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Super-fast phones in irish tech first HURL ROYAL HIGHNESS: The viewing ng figur figures for Sky Sports’ hurling br broadcasts may still be low but the coverage has netted one new fan at least – GAA president Liam O’Neill said Queen Elizabeth told him in Belfast last week that she had watched a game and been impressed by it.

TRINITY College scientists have discovered a new magnetic material they say could lead to super-fast phones and limitless data storage.

An alloy of manganese, ruthenium and gallium, known as MRG, is 25 years in the making and has highly unusual magnetic properties which could have applications in information technology.

The team of scientists led by Professor Michael Coey, a principal investigator with Amber, the Trinitybased materials science centre, discovered MRG is internally as magnetic as the strongest magnets available, yet barely appears magnetic from the outside.

This world-first (technically known as a ‘zero-moment half metal’) will initiate an entirely new line of materials research, the team said, and could open up numerous possibilities for electronics and information technology.

Prof Coey said: ‘Magnetic materials are what make reading and storing data – either on personal devices or

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on large scale servers in data centres – possible.’

It could lead to ‘limitless data storage’, resulting in superfast memory in personal devices and eliminate the potential of external magnetic forces to ‘wipe’ computer data. MRG has the potential to revolutionise how data is stored, Prof Coey added.

Minister for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock praised the State-funded centre for finding ‘innovative solutions’ to problems faced by the technology industry’.

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Engineer travels the world on trusty C90 moped that’s nearly as old as he is

Have Honda, will wander

WHETHER it’s the ferry to France or the plane to Spain, we all look forward to going on holiday.

And Ed March can hardly wait for his next trip – Tierra del Fuego by moped.

The engineer’s 25-year-old Honda C90 is a machine better known for putt-putting through Bike of beyond: Ed in Dubai (right city traffic than hitting the open road.

But he has every faith in the trusty G-reg bike to and top), in front of a mosque in carry him to the foot of South America from a Iran and in Norway Pictures: sWNs

by AiDAn RADnEDgE starting point 36,000km to the north in Alaska.

After all, it’s taken him on several treks, including an eight-month odyssey from Malaysia to his home in Hartland, Devon.

‘It does 150 miles to the gallon and just does not go wrong,’ said the 27-year-old.

The intrepid explorer posted his bike to Malaysia

in bits and rebuilt it after flying there in 2011. He has since ridden home from Mongolia, and through Germany and Finland to the Arctic Circle.

Girlfriend Rachel Lasham, 29, is joining him on the American adventure on her own C90.

She’ll discover there are advantages to globetrotting on a moped, Mr March said. ‘When you get to a border crossing nobody asks you for a bribe – they presume you don’t have any money.’

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Onlooker shouts ‘jump’ at man on College Green roof A MAN standing precariously atop a city centre building was told to ‘jump’ by one onlooker yesterday.

The male, reportedly in his 20s, was standing on the roof of the Ulster Bank building and appeared to be contemplating throwing himself off, when an onlooker yelled ‘Jump, jump, jump’ before walking away.

Emergency services arrived at the scene and gardaí reportedly tried to talk the man down. He was safely coaxed from the roof at 3pm.

College Green was closed to traffic yesterday for more than three hours

during the incident. Four units of Dublin Fire Brigade, an ambulance and a number of gardaí attended as hundreds of onlookers watched from behind Garda tape. Some news outlets were criticised for their coverage of the event by onlookers.

It is not known how the man got on to the roof. In a statement, the Irish Whiskey Museum on Dame Street said: ‘It has not been established that the scaffolding at No. 37 has been used by the person in question, but the Irish Whiskey Museum will investigate the matter.’

No charge for future FoI requests and copying if more than five hours of work are required.

Nuala Haughey, of the Think Tank for Action on Social Change’s Open Government Project, said: ‘This is a very progressive step which does away with a significant bureaucratic barrier to the flow of information between government and citizens.’

SAy NO TO NIck O TEEN: The Foróige Mulhuddart TechSpace youth group from Dublin 15, who entered their Avengers: Kickin’ Nasty Nick O Teen’s Butt film into the Irish Cancer Society’s X-Hale Film Festival, drench Mr Big Cigs outside the Lighthouse in Smithfield yesterday to publicise the anti-tobacco initiative PIC: maxwells

State to pay out €35m to victims of symphysiotomies

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FREEDOM of Information requests will be free in future, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has announced.

Brendan Howlin said the ‘vast majority’ of FoI requests, which previously cost €15, would now be free.

Now those making a request will only have to pay a fee for search, retrieval

WOMEN who underwent symphysiotomy operations during child birth will receive between €50,000 and €150,000 in an ex-gratia scheme announced by the Government yesterday.

The surgical procedure, once preferred to the caesarean section, involved the breaking of the pelvis to facilitate the birth of a baby.

The practice was stopped in a number of countries in the 1950s but continued in Irish maternity hospitals until the mid-1960s and up to 1984 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.

A report into the practice, commissioned by the Department of Health and carried out by Professor

Oonagh Walsh of Glasgow Caledonian U n i v e r s i t y, found that in a number of instances the procedure was carried out without the Reilly: ‘Regret’ knowledge or consent of the woman involved.

Health Minister James Reilly expressed his ‘deep and profound regret’ to the women who had the operation, which resulted in chronic pain, limited mobility, life-long incontinence and psychological problems.

Approximately 1,500 symphysiotomies were carried out in Irish

hospitals between 1940 and 1985.

Mr Reilly said the announcement was not the ‘work of a cynical government’ but a move to help redress a legacy issue for victims who did not want to take the ‘arduous route’ of going through the courts.

However, Marie O’Connor of the Survivors of Symphysiotomy group said: ‘Given that the Government is not prepared to admit the truth about these operations, we have no option but to raise its failure to deal appropriately with this at the UN Human Rights Committee hearing in Geneva on July 14.’

The €35million compensation fund will have three levels of compensation determined by the severity of the injury. Applications are to be accepted within eight weeks.

Bewley’s loses €1.5m rent-rise fight BEWLEY’S café has lost its long-running fight to stop its landlord raising the rent for the famous Grafton Street premises.

The High Court ruled in Bewley’s favour last March – the rent was due to come down to €728,000 – only for the decision to be overturned in the Supreme Court yesterday, leaving the renowned business facing a rent bill of €1.5million.

Bewley’s said it was immensely disappointed at the verdict which was seen as a test for other

businesses to mark the end of so-called upwardonly rent reviews.

The café premises is owned by Ickendel Ltd, a company controlled by the developer Johnny Ronan as part of the Treasury Holdings group.

Loans associated with it were transferred to the National Asset Management Agency.

The Supreme Court found that the lease signed in 1987 did not bargain for revisions that could rise and fall according to market conditions.

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Roma families get apology for children wrongly taken THe Government has apologised to two Roma families who both had a child put into care over unfounded fears the youngsters had been abducted.

A girl aged seven and a two-yearold boy, both fair-haired with blue eyes and pale skin, were taken from their parents over two days last October as the ‘Maria’ case of a suspected child kidnap in Greece got international headlines.

An inquiry found gardaí acted on unsubstantiated claims the children were victims of abduction without first conducting inquiries.

In the case of Iancu Muntean Jr, who was taken from his parents Iancu and Loredana in Athlone, the inquiry accused gardaí involved in the case of ethnic profiling.

Before he was put into care his father told officers the child suffers

by ED cARTy from a form of albinism, which affects skin pigmentation and hair. emily Logan, the Children’s Ombudsman, said she was very concerned to hear the unnamed girl in the other case had since dyed her hair to protect herself.

‘Explicitly prejudiced and racist’ email In her report, Ms Logan said gardaí in Tallaght acted on the back of an ‘explicitly prejudiced and racist’ email from a member of the public to a journalist raising concerns about a child abduction.

The girl spent two days in foster care and had DNA tests carried out,

tests which Ms Logan said were disproportionate.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald met with the families to apologise. ‘We are sorry. We regret the pain they went through. It should not have happened,’ she said.

Amnesty International Ireland’s director Colm O’Gorman called on the Government and the Gardaí to determine if there is a problem of racial profiling to address.

Apologising to the families, Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan said gardaí acting ‘in the best interests of children caused unintended distress’.

Meanwhile, Tanya Ward, of the Children’s Rights Alliance, said Ms Logan’s findings are ‘a real wakeup call’ and that the children’s ethnicity featured in the decision-making was of particular concern.

