:00:16. > :00:17.Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: The fall out
:00:18. > :00:19.from the colllapse of the Omagh bomb case.
:00:20. > :00:24.The First Minister says there's questions to be answered.
:00:25. > :00:26.A witness tells the Arlene Arkinson inquest that Robert Howard confessed
:00:27. > :00:33.Health professionals and academics call for tackling to be banned
:00:34. > :00:44.The evidence emerging is up to Louis horrifying. It is of very high rates
:00:45. > :00:47.and risks of serious injury. with Fine Gael over forming
:00:48. > :00:52.a Coalition Government in the Irish Well-known Radio Ulster contributor
:00:53. > :01:00.Geordie Tuft dies in a house fire. Ulster Rugby performance, the coach
:01:01. > :01:04.told us is exactly what he thinks. And no snow tonight,
:01:05. > :01:07.but very windy in places with a risk Tomorrow is a day of two halves,
:01:08. > :01:12.sunshine followed by rain. Hello and welcome to the programme
:01:13. > :01:19.this Wednesday evening. The Director of Public Prosecutions
:01:20. > :01:21.has agreed to meet the First Minister to discuss her
:01:22. > :01:24.concerns at the collapse Seamus Daly had been charged
:01:25. > :01:32.with the murders of the 29 people killed in the attack,
:01:33. > :01:34.but the charges were dropped Arlene Foster today said she wants
:01:35. > :01:38.to ask Barra McGrory why the case Here's our Home Affairs
:01:39. > :01:48.Correspondent, Vincent Kearney. Seamus Daly was released yesterday
:01:49. > :01:53.just hours after the case against him collapsed. His lawyers say the
:01:54. > :02:00.case should never have made it to court. The First Minister takes a
:02:01. > :02:04.different view. Arlene Foster was to visit a new ?105 million hospital
:02:05. > :02:09.being built in the town, but events of the past overshadowed the
:02:10. > :02:13.present. I'm very very conscious of the fact there are so many families
:02:14. > :02:19.and the wider community that feel a great deal of hurt this morning.
:02:20. > :02:22.While his lawyer said he should never have been charged, Arlene
:02:23. > :02:26.Foster wants the Public prosecution service to explain why the charges
:02:27. > :02:31.were dropped. We want to ask questions about why the DPP decided
:02:32. > :02:35.not to proceed in the terms of this case and following that up with him.
:02:36. > :02:39.We want to ask questions about the conduct of the case, how it was
:02:40. > :02:40.taken forward and how they communicated with the families,
:02:41. > :02:45.because I feel that the way they communicated with the families,
:02:46. > :02:49.were treated was an acceptable. The Director of Public Prosecutions,
:02:50. > :02:54.Barra McGrory, today con firmed and that he will meet Arlene Foster to
:02:55. > :02:59.discuss concerns. In a statement to the BBC, he also said he has written
:03:00. > :03:02.to the families of those killed to explain the reasoning behind the
:03:03. > :03:06.decision to withdraw the charges. The public prosecution service said
:03:07. > :03:12.it had no option but to drop the case after the key witness changed
:03:13. > :03:15.his evidence. The prosecution close relied upon the witness to link
:03:16. > :03:20.Seamus Daly with a mobile phone that used by members of the Real IRA who
:03:21. > :03:27.planted the bomb. Seamus Daly has always strongly denied any
:03:28. > :03:30.involvement. 14 years ago, the BBC's Panorama programme chides ask you
:03:31. > :03:37.about allegations that he had used a phone belonging to the bombers which
:03:38. > :03:41.showed he was involved. One thing I would like to explain Mr Daley is
:03:42. > :03:46.why you came to be in possession of a mobile telephone? The key witness
:03:47. > :03:49.in a prosecution case against Seamus Daly has said he called him from a
:03:50. > :03:53.mobile phone linked to the bombers on the day of the attack. But last
:03:54. > :03:57.week he said he may have been mistaken and that the call may have
