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mind still ‘alive’ after body dies

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PeoPle may still have consciousness after ‘death’ a new study has claimed. A large-scale study involving 2,060 patients from 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria has found patients experience real events for up to a three-minute period after their heart has stopped beating. Dr Sam Parnia, assistant professor of critical care medicine and director of resuscitation research at the State University of New York, explained that it was previously thought that only hallucinatory events were experienced in these circumstances. These are normally described as out-ofbody experiences (oBes) or near-death experiences (NDes). The Awareness during Resuscitation (Aware) study used objective markers to establish whether the experiences were real or hallucinatory. The results showed that 39 per cent of patients who survived cardiac arrest described a perception of awareness but did not have explicit recall. A total of 46 per cent experienced a broad range of mental recollections, nine per cent had experiences compatible with NDes and two per cent exhibited full awareness compatible with oBes with explicit recall of ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ events. Dr Parnia said: ‘This is significant, since it has often been assumed that experiences in relation to death are likely hallucinations or illusions, occurring either before the heart stops or after the heart has been successfully restarted, but not an experience corresponding with “real” events when the heart isn’t beating.’

thug who set dog on fire is jailed

AnimAl rights campaigners applauded as two men were jailed over an attack in which a family’s beloved pet dog was set on fire with diesel. Andrew Richard Stewart, 23, who admitted setting fire to Cody the collie two years ago, was handed a 20-month sentence at Belfast Crown Court – ten months of which was suspended. He was also banned from keeping animals for 30 years. Jamie Downey, 23, was jailed for six months after admitting lying to cover up what his friend had done. The dog had become attached to the pair as they walked off the effects of a two-day drinking binge. Cody, a three-year-old border collie, was left unrecognisable after the attack in maghaberry, Co Antrim. She was so badly burned her ribs and other joints were visible through the charred flesh. Cody survived for two weeks but had to be put down when vets concluded she would never fully recover. Judge David mcFarland said it had been an ‘evil, vile and appalling attack which was beyond comprehension to ordinary people’.

Shameful: Andrew Richard Stewart, inset, set fire to Cody, pictured before the attack pictures: pa

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All smiles: Victoria looks over the moon to share a cuddle with her hubby; right, David toasts guests at the intimate launch dinner PICTUREs: Pa

WE cAn bLEn D iT LikE bEckHAM THE BECKHAMS looked in high spirits after a night of toasting ex-footballer David’s new range of single-grain whisky. Posh’s pout was nowhere to be seen as she swung off her husband’s neck, breaking into a rare smile. The stars were celebrating the launch of Haig Club at Gilmerton House in North Berwick, Scotland, with their celeb pals. Famous names on the guest list included

chef Gordon Ramsay and wife Tana, who were treated to a slap-up seven-course meal from Michelin star chef Tom Kitchin. Designer Victoria, 40, had her fash pack pals in tow, including shoe guru Jimmy Choo. Becks, 39, stood up and toasted his manager for his latest brand Beckham extension, telling guests: ‘For Simon Fuller and I, this is a special night as we launch our new collaboration with Diageo.’

Moz: i know it’s gonna happen singer doesn’t care if he’s first someday

of the gang to die after cancer diagnosis

MORRISSEY has revealed he is No Panic: being treated for cancer – and claims Morrissey he doesn’t care if it kills him. PICTURE: REx The former Smiths singer did not reveal what type of cancer he has but admitted doctors had ‘scraped tissues’ from his body four times. However, despite his diagnosis, he insisted he was not scared of death. ‘If I die, then I die. And if I don’t, then I don’t,’ he told Spanish newspaper El Mundo. ‘Right now, I feel good. I’m aware that, in some of my recent photos, I look somewhat unhealthy – but that’s what illness can do. I’m not going to worry about that – I’ll rest when I’m dead.’ Morrissey’s health issues have included a bleeding ulcer,

solar-powered Dublin: You know about the rain, right? SAND to Arabs, ice to Eskimos, sun to… er, Dubliners? A major project to explore how the capital can harness solar power kicked off in the capital yesterday. The three-week scheme is the result of Dublin City Council’s successful application to participate in the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge. Dublin’s Lord Mayor Christy Burke welcomed a six-member IBM team to Dublin’s Civic Offices yesterday, saying: ‘Advances in technology mean that solar energy is now a real possibility in a city with a climate like Dublin’s. ‘Dublin City Council wanted to examine what role buildings and land that it owns could play in generating and using solar energy. We also wanted to see if the energy we generate could feed into the energy grid.

‘Our successful application to the Smarter Cities Challenge means we can examine this at no cost to the council.’ Dublin is one of 16 cities and regions taking part in this year’s challenge. IBM chose the projects from 100 applicants in March. Over the next three weeks, the council and IBM team will meet interested parties to examine where solar energy could be produced, how it could be harnessed and what uses it could be put to. The team will present a report on October 23. Deirdre Kennedy, Corporate Affairs Manager, IBM Ireland, said Dublin was chosen because ‘of its commitment to the use of data to make better decisions, and for its desire to explore and act on smarter energy solutions’. She added: ‘The stakes have never

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been greater but our IBM Smarter Cities Challenge team are excited at the prospect of helping Dublin tackle one of the most pressing challenges of our time.’ In its submission, Dublin City Council said it believes that municipally owned property such as libraries, public parks and roof spaces may be suitable for producing solar energy. Advances in solar technology also mean that solar energy has far greater potential now than at any time in the past. Dublin is unsuitable for wind energy due to population and building density. As a result of previous participation, Eindhoven in the Netherlands has reduced crime with strategies that include citizens’ use of social media, and Edmonton in Canada has improved road safety by analysing accident data.

by JEnni MckniGHT food poisoning and a double bout of pneumonia last year, while a respiratory infection forced him to cancel this year’s US tour. But he said he was at an age where he should no longer be making music anyway, adding: ‘Many composers of classical music died at age 34. And I’m still here, and nobody knows what to do with me. ‘My novel will probably be published next year and, with luck, I will be able to stop singing forever – which would make many people happy.’

The green green gas of home... We may not be suited to wind power, but here are some other ways we think Dublin could produce green power: n Harnessing the wind created by seagulls who have ‘lost the run of themselves’ n Somehow utilising the Irish process of alcohol assimilation (there has to be a better byproduct than a hangover) n Harnessing the static electricity created by the many lycra-clad leg-pumping cyclists. n Converting the sound waves created by students on buses everywhere into power n Turning begrudgery into power – if we could do it in Dublin alone, the whole world could stop burning fossil fuels

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Rise in new cars licensed

NEW private cars licensed for the first time increased year-onyear in September by 34.4 per cent to 4,376, CSO figures show. However, used imported cars licensed for the first time were down 7.6 per cent to 4,376. In total, there were 86,894 new private cars licensed in the year to the end of this September, a rise of 30.5 per cent. The highest numbers licensed this September by make, were Volkswagen (592), Toyota (376) and Ford (354).

