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A BUILDER has been spared prison after ‘entirely devastating’ the home of a client who refused to pay for renovation work that had been carried out.

Believe Osiuhwu, 48, who is also known as Aso Rock, was hired to carry out building work but only received partial payment because the client was not happy with the quality of the job.

In response, he broke into the house and destroyed the work he had carried out as well as causing extensive damage to the rest of the property. The total damage was estimated at €18,000.

Judge Patrick McCartan examined photographs of the house and noted it was ‘entirely devastated’, every room was ‘wrecked’ and ‘lumps’ had been taken out of furniture, flooring and coving.

Judge McCartan noted Osiuhwu’s reasons for carrying out the damage but said his actions ‘were not a way to settle a dispute and that fact seems to have dawned on the accused very late in the day’.

The judge noted that the builder had €1,000 in court as part compensation and that this was a significant sum for him given his dire financial state.

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tence, suspended on condition Osiuhwu pays over another €4,000 to the victim within two years.

Osiuhwu of Briarswood Lawn, Mulhuddart, had pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to burglary at Nutgrove Avenue, Rathfarnham, on October 30, 2011. He later changed his plea to guilty.

Garda David Sheehan told the court Osiuhwu was hired to carry out renovations in return for €8,000. After completion the occupant said he was unhappy with its quality and only paid €3,000.

Osiuhwu tried in vain to obtain the balance and a short time later broke into the house, destroying the work he had done. He has four previous convictions arising out of a road traffic incident.

The court heard the occupant has paid to have some of the damage repaired.

Defence counsel Vincent Heneghan said his client receives only occasional building work and in debt to the Revenue for €1,000. He added Osiuhwu’s actions were irrational and born out of frustration at the situation.

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Hopes were fading for the safe return of five men missing after the 21m Tit Bonhomme trawler sank close to Union Hall harbour off the west Cork coast. The Irish-registered vessel struck rocks just moments away from the port.

Today’s birthdays John Carpenter, director, 66; Sade Adu (pictured), singer, 55; Ian Dempsey, radio presenter, 53; Kate Moss, model, 40; Nick Valensi, guitarist (The Strokes), 33.

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The three noble steeds apparently thundering across the sandy beach in this striking image are sculptures by the artist James Doran-Webb, from Birmingham, England.

It took the master craftsman some six months to assemble these animated installation pieces. He did this by fixing hundreds of pieces of driftwood to steel skeletons.

‘By the time they are finished, each one weighs 500kg and can hold the weight of four or five people,’ said the 46-year-old.

Mr Doran-Webb – pictured ‘riding’ one of his creations –

by HAYDEN SMITH has lived for 26 years in Cebu, in the Philippines.

When the idea came to him, he began collecting driftwood to use in making his sculptures by patrolling the local shoreline close to where he lives in a kayak.

He is now able to employ a few staff to help in this continuous – not to mention laborious – task to find wood for his works, which also include the jumping and drinking horses pictured on the left.

The dramatic triptych galloping scene was commissioned as part of celebrations ahead of the Chinese year of the horse at a Singapore nature park.

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Junior Cert to be replaced by new JCSA THE new Junior Cycle Student Award will be phased in over several years from next September, the Minister for Education has said.

Announcing the name for the reformed Junior Cert yesterday, Minister Ruairi Quinn said: ‘The overhaul of junior cycle is

long overdue and much needed.

The new JCSA will put students, rather than exams, at the centre of the three-year cycle.’

He acknowledged that teachers had concerns about how the changes would be introduced and said a working group will meet on the matter on Friday.

The group will be made up of representatives from unions, management bodies, parents, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment and the Department of Education, and will be ‘a forum where the concerns of the partners can be heard and addressed’.

Killer bomb was made south of the border, claim PSNI

by DAvID yOuNg DETECTIVES investigating the murder of PSNI officer Ronan Kerr say they know who made the explosive device that killed him – and that the person who made the bomb is based south of the Border.

The dissident republican is ‘experienced and competent’ in constructing the deadly devices, according to a senior detective in the investigation.

The police team hunting the gang behind the 2011 attack in Omagh also believe they know who directed the bomb team.

Officers have linked the murder of the 25-year-old constable to 16 other crimes committed by a number of interlinked groups belonging to a dissident organisation that styles itself as the new IRA – among them two failed murder bids that injured two other PSNI officers and a car bomb attack on the Policing Board in Belfast.

No charges have yet been brought against the men police yesterday earmarked as key suspects in either Mr Kerr’s murder or the other offences, explaining that more time is needed to build the cases against them. Fourteen arrests have been made in the investigation so far.

The first man convicted as part of the inquiry, 36-year-old Gavin Coyle from Omagh, was sentenced to ten years for offences linked to an arms dump found in Tyrone in April 2011.

The police are investigating a number of gangs, comprising around 20-25 individuals, based in Omagh, Coalisland, Toomebridge and Ballyronan in Northern Ireland and in Co. Monaghan in the Republic.

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Bórd na moaners in partial turf victory THE controversial turf-cutting ban will be lifted on the most heavily cut sites under new plans unveiled by the Government.

Heritage minister Jimmy Deenihan confirmed the lifting of the ban would ensure around 2,500 active turf-cutters were allowed to cut in affected areas.

‘Most of our peatlands have been altered by human activity

over the centuries, but there still exist areas of unique, but threatened, habitats,’ Mr Deenihan said.

‘For all our benefit, we need to protect and preserve a sample of these for ourselves and future generations, whilst also working with communities that are affected by conservation requirements.’

In a review of Ireland’s 75 Natural Heritage Areas, raised bog networks where targets for conservation have been imposed, the Minister’s department revealed that 45 would be affected. Of those, the ban would be completely lifted on 38 sites, while the remaining seven would be split with the sites partially exempt from the ban.

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Irish Water warned not to revive a ‘bonus culture’

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Two ministers have warned Irish water that its staff should not receive bonuses.

Joan Burton, Minister for Social Protection, joined Junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes who suggested employees of the state monopoly should not be in line for salary top-ups.

Irish water managing director John Tierney has revealed the 500-plus staff were entitled to bonuses of up to six per cent of their salaries. But Ms Burton said the Government would not consider reviving a Celtic Tiger practice. ‘we are in a slow recovery. we are getting people back to work but I do not see any room in this country for going back to a bonus culture,’ she said.

The total set-up cost of Irish water is expected to reach €180million. Some €50million has been spent on outside help and that figure could grow.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny has admitted he knew the start-up costs would be in the region of this figure.

Responding to a Dáil question from Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, Mr Kenny confirmed the company will be subjected ‘to the full rigours’ of the Freedom of Information Act ‘from its inception’.

Judge: ‘Take a look at your handiwork’ A MAN who attacked and robbed a 67-year-old farmer in Dublin city centre last May was told to look at a photo of his victim’s facial injuries and ‘observe his handiwork’. Judge Mary Ellen Ring noted Philip Connolly, 39, of North Richmond Street flats, is in a drugs rehab programme working on a farm while his victim, David Feeney, can no longer work his land. Connolly was given bail until May 15, while his co-accused Leigh O’Connell, 28, of Upper Camden Street, was sentenced to four years’ jail with two and a half suspended.

A third man is before the courts.

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Dublin District Court heard that Noonan is a carer for his grandmother, who suffers from dementia. Judge Mary Ellen Ring yesterday said she would delay sentencing until May for the benefit of his grandmother.

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grown Ups sequel thursday tops razzies with eight nominations

On the day we find out who’s up for a golden statuette this year, ken rogan argues that the Oscars are little more than a marketing ploy

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And don’t even mention the They all come with a spoiler ridiculous business of star ratings. (trailer), body-kit (eye candy) They only exist to look good on and tinted glass (hype), posters, even when they’re particularly when gold awarded by some statues are up for make-believe tabloid called The News of grabs.

