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Cutting-edge 3d printing technology is being used to recreate the severelyinjured face of a road accident victim.

A team of surgeons is poised to carry out a pioneering operation which will restore the symmetry of the man’s face – using new parts produced by a printer. the unaffected side of the unidentified biker’s face has been used to create a mirror image to enable perfect facial reconstruction.

A virtual world of computer images is being used to create titanium implants using additive manufacturing – commonly known as 3d printing. the images are used both to design guides to cut and position facial bones with pinpoint accuracy and create tailor-made implants for the patient, which are being produced in a specialist facility in Belgium.

Surgeons in Wales used an X-ray Ct scan to create minutely-detailed three-dimensional images to design the implants. the futuristic work, led by consultant maxillofacial surgeon Adrian Sugar, at

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Morriston Hospital in Swansea, is considered so groundbreaking and radical that it already features in an exhibition at London’s Science Museum – before the actual operation has been carried out.

Peter evans, a reconstructive scientist and Maxillofacial Laboratory Services manager, said: ‘the patient suffered trauma and had multiple injuries across his body, including some quite severe facial injuries.

‘He underwent emergency surgery at the time and we are now at the stage where we can do a proper reconstruction of his face.’ the surgery will involve repositioning the patient’s facial bones, and Mr evans added: Mr evans added: ‘We have done everything up to the point of surgery. the concept of the operation has been virtually designed and we hope to do the work very soon. ‘the patient’s facial symmetry will be restored so he should be back to normal as far as his facial looks are concerned.’

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From the archives (2011): Musician’s missing movement

The second half of a concert by the Worcester Philharmonic Orchestra in England had to go ahead without one of the horn players – because he got stuck in a toilet. The gig went on while firefighters forced open the door.

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Former Westlife star Egan, 33, reveals his jungle fears and phobias

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By METRO HERALD sTAff CONFIDENT Kian Egan has boasted about how unafraid he is about some of the tasks he will be set in the jungle during his time on I’m A Celebrity…

The ex-Westlife star insisted he had no major phobias: ‘I am not afraid of confined spaces and I am not afraid of the dark either. I am really looking forward to the whole experience.’

Asked what the worst challenge will be, the 33-year-old said it would be the coffin challenge, adding ‘but I will definitely do the eating challenge.

I will shove it in my gob, chew on it and eat it.’

Earlier this week, Kian revealed the hardest part of being in the show would be not seeing his boy Koa, who turns two next month. ‘The hardest thing is going to be being away from my boy,’ he said.

The line-up also includes Towie’s

Actor Alfonso Ribeiro, 42

Soap star Laila Morse, 68

‘I will shove it in my gob and chew on it’ Joey Essex and Miss GB Amy Willerton, presenter Matthew Wright and Fresh Prince Of Bel Air star Alfonso Ribeiro.

The world of sport, meanwhile, will be represented by Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington – who has reportedly signed an €95,000 deal to appear on the show – and snooker ace Steve Davis.

Soap fans are also in for a treat with the appearance of former EastEnders actress Laila Morse and Emmerdale’s Lucy Pargeter – aka Chas Dingle – while royal dress designer David Emmanuel completes the line-up.

The wild action starts at 9pm on Sunday on TV3 and UTV, followed at 10.30pm by the return of spin-off show I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here Now! on 3e.

Kian Egan will be stuck in the jungle with TV presenter Matthew Wright, 48, and snooker player Steve Davis, 56 ITV

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Manager of U2 to step down after 35 years U2 MANAGER Paul McGuinness is on the verge of stepping aside after 35 years at the helm of the world famous Dublin band.

The unofficial fifth member of the rock group is also close to selling his management company, Principle Management, to Live Nation Entertainment.

‘It could be seen as slightly poor etiquette for a manager to consider retiring before his artist has split, quit or died, but U2 have never subscribed to the rock‘n’roll code of conduct,’ he told the New York Times.

‘As I approach the musically relevant age of 64 I have resolved to take a less handson role as the band embark on the next cycle of their extraordinary career.’

McGuinness has managed U2 since 1978, two years after the four Dublin teenagers – Paul Hewson (Bono) on vocals, David Evans (The Edge) on guitar, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jnr on drums – formed a band.

The the deal, estimated to be worth €22.3million, will result in Madonna’s manager, Guy Oseary, taking over the management of U2.

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Ireland may have escaped card frauds after hacking NO FRAUDS have hit any Irish customer of the marketing firm at the centre of one of Europe’s biggest ever hacking attacks.

Despite cyber criminals accessing details of more than 500,000 credit card holders last month, it is believed many of the cards have expired or are no longer in use.

The Clare-based marketing business Loyaltybuild, which has run rewards schemes for companies in Ireland, the UK, Scandinavia and Switzerland, was targeted in the attack in October, with more than 376,000 people on its systems having their credit card details stolen and the details of an additional 150,000 clients potentially compromised in the attack.

The Irish Payment Services Organisation (Ipso) said it believed Irish customers could only be affected if they used the service between January 2011 and February 2012.

Some 26,000 of the 70,000 Irish

No hope of bank debt deal until end of 2014

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NO DEAL can be done on Ireland’s legacy bank debt until at least the end of next year, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has revealed.

Ahead of a meeting with European finance chiefs in Brussels, the minister insisted the Government remains committed to striking a deal to restructure its bank debt.

Mr Noonan also gave assurances taxpayers will not be forced to bail out failing banks again, saying it will come from a fund built by the banking sector.

Addressing the Joint Oireachtas Finance Committee, Mr Noonan admitted he would not raise questions about Ireland’s legacy debt issues, insisting it was not on the agenda and he would not have the opportunity.

When asked if the Government was still pursuing the retrospective recapitalisation of Irish banks, he said: ‘Oh yeah.’

But he said this could not be addressed until ‘some time at the back end of 2014’.

by eD cARty cardholders affected have since had their debit cards replaced and thousands of other credit cards are thought to have expired, Ipso said.

No complaints have been made to gardaí that money has been stolen.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan said the likelihood that those behind the hacking were foreign criminals was putting an extra strain on fraud squad detectives.

Ipso said all Irish card issuer banks have received a full list of card numbers for accounts affected by hacking and they are being monitored but that initial results show no fraud trends that are attributable to this incident.

Investigations are being spearheaded by the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation, backed up by the Garda Computer Crime Investigation Unit.

The Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes is also investigating.

Post hoPe: Lynn Kelly and nephew Rocco post their letters to Santa at the Grafton Street launch for Disney Store’s Share in the Magic campaign.

Families are invited to post a letter to Santa instore or online at disneystore. co.uk/christmas, and for each letter posted, Disney Store will donate a soft toy to a local children’s charity Picture: tony mclean

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PUBLIC Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin has been forced into a U-turn on changes to the country’s Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.

The minister withdrew an amendment in a new Bill intended to introduce multiple charges for FOI requests, citing concerns it would be used as a money-maker.

His U-turn follows a public outcry, including criticism from journalists and politicians who claimed his planned

changes were an attempt to make it more difficult for people to submit requests.

Mr Howlin confirmed yesterday a single FOI request, which might require legwork from within different departments and costs an average of €600 to process, will be a single €15 fee. In its pre-election manifesto the Fine GaelLabour coalition had promised to restore the FOI Act to before the former Fianna Fáil-led administration introduced fees.

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Victim of attack dies Gonorrhoea cases up after month in care by a third each year A NIGERIAN man has died in hospital more than a month after he was the victim of a vicious attack in broad daylight.

A post-mortem examination was carried out on 45-year-old Taiwo Jamani, who died in Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital yesterday.

He was injured in an assault in Main Street, Swords, on Thursday, October 10.

A 37-year-old man, Jooda Akanbi, originally from Nigeria but living in Swords, has already appeared in court in connection with the incident.

DETECTIONS of sexually-transmitted gonorrhoea have increased by 33 per cent each year since 2011, health chiefs have warned.

A control team has been appointed to monitor the increase in cases of the disease, which can cause infertility, with the major upsurge seen in the Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare regions, where there were 817 cases recorded last year compared to 613 the previous year – an increase of 33 per cent.

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) said the rate of infections is 24.1 per 100,000 people.

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Health chiefs in warning on supplements HEALTH chiefs have issued an alert about a series of food supplements sold in shops that can cause liver failure.

The products – used for weight loss, energy boosting and muscle building – are to be pulled from shelves and anyone who has used them is advised to seek medical help.

The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) and the Food Safety Authority Ireland (FSAI) identified the products as OxyELITE Pro Super Thermo capsules, OxyELITE Pro Ultra-Intense Thermo capsules, OxyELITE Pro Super Thermo powder and VERSA-1.

