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What? I didn’t say anything… President Michael D Higgins shares a joke with architect George Boyle and a model dinosaur seemingly lost for words as he opens the Fumbally Exchange flagship building on Dublin’s Dame Lane yesterday. Founded in 2010 by Ms Boyle at the depth of the recession, this not-for-profit organisation offers low-cost office space and collaborative opportunities for creative businesses
ALMOST 10,000 drivers were caught using their mobile phones while behind the wheel during the first three months of this year. The figure suggests an increase in detection, with records showing 28,000 motorists apprehended for the offence for the whole of last year. John Twomey, Garda assistant commissioner in charge of the force’s National Traffic Bureau, said the prevalence of phone use while driving is unacceptable. ‘We all know how distracting mobile phones can be in any situation, except in the car it can have fatal consequences,’ he said. ‘Driving requires 100 per cent concentration – it’s as simple as that.’ Gardaí will mount a countrywide operation tomorrow and on Friday to catch offending motorists and warn others of the dangers involved. They say using a mobile while driving makes you four times more likely to be involved in an accident. Currently, offenders face two penalty points and a €60 fine payable within 28 days, but from May 1 anyone caught texting or ‘accessing information’ on their phones – even if it is in a cradle – will face a mandatory court appearance and a fine of up to €1,000 for a first offence. ‘In the first three months of the year, nearly 10,000 drivers have been detected holding a mobile phone whilst driving,’ said Mr Twomey. ‘This is not acceptable or conducive to road safety. The choice is yours. To avoid penalty points, a fine, or worse – be involved in a road traffic collision – always put the phone away when driving.’
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Calm down everyone, Tubs is not dead FANS of one of Ireland’s most popular broadcasters were duped yesterday – and 2fm was forced to refute reports Ryan Tubridy had died. RTÉ 2fm took to its Facebook page to ensure listeners the much-loved presenter was, in fact, alive and kicking. The rumour started after Irish satirical website Waterford Whispers News published a story entitled ‘Ryan Tubridy Found Dead Inside’. The piece read: ‘Irish broadcaster Ryan Tubridy was reported to have been found “dead inside” at his home in Dublin, it
was announced earlier today. ‘The radio and television presenter was said to have been battling life for over forty years, and it is not known when exactly he passed away. ‘“He may have been dead for quite some time,” said a doctor outside the stars home today. “We believe he may have died inside over three years ago”.’ The website wrote that the 40-year-old had ‘died on air’ during a Cuba Gooding Jr. interview on The Late Late Show in 2011. The comedy piece did not go down well with everyone.
@ciaratracey2 tweeted: ‘Thanks to the Waterford Whispers I had to spend 15 minutes on the phone to my parents reassuring them Ryan Tubridy was not in fact dead’. @BrendaDrumm said: ‘Why any website thinks it’s funny to joke about Ryan Tubridy being found dead is beyond me – sick! What if his kids stumbled across it’. Meanwhile, a bemused @JeremyTaxman tweeted: ‘Superb stuff. The great unwashed seem to have taken up their pitchforks though’.
Alive and kicking: Ryan Tubridy rumours refuted
‘Wolf of Wall Street’ comes to Dublin Lame lane: A rider coasts along the 4m-long cycle path Picture: ross Parry
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THOUGHT you’d seen the best of council designers’ handiwork on Dublin’s cycle lanes? Well, a town in Derbyshire, England, could have topped them with this cycle path – sandwiched between two junctions – just 4m long. Council bosses claim it is a useful link in a much longer town centre bike route in Chesterfield. But users say officials could have saved themselves the bother of marking its start and finish with painted signs –
by DOMINIC YEATMAN which are squeezed in next to each other on the small patch of pavement. Lisa Jennings, 36, said: ‘To paint this pathetic little lane is just an insult to cyclists forced to use genuinely dangerous roads which still don’t have a cycle lane.’ And Will Jones, 22, added: ‘It makes the council a laughing stock.’ A council spokesman said: ‘It is part of our town-wide network.’
ASPIRING capitalist running dogs will get the chance to meet the real Wolf of Wall Street as he comes to Dublin next month. Jordan Belfort, author of New York Times bestseller The Wolf Of Wall Street, which was adapted for the big screen by Martin Scorsese, will bring his sales and entrepreneurship live sales seminar ‘The Truth Behind The Success Of The Real Life Wolf of Wall Street’ to the RDS on May 27. Leonardo Di Caprio said after meeting Belfort, ‘he is a motivator without peer – there is nothing quite like his public speaking’. In his twenties Belfort was earning more than $50million a year before it all went wrong and whilst in venture capital raised more than $1.5 billion kickstarting multiple companies from scratch. Early Bird tickets (€50) for the seminar organised by Colleg Times.com go on sale from Ticketmaster this Friday at 9am.
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Hijacked car is found A ROyAL buzz: A fly lands on the nose of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, as she speaks to a young girl during a visit to the National Indigenous Training Academy at Yulara in the Northern Territory of Australia PICTURE: REUTERs
Ad watchdog finds Irish Rail, Paddy Power breached rules by jOAnnE AHERn
A COMPLAINT against Irish Rail that its €9.99 television advert was misleading has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland. The complainant said that when she went online to book a seat the price increased by 30 per cent when a €2 transaction fee and a €1 credit card fee were taken into account. When the complaint was brought to its attention, Irish Rail said it ‘understood’ how the ad may have been seen to be misleading and edited it to include the line ‘terms and conditions apply’. Upholding the complaint, the ASAI said it was concerned the advertisers ‘had not included or referenced the fact that fees were applicable to the methods of payment’ and ruled that it was in breach of the advertising code. Meanwhile, it also upheld complaints against Paddy Power’s It’s Oscar Time advert. Some 65 complaints were made
against the advert, which concerned the paralympian Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial over the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. People objected to the advert on the grounds Ad ban: Pistorius that it trivialised domestic violence and murder, undermined justice and that it was offensive to victims, their families and to women. There were also complaints about the ‘if he walks’ phrase, with complainants saying it was ‘offensive to the disabled as it was a reference to the fact Mr Pistorious was a double amputee’. There were also complaints about the fact that Paddy Power was taking bets on the outcome of a murder trial. The ASAI upheld the complaints, finding the advert offensive as it ‘appeared to make light of murder’.
Light-breaking drivers at Luas junctions targeted MOTORISTS breaking red lights at Luas junctions be warned: a new system is set to catch you out. Footage of light-breakers will be passed to Gardaí, who will assess whether penalty points are warranted or not. A trial of the system has been in place in the north inner city on the Luas Red Line and will be extended city-wide by the end of the year, according to the Department of Transport. Collisions between cars and the Luas happen more frequently on the Red Line as the track crosses more junctions than the green line. The news comes after the death of Yao Webster earlier this month. The 35-year-old motherof-one was struck by a car that had hit a Luas and spun out of control.
GARDAÍ investigating a violent carjacking in the Dublin 4 area on Sunday afternoon have recovered the stolen car, but are continuing to appeal for witnesses to the incident. The victim, a librarian in her 50s, hit her head when she intervened as two people tried to steal her car. She was keying in the access code on the gate to her Argyle House home on Serpentine Avenue in Ballsbridge at the time. She remains in hospital in a stable condition. Gardaí found the woman’s Ford Focus in the Kevin Street area of the city yesterday. However, no arrests have yet been made.
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Higher maths doesn’t add up for ‘feminised’ teachers
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EDUCATION Minister Ruairí Quinn got a frosty reception from second-level teachers at the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland annual conference in Wexford last night. He was constantly heckled during his 30-minute speech as he discussed his plans to reform the Junior Cert. As delegates interrupted him, the minister said he ‘trusted’ teachers ‘to act professionally and assess your own students without fear or favour’ to anybody. Delegates booed and shouted ‘rubbish’ and ‘lies’ during his address, one even used a megaphone to voice his issues. Earlier, Mr Quinn had a slightly better experience at the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation conference in Kilkenny. Delegates were aghast at his suggestion students entering teacher training college should have higher level Leaving Cert maths, and at his description of a ‘feminised’ profession. This led INTO president Sheila Nunan to tell her audience: ‘It wasn’t the honours maths that made the Irish women the way they are today, let me tell you. It was the boys who did the honours maths led the country to ruination.’ Members were happier that pay increases could be on the way for new teachers.
How did the venture come about? Lisa was doing an
internship at Lilliput while I was managing the office for a colleague on sabbatical. We both knew our time there together was coming to an end, which was a shame because we loved the work, had a shared passion for emerging fiction and had really hit it off. We started making jokes about eventually having our own publishing company; then one day it stopped
A YOUNG Irish teacher has died in a hiking accident in the Alps. Eoin Deasy, 25, from Ballinlough in Cork, had been living in Switzerland for the past year with his girlfriend, Maria. He fell while on a hiking trip in Liechtenstein last Thursday. The UCC graduate’s body was recovered on Friday. His mother Patsy described her eldest son as ‘a remarkable man who achieved lots in his short life’. Both Mr Deasy and Maria were teachers at a boarding school in St Gallen.
