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THE STATE inquiry into how 35,000 un- by Ed Carty married mothers spent time in ten homes run by religious orders in Ireland is to in- out of wedlock ‘were deemed to be an investigate the ‘shameful past of Irish soci- ferior sub-species’. Children’s Minister Charlie Flanagan has ety’ rather than seek to apportion blame, been charged with determining the scope of the Taoiseach has said. The inquiry has been ordered after mas- the inquiry, in consultation with survivors, sive national and international focus on campaigners, organisations involved and the story of one home, run by the Sisters politicians. The Catholic and Protestant of the Bon Secours in Tuam, Co Galway, churches with any involvement in the homes, where the remains of 796 infants are be- or links to religious orders which ran them, will be asked to open their records. lieved to be buried. ‘Tuam should not be looked at in isola‘This was Ireland of the ’20s to the ’60s – an Ireland that might be portrayed as a tion because we have had mother and glorious and brilliant past, but in its shad- baby homes right up and down the counows contained all of these personal cases, try,’ Mr Flanagan said. Tanya Ward, chief executive of the Chilwhere people felt ashamed, felt different, were suppressed, dominated,’ Mr Kenny dren’s Rights Alliance, said the inquiry is a first step in establishing the truth. told the Dáil. ‘Uncovering the dark hisThe Taoiseach said that tory of how we treated unrather than apportioning married mothers and their blame to any particular quarchildren is vital for us to ter, there was a broader questruly acknowledge our past,’ tion to be answered about the she said. kind of society Ireland was. In a statement, Catholic ‘This essentially is about bishops in Ireland apolothe kind of country Ireland gised for the Church’s part was, where women in parin the harrowing conditions. ticular were the focus of ‘It is disturbing that the shame and suppression,’ he said. Mr Kenny said babies born Kenny: Focus on society turn to page 4

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THAT’S A LOAD OFF: The ‘Christ the King’ statue is returned to Moran Park in Dún Laoghaire after the popular sculpture by Irish American artist Andew O’Connor was removed in 2012 to allow the town’s landmark new library to be built

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Shark-infested waltzers

The shark end: Hannah kneels as deadly dance partner glides past by juLiA gREgORy SOME dream of swimming with dolphins – but they’d probably be happy to leave dancing with tiger sharks to Hannah Fraser. The LA-based model wore just a bikini and striped body paint as she waltzed with the world’s deadliest shark species in the Bahamas. She even touched the heads and fins of her sharp-toothed partners, which could have maimed her with a single bite but seemed quite content to share the water with the 38-year-

Model dances with deadly predators at risk from cull old. The stunt was set up to call attention to the plight of the sharks, which – already threatened by fishing – are being culled after attacking swimmers in Australia. Ms Fraser, originally from the UK, admitted: ‘I was feeling very anxious the first time I got into the water. The most important aspect was knowing

how their minds worked, finding out what triggered them to use their mouths and teeth to inspect or react to situations. ‘I learned how to touch them in the right way to allow a connection that they felt comfortable with – and I found out that they actually love being tickled on the nose.’

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Ireland first in Europe to ban cigarette branding

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IRELAND has become the first European country to order a ban on branded cigarette packets. Following the example set by Australia and New Zealand, big tobacco companies will be forced to use standardised packaging and carry harrowing-looking health warnings and images on the boxes. If enacted, the new laws will remove all logos, trademarks, colours, designs and

residents suffered high levels of mortality and malnutrition, disease and destitution,’ it states. ‘Sadly we are being reminded of a time when unmarried mothers were often judged, stigmatised and rejected by society, including the Church.’ Welcoming the State inquiry, the bishops said: ‘It is important that the commission, and all of us, approach these matters with compassion, determination and objectivity. We need to find out more about what this period in our social history was really like and to consider the legacy it has left us as a people.’

graphics except for the make or name of the product which will be in a uniform typeface on a plain background. ‘Given all we know about the dangers of smoking, it is not acceptable to allow the tobacco industry to use deceptive marketing gimmicks to lure our children into this deadly addiction and to deceive current smokers about the impact of their addiction,’ Health Minister James Reilly

said. The Cabinet approved the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014 at its weekly meeting. The Department of Health said the objective – expected to be contested in the courts by tobacco firms – is to make packets look less attractive and reduce the risk that people, especially children, will be misled about the harmful effects of smoking.

Current facilities in receipt of €10million The State has paid more than €10million to present-day mother and baby homes in the past five years, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. The money is paid to the homes through the health Service executive (hSe) for services provided to vulnerable mothers and teenagers in crisis pregnancy. Service users may be referred to the homes by the Courts Service, social workers, child protection teams or crisis pregnancy agencies. The largest beneficiary of the funding was the Bessborough Centre in Blackrock, Co Cork, which has received more than €1million a year for the past five years. A total of 150 mothers availed of services provided by the Bessborough Centre during this period. Mother and baby homes in the hSe West, South and Dublin North-east areas received funding of over €10 million between 2009 and 2014. There are no mother and baby homes in the hSe Dublin Mid-Leinster area.

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DOMESTIC violence victims should be legally recognised as homeless to speed up their access to accommodation, according to SAFE Ireland. Its chief executive, Sharon O’Halloran, made the call after a 24-hour census from the national network of domestic violence services found that nearly 700 women and children availed of its services on November 5 last year. Ms O’Halloran said it was the tip of the iceberg, adding this was a quiet day for most of the 37 domestic violence services that participated in the census. Out of 467 women and 229 children, some

by jOAnnE AHERn 115 women and 155 children were accommodated in a refuge and 16 women were turned away because there was no room. An average of five calls were received per hour over the 24-hour period of the census. Some 29 women were accompanied by or referred to medical services. Ms O’Halloran pointed out that these 700 people were either homeless, or in danger of being homeless, because their own homes were not safe. She said: ‘The reality is that women and children are made homeless by domestic vio-

lence. They are a unique group within the homeless population because they are fleeing crimes. We are calling on the Government to amend and develop housing legislation and to expand the definition of homelessness to include victims of domestic violence so that they can be catered for quickly.’ She added: ‘Access to safe accommodation is the most pressing need for most women and children forced to leave their unsafe homes.’ She said emergency accommodation is at ‘crisis point’ with ‘little or no expansion’ despite a 29 per cent increase since 2009 in the numbers seeking refuge.

On the runs ‘dark’ episode Crash near-miss ‘fortuitous’ NORTHERN Ireland’s First Minister has branded the on-theruns scheme a dark chapter for the British government. Peter Robinson said he was appalled the system for letting off fugitive republicans was ever put in place. The DUP leader said: ‘The OTR letter scheme was a dark chapter in the chronicles of government conduct – the fact that one of these letters was used to allow

someone who was a terrorist suspect to avoid trial represents a deeply damaging blow to the concept of justice.’ The scheme was hatched in the full knowledge that victims could be denied the possibility of justice, he said. He said it involved withholding essential information from ministers when the new devolved government in Northern Ireland was set up.

Two aircraft narrowly avoided a mid-air crash over Ireland west Airport last year, an investigation has found. The planes were conducting technical checks at the same time over the same runway at Knock airport in Mayo when they came within just hundreds of metres of each other. Air accident investigators said one of the planes was forced to make a last ditch

manoeuvre to avoid collision – but it was already too late and it was only ‘fortuitous’ there was not a serious incident. The Air Accident Investigation Unit criticised poor communications between everybody involved. Although both planes had approval for their work, air traffic controllers were only informed of one of the flights 20 minutes before it arrived.

Oireachtas in €333k tax settlement

Taxi hijack accused tells dead friend’s mother ‘sorry’

by ED cARTy ple who made more than 60 journeys a year even if they were after 10pm. The voluntary disclosures found €119,205 in tax for benefit-in-kind taxi use, €17,019 interest and €35,761 of penalties and €1,168 of VAT fell to be paid by the Oireachtas. There were additional liabilities which included €106,912 for tax, interest and penalties on meal allowances; €41,445 for tax, interest and penalties related to employment status; €4,940 for benefit-in-kind car use; €3,143 for benefit-in-kind car sales; and €4,985 for honoraria or exgratia payments. The Revenue calculated the tax settlement as €227,910 in unpaid tax, €37,128 in interest and €68,373 in penalties. None of the issues identified related to politicians, their work or expenses. It’s understood that the settlement will not be recouped from staff.

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INCORRECTLY recorded staff taxi runs, meals and other claims have left Leinster House bosses facing an embarrassing €333,412 tax settlement. Part of the accounting blunder was voluntarily disclosed to the Revenue Commissioners in December 2012 after the powers-that-be in the Houses of the Oireachtas looked into the use of cabs dating back to January 2010. ‘The Houses of the Oireachtas Service has had an ongoing practice to provide taxis to staff who stay late to perform official functions,’ an Oireachtas statement said. ‘During analysis of all trips during the last three years it was apparent that many taxis were taken outside of Revenue-allowable taxi journeys.’ The disclosure prompted Revenue to audit the Oireachtas in February 2013 and issue a set of revised calculations based on all non-business journeys, all journeys from home to work, all journeys from work to home before 10pm and all journeys for peo-

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Hundreds of WWF papier mache pandas adorned the Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau Island in Hong Kong yesterday, with 1,600 set to flashmob city landmarks until June 21

A 24-YEAR-OLD man told gardaí ‘tell his Ma I’m sorry’ when he was charged over the death of his best friend, who died after an alleged taxi hijacking in Dublin. Father-of-one Alex Doyle, 25, from Cuffe Street, in Dublin city centre, was fatally injured after a Skoda Octavia taxi went out of control and crashed into a lamppost at Mount Brown, near St James’s Hospital, at about 8.45am on Sunday. The car then hit a line of parked vehicles at Mount Brown; Mr Doyle was thrown from the Skoda and one of his arms was severed. The 25-year-old died in hospital shortly after the smash. Unemployed Joseph Robinson, from Forbes Lane, Dublin 8, was arrested and held for questioning at Kilmainham Garda station, where a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of Mr Doyle was put to him on Monday night. The father-of-one was denied bail when he appeared at Dublin District Court yesterday. He will face his next hearing today.

