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200m eBay users hit by hack attack ROUGH LOVE: Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy yesterday announced he had broken off his engagement to Danish tennis star Caroline Wozniacki, just days after they sent out wedding invitations ‘The problem is mine’: Page 5 PicTure: AP

MORE than 200million eBay users were told last night to change all of their passwords amid fears their personal data might have been stolen in a major cyber attack. Every one of the online auction site’s customers around the world will be asked to reset their logins after hackers broke into a database containing encrypted passwords, names, email and home addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. They were also being urged to change logins on all other sites where they used the same password. Paul Martini, of iboss Network Security, said the huge amount of data held by the site made it a ‘potential gold mine’. But he warned: ‘The damage could well have already been done, as the time lag between the cyber breach and the discovery of the breach is in the months.’ The hackers were said to have ‘compromised’ log-ins belonging to a small number

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of eBay staff to gain access to its corporate network. It was first detected two weeks ago, but an investigation showed it probably happened between late February and early March. Ebay, which has 14million active users in Ireland and the UK, said it was unable to say how many users’ details were accessed. It insisted there was no evidence financial or credit card details had been compromised. Data from PayPal, the payment service owned by eBay, is stored separately and is not affected. But IT security experts, who described eBay as ‘the golden goose of hacking targets’, warned users had been left vulnerable to phishing scams and identity fraud. Michela Menting, of ABI Research, said: ‘It remains to be seen whether the defence and response mechanisms in place will stand up to scrutiny now that the attack has been publicised.’

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Task force to Union to ballot for strike after Irish Rail proposal rejected assess plight of students A JOINT task force is to be set up ‘aimed at protecting genuine students’ who have been affected by the recent closure of a number of private language colleges, education minister Ruairí Quinn has said after five such institutions closed in recent weeks. The task force will be jointly chaired by officials from the departments of education and justice. It aims to coordinate efforts to protect foreign students affected by the closures, and to accommodate them in other colleges. It will meet for the first time tomorrow. Mr Quinn said: ‘We take a strong view of the impact these private college closures have and also to protect our reputation as a quality destination for international students.’

SIPTU members at Irish Rail are to be balloted on strike action after narrowly rejecting a Labour Court recommendation. Siptu’s Paul Cullen said: ‘Our members have found this recommendation as it currently stands unacceptable.’

The Labour Court plan called for pay cuts of between 1.7 per cent to 6.1 per cent for a 28-month period and that during that period the company should be prevented from seeking any additional reductions in terms or conditions. Irish Rail had accumulated

losses between 2008 and 2014 of just under €150million, the recommendation said. In a statement last night, Irish Rail said it ‘regretted’ the plan have not been supported by Siptu. It added that it will consider the outcomes when ballots of TEEU/

Unite and the National Bus and Rail Union members – now underway – are concluded. Meanwhile, Transport Minister Leo Varadkar and junior minister Alan Kelly both expressed ‘disappointment’ at the results of the Siptu ballot.

‘Rather silly row’ over right of way had fatal potential by jEssicA MAgEE

Addict locked grandmother into her office A MOTHER-of-one who locked a recruitment agency owner in her office and stole two phones and €350 petty cash has received a four-year sentence, with two suspended. Sonia Eglington, 23, had graffitied slogans against the gardaí and HSE in the basement of Headhunt International on Harcourt Street, and climbed in a window when she found Sylvia Harrison working late in her office. Self-confessed heroin addict Eglinton, of Caretakers Hostel, Back Lane, lied to the victim, a grandmother in her 60s, telling her there was a man downstairs who would kill her, a court heard. Ms Harrison said she suffers flashbacks and lost €4,250 while her office was closed for repairs.

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A STUDENT has avoided prison after he punched a pedestrian over a ‘rather silly row’ about who had right of way on a footpath. Philip Maloney, 22, admitted to assaulting Gavin Clarke causing him harm at Camden Row on February 10, 2012. Judge Terence O’Sullivan said it had been a ‘significant, potentially fatal assault’ which developed from a ‘rather silly row’ over who had right of way on a footpath in a car park. He sentenced Maloney, a business student at Terenure College, to 100 hours of community service in lieu of a three-month jail term. Maloney, of Stanaway Road, Crumlin, also handed over €2,000 as a token of his remorse. The court heard that Mr Clarke, 29, fell backwards and hit his head on the ground after Maloney punched him once in the mouth. He suffered concussion and lacerations to the lips and had to get 12 stitches in the mouth. Garda Garvan Ware told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court Mr Clarke had been out walking when a car cut across him to drive into a car park. Mr Clarke tapped on the window to indicate that he should have had right of way. He said the driver got out, walked over and punched him in the face. Mr Clarke fell backwards and lay unresponsive on the ground with blood coming from his mouth and face. In a victim impact statement, Mr Clarke said the assault had changed his perception of socialising and that he has become more cynical of his social environment. Judge O’Sullivan said he accepted Maloney’s apology as genuine and said ‘I think he has learnt his lesson’.

Trial of Anglo’s FitzPatrick put on hold until February ThE trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick on charges of failing to tell the bank’s auditors about loans he received has been put back to February next year. Yesterday at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, counsel for FitzPatrick applied to delay the start of the trial, which was originally fixed for October 7 next. Michael O’higgins SC also said the previous trial that ended last month had attracted an enormous amount of publicity, and that there should be a fade factor in place to allow the next trial to take place in a more tranquil context. Relisting the trial, expected to last two months, for February 2, 2015, Judge Mary Ellen Ring set a new pre-trial hearing for December 1.

FitzPatrick: New trial date FitzPatrick, 65, of Whitshed Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow, faces 12 counts of failing to disclose to auditors Ernst & Young the true value of loans worth at least €139million given to him or people connected to him, by Irish Nationwide Building Society from 2002 to 2007 while he was an officer of the bank.

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Anguish: A teary Rory Mcllroy struggles to keep his emotions in check as he faces the press ahead of the BMW PGA, just hours after revealing his wedding to Caroline Wozniacki was now off. Pictures: PA/AP

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‘Wozzilroy’ part as Rory is hit by the wedding yips GOLFER Rory McIlroy has pulled the plug on his wedding to tennis star Caroline Wozniacki days after they sent out the invitations. The 25-year-old double major winner decided to end their twoyear relationship, admitting that ‘the problem is mine’. In a statement, he added: ‘The wedding invitations issued at the weekend made me realise that I wasn’t ready for all that marriage entails.’ He also wished his Danish ex, a former women’s world No.1, ‘all the happiness she deserves’. He added: ‘There is no right way

by NICOLE LE MARIE to end a relationship that has been so important to two people.’ McIlroy was close to tears when questioned about the split at a press conference ahead of this weekend’s BMW PGA Championship. Asked if it would be hard to focus at the tournament, the Northern Irish star replied: ‘I’m not going to lie, it’s going to be very difficult. ‘It was mutual and amicable and we both thought it was the best for us, the best for both of us. ‘It’s time to move on and I think I’ve said all that I need to say.’

The couple, dubbed Wozzilroy, announced their engagement on new year’s eve, with Wozniacki, 23, sporting a €150,000 engagement ring. McIlroy said at the time: ‘I have a feeling it is going to be a great year.’ Days before the break-up was announced, McIlroy took to Twitter to rubbish reports that the wedding was to take place in New York in August. He is now looking to dive into his golf and keep busy in the weeks ahead, hopeful his prediction will at least come true on the course.

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SECRET letters from Jacqueline Kennedy to an Irish priest have been pulled from a controversial auction. They had been expected to sell next month for around €3m. No reason has been given for the sale being cancelled but it follows an ownership dispute and questions over whether it was right to sell the deepest musings of a woman who put an enormous value on privacy. The 130 hand-written letters, which strike a remarkable confessional tone, began in 1950 and continued until the

death in 1964 of Fr Joseph Leonard, a Vincentian cleric based at All Hallows College in Dublin. All Hallows is in discussions with the Kennedys over how and where the letters should be held. A spokeswoman for the college said the auction was cancelled at the behest of its directors and the Vincentian Fathers. The letters were due to be sold by Sheppard’s Irish Auction House, of Durrow, Co Laois after being discovered when rare books were being valued for sale.

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Every Skittle helps: Tesco to remove sweets

Students are ‘drinking more in bid to sober up’

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CAFFEINE has long been relied upon as a hangover cure following a heavy night out. But rather than reaching for a coffee on a hazy morning, many young drinkers are adding energy drinks to alcohol – wrongly assuming it will help them to sober up quickly. A ‘surprising’ number of teenagers believe drinks such as Red Bull counteract the effects of alcohol. As a result, they drink more and get drunker than usual – increasing the risk of injury. According to research from Australia, the main reason teenagers drink alcohol with energy drinks is because it gives them a ‘buzz’ rather than for reasons of fashion or taste. The study’s author, Nic Droste, said: ‘Alcohol and energy drink users had higher blood alcohol concentration readings.’ He found that those who used this combination to sober up were at a greater risk of experiencing alcohol-related injuries and harm. Mr Droste is now calling for campaigns to target teenagers who are unaware of the dangers of with mixing alcohol and energy drinks.

