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‘Appalling’ €740k secret CRC payoff

THE Taoiseach last night said it was ‘appalling’ former Central Remedial Clinic head Paul Kiely walked away with a gold-plated pay-off worth €742,000 – despite previously only admitting to a pension pot of €200,000. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was told some of the money came from donations to the clinic and that health chiefs may try to claw back some of it. An audit by the HSE revealed the deal included €200,000 tax-free, €273,336 which was taxable and €268,689 paid to Mercer’s consultants for Mr Kiely’s pension fund. The third payment was to make sure the former clinic chief executive had a pension pot as if he had remained in the post up until November 2016. The PAC yesterday heard details of the package as Brian Conlan, who took over from Mr Kiely but lasted just four months in the job, denied all knowledge of the deal.

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He said the lucrative and secret pension package was wrong: ‘This is completely new to me.’ Mr Conlan was told repeatedly that he lacked credibility – including by Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald, who said: ‘I had the very strong feeling that you were attempting to palm us off but I now have the feeling you came in here to tell us downright lies.’ Mr Conlan said he did not attend a hearing on the scandal when first invited as he was under stress, was forced to move out of his house for several days to avoid the media and would have been an ineffective witness. PAC member Shane Ross said he was gobsmacked and did not believe Mr Conlan’s evidence: ‘There was obviously an intention that this should never see the light of day,’ he said.

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Taoiseach Brian Cowen faces the battle of his political career after rebel foreign affairs minister Micheál Martin moved to oust him as leader of Fianna Fáil last night. Mr Martin offered to resign after telling the Taoiseach he could not support him.

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Who framed Benji rabbit?

MEET Benjamin Linus, a three-year-old Holland Lop rabbit who is definitely famous in his own back yard. Owner Lauren Gates makes miniature costumes for him to recreate scenes from her favourite films. It’s not clear what Benjamin thinks of the caper but he has more than 2,000 followers on Instagram. The photos have proved so popular, Miss Gates has published them in a charity calendar. ‘Putting the pictures in calendar format seemed funny since it’s something that’s on Clockwise from top: Benji display all-year round. And who wouldn’t want riding through the glen as to look at pictures of a bunny dressed in Robin Hood, as Woody from costumes?’ the 28-year-old, who works for an Toy Story and as Spock; and educational technology company in Brooklyn, right, fighting the good fight on the streets of New York as New York, told Metro Herald. For more, go to: a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle etsy.com/shop/TheBbunnyShop.

Fassbender and U2 get Oscar nods as Philomena gets four OSCAR NOMINATIONS Best actor Christian Bale, American Hustle Bruce Dern, Nebraska Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf Of Wall Street Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Best supporting actor Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips Bradley Cooper, American Hustle Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave Jonah Hill, The Wolf Of Wall Street Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club Best actress Amy Adams, American Hustle Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine Sandra Bullock, Gravity Judi Dench, Philomena Meryl Streep, August: Osage County Best supporting actress Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years A Slave Julia Roberts, August: Osage County June Squibb, Nebraska Best animated feature film The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest & Celestine Frozen The Wind Rises Best director American Hustle, David O. Russell Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón Nebraska, Alexander Payne 12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen The Wolf Of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese Best foreign language film The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium The Great Beauty, Italy The Hunt, Denmark The Missing Picture, Cambodia Omar, Palestine Best picture American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years A Slave The Wolf Of Wall Street

Big screen stars: Actor Chris Hemsworth and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs reveal the nominations Picture: AP

Gravity could defy Steve McQueen in Oscar quest THREE films yesterday led the charge for Oscar glory – with director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave set to feel the force of Gravity on the night. The true story of free man Solomon Northup being kidnapped and sold into slavery picked up nine nominations, including best film, best actor and best director for Chiwetel Ejiofor and McQueen, respectively. ‘At no point during filming, in the sweltering heat of New Orleans, did any of us ever foresee the journey this

by AiDAn RADnEDGE film would take us all on,’ said 36year-old Ejiofor. ‘Steve McQueen created an entire family to tell one man’s tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have also been recognised today. ‘I am hugely grateful to the Academy for this great honour and, of course, to Solomon Northup for sharing his story through his breathtaking book.’ Irish hopes hang on Michael Fass-

bender in the acting stakes, with the Kerryman nominated for his supporting role in the same film. ‘I’m really chuffed with the Oscar nomination, especially being recognised alongside such great actors. It’s a real honour,’ Fassbender said. But the film faces competition from American Hustle and Gravity, which both received ten nominations. U2 followed up on their Golden Globe success with a nomination for best song with Ordinary Love, from

Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, while Judi Dench, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope are all up for awards for their parts in Philomena, which is based on the true story of Irishwoman Philomena Lee’s 50-year search for her son, aided by journalist Martin Sixsmith. Judi Dench, 79, said: ‘This is just the loveliest news. I’m so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.’ The 86th Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on March 2.

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Paisley discharged from Belfast hospital Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley has been discharged from hospital. He spent just over two weeks undergoing treatment at the Ulster Hospital near Belfast. His son Ian Paisley Jnr said: ‘I am delighted he is back home again and settled. I am very grateful for the wonderful work of the hospital staff.’ mr Paisley, 87, led the DUP into power-sharing at Stormont with Sinn Féin in 2007. In February 2012, the former North Antrim mP suffered from heart failure but returned to public life after recovering.

Dublin tipped as property ‘hotspot’ for investor cash by BRiAn HuTTOn

A DUBLIN mother of two who embezzled almost €190,000 from two employers has been jailed for one year. The court heard mary o’Toole, 44, had severe financial pressures at the time but spent the money on tarot reading hotlines and ‘nonsense’ internet shopping. o’Toole of elmfield Drive, Clarehall, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sample charges of theft from Forest Tosara Ltd between April 2008 and September 2010, and the National Concert Hall between December, 2011 and February, 2012.

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TEA AND TALK: Dr Claire Hayes of Aware, Garda Michael Garrett and Dublin firefighter Michael Conway launch It’s Time to Talk, a campaign which aims to get friends, family and colleagues together for a tea party or coffee morning on January 30 or 31 to raise awareness and funds for mental health

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DUBLIN has been tipped as Europe’s top property investment hotspot for the year ahead. The capital will undergo a renaissance from property pariah to star market for commercial investors, according to a report by think tank Urban Land Institute (ULI) and consultants PwC. In the survey of 500 influential experts across Europe, Dublin came out number one for best cities in which to buy property, up 14 places from last year. Joe Montgomery, chief executive of ULI Europe, said: ‘Investor appetite in Dublin has been growing over the past 12 months with significant volumes of international capital chasing the best assets,’ he said. But the think tank said interest was already moving to Spain, where a turnaround was expected after the launch of its equivalent of Nama – known as Sareb. The Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe report said investors were set to put billions into the Dublin commercial property market in the coming months as confidence grew. It forecast that returns would be the second best in Europe, after Munich, during the year.

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irish water like ‘secret service’ IRISH Water is to get a €490million subvention from the Local Government Fund this year, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said. Responding to People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett in the Dáil after outrage over revelations of €180m setupcosts, Mr Noonan said the figure was included in revised 2014 estimates. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said Irish Water was ‘until recent days’ being ‘run like a secret service’. Labour leader Eamon Gilmore defended water charges, saying nobody would recommend supplying electricity on a county-by-county basis.

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Vincent’s to get separate private and public bosses by ED cARTy

ST VINCENT’S Healthcare Group will split the chief executive’s role along public and private hospital lines to end concerns that it is in breach of public pay policy. Nicholas Jermyn, chief executive of the group, said his salary will be paid entirely from private funds as part of efforts to meet wage rules. And as part of wider reform of the south Dublin hospital group, two people will take up two separate roles: group chief executive and chief executive of St Vincent’s University Hospital, the public division. Chairman of the group Professor Noel Whelan that the hospital is willing to adapt to meet guidelines. ‘We believe that the group is in compliance with public pay policy for the health sector,’ he said. ‘We had not divulged any information in relation to the salaries of the small number of executives involved as there were issues, including those of contract law and data protection, to be considered. Critically, also, there were no pub-

lic or charity funds involved.’ St Vincent’s disclosed just before Christmas that Mr Jermyn was receiving a pay package of more than €292,000 a year. Some €136,282 of Split: Jermyn this is from the public sector with €136,951 from the private sector, plus a privately funded car allowance of €19,796. Other details released on December 23 showed director of finance Cormac Maloney on €140,876, with €32,544 of that privately funded, and director of nursing Mary Duff on €96,405, of which €14,853 was privately funded. The group revealed yesterday at the Dáil Public Accounts Committee that it has ceased payments to two other senior employees and the payments of a third are being ‘regularised’. St Vincent’s Healthcare Group includes St Vincent’s University Hospital, St Michael’s Hospital in Dún Laoghaire and St Vincent’s Private Hospital.

