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THE Government has finally clarified what water charges Irish families will face – but even as the announcement was made yesterday, critics said they will not raise enough revenue to support the system. Homes face further hidden costs on top of a €160 charge to bankroll the controversial Irish Water utility, experts have warned. Taxpayers will have to plug a massive gap between money expected to be raised from the water charges – the cheapest in Europe – and the cost of developing a modern water system, they claim. Sebastian Lennox, of international analysts Global Water Intelligence,

Shortfall will come from public purse said the shortfall will run into hundreds of millions of euro. ‘The true cost of water is not being conveyed to the population,’ he said. ‘Going on the tariffs announced, there’s no way Ireland will be able to cover the costs of operating and maintaining a water system and cover the costs of new infrastructure.’ Describing the new rates as a major back track, Mr Lennox said the shortfall will have to come out of the public purse. Confirming the revised charges, seen as a major U-turn in the face of

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heated demonstrations, Environment Minister Alan Kelly said bills would start arriving next April. The charges, payable from January 1, will remain the same for just four years, before a review. Originally, the Government said the levy would be up to €600 a year for some families. ‘We as a Government have made mistakes but now we face a critical choice,’ Mr Kelly said. ‘Put simply, we now have a choice that is based on either short-term anger or long-term prudence and common sense.’ Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams urged further protests against the charges. ‘The Government hasn’t got the message yet,’ he said. Socialist TD Joe Higgins said the people of Ireland are not fools and they recognised ‘this transparent manoeuvre’ to get the coalition parties through the next general election. He said the campaign to abolish water charges will not let up.’

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Jake: I’m up for fumble and flirt X FACTOR reject Jake Quickenden has dumped his girlfriend and admits he is ready for ‘a fumble’ during his stint in the celebrity jungle. The 26-year-old (pictured) made his entrance on the TV show last night and didn’t rule out having a holiday romance. ‘I am currently single. We broke up about a month ago,’ he told Metro Herald before he entered the campsite. ‘I wouldn’t say I am going into the jungle looking for love, but everyone loves a holiday romance, don’t they? I’m up for a fumble! I’m naturally a bit of flirt anyway.’ But even though he’s never been shy about stripping off, Quickenden says he draws the line at showing off his manhood. ‘It’s tiny! It is more like a slow worm,’ he said.

Goodbye: Collins calls it a day in the jungle Pictures: rex

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GemmA CoLLInS claimed no amount of money could keep her in the I’m A Celebrity jungle – then tried to charge a fortune to talk about her walkout. The Towie star went through with her threat to quit the show after just three days, leaving show bosses re-

by JENNI McKNIGHT fusing to say whether she will keep her full appearance fee. And it emerged the 33-year-old had planned to attend the British Plus Size Awards in London on Saturday although her spokesman insisted she

had cancelled weeks ago. Collins also allegedly tried to command up to €30,000 for interviews about her brief time in the outback. ‘I love myself too much to put myself through this,’ she told her fellow campers before she left. ‘It’s a personal decision that I’ve

Stars who couldn’t handle the heat GEMMA COLLINS may have lasted just three days – but she certainly isn’t the first to flounce out of the jungle. Since I’m A Celeb... first aired in 2002, 13 other celebrities have stormed off after struggling with the lack of food and enduring gruesome trials. Among them was Danniella Westbrook, 41, who managed nine days before calling it quits in 2003. Later series saw

multiple early exits, with Brian Harvey, 40, and Natalie Appleton, 41, walking out in 2004, and Elaine Lordan, 47, and Kimberley Davis, 41, going in 2005. Glutton for punishment Katie Price, 36, entered the jungle twice – but only made nine days on her second go in 2009. Actor Nigel Havers, 63, left in 2010 after telling campmates: ‘I cannot waste another second of my life.’

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had to make for myself but it is the right one,’ she added. ‘This is right for me and I have to go with that, I’m so out of my comfort zone that it’s made me realise the girl I once was. ‘I have become a character, a puppet of Gemma that is not the real me and no amount of money would keep me here. ‘I feel so amazing and strong and I will never regret this. ‘I just want to be me and I don’t need to sit in the jungle for three weeks and play up to the cameras, I’m tired of it, I just want to be me. ‘This has been the most life changing thing I’ve ever done and the best thing I could have done for myself.’ ITV said: ‘We’re sorry to see Gemma go but respect her decision and wish her well.’

FReSH from her two-piece rinse-off that set Twitter alight, Irish model Nadia Forde finally got her first real taste of life in the jungle. Having earned her freedom from the Slammer, the 25 year-old endured a nightmarish overnight challenge before being allowed to meet up with the rest of the ‘I’m a Celeb’ team. A relieved Nadia walked into Croc Creek and was visibility shocked by what she found. ‘It’s amazing. It’s a gorgeous camp. everything’s so big,’ she gasped.

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MRsA rate falls by 62% The number of MRSA cases is at an all-time low, new hSe figures reveal. The most recent statistics on infection show the total number to have fallen by 62 per cent since the end of 2013, while C.diff rates are down by 14 per cent. health Minister Leo Varadkar thanked hSe staff for the improved levels of cleanliness in hospitals but warned further work was needed as this rate remained high compared to international standards.

