Metro Herald, January 6, 2014 by Metro Herald

Monday, January 6, 2014

Las Greyness

Rob steals the show at 70 »p13

Killer cancer killed off in just six days

A TREATMENT for one of the deadliest cancers has been uncovered by researchers who say it can wipe out the disease within a week. The new drug, which targets pancreatic cancer but could be just as effective at treating other kinds of tumours, is to be tested on humans later this year. If the trials are successful, the therapy, which destroys a protective coating around the diseased cells, could be available to patients within a decade. Research leader Dr Douglas Fearon said: ‘By enabling the body to use its own defences to attack cancer, this approach has the potential to greatly improve treatment of solid tumours. ‘That is not just restricted to pancreatic cancer but would be effective in many forms, including ovarian and lung cancer because they react similarly.’ Pancreatic cancer, which killed Apple founder Steve Jobs, actor Patrick Swayze and former Irish minister for finance Brian Lenihan is

by aidan radnedge

diagnosed in about 370 people in Ireland every year. Only four per cent of sufferers survive beyond five years after diagnosis. It is rarely detected early and is often too advanced to be treated but the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute researchers believe their new drug, known as AMD3100 or Plerixafor, could work even with late diagnoses. It breaks down a thick wall of chemokine protein which forms a protective barrier around pancreatic cancer cells and prevents the body’s T cells from breaking through to attack the tumour. The medicine works with other drugs to boost the helpful T cells’ activity. In tests on mice, virtually all the tumours were wiped out within six days – the first time this has been achieved in pancreatic cancer research. Human trials are now expected to start later this year at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

‘Approach could treat other forms’

JANUARY

SALE

SNOW JOKE: If you’re feeling battered by the breezy few days we’ve had, spare a thought for our American brethren. After hammering the northeast, a snowstorm that is expected to bring their coldest weather in two decades is moving in on the mid-western states, with wind-chill forecast to bring temperatures down to a life-threatening minus-51C (minus-60 Fahrenheit) in some places. Here, Allan Umscheid feels the chill as he clears snow outside his premises in Lawrence, Kansas PICTURE: AP

Orlando & New York City 5 Nights Orlando 2 Nights New York

FROM

€815pp

Washington &

Caribbean Fly/Cruise

3 Nights Washington 9 Night Cruise

FROM

€1769pp

americanholidays.com

SALE ENDS 31st JANUARY

Dublin

01 6733894

Terms & conditions apply apply. Prices are subject to availability and include return flights with United Airlines ex Dublin Dublin, taxes & accommodation. All offers are based on 2 adults sharing except Orlando & New York which is 2 adults 2 children ( ages 2-11) American Holidays is fully licensed and bonded by Commission for Aviation Regulation (TO 029).

Keep Dublin tidy – Please recycle this Metro Herald when you are finished with it

METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

Monday 6/1/14 How to contact us Email:

news@metroherald.ie sports@metroherald.ie features@metroherald.ie sales@metroherald.ie Text: ‘Mail’ to 53131 (30c plus usual text charge) Visit: www.e-metroherald.ie Editorial: 01 705 5088 Advertising: 01 705 5010 Distribution: 01 705 5007

Social media Facebook.com/ metroherald Twitter.com: @metrohnews #metromailbox

182 Hours of sleep

we lose every year that is never regained. Our average six-and-a-half hours a night is 30mins less than the recommended minimum Ireland’s rate of newsprint recycling is now up to 79%. Keep reading, keep recycling – thank you.

Today is...

Women’s Christmas... When tradition has it the menfolk do all the household work while women finally get to relax after a festive season of cooking, cleaning and generally making Christmas happen. Times have changed, but it is still a tradition...

From the archives (2009): New iguana found, and it’s pink

A new species of Galapagos iguana has been identified, which naturalist Charles Darwin missed during his travels. Scientists have revealed that the ‘rosada’ – or pink – iguana is a species in its own right, with a lineage dating back 5million years.

Today’s birthdays

Rowan Atkinson, comic actor (pictured), 59; Nigella Lawson, TV chef, 54; Alex Turner, 28, singer/songwriter (Arctic Monkeys); Paul McShane, footballer, 27.

CLOCkWORD The solutions from 1 to 12 are all six-letter words ending with the letter R in the centre. Moving clockwise from 1, the letters in the outer circle will spell out the name of a former Italian prime minister. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Dairy product Rubber Dental accretion Great fear Babylonian deity 6. Chat 7. Relating to the

8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

eye Upward curve Steering board Writer Surgical rasp Weaken

Friday’s solution: Doctor Watson

Weather Weather Today

Max: 10°c

Continuing windy again today with widespread heavy showers, more prolonged in western areas. There is still the risk of coastal flooding with high tides. Temperatures between 7°C to 10°C in blustery winds.

Derry

7�C

Donegal

8�C

9�C

Cavan

Galway

10�C

Athlone

Dublin

9�C

Tipperary

10�C

Waterford

Tralee

Cork

Tonight

Belfast

10�C

9�C Sunrise: 8.39am Sunset: 4.23pm

Min: 4°c

The windy weather will continue overnight, with heavy, possibly thundery showers along western and southern coasts. Temperatures between 4°C to 6°C.

EUROPE today

Tomorrow Another breezy day, with more heavy showers in Atlantic coastal counties. Much of Leinster and Ulster should remain largely dry. Temperatures between 8°C to 9°C in fresh southwest winds.

8�C 8�C 9�C 9�C

8�C

8�C 9�C 9�C Max: 9°c

Athens

15 °c

Barcelona Berlin

17 °c 8 °c

Brussels

13 °c

London

13 °c 8 °c

Geneva

Paris

12 °c 13 °c

Rome

15 °c

Madrid

Monday, January 6, 2014 METRO HERALD

Spain: At Sagrada Família, Barcelona

Roaming: Mr Fox loves history and culture and the Colosseum in Rome offers both, above, while the Duomo in Milan is the ideal place to stop for a little reflection, right Pictures: sWNs

Touching tale behind furred world traveller by AiDAn RADnEDgE HE flies cub class wherever he goes and his holiday snaps knock the stuffing out of Paddington’s travels. Mr Fox was a last-minute birthday gift for Jessica Johnson when she was three years old and the pair have been inseparable for 32 years. Together they have visited London, the Vatican, Venice, Rome, New York, Hawaii and Las Vegas. Mr Fox was a gift from family friend Gary Moore, who was recently diagnosed with stage four cancer. Graphic designer Ms Johnson, 35, hopes to raise enough cash to send Mr Moore on a world trip of a lifetime. ‘The pictures started out as a lark but I wanted to show Mr Fox having his own adventures,’ said Ms Johnson from Brooklyn, New York. ‘In Florida, he was even taken to one side for chemical testing. They must have thought I was smuggling drugs inside him. I would send the

Fantastic Mr Fox the globetrotter

Well-travelled: Jessica Johnson pictures to Gary and he would get such a kick out of it, seeing a stuffed animal he bought all those years ago travelling around the world. ‘His diagnosis was heart-breaking. He’s been in and out of chemo for a year now and I just want to give him the same joy he’s given me.’ n To see the Travelling Mr Fox project and to make a donation, go to: www.thetravelingmrfox.com

Fur fun: Beside the famous Rialto bridge in Venice, Italy (above) and outside Buckingham Palace and at Wimbledon

METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

Dublin house prices race ahead with 11% rise

Supply warning: Ronan Lyons

ProPerty prices in Dublin rose by 11 per cent last year, while the commuter belt counties saw an increase of only one per cent, a report on the market has revealed. Daft.ie said Meath, Wicklow and Kildare saw little change while the strong growth in pockets of the capital masked signs that prices are coming down in every other part of the country. Despite the continued poor market outside Dublin – a fall of six per cent and asking prices down four per cent in Galway, six per cent in Cork, seven per cent in Waterford and 12 per

cent in Limerick – the website said overall it was the smallest annual decline in five years. the average asking price for a home in the country is now €171,000, up 0.2 per cent from the beginning of last year and down 55 per cent from the peak. that jumps to €384,000 for an average three-bedroom family home in the south Co Dublin area, Daft.ie said. the north of the county saw the smallest growth in Dublin in the year, at five per cent. ronan Lyons, economist with Daft.ie, urged authorities to consider freeing up brownfield

industrial land and some greenfield sites for new developments or impose taxes on the value of derelict or empty sites in the city. He warned if better use is not made of empty sites, ‘Dublin will increasingly become an enclave for those with the highest incomes’. Kieran Harte, Daft.ie spokesman, said: ‘the tale of 2013 was definitely the lack of supply in sales, rental and shared accommodation in the capital’. He said the only solution is to begin planning for new accommodation to cater for the demand created by new jobs in the city.

No shelter from the storm by jOANNE AHERN THE country was bracing itself for yet another battering last night, as Met Éireann forecast gale force gusts of 100-120kph in coastal areas of the west, and mid west, with similar gusts of 90-110kph for the rest of the country, including Dublin. Forecasters also warned the combination of the wind, high tides and very high seas pose the main risk to coastal areas, with a threat of local flooding inland from heavy downpours. Surf reports warned of massive swells moving with the storm and estimated waves in some areas could reach anywhere from 10metres to as high as double that. The continued bad weather is expected to hamper clean-up operations, including at the resort of Lahinch, Co Clare, which had its promenade destroyed in last week’s storm with repairs estimated to cost over €1million. Windows in seaside apartments, homes and businesses were blown in by sea water which reached heights of 20metres after breaking over the sea wall in the town. Homeowners and businesses have been counting the cost with the series of storms estimated to have run up insurance claims of €200m – and, in turn, hitting premiums. On Friday, the Liffey burst its banks in the docklands area of Dublin for the first time ever. In Galway, the Spanish Arch area of the city was under several inches of water following high tides and storm, while in Cleggan, in the county, six cars were swept off the pier at the Inishbofin ferry docks. The promenade in Salthill also took a battering and residents in the Carna area had only pedestrian access through the fields to their homes as access roads were washed away. Elsewhere, water levels on the River Shannon are expected to rise over several days into this week with parts of the Midlands at increased risk of flooding. Weather warnings were also in place in the UK and Northern Ireland.