IMB director of compliance John Lynch said some of these products have in the past contained a substance that rendered them illegal medicines.

‘People are advised that, if they are feeling any ill effects after taking any of these products, they should contact their doctor and, if possible, present the product in question,’ Mr Lynch said.

by LynDsEy TELfORD The products have been associated with severe liver disorders, including hepatitis and liver failure, with one case reported in Ireland to date.

They are being investigated in the United States, where cases of nonviral hepatitis have been reported – which have included one death and people requiring liver transplants.

Director of consumer protection at the FSAI, Ray Ellard, said online retailers have also been instructed to stop selling the products, which contain an ingredient called aegeline.

‘Outlets such as gyms, supplement retailers and businesses selling supplements from websites are being asked to remove these products from sale and to clearly display a point-ofsale notice if they sold the products in the past,’ Mr Ellard said.

‘Consumers should not purchase these types of products online as there is no guarantee of their safety.’

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UN is told Irish abortion law violates human rights Giving with style Designer Claire Garvey and Senator Averil Power were at the Oireachtas Charity Fashion Show in support of Motor Neuron Disease Research, held in the Shelbourne Hotel Picture: Kieran Harnett

THE Government has been accused of violating the human rights of a woman who had to travel to England for an abortion by subjecting her to mental suffering.

Amanda Mellet has filed papers before the United Nations Human Rights Committee to hold Ireland accountable for what she claims was the inhumane and degrading way she was treated.

Her case has been backed by the Centre for Reproductive Rights and Terminations for Medical Reasons.

In May 2011, Ms Mellet, 38, and her husband James Burke, 36, who live in Dublin with no children, travelled to Liverpool to terminate a pregnancy after medics told them the foetus had a fatal anomaly.

‘There is no doubt in my mind being forced to leave Ireland and end my pregnancy of my muchwanted baby overshadowed my grief,’ she said.

The couple’s case is the first of three petitions to be lodged with the UN. Ruth Bowie and Siobhán Whelan are due to take action early next year.

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Tale of Red Riding thursday Hood traced to Asia

In the midst of Science Week, kEn ROgAn looks at the uses of the überscience that is maths, and figures it’s all geared towards making movies

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That’s not invisibility that’s super- more useful are its applications in visibility, and it’s precisely the kind the real world. Technologies like lenses and ballistics are all made of unintended consequence that possible through the mathematics will tear a hole in the metaverse of curves and stuff. I think. and suck us into a hyperThus awesome sci-fi concepts dimensional war with a species of like Isaac Asimov’s ‘psychohistory’ sandwich that communicates through cheese – and that will have (using maths to predict the future) become not completely ridiculous. its revenge! Though not on the French, who will be spared for their Unlike Mystic Meg saying: ‘Mars being in Venus’s armpit will bring cheese-ist philanthropy in you something nice towards the end something like the way cows in of the week – with maybe a India get a sweet ride (which message from someone in your always makes me wish I could talk past.’ Everyone is in your past, to cows, because can you imagine Meg. That’s what knowing telling a cow about India? people is.

There is just no way For now though, they would ever psychohistory is believe you).

All of which How in the name of science fiction, though admittedly brings us neatly to Pythagoras’s grisly cooler science Science Week (this week), undercarriage are you fiction than the pious which is mostly supposed to follow insufferability of aimed at young Star Trek, or the people. And a good that? technicolour toyshopthing too – when ness of Star Wars. you’re young, science Anyway, the more dystopian has all the answers. For us grown-ups, Science Week offers the strands of science fiction seemed to get it right – the future is an opportunity to bring the next information-rich place where the generation to see ET in Cineworld sky is permanently dark red and and tell our kids ‘that’s what corporations run everything. The Michael Jackson looked like problem with this future is that it before he was black’. Then, when always seems to involve Keanu they ask you if Morphing Jackson Reeves, a black hole of acting from was an alien, you can suck your which no particles of entertainment lips and say: ‘I suppose so, son. I can escape. suppose so.’

So these days science fiction’s job Kids have to learn, after all. And is to keep bums on movie theatre adults can learn too – I recently seats, now that all content is read a book about maths. There virtually free. Whether for ET, T2, was stuff about different sized Blade Runner or most recently infinities that made me feel like a Neanderthal pawing a monolith, but Gravity, it’s still worth forking over €10 to €15 for cinema-scale sound there was some cool stuff about and vision. You don’t need the big how we teach maths to kids. As screen to see Tom Hanks negotiate numbers are an abstraction, we with pirates. teach them to children by attaching They also appear to have gotten numbers to objects, eg ‘there are the hang of 3D too. Now it actually three Michael Jacksons’. After a while, we drop the objects and keep enhances the movie without giving you an ice-cream headache. This the abstract ‘three’. ‘less-is-more’ approach might even Then, just when you’re hitting spare us from the usual American puberty, they up the abstraction model of success, which asserts some more and tell you all about that if X is good, X2 is better. ‘x’ and ‘y’, and but so then, and Take that, maths! much more quickly this time, they get even more abstract by giving @kenrogan

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LITTLE Red Riding Hood may be commonly depicted as pale-skinned and blonde, but she has distant relatives in Africa and Asia.

Scientists traced the folk tale’s evolutionary tree and found links with similar stories as far away as China, Japan and Korea.

The Wolf And The Kids, a story dating back to the first century AD and popular in Europe and the Middle East, tells of a wolf that impersonates a nanny goat and devours

by jOHn vOn RADOwiTz her offspring. Some 1,000 years later the nanny goat was transformed into Red Riding Hood’s grandmother.

In other variants of the tale in Africa and Asia the wolf is replaced by an ogre or tiger.

Scientists followed the trail of Little Red Riding Hood using techniques normally used by biologists to group together closely-related

organisms and place them on a ‘tree of life’ mapping their evolution.

They subjected 58 stories to the process, known as phylogenetic analysis.

Dr Jamie Tehrani, from the University of Durham, whose findings are published in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE, said: ‘This is rather like a biologist showing that humans and other apes share a common ancestor but have evolved into distinct species.’

Bacon’s Freud work sells for a record €105m

Visitors view three studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon in Christie’s auction house in London, following the news the painting by the Dublinborn artist of his friend and fellow artist fetched a record $142m (€105) in New York yesterday.

Breaking last year’s record of $120m set by Edvard Munch’s the scream, the sale took place

after just six minutes of bidding. the threepanelled painting created in 1969 depicts the German artist sitting on a chair from three different angles.

Bacon’s studio is now located in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Parnell square North. An exhibition of material relating to Freud opens today.

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AN MI6 worker whose naked body was found in a padlocked sports bag probably died by accident, police said yesterday.

Gareth Williams (pictured) was found in the holdall in the empty tub of his bathroom at his flat in Pimlico, central London, but ‘many questions remain unanswered’ about his death, the Metropolitan Police stated after a review of evidence.

Dep Asst Comm Martin Hewitt said: ‘I do not believe I have had the wool pulled over my eyes. I believe what we are dealing with is a tragic, unexplained death.’ He said there was no evidence the codebreaker’s home had been ‘deep-cleaned’ to remove forensic traces.

The findings contradict those of last year’s inquest, when the coroner said the 31-year-old had been unlawfully killed.

The spy’s family said yesterday they were ‘naturally disappointed’ with the police findings.

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She’s no Lady... Gaga is up for f a threesome S he may be a Lady by name but Gaga is not one by nature after revealing she would be up for having a threesome with her bo boyfriend Taylor Kinney.

The bisexual pop babe opened up about the couple’s romance as she hailed The Vampire Diaries star for not booting her out of bed during the height w of her drug woes.

Grilled by US shock jock howard Stern about the possibility of bringing another woman into the couple’s bedroom, the 27-year-old superstar

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squealed: ‘That sounds like fun!’ But she came over all shy and retiring when Stern asked if the celebrity couple had tried adding another sexual partner to the mix.

‘You know what, I’ve spoken a lot about my Taylor and... I don’t want to kiss and tell too much. I’m a little bit more of a lady than that,’ she said. explaining their dynamic, she said: ‘here’s the thing... I’m not the type of person that’s having sex all the time with

Dannii ‘beds Keating’ for TV

Retro rabbit: Kate adopts a classic bunnygirl pose for Playboy PICTURE: MERT AlAs AnD MARCUs PIggoTT

Kate swaps catwalk for bunny hop

Kate Moss will be baring all in Playboy to celebrate her 40th birthday. The supermodel adopts a classic bunnygirl pose by crawling on all fours wearing rabbit ears, a cotton tail, a corset, French cuffs and black stiletto heels. The teaser features in December’s issue of the magazine – out this week – but Moss will appear completely naked in January’s issue, which also marks Playboy’s 60th birthday.