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The country’s new postcode system is set to cost €27million – yet nobody will be forced to use it. Officials made the admission while outlining the proposed eircode system before the Oireachtas Transport and Communications Committee yesterday. Under the plan, every home in the country will have an individual code

students in grant limbo The Minister for education has been called on to ensure more than 7,000 students waiting for grants get what they’re owed. Sinn Féin education spokesperson Jonathan O’Brien asked Minister Jan O’Sullivan to intervene with Student Universal Support Ireland (Susi) to ensure monies are paid. he said: ‘I have received information that shows of 103,125 applications for Susi assistance this year, some 15,500 have not even been processed.’

CANiNE CANAL CAMpAigN Before dawn yesterday, Dogs Trust staff placed 51 cardboard cut-out dogs along the pathway of the Grand Canal as part of its annual Christmas campaign. The message was a clear one: ‘A dog is for life, not just for Christmas’.

Mark Beazley, Dogs Trust executive director, said: ‘We wanted to try something a little different for our Christmas campaign this year in order to attract the public’s attention and hopefully spread our charity’s message’.

Every home will get an individual code from next year – aimed at helping courier companies as well as emergency services navigate rural Ireland’s multitude of unnumbered homes. however, at yesterday’s hearing, Liam Duggan from Capita Ltd – the company rolling out the postcodes – said that despite the ‘benefit to many

householders’, An Post would still continue to deliver letters without the codes. This comes as the Freight Transport Association (FTAI) announced that the system would be of no use to its members, insisting that many will refuse to use it due to its costs. Small businesses can have access to the eircode database for as little as €10 per month, but as Irish households are under no obligation to use it, there has been little uptake from courier firms according to the FTAI. Fedex, UPS and DhL are some of the delivery companies who confirmed they would not use the new system when it is introduced next year. Speaking to Metro herald about the new system, a spokesperson for the Department of Communications said that they are ‘confident that the public and businesses would use the system, just as they choose to use postcodes in every other OeCD country.’

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Israel demolishes home of Palestinian attacker

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ISRAELI forces yesterday demolished the home of a Palestinian who killed two people – one a baby – with his car. Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi’s property was destroyed hours after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised strict measures to deal with rising violence. Al-Shaludi, who lived in east Jerusalem, drove his car into a crowd at a railway platform last month, killing a threemonth-old girl and a woman aged 22. He later died in hospital. Sitting in the rubble, his grandmother said she was proud of his actions and added: ‘No one should feel sorry for us, for our demolished home.’ A total of 11 people have died at the hands of Palestinian attackers in recent weeks as tensions rise over a hilltop in Jerusalem sacred to Jews and Muslims. They include four worshippers and a policeman who were killed after two machete-wielding cousins stormed a synagogue in the west of the city before they were shot dead on Tuesday. As worshippers returned to Kehilat Bnai Torah synagogue, one – Gavriel Cohen – said the attacks showed ‘our future in this world is dependent on God’.

Retaliation: A relative stands in the rubble of Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi’s home, clutching his picture Picture: AFP

Bailey denies Schull pub conversation Ian BaIley, who was twice arrested over the murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996, denied telling a man in a pub he was the killer and smirking after the alleged admission. The High Court, where the 57-year-old is suing the State, heard details of a statement about the encounter just over three months after the murder. James McKenna told gardaí he was with his wife in the Galley Inn in Schull, west Cork, in april 1997 when Mr Bailey admitted the killing in a ‘deliberate voice’ and said ‘that was me’. ‘I could see he was smirking and I could see he was content that he was able to brag,’ the court heard. There were about a dozen customers in the bar at the time and Mr Bailey left the pub before the McKennas. afterwards, a barmaid came from behind the counter to tell them ‘he was the person who killed the girl’, it heard. Mr Bailey told the court Mr McKenna’s statement was ‘of great significance and quite a little bonus to the gardaí’.

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Stars await Ebola action BoNo, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman are among celebrities playing the waiting game in a new online campaign calling for a unified response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. In a video posted yesterday, stars stare silently into a camera to illustrate that they’re waiting for world leaders to fight Ebola, which has killed more than 5,000 people in the west African countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

TGI’s game of drones... RESTAuRANT chain TGI Friday’s has launched what it describes as the uK’s first ‘mistletoe drone’, to encourage diners to get into the festive spirit. The drones hover above couples, carrying a sprig of mistletoe and a ‘kiss cam’ so that fellow guests can watch responses. The drones have been trialled in Manchester and will be introduced at other sites ahead of Christmas. It is not known whether any of the three Dublin branches will have one.

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Simon are calling for people to help stop the growing homeless crisis As they continue to see increasing numbers of people turning to them for help, Dublin Simon Community are appealing for support. Frightening numbers of people, families and children are now falling into homelessness; it is the worst the Simon Community has ever seen. Tracey, a client of Simon services, saw her situation rapidly spiral out of control. She soon found herself invisible amongst the society that she once was a part of. “ I used to sit on the street looking at people passing by, going to work, or bringing their children to school. To look at them, that seemed like a normal world and I would just think, look at me, everything’s passing me by. It’s hard. ” Sam McGuinness from Dublin Simon Community said: “ Each and every day thousands are facing the effects of abuse, poverty, bereavement, addiction or poor mental and physical health conditions,

A SCHOOLBOY is living the dream of every youngster – he has ‘super powers’ like a comic book character. Nikolai Kryaglyachenko has become a ‘human magnet’ since suffering an electrical shock from a lamppost which was live because of a faulty wire. ‘When I came round, I felt groggy but managed to get home and told my mum what had happened,’ said the 12-yearold, from Omsk, south-west Siberia. ‘When I woke up the next day and got out of bed, I found some coins that had been lying on the mattress had stuck to my body. Then, when I was having breakfast and dropped my spoon, it stuck to my chest.’ Nikolai said he is a keen fan of comics

by DAvID ROGERS and, believing that he may have developed some sort of super power to attract metal, like X-Men’s Magneto, he decided to put it to the test. He said: ‘I can do things I couldn’t do before, but I don’t have a lot of control over it. Even when I do not want to do it, I still attract things. ‘Once I even attracted a glass – it just moved towards me.’ Stories about ‘living magnets’ began to appear in the mid-19th century. But scientists believe that rather than people being magnetic, it is probably nothing more unusual than so-called sticky skin.

