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MANAGERS in France have been banned from calling their employees after 6pm. Staff working for digital companies have been told it will be illegal to respond to emails or messages from the office after the working day has ended. And employers risk prosecution if they pressure their staff to look at emails or documents out of hours. As many as 300,000 workers could be affected by president François Hollande’s legislation, including those employed by Google, Facebook, Deloitte and PwC. Michel de la Force, chairman of the General Confederation of Managers, said: ‘We can admit extra work in exceptional circumstances but we must always come back to what is normal, which is to unplug, to

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stop being permanently at work.’ But Jeff Davidson, an expert on work-life balance and the author of Simpler Living, argued the legislation was wrong. ‘Making it company policy would be a far greater and more effective way of proceeding. Technology comes with benefits and detriments,’ he said. France has had an official 35hour working week since 1999 – but unions claimed it was being undermined by the spread of smartphones and digital devices. The beleaguered president will be hoping that the new measure improves his popularity, which has hit a record low as unemployment reaches 11 per cent.

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Thomas Harris, US author, 74; Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear presenter, 54; Lisa Stansfield, UK singer, 48; Jennifer Esposito (pictured), US actress, 41; Sycerika McMahon, Irish swimmer, 19.

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Wunsy the crime-fighting parrot chases off would-be mugger who attacked owner

She won’t rest until the case is cracker-ed

PUSH off Poirot and budge over Batman – here’s a crime-fighter taking justice to new heights. Meet Wunsy the parrot who had a would-be mugger in a flap. The nine-month-old bird was stretching her wings with Rachel Mancino in a park when she was eyed up by a suspicious character. After a time, he walked up to Ms Mancino, grabbed her neck and pushed her to the ground. Instinctively, Wunsy began screeching and flapping her wings – causing the attacker to take flight. ‘My heart was thumping. It was so scary. I was just so shocked – it happened so fast,’ she said. But African Grey parrots such as Wunsy are known for their loyalty. Ms Mancino said: ‘She started flapping round. I’m pretty sure she slapped him in the face. He just took off straight away and kept looking

Loyal protector: Wunsy the parrot, who protected owner Rachel Mancino (below), who was attacked in a north London park Picture: Met Police/PA

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back over his shoulder. I am just so happy that me and my bird are alive. We’re best friends. ‘She’s such a cheeky bird and is always interested in everything.’ Ms Mancino, from Hendon, north London, does not know why she was attacked last Friday in Sunny Hill Park. ‘Maybe it was to just scare me or to rape and kill me,’ she said. The man is described as white, aged between 25 and 35 years old, with short blond hair. He was wearing beige trousers and carried a black rucksack. UK police officer PC Chris Cutmore said: ‘Although Wunsy came to her rescue, we are obviously very keen to trace the suspect and prevent him from attacking anybody else.’

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Anglo jurors warned to avoid ‘baying for blood’

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JURORS in the Anglo Irish Bank fraud trial over a €625million loans-for-shares deal have been told not to bay for bankers’ blood to satisfy public outrage. In the final stages of one of the most awaited trials of boom-to-bust Ireland, a lawyer for one of the lender’s top executives appealed to the jury not to buckle under the pressure of a ‘mob’ seeking revenge for the crash. Brendan Grehan, for Pat Whelan, former head of lending at Anglo, told the jury to detach themselves from the idea they were there to tick a box for a fair trial and then hang the accused. ‘You are not spectators. You must divorce yourself from that thinking... that you are here to satisfy the baying for blood from the mob,’ Mr Grehan said. Lawyers for ex-Anglo executives, including 35-year veteran of the lender, Sean FitzPatrick, Mr Whelan and William McAteer, said that the case was not about finding blame for the banking collapse. After 42 days of evidence, three defence lawyers have put their cases in one of the most complex trials in Irish legal history. The trial is expected to end in the coming days.

Raiders targeted the ‘wrong’ family GARDAÍ are investigating the possibility that a family targeted by an armed gang were the victims of mistaken identity. On Wednesday night ESB worker Daniel O’Connell, his wife Miriam and their three children – aged nine, six and four – were robbed by the gang in their home in Ballingoola, Grange, Co Limerick. Mr O’Connell was tied up with cable ties and was threatened at gunpoint. His wife Miriam, 40, and their three children were bundled into a bathroom and locked in. They were freed by a neighbour who heard their screams.

Peaches’ body is released to family

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President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina act a little sheepish as they meet Ruth Clements of Food Animal Initiative Farms Ltd and a woolly friend during a visit to its research and development division on the third day of the State visit to the UK Picture: Fennell PhotograPhy

THE body of Peaches Geldof has been released to her family to allow her funeral to be held. The news came as it emerged that toxicology test results could be released in two-to-three weeks’ time. Ms Geldof, 25, was found at her home in Kent on Monday. A post-mortem carried out at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford proved inconclusive, prompting further investigations to try to establish her cause of death. An inquest is not expected to be opened until the results of the toxicology tests are known.

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Ex-Rehab boss’s €400,000 fees by jOAnnE AHERn FRANK Flannery has been paid in excess of €400,000 in consultancy fees by Rehab since he stepped down as its chief executive in 2006, the Public Accounts Committee heard yesterday. The payments, totalling €409,744, were invoiced via the Fine Gael adviser’s company, Laragh Consulting. The work would have been commissioned by Angela Kerins, according to Rehab finance director Keith Poole: ‘It seems to have been for lobbying or representing the organisation on certain issues, particularly the charitable lottery fund,’ he said. Mr Flannery and Ms Kerins declined invitations to appear at yesterday’s hearing and forbade Rehab from releasing any further details of their salaries. While Rehab executives observed Mr Flannery and Ms Kerins’ legal instruc-

tion, it did release the pay levels of seven senior staff members, who earn between €104,000 and €174,000 per year. The trainFlannery: Absent ing director topped the scale on €174,000, with the finance director earning €152,667. The committee heard the director of health and social care services earns €150,000, while the HR director earns €141,552. Meanwhile, PAC chairman John McGuinness said it was ‘deplorable’ that neither Mr Flannery nor Ms Kerins turned up to yesterday’s meeting. He also said an email from Mr Flannery’s solicitor querying how a letter from his client to the PAC was ‘leaked’ to media ‘should be placed in the nonsense file’.

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Woman freed over Man charged over McConville killing Omagh bombing A 57-YEAR-OLD woman arrested in connection with the IRA murder of Belfast mother-of-ten Jean McConville more than 40 years ago ago has been released pending a police report being sent to prosecutors. The suspect was detained in west Belfast yesterday morning and taken to Antrim Police Station for questioning. The arrest comes after a veteran republican – Ivor Bell, 77, from Ramoan Gardens in west Belfast – was charged last month with aiding and abetting the murder and of IRA membership. The abduction, murder and secret burial of Mrs McConville in 1972 is one of the most notorious incidents of the Troubles.

A HIGH-profile republican has been charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing, police said. Seamus Daly, 43, from Cullaville, Co Monaghan, has previously been found liable for the August 1998 Real IRA outrage in a landmark civil case. Last night, he was charged with 29 counts of murder, two charges linked to the explosion in Omagh and two counts linked to an attempted explosion in Lisburn. Five years ago Daly was one of four men found responsible for the Omagh bomb and ordered to pay £1.6 million to relatives.

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Jazz-sampling Dubliner dj kORMAC, a beloved fixture on the European festival scene, will bring his joyous mixing skills to the Barn Dance shindig on Good Friday

You’ve been taking your 11piece ensemble, Kormac’s Big Band, to festivals across the globe for several years now. Have there been any tubaclogged-with-mud style disasters along the way? More than I’d like, to be honest. I’ve been stuck between borders in Africa, robbed in the Ukraine and flooded in the UK. Last summer I had a tent full of people evacuated mid-set during a festival show in Germany due to a storm. Thankfully, Gav’s tuba has been kept largely mud-free.

Kormac’s Big Band have toured with everyone from Portishead to Flaming Lips. What have been your highlights as a supporting act? Beating Death In Vegas at football. Properly hammering them. We are very strong going forward and play a false 9.

You’re renowned for splicing funk and jazz with chilled beats and techno. Have you met with much resistance

from purists? Not a bit. When I

sample, I tend to use obscure stuff I find in second-hand shops, so most people wouldn’t recognise the source material. I’m not sampling other people’s work that much these days.

At Barn Dance your solo show will involve both joyous turntable trickery and an audiovisual show. What can firsttimers expect? They can expect a

tall, skinny guy moving through as many genres of music as possible. I’ll be controlling all the sound and video using two turntables. I’ll also be shouting. I do a lot of shouting.

DJ Yoda, who’s one of the headliners at this year’s Barn Dance, featured on the track Kormac’s Scratch Party on your debut album. Is a hook-up on the day likely? We generally hook up to eat fried chicken or French food. As much as we’d like to we’d really need to rehearse a musical hook-up and I’m not sure there will be time beforehand. That said, we

started a new track in my studio a while back and I’m hoping to get that finished at some point soon.

You wrote the spoken word track Another Screen specifically for Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh. Did you really doorstop the author in a bid to have him lend vocals? Well,

we’d discussed the possibility of doing it over email but we found it really hard to get in the same room. After about a year of trying to make it happen, I had a call to say he’d have free time in Edinburgh that day. A few hours later I got on a plane and went to his house. He listened to the track I’d written for him, wrote the piece and we recorded his parts right there in his front room. He was a really gracious host. We’ve been able to hang out a few times since.

The track marks a distinct change in tack. Is it a taste of what to expect from your new album? Yes, it is. The new record is different to Word Play. I wanted to use more live elements, work with a

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I’ll be controlling all the sound and video using two turntables. I’ll also be shouting. I do a lot of shouting more eclectic selection of guest vocalists and advance what I’ve been doing. I’m told, however, it still sounds like me.

Which acts are you keen to catch at Barn Dance? There are lots I’d like to see. I’ll be aiming for acts I haven’t seen before. I’d like to see Shed and I’ve heard good things about the Booka Brass Band but haven’t managed to catch them yet.

