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Please send our children home, Putin Jet families make direct appeal to Kremlin

FAMILIES of the 298 people killed on flight MH17 have pleaded with Russian president Vladimir Putin to ‘send their children home’. Relatives spoke out after hearing of bodies being left rotting in the summer heat on the side of roads near the crash site yesterday. There were reports of Russianbacked militants looting corpses in Victims: Bryce Fredriksz and his girlfriend Daisy eastern Ukraine where the wreckage came down on Thursday. Oehlers were on doomed flight MH17 SKY NEWS

by DOMINIC YEATMAN At Schiphol airport, where the flight began its final journey, Silene Fredriksz held up a photo of her son Bryce, 23, and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Daisy Oehlers, as she issued a direct appeal to the Russian president. ‘They’re lying there on the floor somewhere,’ the Dutchwoman said. ‘I don’t know where they are. ‘I want to arrange their funeral.

‘Look at those people. How beautiful. They have to come back. Mr Putin, send my children home. Please.’ Investigators have been struggling to get access to the crash site since the Boeing 777 was blasted out of the sky in an act widely blamed on the proRussian separatists.

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Anything Rory can do, I can do, too

Ten-year bet earns McIlroy Sr €63,000

Tennis ace Wozniacki serves up the perfect way to get over heartache WE ALL know you’ve got to up your game after getting dumped and that’s what Rory McIlroy’s heartbroken tennis ex-Caroline Wozniacki did yesterday. It was a case of anything you can do, I can do better when the Dane ended her title drought in the knowledge her ex was on the brink of Open golf glory. Former world No.1 Wozniacki won the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Cup in Turkey, thrashing Roberta Vinci 6-1, 6-1. At the same time, McIlroy was closing in on his third major crown at The Open at the Royal Liverpool in Hoylake. Wozniacki, zniacki, 24, suffered a

by ANDREI HARMSWORTH career meltdown during their two-year romance, losing her top spot in the rankings, tumbling out of the top ten and winning just one lowly title in Luxembourg last year. The couple (pictured while still loved-up) split when McIlroy served up the bad news in a three-minute phone call, citing cold feet about getting married. Wozniacki admitted the split came out of the blue. ‘Obviously, you’re not prepared for something like this,’ she said.

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RORY McILROY may have won The Open – but his father and three family friends also had a victory of their own yesterday. Ten years ago, the golfer’s proud father, Gerry, wagered £100 at 500-1 odds that his son would win the championship before he turned 26. Other loved ones, certain of the teenager’s talents, did the same – and each of them is now set to collect £50,000 (€63,000). McIlroy Snr told the BBC he ‘doesn’t need the money but friends might welcome it’. Ladbrokes has said it expects to pay out €3million in the UK alone to those who bet McIlroy, of Holywood, Co Down, would triumph at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club. Once the 25-yearold’s sporting potential was realised, McIlroy Snr worked 100 hours a week so his son could attend US competitions for juniors. When talk of his bet first emerged, he said: ‘That was all bookies would let us put on, £100 apiece. But that bet is looking better and better.’

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Rebels admit: We’ve taken black boxes

Held: A rebel with a flight recorder Picture: reuters

PRO-Russian rebels say they have found the black box flight recorders from MH17. Donetsk People’s Republic leader Alexander Borodai said: ‘They are under our control.’ They will be given to investigators, he added. But Ukraine fears they could be tampered with after rebels were allegedly heard saying ‘Moscow is interested’.

Oligarchs told: Fund war and we will get you

RussiAn oligarchs and companies found to be helping fund fighting in ukraine could be targeted by Eu leaders. Any ‘entities, including from the Russian Federation, that are materially or financially supporting the military campaign’ could be blacklisted, leaders agreed at a summit in Brussels. They will also consider targeting individuals, who ‘actively provide material or financial support’ for top Kremlin officials involved. Meanwhile, tensions over the MH17 disaster mounted yesterday as Western leaders threatened to impose more sanctions against Russia. British prime minister David Cameron accused the Kremlin of ‘contributing to an appalling tragedy’ by supporting the pro-Russian rebels thought to be responsible.

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The Ukrainian government said 196 bodies had been recovered across an area of 18 sq km but they were in the hands of the rebels. International monitors were shown some of the remains in refrigerated carriages on three trains in the nearby town of Torez. Rescue worker Alexander Pilyushny said: ‘Some of the body bags are open

Distress: Victim’s mother silene Fredricksz appeals to Vladimir Putin

and the damage to the corpses is very, very bad. It is very difficult to look at. The rebels came, put the bodies on to the trucks and took them away somewhere.’ Ukraine said at least 38 corpses had been taken to Donetsk but rebel leader Alexander Borodaiinsisted: ‘The bodies will go nowhere until experts arrive.’ In Holland, which lost 192 people in the crash, prime minister Mark Rutte was said to have had an ‘extremely intense’ conversation with Mr Putin amid claims that looters had stolen from the dead. ‘I was shocked at the pictures of utterly disrespectful behaviour at this tragic spot,’ Mr Rutte said. ‘It’s revolting.’ However, monitors warned some bodies appeared to have been vaporised and would never be recovered.

Clear-up: Medical staff remove a victim Picture: getty

Cyclist and stewardess cheat death twice after switching flight plans A PROFESSIONAL cyclist and an air hostess by DOMINIC YEATMAN each cheated death twice after deciding not to ‘I could have taken that one just as easily,’ take the doomed Malaysia Airlines flights. Maarten de Jonge had booked a seat from said the 29-year-old, who lives in Malaysia and races for the Terengganu team. Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on ‘What has happened is terrible, so flight MH17 after competing in a many victims, that’s a horrible thing. road race in his native Holland, but ‘It’s inconceivable. I am very sorry swapped for a cheaper deal at the for the passengers and their families, last moment. yet I am very pleased I’m unharmed. Four months earlier, another I have been lucky twice. change of arrangements kept him Meanwhile, Malaysia Airlines stewoff MH370 before it disappeared ardess Tan Bee Jeok, 43, had been asover the southern Indian Ocean signed to work on both flights, but with all 239 people on board now Maarten de Jonge survived after swapping shifts with believed dead.

colleagues. Tragically, her 41-year-old husband Sanjid Singh also switched his schedule with a colleague and was on flight MH17 when it was brought down over Ukraine. In Kuala Lumpur, where the couple lived with their seven-year-old son, Mr Singh’s father, 71-year-old Jijar, said: ‘He always called us before he left for his trips. We are in such a state. My whole body is shivering. We are heartbroken because he was our only son. What to do? What has happened, has happened.’ A spokesman for Malaysia Airlines said: ‘Crew members on all airlines regularly swap shifts for various reasons. We cannot discuss individual colleagues’ work patterns.’

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Tearful: Mourners attend a service for the Van den Hende family in Melbourne PICTURE: gETTy

United in mourning, the victims of MH17

PRAYERS have been said across the globe to remember those who lost their lives on the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Yesterday was declared a national day of mourning in the Netherlands as the Dutch paid their respects to their 192 compatriots blown out of the sky. At the St. Vitus church in the central city of Hilversum, Father Julius Dresme described the nation’s pain. ‘It’s terrible, and everybody’s hearts are bleeding and crying,’ he said. In Rome, Pope Francis led thousands of tourists and pilgrims assembled in St Peter’s Square in prayer for peace in Ukraine and the Mideast.

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any dignity Sky sorry for report at site SKY News has apologised ‘profusely’ after its journalist Colin Brazier was seen going through a crash victim’s belongings on air. The reporter picked up personal items such as keys and a child’s flask, at the Ukraine crash site where 298 people died. He then admitted: ‘We shouldn’t really be doing this.’ A Sky News spokesman said: ‘Both Colin and Sky News apologise profusely for any offence caused.’

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Withdrawn: The MH17 flight number will not be used by the airline MALAYSIA Airlines is to offer disasters in five months. The airline refunds to any passengers who are also announced it would stop using too scared to fly on its planes. the flight number MH17 ‘out of It will waive all fees and accept all respect for the crew and passengers’ requests to postpone or cancel who died. And it also defended itself flights scheduled for this year, even from claims that the pilots of MH17 on non-refundable tickets. It comes should not have been flying over as questions are being asked if the Ukrainian airspace, saying ‘it never carrier can survive after two strayed into restricted airspace’.