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TESCO is to stop selling sweets and chocolate at checkouts in all stores – in what it claims is an industry first. The supermarket giant found that two in three parents believed confectioneryfree tills would help them make healthier choices for themselves and their children. Racks of sweets low enough for youngsters to grab near tills will also go, with healthier products in their place. ‘We all know how easy it is to be tempted by sugary snacks at checkouts,’ said Tesco boss Philip Clarke. ‘We’ve already removed billions of calories from our soft drinks, sandwiches and ready meal ranges by changing the recipes to reduce sugar, salt and fat.’ The chain first removed confectionery from checkouts at its larger stores 20 years ago. The new policy, which comes into force in December, will apply to every branch in Ireland and the UK, including its Metro and Express outlets. Earlier this year, Lidl confirmed it was banning sweets and chocolate from checkouts at all of its 600 British stores.

n GROCERY giant Aldi is creating 450 jobs in Ireland as it opens seven new stores. Recruitment has begun for positions, including area and store managers, assistant managers and sales assistants. The German retailer, which employs around 2,400 here, had a 22 per cent jump in sales since last year. Along with cut-price rival Lidl they control more than a 17 per cent share of Ireland’s multi-billion-euro grocery market. Tills where sugary snacks are featured prominently have been labelled ‘guilt lanes’ by obesity campaigners. Many parents believe the ‘pester power’ they cause is frustrating and avoidable. Martin Higgins, of safefood, said: ‘This move by Tesco echoes the very practical messages we have been advocating in our childhood obesity campaign and is a powerful recognition of how “pester power” and impulse-buying affect the food choices we make every day.’

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KEN ROGAN embarks on a biscuity-themed game of Call My Bluff, but only succeeds in getting himself into an uncontrollable sweat. Again.

o where does the word ‘hobnobbing’ come from, I hear you not asking? That’s right people, it’s Thursday, the day we question the very nature of questions, like some D-list philosophers playing a cosmic game of ‘Call my Bluff’. To wit: Hobnobbing derives from the ancient art of eating oat cakes to advance one’s social or professional cause, while smiling through your teeth and wishing you were dead. True or bluff? Or sour grapes? Because I’m not the most natural of networkers. And yet it is occasionally my lot to walk into large rooms of strangers, collect a name badge and stand

there not knowing anybody. There’s a verb for this – ‘gweezing’ – which captures the awkwardness of a situation where everyone has a vested (self) interest in discovering how useful all these other ‘stakeholders’ might be in pushing their own agenda. True or bluff? In reality, it’s corporate speeddating. And it’s hideous. So you put it off – pretend you’re on a call. Check mails. Grab cup of tea, biscuit. Hob Nobs?! Damn you, universe, stop laughing at me! OK, now bite the oat-y bullet and nervously introduce yourself to someone. Talk at them, not to them. Run out of things to say. Watch them edge away. Seethe with embarrassment and anger. Recognise and

admire the unsung role of alcohol wrists under the cold tap until in society. colder blood moves around the I’m at a particular physiological body. 2) Relax. Which is just a disadvantage in these scenarios, breeze. Except you’re running taps because of a talent I have for in a public bathroom like James sweating. This aptitude is greatly Bond after a murder. 3) Attempt assisted by my cycling to my emergency relaxation. meetings, where the transition from Now, I realise that last one is a bit outdoor exercise to indoor stillness of an oxymoron (which is what ensures rolling waves of personal enemy cows call each other – true moisture. or bluff?) so if you can’t Indeed any rapid read between the lines change in ambient here, think between temperature the loins. By all means I’ll sweat, accounts this Any rapid change in and not in a calms you right ambient temperature ‘tiny maps of down. means I’ll sweat, and Africa in the Anyway, armpits’ way now that not in a ‘tiny maps of either. This is you’re a big Africa in the armpits’ more of a salty puffy, red-faced Niagara effect mess who just way either streaming down my had a fiddle in the face and neck to jacks, why not between my moobs, introduce yourself to where the visible part of my some more people? Just wander shirt is drenched with horrible, on over and cement your sexblotchy stains. offender credentials by staring at This all-too-visible fiasco triggers the name badge attached to some anxiety, could you credit, which woman’s boob. redoubles sweat production as a If you’re lucky you might even vicious cycle of blushing and selfknow them. More likely though consciousness locks in, making me you’ll bump into ‘acquaintances’, so sweaty I have to leave the room. and these moments shall be strictly Options: 1) Hit the toilet, and run governed by the fifth rule of

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thermodynamics, which states that every name-saying causes an equal and opposite name-forgetting. At such times your mind is like Newton’s cradle, clacking away inside your skull, planting that face you see firmly into your consciousness, while simultaneously dislodging the associated name. This infernal law of social physics is set in motion by someone saying your name, so the trick is to say their name first, and make sure they’re the ones squirming with panic. And this is called ‘name-fracking’. True or bluff? Anyway, by now you’re just praying for the presentations to start so you can be spared the very worst case scenario, which is when someone knows your name, but you genuinely don’t know theirs, so you have to mumble out an insulting (and humiliating) ‘hey… you…!?’ before swallowing a nice big gulp of hot tea – which is a chump move that gives you the sweats again, so you have to head off to the loo for another emergency relax. And I have absolutely never done this in my life. True or bluff?

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Miley Cyrus prompted an angry backlash from fans of The Smiths after she covered one of the band’s classic tunes. The 20-year-old pop star performed a version of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out while on stage in Belfast this week – prompting furious Smiths fans to flood Twitter with disdain. One wrote: ‘You’re nowhere near talented enough to be allowed near such tunes.’ Another noted Cyrus has been covering a number of classic acts on her Bangerz world tour – and pleaded ‘just stay away from The Stones, Miley, please’.

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Iggy Azalea has apologised for fluffing her lines on US show Dancing With The Stars. The 23-year-old looked confused as she stumbled over the opening lyrics to Fancy before stopping and telling the audience: ‘I’m so sorry but there’s something wrong with my ears.’ Charli XCX helped her through the track, with the Aussie rapper blaming a technical glitch for her woes. ‘I am so sorry guys! My in ears messed up and I couldn’t hear the track,’ she tweeted. ‘The dramas of live TV. S*** happens. Still really enjoyed it.’

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Rita Ora proved she is still scaling the heights of pop stardom when she rocked up in a crocodile ensemble to her sister’s pad. The 23year-old Londoner topped the Jeremy Scott outfit off with a bright pink balaclava, which she covered her face with as she left the studio. Ora also announced a monster deal for her own Adidas line.

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MAXI POWER: Amber Heard turns heads as she sashays down the red carpet in Cannes. The 28-year-old beauty looked dazzling as she attended the premiere of Marion Cotillard’s new film Two Days, One Night. Heard – who is engaged to Pirates Of The Caribbean star Johnny Depp – channelled understated chic, wearing a white bodysuit and a metallic gold gazar high-waist maxi skirt by Vionnet. The actress is on track to become the new darling of the fashion world, with InStyle commenting: ‘Amber Heard debuts a red carpet look we can all actually wear.’ picture: rex

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is tight-lipped about her upcoming role in Mad Max: Fury Road. The model, who plays Splendid, refused to talk about the film at a press conference in Cannes and said fans will have to wait for its release next year. ‘I can’t really talk too much about it,’ she said at a special screening of her new short film Celebrate the Moment for Magnum, shot by celebrated director Wim Wenders. But it seems like the star, who made her big screen debut in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, won’t be giving up the catwalk any time soon to dedicate herself full time to her acting career. ‘I never really set out to be an actress so for me it was always something that came by chance into my life,’ she added. ‘I’m grateful for the opportunities I’ve had. I wouldn’t close the door on anything. I’m open. We’ll see.’ Huntington-Whiteley stars alongside Tom Hardy as Max and Charlize Theron as Furiosa in the action flick.

Channing Tatum has described himself as a ‘highfunctioning alcoholic’. The 34-year-old Hollywood hunk says he tends to drink to ‘escape’ and is often the victim of ‘Donald Ducking’. The father-of-one explained: ‘When generally you go out and get really hammered and you end up waking up in the morning and you only have a shirt on with boots.’ But the Magic Mike star told US GQ magazine: ‘I get one shot at life, and I can say that I’ve lived a crazy one, and I’ve pushed the limit almost at every turn.’

Bieber gets on the mic in rap royalty battle Justin Bieber has been chasing credibility in Cannes while rubbing shoulders with the crème of the rap crop. The 20-year-old Baby singer acted as support for legendary rapper Rick Ross, 38, performing a cover of 2Pac’s track Dear Mama before the main man took to the stage at Gotha Club. However, Bieber’s bad boy antics were not far behind as he lingered on the sidelines and poured beer over the audience below. At the same venue earlier in the week, the singer faced off against Hollywood action man Wesley Snipes, 51, for an impromptu rap battle during a party for The Expendables 3. He has also jammed with Busta Rhymes, who was celebrating his 42nd birthday.