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Love interest: Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield at last night’s premiere picture: empics

ndrew GArFIeLd may play a Lycra-clad superhero in the Amazing Spider-Man movies but he reveals he would much prefer to swing around in the nude. The 30-year-old British-American actor told Guilty Pleasures about his penchant for going au naturel, tastefully dressed in a McQueen suit on the red carpet of last night’s world premiere of his second turn as the web slinger. ‘I love being naked. It’s important to be naked and be in touch with our bodies and not have shame about what we’re made of. ‘I love being in touch with nature and my own nature,’ the actor said outside London’s Odeon Leicester Square. with his character Peter Parker experiencing heartache in the superhero sequel as he endures an on-off relationship Gwen Stacy, played by real-life love emma Stone, Garfield offered his advice on how to deal with a break-up. ‘Sometimes your heart gets broken and the best thing that you can do is feel it all,’ he said. ‘Let yourself feel it all because out of that darkness can only come light. You hit the deepest part and then that’s when you will swim back up.’ Meanwhile, Stone, 25, believes her

by SEAMuS Duff character is in tune with Peter’s double life but admitted she wouldn’t like her men to have skeletons in their closet. ‘That double life is a different situation and is very specific,’ the red-haired beauty laughed. ‘I think Gwen understands that Peter is heroic and her father [a policeman] was a hero. It’s complicated but she understands the double life.’ dane deHaan, who plays villain Harry Osborn, says he owes his acting career to his on-screen alter ego. ‘I grew up with my Spider-Man pyjamas playing Spider-Man and that kind of thing. That’s how I started acting... pretending to play superheroes,’ the 28 year old said. However, despite playing psychos in both Spider-Man and Chronicle, deHaan denied his life imitates his art. ‘don’t worry, I’m not like them at all,’ he laughed. ‘I play complicated people because that’s what’s interesting to me. I have always loved acting and I’ve been given so many great opportunities to grow as an actor. And the harder those opportunities are, the more I’m going to grow so I look for the hardest ones.’ The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hits cinemas on wednesday.

Kittens claim Kylie’s just a little hit thief

Atomic Kitten have accused Kylie Minogue of stealing one of her biggest ever hits from them. The Right Now singers say the 45-year-old Aussie babe deprived them of worldwide smash Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, originally written for S Club 7. ‘I’ll tell you what was going to be our song –

Kylie’s I Can’t Get You Out of My Head, Liz McClarnon (pictured) told Digital Spy. ‘Can you believe it? She robbed our song. She’s a little robber.’ Bandmate Natasha Hamilton backed up the tale, adding she would have given Minogue’s all-in-one from the video ‘a good go’.

James Arthur is set for crisis talks with his boss Simon Cowell. The X Factor winner was told he needed to ‘calm down’ and ‘relax’ after a series of controversies, including criticism over a homophobic rap. Cowell said of the 26-year-old: ‘I think him and I need to sit down and have a conversation, to be honest.’

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Katie Holmes insists she is still single after shooting down gossip linking her with Jason Segel. The 35year-old was said to have grown close to the How I Met Your Mother star after appearing in the sitcom in 2011 – with Segel, 34, said to be considering a move to New York. A spokeswoman denied it, said Us Weekly.

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Daisy Lowe was comforted by her father Gavin Rossdale following the death of her friend Peaches Geldof. The 25-year-old joined the Bush frontman, 47, for lunch at Café Med in West Hollywood, California, on Wednesday for some much-needed TLC. Following Geldof’s death – which has been ruled ‘non-suspicious’ – Lowe tweeted a picture of a heart broken in two.

Gwyneth: It was Chris who pulled the plug Maybe it’s not so surprising Gwyneth Paltrow is still wearing her wedding ring following claims it wasn’t her idea for her and Chris Martin to ‘consciously uncouple’. According to latest reports, the Coldplay frontman no longer wanted to ‘pretend’ that their tenyear marriage was okay. ‘It was his idea to announce the split,’ a source told Richard Johnson, of the New York Post. ‘They had drifted apart and there was no chance they’d get back

Forty not out: Kate Moss shows no signs of slowing down at 40 as she rolls back the years to unveil a new campaign for Rimmel London. The supermodel said: ‘My new Idol Eyes Collection was inspired by my favourite gem stones and jewels.’ Mother-of-one Moss recently insisted she was hitting her prime

together. So he felt it was wrong to keep pretending.’ The broken couple spent time on holiday together in the Caribbean after calling it quits, with family and famous friends such as Cameron Diaz insisting the decision was super amicable. The rumours continue to swirl surrounding the break-up after the 41-yearold Iron Man 3 actress denied links to a string of men, while Martin, 37, shot down links to a TV assistant.

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Jermain Jackman may have won The Voice UK – but he is trailing in the chart battle. The 19year-old’s single is 15 places behind runner-up Sally Barker, according to the Official Charts Company. Jackman has released a rendition of Jennifer Hudson’s And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going, while Barker is at No.35 with her cover of Dear Darlin’. Barker, 54, was mentored by Tom Jones and was the bookies favourite to win the BBC1 talent show.

trouble is in store over heigl photo It’s black and blue for rita It was a tale of two cities and two outfits for Rita Ora. The 23year-old started the day off in Manchester wearing a bright blue patchwork jumpsuit for a visit to the Capital Radio studios on Wednesday. Determined to stay fresh, she switched into a black and white outfit – complete with a matching hat – for a visit to the Firehouse nightclub in Kensington, west London, later that day PICtures: XPosure/PhotofaB

Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl is suing a pharmacy for €4.3million after staff tweeted a picture of her outside the store. The 35-year-old actress filed a 15page lawsuit insisting she did not authorise the Duane Reade store to use her name, picture or image in a string of social networking activity. ‘We expect Duane Reade to pay for its wilful misuse of Katherine Heigl’s name and

likeness,’ said her lawyer Peter Haviland. Heigl asked the New York shop to cough up after it tweeted a pap shot of her outside the store, accompanied by a logo and message that read: ‘Love a quick #DuaneReade run? Even @KatieHeigl can’t resist shopping #NYC’s favorite drugstore.’ Should she win, the Knocked Up actress has vowed to give any compensation money to charity.

Get off my doorstep, 1D’s Liam tells fans Liam Payne has ordered nuisance One Direction fans off his doorstep. The singer insisted he deserved to be left alone at home. He tweeted: ‘Please don’t sit outside my house it’s the one place I get to be myself not have people taking pictures.’ The 20-year-old has previous when it comes to

unwanted attention after some female Aussie fans got into his holiday home and made off with a pair of his kecks. Payne, 20, joked about his safety after revealing his bodyguard had been singing girly songs. ‘Just how safe am I #ToughGuysSingBeyonceToo,’ he tweeted.

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Room ‘soundproofed’ due to deputy editor’s shouting A SECRET room where News Of The World exclusive stories were discussed was sound-proofed to cover the noise of reporters being shouted at by a deputy editor, the phonehacking trial heard yesterday. Such was the ferocity of Neil Wallis’s dressing downs, he earned the nickname Wolfman, a London court was told. David Spens, who is representing former NotW royal editor Clive Goodman, said: ‘The reason why the secret room was there was to make sure that there weren’t leaks and secrecy of stories was

maintained. The secret room eventually had to be soundproofed because Neil Wallis shouted at people so loudly when in there that everyone in the office could hear the secret stories being talked about.’ Mr Spens was cross-examining Stuart Kuttner, former managing editor at the tabloid newspaper. Mr Spens told the court that Mr Wallis earned the ‘Wolfman’ tag because of his aggressive approach to junior reporters. Kuttner agreed he was ‘very focused, very direct, sometimes quite tough’.

Putin gas shutdown threat

VLADIMIR Putin has sent a letter to 18 European leaders urging them to offer quick financial assistance to Ukraine to prevent a shutdown of Russian natural gas to much of Europe. In a letter released yesterday by the Kremlin, the Russian president said Ukraine’s mounting gas debt is forcing Moscow to start demanding advance

payments for Russian gas supplies. He warned that if Ukraine fails to make such payments, Russia’s state-controlled gas giant Gazprom will ‘completely or partially cease gas deliveries’. The move is designed to exert economic pressure on Europe, which receives a large portion of its gas from Russia through Ukraine.

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Search: The P-3 Orion arrives back If confirmed, the signal would further narrow the hunt for the aircraft, which vanished on March 8 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard. The Australian ship Ocean Shield picked up two underwater sounds on Tuesday, and two sounds it detected last Saturday were deter-

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AN AUSTRALIAN aircraft has detected what may be the fifth signal coming from a man-made device deep in the Indian Ocean, adding to hopes searchers will soon pinpoint the object’s location and send down a robotic vehicle to confirm if it is a black box from the missing Malaysian flight MH370. The Australian air force P-3 Orion, which has been dropping sonar buoys into the water near where four earlier sounds were heard, picked up a ‘possible signal’, said Angus Houston, coordinator of the search off Australia’s west coast. ‘The acoustic data will require further analysis overnight,’ Houston said in a statement.

mined to be consistent with the pings emitted from a plane’s flight recorders, or ‘black boxes’. The underwater search zone is currently a 1,300km² patch of the ocean floor, and narrowing the area as much as possible is crucial before an unmanned submarine can be sent to create a sonar map of potential debris on the seabed. Houston has expressed optimism about the sounds detected earlier in the week, saying he was hopeful crews would find the aircraft – or what’s left of it – in the ‘not-toodistant future’. The search for the black boxes is increasingly urgent because their locator beacons have batteries that last about a month and may fail soon.

THE man cleared of killing London Metropolitan Police officer Keith Blakelock in the Tottenham riots walked free from prison yesterday. Nicky Jacobs had to spend an extra night in a cell because court offices had closed for the day when the verdict came through. But he was relieved to be out, said his lawyer Tony Meisels. ‘He was surprisingly relaxed about it [the additional night in jail],’ said Mr Meisels outside Belmarsh prison in south-east London.

Mr Meisels said his client was keen to express his condolences to PC Blakelock’s widow and children. ‘Obviously, they have not seen justice and have been dragged through the process as much as Mr Jacobs has,’ said Mr Meisels. Mr Jacobs was 16 at the time of the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham in 1985, when PC Blakelock was hacked to death by a baying mob. Mr Jacobs was the seventh person to be charged with his murder – without success.

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Pistorius ‘blames anyone but himself for failings...’

