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separately on BBC Breakfast. Now on BBC One it's time for | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening. BBC One it's time for the | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Northern Ireland are through to the last 16 | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
of the European Football Championships. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
That's despite the team's 1-0 defeat by Germany earlier this evening, | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
and comes thanks to a win within the last hour by Turkey | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
These were the scenes among Northern Ireland fans | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
in Paris tonight shortly after the news came through. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
We're joined now from the French capital by BBC | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
It's been a real night of drama here in Paris. | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
Northern Ireland may have lost to the world champions, | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
but they will join them in the knockout stages of Euro 2016 | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
as one of the best third-place finishers in the group stages. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
That's because tonight Turkey beat Czech Republic 2-0. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
It was a very nervous wait for the team and fans, | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
but these goals ensure that Northern Ireland's win | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
against Ukraine and the narrow losses to Poland and tonight | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
to Germany have been enough to make it through to the next | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
This evening here at the Parc des Princes, Northern Ireland | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
were absolutely out on their feet after a gutsy display - | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
restricting Germany to a 1-0 defeat, and it was largely thanks | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Against the reigning world champions it was never going to be easy. And | :01:31. | :01:49. | |
with golfer Rory McIlroy amongst the thousands of supporters, Northern | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Ireland couldn't possibly have imagined it would be quite as tough | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
as this. The Germans opened up the Northern Ireland defence time and | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
time again in the first half, but goalkeeper Michael McGovern kept his | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
side in the game. Northern Ireland rode their luck at times as well. | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Eventually the German breakthrough came. Gomez steering the ball home | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
after half an hour. It was a deserved lead and it could have been | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
2-0 shortly after, but Thomas Muller's shot crashed off the | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
woodwork. Remarkably it was only 1-0 at half-time and the German | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
onslaught continued. But McGovern was unbeatable. It was a superb | :02:35. | :02:45. | |
second-half defensive display. And an inspired performance by Northern | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
Ireland's number one. I wouldn't say it was a real classic, but the one | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
in the second half from Ozil and then the header was great. We went | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
1-0 behind and I knew we had to keep in the game because goal difference | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
would come into it. How much did you enjoy your moment on the big stage | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
tonight? You looked like you thrived. Not just a night, I've | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
enjoyed everything, the first two games, the whole experience has been | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
amazing. Just wanted to continue so I can play again. What did your | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
opposite number say? Just well done and then we swapped shirts. He's an | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
amazing goalkeeper and I look up to him so it was nice to get his shirt. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
Despite defeat, the manager was thrilled with his team's | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
performance. Let's be honest, playing the best team in the world | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
internationally and we knew it would be difficult. I thought we started | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
quite well although we consume did opportunities and Michael had to | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
make three great early saves. But we stuck at it having gone behind. The | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
players had one word to describe their goalkeeper's night. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Unbelievable, just unbelievable performance. He was pulling off | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
saves he had no right to pull off and kept us in it, kept us | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
believing. Kept us going, absolutely fantastic. We needed him. Against | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
teams like that, they are going to create chances, they are top, top | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
players. First half maybe we didn't get close enough. If we get three we | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
have a lot to thank him for. If they ever get through us, we have the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
belief he is there. Some players performances seem to be improving | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
with each game. They are obviously a world-class team, they got in behind | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
as a few times and got a number of opportunities, but Mickey was always | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
there to stop them. The Northern Ireland fans sang from start to | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
finish and continued for half an hour after the match. Now they have | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
even more to celebrate. In the last 16 it looks likely that | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Northern Ireland will play either France or Wales this weekend. And a | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
few moments ago this was the reaction of the Northern Ireland | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
manager Michael O'Neill to qualifying for the knockout stages. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
If I was picking the team we would have the best chance against it | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
would be Wales. We played them in March and we were unlucky not to win | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
in Cardiff. We'll see what comes out after the final group game is | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
tomorrow. We're just delighted that we're still in the tournament with | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
another game to look forward to. We'll be ready to play whoever on | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
Sunday. I'm joined by former Northern Ireland international John | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
O'Neill. Very happy man like all Northern Ireland. Your reaction? | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
Simply delighted. We've waited 30 years for this, the players were | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
fantastic, the manager has been brilliant and the supporters were | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
amazing. What about a night's performance? Beaten but a tremendous | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
