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William Roache, actor, 82; Al Pacino, actor, 74; Bjorn Ulvaeus, ABBA, 69; Johan Cruyff, footballer, 67; David Moyes, out-of-work football manager (pictured), 51; Renee Zellweger, actress, 45.
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With 5mm spectacles, this praying mantis is set to watch a film of The Fly
Love the 3D glasses but where’s my popcorn?
Deeper insight: The beeswax keeps the glasses from slipping, main picture and inset WE ALL look a little silly when we have to don a pair of 3D glasses at the cinema – and this praying mantis is no different. The insect was rigged up with a tiny pair of spectacles so scientists could test its lightning reactions. The creatures are the only invertebrates which can see in three dimensions – other insects only see in 2D – meaning they can kill with terrifying efficiency. Researchers at Newcastle University are attaching the 5mm-wide eyewear to the insects with beeswax.
by DOMinic yEATMAn They then play them a film, just like a human 3D movie, featuring flies appearing within their striking distance. If the mantises pounce accurately, it will prove that, despite their simple nervous system, they can process the images. Dr Vivek Nityananda said: ‘We can do this by fooling them into misjudging depth, in the same way our human brains are fooled when we watch a
3D movie. This is a really exciting project to be working on. So much is still waiting to be discovered in this system. ‘If we find that the way mantises process 3D vision is very different to the way humans do it, then that could open up all kinds of possibilities to create much simpler algorithms for programming 3D vision into robots.’ After the experiments, the glasses are removed and the mantises placed back in the insect room.
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Band together today for Aoibheann’s Pink Tie VOLUNTEERS from the Aoibheann’s Pink Tie (APT) children’s cancer charity will be out in force around the country today for its National Pink Band Day. The charity, run solely by volunteers, offers practical support to families of children attending St John’s Ward at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin. It was set up by Jimmy Norman after his eight-year-old daughter, Aoibheann, lost her battle with cancer in April 2010 and got its name after the family asked mourners at her funeral to wear summer clothing, with the men sporting bright pink ties. Volunteer Mick Rochford said the mission for today’s fundraiser is to spread the word about the practical support APT gives to families. The charity is asking people to put €2 in on-street collection boxes and get a pink writsband, or text ‘Aoibheann’ to the number on Page 1 of this newspaper to donate €2. Aoibheann’s Pink Tie is Metro Herald’s charity of the year. Visit its Facebook page for more details.
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Helping hero: John Glynn and his son Gavin, who Aoibheann’s Pink Tie helped become a superhero
‘Vaping’ ban on the way for hospitals and health centres by METRO HERALD sTAff
HOSPITALS and healthcare centres have become the latest to ban the use of e-cigarettes, with health chiefs saying they had no evidence over the long-term safety of the devices. Dr Stephanie O’Keeffe, national director of health and well-being at the Health Service Executive (HSE), said the decision followed a detailed review of the safety and impact of e-cigarettes. ‘The HSE can only recommend safe and effective products and strategies for quitting smoking, and there currently is no conclusive evidence that e-cigarettes are safe for long-term use, or are effective as a smoking cessation aid,’ she said. Last month Irish Rail confirmed it had banned the devices from all Dart and train services in response to complaints from passengers. Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann have also banned the use of e-cigarettes, known as ‘vaping’, on all their services.
E-cigarettes: Hospital-wide curb ‘While we will keep this evidence under ongoing review, the e-cigarettes ban is being introduced as e-cigarettes pose a challenge to smoke-free campus enforcement and come with safety concerns for a healthcare environment,’ Dr O’Keeffe added. The prohibition comes into effect on May 1. Meanwhile the UK has already banned the sale of e-cigarettes to under-18s and Health Minister James Reilly indicated in January that a similar restriction will soon be put in place here.
Murder case to continue A JUDGE has refused to strike out the case of an Italian man accused of the murder of religious affairs writer Tom O’Gorman and has granted the DPP more time to complete the book of evidence. Saverio Bellante, 34, was due to
appear in court but he remains an in-patient at the Central Mental Hospital (CMH), Judge Victor Blake heard yesterday. In his absence, Judge Blake further remanded Mr Bellante in custody until May 8.
n sUPER-sUBs: Today the citizens of Limerick are getting a special edition of Metro Herald to celebrate Subway stores’ 13th anniversary in their city. In that time, Limerick’s hurling team have been named Munster Champions, Munster Rugby have claimed two Heineken Cups and the city has been named Ireland’s first City of Culture. Now, we have another great milestone to celebrate – after 13 years, there are now ten locations in Limerick in which to enjoy ‘My sub, my way’ throughout the city.
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Boy who flew to Hawaii in plane’s well was homesick
A TEENAGER who survived a flight from California to Hawaii after hiding in the wheel well of a jet was homesick for the country of his birth, his father has said. The shy 15-year-old had been struggling at school, added Abdilahi Yusuf Abdi, who emigrated with his son from Somalia to America four years ago. ‘He was always talking about going back to Africa, where his grandparents still live,’ Muslim Mr Abdi said. ‘When I watched the analysis about the extraordinary and dangerous trip of my son
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FaTHER Ted star Pauline McLynn is joining EastEnders to play Charlie Cotton’s mother. Show bosses said the Irish actress, who also starred in Shameless, will have ‘a recurring guest role’ as Yvonne Cotton (pictured). McLynn, who played housekeeper Mrs Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom, can be seen on screen next month. Executive producer Dominic TreadwellCollins said: ‘I have always been a little in love with Pauline McLynn so I’m so excited that she’s joining the Cotton family.’
Ceasefire quack break
To celebrate its 190th year, Shelbourne Hotel staff members, Barbara Casanova, Rachel Bell and Laura Vicinaite re-enact a famous episode in its history when, during the Easter Rising, opposing sides ceased fire to allow the ducks be fed in St Stephen’s Green
M&S top table on Garda injured in ethical high street Wexford bank raid MARKS & Spencer has been named the most ethical high street clothing retailer. In a study on the first anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza clothing factory in which 1,130 people died, the 130-year-old firm beat H&M and Zara to top the table of those doing most to ensure their lines are made by workers enjoying fair pay and conditions. Bryony Moore of Ethical Consumer magazine, said: ‘Choosing to buy from those companies which are doing most to reform their supply chains is an important way for shoppers to help drive changes in the clothing sector.’ People Tree, Living Crafts and THTC were named most ethical alternative clothing companies.
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A GARDA was injured yesterday in an operation to arrest three men involved in a hold-up at a branch of Permanent TSB. The incident, which involved two car hijacking attempts, began shortly before 1pm when two men entered the bank in Gorey, Co Wexford. One of the men was reportedly armed with a handgun. The pair demanded cash, but when the panic alarm was activated they fled empty-handed in a black Fiat Punto, driven by a third man. A garda involved in the arrest of two of the men sustained minor injuries. A search for the third man was ongoing last night.
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on local TVs and that Allah had saved him, I thanked God and I was very happy.’ The boy – whose mother is in Somalia – was caught on camera, wearing a San Francisco Giants hoodie, as he jumped from the plane before it touched down in Maui. He staggered along the runway and asked an airport worker for a drink – sparking speculation over how he had survived the flight, despite being starved of oxygen in
sub-zero temperatures. The youngster – who remained in hospital in Honolulu last night after his ordeal on Sunday – said he had been in an argument at home in San Jose, where he lives with his father and step-mother. He walked to the airport, climbed over a fence, and concealed himself in the first plane he saw. It is thought the boy may have coped with the lack of oxygen while flying at 11.5km (38,000ft) after passing out and entering a ‘hibernation-like’ state.
‘Lonely’: Stowaway
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Volunteer inspired by malaria ordeal A YOUTH worker who almost died from malaria after volunteering in Africa will try live on £1 (€1.22) a day to raise awareness of how cheap it is to combat the disease. Denise Donnelly, from Co Tyrone, took up the anti-poverty campaign while receiving lifesaving treatment, after ‘thinking about all the children who die needlessly from this disease every day because they do not have access to simple solutions’. Ms Donnelly’s challenge is part of the Live Below The Line campaign which coincides with World Malaria Day today.
