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A FIRST step towards banning ‘killer robot’ weapons that think for themselves could be taken by the international community later this week. Nations will vote on whether to consider the move at the annual meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons taking place in Geneva on Friday. Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is urging governments to back the mandate, which could lead to a global agreement not to develop fully autonomous drones that select and engage targets without human intervention. ‘Governments should begin to act now to ensure that human control over targeting and attack decisions is never relinquished to machines in the future,’ said Steve Goose, from Human Rights Watch, a co-founder of the Campaign. Fully-independent functioning weapons do not yet exist but drones operated by the US, UK, Israel and South

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Korea already have some degree of autonomy and some military hi-tech countries, such as China and Russia, are believed to be moving towards systems that would leave combat decisions to machines, say campaigners. Scenarios of Terminator-type machines wiping out the human race seem far-fetched, but Mr Goose and his colleagues believe the dangers of releasing human control over ‘intelligent’ weapon systems are very real. The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is an international coalition of 44 non-governmental organisations in 21 countries launched this year. Prof Noel Sharkey, chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control said it is possible to prevent the development of autonomous robot weapons, ‘but only if we act now before there is too much investment’.

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No one left behind, no matter how tough it gets by NicOLE LE MARiE

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THOUSANDS of survivors of typhoon Haiyan were still without food, water and medical aid last night as the Filipino government vowed to pull out all the stops to send support. While residents of Tacloban, the city worst hit by the tsunami-like storm, filled the airport hoping to be evacuated, those unable to get on a flight out were promised president Benigno Aquino III’s full support. ‘We are not going to leave one living person behind,’ said his spokesman Edwin Lacierda. ‘We will help, no matter how difficult, no matter how inaccessible.’ Mr Lacierda said relief was arriving into the city and would be moving more speedily now that the airport had reopened, along with a bridge to the island. However, 81-year-old Aristone Balute, who failed to find a seat on a departure to the capital Manila, was in tears as she described her plight. ‘We need help. Nothing is happening. We haven’t eaten since yesterday afternoon,’ she said. Her granddaughter, Mylene, added: ‘There is no help coming in. They know this is a tragedy. They know our needs are urgent. Where is the shelter? We are con- Desperate for help: A father carries his child as they wait for supplies in Tacloban fused. We don’t know who is in charge.’ Relief supplies poured into Tacloban along roads flanked with corpses and canyons of debris as the rain fell again as rescue workers scrambled to reach other towns and villages still cut off. ‘There are hundreds of other towns and VULNERABLE women and children are villages stretched over thousands of kiloat risk of violence and human metres that were in the path of the typhoon trafficking in the aftermath of the and with which all communication has typhoon, an aid agency warns. They been cut,’ said Natasha Reyes, emergency could be targeted by traffickers taking coordinator at Medecins Sans Frontieres. advantage of the loss of a ‘safe space’, The official death toll rose to 1,774 yesteraccording to World Vision. ‘The risk of day, although that figure is expected to rise violence is often further worsened by as the Filipino air force’s Maj Gen Romeo lack of shelter, cramped quarters and Roadside plea: Children beg for food Poquiz said manpower was ‘limited’ as the lack of privacy,’ said David Thompson. in an area yet to be reached by aid bid to recover the dead continues.

Victims could be sold into slavery

€225m is needed to save lives – UN

URGENT requests for aid were made last night as those left to deal with the typhoon’s aftermath faced a humanitarian crisis. The UN launched a €225million appeal to boost relief efforts amid fears that more than 11million people have been affected. Aid agencies said they need a ‘huge injection’ of funds to get supplies inside the country after efforts were hampered by continued bad weather, destroyed airports and impassable roads. Humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said there was still a ‘huge amount’ needed to do to provide relief to the survivors. The agency had not been able to get into the remote communities and even in Tacloban it was difficult, she said. Irish NGO umbrella group Dóchas is directing people to its website howyoucanhelp.ie to advise people how to make the most impact with their donations.

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HAiR-RAising iDEA: Sinead Childs and sixth class students from Bayside School in Sutton were at Trinity College yesterday for the launch of Amber’s new NanoWOW Lesson Plans introducing primary school students to the world of nanoscience and materials science

A SELF-proclaimed white supremacist has found out on live TV he has African heritage. Craig Cobb is planning to build a whites-only village in North Dakota, but he may find himself locked out after being told 14 per cent of his DNA is from sub-Saharan Africa. The 62-year-old, who has previously proclaimed ‘racism is my religion’, was informed of the DNA test results on an episode of chat show The Trisha Show to be aired next week. ‘Sweetheart, you have a little black in you,’ host Trisha Goddard tells him. Mr Cobb, who wants the village of Leith to be closed to non-whites and gay people, dismissed the results, saying ‘oil and water don’t mix’.

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MORE than 1.1million customers and clients of a marketing firm have been the victim of hackers. Cyber crime experts investigating an attack on Loyaltybuild, which runs rewards schemes for companies across Europe, found more than 376,000 people have had their credit card details stolen. The details of an additional 150,000 clients were potentially compromised in an attack on its data centre in Ennis, Co Clare. Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes also revealed the name, address, phone number and email address of 1.12m clients were taken. ‘The initial indications are that these breaches were an external criminal act,’ the watchdog said. Loyaltybuild first raised concerns about a data security breach last month and the problem was initially thought to be limited to customers in Ireland. More than 70,000 customers of SuperValu and more than 8,000 at the insurance firm Axa were hit.

Hack fear: Loyaltybuild Fraud squad officers and data protection inspectors spent the day at Loyaltybuild’s headquarters after the extent of the breach emerged. Follow-up inspections are planned and the company has been warned that customers, banks and credit card firms must be notified. The company runs special offers and incentive schemes such as loyalty breaks for major retailers, utilities and service providers in Ireland, the UK, Scandinavia and Switzerland, and the fear is criminals will have all the information they need to use customers’ credit cards. Mr Hawkes suggested Interpol may have to be called in.

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ABOUT one in 20 credit unions are not meeting the funding reserves set out by regulators of ten per cent of assets. While members of Newbridge Credit Union were left reeling following its €54m bailout, it has emerged that 20 of the 392 local lenders are in trouble. There is a shortfall of about €11m in the credit unions, with a €500m set aside by the Central Bank to cover any significant losses at the lenders. Meanwhile, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said the transfer of Newbridge customers to Permanent TSB was an ‘exceptional case’. Insisting the Government supports the credit union movement. Mr Gilmore said the route taken was seen to be the best course of action.

Theft of death row drug from vet sparks alert A DRUG used to execute death row inmates and put dogs to sleep has been stolen from a vet’s clinic. About 15ml of the lethal barbiturate in a glass bottle was taken in a break-in at the Veterinary Clinic in Celbridge, Co Kildare, last week. The drug is a powerful sedative which slows the activity of the brain and nervous system and has been used in 13 US states for executions. ‘This is a toxic substance and is not intended for human consumption,’ a spokesman said. Gardaí said the bottle was marked with an orange and white label with the word ‘release’ written in block capitals across it. Detectives investigating the break-in

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Snap of defeated rider earns portrait prize

This portrait of Irish jockey Katie Walsh looking dirty and disappointed moments after a race has won photographer Spencer Murphy a prestigious prize. The picture, which was chosen for theUK’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013 yesterday, was taken of the rider wearing the colours of Seabass following a race at Kempton Park last year as part of a campaign for Channel 4’s racing coverage

by ED cARTy and officials at the Irish Medicines Board said they were very anxious to recover the potential poison and appealed for anyone with information or anyone who knows where it is to contact Leixlip Garda station. The drug is used by veterinarians to euthanise animals, from horses and cattle to cats and dogs. Anyone who may have consumed the product is urged to seek immediate medical help and the poisons unit at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. The burglary took place between 8.30pm last Tuesday and 5pm the following day, gardaí said.