20metre waves predicted for some locations

A kelping hand: A boy carries seaweed as he wades through seawater during high tides and waves in Clontarf yesterday Picture: collins

City’s litter problem picking up ‘Drunk room’ at teenage disco look of main streets. Among areas DUBLIN city centre has been given a singled out for criticism are the clean bill of health for the first time in litter blackspots of Upper the 18 years of a national litter survey. the capital was graded as good as Buckingham Street and european standards but assessors Marlborough Street, which the warned parts of the north inner city group said were in a terrible state. the survey of 42 towns and cities remain a blackspot and roads around showed that, overall, 83 per cent are the airport continue to be an eyesore. research by An taisce for Irish as clean as or cleaner than their Litter: Survey european counterparts. Business Against Litter (Ibal) also Nineteen were cleaner than the average, warned that the number of vacant with a further 16 in line with the average, commercial properties is a deepening while all major cities were given clean status. concern and tends to detract from the

A POPULAR underage disco has introduced a ‘drunk room’ to treat inebriated teenagers. The facility, which organisers describe as a ‘medical room’, is part of the popular Wezz disco held at the Old Wesley Rugby Club in Donnybrook. Speaking to the Sunday World newspaper, event organiser Donie Bolger said: ‘The kids call it a drunk room, but we call it a medical room. You may have four, five, six in there. They’re checked by the Red Cross, assessed, and then the parents are phoned immediately.’ He added: ‘It’s mandatory that nobody is ever

put out on the street.’ Mr Bolger said that drinking is not acceptable at the Wezz disco, the Under-14s back to school event which was held on Friday night, but said the presence of such a facility acknowledges the fact that young people drink. He said: ‘We have a zero-tolerance policy to drink. But at the same time we have a burden, a duty of care, and there’s no way if they arrive into Wesley that they’re going to be put out on the street’. He added that getting such a call is a shock for many parents.

Monday, January 6, 2014 METRO HERALD

Minister calls for more arts input as culture chief quits by jOAnnE AHERn lace as artistic director last week, a public meeting on Friday saw matters come to a head with demands for both Ms Ryan and ex-MEP Mr Cox to consider their positions. Ms Ryan announced her resignation, saying: ‘The commentary surrounding the events of recent days has compromised my capacity to continue leading this project.’

Picture: Andres PovedA

ARTS Minister Jimmy Deenihan has promised greater input from people working in the arts after the head of Limerick City of Culture resigned yesterday amid controversy over her appointment. Patricia Ryan, former adviser to chairman of the year-long programme Pat Cox, was given the €120,000 job of chief executive without the position being advertised. Following the angry resignation of Karl Wal-

Thinking outside the box

Creative expo Showcase 2014 at the RDS from January 19-22 will feature fashion from top designers, including Magee and Ireland’s Eye, whose blazer and knit throw were modelled by Carl Shaaban at Collins Barracks

Daley out with boyfriend as new TV show bellyflops DIVER Tom Daley has shared a picture of himself eating out with Dustin Lance Black, apparently confirming they’re dating after weeks of speculation. The British Olympian and Hollywood screenwriter were also seen partying at London nightclub G-A-Y after Tom’s show Splash! returned to UTV on Saturday. But they may have ended up drowning their sorrows instead of celebrating, as the celebrity diving contest scored record low ratings of only 4.9million viewers. Daley, who attracted an outpouring of public support when he announced he was in a relationship with a man, had previously been photographed with Black, 39. Daley posted the picture on Instagram with the message: Couple: Daley & Black ‘#splash celebrations :) Beef Wellington...yes please!!!’

Minister Deenihan, who has called for the programme to continue ‘in a calm way’, will hold meetings with council chiefs and the City of Culture board in coming days. Lending an air of levity to the situation via Twitter, Limerick outfit the Rubber Bandits said: ‘Patricia Ryan has stepped down as CEO of #limerickcityofculture after a sixhour gun battle. Rebel Forces are organising a coffee morning.’

Ryan: Resigned

Fire rescue of 8

EIGHT people were rescued from a city centre building in the early hours of yesterday morning, after fire gutted it. Three adults and five children were taken from the flat complex at Thomas Court, off Thomas Street, after five units of Dublin Fire Brigade were called to the address by passers-by at around 3.30am. Firefighters had to cut through security bars on the ground floor windows to get to some of those trapped inside, while others were rescued from the second floor with a ladder.

METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

only a leg is left visible as hungry snake strikes to gobble up unwary amphibian

Clearing his plate: A black forest racer snake comes to the end of his alfresco frog feast picturES: BArcroft MEDiA

Sorry... i’ve got a frog in my throat TIME for lunch... and they say the tree frog comes highly recommended. A snake with an empty belly proved more than a match for his unsuspecting amphibious victim. The stomach-churning sight was captured from start to leg-wiggling

by AiDAn RADnEDgE finish by photographer Nicolas Reusens. His pictures of the masked tree frog being devoured were taken close to the El Arenal volcano area of Costa Rica.

Actress Lucy Liu, 45, made her name playing a vicious lawyer in Ally McBeal. Now she’s Dr Watson to Jonny Lee Miller’s Sherlock Holmes in Elementary

You grew up in New York, where Elementary is filmed. How do you enjoy shooting on home turf? Even as a New

Yorker and someone who grew up in Queens, there are so many neighbourhoods I had never spent any time in before. I don’t feel I even really know the neighbourhood I grew up in all that well. People say to me all the time: ‘Oh my God, there are so many amazing restaurants in Jackson Heights. Which one would you recommend?’ And I’m like: ‘I have no idea. I went to the diner, once in a while, for a treat. We’d get a cheeseburger deluxe if we had extra money, and that was it.’ It’s great as an adult to actually spend time and really get familiar with New York.

You also shot some of this season in London. How was that? The makers of the show re-

ally wanted to highlight all the big sites, such as Big Ben, the London Eye, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace – they were really billboarding London. But as Jonny was saying to me, in a scene where we were supposedly driving in from the airport, if we were really doing that, you would not have the backdrop of

HAVING survived apparently falling to his death in the hit Sherlock TV series, the fictional detective now faces being kidnapped. The super-sleuth could be snatched by writers seeking to cash in on his popularity after the descendants of his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lost a court battle. The would-be Moriarty hoping to capture Holmes is Leslie Klinger, who claims the copyright on Doyle’s work had expired under a 100-year rule. A California court ruled Mr Klinger was allowed to publish a book of his own Holmes stories, provided he does not refer to details from Doyle tales less than 100 years old. An appeal has been launched but, should it fail, imitators would be able to import Holmes and Dr Watson into their own stories without permission, while fictional characters such as James Bond would also be at risk.

‘The frog was alive and I was photographing it before all this happened,’ said 38-year-old Mr Reusens, who is based in Barcelona. ‘I saw the snake coming slowly. I felt guilty for not helping this poor creature from being eaten, but that is how nature rules. I also could hear the frog screaming in panic – that sounds funny, but it was truly disgusting.’ It took the snake about two minutes to devour the frog, which offered little resistance. ‘Its legs tried to grab whatever was in the way, but there was nothing the frog could do,’ Colombia-born Mr Reusens added. ‘When the snake was finished, it just moved on and tried to catch more prey a few metres away – although this time with no luck.’ Experts identified the reptile as a black forest racer (Drymobius melanotropis), which is native to central America.

60 seconds the Changing of the Guard and the Houses of Parliament. And we were shooting on rooftops all over the city with backdrops that made no sense geographically. I think the attitude for the show was: forget what’s real, we spent all this money so you are really going to see London. I just sat there, pretty complacent, just very pleased to be there. It was very funny watching the assistant director trying to herd the public around during shooting, shouting: ‘Quiet on set!’ Nobody cared.

Did you have any idea when you took on the role of Ling Woo how huge Ally McBeal would be? Not at all. I had audi-

tioned for a more regular role on Ally McBeal and I didn’t get it but then they came back a few weeks later with this guest-star role and at the same time I was being offered a play. The TV role was only eight days’ work; the play was running for three months and I wanted to do the play because it was more artistic. But my manager insisted I take Ally McBeal – she told me I was going to pass on the play that time and I was going to do this show, and that was that. Then, of course, it became such a part of

the zeitgeist and changed my career.

Were you a fan of action movies before you started making them yourself? I didn’t sign on

to do action and I didn’t start out doing it – it just blossomed into an entire career for me. And I have enough scars and grazes now to show my career trajectory. It’s like the way kids have little lines on the wall to show how tall they are; I’ve got scars after surgeries from films.

Were you familiar with the Sherlock Holmes stories before you took on the role of Watson? Growing up in my fami-

ly, reading Sherlock Holmes and Watson wasn’t something that was part of our lives, being from Asia. It’s not that we were learning about the Ming dynasty either but classic English literature was just not something we focused on. I read the books when I got the role, though.

Your parents moved to the US from China and met in New York. How strongly influenced by their Chinese heritage was your childhood? I was born in the US but I didn’t speak English until I

A case of identity for Holmes and Dr Watson

“

Becoming an actor was completely alien to my family. And I think, to a certain extent, it still is went to school – I spoke Chinese with my parents. That sort of thing just changes the way you receive things and interpret and digest them. We did not grow up with a lot of money at all, and my parents definitely encouraged us to focus on our education and to work – we always had jobs. We didn’t grow up with silver spoons in our mouths – everything we had, we had to earn.

Were you a big fan of films and television growing up?

We rarely went to the movies. We did watch television but becoming an actor wasn’t something that was even in the stratosphere as a career idea. What came after high school was college; what came after college was a job. Acting was never a job that was ever considered. It was completely out of the ballpark, completely alien to my family. And, I think, to a certain extent it still is.

You’re playing Watson as a woman – the first time anyone has done that. Would you like to try playing other men as women in the future?

Oh, there are tons I’d like to do that with. When you go into acting you

SpLASH

do these open calls and you have to go in with a monologue. I never went in with a female monologue, I always went in with a male one. I just thought they were more interesting, that they were closer to what I was trying to speak from my heart. There was a sense of spice and fire in them that I really enjoyed. Jane Mulkerrins Elementary is on Sky Living on Tuesdays at 9pm.

Monday, January 6, 2014 METRO HERALD

‘‘

I now have a career in Digital Marketing eting Suzanne McVey Online Marketing Specialist

Masters |

★

★★ ★ ★

Part time

Online

Phone : +353 (1) 531 1200 www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com

Bey thrilled to finally release her inner tiger B

Professional Diploma | Postgraduate Diploma

Full time

METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

eyoncé believes she has finally earned the right to express herself sexually after spending the last 17 years focusing on being a good role model for her younger fans. The 32-yearold, who released her first album with Destiny’s child when she was 15, admitted she felt ‘stifled’ by the pressure to always be responsible. ‘now I’m in my 30s and those children that grew up listening to me have grown up. I always felt like it was my responsibility to be aware of kids and their parents,’ she confessed. ‘I felt like it stifled me and I always felt in a sense I could not

by jEnnI McknIgHT express everything. I’ve done so many things in my life and my career that at this point I feel I’ve earned the right to be me and express any and every side of myself.’ A n d Queen Bey has certainly let her hair down in the accompanying videos for her latest album, Beyoncé. In the latest instalment of her documentary chronicling the making of the record, the Drunk In Love singer shared clips from the video to her track Rocket, which sees her in lingerie, writhing around on a bed and seducing the camera

as she runs her hands over her body. ‘What I love about this song is it takes you through this journey. you’re flirting and you’re talking all of your arrogant s***. Then you climax and then you have your cigarette,’ she explained in the clip titled Honesty. ‘I don’t think I would have done it back then; I wouldn’t have been comfortable, I would have been too afraid of what people thought but I dropped that fourth wall and I did it.’ Bey also explained that her new approach had allowed her to be a lot more personal on the album. ‘I feel like I’m opening up a lot in these videos and showing a lot of sides to me that only a few people have ever seen,’ she added. ‘I think all of us want happiness and we want to be able to be ourselves and and sometimes you have to take the good with the bad… and all of those things I feel happy to express and share.’

