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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Three people are still being questioned about the murder | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
The building contractor sentenced after one of his workers died | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
On and on to work and back. -- he went to work and did not come back | :00:25. | :00:40. | |
and I do not wish that to happen to any other families. | :00:41. | :00:41. | |
The man put on the sex offenders' list for life for the sexual | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Belfast City Council under pressure to remove | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
bonfire material dumped on a new | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
If you want the bonfire, do so, but just burn wood not tyres. | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
Also on the programme: The forest of peace - | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
trees transforming what was an infamous | :01:02. | :01:02. | |
It's a big night for Ireland in the Six Nations, | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Another mild and damp night, and a cloudy start to the weekend, | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
but Saturday afternoon is looking good. | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
Three people are still being questioned by detectives | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
investigating the murder of a man in Lurgan. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Paul Curran's body was found inside a house in the town yesterday. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
It's understood a house party may have been taking place. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
His death has left his family grieving a son and brother. | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
His body was found here shortly after lunchtime yesterday. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
An ambulance crew was called to the scene at around 2pm. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Within an hour at the police were there. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Forensics tests followed, continuing into last night. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
This morning the scene remained sealed off. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
As police investigations continue into the death of Paul Curran | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
detectives are trying to find out who was on this house at Manor Drive | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
around lunchtime yesterday, what happened and how did | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Throughout the local community in Lurgan today, | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
shock as well as support for the family. | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
It is a tragedy for the family, a tragedy for anyone who knew Paul. | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
We can only offer our sincere sympathies and prayers | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
for the family to come to terms with this. | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
When it becomes yesterday's news, unfortunately the families have to | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
live with the aftermath, and like any bereavement, it takes a lot of | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
time to heal. lined with bungalows, | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
mostly housing elderly This morning the residents | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
were witnessing the second day of a murder investigation | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
in the normally quiet neighbourhood. In another part of the town not far | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
from here, the family A building contractor who failed | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
to properly equip or instruct two employees who later fell from a roof | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
has been given a suspended sentence. One of the two workers, | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
who was Bulgarian, Our reporter in the south-east, | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Gordon Adair, has more. Speaking outside court today, his | :03:27. | :03:38. | |
daughter said the death was needless. Now to our reporter. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Petyo Hristanov and a colleague were fitting corrugated tin sheets | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
to the roof of a shed at this farm near Portadown when | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
They were employed by this man, Norman McKenzie from Dungannon. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
He was on-site at the time and had lifted the men | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
But he had not provided the men with any safety | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
No scaffolding or safety net or elevated platform or harnesses. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Neither had he carried out a risk assessment were briefing. | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
An already dangerous situation which was made worse | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
Mr Hristanov started to slide first from the roof, | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
His workmate grabbed his arm, but couldn't stop him, | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Thankfully his workmate's injuries were not serious. | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
Norman Mackenzie was given a 15-month sentence, | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
suspended for three years, and ?3,000 in fines. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
The judge said this sort of haphazard approach | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
to safety had to be tackled, a view echoed by the victim's daughter, | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
We are losing a father and grandfather and he just went | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
I don't wish that to happen to any other family, so, please, | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
do what you have to do and get all the safety for people | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
The problem is that it is the cheapest price and everybody wants | :05:06. | :05:24. | |
to do the job for as cheap as they can. Health and safety costs money | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
but it saves lives. We have reached a stage where surely ?1100 in this | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
case could have saved this gentleman's life. A small price to | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
pay. Turning food waste into compost, but | :05:38. | :05:54. | |
are you really bothered to separate your rubbish? Join me later. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
A County Tyrone man convicted of the serious sexual exploitation | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
of children has been freed today, after being sentenced to time he has | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
39-year-old Michael Dynes, who is originally from Dungannon, | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
and is now living in a hostel in Ballymena, targeted young people | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
through online advertisements seeking life models. | :06:15. | :06:15. | |
Michael Dynes arrived in court crouched in the back of a car. | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
He posed online as a "casting agent" for professional models. | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
He would then "audition" them by webcam and try to incite them | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