Ex-UN terror list man invites gardaí for tea A LIBYAN-BORN man, who until last year was on the UN terror list associated with al-Qaeda, has offered to make tea for two Garda Special Branch officers after he pleaded guilty to attacking them. Ibrahim Buisir, 50, was fined €600 and avoided a jail sentence when he apologised in court to the female officers and told them: ‘I’m sorry, next time you are at my house I will invite you in for tea.’ The father-of-six pleaded guilty to assaulting DetGda Gillian Morris and Det-Gda Leanna Cruise on January 17 last year at Hillview Grove, Ballinteer, Dublin 16, near Buisir’s home. Judge Conal Gibbons heard that Buisir had been driving his 2000-reg Skoda Octavia when he was stopped and asked to produce his driving licence, which he handed over to Det-Gda Morris. Det-Gda Cruise said she noticed the vehicle was not taxed and cautioned him, after which Buisir ‘became aggressive’ and pushed both officers. Judge Gibbons said the fine must be paid within six months. In March he was also convicted of engaging in threatening behaviour towards gardaí.

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I refuse to quit, says mayor who smoked crack

CAnADA: Defiant Toronto mayor Rob Ford has vowed to stay in office after admitting he smoked crack cocaine. ‘I’m not going anywhere,’ he said as his political opponents filed a motion to force him to step aside. A council vote may decide his future tomorrow. But there is no legal way to force him to quit unless he is convicted of a crime.

solo canoeist ends 5,000km ocean crossing FRAnCE: Canadian Mylène Paquette yesterday completed a 5,000km solo transatlantic crossing by canoe. The 35-year-old nurse landed in Lorient 129 days after setting off from Nova Scotia. On the way, she was aided by the Queen Mary 2 liner after her boat capsized. She said: ‘I’m tired but very happy.’

BAngLADEsH: Policemen prepare to fire during clashes with garment workers. At least 200 factories have closed amid wage riots that have left 50 people injured in Ashulia, outside Dhaka Picture: aP

‘Worst Arab country Jailed for bombings for women’ named more than 30yrs ago

EgypT: Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and Islamic laws have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world in which to be a woman, according to a poll. Surges in violence and a rise in trafficking since the Arab spring reinforced its place at the bottom of a ranking of 22 states, the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey showed.

gERMAny: An 80-year-old terrorist who launched three bomb attacks has been jailed for threeand-a-half years. Sonja Suder belonged to the left-wing Revolutionary Cells that attacked two German companies in 1977 and Heidelberg Castle in 1978. She showed no reaction as the verdict was read in the Frankfurt court.

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CHINA took a cautious step towards one day becoming a Western-style free market yesterday. After a closed-door summit, its 376 Communist Party central committee members agreed to give private businesses a bigger role in the economy. ‘The core issue is to straighten out the relationship between government and the market, allowing the market to play a decisive role in allocating resources and improving the government’s role,’ a party report stated. How that process would work was not decided during the four-day meeting. It does not mean the state companies

PANICKING crewmen in the engine room of the rapidly flooding Costa Concordia repeatedly tried to convey to their captain how badly crippled the cruise ship was after it slammed into a reef, but their dramatic assessments apparently failed to convince the commander to promptly order the luxury liner’s evacuation, a Tuscan court has heard. Captain Francesco Schettino is on trial on charges of manslaughter for the deaths of 32 passengers, causing the shipwreck and abandoning the vessel before all others aboard were evacuated on January 13, 2012.

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that control China’s economy including banking, energy and telecoms will be giving up their power. ‘I think the way they did it reflects they do not yet have consensus to move forward to dramatically reform,’ said Barry Naughton, a US-based expert in China’s economy All land in China is owned by the state. That means farmers are tenants who cannot mortgage or rent their land to buy better technology or seeds. The report said farmers should have property rights but made no commitments.

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Miley: I’m really a hermit M iley Cyrus insists she is ‘a complete hermit’ who loves to stay at home with her dogs. While the 20-year-old has courted controversy in recent weeks by stripping off for the cameras and seeming to light up a spliff on stage, her home life is ‘super lame’, she claims. ‘When i go home i don’t really leave my house,’ she said. ‘i tell people that think i’m really cool, “By the way, i’m super lame.” From what you read about me, i sound like all i do is club and go and party with Terry Richardson, but actually, i’m the lamest,’ the star told DJ Fearne Cotton. Miley made the admission while stopping off in london in the wake of her MTV eMA shocker on Sunday, where she appeared to light up a cannabis joint at the Amsterdam sho show. leaving her headline-grabbing stunts to one side, Cyrus said: ‘i’m a complete hermit. My home is the only place where i feel i can comcom pletely not have to deal with people.’

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But, it seems, even her four pet dogs have taken to raising their eyebrows at her latest antics. ‘The other day i sat at my piano and just played for an hour and a half to my dogs. They were sitting there tilting their heads and watching me perform. And then i realised i feel like they’re judging me,’ she explained. ‘They realise [while watching me] “This is a reallife loser. This is really sad.” i’m like you don’t know how much my tickets are!’ she laughed. Cyrus’s bid to shed her wholesome teen image has come under fire since she twerked on stage with dwarfs. The Hunger Games actress Jennifer lawrence is the latest celebrity to give the pop tart both barrels when she was quizzed on sex in the entertainment industry during her trip to london this week. ‘Sex sells, and for some disgusting reason young sex sells ev more,’ lawrence, 23, told even BBC’ Newsnight. BBC’s ‘For some people, that’s how the feel best, that’s how they they feel sexy,’ the Oscar-winner added.

We got a Little Mixed ★ up over tearful songs All white: Lady Gaga does her best to hog the limelight at Glamour Magazine’s women of the year gala – but the real heroine was still young activist Malala Yousafzai. The singer failed to overshadow the 16-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, who was honoured at the ceremony at Carnegie Hall, New York. Malala, who was shot by the Taliban for her activism but whose pleas for an end to US drone strikes have been ignored, said: ‘I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill. But a pen can give life.’ Picture: MediaPunch

Put some back into it: US singer Adam Lambert gives it some wellie as he covers Lady Gaga’s hit Marry The Night in a new episode of hit US TV show Glee. The 31-year-old is joined by X Factor USA judge Demi Lovato in the episode as the male Glee cast dance topless to Gaga and Katy Perry tunes.

Little Mix admit they were overcome with emotion when they wrote their own songs on new album Salute. The girls were left in floods of tears after dredging up bad relationships and family tragedies on songs such as Good Enough. ‘It’s about never being good enough. Whether you are in a relationship with someone or whether it’s something to do with your family,’ 22-year-old Jesy Nelson told Guilty Pleasures. Bandmate Perrie Edwards warned that fans would hear

their raw emotion as they recorded their blubbing in one take. ‘We have a lot of personal songs on there like These Four Walls we wrote pretty much ourselves,’ the 20year-old said. ‘It’s about losing someone. When we were writing it we all passed the mic around and spoke about our experiences and then we all started crying. They are done in one take. We sung it how we felt it. We weren’t like, “We want to change our vocals”. That’s the way it was. We did that on Good Enough. It’s a ballad that’s quite personal.’ Salute is out now.

Tinie Tempah has stunned fans by announcing he’s put his live tour on hold. The rapper was due to begin with dates next month but said he’s been too busy promoting his second album Demonstration. He now plans to kick off with shows in April. Via an extended Twitter announcement, he explained: ‘I feel I haven’t had enough time to prepare for the December tour to make it the best it can be.’

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Justin Timberlake made a quick buck – €950,000 to be exact – by singing at the tenth wedding anniversary bash of New York drinks mogul J Darius Birkoff and wife Jill. Oddly, burlesque dancers performed at tables at the Nomad Hotel party. But Timberlake’s pay day was topped by Barbra Streisand, who earned €1.7million singing for bankers.

