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A WOMAN who won a landmark case against Ireland for failing to protect her from sexual abuse by her school principal has hit out at the State for fighting her for the last 15 and a half years. After the European Court of Human Rights ruling yesterday Louise O’Keeffe said as far as she was concerned ‘the case was being fought by an eight-year-old’. If a child suffered the same abuse tomorrow, the State would still be prepared to fight the case, she said yesterday. Ms O’Keeffe claimed she suffered inhuman and degrading treatment aged nine at Dunderrow National School, Co Cork in 1973. Former principal Leo Hickey was jailed for three years in 1998 after he admitted to 21 sample charges out of 386 involving 21 former pupils of the school, near Kinsale. The Strasbourg-based court ruled Ireland’s system of detection and reporting of abuse was ineffective in the 1970s and if adequate action had been taken in 1971 when the first complaint against Hickey was made, Ms O’Keeffe might have not been abused. Yesterday’s result could pave the way for thousands of claims against the State. Ms O’Keeffe, who sued the State after an award of IR£53,000 in 1998 and a civil action against Hickey and the State, said she hopes 135 former pupils who were written to by the State’s claims agency after she lost her cases will now receive an apology. The Department of Education said yesterday lessons have been learnt from the ‘deepfly shameful scourge of child sexual abuse’. Maeve Lewis, of charity One in Four, said the ruling will ensure the State is now responsible for the conduct of teachers and for the safety of children.

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A YOUNG woman left in a critical condition after a crush outside a well-known nightclub regained consciousness yesterday. An investigation was launched into the crush as some 1,500 people gathered outside Harcourt Street’s Copper Face Jacks nightclub. Four people were taken to hospital. The incident happened as the club launched its first ‘Messy Mondays’ night. The event’s Facebook page warned of a busy night thanks to its promotion of €3.50 drinks. Many students were celebrating the end of their exams. The 18-year-old woman left critical after the crush was treated in St James’s Hospital and is said to be doing well. People who were in the queue took to social media yesterday. @KatieMc_Dermott tweeted: ‘Coppers queue thanks for the multiple bruises on my legs.’ Another, @laurakirwan_ tweeted: ‘Never been in so much pain in my life, my back looks like its been attacked by a jaguar.’ Some expressed terror at the situation. @ IsMise_Edel said: ‘I thought I wouldn’t get out alive. So so scary.’ Copper Face Jacks said it was working with authorities to establish what happened.

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Twerking, not twanging, appears in prospect as duo go unplugged

Miley & Madge... mellow?

Pulling the plug: Wild Child Miley Cyrus and the woman who has been there and done that years before her, Madonna, toned down their stage acts to record a more mellow set for MTV Unplugged AN acoustic set is normally the cue for even the most rebellious rocker to display their quieter side. But chunky cardigans and gentle guitar-picking may have been conspicuously absent when Miley Cyrus and Madonna teamed up to record an MTV Unplugged session last night. Fans will be salivating at the prospect of seeing twerker Miley duet with the Material Girl... who was prancing around in her scanties on

By ANDREI HARMSWORTH stage before the Wrecking Ball singer was even born. It was Cyrus who approached Madge to join her on stage for the session, recorded in LA. But the 21-year-old is unlikely to have had too much arm-twisting to do after handing the wily 55-year-old queen of pop a chance to further prolong her relevance to young fans.

As for willing pupil Miley, she’ll be hoping to learn from her musical elder how to get away with bad behaviour on stage. ‘No one even thinks about when Madonna did Like A Virgin at the MTV video music awards,’ she mused recently. ‘It just becomes a standard.’ Despite their mutual love of a raun-

chy show, it seems the duo may have sprung a shock by curbing their wildest side in the performance, which will air in the US tonight and in Ireland at a later date. ‘It will showcase a more intimate side of Cyrus for an unexpected reinvention of the songs that have defined her career,’ an MTV spokesman said.

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Nuns ran care home ‘like Nazi camp’

‘Too drunk’ to remember sex assault

by MicHAEL McHugH

The treatment of children in churchrun residential homes is a key concern of the investigation being held in Banbridge, Co Down. It is chaired by retired judge sir Anthony Hart and is considering cases in 13 residential institutions between 1922, the foundation of Northern Ireland, and 1995. Another witness said: ‘The whole atmosphere of Termonbacca was not asking, not being informed. You were a number, you were not worthy of information, you were told what to do.’ He was transferred from Derry to salthill in Galway, run by the Christian Brothers. ‘The comparison was two hell holes … salthill was Auschwitz, Termonbacca was Treblinka, it was somewhat better.’ Another witness, sexually abused by a woman at Termonbacca, said the nuns bordered on psychotic at times. Public hearings are due to finish in June 2015, with a report due in 2016.

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NuNs who ran a hellhole children’s home in Northern Ireland were nearly psychotic, a former resident has said. The sisters of Nazareth property in Derry was like Auschwitz, with youngsters’ screams of despair still haunting survivors, the uK’s largest inquiry into institutional child abuse was told. Inmates formed chain gangs to polish floors until they sparkled – with arms linked and rags under both feet. They were beaten with canes and straps, and were made to bathe in Jeyes fluid, a detergent used to clear drains. One witness reported sexual abuse by older boys to a nun, but the sister allegedly said: ‘You are going to hell, nothing like that ever happened.’ He said the assault happened in st Joseph’s Home, Termonbacca. The witness said: ‘That was the reaction, a heartlessness about the place that will always scare you. I never heard children cry like I have in that place. It was one of despair, and that still haunts me a little bit.’

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A MAN who had gone to a drinks promotion at a nightclub claims he was too drunk to remember knocking a woman unconscious and sexually assaulting her. Anthony Ryan, 32, of Belcamp Avenue, Priorswood, had earlier chatted to the 18-year-old woman and followed her home in a separate taxi, a court heard. The victim saw Ryan looking into her garden and came out to ask him to go home, but as she walked away she heard him running towards her. When she turned to face him, he grabbed her hair and punched her repeatedly. She lost consciousness when her head was hit against a wall, and woke up with Ryan sexually assaulting her. He told gardaí he had drunk seven large bottles of cider, four vodka and Red Bulls, three Jägerbombs and two Sambucca shots at a low-price alcohol promotion. At the Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Carmel Stewart remanded Ryan on bail and adjourned sentencing until next Tuesday. Ryan said: ‘I am so sorry I just want it to be over as quick as possible for this girl. She doesn’t deserve to go through this. I just can’t remember.’

METRO HERALD Wednesday, January 29, 2014

60 seconds DAniEL BRüHL, 35, began acting in his native Germany before appearing in US films such as Inglourious Basterds. He plays Niki Lauda in Rush

You’re in Michael Winterbottom’s new film, The Face Of An Angel… It’s about a book by a

journalist about the Amanda Knox case. It’s typical Michael Winterbottom – it’s not really about the case but about sensational journalism and media hype. I play a director.

Cara Delevingne is in it – do you have many scenes with her? Yes, her and Kate Beckinsale

have the other big parts in it. Cara’s young and has a lot of positive, enthusiastic energy. When I act with her I remember what it was like when I started. Both of them are very funny. I’ve realised English women are very funny in comparison to the Germans.

Are you sure you want to say that? Won’t it get you into trouble? It’s the truth. It’s a fact. It

What was your first professional role? I started in

What were the challenges of playing Niki Lauda in Rush? It

was a huge responsibility, especially since Niki Lauda is still an icon in my home country. I grew up in Cologne and as a kid he was a hero. We couldn’t be more different so, at first, I was nervous and felt a weight on my shoulders but was given a lot of support by Niki. It was exciting to meet him. I didn’t know if he’d like me or want to answer my ques-

A ‘HIGHLY intoxicated and abusive’ passenger swung a meat cleaver at a bus driver who refused to let him off at an unauthorised stop, a court heard yesterday. Robert Fogarty, 44, from Cardy Rock Court, Balbriggan, has not yet entered a plea on a charge of possession of a knife while travelling on a bus at Atrium Road, Dublin Airport, last Monday night. Judge Cormac Dunne adjourned ruling on whether the case will stay in the District Court or go forward to the Circuit Court which can impose lengthier sentences. The judge ordered Fogarty to appear in court again on March 4.

AH EAR, LEAVE IT OUT: Model Hayley Ryan cuts the ribbon at the opening of the 45th Specsavers store in Ireland, at Stillorgan Shopping Centre, creating six new jobs and including three state-ofthe-art testing rooms equipped with the latest technology for eye and ear testing PIctURe:

How long did you spend with him? A couple of months. I had to

learn the Austrian accent and study his body language and learn how to drive Formula 3 cars. I had so many questions around his accident and the consequences of living with his scars. I wanted to know what it’s like to live with reactions from people and about his relationship with James Hunt. He helped me with all of that.

