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Gang drag bicycle boy alongside car A TEENAGE boy is lucky to be alive after parts of his skin were ripped off during a terrifying attack while out cycling. Keen cyclist Conor McKenna, 13, had been cycling along the Emyvale to Monaghan road when he was pulled towards the window of a passing car by one of its passengers and then violently pushed away as he was picking up speed. The teenager, who had recently joined his local Emyvale Cycling Club and was out on a training spin just after lunch on Monday, had the skin ripped from his knees, elbows and forearms in the incident. Traffic following behind had to take emergency action to avoid hitting him and a van driver raced to help him and to divert traffic. The teenager was rushed to A&E in Monaghan town and transferred to Cavan General Hospital. Gardaí were searching for four men who were in the dark-coloured car and were following a definite line of inquiry. Conor was riding his new carbon-fibre racing bike and was decked out in cycling gear and helmet for a planned 35km trip. His father, Richard, said: ‘Conor got a terrible shock and has no skin on his knees, his elbows or his forearms – he was wearing his cycling gear and because of that he had no protection. ‘He hit the road with his head and the helmet was smashed because of the severe impact. ‘Thank God for the helmet. It would be a different story if he didn’t have it’.

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Perhaps one should friend one on Facebook A youngster ducks in for a selfie with Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to St George’s indoor market in Belfast. The British monarch is on a three-day visit to Northern Ireland and yesterday toured the set of TV hit Game Of Thrones. She met several cast members, although she declined to sit on the Iron Throne itself

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Windsor is coming Honour: Lena Headey smiles during the Queen’s visit Pictures: PA

Queen prefers plush cushions to the uninviting seat of power in seven kingdoms by AiDAn RADnEDgE NO DOUBT she’d make a more popular monarch in Westeros than King Joffrey from Game Of Thrones. But the Queen of England passed up an invitation to ascend to the evil ruler’s former seat of power yesterday when she visited the set of the hit drama series. Fans of the show know the Iron Throne can be a dangerous place to perch for too long. And besides, it looked as though it might be terribly hard on one’s bottom. ‘She kept commenting on how uncomfortable the throne looked, that was funny,’ giggled Maisie Williams, 17, who plays Arya Stark in the bloodthirsty fantasy saga. Her Majesty was shown the fearsome-looking throne during a visit with Prince Philip to Titanic studios at the old shipyard in Belfast. Her husband was less coy about throwing himself into the action, cheerfully wielding swords and knives as he inspected the props. Buckingham Palace declined to say whether the Queen watched the

series. A spokesman would only say she had been ‘interested to see the impact the filming has had on the local economy and the skills and crafts that make the show’. Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister, was less measured in her

I’ll stand: The Queen inspects the throne. She met several cast members including Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), left

enthusiasm for the royal visit. ‘I don’t think I’ve ever been as nervous to meet anybody,’ the 40-year-old actress admitted. ‘I didn’t think I was and then I saw her appear and I suddenly thought, “It’s the Queen, the real Queen”.’

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MEP BRIAN Crowley ‘removed himself from the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party’ by joining the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament, the party has said. Mr Crowley, the party’s only MEP, announced his decision on Monday. A statement yesterday from the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party said that the ‘ideas and principles’ of the ECR group and its component parties are ‘totally incompatible’ with the core principles of Fianna Fáil. It added: ‘We do not believe it is in the interest of the Fianna Fáil party and its members to have any association with the ECR in the European Parliament.’

REVENUE and gardaí seized some 32million cigarettes at Drogheda Port yesterday morning. The operation netted the largest seizure of black market cigarettes in Europe this year. The officers also seized 4,500kg of water pipe tobacco – the total haul is valued at €14million. The cargo vessel, the MV Shingle, which was loaded in Slovenia and arrived into Drogheda Port via Lisbon, was also seized. Retailers Against Smuggling’s Benny Gilsenan said he hoped the haul will act as a ‘wake-up call’ to the Government, as he said Ireland has become the top target for crime gangs and smugglers, ‘attracted here by low fines and high prices’.

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Back on the streets where it all began Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela were back on the streets of Dublin at lunchtime yesterday as they busked for fans on Grafton Street. The pair, who lived and played in the city for years, warmed up for

their concert at the National Concert Hall last night with an impromptu street gig, all the money they collected going to Eden animal shelter. See gometro.ie for a clip

Jail for dye-covered man in cash van raid

A MAN has been jailed for 18 months for his role in the aftermath of a cash van robbery. Craig O’Halloran, 21, admitted handling €20,000 of stolen money after he was caught near the scene of the robbery covered in purple dye from the cash van’s dye packs. The Offaly resident was found hiding under a bed by gardaí who spotted the getaway car outside the house. The money, which was also stained with dye, was found in the kitchen and the sink and bath were full of purple water. Judge Mary Ellen Ring imposed a three-year sentence but suspended

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18 months on strict conditions. O’Halloran of Dowshire Place, Edenderry, pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property on October 10, 2012. The court heard that a cash van was making deliveries in west Dublin and when one of the drivers was dropping off cash at a post office he was approached by an armed man. The raider ordered the man to hand over the cash box and took it to a waiting car. A passer-by was able to take a picture of the car with his phone, which

was later circulated to gardaí. Later that day, gardaí saw the car parked outside a house. Inside they found O’Halloran under a bed. A co-accused, Clive Sweeney of Drumcairn Avenue, Tallaght, was also found there. He was sentenced last year to five years with two suspended for possessing stolen cash. O’Halloran initially took a trial date but later pleaded guilty. He has ten previous convictions, mostly for road traffic offences. His defence counsel said he is remorseful for the offence and is now trying to find work in Offaly.

n PASSENGERS to and from Europe faced long delays yesterday as the French air-traffic-controller strike took effect. Ryanair cancelled 220 flights, including 12 from Dublin. Aer Lingus didn’t cancel any flights but passengers were hit by delays of up to six hours. Irish Travel Agents Association president Martin Skelly said: ‘All of our member travel agents are working closely with business and leisure customers in an attempt to minimise inconvenience.’ More disruption is expected today as Ryanair cancels 15 per cent of operations while Aer Lingus has advised customers its ‘full schedule’ may come with delays.

‘No distressed properties’ as Allsop hosts online auction

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Grim-faced: Andy Coulson leaves the Old Bailey last night

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Hoban: Buyers will be more comfortable online seller and their solicitors and a ten per cent deposit must be paid within 48 hours. Potential buyers will have to register a €5,000 payment in advance. Allsop Space’s Robert Hoban said: ‘We are hoping that a lot of buyers, who wouldn’t be familiar with going to an auction room, will feel very comfortable in the online buying space. He added: ‘We hope that the convenience will further the reach to our potential audience, with our catalogue at their fingertips from anywhere in Ireland or the world.’ The company said it would not put properties up for auction that are the subject of legal dispute or are repossessed family homes.

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IRISH auctioneer Allsop Space has said it will honour its pledge not to deal in distressed properties when it hosts the country’s first-ever online property auction next month. Three Dublin properties are among the 22 residential and commercial lots on offer. Bidding opens at 10am on July 8 and runs for 24 hours. Explaining how it works, Allsop said: ‘On auction day, each lot closes in 15-minute intervals, and when the timer reaches zero for each lot, the highest bidder wins, subject to the reserve price having been exceeded.’ Any bid made within 30 seconds of closing sees two minutes added to the timer, to allow for counter bidding. A spokeswoman for Allsop Space said it’s the first online auction that’s legally binding and the entire property transaction process will be digital, from catalogue to contract. After each lot closes, a signed Contract of Sale is emailed to the buyer,

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Ryan Geoghegan, two, shares the end of his ice-cream with Reece, an American bulldog, at the supporters day in Dogs Trust, Finglas

ANDY COULSON was facing jail over the News of the World phone hacking scandal last night as his former lover and colleague, Rebekah Brooks, walked free. The former No.10 spin doctor was found guilty at the end of a €37million trial while his co-defendants were cleared. Coulson’s conviction forced British prime minister David Cameron into a TV apology for appointing him. He said: ‘I gave someone a second chance and it turned out to be a bad decision.’ Royals, sports stars and celebrities were among others targeted by the newspaper, which was closed in 2011 and paid out €484million in damages and fees. But former editor Brooks, 46, who was acquitted of all charges, said she was not aware of what was happening as she was on holiday. Her husband, Charlie, her PA, Cheryl Carter, and News International head of security Mark Hannan were cleared of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Retired managing editor Stuart Kuttner was also cleared. The jury is still deliberating on further charges against Coulson, 46, and royal editor Clive Goodman.

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Our man Gustavo up for a Best Dub award

METRO HERALD is renowned for its cheery team of early morning merchandisers and we are delighted to say our man at Grand Canal Dock, Gustavo Loschner De Oliveira, has been nominated for Best Morning Person in the 98FM Best of Dublin Awards. The Brazilian native has been living here for two years and it’s his mission to put a smile on the face of Dublin commuters every morning – so it helps that he’s an early bird. He said: ‘The best thing for me, is that I can

enjoy all day long. I’m a day person, I like to sleep early and wake up early. So I feel that my day is much more productive. ‘I thank God I don’t wake up in a bad mood, otherwise I couldn’t do it.’ So, if you’d like to give your local merchandiser a thumbs-up by proxy, why not log on to www.98fm.com and give Gustavo your vote in the Best of Dublin competition. Voting closes on June 27. Visit www.98fm.com/bestofdublin.

Morning person: Gustavo on his pitch at Grand Canal Dock

Photographer gets really close look at grizzly – after it puts his camera in its mouth

Up close: The bear can be seen sniffing the camera before putting it into its mouth

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Fishing trip: The bear picks up the camera after finding it in shallow water Pictures: caters

IT WAS almost a grizzly end to an in-depth nature documentary. But these scenes of a bear chewing a €400 GoPro camera provided mouth-watering footage. And, amazingly, the camera survived the encounter with the 226kg grizzly bear in Katmai Peninsula, Alaska. It belonged to British wildlife photographer Chris Weston, who was trying to film the bear catching salmon in water. ‘I was crossing my fin-

another pub after the victim made comments about Fitzgerald’s partner. The couple went to The Towers pub and Mr Hanlon later showed up there and made more lewd comments. Fitzgerald invited the victim to ‘step outside’ and punched him twice and kicked him before Mr Hanlon fell. Judge Ring suspended an 18-month sentence on condition Fitzgerald pays €500 to the Peter McVerry Trust and €1,000 to the victim.

