Metro Herald, Thursday, April 10, 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014

IS 100% ON.

Our President’s Game Of Thrones »p8

Back from kidnap hell

»p17

Change all your passwords now

by MarTyn Landi

SEVERAL major technology firms have urged users to change all their passwords in the wake of the Heartbleed security breach.

The Heartbleed bug was first reported on Monday after going undetected for more than two years.

It bypasses the OpenSSL cryptographic library, which is used online to digitally scramble sensitive information as it passes between computer servers – best known as the padlock icon that appears in the corner of web browser windows to show the page you are using is secure.

The bug is a flaw in this system that can give anyone access to the data behind that encryption, such as passwords and credit card details, without leaving a trace.

Blogging site Tumblr encouraged users to update all existing passwords: ‘This might be a good day to call in sick and take some time to change your passwords everywhere, especially your high-security services like email, file storage and banking, which may have been compromised,’ it said.

Cyber-security research group Codenomicon said the breach ‘allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly… and to impersonate users.’

CALF-TIME: Faye and Lauren Mackey and Aisling Marriot from Ballinteer make a new friend at the reopening of Airfield Estate in Dundrum yesterday. The estate, which has a 38-acre working farm, has undergone an €11m facelift.

It now has a milking parlour, dairy and farm, ornamental gardens and food production tunnels that supply its café

Get 20% off* so many great things when you use your BOI Student Visa Debit card in-store.

Visit www.bankofireland.com/student20 for more great offers.

Terms and conditions apply to student accounts and Visa Debit cards.

You must be 16 years or over to apply for a Visa Debit card.

*Offer applies to student Visa Debit card only. For all retail partners promotional terms and conditions visit www.bankofireland.com/student20. BOI refers to Bank of Ireland.

Bank of Ireland is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

Keep Dublin tidy – Please recycle this Metro Herald when you are finished with it

METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

D

D

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD

METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

D

Thursday 10/04/14 How to contact us Email:

news@metroherald.ie mail@metroherald.ie sports@metroherald.ie features@metroherald.ie sales@metroherald.ie Text: ‘Mail’ to 53131 (30c plus usual text charge) Editorial: 01 705 5088 Advertising: 01 705 5010 Distribution: 01 705 5007

Ireland’s rate of newsprint recycling is now up to 79%.

Keep reading, keep recycling – thank you.

Social media Facebook.com/ metroherald

@metrohnews #metromailbox

Well done to Deirdre, who is the third winner of our GoMetro. ie selfie competition. She is the proud new owner of one of the first Huawei Ascend G6 4G smartphones in Ireland. We have two more phones and another chance two days. Tweet your to enter every snaps of yourself ‘talking’ day for the next on the phone to @

Today’s birthdays

Omar Sharif, actor, 82; Gloria Hunniford, broadcaster, 74; Paul Theroux, author, 73; Lesley Garrett, soprano, 59; Mandy Moore, singer/ actress, 30; Haley Joel Osment, actor, 26 (pictured).

metrohnews #GoMetro See Page 15

Weather Weather Today

Max: 13°c

Dry and bright at first today in the south and southeast, but cloudy conditions with rain and drizzle will spread gradually southeastwards over Leinster.

Temperatures between 10°C and 13°C in moderate southwest breezes.

10�C

Derry

Donegal

10�C

12�C Belfast

Cavan

Galway

13�C

Athlone

Dublin

13�C

Tipperary

12�C

Waterford

Tralee

Cork

Tonight

13�C

13�C Sunrise: 6.38am Sunset: 8.16pm

Min: -1°c

Tonight will be cold and dry with clear spells. There will be a sharp frost with a risk of icy patches on untreated roads. Temperatures between -1°C and 2°C.

EUROPE today

Tomorrow 11�C 10�C 12�C 11�C The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea

Charity number CHY 2678 in the Republic of Ireland. A charity registered in England and Wales (209603) and Scotland (SC037736).

Barcelona

19 °c 18 °c

Berlin

11 °c

Brussels

Paris

16 °c 13 °c 18 °c 27 °c 19 °c

Rome

19 °c

Athens

Dry and bright with sunny spells.

Temperatures between 10°C and 12°C in light west to southwest breezes.

12�C

12�C 12�C 12�C Max: 12°c

London Geneva Madrid

D

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD

Something fishy in the water

Dry subject: The interview begins

Has a fake tumble been rumbled?

by HAyDEn SMiTH ANY journalist worth their salt is always looking for headline news but this reporter made waves for the wrong reasons... or did she?

Martje Oesterholt was interviewing mayor Bort Koelewijn when she found herself at the centre of the story.

After greeting the politician, she stood perilously close to the side of a boat in Kampen, Holland.

Losing her balance, she tumbled into water with a scream as the horrified Mr Koelewijn looked on.

The mayor immediately went to her aid and removed his livery collar in a bid to offer Ms Oesterholt a lifeline.

Footage of the fall has now been watched by thousands of amused viewers on YouTube and it was described in one report as possibly ‘the best news blooper ever’.

But there were suggestions last

Sinking feeling: Martje Oesterholt plummets from the boat into the water after seemingly losing her balance during an interview with mayor Bort Koelewijn night the clip wasn’t quite as unscripted as it seemed.

It emerged that the ‘reporter’ was in fact a marketing executive working on a promotion for Sail Kampen – a major sailing event in the city.

Ms Oesterholt herself did little to dampen the scepticism.

She tweeted: ‘It’s a promo for Sail Kampen. So it’s a little bit fake...’

The fall echoed the famous Only Fools And Horses scene in which Del Boy toppled to the floor while trying to And finally... Oesterholt is thrown a lifeline after her fall – but was she in on the whole thing? Pictures: Youtube lean on a bar (but that was for real...).

Hunting for Easter treats?

€15 €12.75

€25 €21.25

15% off all iTunes gift cards in store until 20th April 2014.

€30 €25.50

€50 €42.50

No refunds are available. Available in all Tesco Stores that stock gift cards. Subject to availability. Please read the important terms and conditions on the back of the card before you buy. TM and © 2014 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple is not a participant or sponsor of this promotion.

METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

D

FitzPatrick ‘knew of bank’s law breach’

by ED cARTy THE former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank knew a €625million plan to unwind Sean Quinn’s secret shareholding was a flagrant breach of company law, a court has heard.

The fraud trial of Sean FitzPatrick and two other executives entered its final stages with prosecution lawyers claiming the bankrupt banker was guilty because he had been privy to certain facts as a senior board member.

On the direction of Judge Martin Nolan, FitzPatrick was earlier found not guilty of six charges relating to €170m of loans to members of the Quinn family. There was no evidence against him regarding those loans, the court heard.

One of the other executives, Anglo’s former managing director of lending Pat Whelan, was found not guilty on seven separate charges of

FitzPatrick: ‘Privileged’ being privy to the fraudulent alteration of loan facility letters to seven individuals in October 2008.

The trial, now in its tenth week, centres on whether the €625m of loans made by Anglo to buy shares were in the ordinary course of business.

As the prosecution brought its case to a close, Paul O’Higgins, senior counsel, told the jury there is an obligation for company directors to ensure compliance with the

law and their job should be looked upon as a privilege.

He said: ‘There has been considerable play made on behalf of Mr FitzPatrick that he was a non-executive director. He was. But he was more than a non-executive director. He was chairman of the company, which imposes and grants power, more than a non-executive director.

‘He is guilty because he knew certain facts while he was a director that he was in a position to put him in clear notice that this company was acting in flagrant breach of the Companies Act.’ The jury was told it was irrelevant whether the financial regulator knew about the deal.

Mr O’Higgins told the jury they had to consider who authorised the lending and whether any of the three men had taken any steps to prevent it from going ahead.

The hearing continues.

‘€5,000 cost of calorie menus’

WHEELy WORTHy cAusE: Students take part in a Stretcher Race around St Stephens Green in aid of Jack Kavanagh, a Trinity College student who broke his neck PICTURE: VIP IRELAND

IT WILL cost restaurants €5,000 a year if they are forced to put calorie information on their menus, it has been claimed.

The Restaurants Association of Ireland made the claim after the launch of an optional online calorie calculator by the Food Safety Authority (FSAI).

Health Minister James Reilly said it would help consumers ‘make the healthier choice, the easier choice, and to create an environment where everyone can play their part in improving the health and wellbeing of themselves and their families’.

Dr Mary Flynn of the FSAI said: ‘When food and drinks are prepared outside the home, the consumer does not know what ingredients are used and how they are prepared.’

But the Restaurant Association of Ireland said it would take a chef 20 hours a month to complete a 40-item monthly menu, at a time cost of €5,000 a year. ‘At a time when restaurants are trying to create new jobs as well as saving existing ones, extra costs don’t need to be placed on them.’ it said.

Quinn company sale Ill Kerins to miss stops after threats PAC questioning A MAJOR construction company has pulled out of a deal to buy a business formerly owned by bankrupt tycoon Sean Quinn due to intimidation.

Lagan Group had planned to take over Aventas Rooftiles, but has repeatedly suffered attacks on plant and property, as well as threats including a death threat to chairman Kevin Lagan on the day his wife died last week.

Announcing its decision, the firm said ‘no business could operate when criminal threats put employees, directors and their families at risk’.

NEITHER outgoing Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins nor former CEO Frank Flannery will appear at today’s meeting of the Public Accounts Committee.

Ms Kerins, who announced her resignation last week, cited poor health and said she would not be attending on medical advice.

Mr Flannery, meanwhile, said that he was willing to attend the PAC and to ‘assist that important body with its enquiries’. However, he had to decline the invitation as he did not have any involvement in or knowledge of the items on the agenda since he retired in 2006.

D

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD

Stab attack left victim with knife stuck in face Stately : Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina, left, at City Hall in London yesterday, where he met the city’s mayor Boris Johnson, above picture: fennells

A MAN was left with a large knife stuck in his face after a horrendous stabbing attack.

The victim was stabbed several times in a serious altercation at about 6.35pm on Parnell Street, Limerick, the day before Saint Patrick’s Day, it is alleged.

