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A DUBLIN youth, who took part in a vicious gang attack on a jogger set upon because he kicked an angry dog, has been given a dressing down in court by his own father. The teenager pleaded guilty at the Children’s Court to assault causing harm to the man who was left traumatised and scarred after the attack on January 21 last, in north Dublin. The youth showed no remorse and his father told Judge John O’Connor he was fed up helping his son, whom he said wants to go to prison. The boy sat silently as his father, seething with rage, addressed the court and told Judge O’Connor: ‘I killed myself trying to get him on the straight and narrow.’ He said his son told him ‘I am going to Wheatfield’, referring to the Clondalkin prison, and added: ‘that is not normal behaviour’. The father also explained he had to pay off local drug dealers for his son, who is also suspected of taking part in a serious burglary earlier this week. He said the youth has been causing

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problems for the past three or four years, and he looked straight at his son before telling him: ‘it feels like you are spitting on my face’. The father also told his son: ‘you have more time for the scum on the street than your family who love you.’ Judge O’Connor adjourned sentencing until next month. Earlier, a pre-sentence report had shown the youth had no remorse or empathy for his crime, was at a high risk of re-offending and badly needed to be involved in pro-social activities. Defence solicitor Gareth Noble also told the court of the efforts the boy’s father had made to help his son. Pending sentencing, the youth must continue to work with the Probation Service to address his offending, go to counselling for his drug abuse problem, engage with a training course and a youth mentoring service. The boy, on bail, was warned by the judge he is at ‘last chance saloon’ and facing a possible six-month sentence.

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A HORSE OF MANY COLOURS: A performer in traditional costume on the eve of the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, takes part in a park fair in Beijing yesterday. The Chinese Year of the Horse, according to the symbol of the 12-year cycle of animals, begins today PICTURE: EPA

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Scarlett quits Oxfam role in SodaStream row

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Bieber to face court again over ‘limo driver assault’ JUSTIN BIEBER is in legal hot water for the second time this month after handing himself into a police station to be charged with assault. The troubled 19-year-old allegedly hit a limousine driver in the back of the head repeatedly last month. As he entered the station in Toronto, where the alleged assault happened, he was mobbed by fans and journalists. Bieber left an hour-and-ahalf later, after being told to appear in court in the Canadian city on March 10. He was one of six people in the limo outside a nightclub in the early hours of December 30, a police statement said. It added: ‘While driving the group to a hotel, an altercation occurred between a passenger and the driver. ‘A man struck the limousine driver on the back of the head several times. The driver stopped the limousine, left

SCARLETT JOHANSSON has ended her role as an Oxfam ambassador after a row over her support for an Israeli drinks company. The Hollywood star’s spokesman said she and the charity had ‘a fundamental difference of opinion in regards to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement’. He added: ‘She is very proud of her accomplishments and fundraising efforts during her tenure with Oxfam.’ The actress was criticised for being a spokeswoman for SodaStream, which has a factory in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank. Oxfam opposes all trade from the settlements, which they say are illegal and deny Palestinians rights. The charity accepted the 29-yearold’s decision to step down after eight years as a global ambassador. It also said: ‘While Oxfam respects the independence of our ambassadors, Ms Johansson’s role promoting the company SodaStream is incompatible with her role as an Oxfam global ambassador.’

by JENNI MckNIgHT the vehicle and called police. ‘The man who struck him left the scene before the police arrived.’ His latest charge comes a week after the Baby singer was arrested in Florida for drag racing and drink-driving. A new toxicology report allegedly shows he tested positive for marijuana and prescription drugs, according to TMZ. The website said the teenager’s urine was tested after he was taken to a police station on January 23. However, the report states he tested negative for cocaine, opiates and meth. This was consistent with police reports after his arrest. Bieber’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman, insists the singer did not commit the latest assault. He also pleaded not guilty to last week’s charges.

Trouble ahead: Bieber shields himself (left) from fans and photographers PIC: MARK BLINCH

If you thought jotting down locomotive numbers was odd, check out this hobby... FORGET celebrity babes and firemen, one calendar counts down the year with pictures of... drain covers. It’s the creation of Archie Workman, who maintains ditches and roadsides in his job as a temporary lengthsman and has catalogued his favourite metal grates for 2014. The former foundry worker first made six of the calendars for his colleagues. But he was amazed to be inundated with enquiries from across the UK. ‘My contract was extended so I sort of made them as a joke for Christmas, to say thank you,’ said Mr Workman, from Cumbria, ‘I was gobsmacked at the response. I’ve had orders mostly for

people in the north-west but there have been some from around the country.’ Mr Workman, whose job involves the upkeep of the covers, claims to have always been fascinated by them. ‘I really enjoy the job – it is nice to be outside in the fresh air,’ he said. ‘But I’ve found the covers so interesting.’ The grates, which are marked with their place of origin, map the history of the area, which used to be part of Lancashire. ‘I’ve also found it quite interesting to discover the geometry of the drains and how they interconnect,’ Mr Workman added. ‘There’s a whole world underneath us that we don’t realise.’

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Protesters enter Irish Water office

Brooks’ fans miss the dance DESIGN GONG: Emer O’Daly of O’Daly Architects Rathgar is pictured with John Green, chairman of Glasnevin Trust, at the announcement that the firm had won an international architectural competition to design a chapel to commemorate the 232 people who died in the 1916 Easter Week Rising and who were interred in Glasnevin Cemetery

MeMBeRs of the Anti-Austerity Alliance entered the Irish Water head office on Dublin’s Talbot street and requested a meeting with management yesterday. The group claimed in a statement they were staging a peaceful protest occupation as other members protested outside the offices. Four members entered the building through the front door as employees left the building. They were able to have an hour-long meeting with three officials from the state body. The group are objecting to what they call the ‘ongoing rip-off of the water network by Irish Water’. Protester Annette Hughes, who plans to run as a candidate in the local elections, said: ‘Families have reached the limits of austerity, with a doubling of the property tax and now the prospect of water bills of hundreds of euros.’ The group plan to run candidates in the upcoming local elections with campaigns centered around opposition to the home and water taxes.

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Abuse survivor: Kenny’s apology is ‘for everyone’ abUSe survivor Louise O’Keeffe, who successfully fought the State over her suffering at the hands of her school principal, has said the Taoiseach’s apology was for all victims. enda Kenny said the 46-year-old’s experience was indicative of a long litany of child abuse cases that had scarred memories. Ms O’Keeffe this week won a landmark european Court of Human rights case to hold the State liable after being sexually abused by Leo Hickey at dunderrow National School in Co Cork in 1973.

by ED cARTy ‘I appreciate very much his apology and I suppose I appreciate the fact that he did it quickly,’ she said. ‘I’m simply one of hundreds who have come forward and those who have not,’ she said. ‘an apology is for everyone because I know I was not alone.’ as the Government launched the new Child and Family agency in dublin Castle, designed to improve

protection and welfare of children in all aspects of life, Mr Kenny spoke about Ms O’Keeffe’s battle. ‘I would like to say to Louise O’Keeffe that I apologise for what happened to her in the location where she was and for the horrendous experiences that she had to go through,’ he said. The State fought her claims in the High Court and Supreme Court, before Ms O’Keeffe won in Strasbourg. She told rTÉ radio she would not

‘I’m one of hundreds who came forward’

have pursued the battle if she had been given an apology and she urged the Government to act on the ruling. Tánaiste eamon Gilmore also apologised during questions in the dáil. On Monday the european court found Ireland’s system of detection and reporting of abuse was ineffective in the 1970s and said if adequate action had been taken in 1971 when the first complaint against Hickey was made Ms O’Keeffe might not have been abused. Hickey was jailed in 1998 after admitting to 21 sample charges out of a total of 386.