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Ash cloud crisis fears AN Ash cloud crisis even worse than the Icelandic eruption which grounded thousands of flights four years ago could be imminent, scientists have said. The warning comes after the discovery that volcanic ash has travelled from Alaska to Ireland – overturning assumptions about the distances deposits could drift. however, scientists have developed a prototype ash detection device which has been successfully fitted to jets.

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Severe snowstorm kills 7 Deluge: 6ft fell in Buffalo PICTURE: aP

AT LEAST seven people are believed to have died across three states after a ferocious snowstorm battered huge swathes of America. The deluge hit record levels in Buffalo, New York, with more than 6ft falling – the most seen in the US over a 24-hour period. A 46-year-old man from nearby Alden was

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one of seven deaths in New York, New Hampshire and Michigan, including two people who suffered heart attacks shovelling snow. Meanwhile, Niagara University women’s basketball team were finally rescued after 30 hours stuck in their bus. tweeting their survival prayers.

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Judge evicts tenant Beauty queen and over stench of urine sister found dead AMERICA: An incontinent man has been evicted from his home in New York because of the stench coming from his apartment. Michael Edmonds was told to vacate his flat in Harlem by Judge Sabrina Kraus, who said she had sympathy but other tenants should not be exposed to ‘biohazards’. The 30-year-old also urinated in communal areas of the building, the Manhattan civil court was told.

HONDuRAS: The bodies of a beauty queen and her sister have been found near the spa where they vanished last week, police said yesterday. Miss Honduras, Maria Jose Alvarado, 19, and her sister Sofia, 23, were shot and their bodies hidden in Santa Barbara. Sofia’s boyfriend Plutarco Ruiz and another man, Aris Maldonado, are under arrest. Maria was due to take part in Miss World in London next month.

AMERICA: Mike Salant boards up a shop in Ferguson, Missouri, ahead of a court ruling to decide the fate of the white police officer who killed black student Michael Brown, 18, in August PICTURES: REUTERS

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AfgHANISTAN: More than half of all medicines available on the market are illicitly imported from Pakistan, a report claims. The dangerously poor-quality drugs are produced by hundreds of companies exclusively for the €650million Afghan market, because there is no regulation on pharmaceuticals. The anti-corruption body which produced the report is calling for tighter controls within the industry.

and finally... AMERICA: San Francisco has gone to the dogs... after Frida the chihuahua was put in charge. The pooch’s owner bid €6,200 to make her mayor for a day, as part of a fundraising campaign for the city’s animal shelter.

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Long before he gave up on Gone Girl, library work was the perfect place for bookish ken rogan to get revenge on his social pet hates...

seeking knowledge, or shelter, or hAT’s your company, or childcare, or just a favourite book? quiet place to wet themselves. Wait, don’t tell Being a mean-spirited person, i me… seriously, don’t. it was in relished the minor vengeances this job afforded me, such as challengthe news, because this week is Library ireland Week (catchy!) and ing people to pay their fines: You owe me 20 cent madam. how the winner is – drum-roll – Gone would you like to pay? Cash? Girl, by Gillian Flynn. Altogether Credit? slave labour? None of the now! We suck. i tried Gone Girl, but came above? Then allow me to wear my shuddering to a halt when your man most disbelieving face as you said, ‘i just never knew what crumple excuses out your mouth, when we both my wife was thinking’. know your wretchTo me, this clanger ed little goblin ate resounded like a the thing whole, monkey wrench Someone’s phone along with your hitting a saucepan will ring, and worse, dreams, and inside a tumblemanners, and dryer, falling down they’ll answer it. any memory of a mountain of This is ‘end of days’ a world that is smoke alarms. only interested in Maybe that’s why stuff... seeing your child she’s ‘Gone’, you recede into the chump. Four pages later, i stopped, and with distance to make alphabet poop in a land far, far the book’s spine in pretty good nick, i knew i could gift it on to away. Other delicious cruelties included some frien-emy and look good disappointing the curmudgeonly doing it. But there you are, i’m a horrible old men who came in every human being who’s way out of step morning to read the newspaper. You occasionally got to trample on their with the public’s taste in books. mental rhododendrons by telling This is a bit of a problem given how i fantasise about making a them someone else had got to the living out of words, however i’ve paper first, for a massive change, at which point they’d adopt their most more chance of actually becoming Brian O’Driscoll than i do of indignant harrumph, you know, the one usually reserved for cyclists joining him on the best-sellers list. using the footpath. But such is the world of popular surely we all love such moments? books, where marketing chicanery Anyway, if ever you needed proof isn’t far removed from the tricks of your more conventional fastof the death of society, go to a library, and just wait. i guarantee moving consumer goods. For instance, names are still really that someone’s phone will ring, and important, and some authors have worse, they’ll answer it. This is ‘end suspiciously useful names – like of days’ stuff – nothing is sacred Aaron Adams or Alan Aardvark – any more, least of all silence. whose chief purpose is to be the Libraries were once a place to go first thing see in the library. and be quiet. But now they are Trust me on this – i used to work ruined by over-indulged, overthere. protected children wailing around The other main tactic is to be like little brat diplomats drunk on prolific, and dominate a whole their own immunity. When i was young, you weren’t bookshelf in the same way that a bottled water brand hocks sports/ even allowed in the adult half of the contour/jumbo water, not so much library, which just made it all the more enchanting. Even now i because we’re susceptible to this guff, but because it soaks up a romanticise what wondrous competitor’s shelf space. i’m pretty knowledge or possibilities lie sure this is why crime author sue behind the forbidding brushed steel Grafton wrote ‘A is for Alibi’, and turnstiles of a university library. Whenever i walk by them, i feel ‘B is for Burglar’ all the way up to ‘W is for how is she getting away this sense of loss and longing for the endless things i dreamed i with this?’ might be. And how i missed my still, working in a library was sweet in some respects, though you chance. so now i take it out on kids and did have to deal with ‘the public’ – the great, garlic-swilling unwashed old people. But hey! Buy my book. who came through your door When i write it… @kenrogan