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he was recently pictured looking a little worse for wear after a night out in Cannes but Pixie Lott refuses to stop partying over a few prying eyes. The Nasty singer said she would not stop ‘living her life’ and has become ‘oblivious’ to paparazzi who might catch her off guard after too many glasses of wine. ‘I think most 23-year-olds like to go out and have fun with their friends,’ Lott told me. ‘If I have work the next day, then obviously I’ll go home early, but if I don’t then I don’t worry about being papped or what the pictures will look like or anything like that. ‘You just have to live your life, I’m so oblivious to all that sort of stuff now.’ Lott said she was merely having a catnap after pictures at the weekend

by ANDREI HARMSWORTH showed her asleep in a taxi with boyfriend Oliver Cheshire, 25. She had spent the day drinking on a yacht on the French Riviera. ‘I mean it was a long day, girls get tired!’ she explained. ‘We had a great time, obviously there were some lovely drinks there, but we were just having fun. ‘When we got a taxi back I had a little catnap and I didn’t realise there were some sneaky photographers hanging around but it’s fine, everyone likes a little catnap here and there.’ Meanwhile, the english beauty admitted she had never been tempted to join her model beau for a fashion campaign. She said: ‘We’ve never actually spoken about that. We’re signed to the same model agent, I mean never say never but we do like to keep our careers very separate.’ Pixie Lott’s self-titled third album is out August 4.

Smith girl’s bedroom picture investigated Will Smith is being investigated by child protection bosses over a picture of his young daughter lying on a bed with a topless male actor, according to reports. The Fresh Prince and wife Jada Pinkett-Smith say there was ‘nothing sexual’ about the image – posted on the web – of 13year-old Willow and former Hannah Montana star Moises Arias, 20. But LA’s department of children and family services has got involved to make sure Willow is safe, according to RadarOnline. ‘Social workers will be talking with Willow,

and they also want to talk to the young man in the picture with her as well,’ a source told the website. ‘This won’t just be one or two visits with the family, and it will likely be an open investigation for at least a month, out of an abundance of caution.’ Smith, 45, and his 42year-old wife – who were unavailable for comment – are reportedly being ‘extremely co-operative’ with the investigation. Pinkett-Smith has previously accused reporters of ‘projecting their trash’ on to the picture, in which Willow is fully clothed.

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Katy ‘freaked’ over meeting DJ’s folks Katy Perry has found herself single again after splitting with latest beau Diplo. The pair called it quits after a little more than a month together over her reluctance to settle down. Apparently Katy didn’t take too kindly to being asked to meet his folks. ‘Diplo broke up with her because she does not want to be in a serious relationship,’

a friend of Perry’s revealed. ‘They wanted different things.’ According to the pal, Katy, 29, ‘freaked out’ when the 35-year-old DJ said he wanted to introduce her to his parents. ‘She doesn’t want to get married again – at least not any time soon,’ the friend told In Touch Weekly. ‘It was too much, too soon.’

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in focus D

Jolie joins war on conflict rape

‘H

OW do I feel about someone who would force themselves on a child with the intent to destroy them, to humiliate them and cause them pain?’ asks Angelina Jolie. ‘How could I feel anything other than anger and disgust for a person who’d violently attack vulnerable, innocent people? They ought to bear the stigma and shame, not survivors.’ As special envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Jolie has travelled to Bosnia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to learn first-hand the effects of rape and sexual violence on women, men and children. ‘The thought of someone attacking and raping a child is so hard to imagine, but a huge number of victims are very young girls and boys,’ she says. ‘I met a woman in DRC who showed me a photo of a five-year old girl who’d been raped outside a police station. What does it say about us if we tolerate these crimes?’ The actress will join Britain’s for-

The kidnapping of more than 200 girls by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria has shocked the world. Ahead of a global summit in London next month to try to end sexual violence in conflict, UN special envoy Angelina Jolie tells GRAEME GREEN that those responsible should be punished... eign secretary William Hague, world leaders, military officials and NGOs at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict next month in London, the largest ever gathering of its kind. ‘This is a crime that’s affected millions of women and girls and men and boys in our lifetimes,’ said Jolie. She condemned recent events in Nigeria, where Islamist militants Boko Haram have abducted more than 200 girls. ‘In Nigeria, we’ve just seen hundreds of girls taken in a single attack by a group that’s known to kidnap children to force them into sexual slavery. ‘Trying to get the girls home is the priority. But we have to address the root causes, above all the impunity. ‘Perpetrators of these crimes think they’ll get away with it, so we have to make sure the crime doesn’t go

unpunished. We also have to ask how many other schools and schoolgirls in Nigeria and other conflict areas are vulnerable, and get ahead of the attackers.’ The UN estimates more than 200,000 people have been raped in the DRC since 1998. ‘A report on sexual violence by the UN secretary general basically listed every conflict country,’ said Anita Tiessen, deputy executive director of Unicef UK. ‘Where there was conflict, there was sexual violence.’ Tiessen has spent time with refugees in Lebanon fleeing the war in Syria, including young girls who had been raped or abused. The physical effects on children are not just frequent pregnancies. They suffer torn internal organs and often deep psychological damage. The motivation for a rapist isn’t

just sex but to inflict damage. ‘In a conflict situation, when there’s power and when people are trying to inflict pain on the people they’re trying to subdue or get rid of, then rape, torture or other forms of violence become far more acceptable in the minds of people carrying out violence,’ said Tiessen.

HAT was the case in Colombia for journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima. In 2000, she was kidnapped by paramilitaries and tortured and raped for 16 hours for reporting on their activities in the country’s civil war. ‘I realised the solution is not to stay silent,’ said Bedoya, who now works with human rights group ABColombia to combat sexual violence. ‘I decided to talk because I realised it was a crime they wanted to hide in Colombia,’ she said. The summit will also tackle the issue of sexual violence against men. ‘When I first started working in Kampala, there was no discussion at all on this issue,’ said Chris Dolan,

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violence are from countries where the law provides no protection for them

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in male refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo have reported experiences of sexual violence

news@metroherald.ie director of the Refugee Law Project in Uganda. ‘Now we’ve opened up the discussion a bit, the numbers are way higher than we expected. The experience we have is primarily with refugees coming out of countries in the Great Lakes like Congo, Rwanda, Burundi. ‘We find somewhere between a quarter and a third of men have had some experience of sexual violence.’ Steven Kighoma, a survivor from the DRC, said: ‘It kills your spirit.’ In 2010, his family were killed by government soldiers. Three of the soldiers then raped him. Four years on, Kighoma still suffers pain, nightmares and flashbacks. Male rape is used as a weapon, instilling terror, tearing families and communities apart. Afterwards, there’s often inadequate help for victims. But shame also stops many men reporting what happened to them, especially in cultures like Congo and Uganda, where, said Kighoma, ‘there’s confusion from people about the difference between sexual violence and homosexuality’. Getting help to survivors is a key issue at the summit, as is finding ways to bring perpetrators to justice. ‘We have to create an environment where people know that if they commit these crimes they’ll be punished, because there will be teams on the ground collecting evidence against them and a judicial system that will catch up with them,’ said Jolie. ‘But we also need more protection for refugees, early warning systems when rape is happening, and armed forces trained to combat this. ‘Blame should be attached to commanders, not just foot soldiers. No one should be above the law – that’s a fundamental principle of justice.’

Thursday, May 22, 2014 METRO HERALD

Private island that’s ‘a ten-minute helicopter ride from Miami’... yours for €80million

3 beds, parking for 20 boats by DANIEL BINNS

WHILE most home buyers would balk at €80million for a three-bed detached, this paradise pad comes with its own private 26-acre island. And if you fancied hosting a regatta for your shipmates then look no further as Pumpkin Key has room to dock up to 20 boats, or one megayacht if royalty should drop by. Although the main abode may seem a little pokey, the island off the coast of Florida also houses two caretaker’s cottages, a boat captain’s bolthole and planning permission for 12 more dwellings. A vast private beach and tennis courts which double up as helipads are also thrown in, along with membership of the exclusive Ocean Reef community. Russell Post, from Sotheby’s International Realty, said: ‘Pumpkin Key represents one of the most exceptional opportunities in real estate today, anywhere in the world. ‘Pumpkin Key offers the unique opportunity for privacy, while still being part of the Ocean Reef community, and just a quick tenminute helicopter ride or 50-minute boat trip to Miami.’

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Pacific paradise: Pumpkin Key, off the coast of Florida, is on the market for about €80million and comes complete with a private marina and beach Pictures: barcroft Media

THE next Star Wars film is currently filming in the United Arab Emirates. Officials in the oil-rich Middle Eastern emirate had previously refused to confirm any involvement with the seventh instalment of the galactic franchise – but yesterday media company twofour54 confirmed that director JJ Abrams and cast had arrived in early May. Star Wars: Episode VII is scheduled for release in December 2015. Abu Dhabi has invested heavily in trying to establish itself as a centre of media production and a destination for international film-makers.

