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‘Boy was whipped by gardaí’

Of bone and blood

Rob and Dave Kearney helped publicise a symposium on the role of nutrition in bone health, organised by the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute and the National Dairy Council on Tuesday, exploring the nutritional needs of the ageing population. Afterwards the rugby duo, who know a thing or two about skeletal strength, attended an interactive case study

A TEENAGE boy was whipped with a belt by joanne ahern and a diabetic woman was denied medical The doctor also claimed methadone was treatment while in Garda custody, a retired Limerick doctor told an Oireachtas Com- being handed out ‘willy nilly’ in stations and was critical of Garda training in the use mittee yesterday. Dr Richard O’Flaherty made the claims at of defibrillators. He recommended that people in Garda the Justice Committee hearing on the custody should be given a choice of doctor reform of the Garda Síochána Act. Describing what he witnessed while at- and that there should be protocol in place tending Garda stations as ‘horrific’, he said for dealing with vulnerable people. The committee also heard from the Garda the special needs teenager had the ‘body of Ombudsman Commission a 17-year-old, the mind of an eight to ten Síochána (GSOC), the Association of Garda Ser[year-old]’. The boy was brought to the station after geants and Inspectors, the Garda Inspectorate and human rights groups. ‘borrowing his father’s car’. GSOC made a pitch to be appointed Garda The doctor, who is a member of the Justice4All group, said: ‘He was taken in, confidential recipient, the AGSI highlighted stripped of his pants and underpants, a lack of ongoing training for gardaí and the Garda Inspectorate suggestwhipped with a belt and told ed an expanded role for it. that they’d arrest his dad also A spokesman for the Deand give him the same thing.’ partment of Justice would He said that the incident innot be drawn on whether it volving the diabetic woman was previously aware of the happened in 2003 and she allegations made by Dr went into a coma. O’Flaherty. Dr O’Flaherty’s allegations In a statement, it said: were cut short after Commit‘Any individual who has tee chair David Stanton evidence of Garda misconinterrupted him to remind duct should make that availhim that such matters were able to the Garda Síochána not the subject of yesterday’s Ombudsman Commission.’ hearings. Claims: Dr O’Flaherty

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Kidman’s royal biopic roundly panned on opening day of glamourous film festival

Grace comes under fire for Nicole at Cannes

NICOLE KIDMAN brought grace and style to the opening day of the Cannes Film Festival yesterday. The Australian actress maintained her poise and brought Oscar-winning glamour to the Cote d’Azur, despite getting a mauling on several fronts. Kidman’s film Grace Of Monaco – which is based on Grace Kelly’s marriage to Monaco’s Prince Rainier III – was panned by critics, after being heavily criticised by the late royal’s children. Prince Albert II, Princess Caroline and Princess Stephanie claim the film, which they have yet to see, has needlessly glamorised their family and is filled with ‘major historical inaccuracies and a series of purely fictional scenes.’ The Hollywood Reporter called Grace ‘a stiff, stagey, thunderingly earnest affair’ while The Guardian said it was ‘so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire-risk’. Its director Olivier Dahan has also reportedly been em-

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broiled in a feud over the final edit with US distributor Harvey Weinstein. But Kidman, 46, brushed off the controversy at a press conference yesterday. ‘Obviously, I feel sad because I think the film has no malice towards the family or particularly towards Grace or Rainier. ‘It’s fictionalised obviously. It is not a biopic. But I understand also because it’s their mother and father and they’re trying to protect the privacy of their mother and father,’ she said. Kidman also had her critics on Twitter, with some commenting on a photo showing puffy-looking cheeks, fuller lips and a smooth forehead. ‘The thought on everyone’s minds right now – What’s happened to Nicole Kidman’s face,’ said one. Last year Kidman admitted she once tried Botox, but insisted: ‘I got out of it and now I can finally move my face again.’

Campion: Feminine vision

‘Sexism inherent in film industry’ JANE Campion, the only female director in Cannes Film Festival history to win the Palme d’Or, threw a punch at the male-dominated film industry during Cannes’ inaugural jury press conference yesterday. ‘There is inherent sexism in the industry. It does feel very undemocratic,’ said Campion, this year’s jury president, sitting alongside jury members including director Sofia Coppola and actors Gael García Bernal and Willem Dafoe at the south of France festival. ‘Excuse me gentlemen. It’s not that I resent the male filmmakers, but there are some things that women are doing that we don’t get to know about – a more feminine vision,’ she said, adding that only seven per cent of 1,800 entries submitted to the festival were directed by women. But the New Zealand director, who won the Palme d’Or in 1993 for The Piano and is known for her good humour, dispelled the tensions at one point. ‘My big problem is: What to wear? That’s everyone’s problem at the Cannes Film Festival. There’s a very high bar.’

Putting on a brave face: Nicole Kidman (main picture) at a photo call in Cannes for her new film Grace Of Monaco about Princess Grace (left) Pictures: AP

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Prehistoric prawn was dwarfed by its sperm IT MUST rank as one of the most gross finds ever made. But the discovery of a 17millionyear-old specimen, perfectly preserved after being encased in bat droppings, has thrilled scientists. It is prawn sperm – and the

reason why palaeontologists think it so exciting is because it is the oldest sample ever found, and it’s huge. The bodily fluid belongs to ancient shrimp, known as an ostracod, that was about 1mm long – yet uncoiled the sperm can be

stretched ten times the length of its producer’s body. No one knows why the creatures had giant sperm. What makes it all the more startling is that it was found inside a female prawn – meaning the ostracods were having sex as they died.

‘It makes you feel like a Peeping Tom for finding them in the middle of the act,’ Prof Mike Archer said. He said the sperm is balled up inside the male then shot at the female, who catches it and stores it inside a reproductive tract prior to fertilisation. The same process is

used by crustaceans to this day – only on a smaller scale. Prof Archer’s team at the University of New South Wales found the sperm in Queensland, Australia, in 1988, but the extraordinary nature of the find was only recently discovered after it was sent to France for tests.

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Banking crisis inquiry team is named

Irish Rail: 20th year of Kildare line

Children go free for irish Rail’s Kildare line birthday IRISH Rail is offering free children’s places and station parking to passengers using stations along the Kildare commuter line this weekend. The offer is to mark the 20th anniversary of the service, which links Heuston Station to Kildare. Children under 16 can travel for free on Saturday and Sunday when accompanied by an adult. Free car parking applies to Kildare, Newbridge, Sallins and Hazelhatch stations. Irish Rail estimates 25million people have travelled on the line since it opened in 1994. There are also major expansion plans for the line, including a Hazelhatch to city centre service via the Dart Underground. This scheme, which has still to get Government approval, would see underground stations at Inchicore, Heuston, Christchurch, St Stephen’s Green, Pearse and Spencer Dock. A Government decision on funding is expected next year. David Franks, chief executive of Iarnród Éireann, said: ‘We’re delighted to be celebrating 20 years of the Kildare commuter service. ‘Throughout this time there have been many improvements to the service and we commit to continuing to work to enhance the service further in the years to come.’

LABOUR Party TD Ciaran Lynch will chair the Oireachtas inquiry into the banking crisis, Taoiseach Enda Kenny confirmed yesterday. He will be joined on the committee by eight other Oireachtas members, including Kieran O’Donnell, John Paul Phelan and Eoghan Murphy from Fine Gael, Michael McGrath from Fianna Fáil, Pearse Doherty from Sinn Féin

and Independent TD Stephen Donnelly. There was criticism yesterday of the absence of women so far. However, two Seanad representatives have yet to be announced. It’s expected one will be from a Government party, the other from the opposition. Speaking on the matter yesterday, Mr Kenny said the committee

would have powers of compellability of witnesses. He added: ‘The task confronting them is to establish an efficient enquiry which gets to the heart of a number of matters, quickly and fairly. ‘The purpose of the enquiry should be to both cast a light on what has happened, but also to learn from it.’