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Terror group seizes Iraq’s second city IRAQ’S prime minister called for a national state of emergency yesterday after militants allied to al-Qaeda captured the second city Mosul and other parts of Nineveh province. Nouri al-Maliki said he would arm civilian volunteers ‘to defend the homeland and defeat terrorism’ as he hopes to quash the insurgency by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. He told a press conference: ‘We will

not allow Mosul to be under the banner of terrorism. ‘We call on all international organisations to support Iraq in fighting terrorism. The entire world will suffer if terrorism spreads.’ ISIL drove security forces from their posts during the assault on Mosul, seizing the provincial government HQ and other key buildings.

The group also stormed jails and police stations, releasing ‘thousands’ of prisoners. Residents jammed roads as they tried to flee the city as the militants swept in. Parliament speaker and Mosul native Osama al-Nujaifi said ISIL had seized helicopters and weapons depots in and around the city. ‘What happened is a disaster by any Battle: A burning security force truck standard,’ he said.

Rape as a weapon of war must end, Jolie demands SEXUAL violence used as a weapon of war must stop, Hollywood star Angelina Jolie said yesterday. The Tomb Raider actress said sexual violence in conflict had ‘nothing to do with sex, but everything to do with power’. She said it was a myth that rape was an inevitable part of conflict, adding: ‘There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. We must send a message around the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence, that the shame is on the aggressor.’ Having met survivors in Afghanistan and Somalia, Jolie, 39, said they are ‘just like us, with one crucial difference. ‘We live in safe countries with doctors we can go to when we’re hurt, police we

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can turn to when we’re wronged, and institutions that protect us. They live in refugee camps, on bombed-out streets, in areas where there is no law, no protection, and not even the hope of justice.’ In a speech met with cheers, she called for armies, peacekeeping troops and police to be trained in preventing sexual violence. The End Sexual Violence in Conflict summit in London follows two years of planning by UK foreign secretary William Hague and Jolie, who is also a special envoy for the UN Commissioner for Refugees. Mr Hague added: ‘This is one of the great mass crimes of the 20th and the 21st century. If anything, this is getting worse.’

Sao Paulo trains back – for now Striking subway workers have gone back to work in Sao Paulo, but the union involved warned they could walk out again tomorrow – the day the city hosts the opening match of Brazil’s World Cup – if workers fired over the strike are not reinstated. Meanwhile, workers on rio de Janeiro’s subway were due to vote on strike action last night.

Eye grown in a dish sees light A MiniAtUrE human retina has been built by scientists using stem cell tissue. it ‘has the ability to sense light’, the first step in the process of converting it into visual images. the discovery may lead to engineered retinal cell transplants that halt – or reverse – blindness, say US researchers.

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sewol ferry skipper and crew go on trial

sOUTH KOREA: Amid shouts from relatives of ‘murderer’ and ‘you are beneath animals’, the captain and 14 crewmen from the Sewol ferry went on trial in Gwangju yesterday. Captain Lee Joon-seok, 68, and three senior crew were charged with homicide, and face a maximum sentence of death. Lee was caught fleeing the ship in his underwear before 304 passengers, mostly children, drowned in their cabins. The boat, overloaded and moving too fast while it turned, sank on April 16.

Terror airport hit by fresh Taliban attack

Speech: Angelina Jolie wants the summit to be a turning point Picture: ePa

pAKIsTAn: Three Taliban gunmen on motorcycles yesterday attacked a security force training academy near Karachi airport. The men fired at a hostel housing female cadets, forcing flights to be suspended. They were chased off the grounds and into the slums around Jinnah International Airport. There were no casualties. It came a day after gunmen stormed one of its terminals in an attack that left 36 people dead, including ten Taliban gunmen.

GERMAnY: Lightning strikes during storms that killed six people in the west of the country. Fallen trees blocked roads and high winds and rain disrupted flights at Düsseldorf airport yesterday Picture: ePa

Merkel: Don’t threaten the EU swEDEn: Angela Merkel has told David Cameron not to use threats of British exit from the EU to get reform. Speaking at a summit, the German chancellor reiterated her support for Jean-Claude Juncker as the next European Commission president. But the prime minister believes the ‘outdated’ politician wouldn’t reform the union, with the in-out referendum brought forward as a result.

and finally... AMERICA: A tubby elephant is following a strict health regime to help her lose 228kg. Tess, who is pregnant, needs to shift the extra pounds so she has no trouble giving birth. She goes for a brisk daily walk at Houston Zoo and even does leg exercises to improve muscle tone.

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AugHTy BOy says he’s steering clear of ‘insecure’ women in the music business after drafting in Emeli Sandé to screen his dates. The 29-year-old (pictured) also admits, despite his cheeky moniker, he thinks sleeping around is ‘sleazy’. ‘I’ve got a good friend in Emeli and, because we’ve become so close, she’s taught me so many things about what a real woman is,’ the La La La hitmaker told guilty Pleasures in an exclusive chat. ‘Sometimes, if she’s not feeling someone, I might be like, “Oh…”.’ While the singer – real name Shahid Khan – might be young, free and single now, no matter how tempting, he would never hook up with a fellow star. ‘I was thinking I’d like to date someone in the same industry but then some of the girls in this business are so insecure on the inside, more than you think,’ he said.

by JEnni McKnigHT ‘Sometimes certain girls don’t live up to the hype they’ve created, it’s interesting. I’m more sceptical than I ever was. Especially when it’s girls in the business. He continued: ‘I think when you can actually relate to someone’s job, it’s an important factor. But then I want to see what the other side is like – when she can’t relate to my job at all.’ And the British producer, who sold more than 1million copies of his No.1 hit, is adamant he won’t be a ‘part-time’ boyfriend despite his career taking him all over the world. ‘Musicians are passionate people. So, whatever we get into, we get into it fully,’ he said. ‘I’m not just going to get into a relationship and then have it as a part-time thing, I’m not that kind of person. ‘I can’t be a naughty man, that’s just sleazy.’

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Katy Perry and Diplo will think twice before sharing their holiday snaps again after fans turned detectives about their relationship. The pair each posted very similar photos of a break in Jamaica which seemed to show them relaxing on the same hammock. Perry, 29, put her pic on Instagram with the message: ‘Swaying on the hammock under mango trees, fresh freckles on my face, everything irie.’ Meanwhile, Diplo – real name Thomas Pentz – also uploaded a picture of his feet on Instagram while seemingly relaxing on the same distinctively patterned hammock. He quickly deleted the image but one fan spotted the similarity and tweeted: ‘#KatyPerry And #Diplo’s Vacation Pics Prove They Are STILL Dating.’

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Bray-born musician Andrew Hozier Byrne has been added to this year’s sold-out Lollapalooza festival line-up in Chicago. Known simply as Hozier, he rose to prominence last year with his debut EP and song Take Me To Church, the video for which went viral. The latest festival announcement is another step towards stardom for the Co Wicklow man, who made his US TV debut with an assured perfromance on Letterman last month. Lollapalooza, which takes place in Grant Park in downtown Chicago, also hosts Eminem, Outkast and The Arctic Monkeys.

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Once cast right out into the farthest extremes of the Degoba System, the feminist rebellion suffered a false dawn with the announcement that JJ Abrams had cast one sole new female in his feverishly anticipated Star Wars sequel. The rebels’ time has come, however, with the announcement of two more female cast additions. Were we too quick to judge Abrams, asks ADAM WHITE

HO is your favourite female Star Wars character? Is it Jabba the Hutt’s green dancer, Oola, who gets fed to a rancor? Or maybe it’s Mon Mothma, a rebel leader so boring you’ve forgotten she actually existed? Is it Natalie Portman’s equally bland Padmé Amidala? Or perhaps it’s Princess Leia. Of course, it’s Princess Leia. Who else is there? The galaxy far, far away has always been run by an empire of men while the female rebel alliance – made up of a small band of women – has been forced into hiding somewhere in the Outer Rim. Even Leia, one of the Star Wars saga’s three main leads, is rarely referred to by her full name. While Han Solo and Luke Skywalker – are always given their full titles, the surname of the only major female character in the original Star Wars trilogy barely gets a mention. Her full name, for the record, is Leia Organa. As in, ‘Don’t worry, you’re nev-Organa have to hear that surname again in this movie series’. Instead, she has simply become Princess Leia. Girls like to be princesses, don’t they? But perhaps criticising the original Star Wars movies for their depiction of woman

(not women, there was only one) is unfair. Leia, played by Carrie Fisher, was bright, handy in a scrap and looked as if she could have taken on the entire Galactic Empire on her own. Who needs Han? Perhaps C-3PO should have uttered, ‘Let the woman win’, in the first movie. Sorry, Chewie. Like the movies themselves, Leia peaked in The Empire Strikes Back as she led a rebel evacuation. OK, she kissed her brother, Luke Skywalker, but she didn’t know they were related at the time. Easy mistake. By the time Return Of The Jedi rolled around, however, Leia had been reduced to cavorting in a metal bikini and babysitting mini-bears. You can decide which was more degrading.

Star Wars fans are delighted that Fisher will be back as Leia in Episode VII, slated for release at the end of next year. Months of rumours were put to bed last month when the primary cast for the film, which will be directed by JJ Abrams, was announced. It includes Fisher and her fellow Star Wars alumni; Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker and Anthony Daniels.

