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THE Luas fiasco is heating up with calls for alternative transport to be provided for Green Line users during rush hour.

Deputy Catherine Martin (GP) told Dublin Gazette commuters are having to allow several packed trams go by before they can board, and people are at breaking point.

She said: “I have been inundated with complaints received from

constituents who are exasperated with the current quality and reliability of the Luas service.

“Commuting at peak times is a nightmare for Luas passengers.”

In response, Minister for Transport Shane Ross said: “I absolutely agree with distressed Luas passengers that the difficulties they currently face travelling on the Luas at peak times is intolerable and cannot continue.”

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FG and FF slammed for ‘petty politics’  REBECCA RYAN

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SINN Fein councillor from Sandyford Glencullen, Chris Curran has said he is dismayed at the actions of both Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, as they again blocked any discussion at Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council on his motion relating to the potential for 400 social and affordable housing units in Carrickmines.

Speaking after a recent council meeting Cllr Curran said: “We wanted the council to send an official letter from the council to Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, Agriculture Minister Michael Creed and the Board of Directors of Horse

Racing Ireland, to seek a mechanism under which an unused land bank, owned by Leopardstown Racecourse, could be transferred to the council for the development of social and affordable homes.

“Last month, both Fine Gael and Fianna Fail refused point-blank to discuss the matter and wouldn’t even give us a reason. Informally, a week after that meeting, the excuse was given that a map was not provided with the motion.

“This month, I resubmitted the motion, including a variety of maps outlining land zoning, water and foul drainage, transport link and council plans.

“Last night however, both Fine Gael and Fianna Fail again blocked any discussion on our motion using an extremely petty technicality as their

excuse.”

Cllr Curran wants the Housing Minister to intervene.

“This sends a terrible message out to people living in hostels, hotels and emergency accommodation.

“I am now calling on Minister Eoghan Murphy to step in, overrule the petty politics of the Fine Gael

Cllr Chris Curran

group on Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, look at Sinn Fein’s

report on the site and open communications on the matter between his Department, the council, Horse Racing Ireland and the Department of Agriculture.”

Cllr Curran previously told Dublin Gazette the land is ideal for housing and fears the land could be lost to a private developer if the state does not step in.

He said: “It is already zoned residential, it is water and drainage serviced, has its own LUAS stop and is within a few hundred meters from the M50.

“It’s not as if an initiative like this is unique. In Cherry Orchard, the HSE handed over land to Dublin City Council and other sites in state ownership are being identified across the state for much-needed housing.”

The Sinn Fein councillor also told Dublin Gazette previously that the area has one of the worst housing lists.

“Dun Laoghaire Rathdown is not only the smallest county in the state, it has one of the worst housing waiting lists too with extremely limited land resources.

“Having researched the land in question and after communications with senior council officials, we estimate the sites to be around 6.5 hectares that could yield up to 450 housing units.”

Cllr Curran said he met with the Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy about the issue back in February and said: “He seemed genuinely interested in our racecourse proposal.

He outlined that he had a team looking into potential new sites for beyond 2021.

He said: “Whilst I welcome this, we cannot wait until after 2021. He needs to start acting on this site now, otherwise it could take 5 or 6 years before any new homes would start construction.”

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An Cathaoirleach Tom Murphy and Olympian David Gillick at the Marlay parkrun

Marlay parkrun marks 5th birthday THE Marlay parkrun celebrated its 5th birthday on St Patrick’s Day with almost 500 hardy souls braving the bitter cold to attend the weekly parkrun.

Welcoming runners, An Cathaoirleach Cllr.

Tom Murphy congratulated the organisers and volunteers for building initiative into one of Dublin’s most successful parkruns.

Runners, who included local Irish Olympian David Gillick, enjoyed a special birthday cake at the end of the run.

The Marlay Parkrun meets every Saturday at 9:30am in Marlay Park, Rathfarnham.

New participants are always welcome.

New acts join The Beatyard

Locals urged to join beach clean-up day

THE BEATYARD have announced a host of new acts for this year’s festival.

The fourth edition of the family-friendly, multi-stage festival will take place over three days this year on the August Bank Holiday weekend on the 3rd, 4th and 5th in Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

The Jacksons, Mr Scruff, The Reflex and Kelly-Anne Byrne will headline on Friday.

Kamasi Washington, Daphni, Django Django, Little Dragon, Modeselektor, John Talabot, Le Boom, Bad Bones, I Am The Cosmos will take to the festival’s seaside stage on Saturday.

And Orbital, St Germain, Kiasmos, The Skatalites, The Sugarhill Gang, King Kong Company, Joy Orbison, Confidence Man, Loah, I Am The Cosmos will see out Sunday in style.

Tickets for Beatyard are on sale now from www. the-beatyard.com and www. eventbrite.ie

LOCALS are being invited to take part in a clean-up event as part of the EU Beach Cleanup Day. Councillor Cormac Devlin is organising the event on Killiney Beach on March 25 at 12pm (meeting at the car park opposite the DART station).

All necessary equipment will be supplied on the day.

Cllr Devlin said: “This is a European wide initiative, taking place on the same day right across Europe. It is organised for local residents, groups and organisations to combine their efforts to try and collect as much rubbish and hazardous materials from our oceans.

“Like all environmental steps, everyone playing their part locally, helps globally.

That is why I am asking people from across the area to come and play their part in helping to keep our beach clean.”

In 2017, Killiney Beach did not retain its Blue Flag status.

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SANDYFORD: TRAINEE THANKS HER TEACHER FOR TEACHING HER SO MUCH

Hannah has high praise fur award-winning tutor REBECCA RYAN rryan@dublingazette.com

A TRAINEE dog groomer from Ballinteer wants to thank her teacher for teaching her so much about the business.

Hannah O’Byrne (25) is working in Canine Creations in Sandyford. Her teacher Cathy Bruen is a multi award-winning groomer with many years’ experience all over the world.

Hannah says Cathy is a lovely person who has a very kind nature and loving relationships with all dogs she meets.

“Cathy started grooming over 10 years ago. During 2010 & 2016 she lived and worked in Australia.

During her time there she trained with Christine Speerin who is the leader of the Australian Olympic Groom Team.

“Cathy competed in 11 grooming competitions in Australia having gained awards in grooming the West Highland White Terrier, the Miniature Schnauzer, the English Cocker Spaniel, the Poodle, the Shih Tzu, the Cavachon, the Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier, the Airedale Terrier and more.

“She returned to Ireland in May 2016 and opened

Canine Creations Dog Day Spa in Sandyford Village in July 2016. She is very passionate about beautifying dogs.

“She is enthusiastic about educating dog owners about the importance on regular grooming for all dogs, whether they have long or short hair.

“The dogs really love her, and she takes great care of each and every one, treating them as her own.”

“Cathy has taught me many things. From the difference of each dog that walks into the salon, to their personality, traits and the relationship between dog and owner.”

Back in September 2017, Dublin Gazette featured a story about Hannah when she described her horror after her dog Penny was attacked with a firework while out for a walk.

We asked Hannah how her pug is doing now.

“Penny is doing great. Her ear has healed fully, and her hearing is better than first expected. She is now more alert when we are out as she is always looking back to see where I am if she is off the lead.

She spends most of her time under my feet since the accident, but if that’s where she feels safe then I don’t mind.”

Cathy is a multi award-winning groomer with many years’ experience all over the world. Inset: Hannah and Cathy.

APPEAL

Mum starts petition over car parking BRAY based blogger and writer Niamh O’Reilly is calling on supermarkets and retailers to enforce the Parent & Child car parking spaces, with a petition that has now reached over 6,000 signatures in less than one month. A firsttime mum, blogger Niamh started the petition out of her own frustrations of dealing with people consistently parking in these spaces with no children or car seats on board, on an almost daily basis.

You can find the petition on change.org

Niamh with son Thomas

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Politicians ‘have failed us’ over Glenalbyn Pool A LOCAL area rep for Stillorgan has blamed poor political representation as the root cause of the Glenalbyn Pool fiasco.

Sinn Fein’s Rosie Ni Laoghaire has expressed her dismay that no money has been committed by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for Glenalbyn Swimming Pool in the Capital Plan 2018-20, that was ratified by councillors at a meeting in County Hall on March 12.

Ms Ni Laoghaire said: “As a local resident, whose family were founder members of Glenalbyn Pool, I feel that our local politicians have failed us. There has been ongoing dissatisfaction with our local politicians that they have not pushed harder to reopen our pool.

“The fact is the council have classified this project as ‘not committed’ which means that is not expected to be delivered in the current capital programme which runs until 2020. This is, despite the fact that some local politicians have issued communications with constituents, giving the misleading impression that the pool will reopen sooner than expected.”

She said Ballyogan Swimming Pool was approached in a much better way.

“On the other hand, the Ballyogan Swimming Pool Project and Phase 2 of the Samuel Beckett Civic Campus, for instance is ‘committed’, and is expected to be built. This was confirmed at Monday’s meeting. New drawings are being prepared, it will be put out to tender, and construction should start in 2019.

“If the same approach had been applied in Glenalbyn, as has been in Ballyogan, this fiasco would never have been allowed happen.”

WASTE: PANDA SET TO INTRODUCE CHARGES FOR GREEN BINS

Panda plans to charge for green bins ‘outrageous’ REBECCA RYAN rryan@dublingazette.com

WASTE company Panda will start charging for its green recycling bin from next month.

The company says the recent Chinese ban on the importing of certain types of waste, including some types of plastics, from European countries is to blame.

Households will pay 80 cents per lift and just under five cents for every kilo.

The company said the average cost per customer will be around €21 per year.

In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett said the plans to introduce charges for the green recycling bin collection in Dun Laoghaire, Fingal and Louth are totally outrageous.

He said it confirms that

The average cost per customer will be around €21 per year according to the customer

a privatised waste collection and recycling system is driven by profit rather than concern for the environment or improving our recycling rates.

Deputy Boyd Barrett said charges for recycling rubbish will undermine

recycling and lead to even more illegal dumping.

The Dun Laoghaire TD also said the Government should not allow companies to impose any charges for recycled waste and should also ban all nonrecyclable packaging and

Walkers enjoy a scenic Dublin Bay THE 13th annual Harbour2Harbour Walk for Aware took place on St Patrick’s Day. People walked from Dun Laoghaire Harbour to Howth Harbour or vice versa, taking in the breath-taking views of Dublin Bay, with a ‘Halfway Hooley’ hosted at Dublin Port Company’s newly opened public plaza. The 26km challenge raised vital funds for the mental health organisation’s support, education and information services.

Mary Phelan from Finglas was there and said it was a great day: “I enjoyed the 16 mile coastal walk from Howth to Dun Laoghaire. A super cause in Aware. Great half way hooley organised by Dublin Port with refreshments provided. Weather bitterly cold but once I began walking I warmed up and enjoyed it.”

return waste collection and recycling services to full public ownership.

He said: “Charging householders for waste they go to the trouble of recycling is an utter scandal.

“It exposes the lie that waste charges are about protecting the environment and confirms that they are purely a means to make profit for private waste companies, many of whom don’t even pay tax in this country. “ T h e G ove r n m e n t should ban any charges for recycled waste and move immediately to return waste and recycling services to public ownership.

“If the Government was serious about protecting the environment and reducing waste they would ban non-recyclable packaging and containers.

“Crucially, they would invest in developing publicly owned a domestic recycling infrastructure and industry, which could both protect the environment and potentially create many green jobs.”

People Before Profit TD Brid Smith has also lashed out at the move and has called on the Minister for Communications, Environment and

Climate Action to intervene and stop waste companies from introducing green bin charges.

She said some households will actually face much higher increases of over €100.

“This is the predictable outcome of the privatisation of waste services, bin charges were justified as a way of getting people to recycle and separate waste; now they are being charged for that as well.

“I am calling on Minister Naughton to pull these companies into line and ban the charging for the green bins. What the companies are saying is not true - people will pay far more than €21 a year.”

The TD also attacked waste companies who are based offshore and claimed this was a way

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It exposes the lie that waste charges are about protecting the environment and confirms that they are purely a means to make profit

of hiding their profits and avoiding paying tax.

Deputy Smith stated the fact that recycled waste had been sent to China was a testimony to the lunacy of the state’s waste management.

“We need recycling facilitates in Ireland, we need to ban single-use plastic and reduce the packaging of food and other items.

“A privatised for-profit industry will not deal with waste in a sustainable way.”

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FASTNews

A brush with great art created by Dublin kids TEXACO Children’s Art Competition adjudicator Aoife Ruane pictured during judging of entries in this year’s competition, the results of which will be announced mid-April.

In her hand is an entry by 10-year-old Darragh O’Callaghan, from St Laurence’s Boys National School, Stillorgan, entitled Two Different Worlds and another by 10-year-old Rachel Moir, from The Harold School, Glasthule, entitled Tropical Afternoon.

Prizes will be presented at a ceremony that takes place in Dublin in May.

Blackrock school ban single-use plastics STUDENTS at Newpark School in Blackrock are Ireland’s first single-use, plastic-free school.

A group of Transition Year activists are driving this campaign to highlight the harmful effects of plastic pollution and its impacts on communities locally and globally.

The initiative is in conjunction with Eco UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards and the United Nations 17 World Sustainable Development Goals.

The new upcoming 2018 first years will buy a student-designed stainless steel bottle as a part of the school equipment requirements, and the school canteen has started its transition to plasticfree packaging at the request of students.

In addition, the local Spar shop has also adapted its lunch deal in support of the school. The team have also sent a petition of 800 signatures to Minister Naughton and Minister Bruton as an advocate of change in schools across the country.

The environmentalists officially launched their single-use, plastic-free campaign on March 16.

The students hope to inspire other schools and campuses across Ireland.

Seminar promotes social inclusion in communities COMMUNITY and local development groups from across South Dublin attended a seminar on promoting social inclusion in communities on March 9 in Rialto, Dublin 8.

Hosted by Pobal, who work on behalf of Government to support communities, the seminar was an opportunity for community groups to reflect on future challenges to address social exclusion and poverty in a local and regional context.

Over 80 representatives from community groups in Dublin attended the seminar.

A number of Pobal Regional Seminars will take place over the coming months.

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Cabo celebrate 50 years in style F

ORMER Ireland manager Steve Staunton and former Northern Ireland international footballer Norman Whiteside were among the speakers for Cabinteely FC’s 50th anniversary dinner last week.

The event took place at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire.

The night featured entertainment from Cabinteely player Sean Price and his brother Conor fresh back from the X-Factor tour of the UK and Ireland.

Norman Whiteside

Former Ireland manager Steve Staunton

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CONTEST: SUPERB SET SEES JOSH CROWNED WINNER OF DIT DJ SOCIETY

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DIT student spins his way to victory A DIT student from County Wicklow, Josh Moody, was crowned the winner of the DIT DJ Society Spinoff last Thursday night at South William Bar. Josh spun his way to victory playing out an incredible techno set, displaying both charisma and talent within the allocated 15-minute slot.