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US height race won by a spire NEW York’S World Trade Center has knocked its main rival off its pedestal as the tallest building in the US – by a spire. The new skyscraper’s needle can be counted when measuring the structure’s height, an international panel of architects ruled. It brings it above the Willis Tower in Chicago, giving a total height of 541m. The needle measures 124m.

30 Rock star Baldwin tells court of ‘stalker nightmare’ by nicOLE LE MARiE

‘Suicide’ robot up in smoke THE tedium of household chores appeared to be all too much for a cleaning machine in what’s claimed to be the world’s first robot ‘suicide’. The device was alone in the house when it mounted a kitchen hotplate, where it burned to death. Its Austrian owners insisted it was turned off. They plan to sue after smoke damage left them temporarily homeless. Outbursts: Genevieve Sabourin talks to reporters as she arrives at court yesterday picture: ap

ACTOR Alec Baldwin told a court yesterday he had never had a sexual or romantic liaison with an actress accused of stalking him. The 30 Rock star said Genevieve Sabourin had bombarded him with dozens of voicemails and threatened to show up at one of his homes after he met her for dinner as a favour for a friend. After giving the 41-year-old his number and email address to help her find acting classes, Baldwin said his inbox was also flooded with hundreds of emails, some saying she would start going to his now wife’s yoga class. ‘It was nightmarish,’ the 55-yearold told Manhattan criminal court in New York. Ms Sabourin, who first met Baldwin on the set of 2002 sci-fi comedy The Adventures Of Pluto Nash, had to be led out of court by her own lawyer, Todd Spodek, after repeatedly interrupting his testimony. When Baldwin refuted her claims of a fling, she yelled out ‘Really?’

and ‘You have a scar’, screaming for Mr Spodek to object when the actor suggested she had drink or drug problems. Judge Robert Mandelbaum Alec Baldwin gave Ms Sabourin several rebukes, threatening to hold her in contempt of court. However, she yelled back: ‘I’ve got to prove that I had a sexual relationship. I didn’t do anything wrong. He’s lying. He’s lying.’ Baldwin was in tears as he told how Ms Sabourin had turned up at his East Hampton home on the day he proposed to Hilaria, 29. ‘I ran to tell my wife not to go near the door because I wasn’t sure if she had a gun or a weapon or where we were at this point, and then I called the police,’ he said. Ms Sabourin denies one count of stalking and 23 of harassment but faces 90 days in jail if found guilty. The trial continues.

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s there no combination of sandwich ingredients that is off limits in lunchtime delis? It seems that the customers in front of me in the queue are in competition with each other to come up with the weirdest fillings for their sambos and rolls – ‘I’ll have egg, beetroot, curried chicken, coleslaw and cheese’. ‘Would you like that toasted?’ ‘Ab-so-lutely’. The only advantage for me is that I am saving a right few quid bringing my own sandwiches to work because I can’t risk being put off my lunch by the contents of an extreme sandwich designer’s imagination. Do they actually eat these concoctions, or just dump them in a bin and go back to work chuckling ‘As if!’ to themselves? Dexter

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■ Thank you Irish Rail for the laugh this afternoon. I emailed the company at 9.05am on October 31 to complain about how bad their timetables were, saying that their trains were constantly delayed. This is the reply I got (yesterday, November 12) at 15.15: ‘Thank you for your email and apologies for the delay in replying to you. I have forwarded the email onto the customer care team who will investigate it further and hopefully be in contact with you shortly’. If they can’t even reply to their customers within a reasonable time, what hope have we got for the trains to be on time? I thought the situation was quite ironic. Gigglin’ Gertie

We asked our Facebook followers: Giving parents a say on school uniform policies does not go far enough in driving down overall back-to-school costs, the National Parents Council has said. Should schools have uniforms, or are they a throwback to the old days?

Yes. If there are no uniforms, they all are separated into rich and poor categories according to the clothes they wear. Also, I’d rather pay around €100 every two years for a uniform in Sept, than keep buying new clothes throughout the year! Paula Bitinaite

Uniform & PE Uniform – I think both should be compulsory – it cuts out bullying for those children who do not have the most up to date clothes. Both should be plain and be able to purchased without crests. Callie Wilde

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Mission to Mars Actor-turned-singer Jared Leto is on tour with 30 Seconds To Mars following a multimillion legal battle – and stars in a new film. By Andrew Williams

t was a very dark time,’ says handsome singer/actor Jared Leto of his record label’s decision to sue his band, 30 Seconds to Mars, for a whopping $30million (€22million) for breach of contract. ‘If we’d lost the case, we’d have lost everything – our entire life savings, our livelihood,’ says Leto, who is 41 but could easily pass for someone ten years younger. ‘there was a possibility we wouldn’t have been allowed to release our album, it would be held up with an injunction and we’d be left in a legal stalemate for years.’ the band’s tribulations during this period – which began in 2008 – are catalogued in Artifact, a documentary directed by Leto that had a festival release and will be available on itunes. According to Leto, the highlycondensed version is: ‘Each time you make a new album, you incur more debt. Being sued was a very strange situation and we’re still trying to wrap

our heads around it ourselves. It’s a fascinating conundrum and the film shows how a situation like that can go down.’ After much legal wrangling the band are still with the same label, EMI, but despite shifting more than ten million albums worldwide are yet to make any money on record sales. Surely that’s demotivating? ‘It can be but it’s not all about making money from albums,’ he says. ‘We still make a living from the other things we do’ – such as a twoyear-long world tour – ‘and we don’t have a 360 deal like some other artists, where the record company takes a piece of everything. these are good problems to have. We’re in a better place now than we were before. It was never about money for us, it was about what was right and fair. It’s not a perfect situation but it’s better than it was.’ With the case resolved, the band released album Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams earlier this year,

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which reached the Top Ten, and are about to start an arena tour, including a show at Dublin’s O2. Playing a capacity crowd at the 14,500-seater venue is a long way from their first European gig in Camden’s Barfly more than ten years ago. ‘It was a disaster,’ says Leto. ‘There were 30 people in the audience and 20 of those were from the label. It was our first show overseas… there’s a million excuses but not one real valid reason why we were so bad that night, other than that we were still learning and not ready yet. We got better, came back and earned it.’

“I’ve never been in a race to make the most films” Back then, 30 Seconds To Mars was considered the typical sort of side project a Hollywood actor sets up to fulfil his rock star dreams. While Leto had his acclaimed performance in Darren Aronofsky’s ultrableak Requiem For A Dream under his belt, when his band’s debut album was released in 2002 he was still largely remembered for

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being Claire Danes’s super-attractive boyfriend Jordan Catalano in earnest teen soap My So-Called Life. The band’s subsequent three albums, world tour and ten million sales prove Leto’s music career is no vanity project – their anthemic stadium rock tunes proving popular with their devoted fanbase, the most dedicated of whom call themselves ‘the Echelon’, while leaving critics divided. The beginning of the band’s legal problems coincided with a five-year hiatus from Leto’s acting career. ‘I didn’t plan it,’ he says. ‘It took five years because I was busy pursuing other interests and we had more success than we dreamed possible. I’ve also never been in a race to make the most films, just the most interesting ones I can. It hardly ever works out that way – film is a very delicate collaboration with a large group of people. Most of the time it doesn’t turn out the way you hope but, when it does, it’s an incredible experience.’ He’s referring to The Dallas Buyers Club, an independent film in which he plays a transgender woman with Aids, which has already proved a critical hit in the US. Leto lost 40lbs for the role and stayed in character throughout the shoot, only ‘meeting’ co-star Matthew McConaughey as himself when filming was completed and both men could relax. ‘I generally make art house films, which are hard to get made – this film took more than 15 years to finally get made,’ he says. ‘They’re challenging to shoot and hard to get

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ON My PLAyLIST Fiach OuT Of THE GAME by Rufus Wainwright

I saw Rufus in Vicar Street last year and his voice and songwriting are so effortless. This song is up there with his previous hits Going To A Town and Oh What A World.