Cheryl: The only guy I kissed was aged nine Cheryl Cole has hit back at ‘stupid’ reports she snogged a student during a New Year’s Eve party. The singer scoffed after a newspaper published a story about her locking lips with 20year-old Tom Julius – accompanied by a picture of her

kissing a nine-year-old fan. ‘You all can plainly see what rubbish these papers talk,’ she said after posting a screen grab of the article on Instagram. ‘This is clearly a child! Look at him!’ Tom also denied kissing Cole after meeting her at the bash in Cape Town, South Africa.

New girl Dolores raises her Voice by jOAnnE AHERn neW judge Dolores o’Riordan got off to a flying start in the opening show of this season’s The Voice of Ireland competition, adding three acts to her team. Joining Kian egan, Bressie and Jamelia on the judging panel, the Limerick woman and former cranberries singer now has seven more places to fill. Meanwhile, egan chose two acts, with Bressie and Jamelia picking one act each. A wildcard entry was held for the first time this year, chosen by 2FM DJs Ruth

Scott, Dan Hegarty, cormac Battle and Jenny Green. Bressie, Dolores and Kian all turned around for wildcard caoin Fitzpatrick, who chose Bressie as his mentor. each judge will pick ten acts over the next four weeks in blind auditions and pit them against each other in the battle stages. They must then decide which two they’ll take through to the live shows, The winner will be announced on April 27 at Dublin’s Helix, with a recording contract with Universal the prize.

‘‘

Monday, January 6, 2014 METRO HERALD

I now have a real Perry favours ng of how understanding unders fruit and veg eting Digital Marketing works

★

Good exposure: Cara Delevingne looks every inch the star as she poses for the latest campaign for lingerie brand La Perla. It is the start of a big year for the 21-year-old British supermodel who is set to appear in two films. First, in Kids In Love, she stars next to reported real-life love interest Aki Omoshaybi. The second is director Michael Winterbottom’s The Face Of An Angel. It is loosely based on the Amanda Knox trial, with Delevingne playing Englishwoman Melanie PiCture: SCoPe

Philip McCabe Brand Leader

Far from being a rock‘n’roll diva, Katy Perry has more healthy tastes. The 29-year-old reportedly insisted fresh vegetables, such as spinach and broccoli, were available in her dressing room at all times in Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas. Gossip website TMZ claimed Perry also ordered two large baskets of fruit, while dinner had to include a vegetarian option with quinoa or couscous. Perry said all meals had to be low-fat and could not contain MSG. She also requested bottles of Pinot Grigio and Argentine Malbec. Perry recently revealed on Alan Carr: Chatty Man she completed a three-month teetotal detox after a difficult emotional period.

Copperfield: Life’s just magic with my love Chloe Millionaire magician David Copperfield has just become engaged to Chloe Gosselin, a 28-year-old French model and designer, whom he has known for six years. Copperfield, 57, said he had moved on since his romance with supermodel Claudia Schiffer, who he dated for six years before she married film director Matthew Vaughn. ‘Oh, that was a long time ago. Now I’m engaged and in a committed relationship with Chloe in my mind and in my heart,’ he told Hello! magazine. The couple were interviewed at his Caribbean island hideaway, Copperfield Bay. Gosselin said: ‘I’m so lucky to have found David. There are very few people in the world like him.’ Read the full interview in Hello!, out now.

Masters Full time

Part time

Online

I slapped Leo so hard I thought he’d sue me The Wolf Of Wall Street actress Margot Robbie has revealed that she slapped Leonardo DiCaprio so hard during her audition she feared he’d sue her. ‘I got a little lost in the moment. I slapped his face and said, “F*** you”. There was a stunned silence, then they all burst out laughing,’ the 23year-old told GQ of her casting

Professional Diploma | Postgraduate Diploma

call for the Martin Scorsese flick. ‘I’d thought they were going to sue me. I apologised profusely but Leo said, “That was brilliant. Hit me in the face again”. The former Neighbours star also admitted she finds it tough to keep her bikini body because of her love of ‘beer, fries and burgers’.

Phone : +353 (1) 531 1200 www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com

10 METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

Icebreaker sails off to rescue... icebreakers A HEAVY icebreaker has been despatched to rescue the crew of two other icebreakers trapped in Antarctica. It will take the Polar Star at least seven days to cut its way through to reach more than 120 crew stuck near the frozen continent’s eastern edge. The Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy has been trapped in Commonwealth Bay since Christmas Eve, while the Chinese ship which came to its rescue, Xue Long or Snow Dragon, reported on Friday it too had become stuck in thick ice. ‘Our highest priority is safety of

life at sea, which is why we are assisting in breaking a navigational path for both of these vessels,’ said Vice Admiral Paul Zukunft, of the US Coast Guard. ‘We are always ready and duty bound to render assistance in one of the most remote and harsh environments on the face of the globe.’ Polar Star has diverted from its mission to break a channel to re-supply the US Antarctic research station on Ross Island. The 101 crew aboard the Chinese ship and 22 aboard the Russian vessel are well stocked with supplies and in no immediate danger.

World

Soft landing: A fire crew inspects the stranded plane, which escaped with buckled landing gear, whiles hundreds of drivers wait on the expressway pictures: epA/reuters

digest

Amazon billionaire Pope announces first airlifted from island tour of the Holy Land

EcUADOR: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was airlifted from a cruise ship by the Ecuadorian navy after suffering an ‘intensely painful’ kidney stone condition, it has emerged. He was flown from the Galapagos Islands to Baltra island where he took his private jet back to the US for surgery on new year’s day. ‘Galapagos: five stars. Kidney stones: zero stars,’ Mr Bezos, 49, wrote in an email.

VATIcAN cITY: Pope Francis is to tour the Holy Land for the first time as pontiff. He will visit Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Jordan’s capital Amman in May. He revealed his three-day trip at his weekly Sunday blessing. It has been planned to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic meeting in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and the then leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, Patriarch Athenagoras.

SOUTH KOREA: A freezing competitor tears into a mountain trout during a hand-fishing contest at the annual Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in northern Gangwon province picture: epA

Rodman courts Kim Dish of the day: Rare with NBA’s all stars bluefin tuna, 95% off

NORTH KOREA: Self-styled ‘basketball diplomat’ Dennis Rodman is preparing a team of former NBA stars to play the national team on Wednesday. Undeterred by leader Kim Jong-un’s appalling human rights record, the 52-year-old said: ‘We are looking forward to arriving in Pyongyang, meeting the citizens, visiting charities and using the opportunity to develop new relationships.’

jAPAN: A giant bluefin tuna has been sold for a fraction of the jawdropping sum paid for a similar fish last year. The 230kg catch was bought for €52,000 by a sushi merchant even though he paid €1.1million for a smaller bluefin at auction 12 months ago. Prices have fallen because the rare species is now in greater supply. The sale took place in Tokyo at the world’s biggest fish and seafood market.

and finally... INDIA: If you’re writing a postcard in New Delhi and your pen runs out of ink, look up 15-year-old Tushar Lakhanpal. He is laying claim to a world record after collecting more than 14,000 pencils, all of different designs.

Plane crazy? No, I aimed for the road, reveals pilot

A DESPERATE pilot had to make an emergency landing on a busy road when his plane lost power. Amazingly neither Michael Schwartz nor his two passengers were injured after he glided the Piper Cherokee PA-28 plane on to the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx in New York. Their escape was thanks to six quickthinking road workers who were fixing potholes when the plane approached. The men led by Miguel Lopez, stopped the traffic using their vans, giving the plane an empty space to land. ‘The plane turned and hit some treetops, Mr Lopez told the New York Daily News. ‘Then it landed straight down. The landing wheels buckled under the pressure of the plane.’ Mr Schwartz, 50, was on his phone after the accident, trying to arrange a tow for his plane. ‘He kept asking the person ‘‘What am

by jOEL TAYLOR

I going to do with the plane?’” Mr Lopez said. ‘I told him: ‘‘At least you didn’t get a ticket for parking on the Major Deegan.’’’ ‘It is amazing,’ said Giovanna Schwartz, the relieved wife of the hero pilot. ‘I’m just thankful he learned how to land well,’ she said from the couple’s home in South Salem, New York State. ‘The propeller wasn’t moving, and it went down right over us,’ said eyewitness Jarel Paul. ‘It was gliding, he was trying to make a safe landing.’ Air traffic controllers tried to divert the plane to LaGuardia Airport but lost contact on Saturday at about 3.20pm ‘When you hear a call like that, it causes a lot of puckering,’ said a Port Authority source. ‘That means a plane has crashed or there’s a fire on the airplane. That’s the ‘Oh s---’ call.”

Taken off: The plane is removed from the highway on Saturday. It was returning from a flight past the Statue of Liberty when it lost power and had to land

Schuey was doing just 20kph on ski slope MICHAEL Schumacher was skiing gently before being critically injured in a crash, a witness claims. The German F1 champion was travelling between two pistes at 20kph, according to footage made on a phone. The video, by a flight attendant, could be handed to a French state prosecutor investigating the accident. Schumacher, 45, was placed in an induced coma after hitting his head on a rock in Meribel in the French Alps on December 29. Footage from his helmet camera is being examined.

Malicious Yahoo ads infect users THOUSANDS of Yahoo users have been hit by a malware cyber attack. Visitors to the internet giant’s homepage were shown adverts linked to malicious websites. An estimated 27,000 computers were becoming infected with the virus an hour, security company FoxIT claimed, adding that the outbreak might have begun on Monday: ‘It is unclear which group is behind this attack but the attackers are clearly financially motivated.’

Monday, January 6, 2014 METRO HERALD

Kickstart The New You

Very Low Calorie Diet Choose 6 Portions per Day to keep you feeling full while giving rapid weight loss results

‘I was 13 stone 11.5 pounds and now I’m 11 stone 10 pounds and still losing!’