COUNTRY music sensation Garth Brooks has beaten records after 240,000 tickets to three Croke Park dates in July sold out in 90 minutes yesterday. Concert promoter Peter Aiken said in a statement: ‘In 52 years of business this is the fastest selling concert Aiken Promotions have ever been involved in.’ People around the country queued for up to two days to get their hands on the €65 tickets. Later the tickets were on sale on eBay with bids at €300 per ticket. Labour senator Marie Moloney said many fans will be hugely disappointed to have missed out on tickets and the reselling of tickets at elevated prices was ‘scandalous.’ Fans of the crooner will travel to the capital for the concerts on July 25, 26 and 27. Hotels had already increased their prices before the tickets went on sale, and many are fully booked. Fine Gael senator, Catherine Noone, has said it is ‘extremely disappointing’ to see hotels doubling or tripling their rates on the nights of the concerts.

Appeal for missing garda officer Gardaí are appealing for assistance in tracing the whereabouts of serving garda member Terry Lawlor, 33, who has been missing from his home in Celbridge, Co Kildare, since Tuesday morning. Mr Lawlor (pictured) is 6ft 2in, of large build, with dark short hair and brown eyes. When last seen he was wearing a grey two-piece suit, light pink shirt, no tie and brown shoes. It is believed that Mr Lawlor might have travelled to the UK and may be in London. anyone with any information is asked to contact Celbridge Garda Station on 01 628 8222 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.

New child agency promises to be ‘ferocious parent’

A NEW state body to protect children has been billed as a ferocious corporate parent demanding the best for the country’s youngsters. The Child and Family Agency will take over the role of three separate bodies to improve children’ services, which the Government says is the most effective response to repeated and tragic failings of the past.

The agency will take on work currently done by the HSE, the Family Support Agency and the National Education Welfare Board. It will have 4,000 staff, a budget of €609million and a national network of 106 community-based family resource centres. But children’s rights campaigners have said the main challenge that remains is to ensure all the services

available for families are joined up. Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald said: ‘We are going to move from a position where child and family welfare was barely a priority, to a position where it will be the sole focus of a single dedicated state agency.’ But she added: ‘It took decades for the legacy we inherited to develop – it will take years to fix it.’

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ing married families and single parent families, but also families where the care of children is provided by a parent together with a step-parent, or by extended family members or families based on cohabiting couples and families based on civil partnerships.’ The draft law will for the first time: n Extend automatic guardianship to non-marital fathers who cohabit for a set period with the child’s mother; n allow civil partners to jointly adopt a child; n allow step-parents, civil partners and those cohabiting with a biological parent to obtain guardianship and/or custody of a child; n and enable members of an extended family to apply for access to a child. It will also attempt to give legal clarity on the parentage of children born through assisted human reproduction and surrogacy.

Diseases ‘could be wiped out by 2050’

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Gay couples will for the first time in Ireland be allowed to jointly adopt a child, under newly-published planned laws. The General Scheme of Children and Family Relationships Bill paves the way for a massive overhaul of family law. It is intended to meet the needs of growing numbers of families not previously recognised by legislation. The scheme will also strengthen the rights and responsibilities of step-parents and extended family members who help care for children. Justice Minister alan Shatter said the bill, to be debated by the Oireachtas, would help modernise laws to recognise diverse family situations. ‘Legislation in this area cannot be a one-size fits all solution but must, in a creative and pragmatic way, reflect the needs of families and children in 21st century Ireland with the focus firmly fixed on the best interests of the child,’ he said. ‘Families not only include co-habit-

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DISEASE could be virtually eliminated for everyone under 70 by 2050 if drug companies continue to fund research adequately, a report claims. Advances in medicine, drugs and surgery in the UK have accounted for half the country’s improvements in health since 1950 with life expectancy rising from 40 to 70 in half a century, the study says. By 2050, further progress towards universal healthcare and ongoing innovation ‘could virtually eliminate disease-related child and working age adult deaths’, the University College London report states. Author Prof David Taylor warns there is ‘little realistic possibility’ taxpayers will be able to pay to develop medicines so drug company funding is vital.

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60 seconds HARRy SHEARER, 70, is best known for voice work on The Simpsons. He listened to 2,000 hours of Nixon tapes for his new series and says the leader was a ‘twisted guy’ What’s your new series Nixon’s The One about? It’s a

press junkets improvising in character for nine hours.

comedy built around the conversations recorded in the Nixon White House tapes. It’s not a history show, there’s nothing about Vietnam or Watergate, just conversations I’ve found funny. My writing partner is the professor who took legal action to make them public, so he’s well versed in them.

Isn’t improvising for nine hours exhausting? Yes, but it’s

Isn’t there more than 2,000 hours of this stuff? There are

Family Tree at the same time I was doing this Nixon show. I’d hope to do more films with him but that’s up to him.

thousands and thousands of hours and it’s difficult to listen to because it’s badly recorded. When we decided to do the show it became an arduous, but fun process.

You’ve said the tapes reveal what a ‘twisted, effed-up guy’ Nixon was. He was a self-made

also exhilarating. You’re on a knifeedge between exhausting and exhilarating.

Are there plans to do any more films with Christopher Guest? He was doing his show

Which of the characters in his films was closest to you? Victor

Allan Miller in For Your Consideration. He’s who I was afraid I’d be. He’s where you end up as an actor if you don’t get the breaks.

man who became a self-destroyed He finishes off doing terrible man. He’s so ill-equipped to be in politics – he doesn’t like small talk or commercials. What have been meeting people. He gets to the top, your own cringe-inducing moments? I was in a pretty doesn’t forgive his enemies cringe-inducing film for losing to him, spends called The Fish That so much of his time Nixon didn’t like Saved Pittsburgh. It repressing any eviwas like a runaway dence of what he a lot of people – 18-wheeler truck gofeels and then blurts blacks, Jews, ing downhill at it out at the oddest moments. He sumcommunists, gays, speed. It wasn’t a great idea to start with moned people to sit the French… – it was about an asthere while he bangs trologer who turns on about his favourite around the fortunes of a subjects. basketball team by making sure What were those? He didn’t like all the players are Piscean. a lot of people – blacks, Jews, communists, gays, the French – then How long has The Simpsons he’d share his elaborate theories got left? We’ll be on the air until about what was wrong with each of Fox finds another comedy show that those groups. Then there are record- can work at 8pm on Sunday – so I’ll ings of Henry Kissinger flattering say another 55 years. There are peohim and yet these two guys were us- ple who have voted in several elecing each other and had both admira- tions who are younger than our show at this point. tion and contempt for each other.

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You started your showbiz career as a child – is it an appropriate environment for children? It depends on your parents

– it was wonderful for me because my parents were sane and weren’t trying to live through me. In fact, they held back when I was about to be cast in Leave It To Beaver because they wanted me to have a normal childhood.

What role has had the biggest impact on your career? Derek

Smalls in Spinal Tap – I’ve played him more than any other character. We’ve done a movie and two or three tours in character. We don’t like the idea of people seeing us look like those characters and not being them, so we’ve done day-long

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Has anyone unexpected said they’re a fan of the show? I don’t

talk to presidents or popes so I don’t know. What I find most interesting is if someone asks me to do one of the voices, whether they’re a five-yearold girl or a 70-year-old man, when they see the voice come out of a human body they all get the same look of bewilderment, surprise and delight. It’s really fun to see that.

