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PRIESTS risk getting hot under the col- by NICk BRAMHILL lar after a parish administrator warned they won’t be allowed celebrate mass on Ted to it, warned they will only be alCroagh Patrick this Reek Sunday if they lowed to set foot on the 764m summit if they are carrying a celebret – a form of don’t have their ID with them. Archbishop of Tuam Michael Neary church ID document, signed by the will lead an estimated 30,000 pilgrims bishop or religious superior, which confirms the priest is ‘in good standing’. up the holy mountain on Sunday. Otherwise they face getting cross and Earlier this month, he appealed for churchmen to share the workload on the making a holy show of themselves when they face mass refusals. Co Mayo peak, which will ‘If we recognise the priest include delivering 13 Massor know him, that’s OK. es, hearing confessions and But if they are strangers, giving out communion to the only way we can police thousands of pilgrims. and check who is a practisYesterday, Fr Charlie ing priest is by checking his McDonnell, administrator celebret,’ he added. of Westport parish, conMountain Rescue Ireland firmed 14 priests from across said 100 volunteers will be the country had agreed to on hand to respond to emercome on board, but in a gencies on the day. move with shades of Father Careful now: Fr Ted

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Move over Mel The Chunkinator: Ben & Jerry’s ice cream-powered factory powers its ice cream making

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I, Max: Tom Hardy has taken over Mel Gibson’s title role PICTUREs: WaRnER bRos/ absolUTE fIlm

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Rebels on the run: Some of the first stills from the fourth Mad Max

FANS have had to wait 30years but Mad Max is back – with Tom Hardy in the driving seat. Just to taunt lovers of the post-apocalyptic franchise even more, here are the first official stills from the new film, Fury Road, which won’t be in cinemas until next May. British actor Hardy, 36, replaces star Mel Gibson in the role of ‘Mad’ Max Rockantansky, the hero of a futuristic dystopian world brought alive by director George Miller. Charlize Theron joins him as Imperator Furiosa but will the two rebels be able to restore order in a land of chaos? Find out next year... Warrior: Charlize Theron

IT MAY lack rows of large glass tubes or the enormous pulleys favoured by Oompa Loompas but engineers have invented a machine that powers a factory on ice cream. Like a contraption from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Ben & Jerry’s Chunkinator converts waste products – such as milk, cream syrups and bits of fruit – into energy. They are broken down by 24billion micro-organisms and converted into biogas. It has provided enough power to make 9million litres of ice cream in the past 12months. The factory’s head engineer Arjan Vloon said: ‘The biodigester gives us the opportunity to take what was a waste product and turn it into a benefit for our business.’ The machine – which resembles a giant vat – can also use waste water directly without costly processing. The company said it could halve energy bills at its factory in Hellendoorn, Holland.

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Homeless crisis ‘a policy failure’

SOME 10,000 homeless people in Ireland were supported in 2013, up 2,000 on 2012, a report by Focus Ireland reveals. The Government came under fire with the publication of the data last night, which showed the support group has already helped 8,000 so far this year. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin called the situation ‘shameful’, adding that the homelessness crisis was ‘an indication of a more widespread failure of social policy’.

Irish duo make Booker longlist TWO Irish writers are in the running for this year’s Man Booker Prize. New York-based, Cork-born Joseph O’Neill (The Dog) and Dubliner Niall Williams (History Of The Rain) were among 13 international authors to be longlisted yesterday. Cork-based English writer David Mitchell also made the cut with The Bone Clocks. A rule change has opened the prestigious award up to more countries this year, enabling four US authors to vie for the 46-year-old fiction prize.

Hard-up to get €100 off water bills by ORnA cunningHAM

THE Government has agreed that about 415,000 households on the household benefits package will get €100 a year towards their water bill. Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton also said all children and over 70s would get free GP care over the next three years. The announcements came after ministers said the next Budget would not be as painful as feared. Finance Minister Michael Noonan said when projections for adjustments were made in April, it was expected €2billion in cuts would be needed. However, due to economic expansion, the deficit target of three per cent or less can be achieved with ‘less tax increases and less cutbacks’, he said. Fianna Fáil finance spokesperson Michael McGrath said the adjustment could be less than €1billion. The Government promised to give back in this Budget, he said, adding that it had

Looking up?: Michael Noonan identified the €32,800 threshold at which earners enter the 40 per cent tax band as a point to work on. But some 1.3million taxpayers won’t feel any benefit, he said. Siptu yesterday hit out at preferential treatment given to high earners. Speaking after the HSE indicated to an Oireachtas committee it will seek approval for some hospitals and health agencies to continue extra payments to certain staff, Siptu’s Paul Bell said many members were appalled. ‘It is the stated policy of the HSE that managers in [voluntary hospitals and health agencies] should be paid the same as those in comparative roles in the public sector,’ Mr Bell said.

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Thursday, July 24, 2014 METRO HERALD

As heat rises, plea to play safe and mind the elderly

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WITH very warm weather set to last for the next couple of days at least, organisations have asked the public to be aware of their safety and that of others. Met Éireann issued a Status Yellow warning yesterday evening, advising of high temperatures – a possible 27C in places – last night and lasting until tomorrow. But if you decide to take a splash in the water, don’t involve alcohol, said DrinkAware. Cork and Dublin had the highest drowning figures last year – seven occurred in the capital – and alcohol can endanger even strong swimmers. A spokesperson said: ‘Alcohol slows down people’s reaction time, impacts their coordination, and affects their perception of distance and direction. When it comes to water-sports, this can be an extremely dangerous combination.’ Age Action spokesperson Eamon Timmins also urged people to look after other members of society vulnerable during a heatwave, asking people to look after the elderly and to call in on older friends and neighbours to check they are all right.

Happy birthday dear Dart IRISH Rail celebrated the Dart’s 30th birthday yesterday as it invited commuters to share their best memories of the transit system. More than 500million passenger journeys have been made since the Dublin Area Rapid Transport started running in 1984. It covers 15.5million km annually – the equivalent of 20 return journeys to the moon

Sandymount beach reopens to public

DUBLIN City Council has lifted a temporary bathing prohibition order on Sandymount Strand. The south Dublin beach had been closed to swimmers for a week amid fears about faecal matter. A test last Friday showed the water was not clean enough to bathe in, with DCC unsure of the cause of the contamination, but after further tests the water reached the standards required. Meanwhile, Clare County Council has installed a high-tech speaker system at Lahinch and Kilkee beaches that, when it senses a dog, blares a message to owners to clean up their business.

No bail for UK man in sexual abuse trial A UK BUSINESSMAN has been denied bail following his extradition to Ireland to stand trial for sexually abusing two children. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been brought to Ireland after US marshals in Florida handed him over to gardaí. He appeared at Dublin District Court to face three counts of rape and 30 of sexual assaults allegedly perpetrated on his ex-partner’s two daughters, aged ten and 12, in 2010. The man was remanded in custody after Judge James Faughnan refused to grant bail.

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47 killed as jet crashes in a storm

Queen’s tears for Anguish of Dutch monarch as bodies return in 40 coffins by wILL sTONE

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THE newly crowned Dutch queen wept as two planes MH1 touched down with 40 coffins 7 bearing victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Queen Maxima joined grieving relatives who watched yesterday’s sombre arrival in Eindhoven. Holland held a day of mourning for its 193 nationals killed in the crash in eastern Ukraine last Thursday. They were among 298 people on the plane allegedly shot down by pro-Russian rebels. Briton Barry Sweeney, father of 28-year-old victim Liam who was flying to New Zealand to watch his beloved Newcastle United, was among mourners at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. He said: ‘We need closure. When Liam was flying out I never thought I’d be standing here today.’ The coffins were driven to a Dutch barracks where identification of the bodies will begin. ‘If I have to wait five months for identification, I can do it,’ said Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand, whose son, Bryce, and his girlfriend Daisy Oehlers died. “Waiting while the bodies were in the field and in the train was a nightmare.’

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AT LEAST 47 people were killed yesterday when a plane landing in heavy rain and stormy weather crashed on a small Taiwanese island. Another 11 people were injured when the ATR-72 operated by TransAsia Airways crashed during its second attempt to land on Penghu, an island in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China. About 200 military personnel were sent to help recover people on the plane. ‘I heard a loud bang,’ one resident said. ‘I thought it was thunder, and then I heard another bang and I saw a fireball not far away from my house.’ Taiwan’s president Ma Ying-jeou called it ‘a very sad day in the history of Taiwanese aviation’.