Our booming economy to leave EU in shade – ESRI by ED cARTY

Alcohol tax ‘hitting jobs’

MORE than 136,000 people are employed in the hospitality industry here, according to research in the sector. The Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI) said that the drinks services sector, which includes bars, restaurants and hotels, is a major source of employment. DIGI has called on the Government to reverse excise on alcohol in the upcoming Budget, stating that it is an unfair tax on small businesses.

RORY LENDS A HAND: Rory McIlroy with Gillian Creevy (left), Caleb Overton and Amy Uprichard at the launch of Daisy Lodge, a Cancer Fund for Children therapeutic short break centre in Co Down

One Of the country’s leading think-tanks has claimed Ireland will have one of the fastest growing economies in europe this year. The economic and Social Research Institute (eSRI) has joined a growing number of experts in claiming that the country’s revival in fortunes is hitting stronger and faster than originally thought. It is forecasting gross national product (GnP) – regarded by commentators as a more honest measure of how economic figures are reflected on the ground – will grow by five per cent this year and next. The dramatic revision in its latest quarterly commentary sees the think-tank with an outlook similar to estimates from the Central Bank’s advisers and business and investment brokers in the last week. On gross domestic product (GDP) – which includes the profits of multinationals – the eSRI estimates growth of 4.9 per cent this year and 5.2 per cent next year. It also expects unemployment to fall to 9.6 per cent next year. However, its economic chiefs urged the Government to use any additional taxes, such as money from water charges, to invest in social housing programmes. They said this will help to consolidate economic growth and ease supply and demand issues which are inflating property prices in Dublin. David Duffy, eSRI report author, said: ‘The recovery in Ireland is broad-based and is stronger than previously thought.’

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More imported cases in Europe ‘unavoidable’, WHO confirms Central Bank lays out loan restrictions

Nurse caught ebola virus ‘because of shoddy suit’ by DANIEL BINNS THE first case of the ebola virus to be caught in Europe has been blamed on the alleged use of sub-standard protective suits which were partly held together by tape. Staff at Madrid’s Carlos III hospital made the claims after a nurse tested positive for the disease on Monday. The unnamed woman was among dozens of health professionals who treated an ebola patient from Sierra Leone who had come to Spain for treatment. More than 50 people who came into contact with her are being monitored. Three more, including the 40-yearold’s husband, are in quarantine. Her colleagues told Spain’s El País newspaper that staff wore protective gear that fell short of minimum standards, were not ventilated properly and had latex gloves attached by tape. They also said the patient’s waste was removed via a lift used by staff. Hospital officials deny the claims. ‘The costumes are well matched to the protocol and the security meas-

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Ebola cases outside Africa Spain Cases: 1

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Sierra Leone Cases: 2,437 Deaths: 623

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ures required for this disease,’ said deputy director Yolanda Fuentes. The row comes as the World Health Organisation warned the spread of the virus by imported cases into Europe is ‘unavoidable’. The Department of Health told Metro Herald it is ‘monitoring’ the situa-

Liberia Cases: 3,834 Deaths: 2,069

Nigeria Cases: 20 Deaths: 8 (imported)

tion but had no crisis plans in action at the moment. n A pet dog belonging to the Spanish woman who became infected with ebola is to be put down. The dog – whose name is Excalibur – will be humanely put down in Madrid before being incinerated.

Taking no risk: The infected nurse is moved to Carlos III yesterday

THE Central Bank has proposed restrictions on how much banks can lend to home buyers in a bid to reduce the risk of a new property bubble. With property prices in Dublin rising by 25 percent year-onyear in August, although they were still 41 per cent below their pre-crisis peak, the bank said it was appropriate to bring in limits on new lending at high loan-to-value (LTV) or loan-toincome (LTI) ratios. Central Bank deputy governor Stefan Gerlach said the measures were not aimed at limiting or steering prices but would probably have an impact on the pace of price increases. The measures will require banks to restrict lending above 80 per cent of the value of a home to no more than 15 per cent of the aggregate value of all housing loans. They will also restrict lending above 3.5 times the borrower’s income to no more than 20 per cent of that aggregate value. Banks have until December 8 to respond to the proposals in a consultation paper.

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Superdad of 16 dies from heart attack HE WAS ‘a brilliant dad’ who fathered 16 children but shunned benefits and worked round the clock to support them. But Terry Harvey’s family are heartbroken after the ‘superdad’ suffered a fatal heart attack, aged 56. The Welsh grandfather-of-33 told his wife Maria he wanted a big family because he was from one himself. He reversed a vasectomy after 14 children to have two more and said: ‘I didn’t have my kids for the government to support them, that’s my job.’ A funeral for the Cardiff steel fixer, who loved teaching his parrot to swear, was held yesterday.

Boy dies in Turkey after goat leaps off rooftop to its death

A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a sacrificial goat jumped off a roof and landed on his head. Heval Yildirim was playing with friends in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey when the animal plummeted six floors from the top of a block of flats. The 13-year-old’s father, Mehmet, had acquired the goat for Muslim feast day Eid al-Adha. He could not find anywhere to keep it so put it on the roof above the family’s home. Police said they were investigating the death, adding that it was the first such case that they had heard of.

Turks accused of letting is fighters take border town Protest: A Turkish army vehicle breaks up a Kurdish rally near the Syrian border

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TURKEY was accused yesterday of ‘looking the other way’ as Islamic State militants prepared to seize the key town of Kobane. President Recep Erdogan warned

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by DOMinic yEATMAn the Syrian border town was ‘about to fall’ to the jihadists but was criticised for being more worried about repel-

ling Kurdish separatists. Despite promising last week to do ‘whatever we can’, Turkey’s tanks remained parked a mile away as IS fighters seized districts of Kobane from its Kurdish defenders and advanced towards the centre. Aaron Stein of UK security think tank the Royal United Services Institution said Turkey had allowed thousands of jihadis across their border and into Syria in 2011. ‘Up until recently Turkey has taken

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a relatively hands-off approach to IS,’ he added. ‘They looked the other way when they attacked the Kurds. Kobane is run by a group that’s the sister organisation to the separatists.’ US-led coalition airstrikes continued to target IS positions yesterday, including a stronghold where the IS flag was raised on Monday. French president François Hollande was due to urge Mr Erdogan to step in last night as protests across Europe called for intervention.

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3,000 freed from jail in amnesty

BuRMA: More than 3,000 inmates have been pardoned on ‘humanitarian grounds’, ministers announced yesterday. At least 13 of the 3,073 freed were political prisoners and most of the others had committed petty crimes. Reformists welcomed the move but called for the freedom of 75 political activists who remain detained. They said the benevolent amnesty appeared to be timed to impress Asia-Pacific leaders meeting in the country next month.