display. They played really, really well. They defended superbly. | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Michael McGovern put in a performance which is as good as | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
anything that -- as anything I've ever seen since Pat Jennings against | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Brazil in Mexico. We kept it down to one goal. We were standing here for | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
half an hour in the car park praying for Turkey to score and then for | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
them not to score any more! It was amazing and the fans half an hour | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
after the game was over worse still shouting Will Grigg's on fire. Who | :06:38. | :06:47. | |
would you like to see? I'd love to see France. It's a great experience | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
when you play the host nation, like we did in Spain in 1982. Michael | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
O'Neill might have a different take, he might think we'd have a better | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
chance of beating Wales, but I'm not so sure. A special night for | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
Northern Ireland. We can now join Mark Stimson, who's been following | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
the fans. He's at the Eiffel Tower. You'd think Northern Ireland had | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
just won the euro is the way the fans are celebrating in the French | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
capital tonight. The Eiffel Tower may look red, but they are painting | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
the town green as we speak. The French authorities even had problems | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
getting the fans to leave the fan zone, they were in such good form. | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
And why not. They've spent a lot of money, thousands of pounds in some | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
cases, following their team around the country and they wanted to | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
savour the moment. It's been a dramatic night with highs and lows, | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
the defeat earlier and the good news later. | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
I've been speaking to those fans. It was a bittersweet night for the | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
Northern Ireland fans. Down but not out. And all the other teams have | :07:57. | :08:08. | |
started singing their songs. But what about the match? What was | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
the fans's verdict on the 1-0 defeat by Germany? We enjoyed the match. It | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
could have been better, it could have been worse. After the first | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
half, it could have been four or five in the first and another 45 in | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
the second so 1-0 is a good result. You're playing the World champions! | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
Magic. It could have been worse. The goal difference is the important | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
thing. We've only lost 1-0 so we have a good chance of going through. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Michael McGovern kept us in the game and kept the score down. It could | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
have been three or four. I have to get back for work. If it was a day | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
trip, I'd be back. What was the atmosphere like in the ground? | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Powerful, unbelievable in all three games. We stayed for an hour | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
afterwards singing. Couldn't get us out, not going home! The whole | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
atmosphere has been fantastic. I'm going home tomorrow, but I might | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
come back! We've got blood, we got passion, we've got heart. Where the | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
only nation in this condition that's got it. We are the green and white | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
army. Bring it on. We are bringing it home! After two weeks in France, | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
the Northern Ireland dream is still very much alive. | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
Among the supporters at the match tonight was Sinn Fein's Martin | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
McGuinness, the Debbie de First Minister. He took his seat around | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
eight minutes into the match against France. -- deputy. He arrived after | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
the national anthems. I spoke to him before the game and I asked him was | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
he not more naturally a Republic of Ireland supporter. Some cynics might | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
say his attendance was gesture politics. This was his response. I | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
could easily have stayed at home and not given any recognition to Michael | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
O'Neill 's mag achievements, and the team. I look at a group of young man | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
enjoying themselves and whose livelihood is playing professional | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
soccer and I see them playing on the pitch and they are playing their | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
heart out. For themselves because they are on a world stage, but also | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
for their communities. That's what it's all about. Celebrating fans | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
earlier, not going home. Realistically many will have to go | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
home, but reluctantly so. Yes. In theory, but I dare say a lot of fans | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
are phoning home tonight and saying, can I? Would you mind? Can I come | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
home next week instead? I know a few journalists will have to make that | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
phone call as well. The good news for the fans is that if, as seems | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
likely, it will be France in Lil, they've been there before. There | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
will be no surprises, they could probably books the same hotels. Yes, | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
they will be tired and out of pocket, but we are almost into week | :11:18. | :11:29. | |
three of the tournament so I dare say for a lot of those fans they | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
might go home break, but they will probably be fluent in French by the | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
end of it! I hope they have a change of socks at least. Enjoy the rest of | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
the evening. Here at home, many Northern Ireland | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
supporters watched the game in fan zones in places likes Lisburn, | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
Ballymena, Carrickfergus and Larne. The biggest gathering was in | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. Please make your way over... They | :11:45. | :11:59. | |
came in their thousands, the green and white army marched into Titanic | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Belfast with flags and hopes held high, but there was agony during the | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
match. By half-time, with Germany holding that 1-0 lead, you might | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
think spirits might have flagged at the various sites where supporters | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
had gathered, but not a bit of it. We are laughing! We're going to win | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
