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Vlad, the inhaler Health Minister first on scene and helps with oxygen mask for man who collapsed

HEALTH Minister Leo Varadkar got a PR boost when a picture of him helping to treat a man who had collapsed went wide on social media.

The qualified doctor was on a hushhush ride-along with the National Ambulance Service when the rapid response vehicle he was travelling in was sent to a south Dublin golf club where a man had collapsed.

A witness at the club in Edmondstown, Rathfarnham, said Mr Varadkar and another man in full paramedic gear arrived first on the scene and they began working on the patient.

The witness said one of the medics who arrived before the ambulance

By robert Kennedy looked ‘familiar’. ‘The two guys got out carrying all the gear. They were both down on their knees over the patient, putting on an oxygen mask and working on him,’ the witness told The Irish Times website.

‘Then I realised one of them was the Health Minister.’

A person at the scene took a photograph of Mr Varadkar and the ambulance crew in action and this later appeared widely on social media.

Mr Varadkar – sometimes unkindly referred to as ‘Vlad’ in political circles – was taken by surprise when

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asked about the incident by Marian Finucane on her RTÉ Radio 1 show yesterday morning.

‘I’m impressed by your research,’ he told her. ‘I spent most of Saturday afternoon and evening out with the ambulance service to see how it works. It wasn’t for media consumption but there you go.’

A spokesman for Mr Varadkar said: ‘He had been with a paramedic in a rapid response vehicle which was tasked with the emergency response to the golf club and the minister provided assistance at the scene and carried some equipment.

‘He wasn’t involved medically. The treatment was done by the crew.’

‘ride-along not for media consumption’ Before he was elected TD for Dublin West in 2007, Mr Varadkar studied medicine at Trinity College and qualified as a GP after working in a number of hospitals and in the community.

Reaction to Mr Varadkar’s contribution was mixed.

Bernadette Grogan, @bergro30, wrote on Twitter: ‘Fair play to @campaignforleo spending a night with our great ambulance services.’

Katie Lally, @klally6, commented: ‘Delighted to see the Health Minister @campaignforleo spent a night with the Ambulance Service to help out and see what it’s like! #soundman.’

However, Buzz O’Neill, @buzzoneill, said: ‘The Leo Varadkar PR stunt is just pathetic.. Does he think the Irish electorate are stupid?

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Frances es and Mark Hyland Hyl from trim m put the other Christmas jumpers tto ast nigh ith their daugh shame on O’Connell Street last night with daughter Sarah, ten, and their dog, Lucky. thousands turned out to see the Christmas istmas lights being turned on and Dubliners yesterday smashed the world record for the most people wearing their geansaí nollaig in one place – a whopping 1,297 1, in aid of Make-A-Wish. Manyy sported spor their own festivee jumpers and also had embellishments added by Metro Herald’s ever cheerful make-and-do elves. See dublinatchristmas.ie for more events PIC: PHOTOCALL

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WITH a snarling face and a ripped torso, Jake Gyllenhaal looks a far cry from the weedy weirdo he played in Nightcrawler.

The actor – who shed 30lb for his role as newshound Louis Bloom – has put it all back and gained an extra 15lb of muscle to star as a boxer in Southpaw.

‘We literally turned him into a beast,’ director Antoine Fuqua said. ‘I had him training twice a day in the boxing ring, training like a fighter. I put him in

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situations where I wanted to see what he was made of.’

The movie tells the story of Billy ‘The Great’ Hope who – in keeping with boxing flick tradition – determinedly fights his way back after hitting rock bottom.

The part was written for Eminem but he dropped out and Gyllenhaal, 33, stepped into the ring.

‘I think Jake broke up with his girlfriend because he was just in the gym every day,’ Fuqua told Hollywood’s Deadline Magazine.

Scrawny: Jake slimmed down to play Bloom in Nightcrawler

Hall issues cutting criticism of stars under the knife

Ripped: Jake looks the part in Southpaw after a tough training regime picture: scope features

MODEL and actress Jerry Hall has criticised women who go under the knife, warning that they risk becoming ‘grotesque caricatures’.

The 58-year-old said she sympathised with actresses who felt pressurised into having surgery but added: ‘It’s so idiotic when they risk their lives to have surgery. Every time you have anaesthesia, you’re killing a lot of brain cells – why would you do that?

‘You could get infections, you could die. Why make yourself look a grotesque caricature of yourself? They don’t fool anyone.

‘They look like pathetic, insecure creatures. I loathe the whole thing.

‘I don’t mean to be critical, and I understand that actresses feel the pressure in Hollywood, they have to do it. I respect that and I feel sorry for

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them that they have to do it. But for normal women to do it? If men want to leave their wife for a 19-year-old, they’re gonna do it anyway.

‘All the facelifts and botox in the world isn’t going to change that guy, you know.’

Hall also opened up about her relationship with exhubby Mick Jagger. ‘I genuinely like him – he’s funny, he’s clever, he tries his best and he is also a great father,’ the Texan told Hello! magazine.

‘But he’s not the sort of person I want to spend my old age with.’

The full interview is published in the new edition of Natural: Jerry Hall Hello! which hates plastic surgery is out today.

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Renters fear being kicked out of homes

Mortgage aid group sorry for leaking names a GrOUP which helps homeowners with mortgage difficulties has apologised after the names and bank details of 1,500 customers were passed to an investment firm it is working with. ross Maguire, co-founder of new Beginning, apologised after the list of names was emailed to arizun, a Malta-based fund it is working with on a €2billion scheme to purchase thousands of distressed mortgages. It would see arizun buy non-performing mortgages from the banks and rent the homes back to families, with the option for the householder to buy it back after seven years.

The Mail On sunday reported yesterday that an email sent from new Beginning to arizun on august 25 contained a spreadsheet called ‘Final Master list on 1,500 Mortgage sample’. This contained the names, addresses, number of children, and income and debt details of aIB, Bank of Ireland and Ulster Bank customers.

On the same day the spreadsheet was sent, a payment of €20,000 was made to new Beginning but Mr Maguire said ‘it was not the case’ new Beginning was paid for the data. He said the email had been sent in error.

COnTAining ExCiTEMEnT Ireland’s first ever compliant shipping container house has been completed, exhibited to the public in dublin, and is now being transported down to Cork. assembled on the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern art, Kilmainham – from entirely donated materials and volunteer labour – the container home’s transport south has been funded by the auction of an original piece of art by street artist danny Wynn.

