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Facebook case could ruin me BRIDGE TOO FAR: The scene in Boyle, Co Roscommon, at lunchtime yesterday where a car in plunged into the river with a male driver and female passenger trapped inside. Fire teams used cutting equipment to equipmen get the driver out safely. Both were taken to Roscommon Hospital

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A PRIVACY campaigner faces going bust by joanne ahern over a landmark battle to find out what Mr Schrems, who campaigns as part of Facebook tells US spy chiefs unless he the Europe-v-Facebook pressure group gets a commitment on legal costs. Austrian law student Max Schrems, who and who was in court, has raised €50,000 sought an audit on the back of whistle- in crowdfunding to help fight his case. Meanwhile, the Commission is awaiting blower Edward Snowden’s exposé of the Prism surveillance op, warned the lawsuit an explanation from Facebook over an alleged psychological experiment which could leave him bankrupt. ‘I’m taking on the possible liability of a recorded users’ moods, as news feeds on couple of hundred thousand euro in this the social network were manipulated. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s case,’ Mr Schrems said. Office is also said to be lookMr Schrems wants Faceing into how the social netbook scrutinised by Ireland’s work and two US universities Data Protection Commission altered news feeds of almost and to release the information 700,000 users and monitored it has sent to America’s Natheir reactions. tional Security Agency. The findings of the study But he has revealed he will measuring the impact of not proceed with his chal‘emotional contagion’ were lenge without assurances published in the journal, Profrom Irish authorities that ceedings of the National they will not pursue him for Academy of Sciences. Legal fees: Schrems their court fees.

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Choc-full of ideas: A river view painted on a broken piece of chocolate

Artist paints tiny works on nuts, rice and seeds by AiDAn RADnEDgE

Exotic treat: A Turkish scene in a nut

CREATING works of art on this scale could drive you nuts. But artist Hasan Kale has also been drawn to grapes, cherry stems and seeds as canvases for painting his mini-masterpieces. After realising he was able to draw extremely thin lines 20 years ago, the Turkish artist began to push himself to create works on tiny foodstuffs. Mr Kale, from Istanbul, said: ‘I choose objects which are the hardest ones to work with. ‘I prefer ones in our daily life, things we will always need but never pay attention to – like a grain of rice.’

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Two divers die in latest drownings TWO divers died yesterday, and three women were rescued in Co Wicklow, following a recent spate of drownings. One of the divers, 66, got into difficulty while diving on a shipwreck off Castlehaven, Co Cork at 9am. His companion’s body was found at 5pm. The women were saved after becoming trapped by the tide on Silver Strand beach, Co Wicklow. The divers’ deaths follow three separate drownings in the past fortnight in Dublin and Cavan.

Arthur’s Day off, but Amplify’s on DIAGEO has cancelled Arthur’s Day. The owner of Guinness came under fire for the annual event – first celebrated to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the brewing company in 2009 – which was said to encourage binge drinking. A company spokesperson said it had been a difficult decision to drop the campaign. Meanwhile, yesterday Diageo announced a new venture called Guinness Amplify, aimed at showcasing new musical talent.

Gym offering free life-saving classes A GYM is offering free life-saving classes to children in the hope of saving a life, in the wake of the recent deaths of three youngsters in separate drowning incidents. Dave Harris, general manager of WestWood Club in Leopardstown, south Dublin, which is offering limited places on courses aimed at ages eight to 16, said: ‘It might save a life and help parents feel more confident about their children swimming.’ According to Irish Water Safety, on average 140 people drown in Ireland every year.

Jobless figures down but youth unemployment up THE drop in the number of people on the Live Register has been welcomed, but concern has been expressed about the increasing number of young people signing on. Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton welcomed the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office, which show the unemployment rate continuing to fall. In June, 398,813 people signed on –

Burton: Welcomed figures

a decrease of 36,544, or 8.4 per cent, on the same month in 2013. However, the National Youth Council of Ireland expressed concern at the number of young people signing on. In June, 61,448 people under the age of 25 were on the Live Register, an increase of 2,932 compared to May. James Doorley, NYCI’s deputy director said: ‘Figures indicate that over 24,000 young people have been on

the Live Register for a year or more.’ He pointed out that any decline in youth unemployment was a result of ‘emigration and a decline in the youth population rather than increased employment among young people.’ The Irish Congress of Trade Unions welcomed the drop, but warned that unemployment in Ireland remains ‘unacceptably high’ when judged against average rates across the EU.

Quinn jumps before Joan’s expected push by ED cARTy LABOUR veteran Ruairi Quinn has resigned his cabinet seat amid widespread speculation he would lose it in a looming reshuffle. The outgoing education minister also announced he would give up the Dáil seat he has held in Dublin South-East continuously since 1982 at the next election. The former party leader accepted his resignation had come a bit sooner than he would have liked. ‘I want to ensure that the new leader of my party, whoever that may be, has the opportunity to create their own team, on their own terms,’ he said. ‘An opportunity to give a new generation a chance to lead; a chance to rebuild our party, and to finish the work of cementing a real recovery for the Irish people.’ Joan Burton, the clear favourite to be the new Labour leader and thought to have been preparing to drop Mr Quinn from the party’s ministerial team, paid a glowing tribute. ‘Throughout his career, Ruairi has reflected the very best values of the La-

bour Party, and his legacy will be lasting,’ she said. The qualified architect was appointed Education Minister in 2011 when the coalition came to power. In his career he Quinn: Resigned also served as Finance Minister from 1994-97 and has been widely praised for his stewardship of the economy in the years that preceded Ireland’s boom. He also served in the Seanad and as a junior minister. Major policies Mr Quinn was involved in during his time in education were to divest the Catholic Church of some of its patronage of primary schools, reform the Junior Certificate exams and abolish grants for fee-paying schools, bringing him into conflict with the Church, teachers’ unions and others. He was fiercely criticised for presiding over the re-introduction of college registration fees despite a Labour election promise not to.

The Ash Throne of GAAmes Now there’s a seat fit for a Rí. In a Celtic nod to popular TV series Game Of Thrones, a sculptor has recreated the iconic Iron Throne out of used hurleys, which are traditionally made from ash. Paul Berg, an artist from Rotterdam, designed the Throne of GAAmes with Clare man Nard Slabbers after they managed to gather 200 hurls for the unusual installation. The piece was then put together during a thr three-dayy w workshop shop in C Co Clare, with the help of some local arts festival-goers.

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Carphone to launch mobile network A NEW mobile operator is on its way with Carphone Warehouse Ireland set to launch its own network in the next 12 months. The telecoms retailer said it will partner with Three to develop a ‘value-driven’ service with ‘up-tothe-minute technology’ that aims to revitalise consumer choice. As part of the expansion, the company will also create 50 jobs across the sectors of marketing, finance, commercial, tech and IT. Jobs Minister Richard Bruton said the move is the ‘latest in a series of signs of growing confidence in the domestic economy’.

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ESB and Vodafone announced they are teaming up to invest €450million in a 100 per cent fibre broadband network, with speeds of up to 1GB per second, to some 50 towns around the country. The plan would, in a European first, build on the existing ESB electricity infrastructure, and initially reach some 500,000 premises. However, earlier in the week ESB chief Pat O’Doherty said major cities will be given access priority. The European Commission still has to sign off on the ESB-Vodafone project. Vodafone Ireland chief Anne O’Leary said the joint venture will bring the best broadband service to Ireland. With the number of devices per household expected to double in the next four years, Ms O’Leary said the new service will enable Irish customers to avail of a whole range of new services in the future ‘from entertainment, security, teleworking to gaming or home automation’. Telecoms giant Eircom, which previously promised to deliver a €400million investment in fibre broadband services across the country, yesterday insisted it is still ‘fully committed’ to its plan.

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Is this the ultimate souvenir shop buy? Museum sells replica Viking longships

A perfect ride for a pillage You can be a Viking too: The longships come complete with oars and a single-mast sail, and right, are made at the Danish museum’s boatyard IT’S the perfect travel accessory for those who want to live in the past. A museum is making Viking longboats to order for wannabe warriors. Based on the vessels Norse fighters of old used to pillage from villages across western Europe from 700 to 1100, the boats are individually crafted and on sale now at a Viking museum’s souvenir shop. The longships sell for up to €410,000 at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark. That will buy you a 12m (40ft) long replica of the Skuldelev 6 longboat, dating from 1030, which was found in Roskilde in 1962. It will carry 80 savage shipmates and comes with

by GRAHAM KENT seven pairs of oars and a sail. If you’re new to the pillaging business a 6.5m (21ft) long ship, based on the Gokstad ship found in Vestfold, Norway, in 1880, is yours for €34,000. Anders Røge, whose company Culture Nordic makes the boats, said: ‘Vikings are popular like never before and we’ve no doubt an authentic Viking ship will fulfil a childhood dream for people and companies.’ But he says the ships should be used for more peaceful pastimes – not pillage and plunder. ‘They’re ideal for a weekend Savage seas: The replica boats cost up to €410,000 and are like ones used by Norse warriors of old PIctures: Mercury Press cruise,’ he added.

