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by IsLA BInnIe Francis, who is the first non-european pope in 1,300 years, has expressed tolerance regarding other topics traditionally taboo in the church, such as homosexuality, asking ‘who am I to judge?’ a gay person ‘who seeks God and has good will’. His approach contrasts with that of his predecessor, Pope Benedict, who said threats to the traditional family undermined the future of humanity itself. Bishops from all over the world are due to come to the Vatican next month for a major meeting on the family, which the Jesuit Pope referred to in the homily to Sunday’s Mass as the ‘bricks’ on which society is built. The Pope has said the church must end its obsession with teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuality, and become more merciful, or risk collapsing ‘like a house of cards’.

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pope marries ‘sinners’ in Vatican first PoPe Francis married 20 couples yesterday, some of whom had already lived together and had children, in the latest sign that the Argentine pontiff wants the Catholic Church to be more open and inclusive. In the first wedding he has performed in his 18-month-old papacy, Francis took each couple through their vows in turn – including Gabriella and Guido, who already had children and thought such a marriage would be impossible, official broadcasting service Radio Vaticana said. ‘The people getting married on Sunday are couples like many others,’ the diocese of Rome said in a statement. ‘Some already live together, some already have children.’ The ceremony was the first of its kind in the Vatican since Pope John Paul II presided over a wedding in 2000, when he was the leader of the world’s 1.3billion Catholics.

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‘Abducted’ teen is found safe and well A 15-yeAr-old boy has been found safe and well after his disappearance was initially feared to be an abduction. The teenager was found in Ballymote, Co Sligo, yesterday evening after getting into a car with two men 178 miles away in Wexford town on Saturday afternoon. It was initially reported that he had been bundled into the back of a car by two masked men. After a near 24-hour alert the Garda press office said that following extensive inquiries detectives were satisfied that the teenager had not been abducted and that he had not been forced into the car. The original child rescue alert was cancelled at lunchtime yesterday. ‘We would like to take this opportunity to thank the media and members of the public for their assistance in this matter,’ a Garda spokesman said. A child rescue alert is issued nationwide through the media and transport and police networks on the basis that there is an immediate and serious risk to the health and welfare of a child. It is understood the criteria were no longer met after witnesses were reinterviewed.

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Minister attacks asylum conditions as TV stars turn out for soccer game

No Hate but lots of Love at football charity day

MORE than 5,000 spectators took to Dublin’s Phoenix Park yesterday to see the stars of Love/Hate wilt under the pressure of a kick-around. They were taking part in Sari Soccerfest, Europe’s largest seven-aside tournament which aims to promote cultural integration in society through sport. Ditching the guns and donning their footy boots, the RTÉ crime drama team were pitted against the all-stars of Sport Against Racism Ireland (Sari), losing out 2-1 in the end. Love/Hate’s Aidan Gillen, Peter Coonan, Chris Newman, Barry Keoghan, Kieran O’Reilly, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Laurence Kinlan and Stuart Carolan were no match for the Sari side, which was captained by junior justice minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and saw two of Ireland’s women’s rugby team leaders: Marie Louise Reilly and Jenny Murphy. Ó Ríordáin said: ‘Sport provides a brilliant opportunity to overcome boundaries, look beyond differences

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and unite people. And today men, women and children have come from right across the country to make that possible.’ In comments relating to the asylum seeker direct provision system, he said the amount of time people are spending in these centres was outrageous and the conditions they live in were intolerable and ‘inhumane’. He said a working group, examining the system, has three months to come up with proposals of reform and stated his intention to limit the time a person spends in direct provision to six months to a year. Sari director Brian Kerr refereed a game yesterday. ‘The All-Stars game helps Sari communicate the huge role sport can play in bringing people together,’ the former Ireland manager said. More than 64 teams in Ireland took part in the two-day event.

Family day: Lawrence Kinlan of Love/Hate with his son Oren and niece Emily Rooney Pictures: jason clarke

‘Sport helps bring people together’

Push off: Irish rugby player Marie Louise Reillyy with Lawrence Kinlan

Goal: Sara Kechkar; Amy McLoughlin

Talented: Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Skills: Noelle Murray on the ball

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Stroke rehab plan COMMuNiTy rehab for stroke survivors could save the health system up to €7million a year while providing a better quality of service for more than half of those undergoing therapy. This is according to new research by the Economic and Social Research institute of ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons which found that 54 per cent of stroke patients – more than 3,000 a year – could benefit from early supported discharge programmes. This would free up more than 24,000 hospital beds.

Pub giant’s expansion plans hit by rising property prices

Pub giant Wetherspoon has blamed a rapid rise in property prices and rents for dampening its ambitious expansion into the Irish pub scene. The widely reported move, which drew the ire of many social media users, suggested the cut-price british chain would take more than 30 venues throughout Ireland over the next few years. but speaking at the weekend, the company’s chief executive Tim Martin said that a rapid climb in property rates had ‘reduced our appetite a bit’.

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‘If I were to wave a magic wand, I would say: “Couldn’t you wait a couple of years until we bought a few pubs at decent prices?”’ he said. This weekend it emerged the pub giant’s much speculated takeover of The Church bar in the city centre had fallen through. The deal for the iconic Mary Street pub and former church – which has played host to many

famous parishioners including playwright Sean O’Casey and united Irishman Wolfe Tone, who were both baptised there, and brewer Arthur Guinness – was the centre of much attention earlier in the year as it was believed to be the site for the company’s second venue in Ireland. Speaking to Metro Herald, however, The Church owner brendan Flynn said the deal was never on the cards, and that reports that a bid had been accepted were inaccurate.

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Actorr Nick Dunning and Mary Mitchell Mit O’Connor TD at the launch of ballroom dancing in the Dalkey Town Hall, which starts on Sunday, Sept September 21. Lessons ons begin with w dancing ing led by Tommy T Whelan from 7.00-8.15, then dance to the live band until 10pm Picture: Jason clarke

Young ‘lose interest in voting’ SOME 43 per cent of young people aged 18-21 are not registered to vote, according to a Red C poll. Commissioned by the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI), the poll found that up to 30 per cent of young people aged 18-25 were not registered to vote in the local and European elections last May. NYCI deputy director James Doorley said the new figures marked a decrease of registered youth voters, comparing the Red C poll to its The Truth About Youth report in 2009. Those figures found that 26 per cent of young people aged 18-25 and some

36 per cent of 18-21-year-olds were not registered to vote five years ago. The poll also measured how young people voted last May, with independents and Sinn Féin performing best and getting the youth vote. Fine Gael got 11 per cent of the youth ticket, while Labour got six per cent. Mr Doorley said: ‘The results of our poll show that a significant number are looking for alternatives to existing policies. No politician or party should ignore young voters.’ He called on all parties to ‘engage with young people’ ahead of the next General Election.