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Desk duty for choke cop Terror group ‘dismantled’

AMERICA: A policeman involved in the arrest of a man who died in custody while allegedly held in a chokehold has been placed on desk duty. Daniel Pantaleo was also stripped of his badge and gun after Eric Garner, 43, died after his arrest in New York on Thursday, the NYPD said yesterday.

SpAIn: Eta claims to have taken another step towards disarmament. The Basque separatist group, which killed some 830 people between the 1960s and 2011, said it had ‘dismantled logistical and operational structures’ but did not elaborate. Spain’s government wants it to dissolve entirely.

Children shot at in park

Bus turned into shower

RUSSIA: A night shift worker went into a park with a gun and took shots at children – because they kept him awake as he tried to sleep in the day. Lucas Bazhenov, 43, from the Ural mountain town of Nizhny Tagil, was arrested after leaving one child with head injuries. Dozens more were treated for shock.

AMERICA: Homeless people in San Francisco can now hop on a bus to take a shower. A non-profit group has retro-fitted a public transit bus with two full private bathrooms and is offering hot showers, clean toilets, shampoo, soap and towels free of charge.

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GERMAny: A team gets to grips with the course at the mudflat sledge championships on the Wadden Sea in Upleward picture: getty

ITALy: Thieves have stolen seven monkeys in a late-night raid on a zoo. The group took six rare lion tamarins and one goeldi monkey from the Punta Verde Zoo in the north-eastern town of Lignano. The animals, valued at €17,000 – could be sold on to private buyers, police say.

israel accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields as 84,000 forced to flee

palestinian child death toll rises to at least 112 in Gaza by SHAROn MARRIS TENS of thousands of Palestinians have been made homeless following the deadliest day of the Middle East conflict so far. Almost 84,000 people are now taking refuge in dozens of UN shelters. At least 425 Palestinians, including 112 children, have been killed since July 8, the Gaza health ministry said. In Israel, 20 are dead, including two civilians. During yesterday’s fighting in Gaza City, some 100 Palestinians from a single neighbourhood died, as well as 13 Israeli soldiers. The heavy bombardment was in the Shejaiya area of Gaza City. From Gaza, Chris Gunness of the UN Relief and Works Agency warned: ‘The situation here for civilians is intolerable and children are deeply traumatised. There has been massive displacement today and we’re calling on all parties to exercise maximum restraint.’ A three-day ground offensive followed ten days of air strikes on targets linked to Hamas on the Gaza Strip. The Arab group last night responded with claims they had kidnapped an Israeli soldier. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has travelled to the region in an attempt to revive ceasefire negotiations – but it was clear he has a difficult task ahead. Israeli minister Naftali Bennett said the actions of Hamas were ‘effectively self-genocide’. He said Israel ‘has the right to defend itself’ against its ‘cynical and cowardly’ actions – and accused the group of using civilians as human shields. Mr Bennett added: ‘Sometimes in wars there is collateral damage – but I’m not going to ask forgiveness for defending my four children who had rockets shot at home this morning.’

Injured: A girl is carried to A&E, as a boy awaits treatment Ap/reX

Fleeing: A family sits in an excavator leaving Shejaiya. A resident said the ‘smell of fire and death’ was in the air n THE Dublin councillor who took down the Israeli flag from Dún Laoghaire Harbour on Friday said he did so on foot of calls from constituents. The flag had been flying as part of the Optimist European Championship for young sailors, in which seven Israeli boys and girls took part. However, People Before Profit’s Hugh Lewis said constituents were ‘disgusted’ the Israeli state flag is flying at a time of so much brutality and violence. Meanwhile, thousands of people took part in a pro-Palestinian march through Dublin on Saturday.

The ground offensive: Smoke billows from the Shejaiya area of Gaza City. Thousands of Palestinians living nearby have fled pictures: epA/reuters

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ristiano Ronaldo’s model lover Irina Shayk says she was happy to strip off for her first acting role in Hercules because it was ‘a piece of art’. She spends most of her time in the blockbuster with very few clothes on playing the Greek hero’s wife Megara. She told Guilty Pleasures in an exclusive chat: ‘I’m a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body. I feel like you can be naked on a different level. ‘To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it’s a piece of art. You know, there’s nothing vulgar in there.’ Irina stars opposite Dwayne Johnson, 42, in the swords-and-sandals epic and while The Rock was busy pumping iron so he could bulk up as

Hercules, Shayk insisted she didn’t do any extra preparation for the part. ‘No diet for me,’ she said. ‘I love to eat so just balancing between eating and working out. I had a little chocolate. I was pretty bad with food on set. It doesn’t matter if you’re small, big or fit, if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, “Oh my God, I look amazing” and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect.’ Dwayne ‘The ed Irina, 28, who has been Rock’ Johnson claim the on rk dating Ronaldo, 29, since wo to ck going ba 7 after 2010, revealed that set of Fast & Furious a ‘surreal’ s director Brett Ratner wa Paul Walker died ing on needed multiple takes perience. He said be ex o for her kissing scenes t without Walker als with former wrestler se uraged even greater co Dwayne. ‘Yeah, it was ‘en s’. The 42-year-old cu fo great. I can’t complain,’ ded: ‘You step on ad she said. set and you want to n Hercules is out on honour him.’ Friday.

Franco and Lana: Born to be together? James Franco is either dating Lana Del Rey or he’s making a serious play for her after sharing another picture of the singer on his Instagram account. The 36-year-old appears to have become obsessed with Del Rey ever since she watched him perform in his play Of Mice And Men. His latest image sees him on the beach with the 28-year-old’s arms wrapped around his neck, quoting her lyrics in the caption: ‘Down on the West Coast, they got a sayin…’ Del Rey is reportedly dating snapper Francesco Carrozzini.

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Richard Branson’s 90-year-old mother, Eve, says Kate Winslet didn’t do much to save her from a blazing Necker Island. ‘She took me down four steps and that was it,’ she said.

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Zac Efron and Bear Grylls had fans cheering when a clip of them abseiling in a TV show was revealed. Grylls tells the actor: ‘Let’s take our tops off, stuff them in our backpacks.’

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It was a case of check mate when pop sirens Rita Ora and Iggy Azalea slipped in to spray on bodysuits to shoot the video for their duet Black Widow in Los Angeles. British pin up Ora, 23, showed off her blonde ambition in a light wig to match her red and black jumpsuit. Meanwhile, 24-year-old Aussie rap queen Iggy slipped in a contrasting white get up to show off her equal fab figure. In between takes the two chart queens were seen by fans hanging out in their bathrobes. Fancy hitmaker Iggy wasn’t taking any chances it seems when she called on a stunt person to fill in some of her scenes.

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DOTING dad David Beckham has hit back at claims he left son Cruz alone in a car while he worked out in LA. The 39-yearold was accused by a paparazzo of abandoning the nine-year-old during his spin class in California. But his spokesman said: ‘It is complete lunacy to insinuate David would leave his kids in the car like that. There was a nanny and air conditioning.’

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Horrors: Acid on stage is a nightmare... Frontman Badwan warns off hallucinogenic drug

eaches Geldof’s ex-lover Faris Badwan has to watch where he takes acid. The horrors frontman, 27, has assured fans he does not use the powerful hallucinogenic drug before he performs on stage. ‘I don’t drink but I like to take acid – sometimes,’ he told Guilty Pleasures. ‘I prefer not to do it before I perform because I sing and singing is quite difficult.’ But Badwan isn’t concerned with the possibility of a bad reaction to the drug. ‘I don’t get bad trips,’ he revealed. The star

dated tragic Peaches Geldof in 2008, who died from a heroin overdose in april. Meanwhile, The horrors are thankful to have no ‘special’ surprises waiting for them in their dressing room. ‘We played a show in Poland and in the dressing room there was this large wooden box with a sign saying, “surprise for The horrors,” Badwan said. ‘Inside was a girl dressed as a cat holding a bottle of Jack Daniel’s,’ he added. ‘I slammed it shut and told no one to open the box. We left her in there for an hour-and-a-half. We didn’t ask for it, it just appeared.’ The horrors’ album Luminous is out now.