Morning ladies: The Wanted’s Max George, 25, does a Becks by stripping to his undies in a New York park, in a shoot for Buffalo David Bitton

I’ll swallow anything if you pay me, says Darkness’s Justin Lady Gaga’s favourite zany rockers The Darkness have tossed their hat into the I’m A Celebrity ring with frontman Justin Hawkins promising ITV bosses he’d put anything in his gob for six figures. ‘The idea of me doing the jungle thing is very slim unless they can find £100,000… and then I will eat anything,’ the 38year-old said backstage on the opening night of

lots of random people. I don’t do that.

‘I’m in a monogamous relationship, we’re having a good time. We’ve been together a while.’ The Artpop singer added: ‘If it were to come up, it comes up. For me, the connection that I feel is so much stronger than physical. We’re both very protective of our love. We treat each other with a lot of care and we’re good to one another.’

Gaga also said of Kinney, 32: ‘he’s a really lovely, amazing person. he also doesn’t care about me being famous.

I’m not famous to him, I’m his baby.’

their tour. ‘Another problem is that I am vegan, so I am not sure if it counts as cruelty when eating those bugs.’ Urged on by the band’s drummer Ed Graham, who thought his mate would be great in the jungle, Hawkins laughed: ‘I don’t think I’d have a problem eating bugs but, as Ed knows from personal experience, I’d put anything in my mouth.’

Saucy Dannii Minogue has jumped in the sack with Ronan Keating – K but before bef e tongues start wagging it was only for f an X Factor Australia stralia photoshoot.

The 42-year-old 42-y -old stripped off to her undies when she was snapped with her fellow fello judges in a giant bed.

She told Who magazine’ss Sexiest People 2013: ‘The older I get the more mor comfortable ortable I feel about who I am and what I’m doing. doing Ageing has been the best thing for f me.

When you’re younger, you worry y more mor about the little things. When you become a mum it changes everything because you’re like, y “I’m healthy health and so is my kid, everything’s everything’ good”. You don’t sweat the small stuff.’ stuff Ronan Keating said he’s learned K from om doing the dirty on his ex-wife Yvonne.

‘I’m 36, got three Yv ee kids and have been through ough a lot of ups and downs. I’ve I’ learnt that I can make mistakes mistak and I’m not perfect.’

Shocked by 50 Shades?

Not Dornan New Fifty Shades Of Grey hunk Jamie Dornan insists he isn’t fazed by the sex in the forthcoming film.

The 31-year-old Calvin Klein model said he was more excited than nervous about replacing Charlie hunnam to play Christian Grey in the adaptation of eL James’s erotic bestseller. ‘I’m a fairly worldly guy.

I grew up in a very liberal place,’ he told entertainment Weekly. ‘I’m not saying we had a playroom but I’m not shocked by the sex in the book.

It’s essential to tell the story. I can’t believe films that don’t invoke the sexual side of it. So it works for me.’

On taking the role opposite 24-yearold Dakota Johnson, he said: ‘There

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The showbiz world is united in praying for Zac Efron’s pretty face after he broke his chiselled jaw in a fall outside his LA home. The 26year-old, who has had a rough year having checked into rehab twice already, had to have his mouth wired shut after slipping in a puddle, according to E! News. He also suffered cracked bones and a gash so big it required stitches but is expected to make a ‘full recovery’.

See no evil: Dannii covers up in bed with Ronan Keating and the rest of The X Factor Australia judges PICTURE: who

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was a slight fear. But beyond anything else, I was really f****** excited.’

Meanwhile, Johnson admitted she had been hitting the gym to make sure she was in shape for her nude scenes as Anastasia Steele.

‘Obviously, I want to look good naked,’ she said. ‘I totally understand now why people exercise because it kind of f****** feels awesome.’ The film was originally scheduled to come out on August 1, 2014, but the release date has been pushed back to February 13, 2015 after Hunnam pulled out.

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She’s the daughter of Hollywood royalty and married to the singer of one of the biggest bands in the world – but Kate Hudson says she’s too broke to buy clothes. The 34-yearold claimed she had to return all her red carpet frocks. ‘People think we own all these dresses.

But we borrow them! I can’t afford to buy that stuff,’ the wife of Muse rocker Matt Bellamy told American Harper’s Bazaar magazine. ‘I’m not a big high-end fashion shopper. I wish I could but the truth is things are just so expensive.’

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Lethal injection for Lab rat tests lifted murderer and rapist for beauty imports

AMERICA: A death row prisoner was executed yesterday for raping a pregnant woman and stabbing her fiancé to death. Jamie McCoskey, 49, was given a lethal injection for murdering 21-year-old Michael Dwyer and attacking his wife-to-be in 1991.

He abducted the couple from their flat in Houston, Texas. He called his 22-year stint on death row the ‘best time in my life’.

CHINA: Laws requiring cosmetics to be tested on animals before they can be sold are to be relaxed. Soap and shampoos will not be tested on lab animals from next year, the Food and Drug Administration ruled. The move was cautiously welcomed by animal rights’ groups.

‘Ethical’ companies, such as The Body Shop, will now be able to sell into China – where cosmetics worth €16billion are sold annually.

‘I’m not leaving’ says drug-buying mayor Ford: Defiant

ToronTo mayor rob Ford rejected calls to step down from his post yesterday despite admitting that he had bought illegal drugs in the past two years.

During a city council debate every councillor stood up to ask him to take a leave of absence after Mr Ford made the confession under direct questioning by former ally Denzil Minnan-Wong.

Mr Ford publicly admitted last week that he smoked crack cocaine last year during a ‘drunken stupor’.

by ROB GILLIEs But Mr Ford denied he was an addict of any sort, instead insisting he is a ‘positive role model for kids who are down and out’.

‘I’m most definitely keeping this job,’ he said. ‘I am not leaving here. I’m going to sit here and going to attend every meeting.’

Meanwhile, outside City Hall, hundreds of protesters chanted ‘resign’, while organisers of the city’s Santa Claus Parade asked that Mr Ford not take part in the event this year.

AMERICA: A courtroom sketch shows convicted gang boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger at the first day of his sentencing hearing in Boston

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Rudd quits politics Far-right weekly in after losing election racism slur inquiry

AusTRALIA: Former prime minister Kevin Rudd is to retire from politics following his election defeat. He said after ‘much soulsearching’ he had decided to spend more time with his family and wished Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott well. He ousted Julia Gillard to become leader of the Labor Party just weeks before the general election in September. MPs in his party had called for him to resign.

FRANCE: A far-right magazine faces a racism inquiry after its front page compared the black justice minister to a monkey. Minute featured a picture of Christiane Taubira with the caption: ‘Clever as a monkey, Taubira gets her banana back.’ The weekly, which played on the fact the French for ‘banana’ can also be slang for ‘smile’, was condemned by prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who called for the investigation.

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GERMANY: A jobless builder is suing social services – for refusing to pay his cable TV bill. Volker Franke, 47, of Torgau, watches television day and night. He says he can’t live without cable, which is included in his rent.

INDIA’S top police chief is facing calls to resign after he said: ‘If you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it.’

Ranjit Sinha, head of the Central Bureau of Investigation, made the comment at a conference during an argument for the legalisation of gambling.

The 60-year-old used the bizarre analogy to say if laws could not be enforced it did not mean they should not be made.

He later apologised and said his remarks had been taken out of context, but the Opposition called for his resignation.

Communist Party of India leader Brinda Karat said: ‘It is sickening that a man who is in charge of rape investigations should use such an analogy. He should be prosecuted for degrading and insulting women.’

Mr Sinha’s comments were deemed particularly out-of-touch in a year that has seen nationwide protests following the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in New Delhi last December.

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Proud mother: Chelewa the gorilla cuddles her week-old baby 18 months after accidentally crushing a newborn to death. She is a ‘great mother’, said staff at Cabarceno Natural Park near Santander, northern Spain

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Listening to what the voices say P

ETER BULLIMORE Those who hear voices have long been the victims of stigma, but hears voices 24 hours a evidence suggests it isn’t necessarily a sign of mental illness. day, seven days a week.

A British research team is now trying to establish why people Sometimes he doesn’t hear voices. ROSS McGUINNESS reports... have time to listen to them.

Sometimes he does.

