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This is BBC Newsline. Tonight's top stories. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Michael Conlan is one of two Northern Ireland boxers | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
to breach betting rules at the Rio games. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
The death of this man at Maghaberry prison could have been prevented - | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
taking her abuser to court. old speaks out about | :00:29. | :00:46. | |
The stigma around sexual abuse is that nobody talks about it. And | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
because it is not being talked about, perpetrators can get away | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
with it. The challenges elderly parents with | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
disabled children You have too beg and battled to get | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
things done. Also on tonight's programme: | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
The Ulster Orchestra celebrates 50 years with | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
50 concerts all over Belfast. Darren Clarke reveals how the North | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
coast will play a prominent role in Europe's bid | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
to retain the Ryder Cup. And after a warm day, a windy night | :01:20. | :01:32. | |
to come with gale force gusts on the north coast tomorrow. | :01:33. | :01:33. | |
Two Irish Olympic fighters are among three athletes found to have | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
breached the rules by betting on boxing contests at the Rio Games. | :01:40. | :01:51. | |
have both been severely reprimanded and Steven Donnelly from Ballymena | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
by the IOC's Disciplinary Commission. | :01:56. | :01:56. | |
If Michael Conlan thought his rear elements couldn't get first after | :01:57. | :02:11. | |
losing his fight in controversial circumstances, he was wrong. The | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Belfast boxer it has been found to have violated Olympic Games rules | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
governing betting at the competition. The IOC disciplinary | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
commission severely reprimanded three boxes, two from the Ireland | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
team and one from Great Britain. In the case of Michael Conlan it was | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
found he had violated the rules and was sanctioned with a severe | :02:30. | :02:30. | |
reprimand. During the interview, the committee | :02:31. | :02:42. | |
said that Michael Conlan said that while he had signed the conditions | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
and contract for the games, he had not read them so he was not aware of | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
the betting prohibition. It was stated... | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
Michael Conlan did not bet on his advice. Ballymena boxer Steven | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
Donnelly bet against himself in a welterweight bout, fight that he | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
subsequently won. None of the boxes were found to try to manipulate the | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
events at the games. The Olympic sanctions are likely to have any | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
major impact as both bosses have left the amateur scene and are | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
pursuing professional careers in the sport. | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
The death of a prisoner at Maghaberry | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
could have been prevented, according to a new report. | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
The South Eastern Health Trust says it accepts mistakes were made | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
in the treatment of Patrick Kelly, who died | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
after taking an overdose of prescription drugs. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
The 46-year-old was known to be at risk of self-harm | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
and had previously attempted to take his own life. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
A report by the Prisoner Ombudsman says he wouldn't have died | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
if medical staff had followed correct procedures. | :03:53. | :03:53. | |
An overdose that was foreseeable, a death that was preventable, the | :03:54. | :04:05. | |
stark findings of a report into the death of this prisoner in March last | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
year. Patrick Kelly was heavily dependent on prescription | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
medication. When he arrived here who asked not to be allowed to keep | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
those tablets because he feared that he would take them all at once. That | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
request was only he did for a few days. After that, he was given his | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
prescription drugs without any measures in place to prevent him | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
taking an overdose. He died a few days later. The report published | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
today identified failings by the Prison Service, but most of its | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
recommendations are for the south-eastern Health and Social Care | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
Trust, who are responsible for the medical care of prisoners in this | :04:42. | :04:52. | |
prison. They are the staff who changed his status from superbikes | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
will to imposition of medication, and measures will be recommended to | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
make sure that they are checked and taken whilst he is held in custody. | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
They'll trust accept the findings and says that it will take action, | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
where staff have not met professional standards. The most | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
important thing is that we learn from the tragedy to ensure that we | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
improve our practice and improve our services with a future. I think | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
there are lessons to be learnt. And yes, we do have problems within the | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
Prison Service, but I am keen to address them. The problem in itself | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
is something that is quite stark but it is how we move forward in dealing | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
with that problem. Following the publication of this report, the | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Kelly family said that they are taking legal advice. In a statement, | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
they said they hoped that lessons will be learnt by the Prison Service | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
and the health service from this tragedy so that the same may never | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
be visited on another family. to complete the return leg | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
the go-ahead for the Orange Order of its parade along | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
the Crumlin Road on Saturday. It follows an agreement | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
between the order and the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