Did he watch you on set? He

gets bored easily. Watching us repeat a scene again and again was unbearable for him. He came twice, stayed for ten minutes and said: ‘I’m going, this is boring.’

Your

Tarantino to give all the Nazi parts in Inglourious Basterds to German actors

theatre when I was a kid, then worked for radio because I could read quite well, then started dubbing movies. I joined an agency for kids and started appearing in films when I was still at school. By 17 I was very sure acting was what I wanted to do. I was lucky to be cast in The White Sound, where I played a schizophrenic, I got the German equivalent of a Bafta and from there things went really well. I’m half Spanish and always wanted to work in Spanish cinema so I did some of that. If you grow up in a bilingual family, you dream of being able to work in different languages, so I’m very glad I was able to work with so many people – and now with English and American film-makers.

PILOT fatigue, bad judgment calls and poor oversight by aviation chiefs in Spain were among a list of failings that led to Ireland’s worst plane disaster in 50 years. Air accident inspectors identified nine significant issues that contributed to a twin engine turboprop aircraft crashing in dense fog at Cork Airport killing six people three years ago. A final Air Accident Investigation report on the crash said pilots – Spanish commander Jordi Gola Lopez, 31, and co-pilot Andrew Cantle, 27, from Sunderland – lost control of the Barcelona-based, Flightline flight as they aborted landing and attempted a third go-around too close to the ground.

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myself playing a superhero. I wouldn’t say no to a nice part as a baddie but it’s not my major goal to be in such a franchise.

Are there many roles for German actors in Hollywood? It’s

getting better. In the past, it was just Nazis. I still get offered them. This chapter in history is still interesting for making movies. Sometimes it’s sad because it overshadows all the other things that have happened in my country. There are more interesting stories to tell – eras like the 1920s. It’s nice to see directors like Ron Howard and Quentin Tarantino look for actors from Germany to give their films authenticity. It was a brave and cool decision by Quentin to give all the Nazi parts in Inglourious Basterds to German actors. That was something new.

Why did you open a tapas bar? It’s always been a dream of

mine to open a bar, club or restaurant. My friend is fully Spanish, I’m half Spanish and I didn’t realise it was his dream to open a tapas bar too, so it made sense for us. The important thing is I can watch the Barcelona matches there.

Andrew Williams Rush is out now on DVD and Blu-ray.

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Twist in Panti row as RTÉ agrees to pay compensation by DARAgH REDDin

ANGER erupted last night among gay-rights and pro-choice campaigners after it emerged RTÉ has agreed to pay damages to the Iona Institute over comments made by Rory O’Neill, aka well-known Irish drag queen Panti, on The Saturday Night Show two weeks ago. Last week host Brendan O’Connor apologised on air on behalf of the national broadcaster for any ‘upset’ caused to those mentioned but also stated: ‘It is an important part of democratic debate that people must be able to hold dissenting views on controversial issues.’ In the original broadcast, which RTÉ has removed from its website, O’Connor had asked O’Neill to name those in the media he believed to be ‘homophobic’, with O’Neill referencing Irish Times columnists Breda O’Brien and John Waters alongside the Catholic think tank, all three of whom RTÉ apologised to. However, the matter of damages was only made public yesterday when an email from Iona to its

What a drag: Panti members made its way online. The email read: ‘Accusations of “homophobia”, which are made with great regularity in the debate about same-sex marriage and adoption, are precisely an attempt to demonise and impute the worst of motives to those who believe that marriage is the sexual and emotional union of a man and a woman by definition, and that children deserve the love of both a mother and a father whenever possible.’ The email also said the institute had been at the receiving end of abusive emails and threats, such as: ‘Please, if you are reading this, kill yourself.’

Waters has resigned from the board of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), which would have adjudicated on complaints about the matter. Calls by this paper to the Iona Institute and RTÉ yesterday to ask how much money would be paid and whether it would come out of licence fee money went unanswered. But NewsTalk’s Chris Donoghue quoted a senior Iona member as describing the sum as ‘respectable’. While the original apology provoked anger in some quarters, it was nothing compared to the online storm last night, with a campaign of complaints to RTÉ and the BAI in the offing and a #TeamPanti hashtag doing the rounds. O’Neill, Tweeting as @PantiBliss, wrote: ‘I also called everybody in the world racist in that same interview...’ Journalist Richard Waghorne wrote: ‘RTÉ’s apology to Iona matters because it makes more possible a debate next year around children’s presumptive rights to mothers and fathers.’

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I was tired of fame... says cover star Allen L

ILy ALLEn hates being famous... so much so that she’s complained about it in an interview with a glossy magazine and, er, posed on the cover. The singer had the world’s smallest violin playing when she told Elle she’d ducked out of the limelight in 2010 because she was ‘physically and mentally exhausted’ by the demands of stardom. ‘I don’t want to be a famous p e r s o n ,’ she insisted. The

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The rise and fall of Justin Bieber: The singer takes a tumble while having fun on the beach in Panama

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28-year-old immediately contradicted herself by admitting: ‘When I have an album to promote, I do want to be famous. I want people to buy it! And I want them to go to my shows. That’s how it works.’ However, she added: ‘I don’t want that frenzy. I think it’s weird for children to grow up around that.’ The mother-of-two did a pretty good job of creating a frenzy when she spoofed Robin Thicke’s penis brags by boasting of her ‘baggy’ vagina in the video for comeback tune Hard Out Here. She said she’d hoped to counter sexism by showing she was comfortable talking about her post-pregnancy body. But she admitted: ‘Of course I’d rather look like Kate Moss than like myself. I wish I didn’t feel like that and I think the reason we do is because of the imagery we’re fed all the time.’ Read Lily’s full interview in the March issue of Elle, out tomorrow.

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Grow up or quit, Bieber – says man who found him Justin Bieber has been handed an ultimatum – grow up or quit showbiz – by his manager. The 19-year-old has been served the warning by Scooter Braun while the pair are soaking up the sun in Panama. Braun, who made Bieber a star after spotting him on YouTube, said: ‘I can’t baby him, I can’t tell him, “You know what, you deserve to say f*** everybody, this is unfair”.

‘I can say there is only one way around this: either we quit and let you try and find a normal life or you realise this is what this is and we keep fighting. ‘And you’re going to hate me some days because I’m going to say you can’t throw a punch.’ He ordered the Believe singer – arrested for allegedly drag racing in a sports car while under the influence – to swap his tantrums and

tearaway antics for a ‘higher standard’. ‘You want to say this isn’t fair. But the only way you’re going to win them over is by being better than they are,’ Braun advises in the March issue of GQ magazine. ‘It’s the same as being with a kid growing up. There is a point where you guide them and a point where you feel like you’ve planted enough seeds and you watch them make mistakes.’

Brand new marriage for russell and Khan RUSSELL Brand is hoping it’s second time a charm amid speculation he is ready to pop the question to lover Jemima Khan. Katy Perry’s ex is believed to be commissioning a jeweller to design an engagement ring. ‘A proposal is definitely imminent,’ an insider told Grazia magazine. ‘Russell’s been working with a friend of his, jeweller Johnathon Arndt, to create the perfect ring. He wants it to include Buddhist and Islamic symbols – an intertwining of their two faiths.’

Brand, 38, had intended to ask Khan to marry him on her 40th birthday on Thursday but wants to wait until the ring is ready, according to friends. ‘Russell is planning a trip to Asia for the two of them in the spring, when he intends to propose,’ the source added. Brand opened up to Jonathan Ross about Khan: ‘I’m very, very happy in a relationship that feels very different from anything I’ve experience before,’ he said,

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Wondered what Kylie Minogue goes for in a man? Well, now we nose. The pop princess admits she got the hots for the schnoz of French actor Clément Sibony during the video shoot for her new single Into The Blue. ‘He’s got the best nose ever,’ Minogue squealed about the 37-year-old hunk. The flushed Aussie confessed how the shoot turned ‘a little racy.’ She added: ‘He made it amazing.’

Sienna bares her soul S

ienna Miller says the media circus surrounding her personal life had a bad effect on her career. The 32-year-old actress, who poses in revealing pictures for e s q u i r e magazine, weathered a backlash in the midnoughties when it was alleged she hadan affair with Daniel Craig while she was dating Jude law. She later had an affair with married father-offour Balthazar Getty – with the furore almost costing her career. ‘it had become difficult for me to get the work i wanted, if i’m really honest,’ the mother-of-one confesses.

