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The Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams rejects claims that he | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
authorised the murder of MI5 agent Denis Donaldson. | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
It is daily that I'd categorically and specifically denied. -- a live. | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
Masked men smash up two houses in Larne, one of them the home | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
of a man arrested recently by police investigating dissident | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Sufferers of fibromyalgia welcome news that it's finally | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
recognised as a long-term health condition here. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Japanese knotweed - should new penalties be introduced | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Crowds of family and supporters welcome home Team Ireland | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
from their medal-winning triumphs at the Paralympics. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Yesterday he signed a lucrative professional contract in Las Vegas. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Today back in Belfast, Michael Conlon goes toe-to-toe | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
The Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has denied claims in last night's | :01:09. | :01:29. | |
BBC Spotlight programme that he sanctioned the murder | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Mr Donaldson was shot dead months after admitting | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
A man who says that he was a former IRA and Sinn Fein member turned | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
British agent told Spotlight that Gerry Adams would have given | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
The SDLP leader says it's now time for Mr Adams to retire. | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Denis Donaldson was shot dead at this Donegal cottage in 2006, | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
months after admitting he'd been working for British intelligence | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
At the time, Denis Donaldson was a Sinn Fein administrator at Stormont. | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
In last night's BBC Spotlight, another informer - | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
who wished to remain anonymous - claims Gerry Adams | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
I know from my experience in the IRA that murders have to be approved | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
They have to be given approval by the leadership of the IRA | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
and the military leadership of the IRA. | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
Who are you specifically referring to? | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
And today Mr Adams had his say on the allegation. | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
It is a lie and I totally categorically and specifically deny | :02:44. | :02:53. | |
it. What will you be doing about it? It is in the hands of my solicitor | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
at this time but we have to look at the agenda. The person who made this | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
allegation, anonymous, unnamed, self-professed agent of the British | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
state. That this is an attempt to rewrite history. | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
It's not the first time Gerry Adams has had to issue | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
One of his opponents says he should now leave the political stage. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
I think it is time now for politics to move on. I think it's time for | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Sinn Fein to move on. Aren't never going to be able to get away from | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
all these accusations until Gerry Adams retires and I think it is | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
about time after a 33 years that he does that. Others say a simple | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
denial from the Gerry Adams is not enough. He should take legal action | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
against the BBC if he feels these claims are incorrect. If he does | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
that then we would know that there is no foundation to this accusation. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
If he does not then it is clear he has got something to hide so I would | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
call on him and the ball is in his court for him to decide whether or | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
not he will hold the BBC to task on these claims. | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
The BBC said the Spotlight programme dealt with matters of great public | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
interest and it stood by its journalism. | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
The home of a man who was questioned last month on suspicion of dissident | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
republican activity has been attacked by a masked gang in Larne. | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
In a separate incident, another house in the town had | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
windows and doors broken in the early hours of this morning. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Our north east reporter Sara Girvin has the story. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Armed with hatchets and stones, masked men attacked this family home | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
on Larne's Seahill Road at around 1:20am this morning. | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
The 27-year-old man who lives here was questioned by police | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
last month on suspicion of dissident republican activity. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
He was later released without charge. | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
His heavily pregnant partner and two small children were also | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
in the property at the time, but were uninjured. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Their house has been targeted before, last Christmas, | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
but the family say while this morning's incident has | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
left them terrified, they won't be moving out. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
In a separate incident, a house on Fleet Street in the town | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
The couple in their 20s who live here weren't injured, | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
Their children weren't at home at the time, | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
but they believe a brick that came through their young son's window | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
could have left him seriously injured, or worse. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
The two householders, who didn't want to appear on camera, | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
were woken by banging and smashing in their home just | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
The man then came downstairs where he was confronted at the back | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
door by two masked men carrying hatchets and trying to gain entry | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
He now says his family are too frightened to stay here. | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
Both families told the BBC they believe the attacks | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