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The land of the free... and the home of the twerk? by HAyDEn sMiTH
IT MAY seem a decision deserving of more contemplation than whether to have pizza or Indian for dinner. But more than one in three couples agree not to have children after just one conversation. And one in 25 never even discuss the issue, according to a study by Middlesex University. One woman said: ‘It only needed one brief discussion along the lines of: “I don’t want kids – do you?” “Nope, me neither”.’ For some couples, childlessness was not an issue. ‘It never really got said,’ said one woman. ‘We had a two-seater car.’
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THE DyE is cAsT: Young Indian first-time voters pose as they show their fingers marked with ink after casting their vote near a polling station during the sixth phase of the Indian General elections in Mumbai. The election is taking place in ten phases and is due to end on May 12
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SHE popularised twerking, sticking your tongue out and brought us Hannah Montana. Those accomplishments are enough to rank Miley Cyrus among the 100 greatest Americans. The 21-year-old singer appears on the list alongside Kim Kardashian, whose cultural contribution includes a big bum selfie. Other surprising cultural entries include Anchorman star Will Ferrell and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Fortunately for our American cousins, celebrities are pushed down the list in favour of the likes of Apple’s Steve Jobs and former US president Abraham Lincoln, who topped the poll. A spokesman for market research company OnePoll.com, which commissioned the research, said: ‘Abraham Lincoln is considered by many to be one of the greatest American presidents, and it also seems most see him as the greatest American as well. His two terms in office had a huge effect on America as we know it today, and his actions changed the country in so many ways.’ Elvis Presley was the highest ranking celebrity, at No. 22, ten places ahead of the current president, Barack Obama.
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Solange: I walk around in a mask S olange Knowles has blasted the pretty faces of the music industry and insisted she’s a genuine self-made star. Beyoncé’s little sister has so little time for the shallowness of showbiz that she sometimes wears a mask around new orleans, her hideaway far from the limelight. ‘There is so much beauty to a lot of the industry but a lot of it I think is really, really s***,’ said the singer who made her feelings known on 2008’s F*** The Industry. ‘There are times you see the people running things, and you think, there’s no way that I feel, as a young artist, that I’m not capable of making those decisions. ‘not only do I want to do it myself on the music front, I want to put it out myself and see it
Singing sibling: Solange Knowles Picture: ASOS MAgAzine/Ben SullivAn
Daring Gwyneth confronts rumours
MAKING sure no-one missed her return to the limelight, newly single Gwyneth Paltrow wore two sexy outfits to promote Goop.com in Hong Kong. Rather than talking about her split from Chris Martin, she denied the site is €850,000 in debt. ‘You shouldn’t believe everything you read,’ she said.
through in every aspect, which feels really rewarding.’ While insisting she’s boss, the 27year-old said she uses her elder sister’s work ethic as an inspiration. ‘I have never seen anything like it in my life, from anyone. It’s absolutely insane,’ she told aSoS magazine. ‘now that she’s become a mother, the way that she’s able to balance that is so inspiring. ‘If I am ever feeling like I want to open up my mouth and complain about how hard I am working, I think, “Uhhh! Sit down!”’ Knowles jnr, who had her nine-year-old son Daniel when she was just 17, is relaxed in her
new orleans set-up. ‘I feel at home and there’s literally never a dull moment,’ she said. ‘You can walk out of your home and experience 12 different things that you’ve never seen before. and which other city can you walk around with a mask on and it’s oK? I’m able to roll around anonymously all the time.’ Read the full interview in aSoS magazine out on Monday.
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Damon Albarn has confessed that one of Blur’s most famous songs, Beetlebum, was a heroin hit. ‘That song is absolutely about heroin and I was in the thralls of it,’ the scruffy 46-year-old frontman said. But the Britpop star insists he was never advocating the use of the Aclass drug. ‘I am not an advocate of heroin in any sense of the word,’ he stated.
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George Clooney stormed out of a dinner with billionaire hotelier Steve Wynn – claiming he had insulted his friend Barack Obama. The 52year-old explained his exit from the event in Las Vegas by saying: ‘He called the president an a**hole.’ Wynn, 72, said Clooney ‘got drunk’ and had a ‘hissy fit’ when another guest made a joke.
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Rita Ora showed her feisty side to a US radio host who foolishly suggested she was once ‘bonking’ her Roc Nation label boss Jay Z. The 23-year-old singer lost it when asked the question by Charlamagne Tha God. ‘Don’t you dare disrespect Beyoncé like that ever again in your entire life,’ she told the outspoken DJ on America’s Power 105.1FM. Ora continued: ‘You should know better than that ... that’s just straight up disrespect. You can’t even go there.’ The British singer is over the pond to introduce herself.
ggy AzAleA says there’s nothing desperate about using Twitter to find a lover after she snared her boyfriend online. The 23-year-old Aussie babe has been dating NBA player Nick young since November last year – after initially getting in contact over some tweets. ‘We tweeted a couple of times and then we met up. It’s not desperate, it’s about admiring,’ the Fancy singer said during an exclusive catch up with guilty Pleasures. The star says being forward is the way forward. ‘Put it out into the world to find somebody you like and make it be known,’ she told singletons. ‘If it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out – but it doesn’t matter. If you fancy someone, let them know in your own way – be it on Twitter or personally or on SMS or whatever. Just go from there.’ She also says not to be embarrassed if your advances get spurned. ‘embarrassment is overrated. There is no point in being embarrassed. you need to get it out there,’ she insists. Despite dating a sportsman, the rapper claims her own impressive physique is down to good genes – which infuriates her 28-year-old lA lakers lover. ‘He has this thing that he thinks I do secret exercise – where I do crunches and exercise when he’s out, but I don’t. So that makes me laugh. It’s just genetics. I don’t do any exercise. It may all go tits up in time, but right now it does look like I do some crunches.’ And speaking of her curves, the blonde bombshell says her finest asset is her derrière. ‘A lot of people talk about my butt and I love that too,’ she laughed, admitting she admires the bums of both men and women. ‘What do I think about butt jobs? I guess each to their own – but they’re not for me,’ she added. Iggy Azalea’s debut album The New Classic is out now.
Has Tom tied the knot with ‘pure love’ Riley? Tom Hardy could be officially off the market forever after hinting he has secretly tied the knot with his fiancée Charlotte Riley by referring to her as his ‘wife’. The 36-year-old British actor gushed about his lady, calling her a ‘pure, kind person’ and admitted when he throws himself in to a role, it’s his ‘wife’ who supports him. ‘Well my wife is an actor as well so she sort of gets it,’ he said at the Cinema Society screening for his new film Locke in New York
this week. ‘Apart from that, I’m a pain in the ass really,’ he added. ‘You know what I mean? Like any other boyfriend...Isn’t that part of being in a relationship?’ The Dark Knight Rises star also revealed what he loves most about his better-half, saying: ‘She’s pure. She’s just a very kind, pure person.’ Hardy and 32-year-old Riley met on the set of Wuthering Heights in 2009 and became engaged a year later in 2010. His spokesperson offered no comment.
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Actress Olivia Wilde has given birth to a boy, Otis. He is the first child of the Tron: Legacy star (pictured), 30, and her 38-yearold fiancé Jason Sudeikis. Wilde posted a picture of her son on Twitter on Wednesday, writing: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has left the building! (I’m the building).’
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Avril Lavigne has hit back at claims of racism following the release of her new music video. The Hello Kitty film, in which she parades around the streets of Japan with an army of female Asian backing dancers, caused furore among fans. But the 29-year-old retorted: ‘RACIST??? LOLOLOL!!! I flew to Tokyo to shoot this video specifically for my Japanese fans, WITH my Japanese label, Japanese choreographers AND a Japanese director IN Japan.’