As well as adults, he also targeted children to engage | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
in sexual activity - some of those he groomed | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
He was arrested in an operation involving the National Crime Agency. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
An examination of his computers revealed more than 1,000 | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
indecent images of children, as well as voyeuristic videos | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
from cameras hidden in a bedroom and a workplace kitchen. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Michael Dynes pleaded guilty to 41 sex charges. | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
The court was told he had lost his job, his marriage and his house. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
The judge told him, the offences have effectively ruined your life - | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
He added, the images of children were real-life children who had been | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
In a statement, NCA Branch Commander Rob Burgess said, | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
I believe Michael Dynes to be a predatory and manipulative abuser | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
He went to great lengths to exploit his victims | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
The judge sentenced Dynes to three years and one month, | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
with the period in custody to reflect the 14 months already | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
allowing him to be released on licence. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
The judge said the public would be better protected by extending | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
the supervised licence period for Dynes to undergo the full course | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
of treatment he needed, instead of returning him to prison | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
He was also put on the sex offenders' register for life. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
Julian Fowler, BBC Newsline at Dungannon Crown Court. | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
Belfast City Council is coming under pressure to remove bonfire material | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
which has been dumped on a new | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
Dozens of tyres and pallets have been left in the middle | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
an environmentally friendly pathway stretching through | :08:14. | :08:25. | |
A lot of money was spent - ?40 million to be exact - | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
but the fear is that part of it could go up in smoke. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Complaints have been made to Belfast City Council for weeks, | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
but the bonfire material is still here. | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
There has been meetings going on and there has been consultation is | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
trying to get things moved, so hopefully soon we will be able to | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
see progress on this. How soon is that? | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
As soon as possible, which means that I do not know exactly the times | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
and dates but I am putting pressure on the Council for them to be | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
removed as quickly as possible. The sooner the better, say many | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
people walking around here. They have spent loads of money to | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
make this area the way it is at the moment, and it is beautiful, and | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
they are bringing tyres and all of this stuff here. It is spoiling the | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
area. I think it is a sin, all of that money wasted. | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Who should sort it out? I think the community and the | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
Council should work together. It should be any area for a bonfire, | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
but not any park. Hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on this | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
park. As we were filming, a loyalist | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
community number spoke to me and did not want to appear on camera but | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
said meetings will take place in the next couple of days to resolve the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
issue, and he said he was confident that some sort of a compromise would | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
be reached. Mark Simpson, BBC Newsline in east Belfast. | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
Talks aimed at restoring a power-sharing Executive continued | :10:11. | :10:11. | |
The Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has indicated | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
that his party's pre-condition, concerning Arlene Foster | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
as First Minister, will only be discussed once an overall agreement | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
I think in terms of this, it only comes into the radar | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Clearly the inquiry is underway or at least will be ongoing | :10:28. | :10:37. | |
The issue of putting together an Executive doesn't arise | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
This afternoon, the DUP leader Arlene Foster was asked how | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
talks between her party and Sinn Fein were going. | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
My goodness, how would you describe it? | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
I actually think it is very businesslike, and constructive. We | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
are trying to work. We have had a series of meetings at leadership | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
level with Sinn Fein and the other parties, and our own Government, Her | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
Majesty 's Government and the Irish Government, so I think there has | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
been a good deal happening this week in terms of getting these talks | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
underway. Getting the issues onto the table... And we will remain very | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
committed to taking it forward. Staying with politics, | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
and school pupils got the chance to put their own questions to MLAs, | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
councillors and activists today. It was during an event | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
at St Mary's Christian Brothers Grammar School in west Belfast, | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
and Louise Cullen was there. Talking about talks - | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
but a few miles from Stormont, for these young people studying | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
politics, It was a very interesting | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
election, with a lot of Personally, I'm disappointed | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
with the result, in the fact that 56% of the first preference votes | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