T also came to pass that new warring starlets were revealed – Domhnall Gleeson, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Max von Sydow and Daisy Ridley. At the time, certain corners of the Inter(galactic)net brayed about there

stellar swashbuckler to add to the Jedi/Sith pantheon. Is any of this surprising? I may be coruscated for this by ‘the other side’ but you only have to look at the bantha foot that Abrams stuck up the backside of Star Trek to see that here was a director who was not beholden to the limitations of political correctness but who ensured that his re-booting of Rodenberry’s 70-yearold template would amplify the part played by female characters. Look at Uhura, whose role (played by Zoe Saldana) gets a much needed fresh coat of narrative paint, lifting her from the comms desk to key sections of the screenplay. It looks like MovieScope editor Nikki Baughan’s regret that Star Wars VII could turn out to be ‘another blockbuster primarily populated by white males’ was premature. At the very least, in an action/adventure landscape in thrall to Bechdel Test-acing hits such as The Hunger Games and Frozen, it would be complacent to think as keen a boxoffice brain as Abrams would not want to reflect as such from space.

Leia Organa Likes: Nice men Hates: Scruffiness Best quote: ‘I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain’ Worst quote: ‘Stop that. My hands are dirty’ Does she need a man? Definitely not but if you are going to pick one, he may as well be the coolest in the galaxy

Likes: Killing Jedi Hates: Jedi Best quote: ‘I am fear’ Worst quote: ‘I’m all yours, Obi-Wan’ Does she need a man? Ha! To practise her double lightsaber moves on, maybe

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Likes: Sending Bothans to get information Hates: Bearing bad news about Bothans Best quote: ‘Many Bothans died to bring us this information’ Worst quote: ‘Many Bothans died to bring us this information’ Does she need a man? Too busy leading the New Republic. Star Wars’ Margaret Thatcher

being only one new female cast member to vie fruitlessly with Leia for the prize of Best Star Wars Chick. A New Hope? More like ‘no hope’. But they were too hasty in their ire – for a change – it turned out, and when it was announced last week that Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie would be joining the cast, it was a reminder that it was wrong to liken Abrams to some spectacled filmmaking rancor (“sorry, I ate the female auditionees”). For starters, Nyong’o is an Oscar winner and very much woman-ofthe-moment. Look at how she devours the screen in 12 Years A Slave and tell me Abrams wants her around to make up the quotas or look pretty. Christie, meanwhile, has gained much notoriety from masochists like myself who like nothing more of a Monday evening than to sit in front of Sky Atlantic with nipple clamps on and watch my favourite characters get butchered on Game Of Thrones. If Christie wields a lightsaber anything like she does a broadsword, Abrams’s film will have found a new

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Next generation: Nyong’o, left, and Christie have joined the cast

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Padmé Amidala Likes: Bad boys Hates: Casual dress Worst quote: ‘I truly… deeply… love you’ Second worst quote: ‘Anakin, you’re breaking my heart’ Does she need a man? Should have stayed single

Aayla Secura Secur Likes: General Jedi Master Mast ass-kick ass-kickery Hates: Backstabbing SStormtroopers Best quote: ‘Isn’t liber liberty worth fighting ffor?’ Worst quote: ‘We ar aren’t having much effect’ eff Does she need a man? Perhaps to hold her ligh lightsaber for her bef before her next figh fight

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I’ve got no limbs but I am totally hooked on fishing HE may have been born without limbs but that hasn’t stopped Clay Dyer fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional fisherman. The 36-year-old has caught more than 7,000 fish and even refuses to use any available aids as he believes they give him an unfair advantage over other competitors. ‘There are modified rods and reels I could use but I’ve never looked into them,’ he said. ‘Other

anglers don’t use anything special – I want it to be an even playing field.’ Instead, he competed in the Bassmaster Open Series – a professional bass fishing tour across America – by holding the rod between his neck and shoulder before rotating his body to send the line out into the water. He then uses his partial right arm to operate the rod’s reel, snapping the rod with his neck and shoulder in order to get the

fish into his boat. Mr Dyer, from Tennessee in the US, caught his first fish when he was eight. ‘My family was always fishing – I caught my first fish in my grandparents’ pond,’ he said. ‘I loved all kinds of fishing from catfishing to browns but bass fishing is a lot more lucrative. The competitive fishing circuit is like a great big family. We all compete but, at the end of the day, we all respect each other.’

Catch of the day: Clay Dyer has caught more than 7,000 fish Picture: caters

PlayStation TV is taking games fight to Xbox One SONY challenged rival Microsoft yesterday by announcing a streaming box to allow users to play games on a TV not connected to a games console. PlayStation TV was unveiled as a competitor to Xbox One’s interface on the first day of the E3 video game convention. It will be launched this autumn in Europe from under €100. Andrew House, the CEO of the Sony Computer Group, said: ‘We want you to share our vision for the future of gaming. PlayStation is the best place to play above all else. ‘You are a member of an extensive community of rivals and friends.’ The device, which will also stream TV shows and films, lets users play games on a different TV as long as they have a controller to use with the box. It could also be a direct challenge to streaming services such as Netflix as the Japanese electronics giant also announced plans to produce a host of TV shows exclusively for the device. The first of these shows, a sci-fi crime

by JAynE ATHERTOn drama called Powers, will appear at the end of the year. Sony and Microsoft both unveiled a string of impressive titles on their respective consoles for the conference delegates in Los Angeles. However, many experts believed Sony had the better day. Among those receiving the best reaction was an extended look at the futuristic Destiny, which is seen by some as a challenger to the popular Halo franchise on Xbox. The next Batman game, Arkham Knight, was previewed at the Sony event – along with Little Big Planet 3. A new gothic horror game called The Order – 1886, which is set in Victorian London, was also shown off. There was also confirmation of a fourth instalment of the popular Uncharted series. Both companies have set up booths where players can try out the new games for the first time until the convention ends tomorrow.

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Actor, MARY LYnn RAjskub, 42, is best known for playing Kiefer Sutherland’s sidekick, Chloe, now battling hijacked drones in London in spy show 24

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The show has mass appeal does it have many celebrity devotees? stephen Fry, who’s

now on the show, said he was a huge fan and excited to meet me, which threw me a little. stephen King was also a fan.

PERIPHERAL VISION: Reader Martin Doherty sent us this picture of these two featherheads tussling over the last bite

How do you feel about the recent changes with your character? she’s gone a bit goth.

It’s great to be able to add other layers to her. It was a cool challenge to see ‘this is Chloe like we’ve never seen her before’ written in the script and work with the hair, makeup and wardrobe people to put that together.

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There’s a Wikileaksinspired element to this series – are you interested in all of that? I didn’t follow it

that closely but it’s an interesting conversation to have in this day and age. I talk to my husband about how we shouldn’t have anyone invading our privacy, yet we live in an age where everyone is putting all their private information out there.

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I retweeted something and was immediately told off for giving away spoilers

Are you a fan of social media? I missed the

boat on Facebook but enjoy twitter. you get immediate feedback from people and almost all of it for the new series has been positive. I retweeted something, then was immediately told off for giving away spoilers. I was in trouble for spoilers years after the last series finished. It’s been on dVd for two years, I think I can talk about it.

You’ve been doing stand-up comedy shows in London. How have they been going?

I’ve been doing open mic nights. I’ve been getting the tube, going to strange parts of town, doing small rooms in pub basements. I was nervous at first because when the Brits were on stage, things that were getting laughs went right over my head. I thought: ‘No one will understand what I’m talking about.’ But it’s gone well.

How did you start doing comedy? I started doing

performance art at art school. I did performances and people would laugh – but it wasn’t supposed to be funny, so I decided to go for the

laugh intentionally.

What’s the worst stand-up gig you’ve done? a cancer

benefit show, so the audience wasn’t your usual comedy crowd. I thought it would be funny to get the compère to keep introducing me as if I didn’t want to come out and when I came out, I had my backpack on and looked like I wanted to get out of there, which I thought would be really funny. But instead, people felt bad for me. It got weirder and weirder. I was up there for eight minutes but it felt longer.

24 has a high cast turnover – are you worried? Of course.

We’re filming episodes nine and ten now, but I still don’t know what happens in 11 and 12. I could be done for at any moment. that’s what’s special about 24 – they keep you on the edge of your seat.

How would you want Chloe to die? stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake like a vampire. Or like titanic – standing at the front of a boat with the wind in my hair and my arms outstretched with my breasts heaving when I get shot in the head.

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esterday morning while commuting to work, I absentmindedly left or dropped my mobile on the 08:05 bus from Heuston station to the IFsC, which other than the inconvenience of it all would have been devastating if I hadn’t got it back because, while the phone is insured and could have been replaced, I have just returned last thursday from my honeymoon and holiday of a lifetime (seattle/alaska/New york/ dominican republic) and had a high volume of pictures on the phone taken while away. It would have been heartbreaking to lose them. thankfully I was saved that despair and so I want to say thanks to dublin Bus who acted so quickly in response to my call of desperation.