:03:58. > :04:04.taken place a week earlier. At that point, the prosecution case was
:04:05. > :04:08.completely undermined. Seamus Daly met his solicitors in Belfast today
:04:09. > :04:12.to discuss an appeal against a civil prosecution that found him liable
:04:13. > :04:13.for the Omagh bombing. He declined the request for an interview about
:04:14. > :04:16.the allegations against him. A witness at the inquest
:04:17. > :04:19.into the death of the schoolgirl Arlene Arkinson has said she became
:04:20. > :04:21.frightened of Robert Howard after he told her he had previously
:04:22. > :04:25.murdered a six-year-old girl. Howard was the main suspect
:04:26. > :04:28.in Arlene's disappearance. He was never convicted of murder,
:04:29. > :04:31.although he was convicted of the attempted rape
:04:32. > :04:43.of a girl the same age. Robert Howard was well known in the
:04:44. > :04:46.area but he had a repeat a sham. Now, the mother of one of Arlene's
:04:47. > :04:51.friends has explained what she thought of him. She told the court
:04:52. > :04:56.she had met Robert Howard and did not like him. He told her he had
:04:57. > :05:00.been imprisoned after the murder of a six-year-old girl. Whilst he had
:05:01. > :05:03.many convicts was, he was never convicted for the crime. She
:05:04. > :05:06.resolved she and her family should have nothing to do with him. She
:05:07. > :05:11.told the court that Howard was an evil looking man with drink in him.
:05:12. > :05:15.She on that she did not like the look of him and did not want to be
:05:16. > :05:20.in his company, he was very scary. She also said Arlene had told her
:05:21. > :05:22.she needed money for an abortion and became hysterical when Robert
:05:23. > :05:28.Howard's name was mentioned. Later, Arlene's eldest sister, Kathleen,
:05:29. > :05:33.gave evidence. She had been protected after she was abused by
:05:34. > :05:37.money 1993 comic he was jailed for that. Kathleen also had to deal with
:05:38. > :05:52.local rumours about Arlene's boyfriend. Kathleen Arc in some wept
:05:53. > :05:57.briefly time she had seen her 19 94. She had given her money for
:05:58. > :05:59.chips as she has set off for a disco. I Irish ?1 coin which she put
:06:00. > :06:01.in the pocket of her disco. I Irish ?1 coin which she put
:06:02. > :06:04.never saw Arlene again. She also explained how she'd complain to the
:06:05. > :06:06.police ombudsman in 2006 about the RUC and PSNI investigations saying
:06:07. > :06:11.they had not given the case the seriousness and credence it
:06:12. > :06:14.deserved. In 1996 following a tip-off, the police searched the
:06:15. > :06:18.home, keeping her in the house for over two days and later even briefly
:06:19. > :06:25.arresting her partner. There had been more why King of Toms, rumours
:06:26. > :06:29.and now I accept it is incorrect. -- why King Toms. She said the rumours
:06:30. > :06:33.that were she had killed our Arlene, the whole world was talking about
:06:34. > :06:37.it. Completing her evidence, Kathleen Parkinson wept again as she
:06:38. > :06:38.said she simply wanted a little sister to have a decent Christian
:06:39. > :06:43.burial. Coming up on BBC Newsline:
:06:44. > :06:55.Have our feathered friends made this I always walk over and back this
:06:56. > :06:57.way, all the time. And on this part, you have to watch your step. There
:06:58. > :07:02.are loads of them. Should tackling be
:07:03. > :07:05.banned in school rugby? A group of 70 doctors,
:07:06. > :07:07.academics and health And they've written to sports
:07:08. > :07:10.ministers in London, Belfast and Dublin
:07:11. > :07:11.calling for the ban. But the Irish rugby authorities
:07:12. > :07:15.have rejected the idea, as BBC Newsline's Mark
:07:16. > :07:26.Simpson reports. The only rugby David Ross can play
:07:27. > :07:30.now is wheelchair rugby. He was severely injured playing for his