Carol Tallon and derek Trenaman have been with the

project from its genesis right up to its donation to st Vincent de Paul with a view to housing a Cork family before Christmas Taking just three days to construct, the container home (pictured) concept is set to offer an ‘immediate solution’ to the current Irish housing crisis, according to Ms Tallon.

When asked what the idea behind the project had been, property expert Ms Tallon said: ‘It shows that if we can build this in three days on a zero budget, then the Government can do so much better’.

MORE than a third of Dublin renters are afraid of losing their homes, a new report has found.

The first National Housing Sentiment Survey shows 38 per cent of renters in Dublin live with this fear. This compares with 23 per cent nationally.

Commissioned by co-operative housing provider Nabco, the survey found that one in five people is spending more than 40 per cent of their net income on rent, with Dubliners in private rented accommodation spending an average of 35 per cent. Some 67 per cent of Dubliners expect their rent to increase in the next 18 months.

Nabco said price, living conditions and the running costs of accommodation are the most important criteria for tenants when choosing a home.

While just over seven in ten tenants feel their current accommodation is meeting their needs, one in four report that they have had problems with their house that haven’t been fixed, and a further one in four said that issues with the property was their main reason for their last house move.

by DAviD HOLLywOOD One in three of those surveyed said they do not know if they have a formal lease and four in ten said they do not know where to look for help.

Rental figures released last month by property website Daft.ie showed a 16.6 per cent increase in rent prices in Dublin this year.

€280m deal will add 3,800 houses a GlOBal property group plans to build 3,800 homes ‘as quickly as possible’ at the end of the luas green line after it sealed a €280million deal for a 400-acre site in south dublin.

Hines Ireland announced yesterday that it had completed the purchase of Cherrywood Business Park and development scheme from receivers on behalf of nama and two banks.

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Ambassador who exploited workers recalled to the UAE THE United Arab Emirates has recalled its ambassador to Ireland after he was found to have exploited three Filipino maids who worked at the UAE’s embassy in Dublin.

An Employment Appeals Tribunal last week ordered Khalid Nasser Rashed Lootah to pay €80,000 each to the three women who gave evidence that they were forced to work every day for 15 hours – for just €170 per month.

Myra Calderon, Laylanie Lapanga and Jennifer Vilaranda had taken their case against Mr Lootah and his wife, Mehra Metad Alghubaisi.

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Caoimhe, Ella and Ellen attend Console’s Christmas Celebration of Light to remember suicide victims in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth Picture: andres Poveda

1 in 5 will shop for Christmas while at work

ONE in five workers will do their Christmas shopping on their employers’ time this year, shopping for gifts on their mobile phone during work hours.

Like other countries worldwide, today, dubbed Cyber Monday, is expected to be the busiest online shopping day of the year in Ireland, according to research.

Research indicates a 31 per cent increase in the number of gifts Irish shoppers plan to buy this festive season, bringing the average to 22 at a cost of €266.

An additional €270 will be spent on other Christmas related items, such as food, decorations and cards, ebay said.

Meanwhile, Ireland’s beleaguered retail sector is expecting a strong Christmas this year. A rise in employment, higher disposable incomes and the return of the ‘feelgood factor’ has prompted predictions from a leading business body of the best Christmas in five years.

Thomas Burke of Retail Ireland said: ‘The Irish retail sector has had some very tough years, but there is now cause for cautious optimism.’

In its 2014 Retail Christmas Monitor, the group said it expected that about

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€3.96billion would be spent in shops this month – a rise of 2 per cent on the sum for the same period last year.

It was also found households were likely to spend an extra €750 in December over previous months.

Mr Burke added: ‘The next few weeks are by far the most important trading period of the year, and key indicators are pointing in the right direction.’

Retail Ireland believes an additional 35,000 more people will be in work this Christmas compared to last year. Levels of disposable income are also expected to grow by 3 per cent in 2014 on top of the 3.3 per cent during 2013.

Consumer sentiment – at its highest since 2007 – has been boosted by competition keeping prices at their lowest since December 2002, the report found.

However, Mr Burke said more should be done, such as making commercial rates fairer, improving services for those rates, and making town and city centres better places to visit through measures such as greater Garda presence.

Young man recieves serious head injuries in city attack GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to an assault in Dublin city early yesterday which left a young man with serious head injuries.

The victim, in his early-20s, was assaulted by another young man near the junction of Camden and Harrington streets in the south city.

According to a Garda spokesman, the injured man received serious

head injuries in the assault, which happened at around 5.05am.

The suspect, described as being in his 20s, with black hair and wearing a dark top and blue jeans, ran in the direction of Wexford Street.

Anyone with information can contact the Gardaí in Kevin Street station on 01-6669400 or the Confidential Line on 1800-666111.

The three women worked for the couple in the UAE and came with them to Dublin in 2011.

In a statement, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it ‘is aware of Gone home: the decision of the Khalid Lootah Employment Appeals Tribunal. The UAE takes this matter seriously and accordingly has decided to recall the ambassador to Abu Dhabi while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs investigates the issue.’

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Flower power: Analysing the importance of bees to our environment was central to the successful UCC study Picture: getty

FORECASTERS believe Ireland is set for a white Christmas, with a festive snowfall most likely to occur in the north and east.

Meteorologists with Exacta Weather have warned the mild temperatures of late autumn will soon give way to brutal polar winds, plummeting lows and widespread snow.

The severest cold has been predicted for later this month and into the new year, with December set to be as bitter as the ‘big freeze’ four years ago.

Science students celebrate after bee project wins Smarter Planet Challenge 2014

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TO Bee or not to bee, that was the question that helped a team of UCC students to victory in the Ieee/IBM Smarter Planet Challenge 2014.

UCC’s team of students had every reason to be happy as they successfully fended off competition from college heavyweights such as MIT. The researchers have designed an energy neutral hive that monitors the activity of the bee colony and conditions within the beehive.

Team leader Fiona Murphy said the reason honey-bees are so important is that they help flowers and plants to reproduce by carrying pollen.

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The team’s chosen project title, (2B)OR!(2B), was inspired by both William Shakespeare and UCC’s first ever maths professor George Boole.

Dr emanuel Popovici, the co-ordinator of UCC’s competition entry, said: ‘(2B)OR!(2B) is an exceptional project. It is a project where five very bright and enthusiastic students exchange some brilliant ideas to help humanity.’

UCC has a strong history in the IBM sponsored competition having previously won it in 2011.

Ireland kills 60,000 horses for food SOME 25,000 horses were legally slaughtered in Ireland for human consumption at the peak of the practise in 2012, but the number has fallen dramatically since.

