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Lamb of God A woman dressed as a character from the Nativity scene puts a lamb across the shoulders of Pope Francis as he arrives at the Church of St Alfonso Maria dei Liguori on the outskirts of Rome. The event was part of the feast of the Epiphany
VIDEO gamers hallucinate, suffer flashbacks and struggle to sleep after playing, a study has found. Some gamers saw screen menus pop up in front of their eyes while chatting with friends, while others saw coloured images when driving. Psychologists Angelica Ortiz de Gortari and Professor Mark Griffiths and their team at Nottingham Trent University found many gamers saw distorted versions of real world surroundings following play. Analysing the perceptual experiences, referred to as game transfer phenomena (GTP), of 483 gamers on 54 online video game forums, the researchers found GTP can occur while gaming, right after play or after some delay. Visual illusions are known to be able to easily trick the brain, and staring at visual stimuli can cause ‘after-images’ or ‘ghost images’. But the researchers found evidence that GTP was triggered by associations between video game experiences, and objects and activities in real-life contexts. Ms Ortiz de Gortari said the psychological profile of the gamers is unknown because the data was collected in online game forums. ‘However, different gamers reported similar experiences in the same games. This highlights the relevance of the video games’ structural characteristics but gamers’ habits also appear to be crucial,’ she added. Prof Griffiths said some gamers may be more susceptible than others to experience GTP. He said the study shows there is a need to investigate the effects further to encourage healthy and safe video game playing. The study appears in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
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Escape plan foiled after crooks stuff cattle in car by AiDAn RADnEDgE
IN HINDSIGHT, it was never going to work as a getaway car. Thieves who were hoping to disappear with their ill-gotten gains should have thought twice before they went ahead and filled a family saloon with... four stolen cows. Their botched bovine heist was abandoned a few miles from the scene of the crime when the Proton Wira started to buckle under the weight of the beasts. ‘They managed to drive away from the farm they’d stolen them from but broke down a short distance away, forcing them to abandon the vehicle and its booty,’ said Chin Soo Song, deputy police chief of Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia. After using a blowpipe to tranquillise the cows, the rustlers loaded one animal into the boot and squeezed the other three into the rear over fold-down seats. One crook took the wheel while two accomplices made their getaway on motorbikes. Police said that the cow thieves are still on the run.
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Murdered man may have lain in drain for a week THE body of a murdered criminal may have lain in storm-drenched bogland for up to a week before it was discovered, detectives believe. Christy Daly, a 47-year-old father-of-six from Ballycumber, Co Offaly, was found dead next to a caravan he was living in outside Clara, Co Offaly. His body was discovered six feet down a drain off the isolated Bog Road in Kilbride yesterday morning during an organised search by gardaí. The settled Traveller, from a family of 11, had been investigated for sexual assault and had only been released from prison on December 7 after serving half of a six-year term for false imprisonment. While there were no obvious signs of his injuries, investigators believe the man met a violent death, and the caravan and two cars at the scene were burnt out.
I’M STILL STANDING: German chancellor Angela Merkel, who broke her pelvic bone in a skiing accident at the weekend, points with one of her crutches as she is entertained by epiphany singers from each of the 27 German diocese in Berlin Picture: ePA
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Noonan hails Irish reputation as bond sale nets €14billion by jOANNE AHERN THE Government has heralded big demand from hundreds of international investors who lined up to lend to the country in its first auction of sovereign debt since the end of the bailout. Some €3.75billion in IOUs known as bonds was offered on the global money markets, with orders worth €14bn coming in, the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) said. Finance Minister Michael Noonan said the bidding war showed the strength of Ireland’s international reputation. ‘The level of demand shows that the Government’s decision to exit the EU-IMF programme without a precautionary credit line has built
strong confid e n c e amongst investors,’ he said. ‘It is particularly noteworthy that the orders of €14bn exceed Strength: Noonan the €10bn that could have been available under a precautionary programme.’ The ten-year bonds – effectively IOUs from the State which accrue interest over their lifetime – mature in March 2024. They were sold with a yield or interest rate of 3.54 per cent – closer to the borrowing rates of stronger European economies like the UK and Norway and also the US.
The figures show the lack of risk investors see in the Irish economy since the Troika left while the money will also make a big dent in funding requirements for the year. Mr Noonan said strong investor sentiment had been built up through a series of tentative steps in November and December. The NTMA said there was interest in the new bonds from more than 400 fund managers, pension funds, insurance companies, banks and other investors, including some from the Middle East and Asia. Independent TD Stephen Donnelly said: ‘It’s encouraging to see the auction oversubscribed several times over and I hope that translates into attractive interest rates. It’s positive to see the NTMA back issuing longer term debt.’
IRA bomber avoids Liam Adams plans prison over illness appeal of sentence OLD Bailey bomber Marian McGlinchey has been given a suspended sentence for dissident republican terror offences, one linked to the murder of two British soldiers. McGlinchey, pictured, 59, formerly known as Marian Price, who was given a life term in 1973 for her part in the bomb attack on the London court, last year pleaded guilty to providing a mobile phone to the Real IRA gang that gunned down the soldiers outside Massereene Army barracks in Antrim in 2009. Judge Gordon Kerr said McGlinchey’s deteriorating health was a factor in his decision.
THE paedophile brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has mounted an appeal bid against his conviction and sentence for raping and sexually abusing his daughter. Liam Adams, 58, from Bernagh Drive in west Belfast, was found guilty last year of a string of attacks on Áine Dahlstrom, now 40, when she was aged between four and nine in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was subsequently handed a 16-year sentence. The Lord Chief Justice’s office in Belfast has confirmed that Adams’ lawyers have applied to seek leave to appeal both conviction and sentence. Mrs Dahlstrom waived her right to anonymity.
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Golfer McIlroy and 1D’s Niall make Forbes list GOLFER Rory McIlroy and Niall Horan of boyband One Direction are among five Irishmen listed in the latest Forbes 30 under 30 people to watch. Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison, who set up online payments firm Stripe, which processes billions of dollars for thousands of companies every year, and Terry Cavanagh, founder of gaming firm Distractionware – behind 2012
release Super Hexagon – also made the list alongside the likes of actress Jennifer Lawrence and tennis player Maria Sharapova. All five members of One Direction made the list after the band grossed more than €31million over the past year. Forbes said of Northern Irishman McIlroy, who has signed sponsorships with Nike, Bose and Swiss watch maker
Omega despite a disappointing year on the course: ‘Even in a down year, he’s a face of the sport’. ‘These founders and funders, brand builders and do-gooders aren’t waiting around for a proper career bump up the establishment ladder. Their ambitions are way bigger — and perfectly suited to the dynamic, entrepreneurial, and impatient digital world they grew up in,’ Forbes said.
One to watch: Horan
Pub hosts tearful hearing of ‘air rage’ designer Lauren by sARAH sTAck
Charged: Jenny Lauren, niece of fashion designer Ralph Lauren, arrives at Killaloe District Court
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THE niece of fashion designer Ralph Lauren appeared before a Co Clare court – which sat in a pub – charged with being drunk and abusive on a plane over an alleged air rage incident. Dressed in a smart black dress, coat and boots, the New York jewellery designer wept before the hearing and then clutched her hands as she appeared before Killaloe District Court. The unusual sitting was held in the downstairs function room of the Brian Boru pub as there is no dedicated courthouse in the area. Jennifer Lauren is accused of breaching the peace on board a transatlantic Delta Air Lines flight, which had to be diverted to Shannon Airport on Monday afternoon. Lauren, 41, was arrested off the plane at Shannon Airport on Monday and held overnight in a cell at Shannon Garda Station. She was charged with being intoxicated to such an extent as would give rise to a reasonable apprehension that she might endanger herself or other persons on board the aircraft. The court heard that when detained at the airport, Lauren asked officers: ‘Can you say that in English please?’ More than 200 passengers and crew were on board the flight from Barcelona to New York when the alleged air rage incident took place. The US national was granted bail on condition she stays at a hotel in Shannon with her travelling companions and lodges €2,500 of her own money to the court. She has been ordered to sign on at Shannon Garda Station and surrender her passport. The case will be heard again today at Ennis District Court.
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Interim head at City of Culture THE head of Limerick School of Art and Design has been appointed interim head of Limerick City of Culture. Mike Fitzpatrick will take up the role for no longer than two months pending the appointment of ‘appropriate full-time staff’. Departing CEO Patricia Ryan has agreed to facilitate a smooth handover. She resigned amid controversy over her appointment to the post with no competition.
Bus set on fire at ex-Quinn site A BUS was set on fire outside three business premises once part of the Quinn Group. The arson attack took place at about 5am yesterday morning when the coach was parked across the entrance to three buildings at a packaging plant near Ballyconnell in Cavan. There was no damage to the properties and no one injured. In December, a stolen oil tanker was rammed into a business once part of the Quinn Group and set on fire.
Pair scoop €8m lottery jackpot TWO Dublin lottery players have become the country’s newest millionaires after scooping an €8million jackpot. The pair, who have chosen to remain anonymous, collected their cheque from Lotto headquarters yesterday. ‘We can’t believe our luck,’ said one of the winners. ‘What a way to kick off the new year.’ The syndicate of two bought their €4 Quick Pick at Tesco in Wicklow Shopping Centre.
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60 seconds FRAnk SinATRA JR is a singer like his late father. He turns 70 this week, which he’ll no doubt celebrate with a new whiskey named after his dad What is the public’s biggest misconception about your father? I don’t know what to tell you
about that. Gossip is plentiful, scandal is profitable – and falsity is just part of human nature.
And about you? Well, the first
misconception is that I’m famous. I’m not, I just have a famous name. The achiever was my father. I’m just kind of a tinkering mechanic.
You’ve had a 50-year singing career – were you never tempted just to sit back and live off an inheritance? No, no,
I can’t. That’s not my cup of tea. If you sit back and do nothing, your brain turns to cheese, like milk going sour. I refused to surrender myself to the great god of mediocrity.
You were your father’s musical director towards the end of his life – what was he like as a boss?