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Metro Herald’s midweek muck savage KEN ROGAN is a dirty rotter in this heat. And that, fair reader, is a good thing for all of us. Or so he argues...

t’s humid out there. Hot and sticky. And sweaty – hygiene freaks, you have my sympathies. But that doesn’t mean that I won’t be laughing at you – you guys are hysterical. Like when you go to extraordinary lengths not to touch things in the public domain? I love that. Germaphobes are inwardly horrified to live in a world populated by stinking, fetid mouth-breathers such as myself, so I often daydream about using their toothbrushes behind their backs, or feeding with my fingers in front of them before asking to borrow their phone. The gas thing is that they’ll even give you the phone and try to hide their use of a hand sanitiser on it afterwards, which is just so judgmental (like Asian tourists wearing surgery masks: ‘Oh it’s not YOU, it’s just ALL OF YOU’). Indeed, hygiene lovers are unfailingly polite because the sheer breadth of their phobias make taking a stand on any one point so arbitrary and ineffectual that it might just signal the thin end of the psychotic episode wedge. Better just to grin and bear it. All we have to do is be

obnoxious and take advantage – and take our shoes off in their homes. And we still have the last laugh by kissing them hello. I know a hypochondriac who swivels her head so much when you lean in

that you end up kissing the soil adjust my testicles every behind her ears. So I mess with her 120seconds, cough and sneeze, eat a bit and say ‘mmm, you wear the food off the floor, or anything raw. nicest perfume’ while lingering by And I’m still here. her face until she calls the police. More is the pity, says you, And at least half of this is true. hoping that you never unwittingly People get very worked up about walk into the same bathroom/ cleanliness and sanitation, but if kitchen/carriage as me. I’m we didn’t have dirt, we wouldn’t disgusting. An outrage. Safefood have immune systems. I try not to should do an ad about me, but then sweat hygiene too much, food safety is easy. Just largely because I’m avoid jambons, or busy sweating actual pretty much sweat, and today’s anything that infallible theory comes from the People get worked of life hinges on deli counter of a up about sanitation, the idea that the (insert but if we didn’t have more you sweat convenience the less you care store here) dirt, we wouldn’t have because that stuff about grime. If immune systems bodies were cars, looks so violently my one runs hot, nasty, and its and that’s that. servers so profoundly And if hygiene was unhappy, that somehow driving, then I’d be a boy racer. their misery has seeped into the And that’s not because I take congealed, two-tone ‘fillings’ that insane risks but because my all have that deadening stale patina attitude is ‘don’t worry about the of depression settled over them problem, be the problem, and let like a dew. them worry about you’. On the wall behind them, several So, with much aplomb, I signs scream ‘wash your hands!’ variously pick my nose, scratch or ‘meat only!’ or ‘failure to my bum (outside my pants), draw comply…’ but then I hate when in the window condensation, places I like eating are closed empty my nostrils without a hanky, down. We should get to know

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more reasons why, and we should be allowed to make that call ourselves, and offending restaurants should have to drop their prices accordingly. Then again, whenever Chinese takeaways get shut down I always assume it’s for serving badger bowels in squirrel-juice – but when it’s Italian chippers I can’t help wondering what the fuss could have been. Is that racism? Or casserole-ism? Whatever. We need dirt. The historical drop in common infectious diseases triggered the rise of allergies, and you know what that means, freaks: more sneezing – your favourite. So simply put, you gotta have muck or else the devil will make work for idle immune systems. All of which is by way of a highfalutin apology for being a contaminated creature who only wants to protect future generations from hay fever by ensuring that basic infections are kept alive by myself and my unhygienic brethren, sweating there beside you in the seat. We’re saving your children. And you’re welcome.

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Thursday, July 24, 2014 METRO HERALD

the victims of MH17

Fighter jets downed from ‘inside Russia’ by wiLL sTOnE

Comfort in pain: Queen Maxima and, right, two mourners Pictures: ePA/reuters

TWO Ukrainian fighter jets were shot down yesterday – just 32km south of the MH17 crash site. The planes were allegedly hit by rockets fired from inside Russia – but separatists claimed responsibility for the attack. Footage was posted online of the wrecked Sukhoi-25 aircraft, which came down in the rebel-held area of Savur Mogila. Ukraine’s Security Council said the military jets were hit at an altitude of 5,200m, adding: ‘They were shot down professionally. The terrorists do not have such professionals.’ Last night, it was unclear how many were killed by the attack but it is thought the jets could have been carrying two crew members each. The clip uploaded showed pro-Russian separatists walking through the debris as smoke billowed above. The attack revived questions about the rebels’ weapons capabilities – and how much support they are getting from Russia. The US accuses Russia of backing the separatists and fuelling the conflict, which has brought Russia’s relations with the West and Europe to a 20-year low. A Nato military officer yesterday said: ‘We have noted an increase in the amount of weapons being transferred from Russia to Ukraine in the last several weeks. ‘We continue to see evidence of the movement of weapons into Ukraine from Russia since the downing of MH17, which is a cause for concern.’

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Rhino killer gets 77 years

Thin inmate slips out of stir

sOuTH AfRicA: A poacher was yesterday jailed for 77 years in a bid to deter ivory hunters. Mandla Chauke was arrested in Kruger National Park in 2011 after shooting three rhinos, a court in Nelspruit heard. He was also held responsible for the death of his partner who was killed in a firefight with rangers.

gERMAny: A skinny prisoner escaped by squeezing through the bars of his cell. Armed robber Markus Mueller, 31, then scaled a 5m fence and used a rope to get over a wall. He was met by a gang in a getaway car. His cellmate tried to follow him but couldn’t fit through the bars at the jail in Gelsenkirchen.

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Lips burnt for breaking fast Leopard spotted at college iRAn: A Christian had his lips burned with a cigarette for failing to fast during the Muslim month of Ramadan. His punishment was handed out in a public square in Kermanshah. The man was joined by five Muslims who were sentenced to 70 lashes by a judge for eating in daylight during the holy month.

inDiA: A wild leopard was yesterday seen prowling around a university campus on the outskirts of Mumbai. The big cat is believed to have wandered over to the Indian Institute of Technology from a nearby national park. A 35year-old man in a village in Surat fought off a leopard on Sunday when it crept into his hut.

PHiLiPPinEs: A boy balances on a bamboo frame as he picks up flotsam in Navotas after Typhoon Rammasun hit PiCture: ePA

RussiA: When a man dressed as Batman tried to rob a bank he became holy unstuck. He made staff laugh so much they were unable to hand over the cash. Unsure what to do next, the confused raider fled emptyhanded. Moscow police are still looking for the ‘caped crusader’.

‘Hero’ ebola After 2-year salvage mission, Costa Concordia sails for the scrapyard doctor is infected by killer virus A DOCTOR hailed a ‘national hero’ for his role in fighting an outbreak of ebola in Sierra Leone has contracted the deadly virus. Sheik Umar Khan, a virologist who has treated more than 100 people since February, is being cared for by a team of international doctors at a Médecins Sans Frontières unit in Kailahun. Health minister Miatta Kargbo was reportedly in tears when she heard the 39-year-old had been infected with the virus, which has a fatality rate of almost 90 per cent. She said: ‘He made the ultimate sacrifice by Sheik Umar Khan putting his own life on the line to treat and save Sierra Leoneans of the ebola virus. By going into that treatment centre and spending more than 12 hours daily just to save lives is a tremendous sacrifice. I will do anything and everything in my power to ensure he survives.’ While 206 people have died from the virus in Sierra Leone and about 400 in neighbouring Guinea and Liberia, official statistics revealed 108 patients had survived after treatment. Health workers have gone on strike at the Kenema Government Hospital, 300km east of capital Freetown, after three nurses working with Dr Khan were killed by the disease.

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SURROUNDED by a flotilla of small boats, the rusting wreck of the Costa Concordia has begun her final voyage to the scrapyard. Bells tolled on the Italian island of Giglio yesterday as tugboats towed the cruise ship away from the port where she capsized two years ago, killing 32 people. She will make the four-day, 370km trip to Genoa – where she will be broken up – at a virtual walking pace amid fears that toxic waste could spill into the sea. Accompanying her will be boats to monitor pollution. Objects such as suitcases and furniture will be caught in huge nets attached to the ship. Refloated ten days ago, the Costa Concordia is being kept afloat by giant buoyancy chambers. Hours after setting sail, salvage master Nick Sloane said things were ‘going well’. Divers will tomorrow search the seabed where the ship had been marooned since January 2012 for the body of Indian waiter Russel Rebello – the only victim who has not been found. Francesco Schettino, the ship’s captain, is on trial for manslaughter. THE sALVAgE fLOTiLLA

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City quarantined after fatal ‘outbreak of bubonic plague’

PARTS of a Chinese city have been put in quarantine after a man reportedly died of bubonic plague. A total of 151 people are under observation in Yumen after coming into contact with the man who authorities say died of the plague on

Setting off: Two tugboats slowly pull the wreck of the Costa Concordia (inset) away from the Italian island of Giglio PiCture: ePA July 16. He was said to have contracted the bacterial infection after coming into contact with a marmot, a type of rodent. No other cases have been reported and all those under quarantine were said to be in good health.

However, ten checkpoints remain in place to block off parts of the northern city in Gansu province, state news agency Xinhua reported. Bubonic plague remains endemic in northwest China and is spread largely through flea bites.