‘When it first started it was a very One voice urged him to do some- chronic schizophrenia following a thing creative, so last year he wrote breakdown. But the drugs didn’t frightening experience. It’s confusa children’s book. When it was pub- work and in the mid-1990s he ing, it’s disorientating, it makes you lished, the voice stopped talking to attended a session run by the Hear- angry. Now I see it as a part of me. I him. Another voice he hears is his ing Voices Network support group, wouldn’t want to be without my dead mother’s. Mr Bullimore, 52, where he is now a trustee, to try to voices because I think they are from Sheffield in England, has been obtain a better understanding and guides in their own way.’

One of the myths about hearing hearing voices for more than 30 get on with his life. He has never accepted his diagnosis or the sup- voices is that everyone who experiyears.

‘I think it’s a very creative way of posed effectiveness of the medica- ences them is mentally ill. In fact, a range of studies indicate that about coping with adverse life experienc- tion he was given.

‘You can’t cure voices,’ he said. one in 20 people regularly hears es,’ he said.

He didn’t always feel that way, ‘Voices aren’t curable, just like you voices in their head, many of whom can’t cure left-handedness. We have no need for treatment. The rush however, spending ten of those should not give treatment to label voice hearers as ‘crazy’ apyears as a psychiatric patient pears to be slowing. that doesn’t work. after being diagnosed with Hearing

voices

Many people hear voices but consider them to be a

positive 3% 10%

An international team of researchers, led by British experts at Durham University and backed by the Wellcome Trust, is aiming to delve deeper.

The research project is called Hearing the Voice and involves neuroscientists, health practitioners, psychiatrists and voice hearers.

‘Many people think that voice hearing is just a symptom of severe mental illness like schizophrenia or psychosis, but what they don’t know is that hearing voices is also an important aspect of many ordinary people’s lives,’ said Charles Fernyhough, professor of psychology at Durham University and the project’s director.

‘Voices are experienced by the majority of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a distressing and disorientating condition that is much maligned and poorly understood.’

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HILE voice hearing is linked to those with mental conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, it can also be a positive force.

‘Public perception is that people only hear voices that abuse, threaten and command them to do dangerous or unacceptable things,’ said Dr Angela Woods, co-director of Hearing the Voice and a lecturer in medical humanities at Durham University.

‘Some voices are distressing and malevolent; others are kind and encouraging, providing a person with an important source of comfort and support.

‘A common reaction is fear and

the thought, “I must be mad”. Research suggests it is the stress associated with negative interpretations of this experience and ineffective coping strategies that can cause the most distress.’

Dr Woods said there was also a correlation between voice hearing and creativity – Charles Dickens and Socrates are among those thought to have heard voices.

The big question – why do people hear voices? – is still unanswered.

Hearing the Voice researchers will examine the link between the phenomenon and ‘inner speech’ – what goes through our minds when we are thinking to ourselves.

Prof Fernyhough said: ‘One of the theories we’re exploring is the idea that voice-hearing experiences arise when someone mistakenly attributes an episode of inner speech – one of their own thoughts – to an external source.’ Doctoral researcher Peter Moseley elaborated on this idea.

‘Unlike instances of our own inner voice which clearly belong to us, most people report that hearing a voice in the absence of any speaker has an “alien” quality to it. It doesn’t feel like it comes from the self.

‘If the voices are derogatory they might say “I would never think that”, and attribute the experience to an external source.’

As for Mr Bullimore, he now teaches others how to cope with similar situations. He has embraced his voices and says: ‘They can’t make me do things I don’t want to do any more.’ n For more information go to:

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out of people have had a one-off experience where they have heard a voice others didn’t

is often associated with schizophrenia but it is also experienced by people without mental disorders

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Sources: Hearing Voices Network, Intervoice

voices are (clockwise from left) Mahatma Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Sigmund Freud, Socrates and Charles Dickens

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Typhoon aid starts to arrive, but not before starving looters are crushed at food store

Dying to feed their families Soup kitchen owner heads Irish effort AN IRISH soup kitchen owner is spearheading an initiative to provide relief to the hundreds of thousands of people affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Ollie Williams, who runs Twist Soup Kitchen Ireland, is sending a 40ft container – with food donated by Irish suppliers – to the country.

The father-of-two, from Athenry, Co Galway, provides free meals to struggling Irish families at his six soup kitchens across Ireland.

His team are now working round-the-clock to respond to the ‘massive tragedy’ in the Philippines, he said.

Meanwhile, an airlift of over 100 tonnes of aid worth €500,000 was due to arrive from Ireland last night, in addition to €1m announced by the Government.

At last, help arrives: A typhoon survivor is rushed to a medic by soldiers after she collapsed in a queue for a military plane that is evacuating people from the storm-hit city of Tacloban PicTure: AP

EIGHT starving typhoon survivors were crushed to death as they stampeded a rice warehouse in the Philippines.

The dead had joined thousands storming the government storage centre in the Leyte province when a wall collapsed on them. Their fellow looters managed to cart away 33,000 bags of rice, Orlan Calayag from The National Food Authority said.

Tecson John Lim, a city administrator in Tacloban, the area worst hit by last week’s Typhoon Haiyan, defended the thieves though, saying: ‘The looting is not criminality. It is self-preservation.’

He added that only 20 per cent of the city’s survivors had so far received aid and that they had turned to pilfering from houses as the warehouses had been run dry. Some Tacloban residents have even cracked open water pipes in

by METRO HERALD sTAff their desperation. ‘We don’t know if it’s safe. We need to boil it. But at least we have something,’ said Christopher Dorano, 38. ‘There have been a lot of people who have died here.’

The official death toll was at 2,344 last night but officials expect it to climb to 10,000 as more bodies will be found when clearing up work begins.

Cat Carter, a Save the Children officer, in Tacloban said: ‘There are still dead bodies everywhere you look and carcases of animals litter the ground.’

Aid agencies were continuing to mobilise as efforts to reach affected areas were ongoing. The looting added to the daunting tasks for authorities, including medical woes and clearing the bottlenecks holding up thousands of

tonnes of aid material from coming in.

‘The priority has got to be, let’s get the food in, let’s get the water in. We got a lot more come in today, but even that won’t be enough, We really need to scale up operation in an ongoing basis,’ UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said after touring Tacloban, The government said planes, ships and trucks were all on their way, loaded with generators, water purifying kits and emergency lights – vital equipment to sustain a major relief mission.

Airports were reopening in the region, and the US military said it was installing equipment to allow the damaged Tacloban airport to operate 24-7.

A Norwegian ship carrying supplies left from Manila, while an Australian air force transport plane was carrying a medical team from Canberra.

British and US navy vessels are also en route, with the number of American troops helping the relief effort expected to triple to more than 1,000 by the end of the week.

GOVERNMENT DONATIONS TO THE TYPHOON RELIEF APPEAL

€1m

Ireland

€18million illion Britain

€6.9m Australia

€8m

The European Commission

€14.9m United States

€3.7m South Korea

€150,000 China

€7.5m Japan

€7.5m The UAE

€1.3m NZ

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ungover, he sways behind the till in the convenience store on a Sunday evening; like a caged, doped-up lion counting coins.

As I enter to get my usual (six KitKats and three cans of rock Shandy), I catch his eye and he smiles at me; I smile shyly back before hurrying towards the fridge.

As I reach the top of the queue my heart races. My little lion man roars: ‘next please!’, slapping the counter-top with his soft right paw.

‘Who me?’ I always whisper, pointing nervously at myself.

‘Shane’, as his name tag reads, assures me with a wink and a nod.

‘Quare cold out today, wha?’ he says, as he scans the last bar of chocolate. My god that accent, I swoon! This jungle cat hails from

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Laois no doubt, or maybe even Carlow? no, definitely Laois.

As he places the change into the hollow of my hand his fingers graze mine: a spark; I thank him nervously. ‘See ya after!’ he calls, as I exit the shop.

Yes indeed, Shane, king of the shop, I will see you after – after a week of longing, and chocolate, and soft drinks.

I’ll be back one day to set you free.

I’ll shave your mane and ride you into the sunset. Forever yours, your purring lioness, CB ■ Dexter, I was sitting down to eat my lovely, full of variety Subway as I started to read your letter in yesterday’s Mailbox.

Seriously? To actually write in giving out about what people put on

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● I want to say a big thank you to the people who helped me yesterday in Marino when I dropped my iPhone in the bin near the bus station. The people from the school brought their tool box and opened the bin door. Even the courier and the bus drivers tried to help me. It was my husband’s present. I have to say Irish people are amazing. To all of them and the lady from Marino College, thank you.

Alina

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in yOuR fAcE Who is to say the buyer didn’t contribute a similar amount to the relief effort? If you can afford to drop $142m on a painting, you can afford to donate a similar amount to charity – it’s a tax write-off.

