Browse content similar to 05/04/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
This is BBC Newsline and these are the headlines | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Opinion divided - some say a woman who took abortion pills, | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
bought online, should have been sent to prison. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Others say she should not have faced trial. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
I think the law must be applied in those cases and if that means a jail | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
sentence, that must be the case. Our woman anywhere else in the UK would | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
not be prosecuted, a woman with the money to travel to England would not | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
be prosecuted. An abuse inquiry is told that | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
a child was hit on the head with a spoon in a state-run | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
hospital in Lisburn. A school in Londonderry is damaged | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
in a suspected arson attack. Claims of cronyism in the SDLP | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
as two Tyrone councillors leave the party to contest the Assembly | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
election as independents. A group of students, | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
some with hypothermia, It's the most famous drive in sport, | :01:04. | :01:18. | |
Magnolia Lane, the entry to Augusta National club. Join me for the first | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
of my special reports from the masters. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
And we had a few showers today but nothing like | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
I'll have your full weather forecast shortly. | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
The issue of abortion in Northern Ireland is firmly | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
A woman who admitted taking illegal abortion pills to induce | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
a miscarriage was yesterday given a three-month | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
The anti-abortion group Precious Life says the sentence was | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
The BBC understands, for that to happen, a decision has | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
to be made by the Director of Public Prosecutions. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly reports. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Yesterday's Crown Court judgment is significant as it was the first | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
time in Northern Ireland that a person was convicted | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
for purchasing drugs online to terminate a pregnancy. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
The judge had the power to imprison the woman | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
but instead he chose not to - a decision that's been criticised | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Others, however, believe the case should never have got | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
But the case did reach court, where the story emerged | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
of a 19-year-old woman who'd bought drugs over the internet | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
as she couldn't afford to travel to England for an abortion. | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
The court heard how she induced her own miscarriage in July 2014 | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
when she was between ten and 12 weeks pregnant. | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
For some, the suspended sentence was too light. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
I believe if a crime is committed, the judge must | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
I don't believe he has, and in cases where an illegal | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
abortion has taken place, even in other parts of the UK, | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
women have been prosecuted and if that means a prison | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
The case raises many issues, including how the law differs | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
between England and Northern Ireland and how the woman now | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
It has implications for her future employment, her future education | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
opportunities and travel to some countries would be prohibited | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
with having a conviction on her record. | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
While this woman is the first to be convicted, she's certainly not | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
the first to import abortion pills into Northern Ireland. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
In fact, over 200 women here say they want to be arrested | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
after signing a letter to the government in | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
which they admit to having used or purchased illegal abortion pills. | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
It wrong, we think, for the state to go after isolated woman like that | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
when there is a movement of people, loads of us who are helped in women | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
get access to these pills, so it is like they are picking on the | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
weakest. According to Amnesty International, | :04:03. | :04:03. | |
the woman is now a convicted It seems right based on yesterday's | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
judgment that it is a criminal offence to be a woman in Northern | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
Ireland. A woman anywhere else in the UK would not be prosecuted, a | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
woman with the money to travel to England would not be prosecuted. | :04:25. | :04:25. | |
The drugs imported by the woman are similar to those used by hospitals | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
According to Precious Life, others are also guilty of a crime. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
I am greatly concerned she sought advice from the wrong people, she | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
contacted an abortion centre in the UK who advised her how to purchase | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
illegal drugs. She was very much on her own. I'm concerned that women in | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
Northern Ireland are not being informed and given the information | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
to help them through their situations. | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
The Public Prosecution Service has insisted it was in the public | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
interest to bring a case against a woman found guilty | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
of buying drugs online to abort her unborn child. | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
The police have been given extra time to question a 36-year-old man | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
in connection with the murder of a woman in Lurgan. | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
Laura Marshall, who was 31, was found dead at her third-floor | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
flat in an apartment block on Victoria Street | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
A new file containing evidence against the child killer | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
Robert Black has been given to prosecutors. | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
Black, who died in Maghaberry prison in January, killed four young girls, | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
including Jennifer Cardy, who was abducted near her home | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
This latest development concerns a 13-year-old, | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
The police there want prosecutors to confirm he should also have been | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
charged with killing the teenager in 1978. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
An inquiry has been listening to more shocking evidence | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
about the abuse suffered by children in a state-run hospital. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
A pensioner recalled how as a two-year-old he was beaten | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, sitting in Banbridge, | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
was focussing on Lissue House in Lisburn today. | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
Our reporter Kevin Sharkey was there for BBC Newsline. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
