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down. Remember it could be even disruptive. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
We did not want to hear that. That is all from | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
You're watching BBC Newsline and these are the headlines | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
A chaotic day at Stormont with walkouts and recriminations | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
as the Assembly is recalled to discuss the controversial | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
I am at parliament buildings where Arlene Foster has survived a vote of | :00:31. | :00:45. | |
no confidence of the Schools Minister remains defiant despite | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
tensions with partners in government. In an era. It will be | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
staying here to fulfil because that has been placed in me and make sure | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
this whole mess has been cleared up and that is my priority is. I made | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
it clear that under no circumstances the statement made by the First | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Minister could not be considered a statement on behalf of the Executive | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
office for the personal statement on behalf of the leader of the DUP. We | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
will hear from opposition parties of analysis on Mark Devenport. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Also on the programme this evening... | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
17,000 primary school children are given the wrong scores | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
A cold night tonight with temperatures in some | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Ice and freezing fog an issue on the roads. | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Today at Stormont started with the very bonds that hold it | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
together melting under the heat generated by the eco-friendly | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
There was chaos in the Assembly chamber over Arlene Foster's | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
decision to make a statement on the flawed heating scheme | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
without the support of her partner in office Martin McGuinness. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
He had warned there would be grave consequences. | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
But this evening the crisis appears to be averted. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
BBC Newsline's Tara Mills is at Stormont. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Thanks, Donna, today's events at Stormont have been described | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
as a pantomime and a farce - there was even a mention of clowns. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
But given the amount of money involved in the renewable heating | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
In a moment we'll hear from the DUP, Sinn Fein and some | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
But first our Political Correspondent Stephen Walker charts | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
This is the moment the DUP the game ourselves alone, Arlene Foster 's | :02:31. | :02:46. | |
picking in the chamber to just party's MLAs. Other parties in what | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
felt in focus after the figures prove that he would allow the First | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
Minister to make a statement that did not have the authority of | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
earlier Stormont witnessed a stand-off in the chamber as | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
proceedings became filed down on points of order. If left to raise | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
voices and the Government. Where do you have the authority to save the | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
Executive office make two statements. You have a duty to | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
explain that to the health and the people of Northern Ireland. Outside | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
the chamber of many had these figures are often new contender | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
sites. I believe that if you look at what has happened in recent months | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
in terms of the speaker's involvement with Charter NI and what | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
he has done to date that his position is very close to untenable. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
I would ask them to reflect over Christmas as to whether he is the | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
right man to lead the chamber in 2016 to 2017. There was further | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
criticism of the speaker. It cannot be described as is anything but a | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
farce Boufal and Assembly together to hear a ministerial statement and | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
then not to have a ministerial statement and to have a personal | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
statement for which there is no authority in standing orders to | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
recall details. Arlene Foster of the she was sorry the RHI scheme did not | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
contain cost control measures, in matters of the deepest political | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
threat of a time. The state of the FDL these percent of their motion to | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
exclude her as First Minister for six months. Sinn Fein's full motion | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
was ruled out of order that the sticker. Arlene Foster made it clear | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
she would not be stepping aside as he rounded on those little emotion. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
We have here is by television. Not by the appropriate authorities. We | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
have facts in this regard in a fevered quest to fill my fellows. We | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
have nothing more than shameful -- shameful political opportunism. The | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
central charges against me today haven't even been considered any | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
independent and investigation for that matter let alone decided upon. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
But for some her explanation has not been good enough. The only thing we | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
can be sure of is that we have not heard the truth, the full truth, | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
instead we have had anything but the truth. And there was criticism from | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Sinn Fein said the DUP have misjudged the public mood. I am | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
embarrassed standing here and listening to the debate. Losing the | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
run of yourselves. This issue is about public confidence. Klara | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Sugden said allegations of corruption made her sick but said it | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
