:00:00. > :00:17.and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.
:00:18. > :00:21.Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline:
:00:22. > :00:23.A woman admits killing a Greenisland pensioner
:00:24. > :00:30.The EU's Brexit negotiator tells the Dail he'll work to avoid
:00:31. > :00:33.a hard border but emphasises there will have to be some form
:00:34. > :00:40.The sister of a woman whose husband killed her and their children tells
:00:41. > :00:51.of her family's relief that his body has been moved from their grave.
:00:52. > :00:54.I was there this morning when it happened, and as he left
:00:55. > :00:56.the cemetery, the sun broke through the clouds and I cried
:00:57. > :01:04.Prince Charles tries his hand at hurling on the second day
:01:05. > :01:09.The Balmoral Show - a place to renew rivalries,
:01:10. > :01:17.I'll have all the characters and colour later in the programme.
:01:18. > :01:20.I'm live on the North Coast as racing gets under way
:01:21. > :01:36.With an English 1-2- three. After ten days of dry weather, were
:01:37. > :01:38.back to normal with showers coming in this evening. I'll have the
:01:39. > :01:39.details later. A 31-year-old woman has
:01:40. > :01:42.admitted killing a pensioner 67-year-old Eddie Girvan was found
:01:43. > :01:50.dead at his house on Station Road. Our north-east reporter Sara Girvin
:01:51. > :01:57.was at Belfast Crown Court. Just as her murder trial
:01:58. > :01:59.was about to start, Margaret Henderson-McCarroll
:02:00. > :02:03.admitted killing Eddie Girvan. The mother-of-two, described
:02:04. > :02:06.in court as fragile, is a heroin addict with nearly
:02:07. > :02:10.100 previous convictions. Today she accepted that she'd
:02:11. > :02:13.unlawfully killed retired plumber Henderson-McCarroll's solicitor
:02:14. > :02:19.stood with her in the dock as she pleaded not guilty
:02:20. > :02:22.to Eddie Girvan's murder, but she said she was guilty
:02:23. > :02:25.of his manslaughter on the grounds She also pleaded guilty to eight
:02:26. > :02:31.other charges, including theft These relate to the theft of cash,
:02:32. > :02:37.jewellery and Mr Girvan's car Police discovered Mr Girvan's body
:02:38. > :02:44.by chance after his stolen car, driven by his killer,
:02:45. > :02:46.was involved in The vehicle was then found
:02:47. > :02:51.outside the Belfast hostel No details of Mr Girvan's death
:02:52. > :02:57.were given today at court but at a bail hearing last year
:02:58. > :03:00.it was heard that he and Henderson-McCarroll had
:03:01. > :03:05.rowed over money for sex. She said he'd come at her
:03:06. > :03:07.with a sword and she'd been Mr Girvan was found at his
:03:08. > :03:11.Station Road home, bound, gagged and with stab wounds
:03:12. > :03:15.to his chest. Pre-sentence reports were ordered,
:03:16. > :03:17.and Henderson-McCarroll The EU's chief Brexit negotiator has
:03:18. > :03:29.told a special sitting of the Dail that he will work to avoid
:03:30. > :03:32.a hard border. But Michel Barnier also emphasised
:03:33. > :03:36.that there will have to some form of customs controls when the UK
:03:37. > :03:40.leaves the EU. Our economics and business editor
:03:41. > :03:56.John Campbell is in Dublin. The Irish government has been
:03:57. > :04:02.mounting a huge diplomatic offensive across Europe for the last year,
:04:03. > :04:07.trying to get Irish issues to the top of the EU's Brexit agenda. They
:04:08. > :04:14.have so had some success there and Mr Barnier's appearance today was a
:04:15. > :04:20.continuation of that strategy. It was the IP treatment for Michel
:04:21. > :04:23.Barnier, addressing both houses of the Irish parliament is an honour
