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28/07/2016

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divided, what does she have to do to stop the divide in the country?

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Five young people have died in car crashes in the space of 24 hours

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Two men and a woman died in a head-on collision

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In the same area yesterday two men were killed when their car

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Here's our North West reporter, Keiron Tourish.

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This head-on collision happened on a rural country road

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near the village of Drumkeen around four miles outside Letterkenny

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Two cars were involved - a red Toyota Carina

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Three young people died - a girl who was 19 and two men.

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One was 18 while the other was in his 20s.

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I would appeal to the young people in this county,

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if they know why these vehicles were on the road at night.

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We think they knew each other and we cannot understand how

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they collided and we believe there was a lot of speed involved.

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Again, the appeal is mostly for the families and for the parents

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who have been contacting us all morning about young ones

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And we have some people in the station and we are telling

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We need that information so we can tell the mothers and fathers

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Yesterday, two young men died when their car was involved

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in a head-on collision with a van at 4.45am

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They were named locally as 28-year-old Barney McGinley

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They were travelling in the wrong direction on the dual carriageway.

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In this latest crash, one man is in hospital receiving

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When I was putting out the newspapers this morning,

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you could see the tragedy from the front page.

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I opened up at 7am and to hear about the fatality overnight...

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It is very important that the families of the deceased

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and those injured know what happened to their loved ones

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And more importantly, what we can do as a local authority

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to ensure that the roads we have in this county are safe

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As the county tries to come to terms with the death of five

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young lives in 24 hours, the Gardai have revealed that

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weather conditions at the time of the latest accident were good.

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They have made an urgent appeal for information

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There's been anger in West Belfast after leaflets were distributed

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criticising two different groups for their engagements with the PSNI.

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One named the organiser of a children's street party

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in Turf Lodge, the other named the staff of the West Belfast

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The leaflets are being blamed on dissident republicans,

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Monagh Road in Turf Lodge - the venue for a community

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children's street party, when the PSNI's Black Mountain

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What happened next has forced one woman to take a few

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The street party at the weekend was organised for the younger

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children of the Turf Lodge area but there has been a good deal

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of local anger at the leaflet campaign criticising the PSNI's

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inclusion in this event and the naming of one of the organisers.

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The leaflet was distributed by the Irish Republican Prisoners'

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It was entitled "Community Notice" and said asking the police to attend

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The organiser is also pictured and named on social media.

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On its Facebook page, the policing team say

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they were "invited and very happy to attend."

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The leaflet has been widely condemned.

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They have been named on a leaflet that has been put through some

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doors in West Belfast, which is wrong.

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They are trying to instil fear among people and people should resist

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Another group has been singled out - Feile an Phobail,

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This leaflet names festival staff, accusing them of "promoting

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the PSNI" and speaking of "unnecessary PSNI

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The festival's director says the leaflet is a sinister

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development - especially as it's unsigned.

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We invite groups and organisations, regardless of political background,

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to put events on during the festival and we have done that for 27 years.

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If groups have an issue with the Feile programme,

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they are welcome to speak to the staff about the programme

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But as I say, we don't know who we are speaking to at this stage.

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Festival events are going ahead as planned.

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A 74-year-old man with an address in Glasgow has become the first

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person to be charged in connection with the murder in County Donegal 10

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years ago of Denis Donaldson, a former Sinn Fein official

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Patrick Gillespie was charged with withholding information

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Shane Harrison was there and I spoke to him earlier.

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Denis Donaldson was a former IRA prisoner and a friend

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of the hunger striker Bobby Sands while they were both in Long Kesh.

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He worked for Sinn Fein and was arrested by police as part

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of their investigation into an alleged spy

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In December 2005 the case against him collapsed

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because the prosecution said it would not be in the public

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Gerry Adams immediately told a news conference in Dublin that

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Denis Donaldson was a British spy and Denis Donaldson at the same

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event said he had been recruited at a vulnerable period in his life.

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In April 2006 he was found shot dead at a pre-famine cottage he had been

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Almost immediately the provisional IRA said it had no responsibility

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or part in the murder whatsoever and three years later the Real IRA

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To date, there has been no inquest, much to the annoyance of the family.

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At the 3-judge Special Criminal Court, Patrick Gillespie,

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who will be 75 in December, was charged with withholding

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information from the dates of April 3rd 2006 until July the 20th 2016

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The court heard his main address was at Craigvar Street in Glasgow

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but that was disputed by his solicitor, who said that his

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residence was in the Dungloe area of County Donegal.

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He was remanded in custody until noon tomorrow

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when it is expected there will be a bail application.

