Rodriguez acknowledged that the evening's pre-ceremony chatter - made up of over 80 mother tongues - was even more excited than usual.
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So, financial news that used to be an evening TV wrap-up of five or eight blue chips and an index has turned into a flood of data only specialists need to know.
The one thing a person could always count on -- that the sun would come up in the morning and stay up until evening -- suddenly could not be counted on at all.
This is followed by two special build-up programmes on Friday evening including a live one-hour programme on BBC Radio Ulster from 6.30pm followed by a live TV build-up on BBC One Northern Ireland at 10.35pm.