2-1. We're playing the World champions say we need to step it up. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
We'll be right. And there was plenty to keep the supporters on edge in | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
the second half. But when the final whistle blew, wherever they were | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
watching, the fans were still smiling. The Republic tomorrow. I | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
can't see Sweden beating Belgium so I think we're three. Great | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
goalkeeping from Michael McGovern. A 1-0 defeat... Well done, Northern | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
Ireland. The green and white army keeping the dream alive. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
I think it will be a long night! There have been serious concerns | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
about the state of the pitch in Lille for the Republic's crucial | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
game against Italy tomorrow. Work's been going on all day | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
to try to dry it out The Republic weren't able to train | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
at the ground today and had We'll have the build-up to the match | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
on tomorrow evening's The police say a significant | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
explosives find in north Belfast shows that when people provide them | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
with information, it helps A quantity of what's believed to be | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
semtex was uncovered at a block of flats in the New Lodge yesterday | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
as a result of a tip-off Army bomb disposal experts were | :13:55. | :14:07. | |
called to the scene at Maeve house last night. Semtex is a highly | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
dangerous plastic explosive, almost 3.5 lbs of it were found. It's said | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
this is enough to make three under car booby-traps. Police say they | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
received a tip-off from a member of the public and have thanked | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
residents that their cooperation. Two years ago a similar quantity of | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
explosives was found in a cupboard in the same building. Speaking about | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
this latest seizure, the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
said he was hugely relieved and delighted that the explosives had | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
been made safe. The Police Federation of Northern Ireland says | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
it believes the explosives would have been used to target members of | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
the security forces. The Home Secretary says it's | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
inconceivable there won't be any changes to arrangements | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
at the border if the UK pulls out Theresa May visited Northern Ireland | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
today to campaign for a Remain vote If we just think about it, if we are | :14:57. | :15:16. | |
out of the European Union, with tariffs on exporting goods into the | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
EU, there would have to be something to recognise that between the | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. If you pulled out of the EU | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
and came out of free movement, how could you have a situation where | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
there was an open border with a country who was in the EU and had | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
access to free movement? The DUP says the cost of taking out | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
a big Vote Leave advertisement in the Metro newspaper in London | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
is a "price worth paying". The DUP's referendum message | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
was wrapped around today's edition of the tabloid paper, | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
which is distributed free at tube stations and other | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
places around the city. We are a national party. We are the | :15:47. | :15:58. | |
fourth largest party in the House of Commons and this is a national | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
campaign. Northern Ireland has been on the periphery of this campaign, | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
as far as the DUP has been concerned, we've been a central | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
player in the Leave campaign. It is conceivable to take that hurt in | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
that particular publication and to take it in the ones in Northern | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Ireland. There was some rain around today, but overall not a bad day. | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
Let's find out the forecast over the next few days. | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
We do have one or two scattered showers tonight, but generally for | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
many of us it is a dry and mild one with temperatures typically falling | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
to about ten or 11 degrees. As we get into tomorrow, very little will | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
change. It will be largely dry with a lot of cloud, but that will break | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
and there will be sunshine. At times that cloud will be thick enough to | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
give one or two isolated showers. Pushing east in the morning, | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
brightening behind it. There will be scattered showers coming in across | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
the south of Wales, south-west England and a few of those will push | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
further east through the day and we could see a touch of thunder as | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
well. Otherwise largely dry picture. More sunny spells the further north | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
you are with scattered showers. And. Although there will also be | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
scattered showers in Northern Ireland, there will be sunny gaps | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
and it will feel warm in the sunshine. Temperatures reaching 21 | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
degrees. Temperatures will top out at 18 or 19 for us tomorrow. Maybe | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
20 in the sunshine. Tomorrow evening, if you're heading to | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
Belfast for the Republic of Ireland game, we're expecting it to be dry | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
and warm. As for Thursday, it will get off to a promising start. Dry | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
with sunshine, but through the day the clouds will push in from the | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
Atlantic and they will bring rain, some of which may be heavy. | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
Temperatures won't suffer. We'll still reach 18 or 19 degrees. | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
Towards the end of the week, we always have some scattered showers | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
and a few of them could be heavy. But it's not a complete wash-out, | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
there will be some sunshine and temperatures will stay in the high | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
games. We'll keep you up-to-date. For now, good night. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
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