:07:31. > :07:36.high school in the match three years ago. The title came beside me and
:07:37. > :07:43.the two players involved landed on me. On the back of my head. It falls
:07:44. > :07:50.to down into my chest and I heard the crack. I knew straightaway it
:07:51. > :07:52.had happened and that is how it happened. To try and stop it
:07:53. > :07:55.happening to other happened. To try and stop it
:07:56. > :08:01.players, group of dogs and academics will attack linked to be banned in
:08:02. > :08:05.all schools rugby. And the reason is because the evidence emerging is
:08:06. > :08:10.absolutely horrifying. There are very high rates and risks of serious
:08:11. > :08:14.injury. We want the Government to remove the contact element because
:08:15. > :08:19.that is where most injuries occur. Letters calling for the tackling ban
:08:20. > :08:25.have been sent to education Minister John O'Dowd, sports Minister and the
:08:26. > :08:30.health Minister along with the Republic's health Minister. But the
:08:31. > :08:34.all-star and Irish rugby authorities say there is no need for governments
:08:35. > :08:41.to intervene. They say the game here is in safe hands. Trying to make
:08:42. > :08:46.sure the safest procedures are put in place and the guys now to tackle
:08:47. > :08:50.and deal with collisions. I think we are creating an environment that
:08:51. > :08:54.people are pretty confident in and can understand how to be successful
:08:55. > :08:58.when engaging in collisions. But what does David Ross thing? In spite
:08:59. > :09:03.of what happened to him at school, you doesn't want to see tackling
:09:04. > :09:08.band. I love rugby. I love my school team so much. I was going to school
:09:09. > :09:14.to play rugby. That was kind of why I went. That's how involved I got.
:09:15. > :09:19.That's how much I loved the game and I wouldn't change anything. Many
:09:20. > :09:24.believe rugby just isn't rugby without tackling. But many also
:09:25. > :09:25.access to their needs to be an ongoing debate about how to make the
:09:26. > :09:30.game safe. -- said further. With two of the 158
:09:31. > :09:32.seats still to be filled in the Republic's general
:09:33. > :09:34.election, the Taoiseach Enda Kenny has indicated that he's willing
:09:35. > :09:37.to meet his Fianna Fail counterpart, Micheal Martin to discuss
:09:38. > :09:42.the formation of a Government. At the moment, Fine
:09:43. > :09:44.Gael has 49 seats, Fianna Fail, 44, Others 34,
:09:45. > :09:47.Sinn Fein, 23 and Labour six. We're joined now by our Dublin
:09:48. > :09:49.correspondent Shane Shane, can you first bring us
:09:50. > :10:03.to date on the counting Well, counting is continuing in
:10:04. > :10:07.Westmeath. Two seats are at stake. Fine Gael certain to take one,
:10:08. > :10:11.Labour may take the other and if it does, they reached number seven
:10:12. > :10:16.which gives the party speaking rights. But no party is anywhere
:10:17. > :10:20.near getting to 79-80, which he needs for a majority. The only
:10:21. > :10:23.combination of that involves two parties that would get to that
:10:24. > :10:28.figure is one that involves Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. People have
:10:29. > :10:33.given their verdict. The numbers are now falling through make it
:10:34. > :10:37.difficult to put forward a proposition for governments. But
:10:38. > :10:41.that is what the people expect us to do now and of the leader of the
:10:42. > :10:45.largest party and as the Taoiseach, it is my responsibility to see that
:10:46. > :10:50.process is put in place and that includes talking to the Fianna Fail.
:10:51. > :10:56.As you can see, and became a there is already talking about meeting up
:10:57. > :10:59.to discuss the formation of a new Government, blindingly obvious to be
:11:00. > :11:05.based on the figures would need to be. The first item on the agenda
:11:06. > :11:10.will be the election of a speaker by secret ballot for the first time.