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I’m in tune with your mood ‘New social network’ of songs and photos by AIDAn RADnEDgE FOR those sick of seeing pictures of cute kittens and smug friends online, brace yourself. From today, they’re going to be accompanied by music. Tunepics is an app that hopes to stimulate multiple senses by inviting people to share their photos while songs that signify the mood play in the background. An ‘emotion wheel’ also accompanies each image and gives a choice of 16 different feelings including ‘love’, ‘laughing’, ‘happy’, ‘moved’, ‘excited’, ‘jealous’, ‘dreaming’ and ‘heartbroken’. Tunepics founder and chief executive Justin Cooke was inspired to set up the ‘new social network’ after discussions with Will.i.am. ‘I’ve always had a fascination with music, colour, images and the weather and how they influence our mood and emotions,’ he said. ‘I want people to be able to share the depth behind the moments they

experience and to articulate all the ones they dream of having. With Tunepics, everyone can create a soundtrack to Inspired: Will.i.am their life.’ It is hoped Tunepics could help send songs by emerging artists into the charts and provide an insight into the over-riding moods and tastes of countries at any one time. Each ‘tunepic’ provides a 30second sample of each song, alongside a link to buy it on iTunes. Selections can also be shared on Twitter and Facebook. Other early adopters include chef Jamie Oliver, actress Kate Bosworth and fashion chain Asos. The app can be downloaded now for free on iPhones and iPads from the App Store, with an Android version to follow later this year.

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Thursday, May 22, 2014 METRO HERALD

digest

Mubarak jailed for pandas jet in to ease stealing state cash tension over MH370

EgypT: Hosni Mubarak has been convicted of embezzling public funds and jailed for three years. The ousted president’s two sons, Gamal and Alaa, were jailed for four years each in the same case. Mubarak, 86, who faces a retrial over the death of protesters during the 2011 uprising, used millions earmarked for refurbishing official palaces on improving his family’s private homes.

MALAysiA: Two giant pandas have been delivered by China after a month’s delay – imposed out of respect for relatives of passengers on missing flight MH370. Male Fu Wa and female Feng Yi were flown into Kuala Lumpur on a ten-year loan to celebrate 40 years of diplomatic ties. The links were strained when the Malaysian jet vanished in March with 239 mainly Chinese passengers aboard.

Cared for: A Syrian refugee is treated by a Lebanese nurse but a funding crisis means many of the sick and injured are turned away from hospitals picture: ap

CHiLE: A demonstrator braces as police fire a water cannon at protestors during clashes against education reforms in Valparaiso

Knifeman kills four sick McCartney on packed subway cancels Asia tour

TAiWAN: Four commuters were stabbed to death and 21 injured as a knifeman went on the rampage on a subway train. Two men and two women were killed by the 21-year-old student who struck on Taipei’s Banqiao line at the start of yesterday’s evening rush hour, police said. The attacker said he wanted to ‘do something big’, according to officers who arrested him at the scene.

KOREA: Paul McCartney has pulled out of the rest of his tour of East Asia owing to illness. The 71year-old yesterday announced the cancellation of next week’s show in Seoul – a day after scrapping gigs in Japan. ‘I was really looking forward to playing in South Korea for the first time and I’m sorry to be letting fans down,’ said Sir Paul, who is due to perform in the US next month.

Armstrong is stripped of highest honour FRANCE: Lance Armstrong has been stripped of a prestigious award by France. The cyclist (pictured) was given the rank of Chevalier – or Knight – in the Legion d’Honneur in 2005, the last year of his seven consecutive Tour de France victories. He was later stripped of those titles for doping. A Legion of Honour official said she was unable to indicate when the decision was made to remove Armstrong’s award. The Legion of Honour was created in 1802, and roughly one million people have received it over the years. It is France’s highest honour.

and finally... FRANCE: Passengers are always told to mind the gap – but a train company has failed to do so in style. Nearly 1,300 stations have platforms which are too narrow for 341 new trains to pass through. It will cost €50million to fix.

ill children forced back to syria due to lack of cash

SICK and wounded Syrian children who escaped the war-torn country are being denied crucial medical treatment, a report has revealed. The influx of refugees into neighbouring Lebanon has become so great that many hospitals are turning away those most in need, because they cannot afford to care for them. Many of the estimated 1million refugees in the country have no access to health care and one in ten is forced to return to the land they left behind for treatment, Amnesty International says in its Agonising Choices report. It highlighted the case of Arif, a boy of 12 whose burned legs became infected owing to a lack of treatment. He needs 13 operations

but a lack of money means these cannot be carried out. It also reported cases where refugees with long-term illnesses, such as cancer, were forced to shuttle between Syria and Lebanon every week for treatment. One father told how he risks his life by passing through areas where the civil war is raging so his nine-year-old son, who has leukaemia, can get the treatment he needs. Lebanon has received less than a fifth of the €1.2billion UN aid it needs to treat the sick and injured, claims Amnesty. ‘Syrian refugees there are suffering as a direct result of the interna-

Flood aid on way as clear-up talks begin FLOOD-ravaged Serbia and Bosnia will be given aid swiftly, the EU has vowed, as its officials visited the Balkans to discuss the clean-up operation yesterday. With both nations observing days of national mourning, EU commissioner Kristalina Georgieva said she hoped the worst of the flooding, which has killed at least 40 in the two countries, was over.

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tional community’s shameful failure to fully fund the UN relief programme,’ said spokeswoman Audrey Gaughran. Health care in Lebanon is largely private, with most Syrians unable to afford treatment. The United Nations high commissioner for refugees is supposed to fill the gaps but, owing to a lack of funding, has had to ask some who qualify for help to pay a quarter of the fees. The UN is appealing for €5billion in aid relief to tackle the Syrian crisis. Last year, it received 70 per cent of the €4billion needed to help families. The US (€850million) and EC (€440million) are the largest donors to the UN fund.

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‘The EU really is with you,’ the Bulgarian said. ‘As someone from the Balkans, I am pleased we not only responded to the demands of Serbia, but offered even more.’ Serbian prime minister Aleksandar Vucic said he was ‘endlessly grateful’ to Brussels for its aid but warned his people much of the work was ‘up to us’.

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60 seconds Mailbox

i met him through Brian Grazer, my partner at imagine entertainment for 30 years. Brian loves hip-hop. He produced 8 Mile, and the nutty Professor movies we did had a hip-hop soundtrack. When he produced American Gangster, Jay-Z volunteered to make an album inspired by the movie. That’s how Brian and Jay-Z got to know each other, which is how i met Jay-Z.

What made you want to do a ‘behind-the-scenes’ concert documentary? i had a meeting

Jay-Z says ‘everyone has a genius level of potential in them’. Do you agree? it’s a

great thought. The consistent message, for me, is that individuals have to take responsibility for themselves. it’s a very clear-eyed, unsentimental vision of potential.

FLOWER CHILD: Gavin Ross captured this beautiful shot of his daughter Lauren walking through the wild flowers, with the sunlight breaking through the trees, at Kilruddery Gardens, near Bray, Co Wicklow

it’s a mantra for him and it was pervasive through this project. That good can be created through effort, through focus, through followthrough and attention.

What did you make of Jay-Z the man? i already knew a great

deal about Jay-Z. What i took away was that his business acumen is pure and organic. He is a consummate businessman and part of the equation is that he will make money, if possible, but he will not get involved in something if he doesn’t believe he understands it. He is not a quick buck artist – he seeks to offer people something of quality, or an opportunity or a transferable idea. He is not just cashing in; there is a level of integrity for the businesses he delves into. And that impressed me.

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with Jay-Z and told him i wasn’t a documentary film-maker and i’d never even been to a festival before. For him, that was sort of the point. He said: ‘You make all kinds of films,’ and i do explore a lot of different genres, which makes me a You’ve worked with some of good fit, given this project is all the all-time big names – about the blending of genres. i which actor do you rank loved what he had to say as No.1? Oh boy, that is about his social tough. When i was 16, objectives for his i acted with Henry Made in America Fonda for a couple festival as well I told Jay-Z of years on a TV as the cultural I wasn’t a documentary show that wasn’t point he was very good, but the trying to film-maker and I’d ease and demonstrate. never even been to a intelligence with Which is? That which he festival before! barriers are falling approached his work in so many aspects of was remarkable. He the world and life – knew i wanted to be a particularly in music, where director and he was the first bigpeople have broadened their tastes name, serious grown-up to say: to such a point that there are no ‘You have talent and if you love longer rigid boundaries in terms of movies you should become a genre. The festival encourages that. director, because it is really a director’s medium. if you love There’s a real mix of artists in acting then go to the stage but if Made In America. Who’s you love movies you should ended up on your iPod? The become a director. You can do it.’ Hives! And Janelle Monáe, i really So he was very significant to me. appreciate her. Jill Scott – i didn’t know about her at all and now she’s Hollywood directors such as acting in a movie for imagine on Spielberg are shifting their my recommendation. And Rita Ora, sights to TV – are you? The last she has got a lot of talent. none of time i was really involved in TV in the interviews were planned, aside a major way as a director was from the one with Jay-Z. i just had during that renaissance period when to go out on the festival days TV movies were actually ambitious trolling for them. and involving and offered a lot of

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opportunity. Like the rest of the world, i have fallen in love with the short-form series – Breaking Bad was tremendous, i was glued to the end. Yes, i am developing projects that i can’t talk about yet, because they are under wraps. And of course i was involved in producing Arrested Development and wound up being a narrator, which i love.