Association, CARA, In a statement, the Commission said | :06:10. | :06:10. | |
that agreement presents an opportunity for a resolution | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
of the decades-long quarrel. However, another group - | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective - GARC - | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
has applied for permission to stage a protest of up to 150 people | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
during the parade. A county Antrim woman sexually | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
abused as a teenager has waived her right to anonymity | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
to encourage other victims Claire Hinton's abuser | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Thomas Thompson, pleaded guilty at Antrim Crown Court to unlawful | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
carnal knowledge of a girl under 14 and inciting a child to commit | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
an act of gross indecency. Our North East reporter | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Sara Girvin was in court. Today, Claire Hinton got the justice | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
she had been waiting 18 years for. Her abuser, Belfast man Thomas | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Thompson was given a three-year suspended sentence at Antrim Crown | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
Court. Claire Hinton met him in 1998 at a church youth club when she was | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
13 and he was 24 and married. She said what happened to her as a | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
teenager has shaped the rest of her life. I depended on drugs and | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
alcohol quite a lot in my early teenage years. As an adult, it | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
affected my mental health are greatly, suffering from panic | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
attacks, depression, anxiety, sleepless nights, waking up | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
screaming, so it has affected me right from the age of 13 to the age | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
of 31, now. The legal process has been the most difficult thing I have | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
ever been through. But I also got a result at the end of it. There was a | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
year ago, I even contemplated suicide. Having to deal with this | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
every day, it became just too much for me. Thankfully, I am still here, | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
and I am still fighting, every day. In court, the judge said that Thomas | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Thompson had taken sexual advantage of a young and vulnerable girl. | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
After a sexual encounter at a derelict house, Thomas Thompson | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
said, don't tell anyone, my wife will come after you. Outside court, | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Claire Hinton said she had no regrets about coming forward and | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
encouraged other victims to speak out and seek help. The stigma around | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
sexual abuse is that nobody talks about it. And because it is not | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
being talked about, perpetrators can get away with it, so I do not for | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
one second regret coming forward, because if it prevents other | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
perpetrators from trying to do what they are doing. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
A man accused of murdering a County Armagh man's alleged | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
to have confessed to his ex-partner while he was in the police station. | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
The witness told Belfast Crown Court that Stephen Thomas Hughes | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
from Moyraverty Court in Craigavon rang her | :09:19. | :09:19. | |
shortly after he was taken into custody. | :09:20. | :09:32. | |
The body was found in a recycling bin here in July 2000 14. His ribs | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
had been broken, his breastbone fractured, and his brain damaged. A | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
postmortem examination revealed it may have taken 48 hours for him to | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
die. In court today two witnesses gave their account of what they saw | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
and heard over several days at the beginning of July 2000 and 40. The | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
ex-partner of Stephen Hughes and the mother of his son the jury told that | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
the accused to convert a before the discovery of the body. She said that | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
he had borrowed a Hoover. During that visit, she said she had noticed | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
blood on his trainers. Three days later, the police arrived at the | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
house of Stephen Hughes and Shauneen Boyle and they were taking into | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
custody. He said that he told her that he was going to jail for a very | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
long time and that he had killed "wee Owen". She said she then told | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Stephen Hughes he was never going to see his child again. A neighbour of | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Stephen Hughes in Moyraverty Court was next to give evidence. She | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
described how he and her partner and two Cuban has spent the previous | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
evening with Stephen Hughes and Shauneen Boyle at their house. She | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
recalled that all four adults had been drinking and planning a picnic | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
for the next day. She went on to tell the court she went upstairs to | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
go to the toilet and heard snoring. She looked into an open bedroom and | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
saw Shauneen Boyle on her knees next to a man on a bed. She said it | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
looked like she had a child's medicine syringe in her hand. She | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
described the room as smelling of "to". Stephen Hughes had said that | :11:24. | :11:38. | |
is just wee Owen, a little alcoholic man. It was said that he had drank a | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
bottle of vodka and two bottles of Buckfast and that he was sleeping | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
off his hangover. The trial continues. | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
A 44-year-old man is still in hospital after he was arrested | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
in a car boot in Lisburn. after man's body was found | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
The body was discovered in Limehurst Way on Monday. | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
The victim has been named locally as Gerry Mulligan. | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
A climber who got stuck on a cliff in gale-force winds has been rescued | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
