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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
A damning report says the police did collude with the UVE killers of six | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
Many of the dishes have been identified in the sport including | :00:23. | :00:36. | |
protection of informants and turning a blind eye, failures in police | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
investigations, and destruction of police records. Viewed collectively, | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
I have no visitation to say collusion was a significant feature. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
The families of the dead men say the findings prove they were right. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Today, we finally have a report by the ombudsman at last that | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
vindicates our long-held suspicions and belief the truth about these | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
matters was covered up by the very people, the police, who were meant | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
to be protecting us. New details emerge about a loyalist | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
shipment from South Africa, with guns used in Loughinisland, | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
and more than other 70 murders Two former Prime Ministers fly in, | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
to warn of the danger to Northern Ireland if there's | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
a vote to leave the EU. It would throw all the pieces of the | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
constitutional jigsaw up into the air again. And, no one could be | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
certain where they might land. With three days until Northern | :01:29. | :01:41. | |
Ireland's's opening game at Euro 2016, we hear from Poland's goal | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
scoring superstar they had to try and stop. | :01:46. | :01:46. | |
And, be prepared for some rain over the next few days | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
First, to that stark finding by the Police Ombudsman, | :01:49. | :02:04. | |
that the RUC colluded with the UVF in killing six men in | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
The Catholic victims were shot as they watched a World Cup | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
football match in a pub in the County Down village. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Their families say the ombudsman's conclusion vindicates | :02:18. | :02:18. | |
No-one has been charged with the murders. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
The Police Ombudsman's report finds that RUC informers were | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
involved in the attack, and were protected from arrest. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
That there were catastrophic failures in the police | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
The report speaks of incompetence, indifference, and neglect. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
And it questions why the police failed to intercept a huge loyalist | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
arms shipment which they knew about, guns which were used in more than 70 | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
murders and attempted murders, including the attack | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
In a moment, we'll hear more about those weapons, | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
and the part played by a notorious loyalist killer. | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
But, first, Mervyn Jess tells us what the ombudsman had | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
to say about the 1994 gun attack in Loughinisland. | :03:01. | :03:10. | |
viewed collectively, I have no hesitation in saying collusion was a | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
significant feature in the Loughinisland attacks. | :03:16. | :03:16. | |
The words the families of the victims wanted to hear, | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
stated publicly and unequivocably for the first time by | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
The customers were watching the Republic of Ireland play Italy | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
in the World Cup finals when two gunmen burst into this rural pub, | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
Six men were killed, another five were wounded. | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
The six who died were Adrian Rogan, Barney Greene, Dan McCreanor, | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Eamon Byrne, Malcolm Jenkinson, and Patsy O'Hare. | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
Today, in a 160-page report, Michael Maguire gave the families | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
many of the answers they've been seeking, including a finding | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
that went to the core of their campaign for the truth. | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
Some officers place more value on collecting information and | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
protecting sources than preventing and detecting crime. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
Most of the information held by Special Branch was not passed to | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
detectives investigating these attacks and thereby protecting them | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
from investigation. That in my view was wrong. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
In addition, my investigation found some security forces and the | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Newcastle subdivision have been customised from the UDR and local | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
RUC. Either through direct involvement with loyalist | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
paramilitaries, or sympathies. The report concludes had this UVF unit | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
been subject to investigation, they may have been arrested and may not | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
have been involved in the Loughinisland attack. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Whether that attack would have been carried out by another group we will | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
never know. It is important to note we did not | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
find any specific evidence that the police had information that there | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
would be an attack on the Heights Bar that evening. | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
The families have waged a lengthy campaign to get to this point. | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
They went to court to overturn a report by the previous | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
Police Ombudsman, Al Hutchinson, stating that there was no | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Michael McQuire said many police officers did work tirelessly | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
But he was scathing of the overall police approach, | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
including the protection of RUC informers. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
The investigation particularly in the early stages was characterised | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
