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mystery of flight mH370 OLD enemies have joined forces in an unprecedented effort to find a missing plane that disappeared along with its 239 passengers and crew.

Vessels from eight nations includ­ ing China, the US and Vietnam, are scouring the South China Sea, usu­ ally a hotbed of territorial rivalries.

Forty ships and 34 aircraft, along with a submarine from the Singa­ porean navy, are involved in the hunt, but investigators are still baf­ fled over what happened to the Ma­ laysianAirlines Boeing 777.

The lack of debris means the air­ craft is thought likely to have disin­

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tegrated at about 35,000ft. ‘If the plane had plunged intact from close to its cruising altitude, breaking up only on impact with the water, search teams would have expected to find a fairly concentrated pattern of debris,’ said a Malaysian investi­ gator.

Flight MH370 lost contact with ground controllers somewhere be­ tween Malaysia and Vietnam after leaving Kuala Lumpur on Friday evening, our time, en route to Beijing.

Patrol jets spotted an oil slick on Saturday just south of the Vietnam­

ese mainland and what appeared to be a wing and a door were seen in the Gulf of Thailand, 130km to the north­west yesterday.

Radar recordings suggested the aircraft might have tried to turn around before it disappeared.

But pilots are supposed to notify air traffic controllers if they intend to and there was no distress signal.

The airline said 14 nationalities, including Chinese, Malaysians, In­ donesians, six Australians, four French and three Americans were on board.

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Chuck Norris, actor, 74; Rick Rubin, music producer, 51; Jon Hamm, actor, 43; Robin Thicke, singer, 37; Olivia Wilde (right), actress, 30; Emeli Sandé, singer, 27.

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What a fetching outfit – divorcee dresses her terrier in tutu for their wedding

Barking?

No, but I married my dog

Pup-tials: Together for richer or paw-rer

SHE kissed a few frogs on her way to true love but Amanda Rodgers has found wedded bliss... with her dog.

For the 47-year-old divorcee has married her loyal pet terrier called Sheba.

They became a couple in front of 200 people in Split, Croatia, and Ms Rodgers couldn’t be happier. ‘Sheba had been in my life for years, making me laugh and comforting me when I was feeling low,’ she said.

‘I couldn’t think of anything more I’d need

The yappy couple: Amanda and Sheba tie the knot, left, in front of 200 people.

Sheba wore a veil and tutu

by sHARON MARRIs from a life partner.’ She married a man 20 years ago but the relationship ended within a few months.

When cupid struck a second time Ms Rodgers, from south London, wanted to do things properly. She said: ‘I got down on one knee and proposed. I could tell by her tail wagging that she said ‘‘yes’’’.

The ceremony took place in August 2012 and

fulfilled all her dreams. ‘I’d dreamed of a perfect wedding dress since I was small, I made it myself for the ceremony. The day was wonderful, more fun than the marriage. I gave her a kiss to seal the deal and then everyone threw confetti. It was a wonderful moment,’ added Ms Rodgers.

‘I know the wedding to Sheba wasn’t real in the legal sense. But it was a nice way to mark what Sheba means to me. Sheba’s never unkind to me and she’s always happy.’

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Anguish as families pray for relatives FAMILIES last night spoke of their anguish as they waited to find out the fate of those on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

In China, home of most of the 239 passengers, relatives wept as they gathered at a hotel in Beijing.

American Sarah Bajc, desperate for news of her boyfriend Philip Wood, said: ‘There just has to be a chance we will find survivors and that we will find the plane.’

Earlier, the family of Mr Wood,

one of three missing Americans, issued a statement which said: ‘Though our hearts are hurting, we know so many families around the world are affected just as much by this terrible tragedy.’

Another distraught woman was led inside the hotel. ‘My son, my son, what am I going to do? He was only 40 years old,’ she said.

Malaysia’s minister of transport Hishammuddin Hussein described meeting family members desperate

for news. ‘Most difficult for me meeting the families,’ he wrote as he tweeted a picture of two children whose parents and the elder brother were on flight 370. Earlier, he tweeted a picture of a distraught man and wrote: ‘As a father myself, I understand what he is going through as his son is on #MH370.’

He finished with another tweet: ‘It has been another long day. Thank you all for your prayers. Hope will get us through the days ahead.’

I was told ID had been cancelled THE Italian whose stolen passport is at the centre of the investigation into flight MH370 said yesterday he thought it had been cancelled.