MARY from Kildare

Available at leading pharmacies nationwide

For full list of Stockists go to www.nupo.ie

12 METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

Mailbox

Email: Twitter:

mail@metroherald.ie Text: @metrohnews and Facebook: #metromailbox

‘Mail’ to 53131* Facebook.com/ metroherald

*Please include a name and location. Texts cost €0.30 per message + standard network charges. SP. Oxygen8 Communications, 4th Floor, Malt House North, Grand Canal Quay, D2. Customer service number 0818286606

Racegoers out for a good time and to back a winner

o JBoy, I attended the Leopardstown races every day for the four days of the festival and I did not see any outlandish behaviour from any of the racegoers. I would like to see some proof of the wild antics you talk about, otherwise I will presume that you are exaggerating. As for barbaric animal torture, horse racing has been going on in this country for hundreds of years and the majority of Irish people have received enjoyment from it. CP ■ I would like to take strong issue with JBoy’s comments on the Leopardstown racing festival. I attended two days of the festival with my Dad and really enjoyed the great atmosphere, I only observed

people having a good time and trying to back winners. Regarding JBoy’s misguided comments on ‘Ireland 2013: barbaric animal torture’ – I would point out that racehorses are well looked after by a dedicated and committed team of trainers, stable-staff and jockeys all year around. Richard, Maynooth ■ Anyone else get a shock at the huge increase in Luas/bus tickets when they came back to work? My first day back last Thursday and my 30-day combi (luas/bus) ticket has gone up from €131.50 to €145! I can rent a monthly parking space for €60. I think my new year’s resolution will be to drive to work from now on. It’ll save me a fortune as I wouldn’t even spend €85 a month on diesel. Sara

gOOD On yA

yEH big RiDE

● I would like to say a huge thank you to the lady who gave me €3 for my busfare after not having credit on my Leap card and no change on the 15b at 7.50 am on Butterfield Avenue last Friday. Dee

● To the beautiful blonde running into Pearse station last Thursday around 4pm. You run like Phoebe Buffay from Friends, but you looked hot doing it.

RAnDOM AcTs Of kinDnEss

Guy With The Dimples

yOuR RusH-HOuR cRusH

Quick pic

MAKING A SPLASH: Richard Warren sent in thIs great picture of the waves smashing against the sea wall at high tide on Sandymount strand with the Poolbeg chimneys in Ringsend visible in the background ■ Tracey, I can only assume you have no interest in football or you are an ABU! We are not, as you put it, whingeing – we are stating facts! Webb got, not one, but two decisions wrong in our game. So rather than whingeing about us I suggest you watch highlights of the game and see what we United fans are on about. Louise, Dublin ■ Tracey, you don’t happen to be a Liverpool supporter do you? Just a hunch. Man U red born and bred

■ So when are the gardaí or Dublin City Council going to tackle the problem of illegally-parked taxis on Dame Street? Buses are being forced to grind to a halt whilst taxis park on double yellow lines. Bus stops are inaccessible and passengers have to get on/off buses in the most dangerous of situations. It’s only a matter of time before someone’s badly hurt. Seriously, it’s time to get the finger out and issue fines. Matt, Ringsend

It could make a nice ice-breaker in the lift

TREnDing #irishweather ● Sitting in the car for 10mins because you can’t even run to the front door.

@Niser37x

● 12 mile run in crazy wind and rain! Just starting to heat up now #running.

@Briandbegley

● ‘Very high if not phenomenal seas possible for this coming Monday’ say @MetEireann Stay away from the coast folks.

@anthonyodonovan

■ The irony of a shipload of ‘expert scientists’ having to be rescued from the frozen sea ice of Antarctica. They told us it was all gone. Melted. Looks like they believed their own BS about global warming. EB ■ Sewing fairy? What a relief. Thanks, Rosie. I thought I had just got a lot fatter over Christmas. Porky Pete ■ Fellow lift users, does pressing the same button in a lift numerous times make it react faster or, does pressing it once suffice? Well? Lady Lift ■ I totally agree with Richard’s sentiment ‘eat if a plant/ don’t eat if made in a plant’ point regarding sugar being a fat-creating ingredient. But where exactly does he think sugar comes from? James

All woofed out: Louis recovers from the New Year’s celebrations on the couch in this snap sent in by his owner Liam

Send your photos to pictures@ metroherald.ie with ‘Quick pic’ as the subject and we will print the best each day in the paper

■ To Crouching Tenant, why don’t you save like everyone else had to in order to afford their own place. You should see the high rates that are on the loans and all the taxes for owning a home. Glen Powell, here’s a tip, taxsaver.ie – look it up. Sean, Sandyford

● Still in bed I don’t even wanna look out them curtains.. all I can hear is wind and rain!!

@ChrisHazeMusic

● You know it’s wet outside when the Sky+ box starts complaining that it can’t receive a signal!

@lukaswinn

● It’s all gotten very dark and forboding and Heathcliffy.... #storm

@Claredaisy

@metrohnews #metromailbox

Monday, January 6, 2014 METRO HERALD

‘I don’t mind growing old’ Legendary actor ROBERT DE NIRO plays a depressed widower in his latest film, Last Vegas, but he isn’t going all method about it ➔

RESOLUTIONS Beat the 9 day barrier

Most people give up nine days after making their New Year’s resolutions. With our unique Lose & Shape Up weight loss programme, personal training expertise, one-to-one coaching and vast array of group exercise classes to choose from, you won’t want to quit.

Smash through the barrier! Come into club, call 0818 243 796 or visit davidlloyd.ie/metro now. Terms and conditions apply. Facilities, fees, classes and membership contracts vary. Certain activities may incur additional fees. *Joining fee may be payable when you join. Administration fee will be payable when you join. To take advantage of this offer, join by 31st January 2014 on a standard 12 month contract. For full terms and conditions visit davidlloyd.ie/metro

14 METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

interview

by JANE MULkERRINs

➔

HERE are certain famous faces whose expressions feel so familiar that to witness them in the flesh is more than a little disconcerting. Robert De Niro’s downturnedmouth chuckle comes high on that list. Widely credited as one of the finest actors of his generation, De Niro has starred in more than 90 films in a career spanning half a century, including classics Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter and Raging Bull, and, more recently, Meet The Fockers and Silver Linings Playbook. So, early on a Saturday morning in a New York hotel room, it’s surreal to be sitting opposite the 70-year-old star as he chuckles when recalling the filming of Last Vegas, shot in Sin City with an army of bikini-clad beauties as eye-popping extras. The comedy, also starring Michael

“If things work out with digital technology, I can go on for another 40 years

Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline, chronicles the ageing foursome’s trip to the Strip to throw a stag party for Douglas’s character, a committed bachelor who is finally about to make it up the aisle… with a woman half his age. ‘I’d never been to a bachelor party, I didn’t really know what a bachelor party was,’ confesses De Niro, taking off his wirerimmed spectacles and popping them in his top pocket before putting them back on a second later. And Las Vegas, he sighs, has changed almost beyond recognition. ‘The first time I went to Vegas, I was 17,’ he says. ‘I had a friend who was a dealer in a casino. It was real desert, like the Wild West. Apparently, there’s a nightclub scene now. Back then, you gambled and then, at 4am, you went to the lounges to see Sinatra sing.’

Comedy capers: Robert De Niro with Kevin Kline, Michael Douglas and Morgan Freeman in Last Vegas In a youth-orientated industry, the film does not shy away from the maturity of its four leading men; death, erectile dysfunction and prostate problems are significant themes. ‘I don’t go to see enough films,’ says De Niro (the man who set up the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival). ‘But I’m told that since baby-boomers will still actually go to see a movie in a theatre – because it’s a communal experience that our generation is used to – there’s now a trend towards making some movies that those people could possibly identify themselves in. ‘You see it in the commercials for medications too,’ he continues, referring to US pharmaceutical companies which advertise prescription drugs on TV. ‘There’s so many of them because they’re appealing to this vast baby-boomer population.’ De Niro had surgery for prostate cancer a

decade ago but today appears to be in robust shape, silver-haired but spry, in blue jeans, a polo shirt and blazer. He also directs and produces films, has six children, three grandchildren and owns three restaurants and a hotel in New York, where he grew up, the son of painters. In person, he’s diffident, almost shy, but genial – a far cry from the menacing characters he’s most famous for, along with the ‘method’ acting techniques he uses to prepare for them. Decades before Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey made headlines with their physical transformations for films, De Niro gained more than 25kg and learnt to box for Raging Bull, lost almost the same weight again for The Last Tycoon, lived in Sicily for his role in The Godfather: Part II, learnt to play the saxophone for New York,

New York and worked as a cabbie for his role in Taxi Driver. No such serious preparation was required for Last Vegas, however, in which he plays a depressed widower, permanently clad in a dressing gown and drowning in grief. Does it bother him that the roles he is now offered are so dramatically different to those he has played in the past? ‘That’s just life,’ he shrugs. ‘We can’t play certain parts any more. We’re playing the father or the grandfather or the greatgrandfather and that can be written in a funny way, so it’s fine. But you’re not carrying the movie as the young romantic lead – those days are gone. ‘I’m hoping that if things work out with digital technology, they can finally make us look younger and I can go on for another 40 years.’ Last Vegas is in cinemas now.

YOUR DUBLIN WEEk with daragh reddin cURIOUs ABOUT… James Joyce: The Dead

To mark the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s landmark short story collection Dubliners, the UCD Humanities Institute has launched a free iPad app devoted to the collection’s final and longest tale, The Dead. A timeless meditation on the vagaries of love and life, Joyce’s beloved story centres on a festive gathering at Usher’s Island which sees protagonist Gabriel Conroy left reeling after his wife Greta tells the disquieting tale of a lost lover. Given the story is set on January 6, it’s fitting the app, which includes a recorded reading by Barry McGovern (pictured) and podcasts on The Dead from leading academics, is available to download from today. Available from the Apple app store

GET DOWN TO… Ones To Watch Festival

January is generally something of a wasteland when it comes to live music propositions in the capital, which makes the Whelan’s Ones To Watch festival all the more appealing. Set over four days and three stages, it features almost 50 up-and-coming homegrown acts, alongside a few established names. Look out for Australian-born, Dublinbased Liza Flume (pictured) whose kooky indie pop is the ideal tonic for post-festivity blues. Admission of €5 includes a pint of Carlsberg which pretty much seals the deal… Wed to Sat, Whelan’s, 25 Wexford Street D2, €5 per day or €10 for four days. Tel: 1890 200 078. www.whelanslive.com

Terminus

In Mark O’Rowe’s searing examination of dislocation, loneliness and loss, three keyed-up Dubliners deliver overlapping monologues on a single night – at breakneck speed. There’s a middle-aged Samaritan worker on a mission of mercy, a serial killer who’s made a Faustian pact and a troubled young girl whose unlikely rescuer is a worminfested demon. Galway-based theatre company Thereisabear! presents this slice of modern gothic drama at Smock Alley Theatre Until Wed, Smock Alley Theatre, 6/7 Exchange Street Lower, D8, 8pm, €12 to €15. Tel: (01) 677 0014. www.smockalley.com

music ON MY pLAYLisT AnAnD WilDer of Ye YeASAYer

bU bUckETs Of RAi RAiN By dave van rOnk

it’s been ra raining nonst stop here in New York and this is fav my favourite rain ’s got lots of song. it’s positive associations with my wife, which may seem odd because it’s a pretty sad song. it’s happy sounding, with sad lyrics – much like life.

MiDNigHT sUN By dean Carter

i listened to this song about 20 times in a row the first time i heard it. Dean Carter is also the name of a serial killer, which is fitting because there’s something quite sinister about this.

big wHiTE cLOUD By JOhn Cale

Yeasayer’s 2010 tour manager recently passed away and he told me this was the song he wanted played at his funeral, so i will always think of him when i hear it.

fiRE AND RAiN By the isley BrOthers

My favourite cover of all time from my favourite cover album, givin’ it Back. every song is better than the original.

bLAME iT ON THE RAiN By Milli vanilli

Milli Vanilli was one of my first introductions to pop music and i did not burn their record when the lipsyncing scandal broke.