:04:24. > :04:28.usually reserved for prime ministers and presidents. He reputed his
:04:29. > :04:33.determination that Brexit negotiations should do nothing to
:04:34. > :04:35.undermine peace in Ireland but warned that Brexit will mean change,
:04:36. > :04:38.especially when it comes to customs. The UK's departure from the EU
:04:39. > :04:40.will have consequences. We have together the duty
:04:41. > :04:45.to speak the truth. Customs controls are part of the EU
:04:46. > :04:49.border management, to protect the single market,
:04:50. > :04:53.to protect our food safety But as I already said many
:04:54. > :05:13.times, nothing in these negotiations He gave no indication as to what
:05:14. > :05:20.those customs controls might amount to. The Sinn Fein leader said the
:05:21. > :05:23.best way to avoid problems on customs or anything else was for
:05:24. > :05:30.Northern Ireland to get special status in the view. That would
:05:31. > :05:34.insure that our trading relationship with the rest of Ireland and the EU,
:05:35. > :05:38.especially business tourism, the All-Ireland energy market,
:05:39. > :05:45.agriculture, all that would be maintained. The SDLP leader, who met
:05:46. > :05:51.Mr Barnier today, was also pushing special status. The EU has
:05:52. > :05:55.recognised that we have to protect the Good Friday Agreement but what
:05:56. > :06:00.we also need to do is take the Good Friday Agreement and its mechanisms,
:06:01. > :06:06.especially north-south mechanisms, and use that to develop special
:06:07. > :06:13.staters. That is a prize worth protecting. The Taoiseach says it is
:06:14. > :06:20.a dream to get Ireland to the top of the agenda but acknowledged the
:06:21. > :06:26.challenge. We know how complex and serious the issues are for Europe
:06:27. > :06:31.and for Ireland. Later mist Kenny had his own meeting with Mr Barnier.
:06:32. > :06:36.Tomorrow it will be the turn of business people to talk to him. They
:06:37. > :06:41.will want to know more about what might happen with customs controls.
:06:42. > :06:47.Those businesses that Mr Barnier is meeting tomorrow are all food
:06:48. > :06:52.processing businesses in County Monaghan, the sort of firms which
:06:53. > :06:56.will be badly damaged by any new tariffs or trade barriers between
:06:57. > :07:02.the EU and UK, so they will be keen to get clarity, but at this early
:07:03. > :07:04.stage of Brexit negotiations, there will not be much he can tell them
:07:05. > :07:07.for definite. The sister of a County Cavan woman
:07:08. > :07:09.whose husband killed her and their three children has been
:07:10. > :07:12.speaking about her family's decision Alan Hawe had been buried
:07:13. > :07:15.with his wife Clodagh and their three sons
:07:16. > :07:18.after the apparent murder-suicide at their home near Ballyjamesduff
:07:19. > :07:23.almost a year ago. Jacqueline Connolly spoke
:07:24. > :07:27.to our reporter Kevin Magee. This is how the Hawe family grave
:07:28. > :07:31.looked up until yesterday. And this is it now after
:07:32. > :07:35.Alan Hawe's body was exhumed. At the time of their deaths,
:07:36. > :07:38.the five members of the family were buried side by side
:07:39. > :07:41.in St Mary's churchyard Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster,
:07:42. > :08:01.Clodagh's sister Jacqueline I used to call her golden girl. In
:08:02. > :08:05.my eyes she never put a foot wrong. She was just lovely. Clodagh was
:08:06. > :08:06.wonderful. She described how she felt watching
:08:07. > :08:08.Alan Hawe's body being removed I was there when it happened,
:08:09. > :08:16.and as he left the cemetery, the sun broke through the clouds