The toddler celebrated his second birthday in Lissue. | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
Until today, decades later and in a different century, | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
he hadn't revealed publically what happened to him. | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
The testimony heard today was not different from other evidence heard | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
at this inquiry in the past two years. It was about the abuse of a | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
toddler and today the man, now in his 60s, came to the inquiry to say | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
how he felt cold and always afraid as a child patient at Lissue. | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
He described how a nurse used a soup spoon to hit him on the forehead | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
and chin in an effort to to get him to eat food. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
The pensioner told the Inquiry that he's suffered from an eating | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
disorder all his life as a result of the alleged abuse. | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
Another witness recalled another era at Lissue - the 1970s. | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
The woman, now in her 40s, said she was a five-year-old | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
She described staff at the hosptial as "very physical and rough". | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
The woman told the inquiry there were some difficult children in care | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
at Lissue but she said there was no need for a staff to be treating | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
children around by their hair with their arms twisted around her back. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
-- their backs. Still to come on the | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
programme before 7pm: New voters in May's | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
Assembly election - we ask the Good Friday Agreement | :07:43. | :07:43. | |
generation what they think The principal of a primary school | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
targeted in a suspected arson attack has asked parents to speak | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
to their children about going It's understood the fire in Creggan | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
in Londonderry last night was started when building materials | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
were set alight on the roof. which were being used to re-roof | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
the block, were set alight. The Fire Service, which had four | :08:16. | :08:29. | |
appliances in attendance, managed to contain the blaze | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
and save the classrooms It houses three classrooms, | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
and there are resource rooms and an Apple Mac suite | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
and a computer suite on that block. It would have been | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
devastating to the school. We couldn't have functioned | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
without it. So we are very critical indeed this | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
morning that we are still So we are very critical indeed this | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
and nowhere is out of balance. -- bounce. | :09:06. | :09:06. | |
The damage has been confined to the materials which are now off | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
Ironically the governors had been meeting last night to discuss how | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
to celebrate the school's 60th anniversary next year. | :09:14. | :09:14. | |
The principal said she feared at one stage the school | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
The Bishop of Derry said he was saddened at the damage | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
when he visited Holy Child to offer his support | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
have closed the curtains of many classrooms to ensure the pupils | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
are not distracted by what is happening outside. | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
It's important that the school can continue as long as possible to be a | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
centre of town, dependability and consistency so the opportunities of | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
the pupils can be developed in their classrooms and the communities. | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
The principal says there is an ongoing problem with youths | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
entering the premises and she has urged parents to speak | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
to their children and warn them of the dangers and tell them to be | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Still to come on the programme before 7pm: | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
We'll see the thrilling scenery and the driving challenge of this | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
One of the students rescued from the Mourne Mountains last night | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
was suffering from severe hypothermia and | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
She was among a group taking part in a Duke | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
of Edinburgh Gold Award trip when weather | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
Colletta Smith was in Newcastle earlier this evening and spoke | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
to some of the team involved in the rescue. | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
It was about this time yesterday evening that a group of young people | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
from Dungannon got into trouble went up the Mourne Mountains on a | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
practice run for their good Duke of Edinburgh award. Very different | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
weather from today. One of the girls from the Royal School Dungannon | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
started to get cold. They made the call to emergency services. On the | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
other end of that call with these two gentlemen. It was just after 7pm | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
that you got that call. It was about 7:30pm yesterday and we started to | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
make our way down to base to respond and get onto the hill. But last | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
night the young people did all the right things. It was very | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
impressive, the kids who were up there had put up a tent when they | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
realised their classmate was not well and needed help. They got | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
wrapped up and stayed with her and organised themselves so we could | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
find them easily, so they deserve credit for a job. What condition was | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
she in? What does hypothermia mean? This girl was cold, she was going in | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
and out of consciousness, so her skin was cold, it was hard to feel | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
warmth around the girl, so that would be the sort of thing we are | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
seeing, so we have to get to ride and new clothes and bring her body | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
temperature gradually back up again. Thank you for joining us. Thankfully | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
a happy ending to yesterday's story and a relief not only for the young | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
people but to the parents waiting that these gentlemen were ready and | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
waiting to go up the mountain. The SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
rejected criticism from two of his councillors that the party | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
engaged in cronyism when it came to candidate selection | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
for the Assembly election. The two councillors in West Tyrone | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
have decided to fight the election in May | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
as independent social democrats. This report from our political | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
editor, Mark Devenport. The next STS -- SDLP MLA for West | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
Tyrone. Daniel McCrossan got a rousing | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
reception from SDLP members today, but his selection as the party's | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