City Council owed €21m in overdue rent

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Budget tax plans unfair, says social justice body AN INDEPENDENT think tank has called on the Government to reject half of the current Budget tax proposals, claiming they favour the rich more than the poor. Social Justice Ireland (SJI) examined six possible changes to the Irish tax system and identified half of the proposals as ‘unfair’. Plans to increase personal tax credits and reduce the low and middle Universal Social Charge (USC) rates by one per cent and two per cent respectively, would improve the annual income of low wage earners by €99-€120. However, other plans to reduce the top tax rate of 41 per cent to 40, increase the standard rate band currently at 20 per cent, and reduce the top USC rate by 0.5 per cent would only benefit higher incomes. SJI policy analyst Michelle Murphy said: ‘The poorest ten per cent of society lost most since the onset of the crisis. Reducing the lower USC rates or increasing tax credits are the fairest options and Government should opt for these rather than the choosing any of the three unfair options,’ she said.

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Tony ny Mangan, 57, from the Liberties, ties, rreaches the Samuel Beckett Bridge on Saturday. The former construction worker, who arrived home after an epic four-year 50,000km run around the world, is now threatening to recreate the famous ‘little run’ scene from the Oscar-winning movie Forrest Gump as he prepares to end his adventure at next month’s Dublin Marathon.

Dublin City Council is owed €21million by its social housing tenants, it has emerged. The figure came to light following the publication of a report by the Department of the Environment showing more than €250million is owed to local authorities across ireland. The amount of unpaid rent arrears to the City Council has risen by almost 45 per cent in the last six years – increasing from €13.9million in 2008. The dramatic increase in arrears has prompted some councillors to call on the local authority to review its management of rental collection and implement new systems that would alert staff to tenants failing to pay. ‘The council needs to be much quicker in getting in touch with those that fall behind in their payments,’ said Cllr Ruairí McGinley, pointing out that failure to chase down tenants was crippling the City Council’s housing budget. ‘They have a duty of care to those people that do pay their rent on time

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Amy back in town she loved with new statue

Rage: Watts cries tears of frustration

Django star: i was cuffed by police for kissing my husband

by SHAROn MARRiS IT’S BEEN three years since the death of Amy Winehouse, widely seen as the best jazz and blues singer of her generation. Her death from alcohol poisoning aged just 27 ended a precocious musical talent but also laid bare her battle with drug and alcohol addiction. Yesterday, on what would have been her 31st birthday, a statue was unveiled in Camden’s Stables Market, a short walk from the townhouse where she died but also in a borough where she was a popular figure. Her father, Mitch Winehouse, said: ‘Amy was in love with Camden and it is the place her fans from all over the world associate her with. ‘I had a meeting with Camden council and they told me they don’t usually allow statues until 20 years after someone has died but in Amy’s case they made an exception.’ He said before the unveiling of the Scott Eaton sculpture that he knew the day would be ‘difficult’. He added: ‘They don’t erect statues to

Proud dad: Mitch with the statue people who are alive, so it just reinforces the fact that she’s gone.’ But he finds some comfort in the music he and his daughter shared together and next month releases his second album inspired by Amy: ‘But Beautiful’. It may come as a surprise to some but it reveals the connection between his East End upbringing with a hairdressing mother who would turn to music for a quick dance every time the salon was quiet – and the music he passed down to his own children, Amy and her brother Alex.

Surprize gig waz Hozier TWo of music’s biggest stars landed in one of the country’s smallest live music venues this weekend. UK singer Ellie Goulding and Wicklow native Hozier, whose much anticipated debut album is released on Friday, wowed visitors to the Spirit Store in Dundalk when they played a surprise free gig on Saturday night. Musicians from a variety of music genres performed in pubs from Thursday through to Sunday entertaining music fans throughout Leinster as part of the Guinness Amplify programme, which replaced brewer Diageo’s controversial annual Arthur’s Day, which some accused of promoting drink culture. Northern Ireland is next to be treated to surprise shows, from September 18.

Iconic: The Amy Winehouse statue, Camden Picture: getty

DJANGo Unchained actress Daniele Watts claims she was ‘handcuffed and thrown into a car’ by police after being mistaken for a prostitute. Her crime – kissing her white husband in public. The star, who played slave Coco in Quentin Tarantino’s oscar-winning film, says she and Brian James Lucas were kissing in a Hollywood street when police were called. one officer demanded to see her ID card and, when she refused to comply, she was ‘forced into handcuffs’, causing one of her wrists to bleed. Ms Watts posted a picture of her crying next to a Los Angeles police officer on Facebook, and wrote: ‘Today I was handcuffed. after refusing to agree I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place. ‘As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong. The tears I cry are for a country that calls itself “the land of the free”.’

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What are the odds? New app BetYou lets people bet on anything

A revolutionAry betting app is seeking to cash in on friendly wagers throughout ireland. the newly released Betyou is aiming its sights on what is believed to be an untapped market worth more than €430million annually. the app, which with a click of a button lets people bet on literally anything from doing the dishes to being late to work, is backed by research that shows that each person makes about 25 informal bets a year averaging €12.80 each. ‘Betyou is for friends to connect, have a social bet and enjoy the craic that goes with winning and losing. it’s for the bet you won’t get anywhere else,’ said Betyou’s Barry Duffy. Alongside betting, the app will

allow users to message and send pictures amongst their friends as their wagers play out – ‘fuelling the banter’ and ‘acting as a social megaphone for bragging rights’. More than half of those surveyed said that it was this banter while the bet was happening that they enjoyed more than anything else, with sporting events dominating the majority of bets amongst friends. According to its creators, only 9.5 per cent of those surveyed said that winning money was the main motivation for betting. ‘taking sport out of the equation – 55 per cent of us are most likely to put our finances on the line to settle an argument,’ said Mr Duffy. the Betyou App is free to download on iPhone or Android.

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Rich should pay to save our skins They want charitable foundations to pull money out of oil and gas companies and pour it into clean energy producers, helping them to build on a ‘rising tide’ of support. Solar energy entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett said the group was nudging investors at a time when many were already realising fossil fuels were in the ‘last chance saloon’.

THE world’s richest people should give away billions of euro to help stop climate change that threatens the future of humanity, experts are urging. Philanthropists could tip the scales in the battle to end reliance on polluting fossil fuels, the 160 environmentalists said ahead of a UN climate summit in New York.