on their homes were sectarian and that they were targeted | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
The PSNI say that is one line of enquiry. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
They're also working to establish whether there is a link | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
between the two incidents and a car later found burned out in a field | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Four men are still being questioned after searches in Lurgan | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
by police investigating dissident republican activity. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
A number of searches have been carried out in the town centre | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Some homes in Woodville Avenue were evacuated this morning. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Three of the men were detained in Lurgan and a fourth | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
A UK technology firm is to create almost 100 jobs | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
Metaswitch makes software for the telecoms industry. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
The jobs will be a mixture of research and technical | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
support roles, with average salaries of ?27,500. | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
Here's our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Metaswitch makes products for the world's big | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
It's got plans for growth and it's chosen Belfast | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
These are jobs for software engineers, but the firm says it | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
As far as graduate recruitment, we look across all disciplines, not | :06:57. | :07:09. | |
just computer scientists. We do a terrific training scheme ourselves | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
and we are being held by the economy here to build a specific centre of | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
excellence training academy. We are looking for people who love | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
problem-solving and who have great communication skills and we can | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
train them how to be great software engineers. | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
They've only been talking to Invest NI for about three months. | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
The project will be supported with government | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
This is more good news for Northern Ireland with 94 new jobs being | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
created and I think it shows that Northern Ireland remains a very good | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
place for companies to invest. This investment was one that is highly | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
competitive and could have gone anywhere in Northern Ireland and | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
they have beaten the competitors because of the low costs and labour | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
and property but we also have a talented workforce and they are able | :08:02. | :08:02. | |
to avail of this. Metaswitch said the EU | :08:03. | :08:03. | |
referendum has had no impact They're in a fast-moving sector | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
and can't wait for the Brexit And indeed the Office | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
for National Statistics said today that so far the Brexit vote has had | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
little impact on the UK economy. But they've also cautioned | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
that we can't be confident How bogland moss could help | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
in the fight against climate change. Stormont's former Finance | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
Minister Sammy Wilson, who recommended businessman | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
Frank Cushnahan for Nama's Northern Ireland advisory committee, | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
has defended his decision Last week a BBC Spotlight programme | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
broadcast a recording made in 2012 in which Mr Cushnahan | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
was given a ?40,000 cash He has consistently denied any | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
wrongdoing in relation to his role. Sammy Wilson said it should be | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
the police who decide He did a good job when I was in the | :08:59. | :09:14. | |
Department. He made firm representations for Northern Ireland | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
with banana and glamour had a big influence of course on lots of | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
properties is. As far as I am concerned this is an issue which the | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
police will deal with. After years of campaigning, | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
people with fibromyalgia say they're relieved it's finally | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
being recognised as a long-term The symptoms, which include chronic | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
pain and fatigue, are often But following a campaign | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
by the Patient and Client Council, specialist services are to be | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
established, including more Our Health Correspondent | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
Marie-Louise Connolly reports. For Martina Marks, it's | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
all about managing her pain. A combination of tablets, | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
exercise and a change of lifestyle means that | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
living with fibromyalgia I have lived with the pain for so | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
long now. I don't really know what it is like to be without pain stop | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
you always have pain of some description. Sometimes it is not | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
your main symptom. Sometimes fatigue can be very overbearing. | :10:19. | :10:19. | |
Fibromyalgia is one of those conditions that's baffled health | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
While the symptoms such as chronic pain, fatigue and memory loss can be | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
severe, as nothing is revealed in a scan, it can be | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
But there's a real appetite now to address that. | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
At this conference in Belfast, health professionals called | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
for greater awareness and understanding of the condition. | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
The difficulty with fibromyalgia is there is no specific blood test or | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
abnormality on a scan that enables health care professionals to make | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
the diagnosis. That has traditionally been the problem. It | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
doesn't mean there isn't a real problem for that individual but it | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
means to the doctor or health care professional can not make a | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
diagnosis that which they feel secure. | :11:06. | :11:06. | |
As there can be some scepticism about the condition, | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
three years ago the group that represents patients | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
