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FINANCE Minister Michael Noo- by ed carty nan has declared the end of auster‘The road we have travelled to get to ity with the country’s first tax-cut and spending-increase Budget for this point has been very difficult and the Irish people have made major sacrifices, seven years. Less than two years from the but the policies pursued by this Governnext general election, Mr Noonan ment have worked and the recovery announced the first welfare hikes, in the Irish economy is well under way,’ income tax reductions and major he said. ‘The recovery has not spread across public recruitment drive since the the country yet and many families have economy’s spectacular nosedive. A range of budget measures an- yet to experience it. The Government is nounced yesterday have been wel- fully aware of this fact.’ Mr Noonan set the scene for the first comed. Among them, the deeply unpop- payback for a country crippled by bank ular Universal Social Charge debts. ‘This Government will not be re(USC) will be altered to take turning to the boom and bust model of 80,000 low paid workers out of the past that has spectacularly failed the the net. The top rate of income tax Irish people,’ he said. Outlining economic forecasts, Mr fell as expected by 1 per cent to 40 per cent while the band for the Noonan told the Dáil he expects GDP payment of the standard rate growth of 4.7 per cent this year and 3.6 moves from by €1,000 to €33,800 per cent next year. Unemployment is predicted to come down to 10 per cent for single individuals. Meanwhile, the 9 per cent Vat next year. Mr Noonan also confirmed a phasing rate for tourism will remain and out of controversial tax arthe 0.6 per cent tax rangements – known as the on lump sums saved ‘Double Irish’ – which alfor pensions will stop lows multinational compaat the end of 2014. nies to slash their tax bills With Ireland being by locating in Ireland. hailed as one of EuMajor global technology rope’s fastest-growand pharmaceutical firms ing economies, Mr have been able to use the Noonan insisted the scheme to save billions country would not of euro. return to the boomand-bust model of RELIEF WORKERS: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin (left) and Minister for Finance Michael Noonan arrive at Government Buildings to deliver the 2015 Budget Picture: PA ‘Recovery’: Noonan the past. cOnTinuEd P4

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HOT DiggETy DOg... kARATE kiD CHOppED in fiRsT AppREnTiCE fiRing KARATE black belt Chiles Cartwright became the first Apprentice hopeful to be sacked, as the tenth series of the show got under way last night. The company director heard Alan Sugar say the words: ‘You’re fired,’ after failing to impress in the first task. The 35-year-old’s all-male team lost in a challenge to sell products, including hot dogs, as modelled by fellow contestant Daniel Waving (pictured).

‘I allowed you in this process because I think here’s a man who’s started at the bottom,’ Alan Sugar, 67, told Cartwright before firing him. The all-female team earned £56.80 more than their male counterparts to win the task. But Sugar told them to rethink their team name, Team Decadence, saying it combines ‘decay, decline’, and ‘loads of self-indulgence’. The Apprentice is on BBC1 again tonight at 9pm.

Fired: Chiles Cartwright, sitting on right, in the boardroom Pictures: BBc

Cloud Field of extremes: Daow Wegner stands in front of a unique cloud formation

STANDING dangerously close to Mother Nature’s most extreme creations, stormchasers Nicolaus and Daow Wegner make tornados, hurricanes and lightning storms a stunning art form. Photographer Mr Wegner, 34, pictures his 32-year-old wife standing with her back to the camera while the skies look menacing in front of her. The result of their death-defying work is these epic images. They use forecast tools to predict where storms will show up next before chasing them down and waiting for them to materialise. Most of their shots are taken in their home state of Wyoming, US, but

by jACk wiLLiAMs sometimes they travel to neighbouring Montana and Nebraska for shots. The couple admit there is an element of danger in their work. Mrs Wegner said: ‘I’m a little nervous sometimes – I find the experience exciting and scary at the same time. ‘Life is short so I try to enjoy the moment.’ He revealed lightning is the most dangerous element to deal with and has halted their shoots in the past. ‘Daow does well with the danger but if either of us feels unsafe then we pack up and move on,’ he said.

Beauty and the beast: Daow faces dark storm clouds

Dangerous liaison: Nicolaus snaps wife and brewing storm

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BUDGET 2015

MAiN POiNTS

Booze, petrol and diesel untouched but cigarettes up FrOm PAGE 1

40 cent on cigarettes and 20c on rollies

NO change to alcohol,

petrol, diesel

The law will kick in on January 1 next year for new companies, but firms already benefiting from the loophole will have until the end of 2020 to comply with the changes. ‘This proactive change will not bring an end to international tax planning. That requires co-ordinated action by all countries,’ said Mr Noonan. ‘By taking action now and making this change as part of a broader reform of our corporate tax system, we are giving certainty to investors about corporate tax in Ireland for the next decade.’ But the minister trenchantly defended Ireland’s 12.5 per cent corporation tax, which has attracted criticism from European leaders. ‘The 12.5 per cent tax rate never has been and never will be up for discussion,’ he said. Among the ‘old reliables’, 20 cigarettes increased €.40c from midnight, while there is no change to alcohol, petrol and diesel, motor tax or Vehicle Registration Tax. ‘I am not raising any other taxes because I am able to fund the costs of these reforms and incentives through improved tax revenues arising from economic growth and continued expenditure restraint,’ Mr Noonan said.

€975M to be allocated to

Children and Youth Affairs to support the new Child and Family Agency

€5 a month increase in child benefit from January

€13.1BN for health service NO more ‘double-Irish’ tax loophole for new companies here from January

€8.3BN for education next Flying the flag: A solitary protestor at Leinster House as Michael Noonan delivered his Budget speech PICTURE: NIall CaRsoN

Budget ‘won’t help families’

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WHILE Government priority in Budget 2015 was to give relief to the so called ‘squeezed middle’, the verdict from critics is that it will offer little light to struggling households. Analysts with Davy Stockbrokers said the combined cuts for income tax, USC, Vat and excise will, on balance, make little change to household finances. And Sinn Féin finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty described the Budget as ‘deeply disappointing’ and said it did ‘nothing for struggling families’. He said: ‘A low-paid worker on €30,000 will gain €174 – less than the lowest possible water charge bill of €176. ‘A middle-income earner on €50,000 will gain €546 – all of which will be wiped out by property tax and water charge bills.’ Fianna Fail said it was a budget ‘all about using borrowed money to buy votes’. Poverty campaigners St Vincent de Paul said any benefits from tax cuts will be wiped out by both the

by ORNA cUNNiNGHAM new utility bill and property taxes. And the Unite and Mandate trade unions were also critical, Mandate general secretary John Douglas said: ‘To claim this is the end of austerity is disingenuous at best.’ Unite said it was recovery for a few, continued squeeze for the rest. Meanwhile, a pledge for the creation of thousands of jobs through a €2.2bn social housing building plan was welcomed by the Construction Industry Federation. Its director general, Tom Parlon, described the announcement as deeply significant. However, teachers’ union the INTO was not impressed with the announcement of more than 1,000 new teaching positions to ease pressures in education, which includes 920 new teachers, as well as 480 resource staff and 365 special needs assistants. It warned that the failure to tackle overcrowded classes would undermine initiatives in schools.

year, and another 1,700 fulltime teachers

12.5 per cent corporation tax rate is going nowhere

2.1M people will have a medical or GP visit card

€3BN to support older

people and disabled services

4.7 per cent Growth in

GDP expected this year and 3.6 per cent next year

653,000 households will see their Irish Water bill reduced by €100

€2.2BN three-year fund for social housing

1 per cent drop in the top rate of income tax to 40 per cent, while the standard rate band is up €1,000 to €33,800 for single individuals

USc entry point now €12,012

– 1.5 per cent on incomes up to €12,012; 3.5 per cent on incomes up €17,576; 7 per cent up to €70,044; 8 per cent to €100,000 and 8 per cent for PAYE earners above €100k and 11 per cent for self-employed above €100k

9 per cent VAT rate for the hospitality industry to stay

0.6 per cent tax on

pensions will stop at the end of the year while a secondary 0.15 per cent levy rate will run until the end of next year.

€500 maximum income tax relief will apply to each household in relation to water charges.

Noonan teaches rowdy Dáil a lesson THERE were more deep sighs than deep cuts yesterday as Budget 2015 was announced, but there was plenty of hacking – and most of it was coming from Michael Noonan. The Finance Minister delivered his speech at a trot, carefully measuring his words as he no doubt weighed our needs in recent weeks. But a 5ml measure of Calpol seemed like a much more immediate need for Mr Noonan as

he phlegmed, spluttered and choked his way through pronouncements about next year’s rates, initiatives and spending plans. It was a noisy Budget, delivered in an atmosphere not dissimilar to a rowdy classroom, and indeed Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty was ready for a bit of spelling – although it was intended to aid Taoiseach Enda Kenny, and what he was kindly ‘spelling out’ was

what he called the ‘Government’s failed approach to recovery’. The flustered teacher, sorry, Ceann Comhairle, Seán Barrett had his work cut out for him: ‘Why do we always have the same voices shouting?’ he asked in exasperation. Mary Lou McDonald, meanwhile, got sent out of ‘class’ for accusing Mr Barrett of ‘bias’. As far as memorable Budget announcements go, top marks.