only candidate in West Tyrone hasn't Local councillors Patsy Kelly | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
and Josephine Deehan have quit the SDLP, accusing it of promoting | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
career politicians and not There is systemic failure | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
within the SDLP in West Tyrone. I emphasise I can only refer | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
to events in West Tyrone, where I have been | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
a councillor for many years. There is systemic | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
failure, lack of transparency and good governance, | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
and that does not sit easily with my conscience and that is why | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
I must leave at this juncture. The rows in West Tyrone date back | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
to before Colum Eastwood's election as SDLP leader, but his inability | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
to resolve the dispute has left him Mr Eastwood has responded by | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
rejecting allegations of cronyism. I think what this is about is | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
an election and what we're about is supporting | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
the candidate that has the support of our members in West Tyrone, | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
has the support of the leadership and stands alongside | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
many other talented candidates, so we | :14:11. | :14:11. | |
are looking forward Arguments over candidate selection | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
aren't unique to the SDLP - Omagh councillor Sorcha McAnespy | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
handed in her nomination papers today after quitting | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
Sinn Fein last week. She accused her old party | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
of sidelining her and handing They denied that and expressed | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
their disappointment. Whoever is right, the splintering | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
of the two main nationalist parties will make for quite a long ballot | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
paper in West Tyrone. Next month's Assembly election | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
will see a huge turnover in faces Some are calling it | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
the changing of the guard. But is it a case of the more things | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
change the more they stay the same? Our political correspondent | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
Gareth Gordon has been speaking to first-time voters | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
who are also politics students, as well as a few old hands | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
from bygone Assembly days. These are the children of the | :15:08. | :15:19. | |
Belfast agreement, sixth form politics students from Belfast Royal | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Academy and Dominican College, who were born in 1998, around the same | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
time as the deal. The Assembly election will be their first chance | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
to pass judgment. People mightn't watch or be interested in debates in | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
Stormont because it seems that a bunch of old white conservative men | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
shouting at each other when there is a lot going on beneath that that | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
young people need to find out about. They seem to manufacture crises for | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
themselves, every other week we hear about a crisis and I don't think the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
public understands why they are making a big deal out of it. I would | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
liked to be more representative of people of the North, more young | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
people, more women, more ethnic minorities rather than the same | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
faces you have seen for 30 years. We have made great progress from the | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
Troubles and from the difficult background we came from, then nature | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
of the Executive is remarkable that you have opposing parties, even if | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
at times they don't get on, it is still remarkable. But 18 years on, | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
is that enough? The next Assembly will look very different but will | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
that change merely be cosmetic? We asked two members of the class of 98 | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
what they think. Seamus close and Dermot Nesbitt are veterans of the | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
first Assembly after the agreement, but Seamus a new alteration is not | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
necessarily mean that politics. Politicians are elected in 2016, the | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
majority will have less baggage than those of 1998 but you have to | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
remember that the ones who did did deals were the ones that had gone | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
through the hard graft of the 1970s and 80s and were able to vary the | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
past and continue to work and tried to bring things to gather for the | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
people of Northern Ireland. But Dermot Nesbitt says it's time to | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
stop looking back. 18 years after the Second World War, it was | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
Beatlemania, I was a teenager and to meet the award didn't exist. We had | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
moved on from work in 1963, the Beatles often played in Hamburg, a | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
town firebombed by the British people, so I can understand to say | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
here we are. 18 years later and we are still arguing over the same old, | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
and it is time politicians of all parties moved on. Next month the | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
children of the Belfast agreement and everyone else will start to find | :18:10. | :18:10. | |
out if that can really happen. Next sport, and in the United States | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
this week we have the first major of the golfing season - | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
the Masters in Augusta, Georgia. Gavin Andrews is here and it's one | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
of the big contests. Yes, the prize for the champion | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
on Sunday is a famous green jacket. No Irish golfer has ever been able | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
to win one but this week in Georgia, Rory McIlroy | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
will try and change that. He'll play alongside | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
Germany's Martin Kaymer and American Bill Haass | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
in the opening two rounds, and as Stephen Watson reports, | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
a place in golfing history It's the only one of the sport's for | :18:37. | :18:51. | |
major tournament is missing from his CV, that Masters is the tournament | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
Rory McIlroy would like to win. His name will forever be etched in | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
golfing record books with victory and he thinks he is prepared. I | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
feared like I am a year on from the hype that surrounded me last year in | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Augusta so I will hopefully know how to deal with it after. | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
Augusta so I will hopefully know how experience will help me this year | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
because every year that I haven't won a green jacket, the pressure | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
will build and build, so hopefully this year I can get this little | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
monkey off my back and see what happens. If you could slip on that | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
dream Jacquard, would that mean you could retire happily? Yes, if I | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