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As a comedian, it’s better to kill than to die, says KEN ROGAN, as he muses on the pitfalls and pratfalls of doing a stand-up routine

ell people you were in a war zone and they’ll be interested, but tell them you’re a comedian and the first reaction is fear. Well actually it’s ‘really? You? A comedian?’ but then it’s fear as they breathe through clenched teeth: ‘Jesus, I could never do that.’ Well you can. And I’m here to tell you how. Sort of. Because you’re blowing it out of proportion. Logic dictates that if it’s scary to even imagine doing something, then the reality must be truly petrifying, right? What if nobody laughs? (Oh we’ll get to that).

Because guess what? Everyone wants you to be funny. They want you to win, because if you win, they win. And everybody goes home happy. But if you don’t win – if you lose – well then the stink of death fills the air. I know what that’s like too. I once cracked a joke about heroin addicts that sucked the air out of the room and made the place so deathly still it was like some predator had stalked into a clearing in the woods and even the bugs knew to STFU. It’s an unnatural silence. It resounds – a hell of a thing for noiselessness to do.

The King Of Comedy: Make them laugh and you rule

to make the elderly comply with But weirdly the fear of the thing their medicines, and I find this is worse than the event itself. Anyway, who knows what’s funny? hysterical, but it never got a laugh on stage. Another head scratcher I grappled But you tell people how shocked with concerns the elderly, whose you were to see a stuffed fox in the fading mental faculties must cope natural history museum, when you with a raft of life-saving medicines haven’t seen a fox since... whoof, that have insanely complex, let me see now… Monday or unpronounceable names. This, Tuesday? They just love that. Go to my mind, is the germ of a figure. great gag. My point is that Your granny starts you’ll never know turning blue, and she what’s funny until gestures wildly give it a go. towards the shelf Countdown is, in fact, a you Yes, it’s scary, of pills, cunning pharmaceutical but if you’ve stammering…. ever given a well, stammering conspiracy to make the wedding speech, what? elderly comply with you know the Riveraxoban? fear. That kick in Amoxycilin? their medicines the stomach. A Taxotere? You may wave of nausea as well be asking sweeping up from under Lassie for a GPS your diaphragm and into reading. Is this not bananas? your throat, which feels all swollen. Shouldn’t we call them ‘the brainIt’s called choking for a reason. calmer’, or ‘heart-be-still’ or ‘the Those ear-to-clavicle muscles red one’? I was watching squeezing your windpipe are called Countdown with Gran one day and sternomastoids, or ‘SCM’, and when they revealed the Slavicthey’re desirable, did you know looking jumble of consonants that that? Science fiction artists always is the Countdown Conundrum, give aliens SCM if they want them Gran goes: ‘Angina tablets!’ to be ‘goodies’, like there’s a visual Thus Countdown is, in fact, a cunning pharmaceutical conspiracy shorthand governing the galaxy.

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This is precisely the sort of digression that takes your mind off the fear for a moment, but that just softens you up for an extra hard kick in the strangled intestines when you remember that you’re going to be on stage to make a paying audience laugh. It’s nearly time. Listen to the other acts. Laugh generously. Clap. Participate. Play it forward. Love the big, loud man who laughs at anything, the kind of guy you used to hate. Love him now. Hug him. Buy him a pint. It’s nearly time. MC is in position. Applause. On your feet now. Good to be moving, get ready. He’s building – that’s your name – walk. One foot, the other. Walk, you’re there now, you’re taking the mic from its stand, turning around, there they are. You’re on. Just don’t die, OK? Killing is good. Dying, no. Poor Tommy Cooper died on stage for real. He also wrote what was voted as the greatest joke ever: A man goes to a personal trainer, says ‘can you teach me to do the splits? The trainer says: Are you flexible? The man says: I can’t do Tuesdays.

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500 held after rally sit-in Monica: I was humiliated

cHINA: More than 500 people were arrested yesterday at a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong attended by up to 500,000 people. Those who refused to leave the financial district were rounded up by police. The protests against Beijing interference were the largest for a decade.

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AMERIcA: Monica Lewinsky has said her affair with Bill Clinton as a political intern left her ‘the most humiliated woman in the world’. In her first TV interview in ten years, the 40-year-old told National Geographic reaction to the scandal that almost ended Mr Clinton’s presidency was ‘excruciating’.

collapse death toll hits 47 Explosives ‘lost’ at airport INDIA: THE death toll in a building collapse in Chennai has risen to 47. A total of 27 people have been pulled from the rubble alive over the past five days and rescue efforts are continuing. Up to 90 builders were thought to be in the partially built tower block when it toppled over.

fRANcE: Explosives concealed at an airport for a training exercise have been lost, police admitted. The 100g of material was hidden at Marseille airport to see if sniffer dogs could locate it – but it went missing in a cargo area. Trained dogs have now been brought in to try to find it.

KOSOVO: Arleta Sahiti has her face painted in a traditional wedding style at the Ethnological Museum in Pristina yesterday picture: getty

RUSSIA: A Romeo on a lawnmower faces three years in jail after he left a message to his girlfriend at a national monument. Nikita Bounekov mowed ‘sweetheart’ into the site of a 16th century battle. ‘I am just a romantic fool,’ the 29-year-old from Tobolsk said.

Pistorius is ‘a suicide risk’ suffering from depression OSCAR PISTORIUS has been severely traumatised after killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp – and could become a suicide risk without treatment for mental disorders, his murder trial has heard. Excerpts from a psychologist’s report were read in court, which suggested the Paralympian is suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The experts claimed ‘his condition is likely to worsen’ if therapy for both of the conditions did not continue. But a different analysis by psychiatrists found the 27-year-old was not mentally ill when he shot Ms Steenkamp dead on Valentine’s Day last year – undermining one of the defence’s main arguments. The athlete’s trial has just resumed in Pretoria, South Africa, after 30

by NIcOLE LE MARIE days of observation in a psychiatric hospital. Before the recess, Pistorius had wailed and retched in distress, especially during graphic testimony about Ms Steenkamp’s death. But chief prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, accused Pistorius of faking his displays of emotion to dodge tough questions.

Sarkozy in cash for campaign charges NICOLAS SARKOZY was charged with corruption and illegally using his influence yesterday. The former French president has been accused of taking €50million in illegal campaign funds from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. When a judge investigated this, Sarkozy allegedly asked for insider information. Prime minister Manuel Valis said: ‘The situation is serious, the facts are serious. No one is above the law. ‘As head of the government, I’m asking that we recall the independence of the justice system, which must carry out its work serenely.’ But last night, Sarkozy claimed the case was ‘politically motivated’.

stiga Under investigation: Sarkozy leaves his Paris home after being charged picture: Ap

Yesterday, the judge was also told that Pistorius had no history of ‘abnormal aggression or explosive violence’ – but does have a past of feeling insecure and vulnerable, the examination concluded. A medical expert described Pistorius as a ‘hyper-vigilant, anxious indi-

In need of treatment: Pistorius pinches his eyes closed in court picture: epA

vidual’ who often scanned for possible threats. But the prosecution believes he is just reckless, egotistical and prone to jealousy. The trial continues. Pistorius faces 25 years to life in jail if he is found guilty of premeditated murder.

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So sorry... tears make politician an internet hit A JAPANESE politician has become an internet sensation after weeping uncontrollably while trying to apologise for his role in an expenses scandal. Ryutaro Nonomura, 47, is seen sobbing, yelping and banging his fists on the table during a bizarre three-hour press conference. He was accused of misusing funds in Hyogo, western Japan. By last night, a YouTube clip had been watched more than 600,000 times.

US to ramp up airport checks THE United States is to increase security measures at overseas airports that have direct flights to the US, the Department of Homeland Security said yesterday. It did not specify which airports or what countries would be affected, nor did it say what triggered the enhanced measures, but officials said the Obama administration was pushing for increased security precautions at European airports because of concerns that al-Qaeda operatives in Syria and Yemen had teamed up to develop bombs that could be smuggled onto planes. ‘We are sharing recent and relevant information with our foreign allies and are consulting the aviation industry,’ DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said.

Burned body of Palestinian boy is found after revenge attack

Protests continue: Youths in Palestine clash with police in Jerusalem PICTURE: GETTY THE body of a Palestinian teenager has by DANIEL BINNS been found in Jerusalem – in an apparent revenge attack for the kidnap and went missing last month. Their bodies were found in the West Bank killing of three Israeli boys. Mohammed Abu Khdair, 17, was seen on Monday. Nabil Abu Rdeneh, the spokesman of being bundled into a car early yesterday. An hour later, his partly burned Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, said Israel was responsible for the latest corpse was discovered in a forest. Hundreds of Palestinians soon clashed murder. He urged its police force to ‘find with Israeli police and hurled stones. the killers and hold them accountable’. Mohammed was abducted close to his Officers retaliated by firing sound father’s shop in east Jerusalem. The boy bombs, rubber bullets and tear gas. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was lured to a car by two men asking said the murder was ‘reprehensible’ and for directions, according to a relative. His death was also condemned by the called on all sides not to take the law families of the three teenagers who into their own hands. Yitzhak Aharonovitch, Israel’s public were laid to rest yesterday. They said: ‘There is not a difference security minister, also urged calm, adding: ‘Everything is being examined. between Arab blood and Jewish blood. There is a criminal possibility as well as Murder is murder. There is no forgiveness or justification for any murder.’ a political one. Let us wait patiently.’ Police have heightened security across It came hours after thousands attended the funerals of Gilad Shaer and Naftali Jerusalem – with part of the city’s train network suspended. Officers also closed Fraenkel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19. The three Jewish seminary students a holy site in the Old City to tourists.