The injured man was rushed to University Hospital Limerick, but later transferred to Galway University Hospital, where he had the knife removed from his face.

Two men appeared in Limerick District Court yesterday charged in

connection with the attack.

John Bardon, 26, of Catherine Street, Limerick, and Craig McMahon, 24, with an address at Parnell Street, Limerick City, were each charged with violent disorder.

Both men – who made no reply to each charge – were granted free legal aid and appointed defence solicitors.

Judge Eugene O’Kelly remanded both on bail to appear again in the court on June 18.

Two other men who were arrested were released without charge.

President views colours of Irish regiments in Windsor ON THE second day of his State visit to the UK, President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina viewed the colours of the regiments of the British army that were disbanded when Ireland gained independence.

The colours, which honour the service of Irish soldiers in World War I and other conflicts, were given pride of place in a stairway entrance to Windsor Palace on the insistence of King George V in 1922, so that all visitors could see them.

The presidential couple looked over the colours of the Royal Irish

Regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the Connaught Rangers, the Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regiment and the Royal Munster Fusiliers.

There were 58,000 Irish soldiers in the British army at the start of World War One – ‘the Great War’.

Mr Higgins also met British prime minister David Cameron and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson yesterday.

Mr Cameron told Mr Higgins he was ‘privileged’ to be in office ‘at a time when Anglo-Irish relations are on such an up’.

Tory’s ‘shoot McGuinness’ comment is ‘a throwback’

GERRY ADAMS has accused a politician whose wife was left crippled by the IRA of publicly encouraging the assassination of Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.

Responding to the former UK Conservative Party chairman Norman Tebbit’s remarks, the Sinn Féin leader said it was unacceptable for a member of the House of Lords to openly support the shooting of a political leader.

‘I fully understand that Norman Tebbit has himself been a victim of the political conflict and I regret that he has suffered grievously,’ said Mr Adams.

‘However, to publicly advocate the assassination of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness is a shocking throwback to a violent past from which we are seeking to move on.’

Mr Adams said his party colleague and ex-IRA commander Mr McGuinness has worked tirelessly to ensure the success of the peace process at considerable risk to himself.

by bRiAn HuTTOn

‘Martin, his home and indeed his family have been targets for abuse and attack by so-called dissident republicans,’ he said. To now have this type of activity encouraged by a member of the British House of Lords is unacceptable.’

Outspoken Lord Tebbit, who was injured with his wife during the 1984 IRA bombing of the Tory conference in Brighton, said he hoped Mr McGuinness was shot in the back for attending a State banquet at the invitation of the Queen.

Mr McGuinness told RTÉ he did not want to be ‘drawn into’ the row.

Lord Tebbit said the Queen had no choice about Mr McGuinness attending the banquet at Windsor Castle in honour of the visit of President Michael D Higgins. He said: ‘There’s always the possibility that a member of the Real IRA will be so outraged by Mr McGuinness bowing to the Queen they might shoot him in the back. We can but hope.’

FROM FORD

SAVE WITH A “SWAPPAGE” ALLOWANCE OF

IN ADDITION TO YOUR OLD CAR’S TRADE-IN VALUE FORD FOCUS from just €19,645.

Available on 3 year Ford Options with €1,500 Ford Swappage Allowance.* To see what everyone is talking about, visit fordswappage.ie

Model shown is for illustrative purposes only and does not include the cost of metallic paint or delivery. *Swappage is available on all new Ford Fiesta, B-MAX, Focus & C-MAX units registered from April 1st to June 30th 2014 at participating dealers only. Swappage scheme applies to vehicles taxed and insured at time of trade-in and aged between 6 and 10 years old. Lending criteria and terms and conditions apply. Finance is provided by way of a hire purchase agreement. The credit provider is Ford Credit which is a registered trading name of Bank of Ireland Leasing Ltd. 5-Year Warranty is available at Participating Dealers only. For full terms and conditions see ford.ie

METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

D

Cause of Peaches’ death still unknown after exam

by DANiEL BiNNs

JAMES Hellwig, better known as former pro-wrestler The Ultimate Warrior, has died aged 54.

Hellwig (pictured), who died on Tuesday, was one of pro-wrestling’s biggest stars in the late 1980s, having beaten Hulk Hogan in a memorable match at Wrestlemania in 1990. He was in the spotlight again earlier this week, making appearances at the latest Wrestlemania and being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

He is survived by his wife Dana and his two daughters.

Two more series for Game of Thrones

picture: reuters

A POST-MORTEM examination of the body of of Peaches Geldof has proved inconclusive and toxicology tests will be carried out, say police.

The 25-year-old’s body was found at her home in Wrotham, Kent, earlier this week.

The circumstances around her death – which officers said was being treated as ‘non-suspicious, unexplained and sudden’ – are still being investigated.

However, the results of a toxicology report could take several weeks, they warned.

A spokesman added: ‘Officers continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death in order to compile a report for the coroner.’

Peaches was found dead on Monday afternoon after police were called to the scene following ‘a report of concern for the welfare of a woman’.

The body of the mother-of-two was transferred to Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford for a post-mortem examination to take place. A coroner is expected to open an inquest following the results.

Her father, Bob Geldof, led the tributes that flooded in this week, saying the family was ‘beyond pain’.

Her husband, Tom Cohen, said his wife was ‘adored’ by him and sons Astala, 23 months, and Phaedra, 11 months.

Ex-Wrestler Ultimate Warrior dies age 54

CAT MAN DO: A man looks at the bronze sculpture Emissary Cat by British artist Laura Ford at the Art Cologne art fair in Germany. The sculpture is on sale for €156,000. Some 200 international exhibitors are taking part in the 48th installment of the annual fair, one of the world’s leading for contemporary art

wholly thursday

THE team behind Game of Thrones have confirmed they will make at least two more series of the bloodthirsty fantasy show.

The epic tale of treachery among a series of families vying for power in a medieval-style world is currently on its fourth series – shown on Sky Atlantic in Ireland.

Michael Lombardo, president of US broadcaster HBO Programming (which makes the show) said it was ‘a phenomenon like no other’ and said the cast and crew ‘continue to surpass themselves’.

The series – filmed on location around the world, including in the North – is based on the best-selling books by George RR Martin.

As a certain humongous medieval-fantasy television event kicks off again, KEN ROGAN reports on another game of thrones going on across the sea

B

rainiac dwarf and ace ATM-frequenter, President Michael D Higgins is celebrating the arrival of Game Of Thrones: Season 4 this week with a state visit to Queen Elizabeth Lannister of Westeros. Squee says he loves the show’s achingly long credits, which remind him of his family home in Lilliput.

Lord Higgins departed Castle Winterfell at 11.15am Monday bound for London Heathrow, via Never-never-land, on the back of a dragon that was expected to engulf large sections of London in hellfire, and / or land quietly without incident. Higgins is accompanied by the fair Lady Sabina, who recently won plaudits from the peasantry for showing mercy to an old woman clapped in irons and thrown in the dungeon for protesting the Dothraki use of Shannon airport.

This morning, the pair were received at the foot of a red letterbox by Danger Mouse.

The President’s itinerary for the week includes pointless nudity (this is HBO after all) and

also being terribly cunning for such a small fella, while keeping in check his ludicrously untrustworthy delegation who have a history of upsetting the Queen. Michael O’Leary, who looks set to replace Aidan Gillen as Petyr Baelish the devious brothel owner, last week cracked wise, if unwisely, about Royal sex (and this is real): ‘It is a great pleasure to be here and in such august company.

‘Addressing such an august body as this reminds me much of making love to the queen of England – you know it is a great honour, you’re just not sure how much pleasure it is going to be.’

Remarkably this ‘oft-applauded’

within McGuinness’s own clan are gag did not have an audience halfthat he’s a turncoat and is about to full of British MPs rolling in the be appointed as the Queen’s Hand aisles. O’Leary/Baelish himself, which is exactly the sort of subsequently held the MPs hostage double-cross we have come to enjoy until they paid the ransom of an from this nightmare world where extra €50 each to fly home. everyone dies horribly.

Nevertheless, some quarters The current Queen’s Hand, David welcomed the re-emergence of the Cameron, has vanished old Michael O’Leary, into an ocean of Pims, accusing dark forces and precisely no of having put an has been enchantment of Daenaerys is believed one mobilised to look ‘good manners’ on the Ryanair to be the reincarnation for him. It is believed the boss. Sources of Princess Diana, to Queen wants a within the airline more ruthless say that the only which she replied: Hand now that the thing that could ‘You slaaaaagggg!’ ‘Mother of Dragons’ possibly make has burst back on the O’Leary treat scene. Daenerys ‘The people better was, Unpronounceable’ (played by a quote, ‘voodoo’. platinum blonde Eastenders extra) is Meanwhile, in a twist not believed to be the reincarnation of even Game of Thrones creator Princess Diana, to which the Queen RR Martin saw, the Queen has reportedly said: ‘You invited Martin McGuinness to slaaaaaaggggggg!’ a banquet.

There was further surprise at home Eunuch astrologers don’t when, in a bizarre move, the know what to make of this Steward of Winterfell Enda Kenny move, given McGuinness’s invited the Lannisters to visit Dublin alleged history of trying to kill in 2016 to help celebrate the the Queen, but rumblings

“

centenary of our casting off the yoke of the Lannisters. While no official RSVP has been received, it was made known through back channels that the Queen will be, ‘doing her hair that night’.

Meanwhile, irksome do-gooder Jon Snow (played by environmental enthusiast Duncan Stewart) has bored all comers with the weary refrain ‘winter is coming’.

Season-change deniers tartly replied that ‘winter is always coming, even when it’s here – that’s the nature of our cyclical calendar’, but Stewart pointed out that winter in Westeros lasts for a decade and features un-killable flesh-eating zombies.

A spokesman for the zombies said: ‘Braaaiinnsss’. Stewart/Snow also believes he can ride the ‘winter is coming’ ticket all the way to the European Parliament, which would be pretty impressive for a Black Guard.

And finally, the role of Jaime Lannister, chief Royal bodyguard, will now be played by legendary amputee Oscar Pistorius. The Queen plans to hire him as a doorman.