Girl has dyed her blonde hair: Logan

Tesco to give all its surplus food to charity TESCO has become the first Irish retailer to donate all its surplus food to local charities in a partnership with social enterprise FoodCloud.

Both are calling for charities and community groups across the country that could benefit from surplus fresh food to register on foodcloud.ie and to use the FoodCloud app.

FoodCloud, which was set up by Iseult Ward and Aoibheann O’Brien, brings together charities and businesses with surplus food.

Ms Ward said: ‘The scale of our partnership with Tesco is unprecedented – on a daily basis we will now have access to all of Tesco’s surplus food to donate to the charities we work with.’

The news follows a successful pilot programme in 18 Tesco stores, which ran from October to February, and saw Tesco donate almost 60,000 meals to 38 charities.

A €10MILLION artwork by Claude Monet all but destroyed when a man put his fist through it is once again hanging where it belongs after a painstaking restoration.

The Impressionist painting was ripped apart in a devastating three-branch tear in June 2012 while it hung in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.

A Dublin man charged with damaging the painting, in addition to two others in the Shelbourne Hotel, will be tried in November.

After an 18-month restoration, Argenteuil Basin With A Single Sailboat, from 1874, has been restored to near its former glory and is hanging up again.

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Ice day for a red wedding Game Of Thrones fans Kerry Ford and Darren Prew cut the cake at their themed wedding at Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire Picture: PA

THe Taoiseach’s announcement in the Dáil yesterday that a referendum on civil marriage equality will be held in spring 2015 has been welcomed by advocacy groups.

Kieran Rose of the Gay and Lesbian equality Network said: ‘The referendum will be the final step in the remarkable 20-year journey from gay law reform to full Constitutional equality.’ His comments were echoed by Marriage equality’s Gráinne Healy, who said her organisation was ‘confident’ Irish people support the extension of marriage rights to lesbian and gay couples.

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Vandalised Monet work is restored

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Caliphate appeals for Muslims to join up MILITANTS who have declared a caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq yesterday called for Muslims to join them. Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who declared the Islamic state on Sunday, appealed for doctors, teachers, judges, engineers and those with military skills to ‘answer the dire need of the Muslims’. He also called on fighters to escalate combat in the holy month of Ramadan.

Meanwhile, Iraqi politicians failed to form a unity government to handle the crisis when Sunnis and Kurds walked out of parliament yesterday.

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We murdered teenagers, say Isis-linked militants

MILITANTS linked to Isis say they were responsible for the murder of three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped while hitchhiking home.

A group called Supporters of the Islamic State of Jerusalem said it was behind the deaths of Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, both 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, in posts on a Jihadi website.

The faction pledges allegiance to the Isis fighters who have seized control of cities across Syria and northern Iraq, declaring the birth of a new Islamic nation.

It stated Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was their ‘master’ and warned Israelis: ‘We carry for u in our pouch black days w which we will afflict u w torment.’

The teenagers, who had been returning from Jewish seminaries in the West Bank, were buried side by side yester-

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day in the city of Modi’in after their bodies were found on Monday while investigators examined a burned-out car possibly used in the kidnapping.

Tens of thousands of mourners arrived in large convoys of buses arranged for the ceremony.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the teenagers’ killers ‘human animals’ and said: ‘Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.’

Israeli forces yesterday blew up the homes of its two prime suspects, Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisheh, and bombed 34 sites in the Hamascontrolled Gaza Strip.

Daniel Taub, Israel’s ambassador to Britain, defended the response.

‘The tragedy is we’re dealing with an organisation for whom proportionality

means nothing,’ he added. Eighteen rockets were launched from Gaza into Israel as Hamas retaliated.

Hamas’s spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri, said if Mr Netanyahu ‘wages a

war on Gaza, the gates of hell will open on him.’

British prime minister David Cameron described the murders as ‘an appalling and inexcusable act of terror’.

Battle as Nigeria bombing kills 56 Ukraine ceasefire finishes A CAR bomb in a marketplace in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri has killed at least 56 people.

Sadiq Abba Tijjani, leader of the Civilian Joint Task Force patrol, said his group recovered at least 56 dead

REBELS captured a government building and troops hit back by bombarding their bases from the air, on the first day of fighting since a ceasefire ended in Ukraine. Heavy artillery fire was also exchanged as the two sides lost no time in resuming hostilities, after president Petro Poroshenko failed to persuade pro-Russian separatists to hold peace talks. In Donetsk, the interior ministry’s base was taken by the rebels and fighting raged across the city centre. A witness named only as Vitali said: ‘I don’t know who is fighting who. We are standing here. We are afraid and shaking.’

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Taken: Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel were found on Monday

Halt: Fighters block a road in Donetsk Picture: AFP

bodies at the blast site yesterday, many in parts or burnt beyond recognition.

The explosion ripped through the market and is being blamed on Boko Haram, the Islamic extremists accused of a campaign that has killed scores.

ROLLING IN IT: British artist Tracey Emin sits on her iconic 1998 art installation, My Bed, at Christie’s in London. The unmade bed artfully littered with condoms, cigarette packs and underwear fetched €2.8million at auction yesterday for Charles Saatchi, who bought it in 2000 for £150,000 Picture: Getty

Former Tinder executive sues for sexual harassment A FORMER executive at dating app Tinder is suing the firm for sexual harassment after a relationship with a colleague turned sour.

Whitney Wolfe, who was vice president of marketing, says she was harassed by chief marketing officer Justin Mateen over an 18-month period following a romance in 2012.

In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, she alleges Mr Mateen called her a ‘whore’ at a company party in front of chief executive officer Sean Rad. Ms Wolfe claims she complained to

Mr Rad but he ignored her or ‘call[ed] her a dramatic or emotional girl’, adding that he once told her it was her job to ‘keep Justin calm’.

Mr Mateen has been suspended pending an internal investigation.

A spokesman for IAC/ InterActiveCorp, which holds a majority share of Tinder, added: ‘It has become clear that Mr Mateen sent private messages to Ms Wolfe containing inappropriate content… but [we] believe that Ms Wolfe’s allegations are unfounded.’

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Erdogan’s hat in the ring ‘Drugs’ cost Aunor honour

TURkEY: Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday launched his bid for the presidency, proclaiming he was doing so for ‘Allah’ and ‘the people’. The popular 60year-old Islamist, widely praised for turning his nation’s fortunes around, is expected to sweep to a landslide victory in August.

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PHiLiPPinES: Benigno Aquino III has admitted he rejected actress Nora Aunor’s nomination as a national artist over her drug conviction. ‘It suggested drugs are acceptable,’ the president said. However, Aunor’s lawyer said charges against the actress were dismissed by the US in 2007.

Cult leader sent to prison Cousteau rises from deep CHinA: A cult leader whose followers allegedly killed a woman in a McDonald’s diner was yesterday jailed for four years.

Cao Yinhua, who preaches that Jesus walks the Earth as a woman, was convicted in a Wuhan court of founding the sect. About 1,500 members were held after the attack. by niCOLE LE MARiE NICOLAS SARKOZY was yesterday detained for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.

The former French president was quizzed in the Paris suburb of Nanterre over an inquiry linked to the financing of his 2007 election campaign.

His lawyer, Thierry Herzog, was also held for questioning.

The case centres on whether Mr Sarkozy used his influence to get inside information on the investigation.

Detectives’ suspicions are partly based on bugged phone calls.

AMERiCA: Fabien Cousteau will return to land today after a month spent 20m underwater in the Florida Keys. The grandson of famed diver Jaques Cousteau, and his team were living in a bus-sized lab to study the coral reef. ‘It’s strange but I don’t really miss much up there,’ said Cousteau Jnr.

HOng kOng: Pro-democracy campaigners join a rally marking 17 years since the state switched from British to Chinese rule Picture: ePA

Sarkozy held as police examine insider advice Mr Sarkozy, 59, has compared their actions to the secret police in the former communist East Germany.

Both deny any wrongdoing.

‘Justice officials are investigating, they should carry out the task to the end,’ a government spokesman said.

‘Nicolas Sarkozy is a citizen answerable to justice like any other.’

The detention threatens a potential presidential comeback by Mr Sarkozy following his defeat by François Hollande in 2012.

Christian Estrosi, from Mr Sark-

ozy’s UMP party, tweeted: ‘They have never imposed such treatment on a former president, with such a surge of hate.’

Former president Jacques Chirac was convicted in a corruption investigation in 2011 but was not jailed.