Paul Healy I’m saying they didn’t, Paul. I’d bet my last dollar they didn’t give a large donation to the relief effort in the Philippines.

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their sandwiches is ridiculous. each to their own. They are working all day and want to have something nice to eat at lunchtime, whatever that may be.

When the person in the queue in front of you orders a sandwich such as you described and forces it down your throat, then you may write in and we will all have sympathy for you. until then, I’ll continue my choice of turkey breast, lettuce, tomato, cheese, cucumber, mayo and bbq sauce, and I will enjoy it!

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yEH big RiDE ● Hey baby [Italian girl in yesterday’s Yeh Big Ride] you just got lucky, I’m glad you like good-looking boys cause I like goodlooking girls. Any chance of a picture?

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● I believe I am the person Italian girl was describing, the only difference is I got on at Sandyford, not Balally. If I am the right man could you let her know I am flattered but I have a girlfriend : ) Eoghan

yOuR RuSH-HOuR cRuSH We asked our Facebook followers: A painting by Francis Bacon has sold for $142m, beating the previous record of $120m last year set by Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Seven bidders at Christie’s in New York pushed the price up $60m more than the triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud was estimated to sell for. Is this an obscene amount of money to pay for a painting when the buyer could have used the cash for something else, for instance a donation towards the relief effort in the Philippines?

■ So poor Bertie wants a state handout for security? In any other country in the world he would be in jail. But in this country he gets €2,000 a week for his troubles.

The current government has inherited a bad situation but I wouldn’t be shocked if they followed suit. To all Fianna Fáil followers, it’s your fault. You elected the most corrupt politicians that ever graced this country because of your blinded loyalty for 30 years.

Defeat admitted!

Joe Leahy, Maynooth

Say no to the lunchbox begrudgers

■ Dexter, I have a dream of a world where a man is not judged by the content of his sandwich, but by the colour of his lunch box.

Martin Luther King-sized roll ■ Dexter, there’s nothing wrong with an oul hang sangwich, but that doesn’t mean that’s all anybody should ever eat. Leave people to their tastes. Seriously – begrudging someone else’s lunch? C’mon.

Carl ■ $142million paid for a painting.

Think of all the aid that would provide for the poor people of the Philippines. It doesn’t make sense.

MC, Dublin ■ I think I’ve seen it all now – some guy on the Luas using his phone as a mirror to do his eyebrows.

Not so vain (after all) Vera

TREnDing #PaulMcGuinness ● I may apply for the #U2 managers job. I know I’m busy but I’m pretty sure that job is not too Taxing #bonoandthelads.

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He’s been with them for over 30 stone @dermotwhelan ● #PaulMcGuinness steps down as U2 manager. Trappatoni is out of work. He talks more sense in English than Bono, just throwing it out there @27KHV @metrohnews #metromailbox

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After finding fame as a TV host, Alexa Chung became fashion’s It girl. Now she’s venturing into cosmetics, writes Naomi Mdudu

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lexa Chung gets bored easily. ‘I’m always asking my team for time off, then when I manage to get the odd day here and there, I end up on the phone asking if they need me to do anything,’ she says.

It’s just as well she enjoys being busy: the last time I saw her she was kick-starting a promotional tour for her highly anticipated but poorly received debut book at liberty in london; now, two months later, the tour is only just coming to an end. Then again, the former TV presenter and model is used to living life in the fast lane.

Often heralded as this generation’s Kate Moss, nobody quite resonates with twenty-somethings as

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“Follow your natural eye shape and tailor the flick to suit you”

much as Chung. Cast your mind back a few years and you’ll remember women turning up at hairdressers asking for a Moss or a Rachel. Today, it’s all Chung.

‘I’ve ripped off alexa,’ confesses actress Olivia Wilde when I catch up with her later.

‘She’s pretty exciting because she never appears to be trying too hard and has fun with it, which we should all do.’

So if there was ever anyone qualified to call their book It, it’s Chung. Her ‘it’ factor (clearly in evidence in person, even if her critics didn’t think so in print) is the reason Mulberry named a bag after her (one of their best-selling yet), why the British Fashion Council appointed her style ambassador last year, charged with flying the flag of British design talent internationally, and also why she’s gone on to front campaigns for the likes of DKNY, Pepe Jeans, lacoste and Maje.

But after years of lending her face to brands, Chung has become more hands-on with the labels she works with. She has designed for Italian footwear brand Superga and collaborated with Madewell on a collection that sold out shortly after hitting shelves. Her latest project, though, sees her moving into the world of beauty as a creative consultant to indie cosmetics brand eyeko, established in 1999 by husband-and-wife duo Max and Nina leykind, and favoured by fans of a killer-eye look.

Chung first learned about the brand on a shoot. ‘One of the make-up artists was using the eyeliner pen on me and I thought it was a great product,’ she says.

‘I met up with Max and Nina and we got along really well. I was inspired by their energy and the products themselves. I started scribbling down ideas about how they could improve them and coming up with little puns that I could imagine on the barrels of the tubes. The whole company seemed fun.’

Her first job was to rework the brand’s eye Do set, comprised of lengthening mascara, which comes with an oversized brush to maximise volume and reduce clumps, and a liquid eyeliner with a felt-tip nib for sharp lines.

‘I’ve always been into eyeliner,’ says Chung. ‘For some people it’s red lipstick. For me it’s the perfect flick. I feel naked without it.’

Teaming up with them, then, was a no-brainer.

‘It was important for me to put my own stamp on this collection and eyeko allowed me to do exactly what I wanted,’ she says. ‘If I have any ideas I can go straight to Nina and Max and they make things happen instantly. There aren’t any restrictions, which is great because my mind is non-stop. I often email the guys at midnight and just brain dump.’

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HuNg’S signature 1960s cat eye has been followed and copied just as much as her sartorial choices and it’s her love for that era that served as the starting point for the new line.

‘I learned from my mother, whose make-up chicly consisted of just lipstick, that less is more and that’s when I became fixated with 1960s style,’ she says. ‘My beauty icons naturally are from that era too. Julie Christie, Béatrice Dalle from the French film Betty Blue – these women were glamorous, strong and powerful, and all knew how to work some amazing eyeliner.’ Her mood board ranged from Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy and Sophia loren to photographs of cats, mods and the london underground.

The secret to achieving the Chung look is to think out and up, she says. ‘The trick is to follow your natural eye shape and tailor the flick to suit you, so you need to look in the mirror and really study the line and then just experiment,’ she says. ‘I like to draw the flick/wing bit first and then fill the rest in. I hold the pen up and create a 45-degree angle with it between the edge of my eye and my nose. This sounds convoluted but I just had an idea – I will make a video to show you.’

In the meantime, she’s teamed up with artist alia Penner to create packaging and a poster with a step-by-step application guide. as for her beauty crushes, she cites the usual lo Olivia Wilde. I also admire suspects. ‘I love Diane Kruger Kruger, she always looks lovely and hair Kate Bosworth is a babe – she has nice hair. bu I’m picking people with naturally good but an faces that you could put anything on and it wo would look nice; in that respect, Rosie Huntington-Whitele and Daisy lowe, too.’

Huntington-Whiteley Fo many celebrities, juggling various For bu business ventures might scream ove overexposure, but for some reason, with w Chung it works.

‘I have never claimed to be e a beauty expert,’ she says, ‘but being a s consumer and someone who has to wear mak make-up for my job, I know what works. It’s curv been a great learning curve.’

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Life television vogue does home and away: Reality bites RTÉ2, 9.55pm

WHAT I’m WATCHING

Model and DJ Vogue Williams heads down under to examine the impact Aussie soap – which has remained on top of RTÉ2’s ratings for its 25-year run – has had on her own generation. Meeting her Summer Bay idols, including Kate Richie (aka Sally Fletcher, pictured with Vogue) the Dubliner meets linguistic experts who explore the change in Irish speech patterns over the past 25 years in the context of the show’s socio-cultural influence.

And as recession drives a generation of Home and Away fans to emigrate, Vogue wonders will the reality of life in Summer Bay live up to the fantasy?

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soaps

Since I’m in Emmerdale, it’s good to keep up with the competition. Corrie’s on straight after us, and I used to watch it as a kid too, growing up as I did in the north west. I used to love Bill Ward (above) as Charlie – I loved how cockney and arrogant he was.

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Most of the things I’ve watched have been boxsets and this is my favourite of all time – I’ve just started watching it again.

Damian Lewis is fantastic in it – have you ever seen that guy do a bad performance? And it also features people such as Tom Hardy (above), Michael Fassbender and Dexter Fletcher – they’re all really young in it.

