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President Obama has said Britain would be in

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Bigger classes and fewer teachers. would be in the

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A dire warning from principals over funding cuts.

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Class sizes will be even bigger. Teachers will have less time to

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prepare and Mark. They will not have access to the range of courses that

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they want. More than 170 jobs

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go as a construction A hit and run driver who killed

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a student admits having 13 drinks The Ballymena businessman

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who's backing a Brexit. Amidst speculation linking him

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to Celtic, Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill

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is keeping focus of Euro 2016. And still some sunshine

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in the forecast this weekend but certainly not as warm as it

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has been lately. 80 of Northern Ireland's biggest

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schools are warning they'll have larger class sizes and fewer

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teachers because of rising costs. A joint statement has been issued

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by several organisations representing principals, governors

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and school finance managers. Our Education Correspondent

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Robbie Meredith has been Postprimary principals met today and

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money, or the lack of it, was the only lesson. I'm having additional

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costs for pension, National Insurance and also for increase in

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pay rise. That therefore is now going to put my school into a

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deficit. School leaders say they used to get money from the

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Department for Education to meet those costs but not any longer. That

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is putting a big hole in school budgets and having a real impact on

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peoples like these at Saint Mary 's grammar in the time, according to

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the head. I have gone from 40,000 surplus at the end of this financial

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year to ?195,000 deficit. That means I'm going to have to find ways in

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which I can reduce my staffing costs. 190,000 would dictate the

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reduction of four staff. My classes have increased. My A-level history

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this year has gone from 18 to 34 pupils. I've had to reduce my

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curriculum offer. I can no longer offer art, music, performing arts in

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Spanish. Similar tough decisions are being taken in schools across the

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country. Bikes and Patrick 's high school. The direct impact on pupils

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is going to be that their class sizes are even bigger, that their

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teachers have less time to prepare and Mark and that they will not have

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access to the range of courses they want. They will not have the

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technology they need, especially vulnerable pupils, because I don't

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have the money. Those who manage that money for schools also warn of

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big losses. It is across the board and across the sector. Our schools

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are anticipating shortfalls in funding between the regions of

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?150,000 and ?500,000. There are significant shortfalls in funding.

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But the education minister says he can only spend what he has, too.

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This year, I have cut spending in my own department by 5%. We are

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directing as much funds as possible into the schools but we need more

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money. All parties can agree that if more money becomes available, health

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and education are areas we want to pump that money into. Schools here

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only control about 60% of their budgets. The rest is centralised to

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meet costs like transport and meals. Many principals say they would want

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that to change so who ever succeeds the education minister after the

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election is likely to face more problems in balancing the books.

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A Lisburn-based construction firm has gone into liquidation

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McGrath Brothers Engineering Group specialised in metalwork.

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Our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell is with me.

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They have been around since 1981. They specialise in architectural

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metalwork. They fabricate and install things like bridges,

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balconies, hand rails, balustrades. They've walked all over the UK, for

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example they worked on the aquatic Centre for the London Olympics. More

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recently, we can see pictures here of a job they were doing at Luton

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airport, fabricating and on installing a new runway. They've

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been quite a substantial business, employing up to 200 people over the

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last number of years, turning over around ?15 million a year.

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It sounds great, so what has gone wrong? It is to do with a hangover

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to do with a contrast trim crash. -- construction crash. What happened

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was, everyone was chasing work and competing hard to find works of

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profit margins were very small. What has happened is some of the

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contracts they've got have turned out to be loss-making contracts.

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That has put the business and a big pressure. There have been disputes

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with other contractors and that has hit their cash flow. Last year, they

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went into voluntary arrangement, where they go along to people they

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owe money to and say we can't give you everything, we can pay you

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something of a time but they've not been able to

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make that arrangement sustainable because the business has been under

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so much pressure. The directors say they've been left with no other

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option but to put the business into liquidation. 120 jobs will go.

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Isn't the construction industry in general improving?

