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Shatter: ‘No proof’ of bugging

LOOKS LIKE RAIN: Catherine Deneuve lookalike Liz Dunphy recreates a scene from The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg film by Jacques Demy being screened as part of a retrospective of the director’s work at the 25th Cork French Film Festival running from March 2-9 Picture: clare keogh

THERE is no ‘definitive evidence’ any cov- by briaN huttoN ert surveillance took place at the offices of the Garda watchdog, Justice Minister Alan ter said no one in Gsoc used a UK-registered Shatter told the Dáil yesterday. phone and therefore it was not relevant. Describing security issues at the headquarThe watchdog investigated all three issues ters of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman with expert assistance from the security Commission (Gsoc) as ‘technical anoma- company involved and found no ‘definitive lies’, Mr Shatter said, while there were con- evidence’ of unauthorised surveillance, the cerns of a bugging threat, there was no evi- minister said. dence it had happened. He dismissed as The Ombudsman will be questioned today ‘completely baseless innuendo’ any sugges- at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public tion that the force was behind the alleged Service Oversight, which has declared its bugging. ‘deep unease’ at the bugging claims. There were three key issues identified in a Rejecting calls for an independent inquiry, security sweep by a UK-based private com- Taoiseach Enda Kenny urged the Ombudspany last September, Mr Shatter said. man to answer questions set out by Garda Firstly, a Wi-Fi device in the Gsoc board- Commissioner Martin Callinan on Monday room was found to be connected to an exter- night. ‘This is an issue of real importance nal network. Although it is not and an issue about confidence known how this happened, the of people in two very impordevice could not connect to tant institutions. any internal systems. ‘It’s important there is clariSecondly, there were conty’, Mr Kenny said. cerns about the security of a Mr Shatter has requested the conference call telephone in report by the company that carthe Gsoc chairman Simon ried out security sweeps, he O’Brien’s office following added. tests, but further checks reFianna Fáil leader Micheál vealed no other matters of Martin said the matter is ‘very concern. serious’ but the Government A third issue related to the response seems to have been to vulnerability of UK-registered turn the Ombudsman into a mobile phones in the area of ‘villain’ and cause a ‘frenzy’ in the offices. However, Mr Shat- Concerns: Shatter the watchdog’s office.

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Candidate for mayor reveals plans to revitalise disused Parisian Metro stations

Dive in at the next stop GHOST STATIONS beneath Paris could soon go from creepy horror film settings to vibrant spaces including a swimming pool, a nightclub and a subterranean garden. The project, by city mayoral candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, intends to turn the empty spaces into vibrant locations that Parisians can enjoy. There are 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro, most of which were shut in 1939, but two were never opened to the public. The abandoned stations sheltered homeless people during the war years, but have since been boarded up, used as locations for films or been turned into dumping grounds for the transport system. After teaming up with architects Manal Rachdi and Nicolas Laisné to conceptualise her designs, KosciuskoMorizet released photographs of her ideas which she plans to turn into a reality if she wins the mayoral elections in March.

Ghost of a chance: What some of the abandoned stations on the Paris Metro could look like if the Mayoral hopeful was to get elected

by AngHARAD wiLLiAMs Rachdi said of the project: ‘Why can’t Paris take advantage of its underground potential and invent new functions for these abandoned places? To swim in the metro seems like a crazy dream, but it could soon come true.’ Kosciusko-Morizet, known by her initials NKM, said the project could compensate for a lack of sporting facilities in some areas of the city. She has also put forward plans for reviving the Petite Ceinture (Little Belt), the inner city railway abandoned in 1934. However, the project hasn’t given Kosciusko-Morizet the support she hoped as she is struggling in the polls against Socialist rival Anne Hidalgo. Jean-Michel Leblanc, from public transport operator RATP, told a French newspaper that because of issues with the abandoned stations it would be extremely difficult and expensive to make the spaces safe enough for public use.

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Trump buys luxury golf course in Clare

Mother, 71, in syringe hijack by son A HOMELESS man with mental health and drug addiction issued hijacked his adoptive mother’s car at syringe point, a court has heard. Richard Devane, 41, of no fixed abode, and previously of Silken Manor, Maynooth, met Hester Devane, 71, at Heuston Station to pick up paperwork and parcels from her for his children on June 29, 2013. Judge Mary Ellen Ring was told Devane became angry when he couldn’t see his passport and asked for money, and threatened to ‘fill her full of heroin’ when she said she only had €15. Judge Ring adjourned the case until June to await an updated probation report and a psychological report.

Take a walk to prevent vision loss REGULAR walking may protect the eyes and help prevent agerelated vision loss, research has suggested. Tests on mice showed that moderate exercise slows down the death of light-sensitive retinal cells. The discovery has important implications for age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. ‘This research may lead to tailored exercise regimens or combination therapies in treatments of retinal degenerative diseases,’ said lead researcher Dr Machelle Pardue, from Emory Eye Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.

More snow ruled out as rain returns SNOW showers hit the city yesterday, resulting in a flurry of pictures being tweeted across Dublin as soon as the first snowflakes began to fall. But forget any plans for making snowmen – Met Éireann doesn’t expect any more snow this week. The weather will continue to be gloomy, with wet and windy weather forecast for the next few days. But temperatures will be slightly milder. There could be sleet and a mixture of bright spells, but the main outlook for the days ahead is rain and more rain. In the rest of the country high winds have been forecast.

On course: Donald Trump

DONALD Trump has bought his first links golf course in Ireland and vowed to bring it up to the ‘highest standards of luxury’. He announced the purchase of Doonbeg Golf Club, Co Clare, on the day a Scottish court rejected his latest attempt to stop an offshore wind turbine development being built within view of his course on the North Sea coast near Aberdeen. Mr Trump, who has long threatened to pull the plug on his Scottish development if the turbines are built, revealed the

Doonbeg deal hours after the Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled against him. ‘I am thrilled to announce that we have purchased yet another incredible golf resort,’ he said. ‘From Trump National Doral, Miami, to Trump International Golf Links, Scotland – known as the greatest golf course in the world – we only have the best. ‘Doonbeg is an already terrific property that we will make even better. It will soon be an unparalleled resort destination with

the highest standards of luxury.’ Mr Trump added: ‘We will be focusing all of our investment and energy towards our new acquisition on the Atlantic Ocean in Ireland.’ Doonbeg, which officially opened in 2002, will be renamed Trump International Golf Links Ireland. It sits on more than 400 acres across two-and-a-half miles of Atlantic coastline and already has 218 hotel suites, a spa and several restaurants which will be managed by the Trump Hotel Collection.

‘Anglo execs said they had support of Central Bank’ ANGLO IRISH Bank executives told a select group of clients they had legal advice and regulator support for loans for a shares deal in the bank, a court has been told. The so-called Maple 10 network of wealthy builders and developers were rounded up by the now defunct lender in a €450million plot to unwind a secret holding built up by former billionaire Sean Quinn, it heard. The bank’s former chairman Sean FitzPatrick, 65, of Whitshed Road, Greystones, former chief risk officer Willie McAteer, 63, of Auburn Villas, Rathgar and former managing director of lending Pat Whelan, 51, of Coast Road, Malahide deny 16 charges of providing unlawful loans for clients to buy shares in the bank. Whelan has denied a further seven charges in relation to the alteration of loan facility letters. The trial heard how Anglo executives claimed they had support for the deal from the financial regulator and the Central Bank. Joe O’Reilly, who built Dundrum Shopping Centre, and was worth

by ED CARTy about €1billion, said he was in the Algarve when he was called by Whelan on July 4, 2008 to get in on the plan. Over Sunday lunch in a restaurant in Faro two days later, Mr O’Reilly met Whelan and then chief executive David Drumm and was offered €60m to buy one per cent of Anglo’s shares with a loan from the bank. ‘At the end of the meeting I had agreed,’ he said. ‘This was after they had explained again that they had legal advice from Matheson Ormsby Prentice, a senior counsel, they had Morgan Stanley, the regulator was on board and there was some other body.’ Earlier, Sean Quinn Jnr, son of the bankrupt former billionaire, said he believed money lent to him and his sisters to buy ordinary shares from his father’s secret stock holding was illegal. ‘It would be our view that the security obtained by the bank was obtained in a fraudulent and illegal manner and therefore we are not liable for those loans,’ he said. His father earlier said he lost €3.2bn on Anglo shares.

‘Security obtained on loans was illegal’

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‘Alert’ garda on patrol sniffs out cannabis grow house A JUDGE has praised a garda for his ‘sharp observation’ in detecting a strong smell of cannabis coming from a rented house, which led to the prosecution of one of the tenants for drug possession. Garda Daniel Sweeney later secured a warrant for the house in Finglas after he got a strong smell of cannabis from it while on routine patrol. Barry Cullen, 32, accepted responsibility for a

small amount of cannabis discovered in the attic room he had been renting. He later admitted his role in a cannabis grow house that had been set up in a downstairs bedroom, rented by another man, after Cullen’s fingerprints were found on plant food, a bulb from a heat lamp and fertiliser. Cullen of Ballygall Crescent, Finglas, admitted to possession of the cannabis and possession of drugs for sale or supply at the

house on October 30, 2010. He has two previous convictions for public order offences. Gda Sweeney told the court 16 cannabis plants of varying maturity were found in the downstairs bedroom. The estimated value of the plants was between €3,600 and €7,600. Praising Gda Sweeney for ‘a good day’s work by an alert officer’, Judge Patrick McCartan adjourned the case to April pending a probation report.

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Luas reassures passengers ‘tram crime is not a big issue’

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LUAS operator Transdev Ireland has reassured passengers that the service is safe after it reported almost 1,000 incidents of antisocial behaviour on the tram system in 2013. A spokeswoman for the company said that the majority of incidents happened on the Red Line. A number of the 677 public order offences which occurred are being dealt with by gardai. Meanwhile, there were 199 incidents of staff and passengers being subjected to abusive behaviour. The figures come as Fine Gael TD Olivia Mitchell (left) revealed that her wallet was pickpocketed on the Green line on Monday evening. Transdev does not have a figure for the number of thefts on the Luas, but the spokeswoman said: ‘Crime is not a big issue on the Luas. There are 80,000 passengers travelling on the Luas daily, 30.5million people a year and the Luas is a very safe system to travel on.’ ‘To prevent crime we work with the Gardaí daily, we work with Luas security and our own staff. There are Luas revenue protection officers too.’ She urged passengers to be vigilant and keep belongings close and to report crimes to staff or the gardai immediately.