@kenrogan

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD

D

FROM THE WRITER AND DIRECTOR OF ‘THE GUARD’

WINNER

3 IRISH FILM & TELEVISION AWARDS INCLUDING

BEST FILM

and

BEST ACTOR

“ O N E O F T H E B E S T A N D M O S T P OW E R F U L I R I S H M OV I E S E V E R M A D E . G L E E S O N I S P H E N O M E N A L ” E N T E RT A I N M E N T. I E

LITTLE WHITE LIES

EMPIRE

“A W I C K E D LY F U N N Y B L AC K C O M E DY.”

“DESTINED FOR C L A S S I C S TAT U S .”

D A I LY E X P R E S S

A N D R E W L O W RY, T O T A L F I L M

TIME OUT

“ J U S T M AY B E T H E B E S T IRISH FILM EVER MADE”

“ N OT H I N G S H O RT OF A MASTERPIECE” TWITCHFILM

A N D R E W L O W RY, T O T A L F I L M

RADIO TIMES

CHRIS

O’DOWD

S U N D AY M I R R O R

K E L LY

R E I L LY

I R I S H D A I LY S T A R

2FM

B R E N DA N

GLEESON

A I DA N

GILLEN

K I L L I N G A P R I E S T O N A S U N D AY. T H AT ’ L L B E A G O O D O N E .

I N C I N E M A S T O M O R ROW © CALVARY FILMS LIMITED / THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE 2013

Facebook.com/CalvaryMovie

Twitter.com/CalvaryFilm

DY L A N

MORAN

10 METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

★

★

★★ ★ ★

D

paltrow slow to ring change Gwyneth Paltrow could be delaying her ‘conscious uncoupling’ from Chris Martin after she was pictured still wearing her wedding ring.

The star, 41, was spotted with her gold band firmly back on her finger in a Twitter picture she uploaded to mark her son Moses’ eighth birthday.

‘Moses Bruce Paltrow Martin turns 8 today.

We love you!’ she captioned a snapshot of her hugging the boy.

The previous day, she was spotted with the

Eye ccandy: Victo Victoria’s Secret model Bar Refaeli showed Refa playful off her pl side in this shoot Passionata’s for P lingerie range. linger ange. A one-time girlfriend of girlfr Leonardo Leonar DiCaprio, the DiCapr actress Israeli ac wore matching wo delicates in a delic series of candyseri coloured shots. colour One image shows the 28sho year-old flirting yea with ttoy flamingos, mingos, while another sees sees her play with her playing hair as bubbles cascade around casc her

band on her wedding finger as she was driven out of her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, by an unknown man. The actress had ditched the ring during a recent holiday in the Bahamas.

Meanwhile, it was recently reported that the A-list pair took part in a spiritual healing ceremony to mark their separation while on their ‘break-up moon’ last week. Performed by a Kabbalah Rabbi, the beach ritual was to prepare them for difficult times ahead.

pictures: passionata ta

Depp to follow Heard down the aisle at age 50 J

TIVOLI.IE

DUBLIN

IMPROVASYLUM.IE

FOR TICKETS: +353 (1) 454 4472

ohnny Depp has preparations well in hand to tie the knot at 50 with younger lover Amber heard – despite famously steering clear of the altar during his 14year romance with Vanessa paradis.

The actor let on how fast things were already moving by revealing his 27-year-old fiancée has been given the job of wedding planning.

It comes amid rumours heard is already carrying his child and Depp’s own confession he’d like to give fatherhood another crack.

‘I love kids. I have two, and they’re perfect. Man, I’d make a hundred,’ said the pirates of The Caribbean star, who has 14-year-old Lily-Rose and Jack, 11, with paradis.

‘But I’ve got the easy gig, right?’ his baby hint came as one of heard’s former boyfriends stepped forward to claim she is expecting.

‘She’s pregnant already! I saw her three weeks ago,’ actor Mark Wystrach told InTouch magazine.

‘Amber and I dated years ago but we are still close.’

Meanwhile, Depp has provided an update on his big day, telling entertainment Tonight: ‘I think that I would be better at making women’s shoes than I would be at wedding planning. I can’t plan anything – I’m really bad at that stuff.’

Depp met heard on the set of their 2011 flick The Rum Diary. he de-

by AnDREi HARMswORTH

cided to pop the question before Christmas and confirmed their engagement last week by wearing a woman’s diamond ring on his wedding finger. he previously described his break-up with 41-year-old paradis in 2012 as ‘bumpy’ but said they were on good terms for the children.

Depp: ‘I’ve got the easy gig’

Jessie J is adamant that she did not use her sexuality to flog records as she backtracked on saying her lesbian tendencies were a ‘phase’. The incensed 26-year-old tweeted: ‘I never lied about my sexuality. I fell for a person who happened to be a girl. Every other relationship I’ve had has been with a man. My record label didn’t care and it wasn’t part of my launch! Just to be clear this was NEVER a publicity stunt or for album sales.’

Jon Hamm insists he won’t be walking down the aisle despite being in a relationship for 17 years. The Mad Men star, 43, whose partner is actress Jennifer Westfeldt, said: ‘I’m not against it; marriage works for a lot of people – they call it an institution for a reason.’ He also claimed he did not see himself as a heart-throb. ‘The idea of being a sex symbol is something I don’t relate to at all. I find it so confusing and silly,’ he said.

D

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD

11

pistorius: I’m tormented by Reeva image

by HAYDEn SMITH OSCAR Pistorius yesterday refused to look at a photograph of his girlfriend’s ‘exploded’ head as he was urged to ‘take responsibility’ for killing her.

The South African athlete was shown the image of the injuries he inflicted on Reeva Steenkamp by prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who told him: ‘It’s time that you look at it.’

But he became distraught and protested: ‘I will not look at a picture when I’m tormented by what I saw and felt.

‘As I picked Reeva up, my fingers touched her head. I remember. I don’t have to look at a picture, I was there.’

Mr Nel asked the Paralympic champion to state in court that he had shot Miss Steenkamp dead – sharply challenging him when he replied by saying only ‘I made a mistake’.

He then showed a video of Pistorius firing a gun at a watermelon while re-

marking that the fruit was ‘softer than brains’ and the .50-calibre firearm was a ‘zombie-stopper’.

Mr Nel then asked Pistorius, 27: ‘You know the same happened to Pistorius: Denial Reeva’s head?’

The blade-runner – who denies murder and says he shot Miss Steenkamp, 29, after mistaking her for a burglar – began sobbing and broke down, forcing the judge to call a recess.

Mr Nel also started to poke holes in details of Pistorius’s version of the events leading up to the killing on Valentine’s Day last year.

The prosecution claims Pistorius was a gun-obsessed hothead who deliberately shot Miss Steenkamp dead after a row. The trial continues.

World

SMARTEST CHOICE, ADVICE & PRICE

IN-STORE

TOMORROW

digest

Comic wins €940,000 Stem cell researcher over Vegas stage trip stands by ‘fake’ data

AMERICA: A comedian who tripped over audio cables during a performance at a Las Vegas casino has won €940,000 compensation.

George Wallace, who was best man at Jerry Seinfeld’s wedding, was given the payout after a judge ruled the wires ought to have been taped down. The 61-year-old ruptured his achilles tendon and walks with a limp after the 2009 accident at the Bellagio resort.

jApAn: A scientist accused of fabricating data made a tearful apology live on television yesterday but insisted her groundbreaking stem cell research was valid.

Haruko Obokata, 30, blamed inexperience for making ‘mistakes’ in her methodology. ‘They do not affect the conclusions,’ she said in Tokyo. Other scientists have accused her of malpractice, a charge which she denies.

HOLLAnD: A group of ringtailed lemurs from Madagascar show themselves for the first time outside the enclosure in a zoo in Alphen aan den Rijn, Holland

Islamic ban on girls’ First orchestra wins sports may be lifted €720,000 top gong

SAUDI ARABIA: A ban on school sports for girls could be lifted.

The policy is under review by the nation’s shoura council, which advises the government on sharia law, after a request by the education ministry. The deeply conservative Islamic nation bans women from driving or leaving the country without a male relative.

However, it entered its first female Olympic athletes at London 2012.

AUSTRIA: The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has won this year’s Birgit Nilsson prize. The ensemble is the first to receive the €720,000 classical music award, since its launch in 2009. President Clemens Hellsberg said: ‘It is our desire to express our gratitude – and not only in words.’ Members will travel to Stockholm in October for an awards night, where they will perform for King Carl XVI Gustaf.

FROM

FREE BILL PAY

Network terms and conditions apply. See www.carphonewarehouse.ie for details.

12 METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

MH370 may be ‘found in days’ as signal returns TWO more ping signals likely to be coming from the black box of missing flight MH370 have been detected. They were heard 1,650km north-west of Perth yesterday. The search zone for the Maylasian Airlines plane is now limited to a narrow lane in the Indian Ocean, said search coordinator Angus Houston. He believes the plane, which went missing on March 8, may be found ‘in a matter of days’.

D

Knife student wounds 20 in school stabbing spree

Rampage: Franklin High School near Pittsburgh after 19 students and an adult were attacked

A TEENAGER armed with a knife wounded 19 students and a security guard yesterday as he went on a stabbing spree at a high school in the US state of Pennsylvania.

A 16-year-old male student was arrested after the rampage and is being held in police custody.

Some victims, ranging in age from 15 to 60, suffered serious stab injuries but all are expected to survive, doctors said.

Mayhem broke out as students arrived for morning lessons at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, a suburb of Pittsburgh.

One witness said he saw ‘students holding their stomachs, bleeding’.

He wasn’t sure how the suspect was stopped but said at some point a fire alarm was activated.

Speaking outside the school, Morris Hundley told reporters his 14-year-old daughter Morriah had called him from the scene in tears.

‘Words can’t describe how I feel. I’m

by AiDAn RADnEDgE

just thinking of the victims,’ said Mr Hundley. Westmoreland County emergency spokesman Dan Stevens said it was not immediately clear why the suspect attacked the students.

