. The City team formed a guard
:12:38. > :12:43.of honour outside St Mary's Church in Ballybrack, County Donegal,
:12:44. > :12:45.and the mourners included the Deputy First Minister
:12:46. > :12:48.Martin McGuinness and the former SDLP leader
:12:49. > :12:55.John Hume. 20 years ago next week,
:12:56. > :12:58.a bomb exploded at Canary Wharf in the heart of London's Docklands,
:12:59. > :13:01.ending a 17-month-old IRA ceasefire. In a BBC Northern Ireland programme,
:13:02. > :13:04.the man charged with catching those responsible talks in public
:13:05. > :13:09.for the first time. February 1996 came after a period
:13:10. > :13:15.of hope and a little glamour We invite to the platform,
:13:16. > :13:30.the president of the United States! But behind the scenes,
:13:31. > :13:34.it was stalling. When the president decided to go to
:13:35. > :13:35.Northern Ireland, there was no movement on the peace process.
:13:36. > :13:38.The issue of how and when the IRA should decommission seemed
:13:39. > :13:42.Sniper shootings were blotting the ceasefire.
:13:43. > :13:45.And then on the 9th of February, at teatime -
:13:46. > :14:03.Hundreds of people injured by flying glass. A scene of utter devastation,
:14:04. > :14:08.like anything you have ever seen in a movie and that sort of flickering
:14:09. > :14:14.light from the fire brigade and torches and all that, like a scene
:14:15. > :14:15.from the apocalypse. Two people died and hundreds were injured.
:14:16. > :14:18.This is the man who ran the operation to catch
:14:19. > :14:21.Now for the first time, he's explained how the public
:14:22. > :14:27.pointed them towards crucial fingerprint evidence.
:14:28. > :14:33.Perhaps you work in the motor trade, perhaps in the conversion industry,
:14:34. > :14:33.if you have seen somebody working on this vehicle.
:14:34. > :14:36.An abandoned tyre brought the first finger print.
:14:37. > :14:38.The second on an ashtray at a truck stop in Carlisle.
:14:39. > :14:45.But there was no one matching that print on the system.
:14:46. > :14:47.The breakthrough came during an RUC operation on snipers
:14:48. > :14:59.I got a phone call, OK, we have arrested the sniper team and I said,
:15:00. > :15:07.congratulations, that is wonderful, we got the car and we got the
:15:08. > :15:15.rightful -- rifle and we have got them all alive, which was really
:15:16. > :15:20.good. And he said and the fingerprint officers have had a look
:15:21. > :15:25.at the first set of fingerprints they have taken from the people
:15:26. > :15:27.arrested and it is your... He just took one look at him and said this
:15:28. > :15:28.is the triple thumbprint man. It was considered a massive
:15:29. > :15:32.security operation success. But others say that the bomb
:15:33. > :15:44.was actually the biggest triumph The great irony to me is Canary
:15:45. > :15:53.Wharf got the Republicans to the table. The British are so much "The
:15:54. > :15:57.words are here and the actions are there" and the actions of the
:15:58. > :15:58.British are, yes, you can bomb your way to the conference table. That's
:15:59. > :16:00.really what Canary Wharf was. 20 years ago, the bomb rocked
:16:01. > :16:02.Britain's new financial district, but it's reverberations were felt
:16:03. > :16:04.just as deeply in Northern And you can see that programme
:16:05. > :16:11.at nine o'clock on Monday evening and a sprinkle of stardust -
:16:12. > :16:26.to a campaign to bring jobs back He has recorded a video message
:16:27. > :16:29.urging people to attend a rally in Ballymena tomorrow,
:16:30. > :16:31.calling for greater investment He's the Hollywood superstar who's
:16:32. > :16:39.never forgotten his roots . But now this action man is asking
:16:40. > :16:52.the people of Ballymena Hello, I am Liam Neeson, Fred
:16:53. > :16:57.Palomino man. I am backing the demand for jobs and investment for
:16:58. > :17:00.Ballymena -- are proud Ballymena man. I am asking you to attend a
:17:01. > :17:06.rally for the future of Ballymena at the bandstand on the moon -- on the