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Nicole opens up on bulimia Nicole Scherzinger has revealed all about her battle with bulimia – and admitted she turned her life around after hitting rock bottom. The 36-year-old said her career and health suffered as a result of her eating disorder. ‘I had started losing my voice, I couldn’t sing at shows, and then I remember my manager finding me passed out on the floor in Malta or in the south of France,’ she told the August issue of Cosmopolitan. ‘I thought, “I’m going to lose everything I love if I don’t love myself”.’

Singing from the rooftops: Kaiser Chiefs during their acoustic set in London on Monday picture: xfm/carlsberg

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aiser CHieFs have revealed their sadness at now being known as ricky Wilson and co after the frontman struck solo stardom as a coach on BBC show The Voice.

Despite the singer’s insistence equality has been retained within the group, his bandmates begged to differ. Wilson and 36-year-old bassist simon rix were at loggerheads when Wilson declared: ‘i am definitely not the leader. i don’t think we really have one.’

But rix told him it was very different being in his starry shadow, retorting: ‘i disagree. it’s a bit sad for us, the rest of the band, when you are the “and co”.

‘We don’t like it very much because we are the Kaiser Chiefs and ricky’s the Kaiser Chiefs. everyone is equal. ‘ricky is good at being the frontman on stage and off stage. all the doubts on whether he should do it went away,’ he said, although adding the extra workload was making it hard for the Chiefs to stay in tune.

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Shia LaBeouf has allegedly turned himself into rehab. The Transformers star, 28, was rumoured to have checked-in to a facility in Los Angeles on Monday. ‘Shia was nervous, he didn’t look good all morning,’ a photographer told gossip site x17Online.

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‘We have to write as a band and when we don’t write as a band we don’t get the same results. so people have to find time for rehearsing and writing.’

Wilson, 36, admitted he took a gamble with the group’s credibility to co-star with Will.i.am and Kylie on the saturday night show.

‘That’s what worried me the most with The Voice, it wasn’t like you could do it and it would help. it might have hindered,’ he confessed. and most importantly for the lads, their fans haven’t jumped ship.

‘We had an amazing time at Glastonbury and it was our first proper big show since the album came out,’ Wilson said of their No.1 comeback record education, education, education & War. ‘We looked out and they were all singing the words to our new songs,’ said ricky.

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Zac Efron is partying again after footage emerged of him enjoying some light-hearted celebrations with friends in Italy. The 26-year-old appeared to put a tough 12 months behind him when he was spotted dancing on table tops to Jason Derulo’s Wiggle on Sunday.

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Selena Gomez made a panicked call to police after becoming convinced someone had broken in. The jittery 21-year-old, burgled twice before, dialled 911 from her California home after she found her back doors wide open. Officers found no intruders.

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daughter harper – who turns three next week.

‘I had dinner in LA with gwyneth Paltrow and ValVal amazentino, I said to gwyneth that her body looked amaz starting and she introduced me to tracey Anderson. I start ry ed when I was pregnant with harper – it’s very challenging,’ explained Posh.

Bootthe designer now goes to Barry’s Boot camp in London with Becks after they shipped back to London.

‘I started coming here with David when we first moved back from LA,’ said the former Spice girl.

And after turning fabulous 40 this year the designer, said to be worth €68million in her own right, boasts she’s got it all.

She gloated: ‘I looked at it [turning 40] and said to myself, I have four incredible children, an incredible husband, a business that’s doing very well. I’ve worked hard and achieved a lot. I don’t think I could have achieved much more.’ read the full interview in the August issue of Vogue, on sale Monday.

Blooming heck: Whose idea was this, Victoria seems to be thinking as she glowers among the flowers in a silly hat Picture: Vogue

To Toned torso: Gym bunny Gy Becks shows Beck us those rippling muscles once onc again in his latest ad for la H&M

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ogether they pioneered his’n’hers styles but it seems Victoria Beckham has slipped up and let the side down after taking inspiration from Worzel gummidge during the Beckhams’ latest Pr outing. hubby Becks kept up his side of the bargain when he stripped off for what seems like the 2,391st time to plug his latest h&M undies. however, his normally immaculate fashion designer wife took a rare wrong turn in the walk-in wardrobe as she tried to show off her horticultural side for Vogue.

Ditching the designer frocks, Mrs B even looked bemused herself when she was plonked in the bluebells in the back garden in a musty old jumper, wellies and a tatty hat to pout in. the vegetable patch chic did nothing to show off her gym body, which she told the fashion bible that she has been working on religiously.

Vicks confessed how she turned to gym freak gwyneth Paltrow to help her hold on to her tiny frame, even when she was pregnant with her

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Gone fishing? Empty pontoons where scores of sea lions lounged PICTURE: EPa FOR decades, they have drawn visitors from all over the world to their home just by lying about and making their distinctive barking noise.

But San Francisco’s Pier 39 is now eerily quiet after hundreds of sea lions that lived there abruptly upped sticks and left – creating a mystery that is baffling animal experts.

The creatures vanished once before, in 2009, but reappeared months later once the mating season was over. But now the entire population of about 1,700, including pups too young to breed, have moved en masse.

The mammals, who usually pile on to pontoons at the docks vanished on Thursday.

Shawn Johnson, director of veterinary science at the city’s Marine Mammal Centre thinks a once plentiful food supply of herring, sardines and anchovies is running dangerously low, saying: ‘The amazing thing is how did they all receive word it was time to go?’

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THEIR brain power is at best shallow – or so we thought.

Fish have hidden depths and could be a lot smarter than we think, say scientists who have busted the myth fish have a three-second memory span.

In fact, they can recall information for up to a fortnight, a study shows. Scientists trained African cichlids, a popular aquarium fish, to eat in a particular part of their tank – and found they returned there to be fed after a two-week break.

The findings prove fish are actually quite brainy, say researchers.

And their memory span gives cichlids an advantage over other species, said Dr Trevor Hamilton of the MacEwan University, in Edmonton, Cana-

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da, who carried out the experiment.

‘Fish that remember where food is located have an evolutionary advantage over those that do not,’ he said.

In tests, each fish was allocated a zone of the aquarium to be fed in. Each training session lasted for 20 minutes and the cichlids ate in their area for three days. The fish were then given a 12-day rest period before being reintroduced to the training area, returning to the spot where they had found food.

Researchers are now investigating if fish memory is affected by environmental conditions, the Society for Experimental Biology reports.

THE Yeti could turn out to be a type of bear. Samples of hair purportedly taken from the creature were shown

by DNA tests to belong to an animal whose closest relative is an ancient polar bear, a 40,000-year-old bear fossil found in the Arctic, said Dr Bryan Sykes of Oxford university. Another 57 ‘yeti’ or ‘big foot’ hairs submitted by collectors were found to include a piece of fibreglass and hairs from sheep, horses and a human.

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Suarez ‘could learn from Shels fan’

Bite: Luis Suarez

A JUDGE who yesterday gave a football fan a two-anda-half-year suspended sentence for assault said the guilty man might have a few tips for ‘a certain Mr Suarez’, referring to the Uruguay footballer who was banned for biting an opponent during the World Cup. Judge Mary Ellen Ring had heard that Shelbourne fan Peter Mullen, who pleaded guilty to assaulting a 16-year old Cork City fan, had taken steps to deal with his anger issues and has a good understanding of what he did wrong. Mullen, of Tolka Road, Ballybough, caused his victim serious head injuries in a post-match brawl.

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Retired Detective Garda Terence McHugh said the 73-year-old admitted in a voluntary statement he had engaged in sex acts with the complainant twice and paid him Irl£5 each time.

The detective said the accused told him he had been a part-time rent boy in the 1950s when he was stuck for money, but was never forced to have sex with the men who picked him up.

The accused has pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting the male, when he was aged between 11 and 13 years old, from October 1983 to June 1985.

The man described in the statement how he had never had sexual intercourse with the complainant and said he was sorry for what he had done to the boy.

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Det Gda McHugh told the court he took the statement after the accused had turned up by chance while gardaí were searching the home of another alleged abuser in 2010.

He said the man had agreed to go to the Garda station after he was told about the complainant’s allegations.

In the statement, the man said he stopped his sexual activity with underage boys when he realised it was wrong.

The detective said the interview wasn’t recorded because the accused had come to the station voluntarily.

He explained he had made notes of his dealings with the man but hadn’t seen his notebook since he left it with the case file shortly before his retirement.

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‘Fastest broadband’ for Stillorgan SOUTH Dublin apartment dwellers are to get a taste of ‘possibly the fastest broadband in the world’. Some 120 apartments in Stillorgan have been fitted out by Magnet Networks with a 1GB fibre connection – ten times faster than the average Irish connection. David O’Donoghue of JJ Rhatigan & Co, the builder of the Jade property development off the Stillorgan Road, said it will transform the apartments ‘into one of the most desirable places to live’.

