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New powers to crack down on drink and drug-driving will be rigorously enforced, new Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has warned.

Blood samples can be taken from incapacitated or unconscious drivers without their consent, under laws which come into effect today.

Under the procedure, the driver will be asked to consent to the sample being tested once he or she is in a fit state to respond. But they will be guilty of an offence if they refuse.

The Government said the new rule closed a loophole, ensuring all drivers involved in serious collisions would be tested for drink or drugs, and would act as a deterrent.

Gardaí also have new powers to test motorists they suspect of being under the influence of drugs.

These include asking a driver to walk in a straight line, turn around, stand on one leg and touch their nose with their finger.

They can also take evidence about a suspect’s pupil dilation.

Team: Liz O’Donnell (left) and Nóirín O’Sullivan at launch of road safety measures Picture: Pa

Ms O’Sullivan said the tests would save lives: ‘Over the last decade, we have seen similar measures such as reducing the alcohol limit and the intro-

‘Gardaí will rigorously enforce new measures’ duction of penalty points have helped reduce the number of road deaths. ‘we believe these new regulations will do the same and we will be rigorously enforcing them,’ she added.

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They can actually delude themselves to be better drivers while under the influence of drugs and imagine themselves at low risk of collision.’

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Coma mum wakes thinking it’s 1996 and she is just 22

by ERin kERR

A CAR crash survivor who woke up thinking it was the 1990s and with no memory of her young daughter has met and thanked the firefighters who saved her life.

Candace Emptage came out of a six-week coma thinking Princess Diana was still alive and the Spice Girls were top of the charts.

When she was told she had a daughter, the 40-year-old former model stared in disbelief. ‘I thought I was about 22,’ she said. ‘I still cannot remember my childhood, going to school or my oldest friends.’

Ms Emptage nearly died after she lost control of her Toyota MR2 and crashed into an ambulance near Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK, in 2010. She pulled through but her brain injuries meant that when she woke up she had no memory after 1996.

‘Eventually an image of my daugh-

ter Maddie, who was 14, came back to me, but as a tiny little girl of about two,’ said Ms Emptage, of Burnopfield, Co Durham.

‘When she came to the hospital I had no idea who she was. I still have no memories of her before the crash.’

Now Candace has met the men and women of Swalwell fire station in Gateshead who cut her from her car.

‘I wanted to say thank you. I owe them my life,’ she added.

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Lost years: Candace Emptage, 40, had no memoryy of her daughter Maddie after the crash which wrecked her Toyota MR2 PICTURE: nnP

PIGLET Chris P New lease of life: Bacon became a Roofus the retriever YouTube sensation after 2million viewers saw him squealing around on his Meccano wheels. Now he has been joined

by Molly the pony, Mr Stubbs the alligator and Roofus the dog for a TV show – My Bionic Pet – about pets with Reptile smiles: Mr Stubbs with his new tail THIRTEEn/REx prosthetics.

Christmas FM back to spread festive cheer FESTIVE fever will be ramped up a notch this week with the return of the volunteer-led Christmas FM tomorrow.

The charity and Chrimbo-centric station will broadcast the usual feast of festive music as well as Christmas-related information in the run-up to Christmas. It’s all to raise awareness and funds for its chosen charity this year, Age Action Ireland.

Chief executive of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Michael O’Keefe, said: ‘We are delighted to provide a temporary licence to Christmas FM again this year. It has been hugely popular since it was first launched in 2008.’

The station will broadcast between 7am and midnight from tomorrow until December 27 in Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Galway city, and parts of Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny and Tipperary.

Christmas FM is also available on mobile and online.

In 2013, Christmas FM launched a second music-driven online only station, Classic Christmas FM. It broadcasts all year round and is available on christmasfm.com, the Christmas FM mobile apps and TuneIn.

Trot on: Molly the pony on her prosthetic pins

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Sinn Féin figure held over killing

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Fury in Dáil over Burton abuse claim THE DÁIL had to be suspended on three occasions yesterday after Tánaiste Joan Burton referred to a ‘problem of paedophilia and sex abuse’ within the republican movement.

The comments incensed Sinn Féin members, who accused the Labour TD of making ‘defamatory’ remarks and linking an alleged sex abuser with the party.

As a result of the angry response, Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett was forced to call a halt to proceedings in the house three times in just under an hour.

The incident occurred after a question was directed by Sinn Féin deputy leader

‘we know there’s been a problem of paedophilia’ Mary Lou McDonald at Ms Burton. She questioned whether the Department of Justice was delaying the publication of a Garda investigative file into allegations of sexual abuse by Irish language teacher Domhnall Ó Lubhlaí.

Responding to the query, Ms Burton said that Mr Ó Lubhlaí had links of

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Tánaiste Joan Burton (left) raised the hackles of Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou Mcdonald

A renowned republican was arrested yesterday over the murder of Jean McConville.

Sinn Féin’s Bobby Storey, 58, was detained in Antrim town as part of the ‘overall investigation’ into the crime, officers said. He was later released pending a report to prosecutors. As well as the murder of the widow in 1972, police are investigating linked alleged offences, including IrA declarations of the killing.

Mrs McConville was abducted, interrogated and shot after being accused of informing British security forces. The mother-of-ten’s body was found in 2003.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was arrested in April over the crime but was later released.

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by LukE HOLOHAn ‘deep significance’ with republicanism in Ireland.

She added: ‘We know from the discussion previously and the acknowledgements by your party, that in fact there has been a problem of paedophilia and sex abuse, particularly of children, in the republican movement and cover-ups.’

Following the remarks, Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh was one of a number of TDs who refused to remain seated. He accused the speaker of being ‘biased’ for not allowing a response.

Dáil business was subsequently suspended for ten minutes while the Ceann Comhairle checked records of what had been said. On his return, Mr Barrett said he was satisfied that ‘no allegation was made against the Sinn Féin party’.

With a number of Sinn Féin deputies again refusing to resume their seats the house was suspended a further two times before resuming.