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Good news for One Direction fans – Harry Styles will stick with the band until he is old and grey. The heartthrob pledged his allegiance to the boyband after it emerged last week he had been song-writing alone and set up his own company called Has Publishing Ltd. ‘I’m 100 per cent in this band. I still want to be touring with One Direction in ten years. I’ll be doing it until I’m old and people are telling me to stop,’ he said. Cooing about his four bandmates Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson, the 20-year-old said: ‘The relationship that’s grown with these four boys that I didn’t even know three years ago is absolutely insane and it’s incredible.’

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Marlay residents seek concert cap ResiDeNts in the Marlay Park area of the city are looking for a cap of three events per year at the Rathfarnham amenity after the three-day Longitude festival drew to a close yesterday. eight separate events have been held at the site this year, including Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon and Kanye West. speaking to the sunday times, Marlay Grange Residents Association chairman tom Ryan said: ‘We want to meet with [Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown] council and say: “You overdid it this year. these concerts have been going on a month and people’s patience is wearing thin.”’

Strand water test results due today BAtHeRs in sandymount will find out today if it is safe to go back in the water. three Dublin beaches – sandymount, Killiney and White Rock – were ruled offlimits last week as local authorities investigated the cause of a deterioration in the water quality at these locations. After samples were taken, restrictions were lifted as the water was deemed to be in compliance with required standards. However, after intense rainfall on Friday, the drainage network saw an overflow on to the strand. More samples were taken on Friday to assess water quality, with results due today.

Sun, sea and stunts in the skies

Robynn Atcheson with his children Aodhán and Éabha were among 88,000 people who took in the spectacular spec ar sights sigh of Ireland’ss biggest air show, the Bray ay Air ir Display as part par of Bray ay Summerfest, est, which featured aviation acrobatics from planes like the G-THEA Boeing Stearman PT13 (above left) and a performance from the Black Knights Defence Forces Parachute Team (left) PictureS: Joe Keogh

Irish surfer missing off Australian coast AUSTRALIAN rescue crews hope to resume their search today for an Irish surfer missing off the New South Wales coast since Saturday. The 19-year-old, who has not been named, was surfing with two friends at Byron Bay when he got into difficulty. New South Wales police said emergency services were called to Tallow Beach following reports that three males were ‘caught in a rip while surfing’.

by JOAnnE AHERn In an official statement, it said that a helicopter, Volunteer Rescue Association members and officers from Byron Bay Police Station located two of the men following a search. A 26-year-old man was found not suffering any injuries, a 20-yearold man was found on rocks and suffered minor injuries. The third man, however, remains

missing after the search was called off because of rough conditions. The Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin has said it is in contact with the family of the missing man. Speaking to ABC News in Australia, Surf Life Saving Far North Coast duty officer Jimmy Keogh described weekend coastal conditions as ‘treacherous’ but said that crews would try to resume the search.

Gavin bounces back Church arson being from post-op scare treated as hate crime LITTLE fighter Gavin Glynn is on the road to recovery after an unexpected setback following his life-saving operation. The cancer-stricken fouryear-old (right), from Greystones, Co Wicklow, had been making good progress after surgeons in the US removed two tumours from his pelvis a fortnight ago. The brave youngster, who suffers from a rare childhood cancer, amazed doctors by getting back on his feet just days after his operation at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. But alarm bells were raised last week after Gavin had difficulty breathing after his tummy became swollen.

Detectives in the North are treating an overnight arson attack on a church as a hate crime. scorch damage was caused to the front door of the st Mary’s star of sea church in Newtownabbey, co Antrim. it is the latest in a number of attacks on the catholic place of worship. it is believed sectarian vandals poured flammable liquid on the church and set it alight shortly before 1.30am. the Police service of Northern ireland has appealed for witnesses. North Belfast Unionist MP Nigel Dodds condemned those behind the attack, saying: ‘those who carried out this utterly appalling action only want to stir up tensions and cause offence.’

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Hamas to blame for bringing violence to Gaza Strip

nstead of Fianna Fáil and sinn Féin blaming Israel for the current conflict with Hamas, their energies would be better used in explaining to Hamas’s political chief Khaled Meshal the benefits for all of a peaceful solution based on our own model of the angloIrish agreement. Mr Meshal’s mission would be much more effective if, through peaceful negotiation, he is able to bring about a transition whereby Hamas evolves from a terrorist group into a mainstream political party. He and his cronies must understand that a country like Israel has no choice but to defend her people from indiscriminate attacks by fanatical enemies that surround her on all sides. Israel has no desire to see the unimaginable pain Mr Meshal’s own people are suffering as a result of his organisation’s misguided campaign of terror. If Hamas had accepted the ceasefire offer, the four youngsters killed on the beach would still be alive, their families would have been spared their terrible anguish, and the people

of Gaza would be getting their lives back to normal instead of suffering the humanitarian crisis that is now only beginning. David Bradley, Drogheda ■ I for one would be in favour of a cull on seagulls. Recently, I find myself waking up every morning at 4am to seagulls screeching like roosters. the bloody seagulls have no sense of time, however, and continue for long periods. these creatures harass us in this city so it’s time we taught them a lesson – cull them. I need my sleep. Anti-Seagull Campaigner ■ Coughing Cal – nobody likes cigarette smoke blowing in their direction but no amount of self-importance on your part can control the emissions and smells in the air. If somebody is smoking near you, don’t stand beside or downwind of them. JP Blue ■ dear humans, we are not called ‘seagulls’! We are just ‘gulls’. ‘seagulls’ are constructs of kids’ books. Look us up in a bird book. Intellectugull

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A NEW way of screening drugs using samples of beating heart tissue has been pioneered by UK scientists. The technique could lead to safer treatments while avoiding risky human trials – which can have unwanted side effects – or distressing animal experiments, it is claimed. Dr Helen Maddock, who spent almost ten years developing the ‘work-loop assay’ screening system at the University of Coventry, said the technique ‘has the potential to shave years off the development of successful drugs for a range of treatments’.

A BILLBOARD from the 1937 release of the animated film Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs has been sold at auction for $10,755 (€7,950). Texas-based Heritage Auctions would not identify the winning bidder, but said the rare billboard – which had been in a private collection for more than a decade – had been expected to fetch at least $10,000. The 6x2.7m billboard – printed in England to promote the Disney film there – features three scenes. The main one shows Snow White in front of a castle, surrounded by the dwarfs and other characters.

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Reilly hails ‘landmark’ ruling ‘I am determined that we will act to try to prevent children from ever starting to smoke in the first place.’ Meanwhile, Prof Luke Clancy of the Tobacco Free Research Institute Ireland said: ‘I have always advised that the Government should take this on and it should be a class action like occurred in the States, and I think that would benefit the State and help to pay medical costs that have been inflicted on the country for the last 40 years.’

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THE widow of a heavy smoker in the by DAniEL binns US has been awarded $23.6billion cigarette maker in the US. The case is (€17.4billion) in damages. Lawyers for Cynthia Robinson said the one of thousands filed in Florida after the jury ‘wanted to send a statement that to- state Supreme Court threw out a $145bilbacco cannot continue to lie to the Amer- lion class action verdict in 2006. That ruling also said smokers and ican people and the American government about the addictiveness of and the their families need only prove addiction and that smoking caused their illnesses deadly chemicals in their cigarettes’. Her husband, Michael Johnson, died or deaths. Last year, Florida’s highest of lung cancer in 1996, aged 36. He court re-approved that decision, which smoked Kool cigarettes from the age of meant sick smokers or their survivors 13. She argued cigarette-maker RJ Rey- did not have to prove again that the companies knowingly sold nolds was negligent in informdangerous products. ing consumers of the dangers Ms Robinson was also of consuming tobacco. awarded an additional J Jeffery Raborn, vice presi$16.8million (€12.4m) in dent of RJ Reynolds, called the compensatory damages. damages ‘grossly excessive and The lawsuit’s goal was to impermissible under state and stop children being targetted constitutional law’. He added: with tobacco advertising, said ‘This verdict goes far beyond Willie Gary, an attorney for the realm of reasonableness Ms Robinson. ‘If we don’t get and fairness.’ a dime, that’s okay if we can The company, which also save some lives,’ Mr Gary said. makes Camel and Pall Mall RJ Reynolds is to appeal. brands, is the second largest Culprit : Kool

CHILDREN’S Minister James Reilly has described the RJ Reynolds ruling as ‘a landmark decision’. As Health Minister, he had called for a smokefree Ireland by 2025, which would see smoking levels at five per cent. In a statement to RTÉ News, Mr Reilly said: ‘The Irish Government is determined that we will introduce plain packaging for tobacco in an effort to make sure that citizens recognise the very real and grave dangers of smoking tobacco.