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OSCAR PISTORIUS was accused of being an ‘egotist’ who blames ‘anyone but himself’ for his misfortunes in life by the chief prosecutor in his murder trial. The athlete was also told his courtroom apology to girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp’s family was an ‘insincere spectacle’ that ignored their feelings by lawyer Gerrie Nel. ‘Your life is just about you,’ Nel said to Pistorius, adding: ‘Why would you create a spectacle in court, in the public eye? Why would you put them through this?’ Pistorius, 27, said his lawyers had been in touch with Ms Steenkamp’s relatives and believed they were not ready to meet him. ‘I completely understand where they’re coming from,’ he said. ‘It’s not that I haven’t thought about them.’ Looking to depict Pistorius as a man obsessed with guns and who intentionally killed his model girlfriend, Mr Nel said he had checked all of Ms Steenkamp’s text messages and the double amputee athlete had never told her loved her. ‘I never got the oppor-

Tough questions: Oscar Pistorius, left, leaves court after having his character attacked by the state prosecutor, Gerrie Nel Picture: AP

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Today’s icebergs pose Titanic risk ARCTIC icebergs pose a bigger threat to shipping today than when one sank the Titanic more than 100 years ago. Data on iceberg locations – recorded to help prevent a repeat of the disaster – shows 1912 was not an extreme year for icebergs. ‘1909 recorded a slightly higher number of icebergs and more recently the risk has been much greater – between 1991 and 2000, five years exceeded the 1912 total,’ said the University of Sheffield.

Becks is the new boy in Ipanema DAVID BECKHAM has splashed out €300,000 on a new pad – near a Rio de Janeiro slum, according to reports. The exEngland captain, 38, bought the home in Vidigal while in Brazil last month to film a TV documentary about the World Cup. It overlooks Ipanema beach and neighbours are delighted Becks, who recently paid £45m (€54m) for a home in London, is moving in as it will quadruple the value of houses, reports Brazil newspaper Extra.

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HMV to return to grafton st ENTERTAINMENT retailer HMV returns to Grafton Street next weekend, opening the doors of its new store at 8am on April 19. The new outlet will be located at the old AWear premises and will employ 35 people. It will mark the occasion with a ‘massive Record Store Celebration’, and special offers on movie, music, games and technology including knock-down prices on a limited stock of XBox One, PS4 and Blu-ray players. There will also be live performances from some of Ireland’s top musicians. The Grafton Street store brings to eight the number of outlets reopened by new owners Hilco Capital.

THE wRiTE sTuff: Authors Michele Forbes (left) and Sinead Crowley (right) with musician Adrian Crowley – all participants in this year’s Dublin Writers Festival – help to launch the 2014 programme of events from May 17-25, in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar Picture: Pa

‘Don’t change password too soon,’ warn bug experts by AiDAn RADnEDgE

RUSHING to change internet passwords in the wake of the Heartbleed bug could make matters worse, security experts warn. The advice is the opposite to that from websites such as Tumblr, owned by Yahoo!, which urged users to change all passwords – especially those protecting sensitive data – immediately. But Hugh Boyes, cyber security head at the British-based Institution of Engineering and Technology, said: ‘Change your passwords – but only after the affected website operators and internet service providers have implemented the patch to fix the bug. Changing your password before the bug is fixed could compromise your new password.’ However, Mr Boyes also recommended changing passwords monthly or quarterly, depending on the sensitivity of the website or application.

Facebook link to self-esteem TEENAGE girls who use Facebook too often are more likely to damage their self-esteem, a study of 850 college students has warned. Young women who regularly compare their own figure with those of friends on the social networking site could be at risk of developing an eating disorder, a report by British and US experts suggests. Dr Petya Eckler of University of Strathclyde, said: ‘While time spent on Facebook had no relation to eating disorders, it did predict worse body image among participants.’

‘Don’t re-use the same passwords on different websites. Try to use a separate password for each website,’ he added. Heartbleed had gone undetected for more than two years until it was discovered on Monday by a team of security experts, including one from Google. The bug bypasses encryption that normally protects data as it is sent between computers and servers, seen as a padlock on the screen, leaving personal and sensitive data vulnerable. Independent security expert Bruce Schneier has also called for calm, but emphasised the seriousness of the web security breach. ‘Catastrophic is the right word,’ he added. ‘On the scale of one to ten, this is an 11. Half a million sites are vulnerable, including my own.’ Users can test a website’s vulnerability to the bug on a website by developer Filippo Valsorda at http://filippo.io/ Heartbleed/.

facebook mobile instant-messaging format to change FACeBook has confirmed it is removing the instant messaging feature from its main mobile app. Users will have to use another of the company’s official apps, Messenger, to use the feature on mobile devices. According to the social network, this move should improve chat for many users, with Facebook data suggesting replies are 20 per cent faster on Messenger. The new set-up will be rolled out over the next two weeks, starting in europe.

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by AiDAn RADnEDgE A HITMAN charged with murdering nine people has confessed to killing up to 40 others for a drug cartel, prosecutors said. José Manuel Martinez, 51, admitted carrying out the crimes during a decades-long career as a contract killer. Investigators said they believed him because of the details he provided. Martinez was arrested last year shortly after crossing the border from Mexico and sent to Alabama, where he is awaiting trial for a 2013 murder. But prosecutors said he also targeted victims in California between 1980 and 2011. He has now been charged with nine killings and faces the death sentence if convicted in the state. Tulane County assistant district attorney Anthony Fultz said he had heard of figures ‘as high as 30’ for his other victims but added: ‘We’re not sure what the full scope is. It will depend on what the investigation shows.’

He declined to comment on Martinez’s links with drug cartels, saying he did not want to damage the case at an early stage. Investigators from across the Claims: Martinez US have gone to Alabama to question Martinez, who is also wanted on suspicion of two killings in Florida in 2006. They have released some details of their case, saying six of the victims were killed in Tulare County, including one in Santa Barbara, ranging in age from 22 to 56. One man was shot dead in 1980 driving to work in the morning, while another was found in 2000 shot dead in bed with his four children at home. Defence lawyer Thomas Turner said Martinez denied the Alabama murder charge.

inDiA: Violence marred voting in the crucial third phase of national elections yesterday. Hours before polling stations opened in 11 of India’s 28 states, Maoist insurgents in Bihar state used a landmine to blow up a vehicle carrying soldiers, killing two and wounding three. This caused a brief suspension in voting in 20 nearby stations. Tens of millions joined queues in the heartland states essential to the main opposition Hindu nationalist party’s bid to end the ten-year rule of the Congress party.

city must back gay couple’s marriage iTALY: A court has ordered a city to recognise the marriage of a gay couple who were wed in the US. The ruling was hailed as a move towards legality by supporters of gay marriage, which is not allowed in Italy. Officials in Tuscany were told the two men, aged 57 and 68, must be given the same rights as a heterosexual married couple. The couple were married in New York in 2012 and sued Grosseto city hall after it refused to transcribe the marriage into its registers.

UkRAinE: Municipal workers and activists remove barriers put up in Kiev during pro-EU protests. Their actions raised tensions with Russia, which Nato told to pull back 40,000 troops Picture: reuters

Legal fight over Rooney’s body AMERicA: A court will decide today if Mickey Rooney’s body will be returned to his disinherited eighth wife. The star (pictured) who died aged 93 on Sunday, left an estate worth just $18,000 (€12,932) to his stepson Mark. The conservator of his will won a court order stopping Janice Rooney from removing his remains from a mortuary in Glendale, California.

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SPAin: A serial burglar with an allergy to dust particles gave the game away after police heard him sneezing under a bed in the house he had just broken into. Humayrah Sleiman, 32, was caught by officers in the Catalan town of Cervelló as they questioned his victim downstairs.

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Bid to create human heart with 3D printer Gone in a second: A thief comes up behind a Brazilian woman and snatches her necklace as she is being interviewed live on air about crime in Rio de Janeiro. The TV reporter gave chase but the thief outran him Picture: Pixel 8000

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A SHOCKED woman had a gold chain ripped from her neck by a mugger – as she was being interviewed live on camera about Brazil’s crimewave. The brazen snatch was captured by a TV crew sent to the centre of Rio de Janeiro to report on robberies sweeping the World Cup city. And one of their interviewees had the point made for her when a thief spotted an opportunity. As the woman spoke to television

Career Doctor Jane Downes QUEEN Elizabeth II hosted a reception at Buckingham Palace the other night for members of the Irish community in Britain. The occasion threw a renewed spotlight on the key role that Irish emigration to Britain has played in forging on-theground social and cultural ties between our countries. ‘Abroad’ is not a magic solution to one’s career problems. However, if your career is stagnant, then Britain does need to be considered as a serious option for temporary or permanent relocation. A client of mine, a single man with no ties here, recently took a leap of

faith and secured a senior position in his field in London. The industry here is top heavy so he would have needed to wait a minimum of five years to get to this ‘Abroad’ is not a level had he stayed. His magic fix for aim is simple. Get experience and then career problems come back and leverage into the role he needs to develop his career in Ireland. Sacrifice? Yes. He doesn’t want to be in London but knows the short-term benefits and so is crystal clear on why he is doing this. The traffic is not all in one

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by DOMINIC YEATMAN station RJTV, he swiped the chain and sprinted off. The reporter dropped his microphone and set off in pursuit but the teenager outran him among the cars on the traffic-choked street. While the woman suffered nothing more serious than a scratched neck, the report again focused attention on crime levels in the city which will host many of the matches.

direction. I currently take a high volume of calls from Irish in Britain who are trying to navigate their way home to Ireland but are finding it tricky. Do they resign and come home and show real intent and commitment or do they try to obtain something when still in the UK? We know international recruitment practices allow for phone screening and Skype interviewing but not all firms are comfortable with this. We also know a lot of organisations undertake a minimum of three rounds of interviews before a decision is made. This is tricky terrain, but the golden rule remains: first things first, be clear on your end-goal. Career coach Jane Downes is the author of The Career Book (thecareerbook.ie) and principal coach of Clearview Coaching Group

US SCIENTISTS are attempting to build a human heart with a 3D printer, in the hope of creating hearts for patients with their own cells, which could then be transplanted. The ambitious project could take years, perhaps decades, to achieve its aim – although researchers have already used 3D printers to make splints, valves and even a human ear. So far, the University of Louisville in Kentucky has printed human heart valves and small veins with cells, said project leader Stuart Williams. Prof Williams believes they can assemble an entire heart in three to five years. An organ built from a patient’s cells could solve the rejection problem some patients have with donor organs or an artificial heart.

Vaginas grown in lab implanted in teenage girls LAB-grown vaginas engineered from patients’ own cells have been implanted into four teenage girls. Tests showed the organs, made from muscle cells and the epithelial cells that line body cavities, functioned normally after treatment. The girls, who were aged 13 to 18 at the time of the surgery, were born with the rare MayerRokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, which means the vagina and uterus are underdeveloped or absent. Lead researcher Dr Anthony Atala, from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre in Winston-Salem, US, said: ‘This may represent a new option for patients who require vaginal reconstructive surgeries… this study is one more example of how regenerative medicine strategies can be applied to a variety of tissues and organs.’