WE AfRi-cAn HARDLy WAiT: Onai Tafuma, 14, Tajudeen Adigun, ten, Bobbi Sode, three, Taofeekhat Adigun, eight, and Clinton Liberty, 15, were jumping for joy at the launch of Africa Day 2014 at Farmleigh House, celebrating the partnership between Ireland and Africa. See www.africaday.ie PiCTuRe: MARC O’SuLLivAn
As an intern with Dublin’s Lilliput Press, SARAH DAviS-GOff discovered the internationally celebrated author Donal Ryan. She recently co-founded Tramp Press with Lisa Coen, a fellow Lilliput alumnus
we’re trying to publish brilliant books and put quality first. Rather than being the kind of publisher – of which there are probably too many in the world – that tries to find a book that’s commercial enough to sell, we’re trying to find books that are so brilliant they make us sweat and shake to the point we just have to match them up with like-minded readers.
TELECOMS tycoon Denis O’Brien is said to be planning to buy Buy And Sell. A liquidator appointed to Buzreel Ltd, the company that publishes the well-known publication, has asked the High Court for permission to sell it to Demirca Ltd, a subsidiary of the Denis O Brienowned Communicorp, for around €310,000. Mr Justice Anthony Barr adjourned the application until tomorrow to allow a rival bidder, Midland Web Printing Ltd, which prints the magazine, to consider its opposition to the sale to Demirca. Midland claimed it already had an agreement to buy in place.
Irish teacher dies in Alps hiking tragedy
60 seconds You set up Tramp Press with the aim of championing the kind of literary fiction often overlooked by commercial publishing houses. How would you define your mission statement? Put simply,
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being a joke and it suddenly seemed like something that might well be feasible.
How did you come to discover Donal Ryan? I’d been
working in Lilliput for a while as an intern and I’d been pestering Anthony [Farrell, Lilliput founder] to keep me on. One of my favourite tasks was working my way through the slush pile, the mound of unsolicited manuscripts sent in by authors hoping to be published. I’ve always been excited about the prospect of finding gold and that’s what happened when I came across The Thing About December [the second Donal Ryan novel to be published] which I fell in love with immediately and wouldn’t shut up about. Not everyone was an immediate convert like me but I kept badgering Anthony until he read Donal himself. When he did he really got it and took a punt.
Despite being garlanded with praise, Ryan clocked up some 47 rejection letters before Lilliput published his debut, The Spinning Heart. How do you account for the
fact he’d been turned down so many times? It’s difficult to
say. I think it’s a mystery he received so many rejections because he’s such an exciting and powerful new voice. That said, as publishers get larger and more successful, I think editors drift further away from the slush pile so people lower down the food chain don’t always get the hearing they deserve. One thing we’re keen to do at Tramp Press is to sift through the slush pile ourselves and hopefully unearth whatever new talent is out there.
Do you worry about the future of the printed book? I
believe the sale of e-books has actually slowed over the last year. I’ll always love books in traditional bound form but the important thing is that people are actually reading. We’re excited about bringing great work to people, be it through paper or electronic means. Personally, I think it’s impossible to improve on the packaging of a well-produced hardback book in the same way it’s impossible to improve on the packaging of an apple.
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I’ve always been excited by the prospect of finding gold and that is what happened with Donal Ryan
Your first Tramp Press title, Flight by Oona Frawley, has just been published. Why did it appeal to you? It was
another book that a lot of publishers had read and turned down, which left me gobsmacked because Oona’s clearly such a fantastic writer with a tremendously accomplished style. The book centres on the dynamic between an elderly couple in Dalkey and the African carer who moves in with them. It deals with subjects such as immigration and ageing – often neglected in contemporary Irish literature – in a very nuanced way and really speaks to the here and now, especially to a generation of people faced with the prospect of caring for ageing parents.
You have two more titles planned for this year... To
celebrate the centenary of James Joyce’s Dubliners, we’re publishing Dubliners 100. It was the idea of Thomas Morris at The Stinging Fly, a brilliant Irish literary journal, who thought a great way of celebrating the book was by inviting contemporary Irish writers
to respond to each of Joyce’s stories with one of their own; it’ll include work by John Boyne, Belinda McKeon, Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride and Pat McCabe, with some exciting up-and-coming writers too. We’re also planning to publish neglected Irish books that are out of print and near the end of the year we’re putting out Charlotte Riddell’s A Struggle For Fame, first published in 1883, about a female Irish author who travels to London to make a new life. Not only is it a great read, but it boasts a sex scene – which has to be one of the earliest in Irish literature.
Daragh Reddin Flight by Oona Frawley is out now. Oona Frawley and Lisa Coen will take part in The Town We Love So Well (Sat, Irish Writers Centre, 1pm), a new series of talks exploring the ways in which writers have responded to Dublin city in their work. www.tramp.ie.
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icky Wilson claims he made TV talent shows credible after he took a gamble by starring on hit BBc show The Voice. The 36-year-old kaiser chiefs frontman even likes to think he can be credited for chris Martin’s recent guest appearances on the American version of the show. ‘This is me being a big head here, so i need to be careful, but when it was announced that chris Martin was doing the American one... i’d like to think that it came into his head when he was offered it that it was maybe something that we’re allowed to do,’ he told Guilty Pleasures. ‘i was probably the first alternative musician to judge on a reality show and i think it was a brave step to do that but i see it as a step in the door.’ Although he believes The Voice concept could eventually become a platform for finding the next coldplay or kaiser chiefs, Wilson is unsure whether guitar bands would
by SEAMUS DUFF want to tone it down for the telly. ‘i don’t think the world is ready for that yet because i don’t think any bands would go on it yet,’ he said. ‘you can’t jump in there with loads of guitars and be swigging beer from plastic cups on primetime TV like we do on stage but i think we can get our foot in the door. ‘But we are going to have to open it very gently.’ Meanwhile, the Us incarnation of The Voice was given another credibility boost as it was announced last week that Gwen stefani would replace christina Aguilera as a coach while she takes time off to have her second child. Pharrell Williams has also joined the panel, replacing ceelo Green, and will sit in judgment alongside Maroon 5’s Adam levine and country singer Blake shelton.
Minnie’s banging on about her body
Minnie Driver is fighting back against Twitter trolls by baring all for a photo shoot – and declaring: ‘I’ve got a banging body.’ After quitting the site over ‘mean comments’ about her bikini body on the beach two weeks ago, she posed naked for Allure magazine and
was back online yesterday with a message for her haters. The 44-year-old About A Boy star said of the shoot: ‘I never could have done this when I was 25. All I saw were the flaws. I still see flaws but I see what’s great more – I’ve got a banging body.’
Old tricks: Katy Perry looks her glamorous best as she shows off her hour-glass figure – so you may be surprised to learn that she and this sagging-boobed granny are one and the same person. The 29-yearold – looking sizzling in stripes as she met fans in LA – transforms herself into a series of bad party entertainers in the video for her track Birthday Pictures: sPread/Wenn
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US Vogue is giving star photographer Terry Richardson the cold shoulder following a model’s claim he offered her a shoot in return for sex. The magazine told Us Weekly it had not worked with the 48-year-old since 2010 and had ‘no plans’ to do so. It comes after Emma Appleton shared a screenshot of a Facebook message allegedly from Richardson that read: ‘If I can f*** you I will book you in NY for a shoot for Vogue.’ The snapper’s PR dismissed it as a fake.
Dornan: Underwear model tag won’t fade Fifty Shades Of Grey star Jamie Dornan is worried about the fanfare surrounding his role in the film adaptation of the saucy book. ‘I think I could lose my mind,’ the 32year-old Irishman fretted. ‘The whole thing’s ridiculous. It’s just all a bit silly the way it works.’ The Belfast hunk’s stardom is a world away from his days modelling Calvin Klein. The father of one is also peeved he will never shake his undies tag. ‘I think I’ve done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein. But that tag – underwear model – I just can’t get rid of it. And it’s such a bizarre, specific thing – underwear. ‘It’s like I never modelled clothes,’ he told The Guardian. However, Dornan said he was free to choose his roles: ‘Right now, I don’t need to work if there’s nothing that I want to do. I’ve done three jobs back to back. Let’s see how they are received. ‘If there’s nothing I want to do, I’ll just play golf and change nappies.’
My old Friends won’t even come to dinner Courteney Cox has revealed there’s little chance of a Friends reunion because she struggles to get her old cast mates to come round for dinner. The actress said Lisa Kudrow, 50, and Jennifer Aniston, 45, are easy enough to track down but it’s harder to get hold of Matthew Perry, 44, Matt
LeBlanc, 46, and David Schwimmer, 47. ‘I’ve been trying to put together a cast dinner for ten years,’ the 49-year-old told US chat show host David Letterman. ‘It doesn’t happen.’ She added she is sick of being asked about reviving Friends. The final episode drew 52.5million US viewers in 2004.
LiLo makes date with Alan Lindsay Lohan is to appear on Alan Carr’s Channel 4 chat show on Friday after denying she’s back on the booze and dating a married man. The actress may be looking to set the record straight over claims by Kode magazine that she ‘sipped on vodka’ while telling all about the fling. She has insisted the mag’s journalist could not have seen any drinking because the interview was
conducted by email. ‘We have no comprehension why a journalist would fabricate this content,’ her spokesman said. Kode’s Troy Watson insisted he had ‘sworn testimonies’ that backed up the story. Lohan, 27, revealed this week that she suffered a miscarriage last summer. Kode claims she said of the ‘love affair’: ‘Oh, this guy I’m seeing sent me a jet because he wants to see me. But he’s married with kids.’