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You’re the Un that I want Ladies can’t get enough of Kim... or so it seems by NICOLE LE MARIE JUDGING by this picture, Kim Jong-un is a real hit with the women. But for female soldiers in the army of the North Korean dictator, it would perhaps be unwise to appear anything less than fawning. The troops wept and draped themselves on the arms of the ‘Dear Leader’ in outpourings of emotion as he visited an artillery unit in Kangwon. It comes days before US president Barack Obama arrives in South Korea, where he is expected to discuss ways of dealing with the North’s nuclear weapons programme. In typical poses designed to emphasise his country’s military might, Kim is also seen crouching down holding a pair of binoculars at the base, near the southern border. In others, he sur-
rounds himself with nervously applauding forces as he stares at the camera with a smug expression. North Korea has warned it would
not rule out a ‘new form’ of nuclear test after the UN security council condemned it for launching ballistic missiles into the sea. US state department
Steady on, ladies: Kim gives a mischievous smile as soldiers surround him and, above, the dictator crouches in the long grass Pictures: ePA spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: ‘We are to refrain from actions that threaten closely monitoring the situation on regional peace and security and to the Korean peninsula. comply with its international obliga‘We continue to urge North Korea tions and commitments.’
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guard kills three doctors Tarantino’s gawker blow AfgHANisTAN: Three doctors and a nurse, all American, were killed when a rogue guard opened fire in a Kabul hospital. Two of the dead in the Cure International Hospital shooting were a father and son. The attacker was wounded and is receiving treatment for his injuries at the hospital.
AMERicA: Quentin Tarantino has lost a €728,000 case against gossip website Gawker which he claimed helped leak his screenplay for The Hateful Eight. The director failed to show ‘direct infringement’ of his copyright, a judge ruled. Gawker posted a link to the leaked script in January.
‘Milkshake’ killer guilty going? it’s your funeral... cHiNA: The so-called Milkshake Murderer yesterday failed to overturn her life sentence at the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. Nancy Kissel’s claims of diminished responsibility were rejected after she spiked her husband Robert’s drink with sedatives and bludgeoned him to death in 2003.
cHiNA: Reports of Li Shugui’s death were greatly exaggerated... at his request. The 60-year-old arranged to be dead for a day so he could be at his own funeral. He invited villagers in south-west China and hired mourners. ‘I now know how many people love me,’ he said.
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JAPAN: President Barack Obama bows to greet robot Asimo at the Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo Picture: reuters
gERMANy: A pet kangaroo brought a town to a standstill after he made a hop for freedom down the main railway line. All trains at Paderborn were stopped when Hermann was seen heading out of town. His owner vowed to keep an eye on him after he was caught.
Putin troops mass as Russians killed
FIVE Russian militants were killed yesterday as Ukraine attempted to drive separatists out of occupied buildings in the eastern city of Slovyansk. Ukraine’s president Oleksandr Turchynov accused Russia of ‘supporting terrorist killers’ in the region, where government buildings have been seized by pro-Moscow gunmen.
by AiDAN RADNEDgE Reports said the separatists died when Ukrainian military and police destroyed checkpoints north of Slovyansk. A spokeswoman for the separatists said: ‘We will defend ourselves to our last drop of blood.’ The operation triggered an
immediate response by Moscow which ordered new military exercises for its troops massed near Ukraine’s border. Vladimir Putin said Kiev’s ‘punitive’ action would be resisted and threatened retaliatory strikes, with tens of thousands of Russian troops already stationed along the Ukrainian border.
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BOB ODEnkiRk, 51, is in the TV series of Fargo, and will star in Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul. If you find him funny, thank Monty Python...
How would you describe Bill Oswalt, your character in Fargo? He’s a police officer who
gets elevated to a position of power through circumstance, and because of his world view – which is naive and overly idealistic – he refuses to see the evil machinations of Billy Bob Thornton’s character, Lorne Malvo. In fact, it’s hard for him to even accept that a character like Malvo exists. Bill only sees the simplest motives, and the simplest drives of people. He perceives his job as not finding out the truth but maintaining an idealistic view of the community.
Is that a common trait with police forces in small, rural places such as Fargo – an area the Coen brothers call ‘Siberia with family restaurants’? I don’t think all
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about it on the street all the time. But you are acutely aware you have nothing to do with it. It doesn’t feel like a reflection on your own work; it feels very much like you are the beneficiary of providence. That may be because I am older, and most people in the cast are a little older too, but everybody involved knew it was a special moment in time.
wanted to do comedy growing up; Monty Python was at the core of everything I wanted to do. Drama is still very new to me and, as a performer, I think I’m more suited to that. Comic performers do well when there’s a simplicity to their energy, when you can take them at face value and enjoy that. When it comes to dramas like Fargo, Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, I think it is advantageous to have an energy on-screen that you have to take apart as an audience member. There is an unnerving complexity to my energy. That’s my own analysis. Done in my own lab, of my brain. Financed by me, entirely.
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to Breaking Bad, and we will begin shooting at the end of May. At the moment, even I haven’t seen many of the scripts, as it’s still being written. It is not going to have the same chemistry – literally – that Breaking Bad had, but there is going to be a mix of drama and comedy, and it is coming from the pen of Vince Gilligan again. So I think there is going to be a huge reward for people who are fans of Breaking Bad.
What’s it like to be inside a show that becomes that big?
It’s a hoot. People want to talk to me
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Could you choose between drama and comedy? I always
police in small rural towns are like that. It’s not about the size of the town, it’s about the person, and their ability to either hold on to their world view and vision of a system, or to see what’s actually in front of them. Everybody When you look at involved in Breaking Is there is a the world around difference Bad knew it was you, does it exist between our purely to prop up a special moment comedy and that your beliefs, or do of the US? I think in time your beliefs change that with the plethora of when you’ve learnt channels and places to go to what’s really going on? find comedy, the gap is no longer Was the big difference as wide as it was, but you can’t point between Bill Oswalt and your at a whole lot of absurd comedy in the US. Even Saturday Night Live is character in Breaking Bad, a satire that comes out of current the slippery lawyer Saul affairs – it doesn’t get into the realm Goodman, part of the of extreme silliness that Python did. appeal? Yes, absolutely. Saul has We just don’t have a lot of patience an incredibly cynical world view for it – American brains are mired in and is always manipulating the the day to day, and are not as nimble people around him. Bill has no when it comes to conceptual ideas. cynicism whatsoever and has an Fargo was filmed in Calgary; incredibly innocent outlook.
What can you divulge about Better Call Saul? It’s a prequel
THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS: Reader Paul Kolbe sent us this picture of a dog and a cat failing to live up to their reputation as natural foes
Better Call Saul will be filmed in New Mexico – how is it being on location when your family is based in LA? It’s
hard but my wife is very supportive, and she is excited about the opportunities I have and wants me to make the most of them. My kids are older now, and they don’t want me to say goodnight any more. They want me to leave them alone, to be honest. They would love it if my next show was shot in New Zealand by Peter Jackson. If I said: ‘I am so sorry kids, I have to go to New Zealand for eight months,’ they would fake that they were sad about that. Jane Mulkerrins
Fargo is on Sundays at 9pm on C4.
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’M shocked and appalled to hear that women are more likely to cheat on bigwillied partners (Metro Herald, Thu). Are these broads nuts...? I confess I’ve cheated on numerous blokes with inferior tickle-tackle because, no matter what the sexperts say, a titchy weiner just doesn’t cut it in the bedroom. A guy with a whopper of a willy is a prize to be appreciated, admired and, ahem, ridden ragged while the going is good. The less well-endowed chap will just have to content himself with the lasses prepared to settle for less. I’m not one of them, though... Little Miss Choosy, D2
■ I have recently started working on O’Connell Street and am shocked at the goings on there. I have seen people openly selling and using drugs. How can people get away with this blatant disregard for the law? What’s worse is a certain element wander around all day doing nothing but shouting at each other. It’s a shame one of our busiest streets has such an air of menace about it. What must tourists think when they walk around this area and see and hear this kind of behaviour? I pity those who have to live, work and shop around there, and what’s more, how can our local
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TDs just pretend this kind of thing is not happening? I hate saying it but I cannot wait to get away from that area in the evenings. Shocked and disappointed ■ Mailbox has been on the righthand-side of the Metro Herald instead of the left since it returned after the Easter break. Has the whole world flipped on its axis and gone mad? Easily confused, D2 ■ In response to Cate in Thursday’s Mailbox – organise a street party in that laneway that goes on until 3am. Then you’ll find out how private they want it to be. Anon
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● To the Myra Hindley lookalike who gets off the Dart at Sandymount every morning – I am a bit creeped out that I find you very attractive, but I’d like to meet you for coffee (if we stay off the moors). Creeped out Keith
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gOOD On yA ● A big thank you to the nimble young man who chased after me to give me back my dropped cardigan on Wednesday. That was some leap over that railing. Kate ● Thanks to the girl in Tower who got me out of a pickle yesterday. Vinyl Bob
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The Sharp Shooter Wally Pfister is one of the 21st century’s most iconic cinematographers. So what made him go it alone and direct sci-fi thriller Transcendence?