Yeasayer’s new live album, Good Evening Washington DC, Live At 9:30 Club (Mute), is out now.

The singer, writer, actor, raconteur and all-round music stalwart plays two nights at Vicar Street this week, with a third on February 6. expect tracks from his recent no.1 album last Great love Song to be to the fore, alongside tales of carousing with the great and the good of the folk and trad scene Thu, Fri & Feb 6, Vicar Street, 58-59 Thomas Street D8, 8pm, €34.50. Tel: 0818 719 300. www. vicarstreet.ie

fargo

features@metroherald.ie to advertise, call 01 7055010

Old songs, vintage Boss THE big RELEAsE

Bruce SpringSteen HigH Hopes Columbia HHHII

ew Jersey rock’n’roll dude Bruce Springsteen has always flaunted a nostalgic streak, even in his lean, swaggering youth. By this point in his career, the 64year-old has transformed that nostalgia into an art form. His 18th studio album, High Hopes, follows 2012’s powerful wrecking Ball by refreshing previously unreleased material, including studio versions of live highlights. Springsteen’s original version of the title track (written by ‘gothic bluesman’ Tim Scott McConnell) dates back to the mid1990s and the reworking here is a raw, rollicking kick-start to the album. High Hopes is fuelled by familiar themes but it’s also testimony to The Boss’s depth and versatility as a songwriter and interpreter, whether it’s the blazing boogie of Just Like Fire would or the tortured soul of The Ghost Of Tom Joad (‘a fire in your belly and a gun in your hand’). The political missives that have always been key to Springsteen’s songcraft feel particularly close to his heart here, including American Skin (41 Shots), which refers to the fatal shooting of Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo by New York police in 1999. A stand-out is the gruff yet plaintively poetic number The wall, inspired by his young hero-worship of a local rocker

bUY pOpcORN fOR.... finbar furey

Monday, January 6, 2014 METRO HERALD

The wait for the much-anticipated new Coen brothers movie, inside llewyn Davis, has almost come to an end but before then refamiliarise yourself with this dryly comic crime caper which sees crooked car salesman Jerry lundegaard (William H Macy) meet his match in the shape of Chief Officer Marge Gunderson (Oscar-winning Frances McDormand in top form). That the snowscapes of the eponymous Fargo in north Dakota need the big screen to do them justice makes this a particularly appealing proposition Wed & Sun, Market Square, Smithfield D7, various times and prices. Tel: (01) 872 8006. www.thelighthousecinema.ie

Looking back: Bruce’s latest album takes in covers and reworkings There’s added fire from ex-Rage called walter, who joined the Against The Machine guitarist Marines and went missing in Tom Morello, as well as turns action during the Vietnam war. It’s all beautifully arranged, from from e Street Band-mates saxophonist Clarence Clemons the synth and sax raunch of Harry’s Place to the Celtic edge of and organ-player Danny Federici, both of whom have since died. This Is Your Sword.

The closing cover of Suicide’s Dream Baby Dream is the perfect end note to this wistful collection. Springsteen’s stratospheric success has never removed him too far from his roots.

Arwa Haider

James Vincent McMorrow: post Tropical Believe recordings

HHHHI

After several years of quiet progress, 2014 looks set to be a major 12 months for James Vincent McMorrow. Recorded in the far south of Texas, close to the Mexico border, the Louth singer’s second album is soulful and sensual – a surprise to anyone previously disposed towards dismissing him as a Celtic-hued folkie (he is sometimes written off as Ireland’s bleary riposte to Bon Iver). In interviews he has squirmed at the ‘folk’ designation and insisted he has little interest repeating himself, statements he more than lives up to here. Sounding closer to R Kelly than Fionn Regan or Damien Rice, on opener Cavalier he lays his heart on a slab, delivering emotional sluiced lines over a barely-there electro accompaniment. It’s a taster for what is to follow: The

Lakes features twinkling keys and shuffling beats, against which McMorrow delivers a tingly r’n’b dirge; on Gold horns swell and McMorrow’s choir-boy mewl vaults for the stars. Granted, the intensity rarely subsides and if you have a low tolerance for earnest falsetto much of this record will sound like nails across a blackboard. However, McMorrow

should be commended for stepping outside the strictures of domestic folk-pop and taking his music in a genuinely fresh direction. The retro album sleeve – a watercolour of palm trees and blue lakes – may have a whiff of 1970 soft rock about it. In every other respect, Post Tropical gazes stridently towards the future.

Eamon de paor

16 METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

Life television Screen Talk

Mrs Brown’s not changing – I swear

Brendan O’Carroll would tell US network bosses looking to censor Mrs Brown’s Boys to ‘go an’ sh*te’, according to reports. The Irish comedy has been a huge hit for its creator O’Carroll in the UK and now it is attracting interest Stateside. But the problem is under US television rules swearing has to be beeped out. Cast member Rory Cowan, who also works as O’Carroll’s manager, told the Irish Mirror that ‘Brendan would stick to his guns. He won’t want to change anything’.

Double the Love (and Hate)

THe 7.39 BBc1, 9pm

set Fans of the Dublin-set gangland show will be cheered up from the post New Year’s blues by the news that there will be twice as much action from ughanNidge (Tom Vaughant) and the Lawlor, right) lads in the next series. Shooting is due to begin in late spring with 12 episodes instead of the usual six.

In a story straight out of Metro Herald’s Yeh Big Ride – not that we’re advocating marital infidelity, you understand – harassed commuters Carl and Sally take a shine to each other on their early morning trek up to London. The complication is he’s married with kids and she’s about to get married to her personal trainer boyfriend. David Morrissey and Sheridan Smith (right) breathe life into a grass-is-greeneron-the-other-side story by David Nicholls (One Day) that plays out over two consecutive nights. Olivia Colman and Sean Maguire star as the perfectly nice other halves holding the hesitant lovebirds back from turning their lives upside down.

FILM oF THe Day a mighTy hearT, rTÉ1, 12.35pm On January 23, 2002, Daniel Pearl, a US journalist covering the aftermath of 9/11, was abducted in Pakistan. One month later, his murder – by beheading – was confirmed. This compelling and gruelling film is based on the memoirs of Pearl’s wife Mariane. The frustration of diplomatic channels, the vulgarity of the media’s thirst for melodrama and the cool intelligence of the pregnant Mariane (Angelina Jolie) beg uncomfortable questions that director Michael Winterbottom smartly leaves his audience to answer. The Brangelina phenomenon has made many forget that Jolie is a very able actress. Her ethereal, aloof qualities work in the film’s favour: Mariane’s refusal to play the archetypal weeping widow made her deeply unsympathetic in the media’s eyes. A position that surely Jolie understands too well.

CLass sWap rTÉ1, 7.30pm This new six-parter follows three groups of Irish secondary school students and teachers as they spend two weeks sampling school life in three European countries, while living in the local communities. In the first episode expectations are high as the Meath students arrive into a cool but pleasant Finland. The Limerick group head to sunny Spain while the Leitrim students find themselves digging their minibus out of the snow in rural Poland.

Londoners on the Great Fire

ITV newsman turned best-selling author Tom Bradby (above) brings his nose for a good story to bear on The Great Fire Of London, a four-part drama he’s written about the catastrophe of September 1666. The story is told through the eyes of a mixed bag of Londoners, from reigning monarch Charles II to a baker’s family.

Cold War thriller? The Game is on

BrookLyn nIne-nIne rTÉ2, 9pm

24 Hours To kILL Tv3, 9pm

In the pilot of this ensemble comedy series, the first in tonight’s double bill, things are about to change down at Brooklyn’s ninety-ninth precinct for Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) and his colleagues when new captain Ray Holt takes over. Later, Jake is late for roll call, so Captain Holt assigns him to a graffiti case that Jake feels is beneath him.

The documentary series continues with insights into real-life murders. In tonight’s episode, Dyane Connor takes a look at Donegal man Gary McCrea’s calculated killing of his estranged wife Dolores ten years ago. Dolores’ daughter Sharon gives her first television interview recounting the horrific events that led to her mother’s murder.

Toby Whithouse, the writer who broughtt us Being Human, turns his attention to the Cold War in spy thriller The Game, set to air on BBC1 in the spring. Brian Cox leads the cast as an MI5 boss, with Victoriaa t), Paul Hamilton (right), Ritter and Tom Hughes also starring. Expect dastardly KGB agents at every turn.

film

Monday, January 6, 2014 METRO HERALD

Tackling the class game

omanian director Calin Peter netzer’s discomfiting latest film, Child’s Pose, has been striking a chord wherever it’s played. a drama about how far an obsessional, domineering matriarch is prepared to go for her son, it picked up the top award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival and has been the most successful film in his home country for the past 15 years. ‘i think the story is universal,’ says netzer, who wrote the screenplay with Razvan Radulescu – best known here for black comedy The Death of mr Lazarescu. ‘maybe Eastern European mothers are more dominating than in other places but when i travelled around the world to film festivals to promote it, lots of women told me they empathised with the main character.’ The pair had come together to work on a different project but soon changed plans. ‘We started telling

A tight budget didn’t stop Calin Peter Netzer from making an award-winning film, says Anthony Gibson each other stories about our mothers and discovered we had the same, dominating type, so we thought we’d make a film out of it,’ he says. netzer’s work forms part of the Romanian new Wave films that have been gaining international success in recent years, but the director feels the country’s filmmakers need more support. ‘The new Wave is a very good ambassador for Romania but the funding available for film-making has been going down in the past few years, so there are fewer films being produced.’ Child’s Pose had a tiny budget, allowing just 30 days of filming. ‘it was very difficult, we worked 14 to 15 hours a day and i would not do it again,’ says netzer, who

Success: Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose is part of the Romanian New Wave films returned to his native country in 1994 – after a childhood in Germany away from Ceausescu’s communism – in order to attend film school there. But he did get Luminita Gheorghiu – a household name in Romania – to play the monstrous, upper-class mother who tries to use her influence to help her son

escape the consequences of a fatal car accident. ‘This was a new type of role for her and it was difficult for her to play this high-society lady,’ says netzer. Class was key in the film. ‘i decided to place the story in this social class because i think this sort of relationship is more often found

Dear Dolly

Child’s Pose is out now on DVD.

deardolly@metroherald.ie

Got a problem? No one else can help? Our resident agony aunt tells it like it is

Dear Ronan Keating and Storm Uechtritz (two entirely separate people, just to be absolutely clear). Right before Christmas you set up your own joint Twitter account, @ROandSTORMY. Joint bank accounts make sense for household utilities but combining your, er, expertise on coffee, cocktails and chocolate fountains is the digital equivalent of wearing His’n’Hers tracksuits. To be fair, you do also have individual Twitter accounts…

To get fit and healthy this 2014, I’ve booked myself in to a boot camp, yoga classes, colonic hydrotherapy and organised home delivery diet food. I’ve not yet started any of them but I’m already exhausted and miserable. What can I do to find the gumption? Sloth

Well, you have the gumption alright – you wouldn’t have committed to such a regime otherwise. You can’t beat safety in numbers, ie, joining fitness programmes with perky friends; there’s nothing more motivating than irritatingly enthusiastic pals in Lycra. If, however, they’re all too busy juicing or whatever it is fit people do, then counteract the joylessness of consuming fat-free lint and vegetable tears with all the stuff you love that don’t involve calories and couches, like star-jumping to Ryan Gosling movies. Also note that we apparently burn more calories during deep sleep than while slobbed out in front of the telly. So rest hard between your knackering workouts, and get someone to wake you up when you’re a lean, mean, detoxed machine.

in the higher classes,’ he says. and the film’s name? ‘it’s the most simple yoga position, which you can get into when you’re stressed,’ says netzer. ‘But the title in Romanian means a lot of other things; for example, the child’s position in their relationship with their parents.’