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DUBLIN will get a jobs boost this Christmas with the creation of 150 short-term retail positions at the city centre’s first official festive market. An additional €20million is expected to be generated for Dublin’s traders when the Dublin at Christmas Market opens from November 13 to December 23. Situated between Grafton Street and Merrion Row, it will include 60 traditional wooden concession chalets along the park’s exterior. Launched yesterday by Brian Hayes, Minister for Public Works, and Dublin City Business Improvement District CEO Richard Guiney (above), the winter bazaar is hoped to rival markets in Galway and Belfast, which attract more than 600,000 people per year over four weeks.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has dismissed fears his plans to jump-start the construction industry will create another property bubble. Vowing to create up to 60,000 jobs over the next six years for unemployed builders, Mr Kenny said he was not leading the country towards another boom. ‘There are 100,000 people on the live register involved in the construction industry,’ he said. ‘We want so to see that these people get an opportunity to get back into the world of work.’ The Government strategy – which will include 75 measures to get builders back to work – will involve affordable new housing, he vowed. Other measures in the so-called Construction 2020 plan include a taskforce to resolve a lack of housing in Dublin with financial breaks for developers to build projects and the release of €2billion by Nama to help developers complete or commence building projects. The Government will also explore a mortgage insurance, or help-to-buy scheme, for first-time buyers. Rejecting concerns the first-time buyer scheme could further inflate house

n SOME 43 per cent of potential homebuyers believe house prices will be higher next year, a new AIB/ESRI Housing Market Index report has found. This is down from 50 per cent the previous quarter. Prospective Dublin buyers reckon house prices will increase by 4.3 per cent, compared with a 1.5 per cent rise nationally. Some 5.5 per cent said they would not buy because of fears over income or job security. Fifteen per cent said they were worried about rising interest rates. prices, Mr Kenny said the plan was not about contractors, bankers, developers or greed but about creating jobs and housing. However, Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath said the proposed scheme is nothing more than a pre-election gimmick that does not tackle the real problems faced by first-time buyers. Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said the plan read like ‘an extract from the election stunt section of the Fianna Fáil handbook of strokes and other scams’.

Pitcher smashed on man’s Inquest after second baby head in Father’s Day row dies at hospital in 3 weeks A MEATH father-of-four awaits sentencing for smashing a stranger over the head with a glass beer pitcher on Father’s Day. Thomas Cummins, 40, apologised for the unprovoked attack at Smyth’s Pub in Fairview on June 17, 2012, telling the court he had been drinking all day and ‘made a show of my father and my son’. He has since stopped drinking since and has completed a course to become a personal trainer. ‘My plan is to be proper role model to my children, which I haven’t been,’ he said. Cummins, of Belfry, Duleek, Co Meath, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to the victim, who required three staples in his head. Judge Carmel Stewart noted Cummin’s heartfelt apology and adjourned the case for sentencing to July 21.

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after the death of a newborn baby at the same hospital where another baby died three weeks ago. The Health Service Executive confirmed a baby died yesterday morning at Cavan General Hospital after being born there on Tuesday. The baby’s death is the second death of an infant at the hospital following the death of a baby on April 26. A separate investigation is continuing into that death. The reports follow an investigation being ordered earlier this year by the Health Information and Quality Authority into the deaths of four babies over several weeks at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise.

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Spirit of Stephen hailed as teenage cancer patient dies by HAyDEn SMiTH INSPIRATIONAL fundraiser Stephen Sutton died yesterday, prompting another surge of donations for his cause and an outpouring of tributes from around the world. The 19-year-old’s fundraising page on Britain’s Teenage Cancer Trust site passed the €4.1million mark, soaring by more than €120,000 in the hours after his family said he had passed away peacefully in the early hours of the morning. His mother, Jane, confirmed his death in a statement posted on Facebook, writing: ‘My heart is bursting with pride but breaking with pain for my courageous, selfless, inspirational son. ‘The ongoing support and outpouring of love for Stephen will help greatly at this difficult time, in the same way as it helped Stephen throughout his journey. ‘We all know he will never be forgotten, his spirit will live on, in all that he achieved and shared with so many.’ Stephen, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer at 15 and told it was in-

Smiling until the end: Stephen Sutton giving his supporters a thumbsup from hospital Picture: PA

curable in 2012, captured the hearts of millions by raising money in the face of numerous operations and courses of chemotherapy.

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efforts one of social media’s great success stories. He put raising £10,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust at the top of his original 46-item bucket list. By last night, he had brought in nearly 350 times that sum. The teenager, from Burntwood, Staffordshire was readmitted to hospital on Sunday after developing breathing difficulties. News of his death prompted a fresh wave of social media activity. The Facebook post written by his mother was shared more than 120,000 times within an hour and ‘liked’ by more than 600,000 people. Last night, more than 160,000 people from all over the world had added comments to the message. British prime minister David Cameron, who visited the teenager in hospital earlier this month, said: ‘He was determined not to waste a minute, not to waste an hour or a day. ‘I can hardly think of anyone I have met with such a zest for life, with such a belief that you can get things done, and who wanted to live every minute.’

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1D climb to fourth on young rich list

THE 2014 Sunday Times Rich List is dominated not by one person but by one band – One Direction. All five members of the Simon Cowell boyband – Mullingar native Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne – have had their coffers swelled by a string of hits, a movie and the success of their global Take Me Home Tour. They each currently have about €17million in the bank – a figure likely to rise again this year as they head out on the road for their Where We Are tour. Top of the Rich List’s countdown of the biggest financial successes in the music world aged 30 and under is

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Adele with €55million in the bank – up from €36million last year. Getting paid to do nothing is a dream for most people but for Adele it’s how she swelled her fortune by 50 per cent. The singer took a year off from the music business last year and while she hardly spent the past 12 months lying around with her feet up – she would have been too busy looking after her baby Angelo for that – Adele failed to release any new music following hit albums 19 and 21. All of which might slightly annoy No.2 on the list – superstar DJ Calvin Harris – who by comparison had a hectic 12 months.

That said, his vast personal wealth of €36million is sure to soften the blow at missing out on top spot. The 30-year-old producer – real name Adam Richard Wiles – used to make money stacking shelves but now commands up to €122,000 a night to play a few hits as resident DJ in a Las Vegas nightclub club. As if financial reward wasn’t enough for his work, Harris was also named songwriter of the year at the Ivor Novello Awards. The position of Irish band U2 in the overall list remains unchanged from last year at sixth with €523million, down from €636million in 2013. Elton John is in tenth position with a fortune of €318million.

Cowell adds another €61m to the pile

Going one way: Mullingar man Niall Horan is worth €17million picTure: pa

X FACTOR boss Simon Cowell has raked in an extra €61million over the past year. The mogul, 54, has seen his worth grow to €360million to put him in eighth place in the Sunday Times’s list of music’s millionaires. His value has been boosted by a new deal with ITV for a further series of The X Factor and Britain’s Got

Talent. Former X Factor judge Gary Barlow is estimated to be worth €79million – more than double the €36million he held five years ago. But this does not take into account a court ruling that he paid into a tax avoidance scheme. Topping the rich list was London-based billionaire Len Blavatnik, who owns the Warner Music Group.

wholly thursday

This week sees KEN ROGAN wondering with all the (highly entertaining) mindless death and destruction in our lives, where is the love?

ove and death. And George Clooney. We’re cooking strange sauce this week, and first into the pot goes love. It’s slippery, and hard to define, and you might not know it ever existed, were it not for pop music, which isn’t much of an endorsement. Show me love. The power of love. I need your love. All you need is love. Pop music bangs on about love in this quasi-religious tone that implies faith is all that matters. Well screw that. I wanna know what love is. And if pop asks the question, maybe death provides the answer, because for my money, love and loss are intimately connected, and death is the biggest loss of all. Which brings us to George Clooney – a male medusa whose good-looking gaze and humanitarian commitments can stop a woman’s heart beating. Clooney is love and death. Well OK, maybe he’s more coffee and wristwatches, but he did once kill the crap out of some guy in a film called The Peacemaker. Having bested numerous henchmen in a car chase, Clooney walks across this quaint little village square, and shoots to death