‘Save ship from the scrapyard’ A CAMPAIGN has been launched to save The Naomh Éanna, a ship which once linked Galway to the Aran islands, due to be scrapped this week. The vessel, owned by the Nautical Trust, is docked in Dublin’s Charlotte Quay and is maintained by Waterways Ireland, which says the ship is ‘unsalvageable’. Its representative, Éanna Rowe, said if the ship sinks it could cause pollution. Dublin city councillor Dermot Lacey has joined the campaign, which is calling for the ship to be be secured in a dry dock while investment is sought for the restoration. Sam Field Corbett, MD of Irish Ship and Barge Fabrication Company said restoring the ship could be the seed for a maritime quarter in Dublin and raise awareness of the city’s shipbuilding heritage.

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Jackson medic told to pay €1 to stricken fans

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A FrENCH judge has ruled five Michael Jackson fans who said they were distraught over his death be paid a total of €1 in ‘emotional damages’ by the entertainer’s doctor, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011. The ruling in the city of Orleans capped a two-year struggle by a group of 30 French, Swiss and Belgian fans of the popstar for legal recognition of their loss. Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for his role in administering an overdose of the surgical anaesthetic propofol, which killed the 50-year-old pop star in 2009. Murray, who lost an appeal against his conviction last month was released from a LA jail last October after two years. ‘Dr Murray was ordered to pay one “symbolic” euro, or $1.34, and that’s what we were looking for,’ the fans’ lawyer Emmanuel Ludot said. Mr Ludot complained that judges, lawyers and the French media, found the

WiLL ARnETT, 43, played Gob Bluth in Arrested Development. He almost steals the show as Batman in The Lego Movie – and still gets Lego for Christmas

You have a very distinctive voice. Did you always feel there was a superhero lurking inside you? Yes, but I tell

you, it’s hard to say that to people – you get a really strange reaction. No, to be quite frank, I did not. When the directors and writers of this movie call and say: ‘We’re doing The Lego Movie and we’d like you to be the voice of Batman,’ what do you say to that except: ‘When do I start?’

Have you ever fallen for a girl with mad hair like your onscreen girlfriend, Wyldstyle?

I’ve fallen for lots of girls with mad hair like Wyldstyle. That’s kind of my MO.

You have some competition from the movie’s lead character, a regular guy named Emmet. Did you ever fight for a girl with a ridiculously cool boyfriend? Sure, I’ve had to do

that. There were always those girls in high school or when you were in your twenties who were hard to get because they had some great cool boyfriend. I remember this one girl,

there were pictures of her boyfriend doing really cool stuff like travelling through China on a bicycle, talking to little kids. I thought: ‘I can’t pull that off. He’s so evolved!’

What about you and Lego?

When I was a kid I was really, really into Lego, then I took a small break. I had a much younger brother so I was able to continue with my Lego under the guise of helping him. I did it quite embarrassingly late, into my late teens, and would always be: ‘No, no, no, no, it’s because of hiiim!’ When you’re 17 or 18 and trying to date girls, they don’t want to hear that you’re into Lego.

Do you still have a Lego habit? I do. My friend Wade and I do

Lego war stories. At Christmas, we were both inundated with Lego. He said: ‘I’ve got a new terrible one that took me five hours and came in nine different bags.’ I said: ‘I don’t want to hear about it,’ and he said: ‘Don’t worry, I’m sending you one as punishment.’ I said: ‘Don’t you dare! Wade, I’m going to kill you!’ He still sent it.

And you must complete them

every time? You have to! At 6.30am this morning, my son came up to me with a new box we hadn’t built yet and said: ‘Can we build this now?’ I said: ‘Noooooo! Do not open that!’ Most actors spend their whole lives wanting to be taller. You’re 6ft 2in. Do you ever want to be smaller? In my line

of work there are often people a lot shorter than you’d think or know. Often people stand on an apple box for us to do close-ups. I do feel clothes are better for guys of average height. Sometimes you feel gangly and when you walk through a room you stick out.

Is it true you will only do your Arrested Development chicken dance for charity these days? I was at a benefit for a hospi-

tal and this guy wanted me to do the chicken dance. I said I’d get up on stage and do it with him if he raised the bid by $10,000 or $15,000, I think. He did, so I did.

In what general area do you have arrested development?

case amusing. ‘I respected the suffering of the plaintiffs, but the process wasn’t easy because of all the sniggering,’ he added. The judge considered medical records submitted by the fans before Ruling: Murray making the decision. The ruling would be communicated to Murray – who did not attend hearings and was not represented by a lawyer – via diplomatic courier. Mr Ludot added: ‘But the fight is not about claiming the sum of one euro.’ Two of the five fans are French. Under French law, plaintiffs can bring a case against another party who is neither French nor resides in France as long as they themselves are a citizen. The fans plan to contact Jackson’s mother Katherine to request permission to visit his burial plot in Glendale, California.

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When you’re 17 or 18 and trying to date girls, they don’t want to hear that you’re into Lego Lots of things. Maths, I think. Or maybe that’s a story I wrote a long time ago in my brain and stuck to it. I have a lot of blind spots. I think I take things for granted and I won’t take a moment to go: ‘Oh hang on a second…’ As I get older I’m trying to take a step back and say: ‘I am where I am. Look around and enjoy it.’

Do you ever have that ‘I’m never going to work again’ panic? Everyone does and I don’t care who you are. It’s funny when you see major stars go through it because you think: ‘But you’re soand-so!’ Everyone has that fear because everyone spent years struggling and trying to figure out how to pay the rent. For me, it all changed the moment I had kids. I don’t really worry about that stuff any more.

So kids are the best therapy?

Without question. They are the equaliser. Everything else pales in comparison and goes into a softer focus. Lesley O’Toole

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E’S walked off empty handed three times but by SEAMuS Duff Leonardo DiCaprio could finally be celebrating an Oscar win after news channel All will be revealed in Los Angeles on March 2 CNN appeared to give the game away. when DiCaprio, up for the award for his role in The A sharp-eyed viewer took a screengrab and posted Wolf Of Wall Street, will find out if it’s fourth time it online when a report on next month’s Academy lucky for him. He’s up against Christian Bale, Bruce Awards showed DiCaprio’s name on the engraving Dern, Chiwetel Ejiofor and hot favourite Matthew for best actor. McConaughey. However, fans were unconvinced and claimed the leak had the whiffof a PR stunt. ‘Seriously? I’m so jaded at this point I’m trying to see the viral stunt angle here. Or is someone just that stupid?’ asked @liahaberman, while Twitter user @erincandy asked: ‘Is this legit? This can’t be legit. They haven’t even voted yet.’ CNN was unavailable for comment over the apparent gaffe. For some years, the Academy has created nameplates with an engraving of the nominee’s name and film for every category. After the winners have been announced the unused plates are recycled. Spoiler alert: DiCaprio’s name is on the Oscar engraving

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Selena: I’m sailing on calmer seas

Selena Gomez has assured worried fans she is on the mend after a stint in rehab with a photo of her chilling on a boat. She posted the Instagram snap with the caption: ‘I’ve done everything I could to the best of my ability. Thank you for the unconditional love and cyber hugs. You inspire me.’ The former Disney star, 21, spent two weeks in the Dawn At The Meadows recovery centre in Arizona. But Gomez insisted she did not have a substance abuse problem. Her visit came days after she was spotted hanging out with her ex, Justin Bieber.

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Katy Perry homes in on Anna Kendrick’s chest – for the second time in a few weeks. The Roar singer appeared to cup one of the Pitch Perfect actress’s breasts with an outstretched hand as they posed at the Hollywood Stands Up To Cancer charity bash. It came after Kendrick claimed Perry, 29, had played with her ample assets at the Grammys a few weeks ago. ‘The girl can’t help it,’ the 28-year-old joked as she shared the photo of the latest boob grab with her 2million Twitter followers yesterday. After encountering the singer during the Grammys at LA’s Staples Center, Kendrick told chat show host Conan O’Brien: ‘Katy Perry finger-banged my cleavage. It was a weird night… she’s very mature!’

I’m the real Christian Grey, says estate agent Ladies hoping to bag a real life Christian Grey should look no further than Italy. Estate agent Alessandro Proto has stepped forward to boast he inspired the character from mummy porn Fifty Shades Of Grey. He said he whisked the book’s author EL James off on a trip from Milan to Lake Como four years ago. ‘The firm Grey runs in the book is called Grey Enterprise Holding, mine is called Proto Organisation Holding,’ he told the NY Daily News. And there are even stronger links than that, he claimed. Grey has an Audi R8 Spyder and his fictional office is on the

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8th floor. ‘When I met EL James, I used to drive an R8 Audi,’ he said. ‘My office is located at the 8th floor. It is the highest in the building,’ he said. ‘I came from nothing, so I see top floors as a metaphor for achievement and success. Everyone knows he made it, but nobody knows how he reached success. Same with me.’ Despite his detailed knowledge of the character, Proto quit reading the novel after a few pages. ‘Everything to do with S&M is pure imagination, I assure you. I’m an old fashioned man when it comes to sex, I’m not into those kinds of fantasies.’

Shane Warne has hinted he could give romance with Liz Hurley another spin. The Aussie cricketer was vague about the couple’s chemistry when grilled on Oz radio station KIIS 106.5. ‘I’m just sitting on the fence on that one,’ he said. ‘But we’ll see how things unfold over the next few months.’ The couple ended their engagement in December.

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Forgotten 1990s pop singer Kavana has revealed he is gay. The I Can Make You Feel Good singer, set to appear on UTV2 show The Big Reunion, said: ‘Here I am, aged 36, coming out – what am I doing?’

