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Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Dealing with the past - the Victims Commissioner warns | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
the Government not to hide behind national security. | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
One of Northern Ireland's biggest charities which provides help for | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
people with mental health issues and addiction is set to close, I will | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
have the latest. The school that hopes it's leading | :00:39. | :00:39. | |
the way for gay and transgender And the local hospital that's | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
pioneered cancer Ireland suffer a shock defeat | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
to minnows Oman on the opening day the weather should feel more spring | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
like over the next few days - I'll have more later | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
in the programme. The Lord Chief Justice today said | :00:58. | :01:15. | |
controversial legacy requests could be dealt with in five years if | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
funding is made available. The Commissioner for Victims | :01:20. | :01:20. | |
and Survivors says the current process could be the last chance | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
for politicians to get agreement They were both speaking at a | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
conference in Belfast today. We will hear from Judith Thompson in a | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
moment. First Arab correspondent Chris Page has been hearing from | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
politicians. -- our chief correspondent. | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
There were more than 3500 killings in the Troubles. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
With the conflict receding into history, victims are warning | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
that time's running out for a political | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
Jennifer McNern lost both her legs in the IRA Abercorn bombing in 1972. | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
She's calling on politicians to agree a way forward. | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
I was injured in 1972. It is now 2016 will stop the 1998 agreement | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
promised people who were injured as a result of the conflict would be | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
looked after. Today we are still waiting. | :02:14. | :02:14. | |
Peter Heathwood was badly injured in a shooting in 1979. | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
Loyalist gunmen attacked my home and shot me, paralysed me. My father | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
arrived at the scene and thought I was dead. He dropped dead of a heart | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
attack. I think if we don't get into this deal with legacy issues, no | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
matter how embarrassing because no one will come out of this with clean | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
hands. Everybody has dirty hands and we just have to accept that as a | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
society and say that all of society as done wrong, let's move forward. | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
The sticking point in political negotiations has been a disagreement | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
between the nationalist parties and the government. | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
The government has argued that the release of some state | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
documents could compromise national security. | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
The Victims Commissioner says the deadlock needs to be broken. | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
I believe that you can't expect any government to let go of national | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
security issues. At the same time you can't expect people who have | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
been waiting 40 years to find out what happened to their loved ones to | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
just take it on someone else's word that they can there be told because | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
there is a risk there. So how do the first and Deputy First Minister is | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
see things working out because Mike we are all optimistic, a digit about | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
when it can be found. If we are honest with victims and we can at | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
least give them that. I cannot see any clarity coming before the | :03:39. | :03:39. | |
election. I think there is a joint | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
determination to resolve this I am hopeful, even optimistic, | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
that it can be resolved. People involved in this progress | :03:45. | :03:57. | |
have been stressing that there has been progress. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
But victims are very frustrated, even hurt that there | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
They are using this conference to put pressure on politicians again | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
The family of a teenage boy shot dead in Londonderry in 1972 have | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
refused to accept a decision not to prosecute the soldier | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
15 year old Daniel Hegarty was shot twice in the head | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
An inquest in 2011 found that he posed no risk | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
This from our North West Reporter Keiron Tourish. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
Daniel Hegarty's three sisters attended his grave in the city | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
cemetery this morning more determined than ever to achieve | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
He was 15 when he was shot dead by a soldier during | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Operation Motorman - a large scale attempt by the Army | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
to clear "no-go" areas of the city during the Troubles in July 1972. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
The Public Prosecution Service told the family it was not prosecuting | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
the soldier as there was no reasonable prospect | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Nobody should be above the law, beneath the law, if you murder, | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
whether you wear a uniform or not, you must stand trial, | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
If you don't, then you're sending out the wrong signal | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
They're not going to trust you, they're not going to trust the law. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
The Public Prosecution service has defended its decision. | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
The account provided by the soldier was that he genuinely believed | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
he was going to come under attack and he had to make | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
It is important also to recognise that the victims in this case | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
were completely innocent, they did not pose a threat, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