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‘Happy Birthday’ advice for correct handwashing TWo-THirdS of irish adults do not wash their hands sufficiently to kill harmful germs, new research shows. The study carried out by Bon Secours Health System – a private healthcare provider in ireland – found that as many as 67 per cent of people do not scrub their hands for the recommended time of 15 seconds. it comes as healthcare professionals prepare to mark Global Handwashing day today – an initiative which has been shown to educate people in general hygiene, reducing diarrhoeal illnesses and respiratory diseases.

by LUKE HOLOHAn in fact, according to Bon Secours, it is estimated that by following simple handwashing guidelines, illnesses such as common colds can by reduced in the general population by more than 20 per cent. Consultant microbiologist for the health organisation, Helene Mcdermott, said: ‘Global Handwashing day does great work every year, teaching children worldwide about effective handwashing. This survey reminds us that it’s not just

children that can benefit from this’. She added: ‘Washing your hands with soap is still the most effective way to avoid the transmission of harmful germs and prevent health

‘4% did not wash hands after the toilet’ care-associated infections.’ interestingly, the research revealed that by not washing your hands after coughing, sneezing or blowing your

Dublin to be centre of child heart surgery

nose, you are missing a key opportunity to avoid a number of sicknesses. Some 62 per cent of those surveyed said that they did not wash their hands after being on public transport, with 4 per cent happy to admit that they did not soap their mitts after using the toilet. in an easy health tip, the World Health organisation has said that washing your hands properly should take as long as singing Happy Birthday twice, while lathering the backs of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails, is key.

Follow the sight-nav Tiernan Patton, nine, is pictured at dublin City hall to announce details of this weekend’ss Open house hous dublin when more than 100 buildings across acr the capital apital w will open their doors for free guided tours by architects and building enthusiasts, organised by the irish Architecture Foundation. Pick up your free map/ programme at City hall and Connolly station. For more information, visit www.openhousedublin.com. Picture: Mark StedMan/Photocall ireland

Children’s heart operations in ireland are set to be delivered on a cross-border basis from a single centre in dublin, ministers north and south have announced. The joint policy statement from stormont health Minister Jim Wells and his counterpart in the republic, leo Varadkar, will bring an end to scheduled paediatric heart surgery in Belfast. While surgical services will cease in Belfast, a cardiac centre of excellence will be set up in the city to provide diagnostics and aftercare to children with congenital heart defects. The single all-ireland surgical unit will be based in Our lady’s Children’s hospital at Crumlin, dublin. The plan – subject to public consultation – is in line with recommendations made by an international working group commissioned to examine the issue of children’s cardiac services in ireland by Mr Wells and Mr Varadkar’s respective predecessors in office, edwin Poots and dr James reilly. some 400 children a year in the republic require heart surgery. in the north, the number is around 140.

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€22k for girl who was hit by chair A 14-yeAr-old schoolgirl who received head and arm injuries when a chair was swung at her by another pupil in a classroom, has been awarded €22,500 damages in the Circuit Civil Court. Barrister Tony McKeown told the court that Chloe Joyce, who was 11 at the time, was in a classroom with other pupils at rutland National School, lower Gloucestor Place, dublin, when the accident happened in May 2012. Mr McKeown said some pupils had been noisy as they were ready

to go on a break and one of them had swung a chair which hit Chloe on the arm. She fell to the ground, striking her head. She was later taken to Temple Street Children’s Hospital for X-rays and then discharged. Mr McKeown told Judge Carmel Stewart that Chloe was recalled the following day to A&e. Further X-rays showed a non-displaced fracture of her elbow and a back slab had been applied to it. He said Chloe had been shocked by the accident and had experienced

discomfort when doing dance routines which involved handstands. She has now recovered fully from her injury. Through her mother, Geraldine Joyce, of o’Brien Hall, lower Gardiner Street, dublin, she sued the trustees and board of management of rutland Street National School alleging negligence and breach of duty. Judge Stewart approved a settlement offer of €22,500 which had been made by the board of the school.

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60 seconds irish girls among ‘most influential’ WiLLiAM H MAcy, 64, was nominated for an Oscar for Fargo and stars in the US version of Shameless. He’s now a voice in acclaimed Japanese film The Wind Rises

You don’t seem like an animated-film voice actor. Is this something new for you?

I’ve been doing voice-overs pretty much my whole career. The commercial voice-overs have really paid my way, particularly when I was a poor New York City actor. I got a couple of big accounts that really allowed me to do all the offBroadway plays I jolly well pleased. I seem to have somewhat distinctive pipes, so that helps.

Is this type of work effortless?

It’s one of the toughest jobs I’ve ever had because it’s acting but not really. You’ll have the line ‘there he goes’ and they’ll ask you to say it 25 times in every different way you can think of.

What’s the film about? It’s

character, Frank? I hear a lot of

‘Yo, Frank!’ I ride a motorcycle and when I have my helmet on you can see from my eyebrows to the bottom of my nose and I still get recognised. I don’t know how people do it but they do.

This has been such a defining role for you comparatively late in your career. Are you still loving it? I’m in my third

act, as my wife [Desperate Housewives’ Felicity Huffman] likes to remind me. And yes, I love it. The show has continued to grow. We’re now in our fifth season and every year we add viewership, which is very gratifying, and job security. I think I’ve got a job!

Can you give us a random favourite Hollywood moment? When I first met Paul

about the guy who invented the Japanese Zero, one of the most Thomas Anderson, I desperately effective planes in World War wanted to do Magnolia. I went II which outflew the in loaded with all the American planes for clever things I was most of the war. It going to say about covers World War the script and how Do the good stuff II from a I was going to and stay away from Japanese play it and I perspective. The realised quickly the bad stuff is the images and faces into the only rule that’s made (above left) are conversation that like anime with any sense to me not only did I those big eyes and already have the child-like faces, then role, but Paul was you go to the picture of pitching to me. war or a city being bombed Do you have any mantras into oblivion. They are you swear by? Do the good graphic and real while stuff and stay away from the not violating the style of bad stuff is the only rule that’s the piece. made any sense to me.

by ORnA cunningHAM THREE Irish girls have made Time’s annual list of the most influential teens, the magazine said yesterday. Cork trio Ciara Judge, 16, Emer Hickey, 17, and Sophie Healy-Thow, 17, were noted for their discovery of bacteria that deposits nitrogen from the atmosphere into soil. The teens won the global science research competition at the Google Science Fair last month for their finding. The teens are in good company: uS first daughters Malia, 16, and Sasha, 13; Grammy-winning New Zealand singer lorde, 17; and Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai, 17, were also on the unranked list dominated by 20 females. Time said it compiled its list of 25 teens by analysing their social media following, business successes and cultural importance. The youngest were Sasha Obama and fellow 13year-old Mo’ne Davis, a pitching sensation who led her Philadelphia boys’ baseball team to the little league World Series and landed a spot on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Science queens: Ciara Judge, Sophie Healy-Thow and Emer Hickey picTURe: pa Tavi Gevinson, the 18-year-old Family; and The Equalizer’s Chloe fashion writer and founder of popu- Grace Moretz, 17. Pop singers Becky G, 17, and Auslar online magazine Rookie, was noted as emblematic of the tin Mahone, 18, earned plaudits as contemporary teen in the internet did New Zealand pro golfer lydia age, while transgender activist Jazz Ko, 17, and Afghan National Cycling Jennings, 14, and Hong Kong pro- Team member Salma Kakar, 17. Teens noted for successes in the democracy activist Joshua Wong, field business include 15-year-old 18, also made the list. The dominant categories were ath- Erik Finman, founder of the online tutoring site Botangle.com; YouTube letes, actors and singers. Actors taking centre stage were fashion star Bethany Mota, 18, and Kiernan Shipka, 14, of Mad Men; actress-turned-stockpicker Rachel Rico Rodriguez, 16, of Modern Fox, 18.

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What else have you been up to?

I just directed an episode of Shameless, the first time I’ve directed any television. It is a stunning amount of work. For three weeks it was all I ate, dreamt and slept. Here’s the good news: I loved every minute of it, and I’m still alive. Oh my God, it was fun.

Is it true you get hit on by women in bars these days thanks to your Shameless

What do you watch on TV? I’m a busy boy but I do watch the news. I also like Veep. I watch Masters Of Sex every once in a while.

Aren’t you part-English/ Irish/Scottish?