Driver in robbery avoids jail A MAN who agreed to pick his brotherin-law up from the robbery of a cashin-transit worker has avoided jail. Ian Carroll, 22, rang his sister’s partner, Ian Trimble, 25, asking to give him and another accomplice a lift with the cash box after its security device exploded, coating their clothes, hands and getaway car with blue dye. Trimble, of Cappagh Avenue,

Finglas, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing €530 of stolen cash which was covered in blue dye at Heathfield Estate, Ratoath Road. The court heard that Trimble hadn’t known about the robbery or the cash box in the boot of his car. Judge Mary Ellen Ring suspended the sentence of two and a half years.

gers and anything else I could cross in the hope that the camera was still recording. I was astonished it was not only undamaged but also still happily recording away,’ he said. Mr Weston has worked with bears for years but this was up there with the best: ‘I have had many close encounters but never something quite as “up close and personal” as this.’

Dylan’s ‘Rolling Stone’ lyrics sell for record $2m

Lewd remarks sparked row A FORMER addict who now works as a drugs counsellor punched another man who made lewd comments about his girlfriend’s chest. The attack by Aidan Fitzgerald, 39, on Robert Hanlon, leaving him with injuries to his nose, lips and eye, was ‘entirely out of character’, Judge Mary Ellen Ring was told. Earlier in the night of October 29, 2012, Fitzgerald, of Shangan Green, Ballymun, and his partner had left

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Note-perfect: Like A Rolling Stone

ONE of the world’s most popular songs, Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone, has been sold at auction for a world record price of more than $2million (€1.46m). Sotheby’s offered the working draft of the finished song in Dylan’s own hand for auction. The selling price is a world record for a popular music manuscript. The draft is written in pencil on four sheets of hotel letterhead stationery with revisions, additions, notes and doodles, including a hat, a bird and an animal with antlers. The stationery comes from the Roger Smith hotel in Washington, DC. Dylan was only 24 when he

recorded the song in 1965. The song is about a debutante who becomes a loner when she’s cast from upper-class social circles. The auction house says it is ‘the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem’. The lyrics read: ‘How does it feel /To be on your own /No direction home /Like a complete unknown /Like a rolling stone.’ Sotheby’s described the unidentified seller as a longtime fan from California ‘who met his hero in a non-rock context and bought directly from Dylan’. In 2010, John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for A Day In The Life sold for a record $1.2m.

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aylor Schilling has insisted she can do more than just sex behind bars following her success in hit lesbian prison drama orange Is The New Black. The 29-year-old, who plays jailed bisexual Piper Chapman on the Netflix show, also said she was no longer burdened by how she looks naked thanks to her role in the drama. ‘It’s totally liberating,’ the american actress said of her X-rated sex scenes. ‘There’s freedom in not having to make it about how my jeans fit or what my boobs look like in a top. all I have to do now is play.’ Schilling told how there were more strings in her bow aside from getting down and dirty on screen. ‘I don’t feel bound by my face or my body,’ she explained. ‘I don’t feel like that’s the biggest gift I have to offer the world. ‘I feel like there are more parts of me to offer than that.’ The star also told how getting her kit

by JENNI McKNIGHT off hasn’t always come easy after growing up as a teen with self-esteem issues in Boston, Massachusetts. ‘It was tough at home, and it was tough at school,’ she told the July issue of allure magazine. azine. ‘My experience was painful, so painful. ‘There was a period of time I had very short hair, and I had glasses, and I was very tall for my age,’ she added. Meanwhile, Schilling admitted that she still struggled with being recognised by people on the street thanks to the success of the show. ‘It’s really wild – people are so excited about the show, and I can definitely feel it when I’m out in the world,’ she said. ‘I had no idea it was such a big thing. It feels like everybody watches it! It’s a TV show! ‘I thought people only got recognisable after they’d done several films.’

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Lana Del Rey has claimed she was misquoted saying ‘I wish I was dead already’. The Ultraviolence singer defended herself on Twitter after Frances Bean, Kurt Cobain’s daughter, criticised her for romanticising suicide. The 28-year-old said she was asked ‘leading questions’ and added: ‘He was asking me a lot about your dad. I said I liked him because he was talented – not because he died young.’ She also agreed that dying young was not a ‘glam’ part of music.

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Blurred lines: Robin Thicke shows his anguish as he pleads for his love to come back to him, but seems to think it might be a good idea to also show a semi-naked woman caressing his chest (inset)

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Courtney Love has claimed Kurt Cobain was not the doomed genius he is made out to be after telling how the singer was so eager to be famous he begged record labels for a deal. ‘He was desperate to be the biggest rock star in the world,’ the 49-year-old said of the dead Nirvana frontman. ‘He wrote to every label. “We’ll pay. Let us be on your label.”’ She told National Geographic: ‘He was absolutely desperate. But he made it look like fame was thrust upon him.’

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Rockers New Order couldn’t resist taking a tongue-in-cheek pop at One Direction after playing in Brazil. The band went down a storm in São Paulo – a city where 1D also got a rapturous reception during their world tour. In a reference to the younger group’s recent cannabis scandal, guitarist Phil Cunningham quipped: ‘It was like being in One Direction. Well... obviously not. They take drugs, we don’t do that.’

Robin sure lays it on Thicke in new video robin Thicke’s bid to win his estranged wife Paula Patton back has turned desperate after he released a music video that sees him topless whilst begging her for forgiveness. The video, unsurprisingly called Get Her Back, features a battered and bruised Thicke, 37, who at one point even wipes a tear away from his cheek while singing, ‘I gotta get her back.’ Messages also flash up on screen during the black and white video including: ‘I kept trying to warn you, you were pushing me too far.’ alas, there are also more unfortunate messages such as: ‘I

can’t make love to you anymore,’ and ‘you drink too much’. But it seems the Blurred lines hitmaker is still unable to resist the company of semi-naked women in his music videos as at one point his chest is caressed by an attractive female model, who appears to be naked. In February, Thicke and Patton, 38, announced they had ‘mutually decided to separate’ after eight years of marriage, but would remain ‘best friends’. However, since then, he has made several attempts to win his sweetheart back, and has dedicated songs to her whilst performing live.

Harry and Lou’s dinner for two They say she just does his famous curls but Harry Styles and his hairstylist pal Lou Teasdale have enjoyed another cosy date. The 1D star, 20, and 30-yearold Teasdale were spotted leaving London’s celebrity hotspot Chiltern Firehouse on Monday. Fans have speculated on a romance but a source said Haz is a shoulder to cry on after the hairstylist split with fiancé Tom Atkin.

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Kristen Bell is pregnant again. The Veronica Mars actress and her husband Dax Shepard are expecting their second child and look forward to having a little sibling for 15-month-old daughter Lincoln.

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Peace hopes boosted by Putin U-turn over Ukraine

Come home soon: A volunteer in the Ukrainian army’s Azov battalion embraces his girlfriend after taking the oath of allegiance in Kiev Picture: Barcroft

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VLADIMIR PUTIN asked his parliament yesterday to cancel a resolution sanctioning the use of military force in Ukraine. The Russian president’s move was heralded as a big step towards peace in the country after months of conflict. It came after pro-Russia rebels in east Ukraine said they would respect the five-day ceasefire declared by Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko on Monday. However, the Ukrainian military said yesterday nine people were killed when one of its helicopters was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in the east. Earlier, the Kremlin website said Mr Putin had asked the head of Russia’s upper house to cancel his request on March 1 that authorised the use of force on Ukrainian territory. The house is expected to vote on the issue today. Russia’s financial markets, which

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have been rattled by the Ukraine crisis and sanctions imposed by the US and European Union, soared on the news. Mr Putin’s move reflected an attempt to temper the crisis before he met the Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe in Vienna. The OSCE has helped broker peace talks between Kiev and Moscow. Its chairman, Didier Burkhalter, said: ‘We need a ceasefire that lasts longer than five days to start real dialogue.’ The crisis in Ukraine erupted after its pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, was ousted in February. Ukraine’s Crimea region was annexed by Moscow in March after being seized by Russian troops. Hundreds of people have been killed in the fighting, which has driven thousands more from their homes.

Extremists kidnap 91 more in northern Nigeria ISLAMIC extremists have abducted 60 more girls and women and 31 boys from villages in north-east Nigeria, according to witnesses. Security forces denied the kidnappings, and there was no independent confirmation of the report from Kummabza, 150km from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and headquarters of a military state of emergency that has failed to curtail attacks by Boko Haram fighters. Aji Khalil, of a local anti-Boko Haram group, said the abductions took place on Saturday. Nigeria’s government has been criticised for its slow response to the abductions of more than 200 schoolgirls on April 15. Boko Haram demands the release of detained members in exchange for its hostages.

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City puts brakes on parking spot auction app

AMERiCA: An app allowing people to buy and sell public parking spaces is to be banned. Monkey Parking has been served papers by San Francisco’s city attorney, Dennis Herrera, who said the practice was ‘illegal’ and ‘predatory’. The app sees users hold a parking spot until the highest bidder arrives to take it over. People selling spaces face a €200 fine. The app’s makers say the ban is short-sighted.

MUD FEST: A Catholic takes part in the Taong Putik (‘mud people’) festival in the hope of gr being granted a good harvest. Devotees wear leaves and cover themselves in mud at the event near Aliaga in the Philippines

A grand plan to grow green shoots JAPAn: A 230-point plan to restore the nation’s economic might has been unveiled by the prime minister. Shinzo Abe (pictured) wants to lower corporation tax to below 30 per cent and offer incentives to get mothers into work. He also proposed changes to how welfare is funded. The Japanese workforce is shrinking and ageing, prompting concerns for future growth.

Ancient cave city becomes world heritage site isRAEL: A 2,000-year-old ‘cave city under a city’ has been declared a Unesco world heritage site. The intricate Beit Guvrin-Maresha caves have been used as quarries, burial sites, storerooms, hideouts and dovecotes. They consist of chambers and networks sited south-west of Jerusalem. They are of ‘outstanding universal value’, the heritage committee stated at its annual meeting in Qatar.

