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Fraudster businessman Breifne O’Brien has been jailed for seven years for running a Ponzi scheme which cost his victims millions. He convinced family business associates and long-standing friends from his days in trinity College dublin that he was linked to property deals in Paris, Manchester and Hamburg and a shipping insurance scheme. the deals were all bogus. O’Brien used fake letters and invented connections to international businessmen and lawyers to get the victims to continue giving him money. He used the stolen cash to pay for an extension to his house, a new car for his wife and the stamp duty on new properties. O’Brien (52), of Kilmore, Monkstown Grove, Co dublin, pleaded guilty at dublin Circuit Criminal Court to 14 sample counts out of a

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total of 45 theft and deception charges at National Irish Bank and ulster Bank, donnybrook, dublin, on dates between 2003 and 2008. O’Brien, whose family home is Carrigrohane Castle, Co Cork, had initially denied all charges. the court heard that the total loss to the five victims was €8.5million. shane Costello sC, prosecuting, said that so far €420,000 has been recovered through the release of assets owned by O’Brien but that none of this is available to the victims. Judge Patricia ryan imposed a sentence of three and a half years for the deception offences and a concurrent sentence of seven years for the thefts. the maximum penalty open to the court for theft offences is ten years.

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Stargazers in Americas and Asia treated to a stunning – and rare – lunar eclipse

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EvEning viewers in much of Asia and early risers in parts of the Americas were treated to a stunning lunar eclipse, though clouds obscured it for some. The lucky ones saw the moon turn orange or red in what is known as a ‘blood moon’. The hue results from sunlight scattering off the Earth’s atmosphere. Astronomer geoff Wyatt at the Sydney Observatory in Australia called it ‘very spectacular’.

by cOn DOHERTy The clouds blocked the view at times but he said the moon turned a ‘lovely reddish brown’ when it finally did break through. in Japan, meanwhile, clear skies turned partly cloudy as the eclipse progressed, but people who had gathered on the rooftops of the many skyscrapers in Tokyo saw the moon turn a rusty brown when the clouds cleared.

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Man in court over carjack

A MAN in his twenties has appeared before Dublin District Court in connection with a carjacking at Dublin Airport on Tuesday. Twenty-four-year-old Petricia Lucaci, of no fixed abode, was arrested in Ballymun. He is charged with car theft, dangerous driving and assault causing harm. There was no application for bail and the man was remanded in custody until a further court date at Cloverhill District Court next week.

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HOUSE prices in Dublin are still rising but quarterly growth is stabilising, a price gauge has found. Estate agent Douglas Newman Good warned that while prices are stabilising, the market is still fragile – and the Central Bank and Government need to exercise care. Prices rose by two per cent per month in the year to September, and are now less than 50 per cent lower than at the peak of the boom and up 51 per cent since the market hit its lowest.

Safety first: Minister Paschal Donohoe (centre) with Rory O’Connor and Brian Brennan (l) of Transdev

the operators of the Luas are calling on pedestrians to be more vigilant when it comes to observing the rules of the track as there have been some 71 near-tram misses so far this year. the company, which has just launched its latest Luas safety video, said pedestrians who cross Luas tracks without a green light, who are in a hurry, who are distracted by their phones or music, or who are obstructed by umbrellas and hoods, are the biggest causes of incidents. railway procurement agency acting chief executive rory o’Connor said: ‘our overriding safety concerns relate to car drivers breaking red lights and a lack of awareness by pedestrians of their surroundings due to the distractions of mobile phones and headphones.’ there were seven recorded ‘contacts’ this year, with pedestrians colliding with the Luas. In more than ten years up to 145 tram contacts have been recorded. Minister for transport paschal Donohoe said the new video would alert pedestrians to the dangers of not looking out for the trams. he said: ‘With 71 incidents recorded so far in 2014 where tram drivers were forced to apply the emergency brake to avoid the tram making contact with a pedestrian, it [the video] is much needed.’ on weekdays, the Luas makes more than 180 tram trips a day, while on saturdays it makes 133 trips, and on sundays 79.

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Ebola nurse says she was ‘fobbed off’ by doctors THE firsT person to be infected with ebola outside of west Africa says she was fobbed off with paracetamol when she complained of a fever. Nurse Teresa romero ramos – who cared for two victims of the virus after they were airlifted to spain – said she was told there was no danger unless her temperature hit 38°C. Colleagues at the Madrid hospital where she encountered the two priests referred her to a clinic where she was given the painkillers, she told spanspan ish newspaper El País. The 44-year-old later got in contact with the doctors to tell them she felt no better. But it was only when she sought help for a third time that they agreed she needed emergency treatment. When paramedics arrived to collect her, they reportedly wore no protective gear. And instead of the isolation unit at

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Concern as first victim diagnosed in the United States passes away

Panic: A protester is restrained outside a hospital in Madrid

ThE fiRsT ebola patient diagnosed in the Us has died. Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, passed away yesterday at Texas health Presbyterian hospital. he had fallen ill a few days after arriving in Dallas from Liberia, west Africa, on september 20. he was sent home after an initial visit to accident and emergency but taken back on september 28 and had been kept in isolation since. Officials say ten people had direct contact with Mr Duncan while he was contagious.

Travellers entering the Us are being observed for signs of ebola. Those whose journeys began in west Africa are having their temperatures taken upon arrival at five major airports, including New York’s JfK and O’hare in Chicago. A fact sheet handed out by Us Customs and Border Protection agents also urges passengers to watch their health for 21 days, the incubation period for the virus, and to ‘take your temperature every morning and evening’.

by wiLL sTOnE her workplace, she and husband Javier Limon romero were taken to another hospital. They were kept apart from other patients by just a curtain and cordon tape. Ms ramos – now quarantined along with Mr romero – said she had found out from news reports that she had tested positive. she used her phone to check the headlines from her hospital bed. she said she believed she had caught the virus when she touched her face after cleaning one of the priest’s rooms. ‘i think the error that they made was the removal of the protective suit,’ she said. Authorities are monitoring 50 people who may have come into contact with Ms ramos, who said she was feeling ‘a little better’ yesterday.

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Torn apart: Ms Romero Ramos with Excalibur, who’s been put down picture: epa

Campaign to save nurse’s dog fails MADRID regional government health spokesman Javier Rodriguez confirmed last night Ebola nurse Teresa Romero Ramos’s pet dog Excalibur had been put to sleep, saying there was ‘no other choice’. The animal was euthanased in the nurse’s home and its body driven out of Teresa’s home in a van just before 6.30pm local time to an incinerator. Demonstrators who mounted a vigil outside to try to stop the move shouted: ‘Murderers.’ Several threw themselves on the ground as the vehicle carrying the dead dog left.

Some 300,000 people signed an online petition calling to spare the dog before it was sacrificed. Animal welfare centre Villa Pepa, which posted a message from Teresa’s husband on Tuesday after he learned their pet was to be put down, said: ‘We’re sorry, Excalibur. Thousands of people all over the world asked for you to be put in quarantine but they have decided to sacrifice you without listening to us.’ Dog-lovers flooded social media with images of canine campaigners as part of a global drive to save Excalibur.