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keep smug couples out of yeh big Ride

ince when did the Yeh Big Ride section become the Smug couples Section? it used to be the highlight of my and my single colleagues’ day, poring over that section, hoping that one day one of us might get a mention. But now it appears that every other instalment is from people who are already happily coupled up. We do accept that there are happily married couples who consider each other to be a big ride, but if you can’t stop them from writing in, and you really must print their sickly letters, perhaps you should split the section in two – one for Yeh Big Ride – singletons and the other Yeh Big Ride – for Smug couples. Single, and ever so slightly bitter

■ Love that pull quote from christina Finn’s election piece: ‘Let’s get the kids to put the Xbox down’. What are kids doing with their Xboxes in their hands anyway? Estebancitoage ■ What a world we are living in right now – firstly on page 8 of Wednesday’s Metro Herald, Macklemore dresses up and there is a big hoo-ha over being anti-Semitic – then on page 24, Yaya Toure is throwing a hissy fit over Man city not saying Happy Birthday. Overpaid t**t, get a reality check. Mark ■ Do irish people have a thing against pressing the button at pedestrian crossing lights? Frequently as i approach lights i notice people standing waiting to

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● Good on Ya Mr Compassionate Bus Driver, who rescued the lost dog wandering in rushhour traffic up the N4. Hopefully this message will let his owner know to contact Dublin Bus Lost Property – not the first place you might think of checking for your dog. GP ● To the lady who picked up my purse on Queen Street Saturday/Sunday and handed it into the Bridewell garda station with everything in it, a huge big thank you. L, D7

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cross the road, but they have not pressed the button. They glumly stand there desperately hoping for a break in the traffic, as vehicle after vehicle trundles past. is it uncool to press the button? Have we really got that concerned about what other people think? Or are we such a generous people that we would rather waste precious seconds, and/or minutes of our own busy lives in order for strangers in all manner of machines to continue their own journey without interruption? Press the Button campaign ■ Jeez Mailbox, i can’t tell if the ‘man in the overcoat’ in yesterday’s Yeh Big Ride was one half of a kinky couple, or a dedicated stalker peeking in some poor woman’s windows. Creeped out

yEH big RiDE ● To the handsome blond guy with the red jacket who I see every morning near Pearse Street, when I’m not late for work, fancy a drink? I promise I’ll smile at you this time tomorrow :) The girl with glasses

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Thursday, May 22, 2014 METRO HERALD

It’s all in your jeans...

They’re a firm favourite in many a woman’s wardrobe – Naomi Mdudu checks out what’s in style denimwise this season ➔

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Nothing in our wardrobes works as hard as a pair of jeans. Naomi Mdudu rounds up this season’s denim heroes Mom Boyfriend

Drew high waist mom jeans, €30, Missguided, www.missguided.co.uk

90s badge jeans, €56, Asos, www.asos.com

Embellished mom jeans, €67, Topshop, www.topshop.com

This season, the much-maligned mom jeans have found themselves at the height of fashion – see Chloe Sevigny rocking them, p.15. The good thing? Nowadays there’s no excess crotch fabric or camel toe issue. Mom jeans are slimmer than a boyfriend jean. They tend to come with a straight leg and sit comfortably around the belly button. It’s that high fit we like: not only are they perfect styled with this season’s crop tops but they’re ideal for hiding a muffin top. Nobody is doing them quite like Topshop, who have a whole range in every shade – but the best styles are the vintage washes.

Phoebe boyfriend jeans, €240, MiH Jeans, www.matchesfashion.com

Cropped boyfriend jeans, €284, Current/Elliott, www.net-a-porter.com

Ripped

Flares

Ridley high-waist skinny ripped jeans, €40, Asos, www.asos.com

Flared jeans, €49, Mango, www.mango.com

Skinny ripped jeans, €37, H&M, www.hm.com

Distressed low-rise cropped skinny jeans, €121, Iris & Ink, www.theoutnet.com

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It’s difficult to remember a time without boyfriend jeans (worn by Mila Kunis, left). Junya Watanabe brought them back into the spotlight with his patchwork styles and the cuts are among the best-selling at Gap and Topshop. For those prepared to always wear them with heels or are naturally blessed in the height department, masculine styles work perfectly. Height is vital to balance out voluminous proportions. But if you have a petite frame, you’re in luck: the boyfriend shape has become slightly more tailored. ‘They’re great for women who can find themselves swamped by more oversized styles,’ says NetA-Porter buyer Octavia Bradford.

After bubbling away in the background for some time, ripped denim is coming to the fore. When it comes to rips, decide how far you’re willing to go. You can go the whole way with thighexposing tears teamed with a T-shirt, skater shoes, a killer leather jacket and lots of attitude. Alternatively, you can take more subtle approach with more discreet rips on the knee. The trick is to team them with classic pieces. A subtle pair with a classic blouse, tailored blazer, statement necklace and heels is perfect for work if your dress code allows.

Mid-wash Alice jeans, €55, River Island, www.riverisland.com

Forever Karlie high-rise flared jeans, €290, Frame Denim, www.net-a-porter.com

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Whether it’s thanks to supermodel Karlie Kloss and her designs for Frame Denim or images of Claudia Schiffer sporting them on the school run, flares are back. The reason they’ve become so popular is their leglengthening powers. ‘They help balance your proportions,’ says Trilogy’s Lesley Torson. ‘They look amazing on women with curves but also help create a feminine silhouette if you have narrower hips.’

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

hONE? Check. Wallet? Check. Passport? Check. handy for ensuring you don’t end up stranded, penniless and technically illegal in a foreign country, repeating this little mental checklist is key to any packing procedure, whether you’re prepping for a weekendlong city break or 10 days in

pre-holiday the Bahamas. But what about the rest? Packing may be ironing isn’t tedious but put it on the long finger and you run the risk of done in vain. finding yourself using your boxers as swim-shorts and your While finger as a toothbrush. To that end, here are some failsafe we’re on tips for hassle-free packing: the topic, Cotton basics are your concrete – roll vests, T-shirts and unpacking underwear neatly and use to as soon as hold other items in place you arrive at within your bag or suitcase. your Invest in a shirt bag to destination comes highly recommended to prevent creasing, keep dress shirts as creasedespite how tempting a strong negroni may be on free as possible. touchdown. American When it comes to toiletries, downsize and duplicate. Stock brand Moore up on travel-size versions of your staple products to save & Giles offer space and make sure you don’t leave behind €100 bottles of a style that has fragrance along with your tip for the hotel cleaner. room for up to five shirts and www.male-mode.com; @malemode also includes an instructional folding Alfred Dunhill Chassis Leather-trimmed washbag, above, €206, board as well as six leather available at mrporter.com; Left, Moore & Giles Sullivan shirt bag, €115, collar stays to ensure any available at mooreandgiles.com

Thursday, May 22, 2014 METRO HERALD

DEDicATED cREATORs Of fAsHiOn

Griffith College design students will be showcasing their work at tonight’s Graduate Fashion Show. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s in store. Main picture: Lauryn Greer models an outfit by fashion design student Iwona Szponarska and Ella Killen wears an outfit by Emma Gannon. Centre: Lauryn models a creation from Margaret Salisbury; right, Ella in an outfit by Emma Collopy. Griffith College Creative Week kicks off on May 29. Visit www.gcd.ie for further details. PhotograPhs: Photocall Ireland

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3 The Spa at The Marker, Dublin

Style over substance is often the case with the city’s most fashionable haunts. Happily, the spa at Dublin’s most glamorous urban hotel completely lives up to the hype. This luxurious urban oasis, complete with a soothing, dark-tiled pool and thermal suite, has just celebrated its first birthday. The customised massage is divine; every knot of tension will be expertly smoothed away, leaving you free to enjoy a cocktail on the roof and a nibble or two of Chef Gareth Mullins’s culinary creations. Customised massages at the Marker start from €65; www.themarkerhoteldublin.com

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television

★ Must see ★

Drama

Gillian Anderson stars as Meg Fitch, the head honcho in a tech firm, in this drama following the aftermath of the capture of a bus carrying pupils from an elite private school in Washington DC. Tonight, Finley and Dunn plot to lure the kidnappers out of hiding with a CIA file as bait. Meanwhile Meg betrays someone close to her in exchange for information. Elsewhere, Widener connects with a mysterious asset to monitor Gibson’s plot.

the good wife More4, 9pm

The June day in 1996 when an IRA bomb attack ripped apart Manchester’s Arndale Centre is the starting point for this powerful three-part family saga written by Peter Bowker, whose credits include Occupation and Desperate Romantics. Bernard Hill, Philip Glenister (pictured) and Steven Mackintosh star as a father and two sons, a family at war with themselves, for whom the bombing proves a pivotal point in their lives. Elder son Daniel feels his brush with death is a wake-up call…

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DEMAn D the truth about emanuel

Not a documentary about the 1970s soft porn heroine, but a rocky female psychodrama. Troubled Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario) becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbour (Jessica Biel), who resembles her own dead mother. When Emanuel offers to babysit, the dark, swirling mommy issues get even more twisted.

a birder’S guide to everything

Ben Kingsley (right) plays a veteran twitcher in this gentle, coming-of-age road movie. In it 15-year-old David (Kodi SmitMcPhee) uses birdwatching to connect him with his mother, who died more than a year ago, while his dad has quickly moved on to pastures new.