Stressed? Pedal to happiness COMMUTERS who walk or cycle instead of using their cars are about ten per cent less likely to suffer from stress and anxiety, research shows. Their levels of concentration are also enhanced, a University of East Anglia study suggests. Some 20,000 commuters were analysed.

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Chainsaw victim Greg: I’m so lucky to be alive by jOEL TAyLOR

FORMER world No 1 golfer Greg Norman says he is lucky to be alive after nearly cutting off his left hand with a chainsaw. The 59-year-old’s arm was pulled on to the blade by the weight of a branch as he pruned trees at his beach-side home in south Florida. It sliced through the skin near where he would wear a watch but missed his artery by ‘a fraction of an inch’, doctors have told him. ‘At least I can still play tennis,’ Norman said in an interview yesterday. ‘Thank God, the blade wasn’t running full speed or it would have taken my hand off. I handled everything as calmly as I could. ‘There’s a little tingling in my fingers, which is better than no fingers at all.’ Yesterday, he posted a picture of himself with a protective foam guard beside the tree. He wrote: ‘Thank u all for your concern & good wishes. All well the morning after the accident. Here I am at the scene of the crime w/my new fash-

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Call me a diva? Blondie are a DIY band, says Harry

DEBBIE HARRY may be a trailblazing star but she tells Guilty Pleasures she’s no diva and still carries her own bags. The Blondie singer gave today’s pop upstarts a reality check in an exclusive chat before she performed at Radio 2’s Live in Hyde Park show yesterday. ‘You’re talking about a totally different level of being part of the industry,’ the 69-year-old said. ‘I don’t travel with six bodyguards. I don’t have an assistant. I don’t have hair and make-up people. ‘We’re a do-it-yourself operation. We’re homegrown and very tight. It’s totally different.

‘I don’t have a bunch of side men and a music director someone has hired and teaches them the songs and then five hours later I walk on stage and sing them. It’s a totally different thing.’ On the likes of Rihanna, whose team lugs her clobber all over the world, Harry joked: ‘She’s a stumbler, she falls a lot. I have had some weird experiences when I have given my stuff to people and they’ve lost it. I’m just taking care of business.’ Handing down her verdict on the likes of

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pop strippers Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga, Harry explained: ‘Those girls are show girls.’ ‘I do appreciate the fact that Gaga is a real musician and I really adore that about her,’ she said. ‘And I love Gwen [Stefani]. I like them all. I don’t really have anything against any of them because I don’t really know them as people. I know them through their music and persona. ‘I’m a fan. I’ve been a fan forever. It’s always entertaining and it’s fun. So I am part of all of that.’

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It’s heating up for JLaw & Chris

THEY’VE been the talk of the town for weeks and now Chris Martin and Jennifer Lawrence have gone public with their romance, acting ‘all lovedup’ in a LA restaurant. The Coldplay frontman, 37, and Hunger Games actress, 24, were ‘grinning from ear to ear’ on a date in restaurant Chateau Marmont, said diners. Martin’s estrange d wife Gwyneth Paltrow, 41, is ‘happy’ for her ex and not threatened by JLaw, an insider said.

Tom will never tell all about his big day

TEASE Tom Hardy has hinted he might have already tied the kno t with his fiancée, Charlotte riley. The brooding actor, 36, proposed to the 32-year-old in 201 tired of being asked about taking0 but he has grown the plunge. ‘Whether I’m married or not ma rrie d, people will find out. But it’s also not someth ing I’m going to offer,’ he told USA Today, adding he tracked’ by the public. ‘When you ‘hates being school, no one gives you a clas go to drama s on fame.’

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THE Wanted’s Tom Parker gets fun runners’ blood pumping as he entertains them with a DJ set. The 26-year-old performed during the Sure Run To The Beat race in Wembley Park, north London, yesterday

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ero MrS BuGG? MY h on iT... puT The pie-BoSh JAKE BUGG says his hero Don McLean told him to stay single if he wants lifelong success. The 20-year-old Lightning Bolt star was amazed when the American Pie singer, 68, rang him up five years after Bugg tried to contact him via a fan website. ‘He was giving me this advice like, “Don’t get married”,’ Bugg told MTV. ‘It was pretty crazy.’ Picture: Getty

Sophie goes to the ball in Hollywood

Sophie McShera is trading in her Downton abbey scrubber to act alongside cate Blanchett in a hollywood blockbuster. The excited 29-year-old told Guilty pleasures: ‘i’ve just done the new cinderella film. cate Blanchett plays my mother. She was amazing! i was really starstruck.’ She will be hoping to follow exDownton star Dan Stevens into a glittering a-List career.

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Opportunity: Alex Salmond

Salmond in rallying call SCOTTISH First Minister Alex Salmond claimed Scotland has a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to seize independence, as he promised not to seek another referendum. The latest poll of polls puts the No campaign ahead by just 51 per cent to 49 with just three days left before the vote. Speaking on the radio he said: ‘We’re aiming to achieve a substantial majority if we can. My view is this is a once in a generation, perhaps even a once in a lifetime, opportunity for Scotland.’ The royal family was again drawn into the debate after the Queen reportedly told a well-wisher that voters should ‘think very carefully about the future’. A record 97 per cent of the Scottish electorate has registered to vote.

‘Irish jihadi’ defends the execution of aid worker AN ‘IRISH jihadi’ fighting with ISIS has publicly defended the execution of British aid worker David Haines. The fanatical convert – believed to be in his early 20s – claimed Mr Haines’s former role in the RAF justified his brutal beheading. Tributes have been paid to murdered aid worker David Haines this weekend and he has been described as a ‘British hero’ by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Defending the killing on social media, the extremist, who is fighting in Syria, wrote: ‘David Haines was in the RAF for 10 years, the same RAF that bombs Muslims and gets involved in wars in the Muslim lands that has no direct threat and has nothing to do with Britain. Have you seen the track record of USA and UK – how many innocent Muslims they have imprisoned and killed? Meanwhile, Britain stands ready to take ‘whatever steps are necessary’ to help an international push to destroy the ‘evil’ extremist group which murdered the aid worker, Mr Cameron said. Mr Cameron vowed to ‘hunt down those responsible and bring them to justice no matter how long it takes’ after Islamic State (IS) posted a video of the beheading of the father of two.