Cold feet

film of the day The KiDs Are All righT, Film4, 9pm

Josh ‘Hunger Games’ Hutcherson stars as the teenage son of two lesbian mums (Julianne Moore and Annette Bening) in this Golden Globe-winning ensemble. As his sister (Mia Wasikowska) prepares to set off for university, younger brother Laser (Hutcherson) asks for her help in tracking down their biological father (a particularly yummy Mark Ruffalo). Scripted with a light touch and warmed by sexy performances, this witty ‘alternative’ family comedy has a relaxed, sunny vibe.

At times, it’s almost too breezy but the fact that director Lisa Cholodenko (Laurel Canyon, High Art) is a real life lesbian sperm-donor mother makes this a movie with an authentic feel.

ChildRen in need RoCks BBC1, 8pm ‘Rocks’ is a rather loose term here. The majority of the acts gathered together by ringmaster Gary Barlow (pictured) for this charity concert special are hardly rockers but at least stadium riffers Kings Of Leon know one end of an electric guitar from the other. The Followills are the rough amid a lot of smooth, with crooner Barry manilow doing his kitsch bit for charity at London’s Apollo that also includes singer/songwriters Tom Odell and passenger. And Ellie Goulding performs Children In Need single How Long Will I Love You.

noRth koRea: life inside the seCRet state C4, 11.05pm

Accounts of oppression and poverty are presented alongside inspirational stories of human courage in this documentary that explores the nation ruled by Kim Jong-un. Journalist Jiro Ishimaru gives a glimpse of a nation edging towards a revolution fuelled by popular culture and a refusal to surrender to the state police rule.

This was brilliant – almost like a British version of Friends but with more drama in it (and starring Helen Baxendale, right). The carcrash episode broke my heart.

my favouRite tv ChaRaCteR

aine lawloR: faCing CanCeR RTÉ1, 10.15pm in the concluding part, Aine looks at how, as a country, we face a cancer epidemic in the next 25 years. she talks to young mother Deirdre who is battling advanced melanoma and testicular cancer patient Tim. she visits the mD Anderson Cancer Center in houston, Texas, the biggest cancer centre in the world to see the frontline of the war on cancer.

Chandler Bing from Friends – no show has been quite as rewatchable, and I know every quote.

Chandler (Matthew Perry, left) has such a sarcastic sense of humour – I see a bit of myself in him.

Sharon Lougher Michael Parr plays bad boy Ross Barton in Emmerdale, nightly on TV3 at 7pm, with an extra episode on Thursdays at 8pm.

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On My EREADER

Voice of the vanquished

By Anna Carey

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Canadian author Joseph Boyden explores his historic roots in a brutal new novel about the indigenous Huron people. By Tina Jackson

LOVE NINA: DESPATCHES FROM FAMILY LIFE by Nina Stibbe (2013) The real-life letters written by a London-based 20-year-old nanny to her sister in Leicestershire, this wonderful and very funny book reads like a cross between I Capture The Castle and Adrian Mole.

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ictors rewrite history and prize-winning canadian writer Joseph Boyden’s brutal, tragic new novel retells it from the imaginative perspective of the vanquished. the orenda, which is a First Nations word for the spirit that inhabits all living things, is an epic tale of a vanishing world: the traditional way of life of the indigenous Wendat, or Huron people.

Boyden’s third novel is set in the 1640s, as the French are starting to make inroads into canada’s vast wilderness, bringing with them trade, disease and christianity. the narrative is told by three characters. Bird is a Huron warlord whose wife and children have been slaughtered by a warring tribe, the Haudenosaunee. snow Falls, the kidnapped daughter of Bird’s rival warlord, is adopted

by Bird as his own child. christophe, abducted by Bird and his warriors, is a Jesuit missionary determined to spread the word of a very different spirit among the people he refers to as ‘sauvages’.

For all his uncompromising ferocity in war, Bird, struggling for the survival of his people as they are beset by a series of disasters including epidemic disease, rotten crops and invading rivals, is a sympathetic character. through his eyes, the reader can see the overwhelming beauty of the natural world and the gentleness and care that bind the community when it is not on the warpath. of all the characters in the book, snow Falls most represents the traditional Huron way of life, connected to

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the natural, elemental world that is soon to be lost. snow Falls’ transition from captive to beloved daughter is a complex, engrossing tale made slightly problematic by the strand of tribal, female magic that runs through this viscerally realistic novel.

Doing justice to its weighty themes, the orenda is a far from comfortable read. What makes it extraordinary – and at times, hard to read or bear – is the way Boyden pulls no punches in conjuring the horrors of tribal warfare without compromising the enveloping

tragedy of the decimation of the Huron and their way of life at this crossroads point in canadian history. the scenes of ritual torture reserved for captured enemy warriors are harrowing, as Boyden, who has First Nations roots, does not shy away from graphic, almost surgical detail. it does not compromise the importance of this involved, serious book, told largely from the Huron’s perspective, and leaving the reader stunned and saddened about their irrecoverable losses.

sHELf spAcE also out Mary Morrissy’s third novel, The Rising Of Bella Casey (o’Brien Press), begins with the 1916 Rising: as the new ireland is being born a few hundred metres away in the GPo, a respectable widow, loyal to the crown, is looting a piano from the backstreets with her adult son. Bella Beaver, née Casey, the older sister of playwright sean o’Casey, may have been eclipsed by her sibling’s literary fame, but this fictional retelling of her life story is as poignant as anything her brother put on the stage. Bella starts off as a schoolteacher, until the unwanted attentions of a particularly creepy clergyman force her into an ill-advised marriage with a heavy drinking soldier; her gradually diminishing material circumstances are a reverse image of the rising Catholic middle classes and the emerging nationalist movement.

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stylistically simple, but the subject matter is so compelling that once you’re drawn in, it’s a hard book to put down. after the rather disappointing the Weeping Girl, scandi crime stalwart Hakan nesser’s latest Van Veeteren novel, The Strangler’s Honeymoon (Mantle) is a richly atmospheric addition to the series. the supposedly retired chief inspector finds himself dragged out of his antiquarian bookstore and embroiled in a disturbing chase for a relentless serial strangler. nesser’s starting point is to lure us into the sad life of teenager Monica kammerle, alone in the world with her manic depressive mother, until her mother’s new boyfriend arrives on the scene. But Monica is soon in a situation she can’t control – one that has a particularly gruesome outcome. nesser contrives an impressive balance between

a twisty thriller plotline and satisfying characters with believable quirks. if the prose meanders at times, his subtle touch and his confident storytelling here make for an enthralling read. susan Hill, author of the Woman in Black, gives us a ghost-free, powerfully poignant new novella in Black Sheep (Chatto & Windus) – a high point in an already stellar career. the village Mount of Zeal, ‘built in a bowl like an amphitheatre’ with the pit below, offers its people two modes of life. Men work the mine, women tend the home. siblings Rose and ted believe there may be more to life for them but both are mistaken. understated, full of beauty and clear and cold as a struck glass, this little book will lodge in your mind like a fish hook, and continue to tug at intervals long after you finish it. sheena Davitt and siobhan Murphy

CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth Wein (2012) A complex and powerful youngadult novel set in occupied France during the second world war. A captured English agent confesses all to her Nazi interrogators – but can we believe everything she says?

Rebecca Rocks by Anna Carey is published by the O’Brien Press.

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While interactions with others may be intense, they could also be very rewarding if you play your cosmic cards right. As Venus edges closer to Pluto, you might find that an opportunity you’ll relish could be yours – if you’re willing to push for it.

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Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23

If there are aspects of your life that need coordinating, tap into the organising power of Mars in Virgo and you may feel more energised and less stressed, particularly where your finances are concerned. Later, a piece of information may catapult you into action.

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Yesterday’s Solutions Across: 1 Iran; 3 Precious; 8 Site; 9 Unfasten; 11 Accumulation; 13 Coeval; 14 Income; 17 Effervescent; 20 Horrible; 21 Damp; 22 Extolled; 23 Mere.

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ENIGMA This strapping from a horse’s tackle Around the tail and down its back’ll Stop the saddle slipping forwards.

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Crossword No. 858 See next edition for solutions

As Mars seems to be stirring up your psyche, think back to your past, especially as one memory could give a fresh slant on a current problem. Seeing it in a new light may provide answer which could even seem obvious.

WHO AM I? An author, I was born in Nottingham in 1957. I used to work as a TV reporter. Although my career began with non-fictional publications, I have written several historical novels including Fatherland, Pompeii and Imperium.

WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? WHO… performed with the Monty Python team and later appeared in Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?

WHAT… is another name for the mountain ash?