I’m American top to bottom but I’ve identified my grandmother’s Somerville plaid. I bought a tam-o’shanter and I look pretty good in it although now my hair’s really long so I look like Hayley Mills.

Lesley O’Toole

The Wind Rises is out now on DVD and Blu-ray

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Hacking claims are Dublin Zoo pleads denied by Dropbox guilty in tapir case ClOuD storage site Dropbox has moved to deny claims it has been hacked after an anonymous account posted what it claims is the username and passwords of hundreds of the site’s users. An anonymous post to website Pastebin – traditionally used to save text users would like to paste elsewhere later – contained a list of hundreds of email log-ins and passwords the hacker claimed were linked to Dropbox accounts. The post claimed that more than 6.9million Dropbox accounts had been hacked. However, Dropbox has moved to deny that its service has been compromised. The company’s Anton Mityagin said this was an attempt to gain money from stolen data found elsewhere online.

DUBLIN Zoo has been ordered by Dublin District Court to donate €5,000 to charity in relation to an incident in August last year in which a woman and a toddler were attacked by a Brazilian tapir. The visitors were on a ‘supervised animal encounter’ at the time. Two investigations arose out of the incident, one by the Health and Safety Authority and a separate one by an external agency appointed by Dublin Zoo. The Zoological Society of Ireland apologised for the ‘deeply regrettable incident’ and pleaded guilty to a failure to implement the most recent risk assessment for the tapir habitat on August 8, 2013. The case returns to court on December 8.

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BEYONCÉ can usually do no wrong in the style stakes – but her new hairdo has divided opinion. The singer debuted her new Cleopatra-style fringe in Paris as she ended her family break in the French capital yesterday. But some fans weren’t taken by the 33-year-old’s new look. ‘Beyoncé’s hair looks tragic,’ one wrote on Twitter, while another added: ‘Beyoncé, fix your hair! God damn.’ But others loved her new locks, with one fan tweeting: ‘She bangs!’

Gerard: Taking control of my life like a Boss ealed he’s finally GErarD BuTlEr has rev tments mi able to balance his com both at after burning the candle g. lon too ends for Boss, 44, The latest face of Hugo hed-t hin be a in was speaking ss Bo w ne the for eo vid scenes n. itio Bottled Collectors Ed He said: ‘I’m in the most . exciting period of my life ve lie be I ‘I’m relaxed, and n out everything is going to pa uld’. sho it t tha y wa the y exactl

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ESSIE J wants people to stop focusing on what she wears despite her ever-changing style. The 26-year-old admitted fans had seen her go from looking like a self-confessed ‘drag queen’, to a more calmeddown look and now a raunchier effort in a bid to push her new tunes. ‘I don’t think you should ever get a hard time for being honest (about yourself),’ the former Mobo winner told Guilty Pleasures. ‘There are many different elements to being a 26-year-old woman and being sexy is just one – but it’s one people love to exaggerate and talk about all the time.’ The former ‘bisexual’ then explained her embrace with a male

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extra in her new video Burnin’ Up, saying: ‘I think it’s super important to celebrate that to show young people, not just women, that you should be comfortable in your skin.’ Meanwhile, Jessie admitted she wouldn’t mind being her own boss one day by following in Adele’s footsteps and maybe setting up a record label. But for now she is gearing up to perform at next week’s Mobo Awards, which gave her one of ‘the biggest nights’ of her career after she bagged four trophies in 2011. ‘Still to this day I hold the award for most awards won on one night,’ she gushed. ‘The Mobos is a massive, exciting and very important night to me.’ Her new album, Sweet Talker, is out now.

Troubled LaBeouf ‘feared for his life’

Shia LaBeouf was scared he was going to die when he was put in a police cell with six guys after being arrest ed for disorderly conduct. in a bid to survive, the chaotic stripped off and started doing star push-ups, he admitted. The 28-year-old star said he ma de a dramatic attempt to get out when he ‘turned into’ late rapper Tup ac by frantically exercising before spi tting on an officer’s shoe. he recalled: ‘i get to the station and i quickly realise i’m not suppos ed to be here. i’m not made for this set -up ‘So i’m like, “You gotta do som . ething, you’re gonna die in here”. So i turn into Tupac and now i’m ripping my shirt off like, “Don’t mess with me, dawg”,’ he said during an appearance on Jimmy Kimme l The star was arrested in June Live. after an outburst during Broadway pla y Cabaret.

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Suki WaterhOuSe sa she and her lover Br ys it’s high time adley Cooper ditch their life as ‘travelling down and buy a hom gipsies’ and settle e. the Burberry model, dating hollywood hu 22, has been nk Cooper, 39, for almost two years bu t is tiring of her love-commute. ‘i don’t really live an wherever we’re work ywhere. it’s ing,’ she told Grazia magazine. ‘But i’m desperate to home. i’m saving, bu have a t to online shopping.’ i’m addicted

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MADOnnA’S daughter Lourdes Leon, 18, snubbed a luxury apartment in favour of a box room while studying at Michigan University. Licensed and Bonded No: TO 101

The singer reveals how a childhood friend gave her a peck Tulisa ConTosTavlos has revealed she once kissed a girl – but she didn’t like it. The rejuvenated former X Factor judge also explained she locked lips with a member of the fairer sex before hitting her teenage years. ‘i think maybe when i was about 11 years old, this girl tried to kiss me! she was one of those experimental children and she tried to give me a peck. ‘it was one of those moments,’ the Young singer giggled to Guilty Pleasures at the attitude awards on Monday night – adding she wasn’t especially interested in a same-sex experience. ‘i didn’t want to kiss guys or girls

at that age. i wasn’t ready!’ Tulisa, 26, laughed, but confessed to having a girl crush. ‘Jessica alba is my ultimate girl crush. i could have a real flirt with Jessica,’ she teased. stealing the show at the attitude awards in a plunging Greek goddess dress, Tulisa also said she hopes to have more gay fans than she has at the moment. ‘i’d like to think i have a lot of gay fans. i’m definitely surrounded by a lot of gay people! The only straight people i know are my ex-boyfriends.’

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iS Gwyneth Paltrow going to marry again? her psychic thinks so. ‘She will remarry and find love, as she is open to it,’ said Jill Willard, who claims to have treated the 42-year-old.

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TV’s Danny Dyer has told BBC bosses it’s time for an Xrated episode of EastEnders. The rugged 37-year-old made his debut on the soap at Christmas – but now says he wouldn’t mind things on the show being spiced up. ‘Do i think there should be a late-night EastEnders so there could be more sex? Yeah, i do – and a bit more swearing would be nice,’ the actor told Guilty Pleasures at Monday’s Attitude Awards in London. And he added that he would gladly go on camera in full-frontal mode for a sex scene. ‘i’d frighten the life out of people, with the size of me! But i would love to do that,’ he laughed.

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24 die in tropical cyclone

Nurse ‘killed 38 grumblers’

INDIA: A cyclone has killed at least 24 people and demolished tens of thousands of mud huts. Cyclone Hudhud devastated Andhra Pradesh and Orissa along the eastern coast, forcing 400,000 people to leave their homes. Forecasters have warned that heavy rainfall will hit six more states as it moves further inland.

ITALy: A nurse has been arrested on suspicion of killing 38 patients because she found them annoying. Daniela Poggiali, 42, was held in the town of Lugo after a patient in her care died unexpectedly. Rosa Calderoni, 78, died after a potassium injection, triggering an investigation that implicated Poggiali in dozens of deaths.

and finally...

Rebels kidnap missionary Sex workers win tax case

cENTRAL AfRIcAN REpUbLIc: A Polish Catholic missionary has been kidnapped by eight armed rebels demanding the release of their leader in return for his freedom. Mateusz Dziedzic was captured by members of the FDPC, who said he would be freed if Abdoulaye Miskine was released from jail in Cameroon.

AUSTRIA: Prostitutes are to be refunded hundreds of thousands of euro by council officials. Sex workers from one brothel launched a legal case, in the western city of Salzburg, after each were charged a €40 tax for medical check-ups. The court found the costs should have been paid by the state.

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HIppO MUM ROcKS bOAT AS TOURISTS ScARE bAby

Oscar couldn’t cope with life in jail, defence expert claims

FORGET hungry hippos, this was one seriously angry hippo when it attacked tourists in Botswana. The irate mammal rounded on spectators when their safari boat got too close to her calf. Leaping out the water, teeth bared, she lunged at Rob Masterton during a cruise in the Chobe National Park. Guides quickly turned the boat back to land, and led tourists away from the protective mum. It was only when he checked his camera that Mr Masterton, realised how close he had come to being caught by the hippo. Mr Masterton, of Farnham, Surrey, also revealed he had narrowly avoided an elephant stampede in Tanzania during his recent safari trip. PICTURE: CaTERS

Sudan medic dies of Ebola in Germany A SudANeSe uN medical official who caught ebola while working in Liberia has died in a German hospital where he was being treated, the clinic in Leipzig said yesterday. The worst ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 4,000 people – mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea – and has spread beyond West Africa, with a nurse in the uS and one in Spain having caught the disease from patients.