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by Derrik j Lang ADAM SANDler vehicle Grown Ups 2 is making the most noise at this year’s Golden raspberry Awards.

The silly comedy sequel about four childhood friends starring Sandler, Kevin James, Chris rock and David Spade led the razzie line-up on Tuesday with eight nominations, including worst picture, sequel, ensemble, screenplay, lead actor for Sandler, supporting actor for Taylor lautner, supporting actress for Salma Hayek and director for Dennis Dugan.

Sandler is no a stranger to the razzies, which launched in 1980 as a spoof of Hollywood’s awards season. He won the worst actor trophy last year for the man-child comedy That’s My Boy, and his 2011 cross-dressing comedy Jack And Jill made razzie history with a record ten awards, with Sandler winning both the worst actor and actress prizes.

This year’s other worst-picture nominees are the Wild West romp The lone ranger, starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, Tyler perry’s holiday comedy A Madea Christmas, sci-fi coming-of-age story After earth, starring Will and Jaden Smith, and comedy anthology Movie 43, featuring the likes of Kate Winslet, richard Gere, Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry.

After earth, A Madea Christmas and Movie 43 are tied with six nods each.

The razzies announcement comes ahead of today’s oscar nominations. Winners for the 34th annual razzies will be announced on March 1, the night before the 86th annual Academy Awards.

Terrible 2: Grown Ups 2 (above) is up for worst film, screenplay and actor and while After Earth (below) proved to be something that rhymes with Smith

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‘TV is where it’s at for actors now’ ACTORS who want to work on sophisticated projects are finding them in television and not film, according to Billy Bob Thornton.

The actor, pictured, who stars in the upcoming TV series Fargo, told a Television Critics Association meeting that while Hollywood studios churn out action movies, broad comedies and ‘movies where apparently vampires are all models’, TV offers the kind of insightful work once common in films.

He says that is why peers such as Kevin

Costner, Dennis Quaid and Kevin Bacon have turned to television.

‘If you want to be an actor, get on a good series in television… there’s where it’s at,’ said Thornton.

Fargo, which was inspired by the Coen brothers movie and also stars Martin Freeman, airs in April.

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fTeR three failed marriages, Jennifer Lopez admits she cannot give a promise she will ever tie the knot with her toyboy boyfriend Casper Smart.

The 44-year-old actress revealed she was uncertain about the future of her two-year romance with Smart, 26.

However, Lopez insisted she was still a strong believer in marriage despite her own experiences.

‘We’ll see. I don’t know,’ she said when asked if she could see herself being married for the fourth time.

by jEnni McknigHT ‘I’ve always believed in that institution. I believe in it, but it is difficult. I’ve had my challenges but at the same time I believe in love, and I think that is the main thing,’ the Bronx-born star said.

Speaking during a press conference to promote season 13 of American Idol, the mother of two admitted she had finally accepted she was someone who needed to be in a relationship.

‘I’m one of those people who does not like to be alone,’ she said. ‘I have no

shame saying that at this point in my life.

I think we have to own who we are.’

Lopez was wed to Cuban waiter Ojani Noa from 1997 to 1998 and then former back-up dancer Cris Judd for two years until 2003.

The following year, she tied the knot with Marc Anthony. They announced their split in 2011 but the divorce is yet to be finalised.

Meanwhile, J.Lo is making her return to American Idol after a year’s absence from the show, during which time she embarked on her solo world tour.

‘That was such a transformative year for me in so many ways,’ she said ahead of last night’s Idol premiere.

‘I had just divorced, I went on tour with the kids and I left Idol. All my security blankets were gone, and I was out there doing something I’d never done before.’

She continued: ‘I was surrounded by love and family and I really grew. My goal was not to come out the other side and just survive it but grow as a human being as well as an artist, and I felt I did. I learned a lot.’

We’re mixing things up now

The Little Mix ladies are back with a new image in this sexy photoshoot. Jade Thirlwall, 21, Perrie Edwards, 20, Jesy Nelson, 22 and 22-year-old Leigh-Anne Pinnock also revealed they have some new famous fans – the Backstreet Boys. ‘The Backstreet Boys tweeted about how they loved our album,’ Thirlwall told the new issue of Fault magazine, out today. Nelson added: ‘They said they wanted to go on tour with us!’ Picture: Fault

Like a princess: Beyoncé joins her Destiny’s Child bandmates in painting their faces at Blue Ivy’s party Picture: tumBlr

Destiny’s child back together for Bey’s girl Beyoncé reunited Destiny’s Child to help celebrate the second birthday of her daughter Blue Ivy. She gave fans a glimpse into her superstar life after she shared photos of the trio celebrating Blue’s big day.

They showed Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams with their faces painted.

The trio – all aged 32 – seemed to having just as much fun as the young guest of honour.

Mother and daughter donned matching tiaras, while Blue took centre stage wearing a tutu and a top covered in stars. The tiny tot was treated to a pink and blue cake that was also topped with a tiara, and some

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very hot pink wheels. The XO singer and hubby Jay Z, 44, reportedly hired the entire Jungle Island bird sanctuary in Miami Zoo for Blue’s shindig on January 7.

The singer also shared intimate snaps of her new year’s eve celebrations with Jay and Blue at the Versace mansion in Miami.

In the glam shots you can see Jay dancing with his daughter and Beyoncé holding Blue while wearing party hats.

The power couple also rode on a scooter during the celebrations at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs private estate.

Kanye West is said to be seething that Beyoncé has hit the top of the US charts with her self-titled ‘visual’ album. He’s irritated that her success has left him unable to point out he had the same idea in 2010 without seeming bitter. A source told RadarOnline: ‘He’s kind of annoyed. Everyone around him convinced him it wouldn’t work.’ The rapper is still sensitive over the derision he once got for saying he invented leather jogging pants, the source added.

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Josh Duhamel has denied claims he has been encouraging his wife, Fergie, to quit Black Eyed Peas. Radar online had earlier quoted a source as saying the 41-year-old actor was ‘pushing hard’ for Fergie to split from the group. Duhamel rubbished the rumours on his Facebook page, declaring: ‘Don’t believe this bulls**t. Not true.’

Nyong’o: I was inspired

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Hot newcomer Lupita Nyong’o credits Whoopi Goldberg for kick-starting her dream to become an actress.

The 12 Years A Slave star was inspired to follow in the Oscar nominee’s footsteps after seeing her performance in The Color Purple.

‘Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me,’ she said of the 1986 flick.

‘I’d been starved for images of myself. I’d grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an

My battle scars after sack of Troy Lady Gaga’s ex-manager has broken his silence after she sacked him. Troy Carter, said to have masterminded the singer’s rise to fame, admitted he was shocked when she ditched him in November. ‘You work with somebody every day and then all of a sudden they’re not there any more,’ he said. ‘I don’t think you’re ever prepared to sever that deep of a relationship.’

Gaga, 27, has claimed she was ‘betrayed’ by members of her team.

autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression.’

The 30-year-old – who was born in Mexico, raised in Kenya, and now livess in Brooklyn – plays tormented slave Patsey in the hit movie.

‘There’s something very Michael Jackson-like about Patsey – the childlike quality he always had,’ Nyong’o told Dazed & Confused magazine.

‘She had her childhood stripped away from her suddenly, as soon as she became of sexual age.’

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Rita Ora is floaty light in a light kimono and bl black mini dress. The singer, 23, was singer boarding a flight boar in LA tto Vancouver, Va where she is to wher begin filming Fifty Shades Of Grey. Ora, who Grey plays the play adopted sister of adopt Dornan’s Jamie Dor Christian Grey, is Chr rumoured to rumour have split from DJ Calvin Harris

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Things seem to be hotting up between Demi Moore and her young rocker lover after the pair were spotted ‘kissing and dancing’ all night.