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‘it was a weird situation to be in because there was a lot of goodwill for me in Hollywood. i think i’d been lucky in that i’d always been naughty in that town and people had always liked me for it.’ The scandal made it more difficult to secure film roles. ‘it was really bad. What was going on in my private life was not an easy thing to read about. People don’t want to see films with people they don’t approve of in them,’ she tells the March issue of esquire, on sale Thursday. The Factory Girl star was over-

Revealing: Sienna Miller appears in Esquire magazine PICTURES: Tom CRaIg/ESqUIRE

Heidi says bye bye to Martin, her beefy bodyguard boyfriend Heidi Klum has split with her bodyguard boyfriend Martin Kirsten. The 40-year-old German supermodel reportedly said ‘auf wiedersehen’ to her lover, 41, weeks ago. ‘Life is about timing. He was incredibly supportive and they were there for each other, but they’re moving on now. They still have a great friendship,’ a source said. Klum started dating Kirsten a few months after she divorced Seal, her husband of seven years, in 2012. ‘Martin was there for her during a challenging time in her life and it was something she will always be grateful for,’ the source told People magazine.

whelmed by attention around her personal life. ‘i felt like i had no control over any aspect of my life, professionally or personally. ‘So i deliberately disappeared. i was sick of myself, to be honest, or sick of that perception of me. it all felt so f***ing dirty,’ she reveals.

Jude law, 41, discovered in court during the phone-hacking trial this week that a relative sold details of his and Miller’s relationship to the news of the World. She is now engaged to actor Tom Sturridge, 28, and they have an 18month-old daughter, Marlowe.

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Andy Coulson became excited when he listened to a hacked voicemail seeming to reveal Sienna Miller’s affair with Daniel Craig and plotted a coverup, the UK’s phone hacking trial has heard. The then-editor of the News of the World said the find was ‘brilliant’ and asked to hear the message several times, selfconfessed phone hacker Dan Evans claimed yesterday. Coulson then instructed the reporter to pretend it had been sent to News International anonymously.

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800 boast of 5,000 Jägerbombs in one night

STudeNTS set a questionable record when they drank almost 5,000 Jägerbombs in a night. The 800-strong crowd downed 930 litres (205 gallons) of the Jägermeister/Red Bull combo at a weekly event held at a pub in Canterbury, england, where the cocktail is sold for just £1 (€1.20). Organiser Student Republic tweeted the results, posting: ‘News just in: you guys drank a record 4,764 Jägerbombs at last Thursday’s Jäger Rocks #cheeky.’ But the boozy boast was met with mixed reviews. One psychology undergraduate told student newspaper The Tab: ‘It’s always a mental night but it was better than ever – the Jäger just did not stop flowing.’ But one student said the event was ‘irresponsible’. ‘At the time, I thought it was great. ‘But I ended up drinking so many, I had heart palpitations and I was sick.’

Walking tall: She may only be a few days old but she’s already six foot tall. The latest arrival at Devon’s Paignton Zoo – a rare Rothschild’s giraffe calf, stands 1.8m (6ft) tall picture: pa

It will come off – only if she is appy with your True Love Rate

Lock of love: True test

IT CANNOT be unhooked without true love. Well that’s what its makers claim, anyway. Loveless flings can never happen and unwanted gropers don’t stand a chance – as long as a lady is wearing the True Love Tester. A built-in sensor monitors the wearer’s heartbeat, making sure the front clasp remains locked – unless genuine ‘excitement’ is detected. If it is, the bra automatically springs open in an alarmingly violent fashion. The science behind it is

somewhat less scintillating. ‘When excited, the adrenal medulla [gland] secretes catecholamine, which affects the automatic nerve, and stimulates the heart rate,’ said Japanese lingerie maker Ravijour. ‘A sensor reads the woman’s heart rate and sends it to a special app via Bluetooth for analysis. ‘The app then calculates the True Love Rate based on changes in the heart rate over time. ‘When the True Love Rate exceeds a certain value, the bra hook is opened.’

Flatley in rhino horn theft tweets row A RHINO horn valued at up to €200,000 has been stolen in a breakin at the home of Michael Flatley. The horn was cut off a stuffed rhino head at the 55-year-old’s €100million mansion near Fermoy in Cork. Flatley was at home with his wife and son when the burglary occurred at 6.20pm on Monday. No one was injured and no arrests were made. The main suspects are a gang dubbed the Rathkeale Rovers, who target museums, country estates, auction rooms and galleries for rhino horn, which can fetch up to €47,000 a kilo on the black market. However, the burglary has sparked anger as some questioned why the Lord of the Dance had a rhino horn in his possession. Meanwhile Paddy Power is taking bets on where the horn will be found, with odds of 2/1 on Dublin, 25/1 on Shanghai and 100/1 on Chicago.

Jurors snigger at sheep sex tale

A NAKED IT worker disturbed a couple’s romantic picnic when he tried to have sex with cows and some sheep, a court heard yesterday. Paul Lovell was said to have no success with the cows ‘as they were doing their own thing’ so ‘tried his luck’ with the sheep, it was alleged. Jurors were told to stop sniggering by the judge as details of the alleged offences were outlined. They heard the 61-year-old carrying an

orange shopping bag walked closely up to cows and tried to entice them to perform a sex act in a field near Tottenham Hotspur’s training ground. He was seen to grab a sheep which he attempted repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, to penetrate, the jury heard. Lovell, of Enfield, UK, denies committing sexual acts with animals. A charge of indecent exposure has been dropped. The trial at Wood Green crown court continues.

Rhino row: Michael Flatley picture: brian mcevoy

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Shark attack doc stitches up leg and goes for a beer A TOUGH doctor fought off a shark attack, stitched up his wounds and then headed to the pub. James Grant was set upon by behind while spearfishing off New Zealand’s South Island. The 24-year-old lashed

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out with his diving knife before swimming to shore and treating his leg. He and his friends then went for a pint at the Colac Bay Tavern. ‘The shark just bit into my wetsuit,’ he said in a BBC interview.

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Sadness as Seeger’s We’ll take in Syrian petals flutter away refugees: clegg

AMERicA: Pete Seeger, the folk music giant who co-wrote Where Have All The Flowers Gone and was blacklisted for standing up for his left-wing beliefs in the 1950s, has died. The singer and activist was remembered yesterday by rockers and fellow folkies. Former Rage Against The Machine star Tom Morello said the banjo-picker, who died aged 94 in New York after a short illness, was ‘a courageous, kind, fearless soul’.

BRiTAin: We will take in some of the most vulnerable refugees from the Syrian civil war despite not signing up to the UN quota, the country’s deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced yesterday. Those refugees allowed in the country will include torture survivors and victims of sexual assaults. A figure has not been put on the number, but hundreds of refugees are expected to arrive from the war-torn country this year.

AMERicA: Apollonio di Giovanni’s Triumph Of Marcus Furius Camillus, A Cassone Panel – which was looted by the Nazis – is displayed at Sotheby’s auction house in New York Picture: reuters

Mladić stays silent Tallest woman saved over Bosnia killings from blindness by op

HOLLAnD: Ratko Mladić, the army commander accused of murdering thousands of innocents during Bosnia’s civil war, has declined to speak up for old boss Radovan Karadžić. The 71-year-old dismissed his former president’s war crimes tribunal at The Hague as ‘satanic’. He said he would not risk incriminating himself by testifying on behalf of Karadžić, 68. Mladić, dubbed the butcher of Bosnia, is also being tried for war crimes.

inDiA: The world’s tallest woman is recovering after surgeons cut out a large brain tumour to stop her becoming blind and paralysed. Siddiqa Parveen, who is 2.3m (7ft 8in) tall because of gigantism, had the growth slowly removed through her nose. Several trolleys were needed for the procedure at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences because its operating tables were too short for the 28year-old from West Bengal to lie on.

and finally... AuSTRiA: Shoplifter Kajetan Zajic barricaded himself in the toilets and refused to come out for three hours after fleeing security staff who saw him trying to steal clothes from a store in Parndorf, Burgenland.

‘Treachery was to blame for my love split with Hollande’ by AiDAn RADnEDgE FRANCE’S former first lady has insisted François Hollande made a big mistake in dumping her – and claimed the presidency destroyed their relationship. Jilted Valérie Trierweiler yesterday attacked politicians who take mistresses as ‘treacherous’. Mr Hollande split with Ms Trierweiler after his two-year affair with 41-year-old actress Julie Gayet was made public. Speaking to journalists accompanying her on a charity trip to India,

Ms Trierweiler, 48, said: ‘How will we manage if there is no longer a first lady?’ The twice-divorced magazine journalist said she had underestimated how much sexism was around on becoming first lady in May 2012. Pointing to a long tradition of senior politicians, and especially presidents, taking mistresses, Ms Trierweiler said: ‘People don’t realise how much treachery and hypocrisy there is. You get hit without doing anything.’ She added: ‘In politics, a traitor is sometimes worth more than a

friend.’ She also denied claims she was behind Mr Hollande’s rise to power, saying: ‘I didn’t push him to become presi- Trierweiler: ‘Sexism’ dent and I never dreamt of entering the Élysée [Palace].’ The trip to Mumbai was her last accompanied by Élysée staff, including a bodyguard.

