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Selfies see rise in surgery
AN obsession with selfies is fuelling a ‘worrying’ increase in young people seeking cosmetic surgery, experts have warned. The self-portrait, mainly taking on mobile phones for posting on social media, has become such a big part of culture that the word ‘selfie’ was even entered into the Oxford English Dictionary last year. The trend has now been reflected in a survey carried out in America which found a ten per cent rise in nose jobs and a seven per cent rise in hair transplants over the past year. In 2013, more than half of surveyed facial plastic surgeons (58 per cent) saw an increase in cosmetic surgery or injectables in those under the age of 30. Derry native Dr Leah Totton, who opened Dr Leah Cosmetic Skin Clinic in January following her win in The Apprentice last year, said clients were increasingly comparing themselves to celebrities’ selfies, adding: ‘Patients will often present
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their selfie and compare it with celeb’s selfies, requesting a feature such as lips or cheeks like a particular celebrity.’ Her patients often used selfies to point out what they wanted to change, with high demand for nose augmentation and cheek enhancement. She said: ‘Due to increased social networking we now have unlimited access to the appearance of others. ‘This can distort a person’s perception of what a “normal person” looks like and what is attainable, encouraging an increase in enhancement treatments.’ Dr Edward Farrior, of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, said: ‘Social platforms like Instagram and Snapchat, which are solely image based, force patients to hold a microscope up to their own image and often look at it with a more self-critical eye than ever before.
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National Pi Day All you mathematicians out there will understand that 3.14 is the value of Pi and also today’s date. Today also happens to be the physicist Albert Einstein’s birthday... coincidence? We think not!
From the archives (2008):
Tara protesters’ tunnel standoff
Protesters against the M3 motorway were locked in a tense stand-off with gardaí after a woman called ‘Squeak’ chained herself inside a tunnel at the site of an ancient fort at Rath Lugh, with enough supplies for two months.
Today’s birthdays
Michael Caine (right), actor, 81; Quincy Jones, music producer, 81; Billy Crystal, actor/comedian, 66; Prince Albert of Monaco, 56; Jamie Bell, actor, 28.
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Look again at this birdie and you’ll see more than a feathered friend on a stump
Painting parrot fashion by EvAn bARTLETT
Macaw blimey: Johannes Stoetter paints an arm, top, the model’s face, centre, before posing her on a tree stump stoetter/BNPs
WATCH the birdie... closely, very closely and you’ll see a completely different picture emerge. At first glance, this is nothing more than a parrot perched on a tree stump. But on closer inspection you can see the bird is a painted woman. Johannes Stoetter, a former world champion bodypainter, spent weeks planning how to transform a female model into a brightly coloured parrot. It then took him four hours to paint her using special breathable paint and another hour to get the right position to photograph. Her outstretched left leg becomes the tail feathers, while her other leg becomes its wing. The head is an arm wrapped over her head. ‘It was quite hard to take the photo, to tell the model how to pose to make the parrot seem as real as possible,’ said the 35-year-old Italian. ‘It was not easy for the model to hold the position. Some of my closest friends who know my art didn’t notice it is not a real parrot.’
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Search for flight MH370 spreads to Indian Ocean THE hunt for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet shifted to the Indian Ocean last night after the US confirmed it had ‘new information’. Some five days after flight MH370 and its 239 passengers and crew disappeared on the way to China, White House spokesman Jay Carney said America was considering sending extra resources to help track it down. ‘It’s my understanding that based on some new information that’s not necessarily conclusive, but new information, an additional search area may be opened in the Indian Ocean,’ he said, without adding further details. It also emerged last night that satellites had picked up an electronic
by SHAROn MARRIS ‘ping’ signal from the plane after it lost contact with ground control, according to sources close to the investigation. However, Malaysian officials also moved yesterday to deny reams of speculation about the aircraft amid a dearth of concrete information about what happened. Defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein dismissed Chinese pictures purporting to show wreckage in the sea, saying Beijing had published the images ‘by mistake and [they] did not show any debris’. He also rubbished claims from The
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Still in the dark: A serviceman looks out for wreckage from a C-130 Taiwan air force transport plane over the South China Sea yesterday as the search for flight MH370 entered its sixth day picture: military news agency/epa
Wall Street Journal that US officials suspected the plane continued to fly for four hours after its last contact, and that counter-terrorism experts believe the pilot or passenger may have diverted the aircraft to an undisclosed location ‘with the intention of using it later for another purpose’.
Those handling the incident have been criticised by angry relatives of those missing, with verbal abuse and water bottles thrown at representatives of Malaysian Airlines and some families threatening to sue the Malaysian government. Ernest Bower, of the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, said: ‘The Malaysians deserve to be criticised – their handling of this has been atrocious.’ However, Mr Hussein retorted: ‘This is unique, what we are going through. Co-ordinating with so many countries is not easy.’
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Regulator ‘unaware’ of scale of Quinn deal Green giant: The Great Wall of China will go green this weekend
World set to go green for St Patrick’s HEUSTON and Connolly train stations will be ‘greened’ as part of the celebrations this St Patrick’s weekend, joining buildings and landmarks in Ireland and around the world in marking our national holiday. The GPO, Rock of Cashel, Trim Castle and the National Gallery will also be lit up in green, while Sleeping Beauty’s Castle at Disneyland, the ancient city of Petra and the Great Wall of China will also Irish themselves up. Meanwhile, gardaí have appealled for all vehicle occupants to wear a seatbelt this bank holiday weekend. Assistant Garda Commissioner John Twomey said yesterday: ‘We will be active throughout the country over the St Patrick’s period to monitor all traffic offences but with a particular focus on nonwearing of seatbelts. So please act responsibly this weekend.’
THE former head of the Financial Regulator claims he did not know about the scale of Sean Quinn’s control of Anglo Irish Bank until six months after the bank found out. Pat Neary also told the trial of three former Anglo executives he was not told in 2008 that Anglo was planning to loan money to the Quinn family in a deal to unwind Mr Quinn’s stake in the bank.
On Wednesday, Mr Neary’s thensubordinate Con Horan claimed he was told by the chief executive of the Quinn Group that Anglo would be loaning the money to buy shares. Former Anglo director Sean FitzPatrick and ex-directors William McAteer and Pat Whelan are accused of providing funding for the purchase of Anglo’s own shares in contravention of the Companies Act.
Mr Neary said that in September 2007 there were rumours Mr Quinn had built up a large stake in the bank through Contracts for Difference – investment tools that involve betting on a share without buying it – and that he met Anglo CEO David Drumm to discuss it. However, Mr Neary said he took no notes of this meeting. The trial continues.
Watchdog sends files on Rehab Group to gardaí by jOAnnE AHERn
Bomb scare at Cork gig venue GARDAÍ were searching Cork Opera House yesterday evening after a bomb scare alert. The alarm was raised around 7pm when a person phoned Anglesea St Garda station and claimed there was a bomb in the theatre. The building was closed to the public while gardaí used sniffer dogs in an attempt to locate a suspect device. The theatre was not in use at the time, but up to 800 people were expected to attend a gig by 2ManyDJs which was due to get underway at 10pm but was forced to be cancelled.
Customs seize €100k in cash TWO Louth men and a Dublin man have had more than €100,000 confiscated as proceeds of crime after they were stopped at Dublin airport by revenue officials. Samuel McLoughlin, 35, of Waterview, Dundalk, claimed he was bringing the money to a trade fair that had already ended. Officials also found €50,000 in the luggage of Michael Henry Duffy, 32, of Fatima Park, Dundalk, and almost €40,000 on Paul Brendan Byrne, 40, of Brookview, Tallaght. Judge Mary Ellen Ring granted the applications and confiscated the cash.
Sean Quinn: Held Anglo shares
Saying goodbye to a brave campaigner President Michael D Higgins consoles Darragh, the son of Christine Buckley, the institutional abuse survivor who co-founded the Aislinn Centre for victims, during her funeral mass at the Church of Saint Therese, Mount Merrion Picture: PA
THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to send a document containing allegations concerning the Rehab Group to gardaí. In a statement yesterday, the committee, chaired by John McGuinness of Fianna Fáil, said it had received the statement from Wicklow businessman John Kelly via his solicitor. It added that the statement ‘contains a number of serious allegations against named individuals who have or had associations with the Rehab Group’. On taking legal advice on the matter, it decided to forward a copy of the correspondence to An Garda ‘pursuant to its obligations’. It added: ‘The allegations contained in the statement fall outside the Committee’s remit and could potentially involve criminal wrong-doing and, in that regard, the Committee agreed to refer the matter to the appropriate authorities.’ It said the document is ‘no longer a document of the Committee and, therefore, if published is not privileged’. The PAC also said that it wanted to hear again from Rehab and has set a date of April 10 for representatives to reappear. Former board member Frank Flannery is also to be invited. In particular, the PAC is interested in the details of management pay and pension arrangements at the organisation as they feel what has already been furnished is inadequate. Independent committee member Shane Ross (pictured) said: ‘The response is a smokescreen, it simply doesn’t give us what we were looking for and it’s deliberately obscure and literally makes life harder for us and it’s typical of the replies we’re getting... we’re not getting anything that we want.’