was premature to ask the First Minister to step down. My confidence | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
in the First Minister or indeed lack of confidence would be based on | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
substantiated intermission, not allegations manifested in the media. | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
If Arlene Foster faced criticism from opposition benches there was | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
plenty of support from her own side. Arlene Foster is a leader and | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
leaders walked towards the problem, they don't walk away like others do, | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
when apathy at the jetty the, they walk away. Arlene Foster will be | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
watching nowhere. In the air and 39 MLAs voted to exclude Arlene Foster. | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
36 voted against. Sinn Fein didn't vote but it was all academic because | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
the motion fell because it didn't get cross community support. | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
Sinn Fein started the day warning of dire consequences | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
if Arlene Foster went ahead with her speech in the Chamber. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Our Political Editor Mark Devenport has been speaking to | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
We need a robust, independent investigation into what is the | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
biggest financial scandal that any of us have witnessed in a long time | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
regarding the RHI scheme. We need a credible working relationship | :07:00. | :07:00. | |
between Simon Hamilton and Martina Muller are not an instruction but | :07:01. | :07:25. | |
what I would do if I was in the summer stuck themselves to her, and | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
that was to number one, except a robust and dependent investigation | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
but I would stand aside for what I think will be a short period to | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
allow the investigation to come up with an interim report. I do and she | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
went ahead with her statement, is that damage the joint names of and | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
the stats that would be been anything but indicated an action on | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
behalf of herself either as leader of the DUP or, depending on | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
thinking, as First Minister, but with but does to a major crisis will | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
stop in the event that happened. There was no action cannot be agreed | :08:15. | :08:25. | |
by four sites Executive office. -- firesides. In effect, all that | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
happened this morning was Arlene Foster picking on behalf of the | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
period she was in the office of Department of enterprise, trade and | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
investment of finding her knowledge of what happened the time. In terms | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
of action around robust and independent enquiry and recruitment | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
of the money. None of that, can be agreed with that May agreement and I | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
intend to make sure that that is the case in the time ahead. And you will | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
be putting emotion very similar in the New Year? When the Assembly | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
comes back it will be a motion from Sinn Fein and it will be around | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
dealing with issues that today does not deal with from the SDLP lost and | :09:11. | :09:22. | |
independent investigation and a very serious process which is about | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
dramatically reducing that figure of 400 million which would put our | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
health service and education system, if that was said, that needs to be | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
stopped. Joining me is DUP MLA Paul Givan. Did recall Sinn Fein's Bluff | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
today? Today Arlene Foster was asked to come to the Assembly to say what | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
has been going on because she shares the public concern around the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
committed expenditure of the Renewable Heat Incentive and that is | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
what we need to address and tackle anti setup in great detail how she | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
is going to do that. She acknowledged that this was, in terms | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
of the design of the scheme, something they deeply regretted. She | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
said sorry in respect of the individual and that they were dealt | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
with and she was making clear that rather than walking away from the | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
challenges, quite the opposite, she will take on the challenges because | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
it means to be addressed. Where does this leave your relationship with | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
your partners in government? Is the nonaggression pact now over? We will | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
have further discussions. Arlene Foster has said she wants an | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
independent investigation and Sinn Fein are saying that and we want | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
this to be free from partisan politics and what you witnessed | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
today was exactly that, party politics rather than the substance. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
But the party politics between yourself and Sinn Fein's Guinness | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
saying he will have the board to the Assembly again in January, will | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
Arlene Foster step aside Vintners Mike she is not stepping aside | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
because she hasn't done anything wrong. We had allegations without | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
any evidence. But there are serious unanswered questions would you not | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
concede? Of the serious questions in terms of how this scheme was | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
designed and in exposing the abuses and how they work treated. The | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
advice that was or wasn't given to ministers and she has said sign a | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
light on that. The DUP have been on the fact that the two weeks? We did | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
that matter why did you not call the enquiry sooner? We have been | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