Murdered backpacker’s grave revealed THE grave of murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio could be revealed on a TV show. The 28-year-old’s body was dumped after he was shot on a remote road in the Australian outback 13 years ago. Police never found Mr Falconio’s remains, but a Australian current affairs show said it would reveal the location next week. Adelaide’s Today Tonight programme was tipped off by a witness who was in the area shortly after the attack. ‘The eyewitness is extremely credible,’ said reporter Frank Pangallo. ‘He works in a very remote area of central Australia and never followed the case closely.’ Drug dealer Bradley Murdoch is currently serving a 28-year sentence for the murder.

TAnK YOu VERY MucH: Illusionist Kyle Ravin performs a magic trick to an audience of a stingray and a shark during the first underwater magic performance at Underwater World in Singapore Picture: ePA

IT expert plunges to death from bank’s roof A BANK worker plunged to his death from the roof of JP Morgan’s London HQ yesterday morning. Gabriel Magee, 39, a technology vice-president who had been with the company ten years, was pronounced dead at the scene after landing on a ninth-floor platform of the Canary Wharf building. A JP Morgan spokeswoman said the bank was ‘deeply saddened’ by

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Mr Magee’s death, while witnesses took to Twitter to speak of their shock. Andrew Lawrence posted: ‘Sad scene. Someone jumped/fell at JPMorgan Canary Wharf. A sorry view from my desk. Police everywhere, but nobody approaching the body, very odd.’ Police have confirmed that the IT expert’s death at 8am is not being

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treated as suspicious. Meanwhile, a former Deutsche Bank executive was found dead of suspected suicide at his home in Chelsea yesterday. Bill Broeksmit, 58, who has been hailed by his peers as ‘among the finest minds in the fields of risk and capital management’, spent ten years working with the bank during two stints.

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Is Dear Dolly really Mr Nasty with boobs, a wig and a dress?

read dear dolly every week and looking closely at her picture, I’ve come to the conclusion that dolly is actually Simon Cowell with boobs, a wig and wearing a dress. Now there’s a picture I’d want out of my head. The unreal Mr Nasty

■ To LooksafterHisOwnPocket, not all charities are the same; organisations such as Goal don’t have chuggers, they don’t spend money on expensive TV campaigns and about 95 per cent of your donation goes to the poorest of the poor. don’t tar all charities with the same brush! Wendy G ■ LooksafterHisOwnPocket, the reason that charity workers get paid so much is

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two-fold; the first is to tempt people to take the job, the second is because a lot of work is expected from them. Chuggers often have to ‘hook’ tens of people a day to stay employed. That’s why it is very, very rare for someone to be a chugger for longer than two weeks. ‘Goodness of your heart’ is not legal tender for bills, rent, food, etc. Just because someone gets paid for a job does not necessarily invalidate their belief in a cause. FriendsWithChuggers ■ Jd, I use a walking stick and ask to sit on bad days. I’ve been threatened, been called a faker and am generally ignored. It’s a rare day I get a seat. Just because I’m young, apparently I can’t be disabled. Wonky Blonde

Get over yourself, Jeffeline ■ Jeffeline, speaking also as a very attractive young woman, I often get ogled at on the Dart. I can’t stand it. Some of these fat old men often feel like it’s okay to admire me without my permission. Cassandra, Bray ■ To the ‘attractive 23-year-old woman’ who wrote into Yeh Big Ride. You’re over-cocky and should take

whatever guy you get. Do you realise how many other 23-year-old women take the Dart? They’re hardly all about you. Get over yourself. Amused by your ignorance ■ Jeffeline, ooooh fussy now aren’t we? I’m 5’10”, I weigh about 180 pounds and of a slim-ish build, but I’m certainly no ‘manlet’. Peter, Naas

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Life television film of tHe day THE SwEETEST THINg, 3E, 11pm

blue bloods RTÉ2, 9pm

Former South Park writer Nancy Pimental makes her big screen debut with this relationship comedy starring Cameron Diaz stars as Christina Walters, a jaded, club-hopping single woman in San Francisco who has given up trying to find the perfect mate to focus on ‘Mr Right Now.’ Her equally cynical friend, Courtney (Christina Applegate, above with Diaz), a divorce attorney, shares much the same attitude, while their pal, Jane (Selma Blair), is more starry-eyed and naïve. While Diaz tries her bubbly best in this madcap roadtrip romcom, with its characters based on Pimental and her friend, Private Practice actress Kate Walsh, overall the result is a bit of a hit and miss affair.

Magnum PI fans may have started watching this New York-set cop show for Tom Selleck’s patriarchal police chief Frank Reagan, but great storylines and a stellar cast, including Donnie Wahlberg as Frank’s detective son Danny and Will Estes (pictured with co-star Vanessa Ray) as Harvard lawyer-turned youngest blue blood, Jamie, are what’s keeping us tuning in. In tonight’s double bill series opener tensions at the Reagan family dinner arise after a police officer is killed during an armed robbery and Erin drops the charges. Later Danny struggles to keep the investigation of a movie star’s stabbing low key.

NeveN maguire: Home cHef RTÉ1, 7.30pm Each week in this new series of the cookery show Neven demonstrates two recipes and he visits one of Ireland’s best restaurants for a masterclass with the chef. In this instalment Neven heads to Kenmare in Kerry and the five-star Sheen Falls Lodge where head chef philip Brazil prepares A Trio of Kerry Lamb with a rosemary, thyme and poitín sauce with a parmesan and potato soufflé. Neven rustles up a yummy monkfish with gnocchi, wild mushrooms, sun-dried tomato and saffron veloute and for afters apple tart and custard.

HorizoN: sugar v fat BBC2, 9pm

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Still trying to shed a few festive pounds? Then make a date with doctor brothers Xand and Chris van Tulleken. Identical twins, genetically speaking they’re essentially the same person and each volunteers to go on an extreme diet for a month to see whether sugar or fat is more harmful to our health. The twins put themselves through a series of challenges and submit themselves to extreme eating plans. The report serves up an easily digestible explanation as to why obesity has become such a global problem. It all starts with a glazed ring doughnut...

Locating a hamster under the floorboards is just one among the parental crises tackled by Sue and pete (Claire Skinner and Hugh Dennis) as they return for a fifth – and final – series of the sitcom that makes a virtue out of being out-manoeuvred by your offspring. Now the kids are no longer cute baby-faced youngsters, their barbed teenage backchat is more sullen than sparky. Except for the now strapping Ben (Daniel Roche), who has high hopes of landing a part in his school’s production of Spartacus: The musical.

my top five films David Essex brief eNcouNter

A beautiful film, very much of its time, with lovely performances from Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. It’s black and white and very emotive: there are lots of steam engines in it and lots of high principles.

tHe termiNator

These types of films aren’t really my cup of tea generally, but I saw this on a plane and really enjoyed it. It sort of changed my attitude to these semi scifi films. It really shook me up when the Terminator came back to life.

well. It was a play first but it makes a really great British film.

calamity JaNe

I must admit to having a crush on Doris Day (below with Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok) as a little boy, all because of Calamity Jane: her tomboy performance, the singing and the colourful quality of the film really appealed to me. WhipCrack-Away!

tHe KNacK... aNd HoW to get it

I remember seeing this and really wanting to be Ray Brooks’s character, Tolen. Rita Tushingham is in it as

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I remember one afternoon when I was doing a rock tour, my security guy Mick and I went w to a cinema to watch it (left). And there were both of us with tears in our eyes. I really enjoyed the animation and the story of the father looking for his son; it got to me and Mick. Anthony Gibson David Essex stars in Traveller, which is out now on DVD. D

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Sophie’s new lust for life The evergreen pop star tells Andrew Williams about travelling a new path on her latest album Wanderlust

‘I

just wanted to shake things up,’ says pop siren turned ballroom queen sophie Ellis-Bextor of her new album, Wanderlust. ‘I love making pop and dance music but I’ve done it for a little while, so wanted to push myself as a singer and songwriter and see where it took me.’ the result is a collection of songs, co-written and produced by Ed Harcourt, which Ellis-Bextor likens to ‘a soundtrack to an Eastern European film from the 1970s’. the change of direction is timely. Ellis-Bextor started her musical career after turning down a place at university to pursue indie stardom with band theaudience. When they split she found fame in 2000 when single Groovejet (If this Ain’t Love) beat Victoria Beckham’s Out Of Your Mind to No.1. she’s since been ploughing the dance pop furrow with mixed results – her last album, 2011’s Make A scene, spawned a series of singles which didn’t make the top 40. By contrast, the newly released Wanderlust has already performed much better – securing her best chart placing since her 2001 debut solo album Read My Lips.