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ou may not know his name but you’ll almost certainly know his work. From Guy Pearce’s body tattoos in Memento to Christian Bale’s Batman perched high above Gotham City in The Dark Knight and that rotating hotel corridor in Inception – it’s all been shot by Wally Pfister. over the past 15 years, he’s been cinematographer almost exclusively to Christopher Nolan, the mind-blowing director behind all of the above. But now, the 53-year-old Chicago native is turning director too. Making his debut in the director’s chair with Transcendence, a highbrow $100million thriller starring Johnny Depp, you might imagine Pfister to be something of a techie. So it’s quite amusing to see him stabbing hopelessly at an old pre-smart mobile phone as he tries to send a text from the basement hotel room where we meet. Dressed in T-shirt, grey trousers and black flip-flops, this silver-haired gent comes across as the very antithesis of a fast-talking Hollywood player. ‘I really find I get great solace from putting away my computer and shutting off the telephones and
going to my farm,’ he confides. He and his wife, Anna – they’ve been married since 1992 – have a place outside of Los Angeles, where they keep poultry and grow organic fruits. ‘To me, that’s essential. To throw all that manipulative technology aside and clear your head – and not have machines do it all for you.’ Which neatly brings us to Transcendence, with its story that sees Depp play Dr Will Caster, a scientist dying of radiation poisoning. The crux comes when his wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), transfers his consciousness into a self-aware supercomputer to try to save his life – an action that leads to disastrous consequences. ‘It’s a morality tale, a study of ethics and technology,’ says Pfister. ‘There are a lot of elements but I don’t think there’s anything too brain-bending. It’s not inaccessible.’ With Nolan on board as executive producer, Pfister also plundered several cast members from his films – Hall, Morgan Freeman and Cillian Murphy. But when it came to his leading man, it was all his own work. He met Depp while shooting a video for Paul McCartney’s song Queenie Eye and jumped at the idea of casting him. ‘I was like: “I’d kill to have
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Making a point: Wally Pfister gives Johnny Depp some direction while shooting his first film, Transcendence Johnny Depp in the movie,”’ he says. Wisconsin newspaper and his father says. ‘It taught me to work fast.’ He shot music videos for a decade Beyond the basics, the plot has was a news producer for the netbeen kept fiercely under wraps – works. Starting out as a news cam- and continued with the odd softcore something Pfister, like Nolan, is very eraman, Pfister worked as a video- movie (Secret Games; Inside out much in favour of. He refers to the tape editor and sound-man before III) before meeting Nolan on recent leak of Quentin Tarantino’s becoming a camera-operator. The Memento and establishing a partnerunmade screenplay, The Hateful first gig was for Robert Altman on ship that would last six more films. Still, Pfister knew there was more Eight. ‘I resent it when people leak his 1988 TV film Tanner ’88 (he scripts,’ says Pfister, who praises later worked on the less notable to life than shooting other people’s movies. ‘I’d wanted to direct since I Tarantino for now promising to Slumber Party Massacre III). By 1991, he’d graduated to cine- was a kid,’ he says. But it was someabandon the project. ‘It’s time that matographer, shooting The unborn, thing that really came home when he a film-maker stands up like that.’ But coming from a journalistic a no-budget horror movie for legen- won an oscar for best cinematograbackground, Pfister must understand dary B-movie producer Roger Cor- pher for Inception. ‘It was an incredthis thirst for exclusives. His grand- man. ‘I cut my teeth on that stuff. ible validation,’ he says. ‘But also it father was a city editor on a small That was my training ground,’ he was the point where I felt, “oK, I’ve done it now. I’ve accomplished everything in cinematography and now it’s time for something else.”’ While he’s obviously happy with his oscar, he’s less pleased Nolan album, such as London and We Have You Booka Shade has yet to even be nominated. ‘It’s Surrounded, captured the simmering tension and unbelievable, absolutely ridiculous,’ With over 25 years’ experience producing and unpredictable lawlessness of the time. Three he fumes. ‘There’s baggage that performing electronic music, it’s fair to say Booka years later, Wells continues to push sonic Shade (pictured) are masters of their chosen comes with being a commercially boundaries with his second album, The Power & sound, trance. The German act was responsible successful director. The second you The Glory. There are still overt references to for dance pop and underground anthems during make a lot of money, there is a snobBritish society – particularly on David & George the 1990s and as the 2000s dawned co-founded bery that comes along; the same and Rotting Sound – and Perc’s abrasive rhythms the seminal Get Physical label with DJ T and happened to Martin Scorsese and provide an unsettling soundtrack to its deep Mandy. The imprint combined dry minimal house divisions. That sound is sure to resonate well in Steven Spielberg.’ rhythms with soaring melodies and was home to the Twisted Pepper’s underground environment. Given his dislike of leaking plot Booka Shade’s biggest releases – Mandarine Girl, Tomorrow, Subject/Pogo, The Twisted Pepper, details, Pfister has no intention of In White Rooms and Body Language, whose Middle Abbey Street D1, 11pm, €10 to €13. revealing any gossip on Nolan’s new bassline was sampled by Will.i.Am on the song film, Interstellar, out this year. Get Your Money. Expect to hear spine-tingling ‘I know nothing about it!’ he says. anthems from their extensive back Flight facilities ‘I know it’s a space movie – that’s catalogue at this sold-out Dublin date. Having entertained crowds at two Tomorrow, Button Factory, Curved Street, about it.’ It’ll be the first time the instalments of the Forbidden Fruit Temple Bar D2, 7.30pm, €27.25 to €29.50. two haven’t worked together since festival, this event at the Button Tel: (01) 775 5800. Nolan’s micro-budget debut, Factory is the Australian dance duo’s Following, but Pfister has been too first Irish headline show and includes Perc vocalists. They are sure to impress busy with Transcendence to worry. Ali Wells, aka Perc, released his debut again with their infectious dance pop. ‘They’re different worlds,’ he says. album, Wicker & Steel, in the summer Richard brophy ‘That’s Chris’s film. This is my film.’ of 2011, in the midst of the UK’s worst Tomorrow, Hidden Agenda, The Button Transcendence is out today. riots in decades. Tracks from the Factory, Curved Street, D2, 11pm, €15. See review opposite.
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That Transcendence looks and sounds like a Christopher Nolan film (how ‘Inception’ is that title?) is no surprise, given it is both executive produced by The Dark Knight trilogy creator and the directorial debut by his iconic cinematographer, Wally Pfister. But it’s all too quickly clear – just about the only thing that is quick and clear here – that this underwhelming sci-fi flop sadly isn’t a Christopher Nolan film. Johnny Depp attempts – and fails – to play ‘normal’ (as opposed to Willy Wonka wackiness) as Dr Will Caster, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. Targeted by antitechnology extremists, Will and his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall, typecast as a sexy swot) go underground with a super computer determined to take AI to a new, all-powerful level. That this $100million bomb took just $11million in its opening US weekend (approximately half Depp’s fee) is mainly the fault of the illogical, brain-crash of a script that seems to think it’s being clever about ‘technology’s promise and its perils’ when it’s just being boring. The action is so slow it’s like watching the whirly
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‘loading’ dial on your computer. Despite the varied attempts of the sidelined support cast, also including Morgan Freeman (as a kindly wise old mentor, snore), Paul Bettany and Cillian Murphy, this never convinces as a drama, while the token explosions feel as though they’re there just to have something exciting in the trailers. Indeed, it’s hard to tell what floats
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Joanna Hogg whooshes into her third film on a wave of critical anticipation. D (Viv Albertine, formerly of punk band the slits) is an artist, her husband of 18 years, H (conceptual artist liam Gillick), is an architect. their claustrophobic relationship is the subject here and, like Unrelated and Archipelago, exhibition delivers another acutely observed, enigmatic study of unhappy middle-class people. But its airless artiness is a pretentious foray too far. Li-Z
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If you’re doing the dishes in the morning, there’s no one around and there’s still a bit of grease on the floor from last night’s chips, this is the song to stick on. Very funky and a great groove.