Man stole his mother’s credit card to buy holidays A KILDARE businessman who stole his mother’s credit card to buy hotel breaks and holidays abroad has been given a chance to prove his claims that he is debt-ridden. Raymond Quinn, 46, of Jigginstown Green, Naas, was captured on bank CCTV each time he used
the card to withdraw up to its €600 daily limit. Mr Quinn, who owes €180,000 from his import-export business, also booked flights for himself and his girlfriend with the card. He pleaded guilty to six sample charges of stealing money from Amy Quinn at AIB banks in Blessington
and Naas and Ulster Bank in Blessington in 2012 and to one charge of stealing her credit card. The court heard that Mr Quinn ‘felt hard done by’ over the sale of family land and property and had admitted in an interview with gardaí that he took the credit card ‘to reclaim
what was mine, albeit through a dishonest fashion’. Defence counsel also told the court that Mr Quinn, who exports PVC panelling, chicken feet and gizzards between China and India, is in ‘dire straits’ financially, but pays €2,800 a month in maintenance to his three children and
estranged wife. Judge Mary Ellen Ring said Mr Quinn had not brought anything to court to document his financial position and she would adjourn the case to July 30 to allow him submit evidence to substantiate his claims. He is remanded on bail in the meantime.
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I’m suing Miley for giant tongue injury by sEAMus Duff
date tour, which arrives in ireland in May. iley The show has reCyrus cieved mixed reviews may be with some praising notoriher risqué performous for her wagging ous ances, but some partongue but it appears ents expressing conher trademark gescerns for the more ture could have her provocative segments. world tour licked as wo Meanwhile, Madonna her set designers are – who used to have the being sued. shock factor a couple of The 21-year-old decades ago – appears to Wrecking Ball singer be using Cyrus for inspimay be left with a bad Mouthful: Miley on slide, and Madonna pictures: instagram/ ration as she’s been sticktaste in her mouth after bu a builder claimed he has been injured be suing for damages as he was ‘not ing her own tongue out for attention. The 55-year-old posted a picture of by the giant tongue she slides down properly warned’ over the dangers of creating the tongue slide and ‘the herself licking her shower on instasho during her shows. Sho ShowFX inc, which produced the equipment and tools provided to him gram along with the caption: ‘Still giant appendage, is facing legal ac- failed... causing him to fall and hurt cleaning house! A woman’s work is never done! i should have worn a wife tion from Charles Sarris, who says he himself badly’. Cyrus is expected to make upwards beater. But i like getting dressed up! was injured during its construction, wa gossip site TMZ alleges. He is said to of €1million a night during her 60- #bowdownb******’.
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Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o may be one of the most photographed women on the planet right now but she’s managed to keep one thing secret – a rumoured lover. The 12 Years A Slave star, 31, is said to be dating Somali-
Canadian rapper K’naan, 36, after they hit it off last September. ‘She loves his humanitarianism. They’re both passionate about African issues,’ a source told Us Weekly. Nyong’o had been linked with Jared Leto.
Tom: I’ve outgrown my foolhardy years by jEnni McknigHT
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oM HARDy says it took ‘being someone’s dad, being divorced and going to rehab’ to rescue him the grasp of his drink and drug habits. The 36-year-old British star believes once he defeated his demons, he had to make it in Hollywood or his destructive spiral would have continued. ‘My personal story is exactly that – personal. But my personal journey to becoming an actor was one of desperation. like, “This boy has to do something or he’ll end up in jail”,’ he said. ‘Becoming an actor was not very far from what i was doing, but now i’ve found a medium where i can channel that into more constructive means, which is art and acting. As opposed to fantasising and acting out in the world, and causing all kinds of mayhem – which i don’t do.’ Hardy admits the almost overnight success he achieved hadn’t prepared
Mature: Tom Hardy is a changed man him for the stress of daily life in Tinseltown. ‘The first year after drama school, i had Black Hawk Down and Band of Brothers, and then Star Trek. And i was like, “This is it! Straight out of
drama school, here we go”,’ he told the latest edition of Total Film. ‘But i had no idea of how to handle the industry, to interact with producers, executive producers, studios, even my fellow men! i was 24 – punching way above my weight. ‘And it’s taken being someone’s dad, being divorced, going to rehab, having mortgages, playing different characters, doing theatre, waiting and then it not happening. And then doing rather well at something, enjoying my character work, but it not being a huge amount of money.’ Hardy has been sober since his 2003 stint in rehab to battle his to booze and crack cocaine addictions and says he no longer needs to be so in your face. ‘Now i’m not white knuckle, so if i get invited to the party… it’s like “How can i help and be a part of this?” Rather than “i must impress everyone!” Which is what it was when i was 24.’ Total Film is on sale now.
Bey fans say wait worth it Beyoncé kept her Irish fans waiting a full hour and a half on the last night of her four sell-out Dublin shows, but it was worth it, writes Etain Hession. With no support, the Mrs Carter tour finalé finally kicked off at 9.30 with Run The World (Girls) to a sea of waving hands and soon-to-be sore throats. The US star shone like mirror on the massive O2 stage, her outfits consisting of glitter, crystals and sheer glam, topping the truly flawless night off with her hit Halo. A Lott going on: Pixie Lott used her wardrobe to get attention with this Aztec-design frock on TV yesterday. The 23-year-old was promoting new single Nasty – hope that’s not her tag for this dress! picture: Xposure
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Cameron Diaz says w women make growing old difficult for each other. The actress-tur actress-turnedther is self-help-author thinks there too much pressure to stay yyoung t – and it sends a bad message to the next generation. ‘Women don’t allow other women tto age gracefully,’ the 41-year-old said. w have ‘I feel like it’s almost as if we failed if we don’t remain 25 for the rest of our lives. Like we are failures. Like it’s our fault,’ she tells Oprah Winfrey in an upcoming special, Cameron Diaz & Sharon Stone: Aging Gracefully.
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Miss Piggy has hit out at Lady Gaga for pinching her kooky style. ‘It ‘It’s true Lady Gaga was inspired by moi and moi moi’s style, but who hasn’t been influenced by me? After all all, that’s what being an icon is all about,’ the Muppet told the Apr April edition of Gay Times. Strangel Strangely, she had nothing to say about Gaga’s meat dress... fancy a bacon frock next, m’lady?
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★ Pinks are on me: Jennifer Lopez on her way to judge auditions for American Idol in Hollywood. The 44-yearold stayed in the outfit for her date with boyfriend Casper Smart picture: pacific coast
Zac Efron may boast a body to die for but stripping off is no fun, he says. He plays a model in new flick Neighbors, and in one scene is topless in a shop window. ‘I stood there going, “F***, this is my nightmare,”’ he told MTV. It seems Zac, 26, is also planning for the worst should his career fail. ‘This could well happen to me some day,’ he said of the scene.
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HESE creations could signal the changing face of street art. Photographer Philippe Echaroux has been projecting human visages on to locations all over France. He uses a computer, projector, and portable generator to beam the portraits on to trees, buildings, harbour walls and rock faces. Mr Echaroux, who describes his work Street Art 2.0 as ‘painting with lights’, wanted to make images that did not deface property and would last for only a moment
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before disappearing. He said: ‘My goal was, as a photographer, to give back the light I captured every day. ‘In my street art vision, I am aiming to produce an art that never gives any clue of its passage.’ While he admires graffiti artists such as Banksy, Mr Echaroux said he wanted to be someone ‘trying to produce new things’. He added: ‘I like my art to be like playing a song live, it exists a few minutes but can stay forever in your head.’
Photographer: Phillipe Echaroux
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Two die in protests after coma teenager’s funeral
TuRkEY: Two people have died in clashes caused by the death of a 15-year-old hurt in last year’s protests. Berkin Elvan went into a coma when he was hit by a police tear gas canister in June. Violence escalated after his funeral in Istanbul this week.
football fans held street brawl before Euro clash
fRAncE: Hooligans fought a pre-arranged street battle before the Champions League football match between Paris Saint-Germain and German side Bayer Leverkusen. Eleven were arrested after about 40 fans of each team joined a ‘short but violent’ brawl.
Tax crackdown politician ‘hid €2.5m on Isle of Man’
fRAncE: A politician, whose job was to stop high earners evading tax, was hiding millions of pounds himself, it has been claimed. Jerome Cahuzac kept £2million (€2.4m) in an Isle of Man bank to invest in property, his estranged wife alleged. He now faces trial.
spAIn: Yoko Ono poses for photographers as she launches her Half-A-Wind show at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum splash
Bus rapists lose appeals against death sentences
InDIA: Four rapists who attacked and killed a young woman on a bus in 2012 had their death sentences confirmed yesterday. The Delhi high court dismissed their appeals and their lawyer, who insists they are innocent, will appeal to the supreme court.