investigating but also how we deal with the core expense that could be | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
committed to. What about that expense? I think a lot of people | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
were expecting to hear how that money is going to be Nordtveit is | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
Arlene Foster said it would be last week. There will be more detail made | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
public but there is a clear commitment on both Sinn Fein and the | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
DUP's parts that we need to address the costs to and deal with the | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
abuses. We also need to learn from how this design of the scheme. | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
Arlene Foster will not be stepping aside on the basis of individuals of | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
different parties wanting to remove her because Arlene Foster received a | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
huge mandate from the public. You have made your point. When it comes | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
to the public perception failed to realise how strong the but that | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
devoted? No, because I share these concerns. I am angered by this and | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
we need to deal with that. Arlene Foster has been meeting with the | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
public and has been listening and sharing with the concerns of what | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
happened today with the Assembly was an opportunity for those in | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
opposition to stand of the people of Northern Ireland and hold to | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
account. Instead they walked away. Arlene Foster does not walk away, | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
she deals with the challenges. We will hear from the opposition now. | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Nicola Mallon, what you say about that? Did you let them of the today? | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
No, I think the people were looking at the Assembly today and looking to | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
see who would stand for them and what did they get? The arrogance the | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
DUP in ensuring they will try and brazenness of. In four all the | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
warning of grave consequences Sinn Fein didn't even turn up to vote. | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
From the Ulster Unionist Party, do you think Arlene Foster is | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
successfully stood down but critics? I thinking whether -- any other | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Assembly Parliament on these islands she would be out of a job she lost | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
the vote. Ironically it is the Belfast agreement that keeps in a | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
job. She was going to tell us how we will claw back the ?400 million | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
liability. We heard no plan apart from a vague promise of some plan to | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
come forward in the New Year. This was a DUP about keeping Arlene | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Foster in a job and prioritising her career over the country. Once again | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
it was about their mantra of party first, country second. Naomi Long, | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
you were quite vocal in the chamber to date. It comes to the speaker's | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
role, do you think some critics have said that he helped Arlene Foster | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
carry out that speech? I don't think the DUP help themselves. I think it | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
was disastrous for them. They were coming with a very bullish attitude | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
and a tone that completely misread the public mood on this. It has | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
actually compromised the speaker, and compromised the office of Deputy | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
and First Minister. She has further compromised public confidence in the | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
institutions. It is now up to her to voluntarily step aside while the | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
investigation takes place. Without prejudice to the outcome of that | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
investigation in the way Peter Robinson did before over a much more | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
minor Micah. Then we can get onto a proper independent investigation | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
because I am sorry, asking Arlene Foster questions today in the | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
chamber would simply have given credence to the notion that the | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
First Minister at the right to speak in that chamber without the Deputy | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
First Minister's assent and that is not the case under the Good Friday | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
Agreement and there was no ministerial authority to what she | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
had to say today. Thank you very much. Let's get some analysis from | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
Mark Devenport. They have been across all the detail today. What do | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
you think Sinn Fein's game plan was? They obviously talked about the | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
start of the day and grave consequences. None of them | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
materialised. I think in the coming few days and weeks they will may be | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
used the Christmas break to have a bit of a talk with the DUP about any | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
investigation and what form it might take and also have the finance and | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
economy Mr might work together to try and ensure there isn't a ?400 | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
million loss. Heard about special advisers in recent days and one of | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
their special advisers tweeted today two game at play, you witnessed the | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
day, senior has been continuing. That has been removed from Twitter | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
but that is maybe how they see it. You were talking to Martin | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
McGuinness and you brought up the subject of his health. He pulled out | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
of the recent trip to China. That is the first time we have had its | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
chance to speak to the Deputy First Minister since he was unable to make | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
that trip to China. He made various statements today but it has to be | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