Freed death row woman arrested sUDAn: Authorities re-arrested a woman yesterday hours after she was freed from death row, and detained her and her family as they tried to board a plane in Khartoum. Mariam Yahya Ibrahim (pictured), 27, sentenced to death for converting to Christianity from Islam, was released on Monday after what the government said was unprecedented international pressure.

and finally... GERMAnY: The skipper of a speedboat was arrested for being drunk after it nearly collided with the Queen Mary 2. The 76,000-tonne liner was on the river Elbe near Hamburg, heading to Southampton, when the near-miss happened.

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1,000 dead since militant invasion AT least 1,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed in Iraq this month following an invasion by militants. Most were caught up in fighting as Islamic group Isis moved through northern cities, the UN said yesterday. ‘This figure, which should be viewed very much as a minimum, includes a number of verified summary executions and extra-judicial

killings of civilians, police, and soldiers,’ said UN spokesman Rupert Colville. At least 757 civilians were killed and 599 injured in the northern provinces of Nineveh, Diyala and Saladdin between June 5 and 22. In the same period another 318 people were killed and 590 injured in Baghdad and areas to the south, many of them from at least six separate car

bombings, the UN said. Meanwhile, US secretary of state John Kerry yesterday spoke to leaders of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region and urged them to stand with Baghdad to drive back the insurgents. The Sunni offensive led by Isis has so far faced little or no resistance from government forces that have abandoned some key areas of the country.

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‘Your faith is blinding you to absurd priest rules on families’

ear ellen, [Mailbox, Tues] a group of single old men discussing family issues is bonkers to me. The families they tore apart, and are still tearing apart, by abuse, the babies dumped and denied a proper burial, condemned to hell or limbo by their rules. Now the money-grabbers charge for a baptism course. after being charged a baptism fee I was done with that crowd, especially after the dumped babies. Sure there are some good well-meaning priests out there, but as for the Church... Sebastian, ex-RC ■ To ellen, your reaction to criticism of the Church is typical and one of the reasons the Church has so many issues. You seem to think its members have no right to criticise and should just change faith instead – how very tolerant and Christian of you. The view that a group of priests are going

Quick pic FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: Ivan Farina took this amazing photo of a rare cloud type called noctilucent, taken in Celbridge idge just after af midnight on Friday. The clouds are formed by cold moisture being pushed to t extreme heights and illuminated by the sun’s rays, Ivan says Send your photos to pictures@ metroherald.ie with ‘Quick pic’ as the subject and we will print the best each day in the paper

to set down rules for family life when their own lives are so far removed from reality already, is actually absurd, and if you can’t see that, ellen, then your faith is blinding you. Oscar d Grouch ■ Meanwhile, @atheists in Ireland have to cope with aCTUaL insults like ‘FOOL says no to God’ [posters at train stations and bus stops]. @gatopeich ■ To the woman I saw drop a muffin and put it back in the basket, for shame, it was on the floor longer than five seconds. #fivesecondrule. @Fiona1710 ■ Dear @metrohnews, please don’t publish half-naked photos of the lovely @KarenGillan2. Some of us have work to do! @_Daveros_

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Harpoon on mission to tidy up space SCIENTISTS have taken inspiration from Moby Dick to find a solution to hazardous space debris. Like Herman Melville’s fictitious whale hunter Captain Ahab, they plan to use harpoons to spear orbiting junk that threatens satellites and astronauts. The European Space Agency Clean Space project turned to the ancient technology after investigating numerous options, including nets, clamping systems and robotic arms. A test mission known as e.DeOrbit is planned that will fly a hi-tech tethered harpoon into space between 800km and 965km above the Earth in 2021. Using sophisticated sensors and an intelligent control system, the probe will select a suitable target probably weighing several tonnes and tumbling. Once snared, the junk will be reeled in

by jOHn vOn RADOwiTz and steered down to make a controlled burn-up in the atmosphere. More than 17,000 trackable objects larger than a coffee cup are known to be circling the Earth, posing a serious threat to space missions. Even a one centimetre-wide nut could slam into a valuable satellite with the force of a hand grenade. Sooner or later they will be involved in collisions, resulting in debris clouds and a potential chain-reaction of destruction like that depicted in the movie Gravity. The harpoon concept has already undergone tests on the ground at UK plane-making company Airbus’s defence and space division facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

Comedy characters: Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, Sir Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie from the 1989 series PictureS: AllStAr/BBc/forceS wAr recordS

Our cunning plan shows Blackadder did go forth CAPTAIN BLACKADDER and Private Baldrick really did serve in the trenches in World War I, cunning research shows. The characters played by Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in the BBC comedy had real-life namesakes, records have revealed. Dundee-born Capt Blackadder survived the Battle of the Somme and was awarded the Military Cross in 1918 for ‘conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty’ at Beaurains. He died in June 1968, aged 84. And Derry-raised Pte Baldrick was killed at the Battle of Messines on October 20, 1914, aged 23.

Unlike his dimwitted alter ego he was the only member of his family who could read. He worked as a shop porter in Omagh before joining the reserves. Inspired by their initial findings, researchers for genealogy website Forces War Records also discovered equivalents of Capt Darling, portrayed on screen by Tim McInnerny, and Hugh Laurie’s alter ego Lt George. A namesake for braying Gen Melchett, played by Stephen Fry, remains elusive for now. The fictional five all featured in Blackadder Goes Forth, the final full series of the 1980s BBC comedy.

Pages from history: Capt Blackadder’s records, left, and Pte James Baldrick’s

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who killed michael jackson? the autopsy TV3, 10pm

Five years on from the death of the King of Pop, forensic pathologist Prof Richard Shepherd, who shared his expertise with the Bloody Sunday inquiry and Princess Diana’s inquest, examines the autopsy report on the body of Michael Jackson. He reveals that the 50-year-old popstar was suffering from numerous health conditions, including arthritis and severe insomnia, thought to have led to his drug dependency.

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ireland’s summer heatwave

Offering a timely look at the decision-making process of referees, this documentary gives a unique insight into the interaction on the pitch between players and officials. Over the four-part series, which began last night, referees from soccer (Alan Kelly), Gaelic football (David Coldrick, pictured), hurling (Barry Kelly) and rugby (Alain Rolland) are miked up during games filmed in 2013/2014. The programme also takes a look at the ten worst refereeing decisions taken at the World Cup down through the years.

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Five plucky, yet stupid, teenagers on a Halloween trip to an abandoned mine that is rumoured to be plagued by evil spirits? What could possibly go wrong? Abandoned Mine (above) draws on found footage elements – a genre that must be on its last legs by now.

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More bourgeois boredom from director Joanna Hogg. This time we follow artists H (artist Liam Gillick, below) and D (Viv Albertine from The Slits) as they trudge around their Chelsea home, preparing for divorce. The low-key quality of the piece may challenge people who like dialogue and action.

TV3, 8pm

Drama 24: live another day Sky1, 9pm

It’s 7pm, but Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) hasn’t got time to sit down for a giggle at The One Show. He’s only got three hours to thwart the dastardly plot, save the world, and so on, and only a furrowed expression to do it. Kate Morgan and Chloe O’Brian are doing their bit, but this is men’s work.

Bones

Sky Living, 9pm

It takes some doing to spin out the chemistry in a relationship over nine seasons, but David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel still find a fresh spark in this oppositesattract procedural. The willthey, won’t-they hook is long gone – they have – but now their partnership is threatened by the possibility of his promotion. Will Brennan (Deschanel) sacrifice her career to be with her man? She’s got much to ponder while she picks over the corpse of a young heiress.

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Fun the great irish Bake off TV3, 9pm

This week’s classic baking proves to be a recipe for disaster as the judges announce that two of the remaining seven are to be sent home. Just as the bakers are getting over the shock of the evictions, they are faced with the dreaded technical challenge – Pear Tarte Tartin. Next is the showstopper, with the contestants given a chance to be creative – the judges Paul Kelly (above) and Biddy White Lennon are looking for cake with a surprise inside. But has Poppy overdone it with the blue food colouring?

It seems like summer is never going to arrive, but when it does we complain it’s too hot. In this one-off special, famous faces, including Mrs Brown’s Boys star Rory Cowan and Today FM’s Ray D’Arcy, share their memories of summers gone by with presenter Michael Ryan, while Donegal postman and self-styled forecaster Michael Gallagher tells us whether we can expect some more long, lazy days at the beach – or a wash-out.

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RTÉ1, 11.40pm

A visually captivating documentary by Jesus Camp duo Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing on the city of Detroit, which filed for bankruptcy last year. Focusing on the decline of the automobile industry, the film follows three residents of Detroit around the city, circa 2010, using contemporary footage interspersed with clips of historic footage.

this old thing: the vintage clothes show C4, 8pm

Journalist Dawn O’Porter is all for mixing and matching to make something different. It’s a principle she’s applied to her surname, lifting an ‘O’ from hubby Chris O’Dowd. She’s worried we’re turning into high street fashion slaves, where everyone ends up looking the same. So here she’s banging the drum for vintage gear, showing how you can fashion a unique style with a little flair.

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Bridget jones: the edge of reason

It’s day three of the Championships and it will be time for the Andy Murray bandwagon to get rolling again as the reigning champion faces Slovenia’s Blaž Rola – which would be a great name for a Bond villain – in the second round. Also in action will be Grigor Dimitrov, winner at Queen’s and now a serious threat for the title.

This sequel to the original – and best – adaptation of the Helen Fielding bestselling trilogy is still laugh-out-loud hilarious. The plot may be patchy, but Renée Zellwegger as the adorably hapless Bridget, this time incarcerated in a Thai jail, and the ridiculous rivalry between Hugh Grant’s bad boy Daniel Cleaver and Colin Firth’s good guy Mark Darcy, more than make up for it.

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TG4, 7.15pm Following on from Wexford’s triumph over Kilkenny in the Leinster hurling under-21s quarter final for the second year in a row, with a tenpoint win at Nowlan Park earlier this month, Micheál Ó Domhnaill presents live coverage of Offaly v Wexford in the semi-final. Throw-in is at 7.30pm.