MExIcO: Border guards opened a box marked ‘Crocs’ expecting to discover bogus shoes but were shocked to find the real deal – albeit not the wearable kind. They rescued ten baby crocodiles in Jalpa de Méndez – bound for sale on the black market 500 miles away.

The uN medic, who has not been named, arrived in Leipzig last week and was the third ebola patient to be treated in Germany. One was successfully treated and released from hospital, while another is still being treated. ‘The patient sick with ebola fever died during the night in St Georg Clinic in Leipzig. despite intensive medical measures and maximum efforts by the medical team, the 56-year-old uN

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FACEBOOK founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating €19.5million to aid the fight against Ebola. The couple’s generosity has more than doubled the CDC Foundation’s fund, which it is handing to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention for its work in west Africa. ‘We need to get Ebola under control so that it doesn’t spread further and become a long-term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades, like HIV or polio,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.

employee succumbed to the serious infectious disease,’ the German clinic said. The World Health Organisation said the number of ebola cases in West Africa would exceed 9,000 this week and the epidemic was still spreading in the region. The nurse who contracted ebola while caring for a dying Liberian in a dallas hospital said yesterday she is doing well, while uS officials redouble efforts to stop the deadly virus spreading. Nina Pham, a 26-year-old Vietnamese-American, became the first person infected by ebola in the uS while caring for the Liberian for much of his 11 days in Texas Presbyterian Hospital. He died last Wednesday. The Spanish nurse with ebola, the first person to contract the disease outside West Africa, is slightly better, doctors said yesterday, and she remains the only known case in the country.

GUN killer Oscar Pistorius must not by jOEL TAyLOR be sent to prison because it would be too hard for him and he would be put under his girlfriend reeva Steenkamp, has the potential to be a productive member too much stress, a court heard yesterday. Social worker Annette Vergeer told of society. She recommended his sentencing hearthat a sentence of ing that South Afrihouse arrest, includcan jails are violent ing working at a and overcrowded. school for disabled She said the douchildren, would be ble amputee would more appropriate. be under intense Meanwhile, the pressure because of court heard that his disability and Pistorius offered fragile mental state. €26,000 to the famMs Vergeer said: ily of Ms Steen‘Prison will not kamp after the fatal assist him, but will shooting. But they break him as a rejected it because person i have no they did not want doubt. The exposure ‘blood money.’ of the accused on Pistorius’s exhis stumps to other Blast from the past: Pistorius avoids girlfriend Sam Tayinmates will also eye contact with Samantha Taylor lor may give proshave a severe effect ecution evidence about their turbulent on him.’ She said Pistorius, 27, who was found relationship this week. She was in court guilty of culpable homicide for killing yesterday and walked right past him.

Kim took a Korea break...

HAVING not been seen in public for nearly six weeks, North Korea’s tyrant leader showed himself to the world yesterday. Surrounded by smiling acolytes, Kim Jong-un needed a cane to walk as he hobbled around a new residential area for scientists in the capital, Pyongyang. In doing so, the 31-year-old ended global speculation that he was seriously ill or even dead.

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On stage: Charlie Murphy in Mark O’Rowe’s play Our Few And Evil Days at the Abbey

Charlie enjoys ane life in fast la Love/Hate star Charlie Murphy tells Pavel Barter about appearing in the nerve-shredding new thriller ’71, another harrowing drama from an actress who’s drawn to the dark side of life

HARlIe MuRpHy has never made it easy for herself. When making Happy Valley, BBC One’s dark police thriller, she played a kidnap victim trussed up in a basement. After weeks of filming, Murphy was freed, but she had spent so long with a gag in her mouth she forgot her character’s accent. As gangster’s moll Siobhan in love/ Hate, she has been dragged to hell and back. In ’71, a harrowing new film set during the Northern Irish Troubles, she is forced to restrain a squaddie while his war wound is stitched together. later in the story, she has a gun held to her head – it wasn’t the first time either. ‘My mum told me she wanted to watch Happy Valley,’ she says. ‘I said: “Just be prepared: it’s really dark”. Dad started watching and said: “I don’t think I can do this. Actually, I think I’m going to be sick. This is horrific.”’ The Wexford actress has never shied away from the darker side of life. ’71, director yann Demange’s debut feature, is a gripping journey into the heart of

darkness. The story concerns a soldier, played by Jack O’Connell, who is separated from his platoon and forced to survive a night on the run in Belfast with the IRA in pursuit. Murphy plays Brigid, a local who shows him sympathy and puts her own life at risk in the process. ‘We shot a lot of it overnight, living like vampires. We’d finish at about 6am and go to bed when everyone else was getting up. Having familiar faces on set helped. ’71 also features love/ Hate veterans Barry Keoghan and Killian Scott, who plays Siobhan’s partner Tommy in the RTÉ show. ‘The actors in love/Hate are always crossing paths.’ Murphy is currently on stage at The Abbey Theatre in Mark O’Rowe’s Our Few And evil Days, playing opposite Tom

Vaughan-lawlor (Nidge in love/ Hate). ‘He’s playing my boyfriend, where normally he’s my uncle. We get a kick out of that.’ The last few weeks have been a flurry of activity. O’Rowe’s play opened last week (see review below); ’71 is in cinemas now; and the fifth series of love/Hate is in full swing. The stakes are high for her character in the new series. After Tommy was on the receiving end of Nidge’s wrath, Siobhan is spilling the beans to the police. ‘She’s taking matters into her own hands,’ says Murphy. ‘She’s playing with fire, naively so. There’s an essence of the first series – a carefree attitude she once had, underlined with the idea of becoming an avenging angel. She’s on a mission. This is a season I’m anticipating more than others. Few shows garner as much attention. Whenever love/Hate films on location, photographers usually turn up and rumours abound about plot developments. ‘love/Hate is filmed on the ground: in houses and on the streets. It’s difficult to keep a lockdown and avoid spoilers. I Murphy hardly slacks off between hate scene spoilers. It ruins all the seasons. She has built up a reputation hard work and effort.’ as a dramatic actor on BBC The show, which she has period shows such as The been working on since Village and Ripper 2010, has transformed s, Street and is breaking e im t her career. ‘It’s a e Som from convention with she , s y poisoned chalice. you a s y a role in action Murph hausted get to do so many adventure movie is left ex ionally amazing things with t o m Northmen: A Viking e y b the character. At the g Saga. ‘That was gruellin es same time, you’ll anc definitely a departure always be looking for perform from really dark stuff.’ that in something else. Hang on, she plays the I’ll be very blessed if I ever kidnapped daughter of the get to flex my muscles like Scottish King: there she is, held to that again.’

ransom again. She sighs. ‘I know, it’s ridiculous.’ The actress experienced some upsetting nightmares and can be left exhausted from emotionally gruelling performances. ‘I’d be like: “Where did that come from?” It’s obviously there somewhere in my psyche.’ But she prefers to leave the woes of her characters at the stage door. After performances of O’Rowe’s play, she visits friends for a cup of tea or a glass of wine. Murphy’s characters might be tortured individuals, but in real life she prefers to play it straight.

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Dark tale packs emotional punch Our Few And Evil Days at the Abbey HHHHI

Mark O’Rowe’s sixth play begins in a comfortable home in a Dublin suburb, where Margaret (Sinead Cusack) and Michael (Ciaran Hinds) are entertaining Dennis (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor), their daughter Adele’s new boyfriend. Although the scenario – a young man meeting his girlfriend’s parents for the first time – might seem rife with comic potential, there are hints of the disturbing things to come. There’s an absent family member that Adele (Charlie Murphy) has failed to mention, Michael’s

casual boast of a fight won in his youth (he still has the scar) and Margaret’s unorthodox sleeping arrangements... The production – directed by O’Rowe himself – also ratchets up the tension with the unusual technique of plunging the stage into darkness at the end of a scene, with the final sentence – or unanswered question – left hanging dramatically. As an exercise in naturalism, the first half is extremely strong, with perfectly-pitched performances and a cleverly deployed plot twist. Discussing the second act without giving away too much is tricky, but suffice

to say that this is a variant of the Irishfamily with-a-terrible-secret’ trope that’s grim enough to silence the giddiest audience member. The second act is not just a hell of a lot darker, but also performed with a level of emotional intensity that the cast does well to sustain. Unrelenting turmoil and sensational reveals notwithstanding, Our Few And Evil Days is a challenging piece of theatre, underscored by a top-class production. Sheena Davitt Until Oct 25, Abbey Theatre, 26 Abbey Street Lower, D1, 7.30pm, from €13. Tel: (01) 878 7222. www.abbeytheatre.ie