AMERicA: This storyboard drawing of the landspeeder used by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars is expected to make €12,000 at auction. The sketch is one of a series of lots from the sci-fi films that will be sold in Calabasas, California, this month Picture: Profiles in history/BnPs

Mobsters ‘killed and ate gangster’ Willie’s hair a €30,000 snip

spAin: Four members of a Serbian gang have gone on trial accused of killing and eating a fellow mobster. The men reportedly confessed to hammering to death their partner at his Madrid home. Parts of the body were found in the Manzanares River. The men face up to 41 years on murder and forgery charges.

AMERicA: Country star Willie Nelson’s trademark hair braids have been sold at auction for €30,000. The braids were cut from the 81-year-old singer (pictured) in the 1980s when his hair was still red. They were sold at an Arizona auction of items owned by the late musician Waylon Jennings. The buyer was not identified.

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Nobel Prize winners: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura

Nobel team ‘lit up’ world

Two JaPaNeSe scientists and a Japanese-born american have won the Nobel Prize in physics for inventing blue light-emitting diodes. It is a breakthrough that has spurred the development of LeD technology to light up homes, computer screens and smartphones worldwide. Isamu akasaki, Hiroshi amano and naturalized US citizen Shuji Nakamura revolutionised lighting technology two decades ago when they came up with a long-elusive component for white LeD lights. In countless applications today, they have replaced less efficient incandescent and fluorescent lights. ‘They succeeded where everyone else failed,’ the Nobel committee said. ‘Incandescent light bulbs lit the 20th century; the 21st century will be lit by LeD.’

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Red and green light-emitting diodes have been around since the mid-19th century and have been used in applications such as watches and calculators. But scientists had struggled for decades to produce the shorter-wavelength blue LeD needed in combination with the others to produce white light when the three laureates made their breakthroughs in the early 1990s. Their work enabled LeD lights – more efficient and long-lasting than previous light sources – to be used in a range of applications, including street lights, televisions and computers. ‘It is very satisfying to see that my dream of LeD lighting has become a reality,’ Professor Nakamura (60) said.

RyANAiR buMps up iTs pAssENgERs THE irish aviation authority is to investigate an incident at Dublin airport yesterday morning when two aircraft clipped each other while moving on the runways. Emergency services attended the scene after the ‘winglet’ of one

Ryanair boeing 737 scraped against the tail of another. no injuries were reported, however. Minor delays were caused by the accident and Ryanair apologised to its customers for any inconvenience caused to travel plans.

Noisy snackers Mental health annoy workers hit by cannabis DITCHING smelly food snacks and chewing your food quietly are just two ways to avoid annoying your office colleagues, a survey has revealed. The research, commissioned by snack food group Popchips, found that while some 72 per cent of office workers start their day well-energised they can take up to two snack breaks to ward off hunger pangs. Some 2,000 ‘snackered’ office workers were asked about their habits – and 11.30am and 3pm were found to be the most optimal times for snack breaks.

Cannabis use can become addictive, cause mental health problems and lead to hard drug use, according to a new study. The research, carried out over 20 years by Professor Wayne Hall – a british expert on addiction – found that one in six teenagers who regularly smoke the drug become dependent. it concluded that using the drug while pregnant reduces birth weight, while teenage users do worse at school and are twice as likely to suffer schizophrenia.

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E IS THIS DATING GAM ICK TRICKY, ADMITS N HE RECENTLY got his pecs out for fans – now the increasingly raunchy Nick Jonas has revealed his dating habits. The oncevirginal Jonas Brother says he finds dating difficult as girls often know more about him than he’d like. ‘There have been a few dates where alcohol was involved and it just got really bad,’ the 22year-old told Cosmopolitan. ‘But the worst are when people know more about me than is comfortable. ‘They start asking me questions you otherwise wouldn’t know unless I told you personally. It’s very odd.’

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JuSTIN BIEBEr has given up trying to be a grown man after shaving off his blonde moustache following months of attempting to give himself a bushy lip. The 20-year-old, who even tried to grow a goatee at one point, shared the happy news with his 55.4million Twitter followers yesterday, tweeting: ‘Shaved the monster.’

T WHY I NEED SWIF BIT OF PHARRELL MAGIC TAYLOR SWIFT is hoping Pharrell Williams will bring his magic this weekend as both are to perform on the first live results show of The X Factor. The 24-year-old reckons the Happy hitmaker is a ‘sorcerer’ and hopes the show’s exposure will give her a No.1 shot with her track Shake It Off. ‘After you talk to Pharrell, you feel really good for two weeks straight,’ she added Picture: rex

MARIAH USES STAGE TO LET OFF CANNON

MARIAH CAREY is venting her furious wrat hubby Nick Cannon via the stage, it seem h at estranged s – if her recent gig in Japan was anything to go by. The 44-year-old songbird finally broke her split as she kicked off her Elusive Chanteu silence over their se Saturday by adjusting the words to Billie world tour on Holiday’s classic blues hit Don’t Explain. In a YouTube clip, she can be heard sing ing: ‘I know you cheated, motherf****r!’ The original lyrics are: ‘And I know you cheat. Right or wrong, don’t matter.’ Following news of the break-up back in August, Cannon, 33, was linked to several other women. One such mystery lady turned out to be none other than mod who it emerged has also filed for divorce el Amber Rose, from her partner Wiz Khalifa.

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a good sport during an awkward interview about her sex life. The pop icon gamely delved into her personal life while appearing on Jimmy Kimmel’s uS chat show, which saw her being quizzed by the host’s former security guard, Guillermo. Asked if she wants to have sex, the 32-year-old replied: ‘I would just like to go on dates. I think that would be fun. I’m kind of open to that right now.’ She split with David Lucado last month after allegations he cheated on her.

J-Law: I’ve stopped crying over pic leak Actress says she won’t let nude selfie hackers ruin her life

ennifer Lawrence has confessed that she broke down in tears fearing her career was over in the aftermath of her naked selfie leak. The 24-year-old Oscar winner shared her torment for the first time as she came out fighting against the image hacking which she denounced as a sex crime. Describing her pain, Lawrence said she planned to release a statement about the theft. But she revealed: ‘every single thing i tried to write made me cry or get angry.’ The actress – who shared a long-term romance with UK actor nicholas Hoult (pictured) – is

insistent that it is her choice to share intimate images with her lovers and that they are not available to be published online for all to see. ‘i was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years,’ said Lawrence, who is currently dating coldplay frontman chris Martin. ‘it was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you.’ Taking aim at hackers who also leaked images of other female stars, Lawrence told Vanity fair:

‘it is not a scandal. it is a sex crime. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. ‘That’s why these websites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it.’ She also blasted fans who downloaded the snaps. ‘anybody who looked at those pictures, you’re perpetuating a sexual offence. You should cower with shame,’ she said.

But The Hunger Games actress insisted she is putting the incident behind her. ‘i’m not crying about it any more. i can’t have my happiness rest on these people being caught, because they might not be. i need to just find my own peace.’ But some hard-ofthinking fans were quick to criticise after she posed tastefully topless in a swimming pool for her accompanying Vanity fair shoot.