by incompetents, indifference and neglect. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Police also received intelligence that suspects were warned they would | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
be arrested by a police officer. This was never investigated by the | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
police. When viewed collectively, have no hesitation in saying | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
collusion was a significant feature in the Loughinisland attacks. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
The ombudsman met with the families in Loughinisland last night, | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
This afternoon, they came together, to give their reaction | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Among them, the niece of the oldest victim, | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
and a man who was shot, but survived the attack. | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
Never going to leave us. For it to be allowed to happen, that is the | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
worst part, it was allowed to happen. They were allowed to bring | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
guns in, to do it and get away with it. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
We set out to look for truth and justice. 22 years later, we have | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
truth, but we still haven't got justice. It is an ongoing... We are | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
elated with the report's findings. Reaction from the PSNI | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
Chief Constable came at today's The ombudsman stated collusion was a | :06:22. | :06:31. | |
feature of these murders in that they were both wilful and passive | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
acts carried out by police officers. That is entirely not acceptable to | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
me, anathema to my standards and the standards of policing today. I would | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
say even to the standards of policing in 1994. That is totally | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
not acceptable and those people should be held to account. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Emma Rogan was only eight when her father | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
Adrian was killed that night. | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
There is a part in the port that said that bad policemen were in the | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
pub, that is what I was told, bad men entered the pub and murdered my | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
father. Everywhere we went, the door was slammed in our face. They said, | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
no, the police are making that up, collusion doesn't exist, that is | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
wrong. Today, we have got the truth, and we were right. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
The shootings in Loughinisland have always been remembered as one | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
of the most brutal sectarian attacks carried out by the UVF. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
For the families of the victims, their memories have been of loved | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
Guns used in the Loughinisland attack came from a huge loyalist | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
The Police Ombudsman's report provides new and startling details | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
It reveals that many of the weapons were moved. | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
after a tip-off to a loyalist that his home was | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
Our home affairs correspondent, Vincent Kearney, has the details. | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
An Ulster resistance rally at the Ulster Hall. Formed to combat the | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
Anglo-Irish agreement, some Unionist politicians joined. They always | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
denied any involvement in paramilitary activity and said they | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
had left by the time it was trying to import weapons. The leader in | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
1987 also said resistance brought in a huge consignment from South Africa | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
along with the UDA and UVF. Six years later, and salt Russell | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
from that shipment was used on an attack at Heights Bar. Other South | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
African guns were used in at least 70 other murders and attempted | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
murders. The key question is, why did that happen? Given that RUC | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
special Branch and military intelligence knew all about the | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
shipment. They knew because senior loyalists | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
who were informers were involved in bringing in the weapons. The police | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
ombudsman's port today also confirms some of those directly involved had | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
been under long-term surveillance by the police, army and security | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
service MI5. And when a gang drove to County | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
Armagh 12th up some of the weapons in January 1988, they were being | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
watched. But the surveillance team said they lost sight of the vehicles | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
during the actual time they were being loaded with the guns. One hour | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
and a half later, a substantial amount of the shipment was seized in | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
two cars stopped at a police checkpoint. But not all of the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
weapons were retrieved. Including the rifle used to kill six people in | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
Loughinisland. The police ombudsman says he has | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
established the rest of the shipment was stored at home of man, James | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
Mitchell, a former RUC reservist. As part of the BBC Spotlight | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
investigation 12 years ago, I asked him to respond to allegations he was | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
a member of the Glenarm gam, a group of loyalists links to more than 120 | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
killings. That is a lie, it never happened. I | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
didn't happen. Special Branch knew all about James Mitchell. Police had | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
found weapons on his farm in 1978, and in a confession can he told them | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
it was one of the main UVF arms dumps in Northern Ireland. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
Special Branch, though, did not pass any of this information to | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
detectives trying to locate the weapons. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
I fail to understand why the police actually could not go to Mitchell's | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