Mandela in runner-up spot to football-mad Twitterati
sOuTH AfRIcA: Nelson Mandela’s death was overshadowed by football tweets last year. The anti-apartheid leader spiked on Twitter after December 5 but could not overtake those about the beautiful game, a study of 9million African posts shows.
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ITALY: A shoplifter who ran off with stolen trainers was caught by a marathon runner passing by. Fulvio Milani, 35, was grabbed by Valerio Gallo in Eppan, near Bolzano.
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Driver ploughs into crowd at festival TWO people were killed and 23 injured when a car evading a police sobriety checkpoint ploughed into a crowd at high speed outside a nightclub in Austin, Texas, yesterday. The driver, who had been seen driving the wrong way down a one-way street, fled from the scene but was chased and subdued by a police officer using a stun gun after the incident near the internationally-renowned SXSW festival.
by cOn DOHERTY The two people killed were a local woman who had been riding a moped and a Dutch man on a bicycle, Austin police chief Art Acevedo said. ‘This is an individual that showed no regard for the human beings he plowed into in his attempt to get away,’ Mr Acevedo said of the suspect, whose name will be released when he is formally charged.
SXSW, running until Sunday, began as a music event in 1987 but now also features technology conferences and a film festival and draws 200,000 people to the Texas capital annually. Head of the festival, Roland Swenson, said the event would continue. ‘As much as we would like to go home and spend time absorbing the shock of this horrific event, we feel our best use is to continue to operate,’ he said.
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Was it fun playing the villain in Need For Speed? When you
have baddies in these type of movies, you don’t just want them as a way to highlight the good side of the hero – our director knew who these guys were. The character is an ex-Nascar driver and he’d go to any lengths to succeed.
Is the plan to start a rival franchise to The Fast And The Furious? I’m not sure what the
plan is but those films have been extraordinarily successful. I spoke at length with [director] Scott Waugh and learned about his background in stunts and his father’s connection to the stunt world – he worked on Bullitt. He wanted to make this a film in which the racing was believable. It was about being exhilarating but without any CGI or effects. That’s why this is very different from those other films. We’re not the kind of actors you’d expect to be in something like this and it isn’t explosions all the time. I loved his connection to the crew and the stunt people. There was this silence
and concentration between the takes where these guys did those incredible stunts – it was extremely dangerous for them and could only have been achieved with a director who really understood it.
Did you pass your driving test the first time? No, second
time. I was devastated when I didn’t pass. It’s your ticket to freedom. It was an incredibly liberating sensation when I passed.
What are you up to in Captain America 2? I don’t
know. I’m the same character – Howard Stark – but I don’t know how much he’s in the next one. I shot bits for the second one but with the Marvel world you don’t know how they’re going to use the stuff you’ve done.
What was it like to be sexually harassed by Miriam Margolyes on the Graham Norton show? I wasn’t sexually
harassed, was I? It was what it was. You know what she’s going to come up with and what that show entails.
I wasn’t on it to talk about politics.
What inspired you to become an actor? The school I went to in
south London had an incredible drama teacher who inspired me in a way that the school hadn’t done academically. I clung on to that, knowing what the world of acting entailed – it wasn’t in my family and I didn’t know anyone who’d been to drama school. The teacher took us to see plays and told me I could earn a living from it. I played the MC in Cabaret at school and she said I could think about going to drama school.
What did you enjoy about it?
Creating a world that’s very different from the world outside was exciting and fun. The school was in a bleak environment – it was on the Ferrier Estate in Greenwich, South London, which was built in the 1960s and was an architect’s vision of how we’d live in the future but it didn’t work. It was a big, grey environment but the drama department created this atmosphere of a different world – Berlin before World War II. It was terribly exciting.
With which character have you had the most in common? There is always an
element of yourself you bring into everything – you’ll never escape that, unless you make a complete physical transformation, but I’d like to say none of them. I was nothing like the boy in The History Boys, who was very academic. Nothing like the kid in Starter For 10. I’m not like Howard Stark. I’m not like any of them.
What lessons has your career in showbiz taught you so far? You see how some
people can get sucked into it because it’s a very privileged life but you need to keep yourself in touch with reality – because you need to be able to observe people and try to understand other people’s lives. Some people make the mistake of removing themselves from that because they can’t cope with their new lives living among it. But that’s the best thing for anyone who is a performer. It’s the same with
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Putin facing new war of words over Crimea RUSSIA will face an immediate, ‘very serious series’ of steps if it does not back away from Crimea, John Kerry warned yesterday. The US secretary of state said Russian president Vladimir Putin should expect action to be taken on Monday should it annex the Ukrainian region. Crimeans are to vote on joining Russia on Sunday in a referendum the US and EU say violates Ukraine’s constitution and international law. Russia says it will respect the results of the referendum. Mr Kerry told senators: ‘If there is
Graphic images: Oscar Pistorius holds his head while hearing about Reeva Steenkamp’s death Picture: aP/ePa
Pistorius trial sees bloody aftermath of the shooting OSCAR PISTORIUS threw up in court yesterday after catching a glimpse of graphic photos taken after he killed his girlfriend. A TV screen next to the 27-year-old paralympian was switched off as prosecutors displayed images showing the blood stains and spatter found on the floors, walls, stairs and chairs in his home after Reeva Steenkamp’s death. But he retched when one of the model’s body and skull, which caused gasps in the public gallery, flashed on to a court monitor. The images were described by former police colonel G.S. van Rensburg, who was one of two officers first on the scene after the shooting in Pretoria on Valentine’s Day last year. Mr van Rensburg said he saw Ms Steenkamp’s body covered in towels and plastic bags and a ‘very emotional’ Pistorius in the kitchen. ‘I asked him what happened but he didn’t answer me,’ Mr van Rensburg told the court. ‘He was in tears.’ Police investigator Hilton Botha also
no sign (of Russian compromise) there will be a very serious series of steps on Monday in Europe and here. My hope is they will become Tough: Kerry aware of the fact that the international community is really strongly united.’ He is to meet Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in London today.
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by AiDAn RADnEDgE arrived at the home, where bloodstains were visible in many areas, according to Mr van Rensburg. ‘We then followed the trail of blood up the stairs,’ Mr van Rensburg said as chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel led him slowly through the sequence of events that night. Earlier, a photograph of Pistorius’s blood-stained prosthetic legs was used by his chief defence lawyer to attempt to show the double amputee was wearing them when the shooting took place. Pistorius says he broke down a toilet door with a cricket bat to get to the 29year-old model whom he maintains he shot after mistaking her for an intruder. The prosecution says he intentionally killed her after an argument. Pistorius faces a possible life sentence in prison if convicted. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and three further firearmrelated offences. The trial in South Africa continues.
Bayern tax dodger jailed
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SHAMED Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness was jailed for three-and-half years yesterday for evading €27.2million in tax. Using an undisclosed Swiss account the World Cup winner made millions from stock market speculation but failed to pay the German revenue service. The 62-year-old turned himself in, provided a voluntary disclosure and hoped for a suspended sentence. It was initially thought he owed €3.5million but the Munich state court trial was given the full facts. The German FA said it was surprised by the ‘dimension’ of the case.
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A TRUCKER kept two sex slaves in his lorry for months and sexually abused them while wearing vampire fang dentures, a court heard. Timothy Jay Vafeades is also accused of filing the women’s teeth down to stubs and beating them until they passed out. He kept the women locked in his cab while driving around the US and even
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forced one of his victims to marry him. One of them was a 19-year-old relative who went travelling with Vafeades for a week last year. When she told him she wanted to go home to Florida, he throttled her until she passed out and kept her prisoner for six months. The 54-year-old forced her to have
sex with him more than 100 times, a court in Fargo, North Dakota, heard. Vafeades’ alleged reign of terror was only brought to an end when police officers noticed bruises on the teenager’s body and discovered a 1999 restraining order barring him from contacting the girl. After his arrest in Minnesota, in November, a second woman came forward to report she
had been held captive in Vafeades’ truck for three months. She claims the lorry driver used threats and violence to force her to have sex with him nearly every day and called her ‘his slave.’ Vafeades, of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been charged with kidnap, transportation for illegal sexual activity and possessing child pornography. If convicted, he could face life in jail.
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Short path to getting fat PEOPLE who live or work near takeaways eat more junk food and are almost twice as likely to be obese as those who have none on their doorstep, a study shows. Those who are the most tempted by takeaways and fast food eat an extra 40g of high-calorie food, the same as half a small serving of McDonald’s fries, every week compared with those
who stay away. The results show that people exposed to the highest number of takeaways are 80 per cent more likely to be obese. The research, published online in the British Medical Journal, is the first British study to combine data from home, work and commuting. It involved 5,442 adults from Cambridgeshire aged 29 to 62.