still went to the two main parties. We haven't really seen | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
politics have changed, the two main parties have | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
still stayed the same, and I think we're going to end up with the same | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
sort of dysfunctional executive They had the ear of politicians, | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
including three MLAs, for the afternoon, and they came | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
prepared with advice. I think that we need | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
to just push aside any bias from parties, and just | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
go ahead with negotiations and put forward the plans that | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
need to be put forward, As a Gaeilgoir, Acht na Gaeilge | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
needs to be put forward. We need to focus on issues | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
such as LGBT rights, the Irish language Act, | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
mental illness, education, Everything needs to be implemented | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
to ensure the best outcome especially for the youth | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
of Northern Ireland. But as young people, | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
they were looking to the future. I'd just like to get all this | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
behind, all the Brexit, RHI, Irish language, | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
all that controversy beside, pass those bills, sort it out | :12:49. | :12:49. | |
and start focussing on the things Like stuff like getting | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
the budget sorted out, focussing a bit more on education, | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
especially integrated education, and, sort of, work to build | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
maybe a better future for us. Louise Cullen, | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
BBC Newsline, Belfast. Hundreds of schools are involved | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
in shared education projects, where children from different | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
backgrounds take part But pupils from two north Belfast | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
primaries are using their time together to learn a new skill, | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
as our education correspondent Robbie Meredith has | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
been finding out. A catch - in a classroom without | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
walls but with lots of water. It is OK sitting in class doing | :13:34. | :13:45. | |
work, but this is way better because it is fun. | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
These 10- and 11-year-olds from St Patrick's and Seaview Primaries | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
in North Belfast are learning how to fish together. | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
The thing that looks like a match, it changes if we have got something | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
but we have not caught anything but seaweed yet. | :14:03. | :14:03. | |
It was heavy and very heavy. It came off the hook. | :14:04. | :14:17. | |
These kids very often would not see this aspect of nature, so they are | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
out looking at things they would not normally see, even though schools | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
are close together in north Belfast they would not have the opportunity | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
to socialise together, so this is so important that they get this chance. | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
community relations now, but the hope is that it | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
will also benefit the pupils as they get older. | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
How often do you get the opportunity to sit down and think, for quiet... | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
A bit of solace or me time. How often do you get that in this day | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
and age, with social media and the rest? This is an escape from all of | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
that and fishing is the ideal avenue for that. | :15:04. | :15:04. | |
And while Pierce's carp went back to swim and other day, he's already | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
How big was the fish? About that size. | :15:08. | :15:19. | |
From the 1st of April, every home in Northern Ireland | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
will be given access to a food waste recycling service. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
Councils say that's good for the environment and their budgets. | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
Donna has visited a recycling plant on the outskirts of west Belfast | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
to find out about the cost of not watching our waste. | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
When the idea of recycling first started, we bought into the idea | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
that rubbish could be waste used for other purposes. The lorry behind me | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
is bringing food waste to this recycling centre. Here, food waste, | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
and the contaminants are taken from it and it gets processed and ends up | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
composter. Compost is then sold to garden centres, farms and golf | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
courses. At the moment, too much food waste is ending up in black and | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
grey bins and not Brown ones. You are commercial director at this | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
plant. How much of Belfast City Council's food waste comes your? | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
80,000 tonnes of organic material every year, and that is probably | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
household food and garden waste... What we do here is accelerate | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
natural processes of the composition. | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
A lot of food waste is recycled here, so how much are we throwing | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
into the black bins? In Northern Ireland every year, we | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
know around a tonnes of food a year and biodegradable material ends up | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
in a lack then when it should not. That is costing our councils more | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
than twice as much to dispose of, as it would be via the brown bin. It | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
would be around ?60,000 cheaper to dispose of via the brown bin, and it | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
is costing our councils ?6 million per year more than it needs to. It | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
is quite simple. If you are throwing your food waste into the black bin, | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
you are throwing away money. Use the brown bin to dispose of your food | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
waste, and then everybody will benefit financially and | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
environmentally. 42% of our waste is recycled at the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
moment. The EU target is 50% by 2020. Ricky is representing six | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