Sinn Féin is expected to lodge a complaint with the Committee on Procedure and Privileges.

tD in online ‘moron’ storm FINE GAEL TD Alan Farrell has been criticised for labelling a Twitter user a ‘moron’.

The brief social media spat began when David Kenny (@Garathon66) responded to an image posted by the Fine Gael deputy about unemployment.

The Fine Gaelwatermarked graph purported to show the latest unemployment figure of 10.9 per cent – its lowest in five years – but it had no figures on one of its axes. Mr Kenny criticised the lack of detail in the graph, saying: ‘And what’s the chart supposed to illustrate? Ice-cap size plotted against a number of pirates? Utter nonsense.’

A number of others chimed in with their own criticisms, including Today FM’s Gavan Reilly.

However, it was the politics graduate who seemed to have provoked the ire of the Dublin-based politician. In a tweet, Mr Farrell (pictured) said: ‘Yes, of course you are right. A circa 25 per cent reduction in unemployment since taking office is nonsense. Moron.’

Mr Kenny said the remark smacked of ‘arrogance’, adding: ‘I don’t think it’s fitting behaviour for an public representative who sits in the Dáil.’ The Dubliner said he had contacted Fine Gael over the insult but had yet to receive an apology.

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EU targets Google over ‘abuse of position’ EuropEan union institutions are piling pressure on Google to change the way it operates.

The European parliament has approved a non-binding resolution that calls for the unbundling of search engines from other services internet companies offer.

Eu antitrust authorities are currently investigating Google to see whether it is abusing its position following allegations it is biased in linking search results to its own services.

The resolution could in theory lead to the break-up of giant internet companies like Google.

Campaign: EU digital economy chief Guenther Oettinger Eu digital economy commissioner Guenther oettinger underscored the resolution is ‘an important expression of opinion’, but he added the Eu is far from tearing digital multinationals apart.

‘I don’t think, at the end of the day, that the breaking up as such is what we can expect,’ Mr oettinger said. ‘rather we are talking about the consistent and correct implementation of Eu legislation to ensure that the interests’ of Eu businesses and consumers are maintained.

Meanwhile, an Eu data protection group advised ‘the right to be forgotten’ rule that requires Google to delete upon request information that unfairly tarnishes an individual’s reputation should be expanded from addresses like .de and .fr to the general .com domains.

Big plans: Garda chief Nóirín O’Sullivan with Paschal Donohoe PICTURE: NIall CaRsoN

You’ll pay for bus with app in the future

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DUBLIN BUS may soon be a ticketless service if transport technology continues to develop at its current rate.

It was just one of the projections made

by Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe as he mapped out a ‘more responsive’ and ‘passenger-friendly’ future for travel. Speaking at the Transport Payments 2020 Conference, he said: ‘The whole area of transport payments is developing at a rate few of us would have envisaged even a few years ago.

‘In the last five years we have moved from coins to the Leap card and in the next five years we may be presenting our bank cards to pay for journeys. Soon after that our payments will probably be done using our mobile phones. I note that all bus services in London are now completely cashless. This will probably happen in Ireland at some point.’

Since its introduction in 2011, the Government has been encouraging wider use of the Leap card by offering subsidised travel on bus, light and heavy rail routes. And new technology is in devel-

opment to advance the card’s ‘evolution’, Mr Donohoe said.

ViX – a payment solutions provider – has been contracted by the NTA to create an app enabling card users to remotely top-up by holding it close to their smartphone. Passengers would also be able to check their balance in real-time.

A number of new transport infrastructures are also under review, including a rapid bus lane system and the Dart Underground.

Radical new transport infrastructure is on way ‘To help us plan for the future a number of studies are currently being undertaken. These reviews will assess the short, medium and long-term rail transport requirement of the capital and will look particularly at the North Dublin corridor which is located in one of the fastest growing regions in the country,’ Mr Donohoe added.

A re-signalling of Irish Rail is also set to be completed by mid-2016.

‘Click and collect’ back on track TESCO has teamed up with Luas in a reincarnation of its ‘click and collect’ shopping service.

The service, which will be free of charge, allows customers to do their shopping online, choose a two-hour collection window and collect their groceries at either the Red Cow or Stillorgan Luas stops.

Tesco said all products

purchased will be picked on the day of collection and safely stored until the customer arrives to collect.

A Tesco employee will hold the groceries at a dedicated collection point until the customer arrives to collect.

Tesco said the turnaround time for a collection is expected to be less than five minutes.

A Tesco Ireland spokeswoman said this new service would benefit park and ride Luas customers in particular, while Luas marketing manager Cara Moloney said that the service would ‘help provide time-strapped passengers with an even better travel experience’.

The service will operate seven days a week.

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MACAULAY CULKiN stunned fans when he puckered up for a kiss with rap singer Har Mar Superstar. He was performing with his band Pizza Underground when the Ron Jeremy pornalike joined him on stage in Montana. The 34-year-old found himself squashed beneath the rotund star.

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But it’s not permanent. The Oscar winner is getting in character to film faith-based drama, Same Kind Of Different As Me, in Mississippi.

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is female fans travel to the ends of the earth just to get a glimpse of him, but ladies’ man Harry Styles says he’s still just an insecure lad growing up.

‘I think that people imagine that if you’re in a band you kind of lose all normal things. But we still have every insecurity every 19 or 20-year-old guy has,’ said Hazza, who joined the rest of his band in Australia this week for an awards show.

He may be insecure but he joked that he and the rest of One Direction leave their underwear around – to pull the girls.

The last time the lads were down in Oz, bandmate Liam Payne had to have his red boxers retrieved by police when female fans trespassed into his beach condo and ran off with

them. Pants have power, said Harry.

‘Now we leave them out as bait,’ he laughed. ‘We just leave pants around everywhere and set traps.’

Australian men are famous for wearing ‘budgie-smuggling’ swimming gear. Harry revealed the lads have their own personalised Speedos.

‘I’ve got mine on right now,’ he joked. He was also keen to clear up rumours he has been partying too hard. His bandmates said he arrived late in Australia because he’d been partying after the American Music Awards.