The figures are falling as unwanted ‘Celtic tiger’ trophy horses run out, the Deparment of Agriculture told Metro Herald.

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From 2007 to 2012 some 60,000 horses were slaughtered.

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Ireland exports horse meat for human consumption to a range of European countries and to parts of Asia.

Europe was rocked in 2013 by revelations of undeclared horse meat in beef products across the continent.

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Admitting he often tells his bandmates – happily partnered dad-ofone JJ Hamblett, 26, and singletons Josh Cuthbert, 22, and George Shelley, 21, – that they find better dates than they deserve, Hensley dishes out why they go wrong.

‘JJ’s taken, but if he were single and providing he didn’t get drunk, would be a good date,’ a chuckling Hensley, 24, told Guilty Pleasures. ‘if he got drunk it would get quite

There’s a catch: Boyband Union J embarrassing. Josh would look like he was interested, but if there was a football match on a screen, or if a fitter girl walked past, he would look.

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THE band were shocked to discover legendary American songwriter Diane Warren loves using bad language.

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Six-time Oscar nominated Warren has penned tunes for Beyonce, J Lo and Mariah Carey among many others. word “gadget” it would be a match Josh was also gobsmacked made in heaven. But if they weren’t when Warren, 58, demanded as much of a geek as him, he would he create a design for her let himself down.’ lady garden.

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Rihanna has set tongues wagging after stepping out for dinner with a mystery man. Rumours were sparked when the popstar, 26, and her tall and athletic-looking companion were spotted wearing baseball caps at Nobu in New York. Riri has been mostly single since splitting with singer Chris Brown last year.

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espite a battle with drug addiction, Linkin park say they have their heads screwed on straight. the Numb hitmakers credit their ‘life experience’ for helping co-lead singer Chester Bennington, 38, fight his longtime dependency on drugs and alcohol.

‘When Chester had some problems everybody jumped up to help him and tell him how supportive we wanted to be and how much it meant to us that he was doing something positive,’ fellow lead singer Mike shinoda told Guilty pleasures.

‘We’re lucky to have a band full of guys who have their heads screwed on straight – a lot of life experience goes into that, but

we just support each other; we have each other’s back. At the end of the day we love what we do. We’re not willing to throw that away on anything.’ since finding fame in 2000 with their debut album Hybrid theory, shinoda, 37, admits he has ‘never been that excited’ about being a part of celebrity culture. ‘the band got so big so fast it was obvious to us when people were trying to take advantage,’ he went on to say.

‘We knew we couldn’t trust some of these people but we could trust each other.’

Linkin park’s new album, the Hunting party, and the single Rebellion are out now.

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‘Extremists’ torch school Acid attacker strikes again

IsRAEL: Jewish extremists are thought to have set fire to a school and scrawled ‘death to Arabs’ on the playground wall.

The attackers torched Hand In Hand school in Jerusalem – where Palestinian and Israeli children study together – while it was empty on Saturday night.

and finally...

IRAN: A doctor had acid thrown in his face – the latest in a string of attacks. Siamand Anvari was targeted by a motorcyclist in Tehran yesterday. Last month, four women in Isfahan were attacked in the same way.

Police dismissed claims they were targeted for not following Iran’s strict dress code.

Parents freed after death Ferguson policeman quits QATAR: A US couple sentenced to jail after their African adopted daughter was found dead won their appeal yesterday and were heading home. Matthew and Grace Huang had been accused of locking Gloria, eight, in a hotel room with no food. They said she refused to eat because of a disorder.

AMERICA: Darren Wilson, the policeman who shot dead unarmed teenager Michael Brown, has resigned, after last week learning he would not face trial, sparking anger. This weekend, members of local NFL team the St Louis Rams symbolically emerged onto the field with their hands up.

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My mother’s juju curse has stopped me from scoring

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MISFIRING Tottenham star Emmanuel Adebayor has accused his own mum of putting a curse on his scoring exploits.

The striker, who has netted just two Premier League goals this season, said his mother, Alice, has been ‘plotting juju’ – or witchcraft – against him.

The Togo international says the 62-year-old is using black magic to stop him scoring as the result of a family rift, reports Ghana’s Peace FM radio station.

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by TOM MARsHALL Alice claims her 30-year-old son has left her penniless after throwing her out of the family home.

Now the ex-Arsenal and Manchester City star has hit back saying: ‘I never sacked my mum from the house – she decided to leave. But how am I going to be in touch with my mum if she is the one telling everyone my work will not go forward.

‘They should stop doing juju on me

– they should leave me alone,’ he said.

The star’s brother Kola, who works as a lorry driver in Germany, hit back, saying: ‘Every day my mother is crying. She told me, “Emmanuel has accused me of being a witch.”’

He claims Adebayor has been ‘brainwashed’ by Muslim spiritual healers.

‘He has left our family in poverty,’ the 42-year-old said.

Adebayor was dropped for Tottenham’s game against Everton yesterday.

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and funny. she’s scottish and a distant relation to the Brown family. she runs everything like a ship with lots of nautical terms and there’s a whistle when she wants attention.

What kind of housekeeper would you be in real life?

Fairly chaotic, probably… maybe a bit like Mrs Bird, strict in some ways and then not in others. she’s quite an eccentric person, especially in the hands of [director] Paul King.

How was it acting opposite an invisible co-star?

Is there a message to Paddington? it’s about humanity,

that elusive thing. it’s about not just going: ‘You’re different and you don’t fit in.’ it’s about understanding people and living in harmony, and i think there’s something lovely about that.

Paddington is a big fan of marmalade.

Are you?

[Paddington author] Michael Bond’s wife made us these jars of marmalade and everyone was saying: ‘We must keep these,’ but i took mine home and i ate them all over the weekend!

On bread with butter. it should be white bread but that’s so terrible. it’s heavenly marmalade and it’s all gone now.

What do you think appeals to us about toy bears?

They’re cuddly, they’re the first thing you can hold on to, they give you security and

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Quick pic DAYLIGHT ROBIN: The Toy Show has aired, the Grafton St lights are on and you can’t move in the city centre now.

Yes, there’s no point resisting Christmas any longer so here’s a sweet shot of a robin from Brendan Culleton to kick-off the lead-in to the big day

they’re warm, unlike a doll. They have an innocence. i’ve still got a little bear given to me when i was born. his arms are all completely shrivelled. My mother said i was sick on him or something.

What books did you love growing up? i just loved The

Borrowers. i still can’t pass a hole in the floor without thinking ‘are they down there?’ i thought i’d discovered The Borrowers – i found it when i was in the library so i thought no one else had read it.