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by pATRIck ANDREwS A second British hostage, named as Alan Henning, was also shown – with a threat that he would be the next to be killed. The killing appeared to have been carried out by the same British-accented jihadist responsible for the deaths of two American journalists held by the group – which is also known as Isil (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). In an emotional statement after chairing a meeting of the British government’s Cobra emergency committee to discuss the killing, Mr Cameron said the brutal crime would ‘strengthen our resolve’ to take on the threat posed by the Islamic extremists at home and abroad. British people would be ‘sickened’ that a fellow citizen could have carried out such an act, he said, and urged action to drain from society the ‘poison’ of radicalisation – insisting IS and its adherents ‘are not Muslims, they are monsters’. He remained tight-lipped on Britain’s role in the planned escalation of the military offensive in Iraq and Syria being co-ordinated by the US, and officials made clear there were no immediate plans in place.

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gERMANy: Samsung has accused senior executives of rival LG Electronics of vandalising its washing machines in stores. The South Korean group wants an investigation amid claims that LG Electronics bosses were seen tampering with its machines on display in Berlin stores ahead of a trade show in Germany. LG, which is also based in South Korea, denied the allegations and claimed in a statement that the washing machine model in question had weak hinges.

woman in her 80s fights off attacker ENgLAND: A woman in her 80s has fought off a would-be robber by punching him in the face. The pensioner was walking her dog yesterday when she was grabbed by a man wearing a hoodie to hide his face. The attacker fled after she punched him in the mouth. ‘It appears the suspect has picked on the wrong person in this instance,’ said police in Whitstable, Kent. They are looking for a man with a facial injury.

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Lofven is poised to take power SwEDEN: Election polling stations closed last night with prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (pictured) set to lose power to the Social Democrats. After eight years of centre-right rule, voters are weary of his pro-market policies and undermining of the welfare system. ‘We have to wait for the final results... but we have a good chance,’ said Social Democrat leader Stefan Lofven.

and finally... HOLLAND: Protesters hit back at Vladimir Putin’s ban on EU imports by throwing 120,000 squishy tomatoes... at each other. They paid more than a tenner each to take part in the hour-long fight in Amsterdam’s Dam Square. Proceeds will go to tomato growers hurt by the sanctions.

‘British hero’: Aid worker David Haines, 44, pictured on his wedding day with his four-year-old daughter from his second marriage

US tourist jailed for six years in North Korean labour camp AN AMERICAN tourist has been sentenced to six years of hard labour for carrying out ‘hostile acts’ against North Korea, it emerged yesterday. Matthew Miller was arrested in April after allegedly ripping up his visa on arrival in Pyongyang and demanding asylum. The 24-year-old Californian was convicted after a brief court hearing on Saturday and led away in handcuffs. A statement from North Korean officials said he would serve a ‘labour re-education’ sentence, adding: ‘He committed acts hostile to the DPRK while entering the territory of the DPRKunder the guise of a tourist last April.’ It is alleged that Miller tore up his visa at the airport and shouted that ‘he came to North Korea after choosing it as a shelter’. Fellow American Kenneth Bae, 46, is already serving a 15-year labour camp sentence for trying to evangelise inside the Asian state, while 56-year-old

Jeffrey Fowle is awaiting sentence after being arrested in May for leaving abible under a bin in the toilet of a sailor’s club in the eastern port city of Matthew Miller Chongjin. While US assistant secretary of state Daniel Russel called the trio’s detention ‘objectionable’, it is believed they are being used as pawns to force Barack Obama to send a high-profile member of his administration on a diplomatic visit to Pyongyang. Andrea Lee, CEO of Uri Tours, the US-based company that organised Miller’s tour to the country, said: ‘Unfortunately, there was nothing specific in Mr. Miller’s tour application that would have helped us anticipate this unfortunate outcome.’

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A real pane to drive by DOMINIC YEATMAN by DOMINIC YEATMAN IT HAS a bed so tired travellers can take a nap – but nodding off under all that glass might prove a struggle. A driverless car made of stained-glass windows has been built for an exhibition looking at the future of mobility. Designer Dominic Wilcox believes automated vehicles will render safety features such as airbags a thing of the past – and so decided to create his unusual sleeper car instead. ‘It’s inspired by the idea that in the future it will be safer to drive in a driverless car than it is to drive in a manual car,’ he said. ‘About a year ago, I was in Durham Cathedral and I was really struck by the stained glass windows. I thought: how come we don’t use that so much in contemporary design?’ Built with the help of students from Middlesex University, the car is part of a Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition for London Design Week. Six designers will present their visions of how technology will shape transport. ‘My design is based on the future but also referencing the past,’ Mr Wilcox added. ‘The original Mini came out in 1959 and I’m looking at how we’ll be travelling around in 2059.’

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seemed interesting. He’s a man who’s lacking something. He’s very troubled and carrying a lot of guilt and grief. Who could resist?

He’s quite an insular character, who keeps his emotions in check. Is that hard to play? You have to be very

careful tackling characters like this, they can easily be so dull. You could read him as a onedimensional character but there’s a lot of great stuff in there. The difference for me with returning to the character after the first film is his relationship with Charlotte, who starts off as his landlady. It happens quite naturally, it didn’t feel like it was just tacked on.

What difference does she make to him?

series. It doesn’t define me.

What’s next? I’m in the new film

Pride. and I’ve got a few films lined up to direct. The next one is The Years Of The locust. It’s set in the boxing world of Florida in the 1990s – a true story of fixed fights.

You had a fight of your own with Asperger’s that led to you suffering anxiety and insecurity. How have you handled that? I wear these

Calmer? Did you worry that using the lenses might impact on your creativity? It’s

a total myth that you’ve got to be buzzing all the time to be creative. I’ve been just as prolific acting, writing and directing as I was before. I didn’t need to feel fixed, I needed to feel more in control.

What have you changed? I’m not trying to be the man in the book. I knew that if the chance came again, I would do it my way. He’s decent, kind, honest and totally loyal. There’s humanity to him but he feels like an outsider to himself. That’s what I wanted people to see.

happily have given it all up just to feel better. It was such a relief to find someone that could tell me: ‘You have Irlen syndrome.’ Because before it was: ‘I don’t know what’s going on here; it’s taking all my strength to be sane.’

character, those kinds of characters are few and far between. If I were on TV regularly it would have a different feel but it’s not like that. I’m lucky that my life doesn’t depend on Whicher getting another

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Going back to when I was a kid... I loved Barry McGuigan. and Frank Bruno. I watched them all.

a second chance to go back to the character because in the first one, a lot of the time I felt I was miscast. I remember thinking: ‘I am not bringing this guy to life.’ and if I don’t believe it, then how can I expect anybody else to believe it?