He was a taskmaster, as is anybody who seeks a level of perfection that he believes is right for him.
And as a father?
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Me? Of course. The number of enemies you acquire increases proportionally with the number of years you live. By the time you get to my age you have acquired a very healthy number of enemies. That’s life.
want to be a singer. I wanted to be a songwriter and a pianist. I was, in a strange way, drafted into singing but one day I found out there were fewer singers on the unemployment line than piano players.
Is there a part of you that wishes you’d been given a different name? No, no. That’s non-
sensical for any person to think of such a thing. Unless I was somebody who was a member of Hitler’s family, or something like that – then I would wish not to have it.
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Did you resent him for being largely absent during your childhood? No, not at all. He
owed me nothing. He was very good to me. When I grew up I had a nice home to live in, food in my stomach, clothes on my back and I had an education. Anything he owed me – if you want to call it that – was more than paid. I took the job because I wanted to put something back.
What lessons did you learn from him? Well, there was one
very important one. And that is whatever you believe in, practise it devoutly and disregard the inherent dangers that come with it. Now, in his case, such beliefs caused him a lot of hungry nights, like any devout person. We have a saying in America: there’s nothing worse than a 51 per center – let’s go with whatever the popular consensus is. That shows lack of integrity. The man who has no enemies has no character, Mr Churchill said.
Do you have lots of enemies?
HUNDREDS of passengers were left stranded as flights were cancelled at Scotland’s busiest airport due to a security alert. Flights at Edinburgh Airport were disrupted for more than three hours when staff found a ‘potentially suspicious bag’ in the security check area at about 2pm yesterday. Around 100 travellers were evacuated from the terminal, passengers on flights landing around the time of the alert were left on planes, but moved to an adjacent hotel later, and roads nearby were closed. Police concluded that there was no threat and the airport was reopened, but disruption to flights was expected to continue.
Did you intend to follow your father into the music business? I was a piano player. I didn’t
You’re 70 on Friday. What are your thoughts as you reach this milestone? When
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He was like any father. He was a disciplinarian, like all good fathers – as far as I’m concerned – should be.
Two managers at a Goodyear tyre factory held captive by French workers were freed yesterday after police intervened, ending a two-day standoff. The release outraged union members, who made a bonfire of tyres in front of the plant in the northern city of Amiens, which Goodyear has tried to sell or shutter for more than five years. Union leaders said workers would occupy the complex until managers negotiate with them over severance pay. workers seized the plant’s director and human resources chief on Monday morning to demand bigger severance packages. The Amiens plant has seen violent protests in recent years, so a judge authorised police intervention.
I started working with my father, he was already in his seventies. By the time I finished, he was a little shy of 80. And I think any person at that stage in life becomes reflective, philosophic, nostalgic. And that’s why he had those moods. There was a motion picture called The Bridge On The River Kwai. Alec Guinness’s character says: ‘Sometimes you cannot resist the knowledge that you’re nearer the end than the beginning.’ And that’s what my father saw.
What do you make of Mia Farrow’s recent claims that her son might be your father’s, rather than Woody Allen’s? I
have no idea what that’s all about. The only thing I know is what I’ve seen in the newspaper. I hardly knew her – I mean, I met her two or three times and that was 40 years ago. It’s kind of predictable. In this day and age, the media survives on scandal, on controversy.
Do you have any unfulfilled ambitions? I’m at the age now
when health is beginning to break down. That’s really the primary thing: keep a good mental attitude about things – sometimes it’s easier said than done. Etan Smallman
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It’s a dune deal KTM rider Mark Davidson of Australia races through the dunes during the second stage of the Dakar Rally in Argentina on Monday, the fastest stage in the two-week rally Picture: aP
Beauty queen and husband murdered by METRO HERALD STAFF A FORMER Miss Venezuela and her husband were shot and killed while resisting a robbery after their car broke down. Monica Spear, 29, and Henry Thomas Berry, 39, were murdered late on Monday night on the highway between Puerto Cabello, Venezuela’s main port and Valencia in the centre of the country. The couple’s five-year-old daughter who was in the car with her parents was in stable condition after getting medical attention for a reported bullet wound in her leg. The family who lived in the US, were on vacation in Venezuela and waiting on a tow truck when the shooting occurred. Ms Spear was crowned Miss Ven-
Killed: Beauty queen Spear ezuela in 2004 and acted in numerous soap operas for the US-based Telemundo network. Reports last night confirmed Mr Berry as British, although he had earlier been described as Irish.
Venezuela has one of the world’s highest murder rates. Its official homicide rate late year was 39 per 100,000 inhabitants, but local nongovernmental organisations put the true figure at nearly twice that. Violent crime is so acute that people tend to stay home after dark. Reports indicated Ms Spear’s car may have broken down before armed robbers approached. Showbiz colleagues were devastated. ‘I’m so sad for my Venezuela, my condolences for Monica Spear’s family. Rage and impotence are what I feel right now,’ wrote Venezuelan salsa singer Oscar D’Leon on Twitter. President Nicolas Maduro has declared beating violent crime his top priority, and polls show it to be Venezuelans’ main concern.
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Washed-up creature of deep is world-first sighting of conjoined grey whale twins
First case: Conjoined grey whale calves had not been seen before
Waves of sadness... Sad end: The discovery of the whale calves temporarily baffled experts after being washed up in Mexico Pictures: chris MurPhy
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was only 2.1metres long – grey whales are double that length when born. Alisa Schulman-Janiger, whale researcher at the American Cetacean Society, said: ‘There is no way that conjoined twin whales can survive. ‘Poor little ones. It is also unclear if the mom survived.’
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7ft statue of Satan planned AMERICA: A group has unveiled designs for a seven-foot-tall statue of Satan at the Oklahoma state Capitol. The New York-based Satanic Temple released an artist’s rendering of the monument featuring a goat-headed Satan sitting in a throne with children next to it. It says Oklahoma’s decision to put a Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol opened the door for its statue.
First woman to head Fed SyRIA: Men hold up a baby saved from under rubble after an airstrike by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus yesterday Picture: reuters
FRANCE: Timing is everything for elite winemaker Bernard Margez, so much so he is using €50,000 mini-drones to fly over his vineyards in Bordeaux to find the right moment to pick his grapes. The unmanned aircraft can also spot disease and help reduce his use of fertilisers.
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kung fu king Shaw, 106, dies HONg kONg: The film mogul behind hundreds of kung fu films and sci-fi classic Blade Runner died yesterday. Run Run Shaw, whose empire gave actor Chow Yun-fat and director John Woo their first breaks, was 106. The China-born producer (pictured), who moved to Hong Kong after World War II, made a rare error by passing up the chance to sign the young Bruce Lee. He remained as chairman of the TVB company until 2011.
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IT WAS a discovery that initially had marine biologists scratching their heads in dismay. But this mysterious creature from the deep has now been identified as the world’s first documented case of conjoined whale twins. The remains of the grey whale calves, washed up off the coast of Mexico, were probably stillborn, experts reckon. The carcass
AMERICA: Janet Yellen is to become the first female chairman of the US Federal Reserve. The 67year-old (pictured), who supports the central bank’s efforts to spur the economy with huge bond purchases, will step up from vice-chairman next month.
Skiers killed in avalanche SWITzERLAND: Two skiers and their guide died in a snowslip while taking part in an avalanche survival course. They ignored advice to stay on approved slopes and climbed to the summit at Pointe de Masserey where they were swept away on Monday. Avalanches have killed 11 off-piste skiers in Switzerland since Christmas.
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Shakira: I think RiRi is sexiest girl on planet
Shakira has teased titillating details of her time working with Rihanna on their new duet. The 36-year-old found she had a lot in common with RiRi after spending so much time with her in the studio. ‘Working with her was utopia,’ she said. ‘She’s the sexiest woman on the planet. And at the end of the day, we’re both just basically Caribbean girls. The chemistry was so good and so real. She taught me dance moves. She was a sweet teacher.’ Colombian Shakira teamed up with the 25-year-old Bajan singer on Can’t Remember To Forget You. She also admitted she had been criticised in the past for being too skinny – but was now happy with her curves, as was her footballer lover Gerard Piqué. ‘My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. He doesn’t like too skinny. That takes pressure off,’ she told American Glamour magazine. ‘I already have a lot to worry about,’ she added, referencing her imminent music releases and son, Milan, who turns one later this month. ‘This month I’m not exercising because I have an album to finish and I have a baby. And I like these pastries in front of me.’ Can’t Remember To Forget You will be released on Monday.
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Bradley Cooper and his girlfriend Suki Waterhouse are proving that the 17-year age gap is no issue for them as the couple celebrated their birthdays together in Los Angeles. The 22-year-old, who shares her January 5 birthday with Cooper, travelled to the US to be with her lover, who turned 39 on Sunday. The model and American Hustle actor enjoyed a party at a house in Pacific Palisades. The couple have been dating for a year.
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Short clip: Hugh Jackman is ‘rocking the mullet’ for his latest film. The 45-year-old revealed his dodgy ‘do’ on the set of sci-fi film Chappie in an Instagram post
Emma Roberts is to wed her American Horror Story co-star Evan Peters. The niece of Julia Roberts said ‘yes’ when her beau, 26, went down on bended knee over Christmas in New York, reports E! News. The 22year-old was spotted wearing a diamond engagement ring in New Orleans on Sunday and People magazine announced the couple’s happy news last night. They have been dating since 2012. Roberts (pictured) was arrested for assaulting Peters in a Montreal hotel room last year.
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Fit teens get longer-term health boost KEEPING fit as a teenager can halve the risk of heart attacks later in life, a study has found. Scientists studied data on more than 743,000 young national service conscripts in Sweden. The fitness of each 18-year-old was tested, including stamina on an exercise cycle. The recruits were then monitored for an average of 34 years, during which some 7,575 heart attacks were recorded among 620,000 men. Every 15 per cent increase in fitness at 18 years of age cuts the chances of a heart attack 30 years later by a fifth, the study found. Study leader Prof Peter Nordstrom, from Umea University, said: ‘As far as we know, this is the first study to investigate the links between physical fitness in teenagers and risk of heart attack and these results are important with respect to public health.’