:11:11. > :11:15.Then it will be up to the parties to try an elected Taoiseach. They won't
:11:16. > :11:18.be able to do so and it is at that stage that intense negotiations and
:11:19. > :11:25.contact between parties will start at them. What happens in the
:11:26. > :11:27.meantime? Well, in the meantime, the Parliamentary party meetings will
:11:28. > :11:32.continue on probably informal contact between the various parties.
:11:33. > :11:35.It is often said the legislature is very weak and, Labour dominated by
:11:36. > :11:49.the executive and the Government. But that is about a change in the
:11:50. > :11:55.32nd Dial. -- Dail. And in the talks about the new Government it is quite
:11:56. > :11:58.clear that the future of Irish Water and water charges which are proved
:11:59. > :12:00.some popular half brought some new people onto the streets, well, they
:12:01. > :12:03.will be in the mix. Geordie Tuft, who was a regular
:12:04. > :12:06.contributor to the Gerry Anderson The blaze destroyed his farm cottage
:12:07. > :12:13.near Loughbrickland in County Down. The cause is still
:12:14. > :12:23.under investigation. Geordie Tuft was a regular
:12:24. > :12:27.contributor to the Gerry Anderson show radio Ulster for years. His
:12:28. > :12:32.homespun wisdom and hails from the farmyard entertained thousands who
:12:33. > :12:36.tuned into hearing. Among them, his advice to one caller who was chicken
:12:37. > :12:53.kept falling over with his legs in the air. I would say he is egg
:12:54. > :13:00.bound. Her egg -based twisted? Yes. He died in a fire at his home just
:13:01. > :13:04.outside Loughbrickland. Fire crews were called to the burning cottage
:13:05. > :13:09.yesterday afternoon, and when they got it, the building was well alight
:13:10. > :13:16.and damage was extensive. Geordie Tuft's body was found inside the
:13:17. > :13:20.premises later. I said I have this guy on for weeks, I do not make of
:13:21. > :13:24.it. I don't know if it is the real thing or what. Is that what you
:13:25. > :13:32.think I said there is a big part of me sink is genuine. Putting on! We
:13:33. > :13:34.will soon found out, he says. I asked him if he would do a piece for
:13:35. > :13:39.Geri on the radio and asked him if he would do a piece for
:13:40. > :13:44.would. The rest was history. His death also sad and those who knew
:13:45. > :13:45.him in the Loughbrickland area. This morning I spoke to his
:13:46. > :13:50.him in the Loughbrickland area. This recounted fond memories of his
:13:51. > :13:55.kindness and generosity, his rural wit and wisdom. An investigation is
:13:56. > :13:58.now under way to establish what caused the fire, but at this stage
:13:59. > :14:04.it is being treated as a tragic accident. Such a character!
:14:05. > :14:07.A look at some of the day's other news now and a 39-year-old man's
:14:08. > :14:10.been remanded in custody charged in connection with the murder
:14:11. > :14:14.Stephen Carson was shot at his house off the Ormeau Road last Thursday.
:14:15. > :14:16.Francis Gerard Smith from Springfield Road in Belfast
:14:17. > :14:23.is accused of having a gun and ammunition
:14:24. > :14:26.Yesterday, two men appeared in court charged with Mr Carson's murder.
:14:27. > :14:29.Two adults and six children have escaped serious injury in a house
:14:30. > :14:30.fire in West Belfast early this morning.
:14:31. > :14:33.A girl was taken to hospital where she is being treated for burns
:14:34. > :14:37.It's believed the fire in the Falls Road home started
:14:38. > :14:40.after a plug overheated next to the bed where she slept.
:14:41. > :14:41.The family were woken by their dog barking.
:14:42. > :14:45.Two men have been charged with attacking a Bangor community
:14:46. > :14:53.There was huge public support for Aaron McMahon after he was
:14:54. > :14:55.attacked in front of his family in November last year.