He walked away with a variety of DJ set prizes for a number of festivals, an interview on Phever.ie and also an AKAI APC mini from DJ Box

in Dublin.

Hosted by celebrity DJ & MC, Marcus O’Laoire and judged by a panel of esteemed DJs including DJ Deece, Jonathan Kiely and Dean Sherry, the Spinoff 2018 saw more than 100 attendees come and represent their college in the only national DJ intervarsity in country.

Nine colleges entered the competition, all with the hope of winning a selection of incredible prizes including a DJ set at BD Festival, a set at The Ball 2018 and music pro-

duction equipment.

The attending colleges included NUIG, NUIM, DIT, Queen’s University, IT Blanchardstown, DCU, CIT and UCC. Commenting on the night, Josh said he was shocked that he won: “With the amount of talent there on the night, I don’t think anyone knew who was going to win.

“I’m absolutely delighted. I couldn’t believe it really and the whole night was just all together fantastically.”

MINISTER FIRMLY REJECTS SINN FEIN ‘BUYING VOTES’ CLAIM

Shane Ross hits back at allegation he influenced school’s funding REBECCA RYAN

MINISTER for Sport Shane Ross has rejected claims that his department looked favourably on private schools and clubs when awarding Sports Capital Funding.

The Minister came under fire over the weekend following reports that €150,000 had been awarded to feepaying Wesley College to upgrade the school’s hockey pitch.

In response to media coverage on Minister Ross’s role in Sports Capital Funding in relation to Dublin schools, a Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport spokesperson told Dublin Gazette: “The [related] headline ... is inaccurate and deliberately misleading.

“Minister Ross had no role whatsoever in the selection process – a fact which the journalist was aware of at the time of going to print.”

Rejecting reports that private schools and clubs are receiving larger sums of funding than other schools, they added: “This is not happening – every fully valid application from West Dublin and the city centre received the full amount they applied for; every partially valid application received that partial amount.

“Funding under the Sports Capital Programme is allocated to each county on a per capita basis.

“Given its large population and comparatively small number of applications, every valid application

from Dublin since 2012 has been allocated the total amount sought once the application meets the terms and conditions of the Programme.”

However, Sinn Fein TD Imelda Munster questioned whether Minister Ross was targeting votes in his constituency.

She said: “The Government is using the Sports Capital Programme to buy votes by funding clubs in middle-class areas.

“This is not what the Sports Capital Programme is about. I am sickened that the Government is using the grant programme to fund organisations in their own areas.

“Clubs in middle-class areas that charge membership fees of several thousand euro per year do not need the funding. If a club can charge €8,000 annual fees from members, then it should use that money to improve facilities. The rest of us shouldn’t have to pick up the bill.”

Among 30-publicly funded schools which missed out on funding was Tallaght Community School, which wanted €107,000 for a five-a-side all weather pitch.

Lecturer in the School of Humanities at NUI Galway Andrew O Baoill told Dublin Gazette that reform of the Sports Capital Programme was needed.

He said: “I believe that the current structure of the scheme acts to entrench privilege, and give a hand up to the already well-off, at the

expense of the less well off.

“A scheme like this should be particularly targeted at those groups who will miss out without it, who don’t have access to self-funding or wealthy donors. A communitybased group, which presumes open access for all, shouldn’t be disadvantaged because they don’t have a ‘licence agreement which shows sharing’ with another group.”

Singling out allegations over Minister Ross’s focus on Wesley College funding, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport spokesperson firmly rejected them, saying: “The Minister had no role in either the initial application process or appeals process, other than to approve the monetary allocation proposed by officials.

“Minister Ross met with many clubs and schools countrywide in his role as Minister for Sport, to discuss the Sports Capital Programme.

“He advised interested groups to register that interest on the departmental website, he highlighted the dates for local workshops where his officials explained the application process, he directed clubs and schools to SCP user guide and specially-made YouTube videos.

“No change was made to any of the proposed allocations. Similarly, for the appeals process, appeals were considered and decided on by officials. No change was made by Ministers.”

FASTNews

Dundrum winners wakes up a millionaire ONE South Dubliner woke up a millionaire on St Patrick’s Day. The lucky punter bought the winning €1m EuroMillions Ireland Only raffle ticket at Costcutter in Windy Arbour, Dundrum.

Shop owner Aaron Massey said he is overjoyed to have sold the golden ticket.

“We are a small, busy local shop but there is also a lot of passing trade. We would love if one of our regulars is the lucky winner. What a way for someone to celebrate St. Patrick’s weekend!

“The excitement here is unbelievable. This is our first big EuroMillions win. Customers coming into the shop this morning are also thrilled and there is lots of speculation on who the winner is. We will be known forever more as ‘the lucky green shop’!”

There was no winner of the main EuroMillions crock of gold jackpot of €17m, but one Irish player did match five numbers, landing €31,260. Three tickets were sold in Dublin, two in Kerry, two in Tipperary, two online play and one in Kildare.

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Students urged to apply for 50% scholarships at top school A KNOCKLYON native is urging students to apply for 50% scholarships at Ireland’s top Business School.

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School have launched the ninth year of its Aspire Scholarship Programme.

The scholarship provides graduates across the country with the opportunity to secure funding towards tuition at Ireland’s leading business school.

This year will see 50% funding made available for up to nine MSc scholarships and up to three MBA scholarships for the 2018/19 academic year.

These scholarships are for applicants who have the ambition to under-

take a business masters, but who may not have the financial means to do so.

Ciaran Re illy said: “The Aspire Scholarship Programme not only allowed me to undertake the Smurfit MBA by providing me with some financial assistance but also presented a series of unexpected opportunities beyond the MBA itself.

“I am very grateful to have been awarded the scholarship and would recommend that aspiring MSc and MBA candidates consider applying for this year’s programme”.

Applications for the programme can be made online at www. smurfitschool.ie before May 11, 2018.

‘FIASCO’: COMMUTERS IN THE DARK AS PROBLEMS ROLL ON

Platforms jammed with people, commuters dumped out at Sandyford, electronic signs not working ... There are growing frustrations with the poor service currently affecting the Green Line. Pictures: Shane Dillon

Greens slam ‘botched roll out’ of cross-city Luas link REBECCA RYAN rryan@dublingazette.com

THE Luas fiasco is heating up with calls for alternative transport for Green Line users during rush hour.

It comes as new longer trams that were introduced last December to deal with the extra demand for the service were withdrawn last week due to technical issues with their batteries.

Green Party Deputy Leader and TD for Dublin Rathdown Catherine Martin told Dublin Gazette that commuters are having to allow several packed trams go by before they can board, and people are at breaking point.

“The situation for commuters is going from bad to worse. The latest announcement will aggravate and compound commuters’ frustration and anger.

“I have been inundated with complaints received from constituents who are exasperated with the current quality and reliability of the Luas service.

“Commuting at peak times is a nightmare for Luas passengers due to overcrowding, delays, and the repeated failures of the Real Time Information displays and debit card machines.

Deputy Martin added the government should have been more prepared.

“The Minister for Transport has referred to these issues as teething problems, but it is now over three months since the cross-city Luas was launched and these problems are getting worse day by day.

“This botched roll out of the cross-city Luas has resulted in a protracted public transport fiasco which could have been avoided.”

Deputy Martin is urging the Government and the National Transport Authority to put

on extra buses for Green Line commuters during peak times until the “growing problems with this once reliable service are resolved.”

“Buses should be provided for commuters where trams are consistently delayed or too full, until the problems in respect of this service once celebrated for its reliability and quality are resolved.

“In the long-term commuters’ confidence needs to be restored in the Luas as a matter of priority, and I would call on the Minister for Transport to tackle the problem effectively.”

Meanwhile, Fianna Fail Representative in the Dundrum area, councillor Shay Brennan, has called on the Transport Minister to pub-

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In the longterm commuters’ confidence needs to be restored in the Luas as a matter of priority

lish details of the service level arrangement between Transport Infrastructure Ireland and Transdev.

He said: “The current Luas operator is contractually obliged to meet key performance metrics or face fines.”

Cllr Brennan added the 90,000 daily Luas users have been suffering increased delays, cancellations and overcrowded trams.

“Luas users have a right to know what these performance metrics are, whether the current degraded service meets these minimum requirements and whether any penalties have been levied on the operator.

Reacting to the comments, Minister Ross told Dublin Gazette: “Last Thursday, I inter-

vened and convened an urgent meeting of all stakeholders – TII, NTA, Alstrom and Transdev – to discuss what caused the current problems with Luas delays and how best to swiftly address them.

“I informed all stakeholders that what Luas passengers are currently experiencing falls far below the standard any Minister for Transport would expect and, indeed, would demand from them.

“I was assured that everything possible is being done to alleviate the situation. I have insisted on being updated daily until the situation is resolved.

“I absolutely agree with distressed Luas passengers that the difficulties they currently face travelling on the Luas at peak times is intolerable and cannot continue.

“I would like to thank Deputy Martin for her suggestion that additional buses should be put on at peak time Luas lines for commuter use.

“However, she may not be aware that his was done last Thursday by the NTA and just five people transferred from the Luas platform to the bus.

“Obviously this is not a solution, as it seems the vast majority of commuters would prefer to use the Luas to get to their destination.”

Cllr Shay Brennan at Luas Dundrum station

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ST PATRICK’S DAY

Barry McCluskey and David Hicks

Adriana and Sophie Lundberg

Brother and sister Laurence and Constance Sun Rebecca and Lia Moriarity. Pictures:Rose Comiskey

Elsa and Jane Ryan

Stepaside goes green for a day

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HOUSANDS of local people celebrated St Patrick’s Day in Stepaside as the parade set off at the Belarmine Roundabout towards the village and displayed the talents of a large number of different community, charity and sporting groups who marched through the village.

Sisters Ailsa and Dahlia Galvin

Jessica Bell

The ‘Minis’ (junior) section of Stillorgan Rugby Club who were in the parade

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Dancers from the Marshall Academy who were in the parade

Jane and Stephen Bowen

Celebrations Emma Doolin with Katelyn and Amber Parsons

The Ryan Family

Shayla McClean, Amy Walsh and Amelia Fitzgerald

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AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT SOME OF THE CITY’S BEST CULTURAL HOTSPOTS

HE weather has not been kind to us so far in 2018.

Rain and snow appearing with somewhat depressing regularity have made enjoying the outdoors a challenge at the moment. Fortunately, Dublin has a wealth of indoor cultural attractions where you can while away a few hours. Here, we take a look at some of the beautiful galleries that can be found in the city, all of which have free admission (especially if the only art you see is graffiti on your daily commute, above).

HUGH LANE LOCATION: Charlemont House, Parnell Square North, D1 BEST FEATURE: The Francis Bacon studio AMENITIES: Cafe on the basement level serving tea, coffee and a selection of gourmet food and snacks HUGH Lane held the first exhibition of Irish Art in 1904 in London and continued to innovate by endowing the Hugh Lane Gallery with a unique and exceptional collection of modern art, including the first Impressionist paintings in any public collection across Britain and Ireland.

Sir Hugh Lane presented the collection to Dublin Corporation (now Dublin City Council) in 1908.

The gallery is also home to Francis Bacon’s studio and archive – an exciting and unique resource attracting audiences, artists and historians from at home and abroad.

NATIONAL GALLERY LOCATION: Merrion Square West, D2 BEST PIECE: The Taking of the Christ by Caravaggio AMENITIES: Its Gallery Cafe serves breakfast, light lunch, tea, coffee and cakes ESTABLISHED in 1854 by an Act of Parliament, and opened to the public in 1864, the National Gallery of Ireland is one of Europe’s earliest public art galleries.

Recently reopened in full following renovations, houses a collection of more than 16,300 works of art, comprising European and Irish fine art spanning the early Renaissance to the present day, as well as extensive library and archive collections.

The expansive gallery is also home to The Taking of the Christ by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, a masterpiece thought lost for many years until it was rediscovered at the Jesuit House on Leeson Street, Dublin, in 1987.

SCIENCE GALLERY LOCATION: Pearse Street, D2 BEST PIECE: The Makeshop AMENITIES: On-site cafe and gift shop SINCE opening in 2008, more than 2.5 million visitors to the Science Gallery have experienced more than 38 unique exhibitions — ranging from living art experiments to materials science, and from the future of the human race to the future of play.

The gallery features an ever-changing programme of exhibitions and events fuelled by the expertise of scientists, researchers, students, artists, designers, inventors, creative thinkers and entrepreneurs.

The focus is on providing programmes and experiences that allow visitors to participate and facilitate social connections, always providing an element of surprise.

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The Gaz Man on sport, craft beer and egg chasers THE GAZ MAN

YE KNOW them films where fellas come back from the Vietnam War and they have tha’ haunted look in their eyes? Well, that’s what Paschal looked like when I called in to Janey Mac’s for a sneaky Sunday afternoon scoop.

“Busy day yesterday, Paschal?” says I. “Bedlam!” he says.

“The place was heaving from the minute I opened the door. They were all in early to try and get a good seat to watch the rugby.”

I never thought I’d see the day when there was rugby on in Janey Mac’s. Is nothing safe from gentrification? I told Paschal no good would come of gettin’ in all those craft beers.

That sort of stuff attracts rugby types with funny haircuts.

In fairness though, isn’t it great to see Ireland on top of the world for a change – or at least on top of five other countries nearby that have a passing interest in the same sport.

Paschal reckons we have a good chance of winning the World Cup next year, so I’d better swat up on some of the rules so I can properly get on the bandwagon when it rolls around. Sure it’ll be good for an auld session or two if nothing else.

Yer man Ross seemed to enjoy himself anyway. He seemed to be in every picture I saw doing the rounds after the game, but I’m not sure if he

knows any more about the sport than me – neither of us know the player’s names anyway by the looks of things.

Grumbling Davy was grumbling about him when he came in. Saying he should be sorting out the Luas rather than gallivantin’ around with egg chasers. I thought that was a bit harsh, but Davy was saying he’s sick of hearing his young fella moaning about the crowds on the trams every day.

Paschal said they were talking about putting on buses as an alternative transport to the Luas.

I thought the Luas was the alternative form of transport to the bus, but sure there ye go!

“Ah, lay off poor Ross, Davy,” says I. “At least he’s not as bad as Leo, off fawning over the Trump fella for a week.”

“Ah, Leo’s not that bad,” says Davy.

“Bono seems to like him, anyways.”

“Bono!?!” says I. “Sure he’s a bowsie too.”

“Bono’s a great lad all together,” says Davy.

“Look at all he does for charity. I reckon he’s a modern Irish hero, up there with Collins and De Valera.”

“I don’t know about that, Davy,” I says.