Luigi Maraldi revealed he had left it with a Thai motorbike hire company – but when he returned to collect it in July he was told it had been given to a fellow Italian who had claimed to be his husband.

The 37-year-old reported the theft to both the Thai and Italian police and has since returned to Phuket on a replacement passport.

‘I spoke to Italian police and they said no one could use it again,’ he said. Mr Maraldi’s father, Walter, added: ‘The whole thing is a mix-up – we have no idea who the person was that used my son’s passport. The foreign ministry rang to say that he was on the passenger list. They were amazed when I said they were mistaken as I had just spoken to him and he was fine.’

Interpol: No checks for stolen passports

Tears: A distraught Chinese woman is escorted through a hotel in Beijing as she waits for news of a relative on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, while, above, a picture from a search aircraft shows debris, possibly from the missing plane Pictures: AP/ePA

by DOMINIc YEATMAN COUNTER-terrorism agencies around the world are investigating the missing Malaysia Airlines flight after it emerged at least two passengers on board were using stolen passports.

Their inquiries come as Interpol admitted there was ‘great concern’ that people on the flight had gone through flimsy security checks.

After the Kuala Lumpur to Beijing flight was lost on Friday, with all 239 people on board presumed dead, Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble demanded to know why passport control had not checked the flight manifest against the force’s internet database.

Amid suspicions the plane crash may have been the work of terrorists, Mr Noble said: ‘For years, we have asked why countries should wait for a tragedy to put prudent security measures in place at borders and boarding gates.

‘Now we have a real case,’ he added.

‘Only a handful of countries worldwide are taking care to make sure that persons possessing stolen passports are not boarding international flights.’

Interpol’s stolen and lost travel document database, set up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the US, contains 40million records from 167 countries.

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Although it was searched 800million times in 2013, 250million of those searches were carried out by the US with a further 100million each done by Britain and the United Arab Emirates. The result is a ‘major gap’ in ‘global security apparatus’ that is vulnerable to exploitation by terrorists, said Mr Noble.

Two stolen passports, belonging to an Italian and an Austrian, were used

to buy tickets for the missing flight.

They were identified when investigators cross-checked the flight manifest.

That would have meant the pair, as EU passports holders, would have avoided security checks in China.

Malaysia’s transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, confirmed last night that investigators had CCTV footage of the passengers, but said the priority was finding the plane.

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Gilmore: Euro poll key to fending off far right

Proposal for statutory paid paternity leave FATHERS could make use of a mother’s maternity leave under new legislation being considered by the Government.

Currently, there is no statutory provision for paternity leave, but mothers could soon be able to gift two weeks of their statutory 26 weeks of maternity leave to their child’s father.

Another option is to allow parents to share time more equally by stepping in and out of their leave.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, Minister of State, Kathleen Lynch said it is working on the proposals with the aim of helping working fathers take a more active role in parenting.

However, concerns have been raised about the effect of the move on employers and mothers.

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Back garden explosion examined by Gardaí

picture: photocall

The principles of tolerance, freedom and human rights must be Ireland’s ‘calling cards’ abroad, Tánaiste and Labour leader eamon Gilmore insisted.

Attending a party selection convention in Cork, Mr Gilmore said the forthcoming european election could be the most important in recent times, warning of the potential for a sizeable far right grouping in the parliament. he said ongoing economic recovery had to work for working people, that his party had a ‘proud and progressive’ tradition and that Labour had campaigned for a more modern and open Ireland.

‘But the principles of tolerance, freedom and human rights must also be Ireland’s calling cards abroad, and in our engagement with the european Union,’ he said.

‘2014 may be the most important european election we have fought, since Ireland joined the eU. An election that has the potential to shape the character of the Union,’ the Tánaiste added.

At his party’s South selection convention, Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin said europe ‘needs MePs who will represent people’s concerns and play a constructive role in tackling issues’.

MS DYNAMITE: Tharu Polgolla from Dublin shows her winning submission for Sightsavers’ The Sight I Would Miss The Most smartphone photography competition in Filmbase, Temple Bar. The competition aimed to connect with people to raise awareness of preventable blindness in developing countries.

GARDAÍ in Dublin are working to establish the cause of an explosion that injured two men in the back garden of a suburban house.

It is understood that a pipe-bomb type device had detonated at the rear of the property located on Moateview Avenue in Coolock.

The men – both aged in their 20s – sustained injuries that are not believed to be life threatening. They were taken to Beaumont Hospital for treatment.

The scene has been preserved for a forensic examination.