Mario who must dispatch several OK, so I guess this is less about end-of-level baddies to save the death and more about stylised princess. violence and killing. And to be fair, In one scene, he shoots this cop’s special effects do have their place. wife in the arm just to make a Who can forget the Predator point. And it’s brilliant. She is ripping out some guy’s entire spinal totally innocent – unarmed, column? Or that lightning bolt gun unaware, and sitting in her own from District 9, which explodes its home. And he just shoots her victims into a splashy mess of without any threat or warning. organs and goo. Fantastic. Magnificent. You don’t But whether it’s blood need special effects and gore, or daggers in and car crashes – the drawing room, just cold-blooded or flat-lining resolve. Death is to the screen patients, or On this basis, death-row what love is to pop Jason Bourne is defendants, or music, and both have a drip with no secret agents – testicles. He’s death is the been driving our this high common culture since the cave denominator. performance sports car of death My own guilty painting that always rips pleasure is the through the movie until ‘Hannibal’ TV show, the last lap, when he which requires you to always catches the bus. suspend your disbelief about basic I got news for you, Bourne. We police work. Some parts of the know what the bus is like. We’re on show are great, and Hannibal is a the bus. We took the bus to see you. compelling character, but it’s We’re here for our fictitious go in getting hard to ignore the elephant the sports car, so cut the redemptive in the fridge. crap and kill some goddamn people Anyway, the sheer quantity of already – especially that guy who death on our screens, in all its murdered your girlfriend. I mean, sadness or severity, flags our come on! unspoken preoccupation with it,

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this unarmed, incapacitated, bad guy lying prone and injured in an upturned BMW. I love that bit. There’s a similar moment in Taken, a movie in which Liam Neeson plays this hyper-violent Super

and the knowledge that, one day, our own credits will roll. Stories help us cope with this fact in small doses that are kept at a safe distance by amphibious, Rastafarian predators, or lightning bolt guns, or bullet-proof action heroes, or mannerly murderers in tuxedos. Death is to the screen what love is to pop music, and both have been driving our culture since the cave painting. But if death is everywhere, then where, as Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas put it, is the love? For something that is supposed to be both the question and the answer, as well as the meaning and the message, love really doesn’t leave much of a footprint, does it? And when you think of all the people there ever were in history – billions upon billions of them – and how much love they must have had for each other, down through the ages, well – where is that? What record is there of all the love that ever was? Headstones.

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Watch out Gaga, he’s behind you She’s happy to let the world admire her bum on stage but Lady Gaga looked a little put out when boyfriend Taylor Kinney gave it an affectionate pat in public yesterday. The 28-year-old, dressed in a short checked skirt, swivelled round in surprise as her actor boyfriend broke into a smile. Kinney, 32, escorted Gaga to her gig at Madison Square Garden as her artpop Ball tour rolled into her home city of New york PIctuRes: Rex

Bieber tried to rob me of my phone...

Cracked: Rihanna reacts after she drops the phone of LA police president Soboroff

RiRi breaks fan’s phone

Cracking your smartphone screen sucks... just ask Rihanna. The 26-year-old singer was posing for a selfie with a fan’s iPhone when she dropped it. Unfortunately it belonged to Los Angeles police commission president Steve Soboroff. To make amends, RiRi paid €18,360 to a police department charity fund. She also signed the phone so Mr Soboroff could sell it on eBay. The top bid it has attracted so far is €7,340. POP brat Justin Bieber is in trouble with the law again after being accused of attempted robbery for allegedly trying to snatch a woman’s mobile phone. The 20-year-old was not happy when a woman tried to take a photo of

him on a mini-golf course in LA and demanded she hand over her phone. When she refused, Bieber is said to have reached inside her handbag and snatched it, reports TMZ. After the woman showed

Miley: I was not having a rant about my ex Liam

Miley Cyrus yesterday insisted an onstage rant at ‘the motherf*****s who broke my heart’ was not aimed at ex Liam Hemsworth. The singer, 21, tweeted after the outburst at G-A-Y on Friday: ‘Just FYI what I said the other night at G.A.Y. had nothing to do with Liam. I was just tryin to rile up the boys.’ Miley and Liam, 24, started going out in 2009 but broke up last year. Bieber her phone to prove she had taken no pictures, he ranted: ‘You’re humiliating yourself. Get out of here,’ she claims. The Baby singer was quizzed over Monday’s incident but was not arrested, said the LAPD.

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Jay-Z and Solange go to retail therapy J

ay-Z obviously doesn’t hold grudges after being spotted taking sister-in-law Solange Knowles shopping just days after she punched and kicked him. The rapper appeared to be back in the 27-year-old’s good books as the pair checked out the bling at luxury Manhattan store Mr Flawless. Jay-Z – real name Shawn Carter – and Solange spent 20 minutes perusing women’s jewellery as they were shown around by store

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owner Greg yuna. They showed ‘no signs of strife’ but didn’t speak much when inside as they just ‘browsed quietly’, according to website TMZ. But it seems neither were in the mood for some expensive bling as they are said to have tried nothing on and left the shop without splashing out. The outing came after footage

emerged of Solange attacking JayZ in front of 32-year-old Beyoncé in a lift at the Standard Hotel, in New york City. It is now claimed Solange lost her cool after the Met Gala because she didn’t want her sister’s hubby going without his wife to Rihanna’s after-party. Bey has since stepped into damage control mode by uploading a series of loving images of her and her sibling to her Instagram account.

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Wagamama diners were left stunned when Johnny Depp bowled up for a katsu curry fix. The 50-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star was spotted with his bodyguards at the pan-asian eatery in London. Satisfying a big appetite, Depp also ordered a wagamama ramen and some steak soba – but one fan failed to believe it was actually the real star. ‘Fake Johnny Depp is channeling Johnny from about 6 years ago. So wrong,’ the customer tweeted.

Jolie: I’m married... hang on. Oh no, I’m not!

t’s the wedding invite we’ve all been waiting for but it seems we’re too late as Angelina Jolie let slip she’s already walked down the aisle with Brad Pitt. the 38-year-old described Pitt as her ‘husband’ in a slip of the tongue as she gushed about how supportive he was. Giving away the secret of her worklife balance, the Maleficent actress said: ‘feel very fortunate, there are so many mothers who don’t have the ability I do to work and then have time off or to take turns with their partner, I have a great husband in Brad so I feel very lucky.’ Pitt, 50, had previously hinted that wedding bells were on the horizon when

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he told how the couple’s children were nagging them to seal the deal on their nine-year romance. He revealed he hoped to exchange rings ‘soon’. But to add to the confusion in the havethey-haven’t-they saga, Jolie perhaps realised her mistake and started to backtrack. In a later interview, she insisted her big day was still in the planning stages. ‘We are discussing it with the children and how they imagine it might be,’ the 38-year-old told People magazine. ‘Which is verging on hysterical, how kids envision a wedding.’

Nice ring to it? Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Picture: evan agostini/invision/aP

My affair with Cara shows way to be bravely bisexual

Cara Delevingne’s lover Michelle Rodriguez hopes their open romance will give others the courage to come out as bisexual. The Texan actress said she ignored criticism of her relationship with the model, 21, and believed timid same-sex couples could learn from her example.

‘It’s cool man, I mean, whatever,’ the 35-year-old told Gay Star News. ‘I’m not big on people’s opinions, you know? But I do realise the importance of having the bravery to live as who you are. Maybe me opening my big fat mouth might inspire somebody else to do the same.’

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Elephant calf’s vigil for mother

Get up, mum: Desperate Sokotei nuzzles up against the body of Cherie, who died from an infection in Samburu, Kenya Pictures: Barcroft Media

Rescue mission: Workers prepare sedated Sokotei for his journey to the orphanage for baby elephants

Five-month-old orphan stays by parent’s side

by nicOLE LE MARiE A BABY elephant clings desperately to the body of his dead mother after finding himself all alone in the world at just five months old. Shivering and dehydrated, Sokotei kept a stubborn vigil by his parent’s side when she succumbed to an infection. Rescuers feared he would die of cold or be eaten by predators – but found he refused to budge when they went to his aid in Samburu, northern Kenya. They eventually managed to tranquillise him, however, and the youngster is getting over his grief together with other orphans at an elephant ‘nursery’.