HSE ‘may claw back’ pay-out From pagE 1 « Mr Kiely retired last June on a pension of around €90,000 a year from a private scheme, which was also propped up by a €3million loan from donations paid to the CRC. Barry O’Brien, HSE

national director for HR, told the committee that it would attempt to recover some of the monies paid to Mr Kiely if they are found not to be ‘reasonable and proper’. Mr Kiely only detailed a pension pot on top of his salary of €200,000 when he appeared before the

PAC in December. Fine Gael TD Kieran O’Donnell said the report on Mr Kiely’s pension was ‘pure dynamite’ and asked for him to be recalled to answer for it. Taoiseach Enda Kenny yesterday evening described the revelations as ‘appalling’

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60 seconds your wedding’s off, Promoter AnTHOny REMEDy takes to the NCI podium on Thursday for the Seven Deadly Skills event on Gluttony: Social Media. He speaks to Angharad Williams ahead of his talk

Do you monitor your online presence? No, I’ve no interest in it.

I’m not interested in quantity over quality. Sometimes people get bogged down in stats and think they have to hit a number of followers, but I don’t think about stuff like that. Some people go on about how many followers they have or whatever, but a lot of those people could be spam. I genuinely only talk to people I know, especially on Twitter.

Does social media play a big part in your working life? Yeah,

totally, in pretty much everything I do. I am someone who has harnessed Facebook, Myspace and Twitter for my personal and business use and as part of my work as a promoter.

If someone has no online presence, should they work on creating one? I don’t see why you

vours by contacting someone. Having a bad first impression online is the same as making a bad impression in person.

Should people look to other people’s social media accounts for inspiration? You can look for

inspiration, but a lot of people aren’t very calculated about what they share online. You should have your own stamp on what you’re doing.

Is it better to remain professional on social media? There

are different ways of dealing with things on different websites. You have to be a lot more aware on Twitter than on Facebook, because if you say something on Twitter it’s gone, and it’s gone to absolutely everywhere. If you want to keep something private, don’t put it up online.

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of somebody will always be better than getting on with them online. You can get to know people to a degree online, and it helps initiate contact. Social media means you can contact someone and strike up a conversation if you have a valid opinion on something. But there are people who have done themselves no fa-

by DAnIEL BInnS A WOMAN cancelled her brother’s wedding without telling him because she disliked his fiancée. Ann Duffy impersonated her now sister-in-law to call off the ceremony – three weeks before they were meant to tie the knot. The 50-year-old then calmly rang up her brother, David Greatrex, to deliver the good news, saying: ‘You had better put this on speakerphone. I have saved you a divorce. ‘I have cancelled your wedding. Would you like me to send you the confirmation email?’ Her plan failed as they were able to re-book the wedding the next day. Duffy had grown to distrust her brother’s fiancée, Sandra Hardy, because she feared the newlyweds would take her mother away.

After she called off the wedding, her sister-in-lawto-be reported her to police. Duffy told officers she intended only to cause her sisterScheming: Duffy in-law distress, Plymouth magistrates court was told. Roger Page, defending, said: ‘In desperation to avoid her brother from making what she regarded as a disastrous move, she cancelled the wedding.’ Prosecutor Will Walden said: ‘One offence doesn’t constitute a charge of harassment.’ But there were other incidents reported to police, he added. Happy couple: David and Sandra Duffy is due to be sentenced on Greatrex managed to tie the knot February 11. anyway PICTURE: SWNS

Do you think it’s a good idea

should; I think if it’s something that for individuals to have webdoesn’t interest you then why should sites? If you have something you do it? Out of all of the to sell about yourself then types of social media a personal website out there, one of them makes sense. If you will more than likejust want to talk I’m sure Kim ly interest you, but about yourself that doesn’t mean Kardashian doesn’t sit then you need to you have to be instart a blog. I think at home going, volved. But I’d be there could be a surprised if some‘Look how many likes resurgence of one isn’t interested blogs in Ireland – I got. Wow!’ in using Twitter for people who have an news, photographs of opinion are blogging. family and friends on Facebook or photos of inWhat are the biggest spirational stuff on Instagram. All of mistakes people make online? it depends on what you want – like if It depends on the format. Oversharyou’re doing a marketing degree and want a job then going onto LinkedIn ing is one, and neediness – why do and making connections is the best you need to have approval from people. I’m sure Kim Kardashian doesn’t thing for you. sit at home going, ‘Look how many Where do you think people likes I got. Wow!’ Take the things should start creating an online you read with a pinch of salt, unless verified by the traditional media. presence? Instagram is a nice tool it’s Certain things will work for some because a picture paints a thousand people and for others it won’t. words. You don’t have to be a great writer, you don’t have to be really witty. It’s something that is going to Economist Brian Lucey and Kirstie grow as they develop it. I don’t think McDermott from Frillseeker will join Twitter suits a lot of people and Fa- Anthony at the final Seven Deadly cebook is a platform for your friends. Skills event next Thursday. The series But I do think all of it makes a differ- celebrates NCI courses, which include ence because you get to know people an MSc in Management, Marketing or Web Technologies; an MA in through social media.

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Middle class have the best sex lives MIDDLE-class women have better sex lives than their less privileged counterparts, according to a study that found they have an improved awareness of their needs, and greater control over use of contraception. Dr Dolores Ruiz, of the Barcelona Public Health Agency, said: ‘People of lower socioeconomic status claim to be less satisfied sexually, which especially applies to women.’ Nine in ten adults rated themselves as ‘quite’ or ‘very satisfied’ with the quality and quantity of their time in the bedroom, Spain’s first sex survey showed. More than seven in ten used protection with a stable partner. However, less affluent people used less contraception, while women of lower socioeconomic status were more likely to have been abused.

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A model 40th for Kate Robert Pattinson has rid himself of the final reminder of his relationship with Kristen Stewart after selling their love nest. The 27-year-old bade farewell to the sprawling Spanish Colonial estate he shared with his Twilight co-star after accepting an offer of €4.8million. The Big Bang Theory

star Jim Parsons, 40, is believed to have snapped up the LA mansion for €300,000 less than the original asking price. R-Patz is said to be living in a gated community, a short drive from the Los Feliz pad, while K-Stew, 23, bought a €1.6million home near her former haunt.

Lena from Girls: I am careful with sex scenes LENA DUNHAM says there is a fine line when filming sex scenes between feeling ‘comfortable’ and ‘violated’. The writer, director and star of Girls has been praised for her honest approach to sex scenes in the TV show but stresses she is always considerate of co-stars whenever they strip off for intimate moments. ‘It’s really important in a sex scene to know each person’s limits, if they’re going to be comfortable if you improvise slapping their ass or if it’s going to make them feel really weird and violated,’ she told a packed audience in London as the show’s third series premiered. But Girls, which documents the struggles of four twenty-somethings trying to make it in New York, has its fair share of critics. Some people have found issue with Dunham’s approach to portraying sex – and her appearing in the scenes. But the 27-year-old revealed she has a slightly masochistic way of gauging the

response from viewers. She explained: ‘I read all the tweets and I don’t know if it’s a good idea, but I can’t stop the joy and the pain.’ This week, the multi-talented star, who was born in New York, made her debut on the cover of American Vogue, where she elaborated on her unshy approach to sex scenes. Dunham told the magazine: ‘Seeing somebody who looks like you having sex on television is a less comfortable experience than seeing somebody who looks like nobody you’ve ever met.’ She has become something of a role model for ‘real-sized’ women in today’s celebrity obsessed culture. But the choice of cover shot sparked controversy, with many criticising the use of airbrushing and questioning why a close-up of Dunham’s face was used instead of her full body. The third series of Girls begins airing on Sky Atlantic this Monday at 10pm.

ate Moss was joined by some of the fashion world’s biggest names as she threw a star-studded lunch to celebrate her 40th birthday yesterday. the supermodel was joined by husband Jamie Hince, 45, who kept a protective arm around his wife as they made their way into 34 Restaurant in Mayfair, central London. Wearing a little black dress with matching lace-up heels and a leopard print coat, Kate looked effortlessly cool in her laid-back style. she wore her blonde hair down in a trademark shaggy style and completed her look with a baby pink clutch bag. Kate’s close friends stella McCartney, sadie Frost and Jo Wood arrived before the birthday girl. the Croydon-born babe was also joined by her mother, Linda, who was escorted into the restaurant by topshop owner sir Philip Green. other famous faces lucky enough to score an invite included designer John Galliano, photographer Mario testino, hairdresser James Brown, and shanghai tang founder sir David tang. BBC Radio 1’s Breakfast show host Nick Grimshaw was also on the guest

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list and arrived carrying what appeared to be two paintings. earlier in the day, Moss was spoiled for choice as presents were delivered to her home from friends and fashion houses. she received a large barrel of red roses among numerous bouquets from florists. Moss was also sent gift bags from Hermés, Givenchy and Mulberry, along with bags from other fashion and beauty houses. stars also took to social media to wish the veteran model a very happy birthday, with ‘Kate Moss’ trending on twitter. Fellow model Lara stone tweeted, ‘happy birthday Kate’ accompanied by a photo of herself and Kate in bed with another model. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley also posted: ‘Happy 40th Ms Moss #birthdaygirl #40 #KM #icon #QueenK #KateMoss,’ accompanied by a photo of Kate posing with a make-up pencil in her mouth. Moss is believed to have returned to London after enjoying a pre-birthday celebration on sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island in the Caribbean with a select group of pals including Frost and Fran Cutler.