But Harry was adamant he wasn’t too hungover for the long Pacific flight.

He insisted: ‘I didn’t feel very well so I didn’t want to fly. My ear hurts. I wanted to wait out the storm.’

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ED SHEERAN says he deserves an award for being ‘overweight’.

The 23-year-old asked Sia, 38, for an Aria award after she announced she would give away her four gongs.

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MILEY CYRUS says she is ‘f***ing thankful’ for her life. The 22-year-old shared a snap of her in bed with a book and her dog, writing: ‘How did I get chosen?’

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JENNifEr LAWrENCE has landed her first top 40 single. The Hanging Tree – taken from the third Hunger Games movie, is at No.29 in the charts.

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Jessie: Have I met my No.1 squeeze? I’m working on it

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essie J says she doesn’t love her new fella yet but is giving him the chance to be ‘the one’. The star got to the bottom of her relationship with Us r’n’b singer Luke James after a naughty new photoshoot.

Asked if marriage is on her mind she replied: ‘Maybe. Why not? i’m nearly 27 and i’m at a point in my life where anyone i’m allowing to give that part of myself to, i want to give the chance for it to be forever. And he’s really amazing.’

However, the Bang Bang hitmaker says her new fella has a

way to go yet to steal her heart and make her feel totally at ease. ‘Am i in love right now? i’m working on being in love,’ she said. ‘That’s the truth. i don’t want to sound mean. But i’m not in love…yet. i’m learning how to fall in love.’ she told Glamour magazine: ‘Being in love is when you can be yourself as if you were on your own, but they’re there.’

The star says she has big plans for the near future. ‘i want to do charity stuff, a line of perfume, another book. And i want to buy my mum and dad a house outright.’

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Airline shells out for turtle’s flight A loggerheAd turtle that was left fighting for its life after being washed up on a beach in Co Clare last year is set to jet off to the Canary Islands, where she will be returned to the sea.

Aer lingus responded to an appeal from the Clare-based Irish Whale and dolphin group (IWdg) for someone to fly ‘leona’ to gran Canaria after spending the last year being cared for at the galway Atlantiquarium.

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Trial vaccine brings hope in the fight against Ebola

An experimental Ebola vaccine has triggered promising immune responses from 20 healthy volunteers taking part in a preliminary trial.

The results suggest the vaccine should protect people against the deadly infection that has claimed more than 5,000 lives since March.

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THE Government has published a new sexual offences bill which proposes a wide range of reforms aimed at protecting children from sexual exploitation, child pornography and online grooming.

Measures to criminalise the purchase of sexual services are also included.

Sanctions for the new offences include both fines and prison sentences of up to 14 years.

The bill also includes measures to strengthen post-release supervision and monitoring of sex offenders, including a new requirement on sex

offenders to provide fingerprints, palm prints and photographs if requested by gardai.

The age of consent is to remain at 17 under the new legislation but a ‘proximity clause’ will be introduced that won’t criminalise ‘nonexploitative, consensual sexual relationships between peers where there is no more than two years in age difference between both parties’.

The new bill also criminalises the purchasing rather than sale of sexual services, with a more serious offence of purchasing a sexual service from a trafficked person.

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‘Showbiz Alcatraz’ boss is struck off for risking lives

by HEnRy vAugHAn THE boss of an island rehab clinic dubbed ‘Showbiz Alcatraz’ has been kicked out of the nursing profession over his ‘flagrant disregard’ for the safety of patients.

Brendan Quinn pretended to be a top doctor to lure stars, including Amy Winehouse and Mark Owen, to the €6,500 a week Causeway Retreat.

He allowed people with mental health problems to stay there, despite never having registered it as a hospital.

Medication was handed out without valid prescriptions by unqualified staff – and drugs were stored in a suitcase in an unlocked room.

James Spencer, chairman of the British Nursing and Midwifery Council, told Quinn: ‘You consistently placed your own commercial needs above those of highly vulnerable patients.’

The clinic on Osea Island in Maldon, Essex, UK, was closed down following an investigation in 2010. It came after Channel 4 executive Sarah Mulvey – who had been treated there for stress the previous year – took her own life at her home in north London.

An inquest heard the 35-year-old was asked to leave the retreat after a suicide attempt – making her feel

she had been left ‘high and dry’.

Quinn, 38, of Lewes, East Sussex, denied all the allegations against him at the NMC hearing in London. He said workers had cooked up stories to ruin him.

But announcing the decision to strike him off, Mr Spencer told him: ‘You allowed particularly vulnerable patients to be admitted into an unregistered and unsafe environment.’

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EASTENDERS star Linda Henry is facing trial over claims she hurled racial abuse at someone outside a Jamie Oliver restaurant.

The 51-year-old, who plays barmaid Shirley Carter in the BBC soap, was charged with racially aggravated harassment after the incident near the Greenwich branch of Jamie’s Italian in September.

It is alleged the actress used threatening or abusive words likely to cause harassment after she became embroiled in a row at the restaurant in south-east London.

A spokesman for Henry, who has been charged under her married name Valiris, said: ‘Linda will be defending the allegation.’

A source close to her told The Sun: ‘Linda is horrified at the accusation and intends to fight it tooth and nail.

Those close to her know the truth and the type of person she is.’

Although summonsed to appear at Bexley magistrates’ court yesterday, Henry sent her lawyer along to enter a not guilty plea.

A BBC spokeswoman declined to comment.

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AMERiCA: A giant helium-filled Spider-Man takes to the streets of New York in rehearsals for Macy’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The show is watched by about 44million TV viewers picture: WireiMAGe

Kim reinforces rule Thousands protest by appointing sister against state cuts

nORTH KOREA: Leader Kim Jong-un’s younger sister has been revealed as a senior official in the ruling Workers’ Party. Kim Yo-jong, 27, was referred to yesterday by state media as a departmental vicedirector in the central committee.