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accounts harmless compared to the diesel fumes, chemical deodorants and the emissions of the other people that passengers inhale all the time. Occasional Smoker ■ Big Girl, I nicked your dress as I thought it would be a great present for the wife. To make sure it fitted and matched the overknee socks, I tried them on. But while checking myself out in the mirror, in walk the wife and kids. They all start screaming and I panic and run out the door. Unfortunately, it was the front door, and my wallet and keys were still inside. The wife wouldn’t let me back in so I’m still wearing the dress. Karma has just hit me with divorce proceedings. On the bright side, I got a date with the beefy builder. BrendaN ■ Tatiana, when I read your post I felt like I was reading Soviet Izvestia. I would like to name a few examples when people asked for Russian protection: 1919-1920 in Poland; 1939 in eastern Poland; 1940 in Baltic States and Finland; 1956 in hungary; 1968 in Czechoslovakia; 1979 in afghanistan; 1994 and 1999 in Chechnya, and 2008 in Georgia. Don’t use russophobia as a argument – in fact, I hope you are not a Russian embassy employee. Pawel
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Director Terry Gilliam bemoans the futility of life – and Johnny Depp’s recent performances, writes James Mottram
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erry Gilliam is exhausted. The 73year-old director of Brazil and Twelve Monkeys is trying to muster the energy to prepare for ten reunion gigs with his old crew from Monty Python at London’s O2 in July. ‘It’s proving to be the straw that’s almost breaking my back at the moment,’ he chuckles. ‘I’ve got all these other things that were already in the schedule for the year and then along comes this show. It’s like: “Oh God! Where am I going to find the time?”’ While he’s here to talk up the release of his latest movie, The Zero Theorem, Gilliam is also preparing his next – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a film he tried to make in 2000 with Johnny Depp, only for the production to shut down midshoot. All of which makes hooking up with John Cleese and co for the Pythons’ hugely anticipated first live performance in 30 years rather tricky. ‘I was very reluctant [for a reunion],’ he admits, ‘but once you get everyone else agreeing... c’mon, we’re a group, so let’s do it!’ Of course, Python gave the Minneapolis-born Gilliam all the breaks he needed – first, animating the surreal interludes on the BBC’s groundbreaking sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus, then co-directing his first film, Monty Python And The Holy Grail. Since then, he’s built a career as one of the most visionary directors on the planet – a touch that hasn’t been lost for The Zero Theorem, a typically brain-melting vision of London in a dystopian future swamped with chaos and computers. Thankfully, this is one Gilliam film that went off without a hitch. Well, sort of. ‘every day was a major problem. It was a f***ing nightmare,’ Gilliam giggles. But then this is coming from a man whose lead actor, Heath Ledger, died midway through shooting The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus. This time, he merely had to contend with a low budget and the tight schedule of his star, double Oscarwinner Christoph Waltz, who plays a mathematician trying to prove the very meaninglessness of existence.
Back to the future: Terry Gilliam with The Zero Theorem star Christoph Waltz. Inset, Gilliam (far right) with fellow Pythons in 1971 ‘everybody asks all those questions – what’s the point of it all?’ says Gilliam. ‘Maybe it’s just my age but I feel more and more impotent. In the 1960s, my heyday, we changed things. We were out marching – doing things. you could see the change.’
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ILLIAM has had his own battles with corporate bigwigs in the past – notably over the final cut of his Orwellian satire Brazil – but even he seems fatigued. ‘I’m not the guy that I was in the 60s,’ he says. ‘I’m weary, worn out. you never give up but I just don’t know what to do to change things.’ No wonder he prefers the quiet life. A father of three, he and his wife of 41 years, former make-up artist Maggie Weston, have a home in Umbria, Italy that sounds divine. ‘We’re on a hill. No telephone, no television, no WiFi – nada. you get there and you get bored. And it’s great. It’s wonderful getting bored occasionally, nobody bothering you.’
No such luck now, with rehearsals ramping up for the Python show. It’ll be the first time they’ve performed without Graham Chapman, who died in 1989. Will that be strange? ‘Only that we’ve all had to take different roles,’ says Gilliam. ‘So I’ve had to do one of the things Michael Palin used to do, and I can only come a very distant second to whatever he does. Mike is so utterly brilliant and I have to step into his shoes – that terrifies me.’ Curiously, just after he takes to The O2, Gilliam will be seen in a cameo in Jupiter Ascending, the new sci-fi from Lana and Larry Wachowski, creators of The Matrix. ‘I normally shy away from [cameos] but in this one, for whatever reason, I just got into it and had a ball,’ he says. ‘They wrote this scene that, in their mind, was a homage to Brazil, so I ended up being this clerk… it’s basically me, Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum, and I got the funny make-up and was able to chew up the scenery.’ Mostly, Gilliam isn’t keen on Hollywood’s effects-driven blockbusters. ‘There are very few
ideas in those films,’ he says. ‘They’re entertainments to keep you occupied.’ They’re even swallowing up great actors such as Johnny Depp – his old collaborator from Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Take last year’s bomb The Lone ranger. ‘I ask myself: “What is Johnny doing?”,’ says Gilliam. ‘He’s a wonderful actor but the performance? “White man! Stupid!” Come on, John, you’re great. Get out there and work again.’ One thing’s for sure: Depp won’t be re-cast in Gilliam’s twisted take on Cervantes’s classic Don Quixote. ‘He’s got too old,’ says Gilliam. With the previous attempt 14 years ago ruined by illness and flooding, why can’t he let it go? ‘Because I’m stupid, that’s why,’ he grins. ‘I keep thinking maybe I should never make it – too many people have expectations of what it might be. And I never want to be caught in other people’s expectations. That’s a horrible thing.’
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Following last month’s gig with Minimal Wave boss Veronica Vasicka, Forza Italo welcomes two doyens of underground electronic music. Dutch DJ TLR has been putting out killer electro, jacking house and murky techno via his Crème Organization label for more than a decade. TLR
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It sounds like an ambitious plan for March in Dublin, but it looks like the weather is on the organisers’ side. Greenhouse takes place over two days and nights in Temple Bar’s Meeting House Square, with an impressive line-up. Sunday features Northern Irish electro house act The Japanese Popstars rubbing shoulders with house act Hot Since 82 and Gallic techno superstar Laurent Garnier, while St Patrick’s Day features Choice Award nominee Mano Le Tough sharing the bill with Panorama Bar resident Cassy. Sun & Mon, Greenhouse, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar D2, 2pm, €22.50.