With the help of Customer services, the conductor down at Heuston station and the bus driver, I was reunited with my phone by 09:30. My pictures are now backed up on the cloud! Sinéad ■ Love the logic behind Japanese Idol girl group aKB48 – they can’t date because they have to appear to be available to male fans. But because they can’t date, they aren’t available to male fans. Brendan ■ regarding daniel’s letter on Monday, there is constantly a debate about the violence on our streets. the main difference is that people get arrested for robbing cars and attacking people. Priests and nuns do not get arrested for abusing children and discarding the bodies of children who have died in their care. I

gOOD On YA ● Good on ya Angelina Jolie for using your stellar status to bring the world’s attention to the true basis of the use of war-time rape as a weapon of war – ‘it’s not about sex, it’s about power’. About time there was a UN call to shift the shame onto the perpetrators of this heinous crime that has made victims out of innocent women, girls and children, their families, their ‘rape children’ and even many of the soldiers forced to commit the act under pain of reprisal. Clodagh

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honestly think more bad than good comes out of religion. If you can name good things that come out of the Church that could not happen without the Church, I would be amazed. We can’t and shouldn’t stand for what has happened. If they were a political party they’d be kicked out. If they were a company you would have nothing to do with them, and if they were a shop you would not go near them. But because they read you stories from a book you could read yourself, they get away with everything. Barry ■ Hey shameless, I’d like to think that while sinéad is celebrating her great grandmother’s life, she’d be smiling down on her great granddaughter as she meets someone special at her funeral. Dreamer

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● To the girl with the red jacket eating a snackbox on a packed Luas on Sunday night, I wish I’d asked cheekily for a chip and your number. Jack Daniels Tie Dye Shirt ● Is it wrong to fancy Jordan these days?

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ew operas display as much venom as Kurt weill and Bertolt Brecht’s 1930 satire, The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny which opens this week at The Olympia Theatre in a lavish coproduction between Rough Magic and Opera Theatre Company, directed by Lynne Parker. It’s hard to imagine a better time to dust down this pitiless masterpiece set in the fictional Mahagonny, a Vegas-like metropolis built on crass consumerism where being without money is the greatest crime imaginable. ‘Of all the operas I can think of, this boasts the most contemporary issues,’ explains Fergus Sheil, Opera Theatre Company’s artistic director. ‘The plot hinges on the issue of building a city out of nothing whose sole purpose is to supply its citizens with a good time – and then squeeze them for every penny. The parallels with Ireland’s recent history are obvious: the crazy attitude to property and development, the endless partying which nobody anticipates having to pay for and a population that never

‘The parallels with Ireland’s recent history are obvious’ banks on a day of reckoning.’ Mahagonny follows the story of three dubious characters who fetch up in a barren patch of the United States and build a city that thrives on mindless consumption and pleasure. ‘In many ways it feels like watching ten years of Celtic Tiger Ireland squashed down into a two and a half hour show. Over the course of a single evening you experience the city being built, the crazy behaviour that takes place in it and the consequences of the fallout. It’s fascinating in the context of what we’ve been through as a country.’ Given its 40-strong orchestra and 30-strong cast, The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny is likely to be one of the most visually arresting shows to hit Dublin this year; that’s down in no small part to the fact the production has been financed by a bursary of €230,000 courtesy of Sky Arts. ‘It was a hotly-contested

Pitiless masterpiece: Mahagonny performers Ann Marie Gibbons, Claudia Boyle and Julian Hubbard. Inset: Fergus Sheil award,’ Sheil explains. ‘Sky announced it was drink, drugs, sex and over-indulgence; it’s very modern; there are shades of opening the application process to all arts or- going to fill the entire auditorium. The cabaret and it’s very jazz-influganisations in Ireland and would grant the audience will be dotted about with some enced. seats placed on the stage. So they’ll see award based on the most innovative pitch.’ Although weill and Brecht’s Given that such august institutions as The the backstage areas, the crew and the Threepenny Opera is more freNational Theatre and The Dublin Dance Festi- very guts of the production. quently produced, Sheil believes ‘By placing theatre-goers in the midval were also in the running, why does Sheil this is their masterpiece. ‘I wouldn’t believe Mahagonny came out on top? ‘I think dle of the action, they’ll have little describe it as a hopeful work, but it’s it’s down to the fact we came up with a very choice but to confront the quesa fabulously entertaining piece in high quality take on a very topical piece of op- tions it poses.’ which music and drama work Sheil is keen to stress that era and that we’ve used the architectural heritseamlessly together – in opera whether you’re a seasoned opage of the city in a creative and unusual way. that’s when the magic hapMahagonny is glitzy and alluring, but funda- era-goer or a somewhat relucpens.’ mentally falling apart, so for this production tant newcomer, the music in we saw The Olympia Theatre, with its faded Mahagonny is eminently apThe Rise And Fall Of The City proachable. ‘The singers, inglamour, as a visual metaphor. Of Mahagonny opens at The ‘Rather than have the action take place on cluding Claudia Boyle as the Olympia Theatre on Fri and stage the entire theatre becomes the set. Ma- prostitute Jenny, are top-class runs until Jun 22. hagonny is an artificial city built up around vocal gymnasts, but the style is See www.opera.ie for details

Five films to see at the cinema

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X-Men: Days Of Future Past The seventh instalment in the comic book franchise will leave you wanting even more. A stellar cast of superheroes young and old unite in some outstanding set pieces.

Edge Of Tomorrow Tom Cruise (right) is back – and back on form – as a man condemned to live the same battle again and again in this explosive Groundhog day meets starship Troopers sci-fi. Maleficent Who says disney princesses have to be goodie-goodies? Angelina Jolie (right) is magnificent as Maleficent, the ‘bad’ fairy who curses sleeping Beauty.

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Fruitvale Station Powerful recreation of the last 24 hours in the life of Oscar Grant, the black 22year-old Californian shot dead by a white police officer in 2009. A star-making turn from Michael B Jordan (left). Jimmy’s Hall Ken Loach’s beautifully filmed account of the life of communist Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward) who pits a small Irish community against church and state by opening a public hall.

Catch master animator hayao Miyazaki’s lyrical swansong while it’s still glowing on big screens. A World War II cartoon drama for grown-ups.

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Previewing from the end of June, excitement is already mounting among parents, let alone kids, for this animated sequel about dragons and, er, training them.

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We wrote this while high

The Pierces’ new album reflects their bold new way of thinking – but it came from a controversial source, writes Amy Dawson

t’s so swelteringly hot in Los Feliz, Los Angeles that my eyeliner is starting to slither down my face. Yet Catherine Pierce, blonde half of folk-pop sister act the Pierces, is huddled up in a black leather jacket and jeans at a café table. Isn’t she boiling? ‘I’m feeling a bit weird and chilly today,’ she says, peeping up at me through Aviators and a Bardot fringe. ‘We did this plant medicine journey the day before yesterday.’ ‘You’re talking about ayahuasca already?’ says her sister, Allison, referring to the Amazonian hallucinogen that hit the headlines in April, when a British student died after consuming it in Colombia. ‘I thought that might take a bit longer.’ the Pierces, a duo better known on this side of the pond than in their Us homeland, have been making music together since the turn of the millennium. their dainty beauty, ‘Coachella-ready’ wardrobes and gorgeous voices that intertwine as naturally as a double helix have helped the pair stand out from the pack. However, they only started to get commercial recognition with their last album, You And I, produced by Guy ‘Coldplay’ Berryman’s production duo the Darktones. their forthcoming album, Creation – crammed with warm, strong, melodic pop rock – could be the one that really propels them into the big time. Which is where the ayahuasca comes in. the sisters say the heady brew, which has a complicated legal status in this country, helped shape Creation, and their lives. ‘the music is clearer because we’re clearer,’ says Allison, who, at 38, is the older and more measured

Living the high life: Sisters Catherine (left) and Allison Pierce sought inspiration from hallucinogenic drugs of the two. ‘there’s a lot about personal power, whereas on our older records the songs were all about lost love,’ continues 36-year-old Catherine, who was once engaged to the strokes’ Albert Hammond Jnr and is now with the Pierces’ British producer, Christian ‘Leggy’ Langdon. ‘Ayahuasa drops you down into your subconscious and makes you address whatever you’ve been stuffing down there.’ though a sacred ancient tradition in its homeland, in rituals usually presided over by shamans, the consumption of ayahuasca is generally the kind of thing Westerners only encounter on gap years. the pair first tried the notoriously vomit-inducing, mortalityconfronting drink in a Venice Beach

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yoga studio, then Catherine went deep into the jungle for a hardcore bout of six rituals in a row. For both, the journey has been a rough one.

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He first time I did it was horribly dark,’ admits Allison. ‘But about three weeks later, I started realising what I had learned and how it was shifting me.’ Catherine interjects: ‘When you take it, you tend to feel awful in the moment – then afterwards, you feel invigorated and that lasts. You have to work on yourself mentally or you’ll lose it but you see life in a new way. It’s a little scary, yeah, but you’re not going to die. You may only feel joy

where speaking in tongues and suchlike went on. they even signed to a Christian label in Nashville early on in their career, though they never wanted to make a ‘Christian’ album. so how does their upbringing square with their current outlook? ‘Well for me, although it can get very confined, that was the foundation that introduced me to spirituality,’ says Allison. Catherine adds: ‘Our parents aren’t actually strict Christians in the same way anymore. Although they are still very spiritual. We led them away from the Lord!’