Most of the victims were cut by the knife and some suffered scrapes as the assailant lashed out.

Dr Chris Kaufman, trauma director at Forbes Regional Medical Center, said two victims were in surgery and one was awaiting surgery. All three were stabbed in the torso, abdomen, chest or back.

Seven teenagers and one adult were listed in serious condition at Forbes Hospital. A ninth victim, a 15-year-old girl, was satisfactory at another hospital.

Governor Tom Corbett issued a statement saying he was ‘shocked and saddened’ by the events. ‘As a parent and grandparent, I can think of nothing more distressing than senseless violence against children,’ he said.

Market bomb attack sees 23 die A BOMB attack on a fruit and vegetable market has killed at least 23 people and wounded up to 100 more, Pakistani officials said. The device exploded as shoppers were buying their morning supplies on the outskirts of Islamabad yesterday.

‘I saw body parts flying in the air,’ said fruit trader Afzal Khan. ‘People were dying, people were crying.’ Two hospitals were treating at least 90 victims, making it the deadliest attack in the capital for six years. The Taliban Anguish: A relative of a victim is comforted Picture: ePA denied involvement.

COLUMBIA PICTURES PRESENTS A MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT/AVI ARAD/MATT TOLMACH PRODUCTIONMUSIC“THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2™” ANDREW GARFIELD EMMA STONE JAMIE FOXX DANE DeHAAN CAMPBELL SCOTT EMBETH DAVIDTZ COLM FEORE WITH PAUL GIAMATTI BASEDAND ONSALLY THE MAGNIFICENT SIX FEATURING PHARRELL WILLIAMS AND JOHNNY MARR FIELD BY HANS ZIMMERSCREENAND STORY THE EXECUTIVE

BY ALEX KURTZMAN & ROBERTO ORCI & JEFF PINKNER AND JAMES VANDERBILT PRODUCERS E.BENNETT WALSH STAN LEE ALEX KURTZMAN ROBERTO ORCI MARVEL COMIC BOOK BY STAN LEE AND STEVE DITKO SCREENPLAY PRODUCED DIRECTED

BY ALEX KURTZMAN & ROBERTO ORCI & JEFF PINKNER

BY AVI ARAD MATT TOLMACH

BY MARC WEBB

AT CINEMAS WEDS APRIL 16 IMAX® is a registered trademark of IMAX Corporation

Toyota recalls 8,500 vehicles in Ireland TOYOTA Ireland is recalling nearly 8,500 vehicles here as part of a 6.39million global recall.

The affected cars include the Rav4, Yaris, Yaris T Sport and Urban Cruiser, as well as the Hilux commercial vehicle.

Some 4,937 Hilux and Rav4 models manufactured between June 2004 and December 2010 are to be checked for an issue which affects the driver’s airbag.

Some 3,475 Toyota Yaris and Urban Cruiser models manufactured between January 2005 and August 2010 are to be checked for a seat locking issue and

some 19 Urban Cruisers and nine Yaris T Sport vehicles manufactured between September 2005 and February 2009 are to be checked for a steering wheel column issue.

Toyota Ireland said that there have not been any reports worldwide of any accidents or injuries related to these issues and added that not all vehicles within the range are affected.

It said it will write to owners involved in the recall to arrange a free inspection.

In the meantime, any Toyota owner with a query can contact their local dealer or Toyota Ireland on (01) 419 0222.

Visit toyota.ie for further details.

D

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD

13

14 METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

D

Mailbox

Email:

mail@metroherald.ie @metrohnews and #metromailbox

Text:

‘Mail’ to 53131* Facebook.com/ metroherald

*Please include a name and location. Emails with attachments cannot be received. Texts cost €0.30 per message + standard network charges. SP. Oxygen8 Communications, 4th Floor, Malt House North, Grand Canal Quay, D2. Customer service number 0818286606

in the know, on the go

Housing bubble, toil and trouble of market movements

H

aving watched some of Prime Time on Tuesday evening and listened to the discussion on housing problems, i have to say that it seems absurd that we are going towards another property bubble.

How can there be a housing shortage in ireland? What has happened to the so-called ‘ghost estates’ around the country? What has happened to houses in nama? Have these houses been abruptly sold off without the knowledge of the irish people? i for one haven’t seen many ‘for sale’ signs for nama houses.

Maybe they were sold to the rich and not for the general public.

Let’s not forget the number of irish people who had to emigrate to find jobs in other countries or who have taken their own lives in this

country over the last number of years, all because of what the current and previous irish government has put us through.

How come nothing is mentioned about the amount of so-called ‘affordable housing’ that could not be sold off that is now put on ‘social housing lists’? is the irish government trying to create another property bubble? GK ■ Ulysses, on the way to work this morning, i witnessed a woman driving a silver Focus on the wrong side of the road (Philipsburgh avenue) while putting make-up on. i hope she’s reading this.

Batdad ■ To the young couple having a kiss across from me; i’m quite happy that you’ve found each other in our world of Facebook and iPhones but for the love of god, it’s 8am.

Quick pic THE WIFE OF...

Kelly Reilly appears in Calvary, a blackly comic thriller from the director of The Guard, about a priest played by Brendan Gleeson who is told he will be shot in seven days Send your photos to pictures@ metroherald.ie with ‘Quick pic’ as the subject and we will print the best each day in the paper

Some of us are trying to be bitter in peace. The youth of today...

Bitter Old Student ■ i presumed that new regulations were to come into force for cyclists in January but i’m afraid they are not being adhered to. Why are the authorities not enforcing them?

On the short walk every morning from O’Connell Street to Dame Street, you will witness umpteen instances of traffic violations by careless and wreckless cyclists.

Only the other morning, one such idiot broke a red light at the Luas junction and was only seconds

gOOD On yA

yEH big RiDE

● A massive thank you to the little old lady who made me and my wife feel so at home in London the other day. Your pad was god damn palatial and roomy, something I always appreciate despite being a wee lad myself. Next time you and Phil are over my way, I’ll bring you two for a night at the dogs and a spice burger (on me) and then we’ll round off the night in Coppers. You’ll be royally spoiled!

MickeyD

● To the wispy haired blond surfer boy who gets the Dart from Dalkey. See you every morning playing on your gadget watch. Want to play with my gadget?

Inspectyourgadget

RAnDOM AcTs Of kinDnEss

€1

● To the Bank of Ireland girl who shared her sweets with me on a flight to Manchester last Friday – you were the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen. Let’s fly together again soon. Ryanair Romance

● Dear JR, thanks for noticing my coat. I’d love to take down your particulars. Talk to you this evening...

Columbo

yOuR RusH-HOuR cRusH

away from being hit (and this is after the Luas sounding its warning system). i do not want to witness a cyclist being splattered across the road and i’m sure no one else does either.

Will it take some celebrity’s relation or politician’s friend injuring themselves for the authorities to enforce the regulations? i suggest cyclists pay an annual road tax of Junk mail: say €50. i also suggest cyReader Garry cle wardens should be deGreene sent us ployed along main thorthis picture oughfares to try to rid the from Old capital and other areas of Dargle Road in these reckless and dangerBray ous humans.

Concerned Citizen

PROTEST: NO TO FORCED LABOUR

#RIPUltimateWarrior ● #RIPUltimateWarrior you will always be one of my all time favorites. Nobody turned up the crowd like you. @JesseMaeK ● I met the Ultimate Warrior on a flight when I was in 8th grade.

He was the Ultimate Gentleman. @ADumbFlowers ● Another wrestling legend gone to soon. What is it with wrestlers and dying before their time. @TheArsenal77 ● More likely: Ultimate Warrior walks through the pearly gates and Savage hits him from behind with the ring bell.

@mikekerwick

Suspending his disbelief ■ Two weeks for Jared Payne after his collision in Saturday’s Heineken Cup quarter final between Ulster and Saracens? That’s ridiculous! Anyone could see Payne was watching the ball the whole time and was unaware that he was about to collide with Alex Goode. There was no malice or intent in it whatsoever.

UpstandingUlster

European Youth Guarantee? JobBridge & Gateway pay just... .25 an hour or less!

TREnDing

3PM Saturday 12th April Central Bank, Dame St.

Protest organised by Dublin Council of Trade Unions, Mandate Youth Network, CWU Youth, Unite Youth, Young Workers Network, ScamBridge.ie, We're Not Leaving

@metrohnews #metromailbox

PAUL MURPHY MEP www.guengl.eu

D

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD

ENTER NOW!

To celebrate the launch of Gometro.ie, we’re giving away a every day this week!

To win just show us your best Dom Joly impression.

Take a selfie with our giant smartphone and tweet it to us.

@metrohnews #gometro What you’ll love about the Huawei Ascend G6 4G Fast 4G Sharing Super Slim design Selfie Preview Window 5MP front camera with Auto Face Enhancement

8MP rear camera HD video

This competition closes at 12pm on Friday April 11th 2014. The winners will be chosen from the entries received and notified by telephone or email. Entrants must be over 18 years old. One prize per person.

The Editor’s decision is final. Winning photos may feature in Metro Herald and on Gometro.ie, or be used for promotional purposes. Usual Metro Herald rules apply.

15

16 METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

D

television

★ Must see ★

Drama

Comedy

Film4, 6.45pm

It’s a Christmas Special in April so, inevitably, the world feels a bit wonky. Sheldon takes off to Texas to help his sister give birth, leaving the rest of the gang to ponder what their lives would be like without him. we’re in a parallel universe where Penny has designs on Sheldon – now that’s freaky.

Dr Karen Ross (Laura Linney) is testing a communications laser in the Congo. what could possibly go wrong? when her wandering fiancé is mysteriously killed, she heads deep into the jungle to find out what happened to him. Featuring a talking gorilla, this jungle adventure based on Michael Crichton’s novel is packed with action.

Sky1, 9pm

Dermot O’Leary will present this unique event from the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Irish President’s four-day State visit to the UK. Paul Brady, The Gloaming, Glen Hansard, Lisa Hannigan, Donal Lunny and Imelda May are just some of the esteemed guests that will join actress Fiona Shaw, broadcaster Olivia O’Leary and author Joseph O’Connor to celebrate the creative links between the two countries and the contribution made by the Irish in Britain. The event will be streamed live on the RTÉ Player from 8.25pm.