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know he’s had a bad first season, but I can’t believe Manchester United have sacked manager David Moyes (Metro Herald, Tues). It’s yet another example of football clubs being run like businesses, bowing to shareholder pressure. If they were that quick with Alex Ferguson, they probably would never have achieved the success they’ve had over the past 20 years. Ryan ■ It’s all too easy to blame the managers but it’s the overpaid footballers who actually go out on to the field to play. Jan ■ Drivers at fault again? when do pedestrians obey the rules of the road? The near crashes I had on bike and in my car thanks to people
crossing regardless of traffic and lights. Maybe Aidan Reed should try enforcing before dismissing it as the solution. Vehicle User ■ Regarding the unrest in Ukraine, why does nato still exist? It was set up after world war II supposedly to counter the Soviet bloc, so why didn’t it disband in 1990 when the Soviet Union collapsed? In reality, it is a military back-up for the west’s neo-liberal policies and, with members bordering Russia, Moscow has basically said ‘enough is enough’. who can blame them? nato is not about helping civilians but is simply a vast fighting force that will use its might to safeguard business interests. Colin
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‘Acting lessons’ claims denied by Pistorius’ family THE family of Oscar Pistorius have denied reports he took acting lessons ahead of his testimony in the trial of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. In a statement, the South African athlete’s family said claims he had been coached for his emotional performance were ‘devoid of the truth’. During seven days of testimony the Paralympian at times broke down and vomited when evidence from the post-mortem was presented in court. He denies intentionally killing Ms Steenkamp early on Valentine’s Day last year. He says he fired four shots through a locked toilet door, believing there was a burglar inside. But prosecutors claim the 29-yearold model and law graduate was
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Defendant in gang trial is shot dead in front of jury by gEnE jOHnSOn
A US MARSHALL has shot dead a defendant in a racketeering trial in the US state of Utah. Siale Angilau, 25, was shot several times as he rushed at a witness in Salt Lake City’s newly-opened federal courthouse, as stunned jurors, lawyers and courtroom watchers looked on. Angilau was one of 17 people named in a 2010 indictment accusing gang members of assault, conspiracy, robbery and weapons offences. The unidentified witness, who was unhurt, had been testifying about gang initiation when Angilau charged him, wielding a pen, said Perry Cardwell, who was in the courtroom. Cardwell was there to support his mother, Sandra Keyser, who was punched during a hold-up in 2002. Last year, a former police officer who told friends he was dying of cancer was killed by law enforcement officers after he sprayed bullets into a federal courthouse in West Virginia. In 2012, a man killed himself at a federal courthouse in Alabama, and in 2010,
Deportation for Briton with Buddha arm tattoo
a man started shooting in the lobby of the Las Vegas federal courthouse, killing a court security officer and wounding a deputy US marshall. The gunman was killed in a Angilau: Shot shootout. It’s unclear whether the US Marshalls Service, which provides security for judges and federal courthouses, had any concerns about security in Angilau’s case. Prosecutors say Angilau, also known by his street name ‘C-Down’, was a member of the Tongan Crips, a group of men of mostly Tongan descent aligned with a larger Crip culture in the western United States. The last defendant in the case to stand trial, Angilau was accused of robbing convenience stores and assaulting clerks in Salt Lake City on five occasions from 2002 to 2007. Judge Tena Campbell declared a mistrial after the shooting.
A BRITISH tourist is to be deported from Sri Lanka because of a tattoo of Buddha on her arm. Sri Lankan police said Naomi Michelle Coleman, 37, was arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo, after she arrived from India. A police spokesman said she was arrested for ‘hurting others’ religious feelings’ after the tattoo
‘Piles of bodies’ after ethnic killings in South Sudan A UN official in South Sudan says he saw ‘piles and piles’ of bodies after rebels belonging to one ethnic group slaughtered members of other groups in a remote town. Toby Lanzer, who is deputy special representative and development and humanitarian coordinator in the region, said that the killings are ‘quite possibly a gamechanger’ for a conflict that has been raging since mid-December. UN human rights investigators said that hundreds of civilians were killed last week because of their ethnicity, after rebel forces seized Bentiu, the capital of Unity state. Mr Lanzer said thousands are now streaming to the UN base in Bentiu because many believe more violence is coming. The base now holds 25,000 people, but has very little water and one toilet per 350 people.
of a Buddha seated on a lotus flower was seen on her right arm. Buddhism is the religion of the country’s majority ethnic Sinhalese and Buddhist tattoos are seen as culturally insensitive. R&B star Akon was refused a Sri Lankan visa in 2010 after his video for Sexy Chick, featuring a pool party in front of a Buddha statue, caused protests in the nation.
deliberately killed during a row. South African columnist Jani Allan wrote in an open letter to Pistorius she had heard he had taken acting lessons ‘from a reliable source’. ‘Oscar, you are the latest in a long line of faux heroes. Like so many who preceded you, you have betrayed your people and disappointed your fans,’ she wrote. In a statement on Pistorius’ website, spokeswoman Anneliese Burgess said Ms Allan had never met Pistorius and that any knowledge she had of him was ‘fictitious’. If convicted the 27-year-old could face life in jail. If acquitted he could face a charge of culpable homicide. There are no juries in South Africa and a judge and two assessors decide the verdict. The trial resumes on May 5.
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Actor accuses three more of sex abuses
AMERicA: An actor who has accused X-Men director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him as a teenager is now suing three more industry heavyweights. Michael Egan III, 31, claims Fox TV executive Garth Ancier, theatre producer Gary Goddard and former Disney executive David A Neuman were part of a ‘sex ring’ in Hollywood in the late 1990s. Singer said the claims were ‘without merit’.
digest Deneuve to sell €4m property as tax bites
FRAncE: Catherine Deneuve has starred in more than 100 films – but she’s still feeling the pinch, it seems. The actress is selling her countryside home for €3.9million, only months after the top rate of income tax in France became 75 per cent. The 70year-old’s property in Guainville boasts a pool, a home cinema and even a working farm. The Last Metro actress has criticised high earners who try to avoid paying their taxes.
SOuTH KOREA: Rescuers carry the body of a victim recovered from the capsized ferry to an ambulance. Yesterday’s death toll from the disaster climbed to 113 with more than 190 still missing Picture: aP
Mayor reins in ban on carriages in park
AMERicA: Horse-drawn carriages will carry on taking tourists through New York’s Central Park – for now, at least – after actor Liam Neeson joined a campaign to stop them being banned. They may stay until the end of the year after mayor Bill de Blasio delayed acting on a campaign pledge. He says using the horses in the busy city is cruel but critics claim they are a romantic symbol of the Big Apple.
Pay your taxes and win a Lamborghini
gREEcE: Repossessed Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches are being given away in a raffle by the taxman. Honest taxpayers, who declare their income by producing receipts, are entered into a weekly draw. Any winner who cannot afford the running costs is allowed to sell the vehicle. ‘It is better to give the cars to the citizens than to let them rust,’ said finance minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
and finally... VATicAn ciTY: Pope Francis has blessed a consignment of Czech lager Pilsner Urquell. His predecessor Leo XIII ordered it on his doctor’s advice in 1903. Brewer Vaclav Berka said the Pope ‘drinks the same tasting beer’.
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Kelis cooks up a soulful storm Musical chameleon Kelis is back with a rootsier style that brings attention to her love of food, writes Amy Dawson
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ho do you think of when you think of Kelis? Is it the scorned woman with rainbow hair, screeching ‘I hATE YoU So MUCh RIGhT NoW!’ in 1999 hit Caught out There? Is it the kitschly sexy star jiggling away in an old-school diner in 2003’s Milkshake? The Calvin harriscollaborating rave pop queen? Today, the harlem-born singer sits with a pot of tea in east London, wearing tartan slacks and a powder-blue polo neck with a gold chain over the top. It’s very vintage, granny chic – that’s if your granny had the regal poise of Cleopatra, with a mermaid’s cascade of curly hair over one shoulder.
Made with sought-after indie producer Dave Sitek of TV on The Radio, Kelis Rogers’s sixth album, Food, marks a shift into a newly rootsy, warm and soulful style – and sees her signed to British alternative label Ninja Tune, famous for leftfield hip-hop and electronica. So who is the real Kelis? ‘I don’t know how to create a body of work that represents every part of me,’ she says. ‘I’m a fully fledged living creature. And one day we’ll have a bigger picture than we had when we started but the music isn’t me – it’s just a representation of a part of me.’ one thing that Rogers is, is a serious foodie. She trained as a Cordon Bleu chef in the late noughties after a stressful label battle left her exhausted by the music industry. She’s recorded a pilot Cooking Channel show, Saucy And Sweet, in the US, is about to release her own range of condiments and has started appearing at festivals with her own gourmet street food truck.