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Gay father’s prison hell

Freed Ray Cole describes overcrowded Moroccan jail as ‘a concentration camp’ A BRITISH tourist jailed in Morocco for being gay yesterday told of the horrendous conditions in his overcrowded jail. Ray Cole, 69, was reunited with his family on Tuesday after four months behind bars. He said: ‘You would not believe it, it’s horrendous. It’s not a prison, it’s a concentration camp. ‘People are in there from the age of ten to 80 and 90s for nothing. I can hardly move my arm from sleeping on the floor.’ Mr Cole, from Deal in Kent, was imprisoned with his Moroc-

by ALEx DiAz can friend Jamal Jam Wald Nass after homosexual images were found on his phone. His release follows a social media campaign and a petition with more than 20,000 people. But he did not expect to be freed, adding: ‘I thought I was going to be transferred to another prison.’ His son Adrian, 41, thanked Moroccan authorities and the ‘thousands of people who offered us their support and kindness’ Mr Nass’s fate remains unclear.

Reunited: Ray Cole is greeted at Gatwick Airport and (below) with daughter Gemma Scott-Hake, son Adrian and his MP Nigel Evans pICTUREs: ITV/REx/pa

Lost hiker escapes WORLD jungle after 17 days

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A MOTHER of three who went missing for 17 days in the Australian rainforest has stumbled out of the jungle after surviving crocodiles, starvation and dehydration. Former cancer patient Shannon Fraser was covered in scratches, insect bites and suffering third-degree sunburn when a farmer saw her reappear from the wilderness in northern Queensland. The 30-year-old, who lost 2st 7lb, become separated from fiancé Heath Cassady at a popular swimming spot near Mt Bartle Frere on September 21. It is thought she took a wrong turn and was disorientated. Three days before her reappearance police had admitted her chances of survival were low. But tough Ms Fraser survived by drinking freshwater and lying in a river for three days when her sunburn became too much.

CHinA: A poet and seven other people have been arrested for supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Wang Zang was held at home in Beijing last Thursday after he tweeted a picture holding an umbrella, a protest symbol, and declared his support. Wang’s lawyer said he risks three years in jail for ‘provoking trouble’.

Trek: Ms Fraser back with family She told her family that she was chased by a two-metre crocodile and was confronted by a giant cassowary bird. Her ordeal ended yesterday after she followed coloured markers left by rescue teams and is now being treated in hospital. Her daughter Takirah, 11, said: ‘She looks way skinnier, but she’s in a lot of pain. We’re just so happy that’s she’s alive.’

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ViETnAM: Restaurants selling beer will be forced to keep temperatures below 30C (86F) under new proposals. The rule is aimed to ‘protect consumers’, ministry officials said. But it will be hard to enforce in big cities, where outdoor bars are hugely popular. Vietnam has more beer drinkers per capita than any other south-east Asian country.

ukRAinE: A fire burns at shelled Donetsk airport after clashes between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian troops pICTURE: ap

LED inventor’s nobel ‘insult’ AMERiCA: The inventor of the first LED light 50 years ago says he feels insulted at being snubbed for a Nobel Prize which was given to scientists for a later version. Prof Nick Holonyak (pictured), 85, of Illinois, claimed his work made blue LED possible.

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gWyneth PaltrOW insists she is having the last laugh after saying she is flattered by Martha Stewart’s criticism of her lifestyle website. the 42-year-old claims she isn’t fazed by her haters, even saying she sometimes learns ‘good things’ from her critics. ‘if i’m really honest, i’m so psyched that she sees us as competition,’ she said. ‘at this point in my life i don’t take it personally.’ Back in September, lifestyle guru Stewart, 73, dismissed Paltrow’s goop site, saying: ‘if she were confident in her acting, she wouldn’t be trying to be Martha Stewart.’

Cumberbatch teases over Queen role at Turing film premiere

HERLOCK star Benedict Cumberbatch says playing the gay code breaker Alan Turing now has him eyeing up the chance to dress in drag and play Queen Elizabeth. The English Sherlock star let drop his royal fantasy while playing down the Oscar buzz over his role as the tragic scientific genius in The Imitation Game. Admitting he was at a loss to know why it took so long to pardon Turing, who was prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952, Cumberbatch said: ‘I don’t know. I’m not the Queen or David Cameron. Maybe those will be our next roles. I’d like to see me in that frock.’ The actor, 38, braved the rain with co-star Keira Knightley as the pair

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Selena gOMeZ was the filling in a Felicity huffm an and William h Macy sandwich when she rocked up for the premiere of her new film in a dazzling red dress. the 22-year-old wowed the crowd in a satin Christian Dior number and squealed with delight when celebrity couple huffman, 51, and Macy, 64, both planted a kiss on her cheeks. gomez stars in music drama rudderless – directed by Macy and costarring huffman – which follows Billy Crudup, 46, playing Sam, a grieving father who starts a rock band. the stars hit the red carpet at the Vista theatre in los angeles on tuesday to support the film.

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BILL MURRAY said it was liberating to see George Clooney and his new wife so ‘alive and in love’. The actor – a guest at their wedding – said the best thing ‘was those two people finding each other’. The twice-divorced star added: ‘The way they each found tha t other person is almost surreal. The y’re so ideal for each other.’ Clooney, 53, married Amal Alamuddin, a 38-year-old UK hum rights lawyer, in Venice last mo an nth.

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kicked off the BFI London Film Festival last night with the muchanticipated biopic. He dismissed talk that he is a shoo-in for a best actor gong. ‘If it gets people to see the film, frankly, that really is all I care about,’ he said. ‘I really want his story to be known as broadly as possible.’ He said that playing Turing – who broke the Nazis’ Enigma code – was very different to Sherlock. ‘He doesn’t swish around demonstrating how brilliant he is. He’s a very quiet, stoic, determined man.’

SaM SMith hasn’t learned the art of ‘pulling a sickie’. the Stay With Me singer, 22, claimed he could not meet fans after a US show because he was ‘not feeling 100 per cent’ and needed sleep. it appears he had a miraculous recovery after he posted a picture of himself on the ‘best night ever’ in a bar a few hours later on tuesday. a miffed fan tweeted: ‘thought you couldn’t sign autographs as you needed sleep. now you’re out in the middle of the night?’

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Niall: The X Factor stole my childhood

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1D star ‘packed up life in a bag’ at the age of 16 to live the pop dream

by SEAMUS DUFF NIALL HORAN says The X Factor robbed him of the chance to be a normal teenager – and admits he regrets leaving school with no qualifications. The Mullingar man’s decision to risk it all at the age of 16 in pursuit of fame has paid off handsomely after he and his One Direction bandmates conquered the world. But the 21-yearold said: ‘My childhood was cut short by The X Factor because One Direction took off and I never really got the chance to finish school or do my exams or anything like that. ‘After the first audition, I packed

up everything in my life in a bag. ‘I didn’t realise at the time that, when I was stuffing clothes into the little suitcase, that was pretty much me leaving home for good.’ While he rues being suddenly torn away from home, Horan said it would have been impossible for manager Simon Cowell to cushion the shock of overnight stardom. ‘There is no preparing for this, certainly not on the scale that the band has grown to,’ he wrote in 1D’s latest autobiography, Who We Are. Meanwhile, Directioners got a treat when Horan, Harry Styles, 20, Zayn Malik, 21, Liam Payne, 21, and Louis Tomlinson, 22, joined the BBC’s allstar rendition of God Only Knows. Social media went into meltdown as Styles and Malik went gooeyeyed during Tuesday’s broadcast. ‘When they looked at each other while they were singing I saw my life flash before my eyes,’ one fan tweeted.