“I’ve never seen the words ‘Dev Is A Pox’ scrawled on any walls in town.”

Khleo Prosser, Kellie Crisp and Hayley Walsh enjoy a night out at the Monsoon and Accessorize press dinner in The Alex Hotel. Guests enjoyed a delicious three-course dinner after checking out the new Spring/Summer collections from both brands in a tropical and floral setting. Picture: Leon Farrell/Photocall

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Free blow-dry to help ladies fight ‘the big C’ AHEAD OF this year’s upcoming Daffodil Day (see panel, right), one Dublin hairdresser has started an initiative in her bid to fight against cancer.

Gillian Lee, owner of Mane Envy Hair Salon in Baldoyle, is offering a free blow-dry to women if they get a smear test.

She told Dublin Gazette she decided to do this because of what her mother went through.

“Back in 2012, my own mother underwent an emergency hysterectomy following a series of abnormalities which showed up on her smear tests, leading to minor surgery and then major surgery.

“I believe she’s here and

Gillian Lee

healthy today because she went for her free routine smear test.”

She added that Jade Goody was also an influence in her decision.

“It’s awful for me to say, but ‘The Jade Goody Effect’ has worn off!!

When Jade, God rest her

soul, was in the media there was an all-time high of smears being booked in, but now there’s an all-time low.

“So, I thought, ‘What can I do to encourage women to go get their smears?’, and I thought, ‘Who doesn’t love a big bouncy, blow-dry?’,” said Gillian’ Gillian’s offer of a free blow-dry for getting your smear test done is running from now until November 30.

To avail of the offer, women must bring proof they had a smear test in 2018, such as presenting either a doctor or nurse’s note, or email.

Gillian is hoping all of this will encourage

women to go for their free cervical checks. She believes it is “so, so important”.

“I want to appeal to women to please make that call today. Get on to www.cervicalcheck.ie, call them at Freephone 1800 454 555, or talk to your doctor and make what could be one of the most important calls in your life.”

TO SPEAK to a cancer nurse on any aspect of cervical cancer, contact the Cancer Nurseline at Freephone 1800 200 700, email cancernurse line@irishcancer.ie, or drop into one of the 13 Daffodil Centres in hospitals nationwide.

Call to buy a bloom Minister for Health Simon Harris with Dora Bracken. Picture: Andres Poveda

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HIGHLIGHTING the impact of cancer in Ireland, the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) points out that one person dies from cancer every hour in Ireland.

Currently 165,000 people are living with cancer in Ireland, and across a 12-month period 8,810 people in Dublin were diagnosed with the disease.

The ICS is preparing for its biggest annual fundraiser, Daffodil Day, takes place on March 23.

The day will see thousands of volunteers take to the streets selling flowers and daffodil pins to collect funds for the fight against cancer.

Many others will organise coffee mornings and other fundraising events in their homes, local communities, and workplaces.

Daffodil Day originated in Canada six

decades ago, with the first Irish Daffodil Day taking place in 1988.

RTE broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan, who lost her sister to cancer, is urging the people of Dublin to dig deep this Daffodil Day to help the record number of people being diagnosed with cancer.

Miriam said: “More people are surviving cancer now than ever before thanks to life-saving research. Daffodil Day is a day where we can all help fight back against cancer.

“Like so many Irish people, I have lost loved ones to cancer. I lost my precious sister, Anne, who was just 33 when she died.

“On March 23, the people of Dublin can help fund life-saving research and crucial services to ensure cancer patients and their families are properly supported.

Get involved now at www.cancer.ie.”

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A WIN FOR ONE, AND CAN YOU HELP THIS TIGER?

Our dog of the week

DUBLIN Gazette has teamed up with Dogs Trust to help find homes for lost and abandoned dogs.

Tiger is a 6-year-old energetic, Collie who is full of beans, loves new adventures and is always happy to go for walks.

Like all Collies he is extremely intelligent and will need lots of mental and physical stimulation to keep his brain busy and body in good shape.

Tiger is friendly when meeting people out and about but he is not comfortable with too much fuss around him. This sweet boy will need some confidence building training and with the right approach, he should become a proper cuddle monster, as he already enjoys human company so much!

Tiger cannot wait to start his life over again and finding the right family is the first thing on his agenda. He could potentially live with another playful and active dog to keep him company and show him the ropes.

Tiger is looking for an adult home only, as he gets overwhelmed with too much attention and handling.

If you think you are what Tiger needs, then contact Dogs Trust at 01 879 1000. They are based in Finglas, just off exit 5 on the M50.

Map and directions can be found on their website www.dogstrust.ie. You can also find them on Facebook www.facebook.com/dogstrustirelandonline or Twitter @DogsTrust_IE.

Fiona’s Doyle-ight at winning tickets for this Croker final CONGRATULATIONS to Leopardstown woman, hurling fan and loyal Dublin Gazette reader Fiona Doyle, pictured here ready for a great game at Cuala’s All Ireland SHC Final at Croke Park last weekend. Fiona’s official GAA & AIB GAA tickets were just one of our latest great giveaways. Remember: keep reading, and keep winning!

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BEASTLY WEATHER: The Irish Life Centre’s Charioteer again rode to the challenge of showing the impact of freezing snow, ice and slush that hit Dublin at the start of the week. Photos: Shane Dillon

All roses at the Seamus Ennis Arts Centre AFTER releasing new record Rule 62 in October, singer-songwriter Whitney Rose announces a show at Seamus Ennis Arts Centre in Naul, Fingal on Friday, May 4.

As her EP South Texas Suite (a countrypolitan valentine to Austin, Texas) was primed for release in January 2017, and a four-month worldwide tour lay ahead; Whitney Rose packed her boots for

Nashville to enter the Blackbird studio with co-producer Raul Malo of The Mavericks to record new album Rule 62.

Playful yet uncompromising, the songs on Rule 62 reminds us of popular music’s rich history of strong female voices and perspectives; and throughout Whitney channels her inner Nancy Sinatra, Bobbie Gentry and Francoise Hardy.

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Electric Picnic: There’s a real buzz about the 2018 line-up

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BEASTS OF ALL KINDS MAKE THEIR IMPACT FELT

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Rare monkeys arrive at Tayto Park Zoo EXCITEMENT was in the air at Tayto Park earlier this month as keepers welcomed six rare Sulawesi Black Crested Macaque (3 male and 3 female).

The baby male, who is yet to be named, is still clinging to his mother Satana but is getting more adventurous by the day.

Sulawesi Black Crested Macaque are endemic to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and are critically endangered.

They are part of a captive population managed and monitored by EAZA’s European

Penguins coming to the Pavilion Theatre

Urgent appeal for puppy walkers COULD you give a puppy a loving home for a year before it becomes a Guide or Assistance Dog? Puppy Raising is a crucial part of Irish Guide Dogs work. Although done on a voluntary basis, it will take time, commitment and love from both you and your family.

Irish Guide Dogs is urgently looking for volunteer puppy walkers in Dublin.

As a puppy raiser you will foster and socialise the pup from 8 weeks to 12-14 months. The puppy will sleep in your home and all training equipment and food will be provided by Irish Guide Dogs. You’ll also get regular training classes and support from your puppy raising supervisor.

To find out more or to apply online, go to www. guidedogs.ie or contact our Dog Volunteer Coordinator Eimear Kenneally at 087 9945115 or email eimearkenneally@guidedogs.ie.

PENGUINS are coming to the Pavillion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire on Good Friday (March 30).

This delightful new theatre and dance production is inspired by a true story reported in the New York Times that touched hearts worldwide.

Roy and Silo are two male Chinstrap pen guins.

Just like the other penguin couples at Central Park Zoo, they walk, play, swim and dance together.

When the duo decide to try and hatch a rock in place of an egg, they find themselves on an adventure that could mean raising a chick for real!.

Penguins is a unique and engaging show for children about friendship, fun, identity and the ever-changing meaning of family.

T h e c re a t ive te a m includes award-winning children’s Director Paul Bosco Mc Eneaney and international Choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra.

Tickets are priced at €6 for children and €8 for adults, with family tickets for €25.

There are two shows, starting at 2pm and 4pm.

Tickets are available from www.pavilliontheatre.ie

Endangered Species Programme (EEP).

In addition to the new arrivals, Tayto Park have put together some egg-citing activities for the little ones this Easter.

On Easter Sunday, April 1, visitors can enjoy a crime scene investigators inspired event.

Mr Tayto is looking for help from some detectives this Easter to help him solve the mystery of ‘Who stole the egg’? Mr Tayto knows it was of the animals in the zoo - but he doesn’t know which one.

For more information visit www.taytopark.ie.

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GOINGOUTOUT

PICKWEEK OF THE

MARCH 27 (TUESDAY) Phoenix + Sleep Thieves @ Olympia Theatre, €34.50

MARCH 22 (THURSDAY) Bell X1 @ Vicar Street, €36.50 Legendary Irish emotive rockers get settled into a run of shows that will explore their back catalogue in its entirety, focusing on a different album every night. A real selection box of hits and hidden gems to explore.

Joan Baez @ Bord Gais Energy Theatre, €58-79 The Secret Sister @ Whelan’s, €20 Changing Odyssey + FIsh In The Sky @ Grand Social, €10 Slow Riot @ Whelan’s (Upstairs), €10

MARCH 23 (FRIDAY) Bell X1 @ Vicar Street, €36.50 Nathan Carter @ 3Arena Gorgon City @ District 8, €20 Fast-rising and accessible London house act bring the tour of their long-awaited Kingdom album (now more of a brand than a release) to District 8 for what’s sure to be a raucous night on the tiles.

All Tvvins @ Olympia Theatre, €22 Little Hours @ The Button Factory, €22.90 Sarah Darling @ Grand Social Sigrid @ The Academy, €23 Touted as the next big thing, this charming and easy-to-engage with Norwegian popstar drops in on The Academy to perform hits from her newly released eponymous EP. By the time an album comes around, you can forget seeing her anywhere this small...

Empathy + Control Freak @ Whelan’s, late show

MARCH 24 (SATURDAY) Bell X1 @ Vicar Street, €36.50 Paloma Faith @ 3Arena, €42-52 Bone Machine play the music of Tom Waits, Workman’s Club, €10 Greywind @ The Academy, €12 BARQ @ Whelan’s, €10 Flux + French Ketamine @ Whelan’s, late show Skywriter @ Whelan’s Upstairs

MARCH 25 (SUNDAY) Flights of the Conchords @ 3Arena, €86 Bell X1 @ Vicar Street, €36.50 Lee Scratch Perry @ Whelan’s, €26 Dream Wife @ The Workman’s Club, €13 Anne-Marie @ Olympia Theatre, €23

MARCH 26 (MONDAY) Belle and Sebastian @ Vicar Street, €46.50 MO @ Olympia Theatre, €21

MARCH 27 (TUESDAY) Belle and Sebastian @ Vicar Street, €46.50 The Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s, €6 Warsaw Radio + Tiz McNamara @ Whelan’s (Upstairs), €10

MARCH 28 (WEDNESDAY) Hudson Taylor @ Olympia Theatre, €26 Young Fathers @ The Academy, €25

As a Dublin and Belfast fourpiece, Landless have carefully crafted a truly singular sound

Landless: a vocal quartet that soar, organically...

BUILT on soaring yet carefully-refined harmonies and the most delicate of recording approaches, Bleaching Bones - the debut album from Dublin and Belfast four-piece Landless - is a million miles from the modernday zeitgeist.

Regardless, the rootsy harmonies shine, made special by a sense of place and unique, textured feel.

The concept of an album without instruments is, transparently, not a new one, but it is a sparse rarity in the context of modern day music.

Landless - a harmonyled, all-female vocal quartet - do very little by the book, having beautifully passed from a trad niche to the stage.

“We don’t write anything down, when it comes to working on songs,” Ruth Clinton tells us of the approach

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to ‘Bleaching Bones’, released on Humble Serpent Records earlier this month.

“We all sang mainly in traditional singing circles before this, unaccompanied, and the band and the album came out of that.”

“We recorded partly in St Luke’s Church in Howth, where I’m in my element, as I grew up around there. “ It h a s i n c re d i b l e acoustics. We also went down to a tunnel under Belfast, where Maedh lives, that’s not normally open to the public. That was a great experience, as it echoes back so slow-

ly, and affects how you have to sing. We picked the places we recorded for the acoustics, and there’s a lot of natural reverb and atmosphere on the album.”

Those recordings were made by John Murphy (Gorilla Sounds), who was also involved in the production of Lankum’s widely acclaimed, tradinspired 2017 album ‘Between The Earth and the Sky’.

Before the recent drive, Landless were a casual endeavour for much of their life, and have developed naturally, through things like being invited to perform in churches in France, or on a boat in the middle of the sea at Passage West.

“The locations give a really gentle differentiation between the sounds.

When it comes to recording, you need that in

an album that’s mostly vocals,” Clinton explains.

“It’s great when you have that for gigs, as well. We’d always pick a location with great acoustics, if we have the choice.”

Landless’ songs are largely drawn from the trad tradition, subtly adjusted to incorporate harmonies and incredibly subtle, playfully-interacting arrangements.

“We do try to feel trad songs from a woman’s perspective,” Clinton tells us.

“Trad hasn’t always been kind to women.

We’ll look at anything in English. We work out our melody and harmony by just sitting in a room. We then record it all live.

“The arrangements probably have small changes as play the songs more times, ones that evolve naturally, but we’re very limited in that, as all the parts have to

work together, otherwise we’ll quickly lose the harmonies.

“We do have one song that has organs on the album, and we have done shows with other instruments backing us.

“But most of our music can be performed in circles, back where we started out. Performing them live on a stage is very intimidating altogether, but we’ve found a really supportive atmosphere.

Success is just having this out there.”

With hard-won purity, heritage and utterly outstanding voices, Landless are unlikely to storm the charts.

Their charming and tender approach to melody wis certain to win over a few souls.

Bleaching Bones, Landless’ sparse and reimagining of trad staples, is out now.

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WHAT’S BIG IN MUSIC, CINEMA, TV AND BOOKS

ENTERTAINMENT

MUSIC | THIS YEAR’S ‘PICNIC’ IN LAOIS LOOKS SET TO BE ONE OF THE BEST YET

An electrifying line-up ahead RACHEL D’ARCY

ONE of the most anticipated events on the Irish music calendar had its line-up launch last week, revealing hip-hop heavyweights Kendrick Lamar and N.E.R.D as headliners..

Taking place from August 31 to September 2, the annual three-day festival will take place at Stradbally Hall, Co Laois for the fourteenth edition of the festival.

Other acts on this year’s line-up include songstress Dua Lipa, acoustic artists Ben Howard and George Ezra, as well as rising stars Sigrid, Stefflon Don and Wolf Alice.