My mother-in-law bought us some of those horrible pebble prints for Christmas. Rather than saying ‘thanks but no thanks, we’re saving for some eye candy by a local artist, would you mind if the money went towards that instead?’, my husband promptly hung them above our fireplace. Trouble is she comes to look after our kids twice a week so she’d notice if we took Katie them down. What to do?

It’s obvious. Blame the kids. Explain laughingly how Clodagh or Conor thought they were real stones and buried them in the garden ‘to be at one with nature’. Job done.

LAST TiME:

On Christmas Eve our mates are getting together for a reunion. One is an Irish guy who has been living in Australia but is moving home. We’ve been flirting on Facebook for weeks so I’m mad excited to see him… but friends have warned me off him, saying he ‘slept his way around Melbourne’ and is ‘not good enough’ for me. Do I follow my head or my heart?

YOU SAiD: Follow your horn – ya know you’re gonna do it anyway. Jemma McCallum He’s just sowing his wild oats. Have

fREE ADvicE fOR… Ronan and Storm but then this just reinforces the queasy pointlessness of this homogenous entry. There are enough smug celebrity couples out there documenting their every exchanged bodily fluid – must we really know what you two are eating and where? Seriously: You say it best when you say nothing at all, ie tweet nothings. fun and enjoy him. He might not be your Mr Forever but he could be the best fling you ever had. Suzy Bevan OvER TO YOU:

My boyfriend of three years whisked me away on a surprise trip to Rome for New Year’s Eve and I was sure he was going to propose… But he didn’t! I can’t help feeling deflated – and almost resentful at him for getting my hopes up. How could he have misfired so extravagantly – or am I being a brat? MissRomantic What do you think? Lend Dolly your words of wisdom at deardolly@metroherald.ie. Best replies published next week…

18 METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

in focus D

news@metroherald.ie

Social media you needn’t be shy of..?

E live in an age where the phrase, ‘tell me something about you I don’t know’, has become

redundant. Want to find out what a person eats for breakfast? Check out their Facebook page. Any inclination to rifle through their career history? Log on to LinkedIn. Keen to discover what they consider to be their most beautiful body part? Go to Instagram. In an online world where we tweet and post everything that has ever happened to us, complete with imagery, we are quickly losing our mystery. ‘If you go on Facebook or

Freaked out by Facebook? Scared of Snapchat? A new social networking app allows its more introverted users to interact anonymously until they are ready to reveal their identities. ROSS McGUINNESS speaks to its co-founder. Twitter, it’s really all about image management now – it’s not a place to have real authentic conversations,’ said James Sun, co-founder and chairman of anomo, a new social media app where users are encouraged to reveal information little by little. ‘Today’s social networks like Tincebook say that, as soon as der or Facebook you sign up, you have to tell the whole world about you,’ he said. ‘But we don’t think that’s how it works in the real world. You don’t meet somebody and tell them every-

thing about you on day one. You gradually reveal information.’ This is the basis for anomo, which allows users to hide their identities from others until they are ready to tell them more. Users choose an avatar – or ‘mask’ – and reveal personal information through built-in iceer games and chat messages. breaker Once users get comfortable with one another, they can ask for names, pictures, occupations and hobbies to

be revealed. Anonymous interaction comes before revelation. ‘It’s a social network for dating, friendship or building networks,’ said Mr Sun, 35, from Seattle, Washington. He said there was ‘a lot of flirting’ on the app, which launched in June and now has 100,000 users and is available on Android and Apple devices. Like Twitter, users have their own followers and have a limit on their messages – although at 540 characters there is a bit more to say. Its goal is to be the sophisticated masked ball to Facebook’s frat boy toga party. Mr Sun believes we are at our most open when wrapped in a warm blanket of anonymity – he mentions the following quote attributed to Oscar Wilde: ‘Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.’ He said communicating through an avatar allows for ‘a more authentic discussion’ and cited a recent example of an anomo user who told followers he was struggling with depression and contemplating suicide, only for fellow users talk him out of it.

LTHOUGH anonymity is part and parcel of anomo, in the back end of the app users’ ages and gender are sorted through Facebook verification, in order to keep them chatting within their own age ranges – teenagers are prevented from interacting with people in their 30s and 40s, for example. Mr Sun said every conversation on the app was logged to protect users. When asked about the possibility of someone using the app to stalk an-

other user or cause them physical harm, he said: ‘People have to use their judgment in the chats and where they are and who wants to meet up. ‘Those things already happen on every platform. If I were to tell you we could solve that, I would be lying. That’s something every company has to watch out for.’ He said one of anomo’s major selling points is that it allows you ‘check in’ at a location without revealing your identity as with similar services via Facebook or Foursquare. ‘They fail because people realise their privacy and their safety is too high to let anyone in the world know where they are at that moment,’ said Mr Sun. There are other advantages to an avatar. ‘If you go to Tinder and put up a photo, unless you’re pretty attractive, you’re not going to get any hits. On anomo, you’re going to interact with people no matter what you look like. On a lot of dating social networks, a lot of the photos are fake.’ Mr Sun put his own face in front of millions back in 2007, when he was a contestant on the US version of The Apprentice, hosted by Donald Trump. He finished second and said it was a ‘breakthrough moment’ for someone who had ‘always been a shy kid’. ‘I’ve always wanted to build an app or an experience where it helps people to transition from being really shy, when you’re socially awkward to being able to have better conversations.’ He added: ‘It’s targeted towards anyone who wants to protect their privacy and still meet new people, which tends to skew towards people who are – I wouldn’t say “shy” is the right word – but more careful and introverted.’

METRO HERALD

Jobs&Courses

news@metroherald.ie to advertise, call 01 7055010

Be up for the job this year

new YeAR, BeTTeR CAReeR: Make yourself more employable in 2014 By Jane Downes

ant to know when I love my job most? January. there is something about the onset of a new Year that forces career change on to the agenda of even the most stubbornly, ploddingly change-resistant person. Once we have got over the Christmas hangover, it can be a real wrench to find ourselves suddenly forced to refocus on the stubborn realities of work – or lack of work. With this wrench, however, comes the temptation to ask ourselves questions about our jobs, our career horizons and our priorities. Unfortunately, however, the norm is for this critical phase to come to an end all too fast. By Valentine’s Day the romance with careerfocused questions has died a death. Most people have been sucked back into the day-today demands of the workplace. and for those out of work, they have lost the spark of optimism and resolve that helped light their way into the new year. the single biggest mistake in all this? Underestimating your employability. the single biggest reason for making this mistake? Misunderstanding what employability is all about. Maybe you have a job but are allowing your fear of losing it to close your mind to other possibilities. Maybe you are just fed up in a job that is going nowhere slowly and is making you seriously underestimate how tempting a proposition you might be to some other employer out there. Or maybe you have lost your job and have suffered the kind of crash in self-esteem that makes it hard to see yourself as anything other than unemployable. What is an employable person? not so much a person who needs a job as a person who has something to offer. this is the ‘flip’ in perspective that works wonders: you start to see yourself not through your own anxious eyes but through the eyes of an employer. You also start taking your own employability less personally and start seeing it more creatively, and more objectively, as a kind of game involving certain basic rules.

learn and be motivated, using their interpersonal skills and adapting to change. Three: a person cultivates their long-term employability by constantly nudging themselves out of their comfort zone, constantly looking at skills like self-awareness, self-management, adaptability, job search skills, and constantly refining their selfmarketing skills.

MplOYaBIlItY is, above all, an ongoing project, with you as the project manager. thinking of yourself as your own career manager puts you back in control. If you feel confident in your skills and excited about the ‘narrative’ you can offer employers, you will feel less at the mercy of external factors like economic recession. not that the effects of cyclical downturn or market pressure will be negligible, but your resilience and your refusal to see yourself as a mere statistic will see you through. again and again I see it with clients: the person who is positive in their outlook is much more likely to spot new opportunities and solutions. Employment glitches become hidden opportunities instead of tragedies. Happy new Year to every single one of you. to paraphrase the great John lennon: let’s make 2014 a good one on the career front – without any fear. Metro Herald’s career coach Jane Downes is the author of The Career Book (thecareerbook.ie) and principal coach of Clearview Coaching Group, www. clearview coachgroup. com.

Jump to it: Your career path can improve in leaps and bounds

��

Two: a person consolidates their employability when they spend the first few months of a job demonstrating an ability to

��

What are those rules? One: a person makes themselves employable when they work out how to create an effective and relevant CV, put together an attractive online presence and develop convincing interview skills.

��

puzzles

METROSCOPE by Patrick Arundell

NEMI by Lise

Aries Mar 21 – Apr 20

There could be a sense your mood is rather muted. But with Mars still in a strident clash with the Sun, there may yet be something that stirs you into action. When it comes to office politics, don’t jump to conclusions.

marathon. Run too quickly and chances are you’ll burn yourself out. Apply this principle to today.

Taurus Apr 21 – May 21

scorpio Oct 24 – Nov 22

For your forecast, call 15609 114 70

You may have a strong sense of what’s right or wrong today. Yet, there is a lot of nervous energy. This could make it hard to settle to the task in hand and your concentration can become scattered. Be cautious.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 71

Gemini May 22 – Jun 21

METROKU Easy, Moderate and Challenging. For solutions, visit Metro.co.uk/metroku

Your ruler Mercury combines superbly with Saturn today and this can give you a crispness in your decision-making. Anything practical, financial, work or health-related can go well. For your forecast, call 15609 114 72

Cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23

For your forecast, call 15609 114 79

Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23

The Moon can help you to weigh up your interrelations with others, rather astutely. Mercury will help you express yourself succinctly, as it dances with Saturn. Yet, all the positive vibes can be unsettled by pushing too hard around finances.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 75

Libra Sep 24 – Oct 23

Sleight of hand (11) Employ (3) Transact (9) Takes off (5) Tarnished (7) Scream (6) Stress (6) Performer (7) Purchaser (5) Abandon (4,5) Fish (3) January 1st (3,5,3)

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 15 17 19 21

Sheep (3) Sea-eagles (5) Summary (6) Sailor (7) Fancied (9) Get far ahead of (11) Starring part (7,4) Anticipation (9) Rapture (7) Part of the eye (6) Consecrate (5) Epoch (3)

Yesterday’s Solutions Across: 1 Cite; 3 Campaign; 9 Noxious; 10 Levee; 11 Second nature; 13 Exotic;15 Afresh; 17 Superstition; 20 Twist; 21 Elevate; 22 Mutilate; 23 Very. Down: 1 Canister; 2 Toxic; 4 Assent; 5 Pilot-officer; 6 Inverse; 7 Need; 8 Coincidental; 12 Thundery; 14 Oculist; 16 Assert; 18 Irate; 19 Item.