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Do clampers hate each other? And standing up for bus rules

oes a person have the right to start a clamping business? If I was to provide the same level of service to my ‘clients’, I don’t see why I should not be allowed to compete with the private company who currently clamp in Dublin. Furthermore, our legal system is founded on maritime law. Under naval maritime law, the impoundment of a vessel is considered to be an act of open warfare. Are we motorists therefore at war with the Government? Do clampers who work in pairs actually like each other or do they secretly despise one another for causing people grief? Cormac ■ so Brian thinks all the accidents in Dublin are caused by cyclists and jaywalkers, in the same week that gardaí announced they have to put cameras on the traffic lights at the Luas tracks to stop drivers breaking the lights? Might be time to take off the blinkers, Brian... Dermot, Cabra

■ There are signs on the buses stating that 15 passengers can stand on board. I rang Dublin Bus and had it confirmed to me that 15 is the maximum. And yet I have left dozens of voicemails with their operations manager highlighting breaches of this safety limit, but without a reply. Can someone from Dublin Bus please reply to this issue? Would an insurance company pay out on a claim if there was overcrowding on a Dublin Bus involved in an accident? Sniffer ■ Why is everyone talking about terrorism in the Mailbox page? They should be using it as a forum against the water tax. Gavin Roche, D11 ■ If Isis wishes to destroy Israel then why is it attacking syria? Assad seems to be the target for both the Us and Isis. Perhaps they should ask their CIA handlers for a loan of an atlas... Conjurer, The Liberties

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Ain’t seen nothing yet…

War role: As Calisto in this year’s 300: Rise Of An Empire

He’s only 24 but Jack O’Connell aims to be one of the greatest actors of his generation. He tells James Mottram how he hopes starring roles in ’71 and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken will help him get there

Angry turn: O’Connell impressed audiences with his role in Starred Up

Pulsating thriller: Jack O’Connell puts in a searing performance as soldier Gary Hook in ’71

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Starting out: At 16, O’Connell (left) won a part in This Is England

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24 year old. ‘He’s got an old-school ’m opening doors for masculinity you don’t really see much myself,’ says Jack o’Connell, brimming nowadays,’ says ’71 director Yann with confidence, ‘and that Demange. That said, o’Connell does was always the plan.’ it’s vulnerable too, as he shows in certainly working for him in what’s Demange’s film. Set as the title proving a breakthrough year for the suggests in 1971, in a bloodied and former Skins star. battered Belfast, he plays gary Hook, He wowed crowds earlier this year a young British soldier who, on his with a muscular, angry turn in prison first day on patrol, gets separated drama Starred Up, which saw him nominated for a British independent from his unit after a street w comes his Film Award. now riot. on the run, lost vie, the pulsating and injured, Hook is latest movie, mak his left to make thriller ’71 – and another ow way back to own searing performance. by the barracks, And after that? Just the ’71 is written right w y la through little matter of taking p h is tt Sco ho won w , a warren of the lead in the e rk u B ry o Greg r fo s rd streets, in a Angelina Jolie-directed a w a r four Olivie med play desperate bid Unbroken – one of the e h his Iraq-t atch likely big oscar to survive. A Black W lot of the time, contenders in the fe lines, with few upcoming awards season. he simply has to Dressed casually in a ‘be’ on camera. ‘That vy polo shirt long-sleeved navy and dark trousers, o’Connell is wass risky risk for me,’ he says. ‘i felt lost a lot of the time.’ somehow keeping his head screwed When it came to the Troubles, ‘i on through the hugely positive perhaps knew more than gary did. reviews he’s been getting. ‘At this But that’s more to do with my stage of my career, it’s not heritage than anything else,’ says a given,’ he nods. ‘There are a lot of people after the same sort of career o’Connell, whose late father, John path that i’m trying to hailed from a large Catholic family in County Kerry. ‘There was a very obtain myself.’ maybe that’s true. But there are few large irish influence in my upbringing and one i’m really proud of.’ young actors in Britain like the raw

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‘It was the biggest challenge of my career yet,’ says O’Connell about his starring role in Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. ‘But at the risk of sounding overconfident, I was ready.’ He plays real-life Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic long-distance runner who enlisted in the US Air Force in World War II and spent two years as a Japanese POW after being shot down over the Pacific. With huge physical demands (such as losing drastic amounts of weight), O’Connell says it

was Jolie who kept him going. ‘Luckily I had someone like Angelina around, who has kind of done it before. Every adversity I was trying to face, she’s done time and time again. ‘In the end, she promised me – and made me promise her – it would [bring out] the best of both of us.’ The role seduced him. ‘It was the opportunity to portray a monumental human being that made the job irresistible,’ says O’Connell. ‘I really think we’re sitting on something special,’ he adds. Oscars ahoy.

o’Connell was born and raised in Derby. His father had moved to england in the mid-Sixties and later met his english mother, Alison. Like his character, o’Connell thought about joining the army when he was 15. ‘There was one stage where it looked like the only feasible way of making an honest living,’ he says. it was either that or football (his grandfather, Ken gutteridge, played pro, while a young o’Connell had trials for Derby County). But when knee injuries put paid to his sporting ambitions, he looked destined for a life in the military. ‘Thankfully, i was too young to sign on the dotted line,’ he reflects. in the nick of time, along came a drama course and a love of acting. By the time he was 16, o’Connell had won a part in Shane meadows’ This is england, followed by roles opposite michaels Caine (Harry Brown) and Fassbender (eden Lake) and, of course, Skins, playing the womanising James Cook. Aside from dating former

X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos, he’s kept his love life in the shadows. Dedicated, determined and diverse, he knows exactly what he wants. ‘one day i have every intention of being regarded as one of the best, particularly of my generation,’ he says. Confident? You bet.

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1. The Great British Bake Off

BBC1, 8pm If racking up star baker prizes is any form guide, then Richard is a choux-in for tonight’s Bake Off final: the builder with a pencil behind his ear has been blowing the judges away with his professional-level creations. But Bake Off is a nervy affair and Richard has stiff opposition from Luis, a master at decorations, and Nancy, who’s nifty with the microwave. Let bun battle commence!

4 Extreme Brat Camp Would you send your kids?

6 Our Island Dick Warner explores our coast

5 Scott & Bailey Suranne Jones is not happy…

1 The Great British Bake Off Will Nancy reign supreme?

2. Our Zoo

BBC1, 9pm Poor George Mottershead. As if dealing with his zoo animals wasn’t tricky enough, he’s had a shrew of a shopkeeper, a snake of a vicar and a worm at the council offices to contend with. As this sweet series ends, the fate of George’s beloved zoo hangs in the balance – we know the outcome, of course, but it scarcely matters. A second series is a given.

3. Second Captains Live

RTÉ2, 9.30pm

A timely and welcome return to our screens for Eoin McDevitt, Ken Early and Ciaran Murphy, what with autumn rugby internationals and Euro qualifiers looming. This irreverent yet insightful live-audience sports show was a breath of fresh air when it first aired and, like any good idea, couldn’t be kept down. Expect bellylaughs aplenty between chats with the high-profile guests.