but we have to assess the case and the circumstances as the soldier | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Even before this case was referred to the PPS by the coroner in 2011... | :05:38. | :05:51. | |
The family had considered taking a civil action against the Ministry of | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
Defence. Then in 2012 before a decision was made in the grand case | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
by the PPS, legal proceedings were launched for the unlawful killing of | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
Daniel. Those proceedings will be pursued with much vigour. In 2007 | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
the Government apologised to the family after describing Daniel | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Hegarty as a terrorist. Lives are ruined. Our whole family life, my | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
mother and father. After Daniel was murdered their hearts were broken. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
Broken hearts. Just total devastation. We are still hurting so | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
bad. As I say, people to you to move on and you can't move on with your | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
life. You need justice. It is worse when you know it is the state that | :06:47. | :06:56. | |
murdered him. The family say their mother and father died without | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
achieving justice for Daniel but they are resolute in their | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
determination to fulfil that aim. The Victims Commissioner Judith | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
Thompson is with me. What do you mean when you say | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
the Government can't hide behind Obviously we came very close to | :07:08. | :07:19. | |
getting an agreement in dealing with the past and the sticking point | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
seems to have been how far families are going to be told information | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
that might be security sensitive. On the one hand you have got people, as | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
we have just heard, who can't be expected just to trust people not to | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
tell them things and to assume that would be good reason. On the other | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
hand we have a government that won't give up control of security issues. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
So, we need to find another way and I am convinced that could be done. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
You hopeful given the response is there from the first and Deputy | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
First Minister that you will be progress on this? I believe the | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
conversations are quietly happening now. I believe that in the run-up to | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
the fresh start agreement we came quite close to getting an agreement | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
and I'm cautiously optimistic that we can get there after the elections | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
but I believe that they work and conversations and the | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
problem-solving, ideas are happening now. People have been optimistic for | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
a long time on this and have been having their hopes dashed time after | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
time. That is a reality and we cannot continue to do that. These | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
issues won't go away. We know that. If we don't sort this no, we will | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
come back to this point at some time in the future -- now. Because we | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
will have two. People who need services and truth now, get it, some | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
of them won't be here when it comes around again. That has to be | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
appreciated. The Lord Chief Justice said today there was a possible time | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
frame for some of these interests to be held within five years, how | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
significant is that for you? Hugely significant. Somebody kicking a | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
situation where coroner courts are dealt with -- kicking a situation, | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
but this has been dealt with over a number of years. The Lord Chief | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Justice, he is saying we can find a 20th century solution for this | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
long-standing problem, a new system, new way of dealing with, give me the | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
resources and I can do it within five years. That is great news for | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
people waiting for a result from the coroner 's Court but it is also | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
really good news for people waiting for other enquiries as it is a | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
template. If it can work there, it can work else there. The Chief | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Justice doesn't have to wait for new legislation, he can do this now if | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
he gets funding. That is the crucial point. What is your message to | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
Secretary of State and Justice Minister about that because Mike | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
this would be money well spent. This is an opportunity to spend money on | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
things that people have been struggling with. More importantly | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
than that, to give some truth and closure by those families who | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
benefit. Much more than that, to increase the fifth of people that | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
the justice system can be adapted to do this job better. If you don't get | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
agreement and is in progress, can you take legal action and force the | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
Government do some sort of position where they will reveal some of this | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
information and get some planning? There are lots of legal process is | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
already underway where individual families are doing that but that is | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
not... For those people, it can get them results, but it is not the way | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
that as a society we want to deal with this. We need to have systems | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
and a legal system that people can trust to get them result. Surely | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
you're the perfect person to be that if you don't want individuals to do | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
it? Vets try and get a resolution through working with people. It is | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
the best way to do it. -- lets. Thank you very much. | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
You're watching BBC Newsline, still to come on the programme... | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
Stubbing it out - but how effective will the smoking ban be at hospitals | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