:17:07. > :17:11.sixth of every afternoon. Be there. His home town has had
:17:12. > :17:13.a tough time recently. The closures of the Michelin tyre
:17:14. > :17:16.factory and the Gallaghers cigarette plant have left more than 1,600
:17:17. > :17:18.workers facing unemployment. Now a campaign has been launched
:17:19. > :17:20.calling for more investment - and a brighter future -
:17:21. > :17:22.for the town. Locals say something
:17:23. > :17:32.needs to change. I have a sister who has worked at
:17:33. > :17:38.Gallagher is a over 40 years and I don't know where she will get a job
:17:39. > :17:46.now. So you back the campaign? Fully back it. There is a lot of
:17:47. > :17:51.competition and they look for a lot of criteria. In this day and age,
:17:52. > :17:55.workers not plentiful in Ballymena, so it is a bit of a disaster that
:17:56. > :17:56.people have lost their jobs. While the New York-based actor isn't
:17:57. > :17:59.expected to attend the rally in person tomorrow, the event's
:18:00. > :18:15.organisers say his message Out of the workforce here of 1700
:18:16. > :18:19.going into major plans, service industries and none of -- another
:18:20. > :18:22.thousand, we are looking public sector cuts being massive, massive
:18:23. > :18:25.impact and something needs to happen. Campaigners may have secured
:18:26. > :18:29.the backing of a famous Hollywood actor, but what is needed next is
:18:30. > :18:32.the support of the people of Ballymena and its politicians and,
:18:33. > :18:35.most importantly, the wider business community.
:18:36. > :18:39.Children in Lurgan got a special audience today with a man
:18:40. > :18:42.who is seen as a legend in the eyes of Manchester United and Republic
:18:43. > :18:48.Roy Keane signed all of the autographs and posed
:18:49. > :18:50.for all the photos and gave the young people some blunt advice
:18:51. > :19:01.Our reporter Keiron Tourish was there with them.
:19:02. > :19:08.He is one of the finest players of his era and today, Roy Keane
:19:09. > :19:11.captured the imagination of the next generation, all eager to hear his
:19:12. > :19:16.advice after such a distinguished career. You have got to enjoy. If
:19:17. > :19:21.you are not enjoying it, there is something drastically wrong. If you
:19:22. > :19:24.want to become good at any sport, there is hurling, football, the
:19:25. > :19:27.whole lot, basketball, boxing the some of the younger kids, unless you
:19:28. > :19:35.really love something, it is very hard to become really good at it. So
:19:36. > :19:38.enjoyed. Roy Keane was here at the invitation of former United
:19:39. > :19:41.team-mate Pat McGivern. He runs a project where the emphasis is on
:19:42. > :19:47.enjoying your sport and not winning at all costs. Between all the boys
:19:48. > :19:52.and girls, almost 300 of them here, this is something they can look back
:19:53. > :19:57.on for the rest of their lives. In this technology obsessed world, Roy
:19:58. > :20:02.Keane had some blunt advice. Throw them in the bin. Throw them in the
:20:03. > :20:06.bin. Play football. Practice. Kick the ball against the wall, play with
:20:07. > :20:11.your mates. Kids don't climb trees anymore. That is my advice for you,
:20:12. > :20:15.enjoy football and climb some trees. This is why I love the game,
:20:16. > :20:19.watching young kids starting out. And I suppose you are more pleased
:20:20. > :20:24.because you should be at school, should you? That is why they are
:20:25. > :20:28.really happy, not that I am here. Everyone knows Roy Keane never
:20:29. > :20:33.shirked a tackle, but he was asked if he ever made any mistakes on the
:20:34. > :20:38.pitch. I made one or two mistakes, but that is part of life. I swear, I
:20:39. > :20:43.am not standing here with a halo over my head. You make mistakes when
:20:44. > :20:47.you play sports. You get injured sometimes all you injure somebody. I
:20:48. > :20:53.was unfortunate, I came across a lot of bad referees. The some reason,
:20:54. > :20:57.they were always giving me red cards, it was weird. Bad referees.