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Good Friday alcohol ban is ‘outdated’ THE ban on serving alcohol on Good Friday could soon be a thing of the past. Fine Gael senator Imelda Henry has published a bill which would make it legal for pubs to open and serve drink on the religious holiday, calling the current law ‘outdated’. She said: ‘The Irish pub has evolved significantly in recent years. Almost 60 per cent now serve food. I believe that it is no longer realistic to expect one key sector in our hospitality industry to close on a day when shops, restaurants and other businesses are open.’ Commenting on the Bill, due before the Seanad shortly, she said the Irish pub was ‘intrinsic’ to Irish tourism. Ms Henry added that publicans can close on Good Friday for ‘religious reasons’ if they wish.

Story? Mornin’ Glory Rise and grind: Early morning revellers at Dublin’s inaugural Morning ning Gloryville event in the Yoga Hub

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ORGANISERS of the city’s first pre-work, midweek rave thought the event would be safe from people finishing their night, as opposed to starting their day – but they were wrong. Chris Flack, one of the organisers along with pal Ed Hurrell, said they arrived at the brand new Yoga Hub on Camden Place in the capital yesterday at 4.30am ready to set up when they encountered some nightclub ‘stragglers’ who fully agreed the event was a great idea. ‘They saw our face paint and wanted to know what we were doing,’ he said, ‘and even hung around for a bit, but we eventually managed to convince them it wasn’t for them.’

by ORnA CunninGHAM The Morning Gloryville format – an early chance to dance mixed with yoga – came to life in London, and Dublin’s exercise and fun-loving office workers are, it seems, just as keen to get their dance on. The bright-eyed and bushy-tailed commuters even arrived early, ‘dressed to sweat’. ‘People were queuing from 6.15am,’ said Chris. ‘It totally exceeded our expectations. They were dancing immediately, and it was absolutely packed – around 340 people turned up.’ And the event wasn’t too different from a regular rave – there was even a little romance.

‘People exchanged numbers,’ said Chris. ‘It makes sense – you’re totally conscious, and your eyes meet. It’s very spiritual.’ The idea came from events producers Samantha Moyo and Nico Thoemmes after they set out to create an experience for Londoners that would ‘shift their perceptions of mornings and clubbing, and increase their well-being’. Since then, it has popped up in New York and is due to be launched in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brighton, San Francisco, Paris and Tokyo. Its only rules are ‘sobriety and authenticity’. The next Morning Gloryville takes place at the Yoga Hub on August 6.

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CONCERT promoter MCD issued a warning to gig-goers to plan their journey home yesterday after it was criticised on social media for transport problems at a Marlay Park gig. Supergroups Arcade Fire and The Pixies played the Dublin park last Sunday and hundreds of concert-goers expressed their frustration at the lack of transport to and from the event. Fans reported having to walk for hours to get home, with some of those witnessing inebriated fans walking on roads. In a statement the company said it was not licensed to provide a transport service from the venue. ‘Transport to and

Phar and away: Kanye West concert from the venue is a matter for individual ticket holders themselves, whether by means of car-pooling, cycling, walking or by availing of the Luas or Dublin Bus service.’ Following the debacle one Twitter user wrote: ‘Arcade Fire were grand but transport to get to Marlay Park and back was a

nightmare’ – with another adding: ‘Post-Arcade Fire wasn’t so great. Really badly organised.’ Karen McAvinue said: ‘Apparently Marlay Park was the place “No Cars Go”’, in reference to the Arcade Fire hit. Ahead of the Kanye West performance last night, MCD urged revellers to plan their return journeys well in advance. The promoter could not be reached for comment about whether it was considering further safety measures concerning the back exit stage left, which led to a 40-minute walk along a path flanking a road being used by cars after Sunday’s gig.

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J-Law shies away after party night with Liam Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t too happy about being pictured hanging out with Hunger Games costar Liam Hemsworth after they endured a boozy night at a Coldplay concert after-party in London. The 23-year-old (pictured) was without her lover Nicholas Hoult when she and the Aussie

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Ethan Hawke was so unimpressed by the Great Wall of China that he compared it to his penis. The 43-year-old made the odd comparison while revealing that his sister once saw him in the nude. Talking about the least impressive place he had visited, he said: ‘The Great Wall of China. I’m going to say something off-color and you’re not going to print this. It’s sort of like how my sister felt the first time she saw a penis. The first time she saw one, she was shocked at how normalsized it was.’

I was crazy when Cowell axed me C

heryl Cole admitted she feared she was having a nervous breakdown after Simon Cowell ended her dreams of US fame. The returning X-Factor judge told how she went into hiding after being booted off the US version of the show. ‘It only hit me at the beginning of 2013 that I’d completely lost myself,’ the 31-year-old Geordie said. ‘I’d look in a mirror and think: “Who the hell is she?” I didn’t know what I thought or felt about anything, couldn’t make decisions – I didn’t even know what to eat or drink. ‘Something was seriously wrong: it felt like a nervous breakdown. I had to stop, get out of my life I’d been living and find myself again. The consequences if I didn’t were just too frightening.’ But despite her woes, Cole has made up with Cowell and even admitted he was right to ditch her. ‘I can talk about this because I’m OK about it now,’ she told elle magazine. ‘But I went through hell and it literally drove me mad. I became so desensitised, you could say terrible things to me and I wouldn’t even think about it. I’d read awful stuff about myself and not blink. I shut down.

by ANDREI HARMSWORTH ‘Now, I can say that Simon was right to get rid of me. I wasn’t well in the head when that was going on. But he wasn’t right not to tell me to my face.’ Before it all went wrong – including splitting from hubby Ashley Cole – the former Girls Aloud star was living the dream. She said: ‘I thought I had every box ticked, career and personal. I was the first to get married. I was the one everyone thought would be the first to have a baby. And then the rug got pulled out from under me. ‘It actually taught me everything I’m going to need for the rest of my life. I love feeling I’m strong. And I don’t give a f*** what people think any more.’ read the full interview in the X rated: Cheryl got a strip-tease August issue of surprise during auditions in elle out today. Edinburgh Picture: Syco

hottie turned up at the Kensington Roof Gardens but she was desperate not to be seen when she hid under a denim jacket when the pair called it a night at 3am. Earlier in the evening Chris Martin revealed his band will go on hiatus after their Royal Albert Hall show, telling fans: ‘After these you’re not going to see us for a while.’

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Australian punk rock band 5 Seconds Of Summer say they look forward to the day they are successful enough to travel via private jet. The Don’t Stop singers have been supporting One Direction on their world tour but have been forced to travel by bus while 1D zip off in private jets. ‘You can do that once you’ve done massive things in your career,’ 19-year-old Ashton Irwin from the band told Metro Herald. ‘You’d have the freedom to do whatever you need to do – I could get a private jet back to Australia to see my family. But I would need to sell my house if I wanted to do that now,’ the drummer laughed. Still, with their self-titled debut album out this week the boys might not have to wait too long for that jet.

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F ANYONE is planning a Morph flashmob, could they please invite Peter Lord? The co-founder of Aardman Animations and co-creator of the 14cm terracotta terror was as surprised as anyone when a throng of home-made Morphs gathered outside the Tate Modern in 2009 to mark the death of artist Tony Hart. With the power to, well, morph into anything he liked, Morph – along with sidekick Chas – caused havoc on Hart’s desk ever since he propelled himself out of his wooden pencil box in 1977. ‘The flashmob was in the days

Fans of clay animation favourite Morph can rejoice – the beloved children’s television character is climbing back out of his wooden pencil box for a new series of episodes on YouTube. ETAN SMALLMAN talks to the man behind the cult children’s TV star... when, frankly, we had forgotten about Morph a bit,’ Lord says. ‘It was great because it was completely spontaneous – I wish I’d known about it. It just showed a sort of affection and playfulness.’ That reaction – and the wave of lasting warmth it signified – got Lord and his colleagues at Aardman thinking – how could they resurrect their first hit character for the digital age? The answer came in the form of crowdfunding and, in October last year, they launched a Kickstarter campaign that aimed to raise

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€95,000, which would be matched by the studio. Some 2,654 backers from around the world pledged a total of more than €140,000 to fund 15 brand new one-minute episodes of Morph – the first in almost 20 years. They are being broadcast on YouTube but the original laborious stop-motion animation techniques remain unchanged. Lord’s company has gone on to produce the likes of Wallace And Gromit, Chicken Run and Creature Comforts, winning international adulation

and Academy Awards in the process but it is Morph that holds the most affection for the 60-year-old . Indeed, he is the only character who is honoured with a ‘memory room’ in Aardman’s Bristol HQ.

ord admitted that Morph was just another character to begin with – he and his partner in Plasticine, David Sproxton, ‘were just happy to have the work’. His genesis could not have been more humble. Morph was given one colour ‘because working with mixed colours was a nightmare’. He was made the size he was because ‘an inch taller and he would fall over’. However, the 162g piece of modelling clay provided the foundations for a couple of ‘naive’ students, recruited by the BBC because they were cheap, to mould an animation giant. Lord recalls being irritated by the snobbery among his 1970s and 80s contemporaries, who dictated that because Morph’s main audience was ‘school kids and their mothers’, it could not have any artistic merit.