What lessons has your career taught you? Try not to work for

assholes – the business is full of very damaged people. Nothing’s worse than having this thing that can be so fun and fulfilling turn sour.

Andrew Williams Nixon’s The One is on Thursdays on Sky Arts 1 at 9pm.

STICKMEN ART: A staff member at Christie’s looks at Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture ‘Trois homes qui marchent I’. The sculpture is expected to fetch between €8million and €10million at the auction house’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale in London next week

Knox found guilty of murder again by HAyDEn SMiTH AMANDA Knox was last night convicted for the second time of murdering British student Meredith Kercher. She was sentenced to 28-and-ahalf years in prison after an Italian court reinstated a guilty verdict against the American and her exboyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who was jailed for 25 years. Knox, 26, was in her hometown of Seattle as the verdict – which could trigger a protracted legal battle over her extradition – was delivered in Florence. She said she was ‘frightened and saddened by this unjust verdict’. She added: ‘Having been found

Guilty: Knox innocent before, I expected better from the Italian justice system. My family and I have suffered greatly from this wrongful persecution.’ Knox said the verdict was ‘no consolation’ for the Kercher family.

She spent four years in prison for the killing of her 21-year-old roommate Miss Kercher, who was found in 2007 with her throat slashed in the flat they shared in Perugia. The University of Leeds student had been sexually assaulted and stabbed several times. Knox and Sollecito were freed after an appeal in 2011, but a fresh hearing was ordered after Italian prosecutors argued DNA evidence had been disregarded. And last night, after more than 11 hours of deliberations, a court upheld the guilty verdicts handed down in 2009. Knox’s lawyer Luciano Ghirga said her representatives were ‘very upset’ by the punishment.

Playground? Use Underground rail your imagination garden is rumbled MAKE-BELIEVE games can involve anything from magic and mythical creatures, to epic alien battles. But children in Carlisle might have to focus their imaginative powers closer to home after the council decided to bulldoze playgrounds to cut costs. Swings, slides and roundabouts will be removed from a third of council-run play areas – instead leaving spaces for ‘imaginative play’. Local councillor for Carlisle in the UK, Elsie Martlew said: ‘I’m not happy to have to do this but if I’m going to blame anyone it’s the government.’ The council, which must cut £4million (€4.85m) from its £13m (€15.77m) annual budget over the next five years, launched a review of playgrounds in October. It hopes to save €30,000 by scrapping 21 areas it claims are expensive and underused.

COMMUTERS who pass over it each day may not realise – but the Tube has a secret branch line. It’s a kitchen garden which has been set up in an old bomb shelter 30m underground. Richard Ballard and Steven Dring have joined Michelinstarred chef Michel Roux Jr to create the 1ha (2.5 acre) plot in a World War II-era cavern below London’s Clapham North station. Mr Dring said: ‘When we showed Michel our farm for the first time, he thought the rumble he could hear was my stomach.’ They use low-energy LED bulbs and hydroponics to grow micro-herbs, shoots and miniature vegetables.

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Justin Bieber has found a shoulder to cry on after his British pop pal Nathan Sykes jumped to his defence. Troubled Biebs shares a manager with The Wanted singer, who urged fans to remember the 19-year-old’s talents. ‘Gotta take a moment to say, people talk about @justinbieber’s personal life so much they forget how talented he actually is,’ the 20-year-old Chasing The Sun singer told fans on Twitter.

Danny tells of gay plot pride

Danny Dyer says he is proud to have helped gay people have the confidence to come out. The EastEnders star, 36, has been praised after his character Mick Carter comforted son Johnny who came out in a touching storyline. ‘A lot of young gay men, who hadn’t come out, they saw that scene and I was getting letters saying they came out the next day because of it,’ he told Jonathan Ross in an interview to be aired on UTV tomorrow. Pixie Lott also appears on the same show.

Chat: Dyer and Lott appear on Jonathan Ross’s show Pictures: reX

Cowell’s thanks to his 1D cash cow

... a Bonas fide tale Prince Harry and model Cara Delevingne sparked a showbiz mystery when they were clocked together at an alternative theatre night in west London. The 29-year-old royal, who is dating Cressida Bonas, 24, turned up at Punchdrunk in Paddington, where onlookers claimed the model – rumoured to be an old flame – was in tow. An insider said: ‘Harry was with a group of people.’ Organisers confirmed Harry was in the audience for The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable but refused to be drawn on Dele whether he had been joined by Delevingne, 21.

Ed: Miley’s just a glorified stripper Ed Sheeran has become the latest celeb to slam Miley Cyrus for being too raunchy and setting a bad example. ‘Twerking is what strippers do. It’s a fact. If you go to a strip club, not that I go to strip clubs, but if you go to a strip club, they twerk,’ the 22-year-old told E! News. ‘You shouldn’t be encouraging little kids to twerk. Stop doing this, Miley Cyrus, please. Stop. Stop. Sing Wrecking Ball.’ However, the I See Fire singer (pictured) later tried to retract his statement, saying he was a fan of the 21-year-old and claiming his dig was ‘said in jest when I was drunk’.

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Her pout may look frozen in place but Victoria Beckham admits her bid to make it in the fashion world is stressful. ‘But I’m so blessed to have a job that I love so I can turn that stress into positive energy,’ the 39-year-old said in an online Q&A. She also claimed her previous incarnation as a Spice Girl had made it harder for her to crack the fashion world.

Flower power: Downton star Michelle Dockery promotes new thriller Non-Stop in London yesterday

Simon Cowell is laughing all the way to the bank (again) so no wonder he’s been praising his One Direction boys. The 54year-old bragged on Twitter about Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson breaking a new record. He wrote: ‘So One Direction were the biggest selling artists in 2013. I know how much they put into this record from start to finish. Very proud. Also want to thank the other writers the producers the team at syco modest their management and sony worldwide. And I have said it before and will say it again...the greatest group of fans.’ Meanwhile, One Direction have been teasing followers about the latest video from third album Midnight Memories. A trailer has been released online but the full edit will not be unveiled until 4pm today.

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Wounded Zac’s back and he’s looking for a lady...

Form an orderly queue ladies because Zac Efron has announced he’s now ready to get back in the saddle and find himself a woman. Having dusted himself down after a rotten 2013, which included stints in rehab and breaking his jaw, the US pin-up says he can empathise with his character Jason in That Awkward Moment. ‘Jason is a good person who is trying to find love and learning to be there for

someone when they need you. Those are all things I’m learning to do, too,’ said the 26-year-old. On his most embarrassing moment, the blue-eyed boy added: ‘That was probably when I slipped and hit my face on a fountain in my house. ‘What was more awkward was telling everybody about it. I’ve had an interesting year and the best part was being able to reflect upon the kind of man I want to be.’

Girls Aloud fans were dismayed to discover yesterday that the official Twitter account for the band had been spiked. One distressed follower tweeted: ‘THE WORLD’S MOST

ENORMOUS SADFACE,’ while another simply posted :‘*cries*’. Those wanting to claim the @GirlsAloud handle will be disappointed though, as it remains unavailable.

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers have signed to play the Isle of Wight Festival. Anthony Kiedis and the boys will be bringing some Californication to the island on June 14. ‘To headline the Isle of Wight festival is a once in a lifetime opportunity, following in the footsteps of Jimi Hendrix and The Doors,’ said the band. ‘It will be our only show in the UK/Ireland this year… so we intend to make it really special.’