One in five people in Northern Ireland live with chronic pain on a | :11:11. | :11:22. | |
daily basis. Within that group of patients, we find that a significant | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
number of people who were suffering from fibromyalgia and they were | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
telling us they were finding it very difficult to have their voice heard | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
and for the condition to be believed. | :11:33. | :11:32. | |
Now acknowledged as a long-term condition, plans are underway | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
to have dedicated services across the Health Trusts. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
But according to those who've been campaigning, the biggest | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
breakthrough is finally having their concerns taken seriously. | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
A teenager has been arrested after police described as hate crime | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
incident in Londonderry. The PSNI were called to the youth club last | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
night after it was reported a number of youths had gathered outside. They | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
were stopping young people inside the club from leaving and they were | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
verbally abusive and three a number of items at a car. They ran off | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
after police arrived at the scene. Northern Ireland needs | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
to act now to prepare for the effects of climate change, | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
a senior government Lord Krebs helps advise government | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
on greenhouse gas emissions. He says flooding is the biggest | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
risk here, with about So, with that warning, | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
what chance is there that climate change legislation | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
could be introduced here? Our Agriculture and | :12:33. | :12:33. | |
Environment Ccorrespondent At first glance, it may not look | :12:34. | :12:34. | |
like a battleground in the fight But the 11,000 acres of upland bog | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
is part of an innovative project to revive a key habitat | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
and cut carbon emissions. When Pete and has been heavily | :12:48. | :13:02. | |
drained and is in poor order it is actively pumping out carbon. But | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
when it has been restored as it has been here, then not only is clocking | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
in what already there, it is sucking even more out of the environment. | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
The RSPB has worked with NI Water to revive this landscape. | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
They've blocked old drains to bring the water back, | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
encouraging the growth of a moss which is the bedrock of blanket bog. | :13:21. | :13:29. | |
It is mainly the Mars is that you find across the site here. Over time | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
breaking down the foliage and storing the carbon and soils in the | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
heat which happens over millennia. The Garron Plateau Project | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
was mentioned in a publication on climate change by | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
government advisers. Today one of them was in Belfast, | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
with a report on the risks We already know that here in Belfast | :13:45. | :13:57. | |
there are 16,000 properties at risk of flooding. Northern Ireland White | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
probably about 60,000. As a result of increased rainfall intensity, we | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
18% of Northern Ireland's greenhouse gas come | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
from electricity generation - burning gas for power. | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
The vehicles we drive contribute around the same amount. | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
At 29% agriculture - a key part of the economy - | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
We're the only devolved administration without its own | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
It would mean targets for cutting emissions. | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
That's something farmers don't favour. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
It is one of the major concerns. If unrealistic targets are set out | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
industry, we couldn't compete. Climate change is a current | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
challenge, but it looks like a local bill is still some way off, | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
with authorities here saying only An Ulster Unionist MLA says he plans | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
to propose a private members bill to help tackle the problem | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
of Japanese knotweed. Robin Swann wants to see tougher | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
penalties for landowners who don't deal with the invasive plant, | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
similar to laws that are already Japanese knotweed was first | :15:03. | :15:17. | |
introduced here over a century ago. It can grow eight inches a day and | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
is strong enough to break through concrete. Yesterday the agriculture | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
and Environment Minister Michelle McIlveen told the Assembly that a | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
regional eradication programme would be very costly. This North Belfast | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
home is adjacent to a piece of waste ground where the plant is rampant. | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
There is a human cost to this. This is devastating our lives to a | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
certain extent. It has taken over. Our lives, or property has been | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
devalued by 40% because of that. Somebody has got to do something. It | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
is a public nuisance. And Adrian, you're not in the best of health, | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
you might need to sell soon and couldn't at the moment? That is | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
true. I don't know what is round the corner. My health has gone bad but | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
as the estate agent said, no one will buy the house, no one wants to | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
seek knotweed, they will run a mile. Part of the problem for the | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
Atkinsons is that no one will take responsibility for the waste ground. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
They have had to go and appoint a solicitor to take on their case to | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
try and find an owner and that is the position you find yourself in. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
You have to take out a civil action whereas if you live on mainland UK | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
you can go to the local council and say you have a problem, Japanese | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
knotweed is moving onto my property, I need help. Any public body that | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