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It’s time to name and shame those who keep deposits

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see in [Tuesday’s] edition that most renters struggle to get their security deposits back from their landlords.

I think it’s time we name and shame landlords who withhold deposits unfairly – obviously not those who genuinely need to fix damage done by bad tenants, but clearly there are a lot of chancers out there, only too glad to take advantage of the fact it’s a landlord’s market.

And, if you know you need a reference from your landlord to get a new place, well it makes it more difficult if you have to fight them to get your hard-earned deposit.

The only solution is for the deposit to be held by an independent body such as the PRTB, who can arbitrate. Leaving it all in the landlord’s hands is just asking for trouble...

Tired Tenant ■ Had a laugh at Pearse station the other evening when a couple were rushing through the station, the wife fiddling with her skirt. she said to

her husband: ‘Does my skirt look ok?’ He said: ‘No, it’s crap, but at least it’s not tucked into your knickers now!’ I bet they had a good night Laura out, lol.

■ Luis suarez and the Uruguay FA are losing credibility by the minute.

If I, or anyone else, were caught biting someone on CCTV we’d be charged with assault. He is lucky footballers are above the law. Dan ■ I am writing in the hope the taxi man who brought me and my friends home on saturday night will read my letter. I left my phone in his taxi at approx 3am from Pleasants st, D 8 to Ossory Rd in eastwall, the taxi then went on to Hollybrook Road in Clontarf. It’s a black iPhone 5 with a cracked screen, with very precious photographs and videos on it of my dad before he died last year with his grandchild. I would be eternally grateful if whoever finds it hands it into a garda station, or contacts me Hannah through Mailbox.

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Quick pic HAVE A NICE DAY: Stephen Guerin sent in this photo phot of Richie Sambora with Merryn Lacy, five, her mother Jenny and sister Cora at the airport. Merryn, who is suffering from cancer, and her family were waiting for a flight home to Dublin from London when they bumped into the Bon Jovi guitarist, who kindly posed for a pic Send your photos to pictures@ metroherald.ie with ‘Quick pic’ as the subject and we will print the best each day in the paper

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gOOD On yA ● A big thank you to the taxi driver who went out of his way to deliver my camera equipment that I forgot in his taxi on Thursday night. Sorry I didn’t get your name or taxi number. Thanks to your kindness I will now be able to capture and make beautiful memories.

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yEH bIg RIDE ● Hey Mr Ticket Inspector on the Dart on Monday afternoon, you’re like Cristiano Ronaldo without the poncey hairdo. I almost pretended I didn’t pay, just to have the chance to flirt with you.

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Will St Leger is educating Dubs about urban art culture as part of Laya Healthcare’s City Spectacular

Will St Leger on painting the town

by DARAgH REDDIn Westmeath sunshine have turned him, inadvertently, into a human canvas.

Becoming a walking artwork is, in many ways, all in a day’s work for someone who’s never had much truck with convention. In 2007, for an installation piece called Landmine Trail, St Leger placed 100 fake landmines in parks around Dublin to highlight the threat the deadly devices pose to millions across

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Will St Leger has just returned from playing Body & Soul – as well as being an ‘artivist’ (part-artist, part-activist) he’s also one half of synth pop duo Faune – and two days of glorious

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the globe; in Art Raid, he invited guests at his 2007 Fringe Festival exhibition to steal works on display, partly as a commentary on the nature of materialism (‘I saw grown men and women wrestling each other to the ground for a canvas.’)

But it’s his widely circulated street and pop art pieces, including God Hates Fags in which he parodied the placards used by Westboro Baptist church in America to protest against homosexuality, that have probably won him his widest fanbase. As such, he’s well placed to guide a tour of Dublin’s urban art scene as part of Laya Healthcare’s City Spectacular later this month.

‘Graffiti has always been part of the Dublin landscape in some way or other but in the last five years we’ve seen an evolution,’ he explains.

‘Business owners and people who own property have started to really see the value of having a large piece painted onto the wall of a building or across its shutters and the idea of

“Graffiti has always been part of the landscape” graffiti as something that defiles public spaces no longer has the currency it once had.’

St Leger also credits 2011’s Dublin Contemporary, the biggest art exhibition ever staged in this country, for commissioning works of art at 22 outdoor sites, many of which, including Maser’s portrait of BP Fallon at the Button Factory in Temple Bar, are still visible today: ‘What I’m hoping to do on this

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Graffiti genius: From left, Famine and Byrne, Madonna In The Ghetto and Duty Free State, all by artist Will St Leger, right tour is to open people’s eyes to the wealth of street art in the capital. Many Dubliners will already be familiar with some of these pieces but they may not be aware of the artist responsible, the concept behind the works – be they stencils, posters or stickers – or how they were executed. I’m there to fill in those gaps. To my mind street art cuts through the commercial noise of a city and creates a dialogue with the viewer. A city is a collection of metals and concrete but it’s nothing without the people who live in it and experience it.’

St Leger is particularly heartened by the fact that the scale of individual works has increased vastly in recent years and singles out James Earley’s paean to Joyce’s Ulysses, painted on the exterior of Bloom’s Hotel, as a case in point. ‘It’s like the Sistine chapel,’ he laughs. ‘It’s a colossal work, covering four floors of the building, completed in an art

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The Laya Healthcare Street Performance World Champ­ ionship, one of the summer’s most beloved festivals, has been revamped and now answers to the name ‘City Spectacular’.

As ever, the focus of the family­ friendly event will be the free festival in Merrion Square from July 11 to 13 where leading street performers from around the globe will convene to impress visitors with their awe­inducing acts of derring­do.

There’ll be live music across the weekend from the likes of Dublin’s Booka Brass Band and Bristol beatboxer and saxophonist Mr. Woodnote and Lil Rhys; would­be

nouveau style, with characters from the novel such as Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus towering over Dubliners walking past below. On a miserable day it really warms the city up.’

‘I think over the next few years the scale of street art in Dublin is going to grow, and large works such as this are going to become cultural landmarks in the same way as the Molly Malone statue or the Spire are. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if they started turning up on postcards.’

I ask St Leger if it bothers him that, unlike carefully preserved gallery pieces, the work he and others street artists slave over is often left to decay? His response is

ciTy spEcTAcuLAR? rockers are invited to be part of the action thanks to GoMetro.ie’s Breakthrough Bandtacular, a competition that will allow one unsigned group the chance to play the City Spectacular’s music stage (see gometro.ie/ bandtacular to enter).

Elsewhere there’s an exhibition of specially commissioned screen prints in Film Base, walking tours of the city, a garden party inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream – and much more.

July 11 to 27. For details see www.cityspectacular.com

characteristically zen-like. ‘Everything in the world is in a constant state of flux. The sun drains the work of colour, the birds s**t on it, some kids scribble over it. I like to think there’s something philosophical about the fact you can’t really hold on to a piece of street art work and that it has its own afterlife.’

‘It doesn’t matter what becomes of the art over time; the important thing is that it exists at all. If you don’t see street art in a city, one of two things is happening: either there’s a lack of healthy dissent or there’s repression.’

According to St Leger, what makes a piece of street art succeed is, above all else, its relevance. ‘It’s about saying the right thing at the right time,’ he says.

‘In 2009 myself and Maser did a stencil based on the emaciated figures from the Famine Memorial on Custom House Quay as a commentary on the economic situation. We had them hold Fallon & Byrne shopping bags in their hands and Maser wrote the words ‘Hard Times’ across it. It was probably the most reproduced piece I ever worked on and got huge coverage including a four-page spread in the UK Times. When something resonates with people like that it’s magic.’

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I don’t want to sound throwback

Singer-songwriter George Ezra has earned praise beyond his tender years. But he’s worked very hard for it, he tells Sharon O’Connell

Old and new: George Ezra’s music harks back to Woody Guthrie but has a modern edge too

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across europe in search of thrills to fill his debut album, Wanted On voyage.

‘I took a guitar but wasn’t really playing it,’ says ezra. ‘I was just filling up books with everything I was seeing and people I was meeting. I’d say 70 per cent of the album came from scribbles in those books. With your first album, you need to write about where you’ve come from and what you’ve experienced, or else you do the opposite and go out and have a load of new experiences. That’s what I did.’