councils in Northern Ireland. It is about education, but some people | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
need to get into the habit. It is not always easy when there are | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
different coloured pens and not all councils are the same. | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Not all of the councils are the same, but food waste is simple to | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
get, I think. Put it in the appropriate container and not in the | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
black bin. Putting it in the black bin does not make environmental or | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
financial sense. Putting it in the container that you have got for it | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
makes absolute sense. We get value from that. Everybody in the | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
household after the 1st of April will have a container for food | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
waste, so use it. I am sure you use it. If it is waste food, put it in. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
Work recently shows there are 7 million tonnes of food waste in the | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
UK, and that means roughly for every single person, every day, somebody | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
is putting almost a pizza in the bin. But the pizza in the right | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
then, that is what we say. Thank you, Ricky. Changing habits | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
can be difficult, but what about turning food waste into something | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
like this composter can be reused? Tell me your thoughts our Facebook | :18:43. | :18:43. | |
page. 1,000 trees are being planted | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
on the site of a former south Armagh security base as a memorial | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
to the victims of the Troubles. Schoolchildren in Forkhill | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
helped with the project - part of a wider plan to increase | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
tree density in the area. Here's our agriculture | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
and environment correspondent Stepping out from the school into | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
the place chosen for a peace forest, these children have no memory of how | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
this area used to look. The trees are planted in memory of victims of | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
the troubles. The site chosen was once at the heart of the conflict | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
here. For three decades, it was one of the most heavily guarded security | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
force bases in Northern Ireland. The regular target for attack. | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
The damage to the base is not as extensive as it might have been. | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
Eight chaps slightly wounded mainly by flying glass. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
Now only this blast wall remains. In place of the base, a community | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
garden planted as a memorial to those who died. | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
The dream of peace has been realised, and that is the most | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
amazing thing. The idea of the peace forest is to plant as many trees as | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
possible along the border to create a great forest of peace trees. | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
The police and army base dominated the village of Forkhill for decades, | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
and many myths grew up around it, including one that a nuclear bunker | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
had been built underneath. Different people believed it was | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
true. When the army left, they did not take the foundations away of two | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
buildings, and it was 12 inch concrete reinforced, and there is | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
certainly nothing underneath. This is part of a wider drive to | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
increase trees in South Armagh, where the density of them is low. | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
We have added about 120,000 trees in South Armagh recently, so this is | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
another project for that. 1000 native trees are being planted | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
here and they will soon arrive on this site. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
There's around an hour to go before Ireland take on Wales | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
It's gearing up to be a big weekend of sport. | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
Stephen Watson's here with the details. | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
Ireland face Wales in the Principality Stadium tonight | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
Ireland need a win to keep dreams of a championship alive, | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
and set up a showdown with England in Dublin next weekend. | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
The game is live on BBC Two from 8.00 and promises to be a thriller. | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
Nial Foster is pitchside in Cardiff for BBC Newsline. | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
The roof is currently closed here at the Principality stadium and it will | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
stay that way for the match, but it is quieter than it will be in just | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
over an hour, where the atmosphere will be electric. Joining me pitch | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
side is a former Ireland half Tony Ward. What effect will the | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
atmosphere have on proceedings? Magic. I can feel the adrenaline and | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
it is heaving outside of the ground. Give me a choice between Friday | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
night and Sunday, and it is a no-brainer. This is the first and we | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
have played a six Nations game on a Friday night, and tonight this place | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
will rock. What can Ireland expect from the | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
Welsh side who lost the last two games? | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
Enormous pressure. I think it has been a good piece of psychology, | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
under pressure, and picking the same 23. He is demanding a performance | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
for them. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. So, two very different | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
psychology is going into it. It is a difficult one to call, but a | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
humdinger, and I hope and believe it will be Ireland. | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
How important are the opening 20 minutes? | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
Important no matter what game you play, and a huge emphasis on that. | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