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AIR ATTAcks FORcE IsLAMIsT RETREAT In bORDER TOwn AMERICAN-led air strikes over Kobane have pushed back Islamic State fighters after they appeared on the verge of seizing the Syrian border town. The coalition attacks helped Kurdish fighters retake parts of the town from the militants, said US officials. ‘We are doing everything we can from the air to try to

halt the momentum of IS,’ a Pentagon spokesman told news agencies. A senior official in Kobane, Idriss Nassan, said the militants had suffered ‘their biggest retreat’ since their entry into the town and that many had been killed. Turkish tanks and troops remained parked along the border despite calls for them to intervene.

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A TRAINEE doctor tweeted ‘Oi lads... I smell war’, just hours before he was arrested by police over an alleged Islamic State terror plot. Tarik Hassane, 21, was among four men dragged at dawn from their London homes on Monday on suspicion of serious terror activity. Mr Hassane was tasered after police used stun grenades and kicked down the front door of a relative’s home in a tower block in Ladbroke Grove, west London. Dubbed ‘The Surgeon’, Hassane had been offered a place to study medicine at King’s College London but failed to get the grades. UK Police are investigating whether Mr Hassane underwent bomb-making training in Syria or Somalia. He had spoken online of his plans to study in Sudan and tweeted a picture of his medical text books with the caption ‘this makes A-levels look like a joke’. Mr Hassane was arrested a street away from the Ladbroke Grove hideout of 21/7 bombers Muktar Said Ibrahim and Ramzi Mohammed, although there is no suggestion of any link. He and the three other men, all aged 20 or 21, remained in custody last night as police questioned them. UK Prime Minister David

Evidence bags: Three plain-clothed officers leave the property picture: news group Cameron has said that IS is planning an attack in Britain. Experts warned yesterday that British extremists abroad could inspire home-grown radicals to commit atrocities. Raffaello Pantucci, of the Royal United Services Institute, said: ‘Previously you’ve been looking at busy public places as potentially being un-

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Dewani ‘paid me €1000 to kill wife’ by RyAn HOOpER

Hitman: Mziwamadoda Qwabe takes the witness box in Cape Town Picture: AP

IT in schools ‘necessary’ IrelanD’s position as a top location for IT is under threat due to poor tech skills amongst students, it has been claimed. senator Catherine noone has called on the Minister for education to make IT a part of the primary school curriculum. ‘This is a situation that needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency. Up to 44,000 ITrelated jobs are expected to be created in the IT sector in Ireland over the next few years. Having the right policies to meet these needs is of the utmost importance,’ she said.

A CONVICTED hitman agreed a fee of €1,000 with honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani to kill his wife, a court has heard. Mziwamadoda Qwabe said he was told to stage a carjacking in which the British husband escaped unharmed. Standing in the witness box opposite victim Anni Dewani’s family, Qwabe said he was concentrating on the road while fellow assassin Xolile Mngeni shot newlywed Anni. The pair later split the cash before Qwabe went for a night out ‘socialising’, he said. Dewani, 34, is accused of organising his wife’s murder while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2010. He denies all charges. Qwabe, 29, told Western Cape high court he was contacted by Zola Tongo, the Dewanis’ taxi driver, the day before the killing. Qwabe, already serving a 25-year sentence for his role in the murder, said he demanded 15,000 rand (about €1,000) to carry out the attack on the 28-year-old, having been told by Tongo: ‘Somebody needs to be killed.’

Accused: Shrien Dewani arrives in court where he denies murder Picture: rex Qwabe said he and Mngeni arranged to meet the Dewanis’ cab for the attack. Describing the hijacking, he told the court: ‘I ordered Zola to get out of the car. He told me the money was in a pouch behind the front passenger door.’ After driving into a township, he said he ‘asked the husband to get out’. Qwabe said he was behind the wheel when Anni was fatally wounded. He

added: ‘I heard a gun shot. (Mngeni) said, “I shot the lady”.’ Papers filed at the court have revealed that Dewani accessed a gay website the day after Anni was shot. He spent on hour on Gaydar and also logged on to the fetish website Recon on consecutive nights around the time of his wife’s death, according to the papers. The trial continues.

Bargain ‘print’ turns out to be €400k masterpiece

Lost original: Bathing Machines, Aldeburgh, by English artist Eric Ravilious

A widower was left speechless when a painting his late wife bought for under €120 was sold for almost €400,000 at auction. The masterpiece of bathing machines on a beach, by famed english war artist eric ravilious, was bought for a bargain at a house probate sale by the elderly UK collector – who thought it was just a print. After her death, her husband had the piece valued by art expert Sarah Lewis at JS Auctions. She immediately realised it was Bathing Machines, Aldeburgh, an original 1938 work by ravilious. Joe Smith, of JS Auctions, said: ‘As soon as our valuer saw it she said it was the real deal. The paint was still visible under a

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glass and the original gallery label from 1939 was still on the back.’ Mr Smith said the vendor was ‘blown away’ after the sale in oxfordshire, england. eric ravilious was a respected artist who had the ability to capture light like no other painter, experts believe. Tragically, the father of three, from west London, died during a world war Two mission after his Lockhead Hudson aircraft disappeared in the northern Atlantic off the coast of iceland. His daughter, Ann Ullmann, was intent on seeing her father’s piece after hearing about the discovery. ‘She described it as an “absolute corker”,’ said Mr Smith.

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Greens’ fury at plans for nuclear site THe Green PArTy has accused european leaders of breaking their own competition rules and the irish Government of turning a blind eye over the go-ahead for the new Hinkley nuclear project in the UK. Located just 241km from the irish coast, the planned facility has been examined by watchdogs in Dublin for potential environmental risks which found ‘routine operation’ would have no measurable radiological impact on ireland or its seas. Green Party leader eamon ryan said the european commission sign-off allows electricity to be generated at Hinkley at twice the price of alternative renewables. ‘The decision supports an uncommon market, which brings us back to a highly centralised energy model and hinders the development of a cleaner, safer and more efficient energy future for everyone,’ he said. ‘The irish Government have turned a blind eye to the dawning of this new nuclear age in Britain. There is no accounting for the security risks that come with the building of such a plant.’ mr ryan called on environment minister Alan Kelly to explain what action the irish Government intends to take over the development of the Hinkley plant.