The Pierces’ new single, Kings, is out now and their album, Creation, is released on Sep 1. thepiercesmusic.com

I hope I stay like a child forever Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s new film is as playful as you’d hope. ‘I’m not into just reproducing reality,’ he tells Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

English: Helena Bonham Carter in TS Spivet by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (right)

and ecstasy. Anyway, it’s worth it.’ they may be feeling empowered nowadays but it’s fair to say the Pierces’ course has not always run smooth. One day in 2009, when both were working part-time jobs and it seemed the music was never going to truly take off, they decided to quit. the very next day they got a call from Berryman, asking them to tour with Coldplay. the girls are full of similar stories: it seems each time they tried to pack it in, the universe got in the way with some miracle or another. that seems appropriate, given how they were raised. the sisters were home-schooled in the Deep south by hippie parents – who became extremely religious and took the girls and their siblings to a church

‘Speak slowly,’ begs Jean-pierre Jeunet. ‘This maybe is the main reason I refused to make Harry potter a few years ago, because I thought I will ’ave to drink tea at five, drive on the left side and understand ze stupid english accent!’ Harry potter and The Order Of The phoenix isn’t the only big fish Jeunet has thrown out of his net. ever since The Fabulous Destiny Of amélie poulain, aka amélie, became the highest grossing French film of all time, Jeunet has become better known outside his native France for the big films he’s not done –

Hellboy, Tintin and Life Of pi – than the smaller ones he has. He’s now back with TS Spivet, a typically quirky 3D visual spectacular starring Helena Bonham Carter as the mum of a prodigiously talented ten-year-old inventor. ‘I met Helena during the shooting of Fight Club,’ says Jeunet, ‘and she was speaking a little bit of French and she said: “I would like to work with you.” I love her and she loves me. I need to be in love with everything I shoot.’ TS Spivet is Jeunet’s first english-language film since 1997’s poorly received alien: Resurrection. ‘He shot the film, which is a road trip from Montana and Washington, entirely in Canada, as a French-Canadian co-

production, ‘to avoid american people’. Jeunet admits to being ‘totally a control freak. Not only in my films, in my life. In my flat, if someone touches something, I go crazy’. I point out it’s just as well he doesn’t have children. ‘No, I have just a dog. and an american wife, who is like a kid.’ Jeunet, too, is childlike. He has said of his ten-year-old hero that he ‘is’ TS Spivet and there is something of the boy inventor about this 60-year-old with the energetic energy of a child. His fantastical films always feel so irresistibly playful. ‘I don’t understand the interest in making a reproduction of reality,’ he says. ‘It is a game and they pay me for it. I hope I will stay a kid the rest of my life’.

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commAnDo: retUrn to the front Line UTV, 11.05PM What was it all for? That’s the hard question former Royal Marine Bertie Kerr (right) asks himself as he returns to Afghanistan as UK and US troops prepare for their final withdrawal. Fighting the Taliban has cost the lives of 453 British service personnel and Kerr experienced the loss at first hand. But he finds cause for optimism that it was not in vain in the growing strength of the Afghan army, a fighting force that would not have happened without outside intervention.

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Vince Vaughan (right) plays another loveable loser forced to finally grow up when squeeze Cobie Smulders gets pregnant. The big comedy twist comes when his character finds out he’s fathered 533 other children via anonymous sperm donations. Watch out for Simon Delaney as the brother as well as Wicklow’s fast-rising screen star Jack Reynor.

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Insufferably egotistic multi-hyphenate James Franco (right) ambitiously directs/stars in/adapts William Faulkner’s perspectiveshifting, stream-ofconsciousness 1930 novel wherein a Southern family set out to bury their matriarch. Tricksily shot, this is a grimly earnest watch.

Factual rtÉ investiGAtions Unit – posteD AbroAD RTÉ1, 9.35pm

Despite all the bullhorning about imposed austerity measures, Ireland’s membership of the EU has been a mostly fruitful experience that has helped us transform into one of the continent’s more developed member states. Tonight, however, we look at the construction industry and how EU laws put in place to protect workers are not having the desired effect.

one born every minUte C4, 9pm

We’re up to series six of the popular one-morepushathon, and cameras have taken up residence at England’s Southmead Hospital. There, they wait for the drama of new life to unfold. Bubbly Su needs a Caesarean section while Mel is expecting twins – and faces a birthing partner dilemma.

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His name is Rio and he… works for the BBC. There must be a big Duran Duran fan working at Match Of The Day as Rio Ferdinand (above) has been promoted several divisions at once into a prime spot alongside Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer for their World Cup coverage. The trio offer a pre-tournament kick around who’s likely to win (Brazil or Argentina) and who might go home early. The talking stops tomorrow and the games begin. And thank god we Irish won’t have to endure the stress of cheering on the Boys in Green. Right?

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If there was a Bafta for cheesiest game show, this showbiz tease would be in the running but there’s a sneaky fascination in seeing who celebs have copped off with over the years. Top of that list tonight is David ‘The Hoff’ Hasselhoff, who met Cardiff cailín Hayley, 27 years his junior, when he was a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. Are they for real or is there a whiff of PR stunt in the air?

No, not a documentary about the rise and fall of the Gallagher brothers but a US rom-com from writer/director Adam Brooks (who has gifted us such wonders as, eh, Wimbledon and Last Vegas over the years). In a nutshell, Ryan Reynolds tells daughter Abigail Breslin about the romances – Elizabeth Banks, Isla Fisher, Rachel Weisz – that led to him marrying her mother. Inoffensive fluff.

UTV, 8pm

Essential viewing for anyone who’s ever harboured fantasies that they might have a fortune hiding away amongst the junk in their garage, this final slice of wheeler-dealer life finds Toni pinning her hopes on a potentially pricey Rolex while Alan is out to cash-in on some statues of Laurel & Hardy. Hope, as they say, springs eternal.

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i wAnnA mArry ‘hArry’

We’ve reached 5pm in this London-based spin on the continuing timeline adventures of Jack Bauer but our favourite harassed US agent is not about to reach for a Cornish pasty and some warm, flat ale just yet. The wicked don’t rest, so he’s chasing a lead that could bring him closer to finding the missing Margot. Next season – Jack saves Athlone!

Just who is fooling who in this US reality series? Do the 12 leggy contestants really think they’re being romanced by royalty or are they going along for the freebie ride? Tonight, it’s model Kimberley’s turn for some one-on-one time, which includes a balloon ride, a secluded picnic – and being papped. Bottom of the barrel stuff.

bLUe bLooDs RTÉ2, 9.30pm

Half-nine is ‘tache-o’clock’ on RTÉ2 as the none-moremanly Tom Selleck and his impressive cookieduster lead the cast in this dependable police procedural about a family of Irish-American cops in the Big Apple. Tonight, a colleague of Danny’s is killed while undercover, leading Frank to try to smoke out the perpetrator. But then again, maybe the slain detective had it coming...

Grey’s AnAtomy Sky Living, 10pm

She’s managed to hang in through thick and thin over the ten seasons of this US drama but feisty Dr Bailey’s career hangs in the balance when the parents of a boy who’s been forced to live in a bubble (cue a quick burst of Paul Simon) threaten to press charges for assault over a controversial treatment. Plenty for Meredith’s life lesson in that one, we’d assume.

Film

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The final episode in the series, postponed in April because its plotline echoed the killing of British teacher Ann Maguire, gets a belated airing. New boss DI Flynn (Sharon Small, above) is determined to crack down on knife crime and she’s far from convinced that a dinosaur like Ronnie Brooks (Bradley Walsh) is the man for the job. But his old-school policing skills come to the fore when the fatal stabbing of a young mum lends Flynn’s campaign a tragic impetus.

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Erections, as in the lack of and the unfortunate arrival of, play a central role in tonight’s blackly comic adventure in TV land. It all gets a bit In Treatment-y when Sean and Beverly (Tamsin Greig, above) visit a sex therapist and Beverly’s vagina has to learn to speak directly to Sean – that’s a voice you won’t want to hear again. For light relief, there’s a media schmoozing cocktail party where TV critics get a roasting and network boss Castor gets ridiculously turned on by a ginger beard. It can happen...

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notes on A scAnDAL BBC4, 9pm

A+ grade psychodrama starring the Oscar-nominated duo of Dame Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. Richard Eyre directs and Patrick Marber adapts Zoë Heller’s bestseller about Barbara (Dench), a bitter old history teacher who develops a ‘pash’ on Bathsheba (Blanchett, above), the new, boho art teacher. Barbara seems a harmless-enough lonely spinster until she discovers Bathsheba is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old male pupils. Classy and captivating, with two of cinema’s finest ever actresses going head-to-head.

schinDLer’s List ITV4, 11.10pm

Steven Spielberg’s epic, emotive, black-and-white, multi-Oscar-winning Holocaust drama is based on the true story of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson). Prompted by his accountant (Ben Kingsley), the German businessman saved hundreds of lives during the Nazi purges by employing Polish Jews in his factories. Still stunning, even all these years later.

wAtchmen

Film4, 10.55pm Zack Snyder succeeds where Terry ‘12 Monkeys’ Gilliam, Darren ‘Noah’ Aronofsky and Paul ‘Bourne’ Greengrass failed in bringing Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel on to the big screen. A spectacular sci-fi set during an alternative Cold War where a band of ageing vigilantes investigate a murky conspiracy. Purists may dislike how religiously the source comic is adhered to.

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Reads to lose yourself in a Questionable sHape by Bennett Sims (Oneworld)

Just before hurricane season, in a Baton Rouge apartment, student Michael Vermaelen pores over Fight the Bite! info-pamphlets. Vermaelen is prone to thinking inexorably towards ‘undeath’ – especially in a world where the undead are dotted randomly about, staring white-eyed until they’re herded off to quarantine. Meanwhile, Mazoch searches for his undead father. Unanswered questions, dictionary-demanding language and a rich sense of light characterise this addition to the ‘literary paranormal’ stable. If you like highfalutin apocalyptic fare such as Justin Cronin’s The Passage, you’ll like this. Imogen Russell Williams

tHe Making of Mr bolsover by Cornelius Medvei (Harvill Secker)

Mr Bolsover is an unlikely candidate for the Lewes Borough Council: he lives in the woods, believes the housing crisis could be solved by excavating local caves and knows how to cook up a mean rat. Yet the residents still vote him in, only for him to thank them with a ranting speech against low turnout. This faux biography wittily pits Bolsover’s visionary nonconformism against provincial orthodoxy through a series of droll small-town vignettes but it also strikes an elegiac note for a lost strain of radical thought in politics. CA

Her

by Harriet Lane (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) You can’t move for novels at the moment that combine a sharply observed relationship with a sinister plot line of hand-in-themouth proportions. Blame Gillian Flynn, or in the case of Harriet Lane’s second novel, Her, blame Zoë Heller. Notes On A Scandal is arguably a more appropriate touchstone for this psychologically nuanced novel featuring a complex female narrator with hard-to-work-out designs on another woman. Nina is an established artist with a 17-year-old daughter and a life of polished interiors,

fourtH of July Creek by Smith Henderson (William Heinemann)