BALLAD Of BIG NOTHING by Elliott Smith

Last week marked the tenth anniversary of his death and Elliott Smith is still one of the most under-rated songwriters of the last 20 years.

SILLy LOvE SONGS by Wings

It may not be cool to say but McCartney is my favourite Beatle. His melodies are very special and this is such a happy, fun song.

IS THAT LOvE by Squeeze

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including VyRT, a technology company he describes as ‘YouTube meets Kickstarter’. He seems to be not just an actor or musician but some sort of blue-eyed Jesus-hairdoed multi-media polymath. Where will he next be showering his prodigious talents? ‘I don’t categorise myself,’ he says. ‘I tend to go where my gut leads me.’ 30 Seconds To Mars play The O2 on Nov 25. www.thirtysecondstomars.com

Get to dee choppah! continuing on from the successful screenings of Die hard, intermission and La confidential this year the Jameson cult Film club is now about to bring us deep into the central american jungle with Major Dutch and his elite Special Forces squad for a special 25th anniversary screening of the sci-fi thriller Predator. These multimedia events featuring live theatre and synchronised special effects in an atmospheric, site-specific location have to be witnessed to be believed, and with DJ aidan Kelly on the decks and ‘jungle’ burgers, Jameson, ginger and lime drinks at hand, Tuesday, November 19 will be a night you will want to survive The event is free, but you must register for tickets at www.jamesoncultfilmclub.ie. The exact (secret) location of the screening will only be revealed to successful squad members, so hurry up and register, ’cos ol’ painless is waiting

Difford and Tilbrook were a wonderful songwriting team. While Cool For Cats and Tempted are also great, this is my favourite Squeeze song.

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I picked up Róisín’s new album last week and it’s a really gorgeous record. This song shows off what she can do with her voice.

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A tip of the cap to my old pal Declan. By far one of our greatest songwriters. I sang this with him on the Ray D’arcy show when he launched Mag Pai Zai. It’s a beautifully simple and extremely well-crafted song. Fiach’s new single Married To Music is out now. He performs at Whelan’s tonight. www.fiachmusic.com

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A not so Great Gatsby

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F Scott Fitzgerald’s extraordinary novella has tripped up plenty of filmmakers in the past: there are just too many glittering facets to his story of towering decadence, heartless excess and obsessive love. The whoosh and swoop of director Baz Luhrmann’s film style means this latest attempt plumps for shock and awe over depth; the 2D tale that peers out from the giddy effects, Disneyfied mansions and a Jay-Z soundtrack would make you wonder what all the fuss over the book was about. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jay Gatsby is not a bad interpretation, though he’s hardly enigmatic; Carey Mulligan’s Daisy Buchanan manages some sweetly damaged vulnerability. But we’re pushed too hard towards liking them, and away from Fitzgerald’s intended coruscating condemnations. Meanwhile, Tobey Maguire is limply unconvincing as the story’s narrator Nick Carraway (here presented as an alcoholic in a sanitarium, recalling events in flashback). And substituting the novel’s closing scenes for Gatsby confessing his true origins kills the pathos of the ending stone dead. Gatsby needs more than hectic razzle-dazzle to be really great. Siobhán Murphy

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apocalyptic horror/comedy is puerile, crude, gory – and very funny. A host of celebrities, playing depraved versions of themselves, are partying at James Franco’s Hollywood home when the end of the world kicks off. All the good people (none at the party) are beamed up to Heaven; on Earth, there are Roland Emmerich levels of devastation. A debauched Michael Cera and dirty Rihanna are among the early gruesome demises,

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Captain Phillips Peril on the Somali high seas with Paul greengrass’s uncompromising modernday pirate thriller, starring an oscarworthy Tom Hanks. Philomena Bring a whole box of hankies for this true life ‘the nuns took my baby’ drama starring Judi Dench and written by/co-starring Steve Coogan. Thankfully, it’s a right laugh, too.

The Selfish Giant Don’t miss one of the best British films of the year. A powerfully acted tale of young copper wire thieves, by current one-to-watch director Clio Barnard.

lookinG ahead THe Hunger gAmeS: CATCHing Fire newly armed with a Best Actress oscar, Jennifer lawrence returns as crack archer Katniss everdeen (pictured) in the second installment of the teen sci-fi action franchise. out nov 21.

Gravity There’s only one 3D film worth seeing this year and it’s this taut, breathtaking space survival story starring george Clooney and Sandra Bullock.

Gloria Paulina garcía won best actress at this year’s Berlin Film Festival as the titular heroine of Chilean film-maker Sebastián lelio’s sensitive, brilliantly observed comedy drama.

leaving circle of friends Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson besieged by demons. Their dwindling food supply, mounting irritation with each other and a spot of possession create ever more desperate developments, with some outrageous nods to Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist. It’s so silly you can forgive weak patches that could have done with sterner editing. SM

lasT chance To see How To SurViVe A PlAgue oscar-nominated Aids activism doc that’s as gripping as any thriller. A fictionalised Hollywood retelling is doubtless already in development.

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television film of tHe DAy The firsT day of The resT of yoUr life, rTÉ2, 12am

A smash hit in France, this lively drama is full of energy and humour. Out of the nine Césars (the French Oscars) for which it was nominated, it bagged three including two for the young lead actors, Marc-André Grondin and Déborah François (pictured). They play Raphaël and Fleur Duval, siblings born into a close, happy family who still have their ups and downs. We follow them over the years, along with their parents and their brother, Albert, who kicks off the story by moving out of home – much to his mother’s distress. The structure is simple, focusing on five single days that affect the family forever. While mother Marie-Jeanne’s life changes after her birds fly the nest, Fleur becomes a rebellious teen. Meanwhile, Raphaël meets an alluring woman at an air-guitar contest – one of the film’s most entertaining scenes. These characters are colourful; broadminded and fun-loving and sexual (and that’s just the parents). This is typically French – but not of the ponderous arthouse genre. It’s an amusing family saga with a spring in its step and a song in its heart. In short, it’s good fun.

AGAtHA CHRistie’s poiRot UTV, 8pm Anne Reid, Philip Glenister and Matthew McNulty are among the familiar faces joining David Suchet for his final outing as Agatha Christie’s neat little Belgian detective, whose waxed moustache has led the way to solving so many intrigues through the years. At his side, as ever, is Hugh Fraser as trusted old friend and colleague Captain Hastings. Returning to a country house they visited some 30 years earlier, the pair set out to halt a murderous ne’er-do-well before the guests become worm fodder. And although the venerable Poirot has surrendered his cane in favour of a wheelchair, his little grey cells are still firing on all cylinders. Au revoir monsieur, you did it your way.

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a team of medical professionals and reporters tackle the big health questions in this new sixpart series. on tonight’s show, dr Johnny takes a look at the toothbrush that can talk to your dentist and how your TV can help couch potatoes lose weight. Gp Ciara Kelly (right with dr Johnny) chats to presenter dr Gavin Jennings about how to get your body baby ready, while dr Terry deals with the first of his big six: (main causes of death in ireland) asthma. meanwhile, reporter paul Walsh heads to the men’s shed group in sligo to see if pals roddy and James can quit smoking with the use of hypotherapy.

over the summer sports presenter Jacqui hurley followed four top-level players, on and off the pitch, in land their quest for all-ireland glory. We get to know hurlers lar Corbett (right) and mikey Carton, footballer eoin Cadogan and all-star camogie player anna Geary and discover what it takes to make it to the top.

veep sKy aTlanTiC, 10.35pm You just knew the kerfuffle over vice president Selina’s satirical spin on Paul Simon’s 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover – 50 Ways To Win In Denver – would not die down. Lyrics such as ‘Say screw France, Lance’ have stuck in le continental craw, which explains why the Veep is off on an apology tour of Europe. This only makes matters worse, particularly when Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, above) meets the Finnish prime minister (Sally Phillips).

my top five films What Remains actor David Bamber GooDBye, mR CHips

It has the brilliant actor Robert Donat (pictured right) as the public school teacher. In the old days when you did not have multi-channels or video, you only saw it on TV about once every ten years.