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‘Sokotei’s rescue was a race against time,’ said Rob Brandford, director of the David Sheldrake Wildlife Trust. ‘Everyone had a long night battling to keep him safe from predators by trying to catch him. ‘Alone, he was extremely vulnerable but rain and the fact that he’s a wild animal meant we had to wait until morning, when everyone woke early and ready to face a dramatic few hours.’ The calf was saved as part of the wildlife trust’s Orphans Project,

New friends: Recovering Sokotei gets to know some of the other orphans at the refuge in Nairobi National Park which also helps animals whose parents have been killed by poachers. Staff keep tabs on elephants across the country and found out that Sokotei’s mother, Cherie, was ailing. They were ready to step in when she lost her fight against the infection – caused by a twisted gut – but saving her child was no easy task. When they finally caught him he had to be driven to an airstrip and flown to the elephant nursery in Nairobi National Park. Keepers quenched his thirst with

milk and water before bringing in some of the other 30 orphans to comfort him. Despite the shock of his ordeal, he was soon making friends and should eventually be able to return to the wild. ‘Once Sokotei is old enough, he will spend time going out into the bush to meet other herds, learn what food is safe and essentially learn how to be a wild elephant,’ Mr Brandford added. ‘If they have no memory of living wild, it can take eight years before they are in a position to survive.’

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Grief turns to violence with 100 workers still missing after blast

Fury as 274 miners die

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VIOLENCE erupted against the Turkish government yesterday after at least 245 people were killed in a mine explosion in the country. Protesters clashed with police and abuse was hurled at prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he visited the scene of the disaster. About 450 workers have been rescued from the pit in Soma, western Turkey, but 100 are still unaccounted for. The workers are thought to have been about 420m underground at the time of the blast. Tensions were high outside the mine, where relatives and miners gathered as bodies were brought out. Rescue workers pulled blankets back from the faces of the dead to let families identify them. One elderly man wailed after he recognised a victim and was restrained by police when he tried to climb into an ambulance with the body. ‘Our hope is that, God willing, they will be brought out,’ Erdogan said. ‘That is what we are waiting for.’ The blast, thought to have been caused by faulty electrical equipment, tore through the mine during a shift change. It increased the death toll be-

Dozens of Boko Haram killed SCORES of Islamic extremists have been killed or detained by villagers in Nigeria. The militants, linked to the Boko Haram group which abducted 276 girls last month, were ambushed by vigilantes amid fears they were planning a fresh attack. The locals, from Kalabalge in Borno, said they were taking matters into their own hands because the army was not proactive enough. The search for the missing teenagers is continuing.

Death of Sugar Man filmmaker Outpouring: Miners and relatives react to bodies being brought out Picture: ePA

cause there would have been a largerthan-normal number of miners underground. The explosion then started a fire that led to a power failure, resulting in the mine’s lifts failing to work. Carbon monoxide poisoning has been blamed for the deaths. Erdogan promised the tragedy would be investigated to the ‘smallest detail’

and ‘no negligence will be ignored’. Earlier he declared three days of national mourning and ordered flags to be at half-mast. Soma Komur Isletmeleri, which owns the mine, said the accident occurred despite the ‘highest safety measures and constant controls’. It added: ‘Our main priority is to get

our workers out so that they may be reunited with their loved ones.’ Mining accidents are common in Turkey, which is plagued by poor safety conditions for workers. The country’s worst mining disaster happened in 1992, when a gas explosion killed 263 workers near the port of Zonguldak.

AN OSCAR-winning director has died at the age of 36. Malik Bendjelloul, who won critical acclaim for Searching For Sugar Man, is believed to have killed himself in Stockholm, Sweden. His documentary followed two South African journalists who set out to find Sixto Rodriguez, a US singer who seemingly vanished without a trace. Distributor Sony Pictures Classic said: ‘Malik didn’t chase fame, fortune or awards, although those accolades still found him.’

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news@metroherald.ie For the first time since 2009, women will dominate the main jury – there are five females to four males. Campion will be joined by Sofia Coppola, Carole Bouquet, Leila Hatami and Jeon Do-yeon, alongside Willem Dafoe, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jia Zhangke and Nicolas Winding Refn. But Melissa Silverstein, editor of the Women And Hollywood blog on movie website Indiewire told In Focus: ‘The top-level competition is still a place where we do not see enough women. To deflect the conversation to the fact we have a lot of women on the jury, and that we have 15 women in the festival, is just disingenuous.’ The female quota is not as impressive as it might appear because five of those 15 directors worked on the same film, Bridges Of Sarajevo. However, Helen O’Hara of Empire magazine still thinks it’s something to applaud. ‘Female directors struggle,’ she said. ‘First of all, to get their films made, to get them seen and noticed. It doesn’t get more high-powered than Cannes, so it’s a really good thing.’

‘Most of the films that get in are done through connections. That’s the way it is at top-tier festivals, to say these are places of meritocracy is a joke.’ The lack of female directors at Cannes points to an industry-wide problem. Campion, Coppola, Arnold, Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow, Catherine Hardwicke and Phyllida Lloyd are some of the successful filmmakers in a field dominated by men. ‘The reality is 92 per cent of films are made by men,’ said Kate Gerova, creative director of the Birds Eye View Film Festival, which celebrates women filmmakers. ‘The competition reflects what happens annually as there’s less of a pool to draw from.’ In Hollywood, just six per cent of the highest-grossing films are directed by women, according to the Celluloid Ceiling survey by San Diego State University. ‘The film industry as a whole suffers from a terHE camera flashes began The 67th Cannes Film Festival opened yesterday in the south of France rible gender imbalance and women illuminating Cannes yes- and, again, the event is accused of not doing enough to represent female are under represented at all levels,’ terday, as the city’s annual filmmakers. Will the multiplex remain a man’s world? ANN LEE reports said Nikki Baughan, editor of film film festival got under way magazine MovieScope. along the French Riviera. ‘Instead of pointing the finger at A swarm of paparazzi pointed and highest prize, the Palme d’Or. New Rohrwacher and Naomi Kawase festivals that can’t seem to find shot some of the world’s best – and Zealand’s Jane Campion won it for will be battling it out for the top ET Silverstein claims fa- enough work by female filmmakers best dressed – actresses along La her 1993 film, The Piano – and even prize. vouritism is at work in the to include in their line-ups, the focus then she had to share it, with ChiThey are among 15 female direcCroisette. festival. Directors such as should be on creating more opportuBut while women are the centre of nese filmmaker Chen Kaige, who tors listed across all categories. Terrence Malick, Michael nities for women so that they are This year, Campion is head of the attention in front of the lens, the fes- made Farewell My Concubine. Haneke, David Cronen- given equal chances to make films.’ tival has long been criticised for not There was outrage in 2010 and 2012 festival jury while British director Studies show women make up when no women were featured in Andrea Arnold leads the Critics berg and Ken Loach are among fahonouring those behind it. Week jury. Another female director, miliar faces who return regularly to more than half of the audience at In its long history, stretching back the competition shortlist. cinemas, and they’re not just going In 2013, there was just one, Valeria Rebecca Zlotowski, will preside Cannes. as far as the late 1930s, only one ‘It’s a very closed world,’ she said. to see the latest female director has been awarded its Bruni Tedeschi. But this year, Alice over two other juries at the festival. romcom. ‘They’re not all going as the girlOnly one woman friend and tagging has won the best along after some director Oscar guy,’ said O’Hara. The highest number of women ‘They’re making directors in the running for the their own choices Palme d’Or Maiwenn Le Besco about what to see is compared with Naomi Kawase for 2008 movie and at the moment Julia Leigh The Hurt Locker they’re not really Lynne Ramsay being catered to.’ directors of their goods of the 250 retailers useofAlibaba to sell Silverstein said all nominated in 2011 independent films top-grossing movies more women need are women of last year to be encouraged as directors. ‘People shouldn’t In 2012 , be thinking a directhere were no women tor is a guy with a in contention baseball cap, glassis the only woman to have for the top es and a beard,’ she won a best director award prize at Cannes said. at the Golden Globes, Two female directors have ‘Isn’t shooting for her 1983 film, been nominated for this year’s Yentl films in Hollywood Palme d’Or, out of 18 contenders about dreaming? Don’t we want to give girls the opportunity to In dream that they can direct? ‘Films are our of the behind-the-scenes cave drawings. personnel They’re what we only on the leave behind. They’re how people learn about life. highest-grossing female If we only see the films of director was stories of men then nominated for the we’re missing out Palme d’Or out of 19 were women on half the world.’ movies is the only female director to win