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y uncle was killed in the Real IRA bombing of Omagh. However, I am disgusted to hear Norman Tebbit call on these butchers to shoot the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. I demand that David Cameron expels Tebbit from the Tory Party now. The Good Friday Agreement is in place since 1998 and the 26th anniversary is approaching soon. I want justice for my uncle but I 100 per cent appreciate the democratic mandate of Sinn Féin and others who support the Peace Process. If I can move on, Norman Tebbit and co should also do so. I am astonished he is now a Real IRA advocate given his history. Máire

■ On May 17, 1974, car bombs were planted in Dublin and Monaghan by British extremists, killing 34 people, the highest loss of life in a single day of the Troubles. Evidence shows that the bombs were almost certainly made by British soldiers, and the Queen of England is Commander-In-Chief of the British Army. My mother lost a cousin in that atrocity. Many, including Republican politicians, lost friends and family on that day. If any of these people called for the murder of The Queen of England on her visit to Ireland – as Lord Tebbit has done in relation to the Deputy Minister of Northern Ireland on the official state visit to the UK – they would be arrested and charged. Will Norman Tebbit be arrested? No. The law is not applied to

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those with powerful friends, unfortunately. Citizen ■ ‘Shared history,’ eh? Is that what we’re calling 800 years of imperial exploitation, starvation and slavery? John White, Lusk ■ Concerned Citizen, a random €50 road tax? For children, people who also have a car, etc? you are a genius. I’m with you. Don’t forget to do the same for light-breaking pedestrians. We can lower taxes in no time. As for road tax, let’s charge that for pedestrians too. Driver, cyclist and pedestrian

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in yOuR fAcE I don’t think it would work in Ireland because many companies adopt a chummy-chummy approach to their staff and so make out like it’s a personal insult if you are not available 24 hours a day. The other thing is, unions in France actually work. L’anarchiste If only! Irish employers would find ways around it like ‘I was only ringing to ask him where he left that file etc’. And besides, it

We asked: Unions in France have signed a labour agreement to prevent staff being bothered by employers after 6pm. Could it work? would take companies ages to develop a system whereby time and duties were managed well enough during work hours to make after-hours exclusively free time. Jeff Can’t see it catching on, sadly. Sheena Davitt

■ What’s the point in changing all my passwords if this Heartbleed bug can just bypass them anyway? I have so many different online accounts that need usernames and passwords, I can’t remember them half the time anyway. Who can remember around 40 different usernames and passwords off by heart, and where exactly is a safe place to hide them? On my phone, under the mattress or in a bodily orifice? I don’t think one sick day would be enough to come up with new ones. Darren

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● Let’s not lose sight of the real losers at the centre of all of this: the service users and their tireless front line carers. #Rehab #PAC @curtainqueen

Boys and girls and schooling ■ Exam season is almost upon us and soon we’ll begin comparing results and college tables to see which schools give our children the best chance at a place in university. It’s a flawed way to compare schools because it doesn’t take into account foreign universities. However, one thing is indisputable – single-sex schools give your children in general, and your daughters especially, better results, year after year. In 2013, only two mixed secondary schools (in Galway and Monaghan) made it into the top 20 schools in the country. The other 18 were single-sex. Out of these, six were boys-only and 12 were girlsonly. I would be interested in seeing the breakdown in the results of boys and girls in the mixed schools. By running mixed-sex state schools, is the Department of Education ignoring the statistics and giving children less of a chance of securing a place in an Irish University? KQ

● Frank Flannery earned €409,744 in fees from Rehab to lobby the Government between 2007 and last year. #astonishing

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Joanne and Steven O’Riordan tell Daragh Reddin about filming an inspiring story

No limits for can-do Joanne

hEN Joanne O’Riordan entered the world on April 24, 1996, doctors didn’t hold out much hope: the Cork teenager was born without limbs. Joanne suffers from an extremely rare condition – there are only six other reported cases in the world – known as total amelia. Doctors, understandably stymied by her case, began preparing her parents for the worst. As it transpired, their brave and inspiring daughter was in it for the long haul. Now her brother Steven has directed a documentary about her life, fittingly titled No Limbs No Limits. It ably demonstrates how, in an eventful 17 years, Joanne has achieved more than most of her ablebodied counterparts do in an entire lifetime. You might expect that the experience of watching the movie for the first time at its recent premiere in Cork Opera house was a cathartic one for the

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Mitchelstown native. Not quite. ‘I didn’t find it that Winner: Joanne emotional to be honest, probably because I’ve lived through O’Riordan at it,’ Joanne says with characteristic matter-of-factness. the People of ‘My initial thought on seeing myself texting with my chin the Year was: “Oh my God, I look like a rabbit eating a carrot!” But Awards in it was a lovely chance to reflect on many of the amazing 2012, where experiences I’ve had.’ she was For her brother Steven, the premiere was a more daunting named Young proposition. ‘You’ve been working on something for two Person of years and then you let it go with no idea how it’s going to be the Year received,’ he says. ‘But when you see Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh passing a tissue to his wife because she’s crying and then she passes it back to him because he’s crying, you think, “OK, I did something right.” ‘We only had €50,000 to make the documentary and I think what came out of that limited budget is quite raw – but it complements the subject and complements Joanne’s life. It’s a good, heartfelt Irish story that we should all be very proud of.’ It certainly is. Through the course of a bittersweet 70 minutes we take in the highs and lows of a remarkable life. When Joanne appears on The Late Late Show at the tender age of one, the Irish public are so moved by her plight that they raise a staggering IR£800,000 for her in the subsequent six months. Later, with the maxim ‘a cut to my entitlements is a cut to my life,’ she successfully takes on Enda Kenny after he reneges on a promise to leave the disability grant untouched in the 2011 Budget. And that’s before she addresses boffins at the UN on the subject of her condition, asking those in

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attendance to develop a robot tailored to her needs; as a result scientists at Trinity are now doing just that. It’s indicative of her self-depracating sense of humour that when I ask Joanne to name her greatest achievement to date she chooses to veto all of the above. ‘It’s hard to say, but if I had to choose one, it’d have to be getting a wave from Barcelona captain Carles Puyol after continuously shouting his name while he was walking to his bus after a game. That was quite a victory.’ She does concede, however, that ‘speaking at the UN, celebrating my 16th birthday in New York and meeting Julie Gold [the Grammy-winning songwriter

“My greatest achievement is getting a wave from Carles Puyol” who penned a track in Joanne’s honour] in the space of a single week was a massive fairytale and something I’ll never forget.’ Although she comes across as exceptionally goodhumoured I wonder did Joanne ever lose patience as her big brother chased her around with a video camera for months on end? ‘Mostly it was grand,’ she says. ‘But he had an awful habit of landing into my bedroom at 7am to start filming; I’d have one eye open and I’d see a red light, followed by a “Good morning” and I’d scream, “Steven, what the hell are you doing?” If it was Steven Spielberg doing the shooting I’d be like “Hey Steven,

good morning to you.” But when it’s your own brother, you’re not always that nice.” It was his idea though,’ she adds with sisterly affection. ‘So all credit goes to him. I think part of the reason the film works is that it’s a family affair.’

O LIMBS No Limits is Steven’s sophomore outing as a documentarian; it follows the success of The Forgotten Maggies, his well-received examination of institutional abuse in the Magdalene Laundries. What does he hope people will take away from his latest film? ‘I really hope viewers come away with an appreciation of the right of someone with a serious disability to live independently. While Joanne is dependent to a certain degree, she’s completely independent in so much – the way she texts, eats and brushes her teeth by herself is remarkable. We never intended to make a downbeat documentary about people with disabilities; we wanted to make something inspiring and uplifting. Ultimately, I hope viewers escape from the world they’re in and enter a world of possibility.’ Towards the end of the film we see young scientists in Trinity College working on a prototype for Robbie The Robot, the android that will one day become Joanne’s trusted assistant. ‘Stage one is complete,’ says Joanne of the robot’s progress. ‘It’s constantly being adapted as new technology becomes available, so it’s slow progress.’ Robbie got a boost recently in the form of a €50,000 donation from an unlikely source: Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda. ‘Maybe there’s another doc there,’ Joanne says. ‘O’Riordan In Rwanda With Robbie The Robot. Look at the alliteration – it’s a bloody good title.’ With Joanne’s can-do spirit, it’s only a matter of time... No Limbs No Limits (PG) is out today

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Director John Michael McDonagh pairs up with Brendan Gleeson again for this second instalment in his Glorified Suicide trilogy, following the success of bleakly anarchic 2011 comedy The Guard. Calvary is infused with much the same wild-west-of-Ireland flavour, though this time the base note is a lament for a nation left rudderless having lost faith in both economic prosperity and the Catholic church. Gleeson’s wrenchingly world-weary Father James is a good priest in a Sligo town that wants him to suffer for the sins of the church. One mystery parishioner – abused by a priest throughout his childhood – announces during confession that he’s decided that Father James should die, and so gives him a week to get his affairs in order. The slow progression towards the ‘who will do it’ reveal allows us to meet an array of larger-than-life characters – among them Dylan Moran’s crass, rich

Priest’s tale: Kelly Reilly and Brendan Gleeson in John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary banker; Aidan Gillen’s viciously cynical hospital doctor; Chris O’Dowd’s downtrodden cuckold; and Domhnall Gleeson’s deranged serial killer. All the while we see Gleeson tussle with others’ stupidity and his own faith.

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Dirty: The Raid 2 rackets along with ever more elaborate fight scenes

Welsh film-maker Gareth Evans’s low-budget Indonesian actioner The Raid proved a sensation when it was unleashed in 2012. The plot was blissfully simple: a woefully underprepared Swat team enters a bad guy’s tower block lair and has to fight to the death to get back out. It worked because Evans had realised the huge appeal of the devastatingly complete Indonesian martial art pencak silat, and found a practitioner in Iko Uwais with star quality. But how to meet expectations with a follow-up? The Raid 2 has Uwais back on deadly form, picking up hours after the last film finished. His rookie cop Rama is now a marked man who’s offered protection if he plays ball with the anti-corruption unit and infiltrates one of Jakarta’s biggest criminal gangs to root out police connivance.

ruairi robinson’s low-budget sci-fi horror looks good, thanks to robbie ryan’s cinematography lovingly transforming Jordan’s desert into to the red Planet. A cast of notable names, including liev schreiber (pictured), olivia williams and romola Garai, puts impressive effort into playing astronauts on a six-month martian science mission. But they’re still working with cut-out characterisations and duff lines in this sub-

the thing pulp offering, where the tetchy team, on the vverge of heading home, discovers long-dormant bacterial life – disc turns them, one by one, into crazed which tur martian killer-zombies complete with mar requisite gurgling noises. there are a re few good shocks – but suspension of fe undermined by a disbelief is fatally f mounting series of silly improbabilities moun predictability and the pr edictability of who’ll die when.