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Both sides in Gaza conflict risk prosecution for killing children, UN boss warns

This is not war but murder Anguish: A Palestinian is comforted in Khan Younis after the killing of his father, whose blood stains his shirt PictUre: reUters

ATTACKS on children and civilians in Gaza amount to war crimes, the UN’s top human rights official has warned. Israeli naval shelling that killed four boys on a beach was highlighted by high commissioner Navi Pillay. She also referred to a drone strike that claimed the lives of three Palestinian youngsters in Gaza City. ‘These are just two examples where there seems to be a strong possibility that international law has been vio-

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lated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes,’ she said. adding that Palestinian militant group Hamas also risked prosecution under international law by targeting civilian areas. ‘Israeli children have a right to live without the constant fear that a rocket fired from Gaza may land on their houses or schools,’ she told the UN’s human rights council in Geneva. The

respected South African former judge spoke as the conflict – in which at least 147 children and 74 women have died – showed no sign of abating. Israeli troops clashed with Hamas yesterday near Khan Younis, where heavy shelling killed at least one civilian and forced many to flee. US secretary of state John Kerry, in Tel Aviv to try to resolve the crisis, said ceasefire talks had been productive but ‘there’s still work to be done’.

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School head held Preserve us! Fruit after girl, 6, raped causes traffic jam A SCHOOL head has been arrested and charged with hindering the police investigation into the alleged rape of a six-year-old girl pupil by one of his staff. Rustom Kerawalla, who founded Vibgyor High Schools in India, has also been cited for not running background checks on the prime suspect, 30-yearold skating teacher Mustafa. Police in Bangalore said Mustafa, a father to a girl of five, was fired by his previous school after similar claims were made.

DRIVERS found themselves in a sticky situation after a lorry-load of preserved fruit caused a traffic ‘jam’. Motorists on the E45 near Sunne, west Sweden, faced lengthy delays as firefighters hosed away the 100m stretch of ‘common pancake jam’. It happened after one of the lorry’s doors came loose, causing it to shed its load, police said. Nobody was hurt – but drivers were urged to take an alternative route.

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SATURDAYS singer Frankie Sandford said her wedding to footballer Wayne Bridge was a ‘rollercoaster’. She said: ‘We can’t believe it’s all over.’ EXAMPLE has a mini ‘secret project’ on the way... a baby. His Aussie wife, Erin McNaught, tweeted that she ‘thought it was about time we told you all!’

‘Iggy and I defeated the racists’

harli XCX says she and iggy azalea overcame racist jibes and underdog status to rule the american charts. The 21-year-old British pop babe says it was not an easy ride to the top for either of them, but the pair are enjoying having the last laugh. ‘People give iggy a hard time because she’s australian and white and female and apparently that’s a weird thing, which i don’t get,’ she told Guilty Pleasures in an exclusive chat. ‘People also view me as an underdog so i think it’s cool that we came together and had this girl power moment and were No.1 in the States for seven weeks. We really proved everyone wrong which i think was really cool.’ With her own synthpop track Boom Clap heading for chart success this week, Charli says she’s glad people are taking note of her

solo work. ‘i would never change my style or my way of songwriting just to fit in with what other people think is cool or commercial. it’s cool people now think my s*** is cool – but i won’t change if it becomes not cool either,’ she laughed. Charli, aka Charlotte aitchison, also revealed she is angling for a Coldplay duet after supporting Chris Martin and co on tour in 2012 and explained she was so overwhelmed by their recent album, Ghost Stories, that she was reduced to tears. ‘i actually listened to that record on a plane the other day and i cried! i think that album is so good,’ she gushed. ‘To collaborate definitely would be cool. i think Chris Martin is one of the best, top-line writers around at the moment. i’ve always thought his melodies are incredible.’

CHERYL FERNANDEZVERSINI’S new name could get muddled at The X Factor doors. Announcer Peter Dickson admits he’s tried to pronounce it, but ‘not very successfully’.

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PLANS to make Whitney Houston’s life story into a US TV film have been slammed by her ase, mother, Cissy. ‘Please, let her rest,’ the 80year-old begged Lifetime.

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JENSON BUTTON has an array of vices. ‘I love sticky toffee pudding. I’m a big fan of banoffee pie. Cheesecake is out of this world. I love an ale,’ the 34-year-old told GQ.co.uk.

Kate keeps it zipped while working for friend Stella KATE MOSS risks snagging her hair in a giant zip for Stella McCartney’s latest ad campaign. The party animal, 40, steps into a zip-style frame donning a pair of reflective lens sunglasses and heavy knot jumper for her friend’s winter collection. The shoot is the seventh time Moss’s ageless look has been used by the McCartney brand. ‘Kate epitomises the Stella McCartney woman and I wanted to capture her dreams and the moments we have shared over the years,’ Stella gushed.

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ADELE’S 19-month-old son has been awarded five-figure damages to settle a privacy case over paparazzi photos. Angelo Adkins won the payout after his parents brought proceedings against Corbis Images UK for releasing photos of the boy and his mother to the press. Adele (pictured), 26, was adamant the toddler was not and never would be ‘public property’, lawyers for the singer and her partner, Simon Konecki, said. ‘It is a matter of profound sadness that

many of his milestone moments, such as his first family outing and his first trip to playgroup, were photographed and published worldwide expressly against his family’s wishes,’ solicitor Jenny Afia told a London court. The action concerned photos taken last year. The photographers, who were not employed by Corbis, had been told they would face legal action if they breached Angelo’s privacy again. The agency offered to pay damages and legal costs.

Who you gonna call? Bill Murray, obviously IT is not just Coldplay who Charli XCX has set her sights on – she also wants to work with Bill Murray. She admitted she had more than a passing interest in the 63-yearold Lost In Translation actor. ‘I sometimes ask for a framed picture of Bill Murray on my rider just because I think he is really cool,’ she told Guilty

Pleasures. ‘There are a few I have collected and some of them have been in nice frames. ‘I have a weird Bill Murray collection, I guess. Although it’s not some weird obsession. ‘It would be sick to have him in a music video.’ No stranger to music, Murray was once MC for Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival.

Baby alone 17hrs after Peaches’ drug death THE baby son of Peaches Geldof was left alone with her body for up to 17hours, an inquest heard yesterday. Baby Phaedra – then just 11 months old – was in another room of the family home in Wrotham, Kent, when Peaches, 25, was found dead from a heroin overdose. Her husband, Tom Cohen, raised the alarm after he tried to call the model, presenter and columnist on April 6 but got no reply. Her body was discovered in a spare room at 1.30pm the following day. Investigating officer Det Ch Insp Paul Fotheringham told the inquest police found 6.9g of ‘importation quality’ heroin at the house she shared with Phaedra, Mr Cohen and their other son, Astala, two, but no indication she planned to take her own life. Its purity, of 61 per cent, ‘far exceeded’ the 26 per cent usually found at street level, he added. Peaches had been a heroin addict and took the substitute methadone for two-and-a-

Found with Peaches: Cotton wool

Burnt spoons Drugs worth €600 Syringe in a box of sweets Under her body – an iphone, cigarettes and knotted tights (possibly used as a tourniquet) On the bed – a syringe cap Under the bed - A burnt spoon with brown residue In cupboard over bedroom door: Drug paraphernalia Bag containing 61% pure heroin worth up to €600, 47.5g of citric acid, 34 syringes some used, 45 packed and sealed syringes, alcohol wipes, two cards advertising the Westminster Needle Exchange

half years before her death, the Gravesend hearing was told. Mr Cohen said his wife started using the drug again in February this year. She had weekly drug tests for two years as part of her addiction treatment but the musician

said he now believed she had been lying when she told him they were clear. Forensic scientist Emma Harris said tolerance to heroin is lost ‘fairly rapidly’ when addicts stop using the drug. ‘Deaths commonly occur in people who have previously been tolerant and have returned to using heroin,’ she added. Pathologist Peter Jerreat found ‘fatal levels’ of the drug in her blood as well as codeine, methadone and morphine. Peaches also had puncture wounds on her elbows, wrists and thumbs. Recording a verdict of drug-related death, coroner Roger Hatch said: ‘For reasons we will never know, prior to her death she returned to taking heroin.’ Peaches’ mother, Paula Yates, died of an accidental heroin overdose in 2000 when Peaches was 11. Like her daughter, Paula died at home with one of her children in the property. Peaches’ half-sister, Tiger Lily, was just four years old at the time.

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Snoop: I did drugs in the White House SNOOP DOGG may have left Barack Obama fuming after he confessed to smoking drugs in the White House. The rapper, 42, roped in help from ‘the CIA, or the FBI, the alphabet boys’ who inadvertently helped him light a spliff. Snoop confessed to smoking in the bathroom of the US president’s home while talking to chat show star Jimmy Kimmel on his online show GGN: The Double G News Network. The Drop It While It’s Hot hitmaker said a guard helped him light up after Snoop said he needed one to mask the smell of his Doggy business. ‘I said, “May I use the bathroom for a second?” And they said, “What are you gonna do, No.1 or No.2?” I said, “No.2”,’ the rapper explained. He added: ‘So I said, “Look, when I do the number two, I usually, you know, have a cigarette or light something to get the aroma right.” And they said, “Well you know what? You can light a piece of napkin.” I said, “I’ll do that’’.’ Puffing a dodgy cigarette on his show, he replicated his fast one adding: ‘And the napkin was this.’ Snoop, real name Calvin Broadus, was a guest at the White House in December for the Kennedy Centre Honours reception.