4. Extreme Brat Camp

C4, 10pm Taking things up a notch from Supernanny, this documentary looks at the rise of child intervention programmes in the US. Parents are paying to have their out-of-control kids hauled off to tough boot camps for a spot of behaviour correction. If it happens over there, you can bet your bottom naughty step it’ll happen here.

5. Scott & Bailey

UTV, 9pm Less than thrilled at learning she

Our Zoo George Mottershead and co are heading for series 2

3 Second Captains Live Back on the couch for more sports fun

YOUR GUIDE TO THIS EvENING’S ESSENTIAL vIEWING wasn’t first choice for promotion, DS Rachel (Suranne Jones) is back to how we love her – a pouting schoolgirl given to mouthing off. Let’s hope she can focus long enough to solve a grisly case involving a dead baby.

6. Our Island TV3, 10.05pm

We may pride ourselves on being an island nation but what do we really know about the waters that surround us? Dick Warner, a windswept character if ever there was one, sets out to explore the wildlife and communities that depend on our seas

and coasts to survive. Warner is always as easy on the ears as he is perplexing on the eye.

7. Cat Watch 2014: The New Horizon Experiment

BBC2, 9pm Are our cats cannily pulling the fur over our eyes when they cuddle up on our laps yet turn into killers when let loose in the garden? The second in this three-part report looks at the contradictions in feline behaviour.

8. Grand Designs

C4, 9pm Natasha from Norfolk wants to build

a small wooden-clad house in an unspoilt piece of forest and is as ecofriendly as they come. But she has to jump through a million hoops chucked at her by the Norfolk planners. No small irony, this – Norwich possesses the ugliest council HQ in the country.

9. The Job Lot

ITV2, 10pm The Brownall Jobcentre crew work themselves up into a froth of excitement as they gear up for an MP’s visit by getting in touch with the local youth. There are some guilty cheap laughs at the expense of

the unemployed (Downton’s Sophie McShera has a ball as a stroppy teen) but if you’re from Wolverhampton and easily offended, don’t watch.

10. Today’s Film: Enough Said Sky Select, 8.20pm

This bittersweet love story from 2013 turned out to be one of Soprano legend James Gandolfini’s final roles. He’s a world-weary charmer who gets involved with a divorced masseuse, a nice shift for Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The story’s no great shakes but the cast, including Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson, is top-notch.

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Marr’s star still shines as he finds musical redemption in Playland With his second solo effort out now, Hazel Sheffield meets the ascendant Johnny Marr and talks about writing songs and his rock’n’roll legacy

Icon: Johnny Marr has come a long way since The Smiths split in 1987

wHen The Smiths split in 1987, Johnny Marr was just 23 – but he’s packed a lot in since then. Most of it has been in the shadow of other frontmen – from new order’s Bernard Sumner in electronic, to wakefield’s brattiest brothers in The Cribs. He’s written and played with everyone from oasis to Pet Shop Boys. Yet perhaps his least likely appearance was at the premiere for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in April, when Marr performed his soundtrack to the film in an iconic new York post office with none other than Pharrell williams and a leather-clad Alicia keys. At 50, Marr has been teetotal and vegan for years, the ragged black mop

of hair of his youth tamed into a sleek mod feathercut. The man nMe magazine declared a ‘godlike genius’ last year is sharper than ever. So sharp, in fact, that he’s come back from releasing his first proper solo album, The Messenger in 2013, with another album, Playland, barely a year later. I catch him between rehearsals in his country studio outside Manchester to fter a lifefind out how, after time playing in other people’s bands, Marr’s finally oice. found his own voice. ‘I had ideas for songs,’ he says. ‘A lot of Playland is ving influenced by having the sound of the crowd and the band ringing in my ears. I’d come off stage at night and start writing songs.’ Playland feeds off the sleepless energy of life on

I’m immediately thinking of Christian Bale and that infamous ‘you want me to trash your lights?’ tirade on that poor lighting guy on the set of Terminator Salvation. But Billy Bob isn’t going to say that. He’s very careful about what he says to journalists, he tells me, grinning. ‘It’s a Catch-22 for journalists. Journalists want you to say something awful so they can Multiwrite a big article about talented: you. But it hurts you, Thornton because the next time loves making ROSS MCDONAGH talks to Billy Bob Thornton you interview the person, music with they are not going to tell his band as about never playing the villain, what really you anything. much as happens on movie sets and his musical legacy acting ‘The truth is not encouraged anymore. ou know how Billy Bob In his latest film, The Judge, in And so if you really want Thornton always plays a which he stars alongside Roberts the truth, I can tell you baddie? well, he actually Duvall and Downey Jr, he plays a Billy Bob is used to taking flak – the truth, but I won’t.’ doesn’t. ‘That’s a bad thing lawyer. ‘well, he is a not for his acting, but for his music. So… is he playing a role to do, don’t ever play the lawyer, all lawyers are right now? ‘oh not with well, not for his music, but because villain in a blockbuster. I have never bad guys,’ he he has the gall to record music you,’ he laughs, done it and I never will,’ he tells me. concedes, smiling. while being an actor. ‘I haven’t ‘because I am If you ask me ‘It’s something I made a decision So he doesn’t stopped recording since 1998. we talking about the about back in the ’90s, because I was play the bad guy have seven albums finished already. and career something political or movie offered the villain in the big movies.’ on screen… and we are probably going to put two or stuff, and that’s personal I just don’t why do I think he’s always a by the sounds of it three of them out. easy to do. But in baddie? He kind of look evil, plus he doesn’t have ‘I don’t know how many times I other words, if talk about it... I can ‘Billy Bob Thornton’ is definitely a time for people have to tell people I started in the you ask me tell the truth but bad guy name. ‘I guess for some who play the villain something political, music business, and I have done it reason people get the idea that I off-screen either. over and over, but still you are going or personal, I just I won’t have played a lot of bad guys, but I ‘when actors say they to have those people, a lot of don’t talk about it, really haven’t. I did it in one False get mad and they start bloggers and stuff, who are always because we have a saying Move and I did it in Fargo, and screaming on set because down south in terms of speaking going to put you down, because you other than that, it’s really hard to somebody is in their eye line? I are an actor. about politics: “wherever you step, think about one that I played.’ never understood that.’ obviously, ‘First of all, I don’t know what you step in s**t”.’