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a cure for baldness in new newlands?

his Newlands Cross flyover better fix some of the traffic going down that way. i’ve lost years of my life stuck on that stretch of road and i’m also blaming my receding hairline on it too. The Department of Transport owes me a lot of hair if this road investment doesn’t pay off. Bald As A Coot ■ As a gay man, i have to say how let down i felt by the irish people and how angry it made me hearing about all the recent water marches/ parades and the march/parade organised for next week. We, the gay people of ireland, have taken over most, if not all, parades in ireland. Yet there wasn’t one single flamboyantly dressed gay man/woman dancing or waving a multicoloured flag at any of

the marches/parades. For shame ireland, for shame. But hey, at least we are protecting the gay rights and right to ‘live a peaceful and dignified’ life of livestock in ireland (front page of Mh yesterday).... Big D ■ Where are all the marchers and brayers who seethed with anger over the recent Gaza conflict now when four innocent people are killed in a Jerusalem synagogue? Not so noisy now, are they. Funny that... Clancy Clearview ■ is ‘A Leavy’ a fake name used by Metro herald to print letters in Mailbox? (Eh, no – Ed) From vivisection to climate change, ‘democracy’ to economics, A Leavy shows a lack of comprehension and a lack of responsibility to inform himself/

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herself about what is actually happening, what caused this to happen, what can and should be done about it, etc. Too many people in this society have reactive and limited attitudes. DM ■ in order to change the conversation from water (and to really vex people), can somebody explain why we have seen a 30 per cent fall in the price of Brent Crude on international markets yet we have seen no reduction at the pump? When international oil prices rose sharply, our petrol stations screamed and kicked and jacked prices up to north of €1.50 per litre. We are still being charged €1.45 per litre. Oh they seem so very quiet while they are robbing from under our noses. This is fact, not fiction. Conor

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● Dear Michelle, I can be your hero, baby! I can take away the pain, oh yeah. Mike

● Want to wish Catriona a happy birthday from her Metro Herald buddies. Thanks for our daily morning paper. We would be lost without you! L

● To the chap I had a brief chat to at the Dublin Bikes stop at St Stephen’s Green. If only Kate they did tandems…

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1. Arrow

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Nyssa sets Stephen Amell all a-quiver in Arrow

The season finale of the hugely popular An Bronntanas

Sky1, 8pm

It’s fun seeing how this supercharged comic-book spin on Robin Hood dovetails with The Flash, adding to the sense that there’s a whole parallel superhero universe out there. Stephen Amell is the hunk in the hoodie going all a-quiver as Nyssa (Katrina Law) returns to Starling City on the flightpath of family secrets.

2. An Bronntanas

TG4, 9.30pm TG4 has never adopted the ‘anything RTÉ can do…’ mindset and this Celtic crime noir is no different. Some 340,000 have tuned into the first four episodes, making it the station’s biggest original drama hit ever. Tonight marks the finale of what could in time become a nice little bit of competition to Love/ Hate’s ‘gangland Ireland’ crown.

5 Kerry Washington finds her advice is ignored in Scandal

3. The Fall

BBC2, 9pm Can Gillian Anderson really tumble turn? That’s the question we want answered, not whether this riveting thriller is too dark or too violent (as claimed in some quarters). If you find that’s the case, then switch off. But if you do, you’ll miss a challenging journey into a psychotic mind, Anderson’s swimming policewoman crawling slowly towards the dark heart of Jamie Dornan’s spectral killer Spector.

4 It’s happy days for some of the pooches who find new homes in the last of Paul O’Grady’s For The Love Of Dogs

It’s sink or swim as Jamie Dornan continues his killing spree in riveting thriller The Fall

4. paul O’grady: For The Love Of Dogs

UTV, 8.30pm It’s going to get emotional down at Battersea as Paul O’Grady signs off his unashamedly sentimental series. As a shop window for the joys of dog-owning, this is hard to beat. And there’s a happy ending for perky Jack Russell Pepe as he prepares to settle in at a new home where he won’t be going short of doggy treats.