You could leave your rivals trailing in your wake today. But remember the maxim of treating those on the way up with care and consideration for if you upset someone influential today, it could come back to haunt you.

Aquarius Jan 21 – Feb 19

Someone may not be playing ball with you over an obligation and if this is serious enough, you might consider some kind of legal recourse. If you do need to take soundings from some kind of adviser, the chances are once you do, you’ll feel much more reassured. For your forecast, call 15609 114 80

Pisces Feb 20 – Mar 20

The Moon remains in your sign for much of today. This could make you acutely sensitive to other people and you may find others beat a path to your door, sensing you will be the person who’s caring and understanding. But you’ll want to feel appreciated too. For your forecast, call 15609 114 81

For a live one-to-one consultation with one of my gifted psychics, call 15809 113 68 or 1800 719 688 to book using credit card Astrology calls cost 1.27 euros per min from a BT landline. Live Services cost 2.40 euros per minute. Calls from mobiles/other networks may cost more. Callers must be 18 or over to use this service and have the bill payers permission. For entertainment purposes only. All calls are recorded. PhonePayPlus regulated(ComReg in ROI) UK SP: StreamLive Ltd, NR7 0HR, 08700 234 567. ROI SP:Moveda, 1 Courtyard Business Park, Orchard Lane, Blackrock, Co Dublin, 0818 241 398

QuIz

1 9 10 11 13 14 16 18 19 20 21 22

Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20

ENIGMA This slender column made to light The darkest reaches of the night Comprises wax and wick in one Which burn together till they’re gone. WHO AM I? A singer/songwriter, I was born in Georgia in 1984 when it was part of the Soviet Union. I won a talent competition on ITV children’s show Mad For It. I had a hit single with Nine

Million Bicycles in 2005. WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? WHO… wrote the novel Tess Of The D’Urbervilles? WHAT… art form is the American Virgil Thomson associated with? WHERE… is Bratislava the capital? WHEN… was the nuclear power accident at Chernobyl?

QUIZ ANSWERS: ENIGMA: Candle. WHO AM I? Katie Melua. WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? Thomas Hardy; Music; Slovakia; 1986.

QUICK CROsswORd

Mars is going to play a major role in your life and on the whole, it can be positive. Yet, he can also be tricky to deal with. Think of yourself running a

DOWN

If you rush a long-term decision today, you might miss a chance to stage your actions in a way that can be sustainable. The key is going to be within your research. Drill down into the details of whatever you want or need to know first.

Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23

For your forecast, call 15609 114 74

ACROSS

For your forecast, call 15609 114 77

sagittarius Nov 23 – Dec 21

For your forecast, call 15609 114 78

There are two influences at play today. One can help you address domestic tasks in a productive way. The problem with the other is it can almost give you an excess of nervous energy, which could tempt you into biting off more than you can chew.

Crossword No. 886 See next edition for solutions

Although Saturn has a dark reputation, in its angle with talk and thought planet Mercury, today can help you to focus on something in a very purposeful manner. You may not be very chatty but people will know that you mean what you say.

You may find yourself playing the role of the mentor today. Then again, you can be adept at reaching out to sources of information and crystallising what’s valuable in a practical way. This can help you around a key family matter. For your forecast, call 15609 114 73

PEARLs BEFORE swINE

For your forecast, call 15609 114 76

SCRIBBLE BOX

20 METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

gaa

Monday, January 6, 2014 METRO HERALD

narrow win for Dublin as black card era begins

picture: inpho

O’byRnE cup

Pressure: Westmeath’s John Gilligan is tackled by Dublin’s Conor Walsh and Declan O’Mahony

westMeath....................0-11 Dublin..............................0-12 by pAuL kEAnE It wasn’t always pretty in Mullingar but Dublin kept their composure and their discipline to move closer to the only piece of silverware that eluded them in 2013. In their first competitive game under the Gaa’s new black card rule, the Dubs kept their cool to avoid any dismissals. In fact, it was a tame start to life under the measure with referee David Coldrick issuing no black cards and few dished out nationally. Dublin defender Darragh nelson did skirt disaster when he challenged westmeath’s Paul sharry awkwardly, though Coldrick deemed it not deliberate and issued yellow only. It was one of the talking points from a low-key game that Dublin did well to edge in the closing minutes. Unlike last summer’s Championship demolition, this game swung both ways before eventually being settled by Dublin. Des Dolan appeared to have proven a super substitution for new westmeath manager Paul Bealin when he scored two points after his arrival. that put westmeath 0-11 to 0-10 ahead, but former underage star Eric lowndes levelled it up before Ciaran Kilkenny slotted the winner. ‘westmeath put in a lot of endeavour and Dessie Dolan came into the side and got two great points,’ said Dublin manager Jim Gavin. ‘they began to open us up but in fairness to the Dublin players, they stuck at it and kept going through the gears, trying to get a couple of scores, recycling the ball well and got a great score in the end. ‘It was very pleasing to see our

picture: inpho

Western front: Connacht’s Matt Healy takes on Leinster’s Ian Madigan

bORDERLinE vicTORy OvER cOnnAcHT bRings RELiEf

guys keep their composure in the end and it was a great point by Ciaran Kilkenny to win the game.’ Football Review Committee chairman Eugene McGee, whose group pioneered the black card, attended the game and wasn’t surprised at the lack of cynical play. ‘there were a lot of new players and the main thing for them is that they want to stay on the field and im-

press the manager,’ said McGee. ‘the last thing they want is to be sent off.’ DCU hammered louth on saturday night so a Dubs win over the same opposition this wednesday could potentially seal their semi-final place. Kildare were the big winners in the opening round, hammering athlone It 4-24 to 0-13 while Meath beat DIt 4-11 to 1-14.

spORT DigEsT ATHLETics Fionnuala britton put in a

picture: inpho

strong performance on saturday to finish fourth at the antrim iaaF international Cross Country. britton crossed the line in 18:23. in the Men’s race, the best of the irish was Michael Mulhare in seventh place in 29.47, followed by Mick Clohissey in 11th. the new national indoor league at the international arena in athlone yesterday saw Phil healy (bandon aC) move to tenth place on the irish all time indoor lists. european junior 100m fourth placer healy stormed down the track to win the 60m in 7.46. sarah buggy (st abbans aC) won the match 60m hurdles in 9.64. Strong: Britton finished 4th

HORsE RAcing Jim Culloty

has led the tributes to Terry Biddlecombe, who died yesterday aged 72. Having been three-time champion jockey in the 1960s, Biddlecombe married Henrietta Knight in 1995 and helped her to train Best Mate to three Cheltenham Gold Cup wins from 2002 to 2004. Culloty, Best Mate’s jockey, said: ‘I knew him for 20 years and I could write a book about all the things that happened. He lived life to the full.’

RELIEF will have been the overwhelming emotion as Leinster’s team bus made its way back east on the M6. Relief that the player’s least favourite fixture was now behind them and that no camera angle could put the skids on Gordon D’Arcy’s winning try. Connacht replicated the performance we saw from them in the RDS last October and largely suffocated the three-time European champions firstchoice line-up. Despite the star dust in the Leinster XV, they struggled to unlock Connacht’s ferocious defence – either through guile or guts – for most of the game while the kicking tactics were too often let down by Rob Kearney’s inability to reclaim anything that dropped out of the sky. Jimmy Gopperth’s pass to D’Arcy, which allowed him to score in the final quarter, was borderline and certainly deserved the meticulous scrutiny of the TMO but the crucial element in Leinster’s favour was the phrasing of the question ‘Is there a clear and obvious forward pass?’ The camera angles could not provide any definite evidence. However, Gopperth’s hands were going forward out of the pass and this is where Leinster enjoyed some good fortune. The same could be said of Jamie

Heaslip’s late hit on Dan Parks where the captain was lucky not to earn a yellow card which could have scuppered any chance of victory. There were positives to take from the game as Leinster go into a vital Heineken Cup clash with Castres this Sunday, most notably the performance of Jordi Murphy at openside flanker. As we highlighted last Friday, nobody can replace Sean O’Brien’s impact but Murphy stands the best chance and alongside Heaslip and Rhys Ruddock he got through a mountain of work as he claimed the man of the match award for the second week in a row. The scrum was also assured throughout with arguably a second-choice front row on the pitch that is a huge pluspoint. The lineout spluttered at times and depending on Kevin McLauglin’s availability this weekend the flanker may be reinstalled over Ruddock for his lineout work – but that is not to discount Ruddock who is a decent jumper. The only other concerns will be that Brian O’Driscoll looks a half step short when shooting out in defence – Eoin Griffin’s fingertip pass to Robbie Henshaw came a fraction ahead of O’Driscoll’s tackle and led to Fionn Carr’s try. We’ll trust that he’ll regain those vital inches when the big games roll around.

22 METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

football

Like father, like son as Rodgers Kops applause BRENDAN RODGERS admitted he was just relieved his son Anton did not help Oldham knock Liverpool out of the FA Cup for a second successive season yesterday, writes Mathew Nash. The Reds crashed 3-2 at Boundary Park in last term’s fourth-round tie and more spice was added at Anfield with 20-year-old Anton in the Latics’ squad, with Rodgers senior warning his side in the build-up to ‘beware of their No.17’. In the end, Anton got just seven minutes’ action as a substitute and the game was over by that point as Iago Aspas notched his first Liverpool goal and James Tarkowski’s own goal added an unfortunate second. There was still time for Rodgers junior to be applauded on by the Kop, leaving his proud dad to say: ‘It’s brilliant, I’ve seen Anton’s life from when he was a young footballer and to see him run out there was a bit surreal really. ‘It’s a great moment in his career and, as a father, it’s even more special that he gets a nice round of applause from the Liverpool supporters.’ The game was still goalless at the break and Rodgers had to turn to Lucas and Philippe Coutinho in a bid to get the tie won. The Reds had looked wasteful up to that point but the Liverpool manager, who also brought on Luis Suarez, added: ‘We needed to have more speed and a bit more intensity. ‘You don’t want to do it [make the substitutions] but the last thing I wanted was the game to go to a replay. ‘Coutinho came on, Lucas came on and they add that bit of intensity and greater purpose to our play.’

fA cup

LIVERPOOL........2 OLDHAM............0

Keeping it in the family: Brendan and Anton Rodgers after yesterdays game at Anfield PICTURE: Pa

Sam expects to survive Hammers’ forest slump fA cup

NOTTM FOREST ................ 5 WEST HAM .........................0 SAM ALLARDYCE does not think his selection gamble in yesterday’s FA Cup humiliation at Nottingham Forest will cost him his job as West Ham manager. Allardyce (pictured) made nine changes for the third-round tie, with debuts for three rookies in his starting XI and two more from the bench. His youthful side were thrashed, with Jamie Paterson scoring a superb second-half hat-trick for Forest in between Djamel Abdoun’s penalty and Andy Reid’s late goal. But with a lengthy injury list, Allardyce insisted co-owners David Gold and David Sullivan were fully aware of his plans to prioritise Wednes-

day’s Capital One Cup semi-final against Manchester City and Premier League survival. Asked if he expected repercussions from his team selection, he said: ‘There might be, who knows? It’s their decision, not mine. ‘I’m not saying it won’t happen unless I start to get results. I have got to get results, I know that. ‘But I made them aware of what would happen today because I’m not in the position to go and do these things without telling everybody internally what is planned.’ Seven games without a win have seen the Hammers drop to second-bottom in the league and Allardyce added: ‘My priorities meant I put too many youngsters in and they were not able to withstand Forest’s pressure in the last half an hour. ‘My hands are tied and the team is almost picking itself. It’s a disaster at the moment and in certain areas we’ve not been able to cope.’