Better-known acts

such as Garbage, The Ko o k s a n d M a s s ive Attack will also grace the Stradbally Stage.

Festival Republic boss Melvin Benn said that the already massive lineup still has a number of acts to be added, with more stages and areas at the picnic this year than before.

He said: “Kendrick is the biggest superstar on the planet for me, right now, without exception.

“N.E.R.D are also making a huge comeback, and Massive Attack are one of my favourite bands, with one of the best live shows I’ve seen. We are incredibly excited about the line-up.”

As well as the musical contingent, this year

there will be an all-female comedy line-up, curated

by Emily O’Callaghan, taking place for early campers on the Thursday before the festival starts.

O’Callaghan told Dublin Gazette: “This is the first year we’ll have an all-female comedy line-

As ever, there’s a very eclectic range of stars set for the Electric Picnic, with 2018 seeing Kendrick (left) and N.E.R.D. (below) set to delight

up on one of the stages. “ We h ave J o a n n e McNally as MC, so that’s going to be really exciting. We’ve got 15 amazing women, a couple from the UK and the rest from all over Ireland. “ To b e h o n e s t , I could’ve filled this line-up ten times over. There’s so many amazing comics in Ireland at the moment.”

She also mentioned that festival boss Benn was a member of the ‘rebalance’ programme in the UK, striving to achieve gender equality in the music industry.

This rings true with the Electric Picnic line-up, with 17 female musicians playing the festival out of 41 announced, meaning 41.5% of the line-up so far

comprises women.

“When I looked at the line-up last year, I noticed there was a slight imbalance – as there often is with these things – and during the press briefing during the festival I said I’d like to go up and speak to Melvin about the possibility of adding some more girls to the list for next year.

“I was a bit shy, but I approached him and Melvin was immediately receptive. He said he was doing the rebalance programme with the music scene in the UK, and he’d love to do something [with Electric Picnic].”

Tickets for Electric Picnic are on sale now, priced from €250 for a weekend ticket.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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AIMING TO ENTERTAIN

CHALLENGE YOUR BRAIN...JUST FOR FUN!

CINEMA | THIS TOMB RAIDER REBOOT ISN’T PERFECT, BUT WORKS WELL ENOUGH

A whole Lara adventure

LARA Croft – better known as the eponymous Tomb Raider (nobody tell Indiana Jones) – isn’t perhaps the most obvious of properties to reboot.

For most cinemagoers, just mentioning Tomb Raider brings up thoughts of Angelina Jolie’s early2000s take on the then massively popular game series, itself a pop culture phenomenon.

Time, however, has not been particularly kind to the orginal games or the films, with Jolie’s dated cinema outings gathering about as much dust as the relics Lara used to chase.

However, never let it be said that Hollywood isn’t ready to resurrect its cash cows, and with the significant success of the recently rebooted videogame franchise, the film has gone to some lengths to capture a little of the same critical (and commercial) magic.

In short, Tomb Raider (Cert 12A, 120 mins) is an origins film that largely follows key beats of the great 2013 game’s relaunch, largely exploring how and why Lara became a fearless global adventurer.

Here, Alicia Vikander steps into Lara’s shoes, providing a fairly ground-

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ed character – even though her courier job is a little too ‘Hollywood’.

Some suspension of belief is required here, as Lara won’t accept the Croft family fortune that’s due to her after her adventurer father disappeared years ago, with his shadow looming large over her life.

It’s not too long however before circumstances send the posh bike courier off across the world on an awfully big adventure, with a mysterious, legendary island somewhere off the Japanese coast proving vital to her future – and possibly providing the key to mysteries from her past, too...

As an origins film that’s looking to reboot the franchise, it’s ... fine.

Vikander does a good job in fleshing out Lara’s somewhat shallow character, given the slightly thankless task of crafting a Croft who evolves throughout the film.

In essence, Vikander’s Lara has to change from

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I met Ireland’s President Michael Higgins as guest of “honour” at Dublin’s epic #StPatricksDay2018 Parade, had a thrilling, unforgettable experience AND avoided creating an international incident.

All things considered, a Win-Win. Thank You ! #Gr8ful Luke Skywalker – AKA Mark Hamill – feels the force of an Irish welcome after being a guest at the city’s parade

Bike Courier through Scared Survivor to Warrior Queen by the time the end credits roll, and in this, she succeeds nicely.

Stealing the best bits of the 2013 game, there are some great action setpieces here, handsomely

filmed and edited, which at least feel grounded in a physicality that’s missing in too many CG-heavy blockbusters.

However, in ditching some of the unique narrative devices that a game can deploy versus

the purely passive experience of watching a film, Tomb Raider falls a little flat.

Lara’s overriding need to Find Daddy (my technical term, there) also doesn’t quite sit right within the film, which

bungles the tighter plot of the game it’s emulating.

Director Roar Uthaug has turned in a good but not great reboot, putting Lara on a steady footing for the inevitable sequel.

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‘After All’ has had over 29,000 Spotify streams since Thursday! Looking forward to that 25c in royalties.

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A featherbrained film

EARLY MAN

Shoots for success AARDMAN’S latest stop-motion film with Nick Park, Early Man (Cert PG, 89 mins) feels a little like it’s stumbled out of a cinematic stone age, much like the Bronze Age protaganists at the heart of this family film.

When a hairy, furry, backwards tribe are threatened by the arrival of some vastly superior, technologically adanced outsiders, they decide there’s only one way to decide who gets control of their turf – a game of football.

It’s not up there with Paddington 2 for brilliance, and many of the jokes can be a little too hit and miss, but it’s fun enough.

LAST and definitely least, Jennifer Lawrence’s latest, Red Sparrow (Cert 16, 140 mins) is a strange, sometimes uncomfortable step into content that often feels unintentionally seedy.

Here, she stars as a top Russian dancer who, alas, gets injured and then recruited into (cough) a top secret school of seduction where she learns how to use her body to become, in essence, a hitman hooker spy.

With the current dual focus on female exploitation and empowerment in Hollywood, it’s a film, and a role, that’s particularly jarring.

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Initially a controversial choice, Alicia Vikander acquits herself well as Lara Croft, creating an interesting character

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IN LAST WEEK’S EDITION OF DUBLIN GAZETTTE’S PUZZLE PAGE, AN UNFORTUNATE ERROR OCCURRED IN OUR WORD SEARCH SEGMENT. THE SOLUTION SECTION DID NOT CORRESPOND WITH THE ACTUAL WORD SEARCH. THIS HAS BEEN RECTIFIED AND WE APOLOGISE TO ALL OUR READERS FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED AND WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO ENJOY OUR PUZZLE SECTION EACH WEEK.

FIND THE HIDDEN WORDS angel baby beloved darlin dear doll flower honey kitten lamb

munchkin petal poppet princess pumpkin sweetheart treacle treasure weasel

All you have to do is decide which letter is represented by which number! To start you off, we reveal the codes for two or three letters.

As you find letters, enter them in the key and into the grid.

Cross off the letters in the A to Z list.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

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CHALLENGE YOUR BRAIN...JUST FOR FUN! SUDOKU EASY

MODERATE

PUZZLES

CODEWORDS in association with

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

DON’T FORGET TO CHECK BACK NEXT WEEKFOR THE SOLUTIONS TO THIS WEEK’S PUZZLES

WORD SEARCH

HOW TO SOLVE Codewords are like crossword puzzles - but have no clues! Instead, every letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number, the same number representing the same letter throughout the puzzle.

IN LAST WEEK’S EDITION OF DUBLIN GAZETTTE’S PUZZLE PAGE, AN UNFORTUNATE ERROR OCCURRED IN OUR WORD SEARCH SEGMENT. THE SOLUTION SECTION DID NOT CORRESPOND WITH THE ACTUAL WORD SEARCH. THIS HAS BEEN RECTIFIED AND WE APOLOGISE TO ALL OUR READERS FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED AND WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO ENJOY OUR PUZZLE SECTION EACH WEEK.

FIND THE HIDDEN WORDS angel baby beloved darlin dear doll flower honey kitten lamb

munchkin petal poppet princess pumpkin sweetheart treacle treasure weasel

All you have to do is decide which letter is represented by which number! To start you off, we reveal the codes for two or three letters.

As you find letters, enter them in the key and into the grid.

Cross off the letters in the A to Z list.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

22 DUBLIN GAZETTE  CITY 22 March 2018

GRAND SLAM WINNERS 2018

Arriving in Dublin Airport is Cian Healy, Keith Earls and James Ryan Jonathan Sexton, Rory Best, James Ryan and Conor Murray. Pictures: INPHO/Dan Sheridan Below: On board Green Spirit is Captain Terrence McMahon and Rory Best

Grand Slam Glory I

RELAND’S Grand Slam champions returned home to a heroes’ welcome at Dublin Airport. Aer Lingus flight EI159 (Green Spirit) was welcomed and escorted upon arrival by Dublin Airport fire services. Aer Lingus ground staff and cabin crew formed

a guard of honour at the steps of Green Spirit which carried Joe Schmidt and his players, keenly accompanied by the Six Nations and Triple Crown trophies. Ireland won the Six Nations championship with a 24-15 domination of England in Twickenham.

Rory Best is greeted by Aer Lingus staff members

Jack McGrath, Fergus McFadden and Jonathan Sexton. Inset: Rory Best, Joey Carbery and Bundee Aki

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GRAND SLAM WINNERS 2018

An explosively exuberant celebration – well done to all the lads!

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Home & Away: Easter getaways for all the family

Nice has a cosmpolitan Riviera vibe, and you’ll enjoy exploring its fashionable boutiques and restaurants and sunning yourself on its popular beaches.

FAMILY FUN | GET AWAY FOR A SPRING BREAK WITH THE KIDS SYLVIA POWNALL

WHETHER you opt for home or away there’s plenty of family fun to be had this Easter. It’s the perfect time to get away for a spring break with the kids as the weather improves and the days lengthen.

Inchydoney Island Lodge & Spa (www. inchydoneyisland.com) in Cork overlooks two impressive stretches of Blue Flag beach.

If weather prevents a spot of kite flying or sand castle building, the seawater therapy room, snooker room and dedicated children’s lounge will keep you occupied.

Their Easter package offers two nights for €460 for a family of two adults and two children sharing a family room including breakfast both mornings, an Easter egg hunt and a ‘cooking with chef’ afternoon Pestana Palm Gardens, Albufeira

for the kids.

Ballynahinch Castle Hotel (www. ballynahinch-castle.com) overlooks the river and resembles a fairytale castle in the woods.

There is no end to the activities on offer, from guided adventure walks through the woods to fishing on the lake, meeting the resid e n t c h i c ke n s, ponies and pigs and fun-filled The Ice House in County Mayo

art competitions.

Their Easter package (from €580) includes two nights’ accommodation for two adults and two children with breakfast each morning, and plenty of chocolate treats.

Spring magic doesn’t get much better than at the Ice House in County Mayo (www.theiscehouse. ie) which overlooks the River Moy on the Wild Atlantic Way. The Easter Egg hunt is not just for

kids – chocolate treats are carefully hidden in each bedroom ready to be discovered on check in.

Easter packages start from €279 per person sharing for a two-night stay and includes accommodation, breakfast on both mornings and dinner on the evening of your choice.

If you’re a cycling enthusiast then the four-star Knockranny House Hotel (www.KnockrannyHouseHotel.ie) is the ideal base for a pedal along the 42km Great Western Greenway.

Blissful Traffic free and suitable for people of all cycling and walking abilities, the track runs along the old Westport to Achill railway, perfectly restored for cycling and walking enthusiasts to enjoy.

Afterwards why not soothe your aching limbs in Spa Salveo’s Vitality Pool and Thermal Suite or enjoy a blissful treatment.

The Wabbit on Wheels package is available in a classic room from €208 per person sharing for Easter weekend and from €168 per person sharing midweek.

If you fancy a short hop then Cliff at Lyons (www.cliffatlyons.ie) is a stunningly restored eighteenth century village in an idyllic rural setting just 30 minutes from Dublin city centre.

The Georgian buildings in Celbridge, Co Kildare have been stylishly restored and Easter a c t iv i t i e s i n c l u d e parent and child chocolate workshops and Inchydoney Island Lodge & Spa in Cork

cookery classes as well as an egg hunt, face painting, arts and crafts and egg pinata.

Easter overnight at Cliff at Lyons costs €259 per room per night, with room supplements applying for children 12 years and older.

Two nights’ accommodation over the mid-term includes breakfast in the Orangery each morning, threecourse dinner for two in Trellis, and a two-night stay at Cliff at Lyons from March 31 to April 5 costs from €468 per stay, with children 12 years and over attracting a €20 supplement each B&B per night.

AWAY If you fancy opening your Easter

eggs abroad this year then GoHop has some cracking deals for catching some early sunshine.

Spend four nights in the 4-star Pestana Palm Gardens, Albufeira from only €140per person.

Price includes return flights from Dublin, four nights’ accommodation on a room-only basis, taxes and charges.

Tr ave l : 8 A p r i l 2018.

Or how about four nights in the four-star Alicante Hills from just €207 per person sharing. Travelling on April 9, prices include flights, taxes and are on a room-only basis.

If Majorca is on your radar then you can spend seven nights in the four-star Rosa del Mar & Spa, Palma, from just €216 per person.

Price includes return flights from Dublin, taxes and charges, selfcatering basis travelling on April 7.

France beckons with an offer of four nights in the four-star Hotel Apogia, Nice, from just €225 per person sharing.

(Flights, self-catering, taxes and charges, travel April 6).

Offers subject to availability. For more information or to book visit www.GoHop.ie or call the experts on 01-2412389.

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TRAVEL & FOOD

A GUIDE TO TEMPTING FOOD AND LOCATIONS ENJOY A HEALTH CONSCIOUS ALTERNATIVE

Taste buds, rejoice NEW ice cream brand Breyers Delights is launching in Ireland with a fitness class like no other on April 12 in Medley, Dublin at 8am.

Breyers Delights – which is lower in calories, lower in sugar and high in protein – are offering a limited number of fitfammers the chance to go head-to-head with Vogue Williams and Rob Lipsett in futuristic Fitness by Lights class where workouts are guided by interactive flooring and flashing lights.

Attendees of Breyers Delights Fitness by Lights, will also enjoy a special cool-down Breyers brunch.

Vogue Williams said: “I love ice cream, so I’m really excited to find one that tastes great and adds some

much-needed protein to my diet. The Mint Chip is my favourite, it tastes amazing.

“Rob and I are excited to take people through this cool Fitness

by Lights workout and then reward the hard work by introducing them to some delicious Breyers delights.”

Julieann Evans, brand manager for Breyers Ice Cream, said: “Breyers delights is the perfect choice for health-conscious consumers who work out and eat healthily but also want to treat themselves.