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Half-baked take on a prize-winning novel half Of a yellOw Sun HH✩✩✩ Oh dear. Something has gone awfully awry with this adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Orange Prize-winning novel about the 1960s Biafran War. Debut director Biyi Bandele assumes a lot of knowledge from his audience about post-colonial Nigeria – the book’s nuances are hammered out and the divisions that propel this tragedy are cursorily dealt with. Instead, the (soft) focus of the first half is fixed on the ‘sweeping melodrama’ angle of twins Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) and their romance with Chiwetel Ejiofor’s activist Odenigbo and Joseph Mawle’s Richard. Sadly, even the ‘serious stuff’ is dealt with in clunky dialogue. And when the conflict does begin, he shies away again. Even the archive footage feels sanitised. A case of laudable ambition collapsed into episodic box-ticking. SM

Calvary’s meandering pace suits its stance of stumbling for answers in troubled times, while Gleeson’s mesmerising screen presence and facility with McDonagh’s scorched wit carries us through assuredly. Siobhán Murphy

Evans’s Jakarta underworld encompasses a seething mass of scum, whose grudges, scheming and double-crossing all get a bit confusing. But it provides a framework for one outrageous fight set piece after another, wherein every aspect of silat – empty hand, short stick, knife and sword fighting – gets its time in the spotlight. The violence is bonecrunchingly baroque: Evans indulges in fullon special effects and the body count is off the scale. Cartoon-like characters Hammer Girl, Baseball Bat Man and loyal assassin Prakoso provide epic scenes of human demolition. There’s even a thrilling detour into car-chase territory. But Evans stays mostly true to his beautifully choreographed depiction of silat, a dirty, to-the-death fighting art that, as demonstrated by Uwais, has a mesmerising, lightning-fast economy of moves. The running time of twoand-a-half hours is excessive, but for carnage, SM The Raid 2 really is hard to beat.

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Drama da VIncI’s demons Fox, 10pm

Will the much abused Leonardo be able to extricate himself from that rather elaborate bondage chamber, sorry impromptu blood transfusion ward, in time to save Florence from its latest cataclysm? David S Goyer’s magic roundabout of Renaissance mayhem goes for another breathless spin, with the fabled Book Of Leaves tempting Leonardo like a moth to a flame. Will he discover his mother’s secret history? Tom Riley, sporting on-trend whiskers, stars as they man they call Maestro.

tHe trIP to ItalY BBC2, 10PM

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Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan swap their Mini for a boat in this latest instalment of the semiimprovsied fictional foodie road trip. As always, the dishes they are supposed to be reviewing play second fiddle to the banter (and impressions) and this time these ageing comedy veterans are left wondering will they still be remembered in 200 years’ time? Before the passing of the years solves that one, though, there’s a visit to Percy Shelley’s house to be made.

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Out in cinemas today too, this delightful Indian romance is richly infused with warmth and Mumbai colour. Neglected wife Ila (Nimrat Kaur) and widower Saajan (Irfan Khan) are brought together when the lunchbox Ila prepares to win back her husband’s affections gets accidentally delivered to Saajan’s desk. So begins a series of exchanged notes between two lonely people.

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Netflix has nabbed the next two series of this Canadian mockumentary series – you can gorge on the first seven there, following the trailer park misfits and petty criminals created by Rob Wells, John Paul Tremblay and co – and find out what’s made it a cult favourite.

This alien-human crossspecies spin on Romeo & Juliet is something of a guilty pleasure. Tonight the alien Roman (Romeo) steers clear of Emery (Juliet) at high school because her dad shot his dad. Bummer. Full marks as well for the bold use of every song including the word ‘human’ in the title. Our suggestion: Tryouts For The Human Race by Sparks.

tHe cuBe: celeBrItY sPecIal UTV, 9pm

Joey Essex likes to make out he’s a bit vacant but, as we saw in the jungle, he’s not one to duck out of a challenge and is capable of impressive athleticism. So we’re backing him as he bids to win £250,000 for charity. Corrie’s Kym Marsh we’re not quite so confident about. Anyone who caught actor Andrew Garfield’s terrific performance in the 2007 Channel 4 film Boy A will have known they were watching a star in the making. And so it has turned out, with Garfield (above) now a big deal in Hollywood. He’s joining Graham Norton for a promo chat about new movie The Amazing SpiderMan 2, in which he co-stars with Jamie Foxx and Emma Stone. They’re on too, which is handy, given Garfield and Stone are an item. Plus music from Paolo Nutini.

alan carr: cHattY man C4, 10pm

Three of the guests on tonight are David Walliams, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon, which can only mean one thing: a new series of Britain’s Got Talent is upon us. The trio of judges will be bigging up this year’s show, while Jennifer Saunders will hopefully introduce a note of sanity. Plus perky pop from The Vamps.

Sport raBodIrect Pro12 oPsreYs V leInster RTÉ2, 7pm

After being swept out of European contention by the mighty reigning champions, Toulon, Leinster were left little time to lick their wounds ahead of this away tie with their banana-skin foes Ospreys. The Welsh side have a good record against the province, but with Leinster royalty such as Brian O’Driscoll and Leo Cullen (above) set to retire – and with Europe now off the table – Matt O’Connor’s men will be determined to prove a point tonight and ride the table summit towards league silverware. Kick-off 7.05pm

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meet tHe FocKers TV3, 9pm

After getting off on the wrong foot with his prospective inlaws, Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) has finally won the grudging approval of Jack and Dina Byrnes (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner) to marry their daughter Pam (Teri Polo). But now Greg has a bigger challenge -- introducing his free-spirited sex therapist mother Roz (Barbra Streisand) and eccentric dad Bernie (Dustin Hoffman).

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BBC1, 1.45pm Welcome to a crazy world where people decide they fancy a new life in Australia on a Monday and by Friday they’re off to the airport. That’s where we are with Chris, whose hastily arranged leaving do provokes all manner of emotional responses in the Letherbridge surgery. There’s also a bit of a kerfuffle over baby milk.

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InglourIous Basterds Film4, 10.35pm

Quentin Tarantino is at his directing and writing best in this violent dark comedy set in World War II. Brad Pitt (above) heads up the starry cast (that also includes Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger and Eli Roth) as Lieutenant Aldo Raine, who is leading a group of US Jewish soldiers into Nazi-occupied France to carry out raids and collect 100 Nazi scalps. But it is Christoph Waltz who is the revelation, bagging an Oscar – and almost every other award going – for his camp but sociopathic ‘Jew hunter’ Colonel Hans Landa.

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Sky Premiere, 8pm Adam Sandler and co return in the follow up to their hitand-miss 2010 comedy. This time around, nice guy Lenny has uprooted his family to return to his home town to be around his childhood friends – only to come up against bullies old and new, which makes settling back in harder than he expects. Also starring Kevin James, Chris Rock and Salma Hayek.

tHere’s sometHIng aBout marY E4, 9pm

This 1998 sleeper hit saw Ben Stiller’s awkward and innocent Ted attempt to track down his childhood sweetheart (Cameron Diaz) after a disastrous ending to their prom date 13 years before. With hilarious flashbacks and iconic scenes (that hair gel moment), it sprinkles some heart into the puerile belly laughs.

E4, 7pm

When a guilt-ridden Ste is arrested for murder, Sinead is left in a state of shock. Fraser tries to square things with Tegan before she goes to the police but Joe is determined to make Fraser pay for his deeds. Lindsey, meanwhile, is scared for her job as the investigation starts into baby Katy’s death. She’s a hard case, that one.

coronatIon street ITV, 7.30pm & 8.30pm

Will Anna Windass (Debbie Rush) bow to the pressure put on by the lecherous Phelan and sell her body in order to get her family out of a tight financial squeeze? It’s a pretty grim prospect, so make sure you’ve finished your fish supper before picking the bones out of this particular story line.

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eastenders BBC1, 8pm

Mick (Danny Dyer) has got even more to worry about than his assault. He’s desperate to get to the bottom of why soldier boy Lee (Danny-Boy Hatchard) – who recently stunned everyone by turning up at the hospital – is so anxious to quit the Army in a hurry and avoid returning to Afghanistan. But you’re no one in soapland without A Big Secret, so Lee is holding out on him. Meanwhile, Ronnie is in tatters as Lola lies unconscious, the memories of an all-too similar accident preying darkly on her mind.

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Bristling with raw emotion GIG ÁSGEIR As Nirvana were to grunge, so stadium folkie Bon Iver is to furrow-browed young men with bristly beards and complicated love-lives. To the heroically bestubbled ranks of James Vincent McMorrow and Hozier we can now welcome Ásgeir Einarsson, a 21-year-old from smalltown Iceland whose music suggests a Vernon-fronted Sigur Rós – ie, it is epic and introspective but in a way your girlfriend will probably like. Clearly he has stadium ambitions to go with his rafter-raising sound – with lyrics originally in Icelandic, his album In The Silence was entirely rerecorded in English for its international release (with translation help from another woebegone troubadour John Grant). It’s hard to quibble with the end result: a swoonful collection wearing its heart on both sleeves and with a depth of earnestness that arguably transcends its occasional lack of originality. Eamon de Paor Tonight, The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street, D2, 8pm, €16 (sold out). (01) 678 7188. www.asgeirmusic.com

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Joshua Leary is still in his mid-20s, but he has already worked with hip-hop giant Kanye West – producing I’m In It, which featured on last year’s Yeezus album. Apart from this high-rolling appearance, the Northern English producer (pictured) has put out an album – 2012’s Duga-3 – and a single for New York label Tri Angle. Leary’s next single for the label is Waterfall – also the name of this tour. Fusing hip-hop with trance and ambient influences, Leary’s show a is sure to be busy. Get there early to avoid disappointment. Tomorrow, Hidden Agenda, The Button Factory, Curved Street, Temple Bar D2, 11pm, €10.