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HE WAS perhaps best known for playing laid-back, wisecracking private investigator Jim Rockford. And James Garner fans are in mourning after the Emmy-award winning Rockford Files star died of natural causes aged 86. The actor – who suffered a stroke in May 2008 – was found at his home in Los Angeles on Saturday, police said. In an acting career spanning five decades, he first came to prominence in 1957 as a con-artist in Maverick, a TV show that subverted the Western action genre. Garner would later play a supporting role as a marshal in the 1994 film Maverick, a big-screen version with Mel Gibson. He also co-starred with Audrey Hepburn, Doris Day and Sandra Bullock but received his only Oscar nomination in 1985 for Murphy’s Romance. Garner repeatedly returned to TV, including The Rockford Files from 1974 to 1980. In 1957, he married TV actress Lois Clarke, and their marriage survived stormy patches. ‘We’d just watch the sunset from the front porch,’ Garner said in 2000. ‘But then the phone started ringing with all these wonderful offers, and we decided: “Heck, let’s stay in the business for a while.”’

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It’s Oxford newbies versus oldies tonight as Oxford Brookes takes on the wizened sages of Jesus College, bookworms since 1571. Jeremy Paxman poses the questions.

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Sky Atlantic, 11.15pm It’s a mere six-episode, final season send-off for Maggie Q (above) as the small but perfectly formed assassin, which seems somewhat churlish given all she’s been through. Now burdened with the tag ‘the world’s most wanted woman’ on account of the fact that she’s been accused of bumping off the president – when hardcore fans will recall the woman in question shot herself – this climactic run focuses on our heroine’s efforts to clear her name.

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Sky Atlantic, 10.10pm There’s a touch of Romeo and Juliet about this sexed-up thriller tonight, in the story of a forbidden romance between an Amish boy and a Native American girl. It’s a relationship that splits the town of Banshee down the middle – with Sheriff Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) stuck right in the middle. And then his son shows up…

The collapse of the Rana Plaza clothing factory in Bangladesh last year, which killed 1,134 people, threw a global spotlight on the high price paid in other parts of the world so high-street shops in Europe and the US can sell fashion at rock-bottom prices. In this report, survivors of the tragedy reveal wages as low as €1.90 a day can be life-changing for a Bangladeshi woman. Which means the work goes on.

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In one of Corrie’s more peculiar scenes, Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) offers his analysis of Middle Of The Road’s Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep to cab passenger Neil, partner of two-timing Andrea, who thinks Steve is her fancy man. Do you know The Wrong End Of The Stick by The Angry Boyfriends? It’s got a really good beat.

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Given her history of pill addiction, Sharon is reluctant to heed Phil’s advice to take her medication. Poor Shaz, this once-pivotal character is getting short shrift in an Albert Square that’s all about the Carters and Lucy Beale these days.

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It’s the final day of the Second Test at Lord’s and if it’s a close-run thing, England will be rueing the fact that they let India off the hook on the opening day when they had the visitors at their mercy, Rahane’s century the key in recovering from 145-7 to an opening 295 total. A win for Alastair Cook (above) and his side is vital for the team’s series hopes if bowler Jimmy Anderson is banned from the rest of the matches.

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Dubliner Andrew Maxwell is one of the comedians put on the spot in this show – the others are Drew Carey and Tony Law – as they perform improvised comedy routines based on random subjects presented to them by members of the audience while they’re on stage.

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If you spend too much time giggling at cat videos on YouTube, this is the quiz for you. Glee’s Kevin McHale is the host for a celeb larkabout with questions which are loosely connected by the fleeting nature of online fame. Here’s one: who was that girl with the annoying Friday song?

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Daniel Day-Lewis gives an Oscar-winning performance in this biopic about the writer and artist Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy into a working class Dublin family. Brown (played by Hugh O’Conor as child and DayLewis as an adult) is paralysed, except for his left foot, but going against advice to have him institutionalised, Christy’s mother (Brenda Fricker, above with Day-Lewis) refuses to give up on her son.

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In tonight’s third episode, Róisín Ní Thomáin examines the work of Kathleen Lonsdale, who was born in Co Kildare and whose cuttingedge work in X-ray crystallography made her one of the most important chemists of the 20th century.

Offbeat Cuban/Scottish co-production sees Amber actress Eva Birthistle (left with ballet star Carlos Acosta) and Charity Wakefield playing chalk-and-cheese sisters Rosa, a political activist, and Allie, a party girl. The pair team up to take their dead father’s ashes to Cuba, where a series of unlikely plot twists ensues, which begins with the ashes going missing.

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Fifty years is a long time to search for a brother you’ve longed to meet. Can Nicky Campbell, Davina McCall and their noble band of researchers bring Pauline Wood’s restless quest to a happy conclusion? It’s been a mere 25 years since Sara Price-Parker started searching for her birth mother but the team is on her case, too.

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Ridley Scott’s ‘haunted-housein-space’ epic is still a classic 35 years on, with a groundbreaking female action hero in Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver). When the crew of a spaceship stops by a mysterious planetoid to investigate a distress transmission, little do they suspect they’re on a collision course with doom. A tip-top cast, including Harry Dean Stanton and John Hurt, provide fine performances, but it’s the odd glimpses of HR Giger’s alien that provide the thrills.

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Convoluted horror with an interesting premise – Lisa (Abigail Breslin) is the only one in her family to realise they’ve been caught in a time loop. Gradually, she discovers a menacing force is behind her supernatural Groundhog Day and she must put a stop to it. Unfortunately, once the mystery disappears, so does the tension.

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Acting against indifference Yaël Farber’s powerful testimonial play Nirbhaya, based on the Delhi gang rape incident that claimed a young woman’s life, comes to Dublin this week. She talks to Daragh Reddin about providing a platform for those who have been victimised

hen 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh Pandey was brutally gang raped on a bus in Delhi in December 2012, her story provoked revulsion across the globe. even by the standards of a country in which a woman is raped every 21 minutes, this crime was particularly abominable and prompted thousands to protest for reform. One of those incensed by the incident was Johannesburg-born playwright and director

Yaël Farber. ‘It’s hard to know why one particular crime sets a blaze in the public mindset but Jyoti’s story, and the sheer brutality of her death, horrified people,’ Farber says. ‘She had an everywoman quality. her parents struggled for every single cent in their home and her father had sold land just to give her an education which, in and of itself, was very unusual. For her destiny to hinge on getting on the wrong bus at the wrong moment and to be brutalised in the way she was is profoundly shocking.’

Like countless others, Farber took to Facebook to express her abhorrence over what had happened to Jyoti. When her status update came to the attention of Bollywood actress and activist Poorna Jagannathan, the pair began trading messages. ‘At some point in our conversation, Poorna said to me you need to come to India because people are ready to speak,’ Farber explains. ‘Poorna is herself a survivor of child abuse and she felt quite strongly that anyone who’d been silent about sexual violence was somehow complicit in those crimes. She was adamant that it was time we started to break the silence.’ To highlight her commitment to the project, Jagannathan paid for flights for Farber and her five-year-old daughter to come to Bombay to commence research on the project. ‘I simply wouldn’t have gone of my own volition,’

Farber says. ‘I wouldn’t have had the sense of authority to go to India and try to tell a story that was so raw to the nation. But because I went at the behest of someone as respected as Poorna, I felt it was above board. At the time, I was head of the directing programme at the national Theatre of Canada [Farber is based in Montreal] but I immediately quit because I felt that there was only a small aperture of time in which Jyoti’s story would remain at the forefront of public consciousness. A flame had been lit in the days and weeks after her death and we had to keep the momentum of that going.’ Given the culture of silence that surrounds sexual crime in India, what surprised Farber most was the sheer volume of women who were prepared to speak to her about their experiences.