It looks as though her fans are lapping up songs such as Love Is A Camera, a folksy offering about a woman who kills people by taking their photograph, and Cry to the Beat Of the Band, a brooding saga of being dumped at the altar, which is accompanied by a 50-strong Bulgarian choir. ‘We did that at the Bulgarian Embassy, we had to take our passports,’ Ellis-Bextor laughs. ‘they were great but very loud. It was a fun way to spend the evening.’ It probably doesn’t hurt that Ellis-Bextor’s media profile has been elevated by her stint on strictly Come Dancing (as pictured with Brendan Cole) – which, thanks to routines such as her showstopping Charleston, saw her finish in fourth place. she recuperated from the strictly training schedule by going on holiday to Antigua with her husband Richard jones, bass player from the Feeling, and three sons: sonny, nine, Kit, four, and Ray, who is nearly two. While Ellis-Bextor once cultivated an aloof image, she’s quite the domestic diva nowadays. she cooked dinner for her musicians each day during the Wanderlust recordings and shares details of

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her home life on Twitter – recently posting a picture of Ray getting stuck in a cat carrier. While the timings of the TV show and album release seem quite fortuitous, she says there was no masterplan – recording the album in spring and signing up for Strictly in July. Has the show brought her a new audience? ‘There are little girls who didn’t know my music who seem to have enjoyed my dancing,’ she says. ‘They’ve come up to me and said they watched me on the programme.’ Are they in the market for ballads featuring Bulgarian choirs? ‘I don’t know about that,’

“It’s a rare thing to be able to do what you love doing for a living” she laughs. ‘But I love the reaction – it’s very sweet how much people like the show.’ While it looks as though her gamble of swapping electro pop dance numbers for a more stripped-down eastern bloc folksy vibe has paid off, was she concerned about recouping her investment since she’d funded the entire album herself? ‘I didn’t look at it like that,’ she says. ‘This was a present to myself and I’d much rather spend money making an album than buying a fast car – and

whatever follows on from that then que sera sera. I didn’t want to be the type of artist who always makes the same sort of record. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t sometimes but you shouldn’t underestimate people and what they might like to listen to.’

ARTS of the album were inspired by her trips to Russia and Eastern Europe – Bextor credits her popularity there to her willingness to go wherever people want to hear her sing. ‘If people want to see you perform in person it reaps rewards if you do so,’ she says. ‘You’ll be invited back and it forms a bond. Vladivostok, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, all through Russia – I’ll sing anywhere and it’s done me well to have that attitude.’ One of her more unusual gigs even saw Ellis-Bextor perform in

Musical mother: Ellis-Bextor launches her new album, and left, with her eldest son Sonny the Kremlin, dressed in an Aeroflot uniform, at a party for the Russian airline. Shortly after our meeting, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that gay people can attend the winter Olympics in Sochi but ‘must leave the children in peace’. I ask Ellis-Bextor via email if the clampdown on gay rights in Russia has put her off performing in the country. She replied: ‘I shall continue to perform as the gay community in Russia know they have my full support.’ Fingers crossed she wasn’t hoping to perform at a Gay Pride event in Moscow – they’ve been banned for 100 years as part of the government’s campaign against what they describe as ‘homosexual propaganda’.

After 17 years in showbiz, Ellis-Bextor looks as though she’s once again riding a crest of a wave, but what lessons has her journey through the tumultuous landscape of pop taught her? ‘When you start out, everyone asks you what you see yourself doing in five years’ or where you want to be in ten years’ time,’ she says. ‘You soon realise you don’t have a whole lot to say about any of that and, if you’re lucky enough to establish an actual career, a lot of it is down to good fortune rather than design. Because of that, you should enjoy every minute of it – it’s a rare thing to be able to do what you love doing for a living.’ Wanderlust is out now.

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The ad man who made a killer pitch

Scott Walker is an ad man turned film-maker. Now he’s directing A-list stars, writes Anthony Gibson

EW Zealander Scott Walker was a successful ad agency boss whose company had been involved with the worldwide launch of Xbox and was handling the PlayStation account in London. Then he decided to throw it all in – to become a film director. Chasing his dream resulted in The Frozen Ground, an Alaska-set thriller based on real events that reunites Con Air stars Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. ‘Advertising was incredibly good grounding: it taught me about pitching and delivering, meeting deadlines, handing millions of dollars and earning people’s trust,’ he says. ‘But the main thing I’ve learned is persistence. I wrote 40 or 50 drafts to get the script to the stage where people would read it and go: “Wow.” ‘I had many options to make earlier versions at lower levels with an unknown cast but that was not the film I wanted to make. I had to make the script

better and better to attract the people I wanted involved.’ The 42-year-old’s longheld desire to direct started when he was young – but at that time his home country didn’t have much of a film industry. ‘It certainly did not have Peter Jackson; to be a film-maker you had to leave,’ he says. He pursued a career in advertising, taking film courses at weekends, until ‘I felt if I didn’t do it, I never would’. Walker started creating a story until a friend pointed out it had actually happened. That put him on the trail of serial killer Robert Hansen (Cusack),

who abducted and murdered young women for more than 13 years, and the state trooper (Cage), who caught him with the help of the one woman who escaped. ‘I did an enormous amount of research and met the victims’ family members and a number of officers involved in the case. I was always looking at it much more from the victims’ perspective,’ says Walker, who decided not to speak to the killer. ‘I never wanted to give him the opportunity to justify himself, which is what he wants to do. He has never shown any remorse.’ Filming in Alaska presented challenges. ‘It’s a

Reaching for the stars: With Nicolas Cage on the set of The Frozen Ground magical place but there wasn’t a big film industry there at the time, so we had to barge every piece of equipment up there,’ he says. Artistic inspiration added more complexity: ‘I wanted this feeling in the film of the weather closing around them and freezing the city, so I delayed the shoot for five months until October, then had 26 days to shoot – each day we were losing 15 to 20 minutes’ more daylight.’ The Frozen Ground is out on Monday on DVD and Blu-ray.

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We proclaim this to be a sugary success SunShine On Leith (PG)

ensemble chorus numbers are a treat. A huge Gleeful flash mob bouncing in the middle of a miraculously sunny Edinburgh, singing I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) around reunited lovers is, admit it, pretty darn irresistible. Angie Errigo

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HHHH✩ Hilly streets are alive with the sound of music in Sunshine On Leith, as a plucky cast negotiate a plot that gets them from one musical number to the next. Director Dexter Fletcher’s cute, feelgood movie is adapted from Stephen Greenhorn’s songbook musical, devised around the folk-pop oeuvre of Leith natives The Proclaimers. Deep it is not, but it’s oddly charming and infectiously toetapping. Squaddies Davy (George Mackay, pictured with Antonia Thomas) and Ally (Kevin Guthrie) return home from Afghanistan, proving particularly engaging leads dancing down Leith’s street singing I’m On My Way. While the lads’ love lives get complicated, Davy’s parents (Peter Mullan and Jane Horrocks) are happily planning a mighty craic for their 25th anniversary – until dad discovers he has a 24-year-old daughter – oops – from a long-ago affair. Misunderstandings, revelations, recriminations all round and a life-or-death crisis ensue. Every script beat is accompanied by a song (hats off to Mullan for having a croaky go) and the rousing

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HHHH✩ Clio Barnard’s Baftanominated first fictional feature thrums with electricity. It’s in the sharp crackle of angry exchanges between people in Bradford ground down by poverty and seething with frustrations. And it’s in the attention deficit disorder explosions of Arbor (Conner Chapman): lairy and sneering in the face of authority. Excluded from school with best mate Swifty

Inside Llewyn Davis Another film destined to be a cult masterpiece from the Coen brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowski). It’s a beautiful comedy featuring cats, folk singers and a bearded Justin Timberlake. The Wolf Of Wall Street Wall street meets The Hangover with predictably outrageous results in this crazy, controversial comedy from Martin scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. August: Osage County Thespian fireworks ahoy as an Oscar-nominated Meryl streep plays the mean mom from hell in this ensemble family drama, co-starring Julia roberts, Juliette Lewis and (yup, him again) Benedict Cumberbatch.

12 Years A Slave Come on, what are you waiting for? It’s an essential, multi-Oscarnominated drama about a free man (Chiwetel ejiofor) who is kidnapped into slavery. Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch co-star as the slavers.