The 51-year-old and Sean Friday, 27, partied until 2am in the VIP section of the club at The Standard Hotel in Hollywood, witnesses said. ‘Demi was chatty and smiley all night. She looked flawless,’ an insider told People magazine. Friday is the drummer in LA band Dead Sara.

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I loved naked toilet scene, claims Efron

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AC EfrON has delighted fans by recalling the moment he stripped off naked and balanced on a toilet for his new film role.

The 26-year-old heart-throb bared all for an embarrassing scene in new film That Awkward Moment.

And he insisted that hiring a naked body double for his revealing scene was out of the question.

‘What was it like planking naked over a toilet? Dangerous, risky, challenging – but, I always take pride in the fact I do my own stunts,’ the former Disney star

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told fans during a Twitter Q&A. He also explained that embarrassing himself and enduring personal trials is the only way he knows how to grow.

‘I’m constantly embarrassed. I believe I learn more from failures than my successes,’ he answered when asked how he deals with awkward moments.

In reality, the actor endured his biggest personal trial when he entered a rehabilitation facility last April to combat a cocaine addiction.

After getting himself clean, he went on a trip to Peru with his father. He explained in his Twitter Q&A that trekking through mountains served as a form of escapism.

‘They’re my spiritual escapes,’ he told fans, adding that he lists ‘the moon’ on his wish list of places to visit in 2014. And he took the opportunity to thank his fans again for standing by him after his problems were exposed.

While his latest film sees him vow-

ing to stay single, Z’Efron dodged questions about his own marital status when grilled by fans.

‘Actually, I’m triple,’ he quipped when asked if he was single.

Meanwhile, in an interview with Glamour magazine, the hunk said he was willing to go all the way on first dates.

‘Sex is a beautiful thing. I don’t object,’ he told the American version of the magazine.

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Cheeky monkey: Pongo looks to be smiling as he stretches out his arm

Curious hand: Blaze reaches under her cage to touch her son

Every little boy craves a mother’s attention...

WIDE-eyed and smiling, this orangutan reaches out to touch his mother for the first time since his birth.

One-year-old Pongo was delivered by Caesarean on January 10 last year and raised by staff and vets at Zoo Atlanta while his mother Blaze recovered.

They reintroduced the pair through a barrier for safety and, after two months,

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‘After several weeks of consistent daily introductions, Blaze and Pongo began living together full-time and have been bonding ever since,’ a spokesman for the US zoo said.

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Communist teacher’s seven people killed naked photo scandal by man-eating tiger

CHinA: The deputy head of a Communist party training school has been suspended after naked photos of him appeared online, it was reported yesterday. Qin Guogang is being investigated by the school in Shaanxi province following the circulation of the images, believed to be stills from a video shot in August at the home of a female postgraduate with whom he allegedly had an affair.

inDiA: A tiger prowling for food has killed seven people in two weeks, wildlife authorities said yesterday. Its latest victim was a woman whose body was found in a forest in Uttar Pradesh state. The killings have forced thousands of terrified villagers to stay inside while hunters try to kill the animal.

The female tiger strayed into the area from the Jim Corbett National Park in northern India.

CZECH REPUBLiC: A tumour weighing 36kg (6st) has been removed from a woman’s stomach after growing inside it for years. The malignant growth became so large because the 47-year-old patient was too scared to get medical treatment for it. Surgeons in the city of Zlin removed the tumour in a seven-hour operation, leaving the patient 66kg (10st) lighter at 51kg (8st).

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GERMAny: An escaped bull’s life on the run was cut short when a farmer spiked corn with vodka. Marco Grunewald, from Regensburg, thought the beast would be easier to catch if drunk. ‘It could barely stand up,’ he said.

GERMAny: More than €1million has been set aside to build three bridges for bats, despite there being no proof they would even use them. Two similar structures have already been built at Biberach an der Riss but critics have hit out at plans to construct three more on the Dresden-East bypass. A major gripe is that the bridges are too weak for humans or other animals.

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2 held after tourist gang-raped in India Police in india have arrested two men in connection with the gangrape of a Danish woman close to her New Delhi hotel.

The 51-year-old tourist was attacked near a popular shopping area of Paharganj after becoming lost and asking a group of men for directions. The men lured her to a secluded area where they raped her

MICHELLE Obama turns 50 this week – and she is not ruling out resorting to plastic surgery or Botox in the future.

The US first lady told People magazine that women should be free to do whatever they need to feel good. Ms Obama, whose birthday is tomorrow, added that she does not imagine having plastic surgery or

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by cOn DOHERTy at knife-point. She was also robbed and beaten.

She managed to reach the Amax hotel and owner Amit Bahl called police. The woman, whose was not named, has returned to Denmark.

Meanwhile, a man has also been arrested in chennai after allegedly

raping an 18-year-old German on a train last week.

The attacks are the latest to focus attention on india, which has gained widespread attention since the gangrape and murder of a student on a moving bus in December 2012. in March 2013, a Swiss woman cycling with her husband in central india was also gang-raped.

Botox injections – but that she has also learned to ‘never say never’.

She also said she has never missed a health check-up, including a mammogram or smear test, and has had a colonoscopy. As for diet, Ms Obama says she does not ‘obsess’ about what she eats but makes sure to include fruit and vegetables.

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Pharaoh tomb of ‘mystery’ king is found THE tomb of a previously unknown pharaoh king dating back to about 1650 BC has been discovered, it was revealed yesterday. The tomb of King Seneb Kay was found

by American and Egyptian archaeologists near the southern Egypt city of Sohag.

‘This adds to our pharaonic history and sheds light on an era about which we knew very little previously,’ said Egypt head of antiquities Ali al-Asfar.

Great haul of China: Farmers build a wall of cash out of their end-of-year bonus before dividing it up between themselves. The villagers of Jianse, in China’s Sichuan province were paid €1.5million by the government for their harvest. The 340 villagers are all members of a farming co-operative Picture: reuters

Extra €1.8bn in aid but Syrians still left suffering AN EXTRA €1.8billion in aid has been pledged to help refugees still affected by the crisis in Syria.

Ireland will provide €12million in funding from Irish Aid’s 2014 budget for humanitarian emergencies, Trade and Development Minister Joe Costello said yesterday.

Britain has donated an additional €120million after it demanded that other countries ‘step up to the plate’. But aid workers say the donation is not enough and warn that supplies are not getting through to the areas that need them most.

UK international development secretary Justine Greening has criticised many countries – both in Europe and in the Gulf – of failing in their duty to help.

by AiDAn RADnEDgE She said: ‘We’re really keen to see other countries play a bigger role in helping those caught up in this crisis through no fault of their own.’

Estimates suggest there are more than 9million people still in the country despite being made homeless. At least 2million Syrians have fled to neighbouring Lebanon, while hundreds of thousands have sought shelter in Jordan, Iraq and Turkey.

Other big pledges came yesterday from the US, which said it would provide an extra €275m. According to the UN, the additional funds still fall short of the €5bn needed to provide food, medicine, shelter and water to refugees this year.

Oxfam has warned that there will be a ‘major gap in funding compared to the requirements’, while Save the Children said it ‘desperately needs unfettered access across the whole of Syria’.

Ireland’s funding will be provided to ‘partners on the ground’, including the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and NGO partners, and will be used for food, basic healthcare, education and protection to thousands of the most vulnerable Syrians, including refugees who have fled the country and those displaced within Syria.

Mr Costello said the funding brings the total value of the Government’s response to the Syrian crisis to more than €26m.

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AmericA’s National security Agency (NsA) has implanted secret surveillance software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world – but not in the Us – allowing agents to spy on the machines, it is claimed.

The New York Times cited NsA documents, computer experts and Us officials in its report about the use of secret technology using radio waves to gain access to computers that other countries have tried to protect from spying.

And the software network could also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks, the Times said.

The NsA says the technology The technology, used by the has not been used in computers agency for several years, relies in the Us. on radio waves that can be ‘NsA’s activities are focused transmitted from tiny circuit boards and UsB cards inserted and specifically deployed against – and only against – valid foreign covertly into the computers.