:20:58. > :21:02.But you have to respect the officials as well, kids. Certainly a
:21:03. > :21:05.Davies children will never forget. -- certainly a day these children
:21:06. > :21:08.will never forget. They just loved him in Lurgan. To
:21:09. > :21:10.rugby next. He was overlooked for the World Cup,
:21:11. > :21:13.but Andrew Trimble is back in favour He was Ireland's Player of the Year
:21:14. > :21:21.in the 2014, so not a massive surprise that a fully fit Trimble
:21:22. > :21:24.starts Sunday's Six Nations opener Rory Best captains the side
:21:25. > :21:27.which sees South African-born CJ Stander make his debut
:21:28. > :21:44.in the back row. Ireland are the RBS Six Nations
:21:45. > :21:46.champions. Lifting the trophy last year was Paul O'Connell and
:21:47. > :21:51.celebrations were emphatic. Ireland were the best in the business and
:21:52. > :21:57.enthusiasm was everywhere ahead of the World Cup. Enthusiasm that was
:21:58. > :22:01.there the year before. But O Connell and O'Driscoll making what seemed
:22:02. > :22:06.like the annual pilgrimage to six days since success, they are no more
:22:07. > :22:09.and the World Cup campaign over but this year, Ireland could do
:22:10. > :22:15.something that has never been jailed in the 100 year plus history of the
:22:16. > :22:18.four, five, Six Nations Rugby, winning the championship for three
:22:19. > :22:22.consecutive years. I think with the quality of Wales, you cannot look
:22:23. > :22:25.beyond it. If you had a different quality of opposition, not that
:22:26. > :22:29.there are too many opponents in the Six Nations you can take lightly,
:22:30. > :22:32.but particularly Wales, with the way they finished the World Cup and the
:22:33. > :22:38.players they have got back into their fold, I have no doubt that
:22:39. > :22:42.will make it a real battle. Andrew Trimble was awarded the 2014 Ireland
:22:43. > :22:47.player of the year. Less than a year later, he was left out of the World
:22:48. > :22:53.Cup squad. On Sunday, he starts for Ireland. In no way do I begrudge any
:22:54. > :22:57.decisions made about the World Cup. At that stage, I had played one and
:22:58. > :23:00.a half games in close to ten months maybe and it wasn't enough to prove
:23:01. > :23:05.I was good enough to compete with some of the other guys in there, so
:23:06. > :23:09.the mindset now is I have my opportunity and I really want to
:23:10. > :23:14.take it. Trimble is one of a number of high-profile changes. Tommy
:23:15. > :23:18.O'Donnell, CJ Stander and Simon Stevo all come in. All change in the
:23:19. > :23:22.starting line-up but Ireland will be hoping for what now seems the
:23:23. > :23:26.traditional Six Nations result - a win.
:23:27. > :23:29.And The Island women get the ball rolling against Wales in Dublin
:23:30. > :23:30.tomorrow afternoon Jacques Ireland's women.
:23:31. > :23:33.Ulster are in action at home to Dragons tonight and a win
:23:34. > :23:35.would take Les Kisse's men top of the Pro 12 table.
:23:36. > :23:37.Here's veteran back row forward Roger Wilson.
:23:38. > :23:42.It is a big one and somewhere we haven't been for a while and we
:23:43. > :23:46.would like to get back up to. It takes is nicely then, or hopefully
:23:47. > :23:50.will, into the next four games, a block of games which again we feel
:23:51. > :23:55.like we can motor on and take some good points from those, but it would
:23:56. > :23:56.be a great start. That is live on BBC Two at 7:30pm.
:23:57. > :23:59.Golf and it's been a topsy-turvy day for Rory McIlroy in Dubai.
:24:00. > :24:01.But at the midway point of the Desert Classic,
:24:02. > :24:02.the defending champion remains in contention.