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footBall scholars RTÉ2, 7.45pm

In the midst of World Cup fever, here’s another chance to catch this four-part documentary, which aired on Setanta Ireland earlier this year. Narrated by Paul McGrath, who himself moved to Manchester United from his home club St Patrick’s Athletic in Inchicore in his youth, this third episode continues the stories of three Irish lads as they try to make it at top English clubs.

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RTÉ2, 3.30pm, 4.30pm, 8.15pm

Colin Firth stammered his way to an Oscar for his portrayal of Bertie, who is reluctantly crowned King George VI after the death of his father George V (Michael Gambon) and the sudden abdication of his brother. His country is in desperate need of leadership as it hovers on the brink of war, so Helena Bonham Carter’s Elizabeth, the future Queen Mother, sets up her husband with speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). The unlikely pair develop an unshakeable bond leading to the king delivering a radio address which inspires the nation.

patriot games Film4, 9pm

Kicking off with yesterday’s highlights, then onto the live action presented by Darragh Maloney. Goals have been scarce in Group F, so although Messi and co are through, if Nigeria lose and Iran beat Bosnia and Herzegovina in the other match (online with John Kenny), it will be down to goal margins. Bill O’Herlihy hosts the later game, where French striker Karim Benzema (above) is a contender for the Golden Boot. Adrian Eames and Brian Kerr provide online commentary as Switzerland will be fairly confident of overcoming Honduras in Rio.

Another Jack Ryan film, another leading man in the role – this time Harrison Ford does the honours as the CIA agent in another adaptation of a Tom Clancy novel. This time Ryan finds himself in London saving a toff from an IRA terrorist. Mayhem ensues – and Ryan isn’t happy when his wife and daughter become embroiled in the chaos.

addams family values E4, 8pm

Black-comedy sequel – Morticia Addams (Anjelica Houston) has had a new baby, Pubert. His jealous siblings set about trying to ‘accidentally’ kill him. Scheming new nanny Debbie decides to send the kids to a summer camp – leaving her path clear to try to get her hands on the Addams Family fortune.

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I felt like a newbie on TV

Maggie Gyllenhaal may be an Oscar-nominee but her foray into British TV tested her to the limit, writes James Day

he list of film stars migrating to the small screen is a long one. But in joining their ranks, Maggie Gyllenhaal isn’t adding to the hBO flock or nestling next to Kevin Spacey on Netflix. Instead, the Oscar-nominated star of Crazy heart and The Dark Knight has followed in the footsteps of Mr Selfridge’s Jeremy Piven and Babylon’s Brit Marling to star in a new series for British TV. In The honourable Woman, by The Shadow Line writer hugo Blick, Gyllenhaal plays Nessa Stein, the daughter of an assassinated Israeli arms dealer. Attempting to right her father’s wrongs, Nessa becomes a major cog in the peace process. But when a Palestinian businessman she has been dealing with is found dead, Nessa soon attracts the attention of British spooks. ‘The first episode is just the tip of the iceberg. I don’t even know how to describe it, which is the first big difference between a huge TV series as opposed to a movie. I mean it’s eight hours long,’ says Gyllenhaal, who is warm and softly spoken – not least because, when we meet, she’s dosed up on Day Nurse and manuka honey to overcome a cold. ‘I guess it’s a thriller. It’s about a woman whose Zionist gunrunner father was killed in front of her when she was a little girl. As well as killing thousands of people, he also made billions of dollars, so Nessa inherits his foundation and she also inherits the guilt. She subverts what he was doing and uses the foundation to lay a communication cable between Israel and Palestine. ‘She’s trying to do something honourable but at the same time she’s a huge mess. She’s broken, confused, emotional and also really, truly intelligent, graceful and exquisite. That’s what made me want to play her: most women in different ratios are all of those things at once.’

Powerhouse: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s character Nessa Stein is made a peer – not bad for the daughter of a gunrunner caught up in Middle East violence Gyllenhaal admits her on-screen emotions mirrored her own, as the mother of two, who is married to actor Peter Sarsgaard, struggled with the demands of five months away filming. ‘I’m not sure I managed to balance it with family life,’ she says. ‘I did my best but I thought about it all time. I found it very exhausting and it wasn’t ideal, but what is?’ There were professional pressures too. ‘I didn’t think about the fact it was on television until I was in the middle of it,’ she says. ‘On the third day it hit me really hard and I had a little panic and I cried in my trailer. I was trying not to mess up my makeup but just kept thinking: “I have to carry eight hours on my back.” ‘I’ve never done that before. I felt like a newbie. I know how to carry two hours in a movie – I can do that and pace myself but this was new to me and it was terrifying.’ With filming taking place partly in

London, Brooklyn resident Gyllenhaal believes her saving grace was her love for Britain. ‘I’m an Anglophile and I love working here,’ says the 36-year-old. ‘I did Nanny McPhee and hysteria here, my husband did An education, we shot some of Batman and now The honourable Woman. ‘It doesn’t quite feel like home but it has a special quality to it and I feel familiar with a lot of things, like where to go grocery shopping and which parks I like, plus I have friends here. I grew up in LA but I’ve never felt like I fitted in there.’

yLLeNhAAL has also been juggling preparation for her Broadway debut with ewan McGregor in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, a revival of the 1980s play that starred Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons.

‘As soon I decide to do something I start thinking about it straight away,’ she says. ‘I don’t think of it as stepping into Glenn Close’s shoes, because people can play the same part and do it very differently. The story is about marriage, love and infidelity – things we all think about at a certain point in our lives.’ And what of working with McGregor? ‘he and I have a very interesting energy together and I’m curious to see how it will grow and how it will play out once we’re working together every night.’ Back home in New york, Gyllenhaal, a supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union, found time to host a party with brother Jake for punk group Pussy Riot in February. ‘They’re more heroic than I could ever be and I really admire them,’ she says. ‘They were super-cool but not interested in talking to me, and you know, that’s fine: they spent two

years in a Russian prison, so they can be however they want. In a way, it almost lifted my estimation of them to see how dismissive they were of me.’ It’s a humble view from Gyllenhaal but she’s no shrinking violet. This, after all, is a woman who recently appeared in Matthew Barney’s bizarre film River Of Fundament ‘milking her own breast while naked extras dance around her spraying liquid from their own orifices and playing each others bottoms like trumpets’, to quote one review. ‘ha ha ha, I can’t add much to that, it’s all true,’ she says of this loose adaptation of Norman Mailer’s hypersexualised novel Ancient evenings. ‘Matthew’s an artist I thought was amazing and I just went: “What do you want me to do and I’ll do it.”’

The Honourable Woman starts on BBC2 on July 3.

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From the underrated Fresh album of 1973, which still ranks as one of my favourite albums, this is a definitive tipping point in Sly’s career – but the snarls never sounded better.

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This was the first song I heard Jill do. It’s featured on an album by West’s BMWMB project I got hold of in New Orleans. I mean, what

a powerhouse singer. I first met Jill at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo in 2011 and am privileged to duet with her on my new album.

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Over to Antwerp! Millionaire’s Outside The Simian Flock was one of those albums that punched me out of orbit while I was in a rock

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I just have to admire the lady. How much sass can you put into a voice? Amy Dawson Bernhoft’s new album, Islander, is out on June 30.

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BodY & SoUL: It was a weekend of revelry, relaxation and some surprising acts. By Luke Holohan

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he golf course-like grounds of Body & Soul in Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath, are a hotbed of creativity; a bastion of bespoke art furnishings, wrapped in miles upon miles of colourful bunting. It’s a place where one moment you could be stewing in a hot tub, and the next drumming an oven tray in a tented soundscape installation. From a parade of orchestral clowns to the carefully-assembled My house – a tent decked out like a family home – for the casual reveller, it’s almost a shame that the music gets in the way. Almost. Indicative of the weird and wonderful experience that Body & Soul delivers are everything Shook, a trio of dance-punk unknowns who play the bijou Pagoda Stage. They disappear almost as quickly as they arrive but, with shades of Kraftwerk, they leave a lingering impression on the few that witness them, not least when they deploy a food blender at one point to complete their idiosyncratic, synth-laded sound. Recognised only by his tribal tiki-esque mask, it is clear that the enigmatic Slow Magic likes to keep a low profile. But disguise notwithstanding, he envelopes the audience with airy synths and looping melodies, nowhere more so than on the uplifting electronica of Girls and Corvette Cassette. With the lure of the woodland too much to bear, I soon find myself caught up in a good old-fashioned hooley at the Good Time Lounge. Soundtracking the cool evening with bluegrass and quaint Cajun dynamism, Prison Love are another pleasant surprise on my weekend journey. even the most eager soul might struggle to stay festival-fresh moving into day two. That said, the prospect of catching Jape, John Grant, Gary Numan and Goldfrapp – a quadruple header if you will – is enough to perk up this reviewer.

Golden moments: An artwork at the Body & Soul festival, which saw Goldfrapp (inset) headline Jape transpires to be the perfect tonic to a night of crazed and, in my case at least, languid dance moves. Now based in Sweden, Richie egan sets out a stall of new material to complement favourites such as Floating and I Was A Man, even breaking into Todd Terje’s Inspector Norse for good measure. Conor O’Brien is also on hand to bring the curtain down on a fantastic set; the Villagers frontman also turns up for a winning duo with John Grant on the latter’s sublime alt-rock ballad Glacier. The evergreen Cars and Are ‘Friends’ electric? are admittedly the pull factor for most festival-goers turning up to catch Gary Numan, but seeing the 1980s electro-pop pioneer in full fettle – very much the eternal man-goth – is a sight to behold, and material from last year’s Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) holds up exceptionally well.

having spent the best part of four hours at the main stage it’s nice to take the load off and let Goldfrapp’s lush, cinematic trip-hop wash over me. Alison’s lyrics are not quite as good as a shower – but just as appreciated. The Sunday sounds of the Dublin Afrobeat ensemble represent the end of my festival adventure. headed by the energetic Yves Solo, the 14-strong unit – replete with trumpet, sax and percussion – send me on my merry way. exiting the sprawling venue, it’s hard not to think of the summer solstice as a ritual celebration that I should have embraced years ago. By the end of the three days I’m sure there are a few, like me, ready to renounce the rat race and bow down before the sun. Or better still, the weekend deities of the woodland Reckless In Love stage.