The NsA calls the effort an intelligence targets in response to ‘active defence’ and has used the intelligence requirements,’ Vanee Vines, an agency technology to monitor units of the chinese spokeswoman, said.

Army, the russian meanwhile, Us President Barack military, drug cartels, Obama is expected to trade institutions inside the eU, and sometimes endorse changes to Us partners against government phone terrorism like saudi surveillance methods in Arabia, india and a highly-anticipated speech at the Us Justice Pakistan, according to Obama: Changes Department on Friday. the Times.

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Apple to pay millions in losses to child app users APPLE is to refund millions to US families where children spent money without parental permission while playing on mobile apps.

It is to give back $32.5million (€23.9m) in order to settle a federal case involving the purchases.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has said Apple will make full refunds for any such in-app purchases that were made by youngsters while playing on mobile phones and tablets – and thereby incurring charges without their parents’ knowledge or permission.

The commission said that it had received tens of thousands of com-

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plaints about unauthorised charges.

Head of the FTC, Edith Ramirez, said the settlement only involved children’s mobile apps and charges racked up when they bought things such as virtual currency or dragon food.

In some of the cases, the charges ran into the hundreds and even thousands of dollars.

The FTC said that the apps included a 15-minute window in which passwords were not needed to make the purchases, but that Apple did not tell users that.

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Text shooter: ‘i feared attack’ A FORMER police captain who shot dead a man texting in a cinema has said he was in fear of being attacked.

However, Judge Lynn Tepper refused bail to Curtis Reeves, 71, charged with the murder of Chad Oulson, shot at a cinema near Tampa, Florida.

Reeves, sitting with his wife behind

Mr Oulson, 43, and his wife Nichole, asked Mr Oulson to stop texting on his mobile during the film Lone Survivor.

Reeves told police he took a gun out when Mr Oulson struck him in the face.

But the judge said throwing ‘an unknown object does not equal taking out a gun’ and shooting someone.

LA gets early shake-up call RESIDENTS in Los Angeles were shaken in their beds by an early morning earthquake yesterday.

The US Geological Survey said the 4.4-magnitude quake struck about 48km east of Los Angeles at 1.35am local time. Police in Fontana, about 5km from the quake’s epicentre,

and San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said there are no reports of damage or injuries.

Most residents posting to the USGS community internet intensity map said the quake felt light to weak. Some residents of Fontana and San Bernardino called the shaking ‘moderate’.

Hollande ‘mistress’ Julie left off panel for art’s sake THE 41-year-old actress linked to French president François Hollande has been dumped from a cultural jury because of the ‘embarrassment’ the alleged affair has caused the country.

Julie Gayet – who it was claimed is pregnant with the president’s child – was due to join the panel selecting artists for Villa Medici, the French academy in Rome.

But after reports of her apparent trysts with the 59-year-old leader, the appointment has been blocked by France’s minister of culture.

French online daily The Local said: ‘It appears Hollande’s alleged affair with Gayet

by TARiq TAHiR forced the government to step in to prevent any further possible embarrassment that would come with Gayet being on the panel.’

Meanwhile, speculation was rife last night that Ms Gayet is expecting the president’s baby. The claim was posted on Twitter by a French blogger who said his source is a journalist at the M6 news channel.

The Elysée Palace refused to comment on the pregnancy claim.

Yesterday, it emerged Ms Gayet is to sue Closer magazine, which exposed the alleged affair, saying it breached her privacy.

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Sea piracy figures arrrr down for third year WORLD sea piracy fell for a third straight year in 2013, as Somali pirates were curbed by international naval patrols and improved ship vigilance.

The International Maritime Bureau said pirate attacks fell to

a six-year low of 264, down from 297 in 2012 and 439 in 2011.

Pirate attacks have declined since their 2010 peak of 445.

A total of 12 vessels were hijacked, with more than 300 crew members taken hostage

and one killed during 2013, according to IMB data.

‘The single biggest reason for the drop… is the decrease in Somali piracy off the coast of East Africa,’ said IMB director Pottengal Mukundan.

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To Vincent: Your help was simply priceless ■ A big shout-out to Vincent, who dishes out Metro Herald at Connolly Station every morning. Sadly, he told me that as of tomorrow he relocating, which makes me and many other commuters very sad! I want to say a big thanks to him for being so friendly every morning to me and all the passersby.

I will miss our little chats about everything and anything.

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Real Animal Lover ■ Mike, HMV may have been charging too much for their CDs and DVDs, but I have to call you up on the cost of production. It may cost virtually nothing to produce the physical disc, but do you expect the artists who spend months or sometimes years writing and recording the music, or for that matter the actors and directors and crew who produce the movies, to work for nothing?

I do agree, though, the percentage of the €25 you paid for that CD that went to the artist was often very low. iTunes and other digital distribution methods at least allow those actually producing the music to cut out some of the middle men and get a fairer share of the profit.

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It’s back to the classics

Aside from some headline-grabbing mouth accessories, London Collections: Men has been reassuringly normal, says Naomi Mdudu

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he criticism often levelled at London men’s fashion week is that the clothes on the runway are worlds away from items that men wear every day. With the media naturally highlighting bold showpieces such as Craig Green’s plank masks from seasons past and the ghoulish grills used to hold models’ mouths open at Bobby Abley’s Disney-inspired collection, it’s hardly surprising that many feel there’s a disconnect.

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however, beyond the more boundary-pushing showpieces, such as the collection from acclaimed Irish designer JW Anderson, the mood at London Collections: Men this season was one of accessibility.

The biannual menswear showcase concluded after three days of countless star-studded parties – it is fashion, after all – and 130 designers showing their wares. On the runway, we saw clever, viable suggestions of what men both in and

outside the fashion industry should be wearing next winter.

‘Some of the shows in London haven’t always been relatable,’ says Adam Kelly, Fenwick’s fashion and beauty director. But this week there’s been a notable shift. ‘The shows have been brilliant,’ he says. ‘They’ve been fluid, comprehensive and really wearable. Key pieces from shows like Richard James, Christopher Raeburn and Margaret howell

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The X Factor presenter Dermot O’Leary echoes this. ‘Yes, we’ve seen clothes that really push the envelope, which is great, but there have also been lots of great pieces that men can buy,’ he says. O’Leary joined the likes of Tinie Tempah and model David Gandy in June as an LCM ambassador.

Whether intentional or not, designer Lou Dalton has become a poster woman for pragmatic clothes that feel desirable and interesting and, in that respect, her autumn/ winter 2014 collection was business as usual.

Inspired by the farmhands encountered in her youth, Dalton drew on the working clothes of these men, presenting them in a contemporary way. Jackets and trousers came in hard-wearing brown cord and distressed, bleached denim in light blue and bright pink.

“Designers have focused on making what we already have even better” Howell, too, leans towards easy but covetable pieces. It’s the reason the fashion pack crammed into her store in central London on Tuesday to glimpse the latest iterations of her signatures.

Simple button-down shirts, navy raincoats and relaxed tailored suits were there, alongside a great suede single-breasted coat, strong knitwear and rucksacks that doubled up as holdalls.

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took considerable strides to prove that even the most exquisitely made suit has life beyond the boardroom.

It was loud and clear at Burberry. The suits were relaxed and deconstructed, and many were styled with autumnal leaf-printed silk shirts and blanket-type scarves that ooze an easy everyday luxury.

Richard James is the master of balancing fashion and tradition. Like many other Savile Row tailors this season, he drove the point home with great styling. Singlebreasted utility jackets, dressed-down Prince of Wales checked trousers and a killer electric-blue leather motorcycle jacket styled with straight leg jeans was the perfect antidote to the tailoring-heavy collection.