While lesser authors write overblown global conspiracy potboilers, Smith Henderson has produced an engrossing thriller about the life of a care worker. At times, Pete Snow is barely distinguishable from the messed-up families in his charge. As he tries to extricate himself from the ashes of his marriage, the book also follows one of his cases, Cecil, a borderline sociopath. And then there’s Jeremiah Pearl, a paranoid, gun-toting survivalist. A piercing glance at the US’s social margins where the American dream and the horrors of government abandonment walk hand in hand. Andrzej Lukowski

expensive clothes and quiet good taste. She spots Emma, a former teenage friend in a north London street. Emma, who has abandoned a television career to bring up her toddler, Christopher and who, when the novel begins, is pregnant once again, spends her days battling overwhelming domestic routines, gnawing money concerns and the sort of vaporising exhaustion that comes with looking after a small family. She doesn’t recognise Nina. But Nina recognises her. Both women take it in turn to narrate the friendship that ensues, although we only find out very slowly what grievance calculating Nina holds against

the sweet, raddled Emma. Instead we watch, appalled, as Nina carefully manipulates her way into Emma’s life – returning a ‘lost’ wallet, a ‘lost’ Christopher, offering to babysit and eventually giving Emma and her family use of her father’s villa in France. Nina is ruthless about imperceptibly impressing on Emma how superior her life is. Only very subtly does Lane hint that the teenage Nina was once envious of her former friend. Lane excels at the everyday details. Emma’s total absorption by motherhood is rendered with beautifully stinging observations, right down to the monumental effort she makes on

one evening to be host of what turns out to be a mediocre dinner party. If Nina’s motivation never seems enough to bear the weight of what eventually happens then it’s to Lane’s credit that she keeps you reading on. Yet, while Lane has clearly set out to give a voice to the constricting identity of motherhood, in a strange way, her novel ends up compounding it. It reads, irritatingly, like a book written by a woman, about women, for women. That’s not necessarily a bad thing but in the instance of Her, it feels like a depressingly limiting one.

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I couldn’t face injecting myself Derry folk singer Cara Dillon has diabetes – and it has nothing to do with obesity, she tells Andrew Williams

hen folk singer Cara Dillon suddenly lost 2st in 2007, she put it down to the tiredness that came with caring for her premature twin sons. But when she was so fatigued she was unable to lift them out of their cots, she finally went to her GP and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. ‘I’m usually 8st and in three months I’d gone down to 6st,’ says the 38-year-old from Dungiven in Derry. ‘It was quite dramatic. My vision was a bit blurry and I was tired all the time.’ After receiving her diagnosis, Dillon investigated her illness online with her husband, folk musician Sam Lakeman, who plays in her band. ‘Sam was trying to cheer me up. he said: “I’ll look after you when you’ve got no legs and you’ve gone blind,”’ says Dillon of the worst case scenarios she discovered. ‘I was quite depressed for the first three days. I thought: “how can I look after my babies?” I couldn’t face the idea of having to inject myself with insulin several times a day.’ Dillon is one of an estimated 191,380 people in Ireland who are living with diabetes (although that figure is expected to rise to nearly 280,000 by 2030) and is one of the nearly ten per cent who have Type 1, according to Diabetes Ireland. Type 1 is most commonly found in children and people under 40. It isn’t

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Weight loss: Cara Dillon lost 2st in three months and put her tiredness down to caring for twin babies

preventable and, unlike Type 2, is not linked to obesity. Diabetes affects the body’s ability to process glucose, which most carbohydrates are broken down into via digestion before being absorbed by the blood stream for energy. In Type

1 diabetes, insulin-producing cells have been destroyed – possibly by a virus or other infection – so sufferers must inject themselves with synthetic insulin (the hormone

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that helps the body use or store the glucose). Type 2 is when there is not enough insulin (or the insulin isn’t working properly). It is linked to obesity because having a larger waist and storing fat around the middle increases insulin resistance, meaning the insulin cannot work as efficiently. ‘It can be frustrating because Type 1 isn’t linked to obesity or lifestyle,’ says Dillon. ‘It’s been suggested that I developed Type 1 because my immune system got such a battering after having premature twins but no one knows for sure.’ In readiness for her tour of the US, Dillon was given a crash course in how to manage her condition at her local hospital. ‘I was given details about every food imaginable and I bought myself a set of scales to weigh carbohydrates,’ she says. ‘I learned how to adjust my insulin when I’m travelling through different time zones. I’ve never looked back.’ Dillon’s career further complicates her condition. Surges of adrenaline before she performs can lead to fluctuations in her blood sugar level. ‘I’m not nervous but my body thinks: “You’re about to go on stage, let’s inject some adrenaline” so my blood sugar goes up.’ It can lead to misunderstandings. Dillon took part in a Transatlantic Sessions gig with a group of country musicians. ‘The bluegrass singer Dan Tyminski was sitting next to me. I had to inject myself with insulin and he looked over and said: “Oh my god! I didn’t realise folk music was so rock’n’roll – what are you doing?” I said: “It’s not what you think!”’ There are all manner of challenges that crop up in the day-to-day lives of diabetes sufferers, and a big part of coming to terms with the conditions is managing its intrusive nature. Dillon is keen to play her part in raising awareness of these less obvious discomforts. ‘Sometimes, after gigs, young people will say to me: “I read you have diabetes – s***, isn’t it?”’ she says. ‘They say they’re not taking their insulin because it is dominating their lives and they just want to be normal, they just want to go out and have a drink with their friends and don’t want to t h i n k about everything they eat. I tell them: “It’s just a phase and you have to get through it” because it’s impor-

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Summer recipes: Don’t fall into a salad rut. Chloe Scott suggests trying tasty duck and seasonal Jersey Royals

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HOnEy Duck sALAD wITH sAuTÉED MusHROOMs This takes 30 minutes to make, if that. The spicy duck and umami-rich mushrooms elevate it from an ordinary salad to something rather special.

IngREDIEnTs serves 2 1-2 duck

breasts ♦ 75g shitake mushrooms (or other variety) ♦ 1 orange, zested, then sliced ♦ 90g lamb’s lettuce or any green leaves ♦ 30ml quality olive oil Marinade: 1tbsp honey ♦ 1tbsp soy sauce ♦ 50ml olive oil ♦ 2 garlic cloves, crushed ♦ ½tsp cinnamon ♦ ¼ of a star anise, ground

METHOD step 1: Make the marinade by mixing all the ingredients together.

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Cover the duck with it and marinate for at least 15min. step 2: Over a high heat, heat some olive oil in a frying pan. Sear the duck for a few minutes until cooked outside but a bit pink inside. Remove and let it rest in a warm place for a few minutes. step 3: In the same pan, sprinkle in the mushrooms and sauté for a few minutes until cooked. Season with a little salt and black pepper. step 4: Slice the duck into strips. In a large bowl, mix the salad leaves with the duck, mushrooms and orange slices and zest. Pour over the olive oil. Toss gently, taste and season. Serve immediately.

tant people know you can have a great life but you just need to keep on top of things. It can be ruthless though.’ Dillon thinks the public don’t understand how demanding it is to constantly monitor your bloodsugar levels and don’t appreciate the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. ‘I did a gig recently and two ladies came up to me afterwards and said: “Wow! We heard you have diabetes – fair play to you for losing all that weight. What did you do? Cut out all the Mars bars?”’ Sometimes the pressure of monitoring and injecting each day gets her down. But after nearly losing

object in both hands out in front of you. Step back with your right leg and slowly bend this knee to the floor while bending the left knee into a reverse lunge position. Both knees should end up at a 90-degree angle. While moving into this position, lift the object smoothly overhead. Drive back to the start position as you lower the object back in front of you. Keep your chest up

Arms: Static towel pull This exercise works in relation to your strength and tones the muscles in your arms and shoulders. How? Roll up a beach towel and hold one end in each hand in front of you. Pull the towel tight, as if attempting to stretch it out, and hold for a few seconds. Do this 15 to 20 times. Vary the angles and directions you pull at, with your elbows straight, bent or a combination of both. Bum and tum: Overhead reverse lunge Holding an object overhead increases the way your abs have to work, especially when keeping your shoulders, hips and spine aligned. It means that as you work your buttocks in a lunge movement, your abs are also kicking in. How? Hold a moderately heavy

her sons Noah and Colm – they spent their first three months in hospital – Dillon thought: ‘I’m not going to let this kill me because these little babies have survived and I need to be here for them.’ ‘Now and then I think I’d love to be able to have a glass of orange juice without thinking: “I need to take something for that,”’ she says. ‘But I’m glad my family are all healthy so I count my blessings rather than dwell on the negatives.’

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Taurus Apr 21 – May 21

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Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23

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ENIGMA Pachyderm from long ago/That used to roam o’er ice-age snow/ Long of tusk and huge of form/They died out when the Earth grew warm. WHO AM I? A fashion designer, I was born in Hammersmith in 1950. I was signed into the care of Dr Barnardo’s in my first year. My autobiography is entitled Rootless.

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Libra Sep 24 – Oct 23

Yesterday’s Solutions Across: 1 Make the grade; 7 Light; 8 Grain; 9 Inn; 10 Virulence; 11 Ground; 12 Orders; 15 Austerity; 17 Pen; 18 Learn; 19 Early; 21 Invertebrate. Down: 1 Marriageable; 2 Tag; 3 Entire; 4 Regularly; 5 Drain; 6 Unreasonable; 7 Lento; 10 Vengeance; 13 Empty; 14 Direct; 16 Stain; 20 Rub.