by a team who tied ropes to rocks, climbed over the edge | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency have released this helicopter | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
The man got into difficulty at Fair Head | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
He had become stuck during high winds, | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
but his climbing partner managed to raise the alarm. | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
A Coast guard rescuer was lowered down the cliff face on ropes | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
Plenty to come tonight, including a big birthday | :12:31. | :12:41. | |
whose musicians have been playing all around Belfast today. | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
Child abuse survivors say they felt so "belittled" during a recent | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
meeting with the leader of the Catholic church in Ireland | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
that they almost walked out. They told a Stormont committee that | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
Archbishop Eamon Martin had given the impression that he felt | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
the Church was now the victim. They also claimed the Executive Office | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
had let them down by failing to prepare for the establishment | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Gareth Gordon. | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
They were abusing church and state run institutions and now they claim | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
the executive is letting them down in their fight for compensation. For | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
three years they have told their stories at the historical abuse | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hart. He will report in January and will | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
recommend a financial compensation scheme. A panel of experts set up by | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
the victims themselves has proposed how such a scheme might work, but | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
they claim that for nine months, ministers have refused to meet them | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
to discuss it. This is a very vulnerable group of people and it is | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
very surprising that a junior minister would preach such a | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
vulnerable group in such a way. The Catholic Church will be expected to | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
contribute to any compensation scheme but the victims claim that in | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
a recent meeting with the leader of the Church in Ireland, Archbishop | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
Eamon Martin, his attitude seemed to have changed. The church just | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
literally for Buzz off, and in fact, there was a point when we were going | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
to get up and leave the meeting, because we were more or less told | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
that the church hadn't done what it had done in the 50s and 60s then | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
things could have been a lot worse for us. In other words, we will make | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
this feel so belittled in that meeting. Then I had said, what do | :14:35. | :14:44. | |
you expect us to do, what did you want us to do and I said, well, we | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
did not ask to be abused, sexually, physically, mentally and | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
emotionally. A spokesperson for the Zeca div said that ministers remain | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
sensitive to the views of abuse victims but it would be | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
inappropriate to engage in consultation which would pre-empt | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
the inquiry findings. It added that during the course of the inquiry, | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
ministers had met and continue to meet victims' groups. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
Older carers are calling on the Assembly to do more | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
to help them plan the future for their children. | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
Many parents continue to look after their children | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
with disabilities, well into their seventies and eighties. | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
But they say the system does little to help them sort out | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
what will happen when they can no longer care for them. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
I've been to meet Sherol Matthews and her son, William. | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
This is the last school photo taken of William Matthews before his | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
accident. He was just six years old when he was hit by a car. For his | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
mum, Sherol, these pictures are paying for many years later. Life | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
just changed in the second and it was a very long haul after that. He | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
was in hospital for, really, five months. Sherol has been his carer | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
round-the-clock for almost 30 years. After the trauma of his accident | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
there were many adjustments to make to their lives. It was difficult | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
just to register that we have actually lost the William that we | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
had, but we have got the new one in his place with lots of different | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
character, qualities, etc, but we are so thankful that he is still | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
with us. Custard cream? On top of caring, there was another battle to | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
be fought, with social services, to get respite. And it is a fight that | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
Sherol bid to see simplified. It has been easy, but I was just like the | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
power to get on with it, and there has been some support, but it has | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
been sparse. I just live, day to day, and have a good faith that | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
keeps me going and that is really how I have survived. She was among | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
several families at Stormont this week trying to put pressure on | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Assembly Members to force health trusts to do more to help families | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
who are caring way beyond retirement age. In Northern Ireland we are the | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
only part of the UK that doesn't have the rights of carers enshrined | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
in law, and we're hoping that soon we will change that and we'll get | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
the support of all parties here, to get a carers' bill. Sherol once | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
William to stay in this house, something that in theory, he is | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
legally entitled to do. Whether that happens is something she watched to | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