Grillos: We wish Nigella well but we are not sorry by TARIQ TAHIR
NIGELLA LAwsoN’s former assistants said yesterday they have no regrets about exposing her secrets to the world but wished her success and were sure she would ‘always be loved’. Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo insisted they were forced to expose their former boss’s drug use during their fraud trial, because their freedom was at stake. ‘I feel sorry that we ended up in that situation, that she did admit to that,’ Elisabetta said. ‘But I don’t feel guilty, because it was nothing to do with me. It’s her life.’ The sisters added they felt no shame after using Nigella and her ex-husband Charles saatchi’s credit cards to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on themselves. There was nothing they regretted buying because they had been given no ground rules about using the cards, they said during an appearance on ITV’s This Morning. The Grillos – acquitted after claiming Nigella had allowed them to spend on the cards in return for covering up her use of cocaine – added their former
Green space aids mental well-being MoVING to a greener area leads to ‘significant and sustained’ improvements in mental health, a new study has found. such a move instantly improves mental well-being, with the effects lasting for at least three years. However, those who up sticks to a more built-up environment suffer a decline in mental health. Experts say the findings add to evidence that increasing green spaces in cities could deliver health benefits. study author Dr Ian Alcock from the University of Exeter Medical school said: ‘These findings are important for introducing new green spaces to towns and cities, suggesting they could provide long-term and sustained benefits.’ Results showed movers to greener areas had an immediate improvement in mental health for up to three years.
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TV interview: The sisters on the sofa employer had triumphed in the court of public opinion. ‘we have won the court case but definitely she had the most support from the public,’ said Francesca, 35. ‘she is well loved and she will always be loved and I am sure she will be fine.’ Elisabetta, 41, recalled her terror when the sisters were arrested. ‘It was like a proper nightmare,’ she said. Nigella, whose series The Taste started last night on Channel 4, said last week she had been ‘mortified’ at seeing her private life put on display when she was called to give evidence in the fraud trial. Police are to review her admission that she twice took cocaine.
T-Mobile chief gatecrashes rival’s party, gets thrown out
Apt pupil: Sony president Kazuo Hirai speaks during a keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Picture: AP
T-Mobile’s chief executive John Legere is taking his ‘bad boy’ image and feud with AT&T to the next level: he crashed a party thrown by the rival telecommunications company at the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas, and was thrown out after being discovered. The incident on Monday night occurred amid a recent escalation of the rivalry between the firms. AT&T’s party followed its conference for software developers the same day, and featured rap act Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
Legere took the job as CEO of T-Mobile in 2012 and has made a point of breaking with the status quo of the wireless industry, both in terms of personal style and business models. AT&T representatives had no comment on the incident. At the same show, Samsung Electronics Co, the world’s largest maker of TVs, said it is tackling the problem of getting ultra-highdefinition content to its new TV sets by teaming up with the streaming services of Comcast, Netflix and Amazon.
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OMETHING miraculous happened to me yesterday – I felt sympathy for the man who gave the world Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. Ordinarily, the mention of film director Michael Bay’s name sparks harrowing flashback images of annoying talking robots and explosions taking place inside other explosions, but he made the news this week for another reason. During a presentation endorsing a Samsung curved TV screen at the CES in Las Vegas, Bay suffered a severe bout of stage fright. The 48-year-old, who also directed Pearl Harbour, Armageddon and The Rock, got flustered when his autocue failed. Things began routinely enough, with Bay telling the audience that he creates ‘visual worlds that are so beyond everyone’s normal life experiences’. And even when he noticed the autocue problem, it looked like he would keep his cool. ‘The type is all off, sorry, but I’ll just wing this,’ he said. However, seconds later, following a couple of awkward pauses, Bay capitulated and walked off stage, saying, ‘Excuse me, I’m sorry, I’m sorry’, as he did so. The incident showed that even a hugely successful Hollywood fi l m m a ke r can come down with stage fright.
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Movie director Michael Bay suffered something of a meltdown during a tech show speech in Las Vegas this week, causing him to flee the podium. ROSS MCGUINNESS asks why so many people suffer from stage fright. Bay would appear to be a surprising sufferer, given that he regularly posts pictures on his blog which show him barking orders and instructions to hundreds of people on set. He was even unruffled when attacked on set by disgruntled locals in Hong Kong last October, while filming the fourth Transformers movie. To Bay’s credit, he was quick to discuss why he walked off stage at CES, writing on his blog hours later: ‘Wow! I just embarrassed myself at CES. I got so excited to talk, that I skipped over the Exec VP’s intro line and then the teleprompter got lost. Then the prompter went up and down – then I walked off. I guess live shows aren’t my thing.’ Regardless of what people may make of his movies, there was something of an outpouring of sympathy for Bay in the aftermath of the incident, even on that most bilious den of schadenfreude, Twitter.
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LMOST all of us have felt the sweat in our palms, the twitch in our leg or the itch around the collar as we prepared to deliver a message to more than one person. Anyone nervously rattling through a wedding speech will have felt Bay’s pain. But stage fright is something more associated with those in the public eye. Notable sufferers have included Barbra Streisand, Stephen Fry and even the great Laurence Olivier. The actor Ian Holm, perhaps best known for playing Bilbo Baggins in The Lord Of The Rings movies, famously vacated the stage in 1976 during The Iceman Cometh, returning to theatre only a handful of times since. Holm dubbed stage fright ‘the actor’s industrial illness’. Performing or public speaking inevitably brings its anxieties. ‘It’s a really natural response to being stared at by lots of people,’ said presenta-
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tion coach Caroline Goyder, author of upcoming book, Gravitas: Communicate With Confidence, Influence And Authority. ‘If you think of primitive man and a thousand people staring at him – that is an army to your brain, and an army to your brain says “fight or flight” – either run away or charge at them with a spear. And we haven’t really evolved from that response.’ Recent research published by Harvard Business School suggests trying to calm down when experiencing stage fright isn’t helpful. Instead, the more excited we are, the better we cope with the nerves. Goyder said: ‘It’s okay to feel this adrenaline. Bruce Springsteen calls his nerves “feeling alive”. When you feel the butterflies rise, you’ve got to embrace them, you’ve got to get them flying in formation. Great performers use nerves to make them better.’ She did, however, feel sorry for Bay’s plight in Las Vegas, although
she maintains he should have been better prepared. ‘The big rule of any performance is that you have to have it clear in your head that you can do it whatever happens,’ she said. ‘I think he hadn’t done enough rehearsal. I wonder if he’d done any rehearsal. ‘The main way to counteract stage fright – any actor will tell you, any musician will tell you, any sportsman will tell you – is rehearse. Because you get it out of the working memory and right down deep into the unconscious, and then you can do anything.’ The key with stage fright, she advised, is to recognise the situation rather than get angry at yourself. ‘It’s like a racing driver,’ she said. ‘If the car skids, it’s no good beating yourself up that you’re skidding – what you’ve got to do is get yourself back on track and deal with what’s happening. If you start panicking about what’s happening, you’re toast.’
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Calls for EU to fund storm repairs STORM repair funding will be considered by Government departments next week, on receipt of reports from local authorities. Following a meeting of the National Coordinating Group on Severe Weather yesterday, it confirmed the Department of Social Protection has already helped a ‘small number’ of affected households. It advised that assistance is available under the exceptional
needs and urgent needs payments and the humanitarian assistance scheme. Meanwhile, Irish MEP Sean Kelly believes Ireland should be eligible for financial aid from the EU Solidarity Fund. Describing the storm damage as ‘horrifying and unprecedented in nature’, he said the €1billion fund is ‘designed to aid member states faced with such devastation caused by natural disasters’.
Big freeze hits 190m as US shivers in cold
Your palms are freezing: Even Florida has not escaped the record-breaking cold in the US, as these plants in Panama City Beach in the Sunshine State attest Picture: aP
HALF the population of the US was warned to avoid extreme temperatures yesterday after the polar vortex moved east. Washington, Detroit, New York and Chicago all saw temperatures of -14C to -23C (7F to -9F) and about 190million people are affected. Some 1,987 flights were cancelled and 1,028 delayed. Three Chicago-bound Amtrak trains came to a halt on Monday afternoon, stranding more than 500 passengers overnight. New York’s Bowery Mission homeless shelter typified the response. It was full with another 179 people sleeping in the chapel and cafeteria.
He added: ‘It is of critical importance that aid is directed swiftly to affected communities to ensure there is a quick reconstruction of the affected infrastructure... Bearing in mind extensive damage has also been done to cities such as Cork and Galway, including to critical flood defence infrastructure, the total bill for the recovery will stretch to hundreds of millions of euro, ensuring Ireland is eligible for the EU Solidarity Fund.’
WINDs OF CHANGE
A polar vortex is an area of cold dense air high in the atmosphere above the North Pole
POLAR VORTEX
USUALLY The cold polar vortex is held in place by a band of fast-flowing air called the jet stream THIS WEEK A high pressure system from the west distorted the jet steam. The polar vortex was forced south over central US causing temperatures to plummet
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Bank to pay $2.5bn for missing signs of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme JPMORGaN Chase & Co has been ordered to pay over $2.5billion (€1.837bn) for ignoring warning signs of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. The bank will pay $1.7bn (€1.25bn) to settle criminal charges and a $350million civil penalty for what the US Treasury called ‘critical and widespread deficiencies’ in its systems for preventing money laundering and other suspicious activity.
by TOM HAys It also will pay $543million to settle other claims by victims, according to settlements announced by Irving H Picard, the trustee recovering money for thousands of Madoff’s victims. George Venizelos, head of the FBI’s New York office, said the bank failed to carry out its legal obligations while Madoff ‘built his massive house of cards’.