TRAnSfER TALK

Solskjaer hopes to borrow Zaha

OLE Gunnar Solskjaer is keen to make Manchester United flop Wilfried Zaha his first signing as Cardiff manager. The Norwegian hopes to sign the 21-year-old on loan as he bids to guide the club away from the relegation zone. Having been promised significant funds to spend in the transfer window by controversial owner Vincent Tan, Solskjaer believes he can get the best out of the former Crystal Palace winger.

u CHELSEA defender David Luiz is not a target for Bayern Munich, whose chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said: ‘There’s always lots of speculation but I can say for certain that he is not an issue for us.’ u RUMMENIGGE has also dealt Arsenal a blow by insisting Mario Mandzukic will not be sold despite the impending arrival of Robert Lewandowski.

Wilf power: Bony, right, celebrates his goal with Dwight Tiendalli

PICTURE: EPA

fans have a fresh Bony to pick with united boss

DAVID MOYES watched Manchester United crash out of the FA Cup and admitted a fourth home defeat in six games made things ‘difficult’ for him. Moyes, already facing criticism amid indifferent results since succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson as manager last summer, was helpless as a Swansea team without a win in seven matches claimed their first victory at Old Trafford. ‘If you lose games at any club, it’s difficult,’ said the Scot. ‘At Manchester United it’s even bigger, but that’s the job and we get on with it. ‘We are a bit unlucky to lose but we probably didn’t do enough to win it. Our results at home have not been good enough.’ Although Moyes claimed the result was harsh, United failed to impose themselves after Javier Hernandez levelled Wayne Routledge’s early opener. Fabio was dismissed just four minutes

fA cup MAN UNITED .......................1 SWANSEA ............................ 2 by gAvin BROwn after his introduction as a second-half substitute, for a late tackle on Swansea midfielder Jose Canas. And Wilfried Bony took advantage by rising to meet Routledge’s 90th-minute cross, a goal which was greeted by a mass exodus of United fans while others took to Twitter to demand Moyes’ sacking. Although the momentum swung Swansea’s way after Fabio was sent off, Moyes refused to blame referee Mike Dean for the decision. ‘I have no issues. The referee called it right,’ added the United manager.

football

Monday, January 6, 2014 METRO HERALD 23

Mourinho: Don’t make Blues the only fall guys FA cuP DERBY .....................................0 CHELSEA ..................................2 by DANiEL JONEs JOSe MOurInHO accepted ramires’ yellow card for simulation but maintained his claim that there are no divers at Chelsea. The Blues claimed a routine 2-0 Fa Cup third-round win at derby, with goals from John Obi Mikel and Oscar sandwiching a booking for ramires doled out by andre Marriner. referee Marriner had controversially awarded Chelsea a point-saving penalty after a contested fall by ramires near the end of their home draw with West Brom in november. There was no direct impact on the result yesterday, but the incident again put Mourinho in an awkward position following Oscar’s booking in the new Year’s day win at Southampton. Having called luis Suarez an ‘acrobatic swimming pool’ diver after last Sunday’s win over liverpool,

Legacy: Portugal legend Eusebio

Jose leads tributes to Eusebio the ‘immortal’

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has labelled eusebio ‘immortal’ after the former Portugal forward died at the age of 71. Nicknamed the Black Panther, eusebio was regarded as one of the best players of all time and helped Portugal to third place at the 1966 World Cup, finishing as top scorer in the tournament with nine goals. The Mozambique-born striker made his name with Benfica, winning 11 league titles during a 15-year spell there and two Golden Boot awards as europe’s leading goalscorer. ‘he’s unique in our country,’ said Mourinho of eusebio, who also scored 41 goals in 68 appearances for Portugal. ‘he’s one of the

‘The ref’s decision was because he was right’ Mourinho was pressed on his assertion that there are no divers at Chelsea. ‘I maintain,’ he said. ‘The referees attacking it. The manager supporting the referees. I think we are doing well. let’s see if the others do the same as us.’ Mourinho said he had yet to speak to ramires or watch a replay of yesterday’s incident, but accepted Marriner’s decision was correct. ‘Marriner was so close so if he made that decision it’s because he’s right,’ added the Chelsea manager. ‘If the referee was there and he decide, well, perfect. let’s do every game, every stadium, every player, let’s do that. ‘In other clubs there are really divers and they are not booked. Players are doing that every weekend.’ derby boss Steve McClaren said he did not see the incident, which saw ramires go down under Michael Keane’s challenge, but said: ‘That happens. The pitch was slippy, maybe he just fell over.’

THEy sAiD iT ‘The king! Great loss for all of us! The greatest!’ Diving storm: Ramires recieved a yellow card during Chelsea’s 2-0 win at Derby

PICTURE: aP

FAcuPFOuRTHROuNDDRAw Sunderland v Kidderminster or Peterborough Bolton v Cardiff Southampton v Yeovil Huddersfield v Charlton or Oxford Port Vale or Plymouth v Brighton Nottingham Forest v Ipswich or Preston

Southend v Hull Rochdale v Macclesfield or Sheff Wed Arsenal v Coventry Stevenage v Everton Wigan or MK Dons v Crystal Palace Chelsea v Stoke Blackburn or Manchester City v Bristol

City or Watford Bournemouth or Burton v Liverpool Birmingham, Bristol Rovers or Crawley v Swansea Sheffield United v Norwich or Fulham Ties to be played on the weekend of January 25 and 26.

Poyet calls for draw to be held after games

Cup win: Sunderland’s Jozy Altidore

Sunderland boss Gus Poyet has questioned the decision to hold the fourth round draw before several third-round ties have been completed. The uruguayan guided his side past league One Carlisle but knew before half-time the victors would face Kidderminster or Peterborough in the next round. However, he said: ‘I don’t

FA cuP

SUNDERLAND ...................3 CARLISLE............................1 know if it’s a good idea. It’s an opinion – I don’t want the Fa to get mad with me because I’m not trying to go against anyone. ‘I’m just saying if the draw was a top, top team from the

Premier league at home, I am sure that Carlisle in the second half, maybe, it would be a little bit different. ‘If you are 1-1 at half-time and you get arsenal at home and you are Carlisle, what a second half they are going to give you, that’s for sure.’ adam Johnson, el-Hadji Ba and an own goal sealed the win.

Former Portugal and Real Madrid superstar @LuisFigo pays his respects to Eusebio

‘Always eternal #Eusebio, rest in peace.’

Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) tweeted his tribute

greatest in the history of football, but for our country he’s much more than that. ‘Irreplaceable – his place in the history of Portuguese football, but more than that in the history of our country. ‘he’s a man that doesn’t belong to Benfica, doesn’t belong to a club, he belongs to a country and I prefer to say that people like him are immortal, because their history and their legacy remains forever. ‘so of course I’m very sad, especially my assistant silvino [louro] because eusebio was his coach for a long time, but I’m not so sad because I really feel that he’s immortal for our country.’

24 METRO HERALD Monday, January 6, 2014

Leinster earned their luck against battling Connacht

«see page 21

Moyes: It is just too late for a good buy by gAvIn bROwn

DAVID MOYES admitted Manchester United ‘urgently’ need new players after a fifth home defeat of the season, but fears they are unlikely to get them. Swansea yesterday cranked up the heat on Moyes with a 2-1 win at Old Trafford in the FA Cup third round but Moyes warned any fans looking for a quick fix in the transfer window that they may be disappointed. ‘I will try to get players but it will probably be doubtful in January,’ said the Scot. ‘There is an urgency that we’d like to bring players in but are those players available? ‘There is no point in me hyping it up and saying we are [going to buy] because the very players we would like to bring in are probably not available.’ Moyes was again without the injured players Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney yesterday but said it ‘shouldn’t be’ that United are reliant on their two world-class strikers. ‘It has been a tough start to the season. I am disappointed we have not won more games but it will change – I’ve no doubt about that,’ he added. Moyes is not the only Premier League boss under fire, with Sam Allardyce having picked a weakened West Ham team for their humiliating 5-0 cup defeat at Nottingham Forest yesterday.

Cold comfort: Moyes says United will find it hard to sign the players they need picture: action iMages

fa cup action – insiDe

No guarantees for Dublin stars as Gavin eyes up new talent

Looking to the future: Dublin boss Jim Gavin says 2013 is in the past

picture: iNpho

Boss Jim Gavin has warned Dublin’s star names that their places aren’t safe after watching a rookie side begin the season on a winning note, writes Paul Keane. a second-string Dublin team secured a battling 0-12 to 0-11 o’Byrne Cup victory over Westmeath in mullingar thanks to Ciaran Kilkenny’s winning score. The young forward was one of only two all-ireland final starters to line out in the Group D opener at Cusack Park. Gavin used the tie to assess new and fringe talent and there were good displays from Darragh nelson, Jason Whelan and top

scorer Paul Hudson. The same panel will be retained for Wednesday evening’s clash with Louth at Parnell Park and sunday’s tie against DCU at the same venue. Gavin pointed out that new players took advantage of early opportunities last year and said that he won’t be guaranteeing places for any of his absent allireland heroes. ‘Players are very determined to push on and stake claims for national league and Championship places,’ said Gavin. ‘There are no guarantees for any player that played last year. For us, 2013 is

definitely in the past and we’re looking forward to getting ourselves set up for the national football league in a few weeks’ time.’ Kilkenny was picked out with a fine diagonal pass by Hudson for the winning point. minutes earlier, Dublin had fallen a point down after two scores by Westmeath substitute Des Dolan. ‘it was very pleasing to see our guys keep their composure right to the end and it was a great point by Ciaran Kilkenny to win the game,’ added Gavin.

« Match report – page 21