Madge left hobbling Madonna is on crutches after falling over in a pair of high-heels during a night of dancing with her toyboy Timor Steffans. The 55-yearold appears to have been unable to keep up with her 26-year-old lover after she was seen ‘hobbling in pain’ into her New York home. ‘She bruised a bone in her

foot from dancing in her high heels... she’ll be fine and off crutches in a week,’ her spokesperson said. The Material Girl celebrated the new year with a ski trip to Switzerland, hitting the slopes with her children and Steffans, who Madge met last year.

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t be Justin Bieber is said to concer concerned about naked pictures being leaked after police seized his phone. The 19-year-old’s mobile was confiscated on Tuesday by officers following up a vandalism claim from a neighbour, who said the star pelted his house with eggs. They were believed to have been looking for texts relating to the incident – but the Boyfriend singer fears they might uncover nudie shots, according to TMZ.

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He may have been snubbed for an Oscar and Golden Globe – but Idris Elba was still able to enjoy a boys’ night out. The Mandela star, 41, was spotted with Wretch 32, Naugh Boy at Rudimental and Naughty Or the adidas Originals’ Stan Smith W party in London on Wednesday.

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Killer is executed with new drug mix

Struck down by lightning

A KILLER was yesterday executed using a lethal injection that had never been tried in the US before. Dennis McGuire was the first death row prisoner to be killed with a cocktail of the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone after the drug previously used was withdrawn by its maker. The 53-year-old appeared to gasp several times and took more than 15 minutes to die, witnesses at the Ohio execution said. Among them were McGuire’s adult children. He was sentenced to die for the rape and fatal stabbing of a young pregnant woman in 1989. He accepted responsibility for the crime in a letter to governor John Kasich last month.

2014 SPORTS CAPITAL PROGRAMME OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS The Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring TD, is pleased to announce the opening of the 2014 Sports Capital Programme. A fund of €40 million is available for development of sports facilities and the purchasing of sports equipment. Applications are now sought from sports clubs, voluntary and community groups, national governing bodies of sport and local authorities. Third level colleges, Education and Training Boards (formerly VECs) and schools may only apply for funding jointly with sports clubs.

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THIS is the horrifying moment a mother ran into the sea only to be killed by a bolt of lightning. Rosangela Biavati, 36, died instantly at Guarujá, a resort on the coast of São Paulo, Brazil. She ran in to tell her 11-year-old son and her nephews to get out because a storm was approaching. Mrs Biavati’s final moments were captured by Rogério Soares, who was taking pictures for a newspaper. ‘We can’t believe how it happened,’ said her brother Elias. ‘We are devastated.’ Calling out: Mrs Biavati

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city sits on ‘gas timebomb’

HOLLAnD: Four Hezbollah suspects accused of killing Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri (pictured) and 22 others are being tried in their absence in The Hague. They were never arrested over the plot to plant a car bomb in Beirut in 2005.

AMERicA: Some 6,000 leaks from gas pipes have been found under Washington DC, with nine capable of causing a lethal explosion. Such emissions killed 17 people and injured 68 in the US last year. Academics reported the leaks but they were ignored for months. ‘Companies need to fix leaks more quickly,’ one expert said.

whale rescue mission fails #HowiMetYourRacism row

nEw zEALAnD: Eight stranded pilot whales were yesterday set to be destroyed to end their suffering. The mammals had repeatedly drifted back to shore during rescue attempts to free them from a remote beach. Five others died naturally on Wednesday after the group got stuck on Farewell Spit, South Island.

AMERicA: The creators of How I Met Your Mother have apologised over racism claims. They said they were ‘deeply sorry’ after an episode set in China inspired the hashtag #HowIMetYourRacism. Josh Radnor’s character, Ted (pictured), wore a Fu Manchu moustache.

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czEcH REpUbLic: Bibles with special camouflaged covers are to be distributed to Christian soldiers at a cost of €850,000. More than 4,000 pocket-sized editions have been ordered by military chiefs who say they will blend in with the troops’ combat fatigues.

Homeless men sought for rape of lost Danish tourist FIVE homeless men have been identified by police as being part of a gang that raped a Danish tourist. A police spokesman said it was only a matter of time before the ‘vagabonds’ were traced. Three other suspects were earlier picked up and accused of taking part in Tuesday’s attack on the 51-year-old, which lasted nearly three hours and happened near Connaught Place, a popular shopping area in the heart of New Delhi. One of the suspects in custody was found with the victim’s glasses case and 1,000 rupees (€12) in cash, a police statement said. The victim has since flown home. The rape is the latest in a series of high-profile attacks. The fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old Indian physiotherapy student in New Delhi in December 2012 sparked international outrage.

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yself and my friend enjoy reading yeh Big Ride everyday, as I’m sure many of our fellow commuters do. Being nosey, hopeless romantics, we were wondering does anything ever come from it – ie dates, marriage proposals, restraining orders, etc? Hopefully this letter will encourage the Big Rides of Dublin to send in their stories to feed our thirst for knowledge! Sarah & Fiona

■ To the girl on the 8.40am Maynooth train eating her full-on muesli with milk breakfast from a plastic bowl yesterday – seriously? Do you think anyone wants to watch you slurping from your bowl on their way to work? I’m surprised

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you had time to get dressed at all. How much further can standards slip? Will there be someone shaving on Monday morning? Grossed-out Commuter ■ What a fantastic article from Ken Rogan yesterday encouraging online piracy. Great to see the self entitled nature some people have is still alive and well. Watching a film is not a right, it’s a luxury. If you’re not happy with the quality of films, the price or the general industry then simply don’t watch them. But none of that gives you the right to steal it. I’m usually a fan of his columns but that one was pretty pathetic to say the least. Paddy, Ringsend ■ Thanks for your reply Mr Walsh. you’re keeping the issue highlighted and that is paramount. But in my

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previous letter, I was trying to express a quick point, and didn’t go into too much detail. Please accept my apology for mistakenly expecting that most readers would comprehend what I was trying to suggest. Rest assured, I’m not at the top of the train station platform each day trying to give the train driver money. let me explain what I meant. In short, it needs to be understood that the ticket staff are Irish Rail employees too – just like the train drivers, maintenance crews

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● I’d just like to thank the guys who came to my aid when I fell over on Pearse Street last Friday morning. Your kindness was very much appreciated! Breda Callan

● To the gorgeous, tall, blue-eyed brunette at the Euro Giant in Abbey Street, every day I invent a new excuse for buying something that I don’t need with the hope of you attending me again. Fancy a drink?

● A big thanks to the tall man with the ponytail serving us in Lemon Jelly Café in the Millennium Walkway yesterday. Your service was really excellent and efficient. If only more Dublin restaurants and cafés had staff like you. NH

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in yOuR fAcE Michael Fassbender isn’t Irish. He is German. Why are we saying he is Irish? Same as DayLewis and Irons. Michael Gambon’s Irish yet the British have claimed him as British. Jon L McEvoy

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yOuR RusH-HOuR cRusH Today we asked our Facebook followers: How Irish is Michael Fassbender? Does it matter?

His mam is Irish and he was raised in Killarney. He’s Irish. Ciara Ní Mhurchú

Ireland rugby legend Ronan O’Gara was born in California. That doesn’t make him American though, does it? Ciara Ní Mhurchú

Who cares?! He’s gorgeous and he has a Kerry accent! Lorraine Morley

Just because you are born in a stable, doesn’t make you a horse. Adam Hyland

etc. If there is a strike over a pay dispute, all Irish Rail staff will strike together. What I’m suggesting is that they none the less come to work (even in skeleton-staff form), but that they refuse to accept fares, drive the trains, and as I said in my previous letter, hit Irish Rail management where it really hurts the most – the pocket. This isn’t my idea or any big revelation. It’s just something that’s been done many times before by railworkers around the world. Tom

TREnDing #seanobrien ● The IRFU may have broken the bank (correctly) to keep Sean O’Brien. But is it more likely now Jamie Heaslip will be let move on? Broadcaster @cooper_m ● Savage news regarding @SeanOBrien1987 staying with Leinster. The lure of the Top 14 couldn’t beat the lure of his cattle/tractors. @finbarrc

Bray Station for beginners ■ Choose carriage based on the exit location at your destination as well as school kid quotient. Pick seat based on body temperature. Avoid under-seat heaters when you’re sweating after running for a Dart. Time journey to the station to the last second to get maximum bed time. Curse Leap Card/annual ticket any time it’s rejected even though you just topped it up with €50. Resist shifting whoever holds the door open for you because you’d probably cry if you didn’t get on. Don’t cry if train is delayed/ cancelled. Let Metro Herald’s cute photos and Mailbox cheer you up. Sit close to a door when it’s jammers so it’s easy to get off. Ignore people in the morning to dodge awkward conversation. Inspect Dart to see if there’s any talent. Wonder where they work, are they single, where they drink. Claire W