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Scarlett Johansson as a sexy alien may suggest a yawnsome rip-off of Species but this mysterious masterpiece seduces you into a very different twilight zone of unforgettable sci-fi strangeness. From the first cosmic sequence, you’re brilliantly disoriented – what are we seeing? What scale is it on? Which way up are we? It’s a bit 2001: A Space Odyssey. You may – I didn’t – clock we’re witnessing the wordless creation of an eye. It belongs to ‘Laura’ (a magnetic Johansson), a voluptuous twentysomething with a careful Bridget Jones accent who prowls the streets of Glasgow in a van, picking up unsuspecting men (actually real-life strangers, not actors) with lines such as: ‘Is this the way to the Post Office?’ (Hey, if you look like Johansson, that works.) The men think they’re in for a good time but once they undress back at her house, they find mating is not on the cards… Loosely based on Michel Faber’s novel, this is a mesmeric – or mindnumbingly slow, some may huff – watch that focuses on the mundanity of British everyday life anew through an exotic, often chilling, alien stare. As inklings of humanity kindle within Johansson’s character, Under The Skin loses something of its
Alien games: Scarlett Johansson picks up strangers in Under The Skin extraordinary enigmatic power by following a recognisable ‘journey’ path. However, it’s a film that remains wriggling around in your mind. Intoxicatingly stylish – as you’d expect from a movie by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth), the Brit once credited with creating the Best Ad Ever Made (the 1999
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Based on the best-selling racing game series, this is an all-action attempt to cash in on the massively successful the Fast and the Furious film franchise. Directed by scott waugh, a former stunt driver, the UsP is that this features no CGi – so fans of cars crashing off bridges or being lifted off the road by helicopters can be assured it’s all really happening – which unfortunately is little compensation if you’re also looking for a coherent plot or decent dialogue. tobey Marshall (Breaking Bad’s aaron Paul) is a salt-of-the-earth mechanic who is embroiled in a feud with unscrupulous exnascar driver Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). a series of convoluted events ensues, wherein Marshall drives across america to compete in another race to expose Brewster’s wrongdoing and avenge a dead pal. waugh casts
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decent actors, then gives them character arcs that are more like cul-de-sacs. working class hero Marshall is gruff and stoic, Brewster’s villainy is telegraphed with an all-black wardrobe, while imogen Poots plays the love interest as a screeching toff in a flamboyant headband. Best left for those who really like to watch fast cars exploding. Andrew williams
Veronica mars (12A) HHH✩✩ when witty teen-noir detective series Veronica Mars was cancelled, bereft fans (‘Marshmallows’) campaigned, in vain, to save it. seven years later, thanks to nearly $6million raised from a landmark Kickstarter campaign, Veronica (an
engagingly feisty Kristen Bell) is back. now a budding lawyer in new York, she is determined never to return home. But when her old flame (Jason Dohring) is arrested for murder, she jets back, starts sleuthing and encounters the humiliating horrors of their high school reunion. lovers of the show will be delighted the gang is all here: Dad (enrico Colantoni), reformed hoodlum weevil (Francis Capra), BFFs, frenemies, old foes – plus welcome cameos (James Franco!). it’s like they’ve never been away. But it’s less stand-alone cinema than a super-episode, and whether the smart wordplay, referential humour and busy plot will appeal to the uninitiated remains to be seen. Angie Errigo
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the Zero theorem (15) HHH✩✩ Terry Gilliam’s films swing from genius (Brazil, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys) to unwatchable (The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus). This one jitterbugs somewhere in between. Oscar-winning character actor Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds) takes lead here as Qohen, a hairless, delusional recluse and computer genius who lives in a fire-damaged monastery. Qohen works for Mancom, a mega corporation led by Management (Matt Damon), who charges him with proving the ‘zero theorem’ that the universe will eventually implode into nothingness. Visually suggestive of Blade Runner as restyled by Su Pollard, the movie’s playful dystopian universe may have originated in the mind of Pat Rushin, but it’s unmistakably branded with Gilliam’s trademark anti-authoritarian retro-futurism. In-joke nods to his masterpiece Brazil may only highlight that this is an inferior day-glo copy, but David Thewlis and teen newcomer Lucas Hedges provide welcome, sturdy lifeboats amid the eccentric flights of fancy. Meanwhile, French starlet Mélanie Thierry, as a cyber-sex callgirl, does her best to preserve dignity in a skin-tight rubber nurse’s fetish outfit; it rather suggests Gilliam is no more able to write decent, well-rounded parts for women than his fellow Pythons were back in the 1960s. Li-Z
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fIlM Of tHe Day Blades Of GlOry, BBC3, 9pm This is almost up there with anchorman at the top of the Will ferrell comedy canon. Blades Of Glory casts him as Chazz Michael Michaels (right), a former pro figure skater and self-declared ‘ice-devouring sex volcano’, who topples from grace after a punch-up with his girlie-haired rival, Jimmy (Jon ‘Napoleon dynamite’ Heder). With both men’s careers on the skids, they realise their only way back to the gold medal-winning big time is to re-enter it as ice-skating’s first all-male partnership. laugh-outloud silly – and that’s just the glittery costumes – it’s spangled with ridiculous dialogue as well: ‘Get out of my face!’ and ‘I’ll get inside your face.’
minute journey around the planet. dermot O’leary plays space telephonist as viewers get the chance to interact with the astronauts.
fIlM: KnOcKeD up tv3, 9pm Stags, hens, weddings and other life events have been providing great comedy fodder for generations, and writer director Judd Apataw’s ‘Oh crap, I’m pregant’ romp starring Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl milks this genre, if it is a genre, for all it is worth. The question here for ambitious journalist Alison is not, does she want to keep the baby, rather does the want to keep the party-animal father too?
stella Sky1, 9pm There are echoes of those shows where they have to hoist 80-stone women out of bed in tonight’s visit to Pontyberry. Big alan (steve speirs) tackles the weighty problem of his mum’s funeral – weighty being the operative term, as it turns out Big runs in alan’s family. It makes for an affectionately comic departure from the ongoing trauma of stella’s love life – she wouldn’t have it any other way.
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YOUR DUBLIN ST PATRICK’S WEEKEND with daragh reddin As ever, there’s far more than just a parade happening in the capital this bank holiday weekend...
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If shamrock-encrusted floats and ersatz, ear-splitting ‘trad’ make you shudder in horror, fret not – there’s plenty of topical, left-of-centre events happening about Dublin this weekend as part of the I Love My City showcase. The Hugh Lane Gallery will be hosting free screenings of broadcaster Donal Dineen’s documentary Street Feelings, a heartfelt paean to the capital; Raymond Keane, creative director of Barabbas Theatre, will be facilitating clown workshops, with an emphasis on the tragicomic antiheroes of Samuel Beckett’s plays, at The Warehouse in Mill Street; and City Assembly House will play host to Dublin: Then And Now, an exhibition of city landscapes spanning 250 years. For full list of events see website. www.stpatricksfestival.ie
Techno often claims to summon ‘the ghost in the machine’ – a human soul conjured up from the circuitboards. But if one man has truly succeeded in this quest, it’s Kenny Dixon Jr, aka Moodymann. Fittingly, Dixon often seems like a ghost himself and refusal to be interviewed has accordingly attained him an almost mythical status. Expect a reverential crowd in The Grand Social this week as the intriguing talent splices disco, house and techno with jazz, soul and funk Mon, The Grand Social, 35 Lower Liffey St D1, 9pm, €19.50. Tel: (01) 874 0076. www.thegrand social.ie
St Patrick’s Day Dublin Catwalk If you feel your leprechaun suit leaves that of other diminutive would-be patriots in the shade, be sure to take part in this year’s inaugural Paddy’s Day fashion show for the splendidly dressed. The event, fittingly organised by The National Leprechaun Museum, takes place on Wolfe Tone Square with comedian Katherine Lynch – herself no stranger to an emerald-green jumpsuit – acting as MC. Gongs awarded on the day include ‘best dressed’, ‘most creative’, ‘most embarrassed friend’, ‘most out there’ and the highly coveted ‘no help from mammy award’. Meanwhile, a céilí band will be on hand to ensure Paddwhackery levels never flag... Mon, Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street, D2, from 2pm, free. www. leprechaunmuseum.ie
Powerscourt St Patrick’s Festival This weekend the storied Georgian Powerscourt Centre plays host to its own tastefully curated mini Paddy’s festival. Throughout the weekend guests can enjoy a free tour of the elegant Robert Mack-designed building and learn more about its architecture and history. Dublin’s Córus Choir and young trad stalwarts, Mo Hat MoGheansaí, will play live across the weekend, and Joe Byrne’s rabble rousing play The Rising takes place in the Powerscourt Jig Theatre Until Mon, Powerscourt Centre, 59 South William Street D2. www.powescourt.ie
Gregory Porter
Last year’s Liquid Spirit LP saw California-raised minister’s son Gregory Porter blast his way through a collection of soulful originals and a dazzling cover of The ‘In’ Crowd. Expect a roof-raising affair when he plays The Sugar Club this weekend Tomorrow, The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street D2, 8pm, €30. Tel: (01) 678 7188. www.thesugarclub.com
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Following a blistering two-days of music last year – with particularly impressive turns from dance-floor icons Chic and indie rockers Primal Scream – Forbidden Fruit is back this June bank holiday weekend at the Royal Hospital. On Saturday, headliners Flaming Lips will bring their idiosyncratic brand of psychedelic pop and OTT theatrics (courtesy of singer Wayne Coyne, pictured below left) to Kilmainham, while on Sunday fail-safe festival favourites 2 Many DJs – aka Belgium’s Dewaeles brothers (below right) – will treat fans to their eclectic pop mash-ups. Saturday’s event will also see performances from Bell X1, Flying Lotus 3D show and F*** Buttons; and on Sunday it’s the turn of Warpaint, Public Enemy and Little Dragon. For complete line-up see website May 31 and Jun 1, Royal Hospital Kilmainham D8, early bird tickets from €49.50. 0818 719 300. www.forbiddenfruit.ie We have FOUR pairs of day tickets to Forbidden Fruit May 31 and Jun 1, Royal Hospital Kilmainham D8 For your chance to win, just answer the question below, stating which date you’d prefer and text LIFE followed by your full answer, email address and name to 53133 (texts cost €0.60 + standard network charge). Q Which biblical couple do you associate with forbidden fruit? A Adam & Eve B Mary & Joseph
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Now in its third year, the Irish Craft Beer & Food Market finds a new and suitably attractive home in the shape of the Docklands’ CHQ Building, the former bonded warehouse turned shopping emporium. This year, more than 50 varieties of homegrown beer, ales and ciders will be vying for the attention of thirsty punters, alongside artisan chocolate, cheese, pies and BBQ fare Until Mon, CHQ Building, George’s Dock D1, 12.30pm to 10pm daily, €5. www.irishfest.ie
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Economy posts shock 2.3% decline in fourth quarter
GREECE’S jobless rate rose to a record 27.5 percent in the last quarter of 2013. Although the pace of economic contraction slowed, Greece’s jobless remained the highest in the euro zone. The number of Greeks without a job has more than tripled since 2008, the start of a protracted recession that wiped out about a quarter of Greece’s gross domestic product. About 72 percent of those without work have been unemployed for more than a year and so do not qualify for unemployment benefits which have been reduced to €360 a month. Young Greeks aged 15-24 remained the hardest hit group, with 57 percent without work. Other data recently have pointed to green shoots in the economy. Greece’s economic sentiment index hit its highest level in more than five years in February, while retail sales rose in November for the first time since April 2010.