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With tracks on the new album called Jerk Ribs, Friday Fish Fry and Cobbler, it’s clear food and music combine to form nourishment – both physical and mental – in Rogers’s world view. ‘I just love the idea that both are such an expression of care and love, and that we combine them at parties, weddings, birthdays… the times that really matter,’ she says. Food was recorded at Sitek’s house, just down the road from Rogers in LA, and it sounds like a bustling, arty, foodie commune – with Rogers cooking ribs for everyone or Brazilian band CSS popping out of the kitchen with some home-made enchiladas. ‘We had a real musical understanding from the beginning,’ Rogers says of Sitek,
“i wasn’t brought up to apologise for myself” who has worked with the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Foals, ‘and we were able to just cook and eat and record and listen – and do all those things simultaneously.’ From her early partnerships with The Neptunes, back when they were making beats that seemed to have come from outer space, through her work with mega hitmakers such as will.i.am and Diplo, Rogers has always chosen her accomplices cannily. But it’s possible to criticise her for seeming to morph herself to suit whoever she happens to be working with at any one
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time, without having her own unique, core sound. Not that this bothers her. ‘I can never predict what I’m going to sound like, it is what it is,’ she says. ‘The irony of it is that I used to joke with one of my best friends that the last time I was touring, I was just dripping with sweat and exhausted, so the next time I would make it so I could just sit down on a stool and sing. That was in jest – but it turns out I did make that kind of record.’
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eR public image has been somewhat volatile – there was a strange incident in 2007 when she was arrested for screaming at undercover policewomen posing as prostitutes in Miami. The breakdown of her marriage to rapper Nas, with whom she has a four-year-old son, Knight, was also acrimonious and public, although they seem to be on OK terms now. On this album, though, she comes across as ultra-content and ‘centred’ – if not without natural sadness and regrets. And she has a self-assurance that’s enviable, especially in an age where most girls seem tortured by a sense of inadequacy. ‘My parents are absolutely the core of my self-confidence,’ she says. ‘They always made us feel beautiful for who we were as human beings, as opposed to what other people might perceive of as “beauty”. I wasn’t brought up to apologise for myself.’ Knight has been on tour with Rogers several times and even appears on a few tracks on Food. Does he realise his mum is a giant music star?
Recipe for success: Kelis’s new album, Food, draws on the singer’s Cordon Bleutraining
‘I think he thinks I’m a giant, full stop!’ she guffaws. ‘I also think he believes that everyone’s mom puts on sequins and
SwEET MuSic sTArs WHo MoonlIGHT In THE KITCHEn When Dolly Parton isn’t working her nine to five, she’s cooking. The country singer’s recipe book, Dolly’s Dixie Fixin’s, is filled with southern delights including Hello Dolly Bars, which have so much sugar in them, your teeth hurt just looking at the pictures. Coolio (right) has created a Gangsta’s Paradise in his kitchen and has published his own Ghetto Gourmet recipe book for all the ‘kitchen pimps’ out there. Lady Gaga also reckons herself a bit of a chef. In an interesting segment of the Alan Carr show she proved she can whip up a chicken Milanese good enough to eat, not just to wear.
Emma Bunton’s husband and former Damage frontman Jade Jones (bottom left with Bunton) is, like Kelis, a fully trained chef who has worked in top-notch places including Mayfair favourite Claridges. Georgia Salmon
feathers for work – he doesn’t know any different.’ When she’s not dressed up in full-on carnival regalia, Rogers’s hobbies seem to be a little more prosaic. ‘I like to sew, to make things with my hands. Right now I’ve been doing a bit of electrical work.’ She giggles. ‘Well, I made a chandelier! I’m always thinking that I’m fixing something or improving something, it’s such a gratification. Knowing I can think something up and make it happen… usually, things are not that complicated.’ Rogers hasn’t seen the leaning tower of Pisa CD rack I once tried to make but I like her style. Clearly she’s a woman who knows how to get things done, in more ways than one.
Food is out on Ninja Tune now. www.iamkelis.com. Kelis plays this year’s Sea Sessions festival which takes place in Bundoran from Jun 27 to Jun 29 and also features performances from The Dandy Warhols, The Strypes and Beardyman. www.seasessions.com
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anadian director Ted Kotcheff’s back catalogue boasts First Blood (the first Rambo film) and the black comedy Weekend at Bernie’s. But he always regarded his 1971 film, Wake in Fright, set in the australian outback, as one of his best, even though it was originally considered a flop. Lost for 25 years, the print was rediscovered in the early 2000s and, after painstaking reconstruction, Wake in Fright is now being celebrated as a cult classic. it tells the story of teacher John Grant (Gary Bond), who is forced to work for a stint in an outback township and gets stranded over Christmas in a mining town known to the locals as The Yabba. His feeling of being intellectually superior to the hard-drinking locals catapults him into a nauseating spiral of self-destruction. ‘People thought i was attacking the australian male and i said no, what you have to understand is that it’s all men – in many ways it’s about me,’ says Kotcheff. ‘John Grant is a sensitive,
Ted kotcheff’s lost classic Wake In Fright has been reissued. ‘It’s about all men,’ he tells Anthony Gibson
educated man who succumbs to the dark side of his own nature. He does things he would never have dreamed of to prove his virility. Education and civilisation are a very thin defence against the yahoo in each one of us. We are all capable of things that are morally wrong.’ The film notoriously includes distressing real footage of kangaroos being slaughtered during a night-time hunt. Kotcheff, who wanted to graphically illustrate Grant’s utter plunge into savagery, had been told how hundreds of the animals were being killed in hunts every night, to be shipped to the US as pet food. ‘i persuaded two hunters to allow me to put my camera on top of their truck,’ he says. ‘Most of it was so horrendous; i used the least objectionable stuff. The only comfort i had out of it was when the RSPCa in australia told me my film and their efforts led to the
government banning the killing of kangaroos for american pet food.’ Wake in Fright premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d’Or. ‘The French loved it but France was the only country where it succeeded,’ says Kotcheff. ‘in america it got superb reviews but the distributors did not believe in it at all. They felt no one would come and see it.’ it was a different story with 1982’s First Blood. ‘The foreign distributor went crazy,’ says Kotcheff. ‘i remember the producers telling me three or four guys from Japan were waving cheques in their faces. i have only made films that i feel deeply about and i thought it was appalling the way america treated its veterans. Every US veteran organisation phoned me and thanked me for making that film.’ Kotcheff’s current project is a film about King Boris iii of Bulgaria. ‘My parents are Bulgarian and,
Five films to see at the cinema
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The Raid 2 The original of this all-killer-no-filler Indonesian martial arts actioner became such a hit on DVD, its sequel has smashed into the multiplexes. It’s your classic herodispatches-oodles-of-henchmen set-up, where plot is secondary to the bone-crunching fights.
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We Are The Best! A punk girl band of 13-year-old misfits battle sexism, PE teachers and parents in this adorable, infectiously energetic, Swedish coming-of-ager from the director of Together. Locke Tom Hardy (left) drives down a motorway. Err – that’s it. Yet it makes for surprisingly riveting drama in this one-man movie about a construction manager whose life is zooming towards meltdown. Calvary Brendan Gleeson (right) is on top form as a Sligo priest with a troubling flock in this black comedy/ murder-mystery that reteams him with the director of The Guard. Under The Skin Scarlett Johansson puts in her best turn since Lost In Translation as a sexy, man-eating alien in this mesmeric, unforgettably stylish oddity from the creator of Sexy Beast.
Looking ahead THE WInD RISES
A celebration of the beauty of flight from the ‘Walt Disney of Japan’ Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away). Supposedly his final film. Again. Out May 9.
Masterpiece: Donald Pleasance (left) and Gary Bond star in Wake In Fright during World War ii, Boris was on the German side but not one Bulgarian Jew died,’ he says. ‘it was a masterpiece of lying, procrastination, dodging and
cheating. There’s a great untold story about this amazing man.’
Wake In Fright is out now in Eureka Entertainment’s Masters Of Cinema series in a DVD and Blu-ray edition.
bOOk nOw CaSTLePaLooZa Welsh indie music hero Gruff Rhys has been announced as one of the headliners for this year’s Castlepalooza, the carefully curated, three-day music festival that will be rolling into Charleville Castle outside Tullamore this August bank holiday. Rhys will be showcasing tracks from his American Interiors project, a multi-disciplinary affair that includes an album, app and documentary in which the Super Furry Animal frontman travels through the US tracing the footsteps of a distant ancestor. Rhys will be joined by Gilles Peterson, Andrew Weatherall, Dan Croll and a host of homegrown talent – with many more acts still to be announced. As ever, the festival remains one of the summer’s most competitively priced, with a three-day ticket, including camping, costing €64. www.castlepalooza.com
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This insightful documentary tells the stories of Laura, Maeve (above) and Joe, three people with Down syndrome and their families, as they deal with daily struggles, looking for jobs, furthering themselves through education, while striving for greater independence. Down syndrome is a chromosomal anomaly caused by an error in cell division. This film shows that each person with Down syndrome has their own unique personality, strengths and weaknesses, just like everyone else.
Nadia goes to HoLLywood 3E, 9PM Fly-on-the-wall series following model Nadia Forde as she moves to Hollywood to pursue her music career. In this first episode Nadia is overwhelmed as she adjusts to life in LA, while recording her first single at Paramount and getting ready for her first video. Far away from home she reflects on her childhood and the lack of parental stability she had growing up.
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This is a second chance to catch this special edition of the comedy show broadcast to mark its 100th episode, which features former stars such as Dermot Whelan, Neil Delamere, the Rubberbandits, the Viper, Slave Baby, Handy Sandie and Georgia Salpa. With Kevin McGahern, Bernard O’Shea and Jennifer Maguire.