Out for a vroom with Bloom Roger Room... then Nora and Orlando saddle up

J’adore Nora: Bloom assists French actress (seen left in more glamorous attire) as they go for a spin Picture: xPosure

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Orlando Bloom was never going to be single for long – and it seems he’s now revving up for romance with a stunning French actress. The 37-year-old, whose marriage to Miranda Kerr ended late last year, was spotted giving Nora Arnezeder a lift on his motorbike. He enjoyed a date with the 24-year-old at hip LA venue the Roger Room before taking her for a spin on his Ducati. ‘Orlando and Nora were in the bar for about two hours enjoying some drinks and talking,’ an insider revealed. ‘They sat at a corner table together and weren’t joined by anyone else.’

By JENNI MCKNIGHT Bloom left the bar alone to fetch his bike before returning for Arnezeder, who emerged wearing her crash helmet and held on tightly to his waist as they sped off. It’s believed she was introduced to him by his Lord Of The Rings co-star Elijah Wood, with whom she appeared in slasher flick Maniac last year. Bloom and 30-year-old model Kerr – who have twoyear-old son Flynn together – revealed their amicable split in October after three years together. The actor has since been linked to actress Condola Rashad, 27.

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Suicide bombers kill 18 after storming ministry

IRAQ: Suicide bombers yesterday stormed a government building, killing at least 18 people. Four attackers died when they detonated bomb vests after taking hostages and two were shot by security forces in Baghdad. Another 50 people were injured.

Mayor ‘ordered jail attack to prevent drug exposé’

President on sick leave as crisis mounts by DANIEL BINNS

CANADA: The embattled mayor of Toronto has been accused by his sister’s ex of having him beaten up in jail. Rob Ford, 44, ordered the attack in 2012 to stop Scott MacIntyre exposing his drug abuse, it is alleged. MacIntyre has filed a €728,000 lawsuit.

La Dolce Vita is over for Fellini’s stripper muse

ITALY: The Turkish stripper who inspired La Dolce Vita has died in hospital in Rome aged 78. Aiche Nana caused a scandal by doing a striptease at a restaurant in the city in 1958. The incident was seized on by Federico Fellini for his classic film about café society.

A huge boulder lies at the bottom of a vineyard in Ronchi di Tennero, northern Italy, after it narrowly missed a farm house by less than a metre but destroyed a barn Picture: AP

THE under-pressure president of Ukraine has called in sick as the unrest gripping the country rages on with no sign of a solution. Viktor Yanukovych is fighting an acute respiratory illness and high fever, a statement on his website said yesterday. It was unclear how long he would be laid up or whether he would be able to do any work. Pressing business includes giving his agreement to repealing harsh anti-protest laws – a concession agreed by parliament to appease demonstrators who want him to resign. MPs have also proposed an amnesty for some of the 328 people arrested during two months of protests over Mr Yanukovych’s refusal to sign a treaty with the EU. But the offer has been greeted with contempt because it is conditional on the president’s opponents agreeing to

vacate most of the public buildings they have occupied. ‘We will seize new buildings if the authorities don’t really change the situation in the counSick: Yanukovych try,’ said 30year-old Artem Sharai, who was demonstrating in Kiev’s Independence Square. The MPs’ amnesty offer would require Kiev’s city hall and regional government buildings in western Ukraine to be handed back. But the protesters would be allowed to keep using several buildings in the capital as dormitories and operation centres. With temperatures dropping as low as -20C (-4F) at night, continuing the protests without places to shelter would be almost impossible.

Vengeful Assad ‘demolishes homes’

CHILE: A puma intruder patrols a house as vets wait for a sedative to kick in. It was taken to a Santiago zoo Picture: reuters

Vodka habit is knocking years off men’s lifetimes

RuSSIA: A quarter of men die before they reach 55 because they drink too much vodka. Those who down three bottles a week have a 35 per cent chance of early death. Russians who stop boozing can reduce this risk immediately, Oxford University says.

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JAPAN: A foot fetishist went a step too far when he stole 450 pairs of high heels from hostess clubs. Sho Sato, 28, told police he hid them from his wife in a rented flat in Tokyo.

THOUSANDS of homes have been razed to punish opponents of president Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. Entire pro-opposition neighbourhoods have been bulldozed or demolished with explosives by the government, the research organisation claimed. It said soldiers were ordered to knock down the buildings by officials who pretended they wanted them gone to make way for new developments. ‘Wiping neighbourhoods off the map is not a legitimate tactic of war,’ said HRW’s Ole Solvang. ‘No one should be fooled by the government’s claim that it is undertaking urban planning in the middle of a bloody conflict.’

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Homeless: A man walks with children at a site hit by an Assad air strike in Aleppo yesterday Picture: reuters

Execution is being sought in the Boston bomber case PRoSecuToRS have said they will seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev over the Boston marathon bombings. The twin blasts last April killed three people and wounded more than 260. It is alleged Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan – who died in a shoot-out with police – both ethnic chechens from Russia who had lived in Boston for a decade, planted two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line. of 30 charges against Tsarnaev, 17 carry a possible death penalty. The 20-year-old has pleaded not guilty. No trial date has yet been set.

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‘I’m alright Jack… how about you?’ doesn’t cut it anymore

fter reading Ken rogan’s ‘wholly thursday’ article, it seems to me the mindset of a lot of this nation is ‘do what you like, once you don’t upset my little life’. And yet these are the same people that give out how the nation is run. I agree that we are the people that elect representatives into power, but our mindset is wrong. We should be thinking, what will this person do if elected to help our country be a better place? rather than just what will they do for ‘my little life’. Johnnysearphone ■ regarding all the people queuing in the rain for Garth Brooks tickets – they will soon be claiming political asylum in Dublin as their villages won’t be taking back their idiots. Brendan ■ Can anyone tell me where I could source approximately 20,000 furry cowboy hats to

sell to the culchies up for the Garth Brooks gig? Frank ■ I looked with sadness as an elderly lady wandered up and down the 8am train from Newbridge yesterday. Not one person offered her a seat. Shame on you all. MB ■ tommy, why do you think giving up your seat to a woman, or anyone else for that matter, is good manners? It has nothing to do with manners. It’s ridiculous if you ask me. the woman as well as her male counterpart is well able to stand on the train. What is the big deal about getting a seat? I personally would not give up a seat for anyone, except maybe an elderly person. But certainly not for a pregnant woman. If she’s out working or just walking around town, she’s well able to stand on a train for a while. You sound like someone who is hen pecked, tommy. Eric ■ Is anyone else sick of hearing how many drinks or drugs a defendant had, when they are up in court? Irrelevant

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‘It’s about facing up to reality’ Apart, Broken Bells have Oscar and Grammy nods. Together, they have a ‘faster, sadder’ new album, writes Arwa Haider

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or me, everything fits around this. If anyone asks me what I do, I say: “I’m in a band and it’s called Broken Bells.” This is the thing I look forward to the most. It’s different to all the other projects because it’s the most personal and creative outlet. I started out making music in my bedroom and this is the closest thing to it.’ If that sounds like an ardent statement of dedication, it’s even more striking because the person expressing it is Brian Burton, aka US mega-producer Danger Mouse and one half of uproarious funksters Gnarls Barkley (with CeeLo Green). Burton’s productions have ranged from Danger Mouse’s sample-slicing 2004 vision The Grey Album to albums for Gorillaz, Beck, The Black Keys and Norah Jones, besides his work on U2’s upcoming album; the U2/Danger Mouse track ordinary Love (from Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom) won a Golden Globe and is oscar-nominated. None of which has eclipsed his focus on Broken Bells, his guitar/ synth outfit with James Mercer, frontman of Portland rockers The Shins. Broken Bells’ atmospheric self-titled debut album won plaudits in 2010 and their introspective