know sooner rather than later. I am not the only person in this | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
situation and we all feel the same way about it. If you have to beg and | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
battled to get things done. And on tomorrow night's programme | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
we'll hear from the 93 year old woman still caring for her son | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
who has Down's syndrome. A senior civil servant has | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
apologised to a Stormont committee for a lack of oversight in a green | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
energy scheme which has left The Renewable Heat Scheme paid firms | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
to switch to woodchip boilers, but it was overly generous | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
and poorly managed. Our Agriculture and | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
Environment Correspondent He is the spent most of today on the | :18:16. | :18:40. | |
back foot. We don't understand why, as a matter of fact, and it is not | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
acceptable. Andrew McCormick was up before the Public Accounts Committee | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
to answer questions about a fully managed renewables scheme that has | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
left the Northern Ireland taxpayer with a massive bill. A generous | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
subsidy guaranteed for 20 years for companies that switched from oil to | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
wood pellet burners has left the public purse up to ?350 million | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
lighter. We owe an apology to the committee and others for the things | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
that have gone wrong and a lot has gone wrong in this case, some very | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
serious mistakes and failings. The scheme was shut down after | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
whistle-blower allegations of abuse and claims that some companies were | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
running boilies 24-7 just to claim the subsidy. Independent auditors | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
have visited scores of sites and check hundreds of installations. It | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
says that some of them should never have been approved. The committee | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
referred to some of those inspections. He said auditors found | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
what had been described as burners being run all day to dry wood chip | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
that was then fed back into those selfsame burners on an | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
everlastingly. Doctor McCormack agreed that that was not acceptable. | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
He came under pressure from this MLA. He said that he had no | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
confidence that he had grasped the nettle. Try to give us some | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
confidence that you have done something, that we will not get any | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
more nonsense about what we will do in the future. I want to know what | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
we have done now. This was a scheme that was meant to cost 1600 and ?16 | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
million. It has now got up to twice that. -- 616 million. | :20:18. | :20:26. | |
A plan to amalgamate three post primary schools in west Belfast | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
It represents a major shake up of the educational | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
fabric of the area, and reflects wider concerns | :20:34. | :20:34. | |
that there are too many schools in Northern Ireland | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
They are three full-year names in the West Belfast educational | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
landscape. Now these nonselective single sex schools could be set to | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
merge, to form one new college catering for 1500 pupils. Currently | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
the school only takes boys in sixth form. What is important to us is | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
that the community in West Belfast is that every proposal in its final | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
stages ends on the minister's desk, and that it is vital that it meets | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
the needs of every single child within that community. The Council | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
for Catholic Maintained Schools is behind the proposal. It says that | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
consulting with school governors, staff and parents. However, concerns | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
have been raised by union officials are only non-grammar schools are | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
involved. We are limiting the possibility for the future estate in | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
West Belfast to nonselective. If you had to grasp the opportunity to look | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
at the entire educational provisional in West Belfast and look | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
at the possibilities of what we could have created rather than | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
simply reacted and said, just take these three, you will come together | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
to form one, single school. It should have been an all-encompassing | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
plan for the entirety of West Belfast. These plans are still set | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
to get an early stage, but they will come into effect by September 2000 | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
and 18. They reflect a wider trend across Northern Ireland as planners | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
deal with too many schools and not enough pupils. It may prove | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
difficult to persuade everyone that this is the best solution to that | :22:16. | :22:16. | |
problem. Our arts correspondent Robin | :22:17. | :22:37. | |
Meredith joined the book -- the Ulster Orchestra to find out how | :22:38. | :22:47. | |
they got on. An unusual venue and an early start for a birthday party. | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
And a musical wake-up call for Belfast commuters. I am into punk | :22:55. | :23:04. | |
rock music, so it is unusual to listen to. I could not believe it | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
when I walked in, I just had to stand and watch. So that's the first | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
of 50 performances across the city to celebrate the half-century of the | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
orchestra. So after the busiest bus station in Belfast, were next? On | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
the Falls Road, the music was German but the greeting was, appropriately, | :23:26. | :23:26. | |
in Irish. At lunchtime it was back to the city | :23:27. | :23:43. | |
centre for one of the day's big gigs as the full orchestra came together. | :23:44. | :23:56. | |
Everyone is minding their own business, going to the job and have | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
a little snack and they have the Arkestra in the middle, so it is | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