South Korean analysts say she’s likely to have more influence than her peers because she’s a member of the family. The role will also aid her brother’s authoritarian regime.

gREECE: A general strike shut down services across the country yesterday, leaving state hospitals with only emergency staff. The 24-hour walkout against continued austerity also saw thousands march through Athens. It comes after recent talks with international debt inspectors about the economy ended inconclusively. The country has had to borrow billions from the eurozone and IMF since 2010.

and finally... buLgARiA: It’s a sweet treat for your sweat. An inventor has created ‘deodorant bon-bons’ that make perspiration smell of roses. Ventsislav Peychev is now developing a lavender version of his Deo Perfume Candy.

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PD James dies after a life of crime writing aged 94 TRIBUTES were yesterday paid to crime writer PD James, who died aged 94.

The novelist, who wrote a string of books about detective Adam Dalgliesh, died at her home in Oxford yesterday morning, her agent said.

James’s publishers Faber & Faber said in a statement: ‘She was so very remarkable in every aspect of her life, an inspiration and great friend to us all. It is a privilege to publish her extraordinary books.’

Tensions high over Ferguson

A Missouri National Guardsman stands in front of Ferguson City Hall, Missouri, yesterday. Tensions remained high across the US after a grand jury’s decision not to charge police officer Darren Wilson forr gunning down do unarmed black teenager Michael Brown Picture: AP

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Former governor of the BBC James, who spent 30 years working as a civil servant before becoming a full-time author, was hailed by fellow crime writer Ian Rankin.

‘Sharp intellect, ready wit. She will be missed,’ he said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said: ‘Saddened to hear of the death of PD James, one of the UK’s greatest crime writers.’

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The reason for setting up a commercial entity to run water is so that when the capital is needed to fix the broken water system it doesn’t form part of the national debt and therefore push us over the eU debt limits.

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HSe to look after four million people – and the health minister says he needs a bigger budget. once again the taxpayer is being taken for a ride. The joke is that the majority of patients are still suffering painfully.

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THIS is the moment a slippery seal avoids becoming shark bait as he escapes the clutches of a great white.

Underwater photographer Sergio Riccardo captured the great escape near Seal Island, off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa.

The 51-year-old, from Sorrento, Italy, said of the sharks: ‘They launch themselves from underneath the seal, knocking it above the surface and snapping the mammal in their mouths. I was glad to see the seal escape.’

Flipping hell: The great white tosses the seal into the air

garage blew up my €1m Lamborghini THE billionaire founder of a leading estate agents is suing a garage after his €1.25million Lamborghini blew up while his son was driving it.

Jon Hunt claims the wrong type of spark plugs were fitted to his Miura SV by the mechanics who serviced it in December. His son had driven less than a mile from the Lamborghini London garage when it exploded in flames in April.

He was not hurt but the 1971 supercar was reduced to a fire-blackened wreck.

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Keeper plays on with a broken neck A GOALKEEPER played on with a suspected broken neck after a collision with a teammate.

Laura Wareham came off the pitch only after the pain left her unable to kick, but collapsed twice before being taken to hospital.

An X-ray showed the Newcastle United keeper, 21, had suffered a break at the base of the skull, although a scan suggested it may be ligament damage.

Ms Wareham also broke her neck in a match in 2011.

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1. Alan Carr: Chatty Man

C4, 10pm Russell Brand is never short of a word or two on any subject, so the garrulous Alan Carr is going to have his work cut out getting a word in edgeways as the rebranded Brand, now selling himself as a revolutionary, plugs his book Revolution, with full throttle on the verbals. A mega-rich comedian leading a revolt of the masses?

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RTÉ1, 9.35pm This ever-engaging festive staple is consistently one of the most watched shows on TV – so reserve your place on the couch right now. With hits such as Frozen and Guardians Of The Galaxy leaving box office tills ringing, there’s a good bet related merchandise will also make a few euro for those lucky enough to jump on the bandwagon. Ryan Tubridy fronts proceedings as usual while children from around the country line up the best toys, perform and entertain the viewers. Plus we can expect some special guests to drop by during the course of the evening’s playtime.

4 Josh Hartnett raises the stakes in 30 Days Of Night

5 Comedian Josh Widdicombe guests on topical quiz show Have I Got News For You

3. i’m A Celebrity… get Me out of here!

3e & UTV, 9pm It looks like it will take a costume malfunction of epic proportions to rob Jimmy Bullard of the jungle crown. So with the top of the league sorted, let’s settle back and love to loathe those with ‘early bath’ written all over them.

4. today’s Film: 30 Days of night

C4, 11.40pm Where would be the perfect place for vampires to hang out? Where better than an Alaskan town where the sun never struggles above the horizon for an entire month? Josh Hartnett and Melissa George star in this 2007 neck gnasher that’ll leave fang fans drooling.

5. have i got news For You

BBC1, 9pm Alexander ‘Xander’ Armstrong, crown prince of Pointless, is our

YoUR gUiDE to this EvEning’s EssEntiAL viEWing charming host on the headlineredacting quiz tonight, and it’s a busy night for Josh Widdicombe, who’s guesting on both this and QI on BBC2 at 10pm. Anyone got the number of his agent?

6. the Works RTÉ1, 8.30pm

It’s more than 30 years since Morrissey first started making waves in the music industry. Tying in with his upcoming performance in the 3Arena, The Works explores the allure of this charming man. Plus, Sinéad Gleeson reports from the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards.

7. not going out

BBC1, 9.30pm Is alcoholism a laughing matter?

Lee Mack’s generally light-hearted sitcom sails close to the wind as Lee and landlady Lucy try to get Lee’s out-of-control dad Frank (Bobby Ball) to quit the bottle. For the sake of the houseplants if nothing else – acid can rot the roots, you know.

8. the graham norton show

BBC1, 11.05pm The promo push for Paddington – the movie of the duffle-coated bear is in cinemas from today –

clicks into top gear as stars Nicole Kidman, Julie Walters and Hugh Bonneville sing its praises. The musical turn is the trio calling themselves Take That – let’s hope they remember to put this appearance on their tax return.