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Horror: Tom Cohen leaves the inquest into the death of wife Peaches Geldof (inset) pictures: getty

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Tobacco policy will impact on play funding THE Department of Children and Youth Affairs is to take account of the Tobacco Free Ireland policy in its future rounds of funding. Minister for Children James Reilly sanctioned €250,000 in payments for children’s play and recreation projects yesterday, saying: ‘Play and recreation are fundamental to the development of children and young people.’ But he warned in order to be eligible for department funding in future, applications will face an additional criterion related to the tobacco-free policy. He said the Government aims to de-normalise smoking for young people and future funding for playgrounds will be contingent on the projects being no-smoking areas.

Victim of suicide driver calls for more training for gardaí THE victim of a suicidal driver has spoken to the Minister for Justice about the need for increased training for gardaí dealing with suicidal people. Elber Twomey lost her husband, Con, 38, her young son, Oisín, 16months, and her unborn baby, Elber Marie, while on holiday in Torquay in 2012. A taxi driver who had left a suicide note purposely veered across the dual carriageway with tragic consequences for Elber and her family. Polish driver Marek Wojciechowski was killed instantly in the collision. Now, Ms Twomey is calling for the introduction of training for gardaí dealing with suicidal people. After the incident, Devon and Cornwall police reviewed their pursuit policy in instances where suicide may be a factor. It was later found the actions of the officers ‘were, in effect, like running up to someone standing

by ORnA cunningHAM on the edge of a cliff, blowing a whistle and shouting at them to move away,’ said Fine Gael chairperson and president of the Irish Association of Suicidology, Dan Neville. Mr Neville said: ‘I was pleased today to have the opportunity to introduce Elber Twomey to the Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald. ‘Elber is working to bring attention to the fact that at present very few gardaí in Ireland are trained in how to deal with a suicidal person, not to mention a suicidal driver. ‘As Templemore opens its doors to the first recruits in five years, I appealed to the Minister for Justice to ensure that updated training modules on suicide awareness and dealing with suicidal people, are included for the new cohort.’

Attack over dog burger Two men took part in an unprovoked assault on a dog owner who asked them not to feed a hamburger to his pet, a court has heard. Stephen Brown, 20, and Stephen o’Brien, 23, punched and kicked Sean Kheffache while a third man bit his ear. Brown, of Monkstown Farm, Dún Laoghaire, also admitted punching Martin o’Toole in May 2013, causing his head to hit the ground. Judge Mary Ellen Ring sentenced Brown to three years in jail, with 18 months suspended, and suspended a sentence of two and a half years on o’Brien, of Rollins Villas, Sallynoggin.

No prison for welfare fraud A FATHER of eight has been spared jail after he fraudulently claimed over €13,000 in social welfare payments. Edward Corcoran, 33, is now having his social welfare payments docked by €30 a week and it is estimated he will have repaid the stolen money to the State in nine years time. Corcoran, of Kishogue Park, Lucan, was ordered by Judge Mary Ellen Ring to do 220 hours of community service in lieu of two and a half years in prison, which she said would allow him to pay back his debt while remaining in the community.

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US slackliner Andy Lewis walks a 169m rope between two skyscrapers at a height of 175m in Bangkok, Thailand Picture: ePa

Hackers can access your computer for a mere 7c ACCESS to your computer for criminals is more cheaply bought than ever before, an Irish IT security company has warned. Gangs of cyber criminals around the world are selling ‘DIY malware packages’ in bulk and at low cost, it has been claimed. Ronan Murphy, of Irish IT security firm Smarttech.ie, explained that gangs infect millions of computers globally with a virus, and then sell the details of infected users to criminals who extort financial details from them. Due to the number of computers attacked, a criminal can now buy access to 10,000 deliberately infected computers for around

€7,500 – or just over seven cent per computer. Mr Murphy warned that a price war has broken out amongst cyber criminals. ‘For the criminal gangs around the world who want to launch a cyber-attack, it is a buyers’ market. ‘Initially they may not have had the skills to build and deploy the malware services themselves, but with this new user-friendly model they can buy it off the shelf. ‘The Malware as a Service (MaS) market is a scary prospect because it allows non-technical criminals to branch out into an area where they have no experience,’ Mr Murphy added.

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Blogger Nick Bain tells Naomi Mdudu the trick to a gent’s wardrobe is getting the details right

Menswear rules

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ick Bain is one of the few bloggers to have made a long career out of working in the world they now critique. He trained as a menswear designer in Bournemouth ten years ago (after ‘doodling suits on the side pages of books’ during law school), then made his way to London to work on Savile Row, followed by a stint designing suits supplied to the likes of Next and Marks & Spencer. ‘i’ve always had a preoccupation with menswear,’ says Bain, 33, as he sits among the rails and rails of clothes lining his office in Notting Hill. ‘i like that it has a very strict set of rules. A suit will always look like a suit. But designers like Aitor [Throup] show that you can play around and do amazing things with it. ‘Great menswear,’ he continues, ‘is all about the hidden details and simple things, like doing a cuff in a new way.’ instead of starting his own label, Bain launched his blog, Bainser, in 2009 before turning his hand to social media management for the Morgan Hotel Group, Harvey Nichols and now for Secret Sales. ‘i’ve always been in love with social media,’ he says. ‘i became that boring person at the party saying that in five years’ time, social media was going to be huge. So i thought i either had to find a million pounds and set up my own label or use my knowledge elsewhere.’ Social media is now the place he goes to find inspiration for his own look. ‘i’ll look at what other people are wearing or look at what people are shooting on instagram and what my friends are wearing,’ he says. Unsurprisingly, tailoring has long informed his own sartorial tendencies, although that has subsided over the past few years. ‘My style used to be formal because i had to wear a suit all the time,’ he explains. ‘i would never have worn skinny jeans. Then i put a pair on and almost overnight, wearing anything else felt completely wrong. Now i literally live in my Nudie jeans and everything else i wear is built around them.’ Age has made him less – not more – conservative when it comes to making a statement with his clothes. ‘The older i’ve got, the braver i’ve become,’ he says. ‘i just started not to care. My motto is: “As long as i like it, it’s fine.”’

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He says his wardrobe is a mix of high and low fashion but is not convinced by the menswear offerings on the high street. ‘There’s better choice for men than ever,’ he says, ‘but even now you can go to some places and everthing suit-wise is just navy and black. It’s boring.’ In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find an aspect of menswear Bain doesn’t have an opinion on – which is part of the reason he decided to set up his blog. ‘When I’m a reviewing a fashion show on my blog, it’ll often look at things like a pattern cut and reference the knowledge I have,’ he says. ‘Sometimes, there isn’t the depth of knowledge on some blogs. That shines through and those people tend to last a few seasons before disappearing.’

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Nick’s wish list I saw these shorts at a Gap event a while back and couldn’t wait for them to drop in stores. I’ve come back to Gap for simple key pieces lately. €48, gap.eu

Punches of colour, McQueen, Puma and hi-tops: I don’t think I can think of a better combination if I tried. Paired with jeans or shorts, these will look incredible all summer. €220, asos.com

The older I get, the more adventurous and statementpiece-driven my fashion choices are. This from River Island will definitely stand out from the crowd. I love it. €38, riverisland.com

I’m slowly learning to not lose sunglasses, so I allow myself to buy nice ones now. These classic Ray-Bans are missing from my collection. €170, mrporter.com

The deep burgundy of these New Balance trainers is gorgeous. They’re a classic that will never fail for me. €84, Schuh

I treat myself to a new pair of Orlebar Brown shorts each summer. I’ve already got a pair this season but think this print is going to inspire me to be more adventurous and buy another. €247, mrporter.com

On the previous page, Nick wears: Diesel leather jacket, €550, harveynichols.com; American Apparel tank, €21, americanapparel.com; Nudie jeans, €115, mrporter.com; Nike trainers, €64, jdsports.co.uk; Stighlorgan bag, €127, stighlorgan.com

Stighlorgan is a great new brand based on Irish tradition. Its bags are really different to everything else out there at the moment. €120, stighlorgan.com

I’m actually obsessed with Nudie jeans and live most of my life in them. The fit is great and I love the fact they will repair your jeans for free in store. €200, mrporter.com

beauty

The eyes really do have it

Lately, the focus has been on eye creams. Here are three to suit all budgets, writes Vicki-Marie Cossar

yeS can give away a multitude of sins, from dark circles as a result of countless late nights to bad diets. No one wants to look like a panda, so we’ve checked out some of the latest products to hit the market. The most recent offering from Dr Perricone is Neuropeptide Eye Contour (€210, perriconemd.co.uk). This contains neuropeptides, which are said to influence the activity of the brain by interacting between skin cells to counteract inflammation, hypersensitivity and skin conditions, as well as increase collagen production, circulation and skin suppleness. The MI Phytomer Pionnière XMF Reset Eye Fluid (€94, klmbeauty. co.uk) contains three marine ingredients designed to rehydrate cell viability (damaged by the effects of pollution) and boost the

connective tissue to ensure a smoother surface with reduced fine lines. It also works to reduce dark circles by improving circulation and eliminating signs of puffiness.