Beckett death motif evident in TCD letters by BRiAn HuTTOn

Playwright Samuel Beckett wrote intimately about the death of his mother to life-long friends he met while evading Nazis, a collection opened up to the public for the first time shows. Some 347 letters and postcards from one of the last century’s most influential writers were sent to French artists henri and Josette hayden between 1947 and 1958. Bought at auction in london for €180,000 earlier this year – half the price paid when they were sold to a private buyer eight years ago – they have been opened up by trinity College Dublin (tCD). the university now holds the largest collection in the world of letters penned by Dublin-born Beckett, himself a former student and subsequent benefactor to the college. in his correspondence he writes in august 1950 about his mother dying, comparing it to the haunting sound of a night train near his country retreat in Ussy, northern France. ‘My mother is still declining,’ the Nobel laureate confides. ‘it’s like one of those decrescendos made by the trains at Ussy which i used to listen to at night, interminable, suddenly resuming just when everything seemed finished and the silence final. ‘i think she will die in hospital in a week or so.’ it is believed the description of his mother’s last days formed a motif that

Sam fans: (L-r) Prof Chris Morash, librarian Helen Shenton and Bernard Meehan, Keeper of Manuscrpits picture: pa he used again and again in his works, including rockaby. the collection also includes many picture postcards, including one of the Cliffs of Moher, in Co Clare. he met the haydens when they were in hiding from the Nazis in southern France during the Second world war. as well as covering his mother’s death, the correspondence also spans a time frame that included his brother

Frank’s death and his completion of his famous work waiting For godot. Beckett was also working on his trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and the Unnameable during the period. helen Shenton, tCD librarian and college archivist, said the latest addition to their Beckett collection was internationally significant for scholars of the irish writer. ‘we have been developing collec-

tions of significant irish creative writers, and these letters build on the existing Beckett collections the library already holds,’ she said. ‘we welcome the opportunity to be able to share these collections with students of Beckett and researchers across the globe.’ an exhibition of the letters and postcards is taking place in the library’s famous long room.

New bid to attract female engineers

Nobel winners’ work put under microscope

WOMEN are still ‘an untapped resource’ in engineering, an industry head has said. Fujitsu Ireland CEO and Engineers Ireland president Regina Moran was speaking yesterday at Engineering Your Future: Women In Engineering, an interactive career event for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) courses. ‘We must find ways of attracting young women as well as young men to join forces with us and tackle some of the world’s greatest issues,’ said Ms Moran.

Two AmericAns and a German scientist won the nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for finding ways to make microscopes more powerful than previously thought possible, allowing scientists to see how diseases develop inside the tiniest cells. working independently of each other, Us researchers eric Betzig and william moerner and stefan Hell of Germany shattered previous limits on the resolution of optical microscopes by using glowing molecules to peer inside the components of life. Their breakthroughs, starting in the 1990s, have enabled scientists to study diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s at a

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We love to talk – but not with our mouths It SeeMS that we all want to talk – but that most of us are happy not to use our mouths. A new survey shows that a quick text chat with friends and family acts as a powerful buffer to the ups and downs of everyday life. the study, carried out by communication enthusiasts Memeoirs.com shows that more than 50 per cent of us are now more comfortable using our fingers to do our talking – believing that written text is easier to process and better suited to tackling difficulty topics. ‘the general consensus is that it’s easier to respond with text knowing there’s time to format a message – particularly if the topic

by DAvID kEARns is tricky or difficult,’ said Memeoirs’ marketing manager June Carmody. She added that in her experience it has become obvious that written communication is increasingly important especially

‘Texting can be easier to process’ during challenging times. ‘Moreover, a written piece can be re-read and saved for a later date, as one respondent said: ‘When I’m feeling low, I like to

read sweet messages, memes and other chats to make me smile.’ Others said that, as they are shy, they find the conversation more two-sided and they get their points across,’ she said. Some 70 per cent of participants spoke to their loved ones daily to ‘feel in the loop’ and said that doing so was ‘vital to their peace of mind’. One of the most consistent characteristics of happy people, according to psychologists, is that they spend time with others. this is an issue that the Memeoirs’ team said was increasing difficult with the level of emigration amongst young people today.

‘It is in these cases that the ‘sink or swim’ of communication roles come into play,’ said Ms Carmody, whose company allows users to print their conversations into books. ‘According to the research, 30 per cent of people say effective communication is a must in order to maintain their relationships with long-distance loved ones. ‘For some people, these chats can be as simple as reporting about how sleepy, hungry or bored one is, while for others it is about “expressing deep thoughts and things you don’t speak about with many people, just someone you are particularly close to”,’ Ms Carmody added.

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Two found guilty of London murder of Irishman A MAN and a woman are facing life behind bars after being found guilty of severely beating an Irishman, stripping him and leaving him for dead in a skip in south London after a drunken night out. Mick Hunt, 37 – originally from Waterford – was attacked in the early hours of March 15 by Fiona Nalty and Arry Green. After a trial at the Old Bailey, they were found guilty of murder and are awaiting sentence. The trial heard Nalty, 24, started beating up Mr Hunt after he tried to chat her up and Green, 22, joined in because she was a girl, even though the victim remained passive throughout the vicious onslaught. A member of the public found Mr Hunt in an alleyway, severely injured, naked, unconscious and barely breathing. He died in hospital the same day. A post-mortem examination showed he suffered injuries consistent with kicking and stamping. He suffered a skull fracture as well as a broken nose, cheekbone and rib. Green, of South Norwood, and Nalty, of Coulsdon, denied murder but a jury took less than a day to convict them both.

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Hackers upload J-Law’s nude pics on Wikipedia HACKED naked images of Jennifer Lawrence were uploaded on to her Wikipedia page just hours after she condemned the theft of the pictures as a sex crime. The 24-year-old actress (pictured) suffered fresh harassment when two of the stolen images that were

leaked online in August reappeared again on Tuesday. The photos – which replaced the main holding image of Lawrence on Wikipedia – were removed within 20 minutes. Users of the online resource are free to edit and upload information on its pages.

Counting the calories comes at a high price JUNK food takes a toll on your body but healthy eating comes at a price. Fruit and veg can cost up to three times as much as pizza, crisps and fizzy drinks, a UK study suggests. The average cost of healthy food per 1,000 calories was £7.49 (€10), compared with £2.50 for unhealthy ones, according to Cambridge University.

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character and i are different, let me make that clear [laughs]. Most of the characters i’ve played have been one-dimensional. i’ve been wanting to play a really flawed character, so as soon as the script came across my doorstep, Chris started reading it and said: ‘honey, this is you.’ i can’t deny that i like to have a good time sometimes.

We’re talking overdrinking, are we? No! How does Christy as a mum compare to you as a mum?

Well, we both don’t really know what we’re doing. i’m a new mum while Christy’s kids are 17, 16 and nine, but because she’s recently sober she feels like a new mum, too. We both feel a lot of guilt in general. i didn’t know about that part. it’s going to be with me forever.

Aren’t you pushing yourself into the next generation of parts? i think

wanted me to be Queen Elizabeth, Amelia Earhart and Joan Of Arc. those were the only roles i was allowed to play.

We address a lot of serious things and a lot of bad things happen to Christy but what keeps us going is that the characters themselves are funny. Christy and her mum, Bonnie, are women winking at life. they have these challenges but the relationship between the two of them keeps getting better and happier. i think that infuses the show with a lot of joy.

You come from quite an academic family. What did they think when you were in the Scary Movie films? they

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Instead, you’re in short skirts running away from people.

But there is something that i love in those other roles. in Mom, it’s the exploration of the mother/daughter relationship, that period where you start to raise your parents a little bit and the roles are shifting. i am so fortunate because my parents are unbelievable. When i was a selfabsorbed teenager they were strict with me and it was really good for me. they’re funny, fun to be around and they’re smart.

You and Chris Pratt are Hollywood hotshots. Are you worried about bringing a child up in that environment?