‘It took until after the arrest of Madoff, one of the worst crooks this office has ever seen, for JPMorgan to alert authorities to what the world already knew,’ he said. JPMorgan, the primary bank through which Madoff operated since 1986, withdrew about $300million of its own money from Madoff feeder funds in 2008, soon after the bank’s London desk circulated a memo describing JP-
Morgan’s inability to validate Madoff’s trading activity or custody of assets and his ‘odd choice’ of a one-man accounting firm, the government said. US attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement yesterday that ‘JPMorgan connected the dots when it mattered to its own profit, but was not so diligent otherwise’. Madoff, 75, pleaded guilty in 2009 and is serving a 150-year prison term.
Madoff: Jailed for 150 years
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s there anything more embarrassing than Irish people getting involved in petty arguments over Liverpool and Manchester United? On Monday a letter from Man U red born and bred and on Tuesday a letter from True Red scouse. I’d be very surprised if either of these people were actually born in Manchester or Liverpool. Listening to Irish fans of these clubs referring to each other as Mancs and scousers is laughable. True Blue Dub (born and raised in Dublin) ■ Why are Dublin Bus passenger figures down? Trains full of passengers pull into Bray every 20 to 30 minutes usually with plenty of people wishing to further their journey. However time and again the bus
that was sitting empty at the station appears to register that the time to pull out is when the train is pulling in. This happens just as passengers are only alighting from the train. If the excuse is that they are sticking to a timetable then maybe the ‘brains’ that set them should review them to allow time for people to exit the station. It is beyond credibility. Please speed the Luas service extension to Bray. Potential Bus User ■ Kevin, it’s only a second week of 2014, so calling EB’s comment ‘the dumbest comment of 2014’ is a dumb thing in itself. so by your method, your comment is second dumbest of the whole 2014. But you made me laugh, so cheers and have a good week. Anna, Dublin
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It pays to read page 2 TREnDing ■ Just called in a religious holiday. Finally being an Orthodox Russian has paid off. Thanks @MetroHNews! @Rushhourrant ■ What makes it acceptable to throw a broken umbrella on the ground? That’s still littering. David ■ I’m convinced the Match Of The Day theme tune is a lullaby. The music starts, I nod off and wake up to hear Gary Lineker saying ‘night, night’ every week without fail. Sleepy Soccer fan
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● A #PolarVortex sounds like something Mr. Freeze would use to destroy Gotham City… or a new flavor of Powerade.
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● I am pretty sure I just saw Frances McDormand arrest some dude near a wood chipper.
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● Thank you to the lady who was sitting across from me on the 06.47 Balbriggan train yesterday, who noticed my phone had slipped out of my jacket pocket. Next time I’ll put the phone in the pocket that has a zip on it. Most Grateful ● Thank you to the person who handed in my car keys to the Pavilion in Swords before Christmas. Hope the new year will bring you lots of good luck. Jac Swanning around: Gavin Ross took this shot of swans exuding a welcome sense of calm in Blackrock Park at the weekend despite the stormy weather
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● To the horse-loving filly I was speaking to in Hogan’s on Saturday evening for ages – and yet I never plucked up the courage to take the reins and ask out – you are more than a big ride, you are hot to trot. If you are not in a stable relationship, do you fancy being my mane attraction? Mr Ed
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Snow lashes: John Brower runs to work in Minneapolis ● Also, I discovered why my bus didn’t show this morning: 3 of the sled dogs pulling it succumbed to hypothermia. #Transit #polarvortex’
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Ross McDonagh has some advice for our American cousins for dealing with the cold. See LYSTERIA p17 bbc
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The drama queen Irish actress ELAINE CASSIDY tells Pavel Barter about working on hit BBC period drama The Paradise, and explains why she’s content with her lot in life
hey made the unlikeliest of couples. During the making of 1999’s Felicia’s Journey, elaine Cassidy and Bob hoskins struck up a close friendship. They would sneak off to smoke cigarettes, played cards, and shared stories over cups of coffee. Two years later, hoskins signed up to television film The Lost World, chiefly because Cassidy was already cast. ‘We were in New Zealand for eight weeks,’ says the actress from Kilcoole in Co Wicklow. Since then, much has changed. After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, hoskins announced his retirement in 2012. Cassidy, meanwhile, is now a mother of two who lives in London. ‘I’m in that frame of mind where I just want to get a job near home,’ she says. ‘The ambition and hunger are still there, but I want to be a mum. Not a blow-in mum, but a good mum.’ Cassidy has never taken her career for granted, always favouring variety over typecasting. From her part as a creepy mute girl in The Others, with Nicole Kidman, to her brilliant turn as Runt in Disco Pigs; from playing hitler’s niece in Uncle Adolf, to an undercover cop in Channel 4’s The Ghost Squad, you never quite know what to expect next from the 34year-old. After her breakthrough as a young ingénue in Felicia’s Journey, everyone asked her to play innocent, naïve characters. ‘I thought “I’ve done that. I don’t want to do it again”. I turned loads of stuff down. I thought, “If you’re an actress you’re supposed to play any part”. I wanted to be the best actress I could be, push boundaries and challenge myself. If I wanted to play the same character, why not just go into a soap opera and have a steady income?’ Period drama is one common thread in Cassidy’s career. She was in the acclaimed BBC miniseries Fingersmith, and starred in A Room With
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“If it starts getting gritty, it’s easier to take because you can remove yourself from it alongside Downton Abbey. Cassidy calls it ‘the ultimate escapism. Even if it starts getting gritty, hard-hitting, or upsetting, I think it’s easier to take because you can remove yourself from it.’ The actress is no stranger to TV drama, having starred in Harper’s Island for CBS in America. In this murder-mystery whodunit, the actors did not know if their characters
were going to die until each episode started filming. ‘It was like a reality show when someone gets eliminated every week,’ says Cassidy, who lasted all 13 episodes. ‘The make-up artist told me that every actor, who was being killed off, turned into a diva during their last week of filming. She said, “They’re getting really demanding. They want extra lip gloss and more concealer”. And that was just the boys!’ Cassidy has been drawn to the smell of greasepaint since she played Pinocchio aged five in a school play. She is perhaps best
known back home for 2001’s Disco Pigs, in which she co-starred with Cillian Murphy. ‘It was a very special job. Kirsten [Sheridan, director], Enda [Walsh, scriptwriter], Cillian and myself, bonded on location in Cork, mainly through alcohol on nights out.’ The actress has not worked in Ireland since Little White Lie (2008), which is a regret for her. But the nature of her work has always been unreliable. In 2010, she was cast in HBO pilot The Miraculous Year. Despite the involvement of Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow, and Gladiator writer John Logan, the show was not picked up.
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Escapist: Wicklow woman Elaine Cassidy holds out for the best roles, one of which is Katherine in BBC period drama The Paradise
n holding out for the best roles, Cassidy has made sacrifices. ‘I don’t drive a flash car,’ she says. ‘I don’t spend loads of money on clothes. I live well under my means. My luxury is being a bit fussy about my parts. I love my job so much, so making choices has never really been a problem. I’m still not where I would like to be. Ideally, I would like to have Daniel DayLewis’s career, but I’ve been really happy with the roles I’ve got to play so far.’ With barely a bum note in her resume, audiences would probably agree. The Paradise – Series 2 is out now on DVD.
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My duty to give voice to the lost
I knew that my new book would be about the quest for freedom in all its forms – body, mind and soul. The novel [set in the American Deep South] was inspired by the amazing 19thcentury abolitionist and women’s rights pioneer Sarah Grimké. I also came upon a beautiful AfricanAmerican folk tale about a time when people in Africa could fly. A challenging aspect was writing from the complicated intersection of history and imagination. I reminded myself I wasn’t a biographer or historian but a novelist. The character of [slave girl] Hetty ‘Handful’ is a child of my imagination almost totally. Sarah had a waiting-maid given to her on her birthday but that was the only fact. I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character. The notion of writing from the mind and heart of an enslaved person was daunting. But I loved every minute of writing the book. Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to
Sue Monk Kidd, 65, author of The Secret Life Of Bees, returns to racial tensions in the US South for her new novel, The Invention Of Wings. By Anita Sethi explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable. I want to plunge someone into the life of a woman with no voice – to feel what that is like. One of the most mysterious things is empathy.
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests. I remember the great racial divides in my world. I feel I have a responsibility as an American, Southerner, person – this is my history. Historical fiction makes it easier to understand ourselves today. Modernday slavery is an enormous problem worldwide. I hope this novel opens our eyes to the cruelties that exist today. Writing about gender equality is also important to me. I grew up when there
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was gender injustice in pre-feminist America. I wanted to be a voice to feminists. I enormously admire bold women who are able to speak out.
Voice is a major motif. Sarah’s journey – her movement towards resolution and change – has to do with being able to articulate her own voice boldly. There are aspects of Sarah’s life that I can identify with, such as finding an authentic voice – this is a writer’s quest. Reading was a huge part of my life as a child – we were a family of storytellers. I learnt the power of stories. It seemed if I could create stories and weave that spell, that would be a great way to spend my life. What drives me is to tell a very vivid story. I always wanted to be a writer, even as a child. When I read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, that did it. I thought: I must write. The Invention Of Wings (Tinder Press) by Sue Monk Kidd is out now.
Injustice: Sue Monk Kidd imagined the life of a US slave girl
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Bringing it all way back home thE Way Way Back (12a) HHHH✩ DVD, Blu-ray, VoD
You may feel like we need another offbeat US indie coming-of-ager like we need another cold, wet, Friday morning. This one ‘from the studio that brought you Little Miss Sunshine and Juno’ certainly drives back down a familiar ‘quirky’ road. We see the story through the morose eyes of Duncan (Liam James), a shy 14-year-old who’s been dragged on a family holiday with his mum (Toni Collette) and her domineering new nightmare of a boyfriend (Steve Carell). But things look up when Duncan
bonds with a local wisecracking oddball (Sam Rockwell) over a Pac-Man arcade game and lands a job at a water park. The dysfunctional family shtick is played to the hilt but the charm of The Way Way Back blossoms alongside Duncan’s increasing confidence. Writer/ directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have a sweet, sure touch with tone and the script has an undercurrent of gentle humour that distinctively complements the brash but monstrously funny adult caricatures – and you get to see Rockwell in a wet vest, too. An uplifting winner. Larushka ivan-zadeh
Five films to see at the cinema this week
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Nebraska Beautifully understated black-and-white comedy from the creator of The Descendants and Sideways that has been showered with Best actor nominations.