Fight the look of fatigue with Nip + Fab Bee Sting Fix Eye (€19, nipandfab.com). Makers claim this eye cream, which contains bee venom, controls the facial muscles and increases circulation, gently plumping

out and firming the skin. It also contains propolis extract, which is collected from botanical sources and used as a sealant in the hive – it’s a great skin healer, antioxidant and antiseptic.

insiDER’s Tip face scrub Celebrity makeup artist Gemma Aldous (gemmaaldous. co.uk) explains how to make a homemade lemon exfoliating scrub. ‘Blackheads are caused by blocked pores,’ she says. ‘Lemons are full of vitamin C and natural antioxidants and have antibacterial properties. The alpha hydroxy acid helps unblock the pores and exfoliate the skin while staying hygienic and natural. It will also help with scarring and generally brighten the complexion. The white pith of a lemon is also brilliant for restoring dry skin.’ Ingredients: 2½ cups sugar, ½ cup olive oil or coconut oil, 2tbsp lemon juice, 1tsp lemon zest, 1tsp orange zest. Method: Mix together and rub over your face in small, circular motions. Wait 5min and rinse off with cold water.

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Mayfair shoulder bag, €183, Iris & Ink. theoutnet.com Printed dress, €45, H&M. hm.com Floral organza skirt, €76, Warehouse. warehouse.co.uk

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Trench coat, €89, Gap, www. gap.eu

Looking stylish and City slick in the height of summer is no easy feat. Invest in easy, lightweight neutrals, says Naomi Mdudu

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Striped espadrilles, €19, River Island. riverisland.com

Satin blouse, €185, Filippa K. filippa-k.com Culottes, €50, Topshop. topshop.com

Embroidered tunic, €165, Day Birger et Mikkelsen. net-a-porter.com

GROOMING SOS Declan Leavy tackles men’s grooming woes Summer is in full swing, and with the sunny weather – no matter how sporadic – comes the risk of sunburn and skin damage. Here’s my pick of SPF favourites, as well as some weapons to treat overexposure. Nivea is my go-to brand for affordable and effective sun care. The new Nivea Sun Protect & Refresh range contains menthol, which stimulates the coldsensing receptors in the skin to give a refreshing feeling. My standout product is the Protect and Refresh Invisible Cooling Mist SPF 20, €11.53, which instantly cools, absorbs quickly and provides high UVA and UVB protection. It’s also great for spraying on to the scalp – an area often neglected. Available from supermarkets and pharmacies. A brilliant product for men with sensitive skin, La Roche-Posay Anthelios SPF50+ Oil offers high protection in a really light dry oil. Easy to apply and great for hairy arms, legs and popping on bald patches, this is a great one for golf or sailing bags. €22, from pharmacies and department stores. Guys with thinning hair are more susceptible to sun damage to the scalp, which can cause further hair loss. Try to use an SPF treatment specifically formulated for the scalp to prevent damage caused by UV rays. Soltan Hair & Scalp Spray SPF30 contains a triple action formula which helps to prevent hair damage and sunburnt scalp. €5.59, from Boots.

Don’t forget to protect the lips. The Body Shop Vitamin E Lip Care SPF 15 is a hydrating lip balm that soothes and protects lips from the drying effects of the sun. €6.96, from The Body Shop. Dermalogica After Sun Repair is the one sun care product I’m never without, because quite simply it really works. Chamomile, cucumber and lavender help to instantly cool the skin and reduce redness, but the key ingredient is Japanese alder, which accelerates the repair of UV damage after sun exposure. €38 From Dermalogica salons. Growing up, Vichy was the number one skincare brand for the Leavy clan, and all these years later I’m still a dedicated user. Vichy Capital Soleil Aftersun, €17.95, is a refreshing gel that hydrates, cools and softens the skin after a day in the sun. Like all after sun products, store it in the fridge for extra cooling benefits. Available from pharmacies and selected department stores. If they’re proven to work, I’m a big fan of home skincare remedies. Believe it or not, full fat natural yoghurt is an effective treatment for sunburnt skin as it contains lots of probiotics which help to promote skin healing. Apply a layer to effected areas, leave for 15 minutes or so, and then rinse off with cold water. Simples. My brand of choice is Glenisk – around €1.69 from supermarkets.

ON OUR RADAR with Orna Cunningham Beauty line CATRICE is looking forward to autumn and the season’s new trends with its range, so we trialled three of their offerings to see how they’ll fare as the seasons change.

CATRICE Tinted Lip Glow Balm (RRP €5.49) was a delightful surprise – the stick slides on as a thin balm, but the colour that emerges depends on your own pH levels. Reapplication means a darker colour too, so be careful if you want a subtle pink. The colour is fruit-ripe with as much impact as a lippy, but more natural, and it really stood out with simple, dewy make up. A little like the patent nude shoe KMiddy is so fond of wearing, CATRICE

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Antiques & Vintage at Clontarf Castle

Fresh and pretty, this vintage linen would brighten any home. Vintage kitchenalia will be one of the themes represented at Sunday’s antiques fair at Clontarf Castle Hotel, where antique and vintage items are presented in immaculate condition to be enjoyed by environmentally aware and price conscious consumers. The fair runs from 11am till 6pm. Art, jewellery, books & collectables also feature. Bring this notice along for €1 off the admission price of €3.50.

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AttAck on flight mh17 TV3, 8.30pm

Following the shooting out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile of Malaysian Airlines MH17 after the flight departed from Amsterdam carrying 283 passengers and 15 crew, including three babies, accusations and denials have dominated world politics. As the relatives of the victims continue to fight to retrieve their loved ones’ remains, this documentary, using shocking news footage, charts the events leading up to and following the ill-fated crash.

Penguin Post Office is a cute title for a documentary, even if it’s not strictly true: there are no Penguin Postman Pats here. What you do get is an intimate portrait of the gentoo penguins, which breed in Port Lockroy, Antarctica, each year – next to the world’s most southerly post office. The gentoos are a funny bunch – they mate for life, but nick rocks off each other when they build their nests.

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Ireland’s Nicolas Roche showed off his fighting spirit in the Pyrenees as he finished ninth on yesterday’s stage 17 – the shortest of Le Tour – 85 seconds behind winner and team-mate Rafal Majka of Poland. Although Roche (above), at 43rd place overall, is out of the running for the yellow jersey, can a stage win be ruled out?

fAir city RTÉ1, 8pm

Last night, after all the messing, Decco finally asked Louise to go out. Will their romance work this time? Callum is none too pleased when an old face turns up in Carrigstown. Meanwhile, as Christy arrives home from hospital he has an unpleasant surprise and suddenly for Katy everything becomes much clearer.

eAstenders RTÉ1, 7.30pm

The focus on tonight’s trip to Albert Square is on Sharon, who has decided she needs to get control of her life back. Whether that involves getting rid of the gun she’s got remains to be seen. Meanwhile, Aunt Babe makes a special delivery.

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Deep and meaningful drama or a pretentious riddle? The jury’s out as Hugo Blick’s tale of Nessa Stein (Maggie Gyllenhaal, above) rolls back eight years to Nessa’s first encounter with Atika on the West Bank. It’s a very different Nessa to the haunted woman we’ve met so far. Current events in Gaza give this tale a dark edge.

three colours: red Sky Arts 1, 10pm

Oh my, how time has flown – tonight Glee clocks up its 100th episode, so do a little dance routine and treat yourself to a quick chorus of Rehab (still Glee’s best mashup) if you’ve made it this far. Hardcore fans will revel in tonight’s nostalgia fest with old-timers Rachel, Puck, Quinn and Kurt all doing their very best to upstage each other.

The final instalment of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s massively acclaimed Three Colours trilogy explores the theme of friendship. Irène Jacob plays model Valentine, who accidentally runs over a judge’s dog. On returning the injured pooch to its owner, Valentine make a discovery – the judge is spying on his neighbours.

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Jeremy Sisto, freshly bearded, returns as former New York city boy George, who has relocated to the leafy suburbs, much to the disgruntlement of daughter Tessa. As we pick up with this bickering pair, their relationship is at an all-time low ebb. But George is still hopeful that the latest addition to the household – a dog – will bring them closer together.

RTÉ1, 8.30pm

The humble garden shed has undergone a revival of late and here to celebrate that fact is George Clarke, who runs his expert eye over the contenders in a competition that’s divided into no less than six categories. In the first of three shows, we see the pick of sheds entered in the unique and eco sections, the former boasting a 21ft-wide replica teapot, while the latter includes a shed made out of 5,000 wine bottles. What a corking idea.