farm quickly. As we say in the report, it did have the consequences | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
of failure to go quickly to the farm meant the weapons were moved. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Michael McQuire says James Mitchell was tipped up within two hours of | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
the cars being stopped in Portadown, that his farm would be searched. The | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
rest of the weapons were moved to another hiding place that night. | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
It has emerged, within hours, they were in the hands of this man, Robin | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Jackson. A former UDR soldier, he was a leader of the UVF in Portadown | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
for over two decades. Dubbed the jackal by journalists he was behind | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
dozens of sectarian killings. But he was never questioned about the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
shipment. Today, the ombudsman said it was a | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
matter of significant concern that Special Branch protected loyalists | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
from effective investigation by failing to pass on intelligence | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
about activities. Despite being instigated in | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
importation of the weapons, senior members of the UDI, UVF and | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
resistance were not subject to police investigation. This can be | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
chipped it to a decision by Special Branch not to disseminate | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
intelligence implicating these individuals, some of whom were | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
informants. Given the gravity of conspiracy and impact this has had | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
on the lives of many, I believe this decision was indefensible. | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
Robin Jackson died in 1998. James Mitchell died ten years later. | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
The report today again goes to the heart of the relationship between | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
informers and their handlers. Michael McQuire says some police | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
officers appeared to place more value on gathering information and | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
protecting their sources, than in prevention and detection of crime. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
That poses serious questions of the very purpose of having informers. | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
Two former Prime Ministers were in Northern Ireland today. | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
Sir John Major and Tony Blair are warning that a vote to leave | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
the European Union would jeopardise the unity of the UK. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
The pair faced questions from students at Magee University | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
in Londonderry, and our political correspondent, Enda | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
The architects of the peace process, taking time out to survey | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
Derry's Peace Bridge was the first port of call today | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
It was built to celebrate the peace they helped secure. | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
How times have changed from Sir John's last visit | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
Back then, he found himself in the middle of a battle | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
between republican protesters and police. | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
This time, the reception was very different. | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
The old political foes were on a joint mission to convince | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
voters here to stay in the EU, warning that the UK could be torn | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
apart if the vote goes the other way Major Clip. | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
I believe it would be an historic mistakes to do anything that has any | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
risk to destabilise the complicated and multilayered constitutional | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
settlement that underpins the present stability in Northern | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Ireland. But that is what a British x it from | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
the European Union would do. It would throw all the pieces of the | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
constitutional jigsaw up into the air again. | :14:01. | :14:01. | |
Tony Blair said a vote to leave would undermine the political | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
Here we stand as Dawlat former prime ministers, and we say to the Leave | :14:04. | :14:15. | |
campaign directly, you have fundamental questions to answer | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
about Northern Ireland, the Common travel area, the effect of leaving | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
the EU on the future make-up of the UK. The people of Northern Ireland | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
need these answers, and need to have them within the next days before | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
June the 23rd. But those in the Leave campaign | :14:32. | :14:32. | |
were quick to hit back. I do find it rather disgraceful for | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
both premises who know full well the importance of the peace process here | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
in Northern Ireland, to come over here and suggest that a vote on a | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
predicted action would undermine that come is quite scandalous. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
In my expense, the commitment of people in Northern Ireland to the | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
political settlement and exclusively peaceful and democratic means to | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
determine the island's future, that commitment is rock solid. | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
To say it would somehow weather or become less resolute if there was a | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
democratic vote to leave the EU, is not only unjustified, but actually | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
pretty irresponsible. Theresa Villiers has said you are | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
talking nonsense today, your claims don't stand up. | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
Perhaps she could answer some of the questions she hasn't yet answered | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
about things like the Common travel area, the Secretary of States | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
apparently says a Common travel area would remain. Other members of the | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Lee Camp, Lord Lawson, say it wouldn't come it would disappear. | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
But what about those who were listening? | :15:35. | :15:35. | |
Were they convinced by the arguments from the two former | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