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Psychiatric tests on Pistorius will delay death trial

OSCAR PISTORIUS was yesterday ordered to undergo psychiatric tests, which could delay his murder trial for more than a month. The South African paralympian, 27, was told by judge Thokozile Masipa he would be assessed at a state hospital after a defence psychiatrist said he suffered a general anxiety disorder. Judge Masipa said Pistorius may not have raised this at the time ‘but evidence on his behalf clearly raised the issue and cannot be ignored’. Dr Merryll Vorster told the Pretoria court on Monday the double amputee was also ‘hyper-vigilant’ and feared being attacked. Pistorius maintains he

by AiDAn RADnEDgE shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 29, after mistaking her for an intruder at his home on Valentine’s Day last year. The prosecution allege he deliberately killed her after a row. Following the ruling, Pistorius’ uncle, Arnold Pistorius, said: ‘As a family, we are comforted by the thoroughness and detail of this judgment and Judge Masipa’s commitment, using every avenue, to ensure a fair trial.’ Pistorius could be acquitted if it is found he is suffering a mental disorder. The court will decide on the observation period, likely to be 30 days, on Tuesday.

World Berlusconi: Book proves conspiracy

iTALY: Silvio Berlusconi has seized on claims from an ex-US treasury secretary that EU bosses plotted to oust him. The disgraced former premier said ‘serious’ allegations in Tim Geithner’s book ‘confirm what I’ve been saying’. Mr Geithner said the EU tried to get the US to refuse to back IMF loans to Italy unless Berlusconi, 77, quit in 2011.

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FRAnCE: A 2009 plane crash which killed all 228 people on-board was avoidable, a report claims. Fatigued pilots on Air France flight AF447 made ‘inappropriate responses’ as a tropical thunderstorm struck. ‘The captain failed in his duties,’ it said. The Airbus A330, travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the sea at 60metres per second.

KAzAKHsTAn: Astronauts Koichi Wakata from Japan, Mikhail Tyurin from Russia and Rick Mastracchio from the US relax after their capsule landed following a mission on the International Space Station Picture: AP

gsK executive ‘ran Burger King scandal a bribery network’ takes a sour twist

CHinA: A British executive at drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has been accused of ordering staff to pay doctors and health officials to use its products. Mark Reilly operated a ‘bribery network’ that generated at least €110million, police say. He is also accused of bribing Chinese government workers. The case has been handed to prosecutors.

gERMAnY: A TV journalist who exposed a hygiene scandal which saw Burger King close restaurants was paid by rivals McDonald’s, it has emerged. Gunter Wallraff, 71, was paid €7,950 by the fast food chain. ‘I see nothing underhand with what I have done,’ he said. BK boss Andreas Bork said the fallout had ‘hit us hard’.

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★ supergarden RTÉ1, 8.30pm

This week’s challenge for former stonemason Thomas is to create a family garden that will grow with their needs over the years. Dad Peter is a keen gardener and would like to take on some of the planting, especially some fern and apple trees. Thomas has a vision of his own – an edible and medicinal garden, where people look beyond just having pretty flowers. Can the two be combined to make the ideal space?

crisis TV3, 10PM Gillian Anderson and Dermot Mulroney star in this suspense-filled drama, centring on the ambush of a school bus from an elite private school in Washington DC. Former CIA analyst Francis Gibson (Mulroney) uses his wife, Janice, to gain information about the CIA’s covert soldier programme. Meanwhile, Dunn and Finley go off grid, becoming targets of the CIA when they take drastic measures to get information. And tech CEO Meg Fitch (Anderson) searches for her company’s connection to the kidnapping and is willing to put everything on the line to get her daughter Amber back.

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Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan (right) follow their culinary adventures in the north of England – chronicled in The Trip – by pottering around Italy. Brydon’s glee is initially dented by news Coogan has given up drinking but the pair settle into a routine of roughly rivalrous ribaldry, digs and impersonations, while chomping their way through huge meals in fabulous restaurants.

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Miranda Otto (Lord Of The Rings) plays uptight, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop in this well-acted, if rather underpowered, book adaptation. It’s an account of Bishop’s relationship with feisty Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Glória Pires). Polite, rather melodramatic and elegantly shot, with an evocative 1950s milieu and Rio as a beautiful backdrop.

the food inspectors BBC1, 8pm

Next time you go to grab a trolley at the supermarket, make sure you have antibacterial wipes handy. As Chris Hollins and Matt Allwright return with a new batch of food-related horrors we hear how some shoppers leave traces of their bathroom history on the handles. Nice.

Soaps eastenders RTÉ1, 7.30pm

He’s only been in Albert Square five minutes but already Danny Dyer is up for no fewer than three gongs at this year’s British Soap Awards, including Best Actor and Sexiest Male for his portrayal of Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter. Tonight he’s knight in shining armour for Shirley – there should be an award for that.

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Drama the good wife More4, 9pm

BBC2, 9pm

That a drug prescribed to fight morning sickness resulted in babies being born without arms or legs was a scandal. But the truly shocking story is how the governments of the day and drug company interests colluded in a bid to silence the press. It took campaigners, mostly parents, to win justice.

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dog day afternoon

Des continues his year-long adventures in China as he learns Mandarin, with the aim of performing a oneman comedy show to a Chinese audience. With the deadline approaching, Des joins forces with a local amateur comedy troupe to establish a western style stand-up scene in Beijing.

A young Al Pacino plays a hapless bank robber who ends up in a hostage-taking siege in a Brooklyn bank in the midst of a heatwave in this based-on-a-true-story crime drama directed by Sidney Lumet. The tension is palpable, from the back and forth talk between cops and cons, to the sweat glistening on Pacino’s forehead. Gripping.

RTÉ1, 10.15pm

the Big allotment challenge BBC2, 9.30pm

Like an early ripening cucumber, the final of the horticultural challenge, presented by Fern Britton, has thrust its way into the schedules a few days early. As befits a series with a trugload of bizarre challenges, the title will hang on the plumpness of melons and the pertness of dahlias, not to mention a floral basket that has to go the whole 360 degrees. By the end, it’s homegrown chilli tequilas all round. By golly they look good…

Jonah from tonga BBC3, 10pm

Chris Lilley deserves a prize for the assorted ways he creatively slips the word dick into practically every sentence his comic creation, toilet-mouthed teen Jonah, utters. Tonight, the chosen one shows off his (total lack of) breakdancing skills while bare-faced cheeking Graydon, the school captain. You’ll laugh despite yourself.

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the zoo RTÉ1, 7pm

BBC3, 9pm

Fans of The Good Wife – well, those who’d avoided the US spoilers – were left reeling by the shock courtroom shooting of key player Will (Josh Charles) last week. It’s the emotional fallout from that event that plays out tonight, with legal rivals Alicia (Julianna Margulies, above) and Diane (Christine Baranski) putting their differences aside as they try to come to terms with what’s happened. Keep a hanky handy.

That’s Tyger as in Outnumbered actor Tyger Drew-Honey, who is in a unique, ahem, position to assess the impact of porn on today’s youth. Why? His mum is a former adult model and his dad – film name Ben Dover, groan – is a veteran of the British porn scene. Such a background could have screwed with a young boy’s mind but Tyger seems admirably levelheaded as he puts the fears over a generation being depraved by internet sex into perspective.

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des Bishop: Breaking china

tyger takes on… porn

TV3, 7pm & 8pm It’s buy one, get one free as far as weddings are concerned in Emmerdale tonight, with the ding dong of wedding bells – or at least the sweep of a registrar’s pen – greeting the nuptial of a pair of Dingles. Needless to say, both ceremonies stand a high chance of being scuppered by secrets and lies. For Moira and Cain, it’s James who’s the spectre at the feast, waving a DNA test. As for Charity (Emma Atkins), will someone let her pregnancy secret out of the bag?