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It’s all hands on deck in tonight’s episode as the hotel’s security team prepare for the arrival of a very important head of state. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected at the five-star establishment and the staff are hoping to make a good impression. Meanwhile, the Ireland rugby team check in to prepare for match day. Everyone wants a win and staff get emotional knowing it is Brian O’Driscoll’s last home match.

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Sky1, 9pm

AmAzing spAces: shed of the yeAr

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Comedy

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Fans of Matthew McConaughey (above) being slippery will love this effort in which he plays lawyer Mick Haller, who represents his low-life clients using his car as his office. He is hired to get his wealthy client off charges that he tried to murder a prostitute, resulting in myriad plot twists. A strong cast – including William H Macy and Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston – help make this occasionally convoluted noir crime drama more watchable than it might otherwise be.

Available to rent/buy now

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Spanish horror thriller (right) in which Antonio de la Torre plays Carlos – the most prestigious tailor in Grenada, who is also a womantorturing cannibal. Imagine Carlos’s surprise when Nina, a Romanian immigrant looking for her missing sister, arrives on his doorstep and he falls in love with her. What is stronger? Love or Carlos’s instincts to eat her?

mischief night

More imperilled ladies here – poor old Emily’s mum died in a car crash and, as a result, Emily’s gone nuts and is suffering from psychosomatic blindness. Imagine her shock when one night, sitting at home, a masked intruder breaks into her house and tries to kill her. She will need all her ingenuity to survive this turn-up for the books.

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THE juDgE fiLEs BeAVIS TO VALLey

1989 Mike Judge

starts creating animated shorts. Office Space, from 1991, is acquired by Comedy Central

1993 Creates Beaviss And Butthead (inset) for MTV, voicing the main and some of the supporting characters. It ith a film runs until 1997, with version in 1996 and is revived in 2011 1997 Creates Texan family comedy King Of The Hill for Fox

1999 Writes and directs live-action software comedy Office Space

Let’s mock the geek O NCE upon a time, careers in advertising, banking and the media meant solid salaries and significant social cachet. Now, the only sector soaring is technology, previously the preserve of the geeks. So it’s high time Silicon Valley, the West Coast home of Google and the like, was satirised on screen too. An eight-part HBO comedy is doing just that. Named Silicon Valley, it is the brainchild of Mike Judge, best known for animated classics Beavis And Butthead and King Of The Hill. He worked in the early tech sector in the 1980s, though admits he didn’t last long. After gaining a degree in physics, he spent time as a programmer for the

Beavis vis And Butthead maker mak Mike Judge is taking aim at Silicon Valley with an HBO comedy. By Jane Mulkerrins

F-18 fighter, then worked on highresolution screens for a video card start-up. He hated the job but has harboured an ambition to create a series based in that realm ever since. ‘It’s a fascinating world,’ he says. ‘If you look at where that industry was 20 years ago versus where it is today, and how important it has become, it is amazing. Just think of the influence Facebook and Twitter had on the Arab Spring. ‘It’s a way of interacting with the world that didn’t exist before. And it

bREn bERRy is director of this weekend’s Vodafone Comedy Festival and is also involved with city centre venue Vicar Street

wanted to do a comedy festival in Dublin and I particularly liked the idea of doing one in the style of a mini rock festival. I’d been to various comedy festivals around the world and I nicked and knitted together the best elements from each of them. As well as the Iveagh Gardens, we populate the place with street entertainers, musicians, gourmet food stalls and really nice bars so it’s a really gorgeous place to step into in the heart of the city.

Why choose the Iveagh Gardens? Well the Iveagh Gardens is a dream venue that I always wanted to work in. I wasn’t sure we’d get into it but we have created a really successful music series and a really unique comedy festival in what is one of the crown jewels of Dublin. We really work in conjunction with the gardens, we don’t hijack them, and we try and highlight just how spectacular

starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph. Receives little credit at time, now has a cult following

2009 His ABC animation The Goode Family is cancelled after one season

2014 Creates Silicon Valley, which is renewed for a second series

has suddenly become glamorous in his time in Silicon Valley, the a way that it never was, partly financial dimension has changed. ‘It because of the huge amounts of took a lot more time to get started money being made there.’ back then and it didn’t feel as if The show centres on Richard money was so easy to find,’ says Hendricks (played by Thomas Judge. ‘Now, if you have an idea for Middleditch), a nerdy programmer an app and you are a good at Hooli, a large internet company, programmer, you can just get a few who is developing a music app on people together and have a good the side. While colleagues mock shot at funding.’ his entrepreneurial endeavours, a In addition to the potential Hooli executive discovers the to make billions, the app, called Pied Piper, contains personalities at the top of the a revolutionary data industry – the hoodiecompression algorithm – a big wearing, often-youthful deal in tech, apparently – founders of Instagram, and the company’s Tumblr and Twitter – CEO, Gavin Belson are now quasi(Matt Ross), offers celebrities. him $10million for it. ‘Bill Gates was not a App attack: Mike Judge national figure back Since Judge served

60 seconds How did the Vodafone Comedy Festival come about? I had always

2006 Directs sci-fi comedy Idiocracy,

they are. We work with the gardeners to make the place look its best so that people really get to see it in all its glory.

This year you have 85 comedians performing from all over the world. How do you mix and match the acts?

Over the past eight years there have been a lot of American comics that are big names over there but would have no profile in this part of the world so I see part of my gig is to introduce them to Irish audiences. We’ve had everyone from Louis CK to Neil Hamburger and now Louis is considered by many to be the best live comic on the planet. John Bishop has featured since we started and he’s a monstrous act now and the same with Milton Jones, who came in the first year and he’s grown. It’s about me trying to spot acts at the point that they are amazing and will deliver to the audience even though they are not huge names. The secret is to put a great international act on with an Irish household

then; people didn’t know who the CEO of Sun Microsystems was, but everyone knows Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg,’ says Judge. Shades of Zuckerberg and Apple’s famed duo of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs abound in the series. One aspect Judge believes remains constant, however, is the sort of people the sector attracts. ‘They fall into two categories,’ he says. ‘The tech billionaires, who are alpha male types – the Gavin Belson sorts – then all the others: the nerds, the geeks and the introverts. They tend to end up becoming loyal programmers rather than visionaries. Those guys don’t tend to get rich.’

Silicon Valley is on Wednesdays at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.

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Part of my gig is to introduce new comics to Irish audiences

name so the Irish comedian ‘lends’ their audience to the international act.

You started as the booker for Vicar St but now you spend as much time working on comedy. Do you have any preference for one over the other? While I am a muso first and foremost but I absolutely love working in comedy. I love comedy as an art form and I love working with comedians. With comedians you tend to deal with that one person, as they often start off as self-managed, so you can develop a close personal relationship with them. As a result many of the comedians are personal friends of mine, particularly the Irish ones.

What highlights have you from your work in comedy? All the work I’ve done

with Tommy Tiernan. He’s done over 200 nights in Vicar Street, but the most incredible thing about Tommy is he’s an amazing artist. Tommy once called the comedy festival ‘a

flower in a car park’ which is the best compliment I’ve ever had. Only a poet like Tommy could come up with that.

You were probably the person most associated with Vicar Street in its early years. How did you end up with that job? I’m very proud of my involve-

ment with Vicar St because my mother was a Liberties girl so working in that area and making a success story of the venue has been amazing because not everybody gave it a chance initially when we opened our doors. I totally lucked into the job with Peter Aiken, He saw something in me that I didn’t see. Peter thought that I could come in and do some PR and help develop a relationship with Irish acts and it’s just all grown from there basically. barry Hartigan

The Vodafone Comedy Festival takes place from Thursday to Sunday, July 24-27 in the Iveagh Gardens. www.vodafonecomedy.com

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spORT DigEsT Majka has 2nd win, Nibali still ahead cycLing Poland’s

Rafal Majka was thrilled with his second victory of the 2014 Tour de France on stage 17 from Saint-Gaudens to Saint-Lary Pla d’Adet as Vincenzo Nibali further enhanced his hold on the race leader’s yellow jersey. Majka (pictured) won Saturday’s 14th stage to Risoul and recorded TinkoffSaxo’s second successive Pyrenean stage win and thanked team mate Nico ( Roche) who finished 9th for his help. ‘I’m just so happy about this result and results we have accomplished in the last couple of days,’ Majka said. Nibali finished third on the stage, 46 seconds behind Majka, but staying clear of his rivals for the top spot in Paris on Sunday.