Simon says: Cheryl’s got the talent

imon Cowell hinted at a shock return for axed star Cheryl Cole, as he vowed to return The X Factor to its former glory. Pop’s mr nasty – who is returning as a judge this year – admitted the show had failed to turn up hot talent since he stepped out of the limelight in 2010. The 54-year-old teased that the 30-yearold Geordie babe will soon be back in her judging hot seat after admitting the show has failed to produce decent talent since his last turn in the judges’ chair. ‘i can’t say at the moment but i’d love Cheryl to come back,’ he said. ‘i’ll tell you why, apart from the fact she’s a star she really is a good judge. So we’ll have to wait and see.’ Admitting that the UTV show has failed to live up to expectations since his run with Cheryl, Danni minogue and Louis Walsh, Cowell is adamant that he will find ‘a lot of diamonds this year’. ‘The judges weren’t as good as we were,’ he said putting the boot into their replacements. ‘i mean it’s the truth. Did they miss a few people? i don’t know but it’s like running a record label, some people are better at it than others.’ But it’s not all bad news for last year’s line-up – Gary Barlow, 43, nicole Scherzinger, 35, Sharon osbourne,

By JENNI MCKNIGHT 61, and Louis Walsh, 61, – as the music mogul doesn’t think they were completely useless. He added: ‘They didn’t do a bad job; i just think we did a better job. For me the big year of X Factor was the final year we did and i’d love to get close to that.’ meanwhile, the soon-to-be-dad insists the humiliating axing of his American X Factor baby after only three series was his plan all along. ‘We made the decision last year and managed to keep it a secret, but that was always my plan to do three years. it just felt like the right thing to do,’ he told Guilty Pleasures at the Britain’s Got Talent London auditions in Hammersmith. ‘We could have kept it on but you’re competing with other shows, it’s all going to cannibalise itself,’ he added. But Cowell has no plans to retire the US version permanently as he revealed it will be back to see another day. ‘Sometimes you have to do, like what i did in Australia and italy, you take it off the air for a year and come back again,’ he said. ‘X Factor’s got to come back fresh, give it a rest like before.’

Baby won’t alter my schedule, says Cowell Simon Cowell has warned his pregnant lover he will be tied up with his hectic TV schedule once their baby son arrives. But the X Factor boss insisted he was ready to be a father – because he already looks after his two dogs, Squiddly and Diddly. Cowell, 54, said about his impending child with Lauren Silverman: ‘It’s not going to change too much. I got the dogs in first and got used to them but Lauren knows what my work schedule is and she’s cool with that.’

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He also revealed plans to keep his family close to him in London. ‘We’ll travel a little bit but we made the decision last year when we came back to the UK and she wants to come and live here for a while,’ he added. But while Cowell might have plans to carry on being a workaholic, pal Amanda Holden thinks he could be in for a shock. ‘He keeps telling me all these plans he’s got, but they’re just going to go to s***,’ the 42-year-old claimed.

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Prison suicide bomber ‘was probably British’

SYRIA: A suicide bomber who blew himself up at the gates of a Syrian jail freeing hundreds of prisoners was ‘probably British’, UK officials said yesterday. The jihadist fighter, known as Abu Suleiman al-Britani, is believed to have driven an armoured dumper truck laden with explosives at the Aleppo Central Prison before. A foreign office spokesman would not confirm the BBC reports.

Pistorius girl’s family ‘seeks closure’

SOUTH AFRICA: Oscar Pistorius’s trial will be attended by the mother of the girlfriend he shot dead last Valentine’s Day. ‘All we want is closure,’ said Reeva Steenkamp’s mother, June. The trial begins in Pretoria on March 3. The Olympian (pictured) claims he mistook the model for a burglar when he fired shots through a toilet door. The double amputee, 27, denies murder.

Bum note: She’s said to have hired a ‘booty tailor’ to ensure her renowned rear always looks its best. But Kim Kardashian may end up sacking the curves consultant when she sees this picture. The future Mrs Kanye West’s behind looked truly enormous as the 33-year-old arrived wearing tight tan trousers for a meeting at an LA hotel

Power line kills 28yo posting Facebook picture AMERICA: A Facebook user was electrocuted by a power cable after climbing a tree to post a picture of a sunset. David Strohm Jr, 28, was unaware the high voltage line was snaking through the branches. Family members spotted his mobile phone on the grass beneath the tree after spending hours looking for him. His lifeless body was in the tree, said fire authorities in Orange County, California.

Family hope for Litvinenko inquiry

BRITAIn: The widow of Alexander Litvinenko yesterday won a High Court battle which could pave the way for a public inquiry into his death. Marina Litvinenko successfully challenged the government’s decision to wait for a routine inquest into the former KGB spy’s death before deciding on an inquiry. The 43year-old (left) suffered radiation poisoning in London in 2006.

and finally... ITALY: Catholic priest Father Costanzo discovered an arsonist had set light to his car shortly after warning his congregation in the northern city of Belluno of the eternal fires of hell that await sinners.

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Bribery trial of ex-prime minister Silvio begins in Italy SILVIO BERLUSCONI has gone on trial accused of corruption, after being stripped of immunity from prosecution. Italy’s former prime minister is accused of paying a senator €3million to switch parties. The alleged bribe was made to destabilise a rival government in 2006. Berlusconi denies wrongdoing but did not appear in court in Naples for the trial opening yesterday. It is the latest case against the 77-year-old, who was convicted of tax fraud last year and is appealing against a jail sentence for having sex with an under-age prostitute.

Hackers fire ‘biggest and ugliest cannon’ HACKERS flooded servers across Europe with huge amounts of data in what was described as the biggest computer attack of its kind. They looked to exploit a flaw in the system used to synchronise time across the internet. Matthew Prince, boss of online security company Cloudflare, said the attack was the ‘start of ugly things to come’. He added: ‘Someone has a big new cannon.’ Hackers used weaknesses in the

by SHAROn MARRIS Network Time Protocol, used to synchronise computer clocks, to flood servers with data. Mr Prince said his company had measured the attack at about 400 gigabits per second, 100Gbps larger than last year’s assault on antispam service Spamhaus. A computer needing to synchronise time will send a small amount of data to make the request before

the NTP replies by sending data back. But the amount of data sent by the NTP is bigger than the amount received, meaning an attack is instantly amplified. Secondly, the location of the original computer can be spoofed, tricking the NTP into sending the reply to a different computer. Prof Tim Watson, at De Montfort University’s cyber security centre in Leicester, said individual computer users had little to fear.

77 dead as Algerian army aircraft hits a mountain Look out for your free! Valentine’s special packed with great gift ideas, romance advice, fun and more… today!

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ThERE was just one survivor when a Algerian military aircraft, carrying 74 passengers and four crew members, crashed into a mountain yesterday. Storms accompanied by falls of snow in the region have been blamed for the tragedy. The flight, which took off from the southern Saharan city of Tamanrasset, lost radio and radar contact at 11:37am local time and three helicopters were sent to find the plane. The Algerian ministry said it had slammed into Mount Fortas, 30 miles from its destination city of Constantine. Officials said women and children were among the dead. Reporters said the C-130 plane was broken in three parts.

Tragedy: The site of the plane crash

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Farewell, film’s ‘little darling’ Hollywood mourns Shirley Temple, child star who cheered a depressed world

Adorable: Star of the 1930s, Shirley Temple is still the biggest child star of them all PicTure: AP

by nicOLE LE MARiE HOLLYWOOD last night paid tribute to its most famous child star, Shirley Temple, who has died at her home at the age of 85. Stars hailed her as an inspiration, whose feelgood movies lifted the spirits of a world blighted by the Depression. She was also praised as a role model for women, who defeated breast cancer and forged a role on the world stage as a diplomat when her film fame faded. Actress Marlee Matlin. who said she would never forget her supportive words on the night she won an Oscar for Children Of A Lesser God, said: ‘Shirley Temple brightened spirits when the world was dark She will be a star forever.’ With her big smile and adorable blonde curls, she was one of the biggest stars of the 1930s in films such as Bright Eyes and Stand Up and Cheer. Nicknamed ‘America’s little darling’ she was Hollywood’s biggest box office draw for four years from 1935 to 1938. Her rendition of the Good Ship Lollipop – which was actually an aeroplane – in the film Bright Eyes was among her most famous performances. Mother-of-three Temple, who quit movies aged 21 in 1950, died at her home in Woodside, California, on Monday, surrounded by her family. ‘We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements, most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and wife for 55 years of the late Charles Black,’ her family said. Temple, whose first movie role came at the age of three, is credited with saving Depression hit 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy. She was given a special Oscar, aged six, and remains the youngest actor to win an Academy Award. After surviving breast cancer in 1972, she went on to become a politician, US diplomat and a UN ambassador. Floral tributes could not be placed at her Hollywood Walk of Fame star yesterday because it was in storage. But actress Whoopi Goldberg wrote on Twitter: ‘The Good Ship Lollipop has sailed today with Shirley Temple aboard.’

Roberts ‘devastated’ by sister’s ‘suicide’ JULIA ROBERTS (pictured) yesterday pulled out of a pre-Oscars lunch after her half-sister died from an overdose. The Pretty Woman star’s sibling Nancy Motes, 37, was discovered in the bath in Los Angeles on Sunday. Prescription drugs and a note were said to have been found. Weeks earlier, Motes launched a bitter online rant about her famous sister.

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Don’t tar all GAA supporters with the same brush

n response to the Tired Man giving out about Drumcondra and the matches and gigs taking place in Croke Park, I have to say do not tar all GAA supporters or concert goers with the same brush. My family and I have been going to Croke Park for GAA matches for years and would never dream of littering, never mind getting drunk. We have been brought up with respect for others and I’m sure there are many more like us who attend the games and gigs.