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How come this show isn’t depressing – it’s about people locked in a cycle of making the same mistakes, generation after generation?

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A little bit. My husband and i grew up in the same area and we like the idea of moving back there someday. We’re both quite grounded and hopefully that will keep him grounded. One of the nice We want him to things about getting have the same sort of childhood we older is that your had, which was characters become playing in the forest and stuff. more interesting

Meryl Streep said you start out as the babe… then aunt, then mum, then kooky next-door neighbour, then grandma and then kooky greatgrandma. You do get viewed as one thing in certain stages of your career, especially as a woman, but one of the nice things about getting older is that your characters become more interesting and less focused around getting a boy.

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AnnA fARis, 37, is known for comedic film and TV roles. She and Chris Pratt are a Hollywood power couple Christy, the ex-alcoholic character you play in Mom, is perfect for you, isn’t she? My

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Well, David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest is working in a coffee shop… that’s great. Perfect. And i

bet he loves it. i think that will be a challenge. When the baby gets photographed it doesn’t rattle me too much but i don’t think Chris likes it. And i want to make sure he’s not a brat. that’s hugely important to us. We’re already strict and he’s not even two.

Is your husband still in superhot phase? he’s still in super-hot

phase! he’s always been a really athletic guy but his character on Parks And Recreation is a little bit bigger and i love to cook and i love to feed Chris. he loves food and i guess i miss that element of him. But i’m so proud of him and he looks so great and he’s feeling great.

Does that make you feel a little less great, like you maybe should try and keep up? i hadn’t really thought about

that. Although that baby keeps me running around. But he’s a country boy. he likes a little more flesh on a girl. simon gage

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20 months for dog torching ‘too light’

ith regard to your front page story yesterday about that foul man who set the dog on fire – 20 months? that’s a pittance for what he did. What if it had been a human child he killed? Dogs and all animals should be awarded the same justice as humans. those who deny this are as bad as the archaic Catholic church members who think humans are ‘divine’. humanity is disgusting in this way, and i don’t know how so few people see it. Ashamed ■ i have read the Song Of ice And Fire books by George RR Martin, but for the sake of those who haven’t, i ask that you forbid your comics from publishing major plot

spoilers. it’s simply common decency. Empathetic Reader ■ Sniffer, some of us have a conscience and don’t like to see any people left in the wind and rain at bus stops. how would you like it if you were the one left standing at one if all drivers worked to the letter of the law? in future, if it bothers you so much, get off the bus when you think its too full and let some other person have your seat. JDriver ■ Our footpaths are no longer decent places to walk. During humble times like those described in Mickaleen’s book, cyclists weren’t quite willing to run down pedestrians like they are now. the Government proposes fixed charge notices for lawless cyclists,

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but already there’s a 20 per cent failure rate for these in relation to cars, so there would be a higher rate of failure for such cyclists because they are not registered like cars and can easily give wrong iD. Councils throughout the country could create many badly needed jobs by appointing bike staff, who could work on a commission basis clamping the bikes of such cyclists to newly erected railings. Wrongful car parking was rampant until clamping was brought in. there have been many injuries to pedestrians from such cyclists, and much verbal abuse too. the London Pedestrian Association rightly said: ‘the proper place for two wheels is on the side of the road.’ the reason footpaths are socalled is because they are for feet – they are not for traffic. Eric

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Foodies have come up with their own special perfumes using their favourite ingredients, writes Vicki-Marie Cossar

or many of us, our choice of fragrance centres around habit. Perhaps you always choose something with an element of rose or maybe citrus is more your taste. Despite our sense of taste and smell being intrinsically linked (scientists estimate 75-95 per cent of our sense of taste comes from our sense of smell), our food preferences aren’t usually something that steers us towards a fragrance. British-based fragrance company Illuminum aims to change that, with its new collection, the 95 Per Cent series. It has asked three foodies to encapsulate their passion in limited-edition fragrances. The first, #234, is by american food artist Tom Wolfe and launches next month at fortnum & Mason. Wolfe has produced a provocative scent composed of Calabrian bergamot and french fennel. These top notes give way to egyptian geranium, yuzu (an asian citrus fruit), jasmin and mandarin blossom, with a Sicilian lemon base. ‘Smell and taste are linked in the

same way you are transported back to a memory when you hear your favourite song,’ says Wolfe. ‘as a chef, Sicilian lemon and french fennel are two of the most exquisite ingredients. Just like a plate of food, we needed to balance these two dominating scents in #234. I decided to do this with geranium, yuzu, jasmine and mandarin blossom, which transport me back to my apprenticeship at the Peninsula hotel in Japan, where the flowers scented the air.’ British chef Jackson Boxer of Brunswick house (grandson of renowned food writer Lady arabella Boxer) is currently concocting hiscreation, due out early next year. Illmunium is keeping this mix a secret but the London-based restaurateur serves what he describes as ‘very simple, very confident’ dishes. The third food artist is yet to be confirmed but just imagine if multi-sensory chef heston Blumenthal had a go. eau de snail porridge, anyone?

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Peaky Blinders Cork’s finest Cillian Murphy rules his kingdom

1. peaky Blinders BBC2, 9pm

This 1920s gangland saga steps up a notch as Tom Hardy joins the cast. He’s the boss of a London outfit that head Brummie Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) sees as a key ally if his crews are to expand their empire. That’s if he can shake off the attentions of vengeful Chief Inspector Campbell, played with evil relish by Sam Neill. Casts like this don’t come along every day.

2. Forever

Sky1, 9pm Dr Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd) drifts through New York glumly – it’s no fun being an immortal. At least he’s developed some neat powers of deduction over the years, tonight helping the local police investigate a suicide. Or was it murder?

Who Do You Think You Are? What will Twiggy find out about her nest?

Django Unchained The horror of US slavery – Tarantino style

Detectorists Will the geeks inherit the Earth after all?

3. Detectorists

BBC4, 10pm Mackenzie Crook’s gentle comedy set in the world of metal detecting – stay with us – is attracting strong reviews and loyal fans. And it’s not hard to see why: the mix of lovably eccentric characters hits the spot for lovers of offbeat humour. Simon Farnaby joins the party as a rival gang-leader tonight. Give it a try.

4. Who Do You Think You Are?

BBC1, 9pm It’s a hundred up for the genealogy show and the honour of marking the centenary falls to Twiggy, a supermodel in the 1960s before the term had been invented. She finds her past littered with deprivation and nefarious forebears but keeps a stiff upper lip throughout – they’re tough, these models.

5. Today’s Film: Django Unchained

Sky Showcase, 10.05pm Christoph Waltz bagged a Supporting Actor Oscar and a host of other awards for his scenestealing turn in Quentin Tarantino’s brash mash up a host of genres from western to blaxploitation movies. Jamie Foxx stars as a bounty hunter on a mission to save his wife.

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RTÉ1, 7pm Colin Stafford-Johnson hasn’t won awards for nothing, as anyone who’s even glimpsed at his magisterial nature footage will know. Tonight, the Sligo-based wildlife filmmaker visits the haunting Skellig rocks miles off the coast of Kerry, home to thousands of seabirds, including gannets, shearwaters and everyone’s harlequin-faced favourites, puffins. It’s nesting season as Colin visits too, so be ready to swoon at cute shots of chicks hatching on the rugged cliff faces.