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the road – the sense of catching a glittering skyscraper rushing by on Dynamo or spotting city boys falling out of neon-lit bars on Get Straight. In the video for easy Money, Marr waves a wad of cash in front of an amusement arcade. ‘Greedy so-called self-made men who treat the country and the rest of us living in it like their own resource,’ Marr says. ‘I wanted wa it to be a fun way of making fun of them.’ Is he ever tempted to go back to his rock’n’roll ways and habits? ‘If I thought taking drugs and drinking would help me write music I’d do it – but bu it doesn’t,’ he shrugs. ‘You can’t pretend that you’re 22 all your life, that’s that’ tragic.’ Playland is available now

that means, because if you are an actor, does that automatically give you a lobotomy against music? Frank Sinatra would do an album and a movie and nobody would say anything about it,’ he says. ‘But I don’t worry about it anymore. we do have a fan base and it’s not a large one, but we do have a cult following, and we make records for them. So I always tell the bloggers who hate us: our records don’t jump in your shopping cart. So you don’t have to listen to it. I was thinking one day I’ll make a record called Please Don’t Buy This.’

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True story of how bravery triumphed over adversity Filmmaker Ross Whitaker talks to Luke Holohan about his remarkable documentary, Unbreakable: The Mark Pollock Story, and its message of hope

s a blind adventure athlete, down-born Mark Pollock has triumphed in some of the most extreme climates imaginable. but it was in the seemingly benign setting of an Oxfordshire home in 2010 that a tragic fall changed his life forever. in the heartbreaking and inspiring documentary Unbreakable: The Mark Pollock story, director Ross Whitaker (When ali Came To ireland, saviours) charts Pollock’s most arduous journey yet: learning to walk again. Having lost his sight aged 22 as a result of retinal detachment, Pollock went on to defy naysayers by becoming an awardwinning athlete. at the 2002 Commonwealth Games he claimed silver and gold medals in rowing. a year later he completed six marathons in the Gobi desert. Visits to Mount Everest and a race to the south Pole followed, and did little to quell his competitive streak. Unbreakable: The Mark Pollock story is certainly an intimate retelling of unspeakable tragedy. it takes viewers to Mark’s bedside in a spinal hospital where he is visibly broken, before eventually

finding hope at the frontiers of medical innovation. ‘in a way the film starts almost from the beginning of his life,’ says Whitaker. ‘it tells the story of Mark before his accident, taking us from the build-up to his south Pole adventure, when he became the first blind man to make it there. Then beyond that it is about him having this terrible fall in 2010, which broke his back, and follows the next four years as he rebuilds his identity for the second time.’ as a friend of Mark and his fiancé simone, the filmmaker says that it was a tacit sense of trust that meant he could shadow the pair for over four years. ‘The knowledge that i’d be sensitive to the story allowed Mark and simone to be comfortable to the point that we kind of forgot that i was filming,’ he says. it’s often through communicating to others that we can make sense of our own experiences. and, according to Whitaker, what initially began as a documentary detailing Mark’s successes, quickly morphed into a project that has not only allowed him to contribute to finding a cure for paralysis but also express an inspiring message of perseverance.

Whitaker agrees that to a certain degree the film enabled Mark to ‘remind people that i exist and that i have value’. but it’s also about ‘making a difference’ and shining a spotlight on a condition that affects millions of people around the world. despite its poignant narrative, the

audience’s attention is likely to be peaked as much by the film’s overarching insight into paralysis treatment as by Mark’s rehabilitation. Whitaker says: ‘When Mark was able to bring together scientists from UCla and robotics experts from berkeley California and san Francisco... when he

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A life less ordinary: Mark Pollock (above) lost his sight at the age of 22 before a catastrophic accident left him paralysed – now filmmaker Ross Whitaker (right) has documented his amazing tale

was doing the things that he had been talking about... that was hugely uplifting.’ by virtue of the film’s subject it was a difficult project to broach, not least because it meant contextualising a friend’s terrible ordeal whilst questioning, through all the hardships, whether the documentary was something that they should continue to do. ‘but Mark was very positive about doing it and saw it as an initial thing to focus on. There was a moment after his accident where i said that i really don’t want to do this. i thought it was too much, too tough. There were moments where we didn’t know whether he would live or die,’ Whitaker admits. ‘Making the decision to do it was probably the most challenging part. You know that you are going to be involved in some very tough parts in someone’s life. There is a scene when Mark and simone are trying out a wheelchair for the first time – the first step in rebuilding his life – and i find it very hard to watch. it’s extremely emotional and i’ve broken down a few times watching it.’ last Friday people crowded into the light House Cinema in dublin for an emotional debut screening and the team behind the production will now embark on a promotional tour throughout ireland. For now the film will have a limited run, however, there is hope that with a universal theme of strength and positivity it will be able to transcend an irish audience.

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Big day: Young people are coming out in ever greater numbers – and at a younger age, says David Carroll, right

to answer any questions the an acquaintance? Do you have any expectation or clues as to how person you have just come out to may have? Will you have the they may react? Do you need to person’s full attention? come out to that person at this Another thing to remember is moment? Remember, once you that it is important to have said it, there is no taking give the person who it back! you are coming It might be important to o nt t a t r out to time to o think about the location of p It’s im elf why digest the where you come out, s r u o ask y g in news, too. Is a busy coffee m o c you are o a particularly if shop really the ideal out t you feel that place? Maybe it’s worth n o s r e p r your disclosure considering picking particula rsons comes as a somewhere that will give or pe complete surprise. you privacy with minimal Finally, an risk of any interruptions? And important reminder, you in the (unlikely) event of a hostile don’t have to go through this reaction, will the location be safe alone! talking to friends is always for you? a good idea. BeLonG to also While there may be no absolutely ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ time offers a wide range of supports. to come out, it is also something For information or support around worth giving some consideration coming out please contact BeLonG to. Will you have adequate time To on 01-6706223 or see its website afterwards to discuss it further, or

Steps to aid mental health WOrld Mental Health day is celebrated worldwide this Friday with the aim of encouraging individuals, in whatever walk of life, to protect their mental health and well-being, with recourse to five simple steps. Mental health is how you think and feel about yourself. It is also how you cope when times get tough. Problems will range from general everyday worries to serious long-term conditions, all of which affect your wellbeing – the state of being comfortable, healthy and happy. Modern life is becoming increasingly hectic and we need to ‘plan to protect our mental health & wellbeing’. Here are five ways to improve your wellbeing:

1. connect

do you connect with people around you? Family, friends,

3. take Notice

Are you aware of the world around you: sights, smells, sounds, temperature? do you take time to notice how you are feeling? do you savour the moment?

4. Keep learning

When was the last time you tried something new? Have you set yourself a challenge or a new task recently?

Stress: Take time for yourself colleagues, neighbours? At home, work, school, in your local community?

2. be Active

do you exercise? do you get outside, go for walks, potter in the garden? Have a sustainable pattern of doing more rather than being inactive.

5. Give

do you see yourself and your happiness in relation to the wider community? Have you tried volunteering? When did you last do something nice for a relative, friend or stranger?

A full list of activities taking place on World Mental Health Day can be found at www.mentalhealthireland.ie

St Vincent’s to host breast cancer event OctOber is breast cancer Awareness Month and there are events taking place across the country over the next four weeks to highlight awareness of the disease and to assist those who have been affected either directly by breast cancer and those whose family members have been affected. Next week St Vincent’s Hospital will host a free public lecture on the subject of breast reconstruction with consultant reconstructive plastic surgeons on hand to answer questions.