9. play it Loud: the story of the Marshall Amp

BBC4, 10pm A whole generation of rock fans have one Jim Marshall to thank for their premature deafness – the amp pioneer was the one who gave 1960s electric guitarists the wherewithal to crank up the volume to the earbleeding max. Stack ’em high was

the mantra as everyone from The Who to Motörhead pumped up the volume. Here, those glory days of white noise are recalled through a blizzard of feedback.

10. Agents of shiELD

C4, 8pm The SHIELD gang find their backs against the wall when sneaky enemies Hydra carry out an attack on the United Nations and pass themselves off as our heroes.

Nick Blood, currently a sharpshooter on the edge in comedy cop drama Babylon, stars here as the rather cockier Lance Hunter.

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aura Livingstone above): ‘in the 1970s and 1980s, with films like star Wars, there was dropped into the deep end. after working was a romanticism about it. now on a few indie films, the it’s so widespread that it’s taken trinity College graduate for granted.’

Yet vFX is still not a widely found herself in Hollywood, accepted career choice in ireworking on visual effects for land, which is why Livingstone iron Man 2. she helped create and Cunneen established the robert Downey Jr’s superhero irish visual effects & animation suit, Mickey rourke’s electric summit. this weekend’s event whips, and much more. one sees award-winning industry sequence required her veterans, from films that team to turn a include interstellar Californian special and gravity, conparking lot into a e s u e ‘W o d verging at trinity’s Monaco race o t s effect es on science gallery track. For the x fi beauty rs – we for talks, workfinale battle, a shops and film she implanted aging st emove r screenings. hundreds of have to ins and ch there’s a special angry drones double kles’ screening of Padinto the film. wrin dington (see review visual effects page 23) tomorrow at (vFX) make the exthe screen Cinema, 7pm. traordinary seem believa‘Paddington, as well as his aunt ble, explains Livingstone: ‘special effects is what happens on and uncle from darkest Peru, is set. visual effects is everything computer generated,’ says Cunthat is done after the movie has neen, who worked on the film. the rise of visual effects in been cut together.’ vFX has become an important films can be attributed to the part of film-making, agrees Dub- barrage of superhero and comic lin’s eoghan Cunneen (pictured book movies over the last few

decades. in 1978, superman launched with the memorable tagline: ‘You will believe a man can fly.’ even at the time, no one really believed it. ‘now this is all possible,’ says Livingstone, who works on tv series arrow.

Livingstone also worked on Flight, which is best known for a scene in which Denzel Washington lands a plane upside down.

While the film-makers built a machine replicating the interior of the plane, in which actors were spun around, the vFX team built a digital passenger jet in order to create the dramatic landing.

Cunneen, whose credits include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and the robocop remake, was part of a team that created a ruined Paris for tom Cruise actioner edge of tomorrow. visual effects artists consider themselves part of the storytelling process and often work closely with the director. robert Zemeckis was hands on while making Flight. alfonso Cuarón, director of oscar-winning gravity, which has visual effects in almost every scene, worked out of Cunneen’s London studio. gravity broke boundaries for visual effects – the vFX team was listed in the credits before other crew members.

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make the extraordinary seem possible, much of their work focuses on the ordinary. according to Livingstone, whose credits include Boardwalk empire and the Bridge, a digital clean-up crew is often required to erase signs of modernity in period dramas, or ensure continuity between scenes. they even double as plastic surgeons. ‘We do beauty fixes on aging stars,’ she says. ‘We have to remove double chins, wrinkles. some older actors need their bodies enhanced or made to look more muscular. We have to

VFX queen: Laura Livingstone work on nip/tucks in every frame. it’s not anything remotely to do with the story – it’s in their contracts,’ she adds. visual effects is not just a new way of telling stories, it’s the new Botox.

The Irish Visual Effects & Animation Summit takes place until Sun. www.vfxsummit.com

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Neil Fraser’s contribution to reggae has never really received the credit it’s due. His Ariwa Sounds label helped shape reggae and his influence has stretched across genres. Tonight Fraser, better known as Mad Professor, makes his first Irish appearance in four years, with support from Mamah Kasbah.

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he Michael Bond books may be just for kids but this live action spin-off is an unexpected treat for all the family. The spoofy black and white opening scene sees an upper-crust British explorer befriending a couple of bears during an expedition to Darkest Peru. he teaches them about London and gradually, they start talking. he names them, calling the male after ‘an exotic wrestler I met in a bar’.

Phew. With this scene, Paddington makes it clear that it will be funny, acknowledge

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bear, Paddington may have grown up a bit, but then most of his fans have, too.

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its absurdity and, crucially, throw in jokes for grown ups that will sail over the heads of kids.

Fast forward to something resembling the present day and a bear arrives in London, expecting everyone to doff their hats, talk about the weather and offer him a home. At Paddington Station, he is eventually scooped up by Mrs Brown (Sally hawkins) and her grudging husband (hugh Bonneville), who invite him to spend one night in their Primrose hill home with their young son, daughter and housekeeper (Julie Walters).

Mr Brown wants to call the authorities on

this illegal immigrant; Mrs Brown wants to help him find the explorer who promised his family a warm welcome – and the plot revolves around this search, with tension provided in the svelte form of baddie Nicole Kidman, a taxidermist trying to nab a Marmalade-munching bear.

If the story is basic, the gags are not: this weaves in clever, character-based jokes about modern life, parenthood and nosy neighbours (namely, Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi). For younger kids, there are several enjoyable action set pieces involving Paddington’s clumsiness.

As for Paddington himself, he’s a furry computer-generated wonder, with Ben Whishaw’s soft, young voice proving a better fit than original choice Colin Firth would have. Firth’s decision to graciously bow out was the right one. Anna smith

New bosses are a little too clumsy Horrible bosses 2 (15) HHH✩✩ After their bungled attempt at bossmurdering, a trio of friends decide to start their own company. When the first businessman they deal with rips them off, it’s time for revenge: how about kidnapping this time?

And so Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day) attempt to kidnap rich boy Rex (Chris Pine) and extort a ransom from his father (Christoph Waltz).