:08:17. > :08:19.and I cried with relief that he
:08:20. > :08:21.was gone for good. He may as well have killed
:08:22. > :08:24.us as well, because Why did you decide at
:08:25. > :08:31.the time that the family The funeral arrangements never
:08:32. > :08:40.came into our heads, we just couldn't even
:08:41. > :08:43.think about the fact that they were In a statement, the Hawe family said
:08:44. > :08:49.that they had agreed to a request from Clodagh's side
:08:50. > :08:51.of the family to have They referred to the devastating
:08:52. > :08:55.losses that they too have suffered - losing a son, grandchildren
:08:56. > :08:59.and daughter-in-law. They say the he circumstances
:09:00. > :09:03.surrounding the tragedy will be the subject of an inquest later this
:09:04. > :09:07.year, and in light of that they A total of 109 candidates
:09:08. > :09:16.are standing for election here in the Westminster contest
:09:17. > :09:20.on June the 8th. That's down on the 138 people
:09:21. > :09:24.who put their name forward in the last general
:09:25. > :09:26.election two years ago. This evening the Ulster Unionist MLA
:09:27. > :09:30.Alan Chambers withdrew his candidacy in North Down, where the party says
:09:31. > :09:34.the independent unionist Lady Sylvia Hermon enjoys
:09:35. > :09:38.overwhelming support. Here's our political
:09:39. > :09:41.editor, Mark Devenport. Mark, so fewer candidates,
:09:42. > :09:53.does that mean less I suppose it's a snap election so
:09:54. > :09:59.perhaps people have had less time to think about this. We have six
:10:00. > :10:02.candidates on average per constituency and some parties who
:10:03. > :10:07.put up a number of candidates last time are either not contesting or
:10:08. > :10:14.putting you work candidates in. We don't think Ukip is in the race, the
:10:15. > :10:18.Conservatives and QUB have cut back on their candidates but we do have
:10:19. > :10:22.some idea of a party breakdown although all the details have not
:10:23. > :10:29.yet been published. The main storm and parties, of them Sinn Fein, the
:10:30. > :10:34.SDLP and Alliance are all fielding 18 candidates, in all
:10:35. > :10:37.constituencies, the DUP standing aside in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
:10:38. > :10:38.What's the significance of the Ulster Unionist
:10:39. > :10:49.I think the independent unionist Lady Sylvia Hermon would be pretty
:10:50. > :10:55.confident about defending North Down. She places at challenge from
:10:56. > :10:58.the DUP in the shape of Alex Easton and other parties will be in the
:10:59. > :11:05.race that this would make more confident. Last time the Ulster
:11:06. > :11:09.unionist didn't stand against her. She was originally an Ulster
:11:10. > :11:12.unionist and is now independent but we will have a full list on our
:11:13. > :11:13.website once they have been published.
:11:14. > :11:16.Plenty still to come on the programme.
:11:17. > :11:19.Join me at Balmoral Show when I'll be introducing you to Agnes
:11:20. > :11:31.The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall spent most of today
:11:32. > :11:35.in Kilkenny on the second day of their visit to the Republic.
:11:36. > :11:38.The county is famous for its hurlers.
:11:39. > :11:41.And as our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison now reports,
:11:42. > :11:50.Kilkenny hurling legend King Henry Sheflin teaching Charles
:11:51. > :12:11.His first question was, how hard can you hit it, so like anyone you want
:12:12. > :12:13.to see how hard you can head it, but for his first go he did well.
:12:14. > :12:17.And looking on, possible future GAA stars had a morning to remember.