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Police say a man in his 70s has been left badly shaken after three men

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broke into his home in North Belfast and stole a large sum of cash.

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It happened at around midday at the house in Ballycarry Street.

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Police are appealing for anyone who saw a small blue car or noticed

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any suspicious activity in the area to contact them.

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A dog seized by Belfast City Council can be returned to his home

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but his owners must comply with court conditions

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Two-year-old Hank was confiscated by dog wardens earlier this month

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They concluded he is a pitbull but say that any behavioural issues

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A new report into a cancelled education scheme has found it

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helped thousands of pupils improve their English

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The literacy and numeracy signature programme ran for two

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years until last year, but it wasn't renewed

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by the Executive due to a lack of money.

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Our Education Correspondent Robbie Meredith reports.

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It helped 19,000 pupils like these at Holy Cross Boys' Primary

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in Belfast and gave over 300 young teachers a job for two years.

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Schools had extra staff to help struggling children in English

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and maths and they had a real impact.

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Of the primary school pupils helped, over three quarters reached level

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four or above in English - the expected skill level

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In post-primary, almost two thirds got a grade C or above in GCSE

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English and 60% got a GCSE grade C or above in mathematics.

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It cost OFMDFM and the Department of Education

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But money could not be found to keep it going beyond last June,

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to the regret of many school leaders.

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It provided schools with an additional pair of hands,

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an additional qualified teacher to work, and these are newly

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qualified, highly motivated and skilled and they knew

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the curriculum and were able to work in a targeted manner with groups

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who had been identified as being potential underachievers.

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Numeracy and literacy are the core of many subjects

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so it is important to get children up to standard.

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This report shows just how much of a difference this

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scheme made to schools, pupils and young teachers.

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All for a tiny fraction of the overall ?2 billion education budget.

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That the money could not be found to keep it going shows just how

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Household spending power here is just about half the UK average,

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The report compiled for Asda by a firm of economic consultants

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shows families in Northern Ireland are experiencing some growth

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in their incomes but are still far behind other parts of the UK.

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As our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell explains,

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it reflects long-standing weaknesses in our economy.

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Asda produce this report four times a year.

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They use official data on pay, taxes, prices,

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They try to show what an average household has left over

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after they've paid for life's essentials, like groceries,

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And it doesn't make great reading for us.

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Average disposable income across the UK is estimated

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Scotland is just below that and in Wales its ?180 a week.

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And to be honest, this number is no real surprise.

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It mainly reflects the fact that this is a low-wage economy.

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It is on private sector wages where we fall significantly behind

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and we have been falling behind since the recession.

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There was an upturn last year in private sector wages but that has

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We have a significant structural problem in terms of the private

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sector in Northern Ireland and an explosion of low-wage jobs.

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And we really do need a strategy to turn that around.

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Disposable income has been edging up over the last two years,

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helped by low inflation and a buoyant jobs market.

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In 2014 it was just an estimated ?82 a week compared

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But even then, we're not closing the gap with the rest of the UK.

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The Executive does recognise this is a problem.

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The DUP, in particular, have talked about the need

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But delivering on that won't be easy.

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Now a look at what the weather has in store with Cecilia Daly.

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Well, thankfully it is drying up in a lot of places at the moment.

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The last of the rain and drizzle will clear away from Southern

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The rest of the night will be dry with some breaks in the cloud.

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Temperatures could well dip to eight or 9 degrees in parts

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of the countryside so there will be a freshness to the air tomorrow

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But it will be a lot drier and a lot brighter, too.

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So no big puddles tomorrow morning, most places will have a dry morning.

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There will be some sunshine around and some nice sunrises.

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There will be a cloudy zone with some damp,

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drizzly weather continuing across Wicklow and Wexford,

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through the Midlands and Wales, which will move down

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towards London and the Southern counties of England.

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Most of those drizzly showers fading away.

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A few showers over Northern Ireland, Northern Britain and most

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of the showers will be up across the North West of Scotland.

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For tomorrow afternoon, lots of drier weather around.

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One or two light showers here and there so not completely

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There will be a coolness to the breeze, 16 degrees

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at the North Coast, 19 degrees over parts of County Down.

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So much better conditions and much drier weather to come

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for the Armoy Road Races, which kicks off tomorrow.

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And on Saturday it looks like it will be another fairly decent day.

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There will be a few showers here and there but

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It will be cooler in the breeze but there will also be some sunshine

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and it will certainly be a lot better on Saturday afternoon

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Friday, the weekend and the beginning of next week,

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Not a scorcher by any means but there will be some sunshine.

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Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25am in the morning

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You can also keep updated with News Online.

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