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watershot: donal slattery sent in this ‘wonderwall’ snap which he took during a visit to the Guinness storehouse

It is again down to the minority of people who ruin events like these for the majority, including the residents of the area. Jackie ■ To the Tired Man in Drumcondra from yesterday’s Mailbox. You appear to be confusing the (would be) behaviour of Garth Brooks fans with that of Dublin GAA fans, who so oft destroy Drumcondra. Garth fans are country stock who have more respect for their nation’s capital than its own inhabitants do. Country gentleman

GOOD On yA ● To the really kind, really tall man who Google-mapped the way to my interview yesterday and walked me there when I asked him for directions, you were an absolute gent. I hope your good karma comes back to you soon. I must have taken up at least ten minutes of your lunch hour. Thank you so much!

Leigha, who was lost on Leeson Street :)

● I’d just like to say thanks to the bus driver who stopped to check I was ok after falling off my bike on Leeson Street, but especially a big thanks to the very kind woman who insisted on bringing me into Hourican’s and buying me a pot of tea for the shock. It was only wonderful of her.

Gym shoes... not actual camel toe ■ Just an FYI – the letter to Dear Dolly (Mon) was about an actual camel toe – Google ‘split toe gym shoes’. It had nothing to do with lady parts. The guy was making a joke. A good one too. Michelle ■ Just watched the Soon To Be Bald Barista, great video really brightened up my morning no end. Fair play, it must have taken them a while. I donated. If others haven’t seen him you really gotta watch it, hope he does more videos. Marsha

Grateful accident-prone cyclist

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■ RE: Kevin Quinn’s comments – ‘EU cannot Roll with Swiss vote’. It should be noted Switzerald is not a member of the EU. They have a separate treaty with the EU Valerie ■ Loving the Valentine’s tweets in yesterday’s Mailbox – not. Thanks MH, now my other half, the big romantic is off to Lidl for some heart-shaped nuggets and the local chipper to ‘cook’ us a lovely dinner. There’s my ‘notions’ dashed. Ms RomCom

TREnDinG #snow #ireland ● Listening to the Frozen soundtrack...and it starts snowing in Ireland. Um what? At least it feels like I’m home!

@LLL_L3

● Finished my art mock today and step outside into a huge blizzard of snow :D love it #blizzard #westport #cold #weather#mocks. @lornadunnexo

snow stroll: People brave the elements in dublin yesterday-

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● Ireland...the only place it can snow, rain and be sunny in the space of 10 mind :/ #Ireland #Snow #CrazyWeather

yEH biG RiDE

● To Saucer, your saucery sure is enchanting. But, if you’re hoping for a spark from this ginger, you’ll have to do more than ignite the flame. Fiery ginger

Bulgaria and Romania has expired, the Brits are getting their knickers in a twist and the Swiss are indulging us with their usual xenophobic and selfish attitude and want out. Enough with the discrimination against these and other nations from Eastern Europe! Christos, Dublin

● Snow, great. I love cycling in the snow. #sarcasm #dublin

RAnDOM AcTs Of kinDnEss

● To the blue eyes and red lips on the Luas Kilmacud stop today (Tuesday) at 8:00 with a red handbag and two very heavy bags, a green Oxfam one and a black one, I was the man with the Ikea bag. Can I help you to carry your bag next time? Tom

■ To Kevin Quinn, Hallelujah a voice of reason. Enough with the cherry picking. The attitude of the Swiss and the British is totally unacceptable and borderline racist. now that any limitations to the free movement of people from

@MissEmmaBlount

beckett drama: reader maria took this picture of the beckett bridge in dublin, which was closed this morning when a ‘technical issue’ meant the bridge remained in a ‘lifted’ position following overnight maintenance

● Only #snow would trend in ireland. @Racheltw99 ● Feeling a little bit conflicted today because I love snow I just wish it was warm.

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In search of Mrs Hemingway On your own this Valentine’s? Make a date with Naomi Wood’s quartet of love stories about Ernest Hemingway. By Cathy Rentzenbrink

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t’s an insane project,’ Naomi Wood laughs as she talks about the challenges of bringing legendary American writer Ernest Hemingway and his four wives alive on the page. ‘I often thought I was crazy, but three and a half years later, it’s done.’ the result is Mrs Hemingway, a boozy whistle-stop tour through all the best places to be in the first half of the 20th century, with the four brave women who took a ride on Ernest Hemingway’s roller coaster. Wood’s interest in Hemingway started when she read the Old Man And the sea at school but it was his soppy love letters that gave her the idea for her novel. ‘the letters are really fun, all pillow talk and baby language,’ she says. ‘It made me wonder who these women were who brought out another side of this hyper-masculine man.’ Mrs Hemingway opens in the south of France in 1926, with Ernest on the cusp of leaving his first wife, Hadley, for her best friend, Fife. Ernest has yet to publish his first novel but is already

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notorious for his talent, beauty and sportsmanship. The three are on an uneasy holiday together, swimming, drinking and playing three-handed bridge, as Hadley hopes for the best, Fife waits and Ernest fails to make up his mind. ‘I decided to show the dying days of each marriage, with flashbacks,’ says Wood, ‘I wanted each wife to give her account and for us to see how people remember and sometimes misremember their past.’ It’s perhaps not surprising that Hemingway seems so attractive, as we are seeing him through the eyes of the women who want him, but Wood says he had a universal appeal.

“Lots of women have had Hemingwaytype men in their lives”

‘Women flocked to him and he was extremely charming. He was tremendously loving and lovely. Part of writing the book was exploring what four intelligent and beautiful women saw in him. He had to have had that charming side or else it would have just been unendurable. He could be brutal.’ Although Wood is showing the end of each relationship, she hopes she has still written a love story. ‘It’s really about the love that got them there in the first place,’ she says. ‘It’s definitely not a boy meets girl romance, though, with the carousel of wives and mistresses whipping around.’ So did he love one of the wives best? ‘He canonised Hadley,’ says Wood. ‘A Moveable Feast, which he wrote in the early 1950s, is all about their life in Paris and is full of yearning for her, though it’s very easy to

look back with nostalgia to a life of glamorous poverty. He certainly clung on to his memory of Hadley and regretted the divorce the most.’ Martha Gelhorn, on the other hand, was probably the wife who most regretted meeting him. ‘Gelhorn would hate being in a book called Mrs Hemingway,’ says Wood. ‘She was a writer who didn’t want to be a footnote. She wanted to make her own narrative through her amazing reportage, and not be dominated by his. They never met again after their divorce and I think she regretted being seduced by him.’

AcH wife takes a turn in narrating the novel. Wood considered giving Hemingway the chance to tell his side of the story, but wasn’t convinced she could effectively pull it off. ‘Now I’m really glad I didn’t because enough ink has been spilled on giving Hemingway’s perspective while the four women who shared his life lived in his shadow,’ she says. ‘I wanted the book to be about them.’ In Wood’s first novel, The Godless Boys, she conjured a society where aggressive secularism is just as damaging as religious fundamentalism. In the more Valentine’s Dayfriendly Mrs Hemingway, she blends known facts with imagined scenarios, building a richly detailed physical world and using her own experiences and feelings to interpret her characters’ motivations. ‘Lots of women have had Hemingway-type men in their lives,’ she says, ‘and then you get older and decide not to put up with it anymore.’ Her research took her to Paris, Antibes and cuba, where she learned to appreciate rum by drinking Hemingway’s favourite tipple. Wild daiquiris, she assures me, will not lead to a hangover. Wood plans to start her third novel in the summer and has an idea for a historical fiction. Are there any other writers she’d like to build a book around? She shudders then laughs. ‘No,’ she says, firmly. ‘I’m looking forward to creating an imaginary

The old man and the she: Ernest Hemingway with his fourth wife Mary in Cuba in 1948 world and to having the license to decide what colour hair someone has or what her husband is called. This book has been an enormous task and duty and by the end I felt like a

stalker or the fifth wife. I can’t imagine wanting to write a whole piece about real people ever again.’ Mrs Hemingway (Picador) is out tomorrow.

AnTi-VALEnTinEs Books on the Darker siDe oF love The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Vintage, 2011)

Enright is brilliant on the emotional battlefields and dance floors that exist between men and women. This story, set against the backdrop of the Celtic Tiger, focuses on one Dublin woman’s affair complicated by her lover’s young daughter.

gig DEAD PREZ This groundbreaking and punchy US hiphop duo have worn their influences boldly since they broke out with their 2000 debut album, Let’s Get Free. Their rhymes are laced with social commentary and satire, as well as tributes to US civil rights heroes and literary giants, yet they’re polished off with the kind of slick production you’d generally associate with commercial big-

Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes(Jonathan Cape, 1982)

One of the great adultery novels. Love, passion and pain collide in the desert during World War II.

Short and brutally brilliant novel about a relationship ruined by jealousy. Packed with acute observations about the nature of love.

Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (Heinemann, 1915)

Philip knows Muriel is silly but he can’t stop wanting her. Encapsulates the sad

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Bloomsbury, 1992) hitters – though the corporate record biz is regularly a target of their diatribes. A couple of years have passed since the duo’s third album, Information Age, but they’ve remained entertaining, occasionally incendiary wordsmiths, though the abrasive power and subversion of some of their tracks (including older rabblerouser Hell Yeah) has also proved a double-edged sword. Still, they promise to bring their Revolutionary But Gangsta attitude to this Dublin date.

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fact that unrequited love is no less painful when the love object is not worthy.

The Poetry Of Sex edited by Sophie Hannah (Penguin, 2014)

This intelligent person’s Valentine’s Day gift gives us all that poetry has to say about the light and dark sides of love. Sublime.