:14:56. > :14:57.Keith Barnhurst from Ballyferris Walk and Christopher
:14:58. > :14:59.McKinstry from Churchill Park are charged with aggravated burglary
:15:00. > :15:01.and intent to inflict grievous bodily harm.
:15:02. > :15:10.It's one of our most iconic bridges, but part of it has had to be closed
:15:11. > :15:13.for a time while engineers tried to work out how to deal
:15:14. > :15:17.Some feathered friends have been making life miserable for people
:15:18. > :15:19.using the footpath on Craigavon Bridge in Londonderry.
:15:20. > :15:21.There've been reports of various trips and slips
:15:22. > :15:32.Here's our North-West reporter Keiron Tourish.
:15:33. > :15:39.It's a popular place for joggers, walkers and cyclists, the key along
:15:40. > :15:43.the river. But in recent weeks, the exercise route has been curtailed by
:15:44. > :15:47.dozens of pigeons. They were perched on the Ironworks and are quite
:15:48. > :15:53.literally be making a mess along the footpath on Craigavon Bridge. The
:15:54. > :15:58.pigeon droppings are terrible. I always walk back this way, every
:15:59. > :16:03.day, and this party you have to watch your step, there are so many
:16:04. > :16:10.of them. It is sleepy, very slippy. Especially when wet. It wasn't too
:16:11. > :16:13.pretty. It was a very slippy when you walked over there. It didn't
:16:14. > :16:19.matter where you went, there was no way you could walk. Transport NICs
:16:20. > :16:27.mesh and spikes are being installed to help deter pigeon roosting. I'm
:16:28. > :16:30.aware of the issues around pigeon droppings and we're working closely
:16:31. > :16:36.with the council in order to come up a solution in order to alleviate the
:16:37. > :16:39.problem. The effectiveness of a new measures will be monitored, though
:16:40. > :16:43.the department admits it is not realistic to make it pigeon proof,
:16:44. > :16:48.with so many ledgers. So it will take some time to see whether or not
:16:49. > :16:53.these new measures actually work. In the meantime, the best advice to
:16:54. > :16:56.avoid the pigeons seems to be to keep on the move. Don't be caught
:16:57. > :17:01.standing still. Good advice. Still to come on BBC Newsline before
:17:02. > :17:04.7pm: I'm here at St George's Market with hundreds of teenagers hoping
:17:05. > :17:06.to beceom the entreprenerus In just a few weeks,
:17:07. > :17:16.a number of large-scale events will take place to mark
:17:17. > :17:18.the centenary of the But how is the history
:17:19. > :17:24.of the Rising being taught Our Education Correspondent Robbie
:17:25. > :17:33.Meredith has been to one school which has put the Rising
:17:34. > :17:51.at the centre of its curriculum. He is playing a man killed taking
:17:52. > :17:53.part in the Easter Rising. I play a soldier who is fighting on Wall
:17:54. > :17:59.Street for freedom against the British Army. But for ten-year-old
:18:00. > :18:05.Pearce and his classmates at this school in north Belfast, history is
:18:06. > :18:09.very much alive. I approached the body which still appeared to be
:18:10. > :18:14.alive. They were about to lift it up when a young English officer stepped
:18:15. > :18:18.out of the doorway and refused to let us touching. The drama is just
:18:19. > :18:23.one of the ways boys at the School finding out about the Rising. They
:18:24. > :18:37.are learning through geography and updating a very famous documents. --
:18:38. > :18:43.document. We have been writing the proclamation for a new generation,
:18:44. > :18:46.like, we are making our own and it is that everyone should have their
:18:47. > :18:50.rights and everyone should a free education. There is obvious and easy
:18:51. > :18:54.as among the boys here for learning about the Easter Rising and however
:18:55. > :18:57.relates to them, but it's a very controversial and contested event in
:18:58. > :19:01.Irish history. Are they being taught more than one of you? Within that
:19:02. > :19:05.this school, we have taken to the war museum as part of the study of
:19:06. > :19:09.World War II. The principal has taken boys to meet Queen Elizabeth
:19:10. > :19:14.when she came here, so it is not the sense that this isn't about any type
:19:15. > :19:18.of indoctrination, it is about education. So for the boys at this
:19:19. > :19:21.school, learning about the Rising is really going back to the future.