WHERE… did the stringed instrument known as a kora originate?

WHEN… did French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre write Being and Nothingness?

QUIZ ANSWERS: ENIGMA: Crupper. WHO AM I? Robert Harris. WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? John Cleese; Rowan; West Africa; 1943.

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rugby autumn internationals

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Madigan: attack is best defence against Aussies

by DAnny HOgAn

Joe Schmidt’S typical attacking blueprint is the best way to combat Australia’s backline threats, believes ian madigan. madigan was Schmidt’s front-foot general at Leinster, and would clearly love to reprise that role regularly now with ireland.

Jonathan Sexton’s return to full fitness suggests madigan and Ulster’s Paddy Jackson will battle for a seat on the bench against Australia on Saturday.

Whatever the squad for autumn international mark two, 24-year-old madigan targeted a bullish, open approach from ireland. the former Blackrock college man explained: ‘i’ve worked with Joe for the last three years, and i know what he wants from his players and what he expects. ‘i knew that with Joe coming in, he’s a pretty special coach. there’s certainly a feeling that something special’s going to happen with the irish team in the coming future. ‘i’m just delighted to be part of it.

‘Australia have improved a lot, ewen mcKenzie’s getting his imprint on the team. ‘they play a really good brand of rugby, you can see that they want to keep the ball in play. ‘they’ll run the ball from deep, they’re an exciting team to watch.’

New boss Schmidt admitted Ulster playmaker Jackson won the starting shirt for the fivetry Samoa victory because of form and regular club opportunity. madigan has found his Leinster chances stymied so far this term by the arrival of pinpoint Kiwi goal-kicker Jimmy Gopperth from Newcastle Falcons.

But if Schmidt does intend to counter Australia’s offensive instincts by following suit, madigan’s natural gain-line flair could win him the understudy role to Sexton. madigan replaced Brian o’driscoll in Saturday’s 40-9 Samoa victory, cutting the line neatly on occasion in the centres. happy for the opportunity, he conceded the odd bit-part role is hard to deconstruct. he continued: ‘i wouldn’t overly-analyse a short ten-minute cameo like that. ‘i’d maybe wait and analyse a group of three or four games where i’d come off the bench and see what i’ve done. ‘the way the game fell for me in the ten minutes was handy enough. i got the ball in space once or twice, i did fine.’

formula one Vettel: There was never a lack of respect for Webber Grand Prix and Malaysia this year the low points.

With just two grands prix remaining before Webber bids

spORT DigEsT Court set to leave Ulster this season Rugby Ulster have

confirmed loosehead prop Tom Court will leave the club at the end of this season after agreeing a longterm contract with an unnamed Aviva Premiership side. Court joined Ulster in 2006 and has won 32 caps for Ireland and also played for the British and Irish Lions this summer. The 33-year-old said: ‘I feel this is the right decision with regards to me and my career. It is going to be very sad when the time comes to finish up, but there is a lot of rugby left for me with the Province. There are six months remaining, so there is even more motivation for me to make the most of it while I am here and to help Ulster win something.’

Irish fall foul of Guinea

Best foot forward: Ian Madigan wants to be the main gainline man for Joe Schmidt’s Ireland team in the same ay he led the line for Leinster, but has a battle on his hands with Jonny Sexton and Paddy Jackson also in the coach’s sights PictuRe: inPho

Vettel respect for Webber as Red Bull pair bury hatchet SebaStian Vettel has spoken of his respect for Red bull team-mate Mark Webber as the pair look to bury their differences before the australian bows out of Formula One. Webber, who is to compete in Porsche’s sportscar programme from next season, remarked of Vettel that the four-times world champion was ‘in another category’ following his seventh successive win in abu Dhabi. it is all a far cry from the bad blood that has existed between the two, with the 2010 turkish

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farewell – the United States this weekend and brazil next – Vettel said: ‘We’ve always had respect on the track when we’ve been fighting each other. ‘i don’t think we’ve lacked respect. We’ve respected each other inside the car and the other’s abilities. ‘being honest, if you look back, we’ve not had the best relationship on a personal level. ‘but at the end of the day we’ve been very successful for the team, winning four constructors’ championships in

a row, always scoring enough points for the team.’

Webber has rightly played his part in the winning of those titles, even if he departs F1 empty-handed in terms of personal championship glory, coming closest in 2010 when pipped at the last race by Vettel. lotus are set to name Heikki Kovalainen as Kimi Raikkonen’s replacement for the final two grands prix of the season, as the latter undergoes surgery for a long-standing back problem.

cRickET Ireland suffered a surprise 18-run defeat to Papua New Guinea in their final warm-up match before the World Twenty20 qualifiers. Kevin O’Brien claimed three for 31 and hit a quickfire 30 but it was not enough as Ireland fell short of PNG’s 161 for eight in Dubai. Geraint Jones hit a match-high 39 for PNG. Ireland start their World Twenty20 qualifying campaign against Namibia in Abu Dhabi tomorrow.

Despite the shock loss they are expected to reach next year’s World Twenty20 in Bangladesh with six countries still to qualify.

Stenson in charge in Race to Dubai gOLf Henrik Stenson is one of three players in control of their own destiny in the quest for victory in the Race to Dubai. A win in the DP World Tour Championship will secure overall victory for the Swede, as well as status as European number one. Stenson (pictured) has a lead of just over 213,000 points over US Open champion Justin Rose; third-placed Graeme McDowell is the other player who can seal the Race to Dubai with a win over the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates. ‘I’m in a good position to win the Race to Dubai but if somebody else wins the tournament, good for them,‘ he said.

‘Amir Khan do it’ bOxing Former two-weight world

champion Ricky Hatton believes Amir Khan could give pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather ‘his biggest problem’. Rumours are rife Khan will become unbeaten Mayweather’s next opponent in May 2014 in a lucrative bout for the WBC welterweight title.

‘Amir could give him his biggest problem if he doesn’t get drawn in, uses his speed and shows loads of movement,’ Hatton said.

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football premier league

Steen’s keen: New head coach Meulensteen wants to bring the vision he shares with Martin Jol to life

sHARED visiOn cOnvincEs REnE TO jOin cOTTAgERs Rene Meulensteen revealed he spent ‘many hours’ talking to Martin Jol before agreeing to become head coach at Fulham.

Meulensteen, whose appointment was announced yesterday, will work alongside his fellow Dutchman at the Cottagers, who currently lie third from bottom in the Premier league after just three wins in 11 games. the arrival of the 49-year-old will raise questions over Jol’s future, with some seeing the move as one that undermines the manager’s authority.

However Meulensteen, who left Manchester united’s coaching staff in the summer following sir Alex Ferguson’s departure, insists Jol played a key role in bringing him to Craven Cottage.

‘I have spent many hours talking with Martin and we share a vision of how football should be

played and how players should be developed,’ said Meulensteen, who had been rumoured as a candidate to take over from Ian Holloway at managerless relegation rivals Crystal Palace.

‘It is our job to make sure we can bring this vision to life on the pitch for the fans,’ he said.

Fulham’s chief executive officer Alistair Mackintosh insisted Meulensteen, who lasted just 16 days as boss of Anzhi Makhachkala earlier this season amid off-pitch upheaval at the Russian club, was one of the ‘best coaches in the world’.

‘We are all delighted to welcome Rene to Fulham,’ Mackintosh added. ‘there was always going to be a battle for Rene’s services and, with the assistance of our chairman shahid Khan, we have been able to bring one of the best coaches in the world to Fulham.’

Roy shows

Keane puts past behind him to look to the future

by AnTHOny wALsH

ROY Keane has insisted he is not an animal who needs taming after returning to the Ireland fold.

The 42-year-old former national team skipper conducted his first press conference since accepting the offer to become new manager Martin O’Neill’s number two yesterday, and was quick to defend himself against the perception that he is a combustible character.

Keane admitted he might have to rein himself in at times, but asked about O’Neill’s determination to allow him to be his own man, he said: ‘There’s nothing to tame. I’m not some sort of animal, you know what I mean?

‘I’m a footballing man, I like to work hard and push people, and sometimes I suppose I have got that slightly wrong on one or two occasions over the years.

‘But generally speaking, I look back and I think I have got a lot of it right.

‘Yes, there are areas I need to look at, particularly as now I’m the assistant, when to step back, and hopefully I get that right as well.

‘But I am also there to push the players and put demands on the players. We have got some good players and sometimes the players themselves are the last to realise how good they are.

‘We have got to push them and put demands on them because from my own experience, I used to like that. I used to like people pushing me.