At Hackett, too, puffa jackets were layered over slick suits, and tweed looks were finished off with casual beanies, showing how classic items can be styled in contemporary ways. That, combined with a casting full of young twenty-something models, made the collection relevant for the next generation of savvy male shoppers, many of whom – like Tinie Tempah, Misfits actor Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and DJ Nick Grimshaw – were sitting front row.

While not everyone’s idea of everyday wear, JW Anderson’s collection put his mantra of ‘things that can be borrowed from a man to a woman and from a woman to a man’ to great effect, from clothing, to shoes, to accessories.

Suit you, sir: Paul Costelloe’s new range combines interview-smart and stylish, above; Below left: Hackett’s look combines tweed suits with casual beanie hats and puffa jackets

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AuL Costelloe, meanwhile, took the opportunity to introduce his Costelloe and Sons diffusion line, which is aimed at the younger man.

Whether it’s worn as a fashion statement or to an interview, the suit is a handy item to have in your wardrobe, Costelloe said.

He added: ‘It’s an investment. If you’re confident in what you’re wearing it will translate well in any high-pressured situation.’

Each Costelloe and Sons suit is slim fitting with a narrow leg, narrow lapels and easy wearing. Shirts are made from the finest Egyptian cotton, slim in the waist and arms and ‘very typical of what [his] sons would wear on certain occasions,’ the designer said.

Both the diffusion and Heritage lines, which he also showcased at this month’s event, are available from Arnotts and House of Fraser, Dundrum. ‘unlike womenswear, the shapes and silhouettes don’t change and men will always buy the same pieces,’ says Marcus Jaye, editor of online menswear portal The Chic Geek. ‘This season, designers have really honed in on that and have focused on making what we already have even better.’

At Topman Design, design director Gordon Richardson played with items such as the oversized coat, practical knit, classic duffel jacket and tailored trousers. And if that sounds boring, you’ve got it all wrong: this collection was less about presenting new ideas and more about reworking classics.

Richard Nicoll, Jonathan Saunders and Christopher Raeburn did the same. They

presented items such as the bomber jacket, parka and winter knitwear and updated them with a real fashion sensibility married with a healthy dose of wearability, too.

The timing is perfect. Never has the appetite for quality, accessible clothes been greater. In 2012, it was reported that the luxury menswear market was growing at almost double the rate of womenswear; according to market research company Mintel.

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Why study Fashion Design at Griffith College?

I have always loved both fashion and business.

Griffith College is perfect as it gives you an understanding of both.

Most memorable lecture / lecturer at Griffith College?

Natalie Cassidy is the most memorable to me as she was our design year head when we started in first year. She taught us drawing and digital drawing later.

The digital classes I will use forever and are so important to keep up with technology in today’s fast paced industry.

What did it mean to you to show your work at the Griffith College Graduate Fashion show 2013?

Left: Chloe jacket in white, €1,360, Chloe top, €520, Chloe shorts, €750; Stella Aubine nude dress, €1,895

It was great to have a taste of reality, introducing our work to peers and the media. This was an amazing feeling after working on our collections over the year.

I got quite a lot of press coverage, which has driven me further to succeed.

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cLObbER bLOggER Metro Life is taking style advice from the people who really know their stuff. This week it’s Whisty

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hree cheers for the new season! The first collections of the year are always delivered in a fresh and brilliant colour palette; a dramatic change from the dark winter tones of the previous season. The spring/summer 2014 collections are teaming with pretty pastels, bold bejewelled embellishments, ladylike lace and sheer organza, but given a darker twist; either highlighted against bold, black backgrounds or emblazoned with geometric patterns and playful typography.

Lace is a big deal this season. Burberry Prorsum created delicate lace separates in macaroon shades of pink, blue and green. Pencil skirts and prim button-up blouses are deliciously sheer; knicker-shorts, casual sweaters and simple wool coats in matching pastel shades, however, bring a welcome modesty to this, trend of the season.

New Look have already brought us their translation, with this perfect peach two-piece (pictured right, €29.99 each). Worn with deep-orange, suede heels and a peach wool coat, this is an outfit that will ensure you nail spring/ summer 2014.

Gingham has grown up this season; square is definitely in. Last season’s plaid trend evolved into monochromatic

checks. Balmain and ralph Lauren embraced the new geometry and paired matching separates in bold, black and white cheesecloth and windowpane prints. This Dorothy Perkins monochrome top (pictured right, €24) also incorporates the sheer trend, with its simple mesh insert. extreme embellishments echoed the floral lace patterns.

Giambattista Valli added appliqué florals to elegant shift dresses. river Island, the go-to store for embellishments, has teased us with this pink, white and black dress (pictured right, €94), to be launched later this season.

Dolce & Gabbana and Alberta Ferretti added pretty pastel flowers to sheer black organza; proving that this season’s florals are not for the wallflower’s wardrobe. In fact, bold black elements across the collections serve to bring each of them together, allowing us to mix up spring and summer trends like never before. whisty.wordpress.com

What is your proudest achievement in your career to date?

Winning both the Louis Copeland Tailoring Award and the Joanne Hynes Internship Award. It was fantastic.

Also I was shortlisted in a worldwide competition, the Triumph Inspiration Awards, which is huge. Although I didn’t win, I was an Irish finalist and won the online vote in 2012. My design was displayed in Brown Thomas; it was an amazing feeling, All of this experience has given me the drive to go into business myself.

Are you working on any exciting projects at the moment in your work?

Yes, along with the launch of Giovanna Borza SS14 Collection, I have also sent my degree collection XO to London to a well-known fashion stylist, for editorial.

What learning has stood to you most from your college days?

My time at Griffith taught me to work hard and you will be rewarded. I was given great opportunities at Griffith, and definitely would recommend it. I also learned how to manage my time efficiently, which is essential in this career path. Organising the season’s collections on time takes months of planning and preparation.

What advice would you give a new student to make the most of their time in college?

1. Choose something that you love, it will make working hard so much easier. 2. Join in the fun, join the societies and make lots of friends, college should be both educational and social, and overall a great experience.

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I’m really loving this. I am a big fan of dark Scandi drama – I especially like watching this in the winter when it’s freezing outside. It drip-feeds you information and it’s really addictive. The female characters are so strong and at the forefront of the drama. Lead detective Saga Norén (Sofia Helin, pictured) is a genius but has Asperger’s, that’s really interesting – and it turns your expectations of a leading blonde female on their head.

aDventure time

Dracula Sky Living, 9pm The scramble for wireless electricity fuses with family vengeance, romantic jealousy and a drive to exterminate the vampire vermin from the streets of Victorian London in tonight’s series finale. But who’s going to get it in the neck and who will rise to see another day – or night? Grayson/Dracula (Jonathan Rhys Meyers, pictured) gets his fangs out to fight for his own peculiar kind of survival as the cape comes down on this latest pop at the gothic legend.

film of the Day away we go, RTÉ1, 12.20am

‘Burt – are we f***-ups?’ Verona asks her boyfriend.

‘We’re 34…’ – ‘I’m 33,’ interjects Burt (The US Office’s John Krasinski) helpfully – ‘…and we haven’t even figured out basic stuff yet,’ finishes Verona (Saturday Night Live’s Maya Rudolph). No kidding. Shunning ‘proper’ jobs and living in a rented shack subsidised by your parents might be fun when you’re in your twenties but with their first baby on the way, it’s time these slackers grew up and smelt the coffee. Their solution? To go on a road trip to find out where they want to settle.

How weirdly original to find a romcom where a couple are already long-term in love and stay that way.

Don’t tell the briDe RTÉ2, 9.30pm An engaged couple are given €10,000 to spend on their wedding – with one catch – the groom-to-be must organise every detail of the big day, from the hen night to the wedding dress, in just three weeks in this reality series. natasha Hosey and Eddie kiely from Waterford take up the challenge on this week’s show. Opting for a Hawaiian beach theme instead of a traditional style wedding is a risky move, will Eddie’s choices live up to natasha’s high standards for her dream wedding?