said he was still looking quite weak in comparison to his normal | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
appearance. I can and much of his health issues which Gerry Adams. | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
About over the course of the weekend he is prepared to share with us. We | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
issued a public statement saying that on the basis of medical advice | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
I was advised not to go to China and I think I was wise to take that | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
advice. I am being attended to eye a wonderful group of doctors and | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
nurses from our health service. I think that is all I need to say at | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
the moment. Is it the kind of thing where you can come back to work? We | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
made it clear from the very beginning whenever we issued a | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
statement explaining the circumstances with China that I was | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
continuing with my ministerial duties and I have been seen -- you | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
can see I am doing it. They are optimistic that you will be back? I | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
am determined to do my job. Just talking about e-mails and | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
statements, I spoke briefly to Naomi Long there about the role of the | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
speaker today and he has issued a statement this evening. Drowning and | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
documents and letters but we have a letter from Robin Newton the speaker | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
and in this letter he has acknowledged that there are concerns | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
and frustrations. He says he acknowledged the genuine | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
frustrations and concerns of members in relation to the nature of today's | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
business but he does put a bit of a defence to his decision to go ahead | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
with the statement even though Martin McGuinness said he didn't | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
approve and his logic was that both the first and Deputy First Minister | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
jointly asked for this statement to be made prior to the Jonathan Bell | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
interview airing on the Nolan show earlier on in the week and all that | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
is tweaked. He says that any decision to actually rescind the | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
statement would also have to be joint and since it was and he went | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
ahead with the business that had been asked for. All very | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
unprecedented today but you are keeping us across it. Thank you. | :18:24. | :18:24. | |
Back to you in the studio, Donna. The exams body CCEA has apologised | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
for sending out wrong test results to almost 17,000 | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
primary school children. The mistake involved computer based | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
numeracy tests and almost Our Education Correspondent Robbie | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
Meredith is at CCEA's Explain what has happened. These | :18:39. | :18:56. | |
tests are called the Northern Ireland numeracy assessment tests | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
but they are better known by the acronym Nina. They are used by | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
primary schools to assessed computer -- student's maths skills. 17,000 | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
actually got much lower scores than they should have received. The error | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
only came to light when CCEA sent an e-mail to school principals today | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
outlining this. What seems to have happened is that CCEA buy in these | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
computer-based tests from an external supplier and they say that | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
that supplier was to blame for this error. CCEA also apologised | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
unreservedly and said that schools are now getting sent the correct | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
scores. Do not forget that many schools will have already written's | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
school Christmas reports and maybe even change the types of man's | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
lessons based on scores would have turned out to be wrong. This isn't | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
the first time there has been troubled with these tests. Remind us | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
what happened before. There was a critical Department for Education | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
review just two years ago in 2014 after widespread problems with the | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
technology that pupils were using for these maps tests and English | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
tests. It is important to stress there is no problem with the | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
literacy tests, the English tests this year. No errors. The education | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Minister Peter Wear sent a statement to the BBC this afternoon in which | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
he said he was considering whether would continue with these | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
computer-based tests. Thank you. One of Northern Ireland's most | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
successful manufacturing firms, Thompson Aero Seating, | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
has been taken over It's the third major Chinese | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
investment locally this year. Our Economics and Business Editor | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
John Campbell is here. Tell me more about Arnesen and who | :20:41. | :20:52. | |
has boarded? Thompson make high and aircraft seats. If you're lucky | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
enough to fly first class with Aer Lingus will probably be dipping into | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
a Thompson seat. This started about designing and only manufacturing for | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
the last five years. They have grown rapidly and now a 450 employees. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
That has not gone unnoticed. This is a global industry. Lots of people | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
interested in this business. Lots of people would have liked to put this | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
but they have been sold to the aviation industry Corporation of | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
China. In massive state-owned aviation company which employs about | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