7. scrotal Recall

C4, 10pm This sitcom charting the efforts of dithery Dylan (Johnny Flynn) to track down his old sexual partners – he’s got an STD, you see – is nowhere near as crude as the title would suggest. Then again, that would be difficult. Anna was the second notch on his now diseased bedpost and it’s a frolic seeing how they got to the big moment.

8. The great British Bake Off Masterclass BBC2, 7pm

For those of you suffering sticky bun withdrawal after last night’s Bake Off finale, here’s a way to sweeten the pill. Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood indulge in a spot of chaste flirting as they knead and sift their way through some of the trickier challenges that got contestants overheated in the tent.

9. Cat Watch 2014: The new Horizon Experiment

BBC2, 8pm Why do cats meow to us but not to each other? OK, it’s hardly up there with Einstein’s theory of relativity

but there won’t be a cat lover in the land who won’t want to know the answer to that one. It’s the final part of the fascinating feline study.

10. Angeline’s Home Cooks TV3, 8.30pm Angeline Ball once again helps to separate the domestic goddesses from the domestic god-help-us-es. Tonight, she meets Cyrilla O’Carroll and is taken through a chicken curry. Ms Ball herself, meanwhile, divulges the secrets behind her gnocchi with broccoli in a crème fraiche and parmesan sauce.

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nora WebSTer by Colm tóibín

j0annE harris

I loved Tóibín’s 1950s-set novel brooklyn. I’ve heard this is a sequel, right? Not quite. In the Costa Award-winning Brooklyn, Tóibín told the story of Eilis Lacey, who emigrates from the author’s hometown of Enniscorthy in County Wexford to New York, where tragedy forces her to make a heartbreaking choice between her new life and her old. Although Nora Webster is also set in Enniscorthy and Eilis’s mother makes a cameo, this is the discrete tale of widow Nora. Similar turf, then? Very much so. With Brooklyn, Tóibín was rightly féted both for his deceptively spare, dexterous prose and his keen insight into the psyche of a bright female protagonist whose prospects are limited by the dictates of gender and religion. Here Nora Webster, recently widowed and with four young children to care for, faces the dilemma of creating a meaningful life for herself in an environment where self-realisation, social mores and the demands of motherhood don’t necessarily align. Is Tóibín taking a pop at the oppressive Ireland of yesteryear? Not at all. What makes Nora Webster so intriguing is the author’s complex and nuanced attitude both to the period and his characters. There are no monsters here – although Nora’s hilariously misanthropic colleague comes close – and the sense of a society that is by turns suffocatingly intrusive

Joanne Harris is best known as the author of Chocolat – the magical tale about an Englishwoman who opens a chocolate shop in a French village, which was adapted into a film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She has written many novels and most recently contributed a short story to Time Trips – the BBC’s Doctor Who digital shorts series

and deeply humane is ably delineated. Tóibín is far less interested in taking potshots at Catholic Ireland than he is at examining how an intelligent woman can find fulfilment in a society founded on orthodoxy and wary of individualism.

Should I read it? If you loved Brooklyn then you’ll love this. Nora Webster doesn’t see Tóibín breaking fashionable ground but there are few

novelists capable of breathing new life into what is a well-trodden period of Irish history. Fans of domestic fiction will savour a low-key tale that’s as elegant and delicately wrought as gossamer; those who prefer their novels of the pumped-up, plot-driven variety should probably look elsewhere. Daragh Reddin

S IS For Space by ray bradbury

Short stories by the master of science fiction: as always, filled with joy, unease and the perilous promise of the stars.

Nora Webster (Penguin) is out now

The player oF GameS by IaIn m bankS

This is the late Iain M Banks at his very best: rich, imaginative, intelligent. If you haven’t read any of his wonderful Culture novels, this may be the place to start.

bookS are my baG

rick o’Shea channels his bookish side to celebrate this year’s books are my bag, a campaign designed to highlight the vital role of high street and independent bookshops in promoting literature and reading across Ireland and the uk. To coincide with this year’s event, the award-winning artist Tracey emin has designed a collector’s edition bag, available in shops across the country, including the much-loved Gutter bookshop on cow’s lane in Temple bar, dublin. www.booksaremybag.com

The houSe Where IT happened by martina Devlin

It’s 1711 and teenager mary dunbar is invited to visit her relatives in knowehead house, a wellto-do estate in co antrim. When dunbar goes on to accuse local women of practising necromancy, she wreaks havoc in a superstitious and God-fearing community. The house Where It happened is inspired by the country’s only mass witchcraft trial which took place in the early 18th century. pitched somewhere between The exorcist and a Scooby doo mystery, this is a deeply absorbing read. Aileen Donegan Poolbeg Press, out now

The roSIe eFFecT by graeme SimSion

Graeme Simsion scored a hit with his debut novel, The rosie project, which followed the socially challenged, verging-on-autistic genetic scientist don Tillman as he attempted to secure a girlfriend. This follow-up has don thrust into expectant fatherhood – a state of affairs that, like all situations requiring empathy, don is almost heroically unsuited for. Fans of the first book will probably love this but others might feel that Simsion has created a straitjacket for himself, forced to sacrifice character credibility to fulfil his comic purpose. Claire Allfree Viking, out now

The chrySalIdS by John Wyndham

A classic from my childhood, which still resonates strongly with me today. A story of alienation, prejudice and descent into a darkness, in which only a small group of outcasts can see the way back into the light... The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Time Traveller by Joanne Harris is out now

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formula one russian grand prix

Sochi faith in painstaking preparation by ADAM HAy-nicHOLLS RussIAn Grand Prix organisers are confident sunday’s race will pass without serious incident despite heightened safety concerns in the wake of Jules Bianchi’s horrific accident. Marussia driver Bianchi sustained severe head injuries after crashing into a recovery tractor in Japan last week, prompting a full FIA enquiry.

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New challenge: Button

New track is right on the Button for Jenson Thawed you recognised it? The Sochi track encircles the site of the Olympic Park used for this year’s Winter Games always a pressure with the first race to make sure everything is of a standard that’s even beyond what is required by the FIA,’ said the Irishman. ‘We are very lucky to have somebody like [race director] Charlie [Whiting] there who is so attentive to detail. You can never relax on safety.’ Bianchi remains in a critical condition in hospital, with Mercedes title rivals Lewis Hamilton and nico Rosberg again expressing their fervent hope the Frenchman pulls through. Hamilton, who leads Rosberg by ten points, said: ‘It’s difficult to know what to say after a weekend like the one in Japan. ‘obviously I was pleased to have finally won at suzuka, but as soon as we got back to the pits and heard what happened to Jules it didn’t seem relevant any more. Rosberg said: ‘I really wish Jules, his family and colleagues the very best at this difficult time.’

fitting tribute

The Marussia team have set up Jules Bianchi’s garage in Sochi as a gesture of support for their injured driver

‘Everything is of a standard beyond what is required’ Despite being supervised by experienced officials and training at venues around the world, a grand prix is virgin territory for most of sochi’s marshals. However, Richard Cregan, who works closely with the race’s promoter and was chief executive of the Abu Dhabi circuit, claims no stone has been left unturned in an effort to maximise safety. ‘I think there’s

Jenson Button is eager to savour the challenge of Formula one’s latest addition to the calendar. the sochi Autodrom, which winds its way around the site used for the Winter olympics earlier this year, hosts this weekend’s inaugural Russian Grand Prix. Race organisers are proudly boasting it is the only track in the world to be located within an olympic venue. It also serves as both a

‘I’m keen to get a feel for the place’ permanent and a street circuit given it integrates into sochi’s general infrastructure during non-racing periods. McLaren star Button said: ‘It’s fun to get out and explore the contours of the track, the kerbs and the run-offs. ‘they’re all the things you don’t really fully experience until you’re on-site and able to see the track for the first time.’ the 2009 world champion added: ‘I’ve lost none of my enthusiasm for going to new places, so I’ll be keen to get out there on Friday and get a feel for the place.’