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Jackman’s father for justice PrisOners (15A) HHH✩✩ DVD, Blu-ray, VoD

This morally murky thriller, the English-language debut of Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve, pitches Hugh Jackman (pictured) as desperate dad Christian Dover into lone-wolf vigilante territory to unsettling effect. When his daughter and her friend disappear one rainy Thanksgiving afternoon and the police can find no solid evidence to keep the prime suspect in custody, Dover (who keeps his basement stocked in case of Armageddon) takes matters into his own hands. Convinced of the guilt of Paul Dano’s creepily silent, oily-haired and mentally slow Alex Jones, he kidnaps and proceeds to torture him for what feels like a very long time, to make him give up the girls’ location. Does the situation justify his methods? Or is this all a comment on American exceptionalism? Whatever your opinion, it’s a hard, watch. Meanwhile, Jake Gyllenhaal’s nervily blinking Detective Loki is ploughing an equally lonely furrow, working his way through suburban weirdos to

track down the abductor. The race-against-time tension ratchets up and the plot twists and turns enough to keep you guessing. Grittily, grimly atmospheric. siobhán Murphy

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in that? Holofcener assembles a good cast here. Louis-Dreyfus makes you root for Eva even when she’s blatantly in the wrong but it’s the dignified Gandolfini who steals the show. sM

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Nicole Holofcener’s latest comedy is always going to be remembered as James ‘Tony Soprano’ Gandolfini’s last lead film role. He’s great in it: without him, this romcom of gently barbed observations about middle-aged romance, cradled in a contrived plot, would seem much the slighter. At its centre is Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s divorced mum Eva, who meets Albert and Marianne (Catherine Keener) at the same party. Eva and Albert start seeing each other, with all the awkwardness of 40+ dating. Meanwhile, Eva becomes a starstruck friend to Marianne, only for the awful truth to dawn that the ex-husband Marianne keeps slating is someone Eva’s been getting to know rather well… Does she fess up? Where would the fun be

Jackie Robinson holds hallowed status in US sports history as the man who broke baseball’s ‘colour line’ to become its first black major league player. So 42 (named for Robinson’s shirt number) is suitably hagiographic, with stirring speeches and that particularly American honey-lit photography you associate with solidly old-fashioned TV biopics. Watching it, you’d think Clint Eastwood was in the chair, in fact it’s writer/director Brian Helgeland (who took the Oscar for his LA Confidential screenplay), making no deviations from the standard, ‘rousing biography’ formula. Chadwick Boseman’s Robinson is a bit of a stoical cipher as he struggles with racism from teammates, opponents and fans. As Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers boss who hired him, Harrison Ford does his best cranky curmudgeon shtick. And yet, 42 tells such a remarkable story it still intrigues. sM

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Dallas Buyers Club the newest must-see release. the oustanding Matthew McConaughey (pictured) and Jared leto lost the weight of an entire person between them for this low-budget Aids drama.

12 Years A Slave you know you should see it – yes, you should. the strongest contender for best film Oscar is a powerful drama of slavery and conscience, starring Chiwetel ejiofor and Michael fassbender.

Inside Llewyn Davis shamefully overlooked for the top Oscars, this is still one of the best movies of the year. A beautiful, lowkey black comedy masterpiece from the Coen brothers starring Oscar isaac (pictured).

GMF by John Grant

John Reynolds introduced us to this one and we’ve had it on repeat ever since. It’s lyrically brilliant, and what a chorus. We did manage to meet and chat with John Grant after a show and he’s a lovable character.

HOw DOEs iT FEEL by slade

This song has been on our playlist for about two years now and we never, ever tire of it. To my mind it epitomises 1970s rock. It was released this month 38 years ago and would stroll to

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LOOking aheaD Only lOVers left AliVe tilda swinton as a vampire? that’s enough on its own to get you slavering over what promises to be a typically eccentric meander from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Out feb 21.

number one if released today. Love it.

MORninGs ELEvEn by the Magic numbers

Such an uplifting, boppy pop tune. A winner at sessions too. We had the pleasure of watching this song live every night when we toured with them last year. Epic!

nO.1 PARTy AnTHEM by Arctic Monkeys

‘Leather jacket, collar popped like Cantona’ ... sold instantly.

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Until we can hook up again with The Bridge’s Saga Norén and co, here’s another tight, single-story cop drama to keep us going. DCI Tony Gates (Lennie James) has a perfect track record for solving cases, but as the Anti Corruption Unit’s DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) points out: ‘No one is that good.’ So as he and DC Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) crack on with investigating him over a mistaken shooting, we see the truth about Gates unravel amid layers of police corruption, red tape and splattered blood. James (below) is charismatic as the lead (counterbalancing an irritating Gina McKee as his lover) but writer Jed Mercurio’s ending fails to offer any definite resolutions. If you’re hooked by the end, series two starts on BBC2 tonight if you want to record it. sharon Lougher

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Mr Peabody & Sherman Zany, zip-along cartoon fun with a genius, time-travelling dog and his dim adopted human son. loads of laugh-out-loud jokes for human adults. Lift To The Scaffold louis Malle’s 1958 debut is a nail-biting french thriller – with an improvised score by Miles Davis – that ushered in the nouvelle Vague. reissued on limited release. ifi only

54-46 wAs My nuMbER by toots And the Maytals This is the essential ‘it’s Friday and I’m off for the weekend’ tune. We walked on stage to it at a recent show and the atmosphere was electric.

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television film of the Day HE’S JuST NoT THAT INTo you,RTÉ1, 9.35pm

line of Duty BBC2, 9pm The explosive second-series opener of Jed Mercurio’s police thriller finds Keeley Hawes as DI Lindsay Denton (pictured right with Martin Compston as DS Steve Arnott and Vicky McClure as DC Kate Fleming) on the wrong side of investigations. She’s the duty officer who survived the ambush of a vital police witness but was corruption or incompetence to blame for the leak that facilitated the attack? Supt Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) and his police anticorruption unit are on the case, while DC Fleming pleads personal reasons. Which clears the way for the arrival of Detective Constable Georgia Trotman (Jessica Raine). While Denton is being given a hard time by all around her, keen DC Trotman inclines toward the benefit of the doubt.

Based on the runaway bestseller written by Sex and the City writer Greg Behrendt, which in turn was inspired by an episode on the hit New York-set show, this rather generic romcom starring Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore and Ben Affleck centres around the challenges of dating – specificially mixed signals and misreading mutual attraction. The Oprah-esque mantra at the heart of the movie dispenses with the romantic notion that if he hasn’t called it’s because he’s busy/lost your number/his fingers have fallen off. The odd well-observed laugh aside, this movie should be funnier – the SATC episode was hilarious – but after two hours and despite the star-studded cast, you’re just never that into it.

miDweek Tv3, 10pm Following the recent retrial and reconviction of Amanda Knox for the murder of meredith Kercher in Italy, presenter Colette Fitzpatrick talks exclusively with lawyer for The Friends of Amanda Knox and former Seattle prosecutor Anne Bremner about the ongoing case that has sparked global interest. ms Bremner discusses the portrayal of Amanda by the media as some kind of ‘she-devil’ during the trial and looks at the double jeopardy rule and the issue of extradition.

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Eight weeks after Danny’s murder the village turns out for funeral of Jack Marshall, who took his own life after being linked to the boy’s death in the media. The police duo Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and Ellie Miller (Olivia Coleman) attend the service keeping a look-out for Danny’s killer. Meanwhile, Beth gets in contact with another mother of a child murder victim and DS Miller’s son Tom strikes up an unlikely friendship with Susan and her dog.

A treat for fans of Nordic noir, the 100th episode of the British crime drama goes on location in Copenhagen where Barnaby and Nelson (Neil Dudgeon and Gwilym Lee) join forces with Danish duo poulsen (Ann Eleonora Jorgensen, The Killing) and Degn (Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Borgen). The case begins in a biscuit factory where Joanna Scanlan and Sanjeev Bhaskar are bickering over recipes. Could one of them end up in a Jammie Dodger…?

my top five films Big Ass Spider star Lombardo Boyar

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Raging Bull

Dominic Cooper (pictured below) shakes and stirs smoothly as he takes on the persona of author Ian Fleming, the man who gave the world James Bond, in a four-part biopic every bit as colourful as any 007 caper. The story opens at Fleming’s Jamaican home Goldeneye where he’s honeymooning with wife Ann (Lara pulver) before rewinding back through the wartime military escapades that provided the feckless young Fleming with rich source material for his books.

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro at their very best. It’s the ultimate lesson in how your personal life affects your professional life. I can relate.

the exoRcist

The first movie I remember watching in a theatre, from under my seat – I was six years old. Thanks, Mom. Ha ha. A perfect film: still the scariest.

a clockwoRk oRange

I used to come home wasted late at night and watch it to go to sleep. Crazy times. It helped, for some reason.

platoon

My grandfather took me to see this and I was old enough to be truly affected by the

Raging Bull

A Clockwork Orange

content. I went back the next day to watch it alone. I also was 82nd Airborne because of it, I think.

loop. I’m 41, married with a one-year-old daughter, a boy on the way and working at a job I love: that’s all I gotta say about this one. Anthony Gibson

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Xan Cassavetes talks to Anthony Gibson about the family influences on her debut film, Kiss Of The Damned

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ROSS MCDONAGH discovers what’s got everyone so excited about the Super Bowl – the ads

A debut with bite: Actress and director Xan Cassavetes is following in her father’s footsteps

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here are so many peo- sister.’ Cassavetes originally wanted ple I know who could be to be a science researcher but admits the greatest film-maker she was terrible at maths in school. but who will never get the She did, however, pursue her first chance to make a movie; love – music – and had a band. Now, it’s all about what somebody is going continuing in her father’s footsteps, to make back,’ says Alexandra ‘Xan’ her first feature film finds her dabCassavetes. ‘There are Not a lot of bling in the world of horror with romantic ideas about making movies Kiss Of The Dammed. anymore. I don’t understand how It is about a vampire who finds her everything works but I don’t want to, soulmate in a writer but has her idylbecause then it will be real – and my lic life threatened by her sister. ‘I job is to be unrealistic!’ think vampires would want to find a Cassavetes is no stranger to the way to stay attached to the living, the film world: the daughter of the late way human beings do, and that is actor/director John Cassavetes and through love, interrelations and actress Gena rowlands, she grew up meaning,’ says Cassavetes. Kiss Of The Damned follows her in the midst of a film set. John Cassavetes was a pioneer of US inde- 2004 documentary Z Channel: A pendent film-making, using improv- Magnificent Obsession, about the isation and cinéma verité and partly 1970s LA cable channel famous for financing some of his films, which its eclectic film programming, included A Woman Under The Influ- which Cassavetes loved watching. ence and husbands. The influence of that channel – and ‘A lot of films were shot in our house. We had to give up our rooms for hair and make-up,’ Cassavetes explains. ‘The memories are really good and familiar and nothing about it was obnoxious or fancy in any way. I think all of us who grew up in that house have really warm memories and associations with ● Choice of over 90 FETAC/QQI Awards making movies like a giant family.’ ● Childcare, Healthcare, Business, Digital Media & Brother and sister many more Nick and Zoe are ● Distance & Attendance also actor/directors. Learning Options ‘If we have an idea for something, we Let us Help you Succeed ● Market Leading Prices call each other first,’ she says. ‘We really Tel: 01 2061828 / 01 2061829 care about each othEmail: info@theopencollege.com er’s opinion. It’s very nurturing and exciting to be their