5. scandal

Sky Living, 9pm We’re only a week from the climax of the third series of this pacy Washington saga and the electorally struggling president, Fitz, is about to break the first rule of Scandal: he’s bent on ignoring the advice of his squeeze-cum-crisis manager Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington). Has he

YOUR gUiDE TO THis EvEning’s EssEnTiAL viEWing actually gone and lost his mind?

7. The Big Bang Theory

E4, 8pm Now here’s a question for Big Bang diehards: is the show better or worse since the nerdy quartet all (more or less) got coupled up? Chew that one over tonight as the sexes segregate, the guys going old school over Back To The Future II, the girls livin’ it large in Vegas.

6. Life story

BBC1, 9pm If you thought online dating was a

deadly jungle, think again – it’s got nothing on the extraordinary lengths some creatures go to in order to attract a mate. From the painterly extravagances of the Japanese puffer fish to the all-in wrestling of green turtles, there’s a wild and wonderful world of courtship out there and David Attenborough knows just where to look.

7. puppy Love

BBC4, 10pm There are some top-class support turns to be enjoyed in this caninefriendly sitcom from Joanna Scanlan

and Vicki Pepperdine. John Henshaw and Kayvan Novak put their best paws forward as members of the local police, struggling to keep the wayward pooches – and humans – under control.

9. 24 Hours in A&E

C4, 9pm Jogging can be a treacherous business these days. This is precisely what John discovers when he steps out on to his local English parkland for some excersise and winds up in A&E with a dislocated shoulder. If you don’t wince at what he has to go

through, you have a heart of stone.

10. Today’s Film: Taxi Driver

Sky Greats, 11.50pm Robert De Niro has had his fair share of stinkers of late, so it’s good to be reminded of the role that propelled him to Hollywood super-stardom. De Niro is mesmerising as the intense and troubled Travis Bickle, an exMarine who finds himself out of step with a New York City that’s driving into moral degeneracy. Scorsese directs with a supreme eye, resulting in a slice of cinema history.

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A winter Whistles.co.uk, €235

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Loaf about If you don’t quite have the budget for Saint Laurent’s version, these are the ones to go for

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ne reason to get excited about the chilly weather? It has to be all the new-season boots we’ll get to wear. The catwalks were awash with every style imaginable. Saint Laurent went for a disco theme (yes, we know it’s fashion madness but glittery boots really are a thing now), while Gucci went animal print crazy. With so much choice on offer, it’s no surprise to see the high street followed suit. need some help deciding what to invest in? From purse-friendly picks (try H&M’s black pointed boots) to blow-the-budget-investment buys – Stuart Weitzman’s over-the-knee flat boot for Russell & Bromley is at the very top of our wish list – and everything in between, including some fab glittery pink party boots, here we’ve rounded up the key styles for Autumn/Winter14.

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Double act: Brocade coat, Avalon, €249.95, black embroidered dress with embellished collar, Fee G, €219, and embellished bag, Benetton, €79.95; black boucle coat, Precis, €329, floral brocade embellished petite dress, Almost Famous, €175

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Divine creation: Art on Fashion, €199

A metallic cream-gel texture with a smudge resistant finish, Illamasqua’s Vintage Metallix in Bibelot provides an intense shimmer finish. Around €21, illamasqua.com MAC’s Mineralize Eye Shadow in Smutty Green is a powder formula that can be layered up for your desired look. Around €21, maccosmetics. co.uk One smooth stroke and Clinique’s new All About Shadows Single in Pacific Green will glide on, giving a creasefree shimmer. Around €20, clinique.co.uk The silky, matte, rich pigment of Bobbi Brown’s Eye Shadow in Pistachio allows for a vibrant sheen that doesn’t overpower. Around €22 bobbibrown. co.uk

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Fine lines: Red coat, Planet, €329; black shirt, Miss Selfridge, €42; check trousers, Miss Selfridge, €38

A flawless face can look natural, Laura Mercier tells Vicki-Marie Cossar

here are some girls who manage to pull off that fresh-faced summer look all year round. But if you’re not one of them, make-up artist Laura Mercier (right) has built an empire around the ethos of a flawless face and, according to her, it’s possible to achieve no matter the season. The trick? A good base. ‘I’m from a generation that didn’t have the luxury of Photoshop,’ she says. ‘So every look had to be perfection.’ That’s why Laura has worked with everyone from Vanity Fair and Chanel to Madonna (‘challenging but fun’), Sarah Jessica Parker and Julia use concealer, set with powder. roberts. But you should never do the same But her passion is in bringing old thing. ‘You need to adapt,’ she make-up to the masses and her says. ‘Your skin changes with age company Laura Mercier was born and the season so don’t use things in 1996. ‘I developed my first unless you need to. product, Secret Camouflage, ‘Just because it’s autumn/winter because there was nothing like it doesn’t mean you have to pile it on the market,’ she says. ‘I wanted on. A thicker layer of foundation to teach women the proper won’t give added protection technique to put a face on. against the When elements. If you applying can still carry off Laura’s essentials make-up it a tinted doesn’t have moisturiser, then from York New to ed mov I ‘When to be artistic, that’s fine.’ e Paris, I couldn’t leave hom it just has to This season, e Fluid ta Cari gs. without two thin stay on.’ women tend to de Beauté 14 – a famous oil for Laura’s get a bit sallow, my of the hair and body and one philosophy so she suggests a my And favourite things. follows a ‘hydrating fragrance, Ambre Précieux by routine: primer to boost than er L’Artisan Parfumeur. Oth prime the the skin as well that, I was open to discovering skin, apply as a light new products.’ foundation, foundation’,

Bare-faced beauty giving your skin a glowing finish. And if you’re looking to venture into autumn trends, Laura says green is the colour du jour. ‘Green has been abandoned for a long time,’ she says,

‘and it’s the most difficult to wear so find a version you feel inspired by.’ But before you get too excited, heed Laura’s warning: ‘Green only works for green or brown eyes, not blue.’