Meeting halfway: Broken Bells combine the talents of Brian Burton (below right in Gnarls Barkley) and James Mercer (below left in The Shins) themes have yielded a gorgeously haunting sequel, After The Disco. ‘This album is pretty upbeat in comparison with the first one,’ says Mercer, taking a hotel armchair next to his similarly jetlagged but genial collaborator. It’s true there’s a strident, danceable energy to new songs including The Angel And The Fool and the electronic-edged title track but the melancholic undertones linger. ‘Well, I think Brian is right when he says this album is ffaster but sadder,’ adds Mercer, laughing. ‘It kind of Mercer

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Few modern labels have had as great an impact as Hessle Audio. The brainchild of tonight’s three DJs at Mud – Ben UFO, Pearson Sound and Pangaea – the label’s catalogue unites most modern electronic music strands, from dubstep and jungle to techno, house and UK garage. The most articulate expression of Hessle’s catalogue lies in Ben ‘UFO’ Thomson’s DJ sets, but that’s not to detract from David ‘Pearson Sound’ Pearson or Pangaea’s, aka Kevin McAuley, skills behind the decks. If you want to sample the sound of 2014... Tonight, MUD/NSB, The Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 10.30pm, €12/14.

surprised me when we went for the big brass section in places.’ ‘That’s usually too festive for me but it worked out oK,’ smiles Burton. ‘When I listen to this record, I know it’s the most personal thing lyrically I’ve ever been a part of. It’s the culmination of all those things – the Pink Floyd and Beatles stuff, some of the hip hop stuff.’ ‘I think it’s interesting that Brian didn’t really set out to be a producer,’ nods Mercer. ‘I wasn’t a good enough musician,’ replies Burton. ‘I learned to write songs from producing people who’ who’d been doing it for a long time. In hip-hop, the producer w was the they person who made the music, the didn’t work with bands. It means: didn’ everything bbut the guy who’s rapping.’ rapping. duo’s contrasting The duo’ have arguably backgrounds ha strengthened their bbond. Burton and Mercer first became aacquainted festivals and their while playing festi into creative mutual respect evolved e

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Like many of Chicago house music’s pioneers, Boo Williams (pictured) achieved global recognition during the 1990s with a series of releases on Relief, Djax and Cajual. By the mid-noughties, however, his output had slowed, but thankfully, Amsterdam’s Rush Hour stepped into the breach and has released a series of Williams records. Expect bumping Chicago grooves all night long. Tomorrow, The Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 10.30pm, €12/15.

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Over the past two years, Krystal Klear has been one of Ireland’s electronic success stories. Dec Lennon’s mix of 1980s boogie, hip-hop and house has led to releases on Eglo and a collaboration with Chic’s Nile Rodgers. Tomorrow, Hidden Agenda, The Button Factory, Curved Street, Temple Bar D2, 11pm, €10. Richard brophy

chemistry. For both Broken Bells albums, they also worked in close ranks, Mercer moving into the guest room at Burton’s LA home. ‘We have very different lifestyles but the things we relate to are very similar,’ says Burton. ‘James isn’t going to sing anything he doesn’t feel in some way.’

eSPITe the headiness of Broken Bells’ music, there’s a real lack of ego. That was apparent at their debut British gig in 2010, where the duo held a sold-out audience rapt without either taking centre stage. ‘At first, we weren’t going to tour at all,’ says Burton. ‘I never really felt super comfortable on stage.’ ‘I think there are definitely healthy egos here but they’re pliable,’ replies Mercer. ‘I don’t know if we could have done this if we were both 20. That was my dumbest decade. I feel like I was a dips*** the whole time.’

That wry reflection on youth feels relevant to Broken Bells, from their psychedelic sci-fi imagery to the moods of After The Disco. ‘The album title came accidentally but it said a lot; it’s the comedown and the morning after,’ says Burton. ‘A lot of this album was to do with the illusions that people live with, and facing reality,’ adds Mercer. ‘There’s the thoughts of what you think life and love are going to be like before you’ve experienced them – then it’s dealing with the responsibilities you never thought you’d have. When you’re younger, you spend so much time imagining the future. It’s not that you’re disappointed, it’s more like: what do you dream about now?’ Broken Bells make that sound like an inspiration rather than a gloomy conclusion – and their music sets pulses and imaginations soaring.

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Following his Oscar-nominated ‘is that really him?’ turn in American Hustle as a fat guy with a comb-over, Christian Bale here shoves any remaining shadows of The Dark Knight definitively back into the Bat Cave in this back-to-basics US recession drama. Bale, in a reversal of his Oscargrabbing role in The Fighter, plays Russell, the responsible older brother to Rodney, Casey Affleck’s young, scrappy troublemaker. Not only is Rodney a feckless gambler and an illegal bareknuckle fighter, he’s an Iraq War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Meanwhile, hard-grafting Russell’s blue-collar welding job, along Boy done good: Director Scott Cooper with Christian Bale during filming with the local mill, is under threat what else – a pretty school teacher. As with writer/director Scott Cooper’s because ‘it’s cheaper to buy steel from Rounding out the powerhouse cast are first film, Crazy Heart, it’s the lead China’, while their dad is slowly dying Forest Whitaker (good cop), Willem performances that are the thing here, not on the sofa… Dafoe (slimy bar owner/loan shark), Sam the clichéd screenplay. And boy, these The scenario couldn’t be any more Shepard (kindly uncle), while Woody boys are acting so hard they almost doomy if the Dementors from Harry Harrelson proves why he’s the go-to guy sweat their fake tattoos off. Potter were flying overhead, banging for deranged redneck psychos as a I say ‘boys’ because there is only one funeral gongs and hissing ‘diiiisssspair’. lollipop-sucking, crack-injecting crime woman in this: Zoe Saldana, who’s And that’s before Russell gets a spell in lord. Larushka ivan-Zadeh lumbered with a love interest role as – jail for killing a child while drink-driving.

An all-action war movie from the writer/director of Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor wants to have its military rations and eat them, too. It’s a heartfelt tribute to the brave young American soldiers who sacrifice their lives for their country but it also makes that sacrifice seem like the most exciting extreme

sport imaginable. Based on a true story, it stars Mark Wahlberg (above) as a Navy Seal who is sent to identify a Taliban target in a remote Afghan village. He and his three buddies (Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster) trek over the mountains to a wooded hiding place near the village, but after some goat herders blow their cover, the men are forced to defend

themselves against dozens of ‘Tali’ troops. Audiences may roll their eyes at the uncritical, band-ofbrothers mythologising but the long and visceral central firefight certainly gets the adrenalin pumping. When the Seals tumble down a cliff, bouncing off boulders on the way, the cracks and crunches will be drowned out by a chorus of involuntary ‘oofs and