GET DOWN TO…

Swimming With My Mother

This touching, tender and unique dance duet became an instant classic when it was premiered at the Dublin Dance Festival in 2010 and has been equally well-received at festivals around the globe. A paean to the parent-child relationship, it sees choreographer David Bolger and his septuagenarian mother Madge – whose bond is underscored by their shared love of water – hoof it up beautifully to the music of Nat King Cole Until tomorrow, Project Arts Centre, 39 Essex Street East D2, 8.15pm, €12 to €16 (matinee tomorrow 3pm). Tel: (01) 881 9613/4. www.projectartscentre.ie

Shifted

Few contemporary producers have provided such an interesting take on the techno sound as Shifted. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that the mysterious UK artist originally released drum‘n’bass. Shifted records are driven by powerful basslines and multi-layered textures that really come to life on big sound systems. He’s sure to put the Twisted Pepper’s rig through its paces tonight. Tonight, The Building Society, Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 10.30pm, €10 to €12.

Truncate

Hailing from the US, David Flores, aka Truncate, has risen to popularity on the crest of a resurgence in purist techno. Truncate releases on key labels like Luke Slater’s Mote Evolver and Modeslektor’s 50 Weapons demonstrate that there is a demand for his brand of heads-down, linear rhythms. Don’t miss this rare Irish show. Tomorrow, Emergence/Pogo, Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 10.30pm, €12.

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cURIOUS ABOUT.... Nathan Salsburg

In the 1950s, revered US musicologist Alan Lomax travelled around America on a recording expedition, during which he archived and documented native music, with a particular emphasis on folk and blues. Finger-picking guitarist Nathan Salsburg (pictured) is the curator of the Alan Lomax Archive and will be giving a very special performance at The Little Museum this evening. Following a solo show in which he’ll play tracks from last year’s Hard For To Win And Can’t Be Won LP, he’ll deliver a special presentation on previously unseen footage from the Lomax archive. Price includes a free drink and tour of the museum. Support from four-part sean nós outfit Landless Tonight, The Little Museum, 15 Stephen’s Green D2, 7pm, €12.50. Tickets from www.eventbrite.ie or on the door

The Space Lady

Unlikely to ever face the problem of becoming a household name, The Space Lady is an enigmatic San Francisco native renowned both for her flamboyant appearance and her eerily distinctive interpretations of contemporary pop played on a battered old Casio keyboard. In this rare Dublin appearance she’ll be supported by Patrick Kelleher and a clutch of local DJs Tonight, Pacino’s Restaurant & Venue (basement), 18 Suffolk Street D2, 10.30pm, €10. www.eventbrite.ie

DUBLIN FOR FREE.... MusicTown

The capital’s newest festival, the Handel-inspired MusicTown, will be launched this weekend in the salubrious Round Room of Dublin’s Mansion House with a very special free concert. Designed as a festival in ‘microcosm’, the event, hosted by John Kelly, will include performances from Donal Lunny & Paddy Glackin, Fionnuala Moynihan, Lisa O’Neill (pictured), Weapons Of Mass Percussion, Bell X1, and the Dublin Händelian Orchestra, among others. Tickets, limited to one per person, are available from www.eventbrite.ie Sun, Mansion House, Dawson Street D2, 6.30pm to 10pm, free. www.music town.ie

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The combination today between Venus and Neptune has the potential to be rather lovely, and if you can do something out of the ordinary today, it would be perfectly timed. You can be extraordinarily receptive to different cultural influences, or even a new person. For your forecast, call 15609 114 73

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nolan ready to fight for place again by pAuL kEAnE IT WOULDN’T be the nicest of tasks but if you did have to choose someone to impose Type 1 Diabetes on, it would probably be Kevin Nolan. The Dublin wing-back is a highprofile sufferer but after initially losing two stone in bodyweight following his diagnosis in late 2011, he has bounced back in inspirational fashion. A science teacher by profession, he says he is as much interested in the condition as upset by it, altering his life accordingly to make sure his blood sugar levels are correct at all times. Because of the condition, the Kilmacud Crokes man didn’t kick on as expected and develop into an elite defender after his crucial role in the 2011 All-Ireland final win. But having been largely overlooked by Jim Gavin last year, there are signs Nolan is back in vogue again with starts against Mayo and Tyrone. Gavin will name his team today to face Cork in Sunday’s Allianz Football League semi-final but it seems likely Nolan will be retained. ‘People ask if the diagnosis affected me mentally but no, it didn’t,’ said Nolan. ‘For the first couple of months, going back into the hospitals, they would have found that I had an attitude that was too positive. ‘They were actually worried I wasn’t taking it in a bad way, in a serious way. But I was, of course,

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Post Chain Reaction team will have five representatives at the U-23 Nations Cup Tour of Flanders tomorrow. Conor Dunne, Jack Wilson and Ryan Mullen (pictured) will line out for Ireland while Robert-Jon McCarthy and Owain Doull will compete for Australia and Great Britain respectively. The An Post team will also be competing at the Grand Prix Cerami on the same day, with Sean Downey the Irish representative. Speaking on the U-23 Tour of Flanders, Bogaerts believes it will be a very hard race to predict: ‘It’s a very technical race so it won’t be easy. With a bit of luck our riders will do very well. It’s great experience for them.’

that was just my attitude. And it did come a stage where I was upset and asked, “why me?” and that sort of stuff. But it can’t be changed so I just got on with it.’ Nolan is treated like every other player now and Sunday’s clash with Cork is a big chance not just to reach a league final but, personally, for him to win back his Championship place. ‘For me to get back in the team, hopefully it shows that I have improved and in the manager’s eyes, I have improved,’ said Nolan. ‘Sunday is another stepping stone for me. ‘If I stop progressing, I will be caught by teammates and opposition so I have to keep improving, every training session, every game. That’s how I view Sunday.’

Raheny hosts Road Relay this Sunday ATHLETics The senior and master

athletes take centre stage at the Woodie’s DIY National Road Relay Championships in Raheny this Sunday. Sligo AC surprised many last year by storming to victory in the senior men’s category, and they return with an equally strong team including Alberto Sanchez, Dermot McDermott, Emmett Dunleavy and young talent David Harper. They will need to produce another inspiring performance to hold off host club Raheny Shamrock, Clonliffe Harriers and Rathfarnham WSAF who are fielding strong teams.

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O’Connor sure Mayo can make final breakthrough

When Mayo coughed up a five-point lead with as many minutes left against dublin last month, their critics were back out in force. But full-forward cillian o’connor insists they aren’t so much a team destined to always lose the big games as they are a team learning how to make their breakthrough. In soccer, for example, o’connor took heart from watching Bayern Munich lose two of the preceding three champions League finals before eventually winning last year. he believes back to back beaten all-Ireland finalists

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O’Connor and Derry’s Ciaran McFaul Mayo can take a similar route to victory and hopes to use Sunday’s allianz league semi-

final with derry as another stepping stone. ‘There are plenty of examples of people who have knocked on the door a few times and failed and failed but came back again,’ said o’connor. ‘We look at teams that have done it and think, why not us? Logically, we think we have a good squad, good age profile and good strength and conditioning. ‘We know the drive is still there within the squad. There’s no question about that. We just need to keep ourselves injury free and to strive for that consistency across the 70

minutes in each game.’ They could yet get a chance to beat dublin at the second attempt at croke Park if both sides win their semi-finals on Sunday. Mayo hammered derry in last weekend’s dress rehearsal, though derry were considerably under strength. ‘That was a strange kind of game with so many of their players rested,’ said o’connor, who is doubtful for inclusion because of a glute strain. ‘But we can’t get too bogged down in what they’ll do. It’s more about finding consistency in our own game.’

Irish triathletes will travel to Portugal this weekend for the opening European Cup race of the season. Russell White and Emma Sharkey will race the ETU Quarteira European Cup while Westport pair Con Doherty and Aichlinn O’Reilly are on the start line for the ETU Quarteira Junior European Cup. The 21-year-old White (pictured) from Co Down rounded out the 2013 season with a 35th place finish at the U23 World Championships and has taken the decision to step back from his studies for a year to concentrate on training, which he says has ‘allowed some consistency’.

Tandem pair excels pARAcycLing Ireland’s tandem pairing of James Brown and Bryan McCrystal gave the performance of their lives in the Men’s Individual Pursuit at the Paracycling World Championships in Mexico, qualifying for the Bronze Medal Ride-off against USA with the thirdfastest time. The female tandem of Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal finished fifth in a new Irish record time of 3.31.963, just 0.3 seconds outside the time for the ride-off for Bronze.

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In at 7: Shane Jennings will be in the Leinster side to face Ospreys

EVERy gAME COUnTS nOW FOR LEInSTER AS THEy AIM TO KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURnIng In THE LEAgUE EUROPE may have been ripped from Leinster’s grasp but it is still a case of knockout rugby until the rest of the season as the province travel to Swansea tonight. Beat Ospreys and it’s a safe bet the Welsh will be eliminated from the RaboDirect PRO12 play-off chase which looks likely to be confined to Leinster, Ulster, Munster and Glasgow. If last weekend’s demolition in Toulon proved anything it is that home advantage is an undeniable advantage when it comes to winning silverware. The last thing Matt O’Connor’s debut season needs now is a PRO12 final in Thomond Park and with a five-point lead on second-placed Munster he must ensure his team do everything they can to finish first. Ospreys may be vulnerable having lost so much front-line talent since they beat Leinster in the final in 2012, but they are fighting for their lives tonight, which will make this game fascinating given that the visitors are close to full strength. Leinster named a team without Brian O’Driscoll, Ian Madigan or Luke Fitzgerald, but they still have 13 internationals in the starting XV and a win at Liberty Stadium would set them up

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nicely for the closing three games. Treviso visit Dublin on Good Friday before a trip to Ravenhill where Ulster are struggling to hold their team together having suffered a number of injuries last weekend. Again, beating Ulster would represent a knock-out win because it would ensure Leinster remain on course to finish the season at home while likely forcing Ulster to travel to Munster in the semi-final. Intriguingly, it throws up the possibility of a third LeinsterGlasgow semi-final at the RDS in three seasons. The games have proved no easy rides either, with Leinster winning by four points in 2012 and by just two points last season. But there is an added bonus for Leinster if they stay ahead of the pack: Munster and Ulster could do irreparable damage to each other by the time either one would turn up for the final. The two provinces play each other on the final weekend of the regular league season and could then play again in the semi-final a week later. With no more involvement in Europe Leinster will get at least two weekends off if they can reach the PRO12 final and that would have them in prime shape no matter who turns up at the RDS.