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METROSCOPE by Patrick Arundell

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Aries Mar 21 – Apr 20

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Taurus Apr 21 – May 21

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Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23

If your abode needs a few coats of paint in readiness for the holiday season, you might be inclined to make a start. Today’s Neptune influences inspire your imagination and could encourage you to experiment with soothing sea tones or rich Mediterranean tints.

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Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23

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Libra Sep 24 – Oct 23

If a desired purchase seems too costly, look instead to your creativity. Meanwhile, a dreamy blend of energies suggests you can be enthralled by a movie or novel that has an extraordinary tale to tell. For your forecast, call 15609 114 76

scorpio Oct 24 – Nov 22

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sagittarius Nov 23 – Dec 21

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capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20

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Eye of the storm So this is another Frank Bascombe novel. Yes. Despite ‘retiring’ Bascombe in 2006’s The Lay Of The Land, either Richard Ford (below) has found he can’t let go of Bascombe, whom he first introduced to us in 1986’s The Sportswriter, or Bascombe can’t let go of him. Either way, it’s a reason to celebrate – Ford’s Bascombe novels now surely stand comparison with John Updike’s Rabbit books as an essential chronicle of late 20th-century America. In these

Let Me Be Frank With You bY rIcharD ForD four interlinked novellas, set in the weeks leading up to Christmas in 2012, Bascombe is now 68, and a lifetime’s grief (bereavement, divorce, dashed ambitions) is starting to stack up perilously high.

What’s with the punning title? The title is laughably superfluous. Frank Bascombe

My DEsERT isLAnD bOOks aIDEN o’rEILLY

Mathematics lecturer-turned-author Aiden O’Reilly won the biannual McLaverty Prize in 2008 and his work has been widely anthologised. His debut short story collection, Greetings, Hero, is out now

a ViSit FroM the Goon SquaD BY JenniFer eGan

a scintillating collection of interlinked stories with the action spanning from the late 1970s San Francisco punk scene to New York in the near future. Egan’s technique is dazzling – one piece is in the form of a PowerPoint presentation – but never gimmicky. It bears re-reading many times, and that’s crucial in a desert island book. Extra fun in spotting hints in the stories which allow the links and timeline to be plotted using a stick in the sand (because if I had paper I’d be writing my own novel).

the CoMpLete Short StorieS oF JG BaLLarD

I don’t actually have this book, but I have read well over half of the individual

stories. ballard’s fiction is often experimental, sometimes blockbuster paced, sometimes barely readable, and always fascinating. The ‘Seer of Shepperton’ had his neurons wired to the future. It’s not so much technologies that interest him, as the deviant psychologies and ideologies of the future. his fictions are due to become increasingly familiar as the years pass. Last time I was in my local bookshop on Parnell Street, his books had migrated en masse from the sci-fi shelves to modern fiction.

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Taking this desert island gig at a face value, a weighty, eradefining 19thcentury novel is an absolute necessity. If I had to pick just one it would be Dostoyevsky’s passionate epic of three thr brothers, driven and dr demented demen by intellectual passion, sexual passion, or spiritual passion – there are spir no milk-and-water characters here. You will come away with the notion that 21stcentury people are walking around with souls like shrivelled peas. Greetings, Hero (Honest Publishing) is available from Hodges Figgis, priced €15.90

has spent his life talking (or rather ruminating) frankly. Yet here Bascombe, now retired from real estate, is in even more mordantly reflective mood: mortality is pressing up against the window; his ex-wife has died from Parkinson’s; another friend is dying of cancer; and if that wasn’t enough, Hurricane Sandy has just swept through New Jersey, leaving a literal and figurative wave of destruction.

how so? In the superbly written opening novella, Ford deploys his full arsenal of word power to summon up the devastation of Sandy, not least its merciless assault on Bascombe’s former house. ‘All that life has now been poleaxed and strewn around like hay-straw, so that even a hardened disaster-tourist… would have to ask himself: “What can you do with this now?”’ thinks Bascombe. Ford is too skilful to press for an easy metaphor, but the physical frailty of buildings and real estate and the awesome, cosmic, obliterating indifference of Sandy combine to produce a surging undercurrent of

existential melancholy throughout all four novellas. Ford is on brilliant form here, artfully evoking the flotsam and jetsam of Bascombe’s stream of consciousness – and never failing to leaven Bascombe’s now frequent encounters with his declining health and his

diminishing pool of friends with dollops of salty black comedy. Bascombe himself (a man who is buffeted by life much more than he inhabits it), meanwhile, is an even more magnificent mix of pragmatism, irony and sorrow.

Claire Allfree Bloomsbury, out now.

aLSo out thiS Week GettinG CoLDer bY aMaNDa coE Screenwriter amanda coe, whose credits include Shameless, turns her eye upon middle-class mischief in this dark satire. It’s about the warring stepchildren of a playwright who was big in the 1980s and now spends his whisky-marinated days grappling with writer’s block. his deceased wife and muse abandoned her

children to devote herself to him, and now they are back to reclaim what is theirs, a plan that falters when foxy student Mia turns up to write a thesis on his work. a savage family saga with lots to say about society today. Anthony Cummins Virago, out now.