“Rob and Vogue are going to put some fitness fans through their paces before treating them to a delicious Breyers Brunch” Breyers delights is available now in tub format in four flavours at all leading supermarkets, including Tesco, Supervalu, BWG and Centra, with a RRP of €5.99 for 500ml.

MINI CARROT CAKES THESE delectable little carrot cakes are ideal for every upcoming Easter celebration. Siucra and Catherine Fulvio have created these adorable Mini Carrot Cakes filled with classic cream cheese frosting and studded with mini carrots!

Makes 6 mini cakes 320g plain flour 1½ tsp baking powder 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp ground cinnamon ¾ tsp ground ginger ½ tsp nutmeg 200ml light olive oil 220g Siucra Light Golden Brown Sugar 4 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 250g grated carrots 60g chopped walnuts 70g white chocolate drops

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For the frosted pistachios 70g Siúcra Caster Sugar 60g shelled pistachios For the frosting 100g cream cheese 100g butter, softened 350g Siucra Icing Sugar 1 lemon, zest only 1 tsp vanilla bean paste To decorate 100g Siúcra Ready Roll Out Fondant Orange fool colouring paste 6 small sprigs of rosemary

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Method To prepare the cake Preheat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.

Line a 32cm x 23cm rectangle baking tray with baking parchment. Sift the flour, baking powder, bread soda, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg into a large bowl and set aside. Whisk the oil, Siucra Brown Sugar, eggs and vanilla extract together in the bowl.

Pour the oil sugar mixture into the flour and the spices and fold to combine.

Fold in the grated carrots, walnuts and white chocolate in the mix.

Spread the batter evenly into the prepared baking

tray and bake in the preheated oven for about 35 to 35 minutes until the cake is cooked (test with a skewer – when inserted, it should out clean). The cake must be completely cold before decorating.

To prepare the pistachios Line a tray with baking parchment. Heat the Siúcra Caster Sugar in a non-stick saucepan over a medium heat until liquid but not amber, remove from the heat and add the pistachios and fold gently.

Spread out evenly on baking parchment and leave to set and then chop them fairly finely.

To make the frosting Add the cream cheese and butter into a mixer and whisk while adding Siúcra Icing Sugar, lemon zest and vanilla bean paste. Whisk well until smooth. Spoon into a piping bag, ready to use.

To make the carrots Colour a piece of Siucra Ready Roll Fondant with orange food paste and shape into 6 little carrots.

To assemble Using a round scone cutter, ensure that you will get 12 circles out of the cake before you cut the shapes.

Trim to level and lay 6 circles of cake out, snip the piping bag and pipe on each, place the next layer on top.

Spoon some chopped pistachios over the top and place a carrot on top of each cake, add a rosemary sprig for the leaves.

Transfer to your cake stand or platter.

Harbour Bar rolls out Rockshore lager THE Harbour Bar in Bray is one of

our brewers have ever created and

the first pubs in Ireland to serve new

we can’t wait for people to try it.”

Irish lager, Rockshore.

Brewers at St James’s Gate

With an ABV of 4% and 106 calories per bottle, Rockshore Irish lager is

Brewery are proud to unveil the new

being rolled out nationally and will

larger, which has been inspired by

available in pubs, bars, restaurants,

the rugged refreshing experience of

off-licences, supermarkets and

the West Coast of Ireland.

convenience stores throughout the

Speaking at the unveiling of

country over the coming weeks.

Rockshore, Head of Beer Innovation, Diageo Europe, Niki Maccorquodale said: “We are absolutely delighted to introduce Rockshore. People are increasingly looking for choice, particularly among beers and lagers offering a refreshing and light taste.

“Brewed using only four quality ingredients, Rockshore is the best light tasting lager

Conor Duggan, The Harbour Bar, Bray, and local customer Niall McMahon, enjoying some of the first pints of new Irish lager Rockshore

26 DUBLIN GAZETTE 22 March 2018

HOME | MODERN BOHEMIAN – PHASE 1

It’s all about Bohemian and plants, plants, plants

 Jessica Maile, Style Editor jmaile@dublingazette.com

a rainbow of colours is the backbone of the look even today.

Throw in some crystals, candles and plenty of soft furnishings and you’ve got a care-free living space that can be an oasis from the outside world.

One of the easiest ways to turn your home into said oasis is incorporating plants into your rooms.

These can be actual living plants, fake ones if you don’t have a green thumb, and the use of leaf and frond motifs on blankets, cushions and wallpaper.

IT MAY still may be a bit dreary and cold outside despite the fact that Spring is finally here but that doesn’t mean your home can’t be the picture of tropical cosiness.

The biggest trend in home styling is the free-spirited Bohemian look. But this is not the Bohemian look of the past – it’s more refined and, dare I say, a bit more simplified.

Its DNA is based in the eccent r i c Bohemian Plants look of the such as past when it cacti, sucPenney’s was a much more culents and tropicopper wire terrarium €6 theatrical look. cal palms with big The use of intribroad leaves really cate patterns, the eclec- freshen up any space. tic mix of used and new Fiddle leaf fig, split-leaf furniture, tassles and philodendron, rubber, beads, tons of plants and Bird of Paradise and palm

plants offer medium to large fronds to make a big statement in a room.

Ficus trees are a good go-to as well. They are great for a mini tree look and are easy to care for.

For smaller plants you can group together, cacti and succulents are always a fun route to go.

There are many different plants in all kinds of sizes shapes and colours and, for most, the care is minimal.

The next thing is to consider their containers. Go for looks such as copper, ceramic, or terra cotta. Just mix up sizes and texures to keep visual interest.

Also consider hanging plants to add depth THE NEW BOHEMIAN: to your space. The It’s all about texture, 70s throwback vibrant colours, mixing macrame pot patterns, twinkly lights, holders are back plenty of soft furnishings in a big way and and, of course, those also bring in more luscious plants! texture.

Pictured: Home by Monsoon, a Next week: We take a look at soft furnishings to further release your inner boho.

new collection to give a room instant boho cred

GOING GREEN | ADORN YOUR HOME WITH PLANTS IN ANY FORM!

Penneys Supersoft throw from the Palm Springs collection €6

Debenhams succulents €15

Next Plant applique cushion €16

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FRESH IDEAS FOR YOUR HOME AND WARDROBE

HOME & STYLE

BeautyBITS

Adina placement print dress ¤155

Hard to find beauty products delivered right to your door

 Rachel D’Arcy ARE there any coveted beauty bits you once got when you were abroad, only to be heartbroken to find you couldn’t get them in Ireland?

We’ve all been there – that perfect foundation, a hard-to-get lipstick shade, a magical skin fixing product that we just can’t get our hands on in the Emerald Isle.

Now there’s a solution for our location-based woes; An Post and Nightline have both launched services designed at helping you get your international products shipped to Ireland.

AddressPal from An Post, and Parcel Motel from Nightline, are designed to ‘dodge’ shipping restrictions by allowing customers to purchase items from companies that may not usually ship to Ireland.

Think your favourite products from US-based beauty giant Sephora, or online exclusive beauty buys from MAC Cosmetics, all shipped to Ireland for a small fee – much cheaper than the return

Season Mia denim dress ¤90

Harlow pleat frill top ¤85, stripe trouser ¤70

Hayley white blouse ¤75, patchwork denim jeans ¤90

It’s Monsoon

MONSOON has introduced its Spring/ Summer 18 collections which are quite feminine yet very versatile. The collections are inspired by the idea of transeasonal dressing with a youthful focus. A vibrant mix of prints and fabrics have been fused together to create signature styles for the new season.

Victoriana dress ¤182

flights abroad to snatch up your favourite products.

AddressPal allows you to have your buys shipped directly to your door for €5.99 from the UK, or €15.99 from the USA. Parcel Motel allow you to receive items from the UK, delivered to one of their Motels across the country for €3.95.

Both sites provide you with an address in the UK, with AddressPal also giving you an address in the USA, to enter as your shipping address when shopping, rather than using your home address, to ensure you get your coveted buys safely.

For more information, and to sign up to either service, check out addresspal.anpost.ie, and parcelmotel.com.

The greatness and elegance of Givenchy THE fashion and beauty world were rocked when Hubert de Givenchy passed away, aged 91.

Founder of the legendary French fashion house Givenchy in 1952, he was known for capturing Parisian chic like no other in his simple, elegant styles.

Givenchy created iconic looks for actresses Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly, including the famous little black dress worn by Hepburn’s character Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. He was also well known for dressing Jackie Kennedy, who wore one of his designs to her husband John F Kennedy’s funeral.

Most recently, Givenchy designs were worn by both Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot and Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman at this year’s Oscars ceremony, showing that even 66 years on, Givenchy still has a major impact on the fashion world.

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TECH TIME

OUR MAN CHECKS OUT WHAT

MACHINE OF THE WEEK

Facebook battles an New E-Pace intense media storm over data protection delivers more “

However, the machinations of a firm using ‘dark data’ sourced from Facebook to potentially manipulate millions of voters, as suggested, has been the most dramatic tech story of the year, so far

a firm using ‘dark data’ sourced from Facebook to potentially manipulate millions of voters, as suggested, has been the most dramatic tech story of IT’S SAID that a week is a long time the year so far, by far. in politics. Spare a thought, then, for The political consultancy firm has Facebook, which is currently deep in moved swiftly to distance itself from the midst of a weekus horribilis (with the alleged actions, with its board apologies to Latin teachers). suspending its chief executive, AlexA half week of high drama so far ander Nix, by the time of going to sees, at the time of going to print, the print. tech titan mired in a blazing crossNix was captured on film discussAtlantic row as one of two firms at the ing all kinds of tricks and tactics that heart of a major political row. he said the company could use to Angry lawmakers in America and spread data and otherwise use the Britain are calling for Facebook head info it’d mined from Facebook user Mark Zuckerberg to explain, frankly, data – charges that the company itself what the hell it’s been doing to saferobustly denies. guard user data.

However, significant damage has The calls are in light of the exploalready been done by the claims, with sive whistleblower and undercover academics, politicians, watchdogs, reporting revelations that allege regulators, analysts, partners and another firm – Cambridge Analytica all kinds of interests now caught up – took user data sourced from Facein the twin tornados currently swirlbook without users’ knowledge to, In light of President Trump’s victory ing around Cambridge Analytica and among other things, help strategically promote a certain orange-faced lead- – whereby Hillary Clinton received Facebook alike in an intense media er, manipulating millions of American almost two million more votes from storm.

At the time of going to print, FaceJoe Public, but the quirks of America’s voters in the process.

It’s hard to trump the seriousness electoral college system handed him book boss Mark Zuckerberg has been of the claims, which came to light as the presidency – the machinations of uncharacteristically quiet about the rapidly unfolding drama, the results of an undercover with assorted financial Channel 4 investigation reports suggesting that into Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook’s worth has taken alleged activities. a 10% tumble – worth some In essence, the claims $50 billion – as the Camabout Cambridge Analytica bridge Analytica story has suggested that by using data unfolded. sourced from a relatively It’s a fascinating story small source pool of users that’s dominating news who agreed to provide some cycles this week, and with profile data at an externally mounting unease over the developed app – which power of social media platincluded users’ linked conforms – which still, as a rule, tacts to further mine addiregard themselves as mere tional data – it was possible conduits for users‘ conto profile and exponentially tent, while watchdogs and target millions of potential governments increasingly voters during the Trump regard them as accountable presidential run, using data publishers instead – there’s sourced from millions of a lot at stake. users.

At the very least, many Even more damningly, it people are likely to pause was suggested that not only when faced with all kinds could the user data be used of apps and services asking to target key areas, voting them to agree to share their blocks, core demographics user data (age, location, and other strategic elements contacts, etc) before prowithout users’ knowledge or ceeding, lest that simple tick consent, but that this could US President Donald Trump has also found himself has complex consequences, all be done invisibly, quietly, drawn into the sensational story, with allegations intended or otherwise... and without leaving a trace. that his presidency run could have been affected SHANE DILLON

Tech Editor

than it implies Jaguar has joined the compact SUV market with a new Jaguar E-Pace that’s a little less compact than the name implies, while being a whole lot more pleasant to drive as Michael Moroney found out last week when it put the E-Pace through its paces JAGUAR’S E-Pace, the new and smaller SUV in the Jaguar range, combines Jaguar style with technology in a package that’s more affordable than you think.

The E-Pace introduced to Dublin car buyers just before Christmas last, is Jaguar’s first compact SUV and comes with impressive credentials in terms of performance, safety and value.

You’ll be instantly impressed by the styling, that’s if you’re a Jaguar sort of person. This E-Pace mirrors the design style of the larger and much applauded F-Pace while in more compact dimensions that make it a very attractive option for city car driving.

This more compact

Jaguar E-Pace 150 AWD Engine Engine power 0 – 100km/hr Economy Fuel Tank Capacity CO2 emissions Road Tax Band Main Service Euro NCAP Rating Warranty Entry Price SUV still retains for me its muscular design style with round sculptured elements that give the E-Pace a stronger look. So in essence, the Jaguar E-Pace delivers more than the compact badging implies.

The engine has buckets of torque to give good pace,

1.5 litre 150 bhp 10.5 seconds 18km/litre (5.6/100km or 50mpg) 55.7 litres 147g/km C €390 20,000km/12 months 5 star (2017) 3 years €36,000 even though the E-Pace is a relatively solid and heavy machine.

Potential E-Pace buyers could also be Audi Q5, BMW X3 of Volvo XC60 drivers, so I’ve looked at the car relative to these, even though Jaguar considers it to be a compact

Cars more fuel efficient, yet Ireland faces carbon penalty FUEL efficiency for vehicles in Ireland has increased significantly, yet Ireland still faces stiff EU penalties for increased carbon emissions, according to new report from vehicle history and data expert Cartell.ie.

Cartell.ie examined fuel efficiency figures for all new vehicles sold in Ireland between 1998 and 2017. Over that time efficiency has increased by 35% from 6.98 litres/100km in 1998 to 4.53 litres/100km in 2017. The largest increase was recorded between 2007 and 2017 when efficiency figures jumped from 6.56 litres/100km to 4.53 litres/100km an increase in efficiency of 31%.

This coincided with the Government’s Carbon Budget in 2007 and the change

in the motor taxation regime for 2008 to benefit vehicles which produce less CO2.

It has been reported recently that Ireland faces significant fines for a “serious rise in Irish greenhouse gas emissions” which has been partly attributed to the transport sector where emissions increased by 3.7% in 2016. Yet fuel efficiency figures for new cars improved by 2.2% between 2015 and 2016.

Cartell.ie claims that the average annualised mileage travelled by a car 5 yearsof-age or less in 2016 was 21,028km. This represented an increase of 7.1% over the equivalent figure for 2008 (19,635km). So, while our vehicles are more fuel efficient we are using them more and this is resulting in our increased levels of CO2.