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Meryl Streep gives an amazing performance in this as the Jewish woman forced to choose between her two children in a Nazi camp. When we did have a video player, we once watched it seven times in one weekend.

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I love this Roman Polanski film. I remember the poster when I was little and seeing this pram on it and just knowing it was some sort of horror film. It has the most wonderful performances. mances. I always watch ch it when it comes on. Every actor should see it.

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This is very inspiring when you are an actor. Once when I was in a terrible bleak period of non-work, I went to see it again – it must

have been 20-odd years ago – and after seeing Dustin Hoffman (pictured below), I came out feeling that it was worth sticking with.

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Jack Bl Black is absolutely brilliant as the off-the-wall teacher. We watched this ad nauseam when our two tw boys were little – so many times that they now know it backwards. Anthony Gibson What Remains is out now on DVD and Blu-ray

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Stepping into the dark side

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he reason we make documentaries is we want to go beyond the headlines,’ says havana Marking. The director did just that in 2009 with the award-winning Afghan Star, which followed contestants in Kabul’s answer to Pop Idol, risking their lives to take part. ‘At that point, we were not hearing the voices of ordinary people in Afghanistan,’ she says. ‘I wanted to tap into what the young people were thinking and feeling – and, of course, it’s the opposite of the Taliban.’ For her latest project, she took on a very different challenge – tracking down the world’s most successful diamond thieves. Smash & Grab: The Story Of The Pink Panthers traces the story of this internationally wanted criminal network, which emerged from the former Yugoslavia

Director Havana Marking tells Anthony Gibson about putting audacious jewel thieves the Pink Panthers on record in the 1990s and has staged some of the most audacious heists in history. ‘If these guys had come from a different country with different situations, they would be successful businessmen,’ she says. ‘They are sophisticated and clever but they also grew up with the discipline that came from Yugoslavia’s communist era. The young thieves taking their place now are nothing like as good. They come from a different time and place.’ Marking first heard about the Pink Panthers in 2003 after they staged a robbery at Graff jewellers on London’s Bond Street but details in a 2010 article in New Yorker magazine

inspired her to delve deeper. eventually, various Pink Panther members, disguised by animations and actors’ voices, agreed to go on record. ‘Meeting them was scary,’ she says. ‘I had to go to deserted places with no telephones and get into cars without knowing where I was going. Once you understand the darkness of these networks, you realise it is not glamorous at all, it is actually very dangerous. ‘But by the time I was doing my final interviews, I was heavily pregnant and all their bravado went out of the window. They started telling me about their families and personal lives.’ Marking’s mother was the first female TV director at ITV. ‘She broke the glass ceiling that I am now able to go way beyond,’ she says. ‘I never thought this was what I was

While global atrocities make the news every day, the tale of Pyotr Pavlensky, who ‘nailed his balls to the ground’ in Moscow’s Red Square this week, was sure to shock. Pyotr knew no self-harm grabs attention like penis self-harm. Here are some other creative ways to test the little fellah’s mettle… By Ross McDonagh AcT THE jAckAss

Remember when watching people make fools out of and injuring themselves was funny? Well, apparently it still is, as Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa just raked in a shedload of cash Stateside. In a recent interview promoting the film, Johnny Knoxville said the worst injury he ever sustained in a career of many was that time he ‘broke his manhood’. How does one break a penis? That oft referred to bone doesn’t really have a bone, after all. Personally, I think a torn urethra counts, which is what Mr Knoxville picked up when he tried back flipping on a bike without knowing how to backflip on a bike.

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‘What?! I can be famous and make lots of money by filming myself making an idiot of myself?!’ said lots of people as the Jackass train careened by. Noteable among these was Dirty Sanchez, which had a lot more penises and a lot less charm than the show it pretended it wasn’t pretending to be. They shot paintballs at them, dangled them over snooker table pockets, put them in mousetraps, but perhaps the worst penile punishment they brought upon themselves bizarrely used the one prop designed, in theory, to avoid damaging the object it was interacting with: the U-nail. In this episode, Mathew Pritchard has his nailed down tight to a block of wood, and probably repeating the Homer Simpson mantra: ‘Think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts…’

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James Bond is no stranger to being tortured.

Actually, he’s no stranger to being threatened with torture. That bad guys never usually get round to it, which is why Connery, Moore, Brosnan et al usually met such threats with a smug smirk, if they were about to be sliced in half, genitals first. But in his role as the ‘new, more vulnerable Bond’ poor Daniel Craig was the first 007 to have a villain actually torture him, and not just wax lyrical about it. A device as beautifully simple as it was horrifically sadistic – a chair with a hole in the seat to let gravity take a firm hold of your nutsack, and a weighted rope – a few modest taps and most of us would be telling the interrogator whatever it was he wanted to hear. Not Bond, of course: he makes a gag about the the world knowing Le Chiffre ‘died scratching his balls’. Ballsy.

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Does anyone even know if anything about this is true? Most of us have heard the nightmarish tale of the fish native to the Amazon river that can swim up a flow of urine and embed itself in your urethra. The demon fish in question seems to be the candiru, but all evidence suggests the story is an urban legend. Apart from the fact that it would defy all laws of physics for any creature to swim against the tide in a jet stream of pee, there is only one documented case of the fish making itself an unwelcome houseguest in someone’s willy, and even the veracity of this claim had a lot bigger holes than a urethra. I’m pretty sure some local Amazonian tribe made the whole thing up to stop tourists peeing in the river. Either way, you won’t find many men willing to unzip on the banks of the Amazon.

going to do but it’s turned out to be something that combines the best of journalism and the best of creativity.’ She is now part of independent art-house documentary-making company Roast Beef Productions. The subject matter of Smash & Grab could push Marking into new ventures, though. There is talk of

Danny Boyle using her documentary as the basis for a feature film. ‘We released the documentary in New York in the summer and it led to loads of calls from hollywood,’ she says. ‘But it has been really exciting for us to keep it with a director who we really have faith in.’

Smash & Grab: The Story Of The Pink Panthers is out now on DVD.

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take place in a CrossFit ‘box’ – the name for the warehouse-style (one in Blackrock and others across Dublin) enues filled with basic training venues equipment rather than slick cardio ilable in most gym chains machines available – and the toughest part of any hourlong class is the workout of the day (WoD). That lasts between five ut don’t be and 25 minutes but fooled into thinking that quick means easy. CrossFit calls itself the ‘sport of fitness’, coined by Glassman after seeing how w competitive his athletes were when performing the workout out of the day. As the workouts outs started to resemble competitive events, nts, Glassman dubbed it a sport. no one wants ants to finish last, so athletes push themselves es to the limit. CrossFit is clearly delivering ring something we can’tt get enough of. We may have taken a while to catch on but, according to Reebok, statistics show w there are 259 ‘boxes’ es’ in Britain and northern Ireland while its popularity in the Republic continues to grow. And last month, at the vitational Crossfit Invitational ent in Berlin, it was event clear the US no longer dominated the sport. Team World was victorious, with British firefighter Samantha Briggs, 31, (2013 CrossFit Games female

winner) one of the six in the group who beat Team USA (which included 2013 CrossFit Games male champ Rich Froning Jr). Proclaimed the ‘fittest woman w on earth’, Briggs stormed to victory with her fellow fello CrossFitters, (a team of three men and three women from europe, Australia and Canada) after performing handstand-walks, super-heavy super overhead squats and other such crazy feats. What’s more, people are hungry for everything associated with CrossFit. Reebok sold approximately €30,000 of its branded CrossFit kit in two tw hours at London’s Invitational event last year and Progenex, the high-end nutritional supplement brand favoured by Briggs, sold €8,000 of goods at Berlin’s Berlin’ Invitational event last month.