Zac efron has made some inspired career choices since waving goodbye to his High school musical days. this is not one of them. the former tween star sleepwalks his finely chiselled six pack through this testosteronefuelled romcom about three best mates who vow to remain single after one of them goes through a break-up. michael B Jordan and miles teller give appealing support as his BFFs, although there’s a woeful lack of chemistry between efron (above) and his love interest, played by imogen Poots. the script makes a decent stab at trying to capture the confusing, up-in-the-air nature of modern-life dating, full of booty calls, friends with benefits and Facebook

stalking. the raunchy jokes, though, are hit and miss – mainlyy miss – with smut replacing any real charm, while the biggest laughs come during the end credits. efron fans will be happy to know thatt he gets his kit off. For the rest of us, this is one awkward moment best forgotten straightaway. Ann Lee

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Big laughs are guaranteed here – though only at the expense of what’s the first Best worst Film of 2014. Failing to prove there’s still life in the old reanimated corpse yet, this aborted monster action franchise stars

aaron eckhart (above) as the Creature, who is here recruited by the High Queen of the Gargoyles (the actual title – poor miranda otto) in mir a war w versus the Demons (led b by Bill nighy nigh as an evil tea-drinking te Prince of Pr Darkness) Darkness who threatened to wipe thr out all a mankind. aside from the unexciting une sight of a buffed-up eckhart shouting: ‘Descend in pain, Demon!’ before tapping them with a silver stick (think Blade’s blade but without the blade) and the bloodless CGi Gi battles, les, the plotting is a wtF? mess that wants to be Underworld (it shares the same writer) but crucially lacks Kate Beckinsale in skin-tight trousers. the tame, ill-advised ed 12a

Lie (15A) HHH✩✩ even readers whose knowledge of cycling ended with stabilisers will know lance armstrong: the Us sports icon who heroically fought off cancer and miraculously went on to win the tour de France seven times. not so miraculously, as it turned out. in 2012, the Us anti-Doping agency stripped him of all titles and banned him from competitive sport for life. it took another year before armstrong (left) would admit, publicly, on oprah, to using performance-enhancing drugs, but even then viewers felt cheated of the whole truth. as did oscar-winning film-maker alex Gibney (enron: the smartest Guys in the room), who declares he set out simply to make an inspirational movie about armstrong’s 2005 comeback, only to have shooting suspended due to the scandal. But this film isn’t about doping. Gibney’s fascination, as in his documentary we steal secrets: the story of wikileaks, is with ‘noble liar’ syndrome: leaders who feel morally righteous about lying to promote their cause. rigorously researched yet repetitive, it never quite hits the button. it feels like what it is: two documentaries jostling for space within one overlong one. Li-Z

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While Mel Gibson battles for Scottish independence tonight over on Film4, this Viking drama, which was filmed in Co Wicklow and stars former Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel (above), continues on Sunday on RTÉ2. Fimmel’s legendary Norse warrior Ragnar Lothbrok gathers together a crew who are willing to travel into the unknown. Meanwhile Earl Haraldson (Gabriel Byrne) becomes even more paranoid as he realises he doesn’t know who to trust. The series was created by The Tudors’ Michael Hirst.

Ben Fogle: new lives in The wild Channel 5, 9pm Is TV adventurer Ben Fogle getting a bit soft? For a man who once rowed naked across the Atlantic with James Cracknell, he seems remarkably coy about letting it all hang out with skinny-dipping host Colbert (above, with Fogle) in the first of a new set of extreme relocation tales where he checks out alternative lifestyles. A onetime financial fat cat/banker, Colbert has ditched the power-dressing suits and is now more likely to sport a Davy Crockett trapper hat, having built himself a treehouse in the US Deep South where he spends his days hunting in the woods. And entertaining the ladies…

Film oF The day braveheart, Film4, 9pm The Scottish Independence movement must get a spike in the polls every time this gungho action epic is shown – even if it is widely considered one of the least historically accurate historical movies of all time. Mel Gibson stars as William Wallace, the legendary Scottish warrior who, in ye olde muddy medieval times, led a rabble of blue-faced rebels in fierce battle against tyrannical English king Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). He also finds time to have a bit of how’s your father with a sizzling hot French princess (Sophie Marceau). If you’ve not seen it before, the image you’re left with is Gibson heroically roaring out of the screen in slow motion, dreadlocks and kilt waving in the breeze. But there’s more to this than another Gibson vanity project. The battle scenes are bloody and brilliant and this proved a box office and critical smash, winning the Oscar for both best director (for Gibson) and best film.

The Bridge BBC4, SaTuRday, 9pm & 10pm

Now at the end of The Bridge season two, we’re peering into choppy waters. As es Saga and detectives Martin (right) close in on the killer, their relationship is tested to the max. You’ll need the full theme w tune of Hollow Talk to wind down afterr the climax…

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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall leaps aboard the all-things-Scandinavian bandwagon – it’s a Volvo – as he sets off on a travelogue with a spot of cooking on the side. First up is Sweden, home of Abba, Ikea and elk, one of which he’ll be cooking with a side order of berries.

as the celebrity winter sports challenge teeters towards monday night’s grand finale, we’ll be on broken-bone watch tonight as the contenders have a go at speed skating, where things could get a bit hairy. The show may be a reality affair but the events are for real and this lot have revealed an impressive can-do spirit as they throw themselves into things head first. and, as skeleton speed freak comedian marcus Brigstocke (pictured, right) points out, ice is very hard if you fall on it.

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John Creedon and Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin bring us some more diddly-di from last summer’s festival in Derry. Tonight’s programme including performances by traditional musicians and singers from around the world, features Ard Ollamh Marcas Ó Murchú, The McKenna Family from Tyrone and the groups Scéal Eile and Cúig.

Hollywood comes to Graham Norton’s sofa as Matthew McConaughey, Oscar-nominated star of Dallas Buyers Club joins Julianne Moore, whose new action thriller Non-Stop touches down next month. There’s also a US vibe to the music with Sheryl Crow, while comedian Alan Davies, host of new Winter Olympics talk show, drops by.

An excuse for Friday Night Lights fans to sit up all night with a tub of popcorn and a bottle (or two) and watch huge men bump into each other. Like you need an excuse. Pick a side – it’s Denver Broncos vs Seattle Seahawks – and let battle commence.

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omeo and Juliet, the couple who epitomise young love and untimely death, are here completely reimagined in Ben Power’s A Tender thing, which portrays the lovers in mellow old age, more comfortable than star-crossed. It’s a fascinating premise, and the ingenious technique used by Power, an accomplished adaptor of Shakespeare, is just as interesting again: most of the text used is from Shakespeare, mainly from Romeo And Juliet, but you can also spot plenty of other quotes from the sonnets and other plays. The lines are rearranged – some speeches reattributed to different characters – to create an entirely new work. It’s a Bard mash-up, in other words, and it works spectacularly well. The backdrop is Romeo And Juliet’s wellappointed bedroom, with its faded rose patterns on the wallpaper, suitcases on top of the wardrobe and the shipping forecast on the radio. It’s strangely effective – a set that in other productions might seem so ordinary becomes part of an impressively jarring effect of hearing the heightened language of Shakespeare in this thoroughly domesticated setting. There is also a strange tension in watching the language of intense, youthful courtship – much of which revolves around one assuring the other of the sincerity

of their devotion – used by a happily settled old couple. It’s certainly not love’s young dream: it soon transpires that Juliet is seriously ill, and Romeo, now a carer as well as a lover, is faced with the less obviously romantic, but more consequential decisions that love entails. owen Roe is excellent as the pipe-andslippers Romeo whose delivery is as convincing as any sighing young man, while