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Fun

On this week’s trip to Dublin Zoo, we observe a pair of tiny new arrivals in the Pygmy Marmoset habitat. Ah... keeper Helen is concerned when one of the ostrich flock develops a mysterious limp. Meanwhile it’s time to say goodbye as an Abyssinian Ground Hornbill (pictured above) leaves the zoo for its new home in Russia.

RTÉ1, 12.20am

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Film4, 6.35pm

‘You know the first one’s actually rather good’ is the general judgement on this bite into Stefanie Meyer’s vampire romance series. In it, heroine Bella (Kristen Stewart) starts a new school only to find her classmates include some dishy vampires, including a brooding Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson, above with Stewart). The problem? If he kisses her, he might bite her to death. The whole chastity message is a tad unsettling but strong performances from the leads more than compensate.

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TCM, 10.55pm Paul Giamatti’s wine-buff bore and Thomas Haden Church’s soon-to-be-wed playboy take a boozy trip around the Californian vineyards as a sort of weeklong bachelor party in this Oscar-winning adaption of Rex Pickett’s 2004 novel. Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh are the romantic interests the lads hook up with. Watch out for Oh’s memorable motorcycle helmet moment.

X-men – the last stand Film4, 9pm

Clearly not the ‘Last’ given the seventh X-Men film is out next week and luckily so, as director Brett Ratner socks us with one of the sillier sequels to the franchise. Here, the mutants fight a potential ‘cure’ for their condition which dastardly Magneto (Ian McKellen) for one is not happy about. Frisky fun.

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Despite Twitter’s issues, co-founder Biz Stone is still all about sharing the love, writes Claire Allfree

iz Stone is such a sunnyside-up, glass-half-full kind of chap that he can achieve a hyperbolic enthusiasm even for his office. ‘i work at the best office in the world, it’s so full of sunshine right now,’ he says. Stone is in California, so maybe he has a point. ‘But London is lovely too, right?’ Well, not always, no. And anyway, no selfrespecting Londoner would eulogise about their office. But Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, has made a career – and an awful lot of money – by viewing the workplace as somewhere full of goodness and possibility. Maybe we could learn a thing or two from him. Handily, he has written a book showing us how to do just that. Things A Little Bird Told Me is part autobiography, part breezy self-help book, part The Power Of Positive Thinking for the start-up generation. Appropriately, it is short, to the point and full of folksy, tweet-sized aphorisms on how to build a business. ‘Constraint builds creativity’ is one. ‘Solutions emerge if you look for the positive’ is another. Feeling galvanised yet? ‘i just have a certain kind of perspective,’ says Stone, who is so

relentlessly cheerful that he can’t fall off a bike without turning it into a learning experience. ‘it’s much better to live that way.’ it has certainly helped change the world. The way Stone tells it, he came up with the idea for Twitter with his friend, web developer Jack Dorsey, basically after lunch one day in 2006, inspired initially by the ‘status’ feature on AOL instant Messenger. They worked with colleagues Noah Glass and Evan Williams at podcasting company Odeo and set about developing status updates via hooking up text messaging with the web. The team considered calling their idea ‘Jitter’ but decided it sounded over-caffeinated. (A computer came up with Twitter after someone typed in words that rhymed with jitter.) Nearly a decade later and Twitter is a story of mind-boggling numbers: hundreds of millions of users; a billion tweets sent every 48 hours. it’s currently having a bumpy ride on the stock market but that no longer concerns Stone, if it ever did. After plenty of well-documented infighting, he left Twitter in 2011, at odds with an increasingly mercantile board. As Stone writes: ‘it’s fine to learn on the job but as soon as billions are at stake, people get antsy.’ From the start, Stone was never in it for the money. instead, he comes across as that rare thing: a quixotic visionary who has mainly got where he is by being nice. His guiding

ethos has been an unswerving belief in the goodness of humanity and the belief that if you bring people together, only good can come of it. ‘The overwhelming majority of humans are good and want to do good things,’ he says. ‘Large-scale systems that allow people to communicate and express themselves really wouldn’t work otherwise.’

Bright outlook: ‘Solutions emerge if you look for the positive,’ says the enthusiastic Biz Stone

WiTTEr very quickly moved from being a platform that allowed users to discover the nearest quiet pub to a hugely powerful journalistic tool. Stone cites an earthquake in San Francisco, which hit Twitter before it hit the newswires, as the moment he realised the social network had the ability to change how we consume news. But it was the Arab Spring that really harnessed Twitter’s power to communicate events the second they occurred. Of course, Twitter has also enabled us to follow the rapid changes in Katie Price’s love life or, more troublingly, allow unhappy people to make death threats. ‘Yes, obviously Twitter brings out the worst in people too,’ says Stone. ‘But i look at these things as a whole. We’re still feeling this stuff out.’ Stone is an odd sort of fish. He absolutely believes in the internet as a tool to empower the individual but doesn’t want to actively align himself with the current debates on its future. He is neutral on the controversy provoked by Edward Snowden’s revelations over US web surveillance. Getting worked up over something is not how he fuels

his idealism. instead, Stone concentrates calmly on the big dream of uniting everyone as citizens of the Earth. His new project, Jelly, is an app that uses social networks, photos and illustrations to enable users to ask questions and crowdsource answers. You suspect Stone has bigger hopes for Jelly, such as bringing about world peace, for example, or

From peasantry to war infamy Tim Butcher on the journey behind his new book, The Trigger, about the assassin of archduke Franz Ferdinand

T iS the nag of futility that still troubles our thoughts of World War i. ‘Was it worth it?’ is the question that worms its way to mind on days of remembrance. it was in part to address this question that i set about writing The Trigger: Hunting The Assassin Who Brought The World To War. i wanted to go back to the very beginning. The hubris of the emperors, kings and statesmen who led us to war, the pig-headedness of the generals – all this folly came from a founding moment. School history books tell us the Great War began after the AustroHungarian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by a 19year-old gunman called Gavrilo Princip. And that is pretty much all they tell us. The young assassin

only ghosts into the historical narrative, utterly overwhelmed by the colossal events he triggered, millions dead, empires toppled, world order realigned. He came from an area of southeast Europe often overlooked yet with a portentous hold over world history: Bosnia. i spent part of my 20s there as a war correspondent in the 1990s. Nato came of age in Bosnia, going to war for the first time, meaning the little country bookended the fighting of the 20th century. it was midsummer’s day when my Bosnian trek began, way over in the wild west of the country, a land known for its stark mountain relief and extreme seasonal temperatures. Princip was born in the 1890s, an age of developing modernity and structure, as the rose-tinted filter of

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Humans want to do good things

Revealing: Butcher worked as a war correspondent in Bosnia

eliminating cancer. ‘The point is there is this massive crush of humanity out there and we can leverage it better,’ he says. ‘We talk so much about artificial intelligence but we really should be talking about the fact we have human intelligence and how we can harness it. We can make a better way.’

Things A Little Bird Told Me by Biz Stone (Macmillan) is out now. Downton Abbey would have us believe. Yet to camp, as i did, next to the destroyed hovel where Princip’s family lived out a hardscrabble life of feudal servitude was to bring home the strictures of European peasantry. Princip’s descendants emerged from their farmhouses and listed names from the six siblings of Gavrilo who died in infancy from disease and malnutrition. The anger in their eyes, more than a hundred years on, was the thread that connected me to the young Gavrilo, one that led me through the high mountains, tight valleys and myths of Bosnia. it was the boy’s anger against the colonial occupier of his homeland, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that first kindled into a desire to take action – the assassination. To walk his route was to touch on a memoryscape crowded not just with events from Princip’s time but others linked to World War ii when British agents, Evelyn Waugh among them, served here. Most importantly, it explained the genesis of the ongoing potency of World War i.

The Trigger: Hunting The Assassin Who Brought The World To War (Chatto & Windus) is out now.

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METROSCOPE by Patrick Arundell

NEMI by Lise

Aries Mar 21 – Apr 20

A decision to steer yourself in the direction of a life-long goal could be quite a game-changer. Plus, as Mercury links with Venus and Uranus, you may impress with your witty repartee.