O’Connor looks to Ospreys to bounce back from Toulon TEAM

by DAnny HOgAn

15: Rob Kearney 14: Zane Kirchner 13: Gordon D’Arcy 12: Noel Reid 11: Dave Kearney 10: Jimmy Gopperth 9: Isaac Boss 1: Cian Healy 2: Sean Cronin 3: Martin Moore 4: Leo Cullen CAPTAIN 5: Mike McCarthy 6: Kevin McLaughlin 7: Shane Jennings 8: Jamie Heaslip

Liberty stadium is not a venue Leinster enjoy going to but tonight offers the blues not only a chance to spoil Osprey’s party, but at redemption itself. matt O’Connor’s men will still be bruised after last weekend’s disappointing exit from europe at the hands of toulon. but while Heineken Cup glory would have ben a fitting send-off for Leo Cullen and brian O’driscoll ahead of their retirements, League silverware is now the be-all and end-all. the reigning rabodirect PrO12 champions top the table and are all but confirmed for a spot in this year’s play-offs. the Welsh region, on the other hand, must create a winning streak

‘It’s a huge game for them’: Head coach O’Connor

‘We’re just going to make sure that we’re better’

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European rugby dispute resolved THE two-year disagreement over the future of European club rugby has been resolved, with an agreement for a new tournament to replace the existing European Cup structure being signed. Last night’s announcement by the European Rugby and the Rugby Football Union revealed a 20-team Champions Cup will be the showpiece event of European Professional Club Rugby. The RFU said in a statement: ‘All nine stakeholders have

underlined their commitment to an invigorated competition that will start in the 2014/5 season and meets the requirements of all the parties involved. ‘BT and Sky have reached an agreement in principle concerning arrangements for the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup competitions, both of which would be broadcast jointly by BT Sport and Sky Sports.’

and hope other results go their way. Head coach O’Connor knows however that if any team are Leinster’s Celtic League ‘banana skin’, it’s Ospreys, who have yet to lose to Leinster in three clashes so far this season. ‘We’ve played (Ospreys) enough to know enough about them. it’s a huge game for them because if they lose they’re probably out of it mathematically,’ said O’Connor. ‘From that perspective they’ll be doing everything they can to get the result and keep them in it. ‘We’ve got to bounce back and we’ve got to make sure we fix the things that went wrong on sunday. ‘they’re very hard to beat – they’re hard to break down at home. they race off the line. they’ve got a good set piece. they’ve got a lot of Lions and Welsh internationals. ‘We’re under no illusions of how good they are at home. We’re just going to make sure that we’re better.’

ICC reveals new Test play-offs system

IRELAnD’S pathway to Test cricket was paved further yesterday with the announcement that the International Cricket Council (ICC) have approved a new play-off system between the lowest-ranked Test nation and the top Associate, writes Ryan Bailey. The ICC Test Challenge will take place every four years, from 2018, and will see the winner of the Intercontinental Cup face the lowest-placed full member in four games (two home and two away) for a seat at the top table of the sport. The inaugural play-off would take place in four years time, with the victor earning their place in the subsequent four-year Test match cycle. Phil Simmons’ side are the current holders of the Intercontinental Cup – the first-

cricket In with a chance: Ireland head coach Phil Simmons pICTure: INpHO

class competition for Associate nations – having beaten Afghanistan in the final last December. Furthermore, Ireland have triumphed in four of the last five tournaments but will need to defend their crown in the next edition, scheduled to begin in 12months time, in order to secure a play-off

against the nation ranked tenth. Two Intercontinental Cup tournaments are planned, with the first from 2015 to 2017 and the second between 2019 and 2021. The second ICC Test Challenge is scheduled for 2022. The announcement – headlined ‘meritocratic pathway to Test cricket’ – comes following the ICC’s two-day board meeting in Dubai during which the sport’s governing council also confirmed the format of the recently concluded World Twenty20 will be retained for the 2018 event in India. Consequently, Ireland will once again have to safely negotiate a qualifying tournament – which will be held in Ireland and Scotland in August of next year – before the tournament’s first round.

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Looking Sharpe: A GarminSharp rider heading off against the clock in last year’s Giro. Irishman Dan Martin, who rides with the team, is hoping he came claim a stage this year. ‘The Giro is something I’m just going to take in my stride,’ he said. ‘It’s hard to say how it’s going to go. I’ll be going into it as always, taking it as it comes. The real aim will be to win a stage. To have won a stage in all three grand tours already in my career would be an incredible achievement.’

It launched the worlds biggest ship and now it prepares to launch one of the worlds biggest bike races, writes Liam Costello. Belfast is riding high and hoping May 9 is a Good Friday as the city goes pink to roll out the Grand Partenza (Big Start) of the Giro d’Italia. this Grand tour will take the world’s elite cyclists from the titanic to trieste with 21 stages in total and close to 3,550km to cover. each of the 22 teams entered will have nine riders. day one of the action will be the team time trial, starting from the slipways at the iconic titanic, Belfast. the 21.7km route will travel out to Parliament Buildings at Stormont, which is home to the northern Ireland assembly, then back towards the city centre via Queens Bridge, the Ormeau Road and Stranmillis, finishing at Belfast city hall.

Mcilroy and Scott off to a solid start at Augusta by nick METcALfE

ADAM SCOTT and Rory McIlroy gave themselves the ideal platform to launch a bid to win the Masters this weekend with fine opening rounds at Augusta yesterday. Scott, such a memorable winner of this tournament 12 months ago, picked up four birdies in the first ten holes of his round, and despite the blow of a double-bogey on the 12th, he bounced back with another birdie on the 14th for an opening 69. McIlroy, who came so close to winning a green jacket three years ago, picked up shots at the 13th and 15th to move to two-under, but a dropped shot on the final hole saw him settle for a 71, one-under.

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Bah-reign: Hamilton

it ain’t broke so don’t fix it, blast Mercedes

76 For Sheffield teenager Matt

Fitzpatrick, who started with a double-bogey

American Bill Haas was making much of the early running in yesterday’s opening round, after he birdied the final hole for a 68, four-under. Kevin Stadler, son of the 1982 Masters champion Craig, made a 70 – his father fared less well with an 82 – while the ever-popular Fred Couples, winner of his only major at Augusta 22 years ago, shot 71. One man who had an extremely up-anddown opening day was Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez. He started superbly, with a chip off the green for a birdie on the short sixth, and was at one stage four-under. But a dropped shot on the 11th and then double-bogey on the 12th undermined his efforts, and he finished with a one-under 71. There was a brief cameo from Sandy Lyle, who made three birdies in the first four holes, but the 1988 winner fell away and was threeover in the closing stages of his round.

Frustration: Jimenez reacts after dropping a shot on the 11th AP

Early lEadErboard

Young Master: Rory McIlroy on the third fairway yesterday Picture: AP

Par 72 (US unless stated) 68 Bill Haas, 69 Adam Scott (Aus), 70 Kevin Stadler, KJ Choi (Kor), Jimmy Walker, Gary Woodland, Brandt Snedeker, Jonas Blixt (Swe), 71 Rory McIlroy (NI), Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Matteo Manassero (Ita), Rickie Fowler Fred Couples, 72 Steve Stricker, Graeme McDowell (Nirl), John Senden (Aus) 73 Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Mike Weir (Can), Jamie Donaldson (Wal) Boo Weekley, Stewart Cink, 74 Brendon De Jonge (Zim), Jim Furyk, Thorbjorn Olesen (Den), Webb Simpson

Poulter suffers miserable opening day Ian POulteR will need a dramatic improvement today after a disappointing opening 76. Poulter (pictured), who seemed in good spirits during practice earlier this week, had a promising start with a birdie four on the second, but

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bogeys at the fourth, eighth, tenth and 13th saw the englishman tumble down the leaderboard. the 38-year-old, whose last two rounds at augusta before yesterday were 76 and 75, had a miserable finish too, dropping a shot at the last.

MeRCeDeS technical director Paddy Lowe has described as ‘absurd’ the possibility of changes being made to F1 regulations for next season. In the build-up to last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, there were suggestions of shortening the races or increasing the amount of fuel being used to guard against so-called ‘taxi driving’. Ferrari and Red Bull could attempt to push for changes but Lowe, whose Mercedes drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton have won the opening two races, said: ‘The first suggestion was we need 110 kilograms [of fuel]. Has anyone realised you couldn’t fit 110 kilograms into these cars? Ah, oh dear! ‘Then there was talk of making the races shorter. Can you imagine selling that to the public? It would be like saying “We’ve decided people aren’t fit enough these days and marathons are only going to be 25 miles, not 26”. ‘So I hope all of that, and this ridiculous talk of fuel saving, can be put behind us. ‘In Bahrain the guys were racing from beginning to end, and it was a completely normal level of fuel saving.’

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Lambo sure surgeon can mend ‘Teke

CroCked Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke is poised to go under the knife this weekend. Benteke ruptured his Achilles tendon in training last Thursday, and has returned to his home in Belgium for the operation. Manager Paul Lambert said: ‘our doctor [roddy Macdonald] is over

in Belgium and he has spoken with the surgeon, and it’s pretty imminent he will get it done – today, tonight or tomorrow. ‘Then after that it’s all about the rehabilitation with him.’ Benteke will miss Belgium’s World Cup finals campaign and is unlikely to return to action until

october at the earliest. However, Lambert added: ‘Christian is still a young guy, and he will come back totally strong, given the way he is as a guy and his physical aspect. ‘The surgeon is really highly regarded, so as long as the job is done right and everything goes Long lay-off: Benteke swimmingly then he will be okay.’

Boxing clever: Mel

Albion fighting fit under Pepe Mel-ee West Brom boss Pepe Mel admits he is not going to outlaw dressing-room bust-ups if they help bring results on the pitch. A post-match confrontation between saido Berahino and James Morrison following the recent 3-3 draw against Cardiff brought negative headlines but the Baggies responded with a 1-0 win over Norwich, which boosted their hopes of avoiding relegation. tottenham visit Albion tomorrow and Mel said: ‘the players know the only route is to be united. the dressing room has shown itself to be very professional. I don’t mind if there are fights if in the following match we win. Is it healthy? No, but it’s something that’s normal among players and young players who are ambitious.’

injured Newcastle striker Loic Remy after he was ruled out of tomorrow’s match at Stoke

Winger Noone’s season at an end

Palace could yet be beaten to the Punch CRYstAL Palace boss tony Pulis is keen to hold on to in-form midfielder Jason Puncheon but admits he could still be sold in the summer if the right offer comes along. Puncheon, 27, who joined Palace permanently in January, has scored five goals in 14 league games. ‘If somebody comes in and makes an offer because Jason is playing so well, we’ll look at that offer,’ Pulis said.