:19:22. > :19:23.St George's Market is usually packed with shoppers,
:19:24. > :19:26.but tonight it's full of teenagers hoping to earn a fortune.
:19:27. > :19:29.The Night of Ambition is being run by the Science Park to encourage
:19:30. > :19:31.those young people already showing an entrepreneurial spark.
:19:32. > :19:33.Colletta Smith is there for us tonight.
:19:34. > :19:46.This is where the entrepreneurs of today are going to be meeting those
:19:47. > :19:49.of the future. More than 70 companies are here showing what it
:19:50. > :19:53.is they make and how they became a business in the first place and they
:19:54. > :19:57.are here to meet more than 200 teenagers. What is happening now is
:19:58. > :20:02.the design workshop is busy over there and this really is the cream
:20:03. > :20:06.of the crop. Every post primary School has been allowed to nominate
:20:07. > :20:09.just two people to send you are showing an ability in maths or
:20:10. > :20:14.science or entrepreneurship and I have got two of those young people
:20:15. > :20:18.here with me now. Sean and Megan. Sean, tell me a bit about what you
:20:19. > :20:25.have experienced tonight and over the last year? Just networking are
:20:26. > :20:30.the main experience here and the reason most people here tonight. It
:20:31. > :20:34.is important to network, because the more you do, the more contacts you
:20:35. > :20:37.have an all success and opportunities you have. It gets to a
:20:38. > :20:40.point where you're just sitting in your room and you think I could be
:20:41. > :20:45.doing a lot more official things with my time, so I think that's
:20:46. > :20:48.worse why most people here tonight and not doing schoolwork. Megan
:20:49. > :20:54.Camille plans for the future. What you hoping to do? I would love to do
:20:55. > :20:57.a start-up something around Internet crews and it is inspirational to be
:20:58. > :21:01.here tonight is the other companies who have done that mean successful
:21:02. > :21:05.with it. Thank you very much for joining me. And in a few minutes,
:21:06. > :21:10.there will be a talk from Mark who runs a company that is based silicon
:21:11. > :21:16.valley. He is here to give his wisdom. What you give? I will remind
:21:17. > :21:21.the young people here that they are lucky to be smart. But also that
:21:22. > :21:24.resilience is important. There's a school of hard knocks us well and I
:21:25. > :21:27.want to remind them it is important to keep getting up and going back
:21:28. > :21:31.for more. Their fortune could be born here in Northern Ireland,
:21:32. > :21:35.because we are tenacious and take that fight and bring it into the
:21:36. > :21:39.world and their vision. And as much as tonight is about inspiring young
:21:40. > :21:42.people, it's also about educating teachers and careers staff that
:21:43. > :21:49.their futures may be outside of university and those traditional
:21:50. > :21:54.careers? Yes, very much so. Start-ups need innovation to
:21:55. > :21:57.transform sectors in society, there is energy, transportation or even
:21:58. > :22:04.insurance or the financial sector, they need young innovators to bring
:22:05. > :22:08.new life to breathe into them. Thank you. Tonight is called Night of
:22:09. > :22:17.Ambition and it seems that this is a room absolutely packed with it.
:22:18. > :22:20.ON a day when there's been movement on the Ulster rugby front,
:22:21. > :22:22.Les Kiss has been critical of his players.
:22:23. > :22:24.Stephen is here with this evening's sport.
:22:25. > :22:27.We learned today that Luke Marshall has signed a new two-year contract
:22:28. > :22:29.extension to keep him at the Kingspan unitil 2018
:22:30. > :22:36.but Rory Scholes is to join Edinburgh on a two-year deal.