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Army airport seized ahead of crimea vote

Riot police stop ‘pots’ march in Venezuela IN A major show of force, hundreds of Venezuelan National Guardsmen in riot gear prevented an ‘empty pots march’ from reaching the country’s Food Ministry to protest now-chronic food shortages on Saturday.

More than 5,000 protesters banged pots, blew horns and carried banners in the capital to decry crippling inflation and shortages of basics including flour and milk.

Similar protests were held in at least five other cities.

Hundreds of student protesters blocking streets with barricades skirmished with tear gas-firing riot police in Caracas’s wealthy Chacao region.

President Nicolas Maduro has faced weeks of protests by students and middle-class Venezuelans fed up with inflation that reached 56 per cent last year and one of the world’s highest murder rates.

upLifTing MESSAgE: Nicole Scherzinger leaps in the air as part of an uplifting campaign to help tackle poverty. The singer was captured by portrait photographer Rankin for Oxfam UK’s Lift Lives For Good campaign, which aims to highlight the work done by the charity.

Scherzinger said it had a positive message which ‘creates the feeling people can really make a difference with a small donation’ pIcTure: pa

A PRO-RUSSIAN military force sealed off a military airport in Crimea yesterday as tensions escalated ahead of a planned vote on the region’s future.

The 80-strong unit of armed men set up machine gun posts along the landing strip in Saki with the help of civilians wielding sticks and clubs.

It was the third airport seized by Russian forces and came as the takeover of Crimea spread further over the weekend, with soldiers seizing control of a border post in the west of the region.

Meanwhile, BBC reporter Ben Brown was caught up in violence from a mob of Russian supporters, including some armed with baseball bats, during clashes between rival protesters in Sevastopol.

He wrote on Twitter: ‘We were seconds away from being beaten up. Now safely back in hotel but increasingly scary for journalists.’

Some of the anti-Moscow demonstrators in Crimea told reporters they would not

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KEvin BAcOn, 55, has starred in dozens of films and a bunch of self-deprecating TV ads. Now he’s a troubled FBI agent in gory TV series The Following

Celebrities can often take themselves somewhat seriously but you seem to be very happy to send yourself up.

Yes, for sure. I have done a few commercials and they’ve all been me making fun of myself and being goofy. The first commercial I ever did, many years ago, was a Visa commercial all about Six Degrees. What’s amazing to me is that it still hangs in there as a concept. I thought it would go away in a week but it doesn’t look like it’s going to, so I’ve embraced it and set up a charitable website called sixdegrees.org, to try to find ways to use it for something positive.

You must have been offered television roles before The Following – what was stopping you? I am not a person who

has stayed anywhere very long. In my personal life I have but in my working life I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment’s notice.

The thought of being in one place for a long time was terrifying to me.

But, as it turns out, I’ve found that I’ve actually been enjoying sleeping in my own bed.

How is making a television

series different from making a film? I didn’t really think about

how much pressure I would feel when the show was about to go on the air and then the pressure, week after week, to keep it good and have people watch it. It’s so different from doing a movie where you do it, finish it and a year later you have a weekend thinking: ‘Oh God, I hope it’s going to be OK.’ Then it either is or it isn’t but it’s gone and you do another movie.

Was there a lot of fancy dancing involved in auditioning for Footloose? There was a long

process of convincing the studio that I could be a leading man because they were very influenced by the work I had done in Diner. The head of the studio, a woman who has now passed away, was adamant that I not play the part of Ren McCormack.

She said: ‘He’s just not f***able.’

You have a huge body of work. When people stop you in the street, which of your films do they want to talk to you about? I’m always surprised.

A lot of people mention Hollow Man, which I never really thought

of as a successful movie, and a lot of others mention Tremors, which in the US heartland is kind of like a cult movie – it’s weird.

Did you always aspire to be an actor? I do not believe those

people who say: ‘Well, you know, he’s an actor but he’s really supershy and doesn’t want the limelight.’

That’s rubbish – I don’t believe it.

Show me an actor who doesn’t want to be famous and I will show you a liar. Actors want to be famous.

That’s part of what drives us. That’s what drove me initially.

Has fame been everything you hoped for? Fame is very,

very bizarre. If you just got it all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you would be like: ‘This is very weird.’ Then you kind of get used to it and think: ‘This is what my life is.’ If I had superpowers, invisibility would be a totally cool thing. The idea of going through the world invisibly would be so fascinating to me.

Your wife, Kyra [Sedgwick], and daughter Sosie are actresses and your son, Travis, is a musician. Were you happy

by DAniEL BinnS take part in next Sunday’s referendum on whether they want the territory to split from Ukraine and join Russia.