What was your childhood like? it had its problems,

like everyone’s. i wasn’t happy in my first school. it was a harry Potter was Paddington’s private school and i full of it because from a the children about understanding came working-class were small people and living in background. when we first When i went to started so they harmony. There’s secondary school, couldn’t work something lovely it was heaven – the hours we did. there weren’t any so they’d shoot about that nuns there. There were them, then they’d normal women, not these shoot us talking to them people locked up in this building when they couldn’t be there. so going through the menopause, i was kind of used to that. taking it out on small girls!

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Julie WalTers, 64, shot to fame in the 1983 film Educating Rita. Now she’s playing the housekeeper to the Brown family in new release Paddington How would you describe your character in Paddington, Mrs Bird? she’s domineering but lovely

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When did you discover your talent for acting? Well, funnily

enough there was this one nun who was about 6ft 1in, or that’s what she seemed to me. i remember saying to my friends: ‘she’s as tall as the door!’ and them laughing. she used to have this miming thing you did every Friday afternoon. And the children had to guess what it was. The first time i did it, this nun – she was awful – but she roared with laughter!

The world changed in that moment. The power of that. she said: ‘You should go on the stage.’ i will never forget how suddenly beautiful the classroom looked.

Are you working as hard as ever? i’ve just

come back from Penang and i was offered something. in my youth, i would have come straight back and gone into it but no, i don’t want to do that any more. i can’t do it – i’m too tired!

anna smith

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merging water and wheels a solution?

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his Government is trying (quite rightly) to expand the tax base, but it hasn’t done it in a fair and equitable manner. The recent budget saw those on €70,000 (conveniently, roughly the salary of a TD) getting a €14 tax break a week, while those on €16,000 get around €1.78. No opposition party has come up with a viable alternative (some are stating they’ll narrow the tax band if elected, which is part of the reason the country went bust in the first place). saying you pay for what you use is not true. For example, my employer has showers and full kitchen facilities. Anyone who works here will be able to drink and be hygienic at his expense. i could fill a water bottle and bring it home for my coffee. Meanwhile, my retired

parents – who paid 60 per cent tax when they worked – will have to pay for every glass of water to swallow their medication or warm bath to ease their arthritis. if we wind up irish Water, it’ll cost the taxpayer, but there is a solution – merge the National Roads Authority with irish Water, and fund it with Motor Tax. Motor Tax is the least fair tax – a new Mercedes is taxed at half a 2007 Toyota Yaris, despite weighing more and causing more road damage. When the new authority upgrades roads, new water network pipes can be placed. (The Newlands Cross interchange is open but it will be closed again in a few years when irish Water have to re-lay pipes).

This merger takes two costs off government expenditure and only removes motor tax from its income.

good on ya

● Massive thanks to the garda who gave my stricken car a jumpstart last Thursday morning. You’re a gentleman and a credit to the force.

Meriva Driver ● A huge big thanks to the kind gentleman in Hodges Figgis on Friday who helped me find that copy of This Is Ireland that I gave to my Japanese friend as a going-away present. It meant a huge deal to her because you went out of your way.

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random acTs of kindness

And as you’ll only have one crew digging up the roads for both jobs, it’ll cost less.

Bruce Newman ■ Well done to Montrose for playing a blinder with The Late Late Toy show on Friday night. For us, it’s always the official start of the festive season and a real family tradition by this stage. i can’t say i’m always satisfied with the quality of programming on our state broadcaster, but with The Late Late Toy show, RTÉ always seems to strike just the right balance between sweet, cheeky and entertaining. Ryan Tubridy is mainly to thank for this. if only he could be as good with politicians and celebrities as he is with children.

Decco ■ shane Ross for Taoiseach? Not sure we’re there yet...

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Missing boy found hidden behind wall in dad’s house Discovery: The home where the teenager was found hidden PICTURE: REUTERS A BOY who disappeared four years ago has been found hidden behind a false wall in his father’s house.

The 13-year-old was rescued by US police when he texted his mother asking for help.

His father, Gregory Jean, 37, and a woman believed to be his girlfriend, Samantha Joy Davis, were arrested at the house in Jonesboro, Georgia, on charges including false imprisonment and cruelty to children.

The boy went missing in 2010 while visiting his father in Florida.

Officers were called to the house on Friday to look for the teenager but were told he did not live there.

However, they returned hours later

by DOMINIC YEATMAN when the boy was able to telephone his mother and tell her he was hidden behind the panel of a linen closet in the garage.

The boy was initially ‘frozen with fear’ but ‘overjoyed’ to be rescued, a police spokesman said.

Neighbours in the quiet suburb said the family had moved in about six months ago and kept to themselves.

The 13-year-old always seemed to be home tending the ‘immaculate’ garden and did not appear to be enrolled in school, they said.

Three other children living at the house were held for obstructing police.

Reunited: The missing boy is embraced by his mother PICTURE: WXIA

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Fowl-mouthed speech by MP was ‘navy dare’ A BRITISH MP delivered a Commons speech laced with innuendo after a dare from friends in the royal navy, it has been reported.

Penny Mordaunt (pictured, below), who is also a navy reservist, used the word ‘cock’ six times and ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times during a speech last year on poultry welfare.

But during an awards dinner last week, the Portsmouth North Tory MP reportedly revealed she had been dared to make the address after a forfeit issued during a dinner in the officers’ mess, according to the Mail On Sunday.

‘The fine was to say a particular word, an abbreviation of cockerel, several times during a speech on the floor of the Commons, and mention all the names of the officers present,’ she was quoted as saying.

Ms Mordaunt was accused by Labour’s Kate Hoey of trivialising parliament.

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Pull an all-nighter with Phillip Schofield in charity marathon Text Santa

1. Posh People: Inside Tatler

BBC2, 9pm The second of three shameless puff pieces for the posh/rich people’s glossy mag takes us behind the scenes at a ball for teenage socialites, gives us the rundown on how the mag compiles its pick-a-publicschool guide and wets itself over stupendously expensive advertising bling. Need one say more?

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2. Today’s Film: End Of Watch

Film4, 9pm If you’re missing Southland, then this 2012 cop drama set in the same South Central Los Angeles streets should ease the pain. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña co-star as two cops patrolling this tricky beat, the story focusing as much on their partnership and personal lives as it does on the daily round of drugs busts.