Soaps eaStenderS RTÉ1, 7.30pm

Given all that she’s been through, topped off with that farcical saga involving finding the perfect wig, you’d think Carol Jackson deserved a bit of piece and quiet. But David Wicks, ever the sensitive soul, reckons Carol deserves a hen party to remember – though this one’s in the afternoon and there’s no sign of a stripper, so Katie Price won’t be on the blower asking for a phone number. In other news, Phil lends Shirley a helping hand. Well, they do go way back.

emmerdale TV3, 7pm

Donna wants Ross to meet her in the lay-by later, but before you get giddy with the romance of that image, she’s got business in mind, nothing else. Meanwhile, Charity’s nerves are on edge at the hospital as her miscarriage story reaches make-or-break point: will the ultrasound find her out?

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Fun

deS biShoP: breaking China RTÉ1, 10.15pm

The shockwaves are still reverberating from Will’s violent death, but at least some good might come from it. At the memorial service, where it’s clear Will’s family hadn’t a clue about what made him tick, the most important women in his life, Alicia and Diane – with the help of generous cocktails – manage to bury the hatchet. No – don’t be silly – not in each other.

PlayhouSe PreSentS: the nightShift Sky Arts 1, 9pm

The Nightshift features Ashley Walters and Daniel Mays as two patrol car cops cruising the streets of south London, chewing over the state of the world and getting personally involved with a drunk girl whose love life is in tatters. Not a lot happens on this shift, but surely that’s a good thing. Basking in the glow of his successful mastery of the Irish language after living in a Gaeltacht, Irish-American comedian Des Bishop decided to set himself an even bigger and bolder challenge: living in China for a year, while learning Mandarin to a good enough level to perform a one-man stand-up show for a Chinese audience. Well, now his time is up, and as Des prepares to walk out into the spotlight, he encounters a dozen beautiful contestants on a TV dating show.

X-men originS: wolverine

TG4, 8pm

Travelling around the country, this new six-part series asks members of the public to have a rummage in their attics and bring along artefacts of historical interest to a pop-up museum. This week, presenter Mairead Ní Chuinneagáin is joined by local expert Pádraig McCraith in Ráth Chairn in Co Meath to examine items, including a letter from father to son during World War 2 and a collection of vintage farming equipment and vehicles.

Film4, 9pm

Film4’s X-Men revision programme continues with the franchise’s first spin-off title. Find out how Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) got his claws in this box-ticking blockbuster prequel that follows the sibling story between our biceps-popping hero and his equally super-powered brother (Liev Schreiber).

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SolariS

TCM, 10.55pm

horizon: the £10million Challenge BBC2, 9pm

What is the biggest problem facing humanity? Is a shortage of clean drinking water more pressing than the need to create new antibiotics before old ones cease to be effective? Is finding a cure for dementia more urgent than identifying new sources of food? You’ll ask yourself such questions during this big money challenge, with Prof Alice Roberts, in which viewers are invited to come up with solutions to global dilemmas.

tyger takeS on… the PerfeCt body BBC3, 9pm

Having given porn his best shot, Tyger Drew-Honey probes male body image. From selfies to supplements, he takes a cheeky look at social media-fuelled narcissism. He gets ripped, he gets back, sack and cracked, he fakes his avatar, all in a quest for today’s idea of what makes a man a man.

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Steven Soderbergh’s sci-fi philosophical movie stars George Clooney as psychologist Chris Kelvin, who is sent on a mission to a distant space station to treat a group of astronauts after their apparent haunting by long-dead loved ones. When Kelvin gets there, one of the crew has committed suicide, leaving colleagues Snow (Jeremy Davies) and Gordon (Viola Davis) traumatised. As Kelvin investigates he has a very realistic dream about his dead wife Rheya (Natascha McElhone).

the thing

ITV4, 10.55pm

the zoo RTÉ1, 7pm

borgen TG4, 11pm

As the Danish political drama continues, Birgitte’s government runs out of steam. Internal squabbling is impacting on progress and only compromise legislation is being passed. Meanwhile in the midst of the political strife, the latest opinion polls indicate that Birgitte is likely to lose the next election. What she really needs now is a popular cause to win back the voters.

Film

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TV3, 10pm

from there to here BBC1, 9PM

Factual

Sshh, if you listen carefully you might hear the pitter patter of tiny paws, as some new babies are born on the Red Ruffs Lemurs Island at Dublin Zoo. Also on this week’s show, keeper Brendan checks up on the Indian Black Buck herd in their home in the African Plains. And some new arrivals at the Sulawesi Crested Macaque habitat are bound to cause a stir.

A US scientific expedition marooned in the frozen Antarctic wastes is crashed by a group of seemingly crazy Norwegians hunting a dog. The dog survives, but soon the Americans are being picked off one by one… This is the tense John Carpenter version from the 1980s, a superior body horror.

harry Potter and the deathly hallow: Part 2 UTV, 7pm

In this epic finale of the film series, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his best buds, Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), are on the hunt for Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord.

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The flipside of the Indian dream

JULiE MYERsON MY DESERT ISLAND bookS ALL thAt iS by James Salter

This is the description of one man’s life set in post-war America. Funny, smart, sexy, gripping, unsettling and ultimately deeply moving, it is one of the most engaging books I’ve ever read. And Salter was 87 when he wrote it. Respect.

StrAngerS

by Anita Brookner Another novel by an octogenarian, and a dark

and daring meditation on the subject of old age, but don’t let that put you off. There’s comedy and humanity here, as well as an honesty that makes you hold your breath. one of the finest novels I’ve ever read.

the greAt gAtSBY by F Scott Fitzgerald An obvious choice but surely the perfect desert

island novel. What is this book really about? Who are these people? Why is it that the more you read it and the longer you gaze into its depths, the more uneasy and unknowable they seem to become? As a writer, I don’t know how he wrote this. As a reader, I could keep on reading it forever and I know it would be different every single time. The Quickening by Julie Myerson (Hammer) is out now in paperback.

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s India’s economy booms, so its authors Realism shines through appear ever more pampered ideals in resistant to signing up to new Indian fiction, this new mythology of prosperity and glory. Aravind Adiga, writes Claire Allfree who won the 2008 Man Booker Prize with his sharp-toothed satire The White Tiger, has been one of the more high-profile critics of India’s for discarded rice water, dizzying love affair with capitalism, wages an attritional war while Jeet Thayil showed a side of against her daughter-in-law Bombay the tourists rarely see with and wrings her hands over Narcopolis, a hallucinogenic, semiher dark-skinned unmarried autobiographical journey through the daughter, who is privately city’s opium dens in the 1980s. nursing a desperate, wrong Against this backdrop of a new love for her brother. realism in Indian fiction, Neel Meanwhile, upstairs her Mukherjee’s expansive and often grandson shoots heroin in brilliant second novel, The Lives Of the bathroom and her Others, seems intent on rattling the youngest son cops off with Indian tourist board even further by the housemaid. turning a telescopic, high-definition Mukherjee has an almost lens upon the tectonic plates of pointillist approach to inequality beneath the gleaming narrative: his novel teems tower blocks. with miniaturist detail and The Lives Of Others is set in subplot. The chasm of Calcutta over several decades in the empathy between India’s lives of the wealthy, vituperative, monied classes and its poor multigenerational Ghosh family. The is played out within the focus is on the period between 1967 suffocating social codes to 1970, during which the Naxalite of the house itself. No one uprising in West Bengal was in full Awash with poverty: neel mukherjee draws on the inequality of 1970s calcutta bats an eyelid when a swing and for which the grandson second daughter-in-law is struggling with a different son asks her questions supratik has abandoned home dispatched with her two young set of problems. Em And and uses letters written comforts to help foment a communist children to two tiny rooms after her The Big Hoom by Jerry by her, many unfinished, peasant uprising. husband dies. to try and unpick the The novel cycles back and forth at Most of Mukherjee’s characters are Pinto comes garlanded with praise from some of cause of her descent. whim across the decades leading up either snakes or fatally weak-willed, India’s most established Pinto’s tone is to this period, tracking the while even supratik, who casts literary names, including superficially jocular – at establishment – and eventual himself as a lone moral conscience, salman Rushdie and one point, Em, a riotously collapse – of the family quickly subscribes to the Amitav Ghosh, not least vibrant figure when she is paper mill business. amoral politics of the for the bold way Pinto well, asks her son how Mainly, though, it terrorist. Mukherjee turns that literary examines how the city’s spares the reader nothing em And the much sex he had that day. inheritance on its head. More interestingly, turbulent politics wash up – supratik’s eventual Big hoom Dropping the widescreen, there is the subtext that it against the impervious downfall is quite by Jerry Pinto socially panoramic is motherhood that sent walls of the family house, staggeringly violent – (Penguin) approach favoured by his Em – dubbed Buttercup behind which the yet his command of HHH✩✩ forebears, he’s crafted a by her husband, Big Ghoshes are cooped storytelling is so series of encounters between a Hoom, in the early days of their up like squabbling, astounding, he draws the mother and her son. courtship – into mania. Pinto pampered chickens. reader into places they the LiveS The mother, Em, is a manic doesn’t quite keep his narrative’s Here, fearsome would prefer not to look. of otherS tenuous strands together but he has matriarch Charubala, the In another very different depressive and the many amusing by Neel Mukherjee and dreadful consequences of her written a novel that perhaps uniquely kind of woman to recoil abode, a cramped two(Chatto) illness are recounted in a series of breaks free from India’s historic, in horror when a beggar bed Bombay flat, the HHHH✩ memories, or reconstructions, as the cacophonous clamour. knocks at the door asking Mendes family is

RAiL READs New out this week AmericAn interior

by Gruff Rhys (Hamish Hamilton) There’s already been an album and a film, now here is the book version of Rhys’s idiosyncratic project based on the true story of explorer John Evans.

the Snow Queen

by Michael Cunningham (Fourth Estate) The author of The Hours returns with a novel about two brothers, one seeking spiritual enlightenment in God, the other seeking creative enlightenment in drugs.