SanCtuarY bY robErT EDrIc branwell brontë, wastrel brother to the three famous sisters, is a notorious black sheep in our culture, yet here he takes centre stage in robert Edric’s beautiful re-imagining of his final months. as the sisters’ celebrity grows, Edric tells a story that could have emerged from a brontë novel. a man haunted by his failures is

trapped by the secrets of a sequestered household and drawn to his own decline. In flinty, lilting prose, Edric details the forces of modernity rampaging through the Yorkshire landscape – a forward propulsion that only throws branwell’s self-implosion into starker relief. CA Transworld, out Thu.

not MY Father’S Son bY aLaN cuMMINg This compelling life story is almost the antithesis of a traditional celebrity autobiography. cumming has not come to crow about public success but to explore the private anguish behind it – namely, the physical and psychological abuse he suffered at the hands of his father. Yet what makes this frank,

twisting book such a page-turner is that just as cumming was preparing to film the bbc’s Who Do You Think You are? his estranged father dropped the kind of bombshell that would lead anyone to question almost everything about themselves. Patricia nicol Canongate, out now.

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formula one season finale

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An iconic F1 moment. Michael Schumacher was one point ahead of Damon Hill going into the final race of the season. The German led in Adelaide but had a scare when he went off the track and hit the wall with his right wheels, only to recover and make his way back into the race. Hill sensed his chance on the 36th lap, and tr to overtake, but Schumacher controversially turned in and blocked his car. The tried on soon title leader skidded off, and even though Hill briefly carried on, the Briton pulled in into the pits. Stewards judged it as a racing incident but many in the sportt orld title. blamed Schumacher for his move. The German claimed his first world

 A glorious day in Japan for James Hunt. He went into the final race of the year three points behind Niki Lauda. It was a truly filthy Sunday at Fuji – thick fog and heavy rain that left parts of the track saturated. A majority of drivers didn’t want to race, including Lauda and Hunt, but organisers pressed ahead. In the end Lauda, who survived a near-fatal crash at the Nurburgring earlier that season, said ‘my life is worth more than a title’ and withdrew on his second lap. Hunt recovered from a late puncture to finish third, enough for the title.

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have a shoot-out for the world title on Sunday as F1 reaches another thrilling climax. Nick Metcalfe looks back at six classic final races of the past.  Lewis Hamilton’s first taste of a final race r decider seven years ago ended in abject yea disappointment in Brazil. He disappoin was four points clear of wa Fernando Alonso going into Fe the last l race of the season, and seven clear of Kimi Raikkonen. se Hamilton started poorly, Hamilt sliding off the track tr into the run-off area, and then slipping runout of gear ge as he was sent to the back of the field. The Briton had to surge back from Br behind, but could c only make it up to t seventh, and his hopes of glory were dashed. Alonso was glor third, and it was Ferrari’s race thir winner Raikkonen who wi claimed the title, a single point cl clear cle of his two rivals.

 There’s something about Brazil and great F1 drama. Sebastian Vettel’s hopes of a title hat-trick looked to be receding in the rain when a collision with Bruno Senna sent him back to last place. The German showed terrific tenacity under pressure, however, and made his way through the field, finishing in sixth. Fernando Alonso was second, behind winner Jenson Button, but that wasn’t good enough for him as Vettel finished the season three points ahead at the top of the pile. ‘It was an incredible race,’ reflected a joyous champion.

Lewis Hamilton was desperate to avoid a repeat of 2007 when he built up a title lead 12 months later, but so nearly saw his chance slip away again on an amazing afternoon of drama in Brazil. Felipe Massa won the race, meaning Hamilton needed to finish fifth to clinch the title. The McLaren driver had looked on course but a late shower meant he stopped for wet tyres and dropped tto sixth. As fans held their br breath, Hamilton passed Timo Glock on the final ccorner of the final llap, to clinch the title by one point. poin  Millions of fans woke before the crack of dawn to bef witness memorable theatre. wi Nigel Mans Mansell needed to finish thir third to claim the title, and see seemed to be coasting along in tha that position with 19 llaps left when his tyre blew in spectacular fashion, ble bursting in into flames. ‘Colossally that’s Mansell,’ ‘C screamed commentator scr Murray Walker. His Williams Mur team-mate Nelson Piquet te was called into the pits, and wa Alain Prost went on to win Al the rrace, and the world title.

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Strange stories from the world of sport

Cat loiter has Mik in a mess Former Chelsea striker mikael Forssell turned up late for training at current club VfL Bochum this week after being held hostage by a cat. The Finn was all set to leave his house when, to his horror, he looked out of the window to discover a rogue moggy sitting beside his car. Not the most fearsome of sights but Forssell has a rather bad cat allergy. He posted a picture of his tormentor on his Twitter account and wrote: ‘I’m allergic to cats...I need to leave 2 training...semi-scary... been there now 4 about 20mins rubbing against rubber’. A paw excuse.

