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President Obama has said Britain would be in | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Bigger classes and fewer teachers. would be in the | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
A dire warning from principals over funding cuts. | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
Class sizes will be even bigger. Teachers will have less time to | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
prepare and Mark. They will not have access to the range of courses that | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
they want. More than 170 jobs | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
go as a construction A hit and run driver who killed | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
a student admits having 13 drinks The Ballymena businessman | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
who's backing a Brexit. Amidst speculation linking him | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
to Celtic, Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
is keeping focus of Euro 2016. And still some sunshine | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
in the forecast this weekend but certainly not as warm as it | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
has been lately. 80 of Northern Ireland's biggest | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
schools are warning they'll have larger class sizes and fewer | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
teachers because of rising costs. A joint statement has been issued | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
by several organisations representing principals, governors | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
and school finance managers. Our Education Correspondent | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Robbie Meredith has been Postprimary principals met today and | :01:30. | :01:43. | |
money, or the lack of it, was the only lesson. I'm having additional | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
costs for pension, National Insurance and also for increase in | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
pay rise. That therefore is now going to put my school into a | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
deficit. School leaders say they used to get money from the | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Department for Education to meet those costs but not any longer. That | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
is putting a big hole in school budgets and having a real impact on | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
peoples like these at Saint Mary 's grammar in the time, according to | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
the head. I have gone from 40,000 surplus at the end of this financial | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
year to ?195,000 deficit. That means I'm going to have to find ways in | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
which I can reduce my staffing costs. 190,000 would dictate the | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
reduction of four staff. My classes have increased. My A-level history | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
this year has gone from 18 to 34 pupils. I've had to reduce my | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
curriculum offer. I can no longer offer art, music, performing arts in | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Spanish. Similar tough decisions are being taken in schools across the | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
country. Bikes and Patrick 's high school. The direct impact on pupils | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
is going to be that their class sizes are even bigger, that their | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
teachers have less time to prepare and Mark and that they will not have | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
access to the range of courses they want. They will not have the | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
technology they need, especially vulnerable pupils, because I don't | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
have the money. Those who manage that money for schools also warn of | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
big losses. It is across the board and across the sector. Our schools | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
are anticipating shortfalls in funding between the regions of | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
?150,000 and ?500,000. There are significant shortfalls in funding. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
But the education minister says he can only spend what he has, too. | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
This year, I have cut spending in my own department by 5%. We are | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
directing as much funds as possible into the schools but we need more | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
money. All parties can agree that if more money becomes available, health | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
and education are areas we want to pump that money into. Schools here | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
only control about 60% of their budgets. The rest is centralised to | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
meet costs like transport and meals. Many principals say they would want | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
that to change so who ever succeeds the education minister after the | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
election is likely to face more problems in balancing the books. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
A Lisburn-based construction firm has gone into liquidation | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
McGrath Brothers Engineering Group specialised in metalwork. | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
Our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell is with me. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
They have been around since 1981. They specialise in architectural | :04:27. | :04:38. | |
metalwork. They fabricate and install things like bridges, | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
balconies, hand rails, balustrades. They've walked all over the UK, for | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
example they worked on the aquatic Centre for the London Olympics. More | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
recently, we can see pictures here of a job they were doing at Luton | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
airport, fabricating and on installing a new runway. They've | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
been quite a substantial business, employing up to 200 people over the | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
last number of years, turning over around ?15 million a year. | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
It sounds great, so what has gone wrong? It is to do with a hangover | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
to do with a contrast trim crash. -- construction crash. What happened | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
was, everyone was chasing work and competing hard to find works of | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
profit margins were very small. What has happened is some of the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
contracts they've got have turned out to be loss-making contracts. | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
That has put the business and a big pressure. There have been disputes | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
with other contractors and that has hit their cash flow. Last year, they | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
went into voluntary arrangement, where they go along to people they | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
owe money to and say we can't give you everything, we can pay you | :05:41. | :05:41. | |
something of a time but they've not been able to | :05:42. | :05:56. | |
make that arrangement sustainable because the business has been under | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
so much pressure. The directors say they've been left with no other | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
option but to put the business into liquidation. 120 jobs will go. | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Isn't the construction industry in general improving? | :06:04. | :06:04. | |
It is and we've seen at last the construction sector coming back over | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