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Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20

Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23

DOWN 1 Trifling (6) 2 Calm (13) 3 Extensive (5) 5 Replies (7) 6 Exaggeration (13) 7 Rota (6) 8 Dwelling (5) 13 Went to bed (7) 15 Fondle (6) 16 Vapour (5) 17 Figurine (6) 20 Outcome (5)

As Venus opposes Saturn today, you might be keen to distance yourself from someone if it helps you see things in perspective. Perhaps you’re finding it difficult to act with integrity.

Cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23

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ACROSS 1 Smother (6) 4 Boon (6) 9 Arrogance (13) 10 Tackle (7) 11 Follow (5) 12 Move quickly (5) 14 Composition (5) 18 Scope (5) 19 Three-pronged spear (7) 21 Uneasiness (13) 22 Stable (6) 23 Health (6)

scorpio Oct 24 – Nov 22

A deeper understanding of matters associated with a complex situation could give you a special advantage. Plus, with Mars now forging ahead in your social sector, try to avail yourself of background support from friends.

New projects might meet challenges before take-off, so keep your hopes up and continue to go for it. Though progress could be a little slow, don’t see this as a reflection on you. Tap into your creative side.

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piCture: inpho

Joe may notice simon’s appeal

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by DAnny HOgAn ireLAND winger simon Zebo is determined to hold on to his place in the squad after making his first international appearance in a year in their 29-17 win over Argentina last weekend. The 24-year old missed out on this year’s rBs six Nations triumph after a spell on the sidelines with a foot injury, but is hopeful he can do enough on the two-match tour to Argentina to claim a permanent spot. ‘it’s always a pleasure and an honour to get to wear the green jersey and i was just grateful that i had got the chance to get back and play,’ said the munster player. ‘it’s been a while through injury and other things that i’ve been out. To come back and get in the shirt and get a win as well has been special. ‘it’s always going to be tough with the competition we have. There are some world-class operators in the backthree department for us and we’re blessed to have that. ‘Competition drives players on to perform even better, so it’s better for the squad as a whole. ‘hopefully the strong competition drives me on and drives all our other players on, and come the World Cup and the six Nations we’ll have a very, very strong squad, plenty of strength in depth to operate with.’ Zebo won his seventh cap against the Pumas at the weekend and was pleased with how the match went for him. he said: ‘i was relatively happy. it’s been a couple of weeks since i’ve last played and i was a little rusty in a couple of areas, but generally happy with the few touches i had. ‘The most important thing was to get the win and hopefully now we can do that again against Argentina, but we know it will be very tough. ‘We are looking forward to it and it should be good.’ ireland face Argentina on saturday in the second Test in Tucuman.

In charge: Froome finish

Sky the limit as Criterium lead retained

Focussed: Zebo says playing for Ireland is ‘special’ and competition to wear the green shirt is tough

Chris Froome remains in charge of the Critérium du Dauphiné after a third stage in which the sprinters came to the fore. Froome was well protected by his Team sky colleagues on the 194km route from Ambert to Le Teil and finished in a large pack, with Giantshimano’s Nikias Arndt narrowly taking the stage win. Arndt won on a photo finish to get the nod ahead of Jurgen roelandts, with the pair neck and neck over a thrilling last 100m. Froome was given the same time as Arndt and Boeckmans, preserving his 12second lead over Alberto Contador at the head of the classification. The fourth stage is a 167.5km leg from montélimar to Gap.

spORT DigEsT Kumantsov’s life ban for match fix

O’Neill still expects Keane to stay sOccER Republic of Ireland manager

Martin O’Neill was in relaxed mood when asked once again if he expects assistant Roy Keane to remain on board despite speculation linking him with a role at Aston Villa. He said: ‘Very much so, yeah. But that’s always been my view, very much so from the start. I said from day one that he was excellent around the players. He has added little bits here and he’s also only retired not that long ago, so he’s still an iconic figure. Players would relate to him in that aspect so all of those things are great.’ O’Neill joked: ‘Do I expect him to blow up one day? Absolutely. We can deal with all of that. If he blows up we’ll bomb him out.’

TEnnis Russian tennis player

Olympic boxing bronze medallists Michael Conlan and Paddy Barnes are to lead an 11-strong boxing squad when some 117 Northern Ireland athletes head to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next month.

Andrey Kumantsov has been banned for life after being found guilty of offences related to betting and match fixing under the sport’s anticorruption code. Kumantsov, 27, was charged on the findings of a Tennis Integrity Unit investigation relating to incidents occurring between 2010 and 2013. Kumantsov, who has a career-high ranking of 261 and ended last year 909th in the world, was deemed guilty of 12 charges of betting and match fixing. Kumantsov: Banned

7 months is

all it took Hibernian to sack boss Terry Butcher whose run after taking over at Easter Road saw the Leith side win only once in 18 games

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‘HAwAii, buD!’ As DubLin MAn LOOks TO ROw AcROss pAcific

Great Pacific racer: Palmerstown’s Philip Cavanagh set off on Monday to row across the Pacific

Austria mist could ease Hamilton’s frustrations

‘A day like that will make us stronger’ Rosberg’s car had the same MGu-K issue, but the German managed to nurse it through to the chequered flag to claim 18 very valuable points and open up a 22-point lead over Hamilton. Surprisingly, Hamilton conceded the frustration he felt in Monaco was far more acute than that he experienced in Montreal. The combined effect of both, however, now leaves him with the task of heading into the Red bull Ring needing to regroup and refocus again.

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asked a fellow who rowed across the Atlantic what he thought about the Pacific and he said it’s a different kettle of fish altogether. ‘You won’t see land for roughly four to five weeks of the six-week challenge and you won’t see another team.’ During university, Cavanagh actively competed for DCu and the Donore Harriers club but ultimately came up short by his own estimations throughout his time in the sport: ‘i never really reached the heights i wanted to in Athletics and so if truth be told this is somewhat a chance of redemption for me; a chance to prove to myself i can do something special.’ While a world record time is in the sights of Cavanagh, there are no delusions on his part about the difficulty of the challenge that lies ahead: The Great Pacific Race is the world’s first rowing race on the Pacific Ocean, and will see teams of one, two, three or four attempt the crossing using human power alone.

High hopes the real challenge in Grand slam test

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leWiS HAMilTOn will face the unknown of Austria next week seeking to soothe the frustration of suffering two heavy blows across his last two races. As if the furore of his feud with Mercedes team-mate nico Rosberg in Monaco was not bad enough to contend with last month, Hamilton then gallingly suffered his second retirement of the season on Sunday. The loss of the MGu-K energy store unit had the knock-on effect of causing a rear-brake failure for Hamilton at a time when he was vying for the lead.

Dublin native Philip Cavanagh is set to become the first irishman to row 3,860km across the Pacific Ocean in what is the inaugural Great Pacific Race. Palmerstown local Cavanagh and his crew set out from Monterey, California on Monday in a race to the Hawaiian capital, Honolulu. The crossing is expected to take roughly 40 days, writes Eoin Sheahan. Cavanagh, a former DCu School of Computing student, is attempting the undertaking as skipper of a crew including three other members, and the team has dubbed themselves Team battleborn. He is the only person from ireland in the team and, with no irish person ever having rowed the Pacific, could be on the verge of history by becoming the first to do so. Talking before embarkation, Cavanagh spoke about the dangers of the world’s most perilous ocean. ‘The weather is probably the biggest risk factor we have. People talk about sharks and all the rest but you’ve got more chance of getting hit by lightning. it can be quite treacherous out there. i

Training planned: Hamilton ‘before we had our problems (in Canada) i was on it, but then it all fell apart,’ said Hamilton. ‘i now just have to try and make things less difficult for myself in the next race. i just want to get ready for that next race. ‘i have a lot of training planned and i’ll be in the simulator, and the team will be flat out trying to understand and fix for the next race the issue we had. ‘The guys at the factory will be analysing it and they will make an improvement. ‘i did say to them, though, that while it wasn’t a day we had all hoped for (in Canada), we have to take a step back and realise what an amazing job we have all done so far this season. ‘We have to keep doing what we’ve been doing because a day like that will make us stronger as a team and we will learn from that.’ Hamilton will have to learn to get up to speed with Austria as it is a circuit he has never encountered before.

In what could be one of the greatest understatements of all time, Phil Mickelson summed up the task he faces in trying to complete a career Grand Slam by winning the uS open this week. ‘the expectations of me looking forward to this event, for almost a year now, and how much it would mean to me, makes it a challenge,’ Mickelson said on wednesday. only Gene Sarazen, Ben hogan, Gary Player, Jack nicklaus and tiger woods have won all four major titles in their careers, an exclusive club Mickelson has the chance to join by completing the ‘lefty Slam’. Victory in the open at Muirfield last year means the uS open is the only major to have somehow escaped his grasp, with a share of second place behind Justin Rose at Merion twelve months ago extending his record of runner-up finishes to six. the left-hander’s first chance to complete the Grand Slam will be in his 87th major appearance. It will also be at Pinehurst, scene of his first runnerup finish in 1999 behind the late Payne Stewart. twenty four hours later, his wife amy gave birth to their first child. ‘It’s a career goal of mine to win all four majors,’ Mickelson added. ‘I feel like the five players that have done that have separated themselves from the

golf us open

Patriot: Mickelson wants US victory other players throughout all time. It shows that they have a complete game. If I’m able to do that, I feel I would look upon my own career differently. ‘that’s why it would mean so much,

‘I feel as good about my game as I have all year’ in addition to the fact it’s our national championship. Growing up here in the united States, this is a tournament that I’ve always felt this patriotism for and would love to win, plus with all the close calls. It would really mean a lot to me.’