● Great to see Sean O’Brien stay in Ireland, one of our greatest sportsmen! I knew he wouldn’t leave the farm behind

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● Delighted @SeanOBrien1987 is staying with Leinster and Ireland! You couldn’t feed the cattle from France! @Clo_MESSi ● Sean O’Brien staying with @leinsterrugby. Well played by the IRFU! He was a must-keep #tullowtank @ConOH92 ● This is possibly the drink talking, but I wouldn’t want to live in a world without Sean O’Brien. Rugby ledge @RossOCK @metrohnews #metromailbox

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Hollande ‘wanted to dump’ hospital-bound first lady FRANCE’S first lady Valerie Trierweiler took ‘a pill too many’ because the ‘cold and ruthless’ François Hollande wanted to dump her, it was claimed yesterday. The 48-year-old could not deal with his affair with a younger woman and ‘took a pill too many,’ a source alleged to the Paris-based Le Point magazine. ‘However, she never wanted to attempt suicide.’ Despite spending a week in hospital, Ms Trierweiler has not

been seen by the president but he has sent flowers and chocolates. The Le Nouvel Observateur claimed Mr Hollande, 59, wanted to announce a split before a media conference with the world’s press on Tuesday. But he abandoned the plan as he feared he would look ‘insensitive’ and ‘cruel’ given his partner was in hospital. The ‘other woman’, actress Julie Gayet, 41, has not been seen since the scandal broke.

SMARTEST CHOICE, ADVICE & PRICE Farewell? François Hollande

Comedy world’s tributes to Trigger

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Varied career: Roger Lloyd-Pack appeared on stage and films Picture: ScoPe

THE world of comedy has paid tribute to Roger Lloyd-Pack – best known for playing Trigger in comedy Only Fools And Horses – who has died at 69. Lloyd-Pack had pancreatic cancer and passed away at his home in London, his agent Maureen Vincent said. Sir David Jason, who played Del Boy in the hit TV series, was among those to recognise the actor’s talents, saying he was a ‘very intelligent man and a very fine actor, capable of many roles’. He was most famous for playing likeable dimwit Trigger. In one of the sitcom’s most memorable scenes, he fails to notice Del Boy has fallen over while the pair attempt to chat up women in a wine bar. ‘He was a very quiet, kind and unassuming actor who was a pleasure to work with,’ Mr Frost added. Lloyd-Pack’s varied roles included parts in sitcoms The Vicar Of Dibley and 2Point4 Children,

Comic classic The wine bar scene as well as the 2011 film version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and in Shakespearean plays. Father Ted creator Graham Linehan said how Trigger had inspired one of his own characters. ‘Trigger was an ancestor to Father Dougal and I’m glad I once had a chance to tell him so,’ he tweeted. In an interview two years ago, Lloyd-Pack said being Trigger could sometimes act as a burden. ‘The other day, I jumped some lights on my bike because someone was hollering at me,’ he said. ‘A police van pulled me over, and when I stopped they also shouted “Trigger!”. It can be very annoying.’

Desperate hunt for UK spy bosses using missing Mikaeel, 3 NSA’s text database POLICE searching for a boy who went missing more than a day ago say he may have left his Edinburgh home on his own. Mikaeel Kular was put to bed by his mother on Wednesday night but, when she went to wake him yesterday, he was missing along with his shoes and jacket. There is no evidence a crime has taken place and the three-year-old may have left home of his own accord, say police. Mikaeel, who lives in the Drylaw area of the city, was reported missing at 7.15am by his mother Rosdeep. Police have scoured the city’s coastline for the boy and spoken with all ‘key members of the family’. But neighbour Frank Arthur, 72, doubted the boy left his home alone. ‘When you leave the block it’s a heavy door,’ he said. ‘It’s quite a lot for a threeyear-old to be pulling that door open.’

BRITISH spies are sidestepping the law to scrutinise millions of private text messages, it was claimed last night. UK intelligence agencies have been given access to a secret US database of texts, according to the latest leak from former spy Edward Snowden. It means they avoid having to apply for government permission to monitor specific targets. The latest revelations have angered civil liberties groups, who want an investigation. America’s National Security Agency is said to have created a database, known as Dishfire, which stores almost 200million texts worldwide each day. The data is used to track people’s whereabouts, their contacts, banking details and movements.

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Can a billion screaming tweens be wrong? Yes, because Twilight: New Moon – the long-awaited sequel to the worldwide smash hit Twilight marking a new chapter in the complicated relationship between Bella (Kristen Stewart) and the enigmatic vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson), proves a plodding, if unintentionally hilarious, bore-fest par excellence. Bella Swan (played by dead-eyed charisma void Stewart) is apparently irresistible to men, vampires and werewolves despite being a big jessie. The plot sees vampire boyfriend Pattinson come to the realisation that Bella will never be safe as long as they’re together so he dumps her right after her 18th birthday. Left reeling from the break-up Bella turns to childhood friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) who distracts her by helping her renovate a beaten-up motorcycle, while she leads him up the romantic garden path. But then she discovers Jacob is one of a pack of werewolves. The grand finale, in which a red-eyed Michael Sheen plays vampire king Aro and Dakota Fanning Volturi Jane is chucklesome. Oh, and the werewolves look like Muppets.

The Graham NorToN Show BBC1, 10.35pm They’ll be rolling out the red carpet tonight following yesterday’s Oscar nominations, as a stellar cast of talent drop by for a chat. IrishGerman actor Michael Fassbender (pictured with co-star Lupita Nyong’o), up for a supporting actor gong for his role in 12 Years A Slave, joins Idris Elba (snubbed by the Academy) who reflects on stepping into the shoes of a legend in Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom and there’s a chance to get the inside track on Girls from its writer and star Lena Dunham. Completing one of Graham’s most diverting line-ups are Broadchurch star Olivia Colman and rockers Keane.

off TheIr roCkerS tv3, 8pm a hidden camera series that sees senior citizens carry out pranks on unsuspecting members of the public. the rockers, ranging in age from 67 to 84 years old, are determined to have a blast as they grow old disgracefully in this hilarious and irreverent show. in this second episode, a pensioner appeals for help when his wheelchair is clamped, while another aul wan looks for someone to join her in a spot of snake charming.

CoroNaTIoN STreeT tv3/Utv, 7.30pm & 8pm we’re building up to next week’s farewell to hayley Cropper (Julie hesmondhalgh, below) tonight with a double episode hearttugger. as hayley begins to say her goodbyes, she summons her characteristic no-nonsense honesty for a special adieu to that horrid tracy Barlow. But life elsewhere the Street goes on as usual, with forbidden fruit tearing at todd’s conscience and Stella steaming over leanne in a storyline that looks set to lead to another exit...

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The Walking Dead director Frank Darabont created this homage to 1940s film noir based on the truelife memoirs of police and gangsters in a Los Angeles filled with jazz clubs, sultry sirens and racketeers hanging out on every street corner. Jon Bernthal and Shane Walsh star. Watch out for Simon Pegg as a sleazy stand-up

Among those up for the Tubridy treatment tonight is Dublin actor Andrew Scott (left), aka Sherlock’s Moriarty, plus singer/songwriter James Vincent McMorrow performs live.

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Magician RUA, or Paul ul Gleeson to his friends, attempts to infiltrate the minds of two Irish celebrities ities each week in order to predict the outcome of an event. while later on in the show he takes to the streets to demonstrate magic tricks for the public. In this episode, RUA astounds broadcaster Manchán Magan with his ‘time-travelling’ abilities and shows off his mind-reading powers in two experiments. Meanwhile, sean-nós dancer Sibéal Davitt is impressed by RUA’s card techniques.

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This gripping Dublin-set drama – starting on Sunday and airing star across acr four nights – stars Bray actress Eva Birthistle as Sarah, the estranged wife of Ben (David Murray, below with Birthistle) and mother of teenager Amber (Lauryn Canny), who fails to (L return home one afternoon. As re her family and friends search for f her, emotions are tested in the glare of the media spotlight.

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Leonardo DiCaprio plays a drug-addled, midget-tossing fraudster in The Wolf Of Wall Street. Happily, his own moral compass is on a different setting, finds Elaine Lipworth

‘M

oney is something people can easily be obsessed with,’ says Leonardo DiCaprio, reflecting on the nature of avarice during a rare interview. ‘But I don’t believe money makes people happy – at all.’ By comparison, Jordan Belfort, the corrupt real-life stockbroker he plays in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street, believes there is no better route to happiness than getting rich. Seriously rich. He defrauds investors to make insane amounts of money, indulging in a hedonistic and misogynistic lifestyle, complete with mansions, a massive yacht, prostitutes and the obligatory, beautiful trophy wife. ‘It’s like Caligula in the late-1980s and early-1990s,’ suggests DiCaprio, ‘an unregulated time period in the world of finance, when this guy could live the life of a Roman Emperor. He was also a sex and a drug addict and, in the face of the FBI cracking down on him on a consistent basis, that pushed him even further.’