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A shoe-in for the prize Diane Pasague and Rachel Murray pose with their winning project ‘Lora’ at the 13th annual Fingal Student Enterprise Awards County Final at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Blanchardstown Picture: kim haughton
Ireland’s economy contracted by 2.3 per cent in the fourth quarter from the previous three months as imports surged and consumer spending fell, denting a recovery that had been gaining traction since the completion of an eU/IMF bailout last year. Gross domestic product (GdP) contracted by 0.3 per cent for 2013 as a whole, following a year of scant growth in 2012, although growth in the third quarter of the year was revised up to 2.1 per cent to paint a volatile picture. economists had expected growth of 0.4 per cent in the fourth quarter from the previous quarter and full-year growth of 0.3 per cent. They see the economy growing by 2.1 per cent next year, similar to the Government’s forecast. Personal consumption fell by 0.6 per cent in the final quarter of 2013 compared to the previous three months, while exports rose 2.1 per cent and imports climbed 5.8 per cent. Ireland’s usually robust export sector also struggled earlier in the year due to the mixed picture in europe and the expiry of patents among the large cluster of drugs companies located in the country. ‘This is the year the patent cliff hit the Irish economy,’ said Conall Mac Coille, chief economist at davy stockbrokers. ‘The narrative is the domestic economy is expanding, slowly but surely, and you’re seeing that in employment numbers, but overall in 2013 the pharma cliff hit exports. The Q4 numbers are so volatile that it’s hard to make sense of them.’ Yesterday’s figures follow recent data that found unemployment had fallen below the eurozone average to 11.9 per cent, house prices were rising and consumer sentiment was near a seven-year high.
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WORKERS dress in suitable costumes while harvesting pandapoo tea. The pickers donned the hats at Fengming mountain in Ya’an, central China – the only area where the tea is planted. The drink sells for 444,000 renminbi (€51,000) per kilogram, making it
more expensive than gold bullion. The tea gets its name from the fact it is fertilised by panda excrement. It is said to have many health properties because the excrement is enriched with nutrients from bamboo, a main source of food for pandas.
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Job optimism on increase as recruitment expo in town by Joanne ahern SOME 61 per cent of jobseekers would start their own business if there was funding available, a survey has found. The research was commissioned by Job Expo 2014, which takes place in Croke Park today and tomorrow. The research also found that the majority of those surveyed, 55 per cent, are more optimistic about their job prospects this year than last year. However, only 36 per cent said they’d been to more job interviews. Some 59 per cent of those surveyed said they’d be willing to emigrate to find work and 20 per cent are currently looking for work abroad. Sixty-five per cent said they use LinkedIn and Twitter in their job search. Some 88 per cent said they would consider undergoing further training/ study to boost career prospects.
n DUBLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL is to provide IT graduates with the opportunity to re-skill or cross-skill for free from April. There are thousands of unfilled positions in the Information and Communications Technology sector, and the conversion award for a Higher Diploma in Science in Computing will include six months’ placement. The scheme is supported by the Higher Education Authority and Department of Education, meaning tuition fees are waived. More than 10,000 job seekers are expected at this weekend’s free event, with attendees given the opportunity to meet face-to-face with recruiters. Register at www.jobsexpo.ie/visitors/ register.
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Management Opportunities Management positions are now available for our New KFC Store opening in The Park, Carrickmines, Dublin 18. We are now looking for Assistant Managers and Supervisors. The ideal candidate will have supervisory experience (min 1 year), have the ability to supervise shifts ensure that sales, profitability & standards are maximised and all Company policies & procedures are followed. Proactively coach and support the team at all opportunities. Knowledge in management essential, commercial understanding, understanding P&L, Demonstrating strong sales Focus, Coaching, Customer Focused, Computer literate Strong communication skills.
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Aries Mar 21 – Apr 20
There’s been a stressful energy at play this week, as well as a highly positive one. Which one has come out on top for you? I do hope it’s the latter. But even if you have been struggling, the negativity of Mercury square with Saturn will start to lessen now. For your forecast, call 15609 114 70
Taurus Apr 21 – May 21
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The Sun’s perfect angle with Saturn suggests there’s one partnership or friendship that is going from strength to strength. It may be there have been some bruising encounters in your worldly affairs this week but this stable tie can renew your faith in human nature. For your forecast, call 15609 114 71
Gemini May 22 – Jun 21
Today, you can find yourself concentrated on the things you know are essential. This can give you a productivity and desire to impress those you can, with energy and determination. Embrace this, and you can get oodles done.
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Cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23
Mercury’s tough link with Saturn this week has made you all too aware of the demands of others. But now the Sun forges a brilliant link with the planet of structure and even hopes that have stalled can start to pick up momentum. For your forecast, call 15609 114 73
Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23
Something is set to build up nicely from now. This could be a new sense of yourself, a new virtuous programme, or some changes to where you live. If you are about to move or make some alterations to your home, your timing couldn’t be better.
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Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23
ACROSS 4 Debate (7) 8 Publicly (6) 9 Idiotic (7) 10 Ingenious (6) 11 Supplication (6) 12 Judgement (8) 18 Cloudy (8) 20 Disclose (6) 21 Well (6) 22 Attribute (7) 23 Expand (6) 24 Lower (7)
DOWN 1 Admit (7) 2 Protection (7) 3 Changes (6) 5 Example (8) 6 Awning (6) 7 Ice-cream and fruit (6) 13 Solitary (8) 14 First-class (7) 15 Reel (7) 16 Decline (6) 17 Vendor (6) 19 Mend (6)
Yesterday’s Solutions Across: 1 Predominant; 9 One; 10 Definable; 11 Drake; 13 Letters; 14 Entice; 16 Speech; 18 Remorse; 19 Easel; 20 Extricate; 21 Hue; 22 Ingratitude. Down: 2 Rue; 3 Dodge; 4 Muffle; 5 Non stop; 6 Nobleness; 7 Cold hearted; 8 Lease holder; 12 Automaton; 15 Carrier; 17 Depart; 19 Exert; 21 Hid.
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The weekend approaches and you may be looking forward to some welldeserved down time. But don’t be surprised if you get a surge of energy to clear up outstanding strands. See this as being your investment and then enjoy guiltless leisure. For your forecast, call 15609 114 76
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Yesterday, the Moon faced Venus. Today, she faces Mercury. This may see you juggling with some work/life balance issues. But with Saturn in your sign, getting along famously with the Sun, this can also be a chance to become more organised. For your forecast, call 15609 114 77
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The events of this week may provoke you to think about certain people in a different way. Sincerity is the thing likely to impress you most. This can see you drawn towards reliable friends. For your forecast, call 15609 114 79
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Extra responsibilities have headed your way in the past 18 months. While there may have been times when it’s felt burdensome, there has been a build-up of benefits, if not always obviously. Now, you can start to see just how far you’ve come. For your forecast, call 15609 114 80
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Today can be marvellous for checking out information, doing research and deciding on some strategies. Hopes to expand, which have been blunted by unforeseen obstacles, make way for some solid progress. For your forecast, call 15609 114 81
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Libra Sep 24
ENiGMA Shoulders can be broad or pert. They’re mainly there to hold your shirt. But doing this shows, you’ll agree, Indifference or apathy. WHO AM i? An author, I was born in Manchester in 1959. I was adopted and brought up by Pentecostal Evangelists in Accrington. My best-known book is Oranges Are Not The
Only Fruit. WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? WHO… played Richard Bellamy in the original series of Upstairs, Downstairs? WHAT... were the names of the two main groups of Goths? WHERE... is the oldest Irish university? WHEN... was Louis XVI beheaded?
QUIZ ANSWERS: ENIGMA: Shrug. WHO AM I? Jeanette Winterson. WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? David Langton; Ostrogoths and Visigoths; Trinity College Dublin; 1793.
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Your clear-headedness and practicality can make you an ideal teacher or trainer. You may find over the weekend that someone seeks out your advice. Then again, you might be looking for some mentoring on something that’s important to you.