For some members of rock’s pantheon, the path to immortality begins with getting a guitar, learning a few moves and doggedly hunting down stardom. For others – your Bowies, Keefs and Kurts – it is simply part of their DNA, from the tips of their toes to the last sweat-matted strand of hair on their head. Detroit blues-rock aristocrat Jack White falls into the latter category. Since searing into the grand rock consciousness at the turn of this century with The White Stripes’ primal howl, through endless side-projects and collaborations and a muscular solo career, White has dismantled and rebuilt rock‘n’roll with freshness, heat and rare consistency. While it helps that he numbers among the most electrifying axe-men in the business, it is equally White’s eccentricities that make him fascinating. The 2012 Blunderbuss tour saw alternating allfemale/male backing bands, depending on the night, while his Third Man label has revolutionised the vinyl format (recent solo LP Lazaretto produces a hologram when played). But like any six-string deity, it’s all about the tunes and this Royal Hospital Kilmainham date should, if his last O2 show is anything to go by, serve up the goods from all corners of his oeuvre. The Kills (fronted by White’s Dead Weather bandmate Alison Mosshart) provide support.

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Five films to see at the cinema

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Belle A fascinating new look at Jane Austen-era en-era England via the true story ory of Belle, a mixedrace society girl wrangling angling with both unsuitable suitors and contemporary ary slavery issues. Spring In A Small Town Widely considered one of the greatest eatest Chinese movies ever made, Wu Fei’s ei’s classic domestic drama, set in thee years following the Sino-Japanese War, chronicles the sad and sensual lifee of a disgruntled Shanghai housewife. Miss Violence For those who likee something a little different… An unsettling family mystery ystery from Greece, very much in the vein ein of dogtooth.

The Fault In Our Stars Prepare to boo-hoo to dehydration point with this tale of teenage romance doomed by cancer – it’s also refr refreshingly funny. No.1 in the US, it’s set tto be a Twilight-sized hit.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past Think Avengers Assemble but with a different cast of catsuits. Prequel and current cast unite to fight off a new mutant threat in this superior superhero blockbuster.

Looking ahead Boyhood

Five-star reviews are already garlanding Richard Linklater’s extraordinary coming-of-age tale shot over 12 years and starring Before Sunrise favourite Ethan hawke.

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HE electric vehicle revolution is not catching on fast enough and Tesla Motors owner Elon Musk has decided to give it a push in the right direction by opening up its advanced technology to other EV manufacturers. In a blog post heavily-laden with references to the All Your Base Are Belong To Us video game meme, the businessman, who was also involved in Paypal, said it was an effort to stymie the ‘flood of gasoline cars pouring out of factories every day’. Mr Musk said Tesla originally pursued patents because it feared the major manufacturers would copy its technology and use it in a mass-produced scenario to ‘overwhelm Tesla’. However, he said the opposite had in fact happened, with the main car manufacturers showing little interest in zero emission cars. ‘Electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn’t burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to nonexistent, constituting an average of far less than one per cent of their total vehicle sales,’ Mr Musk said. ‘At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all.’ Mr Musk said he believes electric car manufacturers, as well as the world, ‘would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform’. ‘Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100million and the global fleet is approximately two billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. ‘By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the trickle of non-Tesla electric cars produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day,’ he said. ‘Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology,’ he added.

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More power to you: Tesla chief Elon Musk plugs into a Supercharger at the launch of the motor company’s Model S electric car The change comes as Tesla delivered its programmes such as ESB’s Great Electric first right hand drive Model S, to five drivers Drive heighten awareness. in the UK – including Fifty Shades Of Grey So far this year just 120 pure EVs have author EL James. been sold in Ireland, representing just 0.19 Mr Musk, who was on hand to present the per cent of the market. However, this is a keys to the new owners, said: ‘We’re going vast improvement on 2013 figures, when to be deploying Superchargers throughout just 46 EVs were sold here. Ireland and the UK so you’ll be able to A spokesman for ESB described Tesla’s travel anywhere in the British Isles just move as ‘a very interesting development’. using the Superchargers for free forever [by He added: ‘At this stage it’s difficult to be the end of next year]. sure what impact it will have in the short ‘We really are serious about the term. The Telsa has a greater range than Superchargers being free forever. I think most other EVs because of its battery that’s a very liberating experience – capacity and we understand that the battery once you have your car you can just cost is less than half of that of other go anywhere… and leave your wallet manufacturers. behind.’ ‘If by disclosing the patent the reasons for Sales of pure electric vehicles have been this become better understood, it should slow to take off in Ireland. However, they then enable other manufacturers to drive are increasing as more manufacturers enter down the costs and extend the range of all the market, batteries improve and other vehicles.’

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What it is: Four-door saloon Styling: The epitome of luxury, the C-Class comes in three designs – Avantgarde, Exclusive and an AMG line. The Avantgarde, with a grille-inset star, is aimed at younger buyers, the Exclusive at the traditional market and the AMG at sporty drivers. Comfort: It’s A Merc – of course it’s comfortable. The cabin in the Avantgarde we were driving is spacious and luxurious, with brushed chrome panelling and buttons on the doors, and glossy surround on the centre console, as well as leather upholstery. Legroom is good back and front. Boot: A decent size with an option of an automatic hands free system to open and close it. Transmission: C220 2.0-litre 170bhp BlueTEC Avantgarde automatic Drivability: A pleasant and serene drive, very smooth on the road Technology: The C-Class is an an oasis of tech, with a touchpad added to the multimedia unit and apps offering access to online driving aids. There’s also an optional head up display and a Burmester ‘feel good’ surround sound system with 13 ‘highperformance speakers configured specifically for the vehicle’. Advanced safety features include Collision Prevention Assist, which prevents a low speed fender-bender, and Attention Assist drowsiness detection. Adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist, traffic sign and wrong way alert systems as well as active parking and adaptive head beam are also available. Price: Prices start from €37,750 for petrol models and €37,950 for diesels. Visit atTheLights.com for the full review

142 pLATES nExT MOnTH

NEXT month is a crucial one for the Irish motor industry with the new 142 registration plate period kicking off. So far, 2014 has been a good one for car dealerships – new car sales for May were up six per cent on the same month last year. Already this year 64,031 new cars have been sold, an increase of 12,481 on 2013. Simi spokeswoman Suzanne Sheridan said there was some confusion with the two plates last year because it was introduced in 2013 and some people thought it was for superstition reasons. However, Irish drivers have embraced it and she added: ‘Now that the public knows that the new plate is here to stay, we’re expecting strong sales in July and dealers are reporting high levels of pre-orders and enquiries. ‘We’re predicting that 90,000 cars will be sold this year, 15,000 more than last year.’

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Get your motor running… head out on the highway for a different sort of holiday experience, says Caroline eden Car Crazy in Cuba

A self-drive holiday is liberating. On your own timetable, you can stop wherever you like. As Laura Lindsay of Lonely Planet says: ‘Road trips combine the best bits of travel – spontaneity, freedom, discovery and independence. Driving allows you to get to know a place, not just see the highlights.’ Cuba – a country celebrated for its classic cars – makes for an unusual self-drive destination. The Carretera Central highway, spanning 1,435km, runs from Havana across Cuba to the other end of the island. Drivers on this road get to witness everything from small country towns to limestone landscapes.

an eleCtrifying drive

Eco-aware visitors can now hire electric PAYD (pay as you drive)

cars to explore the UK’s Lake District. The aim is to cut carbon emissions partly caused by around 16million visitors holidaying in the area each year. The electric twoseater Renault Twizy is opensided so you can hear sheep bleat and trees rustle as you drive. There are plenty of charging stations around the National Park and the range between charges is a generous 60 miles. The hope is that some travellers will visit without bringing their own cars and instead will rely on a mix of PAYD cars, buses, boats and bikes to get around. All in all, less driving and more sightseeing.

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the Pamir highway The road passes a range of delights The summer sun will soon defrost including ancient Silk Road forts, mountain passes, which presents remote communities, village bazaars opportunities for audacious road and wild, untamed landscapes. trips in Asia. One of the most daring Undiscovered Destinations is is the Pamir Highway between offering a 16-day adventure along Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe and the Pamir Highway travelling close Bishkek in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan. to the border of Afghanistan this

summer. The tour mainly involves staying overnight in simple homestays and travelling through villages seemingly untouched by time, so it’s best suited to those ready to rough it. Pack plenty of motion sickness pills, as roads don’t get curvier than this.

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Dear Dolly got a problem? no one else can help? our resident agony aunt tells it like it is

My husband has lost loads of weight thanks to an exercise and nutrition plan. I’m dead proud but he’s on my case every time I eat a bag of Haribo and is always at the gym or doing sports, which he didn’t do before. I admit I’m a bit overweight and I’m scared he’s CP leaving me behind.

Dear Lady Gaga, besides the fact that you duetted with a man with a questionable history regarding underage girls – a song about letting him do what he wants with your body – you went doubleperv and picked Terry Richardson to direct the music video. This was never officially released due to ‘gravely mismanaged time and health’ (what does this even mean?). But, naturally, the Snowden of celeb-leaks, TMZ, got its dirty little

I’m sorry to hear that his new lease of life has made you feel redundant or inferior. While I’ll readily admit there’s nothing more dull to live with than a muscle-head/ diet bore – or a car porn addict, see below – it seems the spring in his step has touched a nerve. Are you sore because he’s exposed your own insecurities about your weight (and you are now begrudgingly faced with a lifestyle revamp), or is it simply a new clash of personalities? If it’s the former then this could be the ideal incentive to get fit too, reconnecting at the gym/ running/cycling. Or – more fun – if you’re actually happy in your skin, relish this ‘me time’ and stuff your face with Goldbears without judgement.

Every other weekend my boyfriend goes out to the local golf course to ‘find balls’. Is this A Thing? Or is he having a homosexual affair?