Any worries about getting typecast? I’m not tied to one

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Is boxing in your blood? I boxed in the street as a kid and I’ve been a fan as long as I can remember. But I was never going to make a boxer myself – I’d found out the hard way just how painful a punch to the head can feel.

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special filtered lenses for when I work, they stop me being so I felt I was sensitive to light. It miscast... I remember makes everything calmer. The only thinking: ‘I am not problem is it can bringing this guy to life.’ make me seem a bit up myself – I If I don’t believe it, was being how can anybody You’re interviewed by a group of journalists renowned as else? and there I was, sitting your own with my rock star shades harshest critic, saying on indoors. He doesn’t know how to connect with his grief. He’s exhausted by it and he wants to share it. she allows him to do that.

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Do you feel you’ve come to terms with it? Yeah, I’m

aspergic but I’ve got a perspective on it. I sit at home with my kids and someone with an extreme case of asperger’s will come on TV and my kids will say: ‘You’re not like that.’ People see extreme cases and they think everyone’s like that.

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lass Half Full: While I applaud your positive attitude, I wonder if you will be so appreciative of your government after you have been working your ass off for another ten or 15 years, paying half your income to same government and unable to buy or rent your own home because you’ve been priced out of the market. I don’t focus on doom and gloom either but can recognise a lack of forward thinking, and ‘business as usual’ politics when I see it. This current government has no coherent housing policy. It was warned of the current housing crisis several years ago and has once again let down the lower and middle income earners badly. Angela, Dublin

n Glass Half Full, are you really trying to tell us the last government was at fault for the financial crisis all over europe and the Us? No sir, big greedy banks were. It wouldn’t have mattered what party was in government. I never voted for FF but blame who is responsible. By the way, moaners get things done. If you don’t complain nothing will happen. Paul, Drogheda n You sound more like you’re going on 12 than a 22-year-old, Glass Half Full. This government has broken nearly every promise it has made. They are spineless, lying, corrupt, incompetent cowards who put themselves first. Guaranteed clean water for kids? There are parts of the country where tap water is not fit for con-

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sumption. There are underground leaks all over Dublin. There’s the ‘Jobbridge’ scam, GsOC debacle, proof of Coveney being sent to a Bilderberg meeting, the list goes on. Failed ministers who would be sacked in the private sector get top jobs in Brussels for following orders from their Euro masters. I have lots of joy in my life and I’m not a negative person but I’m a realist who has no time for bullshit. Disgruntled Pig n Mentally, Pistorius will never be free of the guilt of what he has done. I hope he serves every single day thinking of Reeva. Jodie n If he was poor and black, he would have been thrown in jail. Jean Morrison

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elling someone they bear more than a passing resemblance to Brendan Behan may or may not be taken as a compliment, so it’s a relief when actor gary lydon brings up his likeness to the great playwright and carouser only moments into our interview. ‘People have been telling me i look like Behan for years,’ he says, with a nonchalant shrug of his shoulders. ‘From the moment i started acting, people have been remarking on the fact. ‘last year we brought a production of Waiting For godot to Boston and several critics commented on the resemblance which, i suppose, is pretty striking. it’s been happening on and off for as long as i can remember.’ it’s fitting then that the london-born, Wexford-raised actor has been cast as the Dublin author – with love/Hate’s Peter Coonan playing the younger Behan – in Frank McMahon’s dramatisation of Borstal Boy.

“His reputation for drinking eclipsed his achievements” in the popular imagination Behan is generally remembered for withering aphorisms – ‘Other people have a nationality. The irish and the Jews have a psychosis’ – and his grotesque, alcohol-fuelled demise, but Borstal Boy, written from the perspective of the 16year-old self, recounts his years as an idealistic iRA agitator, and his subsequent incarceration in a British detention centre. ‘His reputation for drinking has sometimes eclipsed some of Behan’s literary achievements, but the great thing about Borstal Boy is that it offers us a very different version of the man,’ lydon explains. ‘Borstal Boy is funny, in one sense, but it’s also a very meticulous account of the day-today minutiae of prison life; the detail is astounding. every word spoken in the play is contained in the book so it’s very faithful to the original. i think that having two Behans on stage makes it very poignant – the audience can take in the contrast between the older, crumbling playwright and the young man who’s just starting out in life.’ lydon, who won two ifta awards for his role as counsellor Patrick Murray in RTÉ’s The Clinic, has long been enamoured of both Behan’s work and his larger-than-life reputation.

Actor Gary Lydon tells Daragh Reddin about taking on the role of legendary roisterer and playwright Brendan Behan in a new stage adaptation of Borstal Boy.

It’s your round: Gary Lydon in Calvary

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‘When i was growing up i was a bit of a punk and really into The Clash. Behan, to me, is like a punk in playwright form. i like the fact that he was anti-establishment and said exactly what was on his mind without giving it a second thought. ‘The theatre director Joan littlewood once described Behan as “a theatre in himself”. He was brought up on music hall and vaudeville and i think that informed the person he became and explains his tendency to act the maggot. it’s sad that he did essentially drink himself to death but he was also a powerhouse of creativity for much of his life, and his plays

are very sophisticated and experimental.’ Having made his mark in such TV hits as Amongst Women and Pure Mule, lydon has, of late, been making a successful foray into film, appearing opposite Brendan gleeson as inspector Stanton in John Michael McDonagh’s The guard and its follow-up, Calvary. The director, brother of playwright Martin, has also promised the actor that there’ll be a place for him in The lame Shall enter First, the final part in his so-called ‘glorified suicide trilogy’, which is due to be filmed next year. ‘The guard was set in galway where John’s father was from; Calvary was set in Sligo

where his mother was from; and the next one will be set in south london where John currently lives. it’s going to see Brendan gleeson behaving badly in a wheelchair – which is about as much as i can say. ‘Brendan Behan’s brother actually saw me doing a Martin McDonagh play once and we spoke after the show,’ lydon adds. And did he have any pearls of wisdom to impart? ‘not really,’ says lydon, ‘but he did tell me i looked an awful lot like Brendan...’

Borstal Boy, directed by Conall Morrison, runs at The Gaiety Theatre until Oct 11

FROM BEHAN TO BAILOUT As well as appearing together in Borstal Boy, Peter Coonan and Gary Lydon will be on our screens later this year in TV3’s The Guarantee, a political drama based on the Irish economic collapse. The pair tell Daragh Reddin what to expect. As hitman Fran, Peter Coonan has been one of Love/Hate’s most unforgettable characters, but it’s a very different kind of crook he’ll take on in The Guarantee. In director Ian Power’s drama, which focuses on how the Irish government, under the aegis of

Brian Cowen, came to guarantee the entire domestic banking system almost six years ago, Coonan plays former Anglo Irish Bank chief David Drumm, now in self-imposed exile in the US. ‘It’s been a fascinating experience,’ Coonan explains, ‘not just in terms of acting but in terms of what I learned about the crisis by studying the script. What I think the film does very well is humanise those who were at the forefront and shows that they weren’t quite the bogeymen people think.’