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Channel 4, 10.30pm Marcella (Roisin Conaty) is having one of those days that kicks off in bed with a random bloke and the relics of last night’s fried chicken. No wonder she feels like a fresh start… Fresh and funny, Marcella deserves a full series featuring her sleazy misadventures. Which include Brian Harvey and a baked potato.
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There’s not much of the satirical punch of James Thurber’s short story left in this subdued comedy directed by and starring Ben Stiller (below) – but amid the feelgood message there’s a touching lament for what’s being lost in the digital world and lovely cinematography.
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Actor Jimi Mistry is no stranger to flashing the flesh, having done his time in slashed-to-the-waist outfits on Strictly Come Dancing. So when a hen night stripper fails to show at the Bistro, Leanne (Jane Danson) knows the man for the job and before you can say ‘mousse au chocolat’, personal trainer Kal has whipped off his tracksuit and is turning himself into a dessert trolley. In other news, Steve tells Tina he’ll keep stumm about her fling with Peter.
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Plucky Laotian boy Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe) struggles against his pariah status as a ‘cursed’ twin who, according to custom, should have been killed at birth. His family is thrown into increasing dire straits in Kim Mordaunt’s drama, Australia’s entry for this year’s foreign language Oscar.
Judith is distraught when she discovers that the stalking has started up again, while Niamh does everything she can to get Michael fired. KerriAnn is hurt when she overhears Decco revealing his true intentions to Michael. Has she never heard the eavesdroppers adage? Elsewhere Yvonne presses Dan to admit his feelings.
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In the final episode in the series, Neven is in Cleaver East Restaurant which chef Oliver Dunne opened in the Clarence Hotel last year. Oliver takes on braised belly of pork and Neven’s own recipes include the ultimate beef burger with crispy potato wedges, followed by toasted coconut and Malibu parfit with pineapple carpaccio and lime meringue.
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One of those pop culture touchstones you really have to notch up – not that it’s a chore to sit through this stirring historical blockbuster. Nominated for ten Oscars, it’s directed by and stars Mel Gibson (above) as William Wallace, the 13th-century Scottish hero who led a rebellion against the English. Academics were infuriated by it but that won’t dent most people’s enjoyment of the roaring battles – more than compensation for the soppy love scenes between Gibson’s bit of rough and Sophie Marceau’s French princess.
Crazy, stupid, Love Romcom starring Steve Carell as Cal, a hapless husband whose seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when he discovers his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) has cheated on him and wants a divorce. Soon Cal is bar-hopping as the wingman of handsome playboy Jacob (Ryan Gosling). A bit of silly nonsense with a Carrell and Gosling duo making you laugh until you cry.
Ricky Gervais makes a welcome return as man-child Derek (above), the sensitive heart of this charming and underrated care-home sitcom that hovers precariously on the invisible line between tears and laughter. With the help of new assistant Vicky, Derek is getting to grips with the joys of social media and is delighted his dad has become the home’s latest resident. But a shocking turn of events involving handyman/best mate Dougie (Karl Pilkington) threatens to turn his gentle world upside down.
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night gets a US high school makeover in this early Channing Tatum romcom. Troubled star Amanda Bynes is adorable footy-mad Viola, who (unconvincingly) disguises herself as her twin brother to try out for his allboys team. Vinnie Jones plays the shouty coach and Tatum her often shirtless room-mate.
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It’s a story that seems to emerge from the US at horrifying regular intervals: a gunman on the rampage. This one tracks in forensic detail the story of Jared Lee Loughner, who shot US Representative Gabrielle Giffords and killed six bystanders in Tucson, Arizona in January 2011.
Gym bunny Lloyd likes showing off his cleavage and wants partner Holly to do the same. But she’s got body image issues and still sees herself as the fat girl she used to be… Lisa Snowdon hosts this makeover show, which gives a bloke cash to splash on dressing up his girlfriend. Amusingly, wrong.
Scarlett Johansson plays muse to a straggle-haired Colin Firth in this intelligent, erotically dappled costume drama. She’s Griet, a shy young servant in the household of Dutch painter Vermeer (Firth), while butcher’s son Cillian Murphy has a painful crush on her. A multi-Bafta-nominated adaptation of Tracy Chevalier’s bestseller.
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BBC2, 8pm What price an island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides? This guided tour of the tricks of the estate agency trade bounces merrily from one end of the price scale to the other without a hint of irony. Oh for a pin to prick pompous Gary’s balloon as he sells a plush pad in France. With the Copa del Rey in the bag, Real Madrid won’t be short of confidence as they take on Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final. Bayern’s form has stumbled of late, a result of wrapping up the German league title ridiculously early. So Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale (above) and co should be full of hope – though home crowd pessimists will know that Bayern are a Real bogey team, having won four of five previous European ties. Bill O’Herlihy presents.
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Three very busy days in the desert COACHELLA: Ross McDonagh heads into the Californian desert for the annual musical shindig
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t is with a heavy heart I read Oxegen is to be cancelled… but fret not, there is a suitable replacement. It’s a bit further to get to, and the tickets are a little bit more expensive – they start at $375 (€272) for a three-day pass, $799 (€579) for a three-day VIP pass, and go right up to $6,500 for a luxury air-conditioned safari tent with queen-size beds, linens, tables and flooring… but it is so worth it. the general admission I mean. the Coachella Music Festival is California’s (better) answer to a weekend in Co Kildare.
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4.40pm – HAIM: Heard great things about these girls, they’ll be my first act of the weekend!… or would have been had I not got here an hour late. 5.25pm – Bastille: Lead singer is wearing a Jurassic Park t-shirt, top marks already. this is the dude who insists on playing the best drum bits and not letting the drummer do anything. they cover Rhythm Is A Dancer, and I am bummed to discover I’m the only one who knows all the words. Stupid kids. 6.25pm – Ellie Goulding: Love this gal, but she’s a bit lost on the main stage. Gives it socks though, helping out with the drumming and all like Bastille guy. Great hair. Can’t believe her dad dumped her. Surely he should be crawling back by now? 7pm – Shlohmo: Don’t know this guy, came recommended. Bit slow for my taste, lives up to name. Onwards. 7.30pm – Glitch Mob: Wow. Just wow. Fecking awesome. 9.15pm – Bryan Ferry: Been showing up for the start of shows and having to fight my way to a good spot, so decide to hit the Mojave tent well ahead of time to grab a good spot.
turns out to be unnecessary, mostly oldies here, much easier to squeeze through. Ferry himself shows no sign of his age, bopping around the stage to Love Is the Drug like a young one. How does he whistle into the mic without laughing? PS, I am in love with his drummer, an Amazonian queen smashing the drums with all the enthusiasm of a kid at Christmas.
8.25pm – Solange: Sings just as good and dare I say a little sweeter than her big sister Beyoncé, who guest appeared last week. Doesn’t show up this week. tells the crowd to just ‘be in the moment’ for her last song, and ‘put away those phones’, prompting a dirty look from my off the friend – I haven’t been of Coachella app all day trying to fineitinerary. tune my itinerary
10.05pm – Zedd: It is mental in there, I can’t get in.
8.45pm – Media 8.4 Tent: I run into two Te of the guys from FM’s Zoo Spin FM’ crew, who are cre show recording the sho live. Nice gig. li
11.05pm – Outkast: It’s all going well until they make the schoolboy error of playing Hey Ya halfway through – half the crowd then disperses like tear gas has been fired into it.
8.50pm – Pixies: 8. Feck. Missed these.
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6.30pm – Capital Cities: Safe And Sound was one of my favourite songs of the year. Cannot wait to hear these guys. Pity I got here a half hour late. Straight to MGMt. MGMt MGMT: 7pm – M Awesome, Aw including a ten-minute long vversion of Kids.
9.05pm – Sleigh Bells: I hadn’t a clue who these where, was convinced by a friend to check ’em out… and they rocked. Best surprise of the weekend. 9.35pm – Queens Of The Stone Age:
the first big dilemma of the weekend: Queens Of the Stone Age are playing at the same time as Empire Of the Sun. I decide to do half of each, and when the Queens play the best song in the world, No One Knows, early in the set, I take it as a sign.
9.55pm – Empire Of The Sun:
Goddammit. It’s packed in here, can’t get near it. Gotta watch the tail end of a pretty awesome show from the rear, get chatting to a lovely couple from San Diego who animatedly describe the ingredients of the complex-sounding joint they have constructed.
7.50pm – 7. Lorde: I cannot get anywhere near an the stage, it is packed. Lorde (above right) sounds pretty good from back here though. Imagine having all those people come to I run into two of the see you when you guys from Spin FM’s were 17.
11.30pm – Muse: I am missing the well-reviewed Pet Shop Boys and Skrillex (who I’ll later learn Beyoncé was rocking out to) but Muse are the best band in the world, and neither my having seen them around 15 times before, nor warnings that Matt Bellamy has laryngitis, will put me off. But when they start ten minutes late, finish ten minutes early, fill the set with filler riffs instead of actual songs and Matt barely sings a word, I admit I was a little disappointed. He even made us sing happy birthday to his missus Kate Hudson.
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2.50pm – Courtney Barnett: I really should have made early starts all weekend. Loads of room to sit and chill out, this chick is pretty good. 3pm – Chance The Rapper: App alert to say he won’t be playing, he’s sick. Did he catch s**thead-itis from Justin Bieber, who guest appeared with him last week? 3.35pm – Hunterleggitt: Which one is Hunterleggit? Are they all Hunterleggit? there’s about 20 people crammed on to the stage, but most of them are just dousing the crowd with giant water guns. 4.05pm – The 1975:
Midday flake-out on the grass, can’t remember what these guys were like.