:22:37. > :22:39.Earlier today, I asked Les Kiss for his response to Ulster fans
:22:40. > :22:44.who say that recent performances are simply not good enough.
:22:45. > :22:53.We are really disappointed. We have talked about it for the last 3-4
:22:54. > :22:56.weeks, we are not in the best formal place at the moment. That happens
:22:57. > :23:02.during the year at some stage, but we haven't been able to work out of
:23:03. > :23:05.it in a productive way. We need to get it right this week. I am the
:23:06. > :23:11.person who asked to make sure it does happen. The players need to be
:23:12. > :23:16.productive and they know they can make a difference as well. We are in
:23:17. > :23:20.this together. If we can get on top of those individual areas of the
:23:21. > :23:24.game and be a bit better than that and nail those opportunities and
:23:25. > :23:31.moments to put pressure on or to be more clinical and more accurate, I
:23:32. > :23:33.think we can turn this around. Ulster's next game is live this week
:23:34. > :23:33.on BBC Two. Like Les Kiss, Glentoran manager
:23:34. > :23:35.Alan Kernaghan is wondering what's Last night they lost two-nil
:23:36. > :23:39.at home to Cliftonville. A disappointing second half
:23:40. > :23:41.performance prompting the former Republic of Ireland international
:23:42. > :23:54.to say he "couldn't fathom" It doesn't make for pretty viewing
:23:55. > :23:59.if you are Glentoran fun. Cliftonville made it look easy at
:24:00. > :24:05.times the Oval. This was his 15th goal of the season. Just shy of the
:24:06. > :24:12.hour mark, Glentoran's defence was found wanting to gain. Daniel Hughes
:24:13. > :24:18.swivelled and slipped it perfectly past and made for goal number two.
:24:19. > :24:21.They offered on the table, Glentoran's manager was left
:24:22. > :24:28.scratching his head. In a second half, we were just spectators. We
:24:29. > :24:33.were taught a real lesson. I can't fathom the real differences in
:24:34. > :24:37.performance that we have, we have no consistency at all. We play well for
:24:38. > :24:42.two games, then we pour over two games. And the difference between
:24:43. > :24:50.levels of performance are massive. And it's usually frustrating. --
:24:51. > :25:00.hugely. It was Cliftonville's first big winner since 2011. Keep your eye
:25:01. > :25:04.on the number nine in yellow. Both he and the hoarding work fine. --
:25:05. > :25:06.were fine. The Belfast Giants Championship
:25:07. > :25:09.charge continues to gain momentum. Last night, the Giants beat
:25:10. > :25:12.Fife Flyers 4-1 for their sixth The result moves them
:25:13. > :25:16.to within three points of joint leaders Cardiff and Sheffield,
:25:17. > :25:18.with six games remaining. Next up for the Giants,
:25:19. > :25:21.it's Braehead Clan at Two local athletes with their sights
:25:22. > :25:29.set on making the Olympics have Runner Ciara Mageean picked up gold
:25:30. > :25:33.at the Irish Indoor Championships after being out for almost two years
:25:34. > :25:36.with an achilles injury, while Ben Reynolds was also
:25:37. > :25:53.on the winner's podium. Then Reynolds produced a cleaner run
:25:54. > :25:57.to win the 60 metre hurdles title. The North Down athlete setting a new
:25:58. > :26:01.personal best. But agonisingly, it was just 100th of a second outside
:26:02. > :26:04.the standard but was nonetheless pleased with his performance. I was
:26:05. > :26:09.kind of switching on, it was the first race. I have not got the pace
:26:10. > :26:15.of training yet. So I was hurdling fast. Feeling fresh and the rhythm
:26:16. > :26:18.of was not really switching on. The good anyway. Every time Ciara
:26:19. > :26:21.Mageean stepped on the track recently, she has been setting
:26:22. > :26:25.records and did so again, dominating the final of the 800 metres,