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JAGUAR’S NEW E-PACE SUV HAS TO OFFER

TECH & MOTORS

The new Jaguar E-Pace is a solid and strong looking SUV that handles superbly on the roads and gives great driving performance

FASTLANE

Ford’s new Edge SUV

Ford Unveils Mustang BULLITT for Europe FORD announced at the recent Geneva Motor Show that its Mustang Bullitt is set to go into production for customers in Europe from June.

Mustang Bullitt features Ford’s 5.0-litre V8 engine enhanced to deliver an anticipated 464bhp and 529 Nm of torque, introduces new rev-matching technology for seamless gear changes, and is offered with

SUV. They all offer 2.0-litre diesel engine power and all come with similar engine power and torque performance.

There’s an impressive power feel to the Jaguar, even though its torque output is a little more modest than that of the BMW and Volvo offering.

It just feels that there’s more life in there, while the acceleration statistics don’t actually show that.

Jaguar offers the E-Pace with a front-wheel-drive only option for in a more fuel efficient model that will fit the bill for most city drivers.

This is the entry version with a competitive €36,000 price tag. Its fuel efficiency delivers a lower CO2 emissions figure of 124g/km and annual road tax of €270, to make it more competitive to own than the test car that I drove.

This engine delivers a fuel economy rating of 18km/litre (5.6/100km or 50mpg), which is comparable with the competition.

In reality, the smooth running engine tempts you to push for more power and with the E-Pace automatic gearbox that allowed me to cruise at

120km/hr at a point well below the 2000rpm range on the engine.

This meant that in real life driving the E-Pace was only about 18% off the rated economy figure and I achieved close to 700km from a full tank.

Prior to its arrival on the market, the E-Pace had received a Euro NCAP fivestar safety rating. Jaguar claims that its first compact SUV keeps everyone safe with high scores of 86% for adult occupant protection, 87% for child occupant protection and 77% for pedestrian protection.

The standard version

comes with a comprehensive suite of standard safety systems, including Emergency Braking with Pedestrian Detection.

Jaguar claims that this technology is able to detect a collision risk with cars or pedestrians in the road ahead and automatically apply the brakes.

High levels of standard equipment are claimed as a core component of the E-PACE range. Convenience features such as Touch Pro infotainment, LED headlights and a rear view camera system are joined by advanced driver assistance systems including Driver Condition

Monitor and Emergency Braking.

Jaguar claims that with this technology pack plus its next-generation touchscreen infotainment system to connect customers to their favourite apps, such as Spotify through Jaguar Land Rover’s InControl apps, that the new E-Pace is one of the most connected cars on the market.

Entry prices are competitive at €36,000 and there is a wide ranging accessories listing to play with.

This Jaguar is as impressive to drive as it to look at.

Citroen celebrates a history of comfort CITROËN has announced that is new C4 Cactus hatchback will arrive in Irish showrooms in May. This new model benefits from the Citroën Advanced Comfort programme, based around the brand’s new suspension system with Progressive Hydraulic Cushions and a world first for its Advanced Comfort seats.

The new Citroën C4 Cactus will feature a host of exterior and interior styling, engineering, technology and connectivity updates.

The Citroën Advanced Comfort programme is at the very heart of New C4 Cactus, with features and technologies designed to emphasise a feeling of reassurance, comfort and calm.

This fresh new model claims to take driver and passenger well-being to a new level, with the brand’s Advanced Comfort seats. There will also be a new suspension system available with what Citroën calls Progressive Hydraulic Cushions.

The new Citroën C4 Cactus has received numerous upgrades with 12 driver assistance systems now on offer, including Active Safety Brake, Grip Control and Lane Departure Warning.

There are also three connectivity technologies; Citroën Connect Nav,

a choice of Shadow Black or classic Dark Highland Green exterior colours.

Special edition styling includes 19-inch Torq Thrust-style wheels, red Brembo brake callipers and a faux Bullitt fuel-filler cap. The interior features Recaro sports seats, and each Mustang Bullitt will have an individually numbered plaque in place of the traditional Mustang emblem on the passenger-side dashboard. As a nod to the original car’s interior, the gear shifter features a white cue ball gearshift knob.

Ford claims that its new Edge also launched at the show is Ford’s most advanced SUV ever.

The new Edge SUV claims to offer a comprehensive range of camera and sensor-based driver assistance technologies to make journeys more comfortable and less stressful. The systems are designed to help drivers avoid or mitigate the effects of collisions.

The new Edge will be available in Europe with a new powerful and fuel-efficient 238bhp bi-turbo variant of Ford’s 2.0-litre EcoBlue diesel engine, combined with a new eight-speed automatic transmission.

Easyparking arrives at Jervis Street car park EASYPARKING,

the fee is then auto-

easytrip’s parking

matically deducted

Citroen C4

service, has announced

from the tag holder’s

Cactus

the expansion of their

account.

car parking portfolio in

park has 267 car spaces

tion of Jervis Street car

and is open 24 hours a

park in Dublin city.

day, seven days a week.

The system is

New and existing

designed to give hassle

easytrip customers can

free electronic park-

sign up for parking by

ing to customers with

calling easytrip on 1890

the use of a tag, with

676768 or by logging

no need to take a ticket

onto www.easytrip.ie.

or queue at the paying

Citroën Connect Box with the brand’s Emergency & Assistance system and Mirror Screen functionality.

Details on pricing and Irish specification will be released in April, in advance of its May launch.

The Jervis Street car

Dublin with the addi-

station.

The easytrip tag is

Easyparking is available at locations in Dublin, Belfast, Cork,

scanned on entry and

Galway, Kilkenny, Lim-

exit to the car park and

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FEATURE REBECCA RYAN

What happens when the party goes BOOM?

ISOBEL Mahon’s Irish hit comedy BOOM? is being presented by The Gaiety Theatre.

Directed by Caroline Fitzgerald and featuring a stellar all-female cast, it includes Claudia Carroll (Fair City), Isobel Mahon (Glenroe, The Clinic), Maria McDermottroe (Glenroe, Killinaskully), Aisling O’Neill (Fair City, The Chastitute) and Rose Henderson (Fair City, Father Ted).

In the play, Selma Mae seems to have the perfect life, beautiful home, children, architect husband. However, when Carmel – her social-climbing mother – arrives to help her organise a party to celebrate the completion of her state-of-the-art extension, cracks begin to show.

As the motley collection of guests arrive; glamorous neighbour Chloe, tough-talking sister Maeve, and the eccentric Bernie, disaster ensues and the facade of perfection, not to mention the extension itself, begins to crumble…

BOOM? is a comedy set at the height of the mythical economic boom, featuring the people who lived the fantasy and those who fall through the cracks, hopefully into something more authentic.

Speaking to Dublin Gazette about her new show, Isobel told us she probably chose an all-female cast because she grew up in an all-female house.

“My father died when I was young, and my life was more shaped by women: aunts, my mother’s friends, grandmother.

“Not that there weren’t nice men around, but somehow my impression was that women endured forever.

It’s hardly rational, but it is my inner landscape.

“In BOOM?, there are men in the characters’ lives which they talk about but for one reason or another they’re not there that evening.”

A philosophy graduate of Trinity College, Isobel began her career as an actress, winning Best Newcomer to the Irish Theatre for Semi-Private at the Gate theatre. She went on to work steadily in TV and theatre.

She is most known for her role as Michelle in RTE’s Glenroe where she played a barmaid for 16 years.

Finally succumbing to a lifelong ambition to write, her first stage play

– So Long, Sleeping Beauty – was first produced at Bewley’s Theatre in 2003, then for RTE, for BBC Radio 4, Oran Mor Theatre Glasgow, Gay Pride, Canterbury and for Theatre of Chester, Mass.

Other plays include Ghost Stories, The Rules, Billy The Boat Loves Angelina at the New Theatre and Box of Frogs, a musical/comedy revue about depression.

Isobel has also written for the RTE soap Fair City for four years and appears regularly on the TV3 panel show, Elaine. She is currently working on a horror film script, Bogman.

She has certainly made her mark as a writer. BOOM? has just completed a successful national tour as a Jan Warner Production, while Party Face, the American version of the play, is currently running Off-Broadway and has been awarded Best Production and Best actress in the first Irish Origins Theatre festival 2018.

Isobel said although BOOM? is a female cast, the show is for both male and female audiences.

She told us that at certain points in the show the men were laughing the hardest.

“BOOM? is primarily a comedy, a farce in fact, although at its core is a strong theme of family drama and personal growth. But the audience laugh out loud right through it.”

Dublin Gazette asked Isobel if she prefers acting or writing. “[I] couldn’t choose, both express different parts of me I love acting because it is fun, risky and social.

“I love writing because I can live in my own inner world which is where I love to be. Balance.”

Isobel currently lives in Dublin with her partner Mark, daughter Jessica, and Muffin the dog. She grew up in Glasnevin and now lives in Cabinteely.

BOOM? is a play for anyone who ever had a bad hair day, may never own a helicopter and knows the difference between an abstract sculpture and a bicycle helmet.

It runs from March 26 to 31. Performance on Monday to Saturdays at 7.30pm, with two matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm.

Tickets start from €18.50 and are available from the Gaiety Theatre Box Office and all Ticketmaster outlets.

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GLORY DAYS: SUPERLEAGUE SUCCESS: UCD ended a 40-year wait for the men’s basketball Super League title when they won by the narrowest of margins against Pyrobel Killester on Sat Patrick’s Day. The season saw the two sides level on points in the regular season and their playoff final was equally close with the title eventually decided in the very last play of the entire campaign, a fitting end to a capitvating season.

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sfindlater@dublingazette.com

DUBLINERS abounded in the heroic Irish rugby team that swept to just a third grand slam victory on Sat Patrick’s Day as they raided Twickenham to add the silverware to the Six Nations title that was already in the bank.

St Mary’s College graduate Johnny Sexton provided the tournament’s iconic moment in game one when he landed the crucial drop goal deep into injury time to secure victory over France.

He was once again pulling the strings from number ten against the English and was joined in the line-up

by Clontarf’s Cian Healy, a long-time team mate over the last decade.

Blackrock’s Garry Ringrose was in the centres, scoring a key early try following his race back from fitness

to come into a back-line ravaged by injury.

Reflecting on his role in the victory, Ringrose said: “It’s amazing position to be in as a country, considering there’s five or six guys, if not more, between all the provinces who have been battling it out for the 12 and 13 jerseys - with a lot of guys capable of playing both numbers.

“There was some incredible work put in by Robbie [Henshaw] and then Chris [Farrell] in the earlier rounds, and then for me it was just about trying to match that.

“I’m well aware that I’m incredibly lucky to be in the position that I am, off the back of Robbie and Chris’ injuries.

“I know if they hadn’t picked them up that I wouldn’t be in the position that I am. I won’t forget how lucky I am.”

He added that is was “certainly

Johnny Sexton, left, with the Grand Slam trophy alongside Rory Best with the Six Nations trophy, along with James Ryan and Conor Murray. Picture: Dan Sheridan/Inpho

one of the best weeks and most intense weeks that I’ve been involved in”, hailing the team’s preparation for the biggest game in recent times.

James Ryan is another Blackrock native, formerly of St Michael’s College, forming part of the new breed of players coming through, lining

out in the second row along with another Michael’s man Dan Leavy who was in the back row.

St Andrew’s College graduates Andrew Porter and Jordan Larmour both came off the bench as did Blackrock College alumni Jordi Murphy, St Mary’s Jack McGrath and Castleknock College’s Devin Toner.

SPORT CONTACT INFO SPORTS EDITOR: Stephen Findlater sfindlater@dublingazette.com

For more information or to send in news and photos: sport@dublingazette.com Phone: 01 601 0240

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JUNIOR CUP

Blackrock advance to final with Mary’s BLACKROCK College will face St Mary’s College in the Leinster Schools Junior Cup decider after they defeated Castleknock College 15-5 in a compelling semi-final encounter at Donnybrook.

Tries in each half by Jude O’Reilly and David Walsh placed Blackrock in the driving seat before Castleknock claimed a consolation score through replacement Oisin Tierney during the closing stages.

Rock will now face St Mary’s in an intriguing showpiece when they will be aiming to land a 51st title at this grade.

It was Rock who dominated the ball in the opening stages. Michael Moloney’s crossfield kick in the fourth-minute was intended for winger Michael Nealon, but opposition full-back Oran Farrell was on hand to divert it into touch.

They went in front when a neat off-load on the left-hand side by centre Tom Henderson released O’Reilly, who sprinted over the whitewash after exploiting a gap inside the ‘Knock ’22’. Moloney comfortably added the bonuses.

Castleknock persisted with their challenge and upped their tempo as Eoin Leen, Sean Casey and skipper Fionn Gibbons all broke into the Rock attack.

But Rock ultimately increased their advantage on the stroke of half-time, a routine Moloney penalty provided them with a 10-0 buffer. They looked set to create further daylight between the teams on the resumption when Moloney opted for the corner rather than a kick at goal.

Knock once again wrestled back possession and kept ‘Rock at bay until the end of the third quarter.

It was at this point that lock Senan Forker was sent to the sin-bin for an indiscretion inside his own 22-metre line. With a numerical advantage at their disposal, Rock prop David Walsh applied the finishing touches to a powerful line-out maul for a 15-0 lead.

Castleknock’s patience was eventually rewarded four minutes from time with a well-worked try at the end of an extended attacking spell. After scrum-half Conor Duggan spread the ball towards the rightflank, Tierney touched down via a neat pass

by Farrell.

BASKETBALL: MARIAN MAGIC IN SUPER LEAGUE PLAYOFF

Garrow holds his nerve in specatacular finale UCD Marian finally ended a 40-year wait for Super league glory as they landed the vital score with mere seconds remaining to see off Dublin rivals Pyrobel Killester at the end of an incredible season MEN’S SUPER LEAGUE FINAL UCD Marian Pyrobel Killester  JAMES HENDICOTT sport@dublingazette.com

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UCD MARIAN and Pyrobel Killester played out a spectacular Irish Superleague Basketball final in Tallaght on St Patrick’s Day, with UCD Marian taking the title for the first time in four decades by the tiniest of margins.

The pair had been inseparable over the course of a competitive 22 game season, finishing joint top of the table with 17 wins and five losses each.

They proved almost as inseparable in the playoff designed to assign the title, with the battlehardened head-to-head

coming down to the very last possession, played o u t f ra c t i o n a l l y to o slowly by Killester with just five seconds left on the clock.

Both sides had predicted a cagey game ahead of time, and while both are known for their defensive ability, the creativity in attack wasn’t lacking at the National Basketball Arena.

Killester grabbed the early advantage, going on a 12-2 run to open up a six point lead in the first quarter.

Ciaran Roe hit a three tow a rd s t h e e n d o f the first to establish a chunky early 19-10 lead, along with something of a dominant defensive feel to the men in orange.