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Still impossibly hot to a degree that would confound a Nobel Prizewinning physicist, Cameron Diaz is every girlfriend/ wife’s nightmare ‘other woman’. Though here, she doesn’t realise she is one until her new doting boyfriend (Game Of Thrones hunk Nikolaj CosterWaldau) turns out to have a self-sacrificing wife (Leslie Mann, giving her best since Knocked Up). The two wronged women join forces to exact vengeance, co-opting in his bounciest new ‘other’ (Kate Upton, pictured with Diaz, adding her considerable breasts, if little else, to proceedings). A reliance on all-female, physical laughs is still unusual enough in Hollywood to give this mainstream comedy a vague girl-power edge, despite the fact it arguably fails the Bechdel test: that a movie should have at least two (named) women in it that talk about something other than a man. The gags may lurch from hit to miss but the buff stars’ equally toned acting skills and some inspired bit-casting (Don Johnson as Diaz’s sleazy old dad, Nicki Minaj as her PA) make this one to watch – probably with the girls on home release. Li-Z
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Oscar gold but instead cleaves true to Davidson’s enclosed, solitary character, answering the inevitable ‘why are you doing this?’ question with a ‘why not?’. John Curran’s unshowy film flashes back to darker motivations – Davidson’s mother hanged herself when she was a child – but never tries to explain its heroine or her ‘journey’. ‘I like to think an ordinary person is capable of anything,’ says Davidson. Authentic and inspirational. Li-Z
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Wasikowska, channelling Jeff Goldblum) intrude every so often to snap her – which also handily breaks up the film’s potential monotony. ‘You’re an odd girl’ is how one of the weathered camel wranglers who mentors her succinctly puts it. And that oddness is captured with direct, captivatingly cleareyed simplicity by Wasikowska who could’ve easily chased
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Transcendence’s boat aside from raindrops – sparkling, iridescently on windows, cascading in slow motion from sun flowers. It’s a total treat for drip fans, but otherwise it’s a wash out.
Inspirational tale of ‘odd girl’s’ Outback trek Ever thought of jacking it all in and heading off to the great unknown? In 1975, 25-year-old Aussie Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) pitched up in Alice Springs with a dream: to trek, solo, 1,700 miles across the Outback with four feral camels and her dog, Diggity, for company. To fund the trip, however, she reluctantly agrees to let a National Geographic photographer (Girls’ Adam Driver, pictured with
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AnyTHing cOULD HAppEn by Ellie Goulding
Such a bombastic song... I love the quiver in her voice. I get goosebumps when I listen to it. I think this one will be around for a long time.
FiREBiRD sUiTE by Stravinsky The first half is mental and leaves you seasick but in the middle it all goes quiet ... then starts to build into what I can only image is a phoenix being reborn and learning to fly... Paddy Casey plays the Abbey Tavern, Howth, tomorrow, 8pm, €22.50
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the late late show RTÉ1, 9.35PM Tubs has really outdone himself tonight, with a line-up worthy of the king of chat himself Graham Norton. First to grace Ryan’s leather chair is the swoonsome Michael Fassbender, alongside the almost as dishy Domhnall Gleeson and Lenny Abrahamson to talk about their new film Frank. UK singer Michelle Heaton drops by to talk about motherhood and her newborn son’s recovery from viral meningitis. Then Tom Dunne and Something Happens celebrate their 30th anniversary with a special performance. Finally on a more sombre note, a brave Tom Meagher, recently announced as a national advocate for the White Ribbon Campaign, speaks in his first Irish interview about the murder of his wife Jill in Melbourne in 2012.
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Friday night frights: this provocative Israeli tortureporn thriller, lauded by Quentin Tarantino on release, is full of graphic violence and grisly humour. The father of a paedophile killer’s victim and a rogue cop try to torture a confession out of the prime suspect. The result is like a grimly comic version of Prisoners.
If you missed this Canadianmade dystopian thriller when it went out on BBC3, now’s your chance to gawp at lead actress Tatiana Maslany’s raved-about performance, which won her the US Critics Choice TV Award for best actress in a drama. She plays half a dozen clones in this engrossing geneticengineering conspiracy thriller, inhabiting each role with utter believability. Season Two starts on Wednesday, so get stuck in.
BBC2, 9pm
Treading a fine line between wildlife documentary and Disney-style travelogue, this adventure soars around France to bring us a portrait of some of the splendid creatures that live in, on and above its dramatic landscape. elegant beauty is the name of the game as all the hi-tech tricks in the film-making book are harnessed to bring us fascinating footage of a cornucopia of creatures, from the dragonfly to the Alpine marmot (above), a kind of portly French meerkat..
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Sci-fi thriller in which injured army pilot Captain Colter Stevens, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, is trapped between two worlds when his body is hooked up to a machine that forces his mind to replay the last moments of another person’s life in order to solve a crime. Think Inception meets Groundhog Day.
the bourne ultimatum
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Thriller based on the autobiography of police informant Martin McGartland, recruited in 1980s Belfast to infiltrate the IRA. At first reluctant to cooperate, the 22-year-old realises that the information he’s gathering will save lives. Directed by Canadian Kari Skogland and starring Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley and Rose McGowan.
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A little light flirting is on the menu as PA emma and photographer Yolanda join Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan on their gastronomic tour. In the comedic equivalent of chimps beating their chest in the jungle, the pair (above) indulge in a game of impressions oneupmanship, with Jimmy Savile, Marlon Brando, Rolf Harris and everyone in between jostling for attention. It’s cringemaking but a sequence of wild driving in Rome to Alanis Morissette’s Hand In My Pocket hits the comic spot.
Drama mammon More4, 9pm
This murky Norwegian thriller continues to weave its dark conspiratorial web, though you’ve got to be quite the optimist to cling on to the belief that clueless journalist Peter Verås (Jon Øigarden) is the man to pick a path through the deadly mix of corruption, kidnapping and murder. with an unhappy knack of being in the wrong place at the right time, Verås has witnessed three suspicious deaths – which makes him a prime target for investigation by his own newspaper.
starcrossed Sky1, 8pm
How can a high-school swimming team end a long losing streak? Sign up an alien girl who can breathe underwater, that’s how. Atrian girl Sophia is doing her bit for human/alien relations in this soapy sci-fi spin on Romeo And Juliet. But her plan takes a dive when a rival team discovers her weak spot.
he final episode of this music series exploring the themes that emerge in Irish song includes contributions from Declan o’Rourke, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Susan McKeown & The Voice Squad. Presenter Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh examines our tradition of keening and explores if its influence still resonates in our music or has that link with our blues-ey past been lost on our singers and songwriters?
UTV, 10.35pm
Matt Damon returns as amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne for his third and final appearance in the series. After discovering that a British journalist has been investigating his past, the ex-CIA agent is forced out of hiding. A triple oscar-winner, this spy thriller had film-goers on the edge of their seats.
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mastermind BBC2, 7.30pm
After some dodgy specialist rounds en route to tonight’s grand final, the six remaining contenders have made some properly intellectual choices. Try picking the bones out of Richard wagner, Scottish Lighthouses, Philip Larkin, French Cinema (1895-1945), the Salem witch Trials and the Italian Front in world war I.
unreported world: kickboxing kids Channel 4, 7.30pm
Training for a big fight is tough enough but when you’re 11 and your whole village is betting on you, the pressure is huge. Reporter Mary-Ann ochota joins young Nat Thanarak as he competes on Thailand’s Muay Thai circuit, a brutal martial art that takes a heavy toll.