Morph originated from The Gleebies, Aardman characters in Vision On, a BBC BBC pr programme ogramme ogr amme for for deaf deaf children children

made his TV debut at 5.15pm on February 15, 1977

He said that when attending ‘snooty’ international film events: ‘It always used to really p*** me off that the festivals would never take Morph seriously because it w was “for kids”. ‘So I plagiarised us in the early ’90s with a film called Adam. He was very like Morph, except he has a bit of hair and some delicate genitals and he’s meant to be the first man, so Tony Hart was replaced by God. And that was very well received internationally.’ In fact, it was nominated for an Oscar for best short film. The animator conceded that Morph is hardly the most sympathetic of characters. ‘He is not perfect. The comparative characters of the time, like The Wombles, Paddington Bear and The Clangers, were pretty well blameless,’ he said. ‘I think Morph’s rather vain – he fancies himself quite a lot. He can be quite selfish and sometimes a bit, sort of… pompous.’ And yet, even after all these years, a squeaking piece of clay manages to raise an instant grin among children and grown-ups alike. It has to be more than just nostalgia, surely? ‘It is true,’ said Lord. ‘I feel it myself. It is partly that he’s a very simple design and nicely-proportioned. ‘So maybe adults haven’t lost that delightful idea of something small, benign, good-natured and independent living secretly in our world. It’s very attractive.’

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Solicitor stole clients’ money to buy shares A FORMER solicitor described in court as a ‘devout Christian’ stole €2.8million from client accounts in his family’s law firm and used the money to fund investment properties and buy stocks and shares. The court heard that one theft involved €1,551,366 from a client who had left his estate to the Archdiocese of Dublin. Ruairi O’Ceallaigh, 42, of Collegeland, Summerhill, Co Meath, pleaded guilty to seven counts of dishonestly appropriating a total of €2,816,566, and having designated these sums as credited to seven named clients’ accounts between 2006 and 2010. The individual sums of cash misappropriated range from €75,000 to €1.55m. O’Ceallaigh told gardaí he took the money from the accounts with the intention of paying it back. He had used it to buy shares in an attempt to ‘claw back’ some losses made elsewhere.

by DEcLAn BREnnAn ‘I was under the false belief I could make the money back on the stock market and make right the wrong that I had done,’ he told investigators. Judge Mary Ellen Ring remanded O’Ceallaigh in custody for sentence later this month so that she can consider a

‘I was under the false belief I could make the money back’ large number of character references handed into the court. Padraig Dwyer SC, defending, said this his client is a ‘man of contradictions’ as he has spent much of his life devoting free time and legal services to advancing

the cause of people who have nothing. He said O’Ceallaigh has volunteered overseas with a number of charities and is now deeply ashamed and wished to apologise to all the people he has hurt through his actions. Counsel handed in a number of character testimonials from charities, university professors and Christian groups outlining O’Ceallaigh’s contributions and good character, saying there was ‘nothing about this man to suggest he’s anything but a Christian in the true sense of the word’. The court heard that his father made efforts to pay back some of the stolen monies to the Law Society and even offered to sell his home. Judge Ring noted that O’Ceallaigh’s full co-operation with the Garda investigation and his admissions and early pleas of guilty had meant that a complex investigation and trial was avoided.

WILL YOU STAND STILL FOR A MINUTE: Wardrobe assistant Luisa Compobassi ompobassi (left) and hair stylist Caryn Bloom apply finishing touches to the wax figures of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Catherine, as they are unveiled at Madame Tussaud’s in London Picture: PA

Woman with 460 Virtual reality can convictions jailed help with phobias A WOMAN with 460 convictions has been jailed for 15 months after she pleaded guilty to attacking a garda who had come to her assistance. Dublin District Court heard yesterday that Jennifer Armstrong, 39, of no fixed abode, tore hair from the head of a female officer who tried to help her to her feet when she was lying drunk on the ground. The repeat offender, who has been in custody since May 28 when she did not apply for bail, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm on November 27 last as well as several other charges. Judge Michael Walsh imposed a sentence of 15 months in jail for the woman, who spoke once during the hearing to say: ‘I do apologise to the woman.’

USING a virtual reality suite can help people with autism overcome phobias and allow them to live more normal lives, researchers have found. By experiencing the thing that terrifies them, but in a safe environment, eight out of nine children were able to tackle the situation they feared, Newcastle University said. Four of them were found to have totally overcome their phobia. Scenarios created in a 360 degree seamless world in the suite include getting on a busy bus, crossing a bridge or going shopping. A tablet was used to move around the scene, allowing the children to explore the situation they found traumatic. The study is published in the journal PLOS ONE.

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Banking inquiry given deadline of mid-2016 THE Oireachtas Banking Inquiry will be over by mid2016 by the latest. The group, made up of a number of Government, Opposition and Independent TDs, has agreed the aims, scope and timeframe of the inquiry as well as to the formation of an ‘ad hoc support group’ of advisors.

Chairman Ciaran Lynch affirmed the intention to thoroughly investigate the circumstances and decisions made at all levels leading up to the banking collapse. He added that it was important the inquiry not be too expansive, ‘thereby failing to grasp any issue in a meaningful way’.

Funny pictures website aims to get us smiling CHILDREN smile 400 times a day, while adults manage a grin only 20 times – and a new youth project is aiming to bridge the gap. Dublin teenagers Eric Hughes and Mark McMahon came up with the idea for the 15 Smiles website, which posts funny and uplifting images and quotes to inspire

positivity. The site, www.15smiles.ie, which arose from Barnardos’ Amplifying Voices, launched at Google’s Dublin base yesterday. The pair said: ‘Our message is that if people are able to find more things to smile about, they will be happier and better able to deal with life when it gets more difficult.’

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60 seconds Mailbox positive, happy-go-lucky guy with a sense of adventure. He’s been road-tripping and now he’s stopped in Erinsborough and is catching up with his uncle Paul.

The whole gimmick with your character is that he’s Scott and Charlene’s son. Have you met Kylie or Jason?

No, but I did a piece to camera that was shown to Kylie on The One Show recently. That was bizarre, to see Kylie Minogue watching me on camera. I feel it’ll come up one day – I might meet them at something organised through the show.

Do you fancy following in her footsteps and becoming a talent show judge? It’d be fun,

but I don’t have any musical talent. Me and my roommates watched The Voice sometimes. Obviously I was on Team Kylie.

This isn’t the first time you’ve been in Neighbours. What happened with your original appearance in 2007? Paul

I felt isolated from all the most important people in my life, so I came home. Then, a week after getting back to Australia, I got the job on Neighbours. It was an amazing job to walk into. I was in LA for three-and-a-half years.

Are there lots of Australian actors in LA? Yes, loads. The

Americans there are all from different parts of the country. It’s an interesting town and there were lots of people from lots of different places. I’m a family guy and wanted to get back to see them.

Was it a difficult decision to leave LA? It seems the goal is to go to LA and get on a TV show, as you did with Once Upon A Time… For a lot of

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The One Show. That was bizarre.

How did you get the job?

Dolly magazine ran a competition to win a role on Neighbours. You had to record a monologue, then the next round was a live audition at a shopping centre. I got into the top ten and auditioned on set in Melbourne, but didn’t get the role. Then they offered me the guest role a few months later. We recorded the monologues in drama class as an exercise. I figured I may as well enter – and thank goodness I did.

Why did you want to give acting a go? I made home movies

with my brother and sister. When I got to the age when I needed to look for a job, I started doing the acting classes. As a kid I loved action films like The Terminator and wanted to do that when I was older.

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You worked in LA for a while. What did you miss about Australia? My friends and family.

people that is the goal but, fortunately for male actors, there isn’t much of a time pressure. I know an actor who is 35 and his film has just gone to Cannes. There’s plenty of I did a piece to time for me to go camera that was back to the States shown to Kylie on if I want to.

Robinson had been in a coma and I was a figment of his imagination. I was trying to convince him not to take his medication because that meant I’d stay alive. Then he had surgery and I was gone. You can justify it by saying if Paul Robinson was going to imagine someone, it makes sense it would be someone who looked like his nephew. They’ve planned this years ago…

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How would you describe your character? A free-spirited,

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Who have you learned the most from? A lot of my

roles have been guest roles. Spending a lot of time with Stefan Dennis, who plays Paul Robinson, has been fantastic. We’ll have a chat about scenes and he’ll let me know if he thinks there’s anything I can do to make it better. That’s the beauty of being on a show like Neighbours, you’re on set every day and have to sink your teeth into it.