they come up against say it is an Assembly problem and there is no | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
legislation that enables them either to put enforcement on the landowner | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
or to seek redress if there is landowner. It needs legislation to | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
be able to drive that and give it a purpose that somebody somewhere has | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
to take action and tackle the problem. In the meantime people like | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
them remain in limbo, but they are hopeful the minister will accept an | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
invitation to visit their home. Boxer Michael Conlan on why | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
he believes he's picked the best promoter to help him to success | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
in the professional ring. More than 3000 schoolchildren came | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
together today in Lisburn to mark The event took place | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
at the former Maze site, They came from all over | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
Northern Ireland to talk peace on a site where there had been | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
little in the past. The point of it is to celebrate | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
peace in the Maze Long Kesh, because now it's a new exhibition | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
centre and we're looking to kind of rebuild the place | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
and symbolise peace today. The event stemmed | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
from one man's idea. About five years ago I had an idea | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
that it was time to turn to young people to write peace pledges, | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
expressions of what young people think we need to be | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
doing to live better. And today we have 407 | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
schools represented here, this mobilisation of young people | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
whose time has come. And it's a time they want | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
to make the most of. It is an opportunity to tell the | :18:09. | :18:22. | |
world we are taking piece seriously and time to take a stand. Just | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
because we are young doesn't mean we can't do stuff. | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
With 30 other countries involved, one war-torn state | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
The message is, it's not about the politics. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
It's about the people - the people on standby, | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
whose lives have been stopped, whose lives have been destructed | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
and it's for them that we need to do the peace and think about it | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
and think about a process that will put their lives | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
Each school's peace pledge was engraved on a leaf and placed | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
on a metal tree sculpture - along with some from a few people | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
Well, my peace pledge was very straightforward. | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
I pledged to work tirelessly with everyone to ensure tolerance, | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
equality and mutual respect to become the bedrock | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
So, I think it's a wonderful thing to do, particularly on this, | :19:10. | :19:18. | |
The tree will become a piece of public art at the Maze to remind | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
the young people and all who see it of the promises they made. | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
Ireland's Paralympians have arrived home from Rio. | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
A big turnout at Dublin Airport for the homecoming. | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
Yes, Tara ? friends, family, a phalanx of photographers | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
Among the many delighted to be back home, Eglinton sprinter Jason Smyth | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
here with wife Elise and baby Evie, Jason, | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
of course a gold medallist, along with Glengormley's Michael | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
McKillop, and as Thomas Niblock reports, both are already targeting | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
The colour and the crowds arrived at Dublin this afternoon to welcome | :19:56. | :20:09. | |
home heroes. Paralympic gold medals for both Jason Smyth and Michael | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
McKillop is he led team Ireland home. Jason's wife and baby daughter | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
were there to say hello to daddy, all adding to an incredible | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
Paralympic experience. I suppose it is like a fairy tale. It keeps | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
happening but you wonder when it will end. It would be incredible to | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
go to a fourth consecutive Paralympic Games. And winning gold. | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
To be honest, I want to keep my unbeaten record going. If I could | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
get to a point in my career where I have a number of consecutive Games | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
and go unbeaten Michael career that would be pretty impressive. So, | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
Jason Smyth is aiming for Tokyo but he is not the only one. I hope and | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
pray that I will be in Tokyo because that's where I want to go and | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
retire. It is also a place that my fiance will get to go and watch me | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
compete in the Paralympic Games and you will probably be my wife by | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
then. That be nice. Probably or definitely? Definitely. For me, she | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
didn't get to go to Rio and witness me retain my type. Hopefully I can | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
perform and do it in front of her and walk away content from the | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
track. Four Paralympic golds for McKillop he has achieved at all but | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
sometimes the small things mean the most. A young girl and mum travel | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
from Ballycastle specifically to see me. They get up at 6am just to see | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
me and that is emotional because it shows that people see me as their | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
inspiration. She broke into tears. It is just incredible. Beijing, | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
London and Rio Don, EV probably won't remember today but the good | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
news is she will be old enough to watch daddy in Tokyo. We know that | :22:02. | :22:13. | |
three local Olympians will not be there. | :22:14. | :22:14. | |
The exodus of Irish fighters from the amateur to professional | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
Last week Paddy Barnes, yesterday Michael Conlon, | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