450,000 people around the world. As I say it in the past year, three | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Chinese investments here. Tell me about the others. Gaelic click the | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
energy company sold 14 wind farms for ?300 million and then we had SDC | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
trailers based in Toomebridge. They make lorry trailers and they were | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
sold in June this year. More than ?90 million. Why are the Chinese | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
investing you? There has been a huge flood of Chinese money into Europe. | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
In Germany $11 billion worth of Chinese deals this year alone. This | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
is about the Chinese trying to move of the value chain in terms of | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
manufacturing. The Government is determined by 2025 they will do much | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
more than innovation and high technology. There might be some | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
sectors where it is difficult to build that knowledge. For example | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
aviation. They will go out and buy the companies that have the | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
knowledge and expertise and that is one of the recent spate of what | :22:23. | :22:23. | |
Thompson's today. Thank you. It's been a day of fines | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
in the world of football and boxing. Yes, Donna - Fifa has fined the IFA | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
15,000 Swiss francs - which is just under ?12,000 - | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
for the pre-match display of poppies at the World Cup qualifying match | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
against Azerbaijan on November 11th. While the FAI have also been fined | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
for wearing shirts commemorating The holding of a minute's silence, | :22:52. | :23:10. | |
the laying of a p and a poppy displayed by fans have led to the | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
punishment. The disciplinary committee did not intend to suspend | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
any of this but the display of a religious symbol or political symbol | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
was banned under their rules. England, Scotland and Wales were | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
sanctioned for similar displays of the poppy and handed fines. The IFA | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
expressed disappointment and said it will take further legal advice | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
before deciding on a future course of action. The FA I worked fine | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
after the Republic of Ireland watchers commemorating the 1916 | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
Easter Rising during their friendly against Switzerland in March. It is | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
understood they do not intend to detest -- contest that fine. | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
Belfast boxer Michael Conlan has himself been fined | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
10,000 Swiss francs, around ?8,000, by amateur boxing's | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
world governing body for his angry reaction to his controversial defeat | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
Conlan gestured to the judges after he lost to Russia's Vladimir Nikitin | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
and used bad language during a post-fight TV interview. | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
The fine was the maximum amount the AIBA could impose | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
But Conlan, who has turned professional since the Games, | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Ulster's hopes of making the quarter-finals of | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
the European Champions Cup suffered a devastating blow yesterday | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
when they lost 38-19 away to Clermont Auvergne. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
To add to Ulster's woes, it's been confirmed today that | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
Kyle McCall suffered a significant hamstring injury and will need | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
surgery while Pete Browne sustained a concussion - | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
both players will miss Friday's sold-out game versus Connacht. | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
Gavin Andrews looks back a day of frustration in France. | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
On against Clermont Auvergne the Ulster players did not know what hit | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
them as the French league leaders showed why they are one of the | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
favourites in this competition. Inside 25 minutes the star-studded | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
home side took a 21-0 lead. The second half started with Clermont | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
Auvergne sealing their bonus point with an emphatic fourth try. But | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
Ulster showed character to respond. Tries from Tommy Bowe and Franco Van | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
der Merwe seemed to rattle the hosts who had taken their eye off the | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
ball. But a late penalty try and a yellow card for Paddy Jackson ended | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
Ulster's resistance. I think when you play the big teams keeping a | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
hold the ball is massive. You cannot let them get turnovers and | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
penalties. Whenever Ulster kept the ball they were dangerous and they | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
did a bit more of what work last week. But the ball in behind the | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Clermont Auvergne backline and move them around the pitch and a bit more | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
clinical. That will be the frustration. The school and went | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
against them but they showed glimpses of how good they are. They | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
have to stay positive for next week. That Pro12 clash against even | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
greater significance now the European dream is all but over. | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
In local football, the top two in the Danske Bank Premiership won | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
on Saturday with champions Crusaders maintaining their five-point | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
Crusaders had a more comfortable afternoon - | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
running out 3-1 winners against Glenavon. | :26:41. | :27:20. | |
It are you going got away. Some Scots see for yourself. Widespread | :27:21. | :27:36. | |
frost and an easing office. And the rain 's way in but that really is | :27:37. | :27:47. | |
so. It is | :27:48. | :27:58. |