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‘We put a message out on Facebook and the number of responses was overwhelming. It was a gesture of enormous courage just to come forward but Jyoti’s death was a major catalyst; her story underscored the fact that the silence was just no longer sustainable.’ Nirbhaya (Hindi for ‘fearless’) premiered in Edinburgh in 2013 to unqualified acclaim. In it, seven performers – six women, one man – relate their own real life experiences of violence and sexual abuse. One of the most heartbreaking is that of Sneha Jawale, whose husband tried to kill her by covering her in kerosene and setting her alight. Her face still bears the scars of the attack. ‘What makes Nirbhaya special,’

“I’ve always been interested in rescuing stories from indifference” Farber believes, ‘is that it’s not merely a piece performed by actors. The fact that the stories – be they marital rape, marital domestic violence or child abuse – are told by those who’ve experienced them gives a sense of urgency and authenticity. The play is about cultivating and maintaining the stories of these beautiful people in their own words.’

Heartbreaking: Nirbhaya (above and below left) sees six women and one man tell their harrowing stories of violence and sexual abuse The audience response to Nirbhaya has, Farber explains, been overwhelming. ‘The outpouring of grief and emotion it’s triggered has been so great that we came up

with the idea of having the cast stand outside the theatre afterwards to meet the audience. We thought the best way of facilitating the response the play provoked was to let the theatre-goers file past in order to hug the women or share their own stories with them.’

arbEr is keen to play down the notion that crimes of this nature are entirely the result of India’s caste system. ‘We hear a lot about crimes that are committed in the more economically-challenged echelons of Indian society but no echelon is immune to it. ‘Certainly, poorer women from lower castes who are socially disempowered are more vulnerable but, as these testimonials prove, perpetrators come from all walks of life. ‘The idea that a person’s frustrations and rage can be purged by attacking another member of society is a travesty. It’s important to recognise too that this isn’t a crisis particular to India in any way, shape or form. There’s not a single country in the

world that can exclude itself from a conversation on the prevalence of genderbased violence.’ Nirbhaya is not Farber’s first foray into testimonial theatre. The equally acclaimed amajuba (Like Doves We rise) celebrated real-life accounts of five black South africans who lived under apartheid; in He Left Quietly, Farber worked with death row inmate Duma Kumalo, one of the infamous Sharpville Six, who had been wrongly convicted of the murder of a town councillor (15 hours before he was to be hanged, Kumalo had his sentence commuted). ‘I suppose I’ve always been interested in rescuing stories from indifference,’ Farber says. ‘I’ve a strong commitment to wresting the testimonials of the disenfranchised back from the silence. It’s often harrowing but it’s defined the very fabric of my subjects’ lives and it’s also defined me as a writer and director.’ Nirbhaya runs today until Sat at The Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire. www.paviliontheatre.ie

THIs Is Other acclaiMeD YaËl Farber prODuctiOns Molora the truth & reconciliation commission enabled Yaël Farber to confront the murderous legacy of apartheid and move towards reparation. the ancient Greek trilogy the Oresteia, in which a family is torn apart by a cycle of vengeance, isn’t a perfect analogy for south african racial politics but it does provide a personal story in which to explore resonant themes of revenge and forgiveness. the Farber Foundry’s stark, bloody production, which played the Galway arts Festival in 2008, transplanted aeschylus’s tale to a rural Xhosa community where electra and her brother

Orestes are planning to kill their mother Klytemnestra to avenge their father’s murder. Miss Julie strindberg’s 1888 play about gender and class tensions shocked 19th-century sweden when it was first performed. More than 125 years later, Yaël Farber makes the play shocking all over again by relocating it to modern, post-apartheid south africa. here, in the swampy kitchen of Veenan plaas farm on the night of Freedom Day, John furiously cleans boots as his exhausted mother cooks, and Mies Julie, the white, sulky, sexually restless daughter of the house, prowls like a leopard on heat. the toast of the edinburgh Festival when it premiered in 2012, Farber’s Miss Julie made frightening sense of the play’s thematic power battles in an african context.

Amajuba south africa’s headlong rush forward since the collapse of apartheid left little time for reflection. truth and reconciliation has only gone so far: many millions have no outlet for their painful memories. amajuba presented five childhood stories as an attempt to come to terms with the country’s recent past. the black actors involved collaborated with Farber to dramatise their personal testimonies. One woman was abandoned at the age of eight to fend for herself; another was forced to flee soweto’s notorious Zola township, only for her young cousin to be shot in the head there; one of the men, ‘15 years old and s**t-scared’, became part of the black militia movement.

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Mystery men: ‘Duo’ Jungle call in a few friends to help them out But while it’s partly hyper-colour escapist music, the kind of thing you can imagine soundtracking a sundown city barbecue, there’s a darker side that makes the whole album sneak into your consciousness far more deeply. Smoking Pixels is a Morriconestyle, low-slung psych instrumental, while a whirring, almost sirenesque synth noise overlays the warm notes of Crumbler in a delicious almost-clash.

and while it’s obvious they can do bombastic with aplomb, tracks such as Drops, with its shiveringly light beats and otisnodding ‘i’ve been loving you too long’ refrain show how much Jungle have to offer at a lower register. By the end, you might start to tire of what feels a little too much like variations on the same theme but the laid-back warmth is irresistible. Amy Dawson

Master of misery pulls off a late triumph He may be no less of a stranger to controversy than ever but Morrissey’s continued chart success has obscured the fact his solo LPs have been increasingly irrelevant. Perhaps his autobiography pushed him back into the spotlight, or maybe a sense of occasion naturally builds around any cultish iconoclast who’s just turned 55, but Morrissey’s tenth album lands with impressive force. It does so by leaning less on the relentlessly boisterous rock of recent years and opting for subtlety. That said, Earth Is The Loneliest Planet Of All is a shameless pitch at the singer’s vast Latin American fan base, while Staircase At The

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Wild sounds to thrill you eneration Y probably needs another blog-hyped ‘mysterious’ music duo about as much as it needs to take another selfie in a pop-up burger restaurant. But it was obvious from the start that the future retro soul-funk produced by Jungle, two west London childhood friends formerly known only as J and t, was going to be a cut above the rest. a shimmering mixture of P Funk, distorted tropical pop, falsettovoiced soul and electronica, this highly anticipated debut from the tom McFarland and Joshua LloydWatson (who once played in a reformed Britpop act together) is kaleidoscopically, shruggingly cool. the big lead singles, which have arrived alongside perfectly pitched videos featuring roller skaters, dance troupes and the like, will be familiar: the brass hook swagger of Busy earnin’, the melancholic/euphoric groove of Platoon and the slinky dream funk of the Heat.

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bland tune. But the highlights shine: the epic I’m A Man, which pours scorn on the concept of masculinity via crooning loveliness; the intriguing Istanbul, which could be The Smiths sourcing Turkish folk; and Neal Cassady Drops Dead, where walloping beats and dirty, crunched riffs are matched with Spanish classical guitar and comically surreal lyrics. Despite its message (‘each time you vote, you support the process’), the swinging title track wouldn’t be out of place in an Arctic Monkeys set. Together, they see off the mid-point slump of World Peace…, making it a lateperiod career triumph. sharon O’Connell

vocals and guitar. This excellent debut mixes sweet vocals, acerbic lyrics, scuzzy guitar, thumping drums and washes of reverb in a strongly melodic sound that’s part alt-rock, part punk-pop and part Phil Spector

girl group. The expert touch of producer Peter Katis, famous for his work with Interpol and The National, is evident in the lo-fi balance of richness and clarity, sweetness and darkness – honey and blood. AD

It’s out with the mimsy nu-folk and lovelorn indie pop for this duo, whose third album sees them looking to the US, across genres and down the decades, for inspiration. The spirits of Marvin Gaye, Frankie Valli and Ryan Adams hover, although You Did Wrong is more Faith Hill via Duffy. Rebecca Taylor’s voice isn’t quite up to the tear-stained belters but a soulful depth and maturity shine through. sO’C

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Out and about in Dublin Taken to art: Miguel Patrick Doyle and Louise Doyle (below) admired the art and scenery at Gormley’s Fine Art Garden Sculptur Sculpture Exhibition in Russborough House

going out The brightest boffins, eggheads and researchers from around the globe will converge on Dublin this week for the annual Festival Of Curiosity, which offers the lay community a unique opportunity to learn about the latest advances in the world of science and technology. Highlights include an ‘interactive science playground’ at the festival’s HQ in Smock Alley Theatre; Blood And Guts, a walking tour of Dublin’s ‘horrible history’; and Tomorrow’s World, a speculative look at the nature of life in 2050. Elsewhere, Nobel Prize winner Bruce Beutler will share the story of how he took science’s top accolade for his research on the immune system, while Festival Of Curiosity regular Dara O’Briain will oversee an evening devoted to ‘curious science’ at The Mansion House. For full listings see website. Thu to Sun, various venues. www.festivalofcuriosity.ie