Neil Baynes was the key man for UCD in the second period, as they

started to get the better of Killester for the first time, with Mike Garrow getting into gear offensively and UCD storming forward to make their way in at 36 a piece at half time, and the contest suddenly looking like a potential classic.

Killester got on a roll again, forcing UCD to come out of their shell.

Conor Meany popped up with a great three to keep Marian close in with only the final ten to go, as gap closed to a single point at 49-48, and every play started to look important.

Killester had been leading for the vast majority of the contest, but Marian’s sharp start to the final quarter saw them gather a two-score lead, as the two offensives went full-pelt at

each other.

UCD had mastered drawing the foul, and Killester were starting to struggle with foul counts, as Meany once again launched Marian in front with just 25 seconds left in the season, and almost nothing between the two sides.

Then came the drama.

After Roe hit a huge three-pointer for Killester to level the game at 71 points a piece with 12.1 seconds left on the clock, the highly-effective Gar-

UCD coach Ioannis Liapakis is raised aloft, left, while Neil Baynes, right, lays up. Picture: Martin Doherty

row drew a foul at the other end with less than five seconds remaining.

He sunk the first of his two free throws, and while Killester broke quickly after the second failed to find its mark, the impressive Royce Williams couldn’t get their shot away before the buzzer.

Ecstatic UCD Marian reactions told their own tale: a tense, and longawaited return to the top in an Irish basketball classic.

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HOCKEY: ST PATRICK’S DAY FESTIVAL OF HOCKEY AT GRANGE ROAD

HOCKEY SHORTS Rovers Rock the Mills THREE Rock Rovers won their fourth title already this season as they won hockey’s Leinster Senior Mills Cup last Saturday, coming from 2-1 down to beat Rathfarnham neighbours Corinthian 4-2.

Daragh Walsh, pictured, got Rovers on the board in the third minute only for Jonathan Roberts and Stephen Reid to swap things around.

Goals from John Mullins, Ross Canning and Kevin Mullins swung things in Rovers’ direction with a bit to spare.

MUCKROSS MAGIC WIN FIRST half goals from Sophie

to win it back and flicked in on

Barnwell and Clodagh Ferry

her backhand. Clodagh Ferry

propelled Muckross to their first

then swept home first time from

Leinster Division One title since

a switch left corner for 2-0 at

1997 as they beat nearest rivals

half-time.

Corinthian 2-0.

Railway Union’s Jodie Douglas pushes the ball beyond UCD’s Orla Patton. Picture: Adrian Boehm

Railway on track once again in Potter Cup final JACQUI POTTER FINAL Railway Union 3 UCD 0  STEPHEN FINDLATER sfindlater@dublingazette.com

RAILWAY Union’s young guns produced a superb performance to beat UCD in the Jacqui Potter Cup final for the second year running, notching up a 3-0 win at Grange Road.

The St Patrick’s day win was their fifth success in the competition since their maiden win in 2011 as they have dominated this competition in recent time, reaching the final for the last six editions, too.

Coach Colm Blennerhassett continued with Railway’s policy of fielding a largely Under-25 line-up with 11 schoolgirls in the match day panel of 16, the majority of whom won the Junior Jacqui Potter Cup two years ago.

U C D , m e a nw h i l e , did not have access to a quartet of internationals but could call on the returning Deirdre Duke after her exams, Emma Russell and Clodagh Cassin from the national side.

T he win was built around the first half performance in which Railway made all the running.

Kate Orr and Kate Lloyd fired the warning shots before Niamh Carey – a schools international cross country runner – finished off at close quarters following a speedy right wing attack that led to a pair of Jodie Douglas shots after Nina Heisterkamp’s cross Lloyd’s aggressive, direct running and willingness to shoot at all angles was a constant threat while the classy Michelle Carey and nonstop running of Amy Elli-

Railway Union with the Jacqui Potter Cup trophy at Grange Road last Saturday. Picture: Adrian Boehm

ott were all key features.

UCD’s chances were fleeting but Russell did draw a great glove-save from the impressive Kate O’Hogan.

In reply, Carey saw another effort roll along the UCD goal-line while Cassin did well to clear another Orr drag-flick.

Orr – the St Andrew’s school captain – played a key role in the second goal in the 29th minute, her long lofted pass finding Douglas who slipped a lovely ball to Heis-

terkamp to roll home on the run as soon as she hit the top of the circle.

UC D u p p e d t h e i r tempo in the second half and caused plenty of problems. Duke went close with a few pot shots with O’Hogan standing tall.

Holly Jenkinson produced an incredible sliding recovery tackle to shut down a Sorcha Clarke run and shot to ensure no nervous finish and the game was settled with six minutes to go.

Lloyd’s cross on the backhand came in at above waist-height, drawing plenty of calls for danger. Clodagh Cassin took it on her chest but the ball wriggled down her left, Sarah Whelan did not wait for a potential whistle and gobbled up the loose ball for 3-0.

O’Hogan put in another stunning stop to keep out Sara Twomey to preserve her clean sheet and another victory for the Sandymount club in the competition they have made their own in recent times.

Blennerhassett hailed his young charges for their performance afterwards while UCD boss Miles Warren said “Railway were the better side”, adding that he and his side need to work out where things went wrong before returning to EY Hockey League action next weekend.

Muckross coach Sarah Scott

It marks another milestone

said afterwards: “It’s a fantastic

on their comeback trail having

feeling; we have worked so, so

dropped down through the divi-

hard over the year. To finish with

sions, only returning to the top

a win over Corinthians who have

tier in the province in 2015.

been unbeaten all year.”

Fittingly, captain Barnwell –

It settled an epic three-horse

who was only one year old the

race this season in Leinster with

last time they won the title – set

Old Alex the long-time leaders,

the ball in motion as she picked

making for a great title battle.

up the ball wide on the left inside

“We’ve all taken points off

her own half, embarking on a solo

each other; the three teams try to

run into the circle.

play the same attacking style of

The ball slipped from her stick a couple of times but she battled

hockey, all have youth in the side.

It’s been a really close battle.”

Loreto Foxrock all set for maiden All-Irelands LORETO Foxrock begin their All-Ireland Schoolgirls Kate Russell Championships on Thursday with games against Ulster’s first winners Rainey Endowed and Connacht’s Salerno.

The following day they play hosts Kilkenny College along with Munster winners Mount Mercy in the annual tournament to decide the best schools team in the country.

Foxrock won the Leinster crown earlier this month with a dramatic 1-0 win over St Andrew’s at Belfield with youth international Christina Hamill scoring the only goal in the 14th minute.

It was their first success in the senior cup since 1977 and ensured they will contest their first ever all-Ireland series, their last victory coming before the introduction o f the national deciders which arrived in 1980.

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BALLINTEER ST JOHN’S LOTTO Results: numbers 1, 2, 5 and 23. No winner. Next Thursday’s jackpot is €3,600; Lotto Joker €750. Winner of €100: Ann Goggins, €50 Asta Kiaulakyte and David Gildea. Joker consolation prize Tom Hayes.

ELC forecast was won by Eamonn and Luke Naughton. Bingo continues every Monday at 8pm.

Next week’s fixtures: senior football v Cuala away on Sunday at 10.15am. Division 5 away to St Brigids, 12pm. Division 7 away to St Anne’s, 12pm. Division 11 v Wanderers away at 2.30pm.

Minor hurlers A team away to Cuala on Sunday at 11am . Minor footballers beaten by Ballyboden St Enda’s by one point last week while the U-16 As continue with their unbeaten record with victory over Cuala.

Well done Sarah Meagher and Derbhla Nolan and the Dublin Minor Camogie team on their championship win over Kilkenny. Congrats to senior footballer and Club PRO Colm O’Donnell and bride Aedeen on their wedding last week.

Enrolling now for Easter Camps@ Senior Infants to 6th class, March 26 – 29, contact GPO Carol Nolan on 085 1424543 and School of Excellence 12 – 15 yrs, April 3-5; contact GPO Donal Gormley on 087 6312082.

Condolences to Pat Griffin and family on their recent bereavement.

CUALA THE senior hurlers came from behind in dramatic fashion in normal and extra time to earn a draw against Na Piarsaigh in the senior club All-Ireland final.

Details of the replay are to be confirmed.

The club would like to say thanks to you all for the wonderful support provided by one and all last Saturday in Croke Park.

Let’s ensure that we turn out in similar large numbers to offer our support to the senior hurlers for the replay.

The Cuala 2004 boys have entered a competition to win a €500 grant from the Community Trust with Version 1, which will really

help towards our feile year fundraising. The winners are entirely based on facebook votes, so we need as many votes as we can get!

We’d very much appreciate your support in taking a few moments to go to the following link and vote for the Cuala 2004 boys entry: http://woobox.com/vredmk/vote/for/22210074 Many thanks to everyone who came down for our annual Céilí Naomh Padraig in the halla last Friday. A great night was had by all.

There was no winner of the €12,500 Cuala lotto jackpot.

Our lucky dip winners last week were Vincent Keogh and Barbara O’Reilly.

BALLYBODEN ST ENDA’S CONGRATULATIONS to the Dublin footballers and our Ballyboden representatives on reaching the National FootballLeague Final.

The Boden Theatre Group will perform ‘It’s The Real McCoy’ for four nights from March 21-24. Tickets are €10 and can be reserved by calling Carol: 0864070015 or Ger on 0868516387.

RJM Health and Fitness are organising a Fun Body Conditioning/ Boxercise class & coffee morning for Daffodil Day Thursday, March 22 at 9.15am in the clubhouse. Class is free but we will ask for donations to the Irish Cancer Society.

BOXING: ST ASDF ASDF ASDF ASASD FDASF

McAfee to set record straight at Celtic Clash 5 CELTIC CLASH 5  sport@dublingazette.com

SALLYNOGGIN favourite Stephen McAfee has brushed off some aggressive trash-talk from his upcoming opponent ahead of his headline super featherweight date at the Celtic Clash 5 bill at Good Counsel GAA Club in Drimnagh this Saturday.

McAfee takes on Cork’s Colin O’Donovan in a rematch of their 2017 Irish Fight of the Year contender – which ended a draw – and has been told by ‘The Rebel Rouser’ that, among other things, he is going to “take his soul.”

Chilling, no doubt, but the cool and calm Dubliner is non-plussed. McAfee, a noted KO puncher, contends that “it just motivates me more. Was it even him who said it? Or just someone in his ear?

It doesn’t matter, it’s only words at the end of the day.”

Their first fight, on an undercard at the National Stadium in December, saw the pair fight to a bloodbath six-round 58-58 draw which stole at Celtic Clash 4.

This time, they top the bill for the vacant BUI Celtic super featherweight title – a strap McAfee has promised not to leave the atmospheric D12 venue without.

“I’ll be going in there with bad intentions and to bring that belt home with me. This time I’ll leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that I’m the better fighter.

“This time around I know what I’m up against after being in the ring with him, I didn’t know anything about him before the last fight. It was all down to me how the fight panned out, my mistakes. I wasted unnecessary energy by loading up my on my shots and silly movements. That won’t happen this time around.

Stephen McAfee and Colin O’Donovan ahead of the Celtic Clash 5.

Picture: Ricardo Guglielminotti

“Once I perform like I usually do I won’t need to worry about losing. There will be only one outcome - I’ll win. I’m faster than him, I’m quicker than him, I hit harder than him. In every department, I’m better.

“I’m not going to go and say I’m going to knock him out. I’m ready for anything, in all departments, if he wants to dance, I’ll dance - if he wants to fight, I’ll fight.”

McAfee brings up the

point of dancing, and the 26-year-old does believe that there is a hesitance on the part of O’Donovan to engage. He predicted that the Leesider “will be running like Mo Farah like he did in the last fight for five rounds. He ran until he got tired.

“I expect the same again because I know he won’t stand toe-to-toe with me.

I don’t blame him in fairness. He’s just negative, a negative southpaw on the back foot.”

Celtic Clash 5 also features a stacked undercard including Ballybrack lightweight Niall O’Connor, L u ca n we l te r we i g h t John Joyce and Jobstown super bantamweight Carl McDonald, Blanchardstown.

Tickets for the fight night are priced at €55 (ringside), €35 (unreserved) and are available from the boxers involved.

Stephen McAfee can be contacted via Facebook or at 086 245 4350.

O’Neill gets Irish U-18 call-up CABINTEELY’S Zak O’Neill will have his chance to impress for the Republic of Ireland Under-18s this week when they face Romania in two games at Home Farm.

He has been included in a 19-man squad for the games which take place on Sunday (4pm) and Tuesday (11.30am).

With eight players called up to Tom Mohan’s Under-19 squad for the UEFA Under-19 Championship Elite Round, Crawford has said it’s Cabinteely FC’s Zak O’Neill taking the field at a perfect opportunity for some fresh faces to Stradbrook impress.

“It opens the door for players to show what they can do. It’s going to be a real challenge for the players against Romania. They are a very good nation at this age group, with players playing for the likes of Ajax and Real Madrid.”

Over a third of the squad comes from SSE Airtricity League clubs, and Crawford says that’s down to the impressive work being done at that level.

“We have players involved from Shamrock Rovers, Bohemians, Sligo Rovers, St. Patrick’s Athletic and Cabinteely. It’s brilliant to see.”

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SOCCER: SOUTHSIDERS SWEEP UP FAI HONOURS

McCartan honoured as U-19 star of 2017 FAI INTERNATIONAL AWARDS NIGHT  DAVE DONNELLY

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ROCK REFIX

Blackrock set to meet Belvedere on Friday BLACKROCK College’s Leinster rugby’s schools Senior Cup final against Belvedere College has been refixed for Friday, March 23 at 2pm in the RDS Arena after last weekend’s initial date fell victim to the snow.

At junior level, Blackrock College will face St Mary’s College in the Leinster Schools Junior Cup decider after they defeated Castleknock College 15-5 in a compelling semi-final encounter at Donnybrook.

TWO current UCD students picked up prestigious awards at the FAI International Awards in RTE Studios on Sunday night.

Medical student Lucy McCartan was named under-19 international player of the year as the Peamount United midfielder starred internationally.

UCD AFC player and scholarship student Neil Farrugia was named schools international player of the year after he excelled in the Centenary Shield.

Former Cabinteely midfielder Jason Knight and ex-St Joseph’s Boys man Aaron Bolger were named Under-16 and Under-17 players of the year on a good day for south Dublin football.

Knight moved to the UK last year to join Derby County, while Shamrock Rovers midfielder Bolger helped Ireland to the quarterfinals of the Under-17 European Championships last year.

McCartan beat out competition from her Under-19 international teammates Niamh Farrelly – who also plays for Peamount – and Alex Kavanagh of Shelbourne to pick up her gong.

She was part of the Ireland under-19s side that narrowly missed out on qualification for the European Championships, scoring in a win over Ukraine.