Irvine to carry flag for North at Games

cooper eager to climb back into meritocracy by pAuL kEAnE HE’s only mIssEd onE game but already Jonny Cooper realises he’s slipped down the pecking order and faces a battle to regain his dublin jersey. dublin’s regular corner-back was named to face meath in sunday’s leinster final but was replaced by mick Fitzsimons due to a hushed-up quad muscle injury. Cooper is in the second week of a two-week lay-off and doesn’t expect to engage in training again until this weekend. The setback comes at the worst possible time – high summer – though Fitzsimons would argue it has worked out well for him after a storming performance on sunday. now it would seem that Fitzsimons is well placed to remain in the team against whoever

they face in the August 9 All-Ireland quarter-finals. Cooper agreed that it is a ruthless business. ‘It is and it’s not enjoyable to watch from outside when you are not able to play a part,’ admitted Cooper. ‘But it’s all about the collective and once they are winning, it doesn’t really matter. ‘This is the way it works and the reality is that

‘We’re still striving for the full 70-minute performance’ he has the jersey now and deservedly so and it’s up to me and the other full-back line contenders to try and get one. ‘Everything is picked on merit and if Jim Gavin sees someone pushing hard, then they’ll get their chance and it’s up to the person in question to

prove it to him,’ Cooper added. Fitzsimons’s strong performance as cover for Cooper goes against the argument made last week by Ciaran Whelan that dublin have lots of forwards but may struggle to replace marquee defenders. Cooper agreed that things are shaping up well for the All-Ireland champions as they find themselves exactly half way through what they hope will be a successful six-game campaign. But he insists they can still get better. ‘We’re still striving for the full 70-minute performance,’ said the na Fianna man. ‘obviously we haven’t got it yet or we’ve only done it in small patches. Jim would be right in saying there’s a lot of room for improvement and a lot of errors to correct to have any chance. ‘That’s what we’re looking, that consistency of performance, if it’s at all possible.’

Dublin’s ‘shame’ after Leinster hurling final defeat Boss Anthony Daly has admitted Dublin felt ‘shame’ after being hammered by Kilkenny in the Leinster hurling final. The sky Blues will have the chance to bounce back this sunday when they play

‘Where did we let it go wrong?’ Tipperary in an All-Ireland quarter-final in Thurles. Daly says they will have strong motivation to perform after

feeling they let their fans down at Croke Park when losing by double scores to Kilkenny earlier this month. The Clare man said they simply ‘just didn’t perform’ and were left with ‘desperate stuff’ in their heads after relinquishing their provincial title so tamely. ‘When you play a game like we did in the Leinster final, you

feel nothing only real shame – that you let down your fans and your family and all that,’ said Daly. ‘All of us. I’m not saying players, I’m saying management, everybody soul searches. (You’re asking) “Where did we let it go wrong”? ‘For the first week anyway, the two training sessions we did were just really purging ourselves and trying to get

back on track. ‘But, look, we played Limerick (in a challenge game) on Friday night and played fairly well, so in fairness to them now they’ve picked up the slack. ‘Really, until you go out on sunday at four o’clock, you can’t really know where you are.’ Paul schutte (back), Niall McMorrow (knee) and goalkeeper Gary Maguire (thumb) are Dublin’s chief injury concerns, though Mark schutte should be available after shoulder trouble.

THis Cycling world champion Martyn Irvine has been selected as Northern Ireland’s flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. The Co Down 29-year-old won gold in the Scratch race at last year’s World Track Championships and also won a bronze medal at the 2010 Delhi Games. Irvine said: ‘I’m honoured to be considered as flag bearer considering there are a lot of other athletes in the team with bigger CVs than I have.’ He will take part in three events – the 20k Scratch and 40k Points race, plus the road race.

Kimi gets backing from Ferrari boss AuTO Kimi

Raikkonen’s future at Ferrari would appear to be safe in the wake of team principal Marco Mattiacci’s glowing reference. Raikkonen’s return to Ferrari has been nothing short of an embarrassment for a driver who won his 2007 world title with the Maranello marque. The Finn has been outqualified by Alonso in eight of the ten grands prix so far, andhas finished behind the Spaniard in every race.’ Kimi is the driver we need – we need to make more points, but he’s the driver we need,’ Mattiacci said. ‘He knows what he can do better. He’s motivated, he knows his area of improvement.’

McGregor for Vegas MMA Conor McGregor will face Dustin Poirier in his next fight. Following McGregor’s first round win in the O2 on July 19, the UFC have added him to the main card for Jon Jones V Alexander Gustafsson 2, scheduled for September 27th in Las Vegas. Jones and Gustafsson met in the fight of the year with the former barely coming away with the win. With a stacked card featuring UFC superstars McGregor will have the whole world watching this event.

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Suarez was treated ‘like a murderer’

FIFA has been accused of treating Luis Suarez ‘like a murderer’ after he was banned for four months for biting Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. Iago Aspas, who played alongside Suarez at Liverpool, accepts the striker should have been banned but says Fifa’s punishment is excessive. ‘They are treating Luis like a murderer and not like a footballer,’ said Aspas. ‘There are murderers who pay less [for what they have done]. Not to let him be presented [by Barcelona], to train or to enter the stadium is too much.’

City accused of lies and deception in racism row

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Ban: Suarez

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MANCHESTER City claims that one of their players was racially abused during an under-21 friendly in Croatia have been strenuously denied by the alleged perpetrators. City’s elite development squad coach Patrick Vieira took his team off the pitch on Tuesday when French midfielder Seko Fofana, 19, made the allegations after being sent off against HNK Rijeka. However, a Rijeka statement read: ‘We are surprised by the unpleasantly harsh and baseless accusations of which we are accused and that we completely reject.’ The hosts’ manager Ranko Buketa even suggested City were trying to deflect attention from the red-card incident. ‘It looks like a move which is trying to hide a very ugly foul by the Manchester City player that resulted in exclusion, followed by a hasty and illogical decision of the coach-

Abuse allegations: Fofana and, inset, Vieira

Costa vows to reward Blues with silverware

DIEGO COSTA has vowed to do his utmost to deliver trophies for Chelsea. The Spain striker has joined the Blues from Atletico Madrid charged with providing the goals to steer Jose Mourinho’s side to their first Premier League crown since 2010. Mourinho bemoaned his misfiring strikers last term as they missed out on silverware but Costa said: ‘I personally will fight to make sure we are in contention to win as many trophies as possible. I’m part of a great group here

64 Goals in 134 appearances for new chelsea striker Diego costa at Atletico madrid and we will do everything to give the fans what they want and that’s titles.’ Costa insisted it was a straightforward choice to move to Stamford Bridge. ‘It was an easy decision,’ he added. ‘We have some of the best players and the best manager in the world and it’s a club with great history. ‘The reason they signed me was because of the way I played at Atletico. One of the things Jose said is he doesn’t want me to change. I don’t feel I have to change much, just to improve fine details to become a better player, hopefully I’ll have a similar season to the last one.’

Rob’s Seam-less

EvErToN defender Seamus Coleman will miss their pre-season friendly in Thailand to ensure the republic of Ireland international does not aggravate a hamstring problem. The 25-year-old suffered the injury during Tuesday’s friendly at Tranmere. ‘We don’t really know the extent of his [Coleman’s] injury yet,’ said Toffees manager roberto Martinez. ‘Hopefully it is going to be just a minor setback.’

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ing staff to withdraw the team from the field,’ Buketa said. However, the boss of football’s anti-racism group Fare, Piara Powar, backed Arsenal and France icon Vieira’s course of action saying: ‘We are not, in the short term, able to stop this sort of incident

‘it looks like they are trying to hide a very ugly foul’ happening but to have someone like Patrick Vieira, with his status, do this makes the message very clear. ‘It is just the sort of thing which will create change.’ Fifa and the Croatian Football Association have yet to respond while City are considering their next move.

TRANSFER TALK

City boss Pellegrini still looking to spend mAncheSter citY boss manuel Pellegrini insists he’s still in the market for players as he looks to boost his squad ahead of their Premier League title defence. ‘i don’t think the squad is complete yet but we have six weeks before the transfer window closes,’ said the chilean (pictured) ahead of city’s friendly against Sporting Kansas city in the US last night. ‘Perhaps there is the option to bring one or more players in or maybe one or two will

leave our squad but there is time for us to consider what is best for our team.’ Pellegrini, who has already brought in Brazilian midfielder Fernando, French full-back Bacary Sagna and goalkeeper Willy caballero from former club malaga, may have to rethink his plans after striker Alvaro negredo suffered a broken foot in the friendly win over hearts on Friday. ‘Alvaro had surgery today on his broken foot and he will be out for two or three months,’ he said.

Poyet’s confident of making Cats out of Borini and Alonso SUNDERLAND manager Gus Poyet is refusing to give up on summer targets Fabio Borini and Marcos Alonso despite a frustrating wait to secure them. The club appeared to receive a double set-back earlier this week when Borini’s agent Marco de Marchi indicated the player’s preference was to fight for his place at Liverpool, while a report in Italy suggested Fiorentina’s Alonso was no longer for sale. However, Poyet remains optimistic that deals can still be struck for two men who impressed during loan spells in the north east last season. On Borini, Poyet said: ‘It is not for me to explain but it is not just a question of Fabio wanting to come or not. ‘There are many things to look at and unfortunately, I cannot comment. There’s nothing new to report, but we are still hoping

top target: Borini to close the deal completely. ‘It’s up to Fabio. We have been clear, everything is fine, there’s no doubt about his connection with our club, and me and him get along fine, so there is no reason for it not to happen. ‘If Fabio does not come, it does not set us back, we move on – we are not a one-player team.’ And on Alonso, Poyet added: ‘It’s close, but not close enough. ‘We’re trying hard. It’s been a bit more difficult than I expected, but we’re not going to stop.’