This is on Netflix. It’s this wildly surreal cartoon for kids but I can’t believe they get it at all, because it seems to be for adults. It’s about a boy and his shapeshifting dog, and they go around having adventures in order to protect the Candy Kingdom. It’s really funny but there’s a strange poignancy to the show that makes me keep watching.

millionaire matchmaker

This is a bit embarrassing. It’s on ITV2.

Patti Stanger is a matchmaker to these really rich – usually – men, but sometimes women, in the US who have decided that it’s time to meet The One. It’s very funny because this Patti woman is superopinionated to the point of being totally obnoxious. She screams and swears and throws tantrums at her clients. And the behaviour of the clients is sometimes quite mind-blowing.

my favourite tv character

hiDDen kingDoms bbc1, 8pm

patrick mccabe: play next Door RTÉ1, 10.15pm

Feeling like a constructed reality spin on a wildlife documentary, this threeparter uses digital technology to bring us hyper-real close-ups of life at ground level. With Stephen Fry voicing the action, we zoom in for dramatic HD shots of tiny elephant shrews running for their lives beneath the shadows of full-size elephants in Africa.

This week The butcher boy author patrick mccabe takes up the challenge to live in a community for a month and then write a play about it. He’s off to ireland’s nashville, castleblaney in co monaghan, where he takes up lodgings in a new mansion and shares a song with country legend big Tom. if Those Lips, the result of his efforts, follows the programme at 11pm.

Obviously, I ’m considering Bryan Cranston as Walt in Breaking Bad, which is one of the most mindblowing performances in TV history. But I ’m going to go for Edie Falco (pictured) as Carmela in The Sopranos. She’s made me laugh and cry so many times – she completely nails every scene. She’s incredible.

Sharon Lougher Amy Beth Hayes stars in Mr Selfridge, which returns Sunday at 9pm on UTV

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On My EREADER Susan Hill

THE big READ THE HOusE On pARkgATE sTREET AnD

OTHER sTORiEs cHRisTinE DwyER HickEy HHHHI New Island Despite being longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005 for her novel Tatty and having critics on both sides of the pond salivate over 2011’s reverse-chronology tale The Cold Light Of Heaven, Christine Dwyer Hickey is hardly a household name.

The stories in this new collection have already been published in sundry magazines and anthologies over the last ten years or so, but The House On Parkgate Street feels nothing like an odds-and-ends production. Granted, the opener Across The Excellent Grass, though gorgeously descriptive, feels more akin to a prose poem than a short story, but it’s an anomaly in a collection that otherwise balances a crystalline style with compelling narratives.

In the deftly handled, lump-in-throat inducing Saint Stephenses Day, a boy recalls a fateful

family outing to his aunt’s home in Clontarf; in the bittersweet, understated title story a teenager forms a tentative friendship with a BenburbStreet prostitute. Bemused child narrators are a motif in Dwyer Hickey’s stories and are invariably deployed to tantalising effect, not least because they force the reader to speculate on misadventures the speaker can’t entirely comprehend (a sexually precocious cousin committed to an institution in La Straniera; a disabled child placed in care in Esther’s House). Dwyer Hickey is particularly attuned to how the heartaches incurred during childhood can fill a lifetime, but there are plenty of apertures here where light, love and humour seep through.

Daragh Reddin Crystalline style: Christine Dwyer Hickey

Dolls, lies and hate crimes

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Craving a good old murder mystery to solve? Paul Connolly puts the latest crime novels under a magnifying glass

the Peak District, it centres on the death, on New Year’s Eve, of a well liked businessman in an apparent car crash.

In the aftermath of his death, it becomes apparent he wasn’t quite the loyal, honest family man of repute – his son, Joe, sets out to establish what his father was up to. robinson’s writing is occasionally dazzling and the characters, especially rabbit, a woman who witnessed the ‘crash’ and who is being trailed by a hitman, are convincingly drawn. But the plot

Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, D2 http://dublin.cervantes.es Tel: (01) 631 15 00 Suffering heroes: Writer Stuart MacBride

The Bible (the Authorised Version) I am a Christian but you need not be a believer to appreciate its richness. Love of Bible language, stories, cadences, was instilled in me very early and its sonorous poetry always affected my writing. Genesis, the Psalms, the Gospels etc are part of my literary DNA. The Mating Season by PG Wodehouse I need to have a book guaranteed to make me laugh at any time, anywhere. This does. But he was an English prose master too – it is both richly funny froth and bubble, and exemplary writing. I’d kill to write half as well.

Black Sheep by Susan Hill is out now (Chatto & Windus)

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tuart MacBride doesn’t seem to like his heroes very much. He had to take a break from the Logan Mcrae series because he was worried that he’d been too cruel to his fictional Scottish policeman. So, instead, he wrote Birthdays For the Dead, with another detective, ash Henderson, to act as his voodoo doll. Henderson suffered even more than Mcrae, his daughter being tortured and murdered by a serial killer known as the Birthday Boy. MacBride so thoroughly dismantled Henderson’s life at the end of the previous novel that he’s forced to spring him from prison at the start of A Song For The Dying (HarperCollins) before sending him on the trail of another serial murderer, the Inside Man, who stitches dolls into the stomachs of his victims.

MacBride can tell a story and you can understand why he’s so popular – he’s darkly comic and has an eye for the telling detail.

But much of the characterisation is cartoonish and, in order to understand the various relationships, you really have to read Birthdays For the Dead first. ray robinson’s Jawbone Lake (Heinemann) is an altogether more elegant proposition. Set in

just doesn’t quite work and too many loose narrative threads are left dangling.

Eva Dolan is right on the money with Long Way Home (HarperCollins), a brilliant introduction to a new crime series set in Peterborough, which focuses on the murder of a migrant worker. the police detective duo, Zigic and Ferreira, work for the Hate Crimes unit, and their relationship is uneasy – Zigic is by-the-book, Ferreira a little more combative. the set-up may seem a little worthy but it’s really not – Long Way Home spills light on a part of life that is woefully under-reported. Dolan’s touch is light – there are monsters on both sides of the divide, English and migrant – but it’s clear she has little sympathy for those who stereotype migrant workers as parasites. the plot is tight, the anger righteous and the action thrilling. a bracing start to your new year’s reading.

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens I have probably been influenced by this more than any other book.

It has everything – excitement, danger, sense of place and especially of London, corners of which were still little changed when I went up to King’s College in 1960.

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A Mercury Uranus connection may mean you can be a livewire when it comes to dreaming up brilliant ideas or solving problems. You might be a tad restless too, which may lead you to explore possibilities that have a mental challenge.

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It’s possible you’re still feeling a little vulnerable after yesterday’s Full Moon in your sign, and might need a little cheering up. This may be a good time to accept an invite from a friend, as it may give you a chance to get things in perspective.

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Mercury and Uranus make a great team today, encouraging lightning quick thoughts and reactions, which could be perfect if you’re hoping to get noticed. A few wise words and witty one-liners might get the ball rolling Leo.

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Today’s Mercury Uranus connection highlights cutting-edge appliances and other items that might make life easier. If you come across an idea that has life-changing potential, you may embrace that too, Scorpio.

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Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20

As Venus links Mars but continues its rewind, it’s possible you’re having second thoughts. To set your mind at rest, you may need to look more deeply into things, especially if you have a niggling feeling that something may be amiss.

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The buzz you get today may coincide with an electric connection that brings on an almost instant attraction. On the other hand, you might be struck by an idea that seems to be about as brilliant as you can conceive.

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Cullen says Leinster are happy to give rising stars room to shine Young guns: A wealth of youthful talent such as Jack McGrath, pictured, gives Leinster the chance to continue their culture of success

by DAnny HOgAn THE euros may be greener in France, but Leinster captain Leo Cullen is backing the province’s talent factory to keep the threetime European champions ahead of the pack should Sean O’Brien and Jamie Heaslip opt for life on the continent.