Samuel L Jackson cemented his status as the badass king of cult cinema when he played motormouthed FBI Agent Neville Flynn in this action-packed thriller. Flynn is charged to protect the witness of a brutal gangland murder on a flight to the trial but the mobster recruits some slithery friends to silence him. The reptile-fest was an internet phenomenon when trailers were released, and featured an ensemble of 450 snakes. Perfect for home viewing; perhaps not so good on a long flight.
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YOUR DUBLIN wEEkEND with daragh reddin Captivating high jinks chase gIg ROsANNE CAsH Second generation music royalty is often touchy when it comes to questions of lineage. Not so in the case of Rosanne Cash, eldest daughter of the Man In Black. Mind you, she is something of a veteran herself, her career stretching back to her 1981 hit Seven Year Ache, a break-out she followed with 1985’s Grammy-winning I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me. She recently returned with The River And The Thread, the final instalment in a loose trilogy inspired by her relationship with her father; it’s been acclaimed by many as her strongest outing yet. As with her father, Cash combines a folksy accessibility with sometimes heartbreakingly searing lyrics: she has also inherited his stage charisma while seeming to wear her heritage lightly. Still, it has taken her a while to make peace with her inheritance – as a young woman she felt overshadowed by Johnny Cash and resented the way his fame seemed to directly impact on her day-to-day existence. ‘People think you have it easy and they resent you,’ she said in 2006. ‘I had a brief moment when I thought I might use my grandmother’s maiden name – Rivers. Then I realised that that’s not who I am and it didn’t feel very honest.’ Happily she has moved past such angst and is nowadays proud to stand before audiences as both Johnny’s daughter and an artist in her own right. Eamon de Paor Sun, Vicar Street, 58-59 Thomas St D8, 8.30pm, €36.50. Tel: (01) 454 6656. www.rosannecash.com
gET DOwN TO… Darklight Festival
Dublin’s ‘festival of independent creativity’ will see various venues in Smithfield play host to a series of film screenings, workshops and exhibitions this weekend. For cinephiles seeking something significantly more challenging than the average Hollywood flick, check out Wetlands (tomorrow, Light House, 6.30pm, €10, pictured), David Wnendt’s uncompromising adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s novel about a teenager obsessed with her intimate hygiene – one depicted in graphic detail. Elsewhere, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness (Sun, Generator Conservatory, 6pm, €6) brings together Estonian communes and Norwegian black metal, while gangster classic GoodFellas (Tonight, Cinemobile, 8pm, €8) should be a good entry point for newcomers. Until Sun. www.darklight.ie
Dublin Bay Prawn Festival
The coastal gem and seafood mecca of Howth will celebrate the highly-prized Dublin Bay prawn this weekend in a series of demos, tastings and sundry culinary events. Special ‘prawn punt’ vouchers can be purchased for €5 each upon entry and can be redeemed throughout the weekend. Ancillary events include a walking tour of Howth with an emphasis on its historical sites, cruises around Dublin Bay, and a firework display taking place against the evocative backdrop of the village’s Martello tower. For full details see website Today until Sun, www.dublinbayprawnfestival.ie
BUY POPCORN FOR… Rebel without A Cause
Tackling issues of high-school bullies, young love – with a blazing homoerotic subtext – and the woe-is-me martyrdom of youth, Nicholas Ray’s iconic film launched hundreds of knock-offs and is as relevant today as ever. Beautifully shot and featuring an iconic turn from James Dean, whose role as brooding Jim Stark turned him into a cult star. Screened as part of the IFI’s James Dean season, alongside East Of Eden and Giant Tonight & Apr 30, IFI, 6 Eustace Street D2, 6.15pm, €9. Tel: (01) 679 3477. www.ifi.ie
THEATRE REvIEw Leper + Chip HHHII Lee Coffey’s zippy two-hander follows the exploits of a pair of dyed-in-the-wool young Dubs, Leper (Conall Keating) and Chip (Amilia Clarke Stewart), whose paths cross at a raucous house party. Leper has been tasked with overseeing proceedings to ensure nobody trashes the joint, much to the chagrin of Chip and her overweight mate Pringle who are hellbent on doing just that. What follows is a bawdy, high-octane picaresque with the priapic Leper chasing Chip across the capital, with one ill-judged pitstop for drunken sex, in search of vengeance – and possible romance. Newcomer Lee Coffey’s script, fizzing with quickfire colloquialisms and smart observations, is deftly handled by Keating and Clarke Stewart who, under the direction of Karl Shiels, both give committed, highly-caffeinated performances. An unwelcome change in tone from the blackly comic to the tragic in the final minutes fails to convince but,
this quibble aside, Leper + Chip makes a fine showcase for emerging young talent.
Daragh Reddin Until May 3, Theatre Upstairs, Lanigan’s Bar, 10-11 Eden Quay D1, 7pm (selected matinees 1pm), €8 to €10. Tel: 086 244 9511. www.theatreupstairs.ie
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Manchester United finally lost patience with manager David Moyes and sacked him this week. Some say he had to go as he had lost not just a string of matches but the dressing room too. Others, like our own Roy Keane, reckon the players should be ashamed of themselves for not having had their boss’s back. Being a Liverpool fan myself, I hesitate to intrude upon a private grief. But I do witness similar pressure to deliver
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Blast from the past Andrew Murphy O’Donovan, from Walkinstown, holds up a picture of 1916 Leader Tom Clarke’s widow Kathleen and her children at the launch of 10,500 newly digitised items in the National Library of Ireland’s online catalogue Picture: marc o’sullivan
immediate bottom-line results being put on managers in the corporate world generally. A company expecting a new manager to set a new tone and bring a new dynamic into the organisation is showing good urgency. A company that doesn’t give a manager time to get his or her coat off before results are being monitored is showing short-termist thinking. Some breathing space is needed to get to grips with one’s role, one’s team, the company culture, the business itself as well as the company’s systems and procedures. Not granting this breathing space only sets managers up for disaster. Giving a new manager the message that they are expected to change everything overnight, or at the very least maintain the level of
current performance, is conducive not to smart decision-making, but to attentionseeking and macho behaviour. Result? Loss of respect and buy-in from the team, dwindling of employee engagement and muttering at the water cooler. The first three months are important, no two ways about it. At Clearview Coaching we even offer a coaching service for executives titled The First 90 Days. But the focus must be on measured results within a realistic timeframe. As a manager you need to set these expectations with the powers that be from the very start. Don’t sell yourself as Superman or Superwoman. Career coach Jane Downes is the author of The Career Book (thecareerbook.ie) and principal coach of Clearview Coaching Group, clearviewcoachgroup.com.
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Internet is like a punk rock band... al College of Ireland and Metro herald’s new Marketing Mavericks series. Though known largely for his time with the seminal punk band, Allen has long been a champion of online music business pursuits and now works as an ambassador for Beats Music – which seeks to sell the public on the idea of premium music streaming. While working at a branding agency in the US, Allen said he found that marketing teams often failed to appreciate social trends when it came to using the internet. ‘When I was at North, I would listen to my team talking to a client. They’d be looking at doing an app because that was the thing – it’s moved nowadays from “we need a Facebook” to “we need an app” – and my job was often to say no because I didn’t see the point in the app. ‘I would hear companies say they plan to build a database for photos and I would just say “hey everyone, bubble-time” and they would look at me like I’m crazy. But then I’d said “you leave this office, do you not look at Instagram?”
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he march of history is not what should concern us, rather it is the lack of understanding behind the drive towards technology that should have us worried. This was the message from postpunk-rocker-turned-industry-pundit Dave Allen, who said that too often companies fixate on technology rather than the end-user experience. ‘As Chris Anderson has written “the internet is one of those once in a century phenomenons…” and he’s right. Just as the locomotive changed the transportation industry in its time, the internet is still transforming business and society today. ‘But while change is inevitable, it’s not just about the new technology – it’s about understanding the technology – because if you don’t, you can’t build for it,’ Allen said. The one-time bass player in Gang Of Four has a lot to say about technology and was speaking at Nation-
businEss biTEs n Apple is preparing to split its stock for the first time in nine years in an attempt to win back investors fretting about the iPhone maker’s slowing sales. The moves announced as part of Apple’s second-quarter earnings report are aimed at boosting its stock price, which has hovered about 25 per cent below its 2012 peak. The company’s stock soared $39.78 (€28.77), or 7.6 per cent, to $564.53 (€408.35) after the news.