Perturbed Golf Widow

If he’s a golfer, of course it’s A Thing. Golf balls aren’t cheap,

you know. However, if he doesn’t know his butt shift from his shaft load and yet spends his weekends lurking around in bushes, he may well have a second life that you would do well to know about before he next lunges at you with his wood. LAST WEEK:

My love life has become so dull, I’m tempted to have an affair. My other half looks at car porn every night, window shopping for motors he won’t buy. He never suggests doing anything together anymore except food shopping. In contrast a man at work has shown an interest in me. How can I shake

things up without anyone getting hurt? Moe Joe YOU SAiD: If you’ve tried everything to pique his interest – hiding his laptop, car sex, and smothering yourself in Turtle Wax – then it’s time to admit that the spark has gone and cannot be jumpstarted. Trade him in for a new model, although, only after you’ve dumped him – affairs are a joy-ride with often disastrous consequences. Karla

OvER TO YOU:

My boyfriend of three years pees the bed after every

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hands on it and now can all see ‘Dr Kelly’ in all his grubby glory. Nancy Friday may once have exposed some surprising female fantasies, but being impregnated by R Kelly posing as an anaesthetist while a dubious photographer leers on, was never one of them. What on earth were you thinking? Back to common sense academy for you, sweetheart, before your career flatlines altogether.

night on the batter. i thought he might have manned up by now but i was wrong. we’ve started trying for a baby but i’m not sure i want to clean up after two bedwetters. what will it take for him to understand that this is not cool – or normal – for a 38-year-old man?

From the Wet Patch

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They’re up at dawn to get lucky

Ahead of the craze hitting Dublin next month, Jane Mulkerrins joins the morning shift in New York

T’S 7am on a hot Wednesday morning in Williamsburg, New York. The fashionable residents of Brooklyn’s hipster stronghold are about to start their working day but inside Verboten, a stylishly industrial nightclub, I’m dancing with abandon as the DJ drops a bassline. It’s not the first time I’ve seen the dawn from the middle of a heaving dance floor but definitely the first time I’ve done it sober, having already been to bed. This is Daybreaker, an early morning, two-hour, alcohol-anddrug-free party, taking the night out of nightclubbing and offering a morning workout more euphoric than a Pilates class or pounding a treadmill could ever be. The atmosphere is like a festival: there are neon-clad hula-hoopers, giant jellyfish on sticks and a brass section playing along to the dance beats. Girls in tiny shorts and boys with directional hair are throwing shapes like it’s 2am, while groups prop up the bar, sipping on nothing stronger than watermelon juice, coconut water and coffee.

There I meet Amy Chan and Veena Trinh, a slick pair of Manhattanites in summer dresses and heels. ‘We’re into a healthier lifestyle these days and don’t really like staying out late at night, even though we love to dance,’ says Trinh, 35, who works in real estate. Chan, a 32-year-old luxury hotel reviewer agrees. ‘I am done with the nightclub scene in the city,’ she says. ‘I’m done with dealing with bouncers with attitude and wasted people who are just unfriendly.’ Daybreaker, she says, is a different experience entirely. ‘It’s so open and positive and friendly, with a totally different energy.’ The crowd are all well-dressed young professionals in their twenties and thirties but it’s not about what they’re wearing, what ‘the scene’ is or who is in the VIP area – it’s purely about dancing, socialising and starting the day on an energising note, mentally and physically. The party is the brainchild of Matt Brimer and Radha Agrawal, New York social entrepreneurs who have high-flying day jobs. Brimer, 27, is founder of the educational organisation General Assembly, while Agrawal, 35, started

Blow: A brass duo play, to the joy of the chap in the orange vest and what appears to be a huge, masked carrot Super Sproutz, a children’s nutrition and education company that counts Michelle Obama as a partner, and spent eight years as a Spin instructor. ‘Daybreaker started as an experiment at the end of 2013,’ says Brimer. ‘We wondered why dancing had to happen at night after a load of drinks and if we could create something where it didn’t.’ ‘We love dancing and working out,’ adds Agrawal, ‘but also Burning Man [the Nevada arts and

culture festival] and to express ourselves and we couldn’t find anything in the city that combined those elements.’ Daybreaker is more than just a ‘dance party’ (as they call them stateside). It’s also a showcase for artists and performers. This morning, there’s Lilla Heinrich, an opera singer, laying live vocals on top of a dance track, Saloman Faye, a freestyle rapper, and Great Caesar, an indie-rock band who perform their catchy new single.

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There are also The Haiku Guys, two handsome, dark-eyed poets perched at vintage typewriters, ready to create verse to order. You tell them a topic; I suggest ‘summer fling’ – it’s such a good-looking crowd I wonder what the etiquette is on pulling at a pre-work party. At 9am, just before the lights come up, I see several cosy couples answering my question. While the specifics of the parties may differ, Daybreaker is part of a growing trend for morning raves, which are popping up across the globe (see box). Such has been the success of Daybreaker in New York that this Friday its first London party will launch at The Book Club in Shoreditch, before arriving in Dublin next month. ‘Work can be all-consuming in New York and London,’ says Anthony Beilin, organiser of the London party. ‘Days are long and stressful and this is a chance for people to do something fun in a time slot they might not be making use of otherwise. ‘There’s also a hedonistic aspect to it, it’s a little bit underground. You get to the office, where everyone else is staggering in, bleary-eyed, and you’ve had this amazing, invigorating morning experience.’

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The foods that medicines hate On a prescription? What you eat may stop it from working properly. By Vicki-Marie Cossar

Milk and dairy products

Don’t take ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic used for chest or urine infections) or tetracycline (an antibiotic used for skin and some sexually transmitted infections) with dairy products. This is because some medicines are poorly absorbed into the blood stream when consuming diary so you won’t get the full medicinal benefit. Similarly, some antibiotics, such as flucloxacillin (used for skin infections), should be taken with no food at all. They get mixed up with the food and little gets absorbed.

oST people know alcohol and many prescription drugs don’t mix. What’s less well known is that what you eat may also have an unwelcome effect. ‘Everyday foods can affect the way some medicines work,’ says Paul Johnson from the UK’s Royal Pharmaceutical Society. ‘They might make your medicine less effective or cause side effects.’ Your pharmacist can give you advice but here are five potential pitfalls to avoid, as selected by Johnson.

Bananas, oranges, and green leafy vegetables

These foods are high in potassium so increase the level of it in your blood, as do drugs commonly known as ACE inhibitors that are used for high blood pressure or heart failure. If you are taking these medicines, be careful as too much potassium can cause an irregular heartbeat and heart palpitations.

Grapefruit and grapefruit juice

This can affect the way a variety of medicines work, including statins, which help lower cholesterol. Medicines that suppress your immune system and some cancer drugs might also be affected.

For more information, see your local pharmacist.

Chocolate and caffeine

Some antidepressants shouldn’t be taken with large amounts of chocolate and other caffeinated foods. Chocolate and caffeine are stimulants, so also counter the effects of sleeping tablets. Caffeine can also increase the strength of drugs such as Ritalin, a central nervous system stimulant used to combat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Liver, spinach and broccoli

These foods contain high levels of vitamin K, which helps blood clot. If you eat these foods in large quantities, they can reduce the effect of blood-thinning medicines. Warfarin is taken to prevent blood That’s certainly part of the appeal for Brooklynites Tatiana Peck, 31 and Shannon Hever, 30, colleagues at a digital agency. ‘I get such a buzz from dancing and I wondered what it would be like to go to work after dancing for two hours,’ says Peck. ‘It’s got to set you up for a great day’. ‘It feels like a brilliant little secret,’ adds Hever. ‘You can go to work after having been to an incredible party, and no one will ever know.’ We asked our readers if they could party with out booze. See gometro.ie/nobooze

clots in people experiencing irregular heartbeats or those fitted with artificial heart valves. Eating more or less vitamin K-rich foods (such as spinach) than you would normally puts you at a higher risk of strokes or bleeding. Also, don’t drink heavily if you are taking Warfarin as it will heighten its effect and so increase the risk of bleeding.

pARTy bEfORE wORk AROunD THE wORLD planned at the Tabernacle in London’s Morning Gloryville kicked off the preNotting Hill on July 9 and at the Bestival work rave in London in May last year, and Secret Garden Party festivals. describing itself as an ‘immersive Daybreaker (dybrkr.com) is also morning dance experience’. branching out. It held its first party in Twelve months on, it’s running events San Francisco this month, while parties all over the world, including Barcelona, in LA, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Perth, Chicago, Washington Zagreb, Zurich and DC, Berlin, Hong Amsterdam. Kong and Tokyo will Last week Morning follow. Gloryville launched in ‘It’s becoming a global Brighton and more movement really than 300 people have quickly,’ says founder already signed up to Radha Agrawal. ‘We ‘rave into the day’ at have a friend in South its first Dublin party Africa who wants to at The Yoga Hub, take it to Cape Town, Camden Place, on and someone in New July 2 (tickets €10, Delhi wants to bring morninggloryville. Daybreaker there.’ com). Parties are also Morning Gloryville in east London

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METROSCOPE by Patrick Arundell

NEMI by Lise

Aries Mar 21 – Apr 20

The Sun and Venus forge a sweet link today, one that hopefully will soften the corrosive opposition that goes between your ruler Mars and Uranus. Even if someone seems tense with you, try to extend to them a kind and calm response. For your forecast, call 15609 114 70

Taurus Apr 21 – May 21

At one level, your nervous system may feel ragged and a tension headache is possible. Perhaps there are some intense and private frustrations boiling away. Yet at another, you can exude a seriously sensual charm. You could want to get closer to your partner.

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Gemini May 22 – Jun 21

Solo? There’s a chance of some kind of mesmerising connection with somebody. Whether this would be long-lasting or not is another matter. Your personality can see you get ahead around more worldly matters, which might see you charming great things your way. For your forecast, call 15609 114 72

Cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23

If a more novel approach to your career, health or financial interests appeals, you can’t expect others will fall in with your wishes. Even if you feel very forthright and someone doesn’t articulate their opposition, it might still simmer in the background. For your forecast, call 15609 114 73

Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23

Good friends celebrate their differences and you can find yourself intrigued by somebody who is different to you. Yet, a long-standing tie can come under stress because one of you may want to do different things.

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Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23

Limitations around your financial situation or even your sex life could leave you feeling frustrated. But today’s energy can push you to do something about this. The trick is going to be in taking action that will be meaningful and long-lasting.