the last year, after a long time in the doldrums. Most of that locally | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
has been in house-building but there are other businesses, just like this | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
one, who have faced this big hangover from the construction | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
crash. They will find it very hard, some of them, to get out of the | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
position they are in. A Belfast man consumed 13 drinks | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
and a quantity of drugs before getting behind the wheel of his van | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
which then mounted a footpath Enda Dolan was walking back | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
to his accommodation along the Malone Road in October 2014 | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
when he was knocked down. Belfast Crown Court was told today | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
that the driver now wishes he could give his own life | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
to bring him back. The court heard that ended Dolan was | :06:43. | :06:54. | |
a talented musician and athlete. He was knocked down and killed when he | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
was walking along the Malone Road on October 15 2014. The code -- the | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
court heard he was carried for 800 yards along the road on the roof of | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
the van, before it stopped. yards along the road on the roof of | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
Beaver Drive was a passenger in the van that was driven by 31-year-old | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
David Lee Stewart of Gray 's Park Avenue in Belfast. The court heard | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
the pair had spent the evening on a drinking session in south Belfast, | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
watching a Northern Ireland football game. Stewart had 13 alcoholic | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
drinks, six pints of beer and an assortment of shots. Evidence from | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
CCTV footage also suggested he had been taking drugs. Stuart's wife | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
Samantha gave evidence saying his entire family was shocked and | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
devastated by what he had done. The court heard that Stuart told police, | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
I would like to tell his family that I know I have ruined their lives. I | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
am deeply sorry for it, deeply, deeply sorry for it. If I could turn | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
back time, I would give up my own life for that large, if I could. Mr | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Dillon's parents attended the hearing. The two men, who have | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
killed -- pleaded guilty to a number of offences, will be sentenced next | :08:13. | :08:13. | |
week. More now on the story | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
we brought you last night, where the politician behind | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
liberalising abortion in Britain says Northern Ireland needs | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
to bring its laws up to date. Lord David Steel says | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
local politicians are discriminating against women | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
by not introducing change. Another peer, Baroness Nuala O'Loan, | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
strongly disagrees. Here's our Health Correspondent | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
Marie-Louise Connolly. A room, brimming with history. It is | :08:37. | :08:48. | |
here in the archives in the Palace of Westminster | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
taking back to Henry VIII, are carefully stored. -- dating. This is | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
the original 1861 legislation, and carefully stored. -- dating. This is | :08:59. | :09:08. | |
with abortion. Here it says that any woman who was found guilty of | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
procuring her own abortion shall be guilty of felony and being convicted | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be kept | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
in penal servitude for life. Written on vellum and squirrelled away in a | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
London tower, the impact of that on vellum and squirrelled away in a | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
on women here is felt every day. In fact, it was recently played out in | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Belfast Crown Court on a 21-year-old mother received a suspended jail | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
sentence for taking abortion pills. That case fell under the original | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
1861 legislation. While buying pills online is also legal elsewhere in | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Britain, the differences that he introduction of the 1967 abortion | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
act allows abortions to be performed at hospitals, so women don't have to | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
resort to buying abortion pills. This is the man who introduced it to | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
Britain. He says it is time Northern Ireland to the same. I think they've | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
got to face up to the fact the law in Northern Ireland is simply | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
ridiculous. It is time they came up at least 21967, if not 2016. Others | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
disagree. In 1967 abortion act is not working. To translate it into | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
Northern Ireland law, just like that, to my mind would not be... | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
From the perspective of human rights... A public lecture on | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
abortion in Belfast. This -- this pathologist told the BBC that the | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
current legislation means she and others operate in the some | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
colleagues were told outright, you cannot provide any information | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
whatsoever to families who are seeking a termination, even giving | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
them information about where to go. That was termed aiding and abetting. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
For others, the law is the law and when it was introduced is | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
irrelevant. This is what it says within the law and the 1861 act | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
protects the life of the ball child. That is crucial, whether it was last | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
year the warlords and fermented or 100 years ago. Once to boo, abortion | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
is now a subject which is attracting a much wider debate. | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Still to come on the programme: We hear from the young people | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
celebrating forty years of the Prince's Trust. | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
A County Down doctor who was due to go on trial has admitted two | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
counts of falsifying a clinical trial on patients suffering | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
He changed his plea just as a jury was about to be sworn in. | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
Helen Jones reports from Belfast Crown Court. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
59-year-old Doctor Hugh McGoldrick from ska, seen on the left | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
59-year-old Doctor Hugh McGoldrick committed the offences at his GP | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
practice in Downpatrick between 2007 and 2008. He accepted he | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