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oLLing against sofa cushions as the rain dribbles down the window behind her, South London singersongwriter Jessie Ware is managing to nail a difficult art – looking pretty knackered and absolutely gorgeous at the same time. ‘i’m feeling good,’ she says, sipping from a mug of tea. ‘it’s just i can’t wait for this album to be out – then it will all feel a bit less crazy.’ The singer, who celebrates her 30th birthday today, came relatively late to the showbiz game. She first worked as a journalist and then for a TV production company (where she was a close colleague of Fifty Shades of grey author EL James) before starting out singing backing vocals for her old schoolmate, Jack Peñate. The sleek, soulful pop as heard on her 2012 debut album, Devotion, saw her nominated for the Mercury Prize, but it’s new album The first time round, I was Tough Love that frustrated; I didn’t feel like I should see her understood the art of songwriting career explode. enough to take risks or push myself. Packed with killer That’s what I enjoyed about this melodies that will record. I don’t think I would have lodge in your skull had the confidence for weeks, but to do that on the retaining Ware’s first album. trademark air of bittersweet minimalism, it’s a strong contender for the think i would have best pop album of 2014. had the confidence to do ‘The first time round, i was that on the first album.’ frustrated. i didn’t feel like i Tough Love sees Ware working understood the art of songwriting with The invisible’s Dave okumu enough to take risks or push and Simian Mobile Disco’s James myself,’ she admits. ‘That’s what Ford again, but also with a variety i enjoyed about this record. i don’t of new partners including alt R&B

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ON ALBUM TOUGH LOVE

Proud wifey: Ware recently married longterm partner Sam Burrows (below right) on the Greek island of Skopelos star Miguel – and the record was executively produced by BenZel, aka Ware’s PMR labelmate Two inch Punch, alongside superproducer Benny Blanco. However, it’s a collaboration with Ed Sheeran, Say You Love Me, which has given Ware her highest-charting single

BIG UP: Jessie sPIlls on fIve artIsts

DorNIk ‘He used to be my drummer. He’s a brilliant musician.’ NIckI MINaj ‘She’s amazing, she’d be my dream collaboration!’

Emile Haynie ‘He’s producer ‘Me andthe Matty [MaTT behind a track on HEalEy] like very my album called similar melodies.’ Pieces, and I’d

EMIlE HayNIE ‘I’d really like to work with him more.’ SHura ‘She did a great remix of my song Say you love Me’

yet. ‘He’s lovely, just a really good guy,’ she says. ‘i feel i can learn a lot from him – and not just songwriting. He’s got his head screwed on, he gets it.’ not content with polishing off a sophomore album, in August, Ware found time to marry her partner on the greek island of Skopelos – in a pair of pink shoes inscribed ‘Wifey for Lifey’. But it’s clearly not been easy fitting everything in. ‘it’s not that i have any problems doing promo, i love chatting to people,’ she says. ‘But i get the fear when me promoting an album means me not seeing my friends, not seeing my husband, letting people down. And although they understand, you forget how to enjoy it a bit.’ genuinely humble, Ware is the first interviewee i’ve met who asks me plenty of questions about myself. And although she is rightly proud of her new album, she lacks my conviction that she’s got a mega hit on her hands.

‘i don’t know if it will blow up, you just never know,’ she says. ‘i feel like everyone’s willing me to be this big thing and i get a lovely feeling from that. As long as i can carry on doing this as my job, and people still support the music, i’m all good. i feel the most lucky when i’m on stage – it’s ridiculously special.’

Jessie Ware plays Jan 21, 2015, The Academy, €23.90. Tickets on sale from Friday. Tough Love is out now on Island Records

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1. Rachel Allen: All Things Sweet

1 Rachel Allen: All Things Sweet Rachel makes winter wait

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2. Waterloo Road

2 Waterloo Road Neil Pearson joins the cast

5 The Lives Of Others Film drama from the days of the Stasi

BBC1, 8pm The school drama that’s been through more heads than an average episode of The Walking Dead returns for one last prowl around the playground. Neil Pearson is the latest actor with the dubious honour of leading Waterloo Road’s rum bunch of social misfits – and that’s just the teachers – and he fancies himself as a maverick.

3. Trust Me, I’m A Doctor

BBC2, 8pm When he isn’t trying out the latest fad diet and writing a book about it, Michael Mosley – who studied psychology but joined the BBC instead, so the jury’s out on whether we trust him – fronts this medical magazine. First up he’s looking at whether being in the sun is as dangerous as it’s made out to be.

5. Today’s Film: The Lives Of Others Sky Select, 7.30pm

One of the finest films of the 21st Century thus far, this 2006 Oscarwinning German drama revisits the Communist years of the 1980s, with Ulrich Mühe as an agent for the Stasi (the secret police) who is ordered to spy on a playwright and his lover. What starts as a routine assignment has shattering consequences.

Scott & Bailey Our obsession: Suranne Jones

Trust Me, I’m A Doctor Michael Mosley and Kay-Tee Khaw investigate

4. Scott & Bailey

UTV, 9pm Are we ever so slightly obsessed with Scott & Bailey? Yes, we plead guilty. Even though the storylines are hardly groundbreaking, both Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp breathe such life into their characters it scarcely matters. Tonight, matters of the heart dominate.

YOUR gUIDE TO THIS EvEnIng’S ESSEnTIAL vIEWIng 6. Curing Cancer

C4, 10pm One in four of us who watch this show will die of cancer – because that’s the unfortunate proportion of lives cancer claims. So it’s not hard to root for Dennis, Debra, Jeffery and Pete, the four featured patients who are taking part in hugely important clinical trials at London’s University College Hospital. After all, what they go through in the next few months might just be helping to save our lives.

7. What Do Artists Do All Day?

BBC4, 8pm To an outsider it might seem that a dancer will just do a few twirls in the studio then turn up on stage. But, as we follow dancer choreographer Akram Khan preparing for his latest collaboration, the truth turns out to be a lot more taxing.

8. The Apprentice

BBC1, 9pm Designing a piece of wearable technology is the challenge facing

Team Summit and Team Decadence as the 20 budding entrepreneurs fight to avoid the ignominy of being the first to be booted off.

9. The Supervet C4, 8pm

A cat with a shattered thigh bone and an arthritic English bulldog are among the first cases Noel Fitzpatrick takes under his wing at his pioneering surgery. He specialises in bionic limbs for animals – and his revolutionary work is crossing over into the treatment of humans.

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RTÉ2, 9.30pm This week, Eoin, Ciaran and Ken are joined by former Republic of Ireland international Steven Reid, camogie star Mags D’Arcy, Richie Sadlier and legendary Kerry forward Kieran Donaghy. There’s also more Skills of Hurling 2014 with John Mullane, while Roddy Collins returns with Boring Irish Sporting Tweets. It’s a perfect blend of insight and irreverence – and always a hoot as well.

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o Twin Peaks is coming back. David Lynch and Mark Frost have announced they are making a third series of the cult classic, to be aired in 2016. i’m excited because i remember exactly where i was when the first episode of Twin Peaks was aired in october 1990. i was in my flat in London with my then-girlfriend. i was immediately immersed in its surreal tale of a murdered american small-town schoolgirl. it was so well-written and acted that my girlfriend and i were in tears within 15minutes, when the devastated Leland Palmer is told of his daughter Laura’s death. not many shows before or since have managed to inject such an instant dose of emotional heft into their first minutes. But even so, why would i so clearly remember the show’s first episode? Many of the great series that followed Twin Peaks stylistically (The sopranos with its dream sequences), thematically (Desperate Housewives’ curdled suburban dreams)

Return: David Lynch

It’s been 24 years since Twin Peaks wove its strange magic but Paul Connolly remembers it like it was yesterday and structurally (Lost’s huge paranormal narrative arc), were favourites of mine too – and they were certainly more recent. But i have no recollection of where i was when i saw their first epi-sodes in quite the same way. i think Twin Peaks left such an impression because it introduced ‘odd’ into modern mainstream TV. Lynch and Frost took the traditional soap opera form and, with careful nudging and violent twisting, reshaped it into something scarily and addictively fresh. and it really was huge. at the time, all my birthday and Christmas presents were Twin Peaks-themed – there was the very steamy secret Diary of Laura Palmer paperback with its exotic hints of lesbianism and threesomes, and even an action figure of special agent Dale Cooper, who was the heart of the show and who loved a ‘damn fine cup of coffee’.