UnCheS that are CrossFit friendly are being consumed with more appetite, says niall Cro Crowley, founder of the UK’s UK’ eat evolve (www (www.eatevolve. com), who, since his company launched in September, says he’s he’ seen sales increase by 22 per cent every week. It’s also democratic; women’s w competitions draw as much interest as the men’s; everybody everybody, regardless of level is termed an ‘athlete’ and workouts can be scaled to suit all abilities. And CrossFit has become a spectator sport,

A study of 66,485 women found those with the most acidic diets were more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Typically, acidic foods consist of animal products, while fruits and vegetables help to neutralise acidity – even fruits such as lemons that are widely perceived as acidic. Chronic acidosis is caused by increased acidity in the blood and reduces the ability of the hormone insulin to regulate blood sugar. Some 1,372 new cases of type 2 diabetes were recorded. Women whose potential renal acid loads (Pral) were in the top quarter had a 56 per cent greater risk of developing diabetes. Pral refers to the potential impact of certain foods on kidney and urine acid levels. Meats can have a Pral as high as 9.5, cheeses 8.0 and fish 7.9. ‘Our study suggests that dietary acids may play a specific role in promoting the development of type 2 diabetes,’ said Dr Françoise Clavel-Chapelon from the Inserm research institute in Paris.

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more gun violence in films for teens THE top-grossing Hollywood movies of 2012 showed more gun violence in films appropriate for adolescents than in those geared toward adults, a study has found. The findings come after three straight years in which PG-13-rated and R-rated films showed similar levels of gun violence, the study conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and Ohio State University said. A PG-13 rating cautions parents that a movie may not be appropriate for those younger than 13, while R-rated films only admit those 17 and older or children accompanied by a parent or adult guardian. The seven top-grossing films in 2012 were all rated PG-13, and five of them were action movies featuring violence, including James Bond film Skyfall and superhero franchises The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man. The study did not explain why PG-13 rated films were showing more gun violence.

wHAT is RHAbDOMyOLysis? ‘The point of exercise is to damage the muscle so it then has to repair itself and, in doing so, repairs itself to a stronger level,’ says Professor Greg Whyte (pictured), a sports scientist at Liverpool John Moores University (www.gregwhyte.com). ‘That is traditionally what we call adaptation: we break down the muscle, it repairs and then it adapts.’ Whyte says there are two factors that determine muscle damage. ‘Firstly, it’s the intensity and duration of the exercise,’ he says. ‘A marathon requires intensity for a long period of time. The other factor is doing something new. If you haven’t done squats for a long time, the muscles aren’t adapted to that kind of exercise. Both factors will cause a high level of muscle damage.’ Whyte says muscle damage is normal and rhabdomyolysis is simply an extreme case. ‘Rhabdo-myolysis is a dramatic breakdown of the muscle,’ he says. ‘You get various components of the muscle

with big events now televised on ESPN or Eurosport. This is a world where anybody can compete, with local ‘throwdowns’ happening regularly (where members of one CrossFit affiliate sets up a friendly competition against those from another). But, with its own culture, community and terminology, CrossFit is often accused of being similar to a cult. And it has a dark side – it has been criticised for pushing its participants too far. Former CrossFit Games winner Kristan Clever was given the ‘spirit of the games’ award, seemingly as a reward for pushing on with this year’s CrossFit Games despite spraining her ankle 24 hours before day two of the event. It is also relatively common for CrossFitters to pee or vomit during workouts and for their hands to bleed (from endless pull-ups). The sport is even associated with a rare condition called rhabdomyolysis, where muscle tissue breaks down, releasing harmful substances into the bloodstream and, in extreme cases, causing kidney failure. But none of this, says Froning Jr, should worry the average person considering taking up the sport. ‘Anything can be dangerous but sitting on your couch is incredibly dangerous,’ he says. ‘There’s talk of rhabdomyolysis but more people die doing triathlons than CrossFit.’

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flooding into the blood stream, in particular myoglobin, and this can clog up the kidneys and cause kidney failure.’ But he says the damage has to be really profound to reach that point. ‘It’s very rare for exercise to induce that level of damage,’ says White. ‘We’re using rhabdomyolysis to describe all muscle damage and it’s really not. Rhabdomyolysis is a top-end, clinically dangerous level of muscle damage.’ There’s no denying CrossFit is a very tough workout but, according to Whyte, it’s unlikely it would lead to rhabdomyolysis. ‘I wouldn’t recommend CrossFit for someone just starting to work out,’ he adds. ‘Like any exercise, such as spinning or circuits, you should enter into it in a progressive manner. ‘Start off steady and progressively increase your training load over time. You wouldn’t run a marathon without training and you shouldn’t expect you can do CrossFit having done limited exercise before.’

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by pAuL kEAnE Bernard Brogan says dublin will give all-Ireland winning captain Stephen Cluxton ‘a bit of love’ over winter to make sure he doesn’t retire. newly-crowned all-Star Brogan says he’s aware of rumours linking 32-yearold goalkeeper Cluxton with retirement after lifting the Sam Maguire Cup. and by Brogan’s own admission, Cluxton is a ‘peculiar fish’ though the star forward believes there’s no chance of the top stopper actually quitting. ‘I’ve heard the rumours,’ said Brogan. ‘He’s a peculiar fish at the best of times. He just needs a bit of love every now and again. ‘If we give him a bit of attention at the end of the year and put the arm around the shoulder, I’m sure he’ll come back again. ‘He’s put a massive effort into dublin for 11 years or for however long he’s there. I think there’s loads left. He’s the fittest man, he’s top of every sprint and every long run we do. There’s no issue with his body or anything like that. ‘His girlfriend is a massive dublin fan as well. I’ll probably be talking to her firstly before I talk to him because she might have the last say in it.’ Bernard said he’s personally looking forward to 2014 and is confident that there’ll be no retirements. But pushed on the future of his elder brother, alan, who only togged out for the final this year due to injury and didn’t actually play, he admitted nothing is certain. ‘He’s been talking about his family life and stuff like that and over the last

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Brogan not ready for Cluxo to quit few years he’d often talk about when he’d retire,’ said Bernard. ‘I’d say if we had won the all-Ireland this year and alan played in a lot of games, he probably would have retired.’

Bernard himself finished the year in style, coming good against Kerry and then shooting 2-3 in the all-Ireland final defeat of Mayo to earn his all-Star. But he admitted his patchy mid-sum-

mer form was down to playing too many games earlier in the year. ‘I played 11 weeks in a row at one stage, something like that,’ he revealed. ‘It probably was my error.’

Kettle questions cash comments by GAA chief O’Neill Dublin GAA chief Andy Kettle says the cash rich county deserves more money, not less. GAA President liam O’neill recently raised the notion of ‘equalising things’ between the rich and poor counties in the wake of Dublin’s reported €4million sponsorship deal with AiG. O’neill stressed he wasn’t talking about taking a cut of Dublin’s money, rather that separate central GAA funds could be distributed differently to aid weaker counties. but speaking at yesterday’s launch of the Dubs’ new deal and jersey, Kettle

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said that he was ‘worried about the message’ sent out by O’neill. And the Dubs chairman noted pointedly that in Dublin’s strategic plan, the blue Wave, published in late 2011, they actually called for the county to be treated as a province so that they would receive extra funding from Croke Park. ‘i would be worried about the message that it sends out but i certainly wouldn’t be worried about it (happening),’ said Kettle. ‘i don’t think there is any way in the world that you would see collective (pooling of sponsorship money).