We meet in Los Angeles where the charismatic actor, 39, is bearded, handsome and broad-shouldered, wearing jeans, a checked shirt and blazer with suede elbow patches. Famously private, he won’t discuss his personal life – he has been involved with various supermodels including Gisele Bündchen and Bar Refaeli, and is reportedly single. But he is unusually open on the subject of excess. ‘I have seen people in my life like that [Belfort], everything has this concentric circle back to wealth, and you notice that they don’t have a foundation in other areas of their life,’ he says. ‘They’re not happy with what they have. It’s an addiction. ‘I think everybody has an attraction to money but you have to have a moral epicentre and deem other things as more valuable than that. I think that greed is inherently something that is in the human being. It is fundamental towards survival but it’s up to us as the human race with developed minds to make moral decisions, and not to take advantage of anyone.’

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Fresh from winning Best Actor at the Golden Globes for The Wolf Of Wall Street, DiCaprio is a strong contender to score that elusive Oscar – having been nominated three times before. He is electrifying as Belfort who, according to his own memoirs, held midget-tossing competitions and orgies on expenses, while strung out on cocaine and downers such as Quaaludes. ‘These are the guys that watched the movie Wall Street [Oliver Stone’s 1987 film] and wanted to be like Gordon Gekko and had no moral integrity whatsoever and just said: “Let’s get rich and let’s play with the system,”’ says DiCaprio. DiCaprio’s phenomenal career has included four previous collaborations with Scorsese: Gangs Of New York, The Aviator, Shutter

“Belfort is a minnow in a pool of gigantic whales” Island and The Departed. ‘Dare I say… I don’t think Marty has had a better time making a movie than this, I’ve never seen him smile as much,’ says DiCaprio of his friend. Like last year’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby (2013) from Baz Luhrmann, The Wolf Of Wall Street examines the hollow rewards of hedonism. Unlike DiCaprio’s tragic Jay Gatsby, however, Jordan Belfort’s sole pleasures are derived from wealth. ‘I hope people understand that we’re not condoning this behaviour, we’re indicting it,’

Here’s to you: DiCaprio plays corrupt stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose decadent and money-obsessed lifestyle is captured in the latest film from acclaimed director Martin Scorsese, with whom the actor has now worked five times says DiCaprio, responding to the growing media criticism that the ‘very dark comedy’ glorifies Belfort’s lifestyle. To DiCaprio, the story is relevant because it’s a microcosm of a much bigger story. ‘Jordan Belfort is a minnow in a pool of gigantic whales that have been systematically robbing the American people of money. How many CEOs have gotten gigantic bumps in their salary and have done very little jail time? It’s like the underworld.’

But I have absolutely no idea what he invests in.’ DiCaprio is thoughtful, philosophical and a committed

N real life, Belfort was indicted in 1998, spent just under two years in prison and is now a motivational speaker. ‘He’s a reformed man and he talks about this time period in his life where he was absolutely out of his mind,’ says DiCaprio. Has the actor encountered the kind of excess depicted in the film? ‘I have never seen anything like this,’ he laughs. Does he have a stockbroker? ‘I do.

Collaborators: With Scorsese (left)

On My pLAyLIST Stephen MalkMuS SHE’S A MOvER by Angel

Angel was a band that Kiss fans listened to in between Kiss albums: they wore cheesy white satin get-ups with plenty of chest hair on display. I guess the chicks dug it.

GOIn’ HOME TO ROck n’ ROLL by Painter

Whenever I hear Painter it makes me feel 13 again, hanging around the arcade with hot high school girls and stoner boys with wispy moustaches.

decided to name themselves after the whole region, instead of one puny city. This is bubblegum power-pop for roller rinks and your first hickey.

THE vELvET ScREw by Wha-Koo

There was a time when narcissistic men came together in some overpriced LA studio to play the s**t out of their instruments. I am ashamed to wish I was there, but it’s true.

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Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks’s new album, Wig Out At Jagbags (Domino), is out now.

This makes me want to get f**ked up and drive too fast with my trashy girlfriend while she’s cutting up lines of speed on the vinyl dashboard of a Plymouth Duster. New England were around when Boston were topping the charts. I guess they

environmentalist. ‘I’m equally as passionate about the environment as I am as an artist,’ he says, revealing that as a teenager he considered a career ‘as a biologist or something in environmental sciences’ before he started acting. Without his ecological interests, the actor says: ‘I wouldn’t be a fulfilled person. Only two per cent of philanthropy goes towards protecting our environment and that’s pretty outrageous, considering it is our life support system.’ DiCaprio is clearly as driven as he was at the start of his career, when I first interviewed him for This Boy’s Life in 1993. ‘That craving never leaves you,’ he says. ‘Whatever anyone thinks about me as an actor doesn’t matter. I look back at myself at 15 years old and the choices that I made, I’m pretty proud of myself. The truth is, my attitude about what I do has never changed.’ The Wolf Of Wall Street is out today.

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Banking on the big belly laughs THE Big RELEAsE

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See the words ‘a Martin Scorsese film’ and you don’t expect big-laughs comedy. That’s just the first surprise this outrageously hilarious, Wall Street-meets-The Hangover cocktail has stuffed in its back pocket. Based on the memoirs of corrupt stockbroker Jordan Belfort, The Wolf Of Wall Street kicks off with Leonardo DiCaprio engaged in live midget-tossing in his packed office – just a flavour of the obscene antics that went on at Belfort’s brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont, where orgies, cocainesnorting and roller-skating chimps were as normal as coffee and Post-its. The film charts Belfort’s debauched rise from rookie broker, whose first day on Wall Street was Black Monday, to making his fortune via defrauding his investors. ‘The year I turned 26, I made $49million, which really p***ed me off because it was three shy of a million a week,’ he says. That Belfort isn’t repellent and is, in fact, almost likeable is

Leonardo DiCaprio’s fifth movie with Scorsese is a crowd-pleasing comic blast. It’s a toot, it’s a hoot, it’s a sure-fire massive hit.

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down to DiCaprio, already a Golden Globe winner for his outstanding comedy performance, even if the big lines – such as ‘there is no nobility in poverty’ – can’t top Wall Street’s iconic ‘greed is good’ speech. The film has roused censure for glorifying crime, with scant, awkwardly realised minutes

paid to Belfort’s eventual comeuppance. But surely 71-year-old Scorsese, a one-time wannabe priest whose work is preoccupied with morality, did that deliberately? Movies may traditionally, and consolingly, lay low the wicked and redeem the sinner but in real life, how many bankers and brokers at

This devil of a horror movie proves deadly dull If you think Oscar contenders such as Gravity and American Hustle could be improved by a few buckets of fake blood and a hearty dollop of Satanism then this is your film of the week. A mish-mash of a hundred other horrors, it sees annoyingly adoring young newlyweds Zach (Zach Gilford) and Samantha (Allison Miller) go on honeymoon to the Dominican Republic. There, a friendly cab driver takes them to a late-night underground club

Devil’s Due (15A) HH✩✩✩ where, after one tequila too many, Sam ends up getting impregnated with the Antichrist. C’mon – we’ve all been there. Sam, of course, doesn’t realise she’s carrying the devil’s child but she soon suspects all is not well after she starts sleepwalking into the nearby woods to gut Bambis with her bare hands. Tiresomely and implausibly shot entirely as if ‘found

footage’, this female-written horror is Rosemary’s Baby for the Paranormal Activity generation. The directors promisingly spin out the suspense to the point where you’re wondering: ‘When is something nasty going to blinking HAPPEN to these people?’ When it does, though, it’s not scary. The lessons to be learned? Don’t go abroad, don’t take unlicensed cabs and don’t get pregnant. Ever. Prepare for an unexpected drop in teenage births this year. Li-Z

cLuBs Boddika

The best music is hard to categorise and this sentiment is true about Boddika’s work. The stage alias for UK producer Alexander Green (pictured), releases on Naked Lunch and SunkLo traverse the boundaries of bass, electro and techno. Tracks such as Electron, which was released on Loefah’s Swamp 81 imprint, is one of the best examples of Green’s crossover approach, with electro drums combined with a relentless rhythm and bleak soundscapes. Green also runs the excellent Nonplus imprint, which champions its owner’s diverse leanings and releases music by everyone from d:Bridge and Jon Convex to Lowtec and Kassem Mosse. Twisted Pepper is sure to be rammed for Boddika’s show this weekend. Tomorrow, Pogo/Emergence, The Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 10.30pm, €10 to €13.

lone

If you need something to banish the January blues, then look no further than Lone. Over the course of five artist albums – this writer’s own favourite is 2010’s Emerald Fantasy Tracks – Matt Cutler weaves timeless melodies into his own, distinctively psychedelic take on electronic music. Temperatures might be stubbornly refusing to rise

outside, but Cutler’s music is sure to bring some much-needed warmth to Dublin this weekend. Tonight, MUD, The Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street, D1, 10.30pm, €10 to €12.