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It is and we've seen at last the construction sector coming back over

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the last year, after a long time in the doldrums. Most of that locally

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has been in house-building but there are other businesses, just like this

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one, who have faced this big hangover from the construction

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crash. They will find it very hard, some of them, to get out of the

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position they are in. A Belfast man consumed 13 drinks

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and a quantity of drugs before getting behind the wheel of his van

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which then mounted a footpath Enda Dolan was walking back

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to his accommodation along the Malone Road in October 2014

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when he was knocked down. Belfast Crown Court was told today

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that the driver now wishes he could give his own life

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to bring him back. The court heard that ended Dolan was

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a talented musician and athlete. He was knocked down and killed when he

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was walking along the Malone Road on October 15 2014. The code -- the

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court heard he was carried for 800 yards along the road on the roof of

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the van, before it stopped. yards along the road on the roof of

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Beaver Drive was a passenger in the van that was driven by 31-year-old

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David Lee Stewart of Gray 's Park Avenue in Belfast. The court heard

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the pair had spent the evening on a drinking session in south Belfast,

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watching a Northern Ireland football game. Stewart had 13 alcoholic

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drinks, six pints of beer and an assortment of shots. Evidence from

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CCTV footage also suggested he had been taking drugs. Stuart's wife

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Samantha gave evidence saying his entire family was shocked and

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devastated by what he had done. The court heard that Stuart told police,

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I would like to tell his family that I know I have ruined their lives. I

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am deeply sorry for it, deeply, deeply sorry for it. If I could turn

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back time, I would give up my own life for that large, if I could. Mr

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Dillon's parents attended the hearing. The two men, who have

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killed -- pleaded guilty to a number of offences, will be sentenced next

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week. More now on the story

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we brought you last night, where the politician behind

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liberalising abortion in Britain says Northern Ireland needs

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to bring its laws up to date. Lord David Steel says

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local politicians are discriminating against women

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by not introducing change. Another peer, Baroness Nuala O'Loan,

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strongly disagrees. Here's our Health Correspondent

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Marie-Louise Connolly. A room, brimming with history. It is

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here in the archives in the Palace of Westminster

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taking back to Henry VIII, are carefully stored. -- dating. This is

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the original 1861 legislation, and carefully stored. -- dating. This is

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with abortion. Here it says that any woman who was found guilty of

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procuring her own abortion shall be guilty of felony and being convicted

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thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be kept

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in penal servitude for life. Written on vellum and squirrelled away in a

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London tower, the impact of that on vellum and squirrelled away in a

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on women here is felt every day. In fact, it was recently played out in

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Belfast Crown Court on a 21-year-old mother received a suspended jail

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sentence for taking abortion pills. That case fell under the original

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1861 legislation. While buying pills online is also legal elsewhere in

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Britain, the differences that he introduction of the 1967 abortion

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act allows abortions to be performed at hospitals, so women don't have to

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resort to buying abortion pills. This is the man who introduced it to

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Britain. He says it is time Northern Ireland to the same. I think they've

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got to face up to the fact the law in Northern Ireland is simply

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ridiculous. It is time they came up at least 21967, if not 2016. Others

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disagree. In 1967 abortion act is not working. To translate it into

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Northern Ireland law, just like that, to my mind would not be...

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From the perspective of human rights... A public lecture on

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abortion in Belfast. This -- this pathologist told the BBC that the

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current legislation means she and others operate in the some

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colleagues were told outright, you cannot provide any information

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whatsoever to families who are seeking a termination, even giving

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them information about where to go. That was termed aiding and abetting.

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For others, the law is the law and when it was introduced is

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irrelevant. This is what it says within the law and the 1861 act

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protects the life of the ball child. That is crucial, whether it was last

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year the warlords and fermented or 100 years ago. Once to boo, abortion

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is now a subject which is attracting a much wider debate.

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Still to come on the programme: We hear from the young people

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celebrating forty years of the Prince's Trust.

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A County Down doctor who was due to go on trial has admitted two

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counts of falsifying a clinical trial on patients suffering

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He changed his plea just as a jury was about to be sworn in.

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Helen Jones reports from Belfast Crown Court.

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59-year-old Doctor Hugh McGoldrick from ska, seen on the left

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59-year-old Doctor Hugh McGoldrick committed the offences at his GP

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practice in Downpatrick between 2007 and 2008. He accepted he

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practice in Downpatrick between 2007 conducted the clinical trial in

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deliberate breach of the conditions and principles of good clinical

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practice and that the patients enrolled onto the trial were

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probably not eligible to take part in it. He was paid for the clinical

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trial where he carried out. His barrister has said he will pay it

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all back, what is owed. One of the companies has since been liquidated.