Unmemorable, I guess.
4.45pm – Rudimental: ‘Anyone here from the UK?’ they ask. threequarters of the crowd scream. I don’t think they heard the question. 6.30pm – Neutral Milk Hotel: Ugh, noisy. Punk? Meh. Onwards. 7.25pm – Calvin Harris: I am a bit sceptical that a lone DJ can fill the main stage, but my scepticism is trampled by thronging crowds. Pretty impressive. 8.15pm – Lana Del Rey: Packed again, despite Lana (pictured below) singing like she’s too lazy to open her mouth. She does generate a gorgeous haunting sound out in the open though. 8.50pm – Beck: Pumping. ‘He’s a scientologist, you know,’ someone tells me. I did not. 10.20pm – Arcade Fire: Performance of the weekend, even if they didn’t play Intervention. took Coachella‘s perennial ‘I hope Daft Punk appear’ gag one step further by introducing their special guest right at the start: Daft Punk. Or rather, two guys dressed as Daft Punk. Crowd went wild, before realising they were taking the mick.
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10.30pm – Pharrell Williams: Lots of people looking Zoo crew, who are forward to this – 8.15pm – Fatboy recording the show Pharrell (pictured Slim: Had been left) brought a advised by people in live. Nice gig s**tload of guests the know to avoid, last week, including describing him as ‘the Snoop Dogg and Gwen antithesis of cool’ and ‘like a Stefani. Mixes it up for Week 2 dancing dad’ – but you know what? by unveiling Usher, Jay Z and Busta He was pretty good. Probably the Rhymes. He’s knocking it out of the only place you’ll hear the Prodigy, park. Very hard to leave, but I have Marvin Gaye and Bing Crosby to get to Muse early for a good spot. sampled. He hasn’t done Happy yet but he’s probably not going to follow up 8.20pm – Foster The People: Not Shake Ya Ass, Lapdance and the gonna make it over, having too much rapey Blurred Lines with the fun at Fatboy Slim. Despicable Me 2 song. time to go.
Been through the desert on a horse with no name: This year’s Coachella was fun for everyone from hula girls to horse-men piCtures: splash/reuters
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don’t punch dogs,’ says pint-sized pooch supremo Cesar Millan of his controversial approach to training ill-behaved canines. ‘When a dog wants to kill something, I’m talking about when they’re in a high level of excitement, I give them a touch to snap them out of it. If the dog is level zero to five, you can redirect them using food, toys, sound, but when a dog is in that level five to ten of an aggressive mind, they don’t listen. the touch is to snap them out of it. I don’t hit dogs.’ that’s not the view Alan titchmarsh – of all people – took when Millan, 44, appeared on his daytime chat show 18 months ago. For the first time ever, titchmarsh deviated from his usual interview strategy – which runs the gamut from mild to wild sycophancy – and came over all Paxman. ‘You punched a dog in the throat!’ he exclaimed. to listen to titchmarsh, you’d think twinkly eyed Millan was running a manversus-dog fight club.
Walk this way: Cesar To The Rescue on TV
Tough-guy dog whisperer Cesar Millan has A-list fans – but Alan Titchmarsh is not among them. By Andrew Williams Was he surprised to receive such a negative reception, spurred on by a twitter campaign from hardline dog-training aficionados to have him hoiked off the show before his bum even hit the sofa? Why does Millan elicit this sort of response? ‘In any profession, you have people who agree with you and people who don’t. It’s just human nature,’ he says, perfunctorily. Judging by his latest show, Cesar to the Rescue, it looks like his training policies haven’t changed much. there are no throat jabs to be seen but when the dogs start sizing each other up, Millan does administer a swift ‘touch’ of his foot to their sides. I’m no dog expert, I don’t own one – who has the room? – but they didn’t seem that bothered. they give a look of mild surprise rather than rolling around yowling in agony. And for every critic, there seems to be a fan. titchmarsh is probably the only celeb Millan has failed to win over, as celebrity endorsements have been key in his rise to the top of the tV dog-training food chain. His shows are broadcast in 110 countries. ‘Just to have them say I worked with them was a big deal in America,’ he says, before listing clients including Will Smith, Vin diesel, nicolas Cage, Ridley Scott, oprah Winfrey, and Jennifer Aniston. If it wasn’t for his first celebrity client, Jada Pinkett, whom he met
Top dawg: Cesar Millan with Daddy before she married Will Smith, it’s unlikely he’d have achieved his success at all. Born in Culiacán in Mexico, Millan worked on his grandfather’s farm, looking after the dogs used to round up the cattle, before he came to the US as an illegal immigrant when he was 21.
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e says he survived on a dollar a day until he started getting odd jobs, eventually working in a dog-grooming parlour where he dazzled the owners with his talent for managing tricky pets. From there, he somehow ended up partying
with tupac Shakur, where he demonstrated his animal-handling skills. ‘Jada Pinkett was at the party, she said I should help her with her dogs and she paid for me to have english lessons,’ he says. ‘I couldn’t speak english at the time. People could see I could handle dogs but I wasn’t able to explain how I did it. that was one big break. Another was getting the right papers so I could work in the US legally.’ the profile-raising clients followed before he landed his first tV show 12 years ago – but it wasn’t all a walk in the park. ‘Hollywood is full of predators,’ he says. ‘If you don’t know contracts, they will own you.
HELp! THAT DOg is scARing ME Don’t pAnic, cesAr’s here What should you do if you’re confronted by an aggressive dog in a park? Cesar Millan explains… To say a dog is aggressive just because he is barking or moving towards you is a mistake. It doesn’t mean he will bite you. It just means he is being territorial. Don’t panic and stay calm. When you panic and scream, you feed the next step in their intentions. They tell you if you see a bear, don’t move, claim your personal space and don’t run and scream. If you make a sound, it has to be an assertive sound. It’s the same
principle. We’re talking about predators. Dogs are predators. They’re hunters. They have that instinct in them. Stay calm and walk away. Bears and dogs have a good sense of smell. The way to deter is not through eyes or ears but through scent. You can use pepper spray [Err… actually, no you can’t, Cesar, it’s illegal here in Ireland]. It stops them in their tracks. When I use the example of the bear, people are more comfortable but if I apply the same technique to a dog, people have a problem. But if you’re asking me how to deal with a dog when it’s chasing you, that example will make sense.
‘I learned by trial and error, I lost a lot of money. there are two schools – the classroom and life. Life teaches you the strongest way.’ Critics say his methods are oldfashioned. His show could be accused of the same thing. It follows the formulaic reality-show path of contrived set-up (concerned friends supposedly tip off Millan about their pals’ wayward pooches), a bit of unconvincing emotional jeopardy (the first episode features a young girl fake-crying and a threat that her dog might be put down) before everything is resolved happily. Millan’s patter seems a bit selfhelpish too. Apparently, if you feel confident so will your dog. But Millan doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. He wants to expand his 43-acre dog Psychology Centre outside Los Angeles into a ‘city where we will all follow the same rules’. Little dogs will have the same rules as big dogs, he says. ‘People think rottweilers need more discipline than little dogs – but it should be the same. We have a herding area because there are dogs in the city who are sheep herders but don’t have anything to herd so they go after skateboarders. ‘We have bike and hiking trails for people to exercise their dogs. We have a pool – lots of dogs enjoy the water. I’m building a city for people to come and learn.’
Cesar To The Rescue starts on Nat Geo Wild tonight at 8pm.
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DES BISHOP talks about his new RTÉ series Breaking China, in which he spends a year learning Mandarin in Beijing before performing his one-man stand-up show to a Chinese audience. By Daragh Reddin
I wasn’t sure if a show about China was going to fly but it’s gone beyond my wildest expectations. As a TV proposal, it’s been in the pipeline for more than six years. I initially proposed the idea quite soon after doing In The Name Of The Fada, a show in which I learned Irish in the Gaeltacht before doing stand-up ‘as Gaeilge’. Although the concept in both shows is similar, there’s a big difference between showing what Irish language culture is like to an Irish audience and showing what Chinese culture is like to a non-Chinese audience. I’d always been fascinated with China and when I broke up with my fiancée, not long after I finished filming In The Name Of The Fada, an entirely new life appeared before me. I’d already taken a few beginners classes in Mandarin in Dublin before I left for China. I couldn’t wait to roadtest my new vocabulary when I got there but I’d overestimated what I’d learned because nobody understood a word I said. I became really obsessed and focused on improving to the point where I didn’t want to be in front of the camera because it meant having to speak English. I studied so hard for that initial twomonth period, people were blown away by my progress. It was down to the fact I was obsessed. I now speak bad Chinese very confidently – I guess you could say I have very good broken Chinese. I’m told I have the pronunciation of a foreigner and that, combined with my grammar, is a source of amusement for native speakers.
I go in for very simple, punch-line-driven stuff and a bit of audience participation. It’s a lot to do with personality, rather than any great mastery of Chinese humour.