:24:03. > :24:13.The defending champion was already one over par when he fluffed this
:24:14. > :24:17.chip at the eighth, beginning a run of three bogeys in four holes,
:24:18. > :24:21.including this rush of blood to the head which led to a three pot at the
:24:22. > :24:26.11th and the world number two slipped outside the halfway cut
:24:27. > :24:30.mark. But McIlroy fought back with four birdies in his closing six
:24:31. > :24:33.holes, a fine approach at the 16th produced this birdie and once again
:24:34. > :24:40.he was moving in the right direction. And he rolled in this pot
:24:41. > :24:47.at the last to shoot a level par 72 and at four under par, he is six
:24:48. > :24:51.shots off the halfway leader Cabrera-Bello of Spain. Not such a
:24:52. > :24:55.good Dave Michael Hoey, Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke, who all
:24:56. > :24:57.missed the halfway cut -- not such a good day for.
:24:58. > :24:59.By this time tomorrow, the hurlers of Cushendall will know
:25:00. > :25:02.if they've made history - they play Sarsfields of Galway
:25:03. > :25:04.in Navan with a place in the All-Ireland club final
:25:05. > :25:08.Ruairiogs manager John "Smokey" McKillop says his players have done
:25:09. > :25:17.I think this is 240 something sessions and I guarantee you could
:25:18. > :25:21.count on your hand the number of people who have missed them.
:25:22. > :25:26.Everybody is up for them, every time you step out of the car, or in my
:25:27. > :25:31.case the lorry, it is all they want to talk about, the hurling match.
:25:32. > :25:36.This will be my third all Ireland semifinal, I have been playing for
:25:37. > :25:39.them since I was 15 and I'm 27 now, so that is 12 years and these
:25:40. > :25:45.chances don't come around often, you have to make them count. That is
:25:46. > :25:50.live on the radio, as is all the local football tomorrow. If you are
:25:51. > :25:56.heading to Dublin for the men's or women's Six Nations or for the
:25:57. > :26:01.hurling, the best person to tell us about the weather is Barra.
:26:02. > :26:04.I am not hopeful. It is a case of keeping everything handy, low
:26:05. > :26:08.pressure will be in control. We had rain today that has cleared away, a
:26:09. > :26:11.few showers behind it turning Chile for a while, possibly with the odd
:26:12. > :26:15.stretch of ice but overnight, the cloud built in, helping to lift
:26:16. > :26:20.temperatures and gets rid of the risk of icy conditions, but still,
:26:21. > :26:24.nevertheless, a chilly night. Tomorrow, the cloud sticks around, a
:26:25. > :26:28.disappointing day, rather unsettled and grey, and with rain and the wind
:26:29. > :26:33.picking up. To begin with, the wind not too bad but it will strengthen
:26:34. > :26:37.through the day, it will be grey and outbreaks of rain coming and going.
:26:38. > :26:43.Not wall-to-wall rain, some dry periods but not a lot of sunshine if
:26:44. > :26:47.any. Temperatures at best seven or 8 degrees. If you are travelling
:26:48. > :26:51.tomorrow, the area of low pressure is in control right across Britain
:26:52. > :26:54.and Ireland, so almost everywhere getting wet weather and very strong
:26:55. > :26:58.southerly winds but temperatures were quite a few places will be
:26:59. > :27:03.several degrees above normal for the time of year, 12, maybe 13 degrees
:27:04. > :27:06.for the south-east of England. So for Northern Ireland, for the second
:27:07. > :27:09.part of the afternoon and evening, a fair amount of dry weather around,
:27:10. > :27:14.maybe the odd glimmer of sunshine in the West but we will hold onto a lot
:27:15. > :27:17.of cloud and it will continue to bring in scattered showers. It will
:27:18. > :27:22.turn quite chilly tomorrow night so there is the risk that some areas
:27:23. > :27:25.could see some sleet and snow, maybe in hills and mountains, most
:27:26. > :27:30.low-level areas will see rain. Sunday gets off to a promising
:27:31. > :27:34.start, fairly cloudy with one or two glimmers of sun, but the rain will
:27:35. > :27:38.move in and everyone has some strong south-westerly winds building in, so
:27:39. > :27:42.a blustery end to the day. They spill overnight into Monday, so
:27:43. > :27:45.another unsettled start to the new week and for the time being, no
:27:46. > :27:49.settled spell in the forecast just yet.
:27:50. > :27:51.Oh dear. The late summary is at 10:30pm here on BBC One. From all of
:27:52. > :27:54.us, goodbye.