If Wales get up and running early, they will connect with the crowd and | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
there will be more pressure against us. | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
Thank you. We will find out what effect the roof has on the match | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
tonight, live on BBC radio Ulster and on BBC television from 7:30pm. | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
Ulster play Zebre in the Pro12 tomorrow at the Kingspan Stadium. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Victory with a bonus point over the Italians will be the aim | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
to keep Ulster in the hunt for a play-off place. | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
And Charles Piutau will try and continue his try scoring good form. | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
He is enjoying his rugby and his experience. | :23:04. | :23:14. | |
He gathers and he scores! Above what I expected, just a | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
welcoming welcome for the club and the people here. That has helped me | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
gather my team-mate around me. Everyone, and they call it around me | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
has made my job easier. I am able to enjoy my rugby and do what I do. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
When you get the ball, there seems to be an atmosphere. Do you feel | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
that out there are? Definitely. I feel people getting | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
excited and it is great fun. When the teams... When the team is hot on | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
attack, scoring tries, it does lift the spirit. | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
Inspired by the big names, Ulster scored six away to Zebre two weeks | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
ago. Expect more of the same and some on Saturday night. | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
Northern Ireland football manager Michael O'Neill has named his squad | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
to face Norway in this month's vital World Cup qualifier in Belfast. | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
Among the forwards, Liam Boyce comes in for the injured Will Grigg, | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
and in a big boost to O'Neill's defensive options Watford's | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
Craig Cathcart returns, having missed all four previous | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
Very important, because we have not had him in four games. Difficult | :24:24. | :24:35. | |
start to the season with the injury, carried over from France. We saw how | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
good Craig was in France for us, and he has a player who sometimes we | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
have to change our tactical shape if he is not available. Having him back | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
and fit, and with Johnny and Gareth in terms of centre backs, it is a | :24:53. | :24:53. | |
plus for us. Stormont plays host to round two | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
of the World Hockey League, The Ireland men's team | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
are currently ranked as high as they have ever been, | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
and so are among the favourites to win the tournament and progress | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
to the next stage in the summer, which also brings a shot | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
at World Cup qualification. Jonathan Rea was fastest | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
in practice in Thailand ahead of this weekend's second | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
round of the World Superbikes Championship - Rea, remember, | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
going for an unprecedented third In football, Derry City are away | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
to Shamrock Rovers tonight - there's live coverage | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
on BBC Radio Foyle. And in the Danske Bank Premiership, | :25:26. | :25:26. | |
Ards host Ballinamallard. Full-time scores | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
on our late bulletin. And we will have a special report | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
from the Wales and Ireland game. I can't wait for it to start. | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
An exciting weekend ahead, but will the weather be exciting? | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
Not too bad. The last few weeks blue skies but today is about the cloud | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
amounts. Certainly plenty of cloud. This is the picture, a coward hiding | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
in the mist. Particularly shy. Cloud sitting over us overnight tonight. | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
This band of rain working through, a mild night at seven or eight | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow's starts off cloudy and not too long before we | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
see a bit of lovely blue skies above us. Maybe not for one peninsula, | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
because of that when the front through tonight. A bit stubborn, | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
clinging on across the East Coast. Gradually moving away, and behind | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
the cloud peels back in the West. That means we are going to see the | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
best of the brightness out in the west tomorrow afternoon. Always a | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
bit more cloud further east, temperatures at ten or 12 Celsius. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
With more prolonged periods of sunshine, up to 13 or 14 Celsius. | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Very nice for the time of year. Our pattern of rain like last night, it | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
will rain tonight and tomorrow. It continues. This cold front moving | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
through, and again Sunday will be cloudy and damp to start. Again it | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
will be a day that improves. If this cold front moves away, it introduces | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
cooler are. The temperature is not quite as exciting, ten or 11 | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
Celsius. Plenty brightness between showers. A classic day of sunshine | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
and showers. Over the weekend, this area of high pressure starts to | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
build in. That settles down our weather very nicely, and turns of | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
the showers. By the time we get to Monday, things looking pretty good | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
again. Introducing some more mild air, top temperatures of 12 or 13 | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
Celsius, and if you are in one of those breaker areas, should feel | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
very nice in those light breezes. Through the next few days, not a bad | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
run of temperatures, and the rain when it comes will mostly be at | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
night-time. From BBC Newsline, goodnight. | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
via Facebook and Twitter. "are a panel of experts, | :27:39. | :27:54. | |
who will analyse | :27:55. | :27:59. |