‘You would then have to say are you going to take something off Cork in Munster and put that into a central pot? Are you going to take something off Galway in Connacht?’ Kettle denied that Dublin’s estimated €800,000 per year deal with global insurance giants AiG gives them an ‘unfair advantage’ over their rivals. but he bullishly suggested that Dublin can expect to win three All-ireland football titles in the next ten years. ‘if we are doing everything right, i would hope that we would possibly win three out of ten,” he insisted.

nOvAK DjOKOviC says he is playing some of the best tennis of his career and intends to use the successful defence of his barclays ATP World Tour Finals title as a springboard for success next year. World no.2 Djokovic wants to regain top spot in the rankings from Rafael nadal, whom he overwhelmed in a 6-3, 6-4 victory to maintain an iron grip on his Tour Finals crown. After winning the Australian Open for a third straight year in january, the 26-year-old reached the semi-finals of the French Open before battling to the finals at Wimbledon and the uS Open. improving in those tournaments is his main priority and he is full of confidence after finishing the official ATP season with 22 consecutive victories. Djokovic, who hopes to lead Serbia to Davis Cup glory in the final which starts on Friday against the Czech Republic, won every grand slam except for the French two years ago. He said: ‘next to the run that i had in 2011, this is definitely the second best i’ve had. ‘This is definitely the best possible way i can finish the season. This can serve as a great platform for 2014. i’m extra motivated.’

Shining example: Novak lifts crown

‘We don’t need workers sitting in rows like robots’

IRELAND’S education system must be reformed to ensure entrepreneurial skills and an understanding of risk management are fostered in students of all ages. This is according to leading economist Dr Constantin Gurdgiev, who said that Irish students were being instilled with an aversion to taking risks when it comes to business. ‘Our systems rewards students for regurgitating the stuff they’re expected to regurgitate rather then letting them step outside of the box and find confidence in their own abilities and ideas. ‘There’s the problem, they’ll go through the learning process expecting only what’s in the textbook, becoming accustomed to tackling the world with the most predictable answer. That’s the not entrepreneurship – that’s just ticking boxes,’ said Dr Gurdgiev. Speaking as part of National College of Ireland’s Corn Flakes & Commerce talks, Dr

Gurdgiev said addressing the deficits in the teaching of business and economics were needed in order to unleash the country’s human potential and drive economic growth. ‘I pride myself as a lecturer on coming up with exam questions that I don’t have a definitive answer to – I tell my students I am not looking for a certain answer but rather for them to think about this piece of paper. ‘We can’t teach the entrepreneur genius of Michael Dell or Bill Gates but what we can do is help talented people rise to that level by self-actualising through confidence. ‘I want them to be comfortable in their skin and go and execute their own ideas, and yet, I can’t do it any more because now I am required to submit an answer key for my exams – well how the hell can I submit an answer from something that I don’t know the answer to? We need to learn that boxes aren’t everything because we see the effects of this

thinking everyday.’ He added: ‘Take the HR system in most major companies, their recruitment process often encourages behaviour in people that amounts to little more than sitting in rows like robots executing mechanical tasks. Yes, someone can fill in a balance sheet but that’s not going to generate new business.’ Dr Gurdgiev also recommends a focus on raising the education standard in Ireland. ‘In terms of league tables, Irish universities aren’t at the races. They’re relatively stable – hovering around the mid point, but really that just means they’re closing up the circuit by the David Kearns time we’re finishing.’ The Corn Flakes &Commerce series, which celebrates NCI’s wide range of professional courses, is run in association with Metro Herald and Kellogg’s. The next event will hear from Dr Rhona Mahony, the first female master at the National Maternity Hospital, on November 28.

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Ramires: I would be Mad to exit Blues Chelsea midfielder Ramires will not ask for a move from stamford Bridge if Real Madrid table a January offer. The 26-year-old’s impressive form in the Premier league and Champions league has sparked interest from the Bernabeu. The Blues have also been linked with a swoop for Real’s Germany international sami Khedira. But the Brazilian is happy to see out his contract, which runs until 2017. ‘I see the interest of Real Madrid as a recognition of my good work in europe but I’m under contract with Chelsea and it would be unethical for me to comment [on their interest],’ Ramires said. ‘For the moment, these are only rumours. I am very happy here. I am part of the club’s history. If I leave, Chelsea would have to make the decision. Chelsea is one of the biggest clubs in the world. I have realised my dream here. ‘My goals are never personal but collective. Collective success makes me stronger individually.’

Leaps and bounds: Smalling and United are on the up

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JOLEON LESCOTT is at a loss to explain Manchester City’s failings on the road so far this season. Manuel Pellegrini’s men slipped to a fourth defeat in six away league games at Sunderland on Sunday, a run of results which the manager later acknowledged will damage their hopes of challenging for the top honours if they cannot address it as a matter of urgency. However, Lescott is struggling to understand why a team which has been so clinical at home is struggling so badly in away matches. ‘I’m not sure, it’s hard to say. It’s not like we feel any different going into the game,’ he said. ‘Obviously, the atmosphere and the surroundings are a lot different, but every team has to play away and at the minute, we just can’t put it all together and go on

‘We need to knuckle down from now’

UNiTED ON THE MARCH, wARNs sMALLiNg ChRIs sMallING believes Manchester United are starting to make their customary move towards the top of the Premier league table. after a troubled start to the campaign, David Moyes’ men are up to fifth, five points behind leaders arsenal, who they beat at Old Trafford on sunday. and smalling said: ‘We are starting to show a bit

more form and consistency. That’s positive given how we started the season. It’s starting to come together now and come January and the new year, we’ll be really flying and showing that consistency United have become known for over many years. ‘after the break, we have got three tough away games but we can approach them with confidence.’

a run of results away from home. ‘Yes, we win the games here and there. We won in the League Cup and then West Ham, but it’s been stop-start away from home, so we need to knuckle down now and pick up some points.’ City trail leaders Arsenal by six points, and are now a point behind neighbours United, who have had their own problems under new boss David Moyes. Sunderland have now beaten City 1-0 in their last four league meetings in the north-east, a run that mystifies Lescott. Asked why City have found life there so tough, he said: ‘I don’t know, it’s one of those things. It’s hard to say. ‘I honestly don’t believe we should have lost the game and it’s disappointing. It’s happened four years on the trot, so it’s not a very easy place for us to come at the moment.’

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Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey has said it would take something ‘close to a miracle’ for Lance Armstrong to have his lifetime ban from cycling reduced, even if he co-operated with the new international cycling union inquiry to investigate doping

in the sport’s past. ‘As far as I’m concerned it’s done and dusted. Armstrong did what he did. We all know what that is. He did not cooperate and he was dealt with in a proper process,’ Fahey said. ‘It would take something close to a miracle to change going forward.’

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Rueful: McIlroy

gOLF Rory McIlroy admits off-course distractions hit his form this year as he prepares to defend the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlory is involved in legal battles with his former management and sponsor, and struggled with new Nike clubs. His mediocre season means he cannot retain his Race to Dubai money-list crown this week. He said: ‘There’s definitely been a few things that’ve impacted [on my form]. It’s something I don’t really think any athlete or anyone should ever go through. I’ve seen more lawyers this year than I care to see in my entire life. It’s not something I ever want to go through again and I’m making sure that I won’t.’

FORMULA ONE Fernando Alonso will compete in this weekend’s United States Grand Prix, despite ongoing back pain. The Ferrari man jarred his back during the race in Abu Dhabi ten days ago, and tweeted: ‘Packing the bag for Austin, with some pain, but eager and confident to help the team. I will try to give 100 per cent as always.’

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Porterfield’s 75 helped Ireland to a six-wicket win over Holland in a warm-up match before the World Twenty20 qualifiers in the United Arab Emirates. Porterfield hit seven fours and two sixes to lead his side past Holland’s total of 139 for five with two balls to spare. Ireland play their final warmup match against Papua New Guinea in Dubai today.