Thousands of people have been helped beat drug and alcohol addiction | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
by the charity Fasa, but tonight the future | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
60 jobs and 70 volunteers have been told they're no longer needed - | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
The charity which started on the Shankill Road in Belfast grew | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
to have branches on the Antrim Road, Bangor, Ballywalter and a 24-7 | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
facility in East Belfast which opened its doors last year. | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
been to the Fasa Shankill headquarters. | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
I have been inside the Fasa building behind me talking to staff. Some | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
staff are upset and they couldn't tell me hating understandably. Is | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
taken from the board, there are facing financial insolvency. They | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
have had to suspend service because of this. This building will be open | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
tonight and tomorrow night for service users and the impact is wide | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
reaching. Not only does it affect 60 full-time staff and 70 volunteers, | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
but also for half dozen service users, some of our most vulnerable | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
in society. The charity which has been providing services for 20 years | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
as officers not just here but East Belfast and the Ards Peninsula all | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
under threat. The board says it is seeking urgent meetings with funders | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
and Political Reporter to do is to avert what they describe as a | :12:29. | :12:29. | |
crisis. One of the leading teaching unions | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
is calling for more to be done The Ulster Teachers Union also says | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
that schools should consider introducing unisex toilets to cater | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
for transgender pupils. Our Education Correspondent Robbie | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
Meredith has been to one Belfast school, where there are a number | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
of LGBT staff and pupils, to find For Year 12 at Hazelwood Intergrated | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
College in North Belfast, Hilary Donnan is their | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
Head of Science. But she's also open with them | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
and colleagues about her sexuality. The more people who can stand up and | :13:00. | :13:12. | |
say, I am gay, I am a teacher, I am perfectly successful in my career, I | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
have a happy family life, a loving partner. It is important from it to | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
stand up and say I am gay because then those kids growing up and | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
struggling at school can look at me and say it can be OK and it can be | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
fine. There are signs everywhere that | :13:29. | :13:28. | |
a number of staff And that includes the Head | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
of Maths, Kieran Coyle. But he admits he may not be able | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
to be as open in other schools. There's very few schools who are | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
actively engaging with the issue as we are at here is a word. The | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
biggest impact that has for me -- Hazelwood. They fear of moving on. | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
My head of Department, my next step would be Vice principal jobs and | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
that approach and that puts me off. Hazelwood also has a small number | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
of transgender children They're accommodating their needs | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
in a number of ways, including setting aside this | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
gender-neutral toilet which only Firstly I had to start looking at | :14:08. | :14:19. | |
toilets. Now we are looking at uniform and I think the best thing | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
we can do in schools, through pastoral care, and the best thing we | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
can do in being question is actually support people the best we can. -- | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
in being Christian. The Ulster Teachers Union now want | :14:33. | :14:33. | |
the education authorities to ensure all schools follow | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
Hazlewood's example. Recently one of our members in | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
Islands action was asked by the inspector what provision they had | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
made for transgender people and why did they lined a peoples up as boys | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
and girls? Those are questions that need asked and we need and so as to | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
them. We need to work out all of us what these answers are. | :14:56. | :14:56. | |
Back at Hazlewood, Hilary's pupils may know she's a lesbian, | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
but they're much more interested in what she teaches them | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
From today a new cancer scheme will offer patients round the clock | :15:02. | :15:10. | |
specialist care at any time day or night. | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
It's the first service of its kind in the UK where emergency | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
departments will be able to access cancer nurses. | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
The Macmillan Cancer support charity has invested ?1 million | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
in the new scheme which will see nurses in place to offer one-to-one | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly has the story. | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
I am getting a bit of stick about my hair. Not that I ever had that | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
much... Sam Keers is almost | :15:37. | :15:37. | |
back to his old self. Diagnosed with prostate cancer last | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
year, he's been part of a pilot scheme at Craigavon Area Hospital | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
where he's been able to access a specialist cancer | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
nurse day or night. I can only say good things. When we | :15:45. | :15:56. | |
phoned up from home, some of the issues were dealt with over the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
phone very promptly, very thorough, ongoing analysis of how you felt and | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
what was going on and sent back very quickly with a solution or | :16:07. | :16:07. | |
suggestion. Cancer and its effects | :16:08. | :16:08. | |
can strike at any time. This new facility means | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
when a cancer patient turns up at a local emergency department, | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
they'll have direct access Every day in Northern Ireland around | :16:14. | :16:24. | |