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The court was told that if any money was owed to that firm, he would pay

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a cheque to a charity. You will be sentenced in May. -- he will be.

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The owner of one of Northern Ireland's biggest companies

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is to co-chair the local campaign to leave the EU.

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William Wright of Wright Bus said immigration's the factor

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which convinced him the UK was better off backing a Brexit.

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From Ballymena, here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon.

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The Leave campaign chose either sport -- a resort with a spa, which

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shows they don't oppose every idea that comes from Belgium. They are

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making the case for leaving the EU and all in the hotel's Italian

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restaurant. The main item on the menu, this man, owner of one of our

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top companies. He claimed that EU regulations have caused the closure

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of this factory in Ballymena but his main target was immigration. One of

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the things I noticed recently is a large number of Eastern Europe yens

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-- Europeans arriving here and with 2000 people coming onto the

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unemployment in two or three years' time,... Campaigners deny they want

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to stop all immigration. This is about a sovereign government having

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control over its own borders, deciding who can come into the

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country, how long they can stay and if they misbehave, we don't have the

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European Court of Justice telling us it doesn't matter whether they've

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raped, murdered or pledged, they've got to stay in your country, but we

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have the right to reject them. Last week, the vice president of Lombardi

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eight wrote to start saying it was better for the company if the UK

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remained in Europe. The campaigners will hope the endorsement of this

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company owner will even the score. Expect the arguments to flow freely

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from here on in. The loco strong in campaign will wait until after the

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election before having its formal launch.

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The businessman Sean Quinn has called for threats and intimidation

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at the companies he formerly owned in County Fermanagh to come

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Earlier this week we reported that contractors had left

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a windfarm near Derrylin after their company was threatened.

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Mr Quinn says the attacks are hindering his attempts to buy

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Our south west reporter Julian Fowler has more.

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Offensive and unacceptable. In nobody's interests and certainly not

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in the interests of me and my family. Sean Quinn's response to the

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signs that appeared earlier this week, and which have since been

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removed. He says the attacks, part of a campaign of violence and

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intimidation, since he lost control of his business empire in 2011, will

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only deepen the hurt and distrust in the community and are undermining

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his efforts to get the company he founded back. On Wednesday, a crane

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hire company from Cork quit work at a wind after receiving threats,

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telling the BBC it was not prepared to put its staff in danger. Part of

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the dispute at the wind farm is about access rights and land

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ownership. Mr Quinn about access rights and land

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but says others need to play their part and calls on the new owners of

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their wind farm, part and calls on the new owners of

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address the unease and part and calls on the new owners of

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the area. What has happened recently with the introduction of

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paramilitaries, with these people trying to instil fear and create

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sectarianism, this is apparent and totally untrue. I'm asking these

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people to step back from this. The company today reported growth at its

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business in 2015. It has been bought out. With an increase in turnover,

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profits and employment. Mr Quinn is an adviser but he wants to acquire

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ownership of the business and he confirms that discussions are

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ongoing. The American investors who own the company said recently they

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had no appetite for expanding Sean Quinn's role. They said he needed to

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demonstrated -- demonstrate over time an active approach over the

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activity in order to become bankable in the finance community again. Mr

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Quinn will be hoping his statement will go some way towards achieving

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that aim. There are only 13 days

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to go til Polling Day We've been with the main party

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leaders as they have relaxed away In the first of a series

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of interviews, BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson spoke to the Alliance leader

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David Ford, during a walk along Here we are, walking. This is how

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you will ask. Do not get enough walking at election time? Yeah but

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there's a difference between walking over the hills in fresh air. I

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prefer the Antrim planes but this is handy and close to home. We are

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about to go over the hill. It's something people might say about

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you. You are, what, 65? Didn't something people might say about

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hear Martin McGuinness say a while ago that he felt like he was in his

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20s. I don't think I am much worse than when I was in my 40s. There are

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certainly younger people coming along and they will get their turn.