The London firefighter drama signs off with the members of white watch struggling to come to terms with the fallout from last week’s explosion in the Blackwall Tunnel. Some are reaching out for emotional succour, others are in denial, while it looks as if watch leader Kev (Jamie Bamber, above) has come to terms with his devastating injuries and knows what he wants from life. A second series looks a good bet: that’s if they can think of any new ways of making Kev suffer.

E4, 8pm

BROOkLyN NINE-NINE E4, 9pm

BELIEvE

New oN

Available to rent/buy now

ghghghghgh

▲

▲

DEMAn D WW1 UNCUt

Part of the BBC’s contribution to the Great War centenary commemorations, this series of three short films – created for BBC iPlayer and presented by historian Dan Snow – explores defining aspects of World War 1, from trenches and barbed wire to soldier’s kit and fighting tactics.

PICtURE DAy

This Canadian coming-ofage comedy from debut feature director Kate Melville doesn’t spring too many surprises plotwise but is nonetheless worth checking out for Tatiana Maslany’s funny, affecting portrayal of its protagonist – troubled, defiant Toronto teen Claire.

Factual tHE tAkEOvER RTÉ2, 9.30pm

Gerry McNulty has invested 26 years in his flagship furniture shop in Roscommon, which has been brought to its knees by the economic downturn. with a massive 70 per cent decrease in turnover, the business is barely keeping afloat and there are jobs at risk. Gerry has been given no other option but to turn to his staff for help.

AN GAEILGEOIR IS GREANNMHAIRE TG4, 9.30pm

The final eight comics arrive in Carna to the sound of guest rapper MC Muipéid.

Then it’s down to serious business in the Carna Bay Hotel to perform their first set to a packed local audience. with judges John and Tommy joined by guest Páraic Breathnach they along with the audience will vote and decide on who is the first comic to be eliminated.

Sport ★

LIvE GOLf

Sky Sports 4, 7pm

Freakishly bad weather at Augusta earlier this week means the world’s top players will be going into The Masters short of the practice needed to gauge how the world’s most immaculate golf course is playing. which only serves to make an already wide open tournament even wider: with Tiger woods out through injury, anyone in the Top 50 could seize the moment.

Defending champion Adam Scott is in with a shot, while Rory McIlroy (above) and Sergio Garcia lead european hopes. Metro predicts: rising US hope Jordan Spieth.

tHE GOOD WIfE More4, 9pm

who’s the Daddy? It’s a question that leads eli (Alan Cumming) towards a bloodcurdling revelation in the governor’s camp after Marilyn reveals the name she’s chosen for her unborn child. over in Alicia’s eyrie, a couple of musicians are fuming after a Glee-style cover version of their catchy ditty nets a fortune for a TV company.

PERSON Of INtERESt Channel 5, 11pm

The low-key, modern-day crime drama with a hint of Minority Report about it continues to cast its spell as Detective Carter is drawn ever deeper into danger trying to protect John’s true identity.

But Finch’s all-seeing machine never sleeps, pulling out a new number to check on – allowing supermodel Karolina Kurkova to stalk into the frame as a model in peril.

★ tHE BOy IN tHE

StRIPED PyjAMAS BBC2, 9pm

what would you include if you were planning the ‘worst date ever’ for someone? Jake Peralta has all sorts in mind for rival Amy Santiago when he finally triumphs in their longrunning bet and she has to go out with him. But does he really want to do the dirty on his comely co-worker...?

DADS

Watch, 9pm After a bright start in the US, ratings have dive bombed for this Alfonso Cuarón/JJ Abrams supernatural caper. It’s a shame: there’s undoubtedly potential in the story of the mysteriously gifted young Bo (Johnny Sequoyah), who tonight becomes involved with a wealthy woman still mourning the death of a son from decades ago.

CONGO

tHE BIG BANG tHEORy

tHE SMOkE

CEILIÚRADH RTÉ1, 10.15PM

Film

ITV2, 10.50pm Pair up Seth Green (the voice of Family Guy’s Chris Griffin) and comedy legend Giovanni Ribisi, who’s been in everything from Friends to Avatar and what you get is… this weird misfire.

It’s about two blokes whose dads move in with them and it’s worth catching to see some fine actors try to pick jewels out of a stinker of a script.

★

COMMUNIty

Sony TV, 10pm & 10.30pm

Tissues at the ready for this adaptation of John Boyne’s bestseller. Set during world war II, it sees Nazi officer’s son Bruno mistake a nearby concentration camp for a farm and start a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the barbed wire – with unexpected consequences.

David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga and up-and-comer Asa Butterfield (above, most recently seen in enders Game) star in this affecting look at the Holocaust through innocent eyes.

SNOW WHItE AND tHE HUNtSMAN Sky Showcase, 9.50pm

Twilight’s Kristen Stewart stars in this dark, twisted version of the Disney fairy tale. She plays a princess who eventually teams up with her assassin huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to embark on a quest to kill the evil Queen, played by Charlize Theron (the most believable out of the three).

The sharp-talking and slightly surreal US sitcom set in a community college – so much catchier than adult educational establishment – returns for a fifth season and a familiar face is back in the frame. Jeff’s practice has gone under, so he’s back at Greenvale to catch up with his old chums – who still haven’t graduated.

Maybe having Jeff as their new teacher will chivvy them along a bit. with Joel McHale (above left).

CASINO

ITV4, 10.30pm The eighth collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro sees the latter play smooth mafia man Ace Rothstein, who hooks up with Joe Pesci’s tough nut Nicky Santoro as they make their way to 1970s Las Vegas to make mischief and money.

Based on a true story, it earned Sharon Stone an oscar nomination as De Niro’s hustler wife.

D

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD

17

Fantastic three: Models show off outfits designed by Roisin Lawrence from Rathdrum, a student at Griffith College Dublin, Patricia Carroll from Carraroe, a student at NCAD, and Claire Mc Elduff from Omagh, a student at the University of Ulster. The young designers were winners of this year’s Vodafone DIT Fashion Show student design awards.

This year, the proceeds from the show will be presented to the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation, which provides home nursing care for children with severe disabilities as a result of brain damage picture: photocAll

A spring clothes clear-out will leave you quids in, says Angharad Williams

S

Detox your closet – and earn cash

pRING is the perfect time to clear out your closet and get rid of clothes that are taking up precious space. Giving your wardrobe a detox and banishing old clothes that haven’t left the hanger since they were bought will give you a chance to review what you have and to make better buying decisions in future.

And if your bank balance means you can’t af-

ford to buy what you need for your spring/summer wardrobe, then convert your unwanted clothes into cash so you can invest in new ones you will actually wear.

Research compiled by Asos found that its average customer has almost €1,000 worth of unworn clothes. The online retailer decided to launch Asos Marketplace in 2011 for people to sell their clothes in a place ‘where anyone, any-

where in the world, can sell fashion to anyone, anywhere in the world’.

The website charges a 5 per cent commission on any sales made (some of which is donated to charity), but it is free to join and easily accessible through the marketplace app.

There are lots of options available online for selling clothes, including websites such as eBay, Adverts.ie and DoneDeal.ie, all

➔

Flora Women’s Mini Marathon “Walk, run or crawl to help cruelly treated animals.”

Bank Holiday Monday, 2nd June at 2pm

Order your marathon pack from the ISPCA www.ispca.ie

style

D

of which are scoured by bargain hunters. And if you prefer a bit of human interaction you could also try the traditional car boot sale or flea markets where you can sell everything in one day.

If you have clothes that have a designer label, then you want to get the best price for your pieces.

Opened in 2009 on Royal Hibernian Way by Laura Barnes and Aideen McHenry, Ruby Ruby specialises in designer wear and accessories and offers people the opportunity to sell clothes for a commission.

“Changing your shopping habits can save money in the long run”

‘Ruby Ruby is a small shop so we focus exclusively on middle and high-end designers. Think Max Mara to Hermès. We do not accept any high street brands,’ says Barnes.

‘Items must be clean, in perfect condition or very lightly worn and reasonably recent.’

editorial@metroherald.ie to advertise, call 01 7055010

Items to be sold are accepted on Mondays, Tuesdays or Thursdays and are then kept on sale for eight weeks.

Proceeds of sales are divided between the store and the person selling each item.

Whether or not something sells has a huge amount to do with luck and whether the right person comes to the store at the right time: ‘Someone has to like an item, be the right size and believe the price is fair,’ adds Barnes.

‘Accessories are easier to sell as size and fit do not come into play. Beautiful top tier handbags such as Chanel are sold very quickly.’

plainpicture/beyond

18 METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

O

nCE you’ve cashed in your clothes and made space in your wardrobe, you should put the money to good use and invest in quality essentials you will get to wear for seasons to come. Changing your shopping habits can save you money in the long run.

‘My number one rule is always purchase something that already goes with the clothing you have in your wardrobe. That way you’re continually adding to the natural flow of your own personal style,’ says stylist Róisín Flanagan.

‘Try everything on and don’t purchase something you just feel OK about because you will always only feel OK in it. Clothes are there to be enjoyed. Buy something you absolutely love that makes you feel a million quid.’

Being savvier about your wardrobe pieces will mean you have clothes that last. Flanagan says that you can look to getting seasonal additions to jazz up your wardrobe such as a statement bag or vintage earrings in cobalt blue that will make any outfit stand out.

As for an essential item, Flanagan says there is one affordable classic that every wardrobe can benefit from: ‘You can never go wrong with a good crisp white shirt.’

Some high street stores have now

Decisions, decisions: Now is the time of year to clear unwanted items from your wardrobe begun offering vouchers in exchange for old clothes. H&M, for example, allows people to bring in pieces of clothing from any brand in return for a discount voucher.

For every bag you bring into a H&M store,

you’ll get a €5 discount voucher for purchases of €30 or more. But of course, if you’re feeling magnanimous, you could always donate your unwanted clothes to one of the many charity shops throughout the city.