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After An eventful January – mostly for the wrong reasons – life as defending Allianz football league champions will finally begin for Dublin tomorrow evening. And it will begin with a bang at Croke Park where both county senior teams will come together for an unexpected early season double bill of competitive action. the Dublin hurlers’ progression to the Walsh Cup final alongside Kilkenny convinced the leinster Council to pair them up with the footballers at Croke Park. the repeat of last summer’s leinster hurling championship two-game saga is enough alone to whet the appetite of supporters. But the spectacle will still pale in comparison to Jim Gavin’s footballers locking horns again with Kerry. It’s almost exactly five months since the sides contested one of the great Croke Park Championship clashes early last September. Dublin eventually prevailed thanks to a storming finish and a flurry of late scores including Kevin McManamon’s crucial goal. But the sense of injustice has remained with Kerry and manager eamonn fitzmaurice cleverly replayed the game to his players last weekend to stoke their passion. It remains to be seen what sort of a Dublin side Gavin names after using the O’Byrne Cup to blood new talent and assess fringe players. the All-Ireland winning manager has something of an injury crisis to contend with so will be without a large chunk of his Sam Maguire heroes. Bernard Brogan, James McCarthy and Paddy Andrews are all out with groin concerns. Paul flynn is suspended while Diarmuid Connolly and Ger Brennan are being retained by St vincent’s for AIB All-Ireland club duty. And with eoghan O’Gara, Dean rock and Denis Bastick still getting over injuries too, Gavin is likely to name an experimental team at some stage today. Daniel Watson, Sean George, Paul Hudson and Harry Dawson featured in the O’Byrne Cup and could take advantage of the injury list. the Dubs won’t reflect on the O’Byrne Cup

Red Bull insist they will crack the issues that have seen them go from world champions to testing chumps this week. For the second successive day the reigning four-time title holders called an early halt to their efforts because of issues with their problem-plagued car at the first preseason test in Jerez. Over the first two days, Sebastian Vettel managed a paltry 11 laps in the RB10 the team have conceded was rushed in the build process. The complex nature of this year’s cars, following a major rules overhaul, has caused consternation for Red Bull and race engineering coordinator Andy Damerum admitted: ‘It’s not where we want to be and the whole team is frustrated by these issues. This is where the whole team pulls together and I’m sure we will get these problems fixed.’

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‘Get it right o ‘Lethal’ Hogg real threat for Ireland

WEnGER sEEks TRAnsfER bEfORE WinDOW cLOsEs by jOHn pAynE PREMIER league clubs will try to beat the clock before the transfer window closes at 11pm tonight with the division’s longest-serving manager declaring ‘anything can happen’. Much attention will be focused on whether arsene Wenger can make the signings to bolster arsenal’s title challenge, but they received little encouragement yesterday in their quest to sign German star Julian draxler. Wenger is a long-term admirer of the 20-year-old attacking midfielder, said to have a £37million (€45m) buyout clause in his contract, but his club Schalke remain optimistic of keeping their star player. Sporting director Horst Heldt said he was ‘very convinced’ draxler would stay at Schalke for the rest of the season and ‘most probably beyond that’. arsenal’s intent was underlined when it was revealed that chief transfer negotiator dick law had travelled to

Germany to push through a deal, but Wenger admits time is running out. ‘are we active? Yes. are we close to signing anybody? no,’ the Frenchman said. ‘there is not long now, that is true. ‘In the last two weeks it goes day by day, now it goes hour by hour. In any hour, anything can happen or change, but at the moment, unfortunately, we are not signing anybody.’ draxler is recovering from an ankle tendon problem, so would not immediately boost arsenal’s hopes of overhauling Manchester city, but he would be a second marquee signing this season to follow £42.5m (€51.5m) Mesut ozil. arsenal also want Montenegrin striker Mirko Vucinic but that may depend on his current club Juventus beating Inter Milan and Seville to the signing of Southampton bad boy dani osvaldo. When asked about a move before the deadline, Saints manager Mauricio Pochettino said: ‘anything is possible.’

jovetic celebrates strike with brief fan encounter

One lucky Manchester city fan landed an interesting souvenir from the 5-1 demolition of Tottenham after Stevan Jovetic handed him his ‘pants’. Most players sling their shirts or even boots into the crowd after a match, but striker Jovetic was clearly determined to keep hold of his, having scored his first Premier league goal for the citizens. But determined to honour a promise he made to a supporter before going on as a second-half substitute, the 24year-old offered the fan an alternative. ‘I was on the bench and he was near to me,’ the £22million man explained. ‘He asked me for my shirt but after I scored my first Premier league goal I said I had to take the shirt, so I gave him the pants.’ After the game, Spurs boss Tim Sherwood made city a shoo-in for the title.

WaYnE RoonEY looks set to return to Manchester United’s starting XI for tomorrow’s trip to Stoke. the England striker came off the bench to replace Robin van Persie in tuesday’s win over cardiff. Boss david Moyes is likely to start Rooney (pictured), Van Persie and new signing Juan Mata at the Britannia Stadium after all three trained well yesterday.

Stuart Hogg’S ‘lethal’ counterattacking will undo Ireland unless they shut the Scotland full-back down at source, according to Les Kiss. assistant coach Kiss, (pictured), believes Ireland must guard against Scotland’s ‘dangerous’ back-three through tactical accuracy in the rBS Six Nations opener in Dublin on Sunday. ‘their whole back-three is dangerous, and Hogg is back into form,’ said Kiss. ‘We know he’s a very dangerous player, particularly when he changes the direction of the game or if you kick loosely to him, because his counterattack is lethal. ‘and when you’ve got Sean Lamont and Sean Maitland working off him, it makes him even more lethal. Scotland full-back Hogg may be a danger, but Kiss feels Ireland boasts one of the world’s preeminent number 15s in rob Kearney. ‘under the high ball, he’s probably one of the best in the world, and his running game is in fine fettle,’ said Kiss.

Best in show: Competition for places is what drives everyone on and raises standards

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Swinson is no bag of nerves anymore Scotland lock tim Swinson insists he will have no problem handling the nerves of his first RBS Six nations start so long as he has second-row partner Jim Hamilton beside him. the 26-year-old Glasgow forward has three caps to his name but will make his championships bow when the Scots run out in dublin on Sunday. Swinson admits he struggled to control the butterflies in his stomach during his first few outings as a dark Blues international. But he claims the calming influence of Montpellier’s 50-cap line-out specialist Hamilton stopped the occasion getting the better of him. ‘I’ve got better with the nerves,’ he said. ‘Everybody gets it before games. It helps when you have got players around you who are in a good frame of mind and who have been there before. ‘I had Jim Hamilton beside me in the second row when I won my

Swinson: First Six Nations match first cap and it was great to have him there. Hopefully it will be the same on Sunday. ‘I’ve also tried to take a lead from al Kellock as well. He’s been a huge influence on me over my last year and a half at Glasgow. He has helped me and Johnnie Gray and a few other second rows coming through. He leads by example.’

Swinson won his first two caps during the summer tour of South africa, with starts against the Springboks and Italy then followed up by a man-of-the-match display against Japan in early november. Sunday’s clash at the aviva Stadium will be another step up in terms of pressure but Swinson is doing his best to stay relaxed. He said: ‘I’m just looking at it as another game for Scotland, which is a huge honour in itself. It’s a real privilege to be playing for Scotland and to be playing in the Six nations. ‘the Six nations is another first for me, hopefully it is not the last.’ Ireland will be desperate to make amends for last year’s meeting at Murrayfield when they claimed 78 per cent of the possession and 80 per cent of the territory yet failed to take their chances and lost out 12-8 after a Greig laidlawinspired display by the hosts. Swinson added: ‘We have got to focus on ourselves and our own performance.’