SpORT DigEST ‘No panic’ over Cup’s sponsorship scarcity Rugby uniOn Bath owner Bruce Craig

has admitted European bosses did not expect to secure five main sponsors for the inaugural Champions Cup kick-off next weekend. Only Heineken are signed up for the tournament, which succeeds the scrapped Heineken Cup, and Craig, who sits on governing body European Professional Club Rugby’s executive committee, said: ‘Five sponsors in four months, that’s not a realistic expectation. It’s no surprise to us that it’s taking this time. You could under-sell, and we want to make sure we’ve got the right partners. So it’s a long process for some chunky amounts of money.’

Clarke in pole position to lead Europe in 2016 Cup

gOLf The champagne-soaked Ryder Cup team kit has barely been packed away and already Europe’s thoughts have turned to who will lead the side in 2016. Darren Clarke is the favourite to be in charge at Hazeltine in two years. He has already received the public backing of world number one Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood, among others. However, the ultimate decision rests with the last three captains Paul McGinley, Jose Maria Olazabal and Colin Euro vision: (From Montgomerie, the players’ left) George North, of appointed representative Northampton, Bath’s David Howell and European Stuart Hooper and Ed Slater (Leicester) with Tour chief executive the Champions Cup George O’Grady.

Tinkov issues €1m challenge

cycLing Oleg Tinkov, the Russian multi-millionaire owner of the TinkoffSaxo team, has challenged the four best riders in the world to contest all three Grand Tours in 2015 for €1million. The eccentric Russian would like to see Alberto Contador, who rides for his Tinkoff-Saxo squad, Team Sky’s Chris Froome, Astana’s Vincenzo Nibali (pictured) and Nairo Quintana of Movistar race in the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana in the same year. The €1million purse could be divided equally, or be awarded as a prize to the rider who places best at the Tours of Italy, France and Spain. Many cycling fans are relishing the 2015 Tour de France, where the quartet are expected to meet to contest for the yellow jersey won by Nibali in 2014.

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football international

preparing to let-down: noel King was disappointed at how Euro qualifiers ended

Rep of ireland Under-21s

by pADRAic MORgAn

King LOOKing fOR signs Of DEvELOpMEnT As TEAM fAcE sTiff nORwAy TEsT Noel KiNg will send his Republic of ireland Under-21 side into friendly battle with Norway with one eye on the next qualifying campaign. The ireland squad has undergone significant change since the nation’s hopes of making it to next summer’s european Championship finals in the Czech Republic were dashed earlier this year. However, having seen his newlook team draw 1-1 with the Qatar olympic squad in May before losing 2-0 to germany in their final qualifier, the manager is looking to tonight’s game in Drammen to lay the foundations for the resumption of competitive action. King said: ‘Norway finished third in the World Under-20s twice and also third in UeFA Under-21 Championships so we know it’ll be tough. They have traditionally been physical and direct but we’ll have to adjust to whatever way they play. ‘For all of us, staff and players, it’s still a case of getting to know each other. They will learn what we’re looking for as staff while for us we are continuing to learn about their attributes and their versatility.

‘it’s all about developing as a group and working out how we can tie it all together to be a competitive force.’ The Republic launched their group Six campaign in promising fashion, but quickly slipped off the pace as the unbeaten germans ran away with the group, leaving the ireland camp to analyse an ultimately disappointing outcome for the team. King said: ‘We’ve been very good in recruiting players and winning games but we want to go on and challenge to qualify. ‘We always start to struggle when players move on to the next level and are no longer available to you, but that’s probably the case with all Under-21 teams. ‘Football is strange in that pinpointing exactly why you don’t qualify can be difficult, but there are always little things that could have gone your way that would have made the difference. ‘over the years we would be stronger at producing defenders than forwards, so i suppose that attacking area is one where we’ll be looking for somebody to make their mark,’ he said.

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Gibson back and relishing stab at World Champions Darron Gibson is hoping for a chance to play himself into contention for a showdown with World champions Germany as he continues his comeback from an injury nightmare. The 26-year-old made his first appearance for club or country in more than ten months in ireland’s 2-0 friendly victory over oman last month following a gruelling fightback from a cruciate ligament problem. He played the full 90 minutes of club Everton’s 1-1 Europa League draw with Krasnodar in russia last Thursday, and with James McCarthy missing from Martin o’neill’s squad through injury, will hope to get the nod for saturday’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Gibraltar in Dublin and the intensely difficult trip to Germany which follows three days later.

‘no game is easy, we’ll take it very seriously’ Gibson said: ‘i played in the European game during the week and i felt physically strong, so i think i am ready. Hopefully i do get the chance and i do have an influence so i can play on Tuesday. ‘i think any player enjoys playing in games like that. They are some of the best players in the world, so it’s good to see how you fare against them. ‘obviously, the first few games i played, it was just about getting minutes under my belt. but i think i am ready to play properly now, i think i am match-fit and ready to go. ‘it’s been all right. it’s been a bit frustrating not playing in the Premier League, but i have got two games in in the last two and a half weeks, so i’m happy enough coming into this week.’ ireland will face Group D minnows Gi-

braltar – who lost their opening game against Poland 7-0 at home – at the aviva stadium knowing goal difference could be important, but taking nothing for granted. Gibson went on to insist: ‘no football game is easy. obviously we will take the game seriously

and hope to get the win. ‘i don’t think we will be going out there thinking: “right, we are going to beat them five or six nil.” it’s not as easy as that. We will go out and try our best and hopefully, we get the win. ‘We are going into both games

Strange stories from the world of sport

Hypnotist can’t stop club going under

Who’s a pretty goalscorer?

A BrAziliAn club have taken drastic measures in an attempt to stave off the drop. Portuguesa, who find themselves rooted to the foot of Serie B, have employed the services of hypnotist Olimar

AppArenTly, the wife of Manchester United striker radamel Falcao doesn’t need to look at the TV when her hubby is playing to see if he has

Tesser to try and boost performances on the pitch. Tesser, who has had players walking over broken glass and bending metal poles with their necks, said: ‘i work with the human being, the man,

and this is reflected on the pitch. if a player thinks he can bend iron and walk on glass, he can do anything in a game.’ Sadly, after Tesser’s first session with the team they lost 1-0 to Vasco da Gama.

leading squawker: A parrot

scored. The couple own a parrot called Coco who squawks every time he finds the net. ‘My parrot says “gol de Falcao” and more,’ Mrs F told The Sun.

rock gibraltar... MARTIN O’NeIll has reported no injury concerns after working with his players, including newly-arrived Hull full-back Brian lenihan, at a rain-soaked Gannon Park in Malahide yesterday morning. He did so with excerpts from assistant Roy Keane’s updated autobiography still causing a stir outside, if not inside, the Ireland camp. O’Neill said with a smile yesterday: ‘I have things to do this week, like Gibraltar. I am not concerned about anybody’s book at this moment, particularly my assistant manager.’ McClean, a boyhood Manchester United fan who is relishing the opportunity to work under the Old Trafford old boy, also insisted the furore surrounding his book was proving no distraction. ‘I don’t see why. Roy writes a book – it’s not going to affect what we do on the pitch. That’s his business. We are here to focus on two games and get the best two results possible.’