1 Kate Reardon is at the helm in Posh People: Inside Tatler

The hamster has a severe case of wind in Wild Weather With Richard Hammond

3. Text Santa

UTV, 10.30am & ITV3, 11am Phillip Schofield will be looking bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as This Morning kicks off today. But let’s see how our perky presenter is faring around 3am on ITV3… If you’ve got the stamina you can keep our intrepid Schofe company as he embarks on a 24-hour charity Text Santa marathon. He’s even helping out on Loose Women and the weather.

5 A fresh-faced Alison Steadman and Roger Sloman star in Mike Leigh’s 1976 drama Nuts In May

4. Wild Weather With Richard Hammond

BBC1, 9pm If Richard Hammond suffering a severe case of wind is your idea of a fun night in, then this look at massive gusts and hurricanes will be right up your twister. It’s breezy science-lite, with Hammond venturing into the middle of a manmade tornado and facing down the wild winds on Mount Washington in the US.

5. Nuts In May

BBC4, 10pm This Mike Leigh treat from 1976 will strike a painful chord with anyone who’s ever gone camping and found themselves pitched next to the neighbours from hell. Yes, you’ll feel for Keith and Candice-Marie

YOUR GUIDE TO THIS EvENING’S ESSENTIAL vIEWING (brilliantly played by Roger Sloman and Alison Steadman) as their idyll in Dorset is rudely shattered. Then again, you might think they deserve all they get…

hopes and expectations, and how we might be more hung up on social snobbery than we care to acknowledge.

6. Some Girls

TG4, 8pm Award-winning presenter and journalist Róisín Ní Eadhra returns with another instalment of lively, topical and relevant discussion on Ireland today. This show has been consistently excellent at highlighting the challenges and issues facing ordinary people across the country.

BBC3, 10pm Rocky (Jassa Ahluwalia) has taken to his new career as a nanny like a duck to water but Viva (Adelayo Adedayo) is far from convinced that she wants to marry a man who looks after babies. In between the broad humour, there are some neat points being made here about

7. Róisín

8. EastEnders

RTÉ1 & BBC1, 8pm Let’s sing the praises of the text message, a plot device surely sent from heaven to help out soap scriptwriters struggling with how to move a story along. Tonight Ian Beale, prompted by Jane, finds himself scrolling through Lucy’s old texts – and what he finds turns out to be something of a shocker.

9. Modern Family

Sky1, 8pm It might not have the whipcrack lines of the early series but Modern

Family can still be relied on for some smart laughs – not least tonight from Cagney & Lacey legend Tyne Daly, guest starring as Mrs Plank, Lily’s intimidating teacher. Come on, no one intimidates Lily.

10. The Science Squad RTÉ1, 8.30pm

In the last episode of the current series of the science and technology magazine, Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin looks at what is being done to stop the global decline of bees, and Jonathan McCrea investigates a genetic disorder.

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Having recently starred opposite Cillian Murphy in Enda Walsh’s barmy but brilliant Ballyturk, Mikel Murfi – one of this country’s finest stage actors and directors – takes the helm for a revival of Lennox Robinson’s classic 1928 farce. This cheering and charming knockabout comedy centres on a young woman, caring for her ailing father, whose plans to join a convent are scuppered by the advances of a particularly tenacious admirer.

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Directed by long-time collaborator Phillip McMahon.

Until Sat, Project Arts Centre, 39 Essex Street East D2, 8pm, €18 to €22. Tel: (01) 881 9613/4. www.projectartscentre.ie

SEE LA TRAviATA

With its magnificent choral scenes and masterful characterisations, it’s hard to believe that La Traviata was composed in just 46 days. It’s equally hard to believe that it’s been 23 years since world-renowned opera company Glyndebourne visited Irish shores.

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Anybody familiar with 18th-century theatre will recognise the mood of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer: a farcical dig at social pretension with huge helpings of ribaldry and slapstick. Expect a scintillating, suitably festive take on this classic as director Conall Morrison takes the reins for a new production at The Abbey, with an all-star cast including Caroline Morohan and Jon Kenny Previews from Thu, Abbey Theatre, 26 Abbey Street Lower D1, 7.30pm, from €13. Tel: (01) 878 7222. www.abbeytheatre.ie

The curly-haired saviour of BBC Radio 1’s dance music programming, Dublin-born DJ Annie Mac became a fixture on the station thanks to her impressive musical knowledge and distinctive husky delivery. At a time when specialist music shops have filtered dance releases into ever more obscure micro-genres, Mac’s ability to pluck from a variety of pigeonholes and set that flock flying in harmonious formation marks her out from the pack.

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a beautiful lesson in simplicity. One of my favourite pieces of music of all time, it’s one that I

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Like listening to one of the most honest diary entries – close your eyes and be swept away. Heartbreaking moment from Os Mutante’s arnaldo who after being hospitalised for psychiatric disorders returned with this song at a solo show.

BORED IN THE USA by FAtHER JoHN miSty

This could be the best thing I’ve heard all year – his performance on Letterman made me so envious. It’s lyrically spot on, tragic yet comedic without being annoying. Especially love the canned laughter addition.

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THE LONDON SESSIONS (CapITOL) ★★★✩✩ Respect is due to Ms Blige for taking a risk with her 13th studio album. She could have played it safe and, like so many others, taken the Great American Songbook route but Blige instead decamped to London for a month, immersing herself in the contemporary music scene and working with some of its most successful stars. Gospel-edged opening track Therapy is an obvious echo of Amy Winehouse’s Rehab, but Right Now throws down rolling beats beneath jagged synths, while Long Hard Look is the kind of anthem Girls Aloud would have killed for. But while its sound is familiar, it’s also creatively integrated – an album where its leading lady is happy to play a different role. SO’C

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GAMECHANGERS

Spotlight on seminal artists that have influenced music and defined genres

GARY NUMAN

In our Lady Gaga-attuned world, it’s hard to imagine how a bloke wearing thick pancake make-up and black eyeliner could have seemed in any way strange. But when Gary Numan performed Are ‘Friends’ Electric? on Top Of The Pops in 1979 with his band Tubeway Army, he was cool, remote and decidedly odd.

That driving new-wave hit, with its chilly synthesiser motifs, was one of many for the London-born musician, whose impact on electro-pop extended well beyond his initial novelty appeal. He’s won props from the likes of Afrika Bambaataa, Prince, Bowie and Detroit techno don Juan Atkins, while his songs have been covered and sampled by everyone from Basement Jaxx to Nine Inch Nails.

Numan’s third album, 1979’s The Pleasure Principle, featured no guitars at all and established his trademark dark, robotic, isolationist sound via Moogs and heavily treated synths. It went to No.1 and its influence can still be heard today in legions of

new bands in love with their analog gear.