Max Cooper

James Holden and Nathan Fake aren’t the only UK producers with a predilection for trancey melodies. Since 2007, Max Cooper has been putting out atmospheric yet catchy techno for labels like Traum, Herzblut and Fields. Slip into your favourite tie dye T-shirt and check him out tonight. Tonight, Abstract/ Bedlam, The Button Factory, Curved Street, Temple Bar D2, 11pm, €12.

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fault for the recession were punished? Certainly Belfort himself has bounced back. Reports of bankers cheering on Belfort’s antics at private screenings may be hateful to many but this is a movie that uncomfortably reflects the wolf inside us all.

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As attested by the widespread bosomheaving over the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, a dark valentine to the early sixties folk scene, music and nostalgia are grafted together at the hips and the heart. This is certainly true of old-timey strummer and amateur archivist Frank Fairfield, whose relative youth belies the sepia-cast of his songbook. A sometime touring partner of Fleet Foxes, like that band Fairfield clearly believes popular music’s glory years lie deep in our collective yesteryear. His affection for the past is no schtick: in conversation he will reel off his favourite influences from the pre-rock era, merrily name-checking forgotten bluesmen and vaudeville stars such as Charlie Poole, Fiddlin’ John Carson and The Cofer Brothers. He has even curated a collection of overlooked greats, entitled Unheard Ofs And Forgotten Abouts, in which he brought together utterly obscure performers from the UK, Japan, South America and Africa in a bid to highlight the gap between ‘corporate’ music and music from the folk tradition. Also on the bill are Tujacques, aka Dublin-based cinephiles Matthew Nolan and Matthew Causey, who blend beat poetry, jazz, funk and swamp rock. In less capable hands, such a gumbo might risk coming off rank and difficult to digest. Master blenders, the pair bring it all together with style, grace and a belief that sometimes great Eamon de Paor music ought to be hard to pigeonhole. Tomorrow, The Grand Social, 35 Lower Liffey Street, D1, 8pm, €15. www.tickets.ie

sMARTEN UP FOR… Lesley Garrett

One of Britain’s most renowned sopranos takes the NCH stage this weekend as part of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Signature Series. A charismatic performer with an unforced sense of ebullience (she’s been dubbed the ‘Geri Haliwell of opera’), Garrett is likely to present a

varied, fuss-free programme where musical standards are slipped in alongside classical fare Tomorrow, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace D2, 8pm, €13.50 to €49.50. Tel: (01) 417 0000. www.nch.ie

The Cunning Little Vixen

The Royal Irish Academy of Music, IADT Dun Laoghaire and The Lir Academy of Dramatic Art have joined forces to present Leoš Janáček’s tragicomic opera, a magical folk fairy tale set under the leafy boughs of a forest. Directed by Lynn Parker Until Sat, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College D2, 7.30pm, €10 to €25. Tel: (01) 896 2461. www. tcd.ie/beckett-theatre

BUY POPCORN FOR… The Night of The Hunter

It took such a critical mauling on its release in 1955 that director Charles Laughton, confidence shattered by the experience, never took the reins behind the camera again. It’s a shame because this unique and unsettling black-and-white thriller is now considered one of the most suspenseful films ever made. Robert Mitchum (pictured) plays Harry Powell, a demented criminal who charms his way into the family home of his former cellmate, Ben Harper, in an attempt to get hold of a stash of cash Until Jan 23, IFI, 6 Eustace Street D2, various times & prices. Tel: (01) 679 3477. www.ifi.ie

The Great Beauty

Ravishing and surreal, this sumptuous 21st-century interpretation of La Dolce Vita takes a walk on the wildly glamorous side of Roman nightlife Until Sun, Light House Cinema, Smithfield Square D7, various times & prices. Tel: (01) 872 8006. www.lighthousecinema.ie

Toronto-born, Dublin-based Stephanie Rowe had work displayed at the Royal Hibernian Academy last year as part of its Future 12 showcase, but New World, Old World – her first major solo show at the Oliver Sears Gallery – should go even further in underscoring her considerable talent. Taking inspiration from old film stills, Rowe’s tiny oil canvases invite the viewer to get up close and personal in order to appreciate her self-possessed, well-heeled female subjects at play. Rowe will share wall space with Sean Hillen, whose enchanting Holes In Heaven exhibition sees the renowned photojournalist and collage artist turn his lens upwards for a series of enigmatic sky ‘portraits’ Until Feb 13, Oliver Sears Gallery, 29 Molesworth Street D2, Mon to Fri 10am to 5.30pm, free. Tel: (01) 644 9459. www.oliversearsgallery.com

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Grizzly-toned vocalist Huey Morgan’s NY rap-rockers regroup for 1990s anthems and grooves from their latest album, Classic Fantastic, at this sold-out Academy show. Given he once coowned DiFontaine’s Pizza Place, The Dice Bar and the Voodoo Lounge, don’t be surprised to spot Huey about town this weekend as he revisits old haunts Tonight, The Academy, 57 Middle Abbey Street D1, 8pm, €25. Tel: 0818 719 300. www. theacademydublin.com

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Business&Careers A strong showing puts Ireland in line for upgrade today by pADRAIc HALpIn FROM bailout and near bankruptcy, Ireland has staged such a turnaround that its debt is now on a solid path towards France and Belgium, countries seen as safe bets when it was shunned by the market three years ago. After a storming return to bond markets last week – meeting almost half its funding target for 2014 – Ireland is now eyeing an imminent upgrade by Moody’s that would unleash a further wave of investment. Last week’s ten-year debt sale offered a yield of just 3.5 per cent, a far cry from the 15 per cent quoted on secondary markets in mid-2011, and puts Ireland almost within 100 basis points of France and Belgium, and a further 70 away from benchmark Germany. France and Belgium are sometimes described as members of the euro zone’s ‘soft core’, a tier of debtbelow-core states like Germany but safer than the periphery countries hit hardest such as Ireland, Portugal,

Italy, Spain and Greece. The Government is hoping a run of good news – becoming the first euro zone country to exit a bailout, accelerating economic growth and falling unemployment – will continue today when Moody’s is due to review its ‘junk’ rating. If Moody’s restores Ireland to inIreland: Stronger vestment grade, large, mainly Asian-based ratings-sensitive funds would be free to resume bidding for Irish paper. Fellow ratings agencies Standards & Poor’s and Fitch kept Ireland’s investment grade rating during the crisis. But Ireland still has some way to go to fully rebalancing its economy, and Moody’s may hold off. The agency said just last month that an upgrade would require continued compliance with fiscal targets and a strengthening in the pace of economic growth.

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busInEss bITEs n THE Gazette is to go city-wide from next month, with the Dublin City Gazette joining its seven suburban titles. The new edition of the weekly free newspaper will be distributed through partner stores. The group, which celebrates its tenth anniversary, hopes to boost circulation from 41,000 to 60,000 and readership to 210,000. The paper exited examinership last September.

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n THE Little Museum of Dublin founders Simon O’Connor and Trevor White have been shortlisted in the arts category of the 2014 David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards. They are up against the teams behind Print Block and the 10 Days In Dublin Festival. Nine finalists in three categories are vying for the overall title, which includes a €100,000 mentoring prize and €10,000 cash. Temptster’s Ollie Fegan; Anthony Glynn and James Sherlock of Ar-Nua Tec, and Louise Grubb from Q1 Scientific have been shortlisted in the business category, while the social category finalists are Graham Jones from the Solas Project; Fiona McKeon from Bizworld Ireland, and Giustina Mizzoni of Coder Dojo/ Hello World Foundation. The winners will be announced on January 30.

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R Kearney; D Kearney, B O’Driscoll, G D’Arcy, L Fitzgerald; J Gopperth, E Reddan; C Healy, S Cronin, M Moore; D Toner, M McCarthy; R Ruddock, S Jennings, J Heaslip (capt). Reps: R Strauss, J McGrath, M Ross, L Cullen, J Murphy, I Boss, I Madigan, Z Kirchner.

JUST as Leinster welcome back one dynamic hooker in Richardt Strauss, coach Matt O’Connor was praising Sean Cronin for the impact he made during his rival’s absence. Now that Strauss has recovered ahead of schedule from surgery on a heart defect to take his place on the bench at the RDS tonight, O’Connor has the luxury of choosing between two international hookers each week, but he singled out Cronin for his impact during Strauss’ absence. ‘I’d seen Sean play a lot, we flirted with signing him when I was at Leicester, one of the things I spoke to him about [when I arrived] was the hard things in the game and the things that don’t come overly natural to him,’ explained O’Connor. ‘I think he’s been exceptional in those things and he’s worked incredibly hard in the environment to improve because he’s incredibly talented. Sean does things on the field that very few hookers can do and full credit to him.’ Cronin starts in the No 2 jersey for tonight’s visit of Ospreys and the 27year-old has grown in confidence after making nine starts while Strauss was unavailable.