:12:18. > :12:25.Ease asking what you need to wear and I said you need a helmet and his
:12:26. > :12:34.like, you have to practice us and I said yeah. The princess asked if the
:12:35. > :12:35.girls are better than the boys and I said the girls were better than the
:12:36. > :12:36.boys. It's over a century since
:12:37. > :12:38.a member of the royal And as all know, a lot has
:12:39. > :12:42.happened in Ireland - This is the Prince's third visit
:12:43. > :12:46.to the Republic in three years. And to quote the man himself,
:12:47. > :12:50.he's going to keep bothering people in the Republic as a demonstration
:12:51. > :12:53.of the UK's commitment to peace. With hundreds of bystanders nearby,
:12:54. > :12:57.the Prince, a noted organic farmer, visited the farmers' market outside
:12:58. > :13:15.Kilkenny Castle, impressing We have our herbal drink here cold
:13:16. > :13:21.Dragon Fire and we offered him that. He went to drink it but then saw
:13:22. > :13:23.there was garlic in it and put it down again. It was lovely to meet
:13:24. > :13:25.him. While the prince and the duchess had
:13:26. > :13:27.other engagements today, this was the highlight -
:13:28. > :13:30.at least for people here. The royal couple will spend
:13:31. > :13:33.tomorrow in Dublin. It's another sunny day
:13:34. > :13:35.at the Balmoral Show. The crowds are there once again
:13:36. > :13:38.today in their thousands - and Donna Traynor is there
:13:39. > :13:48.for us too. Good evening, Catherine.
:13:49. > :13:53.Unfortunately the sun has gone behind clouds for the moment. The
:13:54. > :13:58.Balmoral Show has been packed today. It has come a long way since its
:13:59. > :14:03.origins are being purely for farmers. I've met people from town
:14:04. > :14:09.and country here at Balmoral Park, and I have come across an
:14:10. > :14:14.interesting lady, Agnes told. She has been showing pigs, she is from
:14:15. > :14:20.Banbridge and you have a champion of champions. We reared her from birth
:14:21. > :14:25.to bacon and she has turned out exceptional and we knew from the
:14:26. > :14:31.start she was an exceptional guilt and so it is nice to have a champion
:14:32. > :14:38.of champions. She is some size of a lady. When we went to film her, she
:14:39. > :14:46.is a large white and how popular is that breed? Not very popular now.
:14:47. > :14:49.Long white breeze are dying out now, there are only three breeders in
:14:50. > :14:57.Northern Ireland whom breed large quite, so my husband and I are
:14:58. > :15:03.trying to keep the breed open, to keep them going on. You show, your
:15:04. > :15:09.husband shows, what about the rest of the family? My grandchildren take
:15:10. > :15:16.part in every year as handlers so they will be out running after the
:15:17. > :15:20.pegs. It's a real family occasion. Balmoral Show has an international
:15:21. > :15:25.flavour this year with foreign buyers trying to strike a few gales.
:15:26. > :15:31.Our agriculture and environment correspondent Conor Macauley met up
:15:32. > :15:39.with them and also find out about five to keep its content.
:15:40. > :15:50.Sometimes getting too close to the attractions has its perils. There is
:15:51. > :15:54.a competitive side to the show, like here at the cattle shed where to
:15:55. > :16:08.breeders were about to renew along running rivalry. Who's going to win?
:16:09. > :16:14.Time will tell! Desmond Bloom had splash the cash on an England rival.
:16:15. > :16:22.In the show ring it paid off. He won the class and later the overall
:16:23. > :16:25.title. Can't win them all! With the show extending to a fourth day, it
:16:26. > :16:30.will give people from the city a chance to see what all the buzz is
:16:31. > :16:37.about. The best of the show will soon be here but you may have missed
:16:38. > :16:40.the best of the weather. Even the Algerian trade delegation was
:16:41. > :16:46.feeling the heat. Are you likely to place orders as a result of being
:16:47. > :16:53.here or are you just here for a look? I came here to place orders,
:16:54. > :16:57.to make new opportunities for work because we know the know-how of
:16:58. > :17:05.Irish people is high-class, so this is why I came here, know-how and
:17:06. > :17:10.technologies. In the food Pavilion, this egg stand won best local stand
:17:11. > :17:15.at the show. Business owner Andy Gilbert loves his happy hands. I
:17:16. > :17:21.want to know the hens are contented when I close my eyes. You use your
:17:22. > :17:26.ears, that so you know what's going on in your henhouse. Can you
:17:27. > :17:30.replicate the noise of a contented hen for us?