:26:26. > :26:33.knocking a second offer personal best. I felt strong. It is always
:26:34. > :26:37.difficult to judge. I'm not renowned to be the best place in the world,
:26:38. > :26:39.so I sometimes worry I will beat myself by going too fast at the
:26:40. > :26:47.start, but, I think I held on strong myself by going too fast at the
:26:48. > :26:52.happy. Bill-macro already have the Olympic qualifying time and has
:26:53. > :26:53.placed for the real games in the summer must be considered a
:26:54. > :26:57.possibility. -- Ciara Mageean. Carl Frampton will have
:26:58. > :26:59.to relinquish one of the world boxing titles he won at the weekend
:27:00. > :27:02.if he doesn't defend it before The WBA have demanded
:27:03. > :27:05.he must fight former World Superbantamweight Champion
:27:06. > :27:14.Guillermo Rigondeaux. And Barry McGuigan has consistently
:27:15. > :27:18.ruled out of the Cuban as a possible opponent for his manful stop
:27:19. > :27:20.Frampton has said he would like to move up a wake to find another world
:27:21. > :27:34.champion. We will wait and see. Spring is a funny month. People
:27:35. > :27:41.don't realise you can get frostbitten and sunburned on the
:27:42. > :27:46.same day. Lots of snowy scenes to start today. We expect a lot of snow
:27:47. > :27:49.on the hills, the Antrim Glenn is he getting a bit of snow and also part
:27:50. > :27:53.of Londonderry and down into county to Rome. Some of the heavier showers
:27:54. > :27:58.brought snow right down to the beach is temporarily in County Down. We
:27:59. > :28:04.don't have to worry about snow this coming night, that feature is moving
:28:05. > :28:08.away, it is the last of storm Jake. But there is more cloud sit in the
:28:09. > :28:13.Atlantic in tomorrow's weather which will come in in the latter part of
:28:14. > :28:17.the day. But we have strong winds at the moment, gusts of over 50 mph
:28:18. > :28:20.around the coastline and it will gradually ease off as the night goes
:28:21. > :28:24.on. By the end of the night it will be dry and clear. A bit of ice could
:28:25. > :28:28.be around tomorrow morning, particularly over the hills where
:28:29. > :28:32.there is still snow. But otherwise, it should feel and more springlike
:28:33. > :28:36.tomorrow, some lovely sunshine, make the most of it, because it will not
:28:37. > :28:39.be quite so nice by the end of the day. So tomorrow morning, it should
:28:40. > :28:43.be fairly straightforward. There could be a bit of frost on some car
:28:44. > :28:47.windscreens, the temperatures generally a few degrees above
:28:48. > :28:49.freezing and some lovely sunrises and blue sky and sunshine and light
:28:50. > :29:07.wind. Try everywhere, but it will not stay
:29:08. > :29:09.dry throughout the day, so take an umbrella, because from lunchtime
:29:10. > :29:12.onwards, cloud thickens from the West and the next area of rain
:29:13. > :29:14.pushes in. By the end of the day, it is cold, wet and there is some
:29:15. > :29:18.whites enough, a bit of sleet and snow over the high ground but not as
:29:19. > :29:20.bad as it was. It continues through the night, eventually clearing away,
:29:21. > :29:22.leaving low temperatures and icy conditions to start with on Friday.
:29:23. > :29:26.Frost and ice will continue to be a feature of the weather through
:29:27. > :29:30.Friday the weekend and it will stay cold with wintry showers on Friday
:29:31. > :29:34.and nasty wind coming in from the north-east. There will be some
:29:35. > :29:37.sunshine on Friday however and we will gradually lose those wintry
:29:38. > :29:42.showers, particularly through Saturday. By the time we get to
:29:43. > :29:44.Sunday, it is cold, the Windass have eased off, the sun is out so it will
:29:45. > :29:49.feel much, much brighter. -- winds. You can also keep in contact with us
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