practice in Downpatrick between 2007 conducted the clinical trial in | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
deliberate breach of the conditions and principles of good clinical | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
practice and that the patients enrolled onto the trial were | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
probably not eligible to take part in it. He was paid for the clinical | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
trial where he carried out. His barrister has said he will pay it | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
all back, what is owed. One of the companies has since been liquidated. | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
The court was told that if any money was owed to that firm, he would pay | :12:35. | :12:46. | |
a cheque to a charity. You will be sentenced in May. -- he will be. | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
The owner of one of Northern Ireland's biggest companies | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
is to co-chair the local campaign to leave the EU. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
William Wright of Wright Bus said immigration's the factor | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
which convinced him the UK was better off backing a Brexit. | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
From Ballymena, here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
The Leave campaign chose either sport -- a resort with a spa, which | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
shows they don't oppose every idea that comes from Belgium. They are | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
making the case for leaving the EU and all in the hotel's Italian | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
restaurant. The main item on the menu, this man, owner of one of our | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
top companies. He claimed that EU regulations have caused the closure | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
of this factory in Ballymena but his main target was immigration. One of | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
the things I noticed recently is a large number of Eastern Europe yens | :13:44. | :13:56. | |
-- Europeans arriving here and with 2000 people coming onto the | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
unemployment in two or three years' time,... Campaigners deny they want | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
to stop all immigration. This is about a sovereign government having | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
control over its own borders, deciding who can come into the | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
country, how long they can stay and if they misbehave, we don't have the | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
European Court of Justice telling us it doesn't matter whether they've | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
raped, murdered or pledged, they've got to stay in your country, but we | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
have the right to reject them. Last week, the vice president of Lombardi | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
eight wrote to start saying it was better for the company if the UK | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
remained in Europe. The campaigners will hope the endorsement of this | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
company owner will even the score. Expect the arguments to flow freely | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
from here on in. The loco strong in campaign will wait until after the | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
election before having its formal launch. | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
The businessman Sean Quinn has called for threats and intimidation | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
at the companies he formerly owned in County Fermanagh to come | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
Earlier this week we reported that contractors had left | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
a windfarm near Derrylin after their company was threatened. | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
Mr Quinn says the attacks are hindering his attempts to buy | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Our south west reporter Julian Fowler has more. | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
Offensive and unacceptable. In nobody's interests and certainly not | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
in the interests of me and my family. Sean Quinn's response to the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
signs that appeared earlier this week, and which have since been | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
removed. He says the attacks, part of a campaign of violence and | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
intimidation, since he lost control of his business empire in 2011, will | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
only deepen the hurt and distrust in the community and are undermining | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
his efforts to get the company he founded back. On Wednesday, a crane | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
hire company from Cork quit work at a wind after receiving threats, | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
telling the BBC it was not prepared to put its staff in danger. Part of | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
the dispute at the wind farm is about access rights and land | :16:11. | :16:11. | |
ownership. Mr Quinn about access rights and land | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
but says others need to play their part and calls on the new owners of | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
their wind farm, part and calls on the new owners of | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
address the unease and part and calls on the new owners of | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
the area. What has happened recently with the introduction of | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
paramilitaries, with these people trying to instil fear and create | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
sectarianism, this is apparent and totally untrue. I'm asking these | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
people to step back from this. The company today reported growth at its | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
business in 2015. It has been bought out. With an increase in turnover, | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
profits and employment. Mr Quinn is an adviser but he wants to acquire | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
ownership of the business and he confirms that discussions are | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
ongoing. The American investors who own the company said recently they | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
had no appetite for expanding Sean Quinn's role. They said he needed to | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
demonstrated -- demonstrate over time an active approach over the | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
activity in order to become bankable in the finance community again. Mr | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Quinn will be hoping his statement will go some way towards achieving | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
that aim. There are only 13 days | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
to go til Polling Day We've been with the main party | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
leaders as they have relaxed away In the first of a series | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
of interviews, BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson spoke to the Alliance leader | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
David Ford, during a walk along Here we are, walking. This is how | :17:43. | :17:56. | |
you will ask. Do not get enough walking at election time? Yeah but | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
there's a difference between walking over the hills in fresh air. I | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
prefer the Antrim planes but this is handy and close to home. We are | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
about to go over the hill. It's something people might say about | :18:13. | :18:13. | |
you. You are, what, 65? Didn't something people might say about | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
hear Martin McGuinness say a while ago that he felt like he was in his | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