TOp Tips for clearing your closet through all of your old clothes ❶ Sort and put them into piles with labels. If any of them have holes or tears, you won’t get as much value out of them, but see if you can make small repairs to make them sellable.

detoxing your wardrobe, ❷ When look out for items that will sell and

separate them from pieces you might give to charity. ‘Our strongest sell ers are handbags, accessories such as scarves, and dresses,’ says Barnes. ‘That being said, we also sell a lot of shoes and jackets.’

Have a look at this season’s trends ❸ and make sure to keep anything

Classics: Save money in the long run by investing in staples such as a shift dress, white shirt or leather jacket – they can be updated easily with accessories

that might fit in with them. ‘Keep anything tartan as it featured heavily again this year at New York and London fashion weeks,’ Flanagan says. ‘White, yellow and monochrome are the main

colour trends that you will see hanging around this year.’

If you’re selling online do some ❹ research before you list your item.

‘Compare how sellers describe them and what categories they are typically listed in,’ says Eleonora Gandini from eBay Ireland. ‘This will give you a better understanding of how you should be listing your item. A picture paints a thousand words – make sure it is clear, and upload more than one photo.’ not in a hurry to sell, you ❺ Ifcanyou’re offload your clothes at

appropriate times of the year. Sell your summer clothes at the start of the summer months and keep party dresses for the Christmas season so you get the best price. If a celebrity has been seen with that item of clothing then don’t forget to include that in the description.

D

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD

19

Penneys spring/summer

Left: jacket (€21), playsuit (€7), shoes (€22) and sunglasses (€1.50); boilersuit (€17), sandals (€25); bikini top (€7), bikini bottom (€5), wedges (€18). Centre: print maxi dress (€15), shoes (€18); swimsuit (€14), wedges (€20), skirt (€9). Right: playsuit (€7), waistcoat (€11), shoes PhoTo: PhoTocALL IreLAnD. (€22) and bag (€9). Bikini (€5), crop top (€7) and shorts (€9)

cLObbER bLOggER

On OuR RADAR Ladies, we all know a big wallet equals a big (heavy) bag and sometimes that’s just not the look we’re going for – so how about a little wallet that can fit your most important cards, as well as cash and some coins? That’s what the Secrid wallet (pictured left, €60) offers. Available in a choice of coloured leather, the aluminium card protector saves your cards from damage.... you will have to rein in your obsession with coins, though. Available from Weir & Sons, Grafton St and Dundrum Town Centre.

Who doesn’t love a bit of online retail therapy – but sometimes an expensive returns policy or a UK-only delivery service can stop us in our tracks.

However, Parcel Motel has a solution. It not only offers a UK holding address for Irish shoppers, it’s also facilitating free returns with LittlewoodsIreland.ie. It’s simple to use.

All you have to do is sign up and choose the local Parcel Motel address where you’ll collect your parcel. The secure lockers are generally located outside supermarkets or at service stations throughout the city and are accessible 24 hours a day. www.parcelmotel.com.

Dunnes Stores is springing into the new season with the launch of its Savida spring/summer collection. We quite fancy this ensemble, pictured right – Red Lava crepe coat, €75, Red Lava pleated dress, €40, peeptoe boot, €40 and Petal clutch, €25. They’re all available now, with further items rolling out over the coming months.

Metro Life is taking style advice from the people who really know their stuff, with a rotating panel of bloggers giving their top style tips. This week it’s Amy Dillon

A

GOOD set of brushes can take your make-up from average to professional. If you know what to look for you when you’re buying them, you will save yourself a fortune. First, hold the brush against the back of your hand and bounce it against your skin. The bristles Every make-up shouldn’t bag needs a flat splay too much, they shader brush and should only a fluffy blending have a little brush bounce. Avoid brushes that flatten or spread.

Extra caution is needed when choosing an eyeliner brush since precision is important. You can’t go wrong with the Ultra Fine Eye Brush from Bobbi Brown (€29.50 from Arnotts).

As far as eye brushes are concerned every makeThe Ultra Fine EEye up bag needs a flat shader brush and a fluffy Brush, Bobbi Brown, left; The Sigma blending brush. The Beauty Essentials shader is for applying Kit, right colour to the lids, whilst the fluffy brush is needed to blend out the shadow or for applying colour to the eye socket. Mac’s 217 is a must

“

for me – I use two, one for applying colour and then a second for blending (this is the secret to a professional finish).

If you are on a tight budget take a look at the EcoTools Bamboo Six-Piece Eye Brush Set for eyes (€17.99) and the Real Techniques Core Collection for face (€27.99) both from Boots. If you are investing in a set, I recommend Sigma Beauty brushes. They are similar in quality to MAC, but far gentler on your purse. The Essentials Kit has everything you will need and comes in at under €100 (plus delivery) On another note the F80 is the most phenomenal brush for applying foundation – it leaves lea you looking flawless.

See fl sigmabeauty.com for details. sigmabeauty Finally, Finally look after your brushes and you will get years out of them. Clean them gently with a baby shampoo and hot water to remove remo product and bacteria. Avoid getting the handle wet, the area where the brush meets the bristle head. I’ve lost many a brush this way.

Whether it costs €2 or €20 don’t part with your cash until you find the right brush.

Twitter: @dazzledust25; Facebook: makeupandbeauty.ie

books

D STEvEN CArTy

20 METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

Boy captors were shaped by violence ‘I T was important for me to find a dignified voice,’ says Amanda Lindhout. ‘That was our goal when writing those dark, difficult, personal scenes about abuse and torture.’

Lindhout’s powerful, riveting memoir, A House In The Sky: A Memoir Of A Kidnapping That Changed Everything, is full of potential indignities. In the course of the 460 days she was held captive in war-torn Somalia, she was kept in squalid conditions, semi-starved, repeatedly raped and tortured.

Yet she emerges from the story with grace. This is no misery memoir but a hopeful, inspiring page-turner that finds resilience and redemption in a terrible misadventure.

One of the questions the book – co-written with American journalist Sara Corbett – sets out to explain is what the hell a 27-year-old Canadian, who had only eight months earlier been waitressing in Calgary, was doing in ‘the most dangerous place on Earth’? ‘I faced a lot of criticism, particularly in the Canadian media,’ admits Lindhout, 32. ‘A lot of it is justified. I hope I have written with some kind of self-awareness about my younger self.’

The seeds of Lindhout’s restlessness were sewn in a hardscrabble childhood.

At nine, she and her brothers were living with their mother and her occasionally violent lover, at the wrong end of Sylvan Lake, Alberta. Her father, who had recently come out as gay, lived 15 minutes away. Even then, Lindhout’s focus was further afield:

Starved, raped, tortured... but Amanda Lindhout’s book of her kidnap ordeal is no misery memoir, writes Patricia Nicol she and her elder brother, Mark, would ‘dumpster dive’ for bottles they could exchange for a few coins, which she used to buy back issues of National Geographic.

At 19, Lindhout moved to Calgary, found work as a waitress in a bar for high-rolling oil-workers and funded her first backpacking adventure to Venezuela. Over the next six years her tips would fund lone trips to ever more daring places.

In Ethiopia, in late 2006, she fell in love with Nigel Brennan, an Australian photographer. The relationship foundered but his work inspired her to pursue journalism as a means of getting paid to travel. A stint as a rookie stringer in Afghanistan led to her naive acceptance of a Baghdad-based job as a television reporter for an Iranian press agency.

Having found post-war Iraq an isolating challenge, only Lindhout would have concluded that lawless Somalia was the obvious next destination. When Brennan, who was now involved with someone else, got in touch, she suggested he came too.

In August 2008, three days into a four-week trip, their vehicle was pulled over by Kalashnikov-armed kidnappers.

Their families were asked for $3million (€2.2m) ransom – an unimaginable sum for Lindhout’s

Changed by captivity: Amanda Lindhout says her ordeal has made her a more thoughtful person

parents. In the book she writes that her mother worked a minimumwage job, and her father lived off disability payments under the strain of chronic ill-health.

D

ESpITE their cruelty to her, Lindhout speaks with compassion about the ‘soldier boys’ who kept them captive for 15 months.

Her teenage guards were, like her, products of their upbringing, with little to show for life but a gun and a mobile phone – on which they would spend hours watching suicide bombers and jihadi training videos.

‘They were shaped by war and violence,’ she recalls. ‘Most of them hadn’t been to school but all spoke of a desire for an education.’

That their actions transgressed all acceptable codes of behaviour seemed beyond their ken. As she was released – with the help of a private security firm and a payment of about €800,000 for her and

How A fAileD escApe inspireD A cHAriTy A few months into their captivity, hostages Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan tried to flee by burrowing beneath a crumbling window and sprinting to a mosque.

When their angry captors pursued them shooting guns, the mosque-goers, who had at first seemed sympathetic, retreated frightened. But one brave middleaged Somali woman stood up to all the men, admonishing their cowardice and refusing to let go of Lindhout, even as the

kidnappers dragged their Western captives away.

It was in part to honour that unknown woman that Lindhout founded the Global Enrichment Foundation (globalenrichment foundation.ca), a charity dedicated to educating Somali women.

So far, it has helped more than 200,000 women in Somalia and in Kenyan refugee camps.

At a camp outside Mogadishu, run by Dr Hawa Abdi – the female gynaecologist Lindhout was en

Brennan – one of them slipped her his email address. A year later, she was shocked to discover a Facebook message from one of the group’s leaders congratulating her ‘on all the good works I was doing for the sisters of Somalia’ (see box below).

Early in their captivity, Lindhout and Brennan pretended to convert to Islam in the hope it would make them more difficult to kill. Studying the Koran, she says, gave her a deeper insight into her captors who believed they were living by the book, even in the way that they tortured her.

‘A lot of the worst stuff that happened isn’t in this book,’ says Lindhout. ‘We wanted to balance the moments of darkness with the very real moments of transcendence, of understanding. It’s a hard way to learn about the strength that we have inside ourselves but I had to go searching for that and I found it.’