A few pointers: Wenger talks tactics with ozil during a training session at London Colney by jAck fOx Mesut Ozil still believes Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger can help make him a better player. the Gunners’ £42.5million clubrecord signing is currently recovering from a knee injury suffered at the start of October, and is not expected to feature again until early next year. Ozil, who helped Germany win the World Cup last summer, has often been criticised for perceived inconsistent displays, with ques-

‘I know the boss can move me forward ’ tions raised over whether the former Real Madrid playmaker could cope with the physical demands of the Premier league. Wenger, however, retains complete confidence in the midfielder, who is in no doubt he is at the right club and under the right manager to move his game forwards. Ozil said: ‘He [Wenger] knows what he wants and i know he can bring me a step forward. He trusts me in that way and i trust him, completely. For a team, it [a tro-

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In Wenger Ozil trusts to further his career

here.’ Ozil, 26, insists he phy] is the biggest thing to pays no attention to get and we got it [last seadebate over his form. son with the FA Cup], ‘i don’t care what but as a player, there are other things – being Goals for ozil in 32 the press thinks about me, as football the best player in the Premier League changes from day to world, other cups, the appearances with Champions league. day,’ he said. Arsenal ‘For now, i am not mak‘You can play well ing any plans for after my one day and badly the career. i’m just really happy to be next. i’m used to it.’

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Relatively speaking ArSeNAL’S Alex oxlade-Chamberlain, Per mertesacker and Jack Wilshere join ‘relatives’ in a spoof video for sponsors europcar UK. ‘Face to Face with the Arsenal Family’ stars champion baker ‘Trudy mertesacker’, plumber ‘Kenny Wilshere’ and plane spotter ‘Darren oxlade-Chamberlain’, played by Keith from The office (ewen macIntosh).

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Given it his all: Shay Given said it was important to finish on a high against the US Picture: getty

Wenger backs struggling Ozil to recapture early form

Next year’s ties Given Shay lots to think about by SAM cOSTELLO Shay Given and his Republic of ireland team-mates will return to euro 2016 battle next year with renewed spirit after soothing the pain of defeat in Scotland. Martin O’neill’s men travelled to Glasgow on Friday with high hopes of maintaining an unbeaten start to their Group D campaign. But they returned on the wrong end of a 1-0 scoreline and back in the thick of a four-way battle with Poland, Germany and the Scots for the two automatic qualification places for the finals. however on Tuesday evening, they eased their disappointment with a 4-1 friendly victory over the United States which was achieved by a side featuring 11 changes to the one which had run out at Celtic Park.

the other end of the experience scale who captured the imagination as debutants Cyrus Christie and David McGoldrick rivalled 22-year-old winger Robbie Brady in staking claims for inclusion. Derby full-back Christie, 22, and 26-year-old ipswich striker McGoldrick both turned in fine displays, but it was Brady who made the biggest impact, starting as a left-back, but contributing to his side’s second and fourth goals. ‘Robbie had a fantastic finish for the last goal and even his first goal was a great finish as well, well-worked down the left wing,’ Given said. ‘Cyrus probably settled into it more in the second half as well when he bombed forward a few times and got some great balls into the box. he’s only young as well and he’s got a big future ahead of him.’ McGoldrick was first to make his mark with a superb through-

‘Robbie had a fantastic finish for the last goal and even his first was great as well’ Given said: ‘We were disappointed, obviously, after Friday night, there’s no getting away from that. But the manager said before the game it was important that we finished the calendar year on a high. ‘it’s a long wait for the next game, of course, but it’s a bit better feeling in the head for the fans and for the players that we have actually got a good win and a good performance and scored some good goals as well. ‘But obviously the big games again are in March-time and it’s a long wait for that, of course. But it’s good to finish the year on a bit of a high.’ Given, 38, was handed a 127th senior cap and justified his selection with a series of fine saves. however, it was a trio of men at

ball to allow anthony Pilkington to open scoring with a seventhminute finish, his first international goal, and after Mix Diskerud cancelled out the opener, he set up Brady to restore the lead. The striker said: i’m confident in my ability – i would rather have had the two goals myself, but two assists is good, and the win.’ Substitute James McClean gave ireland breathing space with a deflected 82nd-minute shot, but Brady saved the best for last when he curled a free-kick past keeper hamid three minutes from time. McGoldrick did more than enough to suggest he has a future at international level, but it was perhaps the younger man’s display which gave O’neill even greater reason for optimism given that, until his emergence, Seamus Coleman has been the only senior specialist right-back available to the manager.

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Wigan under fire as Mackay takes up post MALKY MACKAY’S appointment as the new Wigan boss was last night criticised by equality campaigners even though he denied being racist, sexist or homophobic. The 42-year-old has been out of work since leaving Cardiff last December and takes over a club in the Championship bottom three. In August, Mackay admitted to sending text messages deemed ‘disrespectful of other cultures’, but Latics chairman Dave Whelan has offered him a route back into the game. ‘I’m a manager, I’m a leader of people and it should not have happened,’ Mackay said. ‘But before all that, I’m a human being and I made a mistake.’

Sturridge set to sit out Xmas fixtures LIveRPOOL striker Daniel Sturridge could be sidelined until the new year after his latest injury setback. The 25-year-old had a scan yesterday after pulling out of training earlier this week with a thigh problem. While the injury is not a recurrence of the one he sustained on england duty in September, it’s believed it could keep him out for up to six weeks. Sturridge has not played for the Reds since August 31 as he strained a calf on his return to training after

Scan: Sturridge recovery from his initial thigh injury, but he was in line to feature at Crystal Palace this weekend. A Liverpool statement read: ‘Daniel Sturridge will remain unavailable for selection but will be monitored and assessed during his recovery.’