20s. I don't think I am much worse than when I was in my 40s. There are | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
certainly younger people coming along and they will get their turn. | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
But this would be your last election. Let's wait and see. Sounds | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
like a yes to me. Well... Nobody claims they are going to go on for | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
ever. But you cannot confirm this claims they are going to go on for | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
will be your last election. I'm not confirming anything. Let's | :18:48. | :18:47. | |
will be your last election. I'm not youthful I am in five years' time. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
Nobody has told me to go. Some might say you've turned into a man in a | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
grey suit. It's time to go now. Other men in grey suits will have to | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
tell me. On another issue, your support for same-sex marriage led to | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
use stepping aside from the other ship your local Presbyterian Church. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
Was that a price worth paying for your politics? It was certainly a | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Was that a price worth paying for cost. To be technical, my supporters | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
Was that a price worth paying for with same-sex civil marriage | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
Was that a price worth paying for protection for other groups. That | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
caused concern amongst some members and therefore the best thing | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
caused concern amongst some members was to step aside of the -- from | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
caused concern amongst some members active duty is to reduce any offence | :19:39. | :19:39. | |
but I regret that active duty is to reduce any offence | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
resolved. Are you still heard about it? It is clearly hurting when | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
people with whom you've worked and people with whom you felt there was | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
some understanding, simply cannot accept the diversity of views in | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
this society. Can I ask a family question? Your father, Welsh, your | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
mother from Northern Ireland. You were born in England. What you | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
supporting at the Euros? -- who are you supporting at the Euros? I am | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
not the world's greatest soccer fan but I will be supporting Northern | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
Ireland. They also hope people in Northern Ireland will see the | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
Republic as the second-best. It's a bit like me when rugby comes around. | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
It's Ireland, then Wales, and whoever comes down the line after | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
that. To be clear, you are not a closet England fan? I think that | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
probably comes close to something I would sue you for slander for. Thank | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
you very much indeed. Thanks, Mark. The Prince's Trust, which has helped | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
tens of thousands of young unemployed or disadvantaged people | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
here is celebrating To mark the milestone, | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
Prince Charles' youth charity has Mervyn Jess caught up with it | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
in Belfast today. The distinctive red Caravan caught | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
the eye of passers-by at City Hall. The aim, to raise awareness among | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
young people and to collect stories from those whose lives have been | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
impacted by the work of a youth charity. The main thing is it gives | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
you confidence. I really hadn't a clue how to start my own business. I | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
didn't know anything about anything. They give you confidence, a loan, | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
financial support and most of all they gave me a mental which pushed | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
me on to be that person that I wanted to be. Three years ago, the | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
Prince himself visited offices in Belfast to hear about the work going | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
on with young people in Northern Ireland. We supported tens of | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
thousands of people over 40 years. It's worth saying that we work | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
throughout Northern Ireland. All communities. All communities in | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
Northern Ireland, both sides of the communities. One thing that strikes | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
us as young people are making choices from each side of the | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
community. The trust says it helps four out of every five young people | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
and gets people into training, work or self employment within three | :22:15. | :22:15. | |
years. Dublin, London and Belfast are all | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
on the sports map this evening. Mark Sidebottom is here, Mark, | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
where are we kicking off? Let's go to Dublin and London in a | :22:22. | :22:31. | |
moment. Let's begin in Belfast. Good evening. Amid... | :22:32. | :22:32. | |
Amid speculation linking him to the Celtic job, Michael O'Neill | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
remained tight-lipped today preferring to focus on Euro 2016. | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
The Northern Ireland manager was in town for the Ulster Player | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
of the Year awards which saw another gong go the way of league | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
He has lots of space. And he produces a fantastic finish! That is | :22:44. | :22:59. | |
just one of the reasons why Billy Joe Burns is this season's Ulster | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
Player of the Year. The defender picked up the prestigious award this | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
afternoon. I am over the moon with it. I was saying before. I'm part of | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
all the great names, just to be in there with all them is quite surreal | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
but a great honour. Joel Cooper was named Young Player of the Year, too | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
soon to be part of the 23 man squad for the European Championships. But | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
the door is still open for some fresh faces. We are still monitoring | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
players on the fringes of the squad will meet together on the 16th of | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
May for the first time and the basis of the squad will be formed by them. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Then it's a case of fine tuning it before we head to France in the 4th | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
of June. Hopefully, we don't lose anyone else between now and the end | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
of the season. The players have to play for the clubs. That is who pays | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
their wages. We have to do everything they can for their clubs. | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Hopefully they will be right for France. O'Neill was name his squad | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
for Euro 2016 on the 20th of May. -- will name. | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