Life dear dolly Got a problem? No one else can help? Our resident agony aunt tells it like it is deardolly@metroherald.ie

I ended a two-year relationship a while back – it was a difficult decision because I still fancied him, but I felt like he didn’t have enough drive to make him my ‘Mr Right’. Fast forward two months and he has started dating one of my friends!? To be honest, I’m more annoyed/hurt with her than with him, especially as I’d confided in her before the split. Should I give out to her or continue ignoring her calls? Betz

Well, that’s awkward. However, the key here is to remember the reason(s) why you

Addictive: The investigation into Laura Palmer’s death by Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan, left) kickstarted the golden age of TV

Friends talked of Twin Peaks fancy dress parties where almost all the male and female party-goers turned up as the Lady with The Log, while others claim to remember having Twin Peaks-themed cake sales at school selling cherry pies (another favourite of agent Cooper). strange or not, Twin Peaks was

culturally influential. The initially huge audience figures may have plummeted when it became clear just how weird and nasty Lynch’s vision of american small-town life was. Yet those who loved it, really adored it. Can you imagine the revival of any other show generating the amount of hysteria we’ve witnessed over the past couple of days? The real reason for all the excitement and hyperbole is really quite simple. Twin Peaks kickstarted the current golden age of TV. Lynch, who had hitherto made arthouse films such as eraserhead and The

dumped him in the first place. But, as you say, your beef is more with your pal than your ex. It’s understandable that you feel somehow cheated by her, no doubt wondering if her advice was based on an attraction towards him rather than your best interests. Ignoring her, though, is not the solution – nor is ‘giving out’. Once the dust has settled on your anger, have a grownup conversation about why you feel hurt to clear the air.

Perhaps all the primping and plucking made sense ‘when in Rome’, but chances are she’ll begin to feel like a Tallaghtfornian if she keeps up this charade here. And if she does then just point her in the direction of the Irish horse races – the natural habitat for the overstyled – and go find yourself a more unaffected filly.

My girlfriend is back from Dubai after three months there with her job. I barely recognise her: fake nails, fake tan, fake hair – and absolutely no hair in places where it used to be. I preferred the low maintenance, pub-loving woman, not this creosote-coloured creature that now wants to ‘do brunch’ every weekend. Help. KC

LAST TIME: I have gone on a few dates with a guy I met online. He’s a total ride and good craic, but has the most noxious breath. I’ve tried offering him gum/mints after dinner and drinks and stuff but it doesn’t seem to make any difference. How can I mention this without offending him? Liz Terrine YOU SAID:

elephant Man, understood that television could offer filmmakers a richer, less hurried environment than cinema provided. while it didn’t quite chime with TV executives at the time (the aBC network was horrified that Lynch did not unmask Laura’s killer by the end of Twin Peaks’ first season), it planted sufficient seeds in the minds of younger filmmakers such as David Chase (The sopranos) and Chris Carter (The X-Files) to ensure that we’ve been rightly spoiled with great TV for the past 25 years. welcome back, guys – sit down and have a nice slice of cherry pie.

Getting intimate with someone with halitosis is the biggest turn off. If you get any more matches online, insist that they present a copy of their most recent dentist receipt before meeting. No check-up, no hook-up. ToothFairy OvER TO YOU:

My hen party is next month and one of my friends let slip that there’s going to be a stripper. I’m horrified by the prospect of a writhing, oily man on my big night out, not to mention pissed off that my matron of honour thinks I’d like it. How can I confront her? Modest Bride What do you think? Send your words of wisdom to deardolly@ metroherald.ie. Best reply published in a fortnight. And remember: Dear Dolly can also be found at www.gometro.ie

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I wanted to show how I conquered my demons She’s had her highs and her lows – now Sadie Frost’s reincarnation as a healthy-living guru makes more sense than you might expect, writes Anna van Praagh

IGGLY, bright-eyed and looking far younger than her 49 years, Sadie Frost has the air of a woman in her prime. Dressed from head to toe in her favourite designer, Isabel Marant, and looking as elegant as ever, she sips water in a private room in the Groucho Club on London’s Dean Street and talks excitedly about her latest project, Nourish, a book she has co-written with her sister Holly, a personal trainer, and her good friend Amber, a chef. ‘It’s not about one particular thing, it’s about my whole lifestyle,’ she says of the book, which is part cookbook, part meditation and yoga guide, with lots of beauty and health tips thrown in. ‘We are three people passionate about food, wellbeing and exercise,’ she says. ‘In one way or another, we

have all been on a journey that has involved health issues and struggles with the pressures of life. ‘I wanted to use my part of the book to outline how I conquered my demons, to share what I have learnt from experience in an approachable and unintimidating way.’ Way back at the beginning of the millennium, Sadie was the key player in the Primrose Hill set, which included her best friend Kate Moss, Liam Gallagher and her then husband Jude Law. With her four children (her eldest, Finlay, is from her first marriage to Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp), huge home in Primrose Hill and endlessly glamorous and edgy friends, Frost seemed to have it all. Then it began to implode. First she suffered from postnatal depression, then her two-yearold daughter had to be rushed to hospital after swallowing an ecstasy tablet in Soho House. Law dumped her for Sienna Miller and then came the bombshell that he was wa having an affair with the children’s children’ nanny, nann Daisy Wright. ‘Like any family, there are ups and downs but we’ve we’ always come out the other side. I am the most forgiving for person, I am not judgmental. The past is the past, I’ve I’ moved mo on,’ she says generously about what must have ha been a difficult time. ‘Gary and Jude are both great fathers f and we’ve parented together.’ together She still

Picture of health: Sadie Frost, and (left) with new squeeze Darren Strowger speaks to Law every day and says: ‘We’re very close, we get on very well – we’re like brother and sister’. Her children, Finlay, 24, Rafferty, 17, Iris, 13, and Rudy, 12, are getting older now – does that make things easier? ‘It’s a whole different type of parenting, having teenagers,’ she says. ‘It’s easier because they’re more independent but I

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‘Grimmie still have to get up All this has and do the school run practically lives in been part of every day. Finlay has my fridge,’ she my life for a long grins. ‘He came moved out of home round yesterday but he’s back a lot, time. It’s not a Rafferty is doing his and made us all fad for me these amazing A levels and is in a band, and my twoo other vegetable wraps.’ veg But if Frost has children are at school. I’m always been best known kno still a pretty full-on mum to all of them.’ for her party lifestyle and hardShe also has an overgrown living famous friends, her teenager to look after: Nick reincarnation as a healthy-living guru actually isn’t as dramatic a Grimshaw (pictured, far left, with volte-face as it at first seems. She Frost), Rudy’s godfather, who is a regular visitor to the house. They are has always been a vegetarian and has so close that she even has his initial practised yoga since she was 15, tattooed on her arm, and he hers. when her mother introduced it to her

Do the spinal twist

Our eyes can be one of the first places to show signs of ageing. To keep them toned and reduce sagging muscles and crow’s feet, try these yoga facial exercises. Take a deep breath in and keep your head in its normal position. Without moving your head, look up as high as you can. Hold the pose for 5-10 seconds.

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The ardha matsyendrasana, also known as the half spinal twist, is very beneficial for both the liver and the spleen. When you inhale you are breathing fresh new life and then letting everything that is stale and old be washed away by the exhalation. Sit on the floor with your legs straight in front of you. Now bend both your knees and put your feet flat on the floor. Slide your right foot under your left leg, all the way to the outside of your left hip. Gently lay the right side of your leg on the floor. Take your left foot and step it over the right leg. Stand it on the floor beside your right hip. Your left knee should be pointing to the ceiling. Exhale and half twist your spine towards your left thigh. Put your left hand behind you on the floor by your left buttock. Put your right upper arm on the outside of your left thigh near the knee. Keep your tail bone lengthened and make sure your left foot stays firmly in contact with the floor. Turn your head in the direction of the twist and breathe deeply here.

as something that might help her with her bronchiectasis, a lung condition she was born with that has meant she has always had to be careful about her health. ‘All this has been a part of my life for a long time. It’s not a fad for me, and what has been so exciting and liberating is watching how over the past ten years people have changed and are much more open to healthy living,’ she says. Apart from her book, she has launched a production company and produced two films that are being screened at the Raindance film festival at the end of the month, one of

Meditation

Meditation is something I struggled with in the beginning but I persevered. The benefits are endless, including better emotional balance, lower blood pressure, reduced PMS and a stronger immune system. There are many styles of meditation practice and it may take you a few tries until you find one that suits you. I would suggest you meditate for ten to 20minutes daily and commit to practising for 21 days to give yourself the best chance to experience the benefits. You could begin by trying a mantra meditation in which you mentally repeat a calming word, sound or mantra that will take you away from your busy thoughts. Sit upright with your spine straight. You can either kneel, cross your legs or sit on a chair with your feet on the floor. Place your hands, palms turned upwards, on your thighs or knees. Inhale and exhale, slowly and deeply, three times. Focus on relaxing your body as you breathe out. Your eyes can be open or closed; I prefer to close them. Focus on mentally repeating your mantra. Your mind will wander and when you notice that it has, just gently bring your attention back to your mantra.

which has been written and directed by women. She also has a new boyfriend, the millionaire mobile phone boss Darren Strowger, though, she says coyly, they are ‘not living together’. I don’t know if it’s the Maca and turmeric smoothies she raves about or her daily walks in the park with her dogs but Frost seems like a woman at the top of her game – and if I’m going to take lifestyle advice from anyone, I think it might just be her.