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£800,000 the

reported fee crystal Palace are paying cardiff for Fraizer campbell. the eagles have fended off competition from Leicester for the 26-yearold striker (pictured).

u BaRCElona have signed Valencia defender Jeremy Mathieu (right) for a fee of £15.8million. u YAcine BrAhimi has joined Porto from Granada after an impressive World cup in Algeria’s midfield. u aRsEnal have given a trial to 17year-old serbian prospect Mladen Micanovic. u DAViDe AStori has signed a three-year contract extension with cagliari. the italian centre-back, 27, had been linked with manchester city, Liverpool, everton, tottenham. u InTER Milan and Valencia will fight it out for Manchester United’s Javier Hernandez. u eVerton manager roberto martinez is closing on Anderlecht striker David henen. the £1.5m Belgian, 18, will join the U21 squad.

Who’s on Louis’ shopping list?

from fantasy deals to the likely moves Louis van gaal has been told he can spend big to bring the glory days back to old Trafford after Ed Woodward said manchester united could break the world record for a transfer. We look at five players he might buy – wellknown targets to potential mega-signings – how much they’d cost and, importantly, the chances of it happening.

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Borussia Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp ruled out selling the World Cupwinning defender 25, this week, after reports claimed a £16m deal with united had been agreed. a higher bid may test that resolve.

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Price tag: £25m Likelihood: 6/10

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Van Gaal would love a reunion with robben, who he coached at Bayern munich and with Holland. However, the 30-year-old has already said he is staying at munich, so unless a enormous bid is submitted, robben won’t be landed.

united have reportedly made Juventus’ Chilean midfield star their top target this summer after his World Cup showing. liverpool are also said to be interested in doing a deal.

Price tag: £24m Likelihood: 1/10

Price tag: £45m

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Price tag: £40m

£ Likelihood: 7/10

real madrid’s almost customary summer spending spree means the argentine winger is surplus to requirements at the Bernabeu. Securing his services would give united’s attack a much-needed boost.

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In search of more highs: Low

There’s Low respite for rest of Europe GErmany’S World Cup-winning coach Joachim low says he will remain in charge through to the 2016 European Championship. low was contracted to the German football federation (DFB) until July 2016, but it was rumoured he could step down after landing his first trophy in the job with the biggest prize of all this summer. However, the 54year-old told the DFB’s website he had not thought ‘even for a second’ about quitting. ‘We celebrated a gigantic success but there are still further goals we want to accomplish,’ low said. ‘The World Cup was a high point, but it was not an end point.’ low, nicknamed Jogi, has been in the job for eight years, having previously been Jurgen Klinsmann’s assistant.

shaKh-far Shakhtar Donetsk will base themselves in Kiev and play their home games in the western city of lviv this season due to the ongoing troubles in eastern ukraine.

Bruce out to fit in Hull boss Steve Bruce is hoping his players’ fitness levels are up to scratch for their European adventure. The Tigers launch their first-ever Europa league campaign next Thursday when they face either Slovakian side Trencin or FK Vojvodina of Serbia in the third qualifying round. ‘let’s hope we’re ready and not under-cooked,’ Bruce (pictured) said. ‘We know they’ll be fitter than us, but we should be okay.’

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anDy Carroll will miss both games in West Ham’s pre-season tour of new Zealand with an ankle injury. The 25-year-old missed the first half of last season with a heel problem. a club statement said: ‘The affected area is not associated with the previous injury.’

King’s coaching role

FormEr Tottenham captain ledley King has landed a part-time coaching role with the club’s under-18s. academy boss John mcDermot said: ‘using senior players as role models within our academy is a scheme we are keen to nurture and develop further.’

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biTing sAgA gOnE in RigHT DiREcTiOn, sAys Dubs cOOpER DUBlin defender Jonny Cooper says the biting saga that followed Sunday’s leinster final success took him by surprise and was ‘blown out of proportion’. Meath manager Mick O’Dowd alleged shortly after his team’s 16point defeat to Dublin that defender Mickey Burke was bitten by a rival player.

‘Dublin-Meath always has had that rivalry’

Cooper: Sometimes things can get blown out of proportion

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Eoghan O’Gara emerged as the player Burke tangled with, though a disciplinary probe found there was no evidence to pursue a case. it means O’Gara is clear to play for Dublin in their august 9 allireland quarter-final tie and corner-back Cooper feels justice has been done. ‘i was surprised you know, the way it came about and the way it all materialised in the press,’ said Cooper. ‘now all of a sudden it is gone and i think it has gone in the

right direction, the way it should have gone. ‘a lot of emphasis would be placed on discipline, on and off the pitch and in aspects of our game play. Jim (Gavin) makes that very clear and it is not within his psyche to have disciplinary issues. ‘i think, as a player, you can’t afford to get a black card and sit on the side line for too long, or whatever sort of sanction, because invariably someone else will take your place.’ Meath were asked to make a submission regarding the biting allegation to an official probe but didn’t push for punishment. That’s despite O’Dowd’s claims to the media on Sunday evening that he was ‘extremely disappointed’ with the incident. ‘Dublin-Meath always has that rivalry and edge and incidents happen in games and sometimes they are merited and sometimes they are blown out of proportion and that’s what i think happened in this situation,’ added Cooper.

World Cup in Russia is just ‘unimaginable’ FiFa have been urged to consider banning Russia from hosting the World Cup in 2018 in the wake of last week’s Malaysia airlines disaster. Pro-Russian separatists have been blamed for the shooting down of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, with the loss of 298 lives. European leaders have discussed tougher sanctions on Russia, which is suspected of aiding the separatists, and German politicians have suggested stripping Russia of their status as World Cup hosts. ‘as long as president Vladimir Putin is not an active participant in the investigation and does not work against the separatists, the World Cup in Russia is unimaginable,’ said Peter Beuth, chairman of the conference of sports ministers in Germany. in Holland, which lost 193 lives, football officials said debate must wait until after yesterday’s day of mourning. The Dutch football association said it is aware a future World Cup in Russia will stir a lot of emotion among football lovers and victims’ relatives. ‘Standing still to remember our enormous loss is now the priority.’

st pat’s get pole-axed A night to forget for Saints as Champions League dream dies

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sT. paTrick’s aTh.........................0 legia warsaw.............................5 (legia warsaw win 6-1 on aggregaTe)

by pAuL buTTnER As he did in Warsaw last week, Miroslav Radovic broke st Patrick’s Athletic hearts to turn their Champions League dream into a nightmare at Tallaght stadium last night. The Legia striker had scored the stoppagetime equaliser at the Pepsi Arena last week to deprive st Pat’s a memorable away win. Last night he scored an opportunist opening goal before adding a third as Legia showed their class. in between, Michal Zyro had already all but sealed Legia’s passage through to a third qualifying round meeting with Celtic with their second goal. But there was more misery for st Pat’s as they conceded a fourth goal from substitute Marek saganowksi while a Conan Byrne own goal completed Legia’s emphatic win and st Pat’s despair. Buoyed both by their display and result in

Poland, st Pat’s started assertively, with Christy Fagan and Killian Brennan having shots blocked away within two minutes and Brennan then getting a shot on target, straight at dusan Kuciak, two minutes later. But there were nerves at the back as captain Ger O’Brien’s unforced wayward pass gifted Legia their first sniff of goal on ten minutes. The ball was straight to visiting skipper ivica Vrdoljak who picked out Ondrej duda to get away a low shot Brendan Clarke did well to hold on to. A lapse in concentration would cost st Pat’s dearly on the 25-minute mark to put Legia ahead in the tie. The inchicore men switched off momentarily as they thought Greg Bolger had been fouled in midfield. Legia punished them clinically with Zyro putting Radovic in to shoot low to the corner of the net. st Pat’s responded and were almost level seven minutes later from their most incisive move of the match. Brennan slipped Keith Fahey in and his deflected shot was brilliantly touched out for a corner by Kuciak. Legia remained the better side into the second half, though. Tomasz Brzyski was nar-

Poles’ position: Miroslav Radovic celebrates scoring the opening goal against St Patrick’s Athletic piCtuRe: inpho

rowly wide with a free kick before Legia rubberstamped their deserved victory on 69 minutes. Kucharczyk did well to get to the end line to pull back for Zyro, whose shot squirmed through Clarke to the corner of the net. duda then set up Radovic to add his second goal of

the night on 82 minutes before substitutes Jakub Kosecki got to the end line to cross for saganowski for a fourth, three minutes from time. Byrne headed a cross from Bryzski into his own net in the first minute of added time to compound st Pat’s misery.