could win the green jacket and only be the sixth letter in golf to win a | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
grand slam, I would retire knowing I could join the elite. He would be a | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
grand slam, I would retire knowing I popular champion. He has come close | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
to winning the Masters before. In 2011 he blew a four shot final round | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
lead -- lead but believes it is all part of the learning curve. I think | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
everyone in sport if you look back we lose much more than we win, and | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
the rock under tournament I didn't finish off but it all evens out at | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
the end of the day, all those missed opportunities were a lesson that | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
helped me win down the line. And his preparations got off to a | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
spectacular start with a hole in one at the 16th during practice. A nice | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
souvenir for some local golf fans. Rory is an awesome player, a very | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
classy player, so it is pretty special. Maybe an omen this week, he | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
could slip on the green jacket? It would be nice for him to get one. If | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
practice rounds aren't indicator of form, then Rory McIlroy is shaping | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
up nicely for the tournament. He is playing well, has had luck on his | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
side and that might have perfect recipe for Masters success. | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
In local football, the race for a lucrative Europa League place | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
continues for Cliftonville away to Carrick Rangers in | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
Meanwhile Ballymena United boss David Jeffrey says his side's trip | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
to third-place Glenavon is crucial in their bid to avoid relegation. | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
They are looking very much ready for that special place, so nip and tuck | :21:31. | :21:40. | |
all over the place. Anyone who thinks the league is over, not a | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
long talk, so we have to concentrate on ourselves and give the best to | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
try and get something out of the game on Tuesday. | :21:51. | :21:51. | |
And we'll have the results on our late bulletin. | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
A win tonight will see Glasgow Rangers return | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
to the Scottish Premier League next season after a four-year absence. | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
The club went into administration in 2012, and were moved | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
Since then, they've been climbing back up and need three points | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
at home to Dumbarton to clinch the championship title and take | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
They could even afford to lose, if third-placed Hibernian fail | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
to beat Livingston in one of tonight's other matches. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
The Circuit of Ireland Rally begins this Thursday, | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
Last year it attracted over 80,000 spectators and a global TV | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
The event includes stages around Torr Head and Glendun | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
in North Antrim as well as a detour through the iconic Dark Hedges. | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
This year at this Circuit of Ireland Rally features a strong entry list, | :22:38. | :22:49. | |
we electing its role in the calendar. It is part of the European | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
Rally championship, something we have not had before and that brings | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
a lot of people, 55 different teams came last year, most from outside | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
Northern Ireland. The combination of driving challenge and spectacular | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
roads is an attraction for drivers. It must be one of the best routes in | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
the world, it is like a roller-coaster on the coast and the | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
roads are some of the best in the world. A great welcome, beautiful | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
location, it is classic. By bringing it to the Dark Hedges, no Rally goes | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
to the Dark Hedges but with 14 million viewers around the world, | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
this is a good chance to show a large portion of Northern Ireland. | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
It is a wonderful chance so we are taking it. The qualifying stage will | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
be aced in Antrim Castle Gardens on Thursday with a ceremonial start | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
endosperm that evening. For the competitors and spectators, | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
all eyes are now on the weather. Barra Best is the best man to tell | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
us about that weather. How is it looking? Unfortunately not | :23:56. | :24:08. | |
the best news, we have more unsettled weather by the end of the | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
week. Today we had a fuchsia honours, tomorrow we will have many | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
more thanks to low pressure from the Atlantique. It will bring rain in | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
the early hours followed by scattered showers and temperatures | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
will fall low enough that we could see sleet and snow over the hills, | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
so tomorrow will have eight cold start and will stay unsettled, we | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
can expect hefty showers during the day. A few showers could come with | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
hail, thunder and lightning, there will be some sunny caps but they | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
will be well spaced out with this showers coming in on a | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
north-westerly wind which will feel cold. We are looking at highs of | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
seven or eight but if you catch those showers it will feel colder | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
than that. If you are travelling tomorrow, most of the unsettled | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
conditions will be across Ireland, Scotland into Northern England and | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Wales, elsewhere South and East drier. The colder the further north | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
we are with chilly winds which will continue to drive scattered showers | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
into tomorrow evening, some will be heavy, perhaps with a wintry mix on | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
high ground. Overnight into Thursday they will merge and we expect more | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
rain in the early hours and temperatures falling close to | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
freezing, so we could see sleet and snow on high ground and the icy on | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
Thursday morning. For the start of the Circuit of Ireland on Thursday | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
it will be cloudy, north-westerly winds are unlikely to bring | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
scattered showers and some will be heavy but not as many showers as | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
tomorrow. On Friday with low pressure moving in and we expect | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
more rain, widespread and some will be heavy, affecting the rally and as | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
we look toward Saturday it is set to stay unsettled. The only good news | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
is that at the time being Sunday looks like the dry state of all. We | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
will keep you up to date. And little ray of sunshine at the end of the | :26:17. | :26:17. | |
week. Our late summary is at 10:30pm.You | :26:18. | :26:18. | |
can also keep in contact with us | :26:19. | :26:22. |