Suarez so good he even has ‘God’ on his side

ForMer Liverpool striker robbie Fowler admits even he cannot fail to be impressed by the skills of Luis Suarez. The Toxteth-born forward is still a kop idol after two spells at the club in which he scored 183 goals in 369 matches. Suarez’s strike-rate is even better but it is the way he has done it which has impressed Fowler, nicknamed ‘God’ by Liverpool fans, who has backed the Uruguayan to sweep up all the end-of-sea-

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CARDIFF winger Craig Noone looks set to miss the rest of the season after suffering an abdominal problem. Noone (pictured), who joined the club from Brighton in 2012, was injured in last saturday’s defeat against Crystal Palace. And the 26-year-old is poised to seek specialist advice in America, with a Cardiff spokesman stating it is likely he will be sidelined for the remainder of this term. ‘It’s a big blow because Craig has been a player who’s made things happen for us,’ said Cardiff boss Ole solskjaer. ‘It’s very unfortunate because he has been terrific. But that’s football.’

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by JAck fOx and his excellent movement. He has a little bit of everything. I love going to games where you get one of these players who gets you on the edge of your seat.’ Suarez has played a significant part in helping Liverpool to top the Premier League table with five matches to go and a crucial clash at home to Manchester City to come on Sunday. However, the weight

80 Goals in 128 Liverpool appearances for Luis Suarez since joining from Ajax in January 2011

Joy to watch: Liverpool great Robbie Fowler is a big fan of Suarez

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rosler looks to roberto’s way Wigan manager Uwe Rosler will take inspiration from former Latics boss Roberto Martinez as he plots arsenal’s downfall in tomorrow’s Fa Cup semi-final at Wembley. The gunners head into the tie with their confidence shredded

fa cup after defeat to Martinez’s Everton on Sunday. and Rosler, who succeeded Martinez’s replacement Owen Coyle, said: ‘i watched the game last Sunday

and it was another very impressive lesson from Roberto. Everybody knows Roberto is focused on ball possession but how they worked against the ball at the beginning of game was impressive. ‘There were good pictures for me to learn from.’

son individual player awards. ‘Luis should win everything, he has been that good,’ said Fowler, speaking at Liverpool’s first live kit launch. ‘I am like a fan. I watch him and some of the things he does I think, “God, how has he done that?”. ‘He is an absolute joy to watch and I know he has a little bit more in his locker than scoring goals, with the assists

of goals scored by the side is partly due to manager Brendan rodgers’ tactics, while the steadying influence of Steven Gerrard in a deeplying midfield role has provided a solid base for their attacking intent. ‘I don’t care what formation or team is playing, the confidence Brendan has put into the side is nothing short of remarkable,’ added Fowler.

Wenger: We’ve got to focus ArsenE WENGER insists Arsenal have to keep their sights on the current season as they bid to end their nine-year trophy drought. The Frenchman has come under pressure after a poor run which culminated in last Sunday’s 3-0 loss at Everton. But tomorrow’s

FA Cup semi-final with Wigan gives Wenger’s men the ideal opportunity to close in on FA Cup success. ‘We lost key players at big moments of the season but we have to just focus on finishing as well as we can. We are in a position where we can still do very well.’

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Fletcher: Players must show their worth now

by PADRAiC MORgAn

DArren FLeTcher admits he and his Manchester United team-mates are now playing for their futures. United bowed out of the champions League on wednesday night with a 3-1 defeat which sent Bayern Munich through to the semi-finals 4-2 on aggregate. United’s season is now effectively over. There is little hope they will be able to bridge the seven-point gap that separates them from fourth place given that just five matches remain. But the players who have let the club down in what has been a very disappointing campaign must not allow their season simply to fizzle out, according to Fletcher. David Moyes will embark upon a multi-million pound re-building scheme over the summer. The Scot has already held discussions with targets who he says are keen to come to old Trafford despite United’s failure to qualify for europe’s top club competition. current players will have to be moved out to

norwich’S robert Snodgrass is ready to go to war tomorrow as the canaries aim to preserve their Premier League status. norwich reacted to last Saturday’s loss to fellow strugglers west Brom by sacking chris hughton and replacing him with youth team coach neil Adams, who takes charge of his first game at Fulham. The canaries are five points clear of the drop zone, and Fulham, with five games remaining – and a win at craven

cottage could be decisive. ‘it is a battle of who wants it most,’ the Scotland winger said. ‘it’s now or never to try to get a result. it doesn’t come any bigger than this. ‘it’s time for characters, leaders, everything you’ve possibly got. ‘it’s a time for heroes. i want to be that person. i want to be the person that keeps norwich in the Premier League. ‘i don’t want to be part of a side that gets relegated.’

Saints pray for big derby result

accommodate the new arrivals so Fletcher knows places are up for grabs. ‘The boys have got to play well to stay in the manager’s thoughts for next season,’ the United midfielder said. ‘There is talk of a lot of changes so if you get an opportunity to play you have to go out there and perform and to show the manager that you want to be at United, that you are capable of being at United and you are good enough. ‘A lot of people will say there isn’t a lot to play for now, but there is – you are playing for personal pride and to be in the squad for next season.’ Fletcher has seen United reach three champions League finals during his 14-year spell at the club, so the idea of not being among europe’s elite next season does not sit well with the proud midfielder. ‘watching the champions League (on television) next year will be difficult to take,’ the Scot said. ‘we are used to playing in it all my career. This will be the first time we are not there. hopefully the biggest thing that can do is give you more determination to get back in it.’ Something to prove: Wayne Rooney, Jonny Evans and Fletcher are put through their paces

Martinez shoots down moans about the loans off fourth spot with a win at Sunderland tomorrow. But Martinez said: ‘The loan system has to be part of the game. From our point of view it was vital as we needed it to finish our squad and to criticise that would be ridiculous. ‘If you can be creative with the way you can use your resources, that is part of the game. ‘The two young on-loan players [Lukaku and Gerard Deulofeu] needed the chance to develop and Gareth Barry has come in and his experience has been very important. ‘Loanees will never be successful

Do or die for Snodgrass in Cottage clash

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‘You are playing to be in the squad for next season’

EVERTON manager Roberto Martinez insists it is ridiculous he should be criticised for utilising loan players to supplement his squad. Last week Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger branded the system ‘indefensible’, suggesting loans between top-flight sides either be banned or players should be allowed to face their parent clubs. More media scrutiny followed last weekend when on-loan Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku scored to help Everton beat the Gunners and give the Toffees t he chance to knock Wenger’s men

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unless you have a strong core of players and that is what we have.’ Indeed, there has been far more to Everton’s success than merely their loan additions. And Martinez takes particular pride in the rapid progress of 19year-old defender John Stones, 20year-old England international Ross Barkley and midfielder James McCarthy, 23. The Spaniard added: ‘Some clubs have very much in mind the idea of developing young players and giving them opportunities, and we want to believe we are one of those.’

table P Liverpool 33 Chelsea 33 Man City 31 Arsenal 33 Everton 32 Tottenham 33 Man Utd 33 Southampton 33 Newcastle 33 Stoke 33 West Ham 33 Hull 33 Aston Villa 32 Crystal Pal 32 Swansea 33 West Brom 32 Norwich 33 Fulham 33 Cardiff 33 Sunderland 31

W 23 22 22 19 18 18 17 13 14 10 10 10 9 10 8 6 8 8 6 6

DL 5 5 6 5 4 5 7 7 9 5 5 10 6 10 9 11 4 15 10 13 7 16 6 17 7 16 4 18 9 16 14 12 8 17 3 22 8 19 7 18

F 90 65 84 56 52 45 56 50 38 37 37 34 35 23 45 37 26 33 29 29

A Pts 40 74 24 72 29 70 40 64 31 63 45 59 38 57 44 48 51 46 48 40 44 37 40 36 48 34 39 34 49 33 48 32 52 32 74 27 64 26 52 25

AFTER ThEIR convincing return to winning ways at Bray Wanderers on Monday, James Chambers knows St Patrick’s Athletic will need a repeat performance if they’re to get anything against Shamrock Rovers in the big Dublin derby at Richmond Park tonight. ‘It was good to put three points on the board on Monday as we’ve had an awful lot of draws so far,’ said midfielder Chambers, who returned to St Pat’s having spent last season with Rovers. ‘We wanted to bounce back from the defeat against Dundalk as we were all hurting. ‘We were sloppy with giving a goal away, but we went down the other end and got a third so there’s a good atmosphere. We just wanted to bounce back, so we’re delighted to have done that,’ added the 27-year-old of the 3-1 victory. ‘After getting the Bray win under our belts, it’s just a case of going again. It’s another big game and it’s a good week to be looking forward to,’ said Chambers in reference to their semi-final, second-leg clash with Sligo Rovers in the Setanta Sports Cup. Chambers will do well to hold his place in the starting 11 as Boss Liam Buckley has key midfielders Greg Bolger and Killian Brennan back from suspension tonight. ‘We put in a good performance against Bray,’ said Buckley. ‘The players have worked really hard so I’m pleased they got the result they deserved. If we can produce that level again (tonight), we’ll give ourselves a great chance of getting a result.’

wEEkEnD’S FixTuRES today

Airtricity League Premier Division (7.45 unless stated) Bohemians v Limerick Cork City v Sligo Rovers Derry City v Athlone Town Drogheda United v Bray Wanderers St. Pat’s Athletic v Shamrock Rovers UCD v Dundalk First Division Galway FC v Shelbourne Finn Harps v Wexford Youths (8.0)

Saturday (3pm unless stated)

The FA Cup with Budweiser semi-final Wigan v Arsenal (5.07pm) Barclays Premier League (3.07pm) Crystal Palace v Aston Villa ............. Fulham v Norwich............................

Southampton v Cardiff .................... Stoke v Newcastle ............................ Sunderland v Everton ...................... West Brom v Tottenham .................. William Hill Scottish Cup semi-final Rangers v Dundee Utd(12.45pm)

Sunday The FA Cup with Budweiser semi-final Hull v Sheff Utd (4.07pm) Barclays Premier League Liverpool v Man City (1.37pm) Swansea v Chelsea (4.07pm) The William Hill Scottish Cup semi-final St Johnstone v Aberdeen(12.45pm)

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