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But this would be your last election. Let's wait and see. Sounds

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like a yes to me. Well... Nobody claims they are going to go on for

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ever. But you cannot confirm this claims they are going to go on for

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will be your last election. I'm not confirming anything. Let's

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will be your last election. I'm not youthful I am in five years' time.

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Nobody has told me to go. Some might say you've turned into a man in a

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grey suit. It's time to go now. Other men in grey suits will have to

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tell me. On another issue, your support for same-sex marriage led to

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use stepping aside from the other ship your local Presbyterian Church.

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Was that a price worth paying for your politics? It was certainly a

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Was that a price worth paying for cost. To be technical, my supporters

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Was that a price worth paying for with same-sex civil marriage

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Was that a price worth paying for protection for other groups. That

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caused concern amongst some members and therefore the best thing

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caused concern amongst some members was to step aside of the -- from

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caused concern amongst some members active duty is to reduce any offence

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but I regret that active duty is to reduce any offence

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resolved. Are you still heard about it? It is clearly hurting when

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people with whom you've worked and people with whom you felt there was

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some understanding, simply cannot accept the diversity of views in

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this society. Can I ask a family question? Your father, Welsh, your

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mother from Northern Ireland. You were born in England. What you

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supporting at the Euros? -- who are you supporting at the Euros? I am

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not the world's greatest soccer fan but I will be supporting Northern

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Ireland. They also hope people in Northern Ireland will see the

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Republic as the second-best. It's a bit like me when rugby comes around.

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It's Ireland, then Wales, and whoever comes down the line after

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that. To be clear, you are not a closet England fan? I think that

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probably comes close to something I would sue you for slander for. Thank

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you very much indeed. Thanks, Mark. The Prince's Trust, which has helped

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tens of thousands of young unemployed or disadvantaged people

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here is celebrating To mark the milestone,

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Prince Charles' youth charity has Mervyn Jess caught up with it

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in Belfast today. The distinctive red Caravan caught

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the eye of passers-by at City Hall. The aim, to raise awareness among

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young people and to collect stories from those whose lives have been

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impacted by the work of a youth charity. The main thing is it gives

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you confidence. I really hadn't a clue how to start my own business. I

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didn't know anything about anything. They give you confidence, a loan,

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financial support and most of all they gave me a mental which pushed

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me on to be that person that I wanted to be. Three years ago, the

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Prince himself visited offices in Belfast to hear about the work going

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on with young people in Northern Ireland. We supported tens of

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thousands of people over 40 years. It's worth saying that we work

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throughout Northern Ireland. All communities. All communities in

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Northern Ireland, both sides of the communities. One thing that strikes

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us as young people are making choices from each side of the

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community. The trust says it helps four out of every five young people

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and gets people into training, work or self employment within three

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years. Dublin, London and Belfast are all

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on the sports map this evening. Mark Sidebottom is here, Mark,

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where are we kicking off? Let's go to Dublin and London in a

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moment. Let's begin in Belfast. Good evening. Amid...

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Amid speculation linking him to the Celtic job, Michael O'Neill

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remained tight-lipped today preferring to focus on Euro 2016.

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The Northern Ireland manager was in town for the Ulster Player

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of the Year awards which saw another gong go the way of league

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He has lots of space. And he produces a fantastic finish! That is

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just one of the reasons why Billy Joe Burns is this season's Ulster

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Player of the Year. The defender picked up the prestigious award this

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afternoon. I am over the moon with it. I was saying before. I'm part of

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all the great names, just to be in there with all them is quite surreal

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but a great honour. Joel Cooper was named Young Player of the Year, too

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soon to be part of the 23 man squad for the European Championships. But

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the door is still open for some fresh faces. We are still monitoring

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players on the fringes of the squad will meet together on the 16th of

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May for the first time and the basis of the squad will be formed by them.

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Then it's a case of fine tuning it before we head to France in the 4th

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of June. Hopefully, we don't lose anyone else between now and the end

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of the season. The players have to play for the clubs. That is who pays

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their wages. We have to do everything they can for their clubs.

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Hopefully they will be right for France. O'Neill was name his squad

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for Euro 2016 on the 20th of May. -- will name.