Former coach Michael Cheika’s aim when he first walked in to his Portakabin office at Anglesea Road in 2005 was to install a ‘culture’ at Leinster, and now nearly a decade later it has become more than just an ambition – it is an everyday reality.

No matter how old or young,

wise or inexperienced, every Leinster player is expected to uphold the same standards when they pull on the blue jersey, and Cullen yesterday reinforced the point that players such as Jack McGrath, Dave Kearney, Rhys Ruddock and Jordi Murphy are proof of the province’s ability to rely on their youth academy.

‘Yeah I think so, those younger guys drive it more so these days.

We’ve been pretty lucky that there has

been a nice kind of spread of ages,’ explained Cullen. ‘But you see some of the young guys coming through now like Dave (Kearney), like Jordi Murphy who has come through in the last number of months. There are constantly guys, younger guys, coming through.’

Cullen described Leinster’s Lions flankers Heaslip and O’Brien as ‘incredibly consistent’ and ‘phenomenal’ but he noted that

were either of them to move on then their absence would open the door for younger talent to move up the ranks at a faster pace.

‘There are some very good young players coming through, in many ways it does sometimes free up a bit of a pathway,’ he added. ‘We’ve only lost one player (Johnny Sexton), the other provinces haven’t lost anybody to be fair. I know Ulster have lost one Irish international (Tom Court) and in that case he’s still a player who is available to play for Ireland while it makes a channel for a younger Irish player to come through. There’s always different opportunities out there.’

Garcia laments ‘tough months’ after Woods row Sergio garcia has admitted it took him three months to put the controversy surrounding his remarks about Tiger Woods behind him last season, but is looking forward to making more headlines for his on-course performances in 2014. garcia escaped sanctions for what could be construed as a racist remark about Woods after offering an unreserved apology for his ‘stupid’ comments at the european Tour’s annual awards ceremony in May. During a Q&a session involving the full ryder cup

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Garcia: Back on form

team, the 34-year-old was asked if he would invite Woods to dinner one night at the approaching US open to settle their differences, which resurfaced at the Players championship that month.

‘We will have him round every night,’ garcia said. ‘We will serve fried chicken.’ garcia subsequently shook hands with Woods on the practice range at Merion and left the world number one a handwritten note after several attempts to apologise in person, while the pair played together in

the third round of the BMW championship in September. ‘if you take away probably about three months in the middle of the season where we all know what happened, i think the whole year was good,’ garcia reflected ahead of the abu Dhabi HSBc golf championship which gets under way today. asked how long it took to put his row with Woods behind him, garcia added: ‘it was a tough three months at least. But it was a good learning experience. We learned a lot from it and i think that it made us even stronger.’

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Winner: O’Flanagan bagged a brace against Spain pIctuRe: InphO

O’Flanagan nets twice to seal win for Irish women

TWo SeconD half goals from UcD’s anna o’Flanagan were enough for ireland’s Women to beat Spain 2-0 in Terassa yesterday and seal a 2-1 series victory.

The first half was a tame affair in terms of goalscoring opportunities, but the better of the chances did fall to ireland. The green army failed to convert on their chances but won the penalty corner Pc count by 2 to 1 in that first period. The score remained at 0-0 at half-time ireland stepped up a gear after the break and o’Flanagan converted early in the half to give the visitors a 1-0 lead. ireland didn’t have it all their own way though, and goalkeeper emma gray was in fine form to thwart any Spanish opportunities during a hectic spell in the second half. ireland weathered the Spanish storm comfortably mid-way through the half and got a stronger foothold on proceedings as the game headed towards a conclusion, with nikki evans going close. in the end, ireland had to wait until just before the end to claim the victory when o’Flanagan popped up again to make it 20 with a great deflected goal.

The result caps off a good few days in Spain for the green army and secured a welcomed test victory against very good opposition.

Ruthless Spanish see off Ireland ireLanD’S men couldn’t match the success of the women’s team, losing their third and final match against Spain 5-3. ireland started well, scoring within two minutes, and held their lead until the 22nd minute when a defensive error allowed the Spanish to sneak in to draw level at 1-1 thanks to Santi Freixa’s handiwork. ireland retained the lead just a minute later after Jeremy Duncan finished off the rebound from Shane o’Donoghues reverse stick effort to make it 2-1, but Spain once again drew back in the 24th minute, Xavi Lleonart converting this time to make it 2-2 at the break. ireland took the lead once again in the second half David carson capitalising from good team work, but a spate of penalty corners and three precise executions gave the Spanish all they needed to win out 5-3.

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Mourinho says Matic-ulous progress led to Blues return 6

by GAVIN BROWN

THINGs yOu NEED TO kNOW

JOSE MOURINHO feels he has brought a much-improved player back to Chelsea after completing the signing of Nemanja Matic.

The Serbia midfielder, who left as part of the deal which saw David Luiz arrive at Stamford Bridge from Benfica three years ago, has returned for a reported £20.75million.

Having signed a five-and-a-half year deal, Matic will compete with a host of top-class midfielders for a place in Mourinho’s side, but the manager is delighted to welcome him back.

‘I am very pleased that Nemanja is returning to Chelsea,’ said Mourinho.

‘He has grown as a player in Portugal and become a fantastic all-round midfielder. I am sure he will become a very important member of the squad and help us achieve our ambitions.’

The 25-year-old struggled to make

About new Chelsea signing Nemanja Matic 1) He’s familiar

Matic joined Chelsea from Serbian club MFK Kosice in 2009, but played just twice before heading out on loan to Vitesse Arnhem.

2) Luiz makeweight

Halfway through a planned year in Holland he was sold permanently to Benfica as part of the deal which brought David Luiz to Stamford Bridge.

£1.5m

3) final friends

Fee Chelsea paid for Matic when he joined the club for the first time in 2009

The 25-year-old was part of the Benfica team beaten

by Chelsea in the Europa League final last May.

4) He’s good

Matic was named Primeira Liga Player of the Year for 2012/13.

5) International exile

After making his Serbia debut in 2008, Matic dropped out of the international scene in 2012 after falling out with coach Sinisa Mihajlovic. He returned to the squad last September.

6) Quality first

A defensive midfelder by trade, Matic doesn’t get many goals. He managed just six in 56 league games for Benfica but an absolute belter against Porto last January earned him a place on the shortlist for Fifa’s Puskas Award for the goal of the year.

Back in blue: Nemanja Matic has returned for his second spell at Stamford Bridge

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an impact during his first spell at the club, spending a season on loan at Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem before heading to Portugal.

And he will be up against Ramires, John Obi Mikel, Frank Lampard, Luiz and Michael Essien for the ‘holding’ midfield places in Mourinho’s squad, while Marco van Ginkel is working his way back from injury.

Matic was initially signed by Carlo Ancelotti as a 21-year-old. Although his career did not take off, Matic impressed during his time at Benfica.

He is ready to grasp his second chance at Stamford Bridge and said: ‘I am very happy for this opportunity to be back at this club.

‘I feel very good because of that and just want to say I will give my best to help the team and make the Chelsea fans happy.’

fOOTBALL DIGEsT

Moyes takes the rap over refs DAVID MOYES has accepted a charge of misconduct after saying Manchester United were ‘playing referees as well as the opposition’.

Moyes spoke out in the wake of last week’s Capital One Cup semifinal first leg tie at Sunderland, which United lost 2-1. Now a disciplinary hearing, which the

United boss has chosen not to attend, will decide on a punishment after Moyes (pictured) accepted a charge that he had ‘called into question the integrity of match officials’. Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers was last week fined £8,000 by the Football Association on a similar charge.

THEy sAID IT

Canaries not ready to die

‘It’s a massive opportunity, I was in the Championship last week sitting on the bench.’