The songs on Wanted On voyage reflect ezra’s love of Guthrie’s folk and boxcar blues and Paul Simon’s warm acoustic soul, while his muscular, slightly cracked voice has an old-timey tone well beyond his years. essentially, though, these are pop songs. Stand By Your Gun hints at an admiration for vampire Weekend while Did You Hear the Rain? suggests Alex Turner is a kindred spirit. This singer-songwriter isn’t interested in revivalism: ‘The challenge I’ve

been faced with is to marry something contemporary with that old-time feel, because I don’t want to sound throwback,’ he says.

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nYOne who’s paid attention to his songs might be baffled by the fact ezra’s a Miley Cyrus fan. Well, if not a fan, then an admirer. In fact, he’s just been to see her play in Amsterdam the night before. So what’s his verdict?

‘She was 10,000 times more outrageous than I thought she was going to be,’ he says. ‘In the second song, she came out in a tiny leotard on top of a car and it wasn’t even suggestive dancing, it was like I’d paid to go and see a show of that nature.

‘But from a songwriter’s point of view, some of the songs on her album are just genius and she’s got some of the best people working with her. She knows what she’s doing – she’s been in showbusiness since she was ten.

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I hadn’t listened to this one in a while and recently stumbled upon it in iTunes. Gave it one play and was hooked all over again.

Phil’s a genius and this will no doubt go down as a classic in years to come.

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Another classic I’ve always loved but only recently started playing again. I made up my own story about the lyrics and then researched the original story behind the track.

Turns out it’s really sad – the lead singer wrote the lyrics about his mother passing away.

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me but there’s so much energy in it that when the hook hits it’s massive. You can’t help but dance when it comes on.

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I don’t listen to my own music but the instrumentation in this one (credit to my bandmates) really grabs attention. Also the lyrics are something very near to me and easily relatable to many.

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ven now, I feel like someone’s going to tap me on the shoulder and say: “You’ve had your fun, now it’s time to get a proper job,”’ laughs George ezra as he sits in his Paris hotel, where he’s having a smoke in a rare moment of downtime.

That’s not likely to happen any time soon. The 21-year-old singersongwriter from Hertford has been riding a wave of adulation since he emerged in October last year with his blues-folk eP, Did You Hear The Rain? Last week, his single Budapest was climbing its way up the Irish charts. ezra may be young but no one could accuse him of not putting the work in. Aged 13 and inspired by his dad’s Dylan, Waits and Paul Simon records, he started ‘playing around with the guitar to find out whether anybody could write songs’ and discovered Woody Guthrie, his greatest influence.

While enrolled in the songwriting course at music college in Bristol, ezra cut his performance teeth on the open mic circuit and later began gigging relentlessly: ‘I think the reason a lad with a guitar is so appealing to a record company is because they’re cheap to sign,’ he reasons. ‘When I was touring by train, my fee was £50 a night and with my railcard, that would cover my fare there and back with some beers for the way home.’

He dropped out of college after he was signed and last year set off solo on a one-month InterRail trip

‘I’m just like everybody else,’ he adds. ‘When I was six I was into S Club 7. It’s not like I was in a cot listening to Muddy Waters.’ ezra’s work ethic and clear artistic view, plus his level-headed approach to a career that’s taken off at a gallop, point to someone who’s far from star-struck by his own success.

Plenty of teens given a major label deal would have run off the rails by now. Is someone holding the reins or is that just not in ezra’s personality?

‘Things move very fast, so I know I’m very lucky to be in the situation I’m in now, but just as quickly as it comes about, it can disappear. I don’t worry about that but I am aware of it, so I’m making the most of it while it’s here.’

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Recent Reece Shearsmith drama The Widower told the tale of a conman who wove a web of lies around those he claimed to love. We’re in similar territory here as this documentary reveals the depths some stoop to for their own gain. From a woman who lied to her close friends (including Rita Toman from Belfast, above) that she had cancer to a charmer who conned more than 30 women out of thousands. It adds up to a depressing portrait of humanity: the cheaters are often close to home.

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

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keane and vieira: best of enemies Here’s another chance to catch this documentary which aired late last year on RTÉ, as Roy Keane signs up as assistant coach for Aston Villa. Almost a decade on from that tunnel bust-up, former rival captains Keane and Patrick Vieira explain why they once hated each other. And Keane reveals what he wishes he’d said to Mick McCarthy in Saipan before that World Cup walkout.

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The programme that exists so we can check out the partners of assorted celebs and assess their chances of splitting up – why listen to the questions? This week finds Corrie’s Charlie Condou and partner Cameron, actress Nerys Hughes and husband Patrick, and Five singer Scott Robinson and wife Kerry in the spotlight.

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Does the 1980s count as vintage? Dawn o’Porter does a plucky makeover on fashion’s most reviled decade and shows there was more to it than dodgy haircuts, luminous legwarmers and shoulder pads. But will Essex girl Lauren, a devotee of 21st-century bling, be persuaded to stretch her fashion horizons?

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Jay (Scott Speedman) is the black sheep of a wealthy family, who takes psychiatric patient Daisy (Evan Rachel Wood, above with Speedman) out of the home he works in and pretends she’s his date for his brother’s wedding. A screwball comedy ensues, with much ‘quirkiness’ from Wood.

The last five bakers give it their all as they fight it out for one of three places in tomorrow’s final. Summer desserts are the focus of the penultimate episode, as judges Biddy White Lennon and Paul Kelly look for a fresh, fruity signature bake.

The bakers start off well before quaking at the Strawberry Charlotte technical challenge.

Season three of the supernatural crime hybrid drama reaches a finale with a wedding you just know is not going to go well. Not with all those freaky guests, anyway.

But the big news is that main man Nick is in danger of losing his powers, which is a pretty grim prospect for a Grimm… But fear not, he’s got season four to get them back.

Let’s hope it stays dry – there are two ace men’s quarterfinals to savour in Andy Murray taking on Queen’s champ Grigor Dimitrov (above) and Novak Djokovic facing a resurgent Marin Cilic, himself a former Queen’s winner. Dimitrov is tipped to win Wimbledon one day, so can Murray hold him off for this year at least?

And has having fellow Croat Goran Ivanisevic in his corner given Cilic the edge he needs?

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Sweets ruffles Brennan’s feathers when he takes Booth’s place in an investigation into a murdered swimming coach, whose body is found at the bottom of a well. Meanwhile, competitive new intern Jessica (Laura Spencer, The Big Bang Theory) seems more interested in checking out her colleagues than examining evidence.

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Weepy starring Julia Roberts, and Susan Sarandon as Isabel and Jackie, the first and second wives of Ed Harris’s attorney Luke. After getting some bad news from her doctor, Jackie sets out to give fashion photographer stepmom Isabel a crash course in parenting for the sake of her two kids. Keep the tissues handy.

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Watching Tatiana Maslany (above) play multiple characters, often in the same scene, is the chief attraction of this ambitious, if a tad confusing, clone drama.

Season two closes tonight with the introduction of a gender twist that could see Maslany face some competition in the acting stakes. The question is whether season three will continue with its baffling conspiracy theories, or veer off into the human/clone emotional soap opera it handles rather better.

It’s 8pm and time is running out for Duracell bunny Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland).

He’s locked horns with the devious Cheng Zhi, who plans to unleash almighty hell by using the deadly device that’s at the heart of this thriller to trigger a US submarine attack on a Chinese aircraft carrier.

Now that’s not going to go down well.

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Documentary examining the televised trial of former American football star oJ Simpson, charged with murdering his ex-wife and her friend 20 years ago. Simpson was cleared of both charges, but the case became a touchstone for US race relations and attitudes to the legal system.

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It’s a formula which worked in Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore’s 50 First Dates – amnesiac’s husband tries to get her to remember him by wooing her over and over. In this romcom, newlyweds Paige and Leo are involved in a car accident, and the wife wakes up from a coma suffering from memory loss.

Meanwhile, her estranged parents come back into her life and see her condition as a chance to make a fresh start. A box office hit on its release, with stars The Notebook’s Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum (Dear John) on familiar ground, but the script falls short.

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the white widow: searching for samantha BBC1, 11.05pm

Undemanding sci-fi action caper in which Hayden Christensen plays teleporting troublemaker David with all the charisma he displayed as Anakin Skywalker. David discovers his superpower, then finds others share this gift and a mysterious organisation aims to wipe them out, using the lethal talents of Samuel L Jackson.

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Filmmaker Adam Wishart explores how an ordinary schoolgirl became one of the most wanted women on the planet. Samantha Lewthwaite (above), who was born in Banbridge, Co Down, converted to Islam at age 15, and subsequently married 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay. This documentary charts her path to radicalisation, with Lewthwaite now believed to be on the run in Africa.