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As Croke Park gears up for a unique weekend of cultural

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The players have been getting in the mood by donning

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The only all Ulster encounter sees Cavan take on tyrone in Sundays

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at full-foward on what will be a landmark 220th inter-coutny

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Sean Kavanagh may have been starring in this jersey for a long time but

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flat caps were ditched well before his debut. One of the most dominant

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players of his generation, the 33-year-old is now the elder

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statesman in a side which includes plenty of young talent. Six or seven

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players coming into our side last year really reenergised things. The

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reality is, we have a serious team in terms of talent and pace and

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power. If we can challenge -- channel that, we can probably take a

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game to most teams at the moment. There is a growing feeling that this

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could be the season that have come of age. They are aiming to make an

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impact on the senior stage. We need everyone back on board this year.

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Everyone will be injury free. The competition at the minute is very

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competitive. That adds to the whole team. Definitely it will be

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different. Victory at Croke Park would be the perfect boost to either

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county ahead of the championship. He's 82, he lives and trains

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in the County Tyrone Village of Artigarvan, and he's one of only

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12 living people to have run This Sunday Ken Jones,

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the oldest of the so called "ever presents" will compete

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in the international event It is a collection which only a

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dozen people on the planet can lay claim to. Come Sunday, Medel number

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36 will have been added to the hall. If I don't run, then I want to run

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the next day. It makes me feel good. And if you don't run, it do you get

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cranky? Yeah! Only one thing for it then. Why, can, why? Because

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cranky? Yeah! Only one thing for it it. It's lovely to go for a run. How

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much of the running, now, is in the head of the heart, as compared to

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the head? It's in the head. Once you get over 70, things start going

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wrong in your body. When you are over 80, everything is going wrong.

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Last year he ran against medical advice and then there was the year

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Last year he ran against medical of the big four. I was going along

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the embankment and of the big four. I was going along

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manhole cover and they lifted me and put me in an ambulance and held me

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down for a bit but I got up, I fought them off, I got out that I

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got to the finish. I plan to go on to do my 40th London Marathon and

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then I will retire. Another five years. Born in London in the 1950s,

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he met and married a girl from Donegal. All these years on, his

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family still marvels at Ken's lust for life. He refuses to be beaten by

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any of the odds, by health, by competition and he is a great

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achiever. I admire him putting his eyes on the grand number of 40

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marathons. He's not going to give up. It is so good for you. I come

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back and I feel good. I feel like I could run a marathon. Look, no

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tummy! Long may he continue to run. His personal best is two hours and

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40 minutes. He is aiming for six hours this Sunday.

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Amazing. Thanks, Mark. It has been a fine end to the week with many of us

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enjoying the good weather. Even the animals at Belfast zoo were going

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bananas for the April sunshine. This chimpanzee was clearly enjoying the

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heat. But I don't think it is going to stay, Angie.

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Some sunshine still in the forecast for the weekend but I don't think

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the chimpanzee is going to enjoy the drop in temperatures. We go back a

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couple of days. Things were certainly looking up. We had the

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warmest day of the year so far, that has been helping the bluebells

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along. I think they are going to be in for a bit of a shock over the

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next few days because that cooling process just continues. There will

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be some fine weather around to begin with but the second half of the

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weekend brings more cloud and with it, the threat of showers. Some of

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those could be quite wintry. This evening, a dry end to the day. Some

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sunshine for this evening as the sun goes down but feeling quite chilly

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and it is going to be another cold night to come. Apart from the odd

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shower towards the east and later in the night, it is dry with clear

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spells. These are the temperatures you would expect in the towns. In

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the countryside, down to freezing or below. Tomorrow, not a bad day

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really. It's still nearly drive. They will be some sunshine but it

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continues to cool down. We have that cold start. One or two showers in

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the morning which cold start. One or two showers in

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Other than that, dry with some sunshine. That is how we continue

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through the day. There may two showers towards the north.

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Generally, dry with some sunshine. The temperatures are struggling.

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Single figures, 9 degrees across the North Coast. The little bit of

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shelter in the South. 11 or 12 degrees. Into tomorrow night,

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initially we start off with clear skies so the temperatures are going

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to be falling away. Low enough again for frost in the countryside. Later

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in the night, the threat of cloud and patchy rain moving in from the

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north. Generally, cloudy on Sunday with some showery bits and pieces.

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Still some dry weather with a chilly breeze. Colder next week.

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