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‘Why build your own database when there’s one that everyone already uses and it’s free. ‘Just download the API and use some hashtags that will create a feed – right there and then, the client just saved about €30,000 in development costs.’ Commenting on his unusual transition from punk rocker, Allen said that he viewed the internet as more
punk rock than the genre itself. ‘There is so much you can do there. The destabilisation that I’ve seen through technological advancement is not that much different than being in a punk rock band in the 1970s. The status quo is being overturned because the internet is not bound by borders.’ ‘Technology has created platforms – streaming for instance – that mu-
sicians must now contend with, and the many that have come to grips with them are having great success reaching their audiences. ‘The point is, for those who want to make a good living from their crafts while ignoring the internet in terms of its reach and distribution then they are missing a huge opportunity for reaching people.’ See ncirl.ie for upcoming talks
Working conditions worse MORE than half of the Irish workforce believe working conditions have deteriorated below the EU average. A Eurobarometer survey examining how the quality of work has been affected by the economic crisis found that 80 per cent of Irish respondents think their working conditions are good, but 51 per cent feel these conditions are not as good as they used to be. Some 18 per cent think their working conditions have improved in the last five years compared to 42 per cent of Estonians – the highest – and three per cent of Slovenians – the lowest. Stress was seen as the biggest perceived risk at work (for 53 per cent of working respondents).
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Swimmers stand out at opening day of Long Course competition
Irish swimmers were on form on the opening day of the Irish Long Course National Championships at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin. Brendan Hyland was the standout performer securing the 200m Butterfly National Title in a new Irish Senior record of 1:58.68, to secure gold ahead of Cian Duffy. Speaking after
the race Hyland said ‘I’m delighted with the result, I was nervous going into the Final, even though I have already qualified for Europeans I still wanted to do my best, so I’m happy to get the record’. Hyland’s teammate Antoinette Neamt secured gold in both the 800m and 200m Freestyle. Jordan Sloan of
Bangor SC picked up the men’s 200m Freestyle Irish title. Andrew Meegan retained the 1,500m Freestyle title, while Clodagh Flood won the women’s 200m Butterfly, with a pb of 2:17.07. In the final individual event Barry Murphy and Fiona Doyle secured the men’s and women’s 50m Breaststroke titles.
gibbes backs Munster to win against Toulon rugby LEINSTER forwards coach Jono Gibbes is backing
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provincial rivals Munster to beat the odds and win against a highly-fancied Toulon side in the Heineken Cup semi-final on Sunday. Having beaten Toulouse in the quarter-final, the Munstermen deserve to feel confident taking their place in the final four. Had Leinster beaten Toulon in their own quarter-final, this weekend’s tie could have been a very different matter, with an all-Irish clash on home soil the spoils. But with Leinster unable to advance past the French outfit, Gibbes believes their defeat could prove to be Munster’s gain. Confident: Gibbes ‘I think they can definitely do it,’ Gibbes said yesterday. ‘I hope the French don’t read this but I think Munster will have watched what we did and the mistakes we made and they will have a good insight into what they need to do. ‘I think Toulon played pretty well and they’ll be pretty happy with themselves – and I don’t think they will change too much. Munster – they can get that bone between their teeth. ‘The key will be mistakes. We had very little margin of error to beat them and we made too many mistakes. ‘For Munster that will be the challenge – to minimise the errors. They will be well up for it physically, that won’t be a problem. But how they use their platform and the amount of errors they make is vital.’
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67 Five-under-par total for Simon Dyson and Alvaro Quiros, who lead the China Open after the first round
Shay Elliott race on cycLing One of Ireland’s most
prestigious event, the Shay Elliott Memorial Trophy, takes to the roads of Co Wicklow tomorrow writes David Thomas. The event is held in memory of Shay, who wore the yellow jersey as race leader in the Tour de France back in 1963. Defending the title will be Conor Murphy, but he can expect a strong challenge from the winner of the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan, Mark Dowling, and runner up Patrick Clarke.
Carter trails Selby in second round Winners: Clontarf’s Mick McGrath and David Joyce with Joe Schmidt
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Some of Ireland’s finest club rugby stars gathered in Dublin last night for the second annual Ulster Bank League Awards’– where Ireland Head Coach, Joe Schmidt, handed out nine awards to representatives from each division of the Ulster Bank League. Fresh from their nail-biting League victory last weekend, Clontarf – and runners-up Old Belvedere RFC – dominated the awards, scooping four and two awards respectively. Clontarf’s
Mick McGrath took home the Top Try Scorer award, whilst team-mate David Joyce bagged the Top Points Scorer gong and the Rising Star award. Belvedere’s Danny Riordan was named Player of the Year – Division 1A, while his coach, Paul Cunningham, took home the Coach of the Year – Division 1A’ accolade. The winners were selected by a panel of judges, including Ulster Bank rugby ambassador, Alan Quinlan.
Martin just short of victory in Belgium DAN Martin has come agonisingly close to claiming his second WorldTour classic at FlecheWallone in Belgium. Happy to let a group of three riders take the early pace, Martin watched as his Garmin Sharp team-mate Ramunas Navardauskas went clear early on and stayed out front until 12km to go.
number one Tiger Woods is taking a long-term view of his return to action and is thinking about ‘the next ten or 15 years, not the next ten weeks’, according to his agent. The 14time major winner missed this month’s Masters for the first time in 20 years after undergoing surgery to correct a problem with a pinched nerve in his back. His representative Mark Steinberg could only say he would return at some point this summer. ‘He is on schedule but we don’t know what that schedule means. I don’t know when he intends to be playing competitively. This is not about targeting any specific tournament. He’s thinking long-term.’
A crash before the base of the finishing climb up the ultra-steep Mur de Huy hampered his progress briefly, before Martin fought his way through the field. He seemed to have had his tactics just right when he hit the front 150 metres from the line. But a counter-attack by former world No 1 Alejandro Valverde of Movistar saw the Spaniard sail
past Martin in the closing metres to take his second win in the classic. ‘They say you have to learn how to ride this race,’ said Martin, who finished fourth last year. ‘Every year I get a little bit better. This year it was just flat out the whole way up. Alejandro was the strongest today. I thought I had it, but he just blew past me.’
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snOOkER Ali Carter rallied to give himself a fighting chance in his World Championship second-round clash with Mark Selby. The two-time losing finalist was in all sorts of trouble at 5-1 down. But a gritty 44 in the penultimate frame of the session was followed by a thrilling 110 in the last to put him back to 5-3 heading into today’s play. On the balance of things, Carter (pictured) cannot complain at that. At one stage, so frustrated was he by his inability to stop Selby, he swiped his cue through the air in anger.
Wiggins out of Giro giRO Bradley Wiggins and Chris
Martin: So close to win
Froome will miss the Giro d’Italia as they prepare for other events. Wiggins has chosen to enter the Tour of California in May, while Froome is getting ready for his Tour de France defence. Team Sky’s nine-man Giro squad includes Ireland’s Philip Deignan. British road race champion Mark Cavendish has already said he will also miss the Giro.
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Liverpool legend Ian Rush was in Dublin yesterday to promote their end of season friendly with Shamrock Rovers at the Aviva Stadium. Brendan Rodgers’ side travel across the Irish sea for a friendly on Wednesday, May 14, three days after the end of the Premier League season. Rush joined Shamrock Rovers
midfielder Ronan Finn to help promote the contest at the Aviva Stadium. Premier League leaders Liverpool end their season at home to Newcastle on Sunday, May 11 before heading to Ireland. The friendly in Dublin will not feature Liverpool’s World Cupbound stars, including Steven Gerrard and Daniel Sturridge.