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From top gun to top of the charts Kiesza was once a navy sharpshooter – but now the Hideaway singer has pop stardom in her sights, writes Amy Dawson

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ith her acid-wash jeans, red trainers and flaming lipstick to match, 25year-old Canadian singer-songwriter Kiesza burst on to the scene last February. the video for her massive club smash hideaway did the trick, a single take of her dancing with an implausible mixture of street-style funk and balletic grace through the backstreets of Brooklyn. the 1990s dance-flavoured track, which hit No.1 on the itunes chart in at least 30 countries, may chime perfectly with the soulful retro house vibes that currently dominate the charts but Kiesza’s debut album,

Sound Of A Woman, proves her to be much more than a one-trick disco pony. Possessed of a belting voice and multi-instrumental talent, she melds everything from hip hop and garage to breakbeat and balladry. ‘i think people see me as a dance diva,’ says the Berklee College of Music graduate, also an in-demand songwriter who should have a track appearing on the forthcoming Rihanna album. ‘But the album has quite a variety about it – though it’s all from the same world.

And all the songs belong to the same love story.’ indeed, the album is a deeply personal evocation of one entire

Dancing in the street: Kiesza’s infectious dance video for her chart-topping hit Hideaway was shot in one take in Brooklyn

Kiesza explains – part 1 1990s nostalgia ‘The 1990s sound lived on in my house way after the decade was over – my mum was the instigator of that. She was really into Chicago house and there are still so many songs she would play when I was a baby that I hear now and suddenly recognise – that happened to me just the other day with Loleatta Holloway. But I went through a whole process of getting back to that sound, after I actually started as a folk singer – more through necessity, though, because it was all I could do at the time when I first picked up a guitar.’

Flooring it: Kiesza’s guest appearance in Milan on the Italian version of The X Factor earlier this month relationship. ‘i feel if people are really going to connect with me, i have to be totally open, vulnerable as that may leave me,’ she says.

‘And while hideaway is such a fun record, people sometimes say tracks like Giant in My heart got them through really hard situations, which is so nice to hear.’

Sipping on a supervirtuous decaf soya latte, Kiesza is so gentle and down-to-earth that it’s easy to forget she’s also a total badass – there’s no sign in the hideaway video, for example, that she broke a rib during filming and afterwards couldn’t move for a month.

She’s also a selfprofessed thrill-seeker and has a gazillion strings to her bow.

She took classical

ballet lessons from the age of three, joined the Royal Canadian Navy reserves while still in high school and was such a good shot the army considered training her as a sniper – all before picking up a guitar at the age of 17, and writing her first song that very same day. She’s also into the Brazilian martial art of capoeira and is working on ‘like, four side projects’ on top of her music career. ‘i don’t ask myself “how?” too much, i just start doing it,’ she laughs. ‘i shouldn’t even think about days off because i don’t take them! the only thing that overwhelms me is when i feel i don’t have the time to take my craft to the

quality that i want to because i’m a perfectionist.’

Ultimately, it sounds as if Kiesza has finally found all the excitement she needs in the music game. ‘i’ve always had thousands of melodies constantly running through my head,’ she says, ‘to the extent that my brothers would beg my mum to stop me humming the whole time. then when i started writing music, for the first time i felt like i had something to give. People connect with it so deeply, sometimes it even heals them. And i got that same adrenaline thrill just from writing a song.’

Kiesza’s new single, No Enemiesz, is out now. Her album Sound Of A Woman (above) is out today.

Kiesza explains – part 2 How to make a worldwide no.1 in just 90 minutes ‘Hideaway was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by me and my producer/songwriting partner Rami Samir Afuni in 90 minutes. I don’t even know how it happened, it’s crazy!

The initial demo ended up being the song. I wrote it so quickly because I had to get to the airport. I wrote the first melody that came

into my head, filled in the lyrics and said: “I gotta go, we’ll figure the rest out later.” But Rami finished the production in 30 minutes and sent it to me as I was just arriving and I was like: “Wait, this is really good!” My flight was delayed, and that’s the only reason I made it on the plane.

Sometimes I think if you over-think it you’ll go in the wrong direction. Whatever is the most instinctive is usually the strongest thing.’

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When we consider our roles as First off, you need to get clear Separate the a whole and everything that on where precisely your job up our job then it actuconditions of makes ally becomes a combination work and the of both intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction. So just to be job itself really clear: l Intrinsic job satisfaction is when we allow ourselves only to bear in mind the kind of work we do – the actual day to day tasks that make up our job, or what I call the work content and process. l extrinsic job satisfaction is when we allow ourselves to look at the bigger picture of our work, like the conditions of work, our manager, the people we work alongside and our take-home pay.

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job from both points of view. When I work with a client to uncover reasons for job dissatisfaction, I try to uncover to what extent is the dissatisfaction due to the kind of work he or she is doing? or to what extent it is due to the conditions of work? Big difference here, and, more to the point, the answer to this will determine what needs to be done as there will be a different solution needed if your dissatisfaction is extrinsic in nature.

So to start the ball rolling – and to use deep winter to do some deep thinking to recharge your career game plan – I ask you to treat separately the kind of work you are doing versus the conditions of work (pay, manager, colleagues, company culture, working conditions and environment). If you are becoming increasingly unhappy with the kind of work you are doing then you will likely need to consider a career change. If you are dissatisfied with the conditions of work, you might be able get back on the happiness track by negotiating with your manager or by making a pact with yourself to change companies in 2015 into a better fit environment. either way, there will be some food here for deep-winter thought (and possibly deep-winter action) as opposed to moaning about the wet days and dark nights.

Career coach Jane Downes is the author of The Career Book (thecareerbook.ie) and principal coach of Clearview Coaching Group, clearviewcoachgroup.com

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Barbarian rampage: Man of the match Leinster’s Jack Conan is tackled by Hanno Dirksen of Ospreys PICTURE: InPho

by DAnny HOgAn Two closing penalties from Jimmy Gopperth guided Leinster to an 18-12 victory in a cagey Guinness Pro12 clash with the under-strength ospreys.

The province extended their winning record at the RDS to 18 matches but were made to fight all the way by the visitors, who have topped the table for seven rounds this season.

The first half failed to catch fire with both sides guilty of kicking possession away aimlessly. Three penalties apiece from Ian Madigan and Sam Davies produced a half-time scoreline of 9-9.