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Frozen Cling on to that Christmas magic with Disney’s quietly revolutionary princess story. a classic animated musical that recalls Beauty and The Beast.
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug Peter Jackson’s second adaptation (above) of Jrr Tolkein’s children’s classic is a welcome return to rollicking form.
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One of the most delightful surprises of last year, this breezy charmer makes us care terribly that its hapless heroine finds her happy ending. Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplay with her partner, indie darling writer/director Noah Baumbach, stars as twentysomething Frances. She wants to be a dancer but is strictly back-row material in a company that includes the likes of chief rival Rachel (played by Meryl Streep’s daughter Grace Gummer). Her boyfriend dumps her and, worse, her BFF (Mickey Sumner, Sting’s daughter) is moving on with a better career, a better beau and a new, Frances-free apartment. Still Frances potters on, trying to live the dream in Manhattan. Her shambolic odyssey is timely, truthful and touching – and so good-humoured you want to give the whole movie a hug. More likeable than Girls, with the light tone (and black-and-white cinematography) of a Woody Allen romantic comedy crossed with a French New Wave coming-of-ager, it’s a gentle, refreshing treat. siobhán Murphy
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American Hustle Christian Bale, amy adams, Jennifer lawrence, Bradley Cooper… the ensemble cast dazzle in this entertaining con caper from the guy who brought us Silver linings Playbook.
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues ‘By the hymen of olivia Newton-John!’ Will ferrell’s unreconstructed TV anchorman is back and doesn’t disappoint with this sillier than ever news satire (top).
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Prepare to be bewildered by indie film-maker Shane Carruth’s second feature: Upstream Colour has rich, haunting rewards if you are prepared to go with its idiosyncratic flow. It starts as an offbeat thriller, when Kris (Amy Seimetz) falls
victim to a mindcontrolling thief who uses specially harvested roundworms and makes her sign over her money. But things take a turn for the weird when Kris is freed from her hypnotic state: she’s been made part of the worms’ parasitic cycle and once they have been transfused from her to a piglet by the mysterious Sampler, her identity and that of the pig are melded in disquieting fashion. Disorientated and floating through life, she encounters fellow victim Jeff (played by Carruth); their relationship seems to offer the only hope of reclaiming their lives. Carruth – who wrote, directed, filmed, edited, produced and made the music for this film – maintains a demanding and unnerving fictional space, where body horror and paranoid angst sit alongside dreamlike Terrence Malick moments of transcendent imagery. A fascinating, multifaceted puzzle that needs multiple viewings. sM
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Here’s a modern-day Manga fairy tale to warm your heart, with animated visuals that will take your breath away. As a student, Hana falls for a mysterious, dark-haired man who turns out to be part-wolf. Their romance leads to two children, Yuki and Ame, before disaster strikes and she’s left to raise her half-breed offspring alone. Harried but determined, Hana moves to a dilapidated house in the middle of the
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looking ahEad The Wolf lf of reeT Wall STreeT Martin Scorsese orsese shocks with a late te career switch into to crazy, balls-to-thewall comedy with this tale of an out-ofcontrol stockbroker, played by leonardo DiCaprio. out January 17.
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DVD There was only one way to start the new year: with Sherlock and the playful aftermath of one of TV’s cleverest cliffhanger mysteries. But it’s also worth making room for another our Holmes in your life – Jonny Lee Miller’s. In US series Elementary (season two of which is airing now on Sky Living), Sherlock has been transported from Baker Street to the Big Apple and is a recovering alcoholic. His Watson is his ‘sober companion’ Dr Joan, played with quiet restraint by Lucy Liu to make room for Miller’s wired, energising, showstealing performance. And the cases – from the files of the NYPD – are fiendish enough to nicely tax the little grey cells. sharon Lougher
countryside to escape prying eyes. Her children’s complicated coming of age involves more effort than usual for them to find their place in the world: outgoing Yuki wants acceptance and the life of a human; introverted Ame hears the call of the wild. Hana, meanwhile, finds strength and compassion amid the cut-off community around her. Director Mamoru Hosoda confidently tips werewolf lore on its pointy ear: no slavering, human-slaying beasties here. And he stamps his animation skill on this film with thrilling assurance: look out for the breakneck, wolf’s eye sprint through a snow-covered woodland – a moment of truly sublime exhilaration. sM
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this is jinsy sky atlantic, 10pm & 10.30pm Featuring a talent contest judged by a dog, a hair-raising chase sequence and guest turns from Stephen Fry as a luxuriantly locked hair doctor and Ben Miller as a busty accountant’s daughter (and her dad), life in Jinsy is as wonderfully bizarre as it was first time around. So it’s a warm welcome back for Justin Chubb (pictured with Fry) and Chris Bran’s inspired mix of crackers characters, singing obituaries and catchy tunes. Top of the Jinsy Hit Parade in this opening double-bill are the skiffletastic Was It You? and torch song Vegetable Tricks.
The mega-million-dollar success of The Devil Wears Prada and Mamma Mia! have belatedly transformed Meryl Streep into box-office gold. In this romcom Streep plays a long-divorced, highly successful baker with gorgeous clothes, luminous skin (if only we all could look like Streep at 60) and a lush house – newly empty of her grown-up children. Attempting to fill the hole, she considers a kitchen extension and plastic surgery before filling it with her ex (Alec Baldwin), the husband who cheated on her ten years ago then married his young, hot (now nagging) mistress. ‘I had drunken sex with a married man – turns out I’m a bit of a slut!’ hoots Streep with a delightful relish. It’s her chemistry with Baldwin that lifts this predictable chick flick to another level. Low points are Steve Martin’s sensible-shoes love interest, a cringey pot-smoking scene and the porky amount of hairy, fake-tanned Baldwin flesh flaunted on screen – picture an X-rated Garfield.
BroadChurCh tv3, 9pm With a second series in the works, here’s the chance to catch the crime drama series starring david tennant and olivia colman from the start. it centres on a quiet seaside town following the murder of a young boy daniel latimer and the impact it has on the tight-knit community when everyone becomes a suspect. leading the investigation are local detective ellie miller (colman, pictured right with tennant), and her newly-appointed boss alec Hardy (tennant) who try to control the media frenzy in the wake of the murder.
the tomorroW people e4, 9pm
CeleBrity tipping point tv3, 8pm
From sleepwalking through walls to having a sexy siren talk to him in his head, Stephen Jameson (Robbie Amell) wonders what on Earth is going on with him. And then the answers rush in thick and fast in this slick US reboot of the fondly remembered 1970s ITV children’s sci-fi drama. The Heroes of their day, The Tomorrow People, with their futuristically evolved superpowers, are running for their lives from sinister agent Dr Jedikiah Price (Mark Pellegrino).
In this episode of the star-studded game show hosted by Ben Shephard, Corrie’s Kym Lomas (Michelle Connor), TV presenter Rav Wilding and former world snooker champion Dennis Taylor answer questions in order to gain turns on an arcade-style machine. Dropping tokens down a choice of four chutes, the contestants hope to knock piles of them off a moving shelf – and the more that they can collect, the better their chances of scooping the £20,000 jackpot for their chosen charity.
my top five films Director Paul Tanter Withnail & i
Bruce Robinson’s exquisite and hilarious dialogue is what made me want to write films, and it’s so perfectly delivered by a theatrical Richard E Grant (below). I’d sneak off school early to watch this over and over again in my teens and I’m still watching it now. Students: by all means attempt the drinking game but please don’t mangle the quotes.
Children of men
I’m a huge fan of long takes and this film had some groundbreaking ones. Watch the ‘making of’ to see how they achieved a scene looking 360 degrees inside a car that was under attack and included stunts, blood work and
some terrific performances from very talented actors. Alfonso Cuarón was proving his genius long before Gravity.
london to Brighton
I’m still amazed this British indie didn’t win more awards. Made on a micro budget, it’s beautifully shot on film and the central performances from Lorraine Stanley, Georgia Groome and Johnny Harris are fantastic.
goodfellas
The cast! The soundtrack! ‘That’ Steadicam shot! There’s very little about this tale of a mobster turned informant that isn’t perfect, with career-defining performances from its leads. Joe Pesci manages to make the words ‘funny how?’ terrifying and deservedly won an Oscar. It’s hard to
believe it’s almost 25 years old already.
annie hall
Funny and poignant, you watch it young and laugh at the jokes jok but you fully fu appreciate it once onc you’ve been through the relationship mill and realise not everything has a thr happy ending. It looks great. I get Woody Allen’s love of New York: the city is just so cinematic. Anthony Gibson Essex Es Boys: Retribution is out now on DVD and Blu-ray.
America is gripped by its coldest weather since the last time it was gripped by its coldest weather. Pah! Know what we call ‘cold vortexes’ in Ireland? Tuesdays. Ross McDonagh has some advice on dealing with the cold for our American cousins. gROw MORE HAiR
It’s what hair is for, for feck sake! Why do you think every Irishman worth his salt has at the very least a daecent shtubble, right up to an impenetrable wiry mesh on his face? It’s nature’s scarf! And not just any old colour, every one of them is the red hue of the fires of hell in which they were forged, to give the psychological impression of heat. Movember? Pssht! That’s just for growing little hairy hats on the hirsute force field growing from lower lip to navel, and beyond. And that’s not just the men. Try touching an Irishwoman’s legs in winter. Like rubbing an irate hedgehog backwards. You get winter splinters.
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Why do you think Irish people wear T-shirts right up until mid-November? Because we’re still desperately clinging to the belief that it’s still summer? Well yes, but it’s also because when it gets really cold we can crack out the winter woollies and get toasty. New Yorkers feel a fresh breeze on a fine July day and they’re all decked out in coats, hats, scarves and gloves.
sTOp TAking wEATHER READERs LiTERALLy
Ever wonder why this is even a profession? I know what the weather is like – it’s the weather! It’s right outside! In America, meteorologists are taken very seriously. They are on equal ranking with news anchors, and deliver ‘coming up after the break’ headline teasers with grandiosity befitting a prophecy by Nostradamus. I’m not sure whether they pretend or they are simply not aware their entire career is guesswork. In Ireland, our weather readers’ job is to distract us from the crap weather we can plainly see out the window, by filling this news section with the comedy is was meant for, from Martin King’s Rodney Dangerfield impressions to Jean Byrne’s costume corner (above).