‘Exactly,’ Lydon, who plays Brian Cowen among others, chimes in. ‘It explores what happened from so many angles – from the politicians, to the bankers, to the regulators. I think people reached a saturation point with coverage and began to think: “F*** this: I can’t really absorb any more”. ‘I think a TV film like this makes it palatable again by really relying on the facts and figures without sensationalising it.’ The Guarantee will air on TV3 and will also be released in selected cinemas in Nov

Together again: Peter Coonan and Gary Lydon will star in The Guarantee

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N THE five years that have passed since Bono and Co’s hit-free No Line On The Horizon, young upstarts Coldplay have gone from being the next U2 to essentially being the actual U2 – and it’s unlikely many music fans have pondered the necessity of a new U2 album in their lives. But Songs Of Innocence, gifted by Apple

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sImIan mOBIlE dIsCO WHOrL Anti Records HHHII Whether making Justice-style electro-bangers (it was the French duo’s We are your Friends remix that first made sMd’s name), elegant post-techno or soulful neo-house, James Ford and Jas shaw have always had their fingers on the UK electronic dance pulse. at times their determined modernism has compromised their identity but their fourth album sees them relying on their instincts. Whorl is an alluringly groovy, often whacked-out echo of the works of modular pioneers such as Tangerine dream, Popol Vuh and Fabio Frizzi. Plenty of electronic acts have been tapping old-school cosmic disco and prog house lately but tracks such as Calyx, the hypnotic Jam side Up and ecstatic Tangents show that sMd’s attention is still very much focused on the contemporary retro: James Ford and Jas shaw dance floor. SO’C

is essentially another version of Vertigo and Every Breaking Wave’s opening is so reminiscent of With Or Without You one half expects Bono to bring a lawsuit against himself. Thankfully, the presence of Danger Mouse means there’s enough here to interest listeners in 2014 – most obviously on The Troubles, a brooding closer in which Bono duets with Lykke Li to wonderful, and rather Lana Del Rey-esque, effect. That’s the underlying feel of Songs Of Innocence: it reminds the listener of something else, and most of all, of past U2 hits. For many, that’s surely a good thing. ben East

With their tense, tremulous and doom-laden early sound, the band frequently compared to Joy Division made some of the best and most beautiful songs to emerge from the 1990s post-punk revival scene in New York. They slowly burned from cult favourites to big-time rockers – until their flamboyant, cerebral bassist Carlos Dengler quit, months before the release of their self-titled fourth album in 2010 – an unfocused, drifting and disappointing affair. With a hiatus and solo projects filling the intervening years, the prospect of a return seemed unlikely. But this fifth record, with baritone vocalist Paul Banks also taking on bass duties, is a razor-sharp return to form. Still exquisitely gloomy but purged of the dirge that sometimes plagued their sound, it has enough fresh ideas to keep it feeling vital. Tracks such as All The Rage Back Home and Same Town, New Story lick forwards with perfect, spiky control, while with its scuzzy bassline and baleful chorus Everything Is Wrong proves the trio are never too old for a quasi-emo anthem. There’s not a huge amount of variation here, and perhaps nothing that can match older tracks such as Evil in terms of melodic punch, but it’s a welcome return for Interpol. Amy Dawson

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1. kEvin BRiDgEs: WHAT’s THE sTORy? REFEREnDuM sPEciAL BBC1, 11.05pm Just three days to go before Scotland votes Yes or No – really, you’d missed that? – so here’s comedian and floating voter Kevin Bridges on a road trip around his homeland, canvassing grassroots opinion in the hope it will help him make up his mind. Bridges’ campaign promise? No politicians.

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UTV, 9pm Sheridan Smith sings all her own songs in the first of this three-part pop biopic and, while she doesn’t sound much like the young Cilla Black, it scarcely matters. Smith brings the ambitious young Scouse typist to life as she dreams of pop stardom, hangs out at the Cavern and gives ardent boyfriend turned manager Bobby Willis (Aneurin Barnard) the runaround.

1 What’s The Story? Referendum Special Kevin Bridges investigates

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C4, 10pm He’s put it off for the best part of 32 years but comedian Jon Richardson is now in a romantic relationship and reckons he’s in serious danger of finally growing up. Which he uses as a flimsy pretext for swanning off in a camper van around the UK to find out if there’s life after coupledom. Swinging parties, maybe?

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E4, 10pm More than just a youth drama, Jack Thorne’s story of a group of kids stuck in a horse racing town is also a finely judged take on the kind of hard rural times you don’t see in Escape To The Country. A sense of threat looms over this close-knit community from the very start – and then murder blows their world apart.

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RTÉ1, 9.35pm This is the second and final part of RTÉ’s observational documentary which goes behind the walls of Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison offering an insight into the lives of the female inmates – some of whom

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BBC2, 12.20am If you missed this gripping tale of late 19th-century gangland Birmingham, one of last year’s standout dramas, then catch up now before the second series begins. Irish star Cillian Murphy shines as reluctant clan leader Thomas Shelby, locking horns with Sam Neill’s flint-hearted police inspector. Continues tomorrow and Wednesday.

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BBC2, 9pm It’s easy to be angered by the way City boys (and girls) play reckless games with money but how many of us know what they do and how the markets work? This two-part series rummages among the hedge funds and meets the players who thrive in this high-pressure world.

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Learning curve: Mature students might find that study techniques have changed over the years – but colleges say lecturers and tutors are there camps in maths and science also, ‘in DiT we are trying to develop other activities for students,’ says gormley. ‘There’s depending on your course choice. ‘These not too many mature students interested courses are very useful to bring students up to in going to a foam party.’ He adds that stuspeed, but they also allay fears for new students should socialise when they can, but says dents who may lack confidence,’ he says. that many students returning to education College life is not all about studying, there have other commitments too, such as work is, of course, a social aspect too that mature and family. students shouldn’t ignore.