I stayed with a very middleBreaking the fourth (Great) Wall: Des Bishop takes to Chinese language and culture in his new show class host family in Beijing who were welcoming, but reserved, and it taught me a lot about responsibilities and etiquette in Chinese culture. They were very bemused at having a 37-year-old unmarried guy in their home, which is quite odd in China – that was the one area in which I really felt like a fish out of water. My biggest stand-up gig was a support act for a famous comedian in Shanghai playing a 20min set to about 800 people. Knowing the audience hadn’t a clue who I was and that they’d also paid a lot for tickets was quite a daunting experience – particularly as I’d only been learning Chinese for about 11 months. It didn’t help that, because there were government officials in the crowd, my material was censored only minutes before I went on. They cut seven minutes, so I ended up having to work in some really undeveloped jokes; as luck would have it, they really came to life on stage. It was simple stuff – me not being married; a routine about Chinese people fighting over a bill – but it worked.
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super sub O’gara out to claim starting spot by pAuL kEAnE If you had to put some of your hardearned cash on a Championship bet, you could do worse than back Eoghan o’Gara to start the summer in a dublin jersey. Strangely enough for a player of his explosive talent, that is not a position he has enjoyed before. a mixture of injury, suspension and form have all contributed to him earning the reputation of a powerful player who does his best work as an impact substitute. the big full-forward has worked hard at changing attitudes this season
though, and a sustained run of good form means he should start Sunday’s league final and, presumably, their first Championship match. ‘It’s the most game time I have got in a league since I started playing with dublin,’ said o’Gara. ‘It’s been down to injuries and suspension really. But I’m really enjoying my football and enjoying the amount of game time the manager has given me. ‘I am in a position now where hope-
fully I will be part of a league winning team and then, okay, there are more guys coming back for the summer and there’ll be competition for places, but it’s a nicer position to be in, to be playing well and not starting from scratch in the summer.’ a little like Kevin McManamon, o’Gara has been a victim of his own success. the more he has delivered as a substitute in
‘It’s the most game time I have got in the league’ games, the more he has pigeonholed himself as a player to be brought on when the attack needs a dart of energy. ‘Well there are probably 12 forwards there with realistic chances, that’s two for every position and it’s like that all over the park,’ noted o’Gara. ‘It’s frightening competition really. you really don’t know if you’ll be playing any day.’ Whatever happens on Sunday, o’Gara has played his part this season. he scored the two goals, as a sub, that rescued a dramatic draw against Mayo. and his three points in the semi-final helped turn a tenpoint deficit into a seven-point win over Cork. one of the blots on his and dublin’s copybook, however, is their six-point loss to derry, and Sunday is an opportunity for revenge. ‘they seem to have really got things right, it’s going to be a very difficult game,’ said o’Gara.
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Higgins joined Ding Junhui on the Crucible casualty list as the four-time world champion was bundled out by fellow Scot Alan McManus. A second successive first-round loss at the World Championship for Higgins came on the back of a misfiring performance, as he lost 10-7 to hand McManus, whose tartan trousers caught the eye, a shot at Ken Doherty (pictured) in the last 16. McManus said he ‘fell over the line’, but it was a victory the 1994 Masters champion toiled for and carries him into the second round for the first time since 2005. ‘Now I play my fellow old-stager, Ken, and I really look forward to it,’ McManus added.
Armstrong director gets ten-year ban cycLing Johan Bruyneel, Lance
Armstrong’s long-time team director, has been banned for ten years by the American Arbitration Association. Armstrong was given a life ban by the United States Anti-Doping Agency and stripped of all results dating from 1998 after USADA’s investigation into the United States Postal Service team uncovered widespread doping. Bruyneel, who worked with Armstrong at the US Postal and Discovery Channel teams, was widely implicated in USADA’s report, but took his case to a three-person arbitration panel in London last December and was banned until June 11, 2022.
Djokovic hoping to make Madrid In form: O’Gara has impressed as an impact sub for Dublin but hopes the game time he has earned will help him get a starting spot in the League final and the Championship piCture: SportSfile
Simmons sticks to same formula for Clontarf games IRELAND head coach Phil Simmons has ‘resisted the temptation’ to use next month’s two game One-Day International series against Sri Lanka as an opportunity to assess some of his fledging stars by naming a tried and tested panel for the fixtures at Clontarf, writes Ryan Bailey. With the World Cup less than 12 months away, the RSA Insurance Series gives Ireland the chance to begin their groundwork against a side who recently lifted the World Twenty20. Ireland failed to qualify for the group stages of that competition and despite criticism from some corners for the team selection and strategy in Bangladesh,
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Simmons is sticking with the same formula for the games on May 6 and 8. ‘We’ve resisted the temptation to make any changes, as the guys have been
magnificent over the past few years,’ Simmons said. ‘But it’s a reality that we still haven’t recorded a major victory here in Dublin. ‘What better way to break that duck than with a win over reigning world champions? That would be a great thankyou present to the Irish fans who have made our last two fixtures sell-outs.’ The bowling attack came under appraisal following the Dutch blitzkrieg in Sylhet and while Max Sorensen, left out for that game, is included, there is no place for Craig Young or Graeme McCarter in the 13man panel. John Mooney, recovering from a stress-related illness, is another absentee.
The form of the batsmen is encouraging for Simmons as Ed Joyce, captain William Porterfield and Paul Stirling have enjoyed early-season success across the water. The left-hander feels Ireland won’t get a better opportunity to topple a Full Member nation on home soil. ‘I’m convinced we have a real chance of beating Sri Lanka because it’s fair to say they won’t relish the conditions we’re likely to encounter in early May in Dublin,’ the 35year-old said. The islanders, meanwhile, are likely to arrive without a coach after Paul Farbrace yesterday quit to assume the role of Peter Moore’s assistant with England.
TEnnis Novak Djokovic is optimistic of being fit for the Madrid Masters in two weeks’ time after his wrist injury was found to be not as serious as first thought. The world number two (pictured) suffered the problem in training ahead of the Monte Carlo Masters. Djokovic fuelled concern with his comments, saying he was in pain on every shot and that he would not be able to play ‘for some time’. That prompted speculation he may not be fit for the Masters series events in Madrid or Rome. But later tests have allayed those fears, with Djokovic saying: ‘Fortunately, the situation with the injury is better than it first seemed.’
Dawson calls time gOLf Peter Dawson is to retire as chief executive of the R&A and secretary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews next year. Dawson will step down in September 2015 after 16 years leading the body which organises The Open and governs the sport worldwide in conjunction with the United States Golf Association.
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Atletico mADriD ........... 0 chelseA ............................. 0 by DAnny gRiffiTHs CHELSEA are just 90 minutes away from their second Champions League final in two years. But if the Blues score in next Wednesday’s second leg at Stamford Bridge, then an equaliser from the La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid would send them through on away goals. It was a costly night, though, as the Blues suffered a blow in the 18th minute when Petr Cech left the pitch with a dislocated shoulder. The goalkeeper landed awkwardly when Raul Garcia was pushed into him by David Luiz and he was swiftly replaced by Mark Schwarzer. Chelsea also lost John Terry ahead of Sunday’s Premier League crunch match at Liverpool after he limped off
MANChESTER CITy will discover the full extent of David Silva’s latest injury setback today. The Spaniard was carried off in Monday’s 3-1 win over West Brom, with City boss Manuel Pellegrini revealing he had suffered a recurrence of the ankle problem which had been dogging him in recent weeks. While the injury is not believed to be serious enough to rule Silva out for the rest of the season, he will have a full scan at the club today and is almost certain to miss City’s trip to Crystal Palace on Sunday. Any absence could prove costly for Pellegrini’s men, whose win over the Baggies pulled them to within six points of League leaders Liverpool with a game in hand. Such is Silva’s influence over the City side – particularly in the absence of the injured yaya Toure – his involvement is considered crucial to City’s hopes of overhauling Brendan Rodgers’ men. Defender Pablo Zabaleta, who headed the opening goal on Monday, said: ‘We know how important David Silva is for the team. he is the one who has everything. he simply makes us play better. hopefully, we’ll see with his ankle that it is not so bad. Fingers crossed David will be back soon.’ Meanwhile, relegation battlers West Brom face a similarly anxious wait to determine the fate of Liam Ridgewell, who limped off in the dying minutes with a knee injury.
Agony: City star Silva receives treatment
1 Champions League match played by Mark Schwarzer before he was required to replace Petr Cech with an ankle injury while Frank Lampard and John Obi Mikel were both booked and miss the return leg. Jose Mourinho – who accused West Ham of parking the bus and playing ‘19th-century football’ after a 0-0 draw in January – set out his stall from the start, employing those very tactics in a lacklustre encounter. His side were only too happy to sit back and soak up Atletico’s pressure and Los Colchoneros boss Diego Simeone, one of the names in the frame for the Manchester United job, was unable to find a way of breaking through a packed defence. The hosts were reduced to shooting from distance and Mario Suarez’s curling 25-yard effort was close. Schwarzer was rarely troubled with Chelsea target Diego Costa subdued in the Atletico attack.
Tangle: Lampard battles with Suarez picture: reuters
Foxes bank on Lloyd’s title clincher
LEICESTER sealed the Championship title thanks to Lloyd Dyer’s screamer at the Reebok Stadium. The Foxes, whose promotion was confirmed earlier this month, went to Bolton with the opportunity to sew up the title. But for over an hour it looked like they would be frustrated by Dougie
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30-yard effort. After the break, Leicester boss Nigel Pearson introduced Dyer and Chris Wood. And Dyer took just seven minutes to make an impact as his fierce shot flew past Bogdan, ensuring the Foxes took the title – and in some style – as the visitors moved four points away from the 100 mark.