Their uselessness comes with laughs attached: these are the kind of guys who

Sick joke: Day and Aniston

use their own names over the radio during a break-in. None of the plot stands up to the slightest bit of examination, though, and the recurring jokes wear thin.

As with the first film, the supporting characters are more interesting: step forward Jennifer Aniston as Julia, Dale’s predatory former boss who is shoehorned in, but not unwelcome. Aniston has a lot of fun as a leather-clad vixen who ‘collects penises’, while Kevin Spacey also returns and Pine is enjoyable as the kidnap victim.

This sequel won’t win over any new fans, but those after more of the same should find it a watchable giggle.

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Lost in a heart of darkness Defender Of The Faith HHHHI

Love/Hate has become such a phenomenon in popular culture that it’s easy to forget creator Stuart Carolan first came to our attention as a playwright with 2004’s Defender of the Faith. a cynic might suggest that Decadent theatre Company’s decision to dust down this early work is simply a means of cashing in on the success of Carolan’s gritty tv juggernaut. But there’s no doubting the quality of the writing here, nor the commitment of a fine cast. the play’s title alludes to the epithet conferred upon Henry vIII by Pope Leo X but, given how things panned out between england and Rome when Henry made himself head of the church, it’s little surprise that it’s been deployed ironically. the action takes place on a dairy farm in a republican stronghold of armagh in the mid-1980s.

Paterfamilias Joe (Peter Gowen) is a long-standing IRa member who, believing there’s an informer in his midst, has called upon a superior, JJ (a suitably menacing Diarmuid De Faoite), to investigate. a dark shadow of suspicion is cast not only on Joe himself but on his son Danny (David Martin) and farmhand Barney (Lalor Roddy, pictured), whose commitment to the cause appears to be driven as

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cLubs McDE suRgEOn & TR //ER DETROiT swinDLE (LivE) Danilo Plessow is still in his late twenties, having started to produce at a very young age. Inspired by jazz, house and techno, he put out his first record at the age of 15 back in 2000. However, it wasn’t until 2008 that his music gained recognition.

Working as Motor City Drum Ensemble – or MCDE for short – and focusing on house music, Plessow released the groundbreaking Raw Cuts series of records. Subsequently, some of these tracks were remixed by Detroit luminaries like Recloose and Mike Huckaby.

To get a sense of what Plessow sounds like behind the decks, check out his excellent 2011 DJ Kicks mix, which moves from funk to minimal techno without missing a beat.

Tomorrow, The Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street, D1, 11pm, €13/€15.

much by loneliness as by revolutionary zeal.

Defender of the Faith is an involving exploration of the disparity between a romanticised idea of sectarianism and a reality that’s marked by paranoia, fear and human weakness. the attention to detail here is exceptional: the screens on owen MacCarthaigh’s set are cleverly designed to rotate, capturing first a grimy farmhouse interior, and later – in a particularly poignant scene – the secluded spot where the body of an informer is abandoned.

Meanwhile, Mike o’Halloran’s lighting is thoughtfully deployed, particularly during scene changes when a torch– part searchlight, part interrogator’s lamp – is pointed at the audience. Performances are invariably strong but special mention should go to David Martin for his sensitive turn as grieving son Danny and Roddy as sadsack Barney. a melodramatic epilogue notwithstanding, this is a major success for director andrew Flynn and his crew.

Anthony Child, aka Surgeon, recently shared the same stage as Lady Gaga, but it’s unlikely that this encounter will have had any bearing on his music-making. The Birmingham DJ made his name during the 1990s with his innovative interpretations of minimal techno on his Dynamic Tension and Counterbalance labels. Since then, Child has also experimented with abstract, ambience, field recordings and dubstep – and his inspirational DJ sets usually end up fusing all of these elements in a riotous cacophony of sound. Support comes from UK techno duo TR //ER. Tomorrow, District8, 135 -138 Francis Street, D8, 10pm, €15/€18.

No matter what their stage name suggests, Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets come from Amsterdam and not the Motor City. However, they are inspired by the soulful house and techno grooves of Detroit producers like Rik Wilhite and Carl Craig, and these influences are clearly audible on their releases for Dirt Crew and Tsuba. Expect them to air tracks from their debut album, Boxed Out at this live show in Opium Rooms tonight.

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On My pLAyLisT COOL YULE ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS PLAYLIST Consign Slade and Cliff to the musical recycling bin and give your ears a treat with Metro Life’s cool yule Christmas playlist.

Elvis presley –

Santa Claus Is Back In Town Blue Christmas may be The King’s best known Xmas track, but this

rocker from 1957 will have Dad hip-swivelling and finger-popping as he carves the turkey.

Best lyric: Got no sleigh with reindeer, no sack on my back/ You’re gonna see me coming in a big black Cadillac.

Eartha Kitt – Santa Baby

The divine Miss Kitt really melts the snow with this slowburner from 1953. Not one you’d be keen on hearing Granny sing.

Best lyric: Think of all the fun I’ve missed/Think of all the fellas that I haven’t kissed/ Next year I could be just as good/If you’ll check off my Christmas list.

big John greer –

We Wanna See Santa Do The Mambo Bongos for Christmas Why not. Heat up the kitchen with this 1954 hit from saxophonist Greer, and stick it on when the neighbours pop round for an eggnog.

Best lyric: Take your big fat belly/And let it shake like jelly.

Louis Armstrong –

Cool Yule Big band swing from the year of 1953, courtesy of the man who always sings with a grin on his face.

Best lyric: He’ll come a callin’ when the snow’s the most/ When all you cats are sleepin’ warm as toast.

James brown –

Santa Claus, Go Straight To The Ghetto The Godfather of Soul recorded enough Christmas songs to fill a superstore of stockings – but this, from 1968, reflects on those having a trickier time of it all.

Best lyric: Santa Claus, go straight to the ghetto/Tell him James Brown sent you.

Lightnin’ Hopkins –

Santa Badass blues from 1966, for late at night when the brandy comes out and the lights are down low.