ACROSS 6 Travel (7) 7 Static (5) 9 Behave (3) 10 Dishonest (9) 12 Almost (11) 15 Stupidly (11) 17 Robustness (9) 19 Chop (3) 21 Hurl (5) 22 Loss (7)

DOWN 1 Compel (5) 2 Curve (3) 3 Yield (4) 4 At first (9) 5 Bother (7) 8 Neglectful (6) 11 Chairman (9) 13 Group of emigrants (6) 14 Sudden collapse (7) 16 Send (5) 18 Discard (4) 20 Mine (3)

Yesterday’s Solutions Across: 7 Dishonourable; 8 Minister; 9 Tube; 10 Parent; 12 Ignore; 14 Leader; 16 Grimly; 18 Clap; 20 Strength; 22 Accommodation. Down: 1 Mitigate; 2 Thrive; 3 Unit; 4 Guarding; 5 Carton; 6 Glib; 11 Tiresome; 13 Relation; 15 Deploy; 17 Ignite; 19 Lack; 21 Rude.

Today’s Moon location, along with Venus in Gemini, can invigorate your appetite for something new. And in fact, you may do something that surprises those close to you by showing just how spontaneous you can be. For your forecast, call 15609 114 76

scorpio Oct 24 – Nov 22

Old wounds from your past may have come into your consciousness in quite startling ways. Expect more of this today. Yet, however unsettling, also see this as an opportunity to finally come to terms with such issues. For your forecast, call 15609 114 77

sagittarius Nov 23 – Dec 21

You can find yourself more impatient for progress today, but you might also find yourself more changeable too. This may see you feisty, but you can still access some neat charm, which can help you find ways to progress. For your forecast, call 15609 114 78

Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20

How well do you feel you communicate with others? You may have silky skills in this department of life, or can become more conscious of how others see you. If there is a key relationship where something is out of kilter, you can learn about it now. For your forecast, call 15609 114 79

Aquarius Jan 21 – Feb 19

Uranus can see you moving through different moods and have the need for space or sociability on a frequent basis. Uranus is opposed by the stormy powers of Mars and this could see you have an impassioned discussion. For your forecast, call 15609 114 80

Pisces Feb 20 – Mar 20

Unexpected or sudden expenses or demands of people you interact with could put you on edge. Yet, if there’s one way you can improve your finances, it’s by tapping into your personality. This is going to be a time when you can dazzle. For your forecast, call 15609 114 81

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– Oct 23

ENIGMA Fancy word we often see Describing something non-PC. Dress, behaviour, language too Can all be this if they’re taboo. WHO AM I? An actor, I was born in New Jersey in 1985 with the first names Francisco James. I star as Agent Cody Banks in two movies. I played the title role in the sitcom Malcolm In The Middle.

WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? WHO… designed Dublin’s Liberty Hall? WHAT… is a boobook? WHERE… is the former village of Donnybrook? WHEN… was the Black Panther Party founded in the US?

QUIZ ANSWERS: ENIGMA: Inappropriate. WHO AM I? Frankie Muniz. WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? Desmond Ri O’Kelly; An owl; Dublin 4; 1966.

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it’s not just about the numbers, gavin insists by pAuL kEAnE

Boss Jim Gavin insists that when it comes to his super subs he doesn’t place any emphasis on numbers – from panel member number one to 30, they’re all the same. Yet Dublin’s rivals can’t quite take their eyes off numbers of a different kind – the incredible amount of scores those subs are racking up. it is an amazing statistic that Dublin’s subs contributed 3-17 in just six games during last year’s all-ireland title success.

‘Whether they start or finish, it’s irrelevant’ From Dean Rock’s metronomic two-point haul in almost every game, to Kevin mcmanamon’s finely-tuned goal poaching act, the bench was vital. in the last decade, the only side that has come close to displaying such panel strength was Kerry in 2009. They enjoyed a 1-22 return from their subs, though that was across eight games. The bad news for Leinster semi-final opponents Wexford is that Dublin appear to have got even stronger in 2014. in the quarter-final win over Laois, subs combined for a whopping nine points. so if by some chance Wexford

are leading with 20 minutes to go on sunday, they’ll know the serious work is just starting. Dubs boss Gavin said: ‘We expect players to score if they come off the bench and we expect players to score if they start the game. ‘Whether they start or finish, in our eyes, and in the language that we use with them in training, it’s irrelevant really. ‘We don’t place emphasis on numbers. We place emphasis on the game and the tactical end that we want to play. and that requires more than 15 men. ‘They all realise that and it’s a credit to their mental resolve that they’ve bought into that concept. Whether you start or finish, there’s a job expected of you.’ That’s got to be tough on players like mcmanamon. He enjoyed a decent allianz League campaign, but still didn’t start against Laois last time out. The st Jude’s man typically didn’t complain and gave a man of the match display, scoring two crucial points and setting up a goal. mcmanamon could start against Wexford because the punch that he displayed in attack is just what Gavin is after. The all-ireland-winning manager said: ‘i suppose conversion of our chances against Laois could have been better. We created an awful lot in that game and didn’t take them all.’

Scored two points and set up a goal against laois: Sub Kevin McManamon picture: inpho

GAA heads to vote on GAA future

GAA chiefs will vote on the future of Gaelic football this Saturday. The Central Council will vote on 14 different proposals which have been presented by the Football Review Committee. Proposal number four is that the provincial championships be realigned so that there are eight counties in each provincial, which the FRC believes will streamline the fixture

schedule. The Eugene McGee-chaired body have also proposed that the All-Ireland club championship in football, and potentially hurling, be concluded by Christmas instead of mid-March. PRoPoSAl number seven suggests that national league semi-finals be scrapped and, instead, the top two teams in the division meet in the final, by mid-April at the latest.

Federer out to serve up some more glory ROGER Federer believes his hopes of a landmark eighth Wimbledon title could hinge on an ability to spring serve-volleying tactics on unsuspecting opponents. The 32-year-old fourth seed, looking to eclipse the open era record he shares with Pete Sampras, reached the second round at the All England Club with a straight sets win over Italian Paolo Lorenzi. The Swiss, beaten in the second round last year, produced a vintage display as he eased through 6-1 6-1 6-3. Federer, who is working with Stefan Edberg as his coach, knows he must find an edge to get the better of champion Andy Murray, world number one Rafael Nadal and top seed Novak Djokovic. Federer, a 17-time grand slam winner, said: ‘It is little things that are going to make it work for me.

‘Maybe it is just about reinforcing the concept that it is possible, that I can actually do it, because for years I started to serve and volley once or twice a set maybe. Clearly I did come in after a big forehand and stuff. ‘But I remember how I played in 2001 when I made it to the quarters. I serve and volleyed 80 per cent on the first serve, 30 to 50 per cent on the second. It was normal. ‘Then every year I started doing less because the game started changing. ‘I think there is a way to do it here. You need to be able to serve well, move well at the net, anticipate well, come in on the right shots in the right way. ‘Mixing it up a little bit could be the way to go.’ Federer’s last Wimbledon triumph came in 2012, when he beat Federer: Mixing it up Murray.

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Wozniacki bashful about new admirer CARolINE Wozniacki has found a fan in Feliciano lopez but was coy about their friendship after her Wimbledon opener. The ups and downs of former world number one Wozniacki’s love life have received more attention than her tennis in the wake of her split from Rory McIlroy. Spaniard lopez took time out before winning his first-round match against Yuichi Sugita to watch Wozniacki finishing off a 6-3 6-0 victory over Israel’s Shahar Peer. ‘You noticed?’ the 23-year-old (pictured) said when it was pointed out she had an admirer. And when it was put to her that 32-year-old lopez already knew her father, Wozniacki could only laugh, saying: ‘He’s already making his way in through my dad?’

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spORT DigEsT Drivers want to restart the debate AuTO Lewis

Hamilton and Jenson Button have urged F1 chiefs to consult the drivers before changing the rules. The F1 Commission has passed a proposal to replace rolling restarts at the end of a safety-car period with standing restarts. Currently cars tour around, with the leader dictating the pace, but next season cars could line up in raceposition order before resuming. The World Motor Sport Council must approve the change, but Hamilton said: ‘It can’t hurt anyone to have the drivers’ opinions on certain things, or to involve us because we are in the car.’ Hamilton’s Mercedes’ team-mate Nico Rosberg described the idea as ‘very extreme’.

Williams seriously injured in Asia Rugby The parents of Wales

international centre Owen Williams have arrived in Singapore to be with their son after he suffered a serious injury. Williams reportedly suffered a neck injury while playing for Cardiff Blues in the inaugural World Club 10s tournament two days ago. The Blues squad has returned home, but colleague Macauley Cook has remained with him in a hospital, alongside two members of the Blues’ back-room staff. Williams was injured in a play-off game between the Blues and Asia Pacific Dragons at Singapore National Stadium.

Tiger’s back but accepts his place gOLf Tiger Woods

is pain-free for the first time in two years, but accepts he will never regain the game which saw him dominate golf for a decade. The 38-yearold won the last of his 14 major titles in 2008, but since then he has struggled with injuries and a public marriage breakdown. However, the current crop on the PGA Tour are hitting it further and Woods accepts he has to find other ways to win. ‘I feel old. The Chinese kid (Guan Tianlang) who qualified for the Masters last year (aged 14) was born after I won the tournament for the first time and that is just not cool,’ the American told reporters.

Selby into 2nd round snOOkER World number one Mark Selby beat Robbie Williams 5-1 to move into the second round of the Wuxi Classic in China. Selby, who succeeded Neil Robertson at the top of the rankings, took the opening frame with ease before a break of 64 saw him stretch his lead to 2-0. Meanwhile Ken Doherty was dumped out of the tournament at the first hurdle, losing 52 to Jamie Jones, who sets up a secondround showdown with Marco Fu.