Mickelson comes into his 24th uS open with just one top-ten finish to his credit this season and the subject of an FBI investigation into alleged insider trading, but was making all the right noises about his chances of lifting the trophy on Sunday, the day before his 44th birthday. ‘I feel as good about my game today as I have all year,’ Mickelson added. ‘It’s not saying a lot, because I haven’t played well all year, but last week was a good week for me. I started to slowly put it together. ‘I struggled on the greens (at the FedEx St Jude classic in Memphis), but the greens here are quick and so I’m actually going to go back to the claw grip to create a softer roll. ‘My driving’s taken a different turn and if I can put it together like I did those last two rounds, this week could be a good one as it will make a big difference having a shorter iron in. ‘there’s no luck involved with the hack-it-out rough we sometimes have around the greens. It’s just a wonderful test that is, I think, the best test I’ve seen to identify the best player. ‘I feel this golf course, this set-up and everything about Pinehurst provides me the best opportunity. I don’t want to get overly excited, because the pressure of a uS open and having not been in contention (this season), that’s going to be a challenge for me.’

football world cup

‘Team player’ Rooney’s a world cup star – Pele by juLIAn Mc DERMOT Pele has backed Wayne rooney to star for england at the World Cup. rooney has scored 39 goals for england, but he has never found the net at a World Cup despite featuring in South Africa and Germany. The england striker struggled for fitness and form prior to the squad’s training camp in miami, but Pele expects the 28-year-old to perform well in Brazil.

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world cup round-up

Flying the flag: Shakira

Shakira Pique’s Twitter interest

‘I would like him in my team, you know!’

Living legend: Pele, centre is hoisted on the shoulders of his teammates after Brazil won the World Cup soccer final against Italy, 4-1, in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, Mexico

‘Wayne rooney has not scored [in a World Cup finals] but he was fantastic for the team,’ the three-time World Cup winner told Sky Sports News. ‘He was always the player who fought more for the team – I would like him in my team, you know!’ england start their campaign against Italy in manaus on Saturday before taking on Uruguay and Costa rica. It is a tough group, but Pele believes england should qualify. ‘england have a difficult group but I think they could pass,’ the Brazilian said. ‘The World Cup is a very short tournament and the experienced players always do well.’

COLOMBIAN pop star Shakira helped to launch Twitter’s latest World Cup feature – the hashflag. The social networking site has allocated an abbreviated threeletter hashtag for every country taking part in the competition for people to use in their tweets. Shakira, whose husband Gerard Pique will be hoping to retain the trophy with Spain, was drafted in to get the feature trending. ‘Twitter’s just unlocked its new World Cup feature – from today country codes become hashflags! Shak #COLColombia #ESPSpain #BRABrazil #FRAFrance #GERGermany #daretodream,’ she told her 25.5million followers.

Italian legend has Toto faith in Immobile to lead the way Former Golden Boot winner Salvatore ‘Toto’ Schillaci has tipped Ciro Immobile to be Italy’s secret weapon in Brazil. many Italians are calling for coach Cesare Prandelli to pick the Torino striker ahead of his preferred starter mario Balotelli when Italy kick off their Group D campaign against england in manaus

on Saturday. Immobile scored a hat-trick for the Azzurri in a 5-3 win over

22 Goals for Torino

scored in Serie A by Immobile last season Brazilian club side Fluminense last weekend. And Schillaci, who

announced himself at the 1990 World Cup with six goals, said: ‘The conditions are right for Immobile to be Prandelli’s trump card. ‘He has scored a lot this season, he is in excellent shape and has great enthusiasm, just as I had in 1990. He is fast, sees the goal like few others and does not have the spotlight on him.’

Key man: Aguero

Toto football: Immobile, right, and Alessio Cerci

TRAnSFER TALK

united wage war on chelsea in the race to lure Luke away maNCHESTEr United look to have gazumped Chelsea in the race for Luke Shaw by offering the Southampton defender a whopping £160,000-a-week. The red Devils are said to have tabled the extraordinary offer for the England leftback, 18, in a bid to scare off the Blues – and it seems to have worked. reports claim Jose mourinho’s side pulled out of the race when they became aware of the £8milliona-year, five-year contract offer Shaw had received from United. No fee has yet been agreed with the Saints but United believe a In demand: Shaw transfer can be struck for around £27m.

u FormEr England midfielder Joe Cole has joined aston Villa on a two-year deal. The 32-year-old, who was released by West Ham, said: ‘i’m really excited. This is a massive club and there’s a massive opportunity for the club to push on.’ u NoTTiNGHam Forest have signed striker matty Fryatt, who was out of contract at Hull, on a three-year deal.

‘Lionel Messi may be the team’s star but if they lift the World Cup, Manchester City will be well represented.’ cOunTDOwn 1 DAy TO gO

G’bye: Duffer is off on a one year contract

Damien set to dawn boots Down under

Dubliner Damien Duff has agreed a one-year deal to join melbourne City. The irish winger left Fulham at the end of the season.

Howard sees a way for uSA to progress Tim HoWarD is confident he can stop the likes of Portugal’s Cristiano ronaldo and Germany’s mesut ozil to help USa qualify from a tough Group G. Howard, who won his 100th cap in the final pretournament friendly, believes monday’s first game with Ghana in Natal is key. ‘The layout of the group works in our favour,’ said the 35-year-old Everton goalkeeper. ‘if we can get three points in our first game, that really sets us off.’

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Simon says he’s ready to push Zeboat out for green jersey

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Take Blatt! Dyke calls on sepp to step down

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by pARAic MORgAn

Uefa’s football chiefs rounded on fIfa president sepp Blatter yesterday, telling him he must stand down next year and that his claim that racism was behind World Cup corruption allegations was ‘offensive and totally unacceptable’. fa chairman Greg Dyke responded forcefully to Mr Blatter at a meeting of Uefa federations in são Paulo after the fifa president had addressed the room indicating he would stand again for a fifth term. Mr Dyke and england’s Uefa vice-president David Gill both said Mr Blatter should not commit a U-turn on his 2011 pledge to stand down in 2015. They were at the forefront of a european rebellion against Mr Blatter, despite the incumbent president appearing to have huge support in other continental confederations. Mr Dyke said: ‘The allegations being made have nothing to do with racism, they are allegations about corruption within fifa. These allegations need to be properly investigated and properly answered. ‘(I said) “Mr Blatter, many of us are deeply troubled by your reaction to these allegations, it’s time for fifa to stop attacking the messenger and instead consider and understand the message.”’ Mr Dyke added it was important to clarify whether fifa’s investigator Michael Garcia – who will confirm today that he has completed his case – has had access to the files of documents obtained by the sunday Times alleging corruption in World Cup bidding.

‘Many of us are deeply troubled by your reaction’: FA Chairman Greg Dyke (right) to Sepp Blatter Mr Dyke said Mr Blatter should ‘stick’ with his 2011 decision to step down next year and warned that fifa was suffering from the constant bad publicity. He added: ‘We were asked at a meeting fairly recently and our view was that among the British public there wasn’t any doubt that brand fifa is severely damaged and I suspect that’s the same throughout large parts of europe. Whether it is in the rest of the world, I don’t know.” Mr Gill, the former Manchester United chief executive, added: ‘The very fact in 2011 he was clear it was just for four years that should have been the situation. To change his mind is disappointing.’ Uefa’s unhappiness also saw Dutch fa chief Michael van Praag, Germany fa president Wolfgang Niersbach and Norway’s executive committee member Karen espelund calling on the 78-year-old not to stand for a fifth term in office. Mr Van Praag is regarded as a possible successor.

Under fire: Sepp Blatter

A draw deal: Leinster got a favourable pool in yesterday’s Rugby Champions Cup draw

LEinsTER DODgE pOOL Of DEATH As nEw-LOOk EuROpEAn cup is DRAwn LEINSTER may have wrapped up the season with a league cup but the Blues are still itching to get back into winning ways in Europe, says hooker Sean Cronin. And with yesterday’s draw for the inaugural European Rugby Champions Cup placing Matt O’Connor’s men in a pool alongside Harlequins, London Wasps and Castres, it’s as good a chance as any for them to climb that peak for a fourth time. ‘We were disappointed with ourselves last season. We worked so hard to progress from a pool that included Northampton, Castres and Ospreys and then felt we let ourselves down in the quarter-final at Toulon,’ said Cronin (pictured). ‘Leinster have a proud tradition in Europe and it will be a huge focus for us next season. We are judged on winning trophies and it was great to lift the Pro12 title and send everyone off for the summer break with a huge boost but we want to prove ourselves again in Europe next season, even though it will be strange not to have Leo and Brian on the pitch.’ It will be Harlequins’ first European appointment with Leinster since the infamous Bloodgate scandal in 2009. ‘Usually there’s only one group of death, but they all look tough pools. We’ve got two

trips to London which all the boys will be looking forward to. Hopefully there are a few Irish living in London who fancy coming along and giving us their support, as they did at Northampton last season. ‘We had Castres Olympique in that pool as well. We played poorly at home and just squeezed out the win but did well out there when it was do-or-die for qualifying. ‘But they have since reached a second Top14 final in a row so that says everything about their strength. They may not be the first French team people talk about, but you don’t reach two finals in a row and win the title without being a top-quality team.’ Leinster Rugby CEO, Mick Dawson echoed the hooker’s sentiments. ‘The five pools certainly make for interesting viewing, and from a Leinster Rugby point of view the encouraging thing is that we have relatively recent history with all three clubs in Pool 2 so we know just how big a task lies ahead,’ said Dawson. ‘I suppose Harlequins are the big unknown in that there is no very recent history but we all recall fondly our last trip to ’Quins and that epic encounter which we won by the narrowest of margins. They are a top four Aviva Premiership side with an excellent and highly regarded coach in Conor O’Shea.’