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’m on Facebook and, finally, it all their elite athletes have to do. looks like things have returned And it’s not even like the whole to normal. For weeks now, all team takes part in these 11 minutes. anyone was talking about over They have different teams to field here was Super Bowl. But not depending on what’s going on, an the Denver Broncos or the victorious offensive team, a defensive team… Seattle Seahawks. For three weeks even a team so one guy can kick! I solid, every post on my timeline – know a guy over here who plays sponsored or no – was about what college football, destined for a ads were going to be shown during career making ridiculous money as the game. You wouldn’t even know a ‘long snapper’ – his entire job is there was a game going on at all, simply to throw the ball back to yet it was the most watched somebody between his legs. televised event in US history. I play on an American football And while there were plenty of team. It’s co-ed (boys and girls play) nipples on display during the halfand its flag (like tag rugby – we time show, they all sadly belonged don’t have to wear all that padding to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Not and helmet) and I admit it’s great that they could have been craic. But my main problem is anywhere near red hot, all if the quarterback is half-naked in New having a bad day, then Jersey in February. everyone has a bad No wonder Of course, little did day. You can’t really anyone know that cover for a crap Americans are fat the ads would be the teammate as you can if this is all their most interesting in soccer. But when I thing about the make a comparison elite athletes game, which was to soccer I’m told it’s a have to do hilariously one-sided. wusses’ sport (because Not that anyone cared. we don’t legally ‘hit’ each There are cars to sell! other). When I say I play flag The game of football itself is football I’m told that’s ‘even softer’. ridiculous. First of all, why is it I reply that in co-ed flag football, called football? Hardly anyone uses men and women grab at each their feet. And never mind the other’s hips and asses; in ‘normal’ Super Bowl, regular games lasts American football, it’s just tightlymore than three hours. Of that the panted men piling on top of each ball is in play a mere 11 minutes! other. Nevertheless, only this week That leaves two hours and 49 Michael Sam, a player from minutes of commercials, replays, Missouri, came out to become the time-outs and just standing around. first openly gay American footballer, Eleven minutes of action! No 145 years after the first-ever game wonder Americans are fat, if this is was played. @rossvsross

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of hammer horror films – is evident in Kiss Of The Damned. ‘I wasn’t trying to have a 1970s vibe,’ she insists. ‘But it’s a cross between those stylised horror movies and the sort of soft-core erotica I used to watch on the Z Channel. There is a kinship between arty horror and emmanuelle-type movies.‘ So why so long to make her first film? ‘Because nobody wanted to make a movie with me,’ she laughs. ‘My taste in films doesn’t lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars. I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it’s going to interest anybody else? ‘I am working on another movie but I can’t talk about it because then it will never be made,’ she jokes. Kiss Of The Damned is out now on DVD and Blu-ray.

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cOOkERy DEMO fOR nuRTuRE Irish charity Nurture, who provide support and counselling to women and their families relating to issues around pregnancy and child birth, are holding a fundraiser on February 25. The charity is raising money so they can continue their work which has recently been extended to Monaghan, Wicklow, Cork and Galway. Chef Andrew Rudd will be holding a cookery demonstration in his private dining venue, Medley on Drury Street. There will also be cocktails and canapés on arrival as well as a raffle and music for guests to enjoy. Tickets are on sale now priced at €30 per person. Fore more see www.nurturepnd.org.

Psychologist Jesse Bering claims that we all have deviant carnal urges, writes Lisa Scott

re we really all perverts? Jesse Bering certainly thinks so. The psychologist and author of new book Perv: The Sexual Deviant In All Of Us, claims each of us has a sexual anomaly of some sort, it’s just that we keep our masturbatory mental aids to ourselves. However, some of us, it must be said, are more deviant than others. Those with more exotic kinks are considered to have a condition called paraphilia, a term coined by German psychiatrist Wilhelm Stekel. ‘Para’ is Greek for ‘other’ or ‘outside of’ and ‘philia’ translates roughly to ‘loving’. To get sexual gratification, these individuals fantasise or engage in sexual behaviour that is not typical or is considered extreme. Those paraphilias still considered to be mental disorders are: transvestic fetishism, masochism, exhibitionism, frotteurism (rubbing your own genitals or touching strangers in public such as on the train – watch out), podophilia (foot worship), sadism and voyeurism. There are hundreds more innocuous paraphilias that, while unusual, aren’t harmful. Instead of judging people on what excites them, Bering argues that we should judge how harmful their deviance is. We all have biases about what is gross but if someone gets off on tickling, for example, does it really matter? Tickling? Yes, ‘titillagnia’ is erotic arousal from tickling, which Bering notes is actually quite an unpleasant experience for those on the receiving end (one woman in Vienna even filed for divorce because her husband used tickling as a form of abuse). The fetish most of us are familiar with, though, is that of the foot. Bering was exposed to such a fetish first-hand when he had his own toes devoured by a man. ‘That a person could become so sexually excited – in the full curtain-drawn light of day, no less – by something I perceived to be so disgusting mystified me,’ he says.

Get an Eiffel: Is it possible to fall in love with an object? Well, Erika Eiffel managed to marry the Eiffel Tower in 2007… For these fetishists it is the object’s physical connection (in this case the toes) with the erotic target’s body that makes it so arousing – ‘as though the object has absorbed the person’s hidden essence,’ says Bering. One of the least common paraphilias, though, is a sexual interest in objects. What’s more, they’re convinced the object has feelings for them. Bering refers to psychotherapist Amy Marsh, who has suggested such individuals have a rare neurological condition called object personification synesthesia, which causes them to perceive personalities and emotions in, say, ladders, chairs, tables and so on. Marsh interviewed a woman who was – guess what? – in a

relationship with a flag called Libby. She was quoted as saying: ‘Libby is always telling me she thinks I am funny. We make each other laugh so hard!’ erika eiffel, a former soldier who lives in San Francisco, married the eiffel Tower in 2007, three years after she first encountered the 324m-high structure. She was filmed in a documentary kissing one of the huge steel foundations. And in 1979, eija-ritta eklof married the Berlin Wall. Sadly she is now a widow. Bering’s 18 months of research led him to quite a moral conclusion, something he admits even he wasn’t expecting. ‘We’ve all spent far too long dawdling over the irrelevant

pERvy pOsERs JEssE BErIng ansWErs your quEsTIons @Trackercat: How much of sexuality is fixed? JB: The answer is different for men and women. The best evidence suggests that male sexuality is largely a ‘done deal’ by the time a boy reaches puberty. Even fetishes in men are thought to have their origins in childhood experiences.

Women, by contrast, are said to have more ‘erotic plasticity’ and are able to lose and acquire kinks more easily throughout the life course. @d79Jones: Do particular forms of deviancy arise in particular societies or cultures?

JB: If a deviancy is common enough in a particular culture, it’s not, by definition, deviant in that society. But the major clinical types – exhibitionism, fetishism, podophilia, sadomasochism, frotteurism and so on – are found the world over, regardless of a society’s attitudes about sex.

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vALEnTinE’s TREAT reFlexology Reflexologist Clodagh Mulvey on why your partner will thank you for thinking of their tootsies this Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day is a bit like Christmas in my view – ‘there’s as much pleasure in the giving as in the

receiving. Offering your loved one a nice foot rub can work wonders, earning you oodles of romantic brownie points. But if feet are not your thing, then reflexology could be the perfect treat for him, her, or – if you happen to be on your tod this Friday – yourself. Synonymous with relaxation, reflexology dates back to ancient Egypt when it was used by physicians during the sixth dynasty, around 2,330BC. Since then it has taken root in Eastern traditions as a legitimate form of healing, and more recently, has even become acceptable in the logicdriven West, where more and more people are opening up to the idea that good health is a bit like a tree: the mind, body and spirit branches akin to trunk, root and ariel systems – with each part inextricably connected to the next. With some 7,200 nerve endings in each foot, practitioners view the two feet as a virtual map of the body, and can therefore treat the various organs and systems effectively. Using a specific massage technique of the various acupressure points in the feet, reflexology can induce a deep state of peacefulness that

affords the recipient time-out of their ceaseless thinking and channel the body’s innate wisdom and tranquillity. It is a gentle method of reconnecting your soles to your soul. Around Valentine’s Day, of course, many minds become focused on, and concerned with, issues of the heart – particularly those who dread the day because perhaps they are alone, or those who just see it as a commercial enterprise devoid of any element of true romance. If it’s a bit of self-nurturing you need, then what better time of the year to flip the dread on its head and indulge in a bit of self-love? Or if you’re a firm believer in bringing romance into the everyday, rather than storing it up like a lovebomb detonated to explode in one mad dash to a restaurant for a candle-lit dinner on the one-andonly romantic day of the year, then, take a deep breath, relax and put your feet up. With Valentine’s Day around the corner and the scent of blossoming romance on the air, this could be the perfect time to treat your loved one, or yourself, to a little pampering.

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questions of what’s “normal” and “natural”,’ he says in his column for Slate magazine. ‘We must abandon the rhetoric of righteousness and instead turn our efforts to clarifying – using science rather than scripture, laws or even (and especially) our own gut feelings – how a sexual act or orientation is harmful to those involved. ‘In my book, at least, doing harm is the only thing that makes a person a pervert. We do a lot of harm just by judging others’ sexuality.’ To Bering, that makes the homophobe the pervert rather than the gay man or lesbian having sex with another consenting adult.