Four years after her release, Lindhout cuts a glamorously feminine figure. ‘When I came out I

route to interview when she was kidnapped – the charity has built a primary school, roads, wells, a library and resource centre. It had 6,000 applicants for its first ten university scholarships.

Though education is its primary aim, when there was famine in Somalia in 2011, GEF distributed more than 2million meals. Through this work, Lindhout has returned to Somalia five times since her ordeal, ‘though making quite different decisions’, she says.

PN New start: Lindhout working in Somalia

didn’t know who I was any more and it took a while to make that reconnection with my femininity,’ she says. ‘But putting myself together is now something I enjoy even more.’

But she is more vulnerable than she looks. She will never eat normally again because of a damaged digestive system and she speaks to a psychologist most days to help with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Having been close at points in their captivity and having thought they would be afterwards, she is now estranged from Brennan. ‘It’s complicated,’ she says. ‘We came out of that experience very different people. Our perspectives on what happened are very different. We just don’t have a lot in common.’

She feels unready for a partner, or the family she would like. ‘I’m just not there yet,’ she says. But in September she will go to university for the first time to study psychology. Before that there is a trip to Mongolia. She takes pride in the fact she still travels alone.

Does she regret going to Somalia?

‘It’s not as black and white as that,’ Lindhout says. ‘Captivity changed me in many ways. Most of them for the better: I am a much more thoughtful and compassionate person than I was. But I would take back my family’s suffering in a heartbeat.’

Equally, ‘there is a closeness to my family that wasn’t there before’. physically too: today Lindhout lives ten doors away from her mother in Canmore, a small town in the Canadian Rockies. As she jokes drily: ‘She likes to keep me in her sights.’

A House In The Sky by Amanda Lindhout (Penguin) is out now.

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD

D

puzzles

21

METROSCOPE

by Patrick Arundell

NEMI by Lise

Aries Mar 21 – Apr 20

Cultivating a sense of camaraderie and fun could help offset the more serious aspects of today. Though you may be extremely busy, you could significantly impress because of a creative, no-nonsense approach to getting things done.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 70

Taurus Apr 21 – May 21

A blend of energies hints you may be fighting a lost cause, or at least feel this is the case. Yet courage, along with a creative twist, could get you places. You can have more leverage than you think. It all depends on whether you can trust your instincts.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 71

METROKU Easy, Moderate and Challenging. For solutions, visit Metro.co.uk/metroku

Gemini May 22 – Jun 21

Your versatility and sharp wit can be useful tools if you’re battling a challenge. People may take notice because your presence inspires confidence. It seems you know how to get results.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 72

Cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23

Matters of the heart may take precedence as Venus moves closer to Neptune. Stepping out of your comfort zone could enhance the possibility of a connection. Yet, regarding a long-term bond, a holiday could really spark you both.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 73

Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23

People can admire your confidence as you tackle a testing situation.

However, in another area, you may not be quite as self-assured as you seem. Today’s Moon-Saturn connection hints that overcoming a psychological barrier is your main hurdle.

PEARLs BEFORE swINE

For your forecast, call 15609 114 74

Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23

Focusing on things that make you feel good could add a vibrant pulse to the day. Later, the Moon’s link with Uranus and Pluto suggests that a left field idea might have more merit and potential than you think.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 75

Libra Sep 24 – Oct 23

As Venus edges closer to Neptune, an attraction may intensify. Don’t get too excited, as mixed signals might be an issue. You could feel reluctant to get involved in a confrontation, yet firming up your boundaries may be necessary.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 76

scorpio Oct 24 – Nov 22

Your strength of mind suggests you know where you’re going. However, deep down it might be another story.

Today’s line-up suggests you might accomplish even more if you can override any self-imposed limits.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 77

sagittarius Nov 23 – Dec 21

Should you be confronted with a difficult situation, try to keep cool.

The changes that occur may merit any strains. And though a project might need commitment from you, it could lead to a positive growth experience.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 78

Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20

A sensitive approach to someone close could help soothe troubled waters. It’s possible you’re feeling on edge but then so might those around you. Trying a different tack can be your best bet.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 79

Aquarius Jan 21 – Feb 19

You may feel under pressure which could push you into taking urgent action. An edgy T-Square focused on Pluto suggests you might benefit from being alone with your thoughts while you get a handle on things.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 80

Pisces Feb 20 – Mar 20

If you’re involved in a budding romance, you might want to explore its potential further before becoming too deeply involved. However, if it’s a friendship, you might find that a mutual willingness to help out can be the hallmarks of a truly supportive bond.

DOWN 1 Allotment (5) 2 Fix (6) 3 Cunning (3) 4 Victor (6) 5 Fall back (7) 8 Rower (7) 11 Esteem (7) 13 Germ-free (7) 15 Elicit (3,3) 16 Empower (6) 17 Ruse (5) 20 Rapture (3)

Yesterday’s Solutions Across: 1 Assistance; 7 Tight; 8 Chianti; 10 Narrated; 11 Tier; 13 Indeed; 15 Duress; 17 Each; 18 Tropical; 21 Stamina; 22 Chant; 23 Needlessly. Down: 1 Auger; 2 Situated; 3 Secret; 4 Arid; 5 Concise; 6 Stinginess; 9 Irresolute; 12 Auspices; 14 Declare; 16 Ornate; 19 Crazy; 20 Kind.

Astrology calls cost 1.27 euros per min from a BT landline. Live Services cost 2.40 euros per minute. Calls from mobiles/other networks may cost more. Callers must be 18 or over to use this service and have the bill payers permission. For entertainment purposes only. All calls are recorded. PhonePayPlus regulated(ComReg in ROI) UK SP: StreamLive Ltd, NR7 0HR, 08700 234 567. ROI SP:Moveda, 1 Courtyard Business Park, Orchard Lane, Blackrock, Co Dublin, 0818 241 398

ENIGMA These 3-D images are cool. A laser is the needful tool. Another must’s coherent light (Whatever that is, am I right?)

WHO AM I? An author, I was born in Essex in 1953. I was married to fellow NME journalist Julie Burchill. My novels include Man And Boy and One For My Baby.

WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? WHO… in British politics has the first names Jeremy John Durham?

WHAT... does the legal term ‘sub judice’ mean?

WHERE... in Europe is the parliament called the Chief Pleas?

WHEN... did John Cabot set sail from Bristol for the New World?

SCRIBBLE BOX

ACROSS 6 Lasting (7) 7 Extend (5) 9 Condition (5) 10 Deny (7) 12 Strained (5,6) 14 Actor (5,6) 18 Guard (7) 19 Bear (5) 21 Meal (5) 22 Gather (7)

For a live one-to-one consultation with one of my gifted psychics, call 15809 113 68 or 1800 719 688 to book using credit card

QuIz

Crossword No. 952 See next edition for solutions

QUIZ ANSWERS: ENIGMA: Hologram. WHO AM I? Tony Parsons. WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? Paddy Ashdown; Under judicial consideration; Sark; May 1497.

QUICK CROsswORd

For your forecast, call 15609 114 81

22 METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

spORT DigEsT Fallows returns to Red Bull F1 team fORMuLA-1 Dan Fallows has returned to red Bull to become the team’s new head of aerodynamics.

Fallows replaces the long-serving Peter Prodromou, who has been placed on a period of gardening leave prior to his departure to McLaren that was revealed in October last year.

Prodromou played a significant role in helping sebastian Vettel (pictured) and the team win four successive Formula One drivers’ and constructors’ titles from 2010. Fallows worked as part of the team’s aerodynamic department for many years prior to leaving for a short period last season, but has now returned to begin his new role with immediate effect.

D

football

Mccarthy: World cup is all about your fans by pADRAic MORgAn MICK MCCarthy made 57 appearaqnces for Ireland and later went on to manage the side for eight-and-a-half years, but as the World Cup approaches, the Ipswich town boss has been recalling his own experiences on the world stage and recognises the huge role the fans have played in the country’s journey.

Italia 1990 was probably the most famous sojourn on to the world stage for Ireland, but McCarthy’s first taste of World Cup action was a little less successful - a Mexico 1986 qualifier against an impressive Denmark side.

‘We got beaten 3-0 and we were lucky to get nil!’ he says. ‘you could tell then that they were going to go on and have a decent World Cup. they had Michael Laudrup, Preben Elkjaer and Morten Olsen playing for them. they were fantastic, but it was a great experience.’

Italy in 1990 brought different emotions.

Drawn against England, the Netherlands and Egypt, McCarthy and Co managed to get out of the group and what stands out for him, even still, is the support of the fans.

Cyclist’s eye view may be on cards cycLing Cycling fanatics could soon see the sport from a different perspective as uCi president Brian Cookson explores opportunities for innovation. Cookson has raised the prospect of bike-mounted cameras and microphones to give viewers a new angle of the sport. speaking yesterday, Cookson said: ‘One of the biggest challenges is the need to evolve while staying true to the essence of your sport. How do you progress and embrace innovation in order to make the spectator feel more engaged? imagine being able to share the view of Chris Froome as he came up the Champs-elysees to win last summer’s Tour de France.’

‘It made for a real carnival atmosphere’

2 Million pounds ex-Southampton chairman Nicola Cortese was paid last season, accounts have revealed Suarez urged to go Luis suArez has been urged to quit Liverpool and move to Manchester united by his uruguay teammate Diego Forlan.

Former united player Forlan, who now plays for Cerezo Osaka in Japan, claims to be in regular contact with suarez (pictured), and said: ‘We spoke a few days ago. He asked me if i think he should stay at Liverpool. All i told him was to think about going to Manchester united. i know he loves Liverpool, the fans and the city, but i think the best thing for his career would be to move to Old Trafford.’

Hughton’s dismay CHris HuGHTON believes he would have kept Norwich in the top flight if he had not been sacked as their manager on sunday. He said: ‘We were on course to move into a fourth consecutive season in the Premier League.’

Fanbase: McCarthy says the support he witnessed was what made the World Cup special

‘the sight of Irish fans – they were everywhere. as a group, we always embraced that: we’d never seen the likes before. the atmosphere surrounding us was wonderful,’ he said.

Making it to the quarter-final after a round of 16 win penalty shoot-out win over romania meant facing Italy, but also a visit to rome.