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to help with any potential problems n order to enjoy all the aspects of college life, students returning to college will have to plan their workload and assignments. Time management is key if students are trying to balance work, family and college, but a lot of these skills are taught to students in their first week. Helen McMahon, mature student officer at DIT, encourages those returning to education to touch base with the supports available to them on their first week, saying that most students actually do have the skills, they just lack the confidence. ‘A lot of students returning are between the ages of 25 and 35 who have been in work a few years and want to either do something different or they are looking to upskill, while other students have been in an industry for the last 20 years and could be looking to do the same,’ she says. She explains that academic writing can be something people need to either brush up on or start from scratch on, but she says that no student would be simply thrown in the deep end. ‘The way you are expected to write and reference your work is explained to students from the very beginning and lecturers and tutors are there to ensure you get it right,’ McMahon adds. Another change that students might notice upon their return is the amount

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pEARLS BEfORE SwInE

Aries Mar 21 – Apr 20

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Sometimes, ideas, perceptions, slants, whatever we call them, do just come up from the depths, and such a possibility can light up your day now. Then again, someone close to you may let you in on a little secret which could also amaze.

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Gemini May 22 – Jun 21

You can have a greater desire to interact with others. Furthermore, if you have some ideas you think have merit, look to dazzle people with these. A unique mix of planetary energy can see you impress with your swiftness of thought and originality.

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Easy, moderate and challenging

Cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23

See next edition for solutions.

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Solutions to previous puzzle: Across: 7 Come to nothing; 8 Pick-me-up; 9 Idea; 10 Cherub; 12 Seldom; 14 Tragic; 16 Deride; 18 Mail; 20 Becoming; 22 Fair and square. Down: 1 Polisher; 2 Pecker; 3 Sore; 4 Composed; 5 Shrill; 6 Once; 11 Backbone; 13 Ordinary; 15 Galore; 17 Rumour; 19 Away; 21 Cost.

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Aquarius Jan 21 – Feb 19

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cOnTADOR wRAps up THiRD vuELTA LocaL favourite alberto contador wrapped up his third Tour of Spain triumph when he comfortably held on to his overall

Champion: Alberto Contador gives the thumbs up

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lead in the final stage time trial in a rain-soaked Santiago de compostela yesterday. Tinkoff-Saxo rider contador, who also won the Vuelta in 2008 and 2012, effectively secured victory when he left closest rival chris Froome trailing to win Saturday’s penultimate stage and he was careful to avoid any mishap in the city of Santiago.

‘It’s a dream for me to win three Vueltas,’ contador said. Froome of Team Sky finished second overall, one minute and 10 seconds behind contador, and another Spaniard, alejandro Valverde of Movistar, was third, one minute and 50 seconds adrift of his compatriot. Ireland’s Dan Martin of team Garmin Sharp finished in seventh place 10 minutes and 38 seconds behind the overall winner.

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Matt O’COnnOr says he never doubted Ian Madigan had the ability to operate at inside centre for Leinster, but shut down chat of his role when Johnny Sexton returns to the province next season. Madigan was splendid for Leinster as they destroyed Scarlets at the rDS on Saturday. His two tries, six successful conversions and general confidence shows a player determined to show his worth to the side in the coming season. and O’Connor was delighted. ‘Yeah, he’s done very well. there was never a doubt in my mind how good a footballer Ian is at 12. He is a fantastic player and he gives you a second set of hands and gives you the ability to expose space, whether that’s to kick to it or to run to it. He had a great, great game,’ said O’Connor after their six-try victory.

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Leading by example: Federer

Federer clears the Fog to book spot in Davis Cup final

TEnnis Roger Federer secured Switzerland’s place in the final of the Davis Cup for the first time since 1992 by comfortably beating Fabio Fognini in Geneva yesterday. Federer dismantled the Italian world No.17 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) to reach the first Davis Cup final of his illustrious career. Switzerland will take on France, who beat holders Czech Republic at Roland Garros, on November 21-23 as they bid to win their first Davis Cup. ‘It’s really nice to share [this success] with my team members,’ Federer said. ‘I thought today wasn’t the best performance from both of us but then again you’ve got to fight with what you’ve got and I’m happy to make the difference.’

Bingham on a Hai after second title

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Job done: Matt O’Connor was delighted with Madigan playing at number 12

‘We had a few wrongs to right from last week’ ‘He’d be a strong chance [to retain the role] yeah. the combinations are important for it. Still, having test guys coming back into the mix means the combinations training and playing are important. You need to capitalise on those and make sure that the guys that are doing the training and playing week on week get better in those slots.’ But the Leinster coach was not inclined to start predicting his future plans after Sexton returns from his two-year stint in France. He’s keen to

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manage the here and now. ‘It’s a non event. Johnny is away for 12 months, let’s worry about Gopperth and Madigan and what we are trying to achieve here in the short term,’ he said. Zane Kirchner’s hamstring ‘issue’ means he is a serious doubt to face Connacht on Friday at the Sportsground, but ahead of that derby the coach seems happy

with his side’s eight points from two games. ‘It was very pleasing. We had a few wrongs to right from last week and I think, by and large, we did that,’ he said. ‘I thought we started very well. I thought we lost a little bit of our way when they scored that turnover try, but I thought we were probably in control of it.

‘I think we played in the right areas and we backed our set piece. From that end, that was the plan going into the game and I think we delivered on that, which gave us a really good platform to attack. ‘then you are asking the guys to execute on the things that we do in training. and from that end we scored some great tries off the back of the plan that we set out.’

Bingham cruised to a 10-3 final victory over Mark Allen to win the Shanghai Masters. Bingham, who knocked out home favourite and defending champion Ding Junhui on Saturday, did not have to produce his best snooker but was still too strong for an out-of-sorts Allen. World No 11 Bingham (pictured) pocketed the €107,000 top prize as the 38-year-old, who won the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open, picked up his second career title.

Rossi back on top

MOTOgp Valentino Rossi won the San Marino Grand Prix yesterday after championship leader Marc Marquez suffered an early crash and came 15th. Rossi sent his home crowd wild as the Italian claimed his first victory of the season. The Misano circuit is located near Rossi’s home town of Tavullia and it was the seven-time champion’s first triumph on Italian soil since 2009. It was Rossi’s 81st victory in a remarkable career at the top level but his first win since last year’s Dutch GP.