19-year-old McCartan also tasted bitter disappointment last year as the Peas missed out on the Women’s National League title to Wexford Youths on the final day.

Amid all the disappointment, it’s been a very positive year for the first-year medical student at UCD, who has established herself as one of the country’s best young sportswomen.

“It was a bit surreal - I didn’t really believe it was happening,” McCartan told the Dublin

Lucy McCartan with her FAI award. Picture: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Gazette of the moment she heard her name read out.

Of the ceremony, she added: “It really was [inspirational]. It’s nice to hear people like Seamus Coleman and Megan Campbell talking.

“They really know what they’re talking about and have so much experience. It was great to hear their perspectives on the game and how they’re feeling with all the injuries they’ve had.”

The Peas were first place going into the final game of the Women’s National League season, where they faced second-place Wexford

Youths, who won 2-0 at their home ground.

As disappointing as the night was, however, McCartan believes the experience will serve both her and a young Peamount squad well in their development.

“No one really expected us to do well last year, just because it’s such a young squad, but that’s a good thing for us. There’s no egos in the team – everybody just works for each other.

“It was disappointing to get all the way and then lose it, but it’s a huge development for the club to a few years of not really getting anywhere.”

DSD’s Tonosa wins fifth successive race ATHLETICS  sport@dublingazette.com

DSDAC’S Hiko Tonosa continued his upward trajectory in Irish distance running with a fifth straight victory since he arrived in Ireland.

St Patrick’s Day in Portlaoise was the opening race of the new Kia series of road races, which aims to improve the standard of running at home with seven more races in different venues all over the country.

Tonosa and Mick Clohisey of Raheny – the national cross-

country champion and Olympic marathon participant – set the pace from the start, with Eric Keogh of Donore close in third place.

As they approached the finish tunnel, Tonosa veered off course down a parallel road for 100m before the shouts f ro m t h e stewards made him stop and

return to the finish area.

Amazingly, he was not passed and his sprint finish was something to behold, as he achieved maximum points towards the ultimate goal, a Kia car, at the final of the series.

Clohissey, who is training for the half-

marathon, found his speed was compromised, as Eric Keogh produced a storming finish to take second place.

Linda Byrne continues to improve, as she returns from a long break, and finished in a great fourth position in a high class women’s race, producing a great sprint to the finish.

The next race in the Kia Series is the Run with Catherina on April 28 before moving on to the Tallaght AC 5k and then the Bob Heffernan race in May. The Braveheart 5k is on June 15.

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KILMACUD CROKES ST PATRICK’S weekend and the weather conspired to impact the number of games played over the weekend with lots of fixtures cancelled.

The U-14 Division 1 hurlers had a good six point win over Castleknock in one of the few games played.

Well done to all who took part in the annual cycle on St Patrick’s day. We had over 60 M2M’ers taking part.

Big thanks to those who organized the groups on the road and also to Mary Greene and her group of volunteers who organised the food stop in Wicklow.

Thanks also to Ronan Conway, Mick Culligan and Dave Egan who took out the 0-50km folks finishing up their Kickstart program. Thanks to all for the generous donations to Laura Lynn.

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Cuala live to fight another day after Moran’s heroics  JAMES HENDICOTT

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NAOMH OLAF WELL done to all involved in the Andy Gibbons hurling tournament for third class students in our local schools. After four weeks of matches, the finals day was held last Thursday in front of a very large and enthusiastic crowd in the Naomh Olaf Hall. Congratulations to all participants and particularly the winners. Scoil Mhuire Cois Bóthair (Our Lady of the Wayside) were the big winners, lifting both the cup and plate trophies. Holycross NS, Holy Trinity NS and St Olaf’s NS also lifted trophies. Particular thanks to Andy Gibbons, Joey Jackson, Eddie Bouabbse and Dave Kinsella for giving so much time to organising this event.

Congratulations also to all involved in the Naomh Olaf participation in the Ste-paside St. Patrick’s Day Parade in inclement

conditions. Weather has dominated the week again so please note Shane Pollard’s postings re facilities which are available or otherwise for training.

Bumper adult hurling quiz this Thursday night at 8.45pm.

Please support. Friday night, 8pm, sees the launch of I’m a Celebrity... the big event and fundraiser in the club this year. Come down and get a taste of what’s in store on the night of the event itself, April 21. Senior footballers play St. Brigid’s in league at 10.15am in Russell Park next Sunday (reminder the clocks go forward on Saturday night). Junior 1 team away to Scoil Uí Chonaill at 12:00, Junior 2 team at home to St Pat’s Palmerstown at 2:30. Lotto numbers 4, 20, 30. No winner; €1,500 Jackpot next week.

SHANKILL THE juvenile academy, sponsored by O’Donnell’s Pharmacy, is in action in the gym of St Laurence College at 10am every Saturday. All equipment is provided free and cost is only €2 per child each week, there is no annual subscrip-tion. So why not come along and give the Academy a try your child will learn the skills of Gaelic games while having fun with their friends?

The effect of the recent bad weather is still causing problems so please check with your team manager for details of training and matches.

We wish Cuala good luck in the replay of the All Ireland Club Senior Hurling Final.

Ladies football team, check out our Facebook page and follow the link to the ladies Facebook group, e-mail stevedavis203@gmail.com or contact Steve on 087 6414123.

The men’s adult football team are looking for new players which are always welcome; contact Kevin on 086 8449902. For more information on the club, contact, secretary.shankill.dublingaa.ie or call 086 4010438.

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GERALDINE MORANS SENIOR A team are at home this Sunday vs Naomh Barrog; throw in at 12pm, Senior B are on after them at 2.30pm, throw in vs Round Towers; U-9 girls are home to Ranelagh Gaels.

Saturday fixtures: U-14 are away to Na Fianna, hurling fixtures: U-12 away to O’Dwyers, U-11s home to St Jude’s, U-10 girls away to St Mary’s, U-10 boys home to Skerries Harps, U-9 boys away to Ballyboden, U-8s are away to

Faughs, Good luck to all teams playing.

Easter camp places are still available; contact Darren on 086 8055354 to book a place or book online through the website.

Camp runs from March 26-29, 10am 2.30pm Early drop off available.

Academy train in Clonkeen College Sports hall every Saturday morning 10-11am, new members are always welcome.

CUALA will have to go again as they seek a second consecutive All Ireland club hurling title against Limerick’s Na Piarsaigh, after twice pulling back deficits in the closing minutes of a fraught final on St Patrick’s Day. They will be grateful for the chance.

Cuala were three points down going into injury time at the end of the first 60 minutes, before Sean Moran blasted in an unlikely equalising goal from a deflected 20-metre free in normal time, before the everreliable David Treacy’s last-minute free won a replay in extra time, 1-22 to 2-19.

If you wanted a measure of the balance of play in the rough-and-tumble contest at Croke Park, which developed out into a physical battle towards the end, the reaction of the Cuala players at full time said it all.

While the disappoint-

ment for Na Piarsaigh was clear in their demeanor, Cuala congratulated each other at the final whistle, an air of mildjubilation at having pulled off the unlikeliest of double great escapes Na Piarsaigh were in search of a second All Ireland in three years themselves, of course, and are undoubtedly a quality team that will take some substantial breaking down second time around: they harry in defense to an intimidating extent, limiting chances, and take their own points efficiently up top.

These St Patrick’s Day contests have traditionally been one-sided affairs in recent years, and to have a battle like this between two teams of such obvious and close-matched class - is something to treasure.

Cuala didn’t have their best game on the 17th, which bodes well for their chances of stepping up second time around.

Con O’Callaghan, in particular, needs to find

ALL-STAR BATTLE 2016 vintage wins 14-goal tie in Bangkok DUBLIN team mates Lauren Magee, left, and Sinead Aherne were on opposite sides as the 2017 All-Stars took on their 2016 counterparts in Bangkok this week in an exhibition match at Chulalongkorn University. The 2016 vintage ended up winning by a single point, 7-19 to 7-18 with Noelle Healy scoring 3-2.

Picture: piaras o midheach / SPORTSFILE

Cuala supporter Ethan Smith, age seven, from Sandycove, pictured during DAVY pre-match activities ahead of the final. Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

a little more space in amongst the blue wall.

It’s likely that less frigid conditions would also assist an already outrageously high-quality contest.

To come out on top, Cuala need to face down the impressive controlled

aggression from Na Piarsaigh, work out how to create a little more space, and maintain the scoring efficiency they showed at Croke Park. It’s probably fair to say they’re a little lucky to get a second shot: we’d fancy them to take it.

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Fitzsimons and Byrne play their part in fractious draw

Dublin en route to victory over Kilkenny at Parnells. Picture: ilivephotos.com

Wylde tames Kilkenny in massive Dublin win MINOR A CAMOGIE

Dublin 1-15 Kilkenny 0-2  NOEL MURPHY sport@dublingazette.com

THE small crowd in Parnells who braved the cold conditions this afternoon were warmed by a magnificent performance by Dublin in Round 3 of this year’s All Ireland Championship.

Sinead Wylde, along with Laura Quinn and the free taking of Aoife Mahon, helped Dublin blitz a Kilkenny side who, despite their efforts, could not get going against the dominant opposition.

Against the wind, Dublin soaked up every initial attack from Kilkenny forcing some of their early chances wide.

Joint Captain Wylde, who led from the front for the entire game, opened Dublin’s scoring in the third minute with a brilliant solo break to send the ball over

the bar from an angle.

Aoife Mahon converted the first two of her 0-05 in the early going, despite the strong wind in her face, which had seen a lot of Dublin’s first half attempts drop short. But their back line were counter-acting any attempt by Kilkenny to get on the scoreboard.

Wylde got her second from play in the 18th before Quinn, who was dangerous throughout, took a drop ball. She headed for the Kilkenny goal, finding a space between Kilkenny’s Alannah Gallagher and Kate Dempsey, but Gallagher brought Quinn down in the square with the referee awarding the penalty.

With Dublin comfortably in the driving seat, Mahon stepped up and chose to knock the penalty over the bar to put Dublin 0-5 ahead.

Alix Buckley added another for Dublin as Kilkenny were finding it increasingly difficult to pin back the Dublin forwards Buckley, Jessica McClelland

and Quinn.

And it was Quinn who would again find herself on the end of a high ball, faced by a wall of Kilkenny players, she charged forward, forcing the ball through them and into the net to get Dublin’s goal.

Aoife Doyle got Kilkenny’s only score of the half, meaning they would be playing against the wind in the second half with a mountain to climb.

The second half saw Dublin do with the wind what Kilkenny couldn’t do in the first half, despite a much-improved effort from the cats Quinn relentlessly continued pressing forward, opening the Dubs second half account, quickly followed by another dead ball conversion from Mahon.

Niamh Gannon scored a huge point, and Wylde, after seeing her first two attempts of the half veer wide, added another.

There were some missed goal chances but they can be easily overshadowed

by Dublin’s skill and strength throughout the park.

McClelland imposed her speed and power, scoring 0-2, with Danielle Morrissey scoring Kilkenny’s second and last score in between.

Substitute Hollyn Kennedy sent a score over just minutes after joining the action, and with Wylde appropriately ending the game with the final point, it leaves Dublin with six points from nine and in a comfortable position in the group going into their last game against Galway.

Dublin share top spot in the group with Cork but have played a game extra at this stage. Galway, meanwhile, will meet Cork this coming weekend before lining out against Dublin on home turf.

It sets up a fascinating remaining weeks of the championship group phase.

NAOMH Olaf’s David Byrne and Cuala’s Michael Fitzsimons played their part as Dublin eventually shared the spoils from a fractious battle against Galway in their penultimate league game of 2018.

They both started in the full-back line for the sky blues as Ciaran Kilkenny kicked five points en route to the point they required to set up another day out at Croke Park.

The two sides will meet again in two weeks’ time in the NFL Division 1 final after their 0-13 draw at Pearse Stadium, Salthill last Sunday.

In an at times feisty encounter Dublin trailed by five points at half-time, 0-10 to 0-5, after playing into a strong wind and were also three points in arrears, 0-12 to 0-9, just inside the last ten minutes.

Dublin were reduced to 14 men when Eoghan O’Gara was red-carded in the 68th minute, only on the pitch six minutes, but then hit three unanswered points through sub Cormac Costello (two frees) either side of a Ciarán Kilkenny, his fifth from play, edged Dublin in front 0-13 to 0-12 in the fifth minute of added time in front of a crowd of 10,050.

But Galway, who had already qualified for the league final, had the final word when Johnny Heaney launched the equalizer in the ninth minute of added time.

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Marian finally end their wait  JAMES HENDICOTT

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UCD MARIAN held their nerve to take the Irish Superleague Basketball title in a playoff by the narrowest of margins on St Patrick’s Day, topping the table for the first time in forty years.

Marian overturned rivals Pyrobel Killester by a single point, after Killester had leveled the score with 12 seconds left on the clock. The pair had proved inseparable over the course of the normal league season, having both lost five of their 22 games, resulting in a rare onetime play-off to decide the champions.

Conor Meany’s father Paul was part of the team that won the title back in 1978 and followed in his father’s footsteps.

Conor starred at point guard and said after the game: “I don’t know what to say really.That was a great game, either team could have won it.

“To win the league is amazing, it’s a family club and there’s been so much work behind the scenes. Dad won when he was 27 years old and he wouldn’t have thought his youngest son would be 31 before they would do it again.”

Mike Garrow’s free throw proved to be the

UCD Marian celebrate their Super League success. Picture: Martin Doherty

“Dad won when he was 27 years old and he

wouldn’t have thought his youngest son would be 31 before UCD would do it again “ - Conor Meany difference after Killester had equalised with a long-distance three pointer with just those 12 seconds remaining.

Pyrobel were to have another chance, though they couldn’t get a shot away in time to turn the game in the dying seconds.

“This year we’ve had a great group,” Meany

continued. “We kind of stumbled after the cup final for a few weeks, but I think we redeemed ourselves.

Hoping “We’re going to make sure we enjoy it for the next few days. When we won the cup final here against Killester, we had a free throw and missed

the second one, and they had a long shot to win it, and we’re just standing there, hoping.

“I think the shot clock had gone before Royce got the ball, but I don’t know.

“I’ll have to watch it back and enjoy it, because you can’t really enjoy it at the time!”

Marian head coach

Ioannis Liapakis said after the game “Hopefully we don’t have to wait another 40 years for the next one!

“It was a long way to get here. It took us five years together.

“Five long, hard years.

They worked so hard.

And finally we did it.

“In fairness, Killester played amazing, they

also deserved to win, it was a flip of the coin in the end.

“But at last we had a little bit of luck and the only thing I feel right now is relief – relief for this 14 guys who stuck with me for five years, who worked hard, and finally – we did it. We’re go i n g to e n j oy t h i s moment.”