Have you ever had a supernatural experience? No, but my sister used to read my tarot cards. I thought those readings were quite accurate, but it’s like star signs, you can read whatever you want into them, I suppose.

If you were a kangaroo, what would you keep in your pouch? My iPhone. It’s where all my scripts come and how I communicate with my family who are spread out across Australia. I’ve got the Australian Football League app on it so I can check out the games.

Andrew Williams Tim can be seen in Neighbours weekdays on RTÉ2.

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Enough already. banish kenny

’D like to voice my disdain for the so-called ‘pundit’ Kenny Cunningham during the World Cup. On Tuesday night before USA vs Belgium, Brad Friedel was talking about what a good shotstopper the American goalkeeper Tim Howard was, only to be told by Kenny Cunningham he had ‘no character and was a weak link in the US team’. Then Howard went on to have an absolute stormer as he single-handedly kept America in the match. Afterwards, we had KC lamenting how TH had a brilliant game showing great character, contradicting what he said before the match. This is not the first time old boy Cunningham has been made to look a fool. His relentless monodrone and tendency to raise his

eyebrows when he gets excited also makes me feel ill, so much that I have been forced to switch channels to listen to Alan Shearer and co. Enough is enough, RTÉ. Please banish him from the rest of the tournament, or bring back Ossie Ardiles, at least even if we couldn’t understand him, he was more enHalf a can tertaining. ■ I don’t know what all the fuss is about Mrs Brown’s Boys – it’s the same comedy that Brendan O’Carroll has been doing for donkey’s years. As for O’Carroll giving €30,000 to a businessman, why didn’t he give it to a hard-up family from the local area he grew up in. It’s a publicity stunt, end of story. Gavin, Dublin 11

gOOD On yA

● Thanks to the lovely guy who woke me up before my stop on the Dart the other night. I’d had a few and apparently told you I was getting off at Dún Laoghaire.

Still hungover and embarrassed girl in the stripe stripeyy top

● Thanks to the girl who lent me her phone outside Tara St station on Monday afternoon. Typically my battery had died and I was due to meet a friend I hadn’t seen in a while. Gina

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■ So Leo Varadkar thinks the Luas operates without a government subsidy? Who paid for its design and build? Yes, the taxpayer, in the biggest public transport subsidy ever. No wonder private operators can make profit, when they’re subsidised to this level with no return for the taxpayer. The Luas is a great system, but tell all the facts Leo. Paul, Drogheda ■ Have you noticed how the antisocial creatures who pollute public transport with their noise spilling out from their nasty little headphones are never playing opera or classical music, but always the same inane and moronic pop/rock garbage. Perhaps this tells us all we need to know about the culprits. Ally

yEH big RiDE ● To the really cute social worker from Mayo, who I was talking to in the Mater on Monday: I loved chatting to you and never got a chance to ask for your number. Fancy a drink sometime? Shy guy

yOuR RusH-HOuR cRusH

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Celebrity stylist Aldene Johnson tells Naomi Mdudu about her work with Florence Welch

ake a closer look at images of Florence Welch sauntering around Glastonbury or sitting in the front row at the shows and you’re likely to spot aldene Johnson’s face peeking from behind. The Zimbabwe-born stylist has been the force behind the flame-haired singer’s look since styling Florence and The Machine’s striking Lungs album cover in 2009. ‘I don’t think any of us at the time realised just how much of an international superstar she would become,’ she says. ‘It was just a really natural evolution. Nothing was too considered and it just evolved. as her career exploded, we were suddenly doing the MTV awards, the Oscars and the Grammys.’ Raised in Durban, South africa, Johnson grew up wanting to be a ballet dancer. It was only after jumping ship to London that she began toying with the idea of working in fashion. ‘I didn’t even think of it as a career opportunity before then,’ she says. after a short time assisting, she became the first Uk fashion editor of youth culture bible Vice magazine. Now her roster of clients includes fast-rising British designer Georgia Hardinge and aluna Francis, half of dynamic electro duo alunaGeorge. Styling celebrities is all about finding a balance, according to Johnson. ‘It has to come from the artist,’ she says. ‘any piece has to be something they’re comfortable with. My job is to introduce newness and help direct and move things forward but at a pace that’s comfortable for the person wearing it. They have to feel like it’s a part of them.’

Fashioning Florence Aldene wears: Dress, €99, Sister Jane, sisterjane.com; Boots, €495, Purified, shoescribe.com

PhotograPhy: Chris harris, Make-uP: VuyisWa Zanele

T’S not difficult to see why she has proved such a force. With her statement bold opticals, perfectly layered jewellery and look that fuses early 1990s vintage with Topshop, Johnson oozes the kind of insouciant cool that’s hard to replicate. Her wardrobe is full of vintage pieces; in fact, one room in her home is dedicated entirely to storing her vast collection. It comes handin-hand with shopping for a living. ‘When I’m shopping for Florence I get swept up and I’m like: “One for you, one for me,” and then I’m like, “Oh dear”,’ she says. Johnson cites London boutiques One Of a kind Vintage, Rellik and Merchant archive as three of her favourite places to find gems. ‘I collect 1920s and 1930s pieces, just because of the nature of the types of pieces I’m naturally drawn p17

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For happy feet, keep it ugly

hiS season’s most sought-after shoes are down to Phoebe Philo’s handiwork at Céline. Ever since the enthusiastically copied label sent a pair of furlined Birkenstock-type sandals down its SS14 runway, ‘ugly’ shoes have been enjoying their share of the limelight. those preparing to jump on board should be aware that the trend is split in two. on one side you have a modern take on the traditional pool sliders loved by sports stars and part of the big 1990s revival. on the other, you have the chunky thick-strapped Birkenstock-type styles responsible for putting the trend back on the map. theyy might not be the prettiest of styles but with fashion’s ongoing preoccupation with practicality, they’re certainly the most comfortable – and they’re showing no signs of going away. Amazon has reported a 95 per cent increase in sales of both types, Asos can’t keep hold of Birkenstock’s Arizona sandals and, at the higher end, luxury retailers have been forced to reorder givenchy’ss floral kinds.

Naomi Mdudu

embellished sandals, €44, New Look, newlook.com

arizona sandals, €63, Birkenstock, birkenstock.ie Lace espadrille slip-ons, €50, Zara, zara.com Patent sandals, €86, Steve Madden, stevemadden.co.uk

Slip-on sandals, €31, asos, asos.com

Two-tone sliders, €25, H&M, hm.com

Jolene sliders, €63, Dune, Tel: (01) 216 9941

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Keyhole detail dress, €237, Reiss, reiss.com

Fitted dress, €56, Next, next.co.uk

Printed dress, €226, Karen Millen, karenmillen.com

Jersey peplum dress, €123, Iris & Ink, theoutnet.com

Wool-blend twill dress, €791, Victoria Beckham, net-a-porter.com

Colour-block dress, €75, French Connection, frenchconnection.com

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Power and the glory

othing in your wardrobe works as hard week in, week out as a power dress – it kits you out for the unexpected client pitch, the day’s meetings and after-work drinks. though the 1980s gave the term a bad name, it’s certainly true that the sophisticated, all-occasion dress is a mainstay. Emilia Wickstead, whose fans include the Duchess of Cambridge, is known for her feminine streak and the dresses she offered for spring are perfect for the boardroom. Even Victoria Beckham stripped her diffusion line of its novelty prints for something more grown-up. there’s no avoiding the fact that this will be an investment piece. Scrimp and it won’t last, so head to the likes of Karen Millen, Reiss and the outnet’s iris & ink line. With top quality and ‘just-so’ details, they’re dead certs. NM

Are you a fan of Benefit Cosmetics – and, er, tapas? Brilliant! The final few tickets are still available for our super Metro Herald reader event on Tuesday, July 8 in association with Zaragoza Dublin and Benefit Cosmetics Ireland. Beauty, Bites & Bubbles will take place at 6.30pm at Zaragoza tapas restaurant on South William Street. Some 100 guests will be treated to a night of beauty, glamour and a delicious eight-course tapas meal while availing of treatments and demos from the Benefit Cosmetics team. Zaragoza will be transformed into a popup Benefit boutique and the team will be on hand to provide complimentary make-uppers to all guests. Irish make-up and trend artist Mark Rogers will also be at the event sharing his expert tips and tricks. Attendees will be treated to exclusive freebies and offers throughout the evening with Pink bubbles on arrival and Bene goodies. Benefit is also offering an exclusive ten per cent discount on all its fabulously cheeky products on the night – we have our eye on the lash-hugging They’re Real! gel liner pen (pictured, €25). All guests will also leave with a voucher entitling them to 20 per cent off Benefit products and 20 per cent off their next food bill at Zaragoza, both valid until the end of August. Tickets for this once-off event are €39 and can be reserved by emailing: marketing@metroherald.ie.