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Joining the title mix gave Reds a sturr by MATTHEw nAsH
DANIEL STURRIDGE admits even Liverpool’s players are surprised to find themselves in the midst of the Premier League title race. The England striker’s 21 goals for the Reds have helped put them in contention with Chelsea and Manchester City at the top of the table. His form for club and country has been exceptional but the 24-year-old concedes Liverpool’s transformation into title contenders has come sooner than expected. ‘So far we have exceeded the expectations we had pre-season,’ said Sturridge, whose side go into Sunday’s game at Manchester United second in the table. ‘We’re in Champions League contention, which was our main objective at the start of the season, but we are also right up there in the league. ‘We’re not favourites for the title and there are strong teams around us in the
‘None of us expected to be here just yet’ title race but we’re just giving it our best shot. I don’t think any of us expected to be here yet.’ Rodgers’ men sit seven points behind leaders Chelsea, while City, who went out of the Champions League at Barcelona on Wednesday, are fourth but with crucial games in hand. Another player whose breakthrough at Anfield has been crucial this term is Sturridge’s fellow England attacker Raheem Sterling. Sturridge was full of praise for the man he refers to as his ‘little brother’. ‘Raheem and I get on really well – I give him advice on his game and he gives me advice,’ he added. ‘The little brother is allowed to hand out advice too! He is such a good player and there are great things to come for him in the future.’ Putting another dent in fierce rivals United’s woeful season would go a long way towards increasing the pressure on Chelsea at the top. But Sturridge says it doesn’t matter who the opposition are; Liverpool just need to grind out the results. ‘Every game’s big for us until the end of the season now – it doesn’t matter who we’re playing,’ he insisted.
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cHELTEnHAM Going is still good for Irish contingent THE Irish contingent at Cheltenham continued its winning streak on what has been dubbed St Patrick’s Thursday. Trainer Jonjo O’Neill picked up two winners when AP McCoy (pictured) and Barry Geraghty triumphed in the JLT Novices Chase and Ladbrokes World Hurdle, respectively. Geraghty’s 15-2 mount More Of That overcame the heavily backed 11-8 favourite Annie Power and four-time winner Big Buck’s to claim the first prize. The Irish have now picked up six winners during the first three days of racing and Last Instalment is the third favourite in the Gold Cup. Meanwhile, jockey Bryan Cooper, who fractured his leg during a race on Wednesday, has been transferred to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol after undergoing surgery. Around 235,000 people are expected to attend the four-day race meeting, which is one of the highlights of the national hunt season. One would-be race-goer was arrested by UK police officers in possession of 50 allegedly stolen tickets that had been bought from a tout, while there was also some disorder in the Best Mate enclosure, Desert Orchid grandstand and Centaur towards the end of yesterday’s racing.
THE TiPsTER A golden chance for silviniaco
Waking nightmare: Sandro’s despair is clear to see as Spurs lose again
TAME REsPOnsE TO TOugH TALk EuROPA LEAguE, LAsT 16 fiRsT LEg TOTTENHAM........ 1 BENFICA ..................... 3 TIM SHERWOOD’S tough talk appeared to backfire as Tottenham suffered a damaging defeat which left them struggling to make the last eight. Sherwood had warned his players they were playing for their careers at the club but the future looked bleak when Rodrigo placed a first-half finish past Hugo Lloris and Luisao’s header made it 2-0 after the break. Christian Eriksen’s free-kick
u ARSENE WENGER says ‘it is not impossible’ Kim Kallstrom will make his Arsenal debut at Tottenham on Sunday. Mesut Ozil is out for at least a month with the hamstring problem he suffered at Bayern Munich, so January signing Kallstrom may feature. Fitness concerns Kieran Gibbs and Nacho Monreal may also be available. gave the hosts hope, however, Luisao lashed home late on to floor Spurs.
TRAiNeR Paul Nicholls (pictured) can win the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup with Silviniaco Conti. Victor in the King George Vi at Kempton, Silviniaco Conti fell three out in last year’s Gold Cup when going well and is an improved horse. it is a big ask to beat market leader Bobs Worth, especially as six of the last ten winners have been favourites. But Silviniaco Conti can do it at 3/1 with Bet Victor, Boylesports and Bet365. Briar Hill can help us see off Cheltenham in style and Willie Mullins can celebrate another winner at a best price of 5/4 with several firms in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle.
Heary hopeful new-look Bohs can continue bright start Purple patch: Sturridge has scored plenty of goals for the Reds PICTURE: ACTION IMAGES
OWEN HEARy wants to sweep Bohemians fans off their feet with a second win of the league season when Drogheda United visit Dalymount Park tonight for their first home game of the Premier Division campaign. Both sides enjoyed big opening night league wins last week – Bohs 30 at UCD while Drogheda thumped Louth rivals Dundalk 4-1 at home – making this an early, and somewhat unlikely, top-of-the-table clash.
airtricity league ‘It’s our first home game and we want to give a good account of ourselves and get the crowd behind us,’ said Bohs boss Heary (right). ‘If the performance matches what we’ve done over the last couple of weeks, the people will keep coming and they’ll enjoy the matches.
‘Drogheda winning last week is a good incentive to us to go at them, and take the game to them. We’ve shown we can limit our opponents’ scoring chances, and we’re creating chances ourselves. We’re getting into the box, we’re getting crosses in, we’re getting goals and we aim to continue that.’ Either side of last week’s league win were victories over Bray Wanderers (5-1) in the Leinster Senior Cup and UCD (30) again in the EA Sports Cup.
fixTuREs Tonight’s fixtures (7.45, unless stated)
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Athlone Town v Shamrock Rvrs Bohemians v Drogheda Utd Bray Wanderers v Sligo Rvers Dundalk v Limerick St Patrick’s Athletic v UCD
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Waterford Utd v Galway FC Wex Yths v Cobh Rblers (8.0)
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Schmidt wary of French ‘uniting’ against attack Spark: Ian Madigan under pressure
Schmidt goes with Madigan over Jackson for pivotal tie Ian MaDIGan has ‘no experience at the level’ of Ireland’s RBS 6 nations title decider against France at fly-half but can still handle the pressure, according to Joe Schmidt. Leinster playmaker Madigan will understudy Johnny Sexton in Paris tomorrow as Ireland chase their first Six nations title since 2009. Madigan could come off the bench in the pivotal stages as Ireland battle for just their third win in Paris since 1972. Ireland head coach Schmidt said seven-cap Madigan will cover flyhalf, centre and full-back. ‘He’s had a bit of time at 10 with us, definitely not at this level, but those experiences will help him, and it gives us a bit more coverage on the bench,’ said Schmidt.‘In Italy last year, he came on and sparked the game up a little bit.’ Fit-again Peter O’Mahony is the sole change to the starting line-up from Ireland’s 46-7 hammering of Italy in Dublin last weekend. Iain
‘I feel confident that Ian’s the right man’ Henderson drops to the bench alongside Jordi Murphy. Ulster’s Paddy Jackson has deputised for Racing Metro flyhalf Sexton so far, and Madigan could find himself thrust into Ireland’s highest-pressure Six nations situation since their 2009 Grand Slam decider if brought on. But Schmidt has backed the 24year-old Leinster outside-half, saying: ‘Sometimes you make those replacements because of injury and sometimes to change up what you’re doing. I feel confident Ian’s the right man to do those two things for us within the current squad.’ O’Mahony will win his 23rd cap, and Schmidt feels he will be vital. ‘no disrespect to Iain Henderson, he’s still learning at the level and it was a great experience for him last weekend. But Peter’s already relatively proficient at the level, and he’s played really well for us. So he will bring that threat around the breakdown, the physicality that he expresses on the field, so it’s great to have him back.’
‘There’s nothing worse than an angry French team’: Joe Schmidt (right) is all too aware of what France are capable of when their pride is under attack
by DAnny HOgAn
Siege-mentality rugby only heightens the French threat for tomorrow’s RBS 6 nations title-decider in Paris, according to ireland head coach Joe Schmidt. Schmidt has admitted ‘there is nothing worse than an angry French team’, after Philippe Saint-andre’s men bristled at heavy press criticism this week. les Bleus edged past Scotland 19-17 at murrayfield last weekend, limping to victory thanks to a late penalty from Jean-marc Doussain. Prop nicolas mas then stormed out of tuesday’s press conference, refusing to countenance criticism of France’s scrum and tight play. ireland must overhaul their poor record of two wins in 42 years in Paris to land the Six nations crown – but Schmidt fears his side must also combat a France side bound tighter by duress. ‘i know there’s a little bit of unrest there, but we’re a bit insulated from that,’ said Schmidt. ‘We’re conscious of what’s been happening though, that the French press have been pretty tough on the French team. ‘and that probably doesn’t help our cause to be honest. there’s nothing worse than an angry French team. Particularly when external forces start to pressurise that group, it galvanises them and their unity grows stronger and they potentially come out and perform. ‘We’ve seen the French team do that time and again, especially in the 2011 World Cup. ‘their final performance perhaps deserved better, but three weeks before that they had lost to tonga in the pool stage. i guess it’s going to serve up a really intriguing, but whatever happens, extremely physical battle.’ loosehead prop Cian Healy has vowed not to let mas’ midweek tantrum catch him off guard at the Stade de France. ‘you never know with the French lads: they can come out fairly fired up for a game and that could be the fuel to the fire that he needs,’ said Healy. ‘mas is a tough opponent and i’m going to have to be on the mark myself and work well within the front-row unit too. ‘emotion is a thing that’s natural to an irish team, and when we have that tied in with being well-drilled and accurate that’s our way of breaking them down.’