30 people are told they have cancer. This new facility will not only help | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
people who require specialist and immediate assistant, but it will | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
also remove some of the pressure from hospital's emergency | :16:34. | :16:33. | |
departments. This is At the heart of the scheme | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
is the Macmillan Cancer charity which has invested ?1 million pounds | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
to provide the seven specialist that would be the direct link | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
between the specialist service within the hospital. To take | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
control, to have a plan to say this is what is going to happen to you, | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
this is my name and number. When you go home if you are worried, you can | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
contact me. If you are limited, I will be around to coordinate your | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
care. -- if you are admitted. Driving the initiative - | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
the Public Health Agency If people develop complications they | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
can become ill quite quickly so the acute care service can be there to | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
respond to that. For people like Sam, it's a service | :17:25. | :17:25. | |
they can't live without. The Macmillan nurses were wonderful. | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
Outstanding in their approach to their work. Really dedicated people | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
and I felt that and that was reassuring for me. | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
From today hospital sites across Northern Ireland | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
Smokers will not be allowed to light up anywhere inside the hospital | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
complex even if they're inside their own car. | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
But there are questions over how the ban will be enforced. | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
Catherine Morrison's been finding out more. | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
Day one of the smoking ban in hospital grounds. | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
Patients and visitors are being urged to kick the habit. | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
I am a smoker. I choose that. Nobody forced me. It is my choice. I have | :18:06. | :18:22. | |
tried the e-cigarettes and the patches and nothing seems to work | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
for me. It is not right. Patients should be able to smoke in a place. | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
Designated areas are brilliant but this is just ridiculous. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Smoking outside hospitals is an ongoing problem. | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
Two years ago the Western Trust went smoke-free. | :18:43. | :18:43. | |
Now the rest of Northern Ireland is following suit. | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
It means no cigarettes, including e-cigarettes, | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
anywhere in a hospital complex - even inside your own car. | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
The number of people smoking is continuing to fall, but even still, | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
22% of adults in Northern Ireland smoke. That is 310,000 people and | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
health professionals say that leads to 16,800 hospital admissions for | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
smoking-related diseases every year. With figures like that, experts say | :19:15. | :19:15. | |
the ban is a necessary step. It is the right thing to do. We are | :19:16. | :19:25. | |
standing outside the cancer centre. One third of all cancers in Northern | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Ireland are directly related to smoking. | :19:30. | :19:30. | |
Enforcing the ban is another issue - the Trust has one smoking warden | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
but they're mostly relying on their own staff - | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
and the goodwill of smokers - instead of fines. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
Enforcement will be difficult. We are hoping to bring people with us. | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
It has been a long journey in smoking cessation and smoke-free | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
areas. We have 20,000 staff. We are encouraging them to help us enforce | :19:55. | :19:55. | |
it. The message is loud and clear, | :19:56. | :19:56. | |
but will everyone be listening? Restoration work has started | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
at the former headquarters of Harland and Wolff | :20:04. | :20:04. | |
shipyard in Belfast. The famous building is to become | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
a hotel and its drawing offices, where Titanic was designed, | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
opening as a visitor attraction. Our business correspondent | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
Julian O'Neill reports. The old shipyard head office | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
is a shadow of its former glory. But not for much longer as workmen | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
began the job of refurbishment. Restoration will include its ground | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
floor drawing offices where 1000 ships were designed, | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
the Titanic among them. There are so many features | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
throughout the building that actually resonate back to the ships | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
that Harland and Wolff built. We got involved in the project in 2012, | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
four years later, here we are, isn't it great that work has commenced and | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
we now have a deadline? The two drawing officers down below will be | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
the centrepiece of this new project. Upstairs will be 84 bedrooms in a | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
new hotel due to open next year. The building dates to 1900 and has | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
largely been gathering dust in the 25 years since Harland | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
and Wolff moved out. Its new lease of life will cost | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
more than ?20 million - some of it lottery funds, | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
but most of it private finance. Having worked on the project for | :21:17. | :21:29. | |
many years I am very excited to see us finally on site with the | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
refurbishment works. The heritage in the building is akin to that of the | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Titanic. It is the same era and it is where the Titanic was designed. | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
The building has been classed as being at risk for a decade. | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
Now saved, the real work of turning it into a four star | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
hotel-come-tourist attraction is only just starting. | :21:47. | :21:47. | |
But its future is already beginning to look bright. | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