today Stephen Donnelly who fought in Rio also confirmed | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
he is turning pro - the 28-year-old from Ballymena | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
is mulling over offers from promoters in both the UK and USA. | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Meanwhile, having signed on the dotted line with Top Rank | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
promotions in Las Vegas yesterday, Michael Conlon was briefly back | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
BBC Newsline's Thomas Kane caught up with him. | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
Many of the biggest names in professional boxing were battling | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
to sign Ireland's first ever male amateur world champion. | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
But Conlan feels that he has picked the perfect promoter. | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
All boxers have been with Top Rank, Muhammad Ali, Mayweather, Oscar De | :22:55. | :23:07. | |
La Hoya, they see me as the hottest prospect since back in the day. I | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
see myself as going to be Ireland was my greatest ever fighter and | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
hopefully a world champion. The 24-year-old will be based | :23:18. | :23:18. | |
on the West Coast of America, and in March will make his debut | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
in one of the most famous boxing They have put it looking down on the | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
theatre in Madison Square Garden. It is amazing. People dream of this as | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
the pinnacle fate of their career. Every Irish fighter once to fight | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
there. Fighting there on St Patrick's Day will be unreal. | :23:42. | :23:42. | |
As a professional, Conlan is likely to fight at super bantamweight | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
or at featherweight - a division in which Carl Frampton | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
That is miles away from the up-to-the-minute. Hopefully one day | :23:48. | :23:59. | |
it happens, Carl Frampton is probably Ireland's greatest fighter. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
I want to surpass that obviously. Every guy who is a fighter does. He | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
is an amazing champion and he is so strong. By that time he could be | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
finished boxing. It is unsure. Whatever happens he is a great | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
champion and I would love to fight him. Michael Conlon acknowledges he | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
has a lot to learn but he wants to progress through the ranks quickly | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
and feels that he can make it to the very top of the professional game. | :24:28. | :24:37. | |
It took extra time for Glentoran to eventually beat Ballyclare Comrades | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
1-0 in last night's County Antrim Shield. | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
In the one upset, PSNI beat Carrick Rangers 4-1, | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
but it was comfortable for holders Ballymena United, who | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
We have to concentrate on ourselves and realised the challenge they put | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
us. We had to work as hard as them. We had to want to victory as much as | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
they did but after that he hoped that the additional difficulty will | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
help. I don't think anyone could say we didn't deserve victory and we | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
were very pleased. Finally, Ulster Rugby has confirmed | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
that assistant coach Joe Barakat is to leave in December to take up | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
a post with Western Force I am now off to walk home in the | :25:09. | :25:22. | |
rain. Speaking of rain, Jeff, what is in store? Hard to think about the | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
weather. This is the assistance dog. He is enjoying the north coast at | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
the moment. Like all the suggestion Northern Ireland he is having four | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
seasons in one day. It has been dominated by this weather front. It | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
is pushing to the east overnight and behind that there is some clearing | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
skies. That'll mean that temperatures tonight in some rural | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
spots could did dinosaurs to with three Celsius. Real chance of some | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
crass frost tomorrow. Maybe a bit of mist and fog in with. It set up to | :25:54. | :26:03. | |
click a nice start the day. A little chilly but once the sunshine gets to | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
work we will seek temperatures through the day of possibly 13 - 16 | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Celsius for showers arrived from the west later on. Across the eastern | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
half of Northern Ireland we hold on to the dry weather through much of | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
the day. Further west the showers are more prevalent and could be a | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
little hail and thunder in that mix as well. Eventually the showers will | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
push through during the evening time. Eventually clearing out to the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
east later on. Then that sets us up for Friday. Frankly Freddie is | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
rather an interesting day. The moment it looks like most parts will | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
stay mild and breezy but there is the threat of rain and it is all | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
down to this area of low pressure in the associated weather front in the | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
Atlantic. At the moment it north and west of as meaning that we will | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
really just feel the effect in terms of an increasingly breezy day, but | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
it wouldn't take very much for that rain to be a little further east and | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
for us to have a very different feeling day. Tomorrow temperatures | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
again in the mid teens but feeling a bit fresher. Come Saturday that | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
front is definitely with us. Sitting over us throughout the day and | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
meaning it will be rather a damp start of the weekend. Weekend. If | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
you are planning your activities for this weekend, can I suggest that | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
Sunday is currently looking like the best of the day is? At least we have | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
got some reasonable dry weather between now and then. A lovely | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
couple of days to get out and walk the dog, particularly if he is as | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
good-looking as that was. I will be back at 10:30pm. From everyone, | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
thanks for watching, enjoy your evening. | :27:41. | :27:44. |