Nourish: Mind, Body & Soul is out now, published by Kyle Books. Photography by David Loftus.

Eyes down Sadie’s eye exercises

Extracts taken from Sadie Frost’s new book, Nourish

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Now look downwards and hold for 5-10 seconds. Look up to the top right corner and hold this pose for 5-10 seconds. Next look to the top left corner and hold for 5-10 seconds. Then start rotating your eyes in a clockwise motion, trying to look as far as you can to the corners, top and bottom. Do this a few times and then repeat in an anticlockwise direction.

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Comedian and actor Judah Friedlander, who has appeared in Meet The Parents and Zoolander, is best known for playing the boorish Frank Rossitano in Tv’s 30 Rock. He brings his offbeat stand-up show World Champion to Dublin tonight IN YOUR live show you perform in character as a ‘super cool karate king and sex god’. How would you describe your stand-up schtick to somebody who might only know you from 30 Rock? I’m not good at describing myself but I think that you’re going to see something different. My act is very much a persona-driven affair with a mix of jokes and lots of coming-up-with-stuff-onthe-spot. There’ll be a lot of satirising of American culture and politics. This is my first time in Dublin but I did the Kilkenny Cat Laughs last year so I’m excited to be coming back. To me Ireland is extremely high, if not the highest, on the comedy charts. How did you get cast in 30 Rock? I started doing stand up in 1989 and from the mid-1990s I began doing a lot of TV commercials and guests spots on TV shows and little parts in movies. My first movie was Meet The Parents which I had a small part in so I got a lot of exposure from that. Many of the cast of 30 Rock had their roles written for them by Tina Fey but I auditioned for mine and, er, got it! You’ve appeared in films including Zoolander and The Wrestler, as well as cult B-movies about noxious super heroes (The Toxic Avenger) and shark-sporting hurricanes (Sharknado 2). Do you have a preference for comic fare? Well, I still feel like I’m in the Rocky I phase of my career. Stand up is my main thing – and has been for 24 years – and I do shows every night so it’s my goal to become more of a household name as a comedian. There are two kinds of movies I love to do. I love exploitation flicks and crazy low-budget movies like The Toxic Avenger. I recently had a little part in Sharknado 2 and I love stuff like that. I also want to do live shows that are subversive and political but still fall within the cult remit. But I also want to produce my own serious-yet-funny documentaries. You managed to do stand-up shows almost every single night while filming 30 Rock. How did you juggle both? 30 Rock was filmed like a movie so it would take us six and a half days – working 14 hours a day – to film just one episode. But I wasn’t necessarily there all day every day because we shot it out of sequence so if there was an episode where I didn’t have too many lines I would usually have one or two days off.

As something of a veteran, what do you think of the current crop of Hollywood comedies? I think American TV over the past seven or eight years has gotten a little better but movies have gotten much worse. The movies look sharp, they look snazzy but usually they are cookiecutter flicks. They feel like they’ve been made by robots. Only a few times a year will you see an American movie where you can actually see the director’s imprint on the film. Usually it looks like anybody could have directed it. The biggest movie of the year is Transformers 4, made by robots for robots... Judah Friedlander plays Whelan’s tonight, 8pm, €20. www.whelanslive.com

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McDowell: Ryder Cup in 2016 will be epic by DEREk DEnT Graeme mcDowell believes the continuing fallout from europe’s ryder Cup victory at Gleneagles will ensure a ‘fairly epic’ contest in two years’ time. mcDowell thinks Phil mickelson broke an ‘unwritten rule’ by criticising captain Tom watson in public after the United States suffered their third straight defeat – and eighth in the last 10 contests – last month. mickelson’s comments in the US team’s press conference – with watson sitting just a few feet away – have prompted the PGa of america to announce an 11-strong taskforce to look into all aspects of the ryder Cup, including how they select captains, the qualifying system and when wild cards should be picked.

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spORT DigEsT Rivals united over Flower suspension Rugby Arch-rivals

Wigan and St Helens put on a united front after the Ben Flower affair was put to bed by rugby league’s governing body. Both clubs expressed themselves satisfied with the six-month ban handed out to Flower for his reckless act of indiscipline that marred Saturday’s Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford. The Rugby Football League’s disciplinary tribunal took just half an hour to come up with the punishment after Flower admitted the grade F offence. The RFL announced the verdict via its Twitter account: ‘Ben Flower of Wigan Warriors banned until April 14, 2015, after being found guilty of violent and aggressive punching.’ u good merc guys: mercedes celebrated winning the Formula 1 constructors’ crown at their Brackley base by forming the famous mercedes badge

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and although the one man with experience of captaining a winning side this century, 2008 skipper Paul azinger, has turned down the chance to participate, mcDowell feels everything points to an event not to be missed at Hazeltine in 2016. ‘I think there’s positive and negative connotations there,’ said mcDowell ahead of his defence of the Volvo world match Play Championship at The london Club. ‘I think the negative being that maybe it takes too much emphasis off the european victory and a little bit more on the US failure. ‘and I think the positive being their renewed Smile: mcDowell takes a selfie during the pro-am for the Volvo World matchplay PicTUre: geTTy effort to win the ryder Cup, and that can only be very, very good for the tournament. It just means two years’ time is going to be fairly epic. I want to be there for sure.’ mcDowell played as many times at Gleneagles as mickelson – who was left out of a full day’s down the chance to take part. The Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are play for the first time in 10 appearances – but selection of captains and vice-captains, part of an 11-strong ‘task force’ created insisted he would not have criticised european to examine all aspects of the Us ryder the qualifying system, the dates by which captain Paul mcGinley if his plan had not Cup process following last month’s defeat the team is determined and the timing of worked out. at gleneagles, their third in succession. wild-card selections, will all be examined. ‘There’s kind of an unwritten rule, you don’t call The Americans have only won one of Paul Azinger, praised by Mickelson for your captain out at a ryder Cup. win, lose or the last seven contests with europe. his winning formula in 2008, has turned draw, you just don’t,’ added mcDowell.

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Hedgehog scratches Hitch RAheem SteRling has been in a prickly situation this week – caught in the middle of messrs hodgson and Rodgers – and he’s not the only one. hitchin saw their Red insurance Cup tie with Arlesey held up by a spiky pitch-invader (a hedgehog in case you’ve not worked it out – the picture probably gave it away). the little fella not only halted play, he also injured the linesman

Boss hog: Picture posed by model – this isn’t the pitch invader with his sharp bits when the man with a flag attempted to pick him up. the ref had no such problem and lifted the snuffly critter to safety. Arlesey went on

to win on penalties if you’re interested. in other news, hitchin Rugby Club are nicknamed the hedgehogs. Spooky...or is that spiky?

Button: I just can’t do any more fORMuLA OnE

Jenson Button feels he can do no more to convince McLaren chief Ron Dennis he’s worthy of a new deal. Out of contract at the end of the campaign, Button is in limbo as Dennis has yet to make up his mind as to his line-up for 2015. The suggestion is Dennis wants Fernando Alonso to spearhead McLaren’s challenge next year and Button (pictured), fourth in Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix, concedes he is ‘past frustration’ waiting for Dennis to decide. ‘When you come away from a weekend like that you just enjoy the moment,’ Button said. ‘You don’t think about external issues. I feel we did as well as we possibly could. I don’t think I could have done any more.’

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What Jamaica this news then? Ex-WALES striker Nathan Blake won Best Supporting Actor at Film Fest Cymru. He was on

target as a football coach with a Jamaican accent in short film The Homing Bird.

‘the situation is desperate. every time the telephone goes we know it could be the hospital to tell us Jules is dead. he will not give up, i’m sure of that. i can see it. i believe it.’ Jules Bianchi’s father Philippe admits the Marussia driver’s family are ‘living a nightmare’ but know their son, who is still in a critical but stable condition, ‘won’t give up’ his fight for life

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Hero Donaldson can be match for anyone again RYDER Cup star Jamie Donaldson can make another big impact at this week’s World Match Play at the London Club in Kent. The Welshman can use the same ice cool nerves which helped him clinch the decisive point for Europe at Gleneagles to take the title at 12/1 with Ladbrokes. Patrick Reed returns to these shores after the USA’s defeat in Scotland to target this event and, at 10/1 with HE’s Boylesports, is worth a swifT little SWIFT Keith can look. claim victory at Henrik 3/1 with Betfred Stenson in the and greyhound Graeme All-England Cup McDowell final at

suarez takes credit for Reds’ near miss by nick METcALfE

BARCELONA striker Luis Suarez insists Liverpool would never have mounted their unexpected Premier League title challenge last season without him. Suarez was outstanding last term, scoring 31 league goals as Liverpool finished runners-up to Manchester City and so nearly won their first title since 1990. The success was in many ways all the more surprising as the season started with Suarez serving some of his ten-game ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic, and the player seemingly angling for a move away from Anfield. The Uruguay international eventually did move this summer, joining Barcelona in a £75million deal. ‘Personal success is always welcome and makes you happy, because that’s

Looking good: Donaldson lead the betting market but look a tad short at 11/2 and 13/2 respectively after an extensive campaign. However, Englishman Paul Casey is slowly creeping back to his best form following a spell in the wilderness and he is not to be overlooked at 11/1 with Stan James.