Daniel Craig’s second outing as Bond – and one which relies more heavily on punchups and car chases than martini-sipping and double entendres. Miffed that his lady friend Vesper Lynd was killed off at the end of the last film, Bond is on the trail of her killers. Cue much seething. Lending a hand are Gemma Arterton and olga Kurylenko as cars are crashed around the world in the hunt for shady supposed eco campaigner Dominic Greene (Mathieu Almaric).

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ROSS MCDONAGH gets a little hot under the collar when meeting Susan Sarandon

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ou are, hands down, the sexiest granny I have ever seen on screen,’ I have just told Susan Sarandon. She doesn’t look pleased, but she doesn’t look insulted either. More bemused.

‘Who else was in the running?’ she replies with a coy smile.

I have this argument with my friends all the time. They think I trot out the word ‘hot’ way goo much. I claim it’s my vocabulary and I should be able to use it however I see fit. Hotness is subjective. I think for a 67-year-old, Susan Sarandon looks damn hot. And she has the sexiest voice of any woman of any age.

Granted she doesn’t look so hot in her latest film, Tammy. In it she plays Melissa McCarthy’s grandmother(!), and the two go on a drunken road trip together. Sounds shite, but it’s actually quite funny, with the show expectedly stolen by Sarandon’s alcoholic grandma.

‘It’s very liberating to look that bad,’ she said. ‘They just accentuated everything you’d normally hide. So it didn’t matter if I was sweaty, if the

lighting was bad, that was kind of cool.’

Cole In the film Susan pulls in a lookingshoulder: pretty-damn-sexy-himself Gary Cole Did Ross get (the ‘yeah... I’m gonna have to go the memo? ahead and ask you to come in on Saturday’ guy from office Space) in then I go home and I see what I look a bar, who’s rocking a salt and like in my trailer, and I couldn’t... I pepper beard. completely believed that he would ‘It was a roadhouse drunk, on be attracted to me. Which I guess which I have done extensive research makes it even funnier. earlier in my career,’ he ‘But at the end of the first laughed. day I was like “oh my ‘I had met Susan God this guy’s really about three days good, because he had before our first... me convinced this They had knocked scene. I think the could actually be scene turned out around some ideas of happening in a to be the “back way that wasn’t a sequel to Thelma seat of the car” So ICKY!’ scene... That was Sarandon And Louise, but unusual. recently lit up they were so Pleasurable as well.

Twitter when she I’m in my own movie tweeted (she insisted ridiculous apparently. I was only her dog, who’s looking for one thing, and currently clutched in her I think I was successful.’ lap, did it) a selfie with ‘Can I just say, here he comes, so her and Thelma And Louise handsome, so sexy, and were dancing co-star Geena Davis, who or whatever...’ Susan chimes in. ‘And she had met for a photoshoot.

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saying, “Well what would our parts be? What would we do?”

‘And somebody said “you’d collect a big cheque”.

‘I don’t really know how you would resurrect them in any way. I mean I love Geena, it was great to see her and we had a nice day together. But at the moment I don’t know what that would be.

It would have to be sitting down, because when we stand up she is a foot taller than I am. That’s why the car worked, we were kinda on the same level.

‘But she is So much taller than me.

I’m shrinking and she’s still 6’1”.

But it was great to see her. I have no idea that that would happen. Eddie tweeted that and it just went crazy.’

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According to Susan, she didn’t even make the connection that people would see her in a new road trip movie and think back to the classic twosome.

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So would she work with Geena Davis again?

‘That’s a great idea! I didn’t think of that, but that’s a great idea,’ she said. ‘I’d love to work with her again. They had knocked around some ideas of a sequel to Thelma And Louise, but they were so ridiculous. I remember at one point

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Playful: Sawaya’s Lego art’s interesting message

If you have had the opportunity to play with a child aged between seven and 12 in the past few years, you will know that Lego has made a comeback. If you have been in the position of buying Lego, you will also know it has become very sophisticated and very expensive. I didn’t really know what to expect when I headed off to the Art Of The Brick exhibition in Dublin recently but I hoped that the eight-year-old expert I had with me would enjoy it. We both had a wonderful time and I left amazed by how creative the artist Nathan Sawaya is. A few things struck me – Sawaya discovered that playing with Lego was a way of helping him relax in his busy job as a lawyer in America. He didn’t seem to be too bothered that other people might not share his interest and passion and over time realised that he got more pleasure out of creating things with Lego than he did from his day job.

As you read this on your way to work, what are the things you are passionate about? Do you prioritise them or do they get left to be done ‘someday when there is time’? One of the key ways we all can help ourselves prevent depression is to do something we enjoy. I always add in ‘not alcohol-related and it doesn’t have to cost money’. Obviously many people enjoy having a drink and I am not suggesting that they should stop. I am suggesting you do one thing every single day that is safe, healthy and enjoyable. It is important to do this, even if you don’t feel like it, or if you think other people will wonder why you are doing it.

Most of Sawaya’s works in the exhibition are made from shiny new pieces of Lego.

There are a few wonderful exceptions.

These multi-coloured works of art were created from Lego pieces he was given by

We can always see parts of ourselves as ‘less than’, but we can counter this by doing something we enjoy people who were going to throw them out. Some of them look a bit chewed and we will never know how many children first played with them before they ended up as works of art. We all meet people who feel that life has chewed them up and spat them out. They may think there is no point in continuing and even think of ways to end their own lives. Sawaya’s work gives hope that the pieces of ourselves we consider too shabby to be useful can be seen by others as valuable and even beautiful and hope that we too can create something worthwhile doing what we enjoy.

The last piece in the exhibition is a huge, life-sized dinosaur.

Sawaya explains in the accompanying notes that he built it for the children who came to look at his art. He said it took a long time to make and that at times he got tired doing it. Yet he stuck with it. Persistence can be really difficult when people have depression and there can be a strong temptation to give up and wait until they feel better. Sticking with things can be hard – very hard, but the results can be so worthwhile.

How about you borrow, buy or rescue a few pieces of Lego to have in your workplace for those moments when life seems too difficult? Instead of reaching for sugar, a cigarette or something even less healthy, take a few moments to play with the Lego and see what you can create. My wish is that doing this will give you hope that we can always turn things around and look at them differently. Enjoy playing and developing your own creativity!

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‘We make ugly people beautiful’

A German doctor is breaking jaws to make people look attractive. Emma Hutchings squares up to him

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s there such a thing as inner beauty?

Not according to Professor Hermann sailer. The German surgeon, a global authority on aesthetic surgery, pulls no punches when it comes to our looks. He even thinks you can’t be beautiful unless you have a protruding jaw. ‘It’s scientifically proven!’ he exclaims.

Prof sailer claims to be the only person to perform the reverse facelift, a method of breaking the jaw and pushing it forward without external incisions using ultrasound.

It makes a dramatic difference, not only pushing the chin forwards but appearing to elongate the neck and making the nose seem smaller.

‘Until now, there has been no surgical method that can make a beautiful person out of an ugly person,’ says sailer.

‘We can make out of an unattractive person a highly attractive person.’

He’s even performed the procedure on his son – against the wishes of his ex-wife – and isn’t afraid to say his son wasn’t beautiful before.

His ‘scientific proof’ of what defines beauty stems from studies where people are shown photographs of faces and asked to rate their attractiveness. Time and again, people with a prominent jawline come out top, he says.

There have been numerous studies into beauty – a search online will bring up claim and counter claim, such as whether symmetry is desirable or not (see box). But Prof sailer says no one with a recessive jaw can become a top model or actor. His examples of those who conform to his theory include Angelina Jolie and Jude Law and politicians such as JFK and Tony Blair.

The reason behind this supposed concept of beauty is our evolutionary instinct to breed with a healthy mate, he says. ‘We want to findprecious genetic features, this is the base for the desire for beauty. A forward face is able to breathe better.’ In fact, he often performs a similar procedure as a cure for sleep apnoea (breathing problems). By widening the airways, it stopssnoring and can aid athletic performance, he says.

If you’re convinced, the surgery will set you back around £50,000. And soon, you will be able to have it performed in a luxury spa hotel, the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz in the swiss Alps, a haunt of Roger Federer. It’s here I meet Prof sailer.

But he has worked in less glamorous surroundings. He has set up clinics in Africa and India, which treat people with cleft palates and other disfigurements for free, and says he puts ten per cent of his income towards treating 5,000 children a year in India.