AStoniSh me

by Maggie Shipstead (Blue Door) The love affair with a Soviet dancer who she helped defect in 1975 comes back to haunt Joan years later when she realises her young son Harry is a ballet prodigy. CA

puzzles

METROSCOPE

by Patrick Arundell

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Your head and heart could be in conflict, especially if you’re facing a situation in which the answers seem to evade you. A Moon Saturn link suggests turning your attention to what you can accomplish and trying again tomorrow.

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Cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23

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golf

It’s painful but I need to play, insists McIlroy RoRy McIlRoy accepts he faces a difficult task this week as he tries to focus on his golf after splitting from tennis star caroline Wozniacki. McIlroy released a statement yesterday morning confirming his break-up with the former world No.1, just days after sending out their wedding invitations. However, despite looking visibly drained and upset, the 25-year-old insisted he never thought of Tough task: McIlroy at pro-am withdrawing from the BMW PGA

championship, which begins at Wentworth this morning. ‘I just want to get my head into golf this week, concentrate on the tournament and try to do well,’ he said. ‘I’m not going to lie. It’s going to be very difficult. At least when I get inside the ropes, [I can] just try to concentrate on the shot at hand.’ Asked if he had been tempted to pull out of an event in which he has disappointingly missed the cut in each of the last two years, the co

Down golfer replied: ‘No, I didn’t think there was any reason to do that. There’s no good time to sort of end a relationship, I guess. ‘I made a commitment to be here. It’s the tour’s flagship event. I’m very proud to be part of the European Tour. ‘I’m no different than anyone else. Everyone has been through breakups and it’s obviously very, difficult. ‘But I’m here to try and concentrate on my golf, and that’s what I’m going to do.’

rugby

Thursday, May 22, 2014 METRO HERALD

spORT DigEsT At the front of the pack: Patrick Bevin

Leader Bevin wins scintillating sprint cycLing Patrick Bevin took his

second stage win of this year’s An Post Rás yesterday when he edged a close bunch sprint coming into Cahirciveen on day four of the race. Retaining his lead at the top of the general classification, the New Zealand National Team rider outsprinted last year’s winner Marcin Bialoblocki and Peter Williams, who finished second and third respectively. Stage four from Charleville to Cahirciveen was pinpointed by many as the toughest of this year’s race at 183km, with ten categorised climbs. Bevin retains a one minute 55 seconds lead over Clemens Fankhauser at the top of the general classification.

Weather worries for Tour de France

cycLing The only thing giving Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive Gary Verity sleepless nights as the Tour de France approaches is the British weather, he insists. In 44 days the greatest endurance event in world sport will begin in Leeds, with preparations under control and an expectant public excited about Le Tour beginning in the UK. Come rain or shine crowds will flock to the roadside from July 5 to see the likes of 2013 champion Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish, Verity said. MIGHT AS WELL JUMP: Leinster star Fergus McFadden gets a helping jumpstart from Ellie Mooney, Daniel Lynch and Brendan Mullins to launch Specsavers’ search for Ireland’s most unbreakable friendship. The competition to promote Specsavers new SuperTough unbreakable lenses. Entry forms are available at any of 47 stores nationwide, or visit www.Specsavers.ie/unbreakable PIcture: InPho

McFadden praises club’s medics after head injury

by gARETH MAkiM Fergus McFadden has hailed Leinster’s medical staff as an example to others when it comes to player welfare in the area of head injuries following his experience last weekend. McFadden, Brian O’driscoll and sean cronin were all removed from the field of play after suffering blows to the head in Leinster’s Pro12 semi-final victory over ulster as team doctors took a safetyfirst approach. That is in stark contrast to the recent furore caused by Toulouse’s decision to allow clearly groggy centre Florian Fritz back on to the

pitch in a Top14 match in France. ‘I can’t speak for other clubs, but in fairness to the medical staff with Leinster and with Ireland, they don’t take any chances with the players in that area,’ McFadden said yesterday. ‘It’s one thing playing on with a

‘Brain damage can affect you for life’ broken hand, or playing on with a tear in your hamstring, those things will heal, but your brain... you damage it and it can affect you for the rest of your life.

‘It probably did make a bit of a statement, taking the players off. I mean Brian, myself and sean cronin got taken off as a precaution and thankfully all of us were clear and we weren’t concussed, but they are chances you can’t take. ‘You look at the likes of the Fritz case, it’s scary to see players like that, in that kind of condition, and they go back out and play. ‘The fact that he fell on the ground coming off and went back on, it just didn’t look like it was managed too well. Those cases are eye-openers.’ With McFadden cleared to return to training, the Kildare man is free

to concentrate on next week’s Pro12 final against glasgow and he admits Leinster will have to significantly improve on their semifinal display if they are to defend their title. ‘We’ve a very good chance of winning it if we play well,’ he said. ‘Our attack will have to be more clinical than it was against ulster. ‘We coughed up too much ball in the first half. ‘If we play like that against glasgow, we would lose. They’ve been pretty clinical, their tails are up, they’ve won loads of games, they’ve a great coach and they’ve a game-plan which is one of the best out there.’

Martinez fighting fit to face Cotto

bOxing Sergio Martinez is eager to shrug off his knee injury nightmare and re-establish his dominance of the world middleweight division when he returns from a 14-month absence to face Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 7. The 39year-old Martinez, who is still the WBC title holder, will face fellow veteran Cotto in a catch-weight contest at 159lbs in what will be his first fight since outpointing Martin Murray in Buenos Aires in April last year.

Gregan to lead AAI ATHLETics Ireland’s No.1 400m athlete Brian Gregan (Clonliffe Harriers AC) will headline a stacked 200m field at the 2014 AAI Open Games. European Junior silver medallist Sarah Lavin (UCD AC) continues her rise into the senior ranks as she is set to compete in both the 100m and 100m hurdles events. While 2014 World Indoor 1,500m representative David McCarthy (West Waterford AC) makes his return after a spell out due to injury.

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formula one monaco grand prix

cycling giro d’italia

aussie Rogers wins stage 11 of Italian tour austRaLian michael Rogers, who had a doping suspension overturned after a contaminated meat defence last year, won stage 11 of the Giro d’italia in savona yesterday. the tinkoff-saxo rider soloed to victory on the 249km route from Collecchio to win by 10 seconds from second-placed simon Geschke (Giant-shimano) and enrico Battaglin (Bardiani CsF), who was third. Cadel evans (BmC Racing) retained the race leader’s maglia rosa with a 57-second advantage after finishing safely in the pack behind his compatriot Rogers, who claimed his first victory since winning his appeal. Rogers tested positive for the banned steroid clenbuterol last autumn, but successfully pleaded against his ban after attributing the adverse finding to contaminated meat eaten in China. the 34-year-old attacked on the descent of the final climb as the general classification contenders marked each other and seized his chance. ‘it was a great opportunity for me and i was able to take advantage of it,’ Rogers said on cyclingnews.com. ‘it was a spur of the moment decision. i saw on top of the climb that all the contenders were looking at each other, and the possibility opened up and i took it.’

Rogers: Had doping ban overturned

Pen pusher: Mercedes driver Hamilton signs autographs for fans in Monaco yesterday

PICTURE: EPa

Lewis can’t lapse where Senna is still man apart

LewIS HamILton has described a lap of monaco as ‘unique’, although not quite the existential experience as encountered by his hero ayrton Senna. It was in qualifying for the 1988 race around the principality that Senna conjured what many believe to be the greatest single lap in Formula one history. already ahead of mcLaren team-mate alain Prost by half a second, Senna produced the drive of his life to finish a staggering 1.427sec clear of the Frenchman. Describing the lap at the time, akin to an almost out-of-body experience, Senna said: ‘I was driving by instinct. I was in a

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different dimension, like in a tunnel, way beyond my conscious understanding. ‘Some moments when I’m driving detach me completely from anything else.’