wonderful. I want to say thank you to people for all of the support | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
they have given to the orchestra for 50 years, and we want to show some | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
inspiration on our 50th anniversary. It seemed crazy and brilliant enough | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
to get out and do 50 concerts and meet as many people as we possibly | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
can. Then it was time to go again, the acute some new members at the | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Belfast Children's Hospital. -- to recruit some new members. | :24:29. | :24:41. | |
Gavin is here with this evening's sport. | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
Gavin as the countdown to the Ryder Cup continues, | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
Yes, our cameras have been given behind the scenes access | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
at the Hazelteen national course in Minnesota. | :24:54. | :24:54. | |
A short time ago Europe's captain Darren Clarke agreed to take | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
Stephen Watson on a tour of the players team room. | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
What back to the inner sanctum of Team Europe, and everywhere there | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
are the transit details at Darren Clarke has gone into to give his | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
team the best chance to win this Ryder Cup. From the images of some | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
of the great players to inspirational quotes on the wall, | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
one from Darren himself, one unit, one team. And another from Winston | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
Churchill. And then the iconic image on the wall of the giant 's | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
Causeway. Why is it so important to you to have this from Northern | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
Ireland as one of your central pieces? For me it means a lot, to | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
Rory, it means a lot, but for the team, my thoughts for the ethos of | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
the team is shoulder to shoulder, taken from the rugby guys. If we are | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
shoulder to shoulder, we are together, one unit, one team. If one | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
of those rocks falls down then the next beside it will fall down. And | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
that is not going to happen in this team, because these guys are such a | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
close-knit group, they are so tight, and they have really got the whole | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
thought of shoulder to shoulder and one team. I am proud to be from home | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
and this to motivate the European team has been unbelievable. We're | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
going now inside the locker room... Everything seems to be just | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
completely and utterly thought through down to the finest detail | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
down to the nameplates with the Giants on them. Yes, just, | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
everything is all mixed up for everybody. It is all up there, one | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
unit, one team. My locker is down at the very end. Thankfully, I don't | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
need my clubs this week. That is a good thing, because I would not be | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
helping if I had my clubs! This is a collage of different iconic scenes. | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
And a little bit further behind you, the physios have their areas where | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
they treat the guys after they come off the course, they have got ice | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
packs, the bike is up there, these guys are the pinnacle of our sport, | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
and it is my job to look after them with the respect that they deserve, | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
and they deserve to have whatever they want this week. And if that, in | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
some small way, helps them perform, that is what I am trying to do. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
sacked as manager of Newport County. international Warren Feeney has been | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
The Welsh side are currently bottom of League Two | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
is the new manager of Glentoran. boss Gary Haveron | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
His first game in charge will be at home to Linfield this Saturday. | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
And now the weather forecast with Geoff. | :27:59. | :28:09. | |
Dick drying day today. Temperatures in the low 20s. Going into this | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
evening and overnight tonight, that Breeze is -- it has been a perfect | :28:17. | :28:25. | |
drying day-to-day. The temperatures the Mike down to lows of 10 degrees. | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
The real story of the weather tonight is the breeze. By the time | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
you get to dawn tomorrow morning we could see 60 miles an hour gusts | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
along the north coast. That is being driven by this area of low pressure. | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
These isobars are packed tightly together. That westerly breeze will | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
be whipping in during the day, driving those showers home. There is | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
some good news. Some of those showers could be quite heavy, but | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
there will be decent spells of bright weather to go with it. But | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
keep an eye on those temperatures, 14, 15, were today, we saw highs of | :29:02. | :29:11. | |
22. The breeze will still take the edge off the temperatures. At least | :29:12. | :29:13. | |
there will be some brightness to look at. Overnight, a cooler day, | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
and an even cooler night with temperatures down to single figures. | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
And as we head into Friday, we continue that theme of getting | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
gradually cooler. Again, showers will continue. There will be some | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
brightness but a little more crowd around as we go through the day. | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
That is going to hold temperatures back a bit. A reason for some | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
optimism at the weekend with this ridge of high pressure, before | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
things go downhill. We start Saturday with some light and patchy | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
rain, but it will fizzle out on Saturday afternoon. Sunday is set up | :29:51. | :29:57. | |
to be quite a nice day. Temperatures of 13, 14 Celsius, before it goes | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
downhill. Make the most of the next few days. I will be back with our | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
late news. See you then. Have a good evening. Goodbye. | :30:08. | :30:09. |