‘It has been great to be a part of. It’s been good for the confidence and, hopefully, I can build on it [tonight],’ said Cronin, who joked that he might have stayed behind in France after his late yellow card last weekend put his team-mates under pressure. ‘It was stupid. It was pretty nerve wrecking for myself. I thought I might as well skip the plane home maybe and stayed in Castres. Maybe, they might have signed me up for next year!’ Cronin starts in a pack that shows three changes from the victory over Castres. Cian Healy, who made an unexpected return from an ankle injury last weekend, starts in place of Jack McGrath at loosehead, while on the other side of the front row Martin Moore starts in place of Ireland tighthead Mike Ross. Shane Jennings lines out at openside ahead of Jordi Murphy, who is part of a strong reserve corps on the Leinster bench. Strauss, McGrath and Murphy are all powerful carriers, and with Ian Madigan and Zane Kirchner also named as replacements, Leinster look primed to chase a bonus point in the second half if they can get on top of Ospreys.

TiMELy REMinDER fOR COMEBACk kings Of CAsTREs LAST weekend in the south of France the Leinster players gave coach Matt O’Connor his first real taste of their famed never-say-die attitude. Just because Jonny Sexton has been lost to Racing Metro doesn’t mean that Leinster’s self-belief has gone with him, and fighting back from 14-0 down to win in a hostile environment was fresh evidence of that. O’Connor has taken his team to Ospreys and Northampton this season and scored precious away scalps, but he believes the manner of the performance in Castres will have enormous benefits for a team which is likely to end up playing an away quarter-final in France. ‘It was a fantastic fightback from where we were at,’ said O’Connor. ‘Some of the stuff late in the first-half and early in the second was enormous for us. That’s not to say that the other away wins [in the pool] were not a reflection of the character of other sides here. But it does give us a fair bit of

Big impact of Cronin praised by O’Connor

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Career Doctor What’s it really like down at the social welfare office for the unemployed? It’s a question no career coach living in the real world can avoid. It’s certainly on my mind whenever I work with clients who have experienced or are experiencing unemployment. Some people have been pleasantly surprised by the friendly demeanour and helpfulness of staff. Others have had less happy stories to tell. But if one thing emerges clearly from all the conversations I’ve had, it’s that those working in social welfare offices must not underestimate for one second the enormous impact they and their behaviour can have on individuals who are at a critical juncture in their careers. For many people, especially those to whom the experience of being out of work is new, having to head down to the local social welfare office to sign on or to speak to someone about having a claim considered can be a deeply intimidating prospect. I have heard horror stories about sensitive and vulnerable people being spoken to with appalling rudeness Going to the at the reception desk, social welfare for instance. One man in his fifties, who had office can lost his job at a bank, be scary told me he was made to feel like a criminal just for darkening the door of the office and asking for an appointment. He was pretty traumatised by the experience. It was not until I had reassured him that the person who behaved in this manner was not a Decisions Officer that he plucked up the courage to pay a return visit. The little things really do matter. Making eye contact with the claimant. Smiling. Being human. Not being patronising. Using the person’s first name. Asking firm questions without making the person feel like a beggar or a chancer or a loser. Most of all, showing urgency to get the matter sorted out.

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confidence moving forward and in relation to the quarter-finals. ‘Wherever we end up in the quarterfinals, if we can put on a decent performance like that we can get a result,’ he added. Winning on the road has always been a crucial element of Leinster’s success and it began in the 200708 season when the province won the Magners League (including a first win in Munster for 22 years). The following year they brought their travelling steel to Harlequins for the famous ‘bloodgate’ quarter-final en route to winning their first Heineken Cup. Since then there have been famous victories away to Saracens, the fightback in the 2011 final against Northampton

and then in 2012 the dramatic win in the semi-final against Clermont Auvergne in Bordeaux. It’s crucial, too, that young players such as Jack McGrath, Jordi Murphy, Rhys Ruddock and newcomers like Jimmy Gopperth, Mike McCarthy and Zane Kirchner have now experienced such a turnaround in a Leinster jersey. It even provides a timely reminder for the old war horses of the team like Brian O’Driscoll, Gordon D’Arcy, Leo Cullen and Eoin Reddan that they still have it in them to produce a performance against the odds. Whether the Castres comeback will provide enough confidence to help them conquer their quarter-final opponents away from Dublin is yet to be seen, but it is certain that with O’Driscoll and Cullen gone next year they will never possess such a perfect blend of experience again.

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spORT DigEsT ‘Excited’: roche takes on tourism role for Northern Ireland cycling event

Roche to promote Grand Partenza cycLing Former Giro d’Italia winner Stephen Roche has signed up by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) to promote tourism in the lead-up to the event. Roche will promote tourism messages, images and footage and accompanying media representatives and competition winners around part of the Giro d’Italia route in Northern Ireland in May. He will also represent NITB at key events and provide comments to the world’s cycling press. Roche said he is excited to be promoting the ‘world-class assets, both cycling and tourism, of Northern Ireland’.

Snookers Shaun is clueless and Fu-less

snOOKER Shaun Murphy produced a brilliant comeback to reach the Masters semi-finals. Marco Fu led 4-1 before Murphy (left) reeled off five frames in a row to win. Asked what inspired the turnaround, Murphy said: ‘I’ve no idea. Isn’t that the frustrating thing about snooker? When it’s going bad, you’ve no idea why, and when it’s going good you’ve no idea. We’re all absolutely clueless!’

‘YouTube goal put me on goal roll’ sOccER

PEAMOUNT United striker Stephanie Roche has been named Bus Éireann Women’s National League Player of the Month for November/December. Roche, 24, achieved worldwide fame with a goal for her club against Wexford Youths in October that received more than two million hits on YouTube. She credits that goal with getting her back in form. ‘Since I got the goal that went viral I’ve scored ten goals, so I’ve been in good goal-scoring form. I would have been happy enough if it had been a tap-in but the goals have been flowing since so I’m happy,’ Roche added.

F1 director resigns AuTO MOTOR racing mogul Bernie

Ecclestone stood down as a Formula One director yesterday after he was sent to trial over bribery claims. The 83-yearold billionaire will still be in charge of the ‘day-to-day’ running of the sport, despite the Munich state court confirming he will face trial in April over a €33million payment made to banker Gerhard Gribkowsky. Ecclestone claims he was ‘shaken down’ by Gribowsky, serving eight and a half years in jail.

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Andy MurrAy has played many better matches than his second-round win over Vincent Millot at the Australian Open but has never had a better finish. The world no.4 was taken by surprise when French qualifier Millot suddenly began to play well above his ranking of 267, as he raced into a 5-1 lead in the third set. Millot had a set point but Murray saved it, and from then on won every single point – a run of 23 in succession – to triumph 6-2, 6-2, 7-5. He said: ‘It was 6-5 when I went to serve for it, and someone shouted out, “you won 19 in a row”. ‘I would say that’s probably the

‘It’s very difficult to do, I don’t how I did it’ most I’d ever won in my career by far. It’s very difficult to do. I don’t really know how I did it. But I didn’t realise until I went to serve for the match. It was a good way to finish. ‘He came up with some great shots in the third set. Then when he didn’t get his set point, I guess it’s normal he got a bit nervous, which helped.’ The importance of the winning streak to Murray was it enabled him to complete the match in straight sets

Maria wants answers on burning issue

MarIa Sharapova led the calls for greater clarity on the tournament’s extreme heat policy as the conditions finally held up play yesterday. There was a suspension for more than four hours as temperatures again rose above 40C. Tournament referee Wayne McKewen decides when to suspend play but there is no temperature that brings the rule into effect. Sharapova, who beat Karin Knapp in a match that lasted three hours and 28 minutes, said: ‘The question is no one really knows what the limit is. We have never received any warnings about the weather.’ and get off the court. ‘I didn’t really care about winning 23 points in a row. I wanted to win the match,’ he said. ‘I am glad I finished it there, because they were very, very hard conditions.’ next up for Murray is 26th seed Feliciano Lopez, who defeated German Michael Berrer in straight sets.

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arSENaL boss arsene Wenger feels Theo Walcott should be ‘very positive’ of making a full recovery from his serious knee injury following surgery. The 24-year-old faces six months out and will miss the World Cup after suffering anterior cruciate ligament damage in the Fa Cup third-round win over Tottenham. ‘It is about being fit for next season now,’ Wenger said.

FULHAM manager Rene Meulensteen Tight-lipped: Meulensteen refused to say any more regarding West Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison yesterday amid fears doing so might ‘get him in trouble’ with the clubs involved in a tapping-up row. The Hammers reported ‘Why have you their London rivals to the Premier League chosen hull?’ following comments from Meulensteen after his side’s FA Cup replay win over ‘Because it was Norwich on Tuesday, where he revealed a the only conbid had been made and claimed Morrison wanted to move to Craven Cottage. When crete offer.’ asked about any targets the club might have, he said: ‘It is wiser at this moment in Hull new-boy Nikica Jelavic (pictured) does a good time that we are not going to comment job of hiding his enthusiasm after his move from Everton. In contrast, the Croatian wrote an open leton anything that is happening in regards ter to Everton fans, thanking them for their support to any transfer news or speculation.’