Before and after: The Hermann Sailer effect

Shades of attraction: From bottom left, the ancient beauty Queen Nefertiti is a favourite of Professor Hermann Sailer’s clients; ts; Angelina Jolie and Jude Law are examples of his definition of prominent-jawed hotness; while Condoleezza Rice and Margaret Thatcher are not, which worked in their favour

Even when operating on disfigured children, he says beauty is as important as function. ‘I have a mission to not only give patients with deformities a normal face but also to make them attractive,’ states his promotional literature. surely much of his work is based on conforming to prejudice? ‘Yes,’ he says. ‘It makes me unhappy. I suffer so much with young people. The term “inner beauty” is not correct but this does not mean someone who has not got this face is not a wonderful person. We are full of prejudice. It’s bad, it’s unfair, it’s unjust, of course.’

He says people come to him having been rejected for promotions or unlucky in love. He’s visibly excited recounting how their new faces led to promotions, partners and, in one case, a new identity for someone fleeing danger. Talking about one client, he beams: ‘she looked like a serbian farmer’s girl. We made a little lady of her.’

Although admitting to being normal-looking himself, he seems evangelical about us admitting beauty is important in its own right. ‘Our face is our most important means of communication,’ he says.

There’s one more lesson sailer has for women. He shows photos of Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Condoleezza Rice.

‘Margaret Thatcher looked terrible,’ he said.

‘Women in politics should not look attractive.’ This, he says, is because women competing in male-dominated areas are less successful if they appear sexy. ‘With the ongoing emancipation of women, there will be more attractive women in [positions of power].’

He doesn’t say why this may be the case but does say he’s a feminist. He even thinks that educating humanity about prejudice offers more hope for those made miserable by

their appearance.

But for now, rather than change society, he’s on a mission to liberate people by changing their faces.

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got a pretty face?

■ Some researchers claim to have found the formula for the ‘perfect’ face.

Californian doctor Stephen Marquardt calls this formula ‘Phi’ after researching ideas of beauty across different cultures.

He has patented a ‘mask’ (below) with a pattern of lines that a face should follow to be ‘beautiful’.

■ There are even apps that claim to calculate your beauty. Upload a photo of yourself and they will measure the distance between points on your face.

Vanity Mirror (Android) will tell you whether your eyes are too close together and how to remedy this with make-up.

■ There is hope for the weak-jawed among us. A 2013 study by US researchers Zaneta Thayer and Seth Dobson challenged the ‘universal facial attractiveness’ hypothesis. They studied skeletons from around the world and found enough chin shapes to suggest it was not a key factor in choosing a mate. While not ruling out a universal idea of beauty, chin shape wasn’t found to influence evolution.

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Someone can seem exceptionally vague today, but if it’s an important matter, this could prove frustrating.

The best thing you can do is to wait until tomorrow before making any decisive decisions.

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Ideas that have tantalisingly come up in your thinking for some time can show signs of moving forward. If you’ve always had a clear sense of what your destiny is, current influences give you a chance to take a step towards them.

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Until early next week, your co-ruler Pluto clashes with the Sun, and you may find it’s your ideas sector that comes under scrutiny. Perhaps you’ll become more aware that you can gain from adding to your educational or even professional qualifications.

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When you’re on form you can help people to see even the most negative of situations in a brighter way. Yet when it comes to planning your own long-term future, being overconfident could prove problematic.

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The more you try to see the potential to build links with others, the more you can gain from current influences.

The feedback you get today may leave you baffled, but a good attitude can overcome.

Over the last year Jupiter has been helping you to see that some elements of good fortune in life are not necessarily based on material luck or status. Today can be a kind of case in point. As much as one person’s attitude may disappoint, someone else’s kindness can delight.

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AUSTRALIAN teenager Nick Kyrgios blew the Wimbledon draw wide open with a stunning victory over world No.1 Rafael Nadal last night and then put his motivation down to his mother’s prediction he would lose.

The 19-year-old wild card produced the shock of the tournament so far when he blitzed the two-time champion 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 in two hours 58 minutes on Centre Court.

‘That’s the biggest win of my career obviously, and that’s something I’m never going to forget,’ he said.

‘My mother [Norlaila] thought Rafa was too good for me and it actually made me a bit angry.’

Meanwhile, Roger Federer stepped up his bid for a record eighth Wimbledon title with a ruthless threeset destruction of Tommy Robredo.

Federer cruised to a 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 win, avenging a three-set defeat to the Spaniard at last year’s US Open.

Next up for the 17-time grand-slam winner is Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka, who beat Spain’s Feliciano Lopez 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (9-7), 6-3.

Maria’s love affair still on despite exit

by DAnnY gRiffiTHS MARIA SHARAPOVA insists she is still in love with Wimbledon despite her heartbreaking exit from this year’s tournament.

The French Open champion was favourite to win the title after a host of top seeds including Serena Williams and Li Na were sent packing.

But Sharapova, 27, is also going home

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The joyous scenes and string of Canadian flags flown by the growing army of fans on Court Three for Milos Raonic, who beat Japan’s Kei Nishikori in four sets, on Canada Day.

LOW SErENa WILLIamS retired just three games into her secondround doubles match with sister Venus against Kristina Barrois and Stefanie Voegele after feeling unwell on No.1 Court. The groggy five-time singles champion looked unsteady on her feet and close to fainting during the warm-up and was examined by a doctor before the match started.

Serena, who suffered a shock exit to alize Cornet on Saturday, served third after the game was delayed by 15 minutes, but all four were doubles-faults and she even had trouble bouncing balls. Eventually umpire Kader Nouni suggested it was not

Struggling: Williams worth the 32-year-old american carrying on and at 3-0 behind the Williams sisters decided to stop. The WTa announced the reason for the withdrawal was a ‘viral illness’. Williams said: ‘I’m heartbroken. This bug got the best of me.’

20 Double faults for Sabine Lisicki in her fourthround victory over Yaroslava Shvedova THEY SAiD iT ‘To tell you the truth, it doesn’t really mean anything. Everybody, when they step on the court, they will fight. Not going to hold a grudge against the scheduling. It is what it is.’

Laid-back Canadian eighth seed Milos Roanic shrugs off having to play on consecutive days due to the rain delays earlier this week after reaching the quarter-finals by beating Japan’s Kei Nishikori

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‘It’s tough to say it but I still love it here’ after Germany’s No.9 seed Angelique Kerber claimed a 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-4 victory.

The 2004 champion conceded there could be a changing of the guard with Petra Kvitova the only previous winner still left in.

‘The grand-slam champions so far this year are myself and Li Na, yet you see a younger generation driving through the slam stages, playing excep-

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tionally against top players,’ Sharapova said.

‘You definitely see that shift.

Despite the fact I have lost here and haven’t had good results, I still love playing on grass. My game suits the surface extremely well.

‘You know it’s always tough to say

mos-go: russian maria Sharapova dejected after losing her match you love playing here after losing a match but I really do.’

An overjoyed Kerber said: ‘At the end I was telling myself, “You can do it. She won’t make mistakes. If you want to win you need to be aggressive, just go for it”. And I did. She didn’t lose the match, I won it and that feels good.’

IT was our annual look at Welsh songstress Katherine Jenkins in the Royal Box but Metro herald was more interested to see kitchen guru Michel Roux (pictured) take his seat. Good to see Bill Bryson there too – aptly for yesterday, he is the author of A Sunburned Country. Billie Jean King and newsreader Fiona Bruce are were also present, as was former F1 star Mark Webber.

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Break allows Lisicki to lift game SpORT DigEST SABINe LISICKI denied taking a tactical injury break before reaching the women’s quarter-finals with Watson in for 2015 Seb keeps his control victory over Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova. Last gOLf Tom Watson, five times an Open winner, has been given special exemption to play in the 2015 Open Championship at St Andrews. It is likely to be his Open farewell, and Watson (pictured) said: ‘This is very special to me for me to finish up my career... unless I play and finish in the top ten.’ Meanwhile, the R&A has announced The Open will be held at Royal Birkdale in 2017 and Carnoustie in 2018.

fORMuLA-1 Christian horner has praised Sebastian Vettel for ‘not throwing his toys out of the pram’ during Red Bull’s ongoing crisis. Fourtime champion Vettel goes into Sunday’s British Grand Prix off the back of yet another retirement, in Austria. Red Bull team principal horner said Vettel, who turns 27 tomorrow, has ‘not been shallow, he’s not spat out his dummy or thrown the toys out, and he’s had the majority of the problems this year. he’s written off nothing yet.’