So could being a sexual deviant one day be perfectly acceptable? Yes – and Bering believes it’s all down to a matter of education. ‘Wouldn’t it be a shame if, after all our laughing and pointing at others due to their sexuality, it turns out that people have as much say over what arouses them as they do over the colour of their skin?’ he says. ‘One day we’ll all be embarrassed for having waged so cruel a campaign against the erotic outliers among us.’

@elasticbishop: Do you think homosexuality will ever be completely normalised, akin to different hair colour or different tastes in ice cream? JB: Only if people make the effort to educate themselves about human sexuality. Encouraging

people to think objectively – and humanely – about human sexual variation is an uphill battle, as I learned while writing Perv.

Perv: The Sexual Deviant In All Of Us (Transworld Publishers) is out now.

Agalmatophilia: Arousal from statues Climacophilia: Arousal from falling down stairs Exhibitionism: Exposing in public parts of the body that are normally hidden Masochism: Arousal from your own pain, deprivation or degradation Nasolingus: Arousal from sucking on a person’s nose Psychrophilia: Arousal from being cold and watching others who are cold Transvestic fetishism: Arousal from female garments touching a male’s skin Sadism: Arousal from causing physical and psychological pain Voyeurism: Arousal from spying on people engaged in intimate acts Zoophilia: Arousal from an animal

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O’neill wants debate to stay within hurling

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GAA President Liam O’neill has vowed to look into the state of hurling after questions were raised about the physicality of the modern game, but says he would rather keep the discussion within the organisation. Former Kilkenny star eddie Keher had raised the proposal that red and yellow cards could be removed from the game – an idea forwarded by Kilkenny manager Brian Cody. O’neill has taken the suggestions on board, but said it was time to take the debate into a domain other than the media. He explained: ‘the debate has been opened up in hurling, started off by the comments made by eddie Keher on his views on how he sees hurling should be run from a disciplinary point of view. ‘in the last 24 hours Brian Cody has made his suggestions. We also had a view this morning from Cyril Farrell. ‘What i’m saying is rather than having the debate in the media and across the airwaves, why not open up a debate in hurling? i’m very willing to facilitate that. ‘if people want to discuss how hurling is played and governed and how the disciplinary system works, let’s do it. Let’s do it in an open manner where everybody gets a chance to have an input. ‘We’ll discuss it now at Central Council. i’ve given the commitment to have the debate and what is the best format to have such a debate. We’ll do that in the next fortnight and i would hope to get the process started as soon as possible after Congress. ‘i’d like it to be a format which would give everyone who wants to input a chance to do so. i think that is the most important thing. i want this debate to be inclusive and i want people to see this as the start of a blueprint for how the game will be played from here on. ‘Hurling belongs to all of us and i would like to get that to the centre of people’s mind when they start to engage in this debate.’ O’neill said he is not concerned about the risks involved in having a debate on its future. ‘People have asked for the debate now so we’re going to facilitate the process. it has to be remembered that hurling has evolved. We once played hurling across valleys, we played it

spORT DigEsT Floyd is Ryder Cup vice-captain for US gOLf Raymond

Floyd has been selected by United States Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson as one of his vicecaptains for September’s event. Floyd (pictured), America’s 1989 captain and an eight-time Ryder Cup player, will serve as vice-captain for the second time after also assisting Paul Azinger in 2008. He is the second vice-captain selected by Watson, joining two-time US Open winner Andy North. Watson said: ‘You look at Raymond’s eyes, you never saw his eyes waver. The way he played the game was every shot counted, and that’s the type of guy that I want to be taking care of my back, as the captain.’

Hamilton/Di Resta settle differences AuTO Paul Di Resta and Anthony

Open: Liam O’Neill (right) with Kilkenny’s Tommy Walsh and Wexford manager Liam Dunne ‘nobody has stated to my knowledge that the town-to-town, we played at 21 a-side, 18 aside, 15 a-side, and we have modified the game process is about to happen. it is speculation and so much to a fair extent that it is arguable that i supposed a pre-empted strike by people who the wonderful year we had last year was the end don’t wish for it to happen. no committee has come up with that suggestion yet and if the conof an evolutionary process in hurling.

‘Hurling belongs to all of us and I would like to get that to people’s minds when they engage in this debate’ ‘there is nothing in life as certain as change, so let the debate happen. if we don’t want to change now, that’s fine with me. Let people who haven’t had a voice in this have their voice. Let’s see what the consensus is.’ O’neill did, however, stress that the introduction of the black card – seen by some as inevitable – is not yet on the table.

sensus is that people don’t want that, that’s fine, as long as there is a rule system that guarantees the skill of a player is allowed to be demonstrated and enjoy his game. ‘the promise i will give to anybody that makes a suggestion is their view will be debated and will be taken on board. When a consensus emerges, we will see what happens.’

Wales look to make changes for visit of France Warren Gatland looks set to make changes – and also offer players a chance for redemption – when Wales face France in next week’s make-or-break rBS 6 nations clash. Wales’ hopes of achieving an unprecedented Six nations title hat-trick suffered a huge setback when they were beaten 26-3 by Ireland last Saturday. It was Wales’ heaviest defeat in 32 Six nations tests since Gatland took charge for the 2008 campaign, and dropped them to fourth place with a vastly-inferior points difference to unbeaten leaders Ireland and second-placed France. Victory over les Bleus at the

rugby six nations Millennium Stadium in ten days’ time would revive title hopes ahead of a March 9 twickenham appointment with england, but Wales are now chasing others in the race for silverware. lock luke Charteris and flanker Justin tipuric are among those being touted for call-ups. It is also feasible wing George north could move to outside centre if Scott Williams does not recover in time from a shoulder injury and Jonathan davies is not ready as he continues his fitness fight after suffering pectoral muscle damage during

Released; Warburton

the autumn test series against South africa. Sam Warburton and prop Gethin Jenkins, meanwhile, are among ten players who will be released to their regional teams for rabodirect PrO12 actionk. the list also includes Ospreys trio dan Biggar, rhys Webb and ryan Bevington, in addition to Scarlets prop Samson lee. ‘We have spoken to players and they have admitted their performance was below par. I have been pleased with the response of the players in terms of their attitude. ‘We will do whatever we can to make sure the performance is a lot better in the next game.’

Hamilton have agreed to an out-of-court settlement as a resolution to their bitter legal feud. Former Force India driver Di Resta sacked Hamilton as his manager in 2012 following a dispute over a sponsorship deal with energy drinks company Go Fast. Hamilton sued Di Resta for breach of contract. A statementfrom Di Resta’s management company, The Sports Partnership, confirmed the battle has now been brought to a close. Hamilton said: ‘I am very sorry Paul and I fell out and I am pleased to put this matter to bed.’

Doping witnesses may get reprieve cycLing

Witnesses who give evidence about doping to cycling’s reform commission will be eligible to have bans or sanctions reduced – but the scale of any reduction will depend on their testimony. The Cycling Independent Reform Commission [CIRC], can have ‘preliminary discussions’ about reductions with key witnesses. No deals will be done until after the witness has given evidence. Brian Cookson (pictured), president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), said: ‘Until evidence has been heard it is impossible to determine the amount of sanction reduction.’

Haye return doubt bOxing David Haye admits conflicting medical opinions continue to leave him in the dark on the future of his boxing career after he underwent surgery last year. ‘You talk to doctors, 50 per cent say you can make a recovery and 50 per cent say, “you’re done, you’ll never be able to throw a punch again”. I won’t know anything for a good few months yet. There’s plenty of speculation, but the bottom line is I don’t know.’

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Running out of steam: Ozil

Wenger goes on the attack to defend Ozil

Show us how good you are, Moyes tells United by DANIEL JONES

Arsenal v Manchester Utd: 7.45pm

ARSENE WENgER has jumped to the defence of Mesut Ozil after the Arsenal midfielder came in for criticism over his current form. The 25-year-old was anonymous in the 5-1 pummelling at Liverpool and has been accused of going missing in recent fixtures. Wenger, though, has no issues with the contribution of the £42.5million germany playmaker. ‘He didn’t have the best of games on Saturday but

0 Goals scored by attacking

midfielder Ozil in his last 11 games for Arsenal

that can happen,’ he said. ‘He works very hard to adapt to the physical level of the Premier League and for me he is an exceptional player.’ Wenger is confident Ozil and his Arsenal team-mates can bounce back from their ‘accident’ at Liverpool by beating Manchester United at the Emirates tonight. ‘It is always a disappointment to lose a game but I think it was an accident because we have been very stable defensively and we have to treat it like that,’ he said. ‘We’ve just been on a ten-game unbeaten run. You cannot consider one game as the trend.’

RODgERS SEES gIANT STRIDES Tactically cute: Philippe Coutinho can cope with physicality

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KEy bATTLE: Robin van Persie v Laurent Koscielny

Who’d have thought six months ago we would be saying Van Persie (right) has something to prove? The outstanding player of the 2011/2012 season when at Arsenal, he was probably the difference in the title race for United last term. But this season injuries have been a common theme, and even though his strike rate is still impressive – ten goals in 14 league games – United fans will now be expecting his brilliance to help rescue their poor season. Koscielny (left) has enjoyed a fine campaign in Arsenal’s defence and will be desperate to shut Van Persie and United out after Liverpool’s thumping 5-1 win at Anfield last weekend.

LIVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers believes the evolution of Philippe Coutinho and Jordan Henderson are prime examples of the giant strides being made at Anfield. The Reds head to Fulham tonight seeking to cement fourth place in the table and Rodgers said: ‘[Philippe’s] 5ft 7in, he’s got brilliant technique, he’s tactically cute and clever, but physically he has everything to cope. People always wonder about small players in this league, can they play and can they cope? ‘For players like him and Joe Allen it’s about the talent and if you’ve got the strength, your brain, the power and the mentality, you can succeed.’ Rodgers also praised Henderson and added: ‘I have been mightily impressed with his tactical idea of the game and now he looks like he is ready to play for England for many years.’