Gopperth and Davies swapped kicks in the third quarter, before the Leinster forwards seized control in the closing stages – and Gopperth’s boot gave them a timely boost ahead of their European Champions Cup doubleheader against Harlequins.

Space was at a premium during a defence-dominated first quarter – but runs from Tom Grabham and Dave Kearney lifted the tempo before Madigan clipped over penalty number three.

Although ospreys failed to capitalise on a jinking run from

Leinster dig deep to see off Ospreys Hanno Dirksen, they continued to probe with ball in hand outside the Leinster 22 and Davies’s second penalty was their reward.

Dominic Ryan did well when coming through the middle to foil a dangerous ospreys maul – but further pressure yielded a 37th-minute penalty, from which Davies equalised.

Number eight and man-of-the-match Jack Conan got the hosts on the front foot with a bulldozing run into the 22, however possession was lost after Kearney wriggled up close to the posts.

Gordon D’Arcy, who replaced Madigan at centre, was tackled without the

ball and Leinster went back in front thanks to Gopperth’s first penalty on the night. As the pace quickened, Sam Lewis threatened on the right wing and loose kicking from Zane Kirchner and Darragh Fanning invited the ospreys forward. Davies duly tied things up with his fourth place-kick on the hour mark.

Crucially, Gopperth managed to edge Leinster ahead in the 72nd minute, splitting the posts after a Ben Marshall lineout steal. with Conan and replacements Marshall and Rhys Ruddock to the fore, the home pack dominated the final few minutes and Gopperth sealed the result following a scrum penalty in the 22.

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O’cOnnOR TO Ring cHAngEs fOR quins IT wasn’T pretty against the Ospreys but a similarly ugly display might be just what gets Leinster over the line this weekend, because there’s precious little time to set up the fireworks.

Bedding back in his international players will be nothing new to Leinster coach Matt O’Connor, but a tapered back game-plan will not be the worst option for the province.

Realistically, O’Connor is likely to make as many as eight changes to last weekend’s team which ground out an 18-12 win over Ospreys and the majority of those will come in the pack. we can see six Irish

internationals being reinstalled into the Leinster side and it will be up to them to carry their momentum from Ireland’s november clean sweep into the stoop.

Harlequins are vulnerable here having already lost twice at home this season in the Premiership, and although Leinster have outscored them domestically, we’d still look for a squeeze and kick approach and leave the fancy stuff until the following week.

There shouldn’t be as many changes to the backline which

Jimmy Gopperth is still not getting the most out of, but with Dave Kearney and Fergus McFadden looking very sharp and the tantalising prospect of Luke Fitzgerald becoming available, that should change.

It’s easier to focus on a brutally physical style of play up front for this weekend and carry that through until the end of the Pool stages.

Hopefully, that will prove easier to pick up after the six nations, but Leinster will only get to worry about that if they can get a minimum of eight points from this double-header.

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Jan Vertonghen hailed a complete team display after tottenham came from behind to beat everton 2-1.

Christian eriksen and roberto Soldado struck to cancel out Kevin Mirallas’ opener and ensure Spurs ended their post europa League hoodoo at White hart Lane, which has seen them lose four times after thursday fixtures.

‘I think we can do better in possession but we showed character,’ said Vertonghen. ‘We had a very good defensive line, the

‘It was a team performance’

The wait is over: Soldado celebrates his long-awaited strike with Kane, much to the relief of manager Pochettino, inset

pREMiER LEAGuE tottenham ............ 2 everton....................1

by Matthew Nash RobeRto Soldado’S barren run came to a timely end as tottenham rallied to secure a much-needed comeback win against everton.

Four defeats in six Premier league games at White Hart lane had left Spurs at loggerheads with their own fans, with emmanuel adebayor claiming the side prefer to play away. but thursday’s 1-0 europa league victory over Partizan belgrade bred confidence and Mauricio Pochettino’s men put in a vastly improved display to see off the toffees. that looked some way off when Kevin Mirallas’ beautiful curled effort gave the visitors the lead but Christian eriksen, and then Soldado, responded to hand Pochettino a crucial three points. For the argentine, it was possi-

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Soldado finds his scoring touch just in time for Spurs with an exquisite strike after bly the most complete per15 minutes following Vlad formance of his reign so far Chiriches’ weak backpass. and now sets his side up Six minutes later, though, nicely for Wednesday’s Harry Kane saw a shot trip to leaders Chelsea. minutes Soldado parried by tim Howard Spurs looked set to fall had gone since his foul of another europa last goal for Spurs and eriksen delicately league hangover when dinked in an equaliser. in September Mirallas beat Hugo lloris the stage was set for Solda-

World Cup star Gotze gives charity the boot Bayern Munich star Mario Gotze has decided to donate the football boot he was wearing when he hit Germany’s winner in the World Cup final to charity.

Gotze scored the only goal of the game in extra time to see off argentina in Brazil.

The forward will now auction off the left boot for a German children’s charity.

Gotze said: ‘I have never washed the shoe.

It’s still in the same condition as it was in rio, when I left the stadium. There is still grass on it. I kept it safe at my house.’

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do to win it in first-half stoppage time. aaron lennon put him in and the Spaniard’s cool finish ended a goal drought that stretched back to September. late on both sides had penalty appeals, Romelu lukaku’s effort seemingly brushing Spurs defender Federico Fazio’s arm, while Muhamed besic appeared to bring down Kane.

midfield and strikers as well were very good. It was a team performance today.’ harry Kane had a hand in both goals and was rewarded by being named man of the match.

‘It feels good to get the win because it was tough out there,’ said the england Under-21 man. ‘everton are a great side and it was a good battle.

‘We’ve been working on pressing higher up the pitch and creating opportunities.

So, it’s good to see what the boss has been working on working out on the pitch.’

Team game: Vertonghen

Strange stories from the world of sport

Poker choker earns Riera his cards

Little le bit of star quality: mini-me mini- actor Verne Troyer was in the crowd at Leeds on Saturday for their win over Derby

Former manchester City and Liverpool winger Albert riera has fallen foul of Italian paymasters Udinese after skipping a league game for a poker tournament. riera teamed up with the Serie A outfit earlier this year after a spell with Galatasaray.

However, it seems the Spain

international’s stay has been less than fulfilling for either party and they have now gone their separate ways. reports in Italy suggest the final nail hammered into the 32-year-old’s Italian coffin came after he missed a game with Chievo to play in a poker tournament in Slovenia –

where, incidentally, he finished second and picked up a healthy €3,800.

Not a man who could be accused of doing things by half, the ex-Anfield star then put his cards on the table by announcing on Twitter that Udinese were ‘the worse club I’ve ever played for’.