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Most civilised countries have heating systems in their homes, but only one country has ‘The Immersion’. Originally devised as a nuclear deterrent, it has a setting so powerful it can literally destroy a house, as well as a family’s entire annual budget if accidentally left on too long. Only for use in emergencies, like if you are dying of hypothermia.
LEARn HOw TO MAkE An iRisH sTEw
Like having a radiator in your belly. The idea of eating an Irish stew on a warm day is both revolting and perverse, but no real Irish mammy would ever pull such a stunt. The real power behind a stew’s heating potential is the sweat you work up afterward scrubbing that apartment-sized pot she cooks it in.
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An unbridled success One of Ireland’s most influential bands, horslips released 12 albums between 1970 and 1980, pioneering the genre of celtic rock. As a new biography of the band is published, founding members Jim Lockhart, Barry Devlin and Eamon Carr chat with Barry Hartigan after all these years why a book now?
BD: You need to be a bit older before you have a life story to tell. Ask Jordan, now on her fourth! JL: We broke up in 1980, then there was a long gap, we got the copyrights to our albums sorted in 2000, did a new album in 2004, and then began a proper live comeback in 2009. So by last year things had settled to the point where a new evaluation was somehow appropriate. And it was 40 years since The Táin [landmark 1973 album], so a nice anniversary to mark.
You formed in 1970. did you ever think you’d still be playing and promoting yourselves all these years later?
EC: Certainly not. We called our debut album Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part, because in 1972 it seemed unthinkable for an Irish rock band to have a lasting career. Besides, back then the rock‘n’roll casualty list was already extensive. BD: Absolutely not. But then you don’t think 40 years ahead about
anything when you’re 20. That said, we always assumed we were going to be the biggest band in the world. Every band is formed on that assumption, or should be...
the book contains several choice photographs, many with vast amounts of hair...
EC: At the beginning of the 1970s if you didn’t have long hair you were regarded as a weirdo. Even Gaelic footballers had long hair. Did ya ever see the head on Pat Spillane or Brian Mullins? JL: I look at them and think what a ball we were having. Our style was part of an attitude, saying ‘up yours’ to a conformity we’d grown up with and felt was past its sell-by date. It was part of the package.
Back in the 1970s you were famous for your tours playing every county north and south. what’s your fondest memory from those shows?
JL: In Maynooth there was a real danger of the balcony collapsing. In one ballroom there was a big hole in
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the middle of the maple floor after one particularly energetic gig.
You are regarded as the first irish band to make inroads into america. what are your memories from those trips?
JL: Some very surreal images linger from an over-the-top album launch bash the record company threw for us in New York. Someone hired dwarves as leprechauns and dressed them in First World War German Army spiky helmets.
when the book was being compiled did it bring up any regrets, anything that you felt the band didn’t achieve?
EC: It makes me wonder how things would have turned out if I’d taken those trials at Old Trafford. JL: Not really. We had a ball and we still enjoy playing together. We’ve had a charmed life. BD: Of course. World domination.
Horslips Tall Tales: The Official Biography, by Mark Cunningham, is out now.
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Big Brother star Josie Gibson has shed weight, changed careers and tells Andrew Williams that fame really doesn’t matter ‘Now I don’t go into a supermarket and think: “that looks nice.” I think: “Do I need it?”’ she says. ‘I look at what nutrients the food provides – we eat for nutrition and if you’re not getting the nutrients you need from a food, what’s the point of eating it?’ the impetus for making her lifestyle change came when her ex-agent excitedly phoned her to tell her she’d made it big in America. ‘He said: “You’ve really made it, have a look at the National Enquirer.” I thought: ‘My God, I’m going to be big in America,’ bought the magazine and it was just a picture of my fat backside in a bikini with the caption “which celebrity is this?” they didn’t even use a picture of my face,’ she laughs. ‘that was a good motivation.’ she also struggled with receiving regular abuse about her appearance on twitter. ‘I really got depressed,’ she says. ‘I like to class myself as a strong person, so I think someone else might have ended up with their head in a noose. Being told you’re disgusting every day really gets you down. Now I suppose I should thank them because they really did help the process.’ she’s certainly come a long way from Big Brother, where she won her series by a landslide vote with viewers responding to
Oh, brother: Josie won Big Brother in 2010 and featured in Ultimate Big Brother
her chirpy outlook on life. Her revelation that whenever she feels sorry for herself she ‘thinks of that woman who had her face ripped off by a chimpanzee’ went down particularly well. Regular appearances in gossip mags and her own reality show followed. It documented the disintegration of her romance with fellow Big Brother contestant John James Parton. While still a regular in the women’s weeklies, Gibson doesn’t yearn to return to her reality tV roots. ‘I learned pretty quickly there are a lot of sharks out there,’ she says, referring to showbiz industry professionals, ‘and I’ve never taken it seriously. the money’s nice but if I was never in a magazine again it wouldn’t bother me. that’s not my life. I enjoy being a personal trainer and helping people lose weight – Changed woman: Josie Gibson lost nine stone over 18 months that’s my life. ‘People will always stay motivated, and, most ambitious of all, know me as Josie from Big Brother but establishing her own commune. hopefully they’ll come to know me for being ‘I want to get some land and build an eco Josie the weight-loss guru. Actually,’ she village where people can live organically,’ she reconsiders, ‘as long as they just think I’m an says. ‘My mum lives in a caravan so I guess all right person, that’s the main thing.’ I’ve always been a hippy at heart.’ Gibson’s future plans include writing a recipe book with all-natural, unprocessed ingredients, The Josie Gibson Diet: Love Food, Get Slim, Stay starting a weight-loss website where she can Slim is out now, published by Macmillan. Josie impart her knowledge and encourage people to Gibson’s 21 Day Fat Burn DVD is also out now. HAYlEYmOON KEmp
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t’s about my journey from being a big bird to a slim bird,’ says 2010 Big Brother winner Josie Gibson of her new book. the Josie Gibson Diet documents how she spent 18 months losing an incredible 9st (57kg). When unflattering pictures of her wearing a pink bikini on a beach emerged in May 2012, it looked like Gibson was going down the usual profileraising path of showing off some cellulite in supposedly candid paparazzi snaps in a bid to get a workout DVD deal. Gibson released her first one, 30 second slim, last year. she’s just released a follow-up, 21 Day Fat Burn. the difference between Gibson and some other slimmed-down celebs is that she’s kept the weight off – going from a size 20 to a 10 – and has turned it into a new career, recently qualifying as a personal trainer and nutritionist. ‘I did a three-month intensive course – it’s the only qualification I’ve got,’ she laughs. ‘I love it. I run slimming clubs and helping people lose weight is the biggest buzz ever.’ Having been overweight from the age of six, and having tried multiple diets (‘I did everything, slimming pills, shakes, and nothing worked’), she sounds evangelical when talking about the evils of the food industry and the levels of sugar found in processed food. ‘they’ve been fooling us for years, haven’t they?’ she says. ‘You go into your local corner shop and it’s obvious why we have a diabetes and obesity crisis in this country when you see the food we have to choose from.’ she attributes a lot of her success to avoiding processed food and changing the way she thinks about what she eats.
TOP FIVE WAYS TO GET FIT IN 2014 The Complete Hypnotic Weight Loss Programme If you find working out a chore and can’t resist the temptation of sugary treats, these self-hypnosis CDs may help. Split into sessions, each CD is different so you can choose the ones that apply to you. You’ll also learn self-control for the future. Vicky’s 7 Day Slim Her time on TV series Geordie Shore made Vicky pattison famous. It also made her overweight. She’s since dropped five dress sizes and brought out this fitness DVD. The seven-day plan is devised by a team of fitness experts including long-jumper Chris Kirk, fat-loss expert David Souter and
personal trainer Robbie Thompson. It involves animal moves such as the ‘gorilla’ and ‘sea turtle’ that will get you into shape while having fun. Jodie Prenger Fitness Blasts The actress best known for her role in the TV series I’d Do Anything shed 54kg (8.5st) on The Biggest loser in 2006 but later said she had lost too much weight and believed women should have curves. In her fitness DVD, sessions are split into ten-minute blasts, each targeting a different body part – you can combine them all for a total body workout. Roxy’s Yoga Conditioning Total Body Workout
Actress Rokhsaneh Shahidi has launched her second yoga DVD with three 45-minute workouts enabling you to choose what you want to focus on. The first focuses on full body, the second helps develop and strengthen the core and the third is for the lower body. The workouts are dynamic and aimed at intermediates. Fit Steps Fans of Strictly can get their sequin fix with this dance class workout. Claiming to burn up to 700 calories in just one 45min session, this DVD blends the energetic dance moves of the jive and cha-cha with slower dances such as the waltz and rumba for posture and muscular strength. It’s a fullbody workout designed to tone and sculpt. Vicki-Marie Cossar
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AWARE WITH DR CLAIRE Do you like the month of January? Some people do. They see it as a month of fresh starts and enjoy noticing the days getting longer. Other people complain that January is an awful month – they see it as being too long and count the days until February. The reality for many is that January is ‘pay back’ month – it can be very easy in December to overspend, over-eat and overdrink. The pressures and expectations of Christmas and New Year may have led to disappointment, difficulties in relationships and even tragedy. January can bring hope – hope that this year is going to be different – this year is going to be the year when the plans and resolutions will work. But hope on its own is not enough. We need to act. Many of us do start the year really well – treating ourselves and others with a little more respect, a little more gentleness. But mid-way through January something happens – it becomes more difficult to keep doing whatever it is we decided to do to improve our quality of life. We miss the odd day’s walk, choosing instead to catch up on something on television, telling ourselves that we will go for a longer walk ‘tomorrow’. We congratulate ourselves for eating so healthily by enjoying the reward of a biscuit or slice of Christmas cake.