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Angel shines bright Van Gaal’s men turn on the style to crush QPR and kick-start season

Passes completed by Herrera yesterday, along with eight at tackles, in the rout old Trafford

Manchester United’s stellar squad trounced QPr to hand Louis van Gaal his first win as manager. angel di Maria, ander herrera, Wayne rooney and Juan Mata all got on the scoresheet as Van Gaal’s team of Galacticos hammered harry redknapp’s shell-shocked side 4-0 at Old trafford. Van Gaal gave radamel Falcao a second-half debut off the bench, while Daley Blind and Marcos rojo made their first starts in the red of United. all three impressed but it was the contribution of Di Maria which perhaps deserved the greatest praise. the argentinian stretched the away

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Two good: Herrera adds a second at old Trafford

pREMiER LEAguE man united.......... 4 qpr ..........................0 0 by eddie chuff games without a win, will want to use this victory as a springboard for the rest of the season. United, playing in a 4-4-2 diamond, passed the ball quicker, they were more clinical in front of goal and the atmosphere inside the ground was jubilant. Mata was thrilled by the attacking verve shown by a reinvigorated United. ‘We tried to score even more and that’s what we have to do with the players that we have. We have to play good we have to score a lot of goals,’ he said. Mata, translating for Di Maria, revealed the ball for the first goal – which left QPr keeper rob Green rooted to the spot as he anticipated a header goalwards – was something they had practised in training. ‘he’s very happy with his first appearance at home and the goal we have been practising during the week – he has done this yesterday in training, so it was not a surprise for me,’ the spaniard added.

Sloppy spell killed us off, admits Redknapp

Harry redknapp, who handed debuts to new boys Sandro and niko kranjcar, lamented the fact Qpr shipped two goals inside ten minutes to trail by three goals at the break. The Qpr boss said: ‘We had a great chance at 1-0 to score and I thought, “Well, we get in at 1-0”. But suddenly we conceded two poor goals before half-time and then you’re 3-0

‘Holland have probably used Fer as a cone’ down. I don’t think our keeper had really had too many shots to save, they’d had a lot of the ball, but I don’t think he’s hardly made a save first half.’ redknapp was unhappy dutch midfielder Leroy Fer, among others, returned lacking sharpness after the international break. ‘Fer probably has been stood around and used as a cone while the first team play. He lacks fitness,’ redknapp said.

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Rio FeRdinand finds it ‘impossible to forgive’ John Terry over his handling of the racism row involving his brother anton but would still have been prepared to play alongside the Chelsea defender for england if he had been given the chance. QPR defender Ferdinand – back playing at United yesterday for the first time since he left the club – and Terry became estranged after the Blues skipper used racist language towards anton Ferdinand in a Premier League match between the Hoops and Chelsea in 2011. Terry was later banned for four matches by the Football association, having been acquitted of charges of racial abuse following a trial in July 2012. Writing in his new autobiography #2sides, serialised in The Sun on Sunday, Ferdinand hit out at Terry for not admitting his error and for never apologising directly to him or his brother.

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MANCHESTER United boss Louis van Gaal brought in Marcos Rojo, Daley Blind, Angel di Maria to try and bring back the glory days to Old Trafford. All four played in the 4-0 win over QPR yesterday but it was Di Maria who really impressed as the £59million man caused havoc on the right of Van Gaal’s diamond formation. The winger opened the scoring and created the fourth for Juan Mata. Blind quietly went about his business in midfield, giving an assured performance, while Rojo was solid at left-back. On-loan strike star Radamel Falcao came off the bench and was denied a debut goal by Robert Green. Overall, Van Gaal can be very happy with his new recruits’ performances.

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‘For me the biggest idiot will always be John Terry’ ‘For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry,’ he said. ‘as england captain and my centre-back partner he could have saved everyone a lot of pain by admitting immediately he had used the words in the heat of the moment, but was no racist. That’s probably what happened and what the truth is. anton and i would’ve accepted that, instead he never gave us the chance. ‘i’ve never actually spoken to John about the case. i no longer talk to him, but even three years later i find it impossible to forgive or forget the pain he put my family through.’ Ferdinand retired from england duty in May 2013 but he said he would have had no problem playing alongside Terry. ‘Strange as it might sound, i would’ve been happy to play for england alongside him,’ the 35-year-old added. ‘i’ve played with people i didn’t like for years.’

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Van ready to deliver title challenge LOuIs Van GaaL last night set his sights on the Premier League title after his new-look Manchester united side finally burst into life. sixty days after being appointed united boss, Van Gaal earned his first competitive win thanks to goals from angel di Maria, ander Herrera, Wayne rooney and Juan Mata in a 4-0 thrashing of QPr. the result prompted the Dutchman to lay out his lofty ambitions for his squad. ‘I want to win the Premier League title,’ he said. ‘If it is not this year then the second or third year. I want to give a championship to the fans.’ Van Gaal dedicated the win to his wife truus, adding: ‘this is special because it is also the birthday of

Heartfelt: Di Maria hails his first United goal picture: epA

by pAuL MuRpHy my wife. I have already given her a present but she said the biggest present shall be the victory.’ Di Maria gave an impressive display but Van Gaal believes he, like his team, can do better. ‘When you prepare three goals and make the first goal by yourself you cannot play bad but he had a lot of unnecessary losses,’ he said. QPr boss Harry redknapp said: ‘they have a big chance of making the top four. For us it will be a tough season but I still think we will be okay.’

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O’Leary puts heartache aside to lead rebelettes to the promised land

Rebel rising: Cork’s Jennifer O’Leary celebrates scoring the first goal of the game against Kilkenny yesterday picture: inphO

Veteran Jennifer O’Leary put her personal heartache to one side to inspire Cork’s 25th all-Ireland senior camogie title success, writes Paul Keane. the half-forward shot a vital 1-1 as the rebelettes came from six down to defeat Kilkenny 2-12 to 1-9 and land a 25th title. O’Leary’s 41st minute goal put

‘Sport is a chance to create happiness’ Cork ahead for the first time and they maintained the lead, scoring a second goal in injury time. the tour de force came just

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cork ...................................2-12 kilkenny ..........................1-09 weeks after the sudden death of O’Leary’s sister. ‘We’ve had some people who’ve suffered bereavements this year and various struggles,’ said captain anna Geary. ‘It put things into perspective. this is sport and sport is an opportunity for people to create a little happiness throughout the sadness and that’s what happened with us today. ‘a lot of people have stuff going on in their lives but for 60 minutes they put it out of their minds. It was just a group of girls going out to

do a job and that’s exactly what we did.’ Boss Paudie Murray described O’Leary, who travels from her work base in ulster to play for Cork, as ‘a real, real tough lady. ‘It (her sister’s death) was not something we spoke about, there were also other issues that have gone on over the last 12 months and they have all brought the team together a little bit more,’ said Murray. ‘But we wanted to do it for Jenny and those other people close to the team. We weren’t going to lose this all-Ireland.’ It was double disappointment for Kilkenny who also lost the intermediate final to Limerick by 1-12 to 0-10. Down beat Laois in the junior decider by 1-12 to 1-8.

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