David Carroll of LGBT youth group BeLonG To offers advice ahead of National Coming Out Day this Saturday t BeLonG to, each year we work with thousands of LGBt young people across the country embarking on the process of ‘coming out’. We know that young people are coming out in greater numbers – and at a younger age – than at any time before in Ireland, so marking Coming out Day has never been more pertinent. It can be a daunting time, and although everyone’s experience is individual, we have gathered together some tips, based on our experience, that we think are worthwhile for anyone about to take this important step. First of all, it’s important to ask yourself why you are coming out to a particular person or persons? think about who you are planning or want to come out to. Is it a family member, a friend or

www.belongto.org. Look’s website is www. lovingouroutkids.org. A benefit concert in aid of BeLonGTo will take place on Oct 14 at the National Concert Hall with music from The Perestroika Duo

Oct 15, St Vincent’s Private Hospital (main atrium), Merrion Road, D4, 8pm, free but booking essential. To book call 087 795 8723 or email: publiclectures@svph.ie

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cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23

You can find yourself yearning over the next six months to be much more creative in your approach to life. If you have a job which is dull and predictable, this may see you getting itchy feet. But in truth, it’s because you have got so much more to offer. For your forecast, call 15609 114 73

Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23

Your kindly nature means you like to look after people close to you. But if this has become such a pattern that they’ve become too dependent on your goodwill, perhaps you should seek to put a little bit more space between you and them.

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formula one by ADAM HAy-nicHOLLs Jules Bianchi remains in a ‘critical but stable’ condition after suffering a traumatic and devastating brain injury in a crash during the Japanese Grand Prix. in a statement issued through the French driver’s team Marussia, Bianchi’s family said the 25-yearold’s accident had left him with a ‘diffuse axonal injury’ – a head trauma where a shearing force has torn tissue throughout the brain, which then swells. ‘Jules remains in the intensive care unit of the Mie General Medical centre in Yokkaichi,’ read the family statement.

‘The car aquaplaned, which was bad luck’ ‘he has suffered a diffuse axonal injury and remains in a critical but stable condition. ‘The medical professionals at the hospital are providing the very best treatment and care and we are grateful for everything they have done for Jules since his accident. The messages of support and affection for Jules from all over the world have been a source of great comfort to us.’ Bianchi’s car aquaplaned off the track and hit the rear of a recovery tractor that had been deployed to

Bianchi ‘critical but stable’ after suzuka crash remove adrian sutil’s crashed sauber during sunday’s race. a spokesman at the suzuka circuit said the crash was down to bad luck rather than poor judgment by those in charge. ‘Officials raised double yellow flags after the accident by sutil, which means drivers had to slow down to the speed that they can immediately stop, but unfortunately Bianchi’s car aquaplaned right at the time and ran into the accident site, which was bad luck,’ said Masamichi Miyazaki. ‘admittedly, rain was coming and the road was wet, but not heavy enough to halt the race.’ Jean Todt, president of the sport’s governing body the Fia, has asked race director charlie Whiting to carry out a detailed report into the accident before sunday’s Russian Grand Prix in sochi.

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Relishing return: Reed back in action

Reed flies the flag again for USA on his return to UK gOLf Patrick Reed, one of the few

Trauma: Bianchi

stars of America’s Ryder Cup team, will return to the UK this month for the World Match Play Championship. Reed, who won three of his four matches at Gleneagles, will form part of a 16-man field, including defending champion Graeme McDowell, Henrik Stenson and Thomas Bjorn, at the London Golf Club from October 15 to 19. Reed, who has won two PGA titles this year, said: ‘Although we suffered a very disappointing loss at Gleneagles, I can’t wait to get back out there to play in another match-play event in the UK. With six of the European Ryder Cup players in the field, I am excited to be representing the Stars and Stripes.’

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Hoops hero: Ferdinand

pressure rises on Harry as Les comes home LES FERDINAND has been appointed head of football operations at QPR amid continuing speculation over manager Harry Redknapp’s future. The 47-year-old was unveiled at Loftus Road yesterday as he returned to the club for whom he scored 80 goals in 163 games between 1987 and 1995. The club said in a statement Ferdinand would have ‘a coaching presence at all levels’ and would ‘provide a direct link between the footballing side of the business and the board of directors’. The former England striker said: ‘It’s incredible to be back here. This club holds a special place in my heart.’ Rangers owner

Tony Fernandes declared: ‘Football has changed considerably in recent years and I firmly believe there is a role at every football club for this kind of position.’ The move would appear to put further pressure on Redknapp, whose struggling side sit bottom of the Premier League after last Sunday’s loss at West Ham, with just one win this season. Redknapp was yesterday installed as the new 4/7 favourite to be the next Premier League manager to leave his post. A flurry of bets were placed on the ex-Spurs boss, who had been a 12/1 outsider to be the next top-flight manager to be axed before the 2-0 defeat at Upton Park.

FBi investigated threats to Glazer THREATS of violence against Malcolm Glazer were investigated by the FBI around the time he was buying Manchester United. The billionaire, who died aged 85 in May, took over United despite fierce opposition from fans in 2005. More than 120 pages detailing threatening phone calls and emails have been released by the FBI in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. They revealed on the morning Glazer became United’s majority shareholder, a man with a British accent ended a call to Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which he also owned, by saying he wished Glazer were

Hostile calls: Glazer dead. Several hours later, a man identified himself as a member of the Manchester United Action Group and warned the Glazer family would be in danger unless he backed down from his takeover bid. The following day, a caller said he knew people who ‘were ready to take action against Glazer’.

Ulster says ‘Les’ as Kiss to take up director job

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by DAnny HOGAn LES KISS will leave the Ireland set-up after Rugby World Cup 2015 to become Ulster’s full-time director of rugby, it has emerged. Ulster and the IRFU announced Neil Doak as the province’s new head coach, while also revealing that Kiss will depart boss Joe Schmidt’s national coaching team after the 2015 tournament. The Australian former rugby league star has held Ulster’s interim director role this term following David Humphreys’ late-summer departure for Gloucester. The 49-year-old will leave Ulster to focus on Ireland duties on October 13, before returning in November 2015, while Doak will remain as head coach. Former dual-sport rugby and cricket international Doak has now been confirmed as Ulster’s permanent replacement for Mark Anscombe, who was released in the summer. Ireland head coach Schmidt tipped Kiss to make a big future at Ulster, while keeping focus on next months’ Autumn internationals. ‘Les is tremendous value and his integrity, coaching ability and Doak: New head coach positivity will add definite value to Ulster in the long term,’ said Schmidt. ‘But, like the rest of the National coaching team, we are both very much focused on the upcoming Guinness Series. ‘Beyond that there are plenty of challenges leading up to Six Nations and Rugby World Cup 2015.’ Kiss echoed the Ireland gaffer’s concerns. ‘I am very appreciative of the continued faith the IRFU and Ulster Rugby have demonstrated in me and, while I’m delighted to get the security in the long term, I am very much focused first and foremost on the next 12 months,’ said Kiss. ‘It’s exciting that the Springboks arrive here in just over three weeks and that the Guinness Series is almost upon us.’