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Rookie international props Jack McGrath and Martin Moore have turned ireland scrummaging sessions into a fearsome contest, according to Rory Best. Leinster duo McGrath (pictured) and Moore are primed for bench duty in Sunday’s RBS Six Nations opener against Scotland in Dublin. Fast-developing tighthead Moore is expected to win his first cap as a replacement, with experienced campaigners Cian Healy and Mike Ross ireland’s starting props. Ulster hooker Best will win his 71st cap, with Sean Cronin among the replacements and McGrath in line for just his fourth international outing if he joins the fray. Best admitted ireland’s forwards have sunk their teeth into some testing scrum tussles in training at their Carton House base in Six Nations preparations. ‘When we’re training in the scrum now, if you don’t get it right you’re going to get done, which is exactly what it will be like on Sunday,’ said 31-year-old Best. ‘And that’s important. it obviously

brings competition for places, which is good for everyone, with these young guys coming through. ‘it’s important that they know now that this is just step one, getting into the extended squad is just step one. And then getting into the match-day squad is step two, and then you’ve got to be looking to start and push to better yourself every time. ‘Competition for places drives everyone on and hopefully raises standards across the board.’ Moore has just 23 senior Leinster a p p e a rances to his

n a m e since his provincial debut in April 2012. The 22year-old h a s

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racked up 18 of those in his breakthrough season though, and secured a new Leinster deal, snubbing interest from the likes of Aviva Premiership clubs exeter and Harlequins. The Castleknock College and ireland Under-20s graduate is highly regarded in iRFU quarters, and looks to have earned a first chance to impress under h e a d coach J o e

Schmidt. Club-mate McGrath made his ireland debut in the 40-9 November Test victory over Samoa, claiming man-of-the-

match honours. ireland boss Schmidt is likely to make few changes from the starting line-up that lost out so agonisingly 24-22 to world champions New Zealand in Dublin in November. Luke Fitzgerald is expected to partner Fergus McFadden on the wings when former Leinster coach Schmidt names his squad to face Scotland on Friday. Ulster flanker Chris Henry should slot in for Sean o’Brien, who will miss four months’ action after shoulder surgery, and that could free up a spot on the bench for the uncapped Cardiff Blues loose forward Robin Copeland. Best expects Scotland to scrap and spoil for every shred on Sunday, admitting the visitors will punish any lack of accuracy and physicality at the breakdown. ‘Their back row are very abrasive so you’ve go to roll up your sleeves and prepare for battle,’ said Best. ‘You look at their pack, and the breakdown is massive. The back row will cause plenty of problems, but even Jim Hamilton and some of the front row, they are very dangerous over the ball if you let them get in.’

Brown: ‘It’s 15 against 15’

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Kelly expects Irish welcome to be hostile Scotland skipper Kelly Brown has warned his side to expect a hostile welcome as they kick-off their RBS Six nations campaign against Ireland in dublin. the Scots will face the Irish at the aviva Stadium looking to end an eight-year wait for an opening-weekend win. But they take on a side who pushed the all-conquering all Blacks to the limit in november before losing only to a last-gasp try. Saracens forward Brown, though, is confident his side can compete. ‘any away game in the Six nations will be hostile so we are expecting that but at the end of the day it is down to 15 against 15,’ Brown said. ‘It’s about making sure we’re consistent.’

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McIlroy: Back in the swing with stunning opening in Dubai pICture: epa

by LARRy jOycE GolfinG great fred Couples believes a resurgent Rory Mcilroy can dominate the game after the northern irishman carded a stunning opening 63 that left playing partner Tiger Woods in the shade in the omega Dubai Desert Classic. Mcilroy carded seven birdies and an eagle at Emirates Golf Club to lead on nine under par, two shots ahead of italy’s Edoardo Molinari, with defending champion Stephen Gallacher among a five-strong group on six under. Woods, playing alongside Gallacher and Mcilroy, carded nine straight pars to complete a four-under 68 meaning the group were a combined 19 under par, with just one bogey – from Gallacher – between them. ‘it was good,’ Mcilroy said. ‘i played really well from tee to green, drove the ball great again. i took advantage of how i am driving the ball and just need to do more of the same the next three days.’ Asked how close he was to his best, the two-time major winner told Sky Sports: ‘it’s close, obviously. This year i’ve shot a couple of good rounds. This is a little lower than i went in Abu Dhabi [he finished second] and i

feel very comfortable with my game.’ Mcilroy won his first European Tour title in this event in 2009 and followed with three top-10 finishes, but opted not to play last year as he got to grips with his new equipment. The 24-year-old took until December 1 to register his only victory of 2013, but former world number one and 1992 Masters champion Couples has no doubts that was a temporary blip. ‘it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon,’ said Couples, who won the Desert Classic in 1995 and carded a two-under-par 70 yesterday. ‘i would have told Rory: “Hey, when i was 26 i didn’t play well for a year but it did not really slow me down and just keep pushing and playing.” When a guy that talented gets his game back he will dominate. it’s just a matter of how long.’ Mcilroy’s score was his lowest opening round on the European Tour, although he failed to win any of the previous three events.

Woods began his 2014 campaign in the farmers insurance open last week, but carded a third round of 79 at Torrey Pines – where he has won eight times – to miss the 54-hole cut. The world number one insisted his game was ‘just a fraction off’ and demonstrated that with a number of wayward drives. The 38-year-old revealed he has been working on making a shorter backswing with coach Sean foley due to the numerous knee operations over the years. Gallacher hailed a ‘sublime’ display from Mcilroy, but was also delighted to begin his title defence with a 66, that featured an eagle on the par-five 18th and a chip-in for birdie on the fifth.

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McIlroy sends out warning of a return to form with an opening 63 at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic

O’Driscoll ready to empty tank in last Six Nations tournament

Ireland take to the aviva Stadium for the first time since the heart-breaking 2422 defeat to new Zealand in november. Joe Schmidt is the only coach embarking on his maiden rBS Six nations competition and must do so without flanker Sean O’Brien, but the Championship’s all-time record try-scorer Brian O’driscoll will be going hell for leather in his final campaign. O’driscoll has appeared in 13 tournaments and racked up 26 tries. However, this clash will mark the beginning of the end for the 35-year-old as he plans to retire at the end of the season.

‘It’s nice knowing you can empty the tank in this Six nations knowing it will be the last. From my own point of view it’s probably a little less stressful,’ he said. ‘This trophy has been around a long time – granted it has gone from five to six – but it is definitely a competition that is very difficult to win. ‘That heightens the excitement of the players and also of each of the countries and their supporters

and the realisation of the Grand Slam or the second best of trying to win the Championship is a very hard thing to come by.’ ‘Unfortunately, we’ve been second a lot of times. I think it is fair to say that out of 14 seasons to have only won one Championship is a bit of a disappointment. But, there are always possibilities when you’re walking into another one. Meanwhile, team mate rob Kearney, who featured in all five of Ireland’s matches

during last year’s campaign, has been instructed by Schmidt to be as positive as possible in his running, after former coach declan Kidney urged a game more kicking-based. ‘declan enjoyed the full-back to kick a lot of ball. The impression I got was his preferred first option was more often than not to have a kick unless there was an obvious opening,’ Kearney said. ‘With Joe, he wants us to counter and have a go straight away. I would always back myself a little bit.’

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