6 Defeats in the last seven

matches for sacked Scunthorpe boss Russ Wilcox. The League One club have placed former Hull defender Andy Dawson in charge on a temporary basis

it’ll be all Roy on the night: Republic of ireland assistant manager Roy Keane chats with jeff Hendrick during training in Malahide picture iNpHO

Saturday [the match against Gibraltar] is really, really important. We have come off the back of a great win against Georgia and it’s important to focus on that. ‘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 or another – 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.’

THE TipsTER

Wayne can make net gains on legends

Leading man: Charlton

ENGLAND striker Wayne Rooney can move closer to making history tonight by grabbing a hat-trick against San Marino. The Manchester United striker is 11/4 with Bet365 to break the deadlock in a match which should see a bundle of goals. Sir Bobby Charlton, Gary Lineker and Jimmy Greaves are the only

Staying: Borini has seen little action this season

LIvERPOOL forward Fabio Borini’s agent claims the player is happy at Anfield and is not looking to find another club. The Italian turned down moves to Sunderland, where he spent the previous season on loan, and QPR in the summer despite being told his first-team chances with the Reds would be limited. Borini has made just one start and two substitute appearances, one of which came in the Champions League against Ludogorets, but his agent Marco de Marchi said there were no plans to look at moving him on. ‘At this moment I am certainly not going to look for another club, as the boy is happy to remain at Liverpool and nothing else has changed,’ he said.

O’Neill has no injury worries

ing the camp on manager Martin O’Neill’s assistant Roy Keane and his updated autobiography, The Second Half, although the older man was adamant it would not be allowed to prove a distraction. O’Neill said: ‘The most important issue here is our games, and

fOOTbALL DigEsT

Borini still happy at Anfield, says agent

Still on course: Keane book not a worry, claims O’neill

and treating them exactly the same. We will focus on Saturday’s game first, hopefully get the result we need and then we will push on to Germany on Tuesday.’ Ireland began their preparations in Malahide on Tuesday morning, with much of the focus surround-

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Englishmen to have netted more adrift of Charlton’s record of 49. international goals. Rooney, Danny Welbeck and Paddy Power offer 5/1 Roy Raheem Sterling to all score Hodgson’s captain scores is 5/2 with Ladbrokes a hat-trick against San and more than 6.5 HOW many fans Marino to equal goals looks a snip will be at Wembley Greaves on 44, at evens with tonight? 888sport offer which would leave 5/1 the official attendance Ladbrokes, Stan him four behind James and is double the 31,000 Lineker and five population of San Marino. Boylesports.

Defoe will see out season in Toronto

JERMAIN DEFOE will not consider a loan move to the Premier League until the end of the Major League Soccer campaign. The striker (pictured) made his first Toronto appearance for six weeks after a groin injury in Sunday’s 3-0 defeat to LA Galaxy and still hopes to help the team make their first play-offs. Tim Leiweke, president of the club’s parent company, said: ‘Making the playoffs would be a huge step forward. Jermain now gets that and is totally focused on that. As to what happens during the next transfer window, we’ve agreed we’ll talk about it in December.’

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New Sochi track right on the Button for Jenson

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No shock of Gibraltar for McClean by sAM COsTELLO James mcCLeaN has warned his Republic of Ireland team-mates not to allow themselves to be written into football folklore for the wrong reasons. The Republic resume their euro 2016 qualifying campaign against Gibraltar on saturday, looking to pile on the misery following the newcomers’ opening day 7-0 home defeat to Poland last month. That proved the rudest of awakenings for the Group D minnows as they were left in little doubt, if they needed it, of what lies ahead as they prepare for showdowns with Ireland, Georgia, scotland and World champions Germany. However, mcClean is refusing to be taken in by the Poles’ landslide victory, with martin O’Neill’s men looking to provide themselves with a platform for what is certain to be a far more taxing trip to Germany next Tuesday. He said: ‘Obviously, Gibraltar are new to world football and then there’s the Poland result in the last game. ‘But for us, we have got to treat it like the Germany game. I know that’s the old cliche, but there have been a lot of upsets in football over the years and we have got to make sure we are not one come saturday. ‘If we can get an early goal, great, it takes the pressure off. But if it takes until the 80th minute... We have just

Caution: Republic of Ireland manager Martin O’Neill watches a training session at Malahide picture: pA

got to make sure we get three points. at the end of the day, that’s the most important thing.” O’Neill is equally keen to keep feet firmly on the ground ahead of a game which he insists could prove more difficult in reality than it looks on paper. He had his players watch sections of the Gibraltar v Poland match on Tuesday and will draw up his plan armed with an impromptu briefing from the Polish camp after bumping into them at a FIFa conference in Russia. O’Neill said: ‘I was speaking to the Polish representatives, who were right beside us, and they were saying how difficult the game against Gibraltar was, breaking them down, scoring the goal in the first half – they were obviously relieved about that. ‘I watched the game and I see the problems that they had, particularly in the first half. I think Gibraltar probably conceded about four goals in the last ten or 12, 14 minutes of the game. ‘The game will be difficult enough for us, and that’s the time that we want to be preparing properly for. ‘The German game, obviously, causes its own concerns – that comes afterwards. It’s a tough game for us, obviously, and one that I really cannot really concern myself about until we have played Gibraltar.’

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More woe for Gunners as Ozil out for up to 12 weeks ArsenAl midfielder Mesut Ozil could be ruled out for up to 12 weeks after picking up a knee injury in sunday’s Premier league defeat to Chelsea. Ozil joined up with the German national squad this week but was sent for an MrI scan in Munich yesterday after complaining of soreness in his left knee. The German FA claims Ozil’s injury will rule him out for ‘10 to 12 weeks’ – although the Gunners say it is too early

to put any timescale on the recovery process. Ozil managed to complete the full match at stamford Bridge but complained afterwards of tenderness in his knee.

‘He complained of a sore knee after game’ An Arsenal statement read: ‘Arsenal can confirm that midfielder Mesut Ozil is

returning to london from international duty after picking up a knee injury during sunday’s game at Chelsea. ‘Ozil complained of a sore left knee after the game and the club advised the German FA to run medical checks when he joined up with his international squad. The club will make further assessments and it is too early to say how long Ozil may be out of action.’ The news is another blow for

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger, who has seen midfielders Aaron ramsey and Mikel Arteta pick up injuries in recent weeks. ramsey will be out of action for another three to four weeks with a hamstring complaint although Wenger was slightly more upbeat about Arteta, who could return after the international break following a calf problem. Ozil joins Mathieu Debuchy and Olivier Giroud as long-term injury concerns this season.

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