Ireland's cricketers crumbled today against the minnows of the game | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
from Oman - Gavni is here with this evenings sport. | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
Over the last decade, Ireland have so often been the team | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
to cause the big upset at ICC events. | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
Pakistan in 2007, England in 2011, West Indies in 2015. | :22:11. | :22:20. | |
But today the overwhelming favourites were humbled by two | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
wickets. This was the moment that Ireland were knocked off their | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
perch. Oman have one, perhaps the greatest moment, the proudest moment | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
in their short international cricketing history. Ireland showed | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
glimpses of their superior status. Nice shot. He has found his timing. | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
But the struggled to cope with the unorthodox deliveries as they set | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
Oman a target of 155. At times it was confrontational and despite some | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
wonderful athletic fielding from Gary Wilson... Has he did well | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
enough? Yes he has! Know, a good save. Eight saved six. Ireland was | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
Mike 's failure to do the basics proved to be their downfall. Next up | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
is Bangladesh on Friday. Lose that and they are out. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Carl Frampton has told BBC Sport that boxers who test positive | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
for banned substances should be given lifetime bans. | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
The world super bantamweight champion made the comments | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
when asked about tennis star Maria Sharapova who tested positive | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
for the recently banned substance meldonium | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
Frampton says the five-time Grand Slam champion should | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
I don't really feel any sympathy towards her. I think everyone is in | :23:42. | :23:53. | |
the same boat. We need to be very strict with ourselves. To make | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
mistakes especially at the highest level, I don't agree with that. | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
Coming from a sport that I am in, where people can potentially lose | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
their lives, I look at drudge -- drug-taking as a no. If you feel a | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
drug test especially in my sport, you should be banned. | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
Of the 12 managers in the top flight of the Irish League at the start | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
of the season, now only six remain standing. | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
For every casualty there's been a replacement. | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
Pat McGibbon is the most recent to join the ranks as interim | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
The manager is important as to what goes on, but the truth of the matter | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
is it is a combination of things. At the moment it is the manager that | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
seems to take the brunt. It is a pretty big task to turn this tanker | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
around? It is, but I have taken this on and I have looked at the group. | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
Obviously Keith O'Hara and Trevor, they know the club well. We need to | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
make sure of that on Saturday we go out and put their performance in | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
that the supporters know that they are prepared to put a shift in and | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
leave nothing on the pitch. Tomorrow we will have the latest from Dublin | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
as Ireland rugby coach Joe Schmidt names his team to face Italy. | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
Now let's get a look at the weather forecast. | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
What is in store? Not too bad. Hints of spring in the air and the | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
sunshine. It is a transition season. Strengthening sun back in the cold | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
air left from winter. Lots of sunshine in the mountains today but | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
you can still is see a bit of snow capping the top. These two pictures | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
show that we are coming out of winter. On the right-hand side, that | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
was from Loch May. Two months ago in January, look at that. Things are | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
looking a bit drier. A couple of exceptions. A few sharp showers | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
today and there will be a few for a well this evening. Most places | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
ending up dry. Clear at times and easing winds. It will be cool in the | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
countryside with one or two pockets of frost but not widespread. If it | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
starts quite early tomorrow, it should feel quite mild mid-morning. | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
We will have lost that cold wind from today. A nice dry start from | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
the morning. Some sunshine around. Temperature is around four or five | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
Celsius by the time most people are hopefully leaving the house for work | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
or school. Nothing too frosty or icy to concern us with. Light winds will | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
make it to quite nice in the sun. Double figures, ten or 11 Celsius. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
Increasing cloud from the West and there will be some spots of rain in | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
the far west around tea-time. Most places dry. Tomorrow night not so | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
cold, bits and pieces of rain from time to time, quite cloudy skies. | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Temperature is holding up around five or six. Expecting some rain on | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
Friday but only one day because it will probably dry for the weekend. | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
In sunshine it'll feel quite mild. Friday's thoughts wet in the West. | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
It spreads east through the day. Technically still mild but it won't | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
feel as nice. Lots of dry weather this weekend. Not necessarily sunny | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
but where you get some sunshine, 13 or 14 Celsius is quite likely. Thank | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
you. Join me for the great news at 10:30pm. Keep in touch with us on | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
Facebook and Twitter. From everyone on the team, goodbye and thanks for | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
watching. | :27:41. | :27:44. |