In 1924, British mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine made an attempt on the as-yet-unconquered summit of Everest. No one knows if they made it – they vanished on the last stretch. But Captain John Noel had accompanied them with camera equipment – and his breathtaking film is now restored and rereleased. More than the climbers, Everest (Chomolungma to the Tibetans) is the star, its majestic, unforgiving rockfaces caught by Noel to searing effect, swathed in snow, sun and shadow. With Noel’s colour-filtered segments restored, the intertitles slowly reaching for a mystical grandeur to the doomed enterprise, and Simon Fisher Turner’s new electronic score of found sounds, Tibetan instruments and eerie melodies, the otherworldly qualities of Everest are heightened even more. SM

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f you’re in the market for a small, eye-catching walletfriendly city vehicle, then look no further than the Renault Twizy. While it’s debatable if you’ll actually be the envy of all your friends, you’ll certainly be getting all the looks. The Twizy is a two-seat, fully electric quadricycle with a roof and doors, which open upwards and look like a fly’s wings. The doors are extra, as are the windows. While the Twizy isn’t watertight, its interior is waterproof, with two hard plastic seats, the rear one also concealing a small locked, but very fiddly, storage compartment. A similar compartment is at the front, but I wouldn’t recommend leaving anything valuable in it. The driver seat, meanwhile, is reach – but not height – adjustable. At just over 2m in length, the Twizy can fit lengthways in the width of a regular sized parking space and the seating is surprisingly comfortable. We had no issue with a person of 5ft 11in sitting behind a 5ft 5in driver. We also found you can just about fit a 6ft driver if you ditch the passenger. With two on board though, you’ll have no space for any shopping. As mentioned, it is not watertight

Eyeful: Renault Twizy is sure to draw looks from passersby and interior (inset) and there are gaps in the plastic windows to prevent the build-up of condensation. This means there’s no heating, so with an Irish climate, it’s advisable to wrap up. The digital instrument panel on the dash gives information on battery level, as well as the time and a Drive, Neutral and Reverse automatic gear switch to the left. As a city driver, the prospect of taking the Twizy on to busy streets both intrigued and terrified me. But I have to say, despite its size, I didn’t feel vulnerable on the road. Renault puts its top speed at 80kph, but our route took us on city and suburban roads and we were in 50 to 60kph zones. The Twizy had no problem keeping up with traffic, is fast enough at the lights and is easy to park – but you really have to watch out for potholes. A major disappointment though, is its charging capability. With a

three-pin plug, it only charges from a domestic power supply and suitable facilities in Dublin are few and far between. It is economical though, with a range of 80km and a full charge costing around €3. But, as it is neither a car nor a bike, the circa €10,000 price tag is a drawback. Renault Twizy costs from €9,995. Battery hire costs from €50/month.

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n Citroën goes into 2014 with the Irish Car Of The Year title under its belt for the C4 Picasso, and it hopes for even more success with the Citroën Grand C4 Picasso. Citroën reckons the seven-seater will be popular with parents of two or more children, from younger families with babies to those with college students. Elegance is not often associated with the MPV segment, but Citroën has dared to aim for this with the Grand C4 Picasso, and has managed to pull it off. Inside, the cabin is spacious and

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behaviours can co-exist. You can be a purger and a bit of a five-two dieter, or you can be all of these. Our relationship with social media is as complicated as our relationship with food, and it’s important to keep in mind that a little of what we fancy won’t hurt us. It’s when it becomes addictive or when you start showing worrying behaviour, that it becomes a problem.’ Remedy was up next to talk about gluttony and social media and people who share ‘to the max.’ He explained the concept behind the VVIP awards which began on Holy Thursday 2010, and how a buzz grew through social media that went from a small fun event to a sponsored night which attracted the cream of Irish trend-setters. When asked if people should be careful about what they post on social media, Remedy warned what you post can have serious ramifications. ‘If you say something online that annoys someone you work with, that will have massive ramifications for your work. I’ve seen someone get very annoyed and blacklist someone over something very small. Having a banter and having fun is great, but there is a fine line.’ Both agreed the freedom currently available on social media will not last forever as defamation legislation grows. ‘Online is a bit like the Wild West at the moment, Remedy said, ‘with people saying what they want. But that day will come to an end.’ McDermott agreed, adding that even when using a pseudonym, people will be found out. See ncirl.ie for upcoming talks at NCI’s IFSC campus

WE ALL have some sort of presence online, whether through social media sites, a blog or just a company website. But, with high-profile cases of people getting in trouble for comments made online and six out of ten Irish employees admitting they have work-related connections through their personal social media accounts, professionals need to be aware of their online profiles. For the final time, the sinners gathered in National College of Ireland to indulge the last of the Seven Deadly Skills – gluttony. Kirstie McDermott and Anthony Remedy went before the audience at the event, organised by the college in association with Metro Herald and Jacob’s Creek, to discuss social media and pimping yourself online. Both are avid social media users: as owner of Irish website Frillseeker and founder of Beaut.ie, McDermott knows the importance of social media in building a business. And DJ and promoter Remedy has found that social media has become a big part of work in promoting his events. First up, McDermott explained that with the amount of information we consume via social media, we should go on a diet, and much like with food there are many different types. Some of the social media diets she covered included the popular ‘five-two’ dieters, people who use social media heavily during the week and Very social: Anthony then go quiet at Remedy and Kirstie weekends. Then there McDermott spoke about are social media sharing ‘to the max’ vegetarians who use Facebook, but not Twitter. The ‘cabbage soup’ dieters are people you may have looked up to, but actually use social media excessively, and the ‘junk food’ dieters are people who share quotes, often misspelled, and retweet celebrities and send tweets to celebrities. There are also ‘bingers’ who have too many social media accounts and find themselves overwhelmed, and the ● Choice of over 90 FETAC/QQI Awards ‘purgers’ who announce ● Childcare, Healthcare, Business, Digital Media & on social media they are many more doing a friend kill and ● Distance & Attendance have the need to give THE OPEN themselves some selfLearning Options COLLEGE importance. Let us Help you Succeed ● Market Leading Prices McDermott pointed out that social media users Tel: 01 2061828 / 01 2061829 are not exclusively one Email: info@theopencollege.com type of dieter: ‘It’s important to point out that all of these

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Getting stuck in traffic, Mexicanstyle, leaves ROSS MCDONAGH wistful for the halcyon days of M50 chaos

’M sitting in my car about 40m north of where I was sitting in my car five hours ago. I remember the heady days of the M50 toll bridge. I’ve experienced rush hour traffic in Downtown LA. But this is something else. This is the Mexico-US border. I’d driven through the exact same border just three days ago, and it took all of 20 seconds. In that instance though, I was driving from the United States to Mexico. When you are driving from Mexico to the United States, things are a little different. There are miles of winding queues, some of them not even queues at all. You can be waiting in a line of traffic for two hours only to reach the top and find each car ahead of you had been pointing at nothing, as the whole queue then laboriously tries to force itself into another queue, like a dying, bloated snake eating another dying, bloated snake. An entire ecosystem of souvenir selling has developed around the queue to get back into the US. This is not just a few vendors trying to make a few last-minute quick bucks from tourists as they leave – entire families, thousands of Mexicans have dedicated careers hawking stuff to people in this very specific cordon at the furthest corner of their country. And I’m not just talking about sombreros and ponchos and stuff you could actually pass off as gifts – I’m talking about 20ft embroidered rugs and enormous sculptures of Jesus’s hands. The food isn’t just soda and chips (read: soft drinks and crisps); you can buy haute cuisine – well, hot cuisine anyway – of any description, and even have food made to order. And you need it too. Making any eye contact,

however fleeting, seems to three times a year, by the time a constitute a binding contract. If second drop had touched my you make the mistake of locking windscreen, every vendor had eyes with someone carrying a 1:1 pulled a bag of windscreen wipers scale of a Virgin Mary piggy from somewhere and were bank, you have as good as bought actively fitting them to the cars. it. He will beeline for your car Indeed the car behind me broke and enter into in-depth price down at one stage, and I swear it negotiations involving himself hadn’t even stopped rolling before and the side of your head, until he a Mexi dude was hurtling through eventually walks away with a the queues of cars toward it, a car look of sheer disgust at battery raised your audacious renege. triumphantly above Another mistake I his head. made was handing There is one If you lock eyes with souvenir I do some change to an adorable little regret not someone carrying a girl who was picking up. 1:1 scale of a Virgin begging. She While driving instantly began past the zoo on Mary piggy bank, multiplying like the way back you have as good as from Ensenada, I a wet gremlin fed after midnight. joked they bought it One pair of sad little probably painted brown eyes I can’t resist donkeys in there and – a hundred of them and I called them zebras. Imagine am winding up the windows and my surprise when we got to locking the doors. Tijuana and – no word of a lie – I reckon you could buy that’s exactly what stood on every absolutely anything. For example, corner posing for photos. although it must rain there about @rossvsross.com

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know I won’t be holding their hand and saying “poor you”.’ Serwa, 31 (pictured far right), is self-taught; he has no formal training or certificates. ‘I’ve always been into psychology and studied personal development,’ he says. ‘I have been coaching for almost four years now.’ he says he will go as far as necessary for a client to get what they want out of the process but draws the line at making someone cry. ‘I don’t shout at anybody,’ he insists. ‘I’m just being direct and firm when I have to be.’ Many life coaches are taught not to give advice or opinions and to ask lots of questions, leading clients to answers within. But Serwa is opinionated. ‘My clients come to me as they need a strong sense of direction,’ he says. ‘It’s a different style of coaching and only a small percentage of coaches work in this way.’ he says he transforms his clients’ lives – a bold claim. ‘I can make someone’s life 100 per cent better and double someone’s satisfaction level in six weeks,’ he says. But haven’t we heard it all before?