‘That’s the name of the game from when you’re a kid. My manager from

when I was a kid at [boys’ club] Rockmount – “Come on, you can do better”. I loved it, it was great.

‘But obviously, there’s a way of speaking to people, I understand that, there’s a way of getting that message across and how you put the demands on them.

‘You have to treat people with respect and hopefully the players will appreciate that.’

Keane’s return to the Ireland set-up – the scars of his exit from the Far East before the 2002 World Cup finals still run deep for some – has sparked a frenzy of interest and he was inevitably quizzed on the repercussions of events in Saipan.

fOOTbALL DigEsT Karanka sees premier class Alberto weights AiTor KArANKA hopes to lead Middlesbrough for Reds chance back to join his former mentor Jose Mourinho in the Premier League after signing a two-anda-half-year deal as their new head coach. The 40-year-old Spaniard (pictured) turned down Crystal Palace to move to Teesside after taking advice from Chelsea boss Mourinho, with whom he worked for three years at real Madrid. Karanka is convinced he can arrest their recent slide and lead them back to the top flight. He said: ‘The expectation of the supporters is to be in the Premier League and i am going to work hard every day to achieve this dream. This is the best option for me.’

LiVErPooL midfielder Luis Alberto is prepared to be patient as he awaits his first-team opportunity. The 21-year-old, a £7million summer signing from Sevilla, has managed just 76 minutes of Premier League action. He said: ‘i am going to wait for my moment. i have discovered it is faster football [in England], more physical, and you have to be in better physical condition. i have improved in many aspects: my physique is better and i am heavier.’

He accepts that some supporters may never forgive him for his bust-up with then-manager Mick McCarthy, but is not losing any sleep over it.

Keane said: ‘I can’t really worry too much about that, it’s about the future and about today and working with the present group of players, and trying to help Martin and the rest of the staff and the team.

‘If we can do our jobs properly, hopefully people will get behind the team and there are good days ahead.

‘It’s obviously going to be hard but I am not here to try to change anybody’s opinion about myself or decisions I have made in the past. I have spent years trying to please every-

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fan left homeless after brave gunners gamble goes wrong

Waiting game: Alberto

ArSENE WENGEr may have been left seething by Arsenal’s loss at old Trafford but the result was a whole lot more damaging for one fan in Uganda. Henry Dhabasani has been left homeless after betting his house on the result with a Man Utd fan who staked his new car and his wife that Moyes’ men would triumph.

Dhabasani, who has three wives and five kids, fainted at the end of the match. He was evicted after several United fans stormed his home and threw him and his family out.

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spark, not fire Major progress: Roy Keane was happy with the way the quality of the set-up has improved and wants his players to push for the same quality in their play and results piCture: iNphO

body and, trust me, it’s a waste of time and energy. You have just got to do what you think is right and get on with it.

‘I’m certainly not too worried about what’s gone on in the past, it’s just about trying to bring something to the table and help the players.’

Keane parted ways with McCarthy and the rest of the squad after voicing his displeasure at the facilities and the preparations for the tournament, and he was quick to reflect on the progress made since after two days working with the players in Malahide.

He said, to the amusement of the media pack: ‘We have had a lovely few days. The hotel has been lovely,

the food has been excellent, the training ground is lovely, not potholes, we have had footballs.

‘It’s been great, everything, there’s been major progress.’

2012 finals in Poland and Ukraine, and was making no apologies for that as he set about the task of helping to take the nation to the next edition in France in 2016.

‘You obviously don’t know Martin as well as you think. He makes me look like Mother Teresa’ Keane has been put off football since losing his job at Ipswich in January 2011 and has, in the meantime, occupied his time in part with television punditry, the source of his contact with O’Neill.

He was outspoken in his criticism of Ireland’s performance at the Euro

Asked if he had gone over the top, Keane said: ‘Not in terms of what I said, that I felt the team could have done better. I think everyone would agree with that.

‘Saying they were controversial comments – I didn’t think they were.

‘I felt during the Euros, like every-

body else, Ireland should have done better and surely there’s nothing wrong with saying that when you lose your three games?’

O’Neill joked in the wake of the dual appointment that he would perform the ‘bad cop’ role with Keane playing the part of the ‘bad, bad cop’, but the younger man questioned the casting.

Keane said with a mischievous smile: ‘I think it’s going to be the other way round, I think I am going to have to be the good cop.

‘You obviously don’t know Martin as well as you think you do. He makes me look like Mother Teresa. It should be interesting.’

O’Neill won’t put a lead on his number 2 maRTIn o’neIll has insisted he will not attempt to gag number two Roy Keane.

The 42-year-old former Ireland skipper gave his first press conference since being named as o’neill’s assistant yesterday, with the media eagerly anticipating his appearance.

However, while the manager is adamant it is he who is in charge, he has no intention of telling Keane what he can and cannot say. o’neill said: ‘I am going to try to clear something up here: I am not Roy’s father, absolutely not.

‘He can look after himself, he can say what he wants.

Seriously, he is under absolutely no gagging at all and I am quite sure I would not even have to have that conversation with him.’

The pair met the players for the first time on monday evening and o’neill admits both parties are still getting to know each other, but is determined to stamp his mark on the team. asked about discipline, an issue which often taxed predecessor Giovanni Trapattoni, the 61-year-old said: ‘I played under one of the most mercurial managers there ever was in Brian Clough. He had a philosophy that he was dealing with men and that if they couldn’t look after themselves...

‘He gave you some leeway.

You go across that leeway and he would have cut you in two.’

No gagging: O’Neill

Coleman eager to impress his boyhood hero Keane

Keane to improve: Coleman

SeamuS Coleman will be happy if he can avoid experiencing Roy Keane’s version of the hairdryer over the next two years or so.

The 42-year-old was charm personified yesterday afternoon as he met the media for the first time since re-joining the Republic of Ireland fold as assistant to new manager martin o’neill.

However, he remains a man who demands high standards, although everton defender Coleman revealed he is yet to bare his teeth after two days on the training pitch.

The 25-year-old said: ‘I haven’t seen that side of him yet. Hopefully I will never be on the receiving end.’

Former manchester united boss Sir alex Ferguson, whose particular brand of dressing room feedback was legendary, admitted he had

to tone things down towards the end of his career with modern-day players. But Coleman believes the hard word can still have the desired effect.

He said: ‘as players, you know when you have done wrong and if I have done something wrong and a manager has a go at me, I’ll take it on the chin because I think it’s good that they have pointed out that you have made a mistake. I think it will be no different under these two managers.’ like many of the younger members of the squad, Coleman grew up watching Keane star for manchester united and Ireland, and those memories remain fresh.

The full-back said: ‘I think everyone will probably remember his [Champions league] game against Juventus where he got the yellow

card and he dragged them through to the final. I suppose that’s one that stands out, but every game he played, he was brilliant. It’s just great to have someone like that we can learn from.’

For club-mate and Ireland midfielder James mcCarthy, the prospect of working under o’neill and Keane is a dream come true.

The 23-year-old grew up in Glasgow supporting Celtic, the club managed so successfully by the former and for whom the latter played briefly at the end of his illustrious career.

While o’neill may be a hero, mcCarthy is also relishing the opportunity to learn from Keane, who knows the art of midfield play inside out.

He said: ‘You just need to see what a dominant midfielder he was. Hopefully I can pick as many tips up as I can along the way.’

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Keane to impress

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Roy plays down his tough man reputation in new Ireland role

Sign of the times: Roy Keane takes time out from his preparations for tomorrow night’s friendly against Latvia to autograph the jersey of 10 year old Fionn Slattery from Balrothery, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin

Roy KEAnE insisted at his first press conference as Ireland’s assistant manager yesterday that he ‘is not an animal’ and that his famous fiery temper has been toned down with age.

And almost to prove his point to the assembled media that his days of venting his anger publicly are behind him, he quickly and calmly refused to be drawn into a war of words with his ex-Manchester United

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by AnTHOny wALsH boss Alex Ferguson, after finding himself in the firing line once again in the Scot’s recently-published autobiography.

The former United captain was mauled

by Ferguson in the book, prompting the 42-year-old to question his former manager’s understanding of the concept of loyalty.

However, as he spoke yesterday, he maintained a diplomatic silence on the issue.

He said: ‘The beauty of football is everyone has opinions, I have no problem with that.

‘The issue I will have with anybody who seems to talk about me or has issues with what I have said in the past, if people tell lies about me, that’s when I will come out

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and defend myself. But I am not going to sit here and defend myself regarding Alex Ferguson.

‘But today is not for that, today is just about talking, getting involved back with the Irish team, working with Martin, all positive.

‘It’s not an area I want to go into today.’

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