RELEGATION may be a ‘fate worse than death’ but Norwich are still banking on manager Chris Hughton to lead them to Premier League survival. Chief executive David McNally insists Hughton’s job is safe for now, despite fans chanting the name of ex-Cardiff boss Malky Mackay during Tuesday’s 3-0 FA Cup defeat at Fulham. ‘We would not contemplate relegation at our football club,’ said McNally. ‘In a sporting sense it is worse than death. Chris’s brief was to keep us out of the bottom three and we are not in the bottom three.’

Grant Holt reflects on a change of fortunes after leaving Wigan for Aston Villa

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ViCTORiOuS HuTCHinS iS nOT SEEking SyMPATHy Ross hUtChins wants to be judged on his tennis, not as a victim, after enjoying his first win since recovering from cancer. a year ago the 28-year-old was just starting six months of gruelling chemotherapy after hodgkin’s lymphoma invaded his body.

But on a baking hot Melbourne afternoon, hutchins and doubles partner Colin Fleming yesterday beat Marinko Matosevic and Michal Przysiezny 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 in the australian open first round. ‘it’s an amazing feeling to get our first win since coming back,’ said

Feeling fine: Hutchins hits a forehand in his first victory since winning his fight against cancer

All eyes on Pochettino as Cortese quits Saints

hutchins. ‘We did well to dig out a win. it was actually brilliant, to be honest, and i’m just loving the feeling right now. ‘i have had a huge amount of support but i don’t want people to feel sorry for me.’

Frenchman Jeremy Chardy had told his coach he felt bad for beating hutchins on his comeback appearance in Brisbane earlier this month, the first of two defeats for the Londoner and Fleming before yesterday’s victory. ‘i’m like, “no, don’t”. i’m a player and i want to be treated as a player,’ added hutchins.

‘today again, at the end of the match the guys shook hands and said it was great to see me back. ‘that’s really nice, it means a lot to me to have people say that because i did miss the tour a lot.’ on the day hutchins was given the diagnosis, Fleming had promised they would team up again whenever his friend was ready. the scot said: ‘it was tough to play without Ross but i never thought he wouldn’t come back. ‘i don’t know if that was naive but i never once thought we wouldn’t team up again.’

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Fulham target: Morrison

Rene’s Ravel talk prompts Irons claim

by DAnny gRiffiTHS

Nicola cortese resigned as southampton chairman last night in a move that could jeopardise the position of manager Mauricio Pochettino. the club made the announcement on their official twitter feed, insisting it would be ‘business as usual’ at st Mary’s despite the shock news.

However, that confidence belies fears that the highly-rated Pochettino could follow cortese out the door after previously stating his future at the club depended on the italian’s presence. club owner Katharina liebherr, who in a reshuffle becomes non-executive chairman, announced: ‘With great regret we have accepted the resignation of Mr cortese.

‘He has done a wonderful job and we very much wanted him to stay. a search has now begun for a successor. ‘it is business as usual. the manager, team and staff at the club will have all the help and support they need.’ it is understood cortese had been contemplating quitting due to divisions between him and liebherr, who took over as owner of the club after the death of her father Markus liebherr in 2010. argentinian Pochettino, appointed as

Fall out: Cortese

-10 Southampton’s points

total, in League One, when Cortese took charge in 2009 successor to Nigel adkins in January 2013, said last year: ‘i would not stay in this role if Nicola was not here.

‘We are on the same wavelength about the club and the future of the club so it really would not make any sense if i was at this club and he was not.’

Threat: Pochettino previously said he would quit if Cortese left

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Baines set to snub Moyes and stay blue United target: Baines

Leighton Baines is ready to snub Manchester United and former manager David Moyes by signing a new contract at everton. england international Baines was hotly pursued by the Premier League champions in the summer only for toffees chairman Bill Kenwright to stick to his guns and refuse to sell the

jewel in his goodison Park crown. now he has been rewarded as the 29-year-old left-back, whose current contract expires in 17 months, is on the brink of agreeing fresh terms which could see him stay on Merseyside for the rest of his career. the toffees are also pinning england starlet Ross Barkley to a new contract

as reward for an outstanding season.

Barkley is contracted until 2016, having signed a long-term agreement in 2011, but will get a new deal in line with his rising importance to the side. the 20-year-old midfielder, out with a broken toe, travelled with the rest of the squad for a warm-weather break in tenerife at the weekend.

FULhaM face a League investigation regarding manager Rene Meulensteen’s comments on West ham midfielder Ravel Morrison.

Meulensteen revealed after tuesday night’s Fa Cup win over norwich, the Cottagers had a bid turned down for the 20-year-old and claimed the england under-21 cap was keen on the move. the Dutchman coached Morrison at Manchester United, and hinted their relationship would be at the centre of the midfielder’s desire to join him at Fulham.

Meulensteen said: ‘Yes we did make a bid. Yes i think he wants to come. i’ve known him for a long, long time, but we have to wait and see how the club takes it forward.’

West ham are understood to have made an official complaint to the Premier League, citing a ruling covering public statements of interest in a rival club’s player that act as an indirect approach.

Morrison, 20, has been a bright spark in West ham’s otherwise poor season first half, but has just 18 months left on Upton Park contract.

Meanwhile, Fulham have confirmed forward Bryan Ruiz has joined Dutch side PsV eindhoven on loan until the end of the season. the Costa Rica international, who replaced Martin Jol at the start of last month, has featured in just two matches since Meulensteen was placed in charge.

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Chelsea boss Mourinho says return of Nemanja was auto-Matic

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fREncH cLuBS fLiRTinG WiTH BiG STARS WOn’T DiSTRAcT LEinSTER in HEinEKEn cup QuEST LEINSTER coach Matt O’Connor has insisted the speculation over the futures of Ireland and Lions stars Jamie Heaslip and Sean O’Brien will not derail the province’s mission to reach the Heineken Cup quarter-finals.

Reports yesterday suggested that Ireland and Leinster back row Sean O’Brien is close to signing for European champions Toulon, while Heaslip’s representatives have also met with the French club and Top 14 rivals Montpellier.

However, Leinster face Ospreys tomorrow night at the RDS needing just a point from their Pool 1 clash to earn a place in the quarter-finals and O’Connor is refusing to allow the potential loss of star players to overwhelm the camp.

‘It’s not a distraction,’ said O’Connor. ‘Everyone will be happy when it gets sorted. We haven’t looked at [replacement] recruits, we’re happy with what is behind those guys [O’Brien and Heaslip]. We’ll wait and see.’

Meanwhile, Leinster captain Leo Cullen, taking over as forwards coach next season, said he can see why team-mates would be attracted to a move to France, but the threat of them leaving is no reason to panic.

‘People will always follow the money,’ said Cullen. ‘But we have only lost one player (Jonny Sexton) so far so I don’t think it is panic stations yet.’

Dynamic duo: O’Brien and Heaslip have attracted top clubs

Business as usual City hit five past Blackburn, and now Sergio Aguero is fit again

SERGIO AGUERO made a dream return as Manchester City again showed their attacking quality in last night’s 5-0 win over Blackburn in the FA Cup third-round replay.

City may have barely missed the prolific goalscoring Argentinean in his eight-game absence with a calf injury, but he smartly scored with his first touch after coming on as substitute.

All of the home side’s goals came from their strikers, with braces for

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by ADAM HyLAnD Alvaro Negredo and Edin Dzeko to take the tally for the season to 99 goals in all competitions.

Rovers, who were without their star striker Jordan Rhodes through injury, provided far more resistance

than West Ham, who were crushed 6-0 in the Capital One Cup at the Etihad last week, and City had to wait until the stroke of half-time for Negredo to head home the opener.

But, although Josh King twice went close for the Championship side, the floodgates opened as City booked a home fourth round tie with Watford.

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Striking up: Negredo celebrates with Joleon Lescott after City’s first goal picTure reuTers