As the days slip by, some of us can begin to feel a sense of dread and maybe even panic, as harsh thoughts make themselves heard: ‘You’re pathetic, you’re useless, you’re a failure – you can’t even manage to stick to your resolutions for more than two weeks. Do you remember how you told everyone this was the year you were going to change? Ha – they are all laughing at you now for being so stupid. You might as well face up to it – you’re not going to be able to change so forget about even trying.’ How can we not be surprised that thoughts like these make us feel terrible? Imagine if we were followed around by a group of people who screamed such awful things at us, all day, every day? We might wonder why they were there, we might ask them to leave us alone and hopefully we might even take help to get rid of them. Why, then, do we allow our own thoughts to torture us? I think the key reason is that many people believe they are not good enough, that there is no hope that they can improve their lives and that ultimately they are failures. Aware has two brilliant Lifeskills programmes which are designed
Recognising and overcoming self-doubt about keeping your goals for the new year is key to realising them to help us become aware of our beliefs and to learn to challenge them successfully. One of these is a six-session course run on a regular basis around Ireland. The second is an eight session on-line course. Both of these are free of charge, are grounded in the basic principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and have been shown to be effective in evaluation studies. Details are available on www.aware.ie and I encourage you to sign up for one or the other. The advantage of doing so in January is that when you get to the point, usually mid-way through, of thinking that it is too much, you’d prefer to do something else, or its not working, you will be able to recognise these thoughts as unhelpful and focus instead on helpful actions you can choose to do. Whatever you decide to do, I wish you a very peaceful and fulfilling 2014 and hope that it is the year when we each choose to be a little kinder to ourselves and others. Aware has been Metro Herald’s charity partner for the past year. It has been privilege and a pleasure to write for the paper and I would like to thank Alan the editor, his team and you the readers for the encouragement and support I have received. Le gach dea-ghuí, Claire. Clinical psychologist Dr Claire Hayes is clinical director with Aware.
New year, new challenge Cormac Hennessy, Siobhan O’Shea, Caitriona Hennessy and Robert Freeman are putting their best feet forward this year and getting ready for Oxfam Ireland’s Trailtrekker 2014 on June 7, a 25km/50km hike across the stunning Mourne mountains. For more information or to register go to oxfamireland.org/trek Picture: Oxfam ireland
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Best intentions: It is easy to get sidetracked mid-way through the ‘pay back’ month of January
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Today sees a Quarter Moon in your sign. Furthermore, this impacts on four other planets. This suggests you will need to temper your desire for progress with an understanding of the atmosphere, environments, and personalities you’re interacting with. For your forecast, call 15609 114 70
Taurus Apr 21 – May 21
Uranus is espousing unsettledness in the most psychological part of your solar horoscope. Today’s waxing Moon unfortunately does the same. The trick is to deploy your nononsense take towards any concerns. For your forecast, call 15609 114 71
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Gemini May 22 – Jun 21
The desire side of your nature is being strongly aroused. And depending on your point of view, you may be pleased to know this could be a trend for the rest of this month. Yet, if you desire something that you are not able to have, this can create a sense of loss. For your forecast, call 15609 114 72
Cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23
It’s impossible to please all of the people all of the time and yet you may find yourself trying today. In one way, this could be a good thing career wise. When it comes to people you don’t know, it’s probably best to err on the side of caution.
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Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23
Over the last couple of years, there has been an ongoing dynamic that has challenged you. This is how much you prime your efforts towards what you want to do and balance them with the needs of others. This can peak once more.
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Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23
It’s probably fair to say that most of us at some stage in our lives have experienced some form of envy, even if the total green-eyed jealousy variety is less common. Yet, you may experience these emotions today, or someone else may project them.
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Your moves seem to be
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scorpio Oct 24 – Nov 22
If you suffer with an overload of data, it wouldn’t be a bad thing to cocoon yourself away from all this stimuli, and communicate in the more traditional manner with the people who help you to feel loved.
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sagittarius Nov 23 – Dec 21
You are challenged to be mindful of the cost of things on the back of today’s first monthly Quarter Moon. Yet, with Venus and Mercury forging a dazzling alliance, there may be one item that you really want to go for, come what may. For your forecast, call 15609 114 78
Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20
As the Sun works its way through your sign, it encounters four phases of the Moon’s journey. Today is position two. This asks you to check your bearings to be sure the strands you have been re-energising, or those that are new, are giving you a sense of fulfilment. For your forecast, call 15609 114 79
Aquarius Jan 21 – Feb 19
Gossip can be doing the rounds, so be sure you don’t add to it by letting something slip that’s best left unsaid. Your mind can also be active but not necessarily in quite as positive a way as you’d like, with worries surfacing too. For your forecast, call 15609 114 80
Pisces Feb 20 – Mar 20
You can often find it a struggle to accept the harsh reality of life when there is part of you that desires a more Utopian way. This comes into focus today and for the rest of this week.
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Rhys Ruddock believes rising Leinster star Jordi Murphy can fill the void left by sean o’Brien’s absence as the province travel to castres this weekend for a crucial heineken cup Pool 1 encounter. With o’Brien out of action for up to three months after suffering a post-christmas shoulder injury against ulster, Murphy (below) shifted from No.8 to openside for the trip to Galway last saturday and didn’t miss a beat in picking up his second straight man-of thematch award against connacht. And back-row colleague Ruddock claims Murphy’s impressive form, combined with the availability of traditional sevens shane Jennings and dominic Ryan, means Leinster can survive without the dynamic o’Brien. ‘When you get an injury to someone like sean o’Brien, that’s a massive blow,’ Ruddock said. ‘But you’ve guys like shane Jennings, dominic Ryan and Jordi who are stepping up. ‘For Jordi, to play No.8 the week before and get man of the match and then go to sev-
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Game time: Ruddock has enjoyed a consistent run in the Leinster team, a timely reminder to his coaches as his contract nears its end
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en and do exactly the same again just shows the strength there. ‘Jordi has proven you can put him anywhere in the back row and he’ll do a good job for you. he performed at seven on the weekend and he was strong and showed some of the characteristics that you see from seanie.’ For Ruddock himself, the past two months have represented one of his best stretches in a blue jersey, a run that has seen him start seven of Leinster’s last eight games, including last month’s heineken cup doubleheader against Northampton. It’s a welcome change for the 23-year-old after several seasons on the fringes at the club, and timely given the upcoming end to his current contract this summer. ‘I’ve had plenty of game time this year and I’ve been happy with the way things have been going,’ said the st Mary’s man, who is expected to overcome a calf injury ahead of sunday’s French assignment. ‘It’s been really good. I have been enjoying the season. I have just managed to be more consistent and I have been lucky enough to get more games.’
Qualification for the knockout stage of Europe’s premier club tournament is on the line once again as the tension-packed Rounds 5 and 6 of the Heineken cup assume centre stage in the coming fortnight. once the drama and numbercrunching conclude, six pool winners and the two best pool runners-up will have booked prized spots in the Heineken cup quarter-finals, while the three next best pool runners-up will extend their season in Europe by qualifying for the quarter-finals of the amlin challenge cup. Since 2010 when cardiff Blues became the first Heineken cup qualifier to win the amlin cup, Biarritz olympique in 2012, and leinster last season, have triumphed via the same route. once the pool stages of both ERc tournaments are completed, all roads will lead to the cardiff 2014 finals with the Heineken cup decider going ahead at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday, May 24, the day after the amlin challenge cup final at the cardiff arms Park. the semi-final draws for both tournaments will be made after the final Round 6 pool games on Sunday, 19 January. Both will be televised and will be available on ercrugby.com
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Adams storms past Tony O’Shea 2 year term Johnson claims darts Martin Adams’ bid to lift the
BDO World Championship title for a fourth time in eight years began in stunning fashion yesterday as he sent three-time runner-up Tony O’Shea crashing to a 3-0 whitewash defeat. Adams, pictured, champion in 2007, 2010 and 2011, could hardly have had a tougher first-round opponent but he brushed aside the challenge of thirdseeded O’Shea in emphatic fashion as he needed just 23 minutes to win all nine legs. O’Shea had reached the final in the last two editions as well as five years ago but he will not even be gracing the second round this time.
contract for Former Wales scrum-half Dwayne Peel. The 32year-old, part of Grand Slam wins in 2005 and 2008, leaves Sale in June.
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golf A determined final-day push
saw Zach Johnson burst through the leading pack to clinch the Hyundai Tournament of Champions title by a stroke from rising star Jordan Spieth in Hawaii. The 2007 Masters winner carded 74 on Sunday to let his threeshot lead slip away, but a clinical round of 66 that included seven birdies saw him push 20-year-old Spieth, defending champion Dustin Johnson and Webb Simpson aside when it mattered. It was an 11th PGA Tour victory for Johnson.
u OLYMPIC downhill champion Lindsey Vonn has admitted defeat in her battle to recover from injury and defend her title in Sochi next month. Vonn (pictured) has been struggling with a knee injury and, after suffering a setback in her recovery in November, the American has now accepted the Games will come too soon.
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Chopra: Fine time
Blackpool Twitter rant costs Chopra BLACKPOOL have fined Michael Chopra more than £10,000 after the striker took to Twitter to criticise training at the Championship club. The 30-year-old former Newcastle player used the social network to express his anger following a session which he claimed was taken by a fitness coach, prompting the Seasiders to take immediate action. Chopra’s tweet read: ‘F****** joke this come in training only 6 F****** players here then find out the fitness coach taken the football session #joke’. Chopra signed for Paul Ince’s side during the summer and has failed to find the net in 17 appearances.