Best lyric: I’m going to bring your present/And do the thing that you may want me to.

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Close friend David Warner and Australia captain Michael Clarke led an outpouring of emotional tributes to Phillip Hughes following the batsman’s death at the age of 25.

Hughes died yesterday, two days after being struck on the head by a bouncer while batting for south Australia against New south Wales at the sydney Cricket Ground.

Warner, who was playing in the match and raced to help his stricken friend, was one of a number of players who visited Hughes at st Vincent’s Hospital and was in tears as he left.

The pair were team-mates for five years at New south Wales and with Australia and Warner posted a picture of them together on Twitter, wearing the Baggy Green with their arms round each other. He wrote: ‘Brothers in arms, RIP mate. I will always walk out there forever knowing your by my side. love you BRAZ!!’

An ashen-faced Clarke said in a statement on behalf of the Hughes family: ‘We’re devastated by the loss of our muchloved son and brother. Cricket was Phillip’s life, and we as a family shared that love with him. We love you.’

Australia great shane Warne described the news of Hughes’ death as ‘shocking, horrific and very, very sad’. He added on sky sports News: ‘We all love the entertainment sport gives us, so to see something like this... it is something that should never happen. He was one of the good guys.’

The Australian flag was flown at half mast at the sydney Cricket Ground following Hughes’ death.

On yer bike: Fergus McFadden, Ian Madigan and Noel Reid picture: inpho

MADigAn sET fOR sTART AT 10 As LEinsTER gET in gEAR fOR Quins bATTLE WHOEVER wears numbers 10 and 13 for Leinster tomorrow will give us a big hint about how the season will play out for Ian Madigan and Fergus McFadden.

Leinster coach Matt O’Connor has virtually no time to get his internationals back in harness ahead of their Champions Cup doubleheader with Harlequins next week and it looks likely that his Ireland front-liners will be held back for this weekend’s visit of Ospreys.

Ian Madigan should, however, make this team given his light but effective appearances for Ireland during the Guinness Series. It seems Madigan has spent the month in Ireland camp running at out-half and given the shaky form we’ve seen from Jimmy Gopperth this season now is a good opportunity to put Madigan in the driver’s seat.

There’s a confidence about Madigan that the Kiwi seems short on while the Irish playmaker has improved on lots of little pieces in his game including defence and control.

We’d argue in favour of him getting a run this weekend with an eye on starting him away to Harlequins the following week. If he is named at 12, a move that would stall Noel Reid’s injury comeback, with Gopperth at 10, then it looks like he will not be given an opportunity to play in his natural position and that would be a tremendous shame.

1 start at number 10 for Ian Madigan in eight appearances for Leinster this season.

If fit, Fergus McFadden should start this weekend too, and whether he is deployed out wide or in the centre will reveal what O’Connor’s plans are for the Irish international.

With his first opportunity to throw Luke Fitzgerald a starting jersey this season O’Connor pitched him in at outside centre given Ben Te’o’s injury absence and it’s likely that those two players when fully fit will compete for the outside centre shirt.

McFadden will be hoping for a chance to alter O’Connor’s thinking and this weekend is likely to prove the only chance to do so if preferred to the underwhelming Brendan Macken.

It’s a good chance Eoin Reddan and Mike McCarthy (if fit) will return to the line-up but our guess is that Rhys Ruddock, Devin Toner, Jack McGrath, Mike Ross, Sean Cronin, Gordon D’Arcy and Rob Kearney could all be spared by Ireland coach Joe Schmidt’s player management programme.

With players returning from injury it looks like the options are opening up for O’Connor, but probably not in time to create genuine competition for places against Quins where cohesion will be a big factor.

Much-loved: The late Phillip Hughes in action during The Ashes picture: getty

Bowler Abbott ‘needs our support now’ SEAN ABBOTT has been encouraged to resume the fast-bowling career that earned him Australia recognition in the weeks before the death of Phillip Hughes.

It was New South Wales paceman Abbott who delivered the bouncer that struck Hughes on the

neck, in an area unprotected by his helmet, that led to the death.

Former Australia wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist wrote on Twitter: ‘May those footprints in the sand now support another young man in need. #SeanAbbott.’

Kevin Pietersen told the Daily Telegraph it was important that Abbott receives plenty of help in the wake of the tragedy.

‘He needs a lot of strong people around him to encourage him to continue playing our great game and understand this was a freak accident.’

Concern: Sean Abbott

spORT DigEsT Winner Ronnie could quit early snOOkER Ronnie O’Sullivan started his UK

Championship campaign by beating Daniel Wells on one leg but will withdraw from the tournament if he feels no let-up from his broken ankle by the weekend. The Rocket eased past Wells 6-2 but said: ‘I thought I would give it a go but if it doesn’t improve I’m not sure I’m going to play my next match. I’ve taken the painkillers, done all I can do, and if it’s not better by Sunday I probably won’t play.’ Meanwhile, Ali Carter’s return to ranking events after treatment for lung Suffering: O’Sullivan cancer ended in a 6-5 defeat by Zhang Anda.

fORMuLA OnE The double-

points scheme, which featured in the final race of this season, has been scrapped. Points were doubled in Abu Dhabi in a bid to keep the championship alive and exciting to the final flag. But the anomaly was widely panned by drivers, teams and fans. The decision to scrap the rule was made at meeting of the Strategy Group and F1 Commission bodies this week and is set to rubber-stamped by the FIA World Motor Sport Council.

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Tottenham saw the players taken off the field before half-time for ten minutes and forced their clash with Partizan to finish late. All three men took selfies with players and wore identical tops emblazoned with the same logo, raising suspicions of a marketing stunt.

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there were Evertonians everywhere.’

Everton did enjoy a slice of good fortune when Ivan Perisic’s effort was wrongly ruled out for offside when it should have stood but Everton took full advantage when Lukaku finished off a breakaway move in the 43rd minute.

Mirallas sealed the win in the second half with another goal on the break. the only negative for the toffees was the hamstring injury James McCarthy sustained, which will be assessed in the next 24 hours.