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TEn MOnTHs Of TRAuMA Sept 1 – First defeat under Moyes as Daniel Sturridge gives United’s bitter rivals Liverpool victory at Anfield. Sept 22 – Hammered 4-1 at Manchester City. Sept 28 – United lose 2-1 at home to West Brom, the Baggies’ first win at Old Trafford in 35 years. Oct 19 – Concede lastminute equaliser against Southampton at home. Dec 4 – Moyes’ former club Everton end a 21-year wait for an away win at United. Dec 6 – Rio Ferdinand voices criticism of Moyes’ policy of leaving it late to name his starting XIs. Dec 7 – Yohan Cabaye gets the only goal as Newcastle win at Old Trafford for the first time since 1972. January 5 – Swansea win at Old Trafford for first time to send United out of the FA Cup at the third-round stage for only the second time in 30 years. Jan 7 – Capital One Cup semi-final, first leg at Sunderland sees a third straight loss for the first time since May 2001. Jan 19 – Nemanja Vidic is
sent off as United crash to defeat at Chelsea. Jan 22 – United beat Sunderland 2-1 in the Capital One Cup semi-final return but come off worst in a penalty shoot-out. Feb 1 – A brace from Charlie Adam earns Stoke their first win over United since 1984. Feb 7 – Vidic says he’ll quit at the end of the season. Feb 9 – Injury-time equaliser from Darren Bent (pictured) gives bottom club Fulham a 2-2 draw at the ‘Theatre of Dreams’, a result Moyes says is ‘as bad as it gets’. Feb 25 – It’s gruesome in Greece as the Red Devils lose 2-0 to Olympiakos in the Champions League. Mar 16 – Two Steven Gerrard penalties and a Luis Suarez strike earn Liverpool a 3-0 win at Old Trafford. Mar 25 – A 3-0 stroll gives Man City a derby double. Apr 9 – A 3-1 second-leg victory sees Bayern Munich end Moyes’ remaining hope of silverware as the Germans ease into the Champions League semi-finals. Apr 20 – Moyes’ return to Goodison Park is a nightmare as Everton triumph 2-0, a result which means United cannot qualify for next term’s Champions League. Apr 22 – Moyes is sacked.
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Axe finally drops on united’s ‘Chosen One’ Club confirms chop as Giggs takes the reins
Taking charge: Moyes talks with Giggs in training earlier this season PICTURE: ACTION IMAGES
by DAnIEL JOnEs DAVID MOYES’ short and painful reign as Manchester United manager was brought to an end yesterday morning. The man heralded as ‘the Chosen One’ after being hand-picked by his legendary predecessor Sir Alex Ferguson almost a year ago was relieved of his duties during a meeting with vice-chairman Ed Woodward at the club’s training complex. After news of his imminent departure was leaked out on Monday, Moyes slipped into Carrington early and was officially given his marching orders shortly after 8am. United confirmed the news soon after in a statement. ‘Manchester United has announced that David Moyes has left the club,’ it read. ‘The club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role.’ United then confirmed Ryan Giggs would take charge ‘until a permanent appointment can be made’. Ironically, it was the limp 2-0 defeat at Goodison Park on Sunday – their 11th loss of the Premier League season – that was the final nail in the coffin of the former Everton boss. Moyes’ departure came a year to the day since United won a record 20th title. They now sit seventh in the table, 23 points behind leaders Liverpool. Succeeding Ferguson, who won 13 league titles during his 27 years at the club, was always going to be difficult, but few expected Moyes to have done quite so badly. His list of unwanted records is as embarrassing as it is long. United are guaranteed to end the season with their worst points total in Premier League history, they have failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in almost two decades, while Moyes’ home record is the worst of any United boss since 1978 when Dave Sexton was in charge. The enormity of the task in hand seemed to W
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DaviD Moyes’ sacking saw Manchester United’s share price climbing sharply to its highest point since sir alex Ferguson’s retirement last May. shares on the New york stock exchange had slumped on
€0.65 rise in Utd share price on the NYSE following the sacking of Moyes Monday when reports started surfacing Moyes was to be axed. But the official confirmation of his departure was followed by a spike in share price up from $17.72 (€12.82) to $18.60 (€13.47) in the first two hours of trading. analysts believe United’s owners, the Concerns: Glazer Glazer family, had reached a point where they feared the team’s poor performances were threatening to harm the club’s finances. More than half the United shares on the Nyse are owned by american investment firm Baron Capital. overwhelm Moyes from day one. He upset some within the club by bringing in his own coaching staff, while the likes of Rene Meulensteen, Eric Steele, and Mike Phelan, who all played a crucial role last season, departed. A botched first transfer window as United boss got his reign off to a disappointing start and he simply never
recovered. The club now begin the search for a new leader and there will be no shortage of interest when it comes to seeking a successor for Moyes. But first Giggs will try to restore some passion and unity – starting at home to Norwich on Saturday – in a season tainted by rumours of dressing room disharmony.
football reacts to Moyes’ departure
‘It was for personal reasons, not professional reasons, Sir Alex got out. I still say if you look at the squad it was pretty good. They won the league by 11 points.’ United legend Bryan Robson dismisses claims David Moyes inherited a sub-par squad
Club’s share price rises quickly after boss is axed
‘Wish David Moyes all the very best. He’s a good man and a good manager, just not the right fit for United.’ Match of the Day host Gary Lineker
‘I prefer not to comment. I feel sorry for David.’ Robson: Squad support
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho in Madrid last night
‘As a @ManUtd fan I would like to thank David Moyes for giving his 100% in a very difficult job, and I wish him all the best going forward.’ Old Trafford goalkeeping legend Peter Schmeichel (@Pschmeichel1) gives Moyes a friendly send-off before going on to wish Giggs good luck
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But players should be ashamed after Moyes exit, claims Keane
Louis van GaaL has emerged as the front-runner to replace David Moyes after the scot was axed by Manchester united just ten months into his six-year contract. Moyes paid the price for a dreadful campaign when he was dismissed following a meeting with united vice-chairman Ed Woodward yesterday. The club announced player-coach Ryan Giggs would take temporary charge of the team ‘until a permanent appointment can be made’. senior figures at old Trafford hold van Gaal in high regard, with club sources making it clear talks could take place over the coming days. The Holland coach, 62, has lifted the Champions League with ajax and has led both Bayern Munich and Barcelona to domestic titles. He has made it clear he wants to move to the Premier League when his contract expires after
by jAMEs bOyLAn the World Cup and is the overwhelming favourite. Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp has ruled himself out of the running, saying: ‘Man united is a great club. But my commitment to Borussia Dortmund and the people is not breakable.’ Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola also intends to remain where he is, insisting: ‘i want to stay here for two more years. i’m comfortable here.’ Former united captain Roy Keane hit out at united’s players following the sacking of Moyes. ‘it’s a shame, he should have been given more time,’ said Keane. ‘some of the players should be ashamed of themselves because they really let him down.’
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O’Gara praises comeback kings Dublin Eoghan o’gara says Dublin have worked hard to develop the mean streak that has hauled them back from the brink of allianz League mediocrity to Sunday’s final. The all-Ireland champions came from behind against Mayo and Cork in dramatic circumstances to steal results while they conjured an injurytime point to beat Tyrone. That equates to two wins and a draw in their last three games when they could easily have lost the lot and be sitting mid-table with nothing left to play for. ‘In the last number of years, since we won our first all-Ireland in 2011, that’s something that we have worked hard to produce,’ said forward o’gara of the never say die attitude. ‘We produced it in a few games
Never say die: O’Gara feels this Dublin side never feel beaten towards the end of the league when the chips were down. It gives us great confidence knowing that we have that in the bag. We go right to the end of every game, to the final whistle. ‘It’s very nice to know we have that. It’s probably down to a combination of things, the confidence and the faith that the
Habana rues loss of outstanding Stander
management have in us and the strength of character in the players themselves. ‘It’s a mix of older, experienced and under-age lads with numerous U-21 all-Irelands. There is just great trust and belief there.’ Dublin’s obsession with winning means that they will genuinely believe they can beat Derry, even if trailing by a significant margin, this weekend. That, in turn, should play on the mind of Derry’s players. ‘If it affects other teams, then great,’ said o’gara. ‘For us, it’s definitely a strength and we’re very aware that we have it. going into the final part of games, there’s very little doubt or negativity in our heads.’
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Impressive: CJ Stander
SPRINGBOK legend Bryan Habana insists South Africa’s loss will be Munster’s – and ultimately Ireland’s – gain as CJ Stander continues to impress. Habana and Stander will face each other this weekend when Munster and Toulon clash in the Heineken Cup semi-final, but they played together for Blue Bulls in South Africa before Stander joined Munster in 2012. With no Springboks caps, he will also find himself eligible to pull on the green jersey next year. And Habana believes the Springboks let the back row slip through their net. ‘Someone like CJ has used the opportunity to come overseas, and take off from where he left off as a youngster within South Africa, and he has really done well,’ Habana said. ‘Whatever the loss to South Africa it will continue to be Ireland’s gain.’