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‘What’s important to you – not to your parents or society. That’s your starting point.’ Then set goals. ‘Goals are dreams with deadlines. Why wait until January to change something in your life? Do it whenever you feel like the change is needed.’ Some of the tips you’ll have heard before – be confident, stay away from negative people, stop criticising yourself. But there are specific nuggets such as decluttering your home, getting rid of your TV and avoiding watching the news. ‘A happy mind is a clutter-free mind,’ he says. ‘Once you have decluttered your home, you tend to wake up feeling better as there’s less on your mind. Then your day is a fresh canvas.

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groin problems ‘a bit of a trend’ for Dublin by pAuL kEAnE

Paddy andrews has admitted it’s not a coincidence he is the latest all-Ireland-winning dublin footballer to be struck down with a debilitating groin problem. The st Brigid’s man is resigned to the fact he will be out of action for much of the defence of the allianz League crown after undergoing surgery during winter. Bernard Brogan also had a minor groin operation before Christmas while his brother, alan, missed the 2013 season with the problem. another forward, eoghan O’Gara, un-

derwent a double hip operation ahead of last season, while James McCarthy took all of last winter off to rest his groin. Hip and groin injuries are often linked to overuse and andrews accepted at yesterday’s launch of the allianz Football League that dublin’s punishing training regime and consistently long seasons is partly to blame. ‘you are starting to see a bit of a trend where quite a few players are getting it,’ said forward andrews. ‘we probably have a few lads within the dublin team that have had it. ‘It’s probably just from the sheer volume of training that you are doing and just the build up over the years. I put it off for as long as I possibly could, but it was the best time to get it done around Christmas. ‘It came on me around the start of last summer. I missed a couple of games where I just had to take a bit of rest if I wanted to perform later in the year.’ andrews will definitely miss saturday’s league showdown with Kerry and says he has no definite date in mind to return. ‘Maybe March,’ he suggested. It is the exact opposite of last year when he was an ever-present in the league and used the regular run of games to win over manager Jim Gavin. ‘There’s a few guys trying to clear up knocks and niggles from last year,’ said andrews. ‘The management are aware of that, so hopefully it’s not too far down the road when I can get back involved.’ League launch: Dublin’s Paddy Andrews and Kerry’s Donnacha Walsh at Croke Park Picture: SPOrtSfiLe

BOD hails ‘crucial’ Schmidt and promise of Leo

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Rás hero: Sam Bennett will cycle with NetAppEndura in Tour

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‘It’s probably from the sheer volume of training’

IT WASN’T all about Brian O’Driscoll at yesterday’s press conference ahead of the Six Nations. The centre took time to hail Joe Schmidt as crucial to Ireland’s chances of a successful Six Nations. O’Driscoll admitted it is important the country develop home-grown frontline coaches, even if he does not eventually number among them. Lock Leo Cullen will step into the Leinster backroom next season,

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with O’Driscoll backing the enforcer to flourish. ‘I think Joe’s brought a lot of his traits that we’ve seen over the years into this job,’ said O’Driscoll. ‘That’s what got him promoted to this job. ‘But like all good coaches he’s always trying to evolve, he’s a big thinker of the game. ‘I don’t know anyone who would do more analysis. He has an insatiable appetite for the game. ‘We have strict timelines to how

long we spend on the park. You’ve got that time to get it right, so get it right. That mentality switches into the players very quickly. ‘I think it’s important we get Irish coaches, we have some great thinkers in the game, and Leo Cullen’s definitely one of them. ‘Physically he might not be in the condition he was a few years ago, but because he’s so smart and such a clever player, he identifies short cuts, and I think he’ll have an awful lot to offer.’

Post Sean Kelly outfit, Sam Bennett’s team NetApp-Endura have been handed a wildcard invitation to the 2014 Tour de France event, writes David Thomas. Race organisers ASO yesterday announced the four Pro Continental teams to join the 18 WorldTour squads in the race, which gets underway in Leeds on July 5. NetApp-Endura who opted out of the Giro late last year have featured at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España in the past two seasons, but 2014 will mark the German outfit’s Tour de France debut. Naturally, from an Irish viewpoint, it was generally thought that Sam, along with his new team, would participate in the Giro which comes to our shores in May.

Warburton may start Six Nations

Rugby Sam Warburton could start

Wales’ RBS Six Nations opener against Italy on Saturday as he prepares to make his comeback from injury. Warburton, who has been sidelined for two months due to a shoulder problem, is currently on the replacements’ bench with lock Alun-Wyn Jones taking over as captain. But Racing Metro flanker Dan Lydiate left camp yesterday to fly back to Paris where his fiancee is expecting their first baby. If he’s ruled out, Warburton starts.

Hamilton crash in Jerez just ‘a hiccup’ fORMuLA1

Lewis Hamilton described his latest test shunt as nothing more than ‘a hiccup’ on the day he ushered in Formula 1’s new turbo era with an unwanted bang. At 9am local time, Hamilton (pictured) and the Mercedes W05 were the first to take to the circuit at Jerez on the opening day of the first pre-season test, which proved to be a nightmare for all. A front-wing failure saw Hamilton hammer nose-irst into a barrier at the end of the start-finish straight, with the exact cause of the incident currently under investigation.

Burns set to swot bOxing Ricky Burns will break the

habit of a lifetime by swotting up on a DVD of upcoming US opponent Terence Crawford (26) before a WBO lightweight title fight at Glasgow’s SECC on March 1. The Coatbridge champion returns to the ring for the first time since September when he earned a highly-disputed draw with Mexican Ray Beltran, despite the 30-year-old fighting with a broken jaw.

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Mersey paradise for merciless Sturridge

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Two-pointer: Sturridge’s two firsthalf strikes ended Everton hopes piCtUre: epA

liverpool ............................. 4 everton ................................0 by jAMES bOyLAn LIVERPOOL reasserted neighbourhood supremacy with their biggest win over their local rivals since 1982. With both sides chasing Champions League qualification, there was more at stake than mere bragging rights in the 222nd Merseyside derby. But the gap between the Reds and Blues has rarely looked bigger as goals from Steven Gerrard, Daniel Sturridge, who bagged two, and Luis Suarez saw Brendan Rodgers’ men strengthen their grip on fourth. A 21st-minute corner began the rout, with Gerrard nodding in Suarez’s delivery. In the process of losing

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Gerrard’s run, Gareth Barry took out Romelu Lukaku and ended his teammate’s night with an ankle injury. Simon Mignolet needed to bat away a Phil Jagielka strike but Sturridge killed the game off with two goals in as many minutes – first sliding in Philippe Coutinho’s pass in the 33rd minute and then lobbing Tim Howard, with the Toffees’ injury-depleted defence all at sea on both occasions. A poor Jagielka touch then allowed Suarez to run through and score the fourth goal after 50 minutes. Sturridge blazed a spot-kick over after Howard scythed down Raheem Sterling. And after missing another hat-trick chance, Sturridge marred his night by remonstrating with Rodgers when he was replaced late on.

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CrYStAl pAlACe ................1 HUll ....................................0 HULL handed starts to new signings Nikica Jelavic and Shane Long but their £14million strikeforce drew a blank as Palace claimed the spoils. Jason Puncheon scored the only goal at Selhurst Park as the hosts notched three vital points in their fight for survival. Puncheon smashed home after his header deflected back to him off Marouane Chamakh.

Magpies miss Cab in draw with Canaries

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Punch floors new Hull duo

norWiCH............................0 neWCAStle.........................0 NEWCASTLE began life without Yohan Cabaye in frustrating fashion at Carrow Road last night, as they failed to win a match they dominated for large periods. The visitors were far the better team from the start, with Loic Remy curling a 20-yard shot just wide early on and then John Ruddy making a fine save at his near-post from the Newcastle striker. Hatem Ben Arfa turned over the bar from close range after fine work from Sammy Ameobi, with the Canaries just relieved to reach the break without conceding. The lively Remy (pictured) smashed a dipping second-half free-kick against the crossbar from 20 yards, but Norwich did improve and Gary Hooper also hit the bar with a thumping shot. In the closing minutes, Remy and Bradley Johnson were both sent off after an ugly exchange.