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Italy boss prandelli quits and admits: I got it wrong

Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has tendered his resignation in the wake of the country’s elimination from the World Cup in Brazil. Italy’s 1-0 defeat to Uruguay in Natal meant they missed out on progression to the knockout stages from Group D. Prandelli, who replaced Marcello lippi as national team manager in the wake of the 2010 World Cup, announced at his postmatch press conference: ‘I talked to the president of the federation.. and gave my resignation. ‘the technical set-up didn’t work, and I take all responsibility for that. ‘Something has changed since my contract was renewed. I don’t know why. I chose a technical plan and that’s why I’m resigning – because it did not work.’ Italy made a strong start to the 2014 World Cup with victory over England but were left with all to play for in their final group game after an unexpected loss to Costa Rica. Despite a solid defensive performance the azzurri were put under increasingly pressure following the sending-off of Claudio Marchisio, and an 81st-minute goal from Diego Godin ensured Uruguay advanced to the knockout stages. Prandelli added: ‘a second European

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italy ....................0 uruguay.............1 by dave filmer Championship, third at the Confederations [Cup] and the qualification obtained in advance should not be under-estimated. ‘the match was well-balanced in equal numbers, but the sending-off changed it all.’ the former Roma and Fiorentina coach, who steered Italy to the final of Euro 2012, where he was widely praised for his coaching methods despite an eventual 4-0 final defeat to Spain, was not the only man to fall on his sword with president Giancarlo abete also stepping down. He said he would recommend that Prandelli changes his mind, but that he himself was going. ‘I will go to the board and offer my irrevocable resignation too. I had already made this decision before the World Cup,’ he said.

Game changer: Marchisio protests his innocence after being shown a red card

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by simon kay a StoPPaGE-time penalty from former Celtic striker Georgios Samaras sent Greece into the last 16 of the World Cup for the first time with a dramatic victory over Ivory Coast. the africans were just seconds away from heading into the second round themselves after Swansea striker Wilfried Bony’s 74th-minute equaliser looked to have given them the point they needed to finish runners-up to Colombia.

Piles better: Greece celebrate reaching the second round

‘City did not want to give me a few days’ But Samaras went down inside the box before stepping up to convert the penalty and send his team through to play Costa Rica in the second round. Substitute andreas Samaris gave Greece the lead in the 42nd minute, beating Boubacar Barry following a mix-up in the Ivory Coast defence. Veteran striker Didier Drogba started for the Ivorians along with yaya and Kolo toure, despite the recent death of their brother Ibrahim.

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yaya had earlier claimed Manchester City had been unwilling to let him spend time with his dying brother Ibrahim before joining their post-seaon trip to abu Dhabi. toure said: ‘City did not want to give me a few days. I went to celebrate in the wake of the league title in abu Dhabi, while my brother was dying in his bed.

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‘In retrospect, I regret not having insisted. For not making them respect me. However, my employers knew I was suffering for a few months seeing my brother’s health decline.’ City have declined to comment on the remarks from toure, who looks increasingly likely to leave City this summer.

JACKSON MARTINEZ bagged a brace as Colombia marched into the last 16 while dumping Japan out of the tournament. Substitute James Rodriguez was the architect of both Martinez’s goals and then scored himself to become the most prolific Colombian at a finals with his third strike in as many games.

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Rodriguez’s introduction turned the match in the second half after Juan Cuadrado’s penalty opener had been cancelled out just before half-time by Shinji Okazaki’s header, which briefly gave Japan hope.

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sampaoli confident in Chile’s abilities ChilE coach Jorge Sampaoli claims he is undaunted by his side’s 2-0 defeat to holland. Sampaoli’s team won their first two group games in style but were caught by two late Dutch goals and now prepare to face hosts Brazil in the second round in Belo horizonte this weekend. ‘Our confidence remains intact,’ said Sampaoli. ‘We wanted to play and holland didn’t. ‘i am very proud of the team i am coaching. ‘We go to the next round with our heads held high.’

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Neymar the superstar is Brazil’s Messi

LUIZ FELIPE Scolari admits Neymar is as important to Brazil as Lionel Messi is to arch-rivals Argentina. Barcelona star Neymar has dragged his side almost singlehandedly through the group stage with four goals in three games, including a double as Scolari’s men downed Cameroon 4-1 on Monday. ‘I liked the way my team played,’ Scolari said. ‘We depend on Neymar just like Argentina depend on Messi. ‘They are players that are very different and are the reference points in their respective teams.’ Brazil showed much more flair in beating already eliminated Cameroon but face a far harder

TODAy’sfixTuREs World Cup Group E Honduras v Switzerland..........(9pm) TV BBC Three Ecuador v France.....................(9pm) TV BBC One Group F Nigeria v Argentina ................(5pm) TV ITV Bosnia-Herzegovina v Iran......(5pm) TV ITV4

Perfect ten: Neymar celebrates against Cameroon

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challenge against Chile in the second round on Saturday. Scolari acknowledges they will have to be at their best to beat their fellow South Americans in Belo Horizonte, insisting: ‘We can improve a bit more and we will have to do so if we want to overcome Chile, who are good. ‘Now we cannot make mistakes. From now on, everyone is on the same level.’ He added: ‘If I could have, I would have chosen a different rival. Chile, like all the South American sides, are very difficult. ‘They have malice, they are organised and have a lot of quality.’

u CENTRAl American sides have made huge strides forward during this World Cup, according to Mexico boss Miguel herrera (pictured). The Concacaf region has never before had three teams in the last 16 and herrera said: ‘it shows we are getting stronger and more solid.’

Roy boosted by fans’ farewell Roy Hodgson admitted England did not deserve to be cheered off following a dour goalless draw against Costa Rica. After defeats to Italy and Uruguay, the Three Lions rounded off their World Cup campaign with a fittingly underwhelming stalemate in Belo Horizonte. The England fans inside the Estadio Mineirao still stood and applauded the squad when they came over to them following the final whistle. And even though the England boss thought his team played well, he conceded their performances in Brazil as a whole did not merit such a send-off from the travelling support. ‘We are very grateful for the emotional moment at the end where they showed their support,’ said Hodgson. ‘We are so sad and disappointed for them because we know what they’re going through. ‘We had nothing to play for, and our fans appreciated that by giving us an ovation that our results didn’t merit.’ For the third game in succession England wasted several good chances to clinch their first win in the tournament. But Luke shaw and Adam Lallana were two players who did produce promising performances, which gives Hodgson some hope looking towards Euro 2016. ‘I thought there were a lot of positives to take out of the game with young players getting their first taste of World Cup football, which will serve them in good stead going forward,’ he added.

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Animated: hodgson cuts a frustrated figure on the England touchline

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Bore result not vintage for Lamps CAPTAIN-for-the-day Frank Lampard admitted his likely England swansong in Belo Horizonte was far from a ‘vintage’ performance. With Steven Gerrard on the bench, vicecaptain Lampard took the armband but presided over a drab 0-0 draw with group winners Costa Rica as England’s involvement in Brazil came to a typically miserable end. They did at least not go home having lost all three matches in Skipper: lampard Group D and Lampard, who is a free agent after leaving Chelsea, said: ‘It was a difficult game to approach. ‘I think we did everything we could do. We showed a bit of character, we prepared right. Everyone knows how tough it’s been. It wasn’t vintage but we had enough chances to win it.’ Lampard’s England future is up for debate but he added: ‘If I feel I can offer something I will do but at the moment it is too soon to say.’

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Uru-disgrace suarez centre of another biting controversy by ADAM HyLAnD LUIS Suarez has found himself at the centre of another biting storm after a clash with Giorgio Chiellini in Uruguay’s World Cup clash with Italy.. Television replays and photographs from the Group D game appear to show the muchmaligned striker attempt to sink his teeth into the shoulder of the Italian defender. Suarez could face retrospective action from Fifa following the 79th minute altercation, with a hefty penalty likely for the Liverpool forward who served a ten-match ban for a similar offence last year, if found guilty. Italian No.3 Chiellini was in no doubt he felt the biting chall e n g e from Suarez, telling media from his native land about what he evi-

dently felt were inequalities in the refereeing decisions: ‘The referee should have shown him a red card. There’s a clear simulation after, a clear sign that he had done something that he wasn’t supposed to. ‘The gesture is clear. Referees document themselves on players and Suarez has a very clear history. The referee has given a clear address, he hasn’t spoken throughout the game. ‘There will be talk of failure but I would like to say something about it. We are not happy with how things have gone but we were the only ones to deserve to progress to the next round.’ Suarez himself avoided the controversy, deflecting questions away by hailing Uruguay’s march into the World Cup knockout stages. Defender Diego

Godin grabbed the goal Uruguay required two minutes after the incident when he rose to nudge home a corner and seal a 1-0 win which sent the Italians home. Suarez said: ‘I was relaxed because I knew we’d have chances. And then came the goal. ‘Uruguay is celebrating, we have qualified and now we are going to celebrate.’

Maker’s mark: Chiellini of Italy pulls down his shirt to reveal what looks like a set of bite marks on his shoulder. The defender is adamant the Uruguay striker deliberately sank his teeth into him during their Group D clash in Natal that saw the South Americans progress

Pull the other one: Suarez feels his teeth (main) after the clash with Chiellini (insert above) which appears to show him biting the defender

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‘Slow starts not an issue as long as team keeps itself in the game’

No panic: Gavin

JIM GAvIn insists Dublin’s slow starts don’t concern him as they home in on another Leinster football final berth. The Dubs are big favourites to overcome Wexford in Sunday’s semi-final and return to their ninth decider in ten seasons. But if there is any criticism of Dublin under Gavin it’s their slow starts which have caused panic at times among fans. They trailed Laois by two at half-

time in the Leinster quarter-final, just like they did Meath and Kerry in last year’s Championship while they were one behind Mayo at the break in September’s All-Ireland

‘Our job is to be ahead at the end of the game’ final. They also had to come from ten down to beat Cork in this season’s league semi-final.

Gavin says the bottom line is that while they’ve trailed at the break in four of his seven Championship games – they’ve ultimately won all of them. Asked if it’s an issue, Gavin said: ‘no, not at all. The other teams are playing better than us in those first quarters of the game. ‘If you do the objective analysis of it, that’s what’s happening, teams are really putting in a big shift against us.

‘But we view the game over the totality of the 70 minutes and our job is to be ahead at the end of the game,’ Gavin added. ‘We focus quite heavily on the mental aspect of the game and players make sure they keep themselves in the game and that the team keeps itself in the game. That’s one of the great strengths of this team, its mental resolve.’

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