COOkE COnfiDEnT ATHLOnE CAn TuRn up HEAT On pAT’s The bookmakers may not quite agree, having priced them at a staggering 18/1 to win, but athlone Town manager mick Cooke believes his side are capable of causing an upset when they visit inform champions st Patrick’s athletic tonight. Defeat to a stoppage time penalty at home to Dundalk last monday was athlone’s ninth on the spin and equals the worst start to a League of Ireland (top division) season in 71 years. ‘It’s a huge ask to go to richmond Park and get a result, but we’re well capable of doing it,’ said an upbeat Cooke. ‘No-one gave us a chance against Dundalk on monday, but we were excellent despite missing
a number of players and anyone there will tell you we deserved at least a point from the game.’ athlone were st Pat’s boss Liam buckley’s first club as a manager, and he still holds them in high regard. ‘athlone are a great club and it’s fantastic to see them back in the Premier Division,’ said buckley. ‘There are some great people involved (there), so I hope they can have a great season.’ but that’s where sentiment will end tonight as saints go for a fifth straight league win. ‘We’re on a good run at the moment, so we’re looking to keep this momentum going,’ said buckley (pictured).
WEEkEnD fOOTbALL fixTuREs TODAY (7.45pm unless stated) Airtricity League Premier Division Bray Wanderers v Dundalk Cork City v Bohemians Derry City v UCD Drogheda United v Shamrock Rovers Limerick v Sligo Rovers St. Patrick’s Athletic v Athlone Town First Division Waterford United v Finn Harps Wexford Youths v Shelbourne (8.0)
Scottish Premiership Partick v St Mirren ............................. SATuRDAY (3pm unless stated) Barclays Premier League Fulham v Hull ..................................... Man Utd v Norwich (5.30pm) TV Southampton v Everton(12.45pm) TV Stoke v Spurs ...................................... Swansea v Aston Villa........................ West Brom v West Ham..................... Scottish Premiership
Aberdeen v St Johnstone ................... Dundee Utd v Motherwell................. Ross County v Kilmarnock ................. SunDAY Barclays Premier League Crystal Palace v Man City (4.10pm) Liverpool v Chelsea (2.05pm) TV Sunderland v Cardiff (12noon) TV Scottish Premiership Celtic v Inverness CT .......................... Hibernian v Hearts(12.45pm) TV
Red-hot form: Sterling has had an impressive season Picture: ePA
RAHEEM STERLING has been told his electric form in Liverpool’s Premier League title charge should make him an automatic starter for England this summer. Kop idol Steve McManaman is convinced the Anfield forward ticks all the boxes and should be one of a group of Reds players in Roy Hodgson’s World Cup XI. Steven Gerrard, Daniel Sturridge, Glen Johnson, Jordan Henderson and teenager Sterling are set to feature in the finals in Brazil. But McManaman, who played 37 times for England between 1994 and 2001, believes Sterling deserves to start the opener against Italy ahead of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Andros Townsend. ‘There is a core of Liverpool players in the England squad and that is very exciting,’ said the 42-year-old, an ambassador for Laureus sports who also played for Real Madrid and Manchester City. ‘He has pace and energy and if we go down that route and he plays he will gain experience. ‘Raheem is good enough to start and at the moment who would you have in the team in front of him? I can’t think of anyone who is better than him at the moment. ‘His form, like that of Jordan Henderson, is fantastic and they deserve to be there in the squad.’ Premier League leaders Liverpool are five points clear of Sunday’s visitors Chelsea with three matches to play and six ahead of Manchester City, who have a game in hand. And they are set to receive a boost for the crunch Anfield clash with Jose Mourinho’s side, where victory would finally rule the visitors out of the title race, as England striker Sturridge is expected to be fit. The 24-year-old missed last weekend’s victory at Norwich with a hamstring problem but looks likely to return on Sunday.
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Platini eases City’s Euro fears NO clubs will be excluded from the Champions League or Europa League for breaching financial fair play rules, say Uefa. A number of teams, believed to include Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, are waiting to hear their sanction for breaking the European body’s rules on spending but president Michel Platini said, although tough penalties would be issued, exclusion from European competition won’t be applied in
time for next season. Platini (pictured) said: ‘If you are expecting blood and tears, you will be disappointed.’
THEy sAiD iT ‘I was a little bit starstruck, to be honest. When you meet your idol you don’t really know what to say but we had a great conversation. He’s a great bloke.’ Young Tottenham striker Harry Kane recalls the moment he met his idol last year – former Spurs favourite Teddy Sheringham
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PEP GUARDIOLA insists he is more optimistic than ever that Bayern Munich will make the Champions League final. The reigning champions lost the first leg of their last-four tie 1-0 at Real Madrid on Wednesday but host the Spaniards in the return next Tuesday. Former Barcelona boss Guardiola (pictured) said: ‘What we were missing was the finish. I am very optimistic. Even more than before this game.’
Bolton no longer laced up with Reebok BOLTON’S ground will be renamed the Macron Stadium in July as part of a new sponsorship deal between the Championship club and the Italian sportswear company. Macron
will replace Reebok, whose name has adorned the stadium since it opened in 1997. ‘This is an extremely exciting and beneficial deal for our club,’ said chairman Phil Gartside.
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Former Real chief says Glazers can forget luring Ancelotti to Old Trafford
by DAvE fiLMER CARLO ANCELOTTI has been ruled out of the running for the Manchester United job by Real Madrid’s former president. Ancelotti, who will lead Real to the final of the Champions League if they can see off holders Bayern Munich next week, appeared to be one of the favourites to succeed David Moyes at Old Trafford. Moyes was sacked on Tuesday and Ancelotti, who had two seasons in charge of rivals Chelsea, was believed to be up against Louis van Gaal for the role. But former Real chief Ramon Calderon has insisted the Italian is staying put in Madrid. He said: ‘I believe Carlo Ancelotti will be with Real Madrid next season. He’s got a contract. We don’t know what’s happening with Manchester United.’ The news will come as another blow to United’s owners the Glazer
‘I believe Carlo will still be with Real Madrid next season’ family and chief executive Ed Woodward as they set about finding a new manager quickly in the wake of a miserable campaign. Ryan Giggs (pictured) has been installed as caretaker boss for the
pRiDEOf92 Nicky Butt (right) last night became the first of united’s new management team to speak publicly, revealing to MutV the pride he and former team-mates Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Phil Neville will feel leading the team out tomorrow.
‘It will be massive for us, a proud moment. To be there together is a bit surreal. We walked in here together when we were 12 and to be here now – I’m not 40 yet but Giggsy is, and myself and Scholes are nearly there. So for us and Phil to be there together is a very proud moment.’
remaining four matches but will not get the job full-time. Bayern boss Pep Guardiola and Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp have already ruled themselves out, seemimgly leaving the way clear for Van Gaal. The Dutchman will leave his national team after the World Cup and has long been linked with a move to the Premier League. Calderon expressed some sympathy for the axed Moyes but agreed the Scot simply had to go. He said: ‘It’s always a pity when you have to sack a coach. ‘Sometimes you have to take those decisions, though. United’s results have not been normal.’ Earlier, Klopp reiterated his desire to stay with Dortmund. ‘I find it a little uncomfortable having to turn somebody down without them even making an enquiry,’ said the 46-year-old. ‘But it seems like I have got to do it anyway.’
Martinez: Plenty of jobs for the Moyes DaviD Moyes is being tipped for a quick return to management, with Tottenham touted as potential employers. While West Ham boss sam allardyce said a break from the game would do Moyes (pictured) ‘the world of good’, there were rumours spurs were lining up talks as they prepare to axe Tim sherwood. and Moyes’ successor at everton, Roberto Martinez, reckons the scot can return to work swiftly despite a disastrous ten months at United. Martinez said: ‘it has been a
difficult experience but any experience is a good experience in this game. ‘We all know he is a very successful man and has a real strong winning mentality and he will get ready to bounce back straight away. ‘it is very difficult to get that experience, the amount of years he has been working at the highest level. ‘i am sure he will be ready to get another job as quick as he can and i am sure he won’t have a lack of offers when you have someone who is so hard-working and focused.’
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