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auty in Beauty abundance: Miss Ireland 2013 Aoife Walsh and former Miss Ireland Rebecca McGuire (below) at the final of Miss Ireland 2014 at The Ballsbridge Hotel

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The Unknown Theatre, comprised of students fro m Ballyfermot Youthreach, present their inaugural sho w this week in Temple Bar. Streets & Stories is a series of playlets taking in the varied experiences of residents of Ballyfermot – a single mo the and homeless woman am r on them – each related in the g characteristically colourfu l West Dublin argot Until Fri, The New Theatre, 43 Essex Street East D2, 7.30p m, (selected mats, 2pm), €5. Tel: (01) 670 3361. www.thenewtheatre.com

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German electro-etherealist hometown of Kiel as the Ulrich Schnauss once described his ‘th Growing up there not only e most boring, ugly place in the world’. fos since resided in Berlin and tered a desire to get out fast (he’s London) but to also make music – something that he beautiful ’s swelling grace, Cocteau Tw undeniably succeeded at. Slowdive’s ins Canada’s electronic ambie ’ dreamy guitars and Boards Of nce are all apparent in Sch na yearning soundscapes, wh ich stretch from shoegaze uss’s balmy, dance. He joins San Franci to euphoric sco Scott Hansen, for this mid-w ambient music maestro Tycho, aka Wed, The Button Factory, eek get together at The Button Factory Curved Street D2, 8pm, €14 . Tel: (01) 670 9202. www.b uttonfactory.ie

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Jobs&Courses Jobs that’s my business What is Hassle.com?

Hassle.com matches busy working people with local trusted cleaners at a flat rate of €12 per hour.

What is your role within the business? I am Chief Product Officer (CPO) which includes responsibility for design and development of the website, as well as overseeing operations and customer service for the business.

What’s your typical day/ what did you do today? It

starts with a cycle to the office for 8am, reading emails, followed by a check in on our customer-service

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Dubliner Jules Coleman is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Hassle.com.

leads on any issues and our product team to review features. We’re recruiting, so I’d do some interviews, then more emails before I try to get home and have dinner.

What’s your background? How did it help you in your current role? I studied Econom-

based? We started in 2012, when

ics and Finance in UCD, and then Accenture and PwC where I was a management consultant. It was a great introduction to the world of starting your own business.

we got accepted into an accelerator programme in the UK for young businesses. Our headquarters is in London but we also have offices in cities we are based in.

How did you end up in the UK? I went to work for Accenture

How is the business funded?

straight from UCD on the

graduate scheme and then moved across to the UK.

From accounting to game development ...

You left a well-paid job to start your own business – why? I always had a dream of starting my own business as long as I can remember. Leaving a job is always scary, but the time was right and I would have regretted it if I did not take the plunge.

You taught yourself to code to create the first Hassle.com website, how did you do that? I went to

…and everything in between.

a book shop and bought a coding book. Having it in hardcopy meant I could not copy and paste and had to learn it from scratch.

How many cleaners have you signed up in Ireland?

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time-poor and would prefer to spend time on the things they enjoy. This ranges from working professionals and mums to people in a house-share.

Company: Hassle.com Business: Online vetted cleaner directory Established: 2012 Employees: 20 in the UK and Ireland

We’ve launched in Ireland with over 100 of the best professional cleaners live on the service. They have been carefully selected from a huge number of applicants and we are bringing many more great cleaners onboard daily.

At first, we worked off our own savings. Since then, we secured over $6million in Series A round funding from Accel Partners, who invested in Facebook and Hailo.

Why did you choose Dublin?

I am from Dublin so I feel like I know it. It’s a vibrant city with great technology companies and a very tech-savvy population – not always the case with other international cities.

What are the benefits of booking a cleaner through Hassle.com?

in the cleaner market and remain committed to having the best service for hiring cleaners and expanding that internationally.

You are a co-founder – who are your partners? How do you know them? Alex

Depledge and Tom Nimmo, who I met at Accenture. We are like chalk and cheese in many ways, but get on famously.

What do you enjoy most about your job? Seeing Hassle.

com develop from a company started on a dining table to launching and connecting hundreds of cleaners to steady employment.

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Everyone is busier and under pressure. We help take some of the stress away

Before, you had to find cleaners via word of mouth, the classifieds, or an agency. Every cleaner’s background is thoroughly checked; we interview them and follow up with their last three customers to ensure they fit.

Having a cleaner was very much a Celtic Tiger thing – do you think you’ve missed the boat on this? People have

How many people do you employ? Twenty people across the UK and Ireland.

always hired cleaners, not just during the boom. Everyone is busier and under pressure. We help take some of the stress away.

When was the company set up? Where is it

What kind of people hire a cleaner? Busy people who are

Emma Cox

Hassle.com is currently only cleaners but you plan to expand to other services. What else is on the list? What’s the five-year plan for the business? We will remain

Finance Analyst, Ulster Bank

What always comes last on your list?

Working on a startup takes up time. I used to be an avid photographer but not for a while.

What’s on your desk? A

camera I never use, the letter from Accel Partners telling us we got the $6million funding, and a pack of Tayto Cheese and Onion.

What is the most exciting aspect of your business for you? Hiring people. You get a real buzz from the energy they bring.

What makes you happy?

Coming back to Dublin to launch the service and hire people has been a particularly happy moment.

Joanne ahern

athletics

HAMiLTOn sTRikEs gOLD in FingAL

Sights on Frank Duffy event: Winner Paddy Hamilton

picture: inpho

PADDY HAMILTON, of Annadale Striders A.C. in Belfast was the clear winner of this year’s SSE Airtricity Race Series Fingal 10km race yesterday in a time of 31:20, 34 seconds ahead of second placed Mark Hoey from Star of the Sea and Team Carrie. Hamilton, who came third in last month’s Irish Runner Five Mile in the Phoenix Park, has set his sights on another top three placing in the next event in the race series, the Frank Duffy ten-mile on August 23. ‘I’m very happy with my time today, it’s a really nice course, and the conditions were good. My focus now is to stay fit and keep Newbie: improving on the McGee

next two events and be ready for the marathon in October, and hopefully improving on my fifth place from last year,’ said Hamilton. Michelle McGee (Brother Pearse, who had a comfortable win in the women’s race in 35.34, only got into competitive running two years ago. Ailish Malone (Clonliffe Harriers) and Fiona Stack (Raheny Shamrocks) were second and third respectively, in times of 35:51 and 36:36. Just over 3,000 participants took part in yesterday’s race, the second of four events in the SSE Series, designed to help athletes prepare for the Dublin Marathon on October 27.

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Come together: Hamilton and Button make contact

Hamilton can’t find the right overtake Button

Jenson Button has hit out at title-chasing Lewis Hamilton for ‘expecting’ cars to make way for him at the German Grand Prix. Hamilton battled his way up from 20th on the Hockenheim grid to claim third as title rival and Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg took maximum points, but the Englishman was involved in three minor collisions.

claimed three podiums in a row before Valtteri Bottas was runner-up in Germany

Mcilroy makes history with magical Open win by DEREk DEnT A-Hoy there: McIlroy kisses the Claret Jug after his victory at Hoylake PICTURE: PA

RORy’s REcORD

3 Majors for

McIlroy, his previous ones being the 2011 US Open and 2012 US PGA

5 Golfers have won all four majors in the past – Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods

tHree of a kind

6 Majors won

by Nick Faldo, the most by a European player. McIlroy is level with Padraig Harrington

McIlroy is the first European to win three different majors since the Masters began in 1934. Nick Faldo and Seve Ballesteros won just two of the four. McIlroy’s way on the short 15th. The Northern Irishman was watching from the tee as Garcia took two shots to escape from a bunker and

2003 Last time a Williams driver

golf the open

RoRy McIlRoy took another giant step towards golfing immortality as he sealed a glorious wire-to-wire open championship victory. McIlroy, at the age of just 25, is already three-quarters of the way to a career grand slam. only five players have managed that in golf’s history. To put what he has achieved into perspective, look at Phil Mickelson, one of the all-time greats. He was 33 when he won his first major. McIlroy already has three. It was not quite the procession we expected yesterday – Sergio Garcia made sure of that with a superb final-round of 66 – but it never looked as if McIlroy’s name would not be engraved on the famous claret Jug. This was often measured golf from McIlroy. He didn’t need to burn the course up. He had made enough eagles and birdies over the first three days to ensure an often safety-first approach would be enough to keep the rest of the field at arm’s length. Garcia deserves immense credit for his efforts, as does McIlroy’s playing partner Rickie Fowler, who shot a 67 to share second place. Birdies at the first, third and fifth, and an eagle at the tenth from Garcia gave him some hope of snatching an unlikely win. Successive bogeys on the fifth and sixth from McIlroy set a few nerves jangling. But a wonderful bunker shot to save par on the seventh steadied the ship, and birdies on the ninth and tenth kept him on course. There were only two shots in it when the tide inexorably turned

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could only make a bogey. McIlroy followed up with a par and the result was never in doubt from there. McIlory finished on 17-under-par

– an outstanding effort. After his offcourse problems of the last year to 18 months, this was McIlroy showing he is truly touched by genius.