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Impressive win closes gap on leaders Chelsea pREMiER LEAguE sOutHAMPtON ......0 MAN CItY.................. 3

by Danny griffiths MANCHESTER City breathed fresh life into the title race as they moved up to second in the Premier League table and handed Southampton an ominous start to a daunting run of festive fixtures.

Yaya Toure, Frank Lampard and Gael Clichy sent City to a convincing win even though they were reduced to ten men for the last 16 minutes after central defender Eliaquim Mangala was sent off.

The defending champions are now just six points behind leaders Chelsea after leapfrogging Saints in the standings.

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fOOTbALL DigEsT Foxes making Deportivo fan dies after Madrid row man died after a fight broke out between fans of Atletico plans with Nigel ONE Madrid and Deportivo La Coruna in the Spanish capital. The man, JEFFREY SCHLUPP has backed manager Nigel Pearson to turn Leicester’s fortunes around and believes the Foxes should take plenty of positives from their narrow defeat at QPR. City are bottom of the league after losing 3-2 at Loftus Road and former Crystal Palace boss Tony Pulis is being linked to Pearson’s job. But winger Schlupp (pictured) said: ‘We’ve all been in a run of form when things aren’t going your way. We know how to get out of it.’

who died of injuries sustained in the clash, has been identified only as a 43-year-old Deportivo fan. Eleven other people suffered minor injuries and police made several arrests. ‘We are very sad, and condemn this completely,’ said Atletico coach Diego Simeone.

‘We hope this doesn’t happen again.’ The Spanish league said it tried to suspend the match, but that was not possible.

Klopp not tip-top as Borussia flop JURGEN KLOPP’S Borussia Dortmund went from bad to worse as they slipped to the bottom of Germany’s Bundesliga yesterday. Last season’s runners-up, beaten in midweek by Arsenal in the Champions League, lost 2-0 at Eintracht Frankfurt. Henrikh Mkhitaryan missed their best chance while Kevin Grosskreutz hit a post.

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City felt Sergio Aguero was denied a clear penalty in the first half when he was clearly up-ended by Saints defender Jose Fonte, but instead the striker was booked by referee Mike Jones.

City, however, were determined to make the most of Chelsea’s 0-0 draw at Sunderland and they inflicted a first home defeat at the St Mary’s Stadium on a Southampton side which boasts the best defensive record in the country.

The South Coast club now face a tough run of matches at Arsenal on Wednesday and at home to Manchester United next Monday before facing Chelsea later this month which will test their ambition to show their flying start is no fluke.

City took the lead in the 51st minute when Fernandinho gained possession and teed up Toure to score with a low drive from the edge of the area.

Mangala’s dismissal handed Ronald Koeman’s team the chance to make a big impact but Lampard put City in control with ten minutes to play, coolly driving home after sloppy Saints play.

Clichy then capped another fine raid, blasting high into Fraser Forster’s net for his first Premier League goal for City.

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Aston Villa ................ 1 Stoke ........................ 0 Hull ........................... 0 Leicester....................2 Man City ...................3 Chelsea .................... 0 Crystal Palace ........... 1 Everton...................... 1 Arsenal...................... 1 Newcastle ................ 0

manuel pellegrini Net gains: Toure fires home City’s opening goal against Southampton at St Mary’s yesterday

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In with a shout: Pochettino saw his Spurs team move to within two points of the top four

by gAvin bROwn at home, it is impossible to be happy,’ said Spurs boss Pochettino. ‘today the team sent a different signal to our supporters and it is important to keep this feeling for the rest of the season. our mentality and our spirit were fantastic.

‘For us it is not only three points, it is a little bit more than three points.’ elsewhere, Manchester city moved into second place with an impressive 3-0 win at Southampton.

injury puts question mark over de Villiers’ World cup SOUTH AfRiCA captain Jean de Villiers will see an orthopaedic surgeon in Cape Town this week to assess the full extent of an injury that could have major World Cup ramifications.

The Springboks centre was carried off midway through the second-half as South Africa slipped to a first defeat against Wales for 15 years at the Millennium Stadium. early indications are that the 33year-old faces a long recovery process after twisting his left knee and suffering a dislocated knee cap.

De Villiers, who has 106 caps, had scans after the match which team doctor Craig Roberts said ‘revealed significant ligament damage to the inside of his knee and the supporting muscles’.

‘He has had previous surgery on this knee, and the further management of the injury is

Hughes to stay ‘on 63 not out’

CRiCkeT AUSTRALiA has amended the scorecard from Phillip Hughes’s final innings in the wake of his tragic death.

Hughes, who would have been 26 yesterday, passed away last week after being hit in the neck by a ball at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Batting for South Australia, the 26-cap Test international was on 63 when the accident happened, with the scorecard saying he had retired hurt.

Social media soon turned to declaring Hughes as being ‘63 not out forever’ and Cricket Australia has

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dependent upon the specialist’s recommendations.’

South Africa’s World Cup campaign kicks off in just under ten months’ time, and there will be major concern in the Springboks camp about the prospects for such an influential player. fly-half Pat Lambie added: ‘Jean is a huge part of this team.

Carried away: South Africa captain Jean de Villiers is taken from the pitch on Saturday

‘It was a huge loss to see him being carried off’ ‘He is an outstanding leader, he makes great decisions out there, and it is just his presence. everyone feeds off that. ‘it was a huge loss to see him being carried off. We wish him all the very best with his recovery.’

South Africa’s 12-6 defeat ended an erratic european tour that also

saw them beaten by ireland, but in between, they toppled england at Twickenham and also saw off a resilient italy side.

‘We are very disappointed,’ Lambie said. ‘Obviously, it is not the way we wanted to finish off the year and the season. We made some basic mistakes.

‘i don’t think you can fault the effort or commitment. The boys were really up for this game, and we really wanted to finish off with a positive performance. ‘i think we have gained a lot out of this tour. We have learnt some hard lessons, but rather now than in a year’s time.’

Memorial: Phillip Hughes is honoured honour at Twickenham picture: getty now moved to reflect that in its records. ‘it might seem like a little thing, but it’s an important distinction,’ said Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland. ‘Phillip will forever remain 63 not out.’ The gesture came in the wake of Australia captain Michael Clarke paying a heartfelt tribute to his ‘little brother’ and close personal friend Hughes. in a moving column in the Australian Daily Telegraph yesterday, Mr Clarke said: ‘His cricketing achievements – of which there were many– really play second fiddle to the human qualities that he exhibited.’

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