Dress to impress: Emilia Wickstead’s SS14 show at last year’s London Fashion Week

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★ the secret life of students

Channel 4, 10pm

What’s so secret about what students get up to in their first term at uni, you might ask. Isn’t it all clubbing, partying and regretting sleeping with that guy/girl you met at the freshers’ ball who’s now hanging around like a bad smell? To give us the real story, this four-part series stalked a bunch of freshers during their first term at Leicester using social media – tracking Facebook and Twitter – to show what those first nervous few weeks are like.

the honourable Woman BBC2, 9PM

giving up my baby: stacey dooley in the usa

There’s a touch of star-power lustre about this new drama from Hugo Blick, the man behind The Shadow Line and Sensitive Skin. Maggie Gyllenhaal (pictured) stars as the impeccably English Nessa Stein, head of a powerful family business with interests in the Middle East. Around her revolves a complex political thriller, secrets and lies lurking in shadows, the tension rising when a Palestinian businessman, with ties to Stein’s empire, is murdered. Andrew Buchan co-stars.

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Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan (both pictured right) star as a middle-aged couple who attempt to save their marriage with a trip to Paris – the scene of their honeymoon celebrations 30 years earlier. All seems to be going well until their showoff pal Morgan (Jeff Goldblum) pops up, kicking off a spiral of mutual recrimination.

getting on

The first two series of this dark comedy set in a hospital, for which Jo Brand won a Bafta for her portrayal of nurse Kim Wilde, have come to VOD. Wilde is hampered in her efforts to look after patients by Ward Sister Den (Joanna Scanlan) and consultant Dr Pippa Moore (Vicki Pepperdine). The dismantling of the healthcare system has never been funnier.

BBC3, 9pm

Most adoptions in the US are ‘open’, a system by which the birth mother or parents are involved in choosing who will adopt their baby. They’re also encouraged to stay in touch as the child grows up. But is this just storing up heartbreak? Stacey Dooley meets those on both sides.

Soaps eastenders RTÉ1, 7.30pm

Poor old Terry. Bianca gave him the heave-ho – for being too decent, we think, it wasn’t really clear – but now she’s hit the financial skids, who does she turn to for help? That’s right, the man with ‘muggins’ sharpied on his forehead. Sonia tries to help – we just hope that’s not trumpet busking down the Tube.

★

Sport Wimbledon

BBC2, 12.30pm; TG4, 1pm & BBC1, 1.45pm

fair city RTÉ1, 8pm

After Debbie piled on the pressure in last night’s visit to Carrigstown, Niamh and Michael are forced to face the reality of their relationship. Will they break up or is there another solution to their situation? Meanwhile, Callum continues to fall deeper for Katy and Christy makes Sean an offer he finds difficult to turn down. Elsewhere, Orla and Wayne reach a compromise and finally decide who will be Wayne junior’s godparents.

It was supposed to be all about Serena Williams v Maria Sharapova in the quarters, the winner a safe bet for the title. But in a Wimbledon littered with upsets on the women’s side, we’ve got a semi-final line-up few predicted. Petra Kvitová (above), 2011 champion, is now firm favourite and faces fellow Czech Lucie Šafářová. The other match is tougher to call, with Canada’s new star Eugenie Bouchard taking on in-form No 3 seed Simona Halep.

fÉilte – slí an atlantaigh TG4, 8.30pm

Síle Ni Bhraonáin presents a new series which explores the Wild Atlantic Way, a tourism initiative which maps Ireland’s entire west coast, from the island’s most northerly point, Malin Head in Co Donegal, to Kinsale in Co Cork. Over nine weeks, Síle will travel 2,500km along the route, taking in amazing scenery and exploring towns and villages in search of the best food, traditional music and craic on offer.

cinderella of the slums: secrets of south america RTÉ2, 9pm

Billie JD Porter travels to Brazil to explore the glitz of 15th birthday debutante balls in this revealing documentary. In the country’s booming economy, some parents are spending more than €120,000 on their daughter’s special day. Billie meets up with two modern-day Cinderellas, who are hoping their dreams of going to the ball will come true.

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superbad

Back after its mid-season break, the all-singing, all-dancing drama finds Rachel (Lea Michele), a girl who does precious and insecure at the drop of a hat, coming over all fractious when Santana tries out to be her Broadway understudy. Those sweet and innocent McKinley High days seem so long ago.

Coming of age comedy where two socially inept high school seniors Seth (Jonah Hill, 21 Jump Street) and Evan (Michael Cera, Juno) are assigned the job of getting the booze for the end of year party. There’s just one small problem – they’re underage. But never fear there’s always someone with a fake ID about to save the day, right? Co-star Seth Rogen and former Da Ali G Show writer Evan Goldberg wrote this when they were still teenagers. And it shows.

RTÉ2, 10pm

Sky 1, 9pm

the big bang theory E4, 8pm

There are just two episodes left in the current run and this one finds Penny (Kaley Cuoco) pausing for a moment of meaningful introspection – yes, we do mean Penny – when the saga of her big acting break reaches a climax. She invites Leonard to the filming of the obviously Oscar-worthy Monkey See, Monkey Kill and winds up getting fired. It’s a moment that triggers a crunch moment for this offand-on cute couple.

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We oWn the night

UTV, 11.05pm

naked and afraid Discovery, 9pm

Vince is a wilderness instructor, so he should be able to handle anything the Bolivian jungle can throw at him. But his partner in TV reality survival is Sabrina, who describes herself as a witch. How’s that going to pan out? Maybe she’ll cast a spell on poor old Vince and he’ll end up having to do all the work…

★ the great irish bake-off TV3, 9pm

A big-name cast leads this 1980s-set New York crime caper written and directed by James Gray. Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix, above) manages a club run by Russian mobsters. Little do they suspect his dad (Robert Duvall) and brother (Mark Wahlberg) are in the police force and are targeting the joint as part of a drugs sting. Mayhem ensues, obviously, and soon Bobby and his girlfriend find themselves in a sticky situation. An effective, moody thriller.

buffalo 66 Film4, 1.30am

As the day of reckoning arrives, judges Biddy White Lennon and Paul Kelly set the remaining three bakers two final tasks. First up is the dreaded technical challenge, a Tower of Rainbow Macaroons. Despite Ali’s (above) success last week with her macaroons with lemon curd, she knows they can be tricky. Afternoon Tea is the show-stopper – and not your typical tea and scones either – this must have 11 elements, including three micro-sandwiches. Who will make the cut to be crowned Ireland’s best amateur baker? Tune in and find out.

Art house darling Vincent Gallo made his directorial debut in this 1998 black comedy about newly released jailbird Billy (Gallo), who kidnaps dancer Layla (Christina Ricci) and makes her pretend to be his wife to impress his parents. In the meantime he plots revenge on those unfortunates who landed him in prison. Expect a lot of prog rock.

buried

ITV4, 12.15am

Ryan Reynolds wakes up in a box buried underground with only a phone and lighter to help him escape. He’s a US contractor disposed of by Iraqi insurgents. The gimmick is that the action in this inventive drama from director Rodrigo Cortés takes place in this pokey grave – yet he succeeds in handling the tension admirably.

books

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sinker by Jason Johnson

Liberties Press, out now it’s unfortunate that Jason Johnson’s new novel, set in the frighteningly plausible world of competitive professional drinking (‘sinking’), has been published at the same time as yet another damning report into the nation’s alcohol habits. While the last thing the country needs now is a novel celebrating the destructively bibulous antics of irish men, sinker is at least told with enough panache and humour to offset accusations of poor taste. derry-man Baker forley, aka The reactor, is the troubled, hooch-quaffing narrator who, under the tutelage of his american coach ratface, has becomes a rising star in pro-drinking circles. When the pair head to the med for a major competitive booze-up, forley finds himself distracted by the presence of an impossibly wealthy sheikh and his sexy consort Crystal. But a series of ominous text messages from a would-be assassin suggest the most pressing danger to forley’s life may not be the one emanating from his overburdened liver. Johnson’s plotting feels somewhat clichéd but he has a sharp eye for colour and detail, while his zesty prose certainly goes down easy. Daragh Reddin

The miniaTurisT by Jessie burton

What’s the premise? A much-hyped debut

that rolls together homosexuality, feminism, prophecy and 17th-century Amsterdam into a glittering, suspense-powered plot.

Blimey! What happens? Eighteen-year-

so a spooky historical novel, then. Yes,

but it’s done extremely well. Like AS Byatt, Burton is very good at conveying the political nature of people’s lives through an abundance of domestic texture. This is a sumptuous book in every sense: she conjures up Amsterdam – its tapestries, food, religious iconography, unforgiving winters – with such sensual flair, you can almost taste the sugar. Yet her real interest is in the schism between private and public, the moral contradictions of a city built on the

My desert island books

Catherine o’flynn

Catherine O’Flynn’s eerie debut novel, What Was Lost, about a child who goes missing in a shopping mall, won the 2007 Costa First Novel award. Since then she has produced two more cleverly observed novels of modern life including her latest, Mr Lynch’s Holiday, a love story about a recently widowed Irish emigrant and his struggling son.