Kiss goodbye to Ireland camp: Les Kiss will leave Joe Schmidt’s side after the Rugby World Cup to take the role of director at Ulster Rugby picture: iNpHO

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O’neill calls in Lenihan as squad hit by injuries by pARAic MORgAn Uncapped Hull defender Brian Lenihan has been called up by the Republic of Ireland for the euro 2016 qualifiers against Gibraltar and Germany, with injuries having taken their toll on Martin O’neill’s squad. The 20-year-old full-back met up with the Ireland party at their base in portmarnock last night and will train with his team-mates this morning, with Seamus coleman having joined everton colleague James Mccarthy and aston Villa keeper Shay Given on the injured list. coleman has been nursing a hamstring problem for several weeks, while club boss Roberto Martinez has indicated that midfielder Mccarthy needs rest as he battles a thigh injury. Given is struggling with a hip problem and O’neill has effectively written off the trio’s chances of being involved against either Gibraltar in dublin on Saturday evening or Germany in Gelsenkirchen three days later. He said: ‘I haven’t spoken to Roberto Martinez, but I had a word with Seamus and James. There was talk about James being available, or trying to be available, for last Sunday’s game against Manchester United, but I think that was a long shot.

Back in Business: darron Gibson during republic of ireland squad training in Malahide, Co dublin, yesterday pictUre: inpho

BOSS Gareth Southgate thinks Raheem Sterling has bigger priorities than playing for his England Under-21s side in Friday’s Euro 2015 play-off with Croatia. Stuart Pearce this week named Sterling as the sort of player who his successor should be able to call on as England look to reach next summer’s finals in Croatia. But Southgate said: ‘While you always want the best players available, sometimes I don’t think it is the right challenge for the individual. He’s pretty much a first-choice for the senior team.’

‘at the moment, you would say that there is no chance of them being available.’ asked about Given, O’neill said: ‘He’s picked up a hip injury that needs some sort of attention, and he thinks now might be the best time to get it done, to get it sorted out. It’s been bothering him for a little while. ‘We talked it over ourselves and thought maybe this might be the best chance so that he is clear, just in case anything happens to him in the next couple of months at club level, for instance if he did go out on loan or something like that, that he would be absolutely right for it.’ The remaining 25 members of the squad trained in Malahide yesterday morning with Lenihan due to boost their ranks. O’neill, who admitted he had not seen much of the Under-21 international, said: ‘We are going to bring up young Brian Lenihan at Hull because we don’t have any natural right-back in the team at the moment, so he will come in later on today and train with us tomorrow. ‘I was speaking to some of the lads here at Hull, who said he has settled in well, and of course he is delighted to be coming.’

Six-month racism ban for Italy chief ITALIAn Football Federation president Carlo Tavecchio has landed a six-month ban from Uefa for making alleged racist comments. The 71-year-old drew criticism during his election campaign by making a remark about ‘eating bananas’ when discussing foreign players. He later apologised but Uefa and Fifa investigated and Europe’s governing body has now said Tavecchio will be ‘ineligible for any position as a Uefa official for six months’.

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Gill ready for Fifa vote after U-turn

Change of heart: Gill

LORD COE has written off hopes of a British men’s team playing at the Rio 2016 Olympics but believes a women’s team could yet take part. Despite opposition from the Irish, Scottish and Welsh football associations, who feared participation could put their individual status within Fifa at risk, Ryan Giggs, Daniel Sturridge and Aaron Ramsey (pictured) helped the men into the London 2012 quarter-finals before defeat to South Korea on penalties. The women lost to Canada at the same stage. And Coe, chairman of the British Olympic Association, said: ‘With women’s, we’ve still got some discussions. With the men, I’m not sure I have the will to live through that process again.’

Southgate’s not in a Stu over Sterling

‘We don’t have any natural right-back at the moment’

Football association vicechairman David Gill will stand for britain’s Fifa vice-presidency next year following a change of heart. Gill, a Manchester United director and Uefa executive committee member, had been insistent he would not run for the post. His previous stance led the Fa to consider current and former players including Rio Ferdinand and Graeme le Saux as candidates. Uefa president Michel

fOOTbALL DigEsT Coe hopes women can fly the GB flag

Beckenbauer: I was not bribed FORmER Fifa member Franz Beckenbauer has insisted his vote for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will remain ‘his secret’ but says he was never offered any bribes

during the controversial bidding process, won by Russia and Qatar. He stated: ‘nobody approached me directly, nobody offered me anything to influence my vote.’

Platini is believed to have told Gill he should run for the post. Gill said: ‘Having sounded out

many people across the game I would hope to use my candidacy to drive a debate for reform.’

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team ‘will not be distracted’

Martin O’neill has insisted the furore surrounding the launch of assistant roy Keane’s updated autobiography will not distract the republic of ireland from their euro 2016 mission. the ireland boss met the media in Malahide yesterday after he and Keane had put the players through their paces for the first time since they met up ahead of the qualifiers against Gibraltar and Germany. However, they did so with the younger man once again making the headlines after copies of his book the Second Half were mistakenly put on sale briefly on Monday ahead of tomorrow’s official launch.

‘The book is there but doesn’t matter’ But if Keane’s differences with former Manchester United manager alex Ferguson, his decision to turn down the job as Celtic manager and a clash with onetime team-mate Peter Schmeichel were among the topics dominating the sports news agenda, O’neill was refusing to be side-tracked. He said: ‘the most important issue here are our games, and Saturday [the match against Gibraltar] is really,

by sAM cOsTELLO really important. We have come off the back of a great win against Georgia and it’s important to focus on that. ‘Whatever headline... let’s just say we came here and there hadn’t been a book – there would have been something else, seriously. ‘He [Keane] would have slipped down there on the field and we’d have been talking about that, maybe broken his leg or something like that. there would have been something. ‘i genuinely don’t know what the headlines are in the book. it obviously was going to cause some sort of furore at some stage, the very fact he put his name to this book would suggest that it’s exactly what would happen. it’s there and it doesn’t matter. the games are the most important things for us.’ asked if he had discussed the book with Keane in advance, O’neill said: ‘i thought about it at one stage or another but then, why? He’s over 21 – i think – and he should be capable of dealing with his own stuff.’ O’neill, who asked Keane to join him in the republic set-up when he was appointed in november last year, has had to become used to the focus his assistant attracts.

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Keane’s old enemy Alf-Inge Haaland took to Twitter to post this message with a photo of Saddam Hussein – he later deleted it

Booking no criticism: Roy Keane gets ready for a training session with the Republic of Ireland squad in Malahide yesterday picture: inpho