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Norwich midfielder Anthony Pilkington is a doubt for the republic of ireland’s friendly against Latvia. The ireland squad met up in Portmarnock on Monday as they prepared to begin training under new management duo Martin o’Neill and roy Keane. however, Pilkington was not among them as he remained in Norfolk for treatment on a dead leg. A spokesman for the FAi said: ‘Anthony Pilkington has emerged as an injury doubt after coming off during Norwich’s clash against west ham on Saturday. ‘he will remain with his club until Thursday while his progress is monitored.’ o’Neill and Keane will have the first game of their reign against Latvia on Friday before heading to Poznan for a friendly against Poland next Tuesday evening.

roy Keane wasted little time in making his presence felt as he formally took up his duties as the republic of ireland’s new assistant manager. The 42-year-old arrived at the training base in Malahide at 9.30am yesterday – a full hour and a half before manager Martin o’Neill and his players were due to begin work ahead of Friday night’s friendly against Latvia. Keane went straight on to the training pitch to ensure everything was in place for the start of the morning session before heading off to inspect the gym facilities. however, the former ireland and Manchester United skipper, who was wearing full training kit, had time to sign autographs and pose for photographs with fans who had turned out to witness the birth of the new regime. But he was back on the pitch long before the first wave of players, headed by current skipper robbie Keane, arrived at 10.45am. The smiling LA Galaxy striker expressed mock surprise at the size of the media pack assembled. o’Neill and the remainder of the squad arrived within minutes on the team coach and he and Keane looked on as the players warmed up, with keepers David Forde, Keiren westwood and rob Elliot working with goalkeeping coach Seamus McDonagh. The management duo looked on from the sidelines, with Keane at one point dispatching a stray ball into a goal standing at the side of the pitch. But the real work began once the cameras had been switched off and journalists asked to leave after their allotted time. They will get their chance today though, with Keane scheduled to hold his first press conference.

Looking on: Keane and O’Neill took charge of the training session ahead of Friday’s match against Latvia

Pilkington is a doubt for Latvia game

Dead leg: Pilkington

Training with Keano was ‘surreal’ for ward by AnTHOny wALsH Stephen Ward enjoyed a ‘surreal’ return to republic of Ireland duty as he found himself on the same training pitch as boyhood hero roy Keane. the 28-year-old Brighton defender grew up supporting Manchester United and watching Keane star for both club and country. But yesterday morning in Malahide, Ward was among the squad which was put through its paces by the republic of Ireland’s new assistant manager, and he admitted it was a strange experience. Ward said: ‘It’s a little bit surreal sometimes, I suppose. You grow up watching him – he is obviously one of the greatest players to play for Ireland. ‘as a kid I was a Manchester United fan, so he had a big influence on my life as a child watching Manchester United, so it’s a bit surreal. ‘It’s good to work with him and obviously it’s a great duo that they have brought in on very high calibre, so it will be really enjoyable.’ It was much like the first day at school for the players as they tried to impress Keane and manager Martin O’neill in the first train-

Comeback kid: Stephen Ward ing session since the pair took over from Giovanni trapattoni and Marco tardelli. Ward said: ‘Obviously when a new manager comes into any team or any group of players you are involved in, it’s like a fresh start and everyone wants to impress. ‘there’s a great buzz around the place. Both in the camp and outside, there’s a lot of

interest. everyone is here to enjoy it first and foremost. everyone wants to be here and represent their country, but also wants to impress the new management team as well.’ Ward was one of the main beneficiaries of trapattoni’s search for new talent as the Italian attempted to increase the pool of players from which he could select, and by the time Ireland headed for the euro 2012 finals in poland and Ukraine, he was firstchoice left-back. however, within months, he was not even in the squad and entrenched in an ultimately unsuccessful battle to prevent club Wolves from slipping into League One. But a summer loan move to Brighton has helped to revive an international career on which he refused to give up. Ward said: ‘We were having a tough enough time at club level trying to make sure that we stayed in the league, which unfortunately we couldn’t. ‘Obviously you are disappointed when the squad is announced and you are not in it, but I never let it get me too down.’ Ward added that it is nice to get back playing and enjoying football and he’s thankful his return has coincided with getting back in the republic of Ireland squad.

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Brogan determined to keep Dubs Captain Cluxton from quitting

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Cian to keep the head down Old hand Cian healy admits he is being forced to hit new heights – by rookie Ireland prop Jack McGrath, writes danny hogan. The leinster team-mates are separated by 39 international caps, but senior man healy sees little difference in quality. and the 26-year-old, who has represented Ireland on 40 occasions, has conceded fellow loosehead prop McGrath’s arrival in Joe Schmidt’s squad has caused him to step up his level once again. healy said: ‘It’s been great watching Jack because when he got included he just constantly plugged away and has been working on the finer details. he wants to learn and is always asking for stuff. When we are put together in the gym or we are with each other in scrummaging, we’re tagging in and out. ‘We are constantly learning off each

other. ‘It is not like I’m not learning anything off him as well. ‘We are bouncing things off each other and what to do different weeks in and out. It’s a nice little team we are getting up.’ Confident the competition will keep sharpening him up, healy said McGrath’s man-of-the-match showing in the 40-9 victory over Samoa underlines his ability. healy said: ‘That competition is healthy. I’m hoping that is going to push me in my game as well and when there is someone that good around as well,

you’ve got to be on top form. ‘If you slip up there is someone there to step in.’ accomplished front-rower healy was forced out of the summer’s victorious British & Irish lions tour of australia with ankle ligament damage – just hours after being cleared of allegations of biting against Western Force. leinster’s frontline prop has no qualms about facing australia in dublin

on Saturday after the summer’s frustrations, though. he said: ‘I’m not really counting the summer thing as anything. ‘It is always great to get to play against one of the Southern hemisphere teams and they pose a big threat in the pack, the tackle and it’s the type of game I like. ‘It is usually a fast game, they are pretty hard-hitting and I’m looking forward to it. I had to park all that (from the summer) and move on.’ Expecting a stern examination at the scrum this weekend, healy warned Ireland not to throw everything at producing a miracle play. ‘We’ve got to stick to our plan. We have been trying to pull magic out and that is when you fall short of what you are trying to do.’

O’neill surprised Roy free to take no.2 role

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MArTIn O’nEILL has admitted he is surprised no club has taken the chance to hand roy Keane a return to management. The new republic of Ireland manager appointed the 42-year-old as his assistant last week with Keane having been out of the game since losing his job at Ipswich in January 2011. O’neill was delighted to have landed a number two he believes will bring genuine quality to the international stage he once graced as a player, but revealed his astonishment at his availability. He said: ‘I know that he feels things didn’t go very well at Ipswich for him. I think sometimes it’s forgotten that in his first season, he actually got Sunderland promoted and did very well. Monthly Certified Distribution Sep 30 - Oct 27, 2013: 56,764

‘But I think I was surprised he hadn’t had another opportunity, that somebody wouldn’t have taken a chance with him. ‘But who knows what might happen here? He’s here, he is focused on it. He wants to do it and I think you will find tomorrow that he is especially ready for it.’ Keane will meet the media this afternoon for the first time since his appointment and given that much of the talk since his return has centred around his Saipan bust-up with then-manager Mick McCarthy ahead of the 2002 World Cup, there is sure to be a packed house.

The former Manchester United midfielder was at the training ground by 9.30am yesterday, 90minutes before the players were due to begin work under the new regime for the first time, and the feedback after a session in which he played a leading role was positive. O’neill said: ‘roy? Well, I sent him there early,’ before adding: ‘I did not, he wanted to go. ‘He was with the goalkeeping coach and Seamus (McDonagh) is always early. Seamus would have started at 5.30am

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this morning if he could, so roy wanted to go with him just to get a few things organised. ‘He was very focused, looking forward to it and he was talking a great deal about it last night, and true to his word, he was there.’ O’neill revealed he spoke briefly to the players on Monday and then again yesterday morning, and he and Keane will spend the next two days getting to know the squad ahead of Friday’s friendly against Latvia. The manager knows the likes of John O’Shea, Keiren Westwood and Aiden McGeady, and looks forward to working with Andy reid, while he insists he is keeping an open mind on the return of exiles like Stephen Ireland.

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