Net gains: Suarez scored twice in uruguay’s 3-0 win in Oman on Monday

‘Following Arsene will be so hard’

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ARSENAL chief executive Ivan Gazidis has admitted replacing manager Arsene Wenger will be a huge challenge for the club. Wenger, who has been in charge at the Gunners for 18 years, signed a new three-year deal in May after ending a nine-year trophy drought by winning the FA Cup. However, Gazidis said the club have been planning for life without their ‘giant’ of a manager. He said: ‘So much of the attention on a football club is around an individual and that’s very understandable at Arsenal because we have a giant who’s managing us. ‘Arsene has been a fantastic driver and has put the club in a great, great position. ‘The biggest challenge we are going to face as a club is that, when that transition from Arsene to the next

manager of our football club happens – and I don’t know when that’s going to be – that we come through that strongly.’ Gazidis, who has been in his post for six years, wants Arsenal to join the world’s elite in the future and is confident the club has the right tools in place to achieve this goal. He added: ‘I wouldn’t be doing this job if I didn’t believe we could compete at the very top level. I know Arsene feels the same way. Where we are currently is off the shoulder of the world’s top teams. ‘I think the best teams in the world are in Europe and you think about the great names like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. I don’t think we’re at that level yet but that’s where we’re aiming to get to. ‘It’s one thing to say that, it’s another thing to be able to deliver it.’

Contenders: The bookies’ favourites to replace Wenger, above, at Arsenal are Jurgen Klopp, top, roberto Martinez, middle, and Pep Guardiola

‘I put the team ahead of any personal success’ recognition of the good work you have done,’ said Suarez, who is due to receive the Golden Shoe for being Europe’s jointleading scorer from former Liverpool great Kenny Dalglish this week. ‘But I put the team ahead of that and last season Liverpool came so close to winning the Premier League, which would have been spectacular.’ Suarez added: ‘I appreciate all the work that the team did but I missed six matches and scored all those goals in the Premier League without being the penalty-taker. ‘The truth is that I left very happy because if I hadn’t had the attitude and mentality to want to lead the team forward, I don’t think Liverpool would have done as well as they did either. ‘Getting back in the Champions League was another target I had in mind from the start of the season.’

Evra racism claims still leave Luis feeling aggrieved LuIS SuArEz has again denied racially abusing former Manchester united defender Patrice Evra in October 2011. The former Liverpool striker, 27,

who makes his debut next week against real Madrid, said: ‘When I say I’m sorry it’s because I regret something. But they have also sometimes

judged me on things that aren’t true, such as the racism thing. I was accused without evidence and that’s what grieved me the most.’

Andy: Irons can strike Euro gold with move ANDY CARROLL believes West Ham’s Olympic Stadium move in 2016 can bring Champions League football to the club. The Hammers, who have not played in Europe since 2006, are to leave Upton Park for the stadium that hosted the 2012 Olympics in

two years. And Carroll (pictured) thinks the move will see the club

League in the new stadium,’ the striker said. ‘The quality is

54,000 Capacity of West Ham’s new

home at the Olympic Stadium compete at the top level in Europe. ‘We could definitely play in the Champions

there, and with the new stadium coming we have everything else going for us.’

football euro 2016 qualifiers

O’shea saves ireland at the death GERMAnY...........................................1 REpuBLIC Of IRELAnD.....................1 by sAM cOsTELLO RePubLiC Of iReLAND manager Martin O’Neill was quick to dismiss talk of a German crisis in the run-up to last night’s game, but his team added to opposite number Low’s frustration with a pugnacious first-half display which saw the visitors head for the dressing room still on level terms and with forde untested. The manager had admitted in advance that best-laid plans could be torn up within five minutes, and he was very nearly correct. Had Durm’s piledriver, which came in the sixth, rather than fifth minute, flown under the crossbar rather than crashed into it, ireland might have faced a very different prospect. That it did not helped to preserve belief and while Germany, prompted by the gifted Kroos, who repeatedly picked out Muller, Karim bellarabi and Gotze with a series of instinctive passes, enjoyed long periods of possession, they rarely threatened to make it count. u NortherN Ireland made it three wins out of three in qualifying with a 2-0 win in Greece. Jamie Ward put the visitors ahead early on, and Kyle Lafferty fired home after the break to seal a priceless victory in Athens.

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Pat on the back: Manager Martin O’Neill congratulates John O’Shea after the game picture: iNpHO

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Lukas Podolski replaced Matthias Ginter at the break and very nearly handed the visitors a 49th-minute advantage when Keane picked off his pass and fed McGeady, whose initial shot was blocked before Neuer prevented Keane from connecting with McClean’s follow-up. Podolski was convinced he should have been awarded a penalty for Wilson’s challenge two minutes later, but Slovenian referee Damir Skomina was not. However, the stadium erupted two minutes later when Kroos made space for himself on the edge of the box and unleashed a right-foot drive which screamed past the diving forde and went in off the foot of the post. Hoolahan might have snatched a point but for Durm, but there was nobody on hand to deny O’Shea, whose contribution sparked mass celebrations on the pitch, the sidelines and in the stands.

SCOTLAND claimed what through Krzysztof Maczynski. could be a vital point in their Scotland’s Shaun Maloney qualification battle after a equalised soon after, before pulsating battle Steven Naismith struck pOLAnD.......... 2 early in the second half with Poland. The hosts, who beat SCOTLAnD...... 2 after deftly flicking world champions home a James Morrison Germany on Saturday, took the free-kick. Arkadiusz Milik’s lead after just 11 minutes goal denied the Scots the win.

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Target: Bale

Cypriot rough stuff ‘normal’ for Gareth WALES star Gareth Bale said the brutal treatment he suffered at the hands of the Cyprus defenders during Monday’s 2-1 win was just ‘normal’. The Real Madrid star was the most fouled player on the pitch but managed to lead Wales to a crucial Euro 2016 qualifying win. Goals from David Cotterill and Hal Robson-Kanu saw Wales triumph, despite playing most of the second half with ten men after Andy King’s red card. Of the rough stuff, Bale said: ‘It’s normal getting taken out and you have to dust yourself off and go again. You have to get your head down and get on with it.’

4 Goals for Neymar in Brazil’s 4-0 friendly win over Japan – the 22-year-old’s tally of 40 from 58 games puts him fifth on Brazil’s all-time scorer’s list

Chaos: Serbia’s Mitrovic grabs the flag before violence erupts

Drone sparks ugly scenes in Belgrade THE Euro 2016 qualifier between Serbia and Albania was abandoned following violent scenes in Belgrade last night. With Albanian fans banned from the stadium, they instead managed to fly a drone over the pitch during the first half carrying an Albanian flag. The flag was caught by Serbia’s Stefan Mitrovic, sparking a mass brawl. Riot police moved in with the game suspended. It resumed briefly but was abandoned at 0-0. The countries have long been arch-enemies in dispute over Kosovo.

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The Equalizer: John O’Shea celebrates after his last-minute goal picture: action pictures

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You beauty: John O’Shea nips in ahead of Mats Hummels to score for Ireland

John o’Shea celebrated his 100th appearance for the Republic of Ireland with a dramatic equaliser to further dent Germany’s euro 2016 qualification campaign. The 33-year-old got ahead of Mats hummels with seconds of the fourth minute of stoppage time remaining at the Veltins arena in Gelsenkirchen to secure a 1-1 Group D draw with just his third goal for Ireland. Within seconds, the final whistle sounded and was greeted by boos and whistles from the locals among a crowd of 51,204, who had seen their side dominate for long periods, but fail to kill off game opponents. Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos looked to have fired the home side to victory when he smashed home a 71st-minute shot off the foot of the post. But the visitors refused to succumb, even after substitute Wes hoolahan had himself been denied an 86th-minute equaliser by full-back erik Durm. however, the script could hardly have been any more fitting as Sunderland defender o’Shea turned up in the right place at the right time to maintain Ireland’s unbeaten start to their pool campaign. That they were still in the game at that point was due in large part to the efforts of goalkeeper David Forde, who produced a string of second-half saves, and some typically stubborn defending from o’Shea and his colleagues.

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