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iRELAnD TEAM R Kearney (Leinster), A Trimble (Ulster), B O’Driscoll, G D’Arcy, D Kearney (all Leinster), J Sexton (Racing Metro), C Murray (Munster), C Healy (Leinster), R Best (Ulster), M Ross, D Toner (both Leinster), P O’Connell (capt), P O’Mahony (both Munster), C Henry (Ulster), J Heaslip (Leinster) Replacements: S Cronin, J McGrath, M Moore (all Leinster), I Henderson (Ulster), J Murphy, E Reddan, I Madigan, F McFadden (all Leinster)
France opportunity delights Fickou teenage France centre gael Fickou is relishing the chance to spoil Brian O’Driscoll’s send-off in the star’s final international. France coach Philippe Saintandre has named 19-year-old Fickou in his starting XV for tomorrow’s early-evening clash with the irish that brings this year’s RBS 6 nations to a close. the Stade toulouse youngster starts for France for the second time – his first came against tonga last autumn – and will pair up with mathieu Bastareaud in midfield as France look to combat the threat posed by O’Driscoll and centre partner gordon D’arcy. ireland head into the weekend as strong favourites, and a win in
‘A great pride’: 19-yearold Gael Fickou Paris will suffice unless england win well against italy in Rome. France can still scupper both teams’ hopes, but unless italy spring a major shock against england they must post a hefty victory over ireland. Fickou could be a key figure, given the responsibility of the role
allocated to him. ‘i’m very happy,’ he said. ‘it’s also a great pride to make my debut in this context, against ireland, for the final match of the Six nations, at the Stade de France and against O’Driscoll. He’s an icon in ireland and has really contributed to his country.’ He believes playing alongside Bastareaud is a combination that ‘should work’ despite admitting: ‘i’ve never really played with him but we’ve trained together a lot this week. and since mid-January.’ France only scraped a narrow and unconvincing win over Scotland last time out, a performance that suggests victory against ireland may be beyond them.
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Dulin (Castres), Huget (Toulouse), Bastareaud (Toulon), Fickou (Toulouse), Medard (Toulouse), Tales (Castres), Machenaud (Racing Metro), Domingo (Clermont Auvergne), Szarzewski (Racing Metro), Mas (Montpellier), Pape (Stade Francais), Maestri (Toulouse), Picamoles (Toulousepictured), Lapandry (Clermont Auvergne), Chouly (Clermont Auvergne). Replacements: Guirado (Perpignan), Debaty (Clermont Auvergne), Slimani (Stade Francais), Flanquart (Stade Francais), Vahaamahina (Perpignan), Lauret (Racing Metro), Doussain (Toulouse), Mermoz (Toulon).
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Hard act to follow
by DAnny HOgAn
Replacing Brian O’Driscoll and gordon D’arcy will be Joe Schmidt’s toughest challenge as ireland boss, reckons peter Stringer. Former ireland scrum-half Stringer believes O’Driscoll took a ‘brave’ decision to retire this summer and reject an assault on Rugby World cup 2015. Bath half-back Stringer h a i l e d O’Driscoll for a ‘typically selfl e s s ’ move to turn down a tilt towards a fifth World cup campaign.
Stringer has no doubt O’Driscoll would have featured prominently in ireland’s 2015 drive had he pushed his glittering 15-year international career that bit further. ireland’s 34-year-old centre D’arcy will play on past the summer, but ex-Munster star Stringer believes the duo will leave a huge chasm once both exit the international arena. ‘it will be a huge challenge to take it on again,’ Stringer said. ‘But in the last few years that core group has started to thin, with guys like Jerry Flannery, Marcus Horan, Ronan O’gara, John Hayes, all retiring. ‘people were always looking then, saying “what are ireland going to do now,” but already they’ve taken it on to another level with the guys who have stepped in. ‘Joe’s influence is massive, from what i hear, coming from paul [O’connell] and Brian, the guy’s attention to detail is second-to-none. ‘The quality of coach ireland have now is top class, and he’s bringing young guys through quickly too. ‘The young guys on the fringes, they will hopefully step up to the mark and things look pretty good for the future. ‘Trying to find people that will fill those boots is the next big step within the irish structure, given they’ve been there for so long and worked so well together, both at provincial and international level.
‘i’m sure Brian will be passing on everything he can. ‘But that will be a vital area for them once both those guys do go. ‘i think he’s had it in his head that he’s gone on a bit longer than maybe he wanted in the first place anyway. ‘He could go on: he could keep playing and he would be selected. ‘But it’s a mark of the guy to say: “look, i might not be at my best moving forward, and i’m not going to put my country in that position where i’m still asking them to select me.” ‘So you’ve got to respect him for his decision.’ Stringer won 98 caps in 11 years, making his debut alongside Simon easterby, Shane Horgan, Ronan O’gara and John Hayes in February 2000. The iconic scrumhalf, 36, said O’Driscoll’s try-scoring ability was the finishing touch to a group that revolutionised irish rugby. ‘Five of us made our debuts the same day, a generation all coming through at the same time. We’d never really experienced losing, through age groups and then into provincial and european rugby. ‘put a guy like Brian outside that nucleus, able to finish things off and get points on the
board, and everything snowballed. it really all had a huge effect: it was a huge turning point for irish rugby i think. ‘a guy of his stature on the field, but his leadership off it, when he speaks people listen, and that’s a mark of a true leader when you come across them.’
From beard to eternity: O’Driscoll (far left) and Gordon D’Arcy will form their iconic centre partnership for last time in a green jersey
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REcORDs s Brian O’Driscoll will increase the world record for Test appearances to 141 in his final Ireland match against France tomorrow. The 35-year-old has eight British and Irish Lions caps to add to his soon-to-be 133 Ireland turns. s His 46 international tries is an Ireland record. s The Leinster stalwart is the Six Nations’ leading all-time try-scorer with 26. s He will bring his record Five/Six Nations appearance tally to a final total of 65 in Paris. s O’Driscoll has captained Ireland more than any other player – 83 times between November 2002 and June 2012. s O’Driscoll and Gordon D’Arcy will extend their world-record partnership to 56 caps. s Ireland claimed four Triple Crowns under his stewardship – 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009, with 2009 also yielding the Grand Slam. s O’Driscoll’s eight victories over England leaves him level with Mike Gibson’s Ireland record.
To the glory of Bod: Brian O’Driscoll will hope to bow out of a record-breaking International career by adding a second Six Nations title to his already stellar list of accolades. To do this, Ireland must defeat France in Paris tomorrow picture: pa
The Greatest
‘Something special’ on menu for paris as BOD comes full circle The firsT Time Conor O’shea trained with Brian O’Driscoll, his jaw dropped. The first time O’shea played with O’Driscoll, his jaw broke. On both occasions, harlequins’ director of rugby remembers being spellbound by a centre he believes will go down as ‘the greatest player of his generation’. ‘it was 1998 going into 1999 and Warren Gatland brought two young players down to a training session in Galway: Brian O’Driscoll and Gordon D’Arcy,’ O’shea said. ‘Warren took four or five of the senior players aside, and said: “Will you look after these kids, i wouldn’t mind you telling
by DAnny HOGAn me what you think of them.” After the session he came up to us and said: “What did you think?” And we said: “Can you play them now please? Because they’re miles better than we are.” They were just incredible, the two of them. ‘Gordon took a little bit more time to get there. But D’Arcy and O’Driscoll, as a centre pairing for Leinster and ireland, you talk horan-Little, you talk about those great centre pairings – Guscott and Carling – D’Arcy and O’Driscoll will definitely go down in that company.’
O’Driscoll will extend his world-record Test appearance tally to 141 in his final ireland bow against france in Paris tomorrow, before retiring in the summer. The 35-year-old made his international debut in ireland’s 46-10 defeat to Australia in Brisbane on June 12, 1999. O’shea lined up at full-back that day (breaking his jaw and winding up eating through a straw). ‘straight away you knew with Brian that he was something special. And all these years on, he has become the greatest player of his generation: unequivocally. ‘he’s had 15 years of shoulder surgeries, being targeted, being the man everyone
wants to have a go at. he’s won the Grand slam, heineken Cups, raboDirect Pro 12 titles, the Amlin Challenge Cup. ‘You can never compare eras, i think that’s unfair, but of his era, i can’t think of a better rugby player, and also a nicer bloke. ‘it’s almost fitting Brian’s last game will be in Paris. i wouldn’t put it past him to do something special there, because it’s where he really signalled his arrival on the world stage with that hat-trick. ‘And who’s to say he won’t finish off with something special out there again.’
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