ALSO OUT

the big

old Nella has been married off to Johannes Brandt, an affluent sugar trader who lives with his punitive-minded sister Marin in one of Europe’s wealthiest cities. Yet the marriage is one of appearances only, a sham eerily resonated in the wedding gift he gives her: an elaborate miniature replica of their house. Nella, left alone, idly commissions a couple more pieces for the cabinet house but the miniaturist she contacts is an enigmatic figure seemingly possessed of preternatural powers. Unsolicited tiny objects and figurines start arriving, each appearing to contain a silent warning against the secrets locked away in the Brandt’s real home.

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success of the Dutch East India Company yet run by the puritanically minded Burgomasters, and the implications of this for the people who live there. Nella’s miniature house makes an obvious ahistorical nod to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and Burton is viscerally alert to the emotional and physical prisons in which Nella and the fascinatingly complex Marin live.

yes, but is it scary? At times, yes. Burton boldly refuses to explain too much, instead letting the miniaturist remain an unfathomable, secular godlike figure amid a city riven with religious fear. She is also brilliant at generating a more earthbound tension: as the city closes in on the Brandts,

the plot seems to twist and buck with every passing page. Truly, it’s thrilling.

any faults? Burton doesn’t always slip free from historical fiction’s more selfconscious trappings. You are left in no doubt this is a heavily researched novel. But it’s also full of subtleties. The slowly thawing friendship between Nella and Marin is particularly affecting. i should read it, then. Yes. It’s a debut that, unusually, deserves the hype.

Claire Allfree

Picador, out now

ripley’s Game

by Patricia Highsmith This was the first Highsmith novel I read and I still remember how fresh and cool her voice sounded. Highsmith wrote enthralling, exciting plots but peopled them with subtle, complex characters. What I admired most was her restraint.

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by Gordon Burn An amazing feat of imagination and audacity. Burn captures the sights and smells of 1950s and 1960s Britain so vividly – from damp smelling, post-war seaside audiences to the extraterrestrial glamour of Sammy Davis Jr. The book casts a cold eye at fame and its dark counterpart, notoriety.

edGelands by Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley Good writing makes the invisible visible, illuminating what’s right under our noses. Here, the Edgelands, those overlooked margins glimpsed from motorways or train windows, become the focus and are lavished with a great richness of language and imagery. Mr Lynch’s Holiday is published this week in paperback.

The emperor WalTz by PhiliP hensher

a woman in thrall to a cult in roman Britain, a Bauhaus art student in 1920s Germany and a gay entrepreneur in 1980s aids-ravaged Britain combine in this sweeping novel about idealistic people in non-idealistic times. hensher is very good at political novels that rely on deceptively incidental detail to make their point. This languorous book feels showy but there are few novels you could describe as reading like an extended jazz riff on historical instances of persecution. CA Fourth Estate, out now

The CounTry of iCe Cream sTar by sandra newman

fans of russell hoban’s riddley Walker might go for this futuristic epic, set in an america ripped apart by war and a deadly epidemic that wipes out children by the time they are 20. a torrent of broken-up sentences, it’s narrated by the young ice Cream fifteen star, who is determined to seek out a cure. sandra newman locates this apocalyptic scenario most vividly in the language of her characters, who have their own, often violent new way of yoking words together. exhilaratingly bold. CA Chatto & Windus, out now

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Tags for the memories W

e are all still recovering from the amazing Regional Finals and Team Ireland selection. Can’t wait for the Aussies to begin their tour this week. They arrive later tonight and begin their tour facing Kildare in Barnhall NUIM on Friday at 7pm. On Saturday they take on Dublin in

Coolmine RFC and on Sunday the first international sees Ireland v Australia in UCD at 2pm. Every self-respecting Tagger should make their way to see one, if not all of these matches – it really will be Top Dog Tag. In more local news, in the second last round robin week of Harold’s Cross Wednesday Social (as seen in the pictures), Reuben got the better of

Yippee-Try-Vay 14-10, the Law Blacks fell to Tagueule 9-15, while Dublin Hawks and Cops and Robbers had a close one, ending 9-5 at the final whistle. Trysenburg took the roar out of Rrrraaaaarrr 12-8. Gone to the Dogs went to the dogs, giving the Tax Dodgers a break at 813, while Taggle Rock hit a rock and went down to Maple Thieves 8-29.

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L to R: Patrick McCarthy, Robbie O’Connor, Carl von Rosen Johansson, Stephen Yates, Ethan Braithwaite, Ray Wilson. Front row: Laura Rose Fox-McCarthy (manager), Sarah Hashish and Laura Diver of Dropbox

DROpbOx DEfy ODDs TO win

On the inside track at Irishtown last week, a humdinger of a match led to an incredible win by Dropbox over Tagatha Christie. It must be highlighted – as Dropbox only had two ladies (instead of three), so six played seven and Dropbox still took the crown. Well Done!

Ball jumper: Gareth Kennedy of The Law Blacks Double teamed: Brian Uzell of Yippie-Try-Yay is tagged by two Reuben players (left)

Julia Tacrulat of Tagueule evades a Law Blacks tackle (right)

On the run: Ronan Rogers of Tagueule

TAg TALk... Gearing up for #tag @tagrugby. Come on D.A. Warriors @CaratIreland ALL Monkstown RFC/Pembroke CC tag players – tonight’s games are cancelled due to waterlogged pitches

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wimbledon

dethroned murray takes defeat on chin Champion vows to fight back after Centre Court humbling

ANDY MURRAY has vowed to bounce back from the shock of losing his Wimbledon crown after being unceremoniously dumped out on Centre Court. A 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 blowout against rising star Grigor Dimitrov forced him to relinquish his title but Murray has warned the young guns seeking to climb above him in the world rankings that he is still a genuine grand slam contender. ‘When I stop thinking I have a chance of winning [grand slam] tournaments I will stop playing,’ said the stunned Scot. ‘This is what I play for. I love these events. You know, I have had a lot of hard losses in them in my career but also with some big highs as well.

by danny griffiThs Chief Sports Writer, Wimbledon it’s tough to win those matches now,’ Murray admitted. ‘Whereas before maybe when they were younger and a bit inexperienced you can still find a way to come through them. Now that they are getting more experience and moving on it’s tough to do that.’ Murray denied he was feeling flat going into the quarter-final and simply praised Dimitrov for outplaying him. ‘My start to the match was poor,’ the British No.1 added. ‘I started badly and I think that gave him confidence. ‘I should have done a better job at the be-

‘Now these guys are more experienced it’s getting tougher to win these matches’ ‘This is obviously one of the hard ones but I need to gain some motivation from it. The only way for me to get better or win these tournaments again is to make improvements because other guys are getting better now.’ The world No.5 is set to drop down the rankings after being dethroned and accepts he needs to step up a level to stay ahead of the new crop of stars. ‘If you play against a player like a [Nick] Kyrgios or Dimitrov or [Milos] Raonic and those guys and you don’t play very well,

ginning of the match of making it tougher for him and I didn’t manage to do that. ‘He played the better tennis – he was the better player from start to finish.’ Delighted Dimitrov said: ‘I am not surprised I have won. Why would I be? It’s a good feeling. I am not going to hide that, I’m proud of what I did.’ He now faces top seed Novak Djokovic in tomorrow’s semi-final and added: ‘We all know how Novak is competing and how he is playing when he is at his top level but I am going out to win it.’

Star in the making: Dimitrov (left) at full stretch yesterday, while Murray (right) contemplates his surprise defeat

PICTURES: MIKE KING AND GETTY IMAGES

ThEy said iT ‘It doesn’t look as big as it is. I mean, it’s elegant. It’s a grass court. And the players, they have to play all white clothes. So it’s amazing.’ Simona Halep gives an endearing assessment of the All England Club

Swiss and make up: Federer and Wawrinka

Rog’s mixed feelings as friend Stan’s dispatched by richard hookham ROGER FEDERER admitted he found it hard to beat his great friend Stan Wawrinka as he marched back to the Wimbledon semi-finals. The seven-time champion dropped his first set of the tournament before beating fellow Swiss Wawrinka 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, 6-4 to set up a clash with Canadian Milos Raonic in the last four. ‘I was thinking about it midway through the match actually. I was like, “Oh, I’m playing Stan” kind of thing,’ Federer, 32, said. ‘It hit me midway through the second set. You want to win the match but you don’t necessarily want to beat him, so that’s the odd part.’ Australian Open champion Wawrinka was never going to make life easy for his Davis Cup captain but Federer said: ‘I felt I was able to focus well and play as good as Stan allowed me to play. He was playing really well right out of the gates. He came out and was crushing the ball, forehand and backhand and even serve, so it was very difficult for me.’ Wawrinka admitted he was struggling with injury during the match and said: ‘It’s a tough, tough loss. When you play against Roger, when he’s playing well here on grass, you have to be more than 100 per cent ready physically, but mentally also.’