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Mauricio will not follow Cortese’s lead yet by DAvE fiLMER SOUTHAMPTON boss Mauricio Pochettino has decided not to walk away from the club in the wake of executive chairman Nicola Cortese’s exit. The Argentine yesterday stopped short of committing beyond the end of the season, however, and to the full 17 months remaining on his contract. Admitting he cannot be definitive about his long-term future at the club, Pochettino said: ‘It’s very hard to say at the moment, I think it’s very soon to say about that.’ In acknowledging surprise at Cortese’s Wednesday night resigna-

tion, the 41-year-old revealed his former boss told him not to leave St Mary’s. Pochettino has met with Southampton owner Katharina Liebherr, who has

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Rodgers left to it to bring Reds success BrendAn rodgerS has lauded Liverpool owners Fenway Sports group for allowing the manager (pictured) to focus on transfers and matters on the pitch. Principal owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner are on Merseyside, and rodgers said: ‘There is no motive for them coming over only to see the club they own. ‘We’ll go for a meal, talk about Liverpool and that will cover everything: transfers, where players are at in their development and the overall club. ‘They’ve brought real strong leadership and vision... they define leadership.’ rodgers, whose side host Aston Villa tomorrow, has been strongly linked with a move for Basle’s Mohamed Salah but hinted that the reds may not strengthen at all this month. He added: ‘The owners have been great in terms of if there is something there to be done that will help us then i am sure they will support that. ‘i just think it is one where it will be a difficult market to improve on but it certainly won’t be for a lack of trying.’

No longer a Saint: Cortese has clipped his wings and there’s nothing more I can say tino revealed. ‘She told me we have her about that right now. He only asked me support, she wants the club to be stable for one thing and that’s to try to win on and we need to look to the future.’ Saturday [against Sunderland]. Liebherr has pledged to appoint a ‘I don’t know [why he decided to chief executive to replace Cortese in the long run, but Pochettino admitted he does not yet know who will handle day-to-day affairs, such as transfer dealings and the playing budget. ‘It’s still too soon leave], it’s quite difficult to say, I found to talk about this Results where achieved in a one day procedure with our top DHI surgeons ons [who deals with out as you did about his decision. ‘Of course it has surprised me quite a transfers], we will bit, the same as other people at the see in the future club.’ The conversation with Liebherr who does what at this club,’ he was short, but apparently reassuring. ‘I met her for five minutes,’ Pochet- added.

‘He agrees with my decision to stay and there’s nothing more I can say about it now’ installed herself as non-executive chairman and offered her backing to the club’s current coaching staff. ‘What’s quite clear is I have a very good relationship with Nicola Cortese,’ Pochettino said. ‘He agrees with my decision to stay

Sergio’s sure he’ll be back on top form for Barca test Sergio Aguero has fired a warning to Barcelona, insisting he will be back to his very best when Manchester City take on the Catalan giants in the Champions League next month. The Argentina striker (pictured) scored within 50 seconds of his return at the etihad Stadium on Wednesday night, firing in City’s fourth in the 5-0 FA Cup thrashing of Blackburn. it was Aguero’s 20th goal of the season and showed the eight-game lay-off with a calf injury has done little to dull the marksman’s predatory instincts. And, with still a month to go before City lock horns with Barca in the last-16 glamour tie, Aguero is confident he will only get better. ‘i’m very happy. i couldn’t wait to come back,’ Aguero (pictured) said.

‘i trained with the team on Monday for the first time and here i played some minutes. ‘Maybe in a week i’ll be on top form. obviously the more you play, the better you feel. Against Barca i will be ready. But we still have time and first we need to think about the next Premier League games which are very important, and then we’ll think about Barca.’ City are now unbeaten in 16 matches and on track for a remarkable quadruple. They chalked up their 99th goal of the campaign against rovers, with James Milner almost scoring the 100th with a late free-kick. ‘i think we are doing very well. We have improved a lot since the beginning of the season,’ said Aguero. ‘We are all playing very well. We are building a great team and we need to continue trying to score more goals.’

u Stoke boss Mark Hughes has confirmed striker kenwyne Jones has been fined for refusing, via text message, to play against Liverpool last weekend. Hughes said: ‘It is not something that should happen.’ Jones will not be part of Stoke’s squad at Crystal Palace tomorrow.

Cole: i snubbed suitors for my beloved Boleyn

Cast Iron: Cole

CARLTON COLE revealed he came close to signing for several different clubs last summer – but wanted to leave the door open for a return to West Ham. The striker’s loyalty was rewarded on Wednesday when he penned an 18-month deal at the Boleyn Ground, having impressed since rejoining the Hammers on a three-month contract in October. His return has worked out well, with Cole scoring four times, including in last week’s 2-0 win at Cardiff. And Cole, who first signed in 2006, admits he never wanted to leave: ‘It’s a bit of a relief the deal’s done and it’s nice to be somewhere I’m wanted,’ he said.

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Seven Heaven as O’Brien signs for two more years

Committed: O’Brien says a mixture of personal and professional considerations made his mind up to stay at Leinster for a further two years

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SEAN O’BRIEN yesterday placed his faith in Joe Schmidt and Matt O’Connor to lead Ireland and Leinster to glory as the Lions flanker signed a two-year contract extension with the IRFU, writes Adam Redmond. The news comes as a massive boost to Leinster, who aim to seal their place in the Heineken Cup quarter-finals with victory over Ospreys at the RDS tonight. After signing his new deal yesterday, O’Brien hailed both his national and provincial coaches as key factors in turning down offers from clubs in the French Top 14. ‘I am very excited about what Ireland can achieve under Joe Schmidt and I am confident that, under Matt O’Connor, Leinster will remain the power in Europe it has been over the past five or six years,’ said O’Brien yesterday. ‘It is flattering to find yourself the subject of interest from some of the biggest rugby clubs in the world but in the end I made a decision based on the standard mix of professional and personal considerations,’ he added. ‘It was a very difficult decision but, with a World Cup next year and the fact that I believe Leinster can continue to win trophies, I have decided to commit my immediate future to the club.’ This now leaves Jamie Heaslip, Paul O’Connell and Keith Earls as the key contract extensions left for the IRFU to negotiate, however, O’Brien’s decision to remain in Ireland on improved terms is likely to impact the union’s salary budget. There was another positive for Schmidt and O’Connor yesterday, too, as Leinster hooker Richardt Strauss was unexpectedly named on the bench for tonight’s Pool 1 clash with Ospreys just over three months since he had surgery to correct a heart defect.

Tiger Tim keeps McGinley sharp McGinley puts ‘write off’ behind him

RydeR Cup captain paul McGinley revealed playing former tennis star Tim Henman had helped keep him sharp as he made an impressive start to the Abu dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. McGinley carded a four-under-par 68 yesterday to finish one shot off the lead shared by england’s Matthew Baldwin, France’s Romain Wattel and Spain’s Rafael Cabrera-Bello. The 47-year-old dubliner admitted, following appointment as captain, the first half of 2013 was a ‘write-off’ in terms of his game, but he finished strongly and began 2014 in the same fashion. ‘I prefer to play rather than practice in the winter and the members at Sunningdale, including

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Tim Henman, have been keeping me sharp with their money games,’ said McGinley, who chipped in to rescue a bogey on the 16th after finding water with his second shot. ‘I played well in the second half of last season, made all the cuts and didn’t have any big finishes but I played a lot of good golf and obviously continued today. ‘I’m disappointed with the last. There was a scuff mark right in my line and I let it affect my stroke. It was reminiscent of Bernhard Langer at Kiawah Island [who missed a putt to retain the

Long edges closer to Hull signing

Looking ahead: McGinley

Ryder Cup in 1991]. I didn’t hit a good stroke because of the scuff mark, a bit of a mental error.’ McGinley outshone playing partners and potential Gleneagles team members Tommy Fleetwood and Thorbjorn Olesen, who carded rounds of 73 and 74 respectively. Meanwhile, former world No.1 Rory McIlroy – who ended a miserable 2013 with victory in the Australian Open – carded two birdies and no bogeys and was delighted with his long game. ‘I played well and was very happy with how I hit the ball from tee to green,’ said McIlroy, who has reaped the benefits of twice-daily gym sessions while in dubai.

West Brom striker Shane Long is edging closer to joining Nikica Jelavic at Hull after undergoing a medical. Tigers boss Steve Bruce has moved to add to his squad’s fire power with Jelavic’s club record signing confirmed on Wednesday and Long set to follow after terms were agreed with the Baggies. The fees attached to both players could rise past £7million (€8.4m), each breaking Tom Huddlestone’s €6.3m record signing at KC Stadium last summer. ‘He (Long) is having a medical as we speak,’ Bruce said. ‘We’ve got everything in place, so we just need him to sign and that is that.’