:17:31. > :17:42.Today is done and two to go. There are still prizes to be handed out
:17:43. > :17:49.before the big clean-up. You join me here with a man who runs
:17:50. > :17:55.one of the most popular displays, the falconry display, and this is
:17:56. > :18:02.junior. What is he looking at? He's looking at this lovely microphone,
:18:03. > :18:08.thinking it's a bit of meat. What is it about this animal that people are
:18:09. > :18:13.scared when they see the displays? People get very nervous because of
:18:14. > :18:17.the shaft it and the talons, but they are a very friendly bird. One
:18:18. > :18:22.of the most friendly birds you will get in the hawk family because they
:18:23. > :18:27.are a pack bird, so we train them as young birds and they become part of
:18:28. > :18:32.our pack so they want to be around you and do things with you, so
:18:33. > :18:40.people get the wrong idea. The crowds soaked it all in today. What
:18:41. > :18:48.age is junior? Four years old. Do they have a short life span? He
:18:49. > :18:53.would have a life span of 20 or 25. Where did you get your love of
:18:54. > :19:01.birds? Was it acquired in later life? I always had it. My fathers
:19:02. > :19:09.cup Canaries, hens, so I always had a love for birds. These birds are my
:19:10. > :19:16.life. I'm looking at him, he has fantastic eyes, what a beat. What
:19:17. > :19:23.does he most like for his dinner? Best thing is Kentucky without the
:19:24. > :19:27.batter. Chicken. We don't have poultry here because of the avian
:19:28. > :19:33.flu. Does that affect him, that virus? There have been no reports
:19:34. > :19:39.that I know of, we did clear it with the powers that be and got the all
:19:40. > :19:46.clear. Thank you for introducing me, John. I think I've found a friend
:19:47. > :19:51.here. Come back to us later when are best will be here with the weather
:19:52. > :19:54.forecast for the next few days. You're a brave woman, Donna Traynor.
:19:55. > :19:56.An agreement has been signed to promote increased
:19:57. > :19:59.co-operation between the BBC and Northern Ireland's
:20:00. > :20:02.Its aim is to promote collaboration on the development
:20:03. > :20:06.It also encourages the sharing of facilities and student
:20:07. > :20:14.Now, our cameras were at the Port of Belfast a little earlier
:20:15. > :20:18.for the lunchtime arrival from Scotland and what we saw
:20:19. > :20:22.can only mean one thing - racing is getting under way
:20:23. > :20:28.These fans arrived in their hundreds on the ferry.
:20:29. > :20:30.Since then they've been making their way - in the sunshine -
:20:31. > :20:43.And that's where Gavin Andrews joins us from now.
:20:44. > :20:51.We have three scheduled races, the second is about to get under way,
:20:52. > :20:56.the superstock class, and we had at shop in the first. Martin Jessup
:20:57. > :21:03.picked up his first North West 200 win. We will speak to one of the
:21:04. > :21:09.great around here, Philip McCallum. A great start to the evening. It's
:21:10. > :21:16.been superb, a long time since we had a dry Tuesday, dry Thursday
:21:17. > :21:22.practising and great racing. It was a magnificent win for Martin Jessup
:21:23. > :21:26.to night. It was very unfortunate for Alistair Seeley, who was
:21:27. > :21:33.favourite to win the race but he had mechanical trouble and dropped out.