No strain: Lisicki

year’s runner-up called for a medical time-out for a neck strain in between points at 1-1 in the decider before winning 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. ‘The timing was very unfortunate,’ said Lisicki. ‘I played a few points but I wasn’t able to lift my arm. It was obvious. I was serving 50mph – I don’t remember if I ever served that slow in my life. I had to call the trainer because I couldn’t lift my arm any more.’ her victory set up a last-eight match-up with Polish third seed Simona halep, who coasted past Zarina Diyas 6-3, 6-0.

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‘We’re in the last eight and that’s what counts.

just clowns here?’

‘Do you think it would be better if we played attractive soccer and got knocked out? Do you think this is just a bunch of clowns here playing in the last

Time to go griez lightning FRANCE winger Antoine Griezmann believes his pace can expose Germany in Friday’s quarter-final in the Maracana Stadium.

The 23-year-old winger hopes his dazzling performance as substitute which helped Les Bleus break down Nigeria in Monday’s 2-0 win will persuade Didier Deschamps to give him a start, particularly as Algeria made the German defence look ponderous later that day.

‘I have said it many times, whenever the coach gives me the chance I will try to make the most of it,’ said Griezmann (pictured).

16?’ adding, ‘I can’t understand all these stupid questions right after a match.

‘We worked extremely hard for 120 minutes and fought all the way to the end.

‘We played courageously. Okay, we let them have too many chances but we didn’t give up a goal when it mattered.’

The reaction seemed to epitomise the frustration among German players who feel, even with a

as Per usual: German players in no mood for silly questions after close win victory, the fans – and media – back home will not be satisfied unless Joachim Low’s men dazzle and entertain.

There seems no doubt with the quality of Low’s current squad the German public are expecting glory in Brazil.

Mertesacker’s men do not have the longest of rests now before their titanic quarter-final against 1998 winners France at the Maracana in Rio on Friday.

Villa’s new assistant is Keane to get on with his double act by pARAic MORgAN

ROY KEANE insists he can combine his job as Republic of Ireland coach with the No.2 role at Aston Villa.

The 42-year-old, who was con-

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CAMEROON are to investigate claims their World Cup squad contained seven corrupt players.

It follows claims by a German magazine that convicted match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal correctly predicted their 4-1 defeat to Croatia and that a Cameroon player be sent off in the first half hours before the game began.

Fecafoot, Cameroon’s football federation, has instructed its own ethics committee to investigate Perumal’s claims there were ‘seven bad apples’ in their team.

‘Allegations of fraud do not reflect the values and principles promoted by our administration,’ said interim Fecafoot president Joseph Owona.

Cameroon finished bottom of Group A, also losing 1-0 to Mexico and 4-1 to hosts Brazil and Fifa president Sepp Blatter confirmed he was aware of the allegations.

‘Yes I have been told about this but let them do their work on this investigation,’ he said.

AN ANGRY outburst from the usually mild-mannered Per Mertesacker summed up the reaction of Germany’s players to their narrow win over Algeria that saw them reach another World Cup quarter-final.

When a German TV reporter asked why the team had laboured to a 2-1 win on Monday, Arsenal defender Mertesacker snapped and asked: ‘What do you want from me?

Dual role: Keane is confident he can help Villa next season

firmed as Paul Lambert’s assistant manager yesterday, is grateful to Irish boss Martin O’Neill for letting him help try to revive Villa’s fortunes.

Keane said: ‘I am relishing the prospect of linking up with Paul and com-

bining both roles to the full advantage of both Villa and Ireland.’

Lambert believes Keane’s vast experience as a player under the likes of Brian Clough and Alex Ferguson will be invaluable. ‘The players will love working with him,’ said Lambert, who saw Keane at close quarters when they were managers of Norwich and Ipswich.

‘I’m really looking forward to working with him and I’m delighted that he’s here,’ he added.

‘Although we never played together, he’s someone for whom I have a lot of time and respect. He’ll be a great help.’

TRANSFER TALK

United boost as Vidal welcomes transfer talk from Old Trafford CHILE midfielder Arturo Vidal has also been linked with would reportedly Premier League rivals welcome a move to Arsenal and Chelsea, Manchester United. as well as Real The 27-year-old Madrid. Vidal, who Juventus star is much caught the eye as admired by new Chile impressed at United boss Louis van the World Cup, is said Gaal, who tried to to be happy in Turin sign him when he was In talks: Vidal but would be open to in charge at Bayern Munich. the idea of joining United if Van Gaal is said to be they could persuade considering a £30million Juventus to do business, offer for the midfielder who according to reports in Italy.

u FRANK LAMPARD looks set to follow David Villa on loan to A-League side Melbourne City as part of a deal with Manchester City’s Major League Soccer franchise New York City. The former Chelsea midfielder and England stalwart is a free agent. u Manchester United target toni Kroos is close to securing a deal with real Madrid, according to reports in Germany. the midfielder has turned down the offer of an extended contract at Bayern Munich. u CHELSEA keeper Mark Schwarzer has signed a new one-year contract. u hULL are interested in tottenham centre back Michael Dawson.

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Special: Colombia’s Mario Yepes enjoys reaching the last eight

James (‘Hamez’ to his pals) Rodriguez has been the star of the tournament so far, but monaco’s £40million man is not the only thing that has made watching Colombia so special. Backed by a sea of yellow in the stands, their free-flowing football and joyous celebrations are a throwback to the Brazil teams of years gone by. Friday’s quarter-final showdown with today’s more pragmatic selecao is a seriously mouthwatering prospect.

ARGENTINA rode their luck and squeezed into the quarter-finals thanks to a dramatic last-gasp extra-time winner from Angel di Maria.

Chasing a first World Cup triumph since 1986, Argentina were again disappointing for large parts of the match, but they picked up a fourth straight win.

Switzerland could easily have been ahead at half-time, with Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero saving well from Granit Xhaka’s low shot.

All hail Cesar

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he Spent most of last season twiddling his thumbs at Qpr, but when his country needed him most, Julio Cesar saved Brazil’s bacon. the 34-year-old goalkeeper – who claimed he had to train in the park and buy his own gloves because of ‘contractual problems’ at Loftus road – stepped up to save two Mexico penalties in the last-16 shoot-out to keep the hosts’ party in full swing.

Argentines last reached a World Cup semi-final

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Late drama: Angel di Maria is congratulated by Lionel Messi during extra time

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And soon after Josip Drmic should have done far better when clean through, but chipped straight at the keeper.

Argentina were much improved after the break, and dominated proceedings, with Switzerland goalkeeper Diego Benaglio saving efforts from Di Maria, Rodrigo Palacio and Pablo Zabaleta.

Extra-time was largely low-key, and just when we were thinking about penalties, Lionel Messi – who was otherwise quiet – burst through superbly and set up Di Maria, who fired home.

Straight after the goal, Blerim Dzemaili had a glorious chance to equalise for the underdogs but headed against a post from point- blank range and saw the rebound deflect wide off his shin.

Yet the European outfit emerged with credit, as manager Ottmar Hitzfeld bowed out of football on a proud note.

As for Argentina, the world is still waiting for them to take this tournament by the scruff of the neck, and the feeling remains they will need to perform better as the games get tougher.

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Belgium will face Argentina in the quarter-finals in Brasilia on Saturday after extra-time goals from Kevin de Bruyne and Romelu lukaku ended uSA hopes in Salvador last night.

Despite a stunning reply from uSA’s Julian green which set up a desperate finale, marc Wilmots much-fancied side managed to dig deep to maintain their 100 per cent record in the tournament.

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half, Belgium were on top after the break and had numerous chances to settle the tie in normal time but wasteful finishing from the likes of everton’s Kevin mirallas and Divock Origi meant the game was forced into an extra halfhour.

The deadlock was finally broken by former Chelsea man De Bruyne just two minutes after the restart as he collected the ball from substitute lukaku, before firing it beyond Tim Howard. lukaku added the second six minutes later with a powerful strike that gave Howard no hope.

The tie looked to be over until green’s volley lifted uSA spirits but their search for an equaliser fell short as Belgium clung on.

Rob’s popularity takes nosedive HollanD hero or Dutch diver? arjen Robben has enjoyed a magnificent tournament, but the fact the oranje’s dramatic late win over mexico was overshadowed by the forward’s admission to going over too easily during the match is a real shame.

Fix the problem Whether proved true or not, the stench of match-fixing allegations within an already dysfunctional Cameroon squad are a far from welcome distraction to a competition that has brought so much to celebrate.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

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