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Joe draws on the positives from Liverpool’s ‘fresh start’

Positive talk: Allen

Toffees Wolf down a win in fine style EvErton are through to the Europa League knockout stages as Group H winners with one game to spare after a fine away victory in Germany. the toffees’ qualification for the next round was actually confirmed during half-time of this match due to the other game in the pool last night, Krasnodar table against Lille, finishP W ing in a draw.

5 3 Everton And roberto Mar- Wolfsburg 5 2 tinez’s men – 1-0 up Lille 5 0 by that point – then Krasnodar 5 0 secured the bonus of top spot by finishing off their job in Germany, a Kevin Mirallas breakaway strike adding to romelu Lukaku’s goal before the break.

‘It was the perfect away performance. our counter-attacks were lethal and I thought we were outstanding,’ Martinez said. ‘Big credit must also go to the back five because keeping a clean sheet here is a fantastic achievement. ‘the celebrations were incredible –

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LiverpooL midfielder Joe Allen believes the scrappy Champions League draw against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets can be an unlikely platform on which to rebuild their season.

The point kept alive the reds’ hopes of making the knockout stages of the competition but the result may be just as significant in helping get their domestic campaign back on track.

Despite conceding an 88th-

minute equaliser, Allen insists there are positives to be taken from the 2-2 draw.

‘The bigger picture is that our Champions League dream is still alive – and still in our hands – and that is a big bonus for us,’ he said ahead of tomorrow’s premier League visit of Stoke.

‘The manager [Brendan rodgers] mentioned it was almost like a fresh start and we see it that way as players. Last night was a positive step.’

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CELTIC progressed to the last 32 of the Europa League but in less than impressive fashion as they were well beaten by Salzburg at Parkhead.

Striker Alan netted twice for the Austrian champions in the opening 13 minutes and the Hoops could have been further behind before Stefan Johansen responded on the half hour.

The match was more even after the break but Naby Keita finished off a break in injury time to seal top spot in Group D for Salzburg.

Celtic progress to the next stage after Astra beat Dynamo Zagreb but they will have to raise their game in the knockout stages. Skipper Scott Brown, Efe Ambrose, Leigh Griffiths and Callum McGregor came in for the hosts but they were caught cold as Alan stunned the home fans twice in a spectacular opening.

The first goal came on eight minutes when midfielder Massimo

Bruno cut in from the left and his deflected strike fell perfectly for the Brazilian to slot past Craig Gordon.

Andre Ramalho then flicked on a Christoph Leitgeb corner, leaving Alan to volley in from close range.

McGregor had a penalty appeal waved away and Jonathan Soriano fired home from 25 yards, only to realise the free-kick was indirect.

Gordon made no attempt to save.

Alan had a strong appeal for a penalty after a challenge by Virgil van Dijk but the Hoops got back in the game when Johansen drilled a Emilio Izaguirre cross past Peter Gulacsi.

The hosts appeared far more composed after the interval and a succession of corners led to Anthony Stokes curling a set-piece on to the top of the bar.

At the other end, Alan almost got his hat-trick as he just missed Soriano’s cross.

Gulacsi parried clear a Griffiths header after the forward had been picked out by Izaguirre. But Salzburg secured victory in injury time when Gordon could only block Marcel Sabitzer’s effort with his legs and Keita headed in the rebound.

FraNz BeCkeNBauer is under investigation by ethics chief michael Garcia following his probe into World Cup bidding. the German World Cup winner (pictured) was one of a panel of 22 who voted on where the 2018 and 2022 tournaments would be held. prospective Fifa presidential candidate Harold mayneNicholls, from Chile, is also under investigation along with three current Fifa executives.

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‘Jet-lagged’ McIlroy off to a slow start in Australia

Tired eyes: Rory McIlroy

RoRy McIlRoy got the defence of his Australian open title under way with a two-under-par 69 that leaves him just two shots behind first round leader Jordan Spieth.

World No.1 McIlroy, who edged out rival and home hope Adam Scott on the 72nd hole last year, was slightly off the pace on a cool and overcast morning at the Australian Golf Club in Sydney.

He was level par for his opening nine holes, where his birdie at the 14th was immediately given back at the next hole, but improved after the turn.

The 25-year-old birdied the first and picked up further shots at the fifth and ninth, in-between his second bogey of the day at the seventh.

‘I feel there are better scores out there for me’ McIlroy admitted he feels he can improve as the week goes on and revealed he is still adjusting to the time difference.

‘I feel like there’s a better score out there for me,’ he said in quotes

on the PGA Tour of Australasia’s Twitter account. ‘I’m feeling a bit jet-lagged.’

Spieth set the early pace, with a round of six birdies and two bogeys giving him a 67 which puts him a shot clear at the head of a leaderboard dominated by Australian players.

Home hopes Scott Gardiner and Aron Price were three under, with McIlroy among seven players on two under. Australians Adam Crawford, Geoff Drakeford, Richard Green and Andrew Tampion carded 69s.

West Ham boss sam allardyce has accepted the club’s charge from the Football association after a melee at everton, but feels referee mark Clattenburg could have done better. a firsthalf fracas following a tackle from James mcCarthy on the Hammers’ morgan amalfitano saw a number of visiting players confronting the Irishman. and allardyce said: ‘I can’t argue with it. We got so frustrated, probably by the decision of the referee at the time.’

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given to Bastia striker Brandao by a French court after the Brazilian headbutted Paris SaintGermain midfielder Thiago Motta during a Ligue 1 game in August.

Redknapp backs returning Rio Harry reDkNapp insists rio Ferdinand still has a part to play in Qpr’s survival bid. the former england captain (pictured) returns from suspension for the visit of Leicester. He was hit with a three-game ban following controversial comments made on twitter but is likely to replace the suspended richard Dunne at Loftus road tomorrow. ‘He can play a big role,’ said Hoops boss redknapp. ‘rio does not have anything to prove to anybody.’ redknapp also leapt to the defence of Ferdinand’s form this term, adding: ‘He probably was not getting a lot of protection.’

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