They were trying to scare us, scaremongering has been used a lot | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
by politicians and news readers. I feel like they were scaremongering, | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
telling us about drastic consequences if we do leave the EU. | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
I was quite on the fence whether to stay in league and I think this is | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
confirming my beliefs in staying in. The question is whether or not those | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
here today will be convinced by the arguments put forward by Sir John | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Major and Tony Blair. Some don't even have a vote, but may go home | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
and told their families but they have heard today. Will it make a | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
difference come June the 23rd? That remains to be seen. | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
The two former Prime Ministers weren't the only ones | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
to make their voices heard on Northern Ireland | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
The former US President Bill Clinton also weighed in, with an article | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Our political editor, Mark Devenport, has | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Mark, what has Bill Clinton been saying? | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
A short article, he says it is a matter for voters to decide whether | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
the UK stays in the EU or not. He says he hopes the UK stays in the | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
EU, he doesn't want Britain turning inwards. He refers to Northern | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Ireland and says the peace process in Northern Ireland benefited from | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
the UK membership of the EU, and he worries the future prosperity and | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
peace in Northern Ireland could be jeopardised if Britain withdraws. | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
Similar concerns to those we heard echoed by both prime ministers. | :17:00. | :17:00. | |
What impact do you think these high-profile interventions | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
Hard to say. There is some research out tomorrow questioning whether | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
some interventions by high profile figures on either side have had the | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
result they intended. Sometimes you put off as many people as you turn | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
on. An interesting thing about this | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
intervention is, particularly John Major talking about the threat to | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
the UK, he was looking at the wider audience than specifically Northern | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
Ireland, given it has been nationalists most prone to actually | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
voting, as polls suggest, for remaining in the EU, rather than | :17:36. | :17:36. | |
Unionists. And, tonight, The View will be | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
holding a special EU A court has been told that a man | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
who killed his mother, thought she was a witch, | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
after he'd taken Alun Kinney Evans, who is 34 | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
and from Portstewart, suffered a drug-induced psychosis, | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
after taking what's called MXP which mimics the effects | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
of a powerful tranquilliser. Our north-east reporter, | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
Sara Girvin, was in court. Mother-of-three Margaret Evans, | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
known as Margo, was 69, In June 2014, her badly beaten body | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
was found in the garden Her son, Alun Evans, | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
had previously denied murdering her but, last month, | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
he admitted her manslaughter on the grounds of | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
diminished responsibility. Belfast Crown Court heard today that | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
he'd been taking synthetic drug MXP that he'd bought online, | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
and drinking alcohol in the days This combination led | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
to a drug-induced psychosis. At the scene, Alan Evans | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
told police this. "I think I killed her, | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
I think I've killed my mum. I had to kill my mum today, | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
she's a witch." He said that before he saw his | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
mother become possessed. She had been urging him to drink | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
water to flush the drugs Margaret Evans had been punched, | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
kicked, and repeatedly struck She died as a result of blunt force | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
trauma to the head and chest. The court heard the company that | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
supplied the drugs to Alan Evans Sara Girvin, BBC Newsline, | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
Laganside courts. The headquarters for | :19:20. | :19:31. | |
the Northern Ireland Livestock And Meat Commission in Lisburn have | :19:32. | :19:32. | |
been badly damaged in a fire. The Fire Service are still dealing | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
with a "well-developed fire" spread over two floors of Lissue House, | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
a former children's hospital, No-one was in the building | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
when the blaze started. There are three days to go until | :19:41. | :20:03. | |
Northern Ireland have their first game of the Euro 2016 competition. | :20:04. | :20:19. | |
A day of training for Northern Ireland. As well as some much | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
deserved downtime that at their hotel, they also continued their | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
homework for their opening match against Poland in Nice on Sunday. | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
Poland are a team just below Northern Ireland in world rankings | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
but very dangerous opposition, and they have one player in particular | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
Northern Ireland will have to try and stop. | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Robert Lewandowski equalling the record set by northern island's | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
David Healy nine years ago. Our defenders say they are ready for the | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
challenge. We watched different clips from | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
different games of the opposition to work at their strengths and | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