Super Simona out to keep Genie in bottle

SIMOnA HALEP and Eugenie Bouchard face a showdown on Centre Court today with the prize of a Wimbledon final spot up for grabs. Romanian third seed Halep saw off last year’s runner-up Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-0 in just 57 minutes yesterday. And former SW19 junior champion Bouchard also marched into the semi-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 hammering of Maria Sharapova’s conqueror Angelique Kerber. Halep, beaten finalist at last month’s French Open, is the highest

seed left in the tournament and from reeling at 4-1 down in the opener she racked up 11 straight games to put out Lisicki. ‘She played really well at the beginning, but then I was controlling all the match,’ said the 22-year-old. ‘I played my best tennis and I was enjoying every moment. It was incredible on Centre Court. ‘I’m really happy I could win in two sets because I want to be ready to have a good match again.’ Bouchard is another rising star and

the 13th seed made it a hat-trick of grand slam semi-finals having reached the last four at the Australian and French Opens. ‘I’m excited to be in the semis again and want to go one step further,’ said the Canadian. The two players have met once before, with Halep winning on the hard courts of Indian Wells. Bouchard, 20, said of that match: ‘I had chances, it was really close, and I just lost. ‘It’s the semis, so I’m going to expect the toughest match ever.’

Beaten: Sabine Lisicki looks dejected after defeat by Halep

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Barca see Reds in quest for Suarez

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by DANiEL JONES

Barcelona pressed ahead in their bid to sign luis Suarez after liverpool chief executive Ian ayre agreed to talks in london yesterday. Speculation surrounding the Spanish club’s interest in the Uruguay international, currently banned for four months for biting Italy’s Giorgio chiellini at the World cup, has been rife for several weeks. However, following the 27-year-old’s apology – in which Barca are suspected to have had a major influence – the la liga side have now stepped up their pursuit. on Tuesday sporting director andoni Zubizarreta spoke in complimentary tones, suggesting ‘he has the necessary quality to play for Barca’, and the club followed that up with a request for a meeting with ayre. However, liverpool will not even consider doing business unless Suarez’s buy-out clause – thought to be around £80million – is met. Barcelona will try to secure the player for between £50m and £60m with forward alexis Sanchez, valued at £30m, as a makeweight.

time to say goodbye: suarez, holding his son Benjamin, acknowledges the liverpool fans last season PICTURE: Pa Out of toon? debuchy

Pardew braced to lose another of his French fancies NewcasTle face a fight to hang on to France right-back Mathieu Debuchy with arsenal in pole position to snap up the defender. Reports that a deal is all but done are premature, but there has been contact between the two clubs. Paris stGermain, who signed the 28-year-old’s friend Yohan cabaye from the Magpies in January, and Marseille are also interested in his services. Newcastle boss alan Pardew has no desire to sell Debuchy, who signed a five-and-a-half year deal when he joined from lille in January last year for £5.5m. However, Debuchy wants champions league football and the Tynesiders have warned potential suitors he will cost £12m if they decide to cash in.

‘We must remember luis has apologised’ The chile international, though, is thought to favour a move to arsenal. Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu said yesterday: ‘all I can say is that they [transfer targets] are names that have been agreed with [new Barca coach] luis enrique and they excite us,’ he said. ‘Suarez is a liverpool player so I can’t talk about him, he belongs to another team. But we are all football men, and saying sorry is honourable, it helps the competition.’ ‘He did something that wasn’t right, so it’s the responsibility of everyone in football, be it liverpool or anywhere else, to remember that he has said sorry. admitting you have done something wrong is very important.’

red alert: sanchez, a big hit at the World cup, is thought to favour a move to arsenal PICTURE: gETTy

Fifa demanding proof Supporting cast could of match-fixing claims take 2026 cup to USA

FIFA says there has been no evidence of match-fixing at any World Cup match and urged a German magazine which made allegations about Cameroon to offer proof. Convicted match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal has denied correctly predicting Cameroon’s 4-0 defeat to Croatia to Der Spiegel magazine before the game. Der Spiegel is standing by its report but is yet to provide definitive evidence of a Facebook discussion with Perumal. Fifa head of media

Delia Fischer said: ‘We have requested Der Spiegel provide us the communications with Perumal and other material in order to prove the allegations they have made. ‘So far we have no evidence of any match manipulation on the betting market. The media and other stakeholders should not call people’s or organisations’ credibility into question just for headlines. ‘It is really important to make sure that information is handled with the necessary respect and care.’

said: ‘What we see in the United States THe US could be frontrunners to host in 2026 after the World cup captured is staggering. The audience is unprecedented, more than the nBa. the imagination of the nation. america won plaudits for their ‘The country has the largest level of youth soccer in the world performances, ending with 20 million young in a thrilling 2-1 people playing. second-round defeat ‘There is a commitment to Belgium. from Fifa to work with Meanwhile, US Soccer and I think unprecedented they have an interest in backing in the hosting for 2026.’ stadiums and at home, hero worship: us fans with president Barack obama and Fifa president Sepp Blatter added: ‘levels of interest in USa is very high. Hollywood star Tom Hanks among ‘This World cup is getting under those tweeting support, have not gone people’s skin – the quality of the unnoticed by Fifa’s top brass. football is incredible.’ Secretary general Jerome Valcke

u MaNcHesTeR city will listen to knockdown offers for Micah Richards (pictured). The defender, 26, made just two Premier league appearances last season. u Burnley have announced the signing of former Blackpool goalkeeper Matt Gilks. u JuveNTus are targeting Manchester city defender Matija Nastasic in an £8million swoop. u Manchester united have made a £32m bid for colombia and Fiorentina winger Juan cuadrado, according to reports in italy.

Eli to give Vince some Kompany MaNcHesTeR city will redouble their efforts to sign Porto defender eliaquim Mangala after France’s world cup campaign ends. The 23-year-old les Bleus squad member is wanted by city director of football Txiki Begiristain and manager Manuel Pellegrini to partner vincent Kompany in central defence. The Premier league champions believe they can snare Mangala for £30million but face competition from PsG and Barcelona.

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Agony and ecstasy of the Wimbledon quarter-finals

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‘Don’t believe the hype’ Roy Keane not out to play the villain at Villa by pARAic MORgAn Aston VillA assistant manager Roy Keane insists his fearsome reputation is more of a media creation than a reality. the irishman had his fair share of bust-ups with the likes of sir Alex Ferguson and Mick McCarthy, to name but two, and reports of his last days as sunderland boss only enhanced the image of an uncompromising, no-nonsense and almost domineering character.

‘Disagreements are part of the game’ Keane delivered more straighttalking at his press conference to announce his new position, which he will undertake jointly with a similar role with the Republic of ireland and, while he was far from cheery, he was on his best behaviour as he addressed the media. Asked how he would deal with the players on a day-to-day basis and how his confrontational attitude would fit in, he said: ‘it is part of the image which has been built up over the years, particularly through the media – although i have had one or two incidents. ‘ i n terms of working with the players, i’ve worked with lads

over a long period of time without any issues but, having said that, you have to be ready to have disagreements with people. ‘in any good dressing room disagreements are part of the game. it is getting the balance right in terms of how far you go with it. ‘over the next few weeks i’ll be getting a feel for the group and knowing what they need – a lot of it is common sense.’ Having already had some experience as number two to Martin o’neill with the national team Keane sees no reason why he will not dovetail smoothly with Villa boss Paul lambert, dismissing suggestions it would be difficult for him to play second fiddle to anyone. ‘it will be straightforward – i’m here to help the manager and be someone you can trust,’ he added. ‘Paul sees that in me and obviously Martin did. it is about knowing your boundaries with the manager. You give your opinion and leave it that. ‘You learn as you go along with the different personalities you are working with.’ lambert himself stressed he was not concerned about the additional interest having a fiery character like Keane on board would bring. ‘if you are weak you may worry about it but i’m not weak a n d Roy certainly i s n ’ t ,’ said the scot. ‘the guy’s a winner.’

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McDowell feels confident he can make strong case for defence

McDowell: Feeling good

FORMER US Open champion Graeme McDowell will have to create a piece of personal history to retain the Alstom Open de France title at Le Golf National in Paris this week. McDowell has never successfully defended a tournament and all of his European Tour victories have come in different countries: Sweden, Italy, Korea, Scotland, Wales, the US, Spain, Bulgaria and France.

The 34-year-old was disappointed not to add Ireland to that list after going into the final round of the Irish Open last month just two shots

‘I’m feeling ready for an exciting summer’ off the lead, although his share of sixth place was his best finish in 13 appearances in the event.

‘It was really from the US Open onwards that I really felt like my game was ticking along nicely,’ McDowell told a press conference at Le Golf National. ‘I was inevitably a little bit disappointed with my performance on the weekend [in Ireland], on the greens especially, but I took the positives away from the week. I hit the ball as well as I have this season and put myself in a position to win.

‘Being the defending champion gives you a nice little buzz, a spring in your step and good memories. ‘I’m feeling good and ready for an exciting summer. I feel like I’m in a good space myself and looking forward to it. ‘I felt like the last three or four years, come August, I’ve been pretty tired. It’s been a conscious decision to try have myself in peak condition come July, August, September.’