The last saw him attempt a pass at the hairpin on former McLaren team-mate Button, only for his fellow Briton to run over the left-wing end plate of Hamilton’s car. When Hamilton eventually passed Button on the following lap, he held up his right hand by way of an apology, later claiming he felt the 34-year-old was letting him through. Hamilton said: ‘I had a little bit of a collision with Jenson. I honestly thought he was opening the door to let me past. He’s been a bit like that in the past, for example, so my bad judgment there.’ But bemused Button said: ‘Why would we let anyone through? I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but a lot of drivers do that line to get a good exit from the corner. ‘The problem with Lewis is he expected me to let him past but I don’t think I’m the only person he drove into. It’s strange but when the car’s so much quicker you’d think he wouldn’t get into so many fights, but there you go. He drove into my rear wheel, that’s all I’ve got to say. I’m out there doing my race. It would make it boring if we all let him past when he was coming through the field.’

‘Blame the gP2 guy’ for track smash

FELIPE MASSA hit out at McLaren rookie Kevin Magnussen after their firstcorner crash – despite stewards absolving him of blame. Williams driver Massa (pictured) ended upside down after the smash at the German Grand Prix. ‘It is normally a guy who comes from GP2 who causes this accident,’ said Massa.

HOckEnHEiM REsuLTs

Final positions after 67 laps: 1 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes GP 1hr 33mins 42.914secs, 2 Valtteri Bottas (Fin) Williams 1:34:03.703, 3 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) Mercedes GP 1:34:05.444, 4 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 1:34:26.928, 5 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 1:34:35.381, 6 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Red Bull 1:34:35.463, 7 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Force India 1:34:47.092, 8 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren 1:35:07.625, 9 Kevin Magnussen (Den) McLaren at 1 Lap, 10 Sergio Perez (Mex) Force India at 1 Lap, 11 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari at 1 Lap, 12 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Lotus F1 Team at 1 Lap, 13 Jean-Eric Vergne (Fra) Scuderia Toro Rosso at 1 Lap, 14 Esteban Gutierrez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari at 1 Lap, 15 Jules Bianchi (Fra) Marussia at 1 Lap, 16 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Caterham at 2 Laps, 17 Max Chilton (Gbr) Marussia at 2 Laps, 18 Marcus Ericsson (Swe) Caterham at 2 LapsNot classified: 19 Adrian Sutil (Ger) SauberFerrari 47 laps completed, 20 Daniil Kvyat (Rus) Scuderia Toro Rosso 44 laps, 21 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Lotus F1 Team 26 laps, 22 Felipe Massa (Bra) Williams 0 Laps completed

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soccer

Van Persie: Captain tip

Robin ‘best bet to take leading role’

BRYAN ROBSON is tipping Robin van Persie to be named as Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United captain, but believes the biggest priority is finding a world-class centre-half. It was thought Van Gaal could wait until Michael Carrick returns from injury before making a decision on the next skipper at Old Trafford, following the summer exit of Nemanja Vidic. But United’s Captain Marvel, who played 461 times for the club, believes Van Gaal will appoint his fellow Dutchman. ‘Robin was his captain of Holland, so that is an obvious one,’ said Robson. Van Gaal, currently at United’s pre-season training camp in the USA, faces the bigger problem of finding defenders, after the departure of Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, while left-back Patrice Evra has been lined up for a move to Juventus. ‘When you lose three class defenders like that, then you need to bring in a really top-drawer centre-half to the club,’ said Robson. ‘That would really give us a chance of winning the title.’

tour de france

Alex’s late show hits Bauer hard AlexAnder Kristoff took the win on stage 15 of the tour de france as the sprinters caught breakaway men Martin elmiger and Jack Bauer on the line. Bauer was left in tears at the finish as norwegian Kristoff (pictured) led the chasing pack past to win the 222km stage from tallard to nimes. Heinrich Haussler was second and Peter sagan third as Vincenzo nibali retained the overall lead. simon Yates’ withdrawal means Geraint thomas is now the last British rider left in the tour.

Royal shyness h Joy: Donegal claim the Ulster cup after Monaghan defeat

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by pAuL kEAnE DONEGAL went back to basics in Clones with a defence-first policy that elevated them back to the summit of Ulster football. Jim McGuinness set up his team in a typically defensive manner and they squeezed the life out of holders Monaghan. In the process, Donegal gained revenge for last year’s final defeat, as well as the more recent Division 2 league final loss at Croke Park in April. It was a typically professional display from Donegal in front of almost 32,000 and they remained in front throughout, leading by 0-6 to 0-4 at half-time.

O’Lionaird wins gold in tight race ATHLETics Ciaran O’Lionaird was named Athlete of the Meet at the GloHealth Senior Track and Field Championships after winning the 1,500m yesterday. With four qualifiers for the European Championships; Paul Robinson, David McCarthy, O’Lionaird and John Travers, the winner was guaranteed a spot on the team for the European Championships. O’Lionaird edged past Robinson with 50m to go to take the title in 3:43.8. Travis claimed bronze while McCarthy was fourth. In the women’s 1,500m Ciara Mageean won in 4:15.35.

It was a tense, tactical first-half that lacked flair as both sides got men behind the ball. Donegal moved 0-9 to 0-5 ahead six minutes into the second-half, thanks to points from Colm McFadden, Odhran MacNiallais and sub Paddy McBrearty. McFadden finished with 0-4, and a 45th minute point from him opened up a double scores 0-10 to 0-5 advantage. But sub Chris McGuinness breathed life into Monaghan’s challenge with a goal in the 50th minute. They came close to levelling it, but couldn’t, and Donegal rallied in the final quarter with points from McBrearty and star fullforward Michael Murphy to win and claim their All-Ireland quarter-final place.

Blues brothers: Bernard Brogan and Michael Darragh MacAuley celebrate

spORT DigEsT More gold for Mel swiMMing Melanie Houghton

continued her winning habit as she won yesterday’s 50m Butterfly at the Irish Age Group Championship to add to her 50m and 100m Freestyle, and 100m Butterfly. David Prendergast won the 100m Freestyle to add to his 50m Backstroke and Freestyle Relay golds.

Dunbar doubles up

O’Lionaird: Man of the Meet

cycLing Eddy Dunbar has become the first back-to-back winner of the Junior Tour, which finished in Ennis yesterday. ‘It is great to have achieved the double. Unfortunately age prevents me from the treble,’ Dunbar said as he took the congratulations of his family.

TwEET spOT... ‘Woohoo!! Title number 22!! So excited! #istanbul’ Caroline Wozniacki (@CaroWozniacki) celebrates winning her 22nd WTA Tour title at the Istanbul Cup – on the day her former fiancée, golfer Rory McIlroy, lifted the Claret Jug as Open champion at Hoylake. Top seed Wozniacki, the world No15, beat Roberta Vinci 6-1, 6-1 to clinch her first title of the year.