DaviD Moyes is adamant Manchester United remain a ‘top side’ and believes his team are ready to show that at arsenal. The Premier League champions travel to the emirates tonight on the back of another disappointing result, having conceded a last-minute equaliser at home to the league’s bottom team Fulham on sunday.

‘We’ll go to Arsenal and show we’re a top side’ The 2-2 draw continued a difficult first campaign at old Trafford for Moyes but, although conceding his team simply have not won enough this season, the manager is convinced their fortunes will turn around soon. ‘Winning changes it – and we have not won often enough,’ said Moyes. ‘We are a top side. anybody who knows and understands football knew changes had to be made. ‘anybody who watched the game the other day and didn’t think we deserved to win by a hundred miles knows nothing about it. ‘There have been other games like that. But we are not looking for excuses. We can only blame ourselves and we need to do better.’ United beat arsenal earlier this term when Robin van Persie scored the only goal against his old club and Moyes added: ‘We got a good result against them at old Trafford and we’ll try to do the same again. ‘We’ll go and play. We are a top side and hopefully we’ll go and show that we are, play well and do everything we can to pick up the three points.’

Five defeats won’t harm hunt for fourth, says Tim TOTTENHAM manager Tim Sherwood believes his side could lose five of their remaining Premier League fixtures and still qualify for the Champions League. Spurs sit fifth in the table following their 1-0 win over fellow top-four hopefuls Everton on Sunday, with just a three-point gap up to Liverpool, who are currently in fourth spot. Sherwood has lost just one of his nine league fixtures since replacing Andre Villas-Boas at White Hart Lane and, despite the defeat being the 5-1 mauling at the hands of Manchester City, he feels Spurs could afford to lose more games. ‘I haven’t looked at it, maths isn’t my strong point, but I would say we

can only possibly afford to lose four or five games maybe of what we’ve got left,’ he said. When asked if nine wins from their last 13 games would be enough, Sherwood (pictured) replied: ‘It could well be. Someone could drop a couple but big rivals like Liverpool are flying and we need them to trip up.’ Sherwood expects the race for the top four to ‘go to the wire’ and reckons plenty of clubs are still in the mix, including tonight’s opponents Newcastle. Magpies boss Alan Pardew wants a strong finish to the campaign and said: ‘We have won more than we have lost, and it’s important we keep that until the end of the season.’

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Victor adds new twist to title race pREMiER LEAgUE

WEST BroM....................................1 CHELSEA...........................................1 by DAniEL gRiffiTHs CHELSEA’S chances of piling the pressure on Arsenal and Manchester City were punctured last night by a late equaliser from West Brom striker Victor Anichebe. Blues defender Branislav Ivanovic appeared to have given Jose Mourinho’s men a four-point lead at the top of the table when he smashed home deep into first-half injury-time after David Luiz flicked on a corner.

2 Goals in three games scored by

Branislav Ivanovic, who also hit the crucial winner at Manchester City

It wasn’t the best performance from Mourinho’s pacesetters but they appeared to have done enough to win and extend their run of clean sheets away from Stamford Bridge to five until substitute Anichebe pounced with just three minutes remaining, heading a Saido Berahino cross in off a post. The point lifts the Baggies out of the bottom three as they are now above Sunderland on goal difference. Chelsea have now won seven and drawn two of nine league matches since they drew 0-0 with Arsenal just before Christmas. But this draw will feel like a loss as they should have had it all wrapped up long before West Brom levelled. Willian fired over the bar, while Ivanovic was unable to turn in a cross from Samuel Eto’o. Oscar wasted a great chance to fire the Londoners further ahead after Ivanovic broke the deadlock and Eto’o drilled wide, before Willian sent his finish into Ben Foster’s arms.

Jose the special one for Saints HULL ..................................................... 0 SoUTHAMPToN.................................. 1 JOSE FONTE’S scrambled effort won Southampton the points as Mauricio Pochettino’s side extended their unbeaten run to eight matches. Fonte: Winner A pulsating first half had seen Hull’s Shane Long and Saints’ Jay Rodriguez hit the woodwork but clear chances were at a premium. Rickie Lambert went close for the visitors before Fonte saw a header saved by Steve Harper, prodding home the rebound, while Jack Cork hit the crossbar late on.

Back to front: Ivanovic turns away to celebrate his goal for Chelsea last night

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Chelsea Arsenal Man City Liverpool Tottenham Everton Man Utd South’ton Newcastle West Ham Aston Villa Swansea Hull Stoke Crystal Pal Norwich West Brom Sunderland Cardiff Fulham

P 26 25 25 25 25 25 25 26 25 26 26 25 26 25 25 26 26 25 26 25

W D L F A Pts 17 6 3 48 21 57 17 4 4 48 26 55 17 3 5 68 27 54 15 5 5 63 30 50 14 5 6 32 32 47 12 9 4 37 26 45 12 5 8 41 31 41 10 9 7 37 29 39 11 4 10 32 34 37 7 7 12 28 33 28 7 8 12 27 37 28 7 6 12 32 25 27 7 6 13 25 31 27 6 8 11 26 40 26 8 2 15 18 34 26 6 7 13 19 39 25 4 12 10 30 38 24 6 6 13 25 38 24 5 7 14 19 44 22 6 2 17 24 55 20

fixtures (7.45pm unless stated)

Arsenal v Man Utd, Everton v Crystal Palace, Man City v Sunderland, Newcastle v Tottenham, Stoke v Swansea, Fulham v Liverpool (8pm)

Collins provides Marshall’s late save the Upton spark denies Villa victory WEST HAM ............2

NorWiCH..............0

WEST Ham staged a classic smash-and-grab raid to see off Norwich at Upton Park. After being under the cosh for much of the game, the Hammers broke the deadlock when defender James Collins (pictured) headed home on 84 minutes as he leapt to beat Canaries keeper John Ruddy to Mohamed Diame’s cross. Diame made it 2-0 when he broke clear from a Norwich corner to slide home for the second in injury time. It was tough on Norwich but they were left to rue missing out on a clutch of chances, with Hammers keeper Adrian making four vital saves.

CArDiFF .................0

ASToN ViLLA ........0

CARDIFF and Aston Villa both had fine chances to win this match but were left frustrated. The hosts went close early on, Fraizer Campbell’s shot bouncing back off the inside of a post, and Craig Noone’s deflected effort from 20 yards hitting the crossbar. Wilfried Zaha (pictured) did put the ball into the net, but from an offside position. After the break Villa were much improved and Leandro Bacuna fired one shot wide. Then, in the dying seconds, Cardiff keeper David Marshall brilliantly saved an Andreas Weimann effort.

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Anichebe the victor as West Brom snatch late draw with Chelsea

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It’s snow-go Irish snowboarder fails to make final after brave show at Sochi Olympics Heaven is a halfpipe: Seamus O’Connor in action on the Sochi course that was said to have been affected by warm weather pIcture: InphO

IRISH SNOWBOARDER Seamus O’Connor failed to qualify for the Winter Olympics halfpipe final, but was pleased with his efforts. Having reached the semi-final by finishing eighth in the first heat, American-born O’Connor could not advance any further after coming ninth, with the top six qualifying for the showpiece event. He would have been, at 16, the second youngest competitor in the final behind 15year-old Japanese prodigy Ayumu Hirano, who topped the standings in the first heat of qualifying. O’Connor, who can compete for Ireland through his grandparents, was fourth after the first run, despite suffering a slip, with a score of 54.00. He looked on course for a bigger score but failed to land his final trick properly, which marked him down, and was

by zAck DARcy gradually overhauled. ‘It was my hope that if I had landed that run, that I could have made it (to the final),’ he said. Nevertheless, O’Connor, who also competed in the slopestyle event, was happy he fulfilled his wish of making it past the heats stage. ‘That was originally my goal – to make the semi-finals and I got in there,’ he said. ‘Once I was here I was kind of wanting more. Wanting to land my run, which I was hoping would put me through to the final. ‘Just that I made it here is great but it would have been nice to pass through again.’ British duo Ben Kilner and Dom Harington struggled in the heats and were eliminated, with both admitting the controversial halfpipe course played a factor in crashing out.

The pair could not come through the first heat of qualifiers, with Kilner finishing 16th and Harington finishing bottom of all 20 competitors at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park. The halfpipe course has come in for some criticism, with the warmer weather appearing to make the track bumpy and hindering the competitors. Kilner, whose top score was 43.50, admitted the conditions had played its part in him under-performing. ‘It didn’t quite go how I planned,’ he said. ‘I was really trying to push it but everything got the better of me. ‘I only just kept it together on the first run but the conditions are bumpy and it was tough to hang on.’ Harington made similar comments, but refused to use it as an excuse after failing to land a clean run, falling over on both occasions.

War of words over spending power comes to the boil Manuel Pellegrini has told Jose Mourinho he is wasting his breath in his apparent attempts to engage him in mind games. a simmering war of words over each manager’s comparative spending power came to the boil this week, with both men attempting to depict their club as the weaker in the Premier league title race.

However, Pellegrini now seems to want to draw a line under their spat as the sides prepare to renew rivalries in Saturday’s Fa Cup fifth-round clash at the etihad Stadium. ‘i don’t think they are mind games or that any managers will be affected by those sorts of things,’ said the Manchester City boss, whose side host Sunderland

tonight. ‘But if you remain always silent you may agree with some things. He [Mourinho] started talking about referees and FFP [Financial Fair Play rules], so i responded just once or we continue talking about things. ‘i do not respond to things Mourinho says every week, otherwise he will continue to talk

about things not involving football.’ On Monday, City midfielder Yaya Toure escaped any Football association punishment for kicking ricky van Wolfswinkel in the 0-0 draw at norwich at the weekend, after Mourinho suggested anything other than a ban would be unjust. Pellegrini said: ‘i trust the Fa and the referees.’

Let off: Yaya Toure