weaknesses. We want to test ourselves against the best. That is | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
what we are up against on Sunday and looking forward to it. | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Poland have their own injury problems with a couple of main | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
players struggling. But Lewandowski isn't concerned. | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
TRANSLATION: It isn't good when one players there is a second one, it | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
made the situation more difficult. We know what we are here for. It | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
does not matter which squad the field, we always knew it would be a | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
big challenge in France. The polls have been researching the | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Northern Ireland's players's strengths and weaknesses. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
We are looking at the name of Northern Irish players. If you look | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
at the names of the players come Lafferty is quite good. But the | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
biggest, the best side of the Irish national team if it is a team. And | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
people who look at the colour sketch and know it is a hard team and it | :22:03. | :22:03. | |
will not be an easy game. The Republic threw open the gates | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
to training at their camp just outside Paris today, | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
prompting thousands of local school children to take a welcome | :22:13. | :22:13. | |
break from their books. From Versailles, Thomas Kane | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
reports. There was a warm welcome for fair | :22:17. | :22:26. | |
sites most recent presidents, 2000 schoolchildren getting the chance to | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
interact with the squad. It is great to see fans out in their | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
numbers. Exciting for everyone involved including ourselves, all | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
the lads are soaking up as much as we can. | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
Tell us the freak where you got your injury, a back spasm. | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
I went to pick my daughter out of the bath and felt a twinge in my | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
lower back. Initially I panicked. Within 24 hours, it settled down. A | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
couple of days of training and back in today and feeling good. | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
How confident are you that Jonathan Walters will be fit for Sweden? | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
We have a few more days. With the training, we hope he will join in | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
but we lead that with the medical staff. | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
With four days until the pivotal opening fixture at the Stade de | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
France, attention has turned to the starting 11. There are unlikely to | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
be too many surprises but every player will be keen to impress ahead | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
of Sweden. There is two in every position, we | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
are eager to get the starting nod. You have played in major | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
tournaments, do still get butterflies quit at yes. | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
And meeting the fans, someone told me 75,000 Irish fans coming to | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
France, the support is unbelievable. It seems they have already made an | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
impression with the local supporters. | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
Finally, Alan Campbell will become the first athlete from Northern | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
Ireland to perform at four Olympic Games this summer. He was elected in | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
the team for Rio, in August. That's all from us on this beautiful | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
evening in the vineyards in France. And, tomorrow evening, | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
when the tournament begins in France, BBC Newsline will be | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
coming live from Nice, and from Versailles, | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
with the Northern Ireland I am informed their sunshine in | :24:22. | :24:38. | |
Versailles. And back home, how it looking? | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
It will get a little bit wet in the evening. But nicer in Nice over the | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
next few days. Some of this evening. We had some | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
fog in place this morning. This is the Guildhall. It improved | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
fastly over the north coast, one of our warmest places but the fog is | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
back again on the East Coast, so it will roll back inland, over eastern | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
areas. It stood to stay dry in the east. In | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
the West, the risk of showers. These other temperatures tonight, no | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
lower than 16 in the north-west. It will be warm, sticky and | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
uncomfortable. That humidity will continue into tomorrow. | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
The Ambrose will be up tomorrow because of showers breaking out and | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
a lot of cloud. There could still be some missed, | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
especially near the East Coast tomorrow, affecting the ferry | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
service. Otherwise, some rain at times | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
tomorrow morning. It will be a fairly warm start. Some | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
cloud slipping well down on the hills. | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
There will be some gaps in the rain. Turning more showery. There is the | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
risk of some of those showers getting heavy, and a rumble of | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
thunder it is not impossible. Temperatures are still above | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
average, in the high teens, feeling a little bit sticky and | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
uncomfortable. It is worth taking an envelope with | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
you tomorrow over the next few days as well. For the forecast at the | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
weekend, we think Saturday will be the driver of the days, temperatures | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
getting close to 20 degrees. Still some warmth this weekend. Also | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
the boat race on Saturday. Not too many showers hopefully. More | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
likely to see some heavy rain on Sunday. | :26:39. | :26:42. |