:21:34. > :21:38.Tough for the local lad. He's more fired up than ever, he has to be the
:21:39. > :21:44.favourite for this race but you need luck, mechanical like, a bit of
:21:45. > :21:53.everything, but behind that Apache is pushing hard, rocker is pushing
:21:54. > :21:59.hard, Lee Johnson, and he wants to prove a point. One rider not
:22:00. > :22:06.involved is John McGuinness, who had a crush in final practice on the
:22:07. > :22:11.coast road. He was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital with a
:22:12. > :22:17.suspected broken leg. He is one of the big favourites but at 45 do you
:22:18. > :22:21.see him coming back? John is a great ambassador for the sport world wide,
:22:22. > :22:28.he'd does a brilliant job and that was unfortunate, at 45 he doesn't
:22:29. > :22:33.need a crash and I heard rumours that he was thinking about this
:22:34. > :22:37.being his last year because he is sensible, he will not keep racing
:22:38. > :22:42.until he's too old to do it, he wants to finish as a winner, so we
:22:43. > :22:47.do not know the total injuries but I suspect it's a broken leg and if
:22:48. > :22:53.that becomes complicated and take such humans to steal, if he misses
:22:54. > :23:00.the TT and he's in pain, you could see him hanging up the lovers. Enjoy
:23:01. > :23:04.the rest of the meeting. We will turn to golf now, and fresh from
:23:05. > :23:07.getting married and signing a new equipment till, Rory McIlroy is back
:23:08. > :23:12.in action in Florida. It will be his first
:23:13. > :23:21.tournament since the Masters. The last few weeks have been cool, I
:23:22. > :23:28.got married and went on honeymoon, got back to Florida last Thursday,
:23:29. > :23:33.trying to lose a bit of weight, trying to shed a few pounds before
:23:34. > :23:38.here, but everything has been great. I feel like my game is in good
:23:39. > :23:43.shape. I had to address a few issues between Augusta and here and did
:23:44. > :23:47.that in the first ten days after Augusta and then turned my
:23:48. > :23:55.attentions elsewhere, but feel-good coming into this event. Rory tees
:23:56. > :24:00.off in Florida around now and we will enjoy the North West 200 and
:24:01. > :24:05.the Florida sunshine here. It looks lovely this evening. Now
:24:06. > :24:10.let's get the weather with Barra Best to whiz at the Balmoral Show
:24:11. > :24:14.too. It has been a great day, up until
:24:15. > :24:21.about an hour ago, the sunshine was out. 19 degrees in Castlederg. It
:24:22. > :24:28.has been the tenth consecutive dry day but that is about to end. The
:24:29. > :24:32.cloud has begun to roll them, we will have scattered showers moving
:24:33. > :24:36.into parts of County Down and tarmac, they will move north and
:24:37. > :24:40.west across all parts tonight but the winds are changing to come in
:24:41. > :24:47.from the south, so it will not be as chilly. Temperatures should stay in
:24:48. > :24:51.double figures, so tomorrow will be more unsettled, we can expect a wet
:24:52. > :24:57.start but it will not be a wash-out, it will brighten up your in the day.
:24:58. > :25:00.To begin with there will be widespread scattered showers but as
:25:01. > :25:06.we go into the afternoon most of those will move west, becoming
:25:07. > :25:11.confined to western counties, so along the east coast there will be
:25:12. > :25:16.sunshine but the a risk of a shower. Winds will be liked and in the best
:25:17. > :25:21.of the sunshine temperatures will once again reach the mid-to high
:25:22. > :25:26.teens. In the second part of the day we will see some evening sunshine,
:25:27. > :25:31.the best showers will be for western counties, the odd one possible
:25:32. > :25:36.towards the east. Tomorrow night it will turn dry for a while and we
:25:37. > :25:41.hold onto mild air, so temperatures no lower than ten or 11 but rain
:25:42. > :25:46.will move back in in time for Saturday. Saturday will have a
:25:47. > :25:52.disappointing start but improved, to begin with there will be some rain,
:25:53. > :25:57.not a great start for the North West 200, but there is good news, that
:25:58. > :26:02.moves out of the way and it will brighten up but there will be some
:26:03. > :26:05.showers following that ring, and when the sun comes out it will feel
:26:06. > :26:11.pleasant with temperatures in the mid-to high teens but some rain is
:26:12. > :26:17.likely again on Saturday. Into Monday, there will be showers at
:26:18. > :26:19.times, breezy but no frost and it will stay mild but for now it's back
:26:20. > :26:21.to normal. Our late summary
:26:22. > :26:23.is at half past ten. You can also keep in contact with us
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