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Taurus Apr 21 – May 21

A Sagittarius Moon encourages an adventurous approach to finances, enticing you to explore fresh options for growth. Yet, impulsive buys could waste hard-earned cash, with a Venus Uranus link, perhaps tempting you to purchase something unnecessary.

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Gemini May 22 – Jun 21

Looking for something different? Connecting with the right folk may set you on a positive path that rekindles your enthusiasm. But if you’d like life to be more exciting, a foray into the unknown might achieve just this. For your forecast, call 15609 114 74

Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23

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Libra Sep 24 – Oct 23

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Pisces Feb 20 – Mar 20

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Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20

Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23

DOWN 1 Lethargic (6) 2 Enlargement (13) 3 Coffer (5) 5 Add to (7) 6 Forethought (13) 7 Hate (6) 8 Flinch (5) 13 Give right to (7) 15 Emergency (6) 16 Shed feathers (5) 17 Alliance (6) 20 Track (5)

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scorpio Oct 24 – Nov 22

The Moon in your sign may fill you with optimism today. And other upbeat aspects bring opportunities to take a love relationship to a new level. Whether you’re single or in a relationship, the accent is on having fun.

Today’s line-up, reveals a coffee and a chat can help to see the lighter side of things, especially if you’re feeling overwhelmed. Later, a hunch regarding a key relationship or your life’s purpose is worth listening to.

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Airtricity sign marathon new sponsorship deal

New deal: Lord Mayor Oisín Quinn, Maria McCambridge and Sean Hehir with Airtricity’s Annabel Tonge and race director Jim Aughney

Trophy drought won’t affect us, says Wenger by nick meTcalfe

ArsenAl will not wilt under the pressure of their nine-year trophy drought in saturday’s FA Cup final with Hull, insists Arsene Wenger. But the Frenchman also believes another disappointment, following their failure to win the title, will not break the spirit of his squad. Few could have imagined the long wait for silver that would follow Arsenal’s FA Cup final win on penalties over Manchester United in 2005. But despite that dry spell, Wenger said: ‘no matter what the result will be, this club – and this is always most important – can deal with the consequences of any game. ‘What is important is we come out of the game and have the feeling that

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Italian stallion: Ulissi

Home hope Ulissi sees off Evans to claim stage win

cYcling Diego Ulissi stormed to victory on the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia yesterday, a first success for Italy in the race. The 24-year-old Lampre rider came from behind with 150m left of the stage to Viggiano, beating 2011 Tour de France winner Cadel Evans. Colombia’s Julian Arredondo came home in third place. Blustery winds made conditions difficult for all the riders throughout. Orica-GreenEdge rider Michael Matthews remains as overall leader. The Australian is 14 seconds ahead of Dutch team-mate Pieter Weening in the general classification, with Evans moving up to third, a further second behind.

Blue is the colour...and so is pink: Olivier Giroud models Puma’s Tricks boots in training. They will be on show at the FA Cup final and the World Cup we gave absolutely our best, our total energy to play at our best and then you always accept the consequences. ‘[The drought] may make it a little [more difficult] but at the end of the day once you walk over the line you just focus on your football. ‘You don’t play with the history, you play with your quality and desire to play well. It is an opportunity. We need to just turn up and play well.’ Wenger rejected suggestions Arsenal have a ‘mental block’ when it comes to winning trophies. ‘Yes, there were [nerves in the semifinal] because at the time we were at a low level of confidence,’ he added. ‘I don’t believe we need any warning. ‘We know a final is a final, that Hull is a Premier league team, they can pass the ball, and create chances.’

ENERGY supplier Airtricity has confirmed their support for the Dublin Marathon and Race Series for a further three years. The company first came on board in 2013 as Dublin Marathon title sponsor. Race Director Jim Aughney shared details of a new route, and a return to an invited elite field for 2014 at the announcement yesterday. ‘We believe it’s important that we, as the leading marathon in Ireland, also help improve the standard of marathon running in our country,’ said Aughney. See http://dublinmarathon.ie for details.

gaa Dublin’s Ciarán Kilkenny helped launch GAAGO, an online streaming service, which will offer on-demand GAA games with the Championships

Marquez extends stay with Honda

Jack be nimble for brazil

Arsene Wenger has eased fears over Jack Wilshere’s World Cup fitness. The Arsenal and england midfielder (pictured) came off the bench against norwich on sunday after nine weeks out with a broken foot. gunners boss Wenger said: ‘If you ask me

about the World Cup, he should just have enough time to be fully fit.’ Wenger, though, said there was ‘still some uncertainty’ about Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s availability for the FA Cup final. The england winger has a groin problem, while Thomas Vermaelen (knee) is also a doubt.

mTogp Reigning world champion Marc Marquez has signed a new twoyear deal at Honda. The 21-year-old Spaniard (pictured), currently tops the standings by 28 points ahead of teammate Dani Pedrosa. Marquez said: ‘It is a great honour to be a part of the Honda family and I’m glad to remain with this special group of people for another two seasons.’

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Scolari faces tax evasion inquiry

BRAZIL coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is to face a criminal investigation over tax evasion, according to reports. The former Chelsea manager denies the allegations, which are believed to be connected to his time as Portugal coach between 2003 and 2008. In a statement, the Brazilian said he had ‘always declared my earnings in all the countries I worked in’. The 65-year-old added: ‘I am absolutely convinced of the correctness of my declarations. If there is something wrong, it is not of my doing.’ Reports in Portugal and Holland suggest

Investigation: Scolari the investigation is focusing on payments of £6million made to Scolari during his time with Portugal. Scolari led Brazil to World Cup glory in Japan and Korea in 2002, and his country will be desperate for a repeat on home soil. Brazil kick off their campaign against Croatia on June 12.

2 League One players named in Australia’s provisional 30-man squad for Brazil – Preston defender Bailey Wright and Swindon midfielder Massimo Luongo cOunTDOwn 28 DAys TO gO

‘With John Charles in the side we might have won.’ wales manager Jimmy Murphy rued the absence of his injured talisman (right), then of Juventus, after his team lost 1-0 to eventual winners Brazil in the quarter-finals of the 1958 tournament in sweden.

Grin and bare it: Nasri, middle, gets over his World Cup disappointment as he and Joleon Lescott meet City owner Sheikh Mansour by DAvE FiLMER Samir NaSri is considering international retirement after being overlooked for France’s World Cup squad. The manchester City playmaker was surprisingly left out of coach Didier Deschamps’ 23-man squad, and even the seven named replacements, when it was announced on Tuesday.

11 Goals Nasri scored for City this

term – including one in Sunday’s title-clinching win over West Ham Nasri enjoyed a superb finish to the season and the 26-year-old, also left out of the 2010 World Cup by then-coach raymond Domenech, said: ‘it’s a little bit hard to accept. ‘i need to take some time to think about the national team because it’s been twice now that they take away a World Cup from me. ‘You can go around and ask any player if they’re happy to be on the bench, nobody’s going to say yes. i need to think a little bit

Pards staying in Toon as fans denied wishes alaN parDeW will not be sacked by Newcastle this summer. minutes of the club’s latest fans’ forum meeting reveal officials rubbished rumours pardew would be replaced by St etienne boss Christophe Galtier and confirmed the 54-year-old will remain in the St James’ park hot seat. pardew is deeply unpopular with the Toon army after a dreary second half of the season. The magpies began the year just four points off the premier league’s top four but eventually finished the campaign 30 points

adrift of the Champions league qualifying spots in tenth. answering questions submitted on behalf of supporters, the Newcastle board admitted this had been a disappointment despite pardew and his players achieving the minimum requirement of a top-ten finish. pardew is working on summer recruitment plans with owner mike ashley, and while United said money will be available after two transfer windows without a permanent signing, they insisted that it would only be spent on the right players at the right price.

nasri in threat to call time on France career during the holiday, what will be my future in the national team, because missing two World Cups is really hard for a player.’ Nasri is currently in abu Dhabi, homeland of City owner Sheikh mansour, for a postseason friendly against al ain today. While his absence was greeted with widespread surprise, the player himself insists he sensed he would miss out. ‘Sometimes you

have the feeling, when you call to speak to the manager and he doesn’t want to speak to you, you know you’re not going to go to the World Cup,’ he added. ‘it was a shock but i was prepared mentally. i’m okay. ‘i respect his choice. He wanted to not pick me... good on him. i wish good luck to the French national team.’