As Croke Park gears up for a unique weekend of cultural | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
The players have been getting in the mood by donning | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
The only all Ulster encounter sees Cavan take on tyrone in Sundays | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
at full-foward on what will be a landmark 220th inter-coutny | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Sean Kavanagh may have been starring in this jersey for a long time but | :24:26. | :24:39. | |
flat caps were ditched well before his debut. One of the most dominant | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
players of his generation, the 33-year-old is now the elder | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
statesman in a side which includes plenty of young talent. Six or seven | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
players coming into our side last year really reenergised things. The | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
reality is, we have a serious team in terms of talent and pace and | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
power. If we can challenge -- channel that, we can probably take a | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
game to most teams at the moment. There is a growing feeling that this | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
could be the season that have come of age. They are aiming to make an | :25:15. | :25:24. | |
impact on the senior stage. We need everyone back on board this year. | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
Everyone will be injury free. The competition at the minute is very | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
competitive. That adds to the whole team. Definitely it will be | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
different. Victory at Croke Park would be the perfect boost to either | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
county ahead of the championship. He's 82, he lives and trains | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
in the County Tyrone Village of Artigarvan, and he's one of only | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
12 living people to have run This Sunday Ken Jones, | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
the oldest of the so called "ever presents" will compete | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
in the international event It is a collection which only a | :25:57. | :26:06. | |
dozen people on the planet can lay claim to. Come Sunday, Medel number | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
36 will have been added to the hall. If I don't run, then I want to run | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
the next day. It makes me feel good. And if you don't run, it do you get | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
cranky? Yeah! Only one thing for it then. Why, can, why? Because | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
cranky? Yeah! Only one thing for it it. It's lovely to go for a run. How | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
much of the running, now, is in the head of the heart, as compared to | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
the head? It's in the head. Once you get over 70, things start going | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
wrong in your body. When you are over 80, everything is going wrong. | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
Last year he ran against medical advice and then there was the year | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
Last year he ran against medical of the big four. I was going along | :26:56. | :26:56. | |
the embankment and of the big four. I was going along | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
manhole cover and they lifted me and put me in an ambulance and held me | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
down for a bit but I got up, I fought them off, I got out that I | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
got to the finish. I plan to go on to do my 40th London Marathon and | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
then I will retire. Another five years. Born in London in the 1950s, | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
he met and married a girl from Donegal. All these years on, his | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
family still marvels at Ken's lust for life. He refuses to be beaten by | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
any of the odds, by health, by competition and he is a great | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
achiever. I admire him putting his eyes on the grand number of 40 | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
marathons. He's not going to give up. It is so good for you. I come | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
back and I feel good. I feel like I could run a marathon. Look, no | :27:45. | :27:58. | |
tummy! Long may he continue to run. His personal best is two hours and | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
40 minutes. He is aiming for six hours this Sunday. | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
Amazing. Thanks, Mark. It has been a fine end to the week with many of us | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
enjoying the good weather. Even the animals at Belfast zoo were going | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
bananas for the April sunshine. This chimpanzee was clearly enjoying the | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
heat. But I don't think it is going to stay, Angie. | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
Some sunshine still in the forecast for the weekend but I don't think | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
the chimpanzee is going to enjoy the drop in temperatures. We go back a | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
couple of days. Things were certainly looking up. We had the | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
warmest day of the year so far, that has been helping the bluebells | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
along. I think they are going to be in for a bit of a shock over the | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
next few days because that cooling process just continues. There will | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
be some fine weather around to begin with but the second half of the | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
weekend brings more cloud and with it, the threat of showers. Some of | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
those could be quite wintry. This evening, a dry end to the day. Some | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
sunshine for this evening as the sun goes down but feeling quite chilly | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
and it is going to be another cold night to come. Apart from the odd | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
shower towards the east and later in the night, it is dry with clear | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
spells. These are the temperatures you would expect in the towns. In | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
the countryside, down to freezing or below. Tomorrow, not a bad day | :29:18. | :29:24. | |
really. It's still nearly drive. They will be some sunshine but it | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
continues to cool down. We have that cold start. One or two showers in | :29:31. | :29:31. | |
the morning which cold start. One or two showers in | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
Other than that, dry with some sunshine. That is how we continue | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
through the day. There may two showers towards the north. | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
Generally, dry with some sunshine. The temperatures are struggling. | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
Single figures, 9 degrees across the North Coast. The little bit of | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
shelter in the South. 11 or 12 degrees. Into tomorrow night, | :29:55. | :30:03. | |
initially we start off with clear skies so the temperatures are going | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
to be falling away. Low enough again for frost in the countryside. Later | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
in the night, the threat of cloud and patchy rain moving in from the | :30:12. | :30:19. | |
north. Generally, cloudy on Sunday with some showery bits and pieces. | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
Still some dry weather with a chilly breeze. Colder next week. | :30:25. | :30:27. |