THEy sAiD iT ‘the goals are for eusebio. I was very close to him and he helped me a lot.’ Cristiano Ronaldo dedicates his brace for Real Madrid against Celta Vigo – his 399th and 400th career goals – to fellow Portuguese great Eusebio, who died on Sunday
Clark contrite over Kozak’s bad break CIArAN CLArK has expressed his regret for the tackle which left Aston Villa teammate Libor Kozak with a broken leg and ended his season. Czech republic striker Kozak (pictured), who signed for Villa from Lazio last summer, has been wished well by Clark in his recovery following the challenge in training last Thursday. The defender said: ‘All the lads are thinking of him. I didn’t sense anything was wrong. I don’t know if it was the impact or the way his leg went but it was innocuous and no one expected it to be as bad.’
Johnson quits board Michael Johnson has resigned from the Football Association’s inclusion advisory board in the wake of footage that showed the former player describing homosexuality as ‘detestable’. Johnson, 40, made the comments in 2012 while appearing on a BBC1 series The Big Questions, during which he opted not to back the FA anti-homophobia campaign.
Blue sky jinking: Vincent Kompany, Gael Clichy and Joleon Lescott enjoy themselves in training yesterday
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PELLEgRini OffERs sAM suPPORT TO unDER-fiRE RivAL Manchester city boss Manuel Pellegrini expects West ham counterpart sam allardyce to bounce back from his Fa cup humiliation. the weakened hammers were thrashed 5-0 at nottingham Forest on sunday and are 19th in the Premier League, having not won in the league since november. But Pellegrini is reading little into that
by DAniEL JOnEs Sam aLLaRDYCE denies it is win or bust for his out-of-form Hammers when they visit manchester City in the first leg of their Capital One Cup semi-final. With a 5-0 Fa Cup mauling at Nottingham Forest coming on the back of one win in 13 league games, tonight’s meeting with City is a welcome distraction. The dismal December run means West Ham sit 19th in the table but allardyce will not be too downbeat if his side fail to pick up a victory at the Etihad Stadium and just wants to remain in the tie.
‘We have to make it very difficult for them’ ‘We don’t have to beat them on Wednesday night,’ he said. ‘We have to come back with something realistic to beat them at home.’ allardyce has cited the example of Crystal Palace, who pushed City all the way in a 1-0 defeat over Christmas. He said: ‘We have to work along the lines of what Palace did, which was be very well organised, be a very well-structured team that makes it extremely difficult for the talents City have got. ‘Hopefully we can do that and when we come to the end of the game it’s only half-time.’ West
form ahead of tonight’s capital One cup semi-final, first leg at the etihad stadium. the chilean said: ‘they had an awful result but I don’t think they played with their best XI. they played with young players. I am absolutely sure tomorrow will be a very different game. ‘I think that in this job as a manager – in any club, in every part of the world – you
are always under a lot of pressure. When the results are not the results the club wants, maybe sometimes it can be more nervous. But he is doing very good work in West ham, so I don’t think he will have any problems.’ Pellegrini will not risk Jesus navas (knee) but did reveal sergio aguero is back in training after his recent calf injury.
We don’t need to win it to be in it, says Allardyce Ham’s co-chairmen David Sullivan and David Gold issued an open letter to fans on monday confirming their support for allardyce, who was happy with the backing. ‘I’m obviously pleased by the united front we are trying to keep in these difficult times,’ he added. ‘I wasn’t backed by my last two chairmen and got sacked for no reason at all.’ Roger Johnson will be thrown into the fray tonight, 48 hours after arriving from Wolves – where he did not even have a squad number. ‘He is very determined and very excited about the opportunity he’s got after being frozen out at Wolves and pursuing his career [on loan] at Sheffield Wednesday recently,’ said allardyce.
u West Ham could have striker Andy Carroll back within two games. the 25-year-old (pictured) has not played this season after taking longer than expected to get over a foot injury but will soon return to boost the Hammers’ battle against relegation.
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by RicHARD HOOKHAM Sunderland heaped further pressure on david Moyes last night as they took the upper hand in their Capital One Cup semi-final with Manchester united. after seeing his side dumped out of the Fa Cup by Swansea at Old Trafford on Sunday, united’s boss desperately needed a positive first-leg result on Wearside. But Moyes suffered another setback as Fabio Borini’s second-half penalty saw the Black Cats secure a valuable win at the Stadium of light that will do their own confidence a power of good. rooted to the foot of the Premier league table, boss Gus Poyet had urged his players to put a ‘nightmare’ season to one side and relish the chance of sil-
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Crocked Rio ‘only set to be out for two weeks’ Ferdinand could face a longer lay-off but it is understood scans have revealed heavy bruising rather than any ligament damage. It is thought he will be out for ten to 14 days, meaning he would be doubtful for the January 19 Premier League trip to chelsea. a more likely comeback target would be the capital One cup semi-final, second leg showdown with sunderland three days later.
Pulis puts Zaha loan talk to bed Tony Pulis claims Crystal Palace have no chance of re-signing Wilfried Zaha on loan this month. Zaha joined united 12 months ago but remained at selhurst Park on loan to help the club seal promotion, via the play-offs, to the Premier league. The 21-year-old has featured in just two league games for united in his first full season and Moyes confirmed several clubs have enquired about a loan deal. But Pulis said: ‘We’ve spoken to David Moyes about Zaha and i don’t think he’s too keen on him coming back to london.’ u neManja ViDiC’s agent says the defender (pictured) could leave Manchester united at the end of the season. ‘His contract is expiring and a number of teams are interested,’ confirmed silvano Martina. u ArsenAl are closing in on 21-year-old sporting lisbon midfielder William Carvalho as Arsene Wenger seeks to strengthen a threadbare squad which continues to be battered by injuries.
verware. and they did not disappoint as the Black Cats shrugged off their poor league form to hand united a third straight defeat. united were first to have the ball in the net on 38 minutes but adnan Januzaj’s effort was ruled out with ryan Giggs deemed offside. and the 40-year-old’s luck did not improve when he turned in Wes Brown’s cross for an own goal just before the break. The visitors levelled when nemanja Vidic powerfully headed home Tom Cleverley’s corner. But when substitute adam Johnson was felled by Cleverley in the box on 65 minutes, Borini made no mistake from the penalty spot. united laid siege in the dying minutes but Poyet’s boys held on to carry a priceless one-goal advantage into the second leg at Old Trafford on January 22.
Manchester United defender rio Ferdinand could be sidelined with injury for up to two weeks. the former england international suffered a knee problem in sunday’s 2-1 Fa cup third-round loss to swansea. Ferdinand, 35, had been making his first appearance since December 10 when he was forced off after 76 minutes of the tie at Old trafford. there had been fears
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Bruce buoyed by new Aluko deal Hull manager steve Bruce believes securing sone aluko on a new contract could be his best piece of business in january. The 24-yearold (pictured), whose current deal was due to expire in the summer, agreed a two-and-a-half-year extension last week as he works his way back to fitness from an achilles injury. Bruce, who has been linked with sunderland striker steven Fletcher, said: ‘it could be the most important piece of business we do this month. He’s a special player for us.’
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Walcott: Knee injury
Walcott lay-off big blow to England’s bid
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Losing streak: David Moyes has now watched his side lose three matches in a row
sunDerlanD...................2 manchester uniteD.....1 by jOsEpH ByRnE MANCHESTER UNITED boss David Moyes’ woes continued last night at the Stadium of Light. Alex Ferguson’s successor watched the Premier League champions lose their Capital One Cup semi-final first leg away to
Sunderland 2-1. Following defeat in the FA Cup to Swansea at the weekend and a poor showing in the League so far this season, the second leg on January 22 now takes on extra importance. Moyes’ men must improve if they are to turn this tie around and salvage their season with what is United’s best chance of silverware.
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Spot on: Sunderland’s Fabio Borini scores his side’s second goal from the penalty spot picturE: action imagES
ROY HODGSON admits the sixmonth lay-off awaiting Theo Walcott is as big a blow to England as it is to Arsenal. The Gunners forward was stretchered off with a left-knee injury during Saturday’s FA Cup victory over Tottenham at the Emirates Stadium following a challenge with Spurs’ Danny Rose. It was confirmed on Monday Walcott has ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament and is expected to be out for six months, meaning he will almost certainly miss the World Cup in Brazil in June. The 24-year-old was expected to be part of the England squad at the finals, but now looks likely to miss out on World Cup action for the third successive time. England boss Hodgson, though, was full of support and praise for his injured forward. ‘I spoke with Theo and just wanted to express my disappointment to him,’ he said. ‘We had quite a lengthy conversation and it is such a shame we have lost a player of his calibre for the World Cup, he has been incredibly unfortunate and we wish him a speedy recovery.’ Arsenal team-mate Carl Jenkinson, meanwhile, believes Walcott will return stronger for the experience. ‘He is incredibly focused and mentally he is a very strong character,’ said the defender. ‘He will just get on with things and, fingers crossed the time flies by, both for his sake and for ours.’
Schumacher’s wife pleads for privacy and ‘peace’
Plea: Corinne Schumacher has asked the media to respect her family’s privacy picturE: Epa
MICHAEL Schumacher’s wife has urged members of the media to leave the hospital where the seven-time F1 world champion remains in a critical condition following a skiing accident ten days ago. Corinna Schumacher also requested that her family be left ‘in peace’ as they come to terms with her husband’s fall in the French Alpine resort of Meribel. Schumacher was admitted to hospital on December 29 after suffering brain injuries and has since undergone two operations to remove blood clots and reduce swelling.
The 45-year-old is in an artificially induced coma and there has seemingly been little change in his condition since he was described as ‘critical but stable’ a week ago. The doctors treating the German driver have no further press conferences planned, and Schumacher’s wife believes the time has come for the world’s media, which has flocked en masse to the Grenoble University Hospital, to pack up and go home. ‘Please support us in our common fight with Michael,’ Mrs Schumacher said yesterday. ‘It is important to me that you
leave the doctors and the hospital so that they can work in peace. I ask you to trust their statements and leave the clinic. Please leave our family in peace.’ Schumacher suffered the head injury while on a family holiday and, despite being conscious immediately after the accident, was quickly airlifted to hospital where the full extent of his injuries became clear. His manager, Sabine Kehm, said on Monday that his condition has not changed in the past few days and any further treatment will be kept private.