Scudamore comments condemned by Dyke

Backed by the board: Pardew

The pressure on Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore over sexist emails has intensified after Football Association chairman Greg Dyke described the remarks as ‘totally inappropriate’. Scudamore has apologised for the emails, which were sent privately to a lawyer friend but published in the Sunday Mirror. Explaining why the FA did not take disciplinary action against the 54-yearold, Dyke said: ‘Our policy has always been that we do not consider something

Apology: Scudamore stated in a private email to amount to professional misconduct. ‘We do, however, consider the content to be totally inappropriate.’ UK sport minister Helen Grant has described the emails as ‘completely unacceptable’, while

shadow UK sports minister Clive Efford has written to both the FA and Premier League asking why Scudamore has not faced action. A Premier League panel will meet next week to decide whether Scudamore, who has been in his post since 1999, will be punished. The emails, which contained sexual innuendoes and jokes about ‘female irrationality’, were leaked by a former personal assistant. Scudamore said: ‘It was an error of judgment that I won’t make again.’

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Friendly tie: Brendan Rodgers shakes hands with Ronan Finn of Shamrock Rovers after the game

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Missed chance: Garay

‘Cursed’ Benfica pay the penalty

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FOR Liverpool, last night’s 4-0 post-season friendly win over Shamrock Rovers at the Aviva Stadium completed a full circle as the curtain fell on their remarkable campaign. A largely second-string Reds outfit dominated proceedings from the outset as they dazzled their adoring fans in Dublin just four days after the denouement of their Premier League season. Nine months ago, Brendan Rodgers’ sides’ shortcoming were accentuated during a defeat to Celtic at the same venue, but how things have changed in the intervening period. Fabio Borini, who starred in Sunderland’s escape from relegation, returned to Liverpool’s colours and formed an encouraging partnership with Spaniard Iago Aspas, who set the wheels in motion with a neat finish after just seven minutes. Rodgers, believes Borini can add quality to the Anfield ranks next season after showing his proficiency for the Black Cats and further show-

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BENFICA failed to shake ‘the curse of Guttmann’ as they lost their eighth major European final in a row in a penalty shoot-out. Disgruntled former coach Bela Guttmann said the Lisbon club would never win another European trophy after his 1962 triumph. And that continued to prove correct after Oscar Cardozo and Rodrigo had spot-kicks saved by Beto before Kevin Gameiro fired home the winner. Earlier, Benfica edged the previous 120 minutes of action, with Ezequiel Garay and Rodrigo both guilty of poor finishing.

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‘I’m not going to tell you who we’re after’

United and QPR midfielder Park Ji-Sung, who announced his retirement yesterday after battling a knee injury

casing his ability here. ‘I thought he was excellent,’ Rodgers said. ‘I felt for Fabio’s development that he should go on loan. It was nothing to do with me not thinking he is a quality player. I know him better than anyone. He needed to go out and get games to prove his worth and get experience. He’s done that. He is going to add to the quality we already have.’ However, Rodgers has targeted several new additions over the summer as the Reds prepare for a return to Champions League football and look to go one better in the league. Southampton’s Adam Lallana is just one reported target but the LMA Manager of the Year refused to be drawn on the speculation a £30million bid is being readied. ‘There are a lot of good players out there,’ said Rodgers. ‘I’m not going to tell you who we’re after, so you can respect that.” ‘The criteria we look for is players with strong technique and football intelligence.’

Barca will take big chance, insists Xavi

What a day: Young Liverpool fan Conor Byrne, aged 13, from Louth, meets Liverpool’s manager Brendan Rodgers after the game

Suarez insists fans have no clause for concern

No deal: Suarez

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LUIS SUAREZ has denied he has a clause in his contract which will make it easier for Spanish giants Real Madrid or Barcelona to sign him. There have been rumours his deal with Liverpool had a stipulation which included the option for a move to either club, if they bid a certain amount. But asked about the rumoured get-out clause at a sponsor’s event in Barcelona, the Uruguay striker said: ‘I didn’t sign any contract with clauses prioritising a certain team. ‘My head now is focused on the World Cup. Everyone knows there will be speculation this summer as there always

is but I have a contract with Liverpool.’ Of losing out to Manchester City in the Premier League title race, Suarez admitted he was furious at the end of the Crystal Palace match when the Reds threw away a three-goal lead to draw. ‘I had a lot of rage inside me knowing just a week before we had a great chance to win the league,’ he said. ‘I just wanted to hide my face and get down the tunnel. We’d had such a great season but it wasn’t going to be enough. ‘We would have taken being in the top four at the end of the season but coming so close it was heart-breaking to miss out.’

BARCELONA star Xavi believes the Catalan giants are ready to grasp their second chance with both hands and snatch the Spanish title from Atletico Madrid. Barcelona looked out of the running a few weeks ago but, with the leading three sides in Spain all stuttering, the title has come down to Saturday’s showdown at the Nou Camp. Barca need to win the game, and Xavi (pictured) said: ‘We saw the situation as black and that we had lost the league but football has given us another chance. We play at home in front of our fans and we have all in our favour to win. This is an historic chance.’

Khan to splash out FuLhAM owner Shahid Khan is prepared to invest heavily this summer to restore the club to the Premier League at the first attempt. The American said: ‘I am committed and we are going to do whatever to get them back to the Premier League. I have talked to Felix [Magath, the manager] and what we want to do is what is in the best interest of the team.’

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Samir Nasri ready to kiss international career goodbye

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Giggs to become Van Gaal’s Ryan hand man United legend flies in to Holland for face-to-face talks with new manager

by jAMEs bOyLAn LOUIS VAN GAAL’S Manchester United tenure looks set to begin with Ryan Giggs at his side after the pair held face-to-face talks in Holland. Giggs was pictured leaving a hotel in Van Gaal’s hometown of Noordwijk, where the Dutchman was taking a break from his national team’s World Cup preparations – but also ironing out the details of his new regime at United. Van Gaal’s long-anticipated appointment as United boss is expected to be confirmed today or tomorrow but exactly what role Giggs will be offered was not clear. The Welshmen was installed as United’s interim boss after David Moyes’ sacking last month and he now appears set to be given the chance to continue his managerial education under the current Holland coach. Dutch media report the 40-year-old, who was installed as United’s interim boss after David Moyes’ sacking last month, will become Van Gaal’s assistant. That means his current No.2 Frank Rijkaard will not be following the former Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich to Old Trafford. Holland video anaylst Max Reck-

On his way: Van Gaal

ers, and goalkeeping coach Frans Hoek, however, will join United’s backroom staff. Earlier in the week Van Gaal revealed he would retain one member of the current coaching set-up at the 20-time English champions. ‘When I go to a new club, I always want to keep one coach from the existing staff,’ said Van Gaal, currently in the Netherlands preparing for a friendly against Ecuador this weekend. ‘At Bayern that person was Herman Kerland, who is still working there now under Pep Guardiola. I wanted to know who was coming through the youth system. I always want to know that.’

Going Dutch: Ryan Giggs travelled to Van Gaal’s home town for talks on the new coaching setup at Old Trafford

RICH POOL OF TALEnT bEATs HOOPs

Well beaten: Liverpool’s Ryan McLaughlin outjumps Shamrock Rovers’ Gary McCabe during their match at the Aviva PictUre: PA

A LIVERPOOL side made up of fringe players rounded off their season with a 4-0 friendly win over Shamrock Rovers at the Aviva Stadium last night. Of those named in the starting line-up only Lucas Leiva and Joe Allen played a significant number of games for the first team this season, although Fabio Borini returned from a loan spell at Sunderland to score. Iago Aspas opened the scoring before Borini netted, with Martin Kelly adding the third and under-21s striker Jack Dunn rounding off the scoring with six minutes to go.

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