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Dublin...........................3-20 Meath.............................1-10 by pAuL kEAnE In the end, it was hard not to be almost grateful for the quite sensational allegations of biting made by Meath manager Mick O’Dowd. Up until O’Dowd’s press room outburst, it had been another run of the mill afternoon for Dublin at Croke Park – they came, they saw and they duly conquered, cantering to their fourth 16th-point defeat of a Leinster championship opponent in just six games and, more significantly, their latest Leinster title. Even manager Jim Gavin struggled to get too worked up about the win, claiming they’ve much to improve on. If that’s true then the rest of the country really should watch out as the holders enter the All-Ireland series. What’s definite is that Dublin are head and shoulders above their provincial rivals and they gave another ruthless demonstration of that fact yesterday. By the 19th minute they’d opened up a six-point lead and already the writing was on the wall for listless Meath. It was an unlikely capitulation from the Royal County. Heading into their third straight Leinster final against Dublin, and having dismantled Kildare, the suspicion was that they may give Dublin a run for their money. Instead, it appears last year’s sevenpoint defeat – Meath led by two at half-time – prompted Dublin to take no chances this time and victory was ironically sealed by half-time. Dublin led by 1-12 to 0-6 at that stage and had a star man in Kevin McManamon who finished the half with three points in a row. Meath persisted with rookie defender Padraic Harnan on the Dubs goal poacher and the Moynalvey man was badly burned.

O’Callaghan: Captain fantastic

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Hard luck: Dublin’s Paul Flynn consoles Joseph eph Wallace of Meath after the Royals ya suffered a crushing defeat by the Dubs in yesterday’s Leinster final picture: inpho

By full-time, McManamon had helped himself to 1-5, all from play, and Harnan was badly exposed as the rampant forward shrugged him off and blasted to the net in the 40th minute. That put Dublin 2-13 to 0-7 ahead and the game was effectively up. Meath brought captain and full-back Kevin Reilly out to midfield, but to little effect.

Whatever about Dublin’s excellence, Meath will be disheartened that they offered such a limp display. O’Dowd picked out Donncha Tobin and Donal Keogan for special mention, but most of the other players were beaten in their individual battles. Behind the scenes, Meath had been training hard for the anticipated arrival of a host of big guns from the

bench in the second-half. They hoped to be still in the game at that stage but, clearly, weren’t. Still, Dublin unloaded their marquee names all the same and with a typical outcome. Eoghan O’Gara contributed 1-1 while Cormac Costello and Dean Rock hit a point each. Meath’s tame response was a late goal from Mickey newman.

Yet another biting allegation taints Dublin’s victory DuBLin’S latest Leinster football title success was marred by dramatic allegations of biting made by Meath manager Mick O’Dowd. the Dubs strolled to yet another 16-point provincial win at Croke park, their fourth in two seasons, to collect their 53rd title. But there was drama in the press room afterwards when Royals boss O’Dowd alleged defender Mickey Burke sustained a bite from an unnamed Dublin player. O’Dowd had only

minutes earlier completed his post match briefing following the 3-20 to 1-10 crushing loss when he returned to the room, declaring that he wanted to report the incident. Burke himself declined to comment as he departed the dressing-room afterwards but did wear a bandage on the middle finger of his left hand. ‘i’ve just come back to the dressing-room after speaking to you and i see the doctor dealing with his finger,’ said O’Dowd. ‘He’s gone to the Dublin dressing-room to talk to the doctor because there’s a protocol in terms of a bite, in terms of blood transferring from one person to another.’

Disappointed: Meath boss Mick O’Dowd claims one of his players was bitten

O’Dowd was asked if he was disappointed with the situation and, while exiting the room, replied: ‘extremely disappointed’. Dublin manager Jim Gavin said the allegation was news to him when quizzed by media later and didn’t comment further. it’s the third allegation of biting against a Dublin player in the last two seasons. Kevin O’Brien was alleged to have bitten Donegal’s paddy McBrearty in a league game last year though no action was taken. Earlier this year, Jason Whelan served a twomatch ban for a reported biting offence in an O’Byrne Cup game. Burke was yellow carded along with two other players, colleague paddy O’Rourke and Dublin’s Eoghan O’Gara, following a fracas in the 65th minute of yesterday’s game. Dublin’s next game is an all-ireland quarterfinal tie against a qualifier side at Croke park on august 9.

O’Callaghan shines as Dubs minors crush Lilies

Captain Con O’Callaghan was told to put the champagne on ice after crushing Kildare at Croke park, writes Paul Keane. the dual star shot 1-6 to help secure Dublin’s third Leinster minor title in four seasons. His 14th-minute goal put Dublin into the lead after a slow start and they didn’t look back. Colm Basquel and aaron Byrne added vital goals in the big win. But O’Callaghan has to immediately turn his attentions to hurling.

‘It’s lovely to have him in our side’ He’ll be playing for pat Fanning’s Dublin minors in the all-ireland minor quarterfinals next Sunday. ‘i was just saying it to him, that the celebrations would need to be very controlled because pat is interested in him for next weekend,’ said boss Cyril Kevlihan. ‘But Con is such a fine young man that i know he’ll do whatever is needed to do. ‘it’s lovely to have him in our side. i can tell you i wouldn’t like to have him against us. He’s a great leader as well and showed it today.’ Dublin’s reward is an allireland quarter-final with Cork. there was a shaky start though when Kildare moved 04 to 0-1 ahead. But Dublin led by 3-9 to 1-8 at half-time and four points in a row after the restart put them 11 clear.

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Bludgeoning Blues: (L-r) Diarmuid Connolly and Cormac Costello celebrate Dublin’s Leinster final victory at Croke Park yesterday pIcture: INpHO

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Dubs dish out Royal hiding but ‘room to improve’ by pAuL kEAnE Jim Gavin demanded even more from his rampant Dublin team despite crushing meath by 16 points to claim their ninth Leinster title in ten seasons. ‘it was a good start to the game but we’d look at the last quarter where we did lose concentration and target improvement there,’ said boss Gavin. ‘Some of our moves and some of our shot selection wasn’t what it should be. But, certainly, there were patches of that game where the players set out to play to the game plan and they did it to the best of their ability. ‘in that regard, it was pleasing.’ Gavin (right) rarely praises individual players and turned his focus on the whole forward line when asked about Kevin

mcmanamon, who shot 1-5 from play and was man of the match. ‘Yeah, (he) played well but i think overall, the forward division, those that started and those that finished, i think it was a complete performance and they worked hard for each other and they displayed a good attitude throughout the game so we are very happy in that regard,’ continued Gavin. ‘i think if you speak with both sets of players, there will be a lot of bruised bodies from that encounter. ‘a very physical game, great intensity shown by both teams. ‘Probably a little bit surprised at the margin of the score at the end as meath never gave up. We were very conscious of that going into the second-half, that if they got opportunities they would go for goals as they’ve done in the past.’

Glory McIlroy Open to dominating A yeAR On fROm labelling his own play ‘brain dead’, Rory mcIlroy spoke of his pride at winning the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool and immediately targeted more major glory. missing the cut at muirfield last year prompted mcIlroy to make a withering assessment of his own game as he looked a shadow of the player who had won the 2011 US Open and 2012 US PGA Championship. But 12 months on, the 25-year-old has his hands on the Claret Jug and is just one step away from winning the career grand slam after holding off a spirited challenge from Ryder Cup team-mate Sergio Garcia. ‘It feels absolutely incredible,’ said mcIlroy, who saw his six-shot overnight

lead cut to two on four occasions before sealing victory with a closing 71. ‘It’s been an incredible week. I’m happy I gave myself enough of a cushion today, because there

‘I’ve found my passion again’ was a lot of guys coming at me, especially Sergio and Rickie (fowler). Just to be sitting here and looking at this thing and having my name on it, it’s a great feeling. It obviously

hasn’t sunk in yet. I’m going to enjoy it and let it sink in tonight in the company of my friends and family. ‘I’m immensely proud of myself. To sit here 25 years of age and win my third major championship and be three-quarters of the way to the career grand slam, I never dreamed of being at this point in my career so quickly. ‘The Open Championship was the one you really wanted growing up, and the one you holed so many putts on the putting green to win, to beat Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, ernie els, whatever.’

mcIlroy’s two-shot win makes him the first european to win three different majors since the masters was founded in 1934 and the third player after Woods and Jack nicklaus to win three majors by age 25. And the ambition is there to try to match the major tallies of Woods and nicklaus. ‘I definitely hope so,’ he said. ‘I’ve really found my passion again for golf. not that it ever dwindled, but it’s what I think about when I get up in the morning. It’s what I think about when I go to bed. ‘Golf is looking to someone to put their hand up and try to dominate and I want to be that person.’

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