‘I met the Pope. as the captain of the team I presented him with a shirt and shook his hand.

It was fabulous,’ he reflects.

But for McCarthy, as it will be for so many footballing greats this summer, it is still all about the fans.

‘When our fans turned up at Italia 90 dressed in the green, white and gold with caps and shamrocks, it made for a real carnival atmosphere. they play their part. Football without fans is nothing.’

OpEn sEAsOn On MAsTERs TiTLE cLAiM Clarke makes

RORY McIlroy believes almost three-quarters of the 97-strong field can win the US Masters, while Justin Rose neatly summed up an unpredictable season so far.

‘I think if you’re outside the top 50 in the world this week, you’ve got a great chance,’ Rose said, a tongue-in-cheek reference to some of the lesser-known winners of big events in 2014.

But when the 78th Masters gets under way today at Augusta National, statistics suggest the cream will again rise to the top, even without the injured world number one and four-time Masters champion Tiger Woods.

Since Darren Clarke and Keegan Bradley won the last

golf us masters

Hot tip: McIlroy is favourite to win the Masters two majors of 2011 when ranked 111th and 108th in the world respectively, the lowest ranked winner of a major has been Ernie Els, who was 40th when he won the 2012 Open at Lytham.

Last year, Adam Scott was ranked seventh when he won the Masters, Rose fifth

before his US Open triumph at Merion and Phil Mickelson also fifth before his Open victory at Muirfield.

McIlroy is rated the tournament favourite despite a best finish of 15th in five previous Masters appearances.

‘I certainly feel comfortable on the golf course here,’ the 24-year-old McIlroy said.

‘There’s a lot of guys that seems like once they drive up Magnolia Lane, something sort of lights up inside them.

‘I’m disappointed that my best finish was only 15th.

‘I feel like I’ve played better than that and haven’t quite got the results.

‘Hopefully I can change that this week.’

Tour milestone

Darren Clarke and David Lynn will have extra reasons to enjoy the 78th US Masters when it gets under way today. Former Open champion Clarke will become the first Northern Irishman to make 500 appearances on the European Tour, while Lynn will make his 400th.

Clarke, the 25th player to reach such a milestone, was presented with an engraved silver ice bucket

by Tour chief executive George O’Grady and said: ‘It seems like only yesterday I was setting out on this journey.’

football champions league Scalpers: Atletico Madrid’s Koke resurreccion (left) celebrates with david Villa picture: epa

REsuLTs chAMPIonS leAGue quArTer-fInAlS, Second leG Atletico Madrid ... 1 Barcelona .......... 0 (Atletico win 2-1 on agg)

D

koke humbles the mighty Barcelona BARCELONA crashed out of the Champions League as Atletico Madrid reached their first European Cup semi-final since 1974.

Koke’s sixth-minute strike proved decisive, the playmaker turning in Raul Garcia’s header just

Bayern Munich .... 3 Man united ........ 1 (Bayern win 4-2 on agg)

fIxTuREs europa league quarter-finals, second legs (8.05pm)

Benfica (1) v AZ Alkmaar (0) ..............................

Juventus (1) v Lyon (0) .......................................

Sevilla (0) v Porto (1) ..........................................

Valencia (0) v Basle (3) ......................................

Thursday, April 10, 2014 METRO HERALD 23

ATLeTico mADriD...........1 BArceLonA.....................0 (ATLeTico win 2-1 on AggregATe)

moments after an Adrian shot hit a post.

Atletico struck woodwork two more times through David Villa, who also had a

Mourinho hails Blues as game of risk pays off by jAck fOx

Jose Mourinho praised his Chelsea players for embracing his high-risk strategy in Tuesday night’s Champions League quarter-final success over Paris saint-Germain. so determined was Mourinho to see his side into the semi-finals that he fielded all three of his much-maligned strikers at the same time as Chelsea chased the decisive goal. it came three minutes from time from Demba Ba, who became an unlikely hero in a season where he has found match action limited.

Mourinho revelled in the success – a 2-0 win on the night earned a 3-3 aggregate draw and progress on away goals – and lauded all aspects of his

7 champions league semifinals in 11 years for chelsea – Mourinho has reached eight in the same period

side’s performance.

‘The players were open to the risk, they were open to the sacrifice,’ said Mourinho. ‘People in midfield had to run miles. People in the defensive line, they had to cope with these big players with lots of space, which is always more difficult.

‘People who create were always trying to create. The strikers went to the box well.

‘Fantastic mentality by the boys and i am so, so happy for them.’

Mourinho, twice a Champions League winner, questioned his players’ attitude following the loss at Crystal Palace and was again critical after the Parc des Princes first-leg defeat to PsG. But

Seaman is tipping arsenal to end trophy drought ARSENAL have been told they can still rescue a season in danger of imploding by winning the FA Cup and qualifying for Europe.

Gunners goalkeeping legend David Seaman, pictured, is convinced that the time is right for his old boss Arsene Wenger to end the club’s long silverware drought by landing the cup at Wembley.

‘I really believe this could be the year when they win their first trophy in nine years and I also think they can qualify for the Champions League,’ he said.

‘I have some fantastic memories of my time with my old team, magical times winning nine medals there,’ added the 50-year-old, who made a total of 405 appearances for Arsenal.

‘It can still be a great year for Arsenal and once they do win that

We can repeat 2012 success, says Schurrle Andre Schurrle is convinced chelsea can emulate their 2012 european cup triumph, whoever they face after tomorrow’s sem-final draw. Schurrle (pictured), who scored the opening goal against PSG on Tuesday, said: ‘every team in the semi-finals can win this. It’s one step to the final. We’ll see who we get and we will see if we can go through. We’re looking forward to the draw and the matches.’ Schurrle, who replaced the injured eden hazard against PSG, added: ‘We put everything we had into this match. To win is an unbelievable feeling.’ they appeared to be a different proposition at stamford Bridge, where they have now claimed nine consecutive clean sheets.

Mourinho feared the winning strike would not come after Andre schurrle and oscar hit the crossbar in quick succession in the second half.

‘Against good teams we don’t create so many chances and when you hit the bar twice it comes into your brain that maybe you cannot do it,’ said the Chelsea manager. ‘one minute later you believe again that you are going to do it.’

strong second-half penalty appeal waved away. Diego Simone’s side outplayed the visitors and competed with immense energy to nullify Lionel Messi, although Neymar almost saved Barca’s bacon when glancing wide late on.

‘Wigan will be difficult opponents’

Glory night: Mourinho breaks up the celebrations to talk to Schuerrle

ap

silverware it will relieve a lot of pressure and tension. It will get a monkey off their backs. The fans will be relieved and the younger players at the club will know what is expected in the future.

‘I won the FA Cup four times and there is nothing like winning medals.’

Arsenal play holders Wigan in the semi-finals on Saturday but Seaman warned: ‘Wigan will be difficult opponents because they know what it takes to win the FA Cup. ‘They will be full of confidence, fearing no one. But Arsenal know what’s at stake and will be determined to go out there and shut up the critics.’

24 METRO HERALD Thursday, April 10, 2014

D

McCarthy sings the praises of Ireland’s World Cup fans

«see pAge 22

Bayern are quick to end United dreams Munich make visitors pay for mistakes cHAMpiOns LEAgUE

BAYeRN MUNICH ...................3 MANCHesTeR UNITeD.......... 1 (BAYeRN MUNICH wIN 4-2 oN AggRegATe)

by DAnny gRiffiTHs

Over and out: Moyes

MANCHESTER United blew a superb chance to knock out defending champions Bayern Munich last night in their Allianz Arena stronghold.

Patrice Evra rifled the Red Devils into a shock lead against the run of play early in the second half to put David Moyes’ men ahead on aggregate and on the brink of a place in the semi-finals.

But a combination of poor defending and woeful finishing let the Bundesliga champions off the hook and they soon wreaked a terrible revenge.

Evra silenced the noisy home fans in the 57th minute when he ran on to a cross from Antonio Valencia to thunder an unstoppable left-foot drive into the top far corner from 20 yards.

But United’s joy lasted little more than a minute with the French left-back caught napping as Mario Mandzukic met Franck Ribery’s deep cross with a diving header.

United should have swiftly restored their advantage when Wayne Rooney found himself free 16 yards out, only to scuff Danny Welbeck’s pass horribly wide.

It proved to be an expensive miss as Thomas Muller smartly turned in Arjen Robben’s centre from close range in the 67th minute after United failed to deal with the danger.

And it was all over bar the considerable shouting from the jubilant Bavarians when Robben cut his way in from the right to unleash a deflected left-foot shot which found the bottom corner.

Level again: Mandzukic sends the ball past the dive of De Gea to put Bayern on their way to victory Picture: reuters

O’Mahony ruled out for rest of season with injury

Surgery: O’Mahony

Munster have been dealt a blow ahead of their Heineken Cup semifinal against toulon with the news that skipper Peter O’Mahony will not play for the remainder of the season. the club confirmed that the backrow leader has had an operation on his injured shoulder after being forced off in the first quarter of last weekend’s trouncing of toulouse in thomond Park.

He has now been ruled out of any further involvement in either the raboDirect PrO12 – where Munster currently sit second in the table five points behind Irish rivals Leinster – or the province’s daunting visit to reigning european champions toulon.

He is also expected to miss Ireland’s summer tour to Argentina.

Munster said: ‘Peter O’Mahony is to undergo reconstructive shoulder

surgery and is ruled out for the remainder of the season.

‘O’Mahony travelled to Dublin for a review with the specialist, and following the consultation it was confirmed that the Munster captain required surgery on his left shoulder.

‘Peter sustained the injury in the opening 20 minutes of Munster’s 4723 victory against toulouse on saturday after he over-extended his shoulder.’

Payne given twoweek suspension ULSTER full-back Jared Payne has been suspended for two weeks for his challenge on Alex Goode during Saturday’s Heineken Cup quarter-final defeat by Saracens.

Payne was controversially sent off in the fifth minute after running into the airborne Goode at Ravenhill, forcing Goode from the pitch with concussion.