‘You have no room for error, it’s very unique’ Current championship leader Hamilton may be fourth in the all-time standings with 35 poles to his name, but not one of

those has been at monaco. the British driver said: ‘every lap I do in qualifying is all done on instinct – the braking zones are done on instinct, the turning points are done on instinct. ‘that was obviously a unique experience for him [Senna], and it’s quite interesting how he described it. ‘Driving here is different as you have no room for error, even though you are on the limit, it’s a very unique experience. ‘a lap here never comes easily. Having the confidence to attack that first corner, the feeling when you go into turn one, not Instinct: Senna celebrates knowing if you’ll make it, it’s amazing.’ winning in Monte Carlo

O’Dwyer reckons teammate Sutcliffe is boss of hurling He admits to being a little biased but Ryan o’dwyer believes dublin colleague danny sutcliffe is the best hurler in ireland, writes Paul Keane. that’s an ominous thought for dublin’s rivals, just weeks out from their Leinster championship opener, potentially against Laois or antrim, who play this weekend. Whoever wins in Portlaoise on sunday will meet Wexford, with the winners qualifying for a semifinal clash with holders dublin on June 14. all-star forward sutcliffe has admitted he’s locked in a 50-50 battle to make that game after breaking his hand in a club game. But whenever he does return, fellow half-forward o’dwyer claims dublin will possess the best

gaa hurling

‘He never stops working’: Sutcliffe

player in the country. that’s a bold statement given the talent that exists in counties like Kilkenny, Clare, tipperary and Galway, though o’dwyer is adamant. ‘myself and “dotsy” o’Callaghan travel to training together and we could see with danny straight away, and we would have said this to each other, that there was something special there,’ said o’dwyer. ‘He came in 2011, got an all-star nomination in 2012 and a Young Hurler of the Year nomination and got the full all-star last year. ‘to be honest, i didn’t think it would happen so fast, but i think he’s the best hurler in the country now. ‘that’s just my opinion and i’m sure other people will have theirs.

‘He’s very similar to Colm Cronin, another young player, in so far as he never stops working. But he also wants to learn the whole time. ‘He is always figuring out new ways that will get him that one per cent extra. it’s working really well for him so far.’ the dubs are hot favourites to account for whoever they meet in the semi-finals – as all of them will be division 1B opposition – and return to the provincial final. they will depart shortly on a training camp to Portugal. ‘We’re together, we’re eating right, for those four or five days, we’re living a professional lifestyle,’ said o’dwyer. ‘and we’re living like professional athletes.’

New deal: Kilkenny’s Tommy Walsh and siblings Padraig and Grace

GAA sponsor to insure medals

LIBERTY Insurance has announced a new dimension to its partnership with the GAA and Camogie Associations. The sponsor confirmed that they will insure the All-Ireland winners’ medals across hurling, Gaelic football and camogie against loss or theft during the lifetime of their sponsorship.

TRAnsfER TALK

Cech mate: Courtois

Courtois can’t be second best

ThibauT CourTois admits he is ‘unclear’ about his Chelsea future after all but ruling out becoming Petr Cech’s understudy. The belgian goalkeeper is in his third season on loan at atletico Madrid, who face city rivals real in the Champions League final on saturday. Courtois said: ‘Things are unclear at the moment. i have the biggest respect for Petr Cech. he is one of the best in the world, so i think putting him and me in the same team is not the healthiest thing in the world.’ u ManChEsTEr united are ready to make a £30million move for barcelona’s Cesc Fabregas after reports the spain midfielder has been put on the transfer list. Fabregas was subject of three offers from united last summer but decided to stay in La Liga. u NEWCAstlE are still keen on Remy Cabella but are yet to table a bid for the Montpellier schemer. u WEsT haM are closing in on Mauro Zarate, the former birmingham man who was top scorer in argentina last season.

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Mour insults fly as Eto’o lets rip by jAMEs bOyLAn

Samuel eto’o has taken a fresh swipe at Jose mourinho, this time calling his Chelsea boss ‘a puppet’. the striker last week described mourinho as a ‘fool’ in response to the unguarded comment from the Portuguese earlier this year when he suggested eto’o was older than 33. and, ahead of the World Cup, the Cameroon international has gone on the attack again in remarks which are almost certain to signal his departure from Stamford Bridge. eto’o, who won the Champions league under mourinho while at Inter milan in 2010, said: ‘Contrary to what a puppet says about my age, I am still physically fit. ‘at 33, I feel real good. I have proven that I could do better than youths.’

Manuel thinks big despite City limits ManuEL PELLEGrini says Manchester City must be ambitious if they buy this summer. The Premier League champions will be limited to a net £49million budget after breaching financial fair play rules. but the City boss (pictured) said: ‘one of the most important things for me is to have an ambitious mind. We must analyse all the good things we did, all the bad things, where we must improve.’

Barkley’s Everton deal. Boss Roberto Martinez says he will not be sold and it is ‘crucial’ for Barkley’s development he does not leave this summer.

Slade focus on O’s

LEyTon oriEnT boss russell slade admits he is flattered to be linked with the vacant West brom job but insists he is fully focused on sunday’s League one play-off final with rotherham. he said: ‘it’s nice to be linked to a Premier League club but the total focus is on my club. it’s speculation.’

eto’o, who scored 12 times for the Blues in their recent campaign, has been linked with tottenham but repeated his aim to continue playing for a Champions league club. ‘I wish to also say I am not going to the united States or to the middle east,’ said eto’o, now out of contract. ‘I will continue at the top level, will continue to play the Champions league. my romance with this competition is far from over. ‘I will not tell you where but I will be at the top level. I am 33 and I have two World Cups to play. other players Years of discord: Eto’o is still annoyed at the age jibe went on until 41. So I can continue.’

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Neville hoping to Phil role for Louis at utd Phil Neville is still hoping he has a future at Manchester United despite admitting he is yet to hear from new manager Louis van Gaal. Dutchman Van Gaal, appointed earlier this week, has already installed Ryan Giggs as his assistant boss and will bring goalkeeping specialist Frans Hoek and opposition scout Marcel Bout with him. That has left uncertainty for

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Neville, who was brought back to Old Trafford as first-team coach by David Moyes before assisting Giggs during his caretaker spell. However, the former Everton captain remains optimistic. ‘I hope so,’ he replied when asked if he felt he still had a future at Old Trafford. ‘It is business as usual as far as I am concerned. I was first-

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team coach last year. I’m not sure what my role will be next year but over the next couple of weeks I’ll find out, and hopefully I’ll be involved.’ Asked if Van Gaal had been in touch, he added: ‘No. There are obviously processes in place and he will have his structures and team, and you

Fresh start: Van Gaal just hope you are a part of that. He is obviously a busy man with Holland at the World Cup. ‘It is good to get the new manager announced and the club can start looking forward again and looking to improve on last season.’ Whether or not Neville does stay

Luis EnriquE has set his sights on building a new barcelona empire. The new head coach has signed a two-year deal to take over from Gerardo Martino. Former barcelona midfielder Enrique said: ‘i am aware of the responsibility and the difficulty of the job. This is a very special day. We are beginning the building of a new, exciting barca.’

All bets are off as FA toughens rules

aLL professional players in English football will be banned from betting on any matches anywhere in the world from next season. The ruling was ratified at the Football association’s aGM yesterday and will apply to any player in the top eight tiers. The current rules only ban betting on competitions in which a player’s club is involved.

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Ageless Cameroon star Eto’o lets Mour digs fly at Chelsea boss

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jAcksOn RuLED OuT Of ARgEnTinA TOuR – buT MADigAn wiLL pLAy A STRESS fracture in the lower back means Ulster’s fly-half Paddy Jackson will miss Ireland’s summer tour to Argentina. Jackson has been battling the problem for some time, but the injury has deteriorated and he will miss next month’s two-Test series against the Pumas. Meanwhile, Leinster playmaker Ian Madigan has been handed a reprieve for the same tour after failing to make the cut at first. Madigan was scheduled to tour Romania with the Emerging Ireland squad after Ireland head

coach Joe Schmidt opted to take just two flyhalves to Argentina. Now the 25-year-old will replace Jackson for the Tests against Argentina in Resistencia on June 7 and Tucuman on June 15. Schmidt has rested a host of frontline stars for the summer tour – but he has resisted temptation to give Johnny Sexton a break.

Playmaker: Ian Madigan in training with the Irish rugby squad this week

Not touring: Paddy Jackson has battled a back problem for some time

O’neill getting sick of ireland waiting game

Republic of iReland boss Martin o’neill has warned Stephen ireland he will not chase him forever as he contemplates a return to the international fold. The 27-year-old Stoke midfielder has not represented his country since 2007, when he left the squad claiming that one, and then his other, grandmother had died. neither had. Successive managers – most notably Steve Staunton and Giovanni Trapattoni – have previously indicated an interest in welcoming ireland back to the squad. The ulsterman named a 29-man party for the end-ofseason friendlies against Turkey, italy, costa Rica and portugal on Tuesday which did not include the player. o’neill told journalists: ‘i had a meeting with a couple of the Stoke city players a few weeks ago, but deliberately didn’t want to speak to Stephen.

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‘i wanted to have that type of conversation with him on a one-on-one, so i called him. ‘There was no answer. ‘We had the fai trying to make contact also. no answer came. ‘Then his agent called to say that Stephen would like to be considered, but would like a conversation with me some time in July. ‘following on from what (Stoke boss) Mark Hughes had said in a newspaper interview, i thought it was very obvious then that Stephen didn’t want to be involved in these games. ‘but if he wants to get involved with us, then he needs to know that i’m not going to continue chasing. ‘He has to make the call – not me. it is as simple as that.’

Ireland’s call: O’Neill put in a call to the player, but it met with no answer

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