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Milan move ‘dream’ for Essien MiCHAel eSSien has described his move from Chelsea to AC Milan as ‘a dream come true’. After talks with coach Clarence Seedorf, the Ghanaian midfielder (pictured) signed a contract until June 2015, ending his eight-and-ahalf-year spell at Stamford Bridge. essien, who is set to make his debut for ninth-placed Milan in their home Serie A clash with torino on Saturday, said: ‘i always said to my friends and family that before i finished my career i wanted to wear the Milan jersey. then i spoke to Seedorf and i didn’t want to join any other team. i am delighted to be here, this is a dream come true.’

THEy SAiD iT ‘The atmosphere won’t need lifting, it’ll be there anyway. We’ll have the majority of the crowd on our side and they’ll get right behind us, I’ve no doubt about that.’ Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert hopes to give new West Brom chief Pepe Mel (pictured) a baptism of fire in tonight’s midlands derby

Bryan on the rod to recovery BrYAn ovieDo’S operation on the double fracture to his left leg was a success. the everton midfielder (pictured) broke his tibia and fibula during Saturday’s FA Cup fourthround win at Stevenage. Head of medical services Danny Donachie said: ‘A rod was put through his tibia, which means he will come back stronger than before.’

Potter Odemwingie poised

peter oDeMWinGie could make his Stoke debut in tonight’s premier league trip to Sunderland. the potters yesterday completed the striker’s signing from Cardiff in an exchange deal with Kenwyne Jones.

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Mata makes an instant impact United given a lift by new boy and Van pREMiER LEAguE manchester uniteD.................2 carDiff ..........................................0 by RicHARD HOOkHAM RECORD-SigNiNg Juan Mata made an impressive debut as Manchester United breathed new life into their faltering season with a crucial victory over Cardiff last night. The hosts were visibly buoyed by the presence of their £37.1million recruit from Chelsea as they saw off the Premier League’s bottom side to give their own hopes of a top-four place a welcome shot in the arm. And with rumours Wayne Rooney could be poised to pen a new long-term deal emerging earlier in the day, the feelgood factor was further cranked up around Old Trafford with a goal from the returning Robin van Persie and a wonder strike from Ashley Young.

Saint Adam: Lallana celebrates his leveller

Adam’s strike sends Arsenal into Lalla-land

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start for Ryan Giggs – 23 years after his first Utd game Having lost three of their previous five league matches at home and suffered seven defeats already this season, United came flying out of the traps and scored after six minutes, with Mata playing his part. The Spaniard’s sweeping pass found Young in space and his cross was headed against the crossbar by Antonio Valencia. Van Persie’s follow-up was saved by keeper David Marshall, but he was unable to prevent the striker – back in action after missing the last 11 games with injury – heading home. Former United hero and new Bluebirds boss Ole gunnar Solskjaer knew it wouldn’t be his night on his return to Old Trafford when Young lashed home on 59 minutes for 2-0. But it was the sight of Mata linking up with Van Persie and then Rooney – who replaced the Dutchman on 63 minutes – that would really have had David Moyes drooling and confident his side can still salvage a Champions League spot despite staying seventh.

Robin red best: Van Persie above was soon back in the groove after scoring United’s opener while Mata, right, made his mark

pREMiER LEAguE southampton.....................2 arsenal..................................2 by JOHN pAYNE

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Deflected glory: Shelvey scored the opener

JONJO SHELVEY and Chico Flores were on target as Swansea climbed up to tenth in the Premier League table. Shelvey smashed a terrific effort against the crossbar from 20 yards in the first half and after the break, Fulham keeper Maarten Stekelenburg scrambled across goal and superbly saved Flores’

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sWansea ..............2 fulham ............... 0 goalbound header. But the breakthrough came after 61 minutes, a Shelvey shot going in via deflections off Wilfried Bony and Brede Hangeland. And Flores headed home soon after, deflecting in off Dimitar Berbatov.

ADAM LALLANA dented Arsenal’s title hopes with a second-half equaliser at St Mary’s last night. To rub salt into the wounds, Mathieu Flamini will miss the next three games after being sent off for a reckless lunge on Morgan Schneiderlin. Southampton would then have won it late on but for a stunning double save from Wojciech Szczesny to keep out Luke Shaw and Jose Fonte. Arsenal were outplayed in the first half and paid the price as Shaw, one of two 18-year-olds in the Saints line-up, delivered a cross and Fonte powerfully headed home at the far post. The other teenager, Sam Gallagher, twice went close to doubling Saints’ lead, making a mess of one sitter and then being denied by an outstanding

Points dropped: Wenger block from Laurent Koscielny. But having gone in a goal down at halftime, it took Arsene Wenger’s men just seven minutes to turn things around. Bacary Sagna’s low shot was delightfully flicked home by Giroud to level the scores before Mesut Ozil played in Santi Cazorla to fire Arsenal in front. The Gunners’ lead lasted two minutes as Jay Rodriguez slid a cross for Lallana to bury from six yards. Ozil hit the bar before Flamini’s red card left the Gunners hanging on.

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Afterlife can wait as BOD heads into Six Nations by DANNy HOgAN

BRIaN O’DRISCOll has postponed all decisions about life after rugby until he retires at the end of the season. Ireland’s stalwart centre is desperate to get on with life after the British and Irish lions, though, and the furore over being dropped by head coach Warren Gatland on last year’s tour Down Under. Ireland opens its RBS Six Nations campaign hosting Scotland in Dublin this Sunday, before taking on Wales six days later.

‘I’ll just enjoy the Six Nations and hopefully the knock-out parts of the Heineken Cup’ Wales boss Gatland was pilloried for dropping O’Driscoll for the lions’ final Test in australia, before a 41-16 landslide victory to win the series offered vindication. The row has rumbled on, though, with Gatland admitting last week he jokingly asked O’Driscoll to influence the aviva Stadium crowd not to boo him. O’Driscoll remains unsure about a coaching career, but is clear he has no interest in a lingering lions pantomime. ‘What happened, happened, no one can change it,’ said the 35-year-old. ‘I don’t have any ill-will towards Warren. ‘When it was raw afterwards, your emotions are a bit different. Time does heal all

wounds and I don’t have any animosity towards him. ‘What I will look towards is just trying to be involved in a team that can potentially beat his team, but that’s next week. ‘The coaching thing at the moment doesn’t really float my boat. ‘Before Christmas I started thinking too much about the afterlife. There’s no rush. ‘I’ll just enjoy the Six Nations and hopefully the knock-out parts of the Heineken Cup. ‘Hopefully I can try to win some silverware, and once the season’s done and dusted and the boots are finally hung up, there will be plenty of time to think about what the next plan is. ‘I don’t want to look back in a year’s time and regret not having given this time everything. That’s why I’m focusing solely on rugby and all other thoughts are on the backburner.’ O’Driscoll wrestled with retirement this time last season and decided against it. Reaffirming his commitment to quit in the summer come what may, the 128-cap centre revealed that having no torment over his future has cleared his mind for the tournament ahead. ‘I was really unsure last year and it was strange emotions,’ he said. ‘It’s nice knowing you can empty the tank in this Six Nations knowing it will be the last.

Focused: Brian O’Driscoll puts the Lions’ tour panto in the past and keeps his eye on the Six Nations prize

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Kerry boss shows team error of their ways to urge Croker revenge

Inspiring: Fitzmaurice

Eamonn FitzmauricE showed his Kerry players a video nasty last weekend to stoke them up for their croke Park rematch with allireland champions Dublin. the Kingdom manager showed players clips of last September’s epic semi-final defeat during a squad session ahead of this Saturday’s allianz League opener. Experienced forward Donnchadh Walsh admitted it was most likely

done in an effort to inspire the players to seek revenge. ‘Eamonn showed us that on Sunday alright and i am sure that is just what he wanted us to do, to remember the hurt,’ said Walsh. ‘it is good to remember that sort of stuff going into a game, to bring a bit of hurt in. But he also reemphasised the unforced errors that we made that day.’

Walsh starred for Kerry early in that semi-final tie and shot a brilliant goal during a blitzkrieg start for the munster champions. Dublin eventually turned things around though Walsh is adamant that his side made too many mistakes, pointing to the ball they failed to win at midfield which led to Kevin mcmanamon’s crucial late goal. ‘if we had claimed that kick-out,

you would imagine that the game could have gone another way,’ added Walsh. ‘But in saying that, the Dubs did run out convincing winners. You wonder could they have put the pedal down later on anyway. ‘We are still hurting a small bit but we have a chance to put it right on Saturday night.’

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