In Kiev, Ukraine’s interim prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk vowed not to give up ‘a single centimetre’ of land to Russia.

Mr Yatsenyuk told supporters: ‘This is our land. Our fathers and grandfathers have spilled their blood for this land.

‘And we won’t budge a single centimetre.

Let Russia and its president know this.’

He will fly to the US on Wednesday to meet president Barack Obama at the White House.

The Ukrainian government also released footage of Russian soldiers apparently shining lasers and shooting at one of its planes as it flew over Crimea.

In Britain, David Cameron again spoke with Russian president Vladimir Putin as each side expressed a ‘common interest’ in scaling down the crisis.

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Show me an actor who doesn’t want to be famous and I will show you a liar.

That’s part of what drives us to see your children follow you into the family business(es)? They got a mes-

sage from us that acting wasn’t the thing to do. I’ve done OK, and so has Kyra, but when thinking about a life in showbusiness, we were focusing so much on what the struggles would be – the rejection, the judgment, the competition, the amped-up stakes when you are the child of well-known actors. You are only as happy as your least happy child. You want your children to live a life with as little struggle as possible and you never want bad things to happen. But that’s just not possible.

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How have you coped with tough times? I think that part of

being a man is taking responsibility for your successes and your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being bitter about it or being jealous. Looking at somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way of life. So when it has come to the times in my life when things haven’t gone as well as I would have wanted them to – for example, after Footloose – that was nobody else’s fault but mine. I

just never considered stopping. I never thought: ‘Well, I’m going to give myself a couple of years,’ or whatever. The number of times that I have ever let any kind of career plan into my life are very few.

Jane Mulkerrins The Following continues on Sky Atlantic tomorrow.

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Crash: The plane becomes tangled in the parachute – and pilot and skydiver fall to earth PICTURES: AP

Pilot and skydiver survive collision A PILOT and skydiver suffered only minor injuries despite crashing to the ground after colliding in the air.

The 87-year-old at the helm of the light aircraft accidentally flew into the parachutist’s strings while practising take-off and landing.

The pilot, Shannon Trembley. and skydiver

John Frost, 47, then fell 25m, with the Cessna plane nosediving to the ground. Neither was seriously injured in the accident at South Lakeland airport, near Tampa, Florida. The pilot was kept in hospital for observation while Mr Frost was treated and released. Investigators are looking into the cause of the collision.

Pay freeze as trade off for tax cuts GOVERNMENT sources have revealed Enda Kenny wants to implement a pay freeze in return for tax cuts if the economy stays at its current growth rate.

The Sunday Times reported that there are plans for talks with trade unions and employers later this year as the Labour Party favours profitable private-sector employers only paying modest increases.

The party reportedly wants unions and employers to meet for talks about pay.

However, one source said Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton are wary of any process that could have any impact on Ireland’s competitiveness.

The Taoiseach has said Irish income tax levels are too high and that it is a priority for the Government which will be considered ahead of the next budget.

Mr Noonan has stated that the Government intended to cut income tax in this year’s budget, arguing that it would be an important tool for job creation, saying: ‘As soon as we have resources, our first priority will be to widen the average rate band of income tax.’

The minister has also suggested that the point where workers enter the 41 per cent tax bracket will be raised from the current €32,800.

Talk on cuts: Kenny

sME group calls for More recovery more credit access in construction MORE small and medium businesses are being refused loans in 2014, which is affecting their growth prospects, according to a new survey.

The Irish Small And Medium Enterprises Association (Isme) questioned owner-managers about the lending environment.

They found 54 per cent of companies questioned who had applied for funding in the last three months were refused credit by their banks.

Some of those who took part in the survey said they were discouraged by banks from making a finance

application while others were afraid of a reduction in existing facilities.

The association called on Government to intervene immediately to ensure SMEs had sufficient access to bank credit.

Separately, UCD Economics Professor Morgan Kelly warned that European Central Bank stress testing on Irish banks could see ‘SMEs go under’.

Mr Kelly’s comments, made last week, have emerged on YouTube.

He added: ‘The ECB has basically kept pumping that sweet, sweet credit into our veins and we haven’t had the real crisis yet,’

The battered Irish construction sector has shown further signs of recovery, with the number of new orders picking up pace last month, research has indicated.

The overall workforce also increased in February as companies expressed optimism, according to the Ulster Bank Construction Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), a seasonally adjusted index which tracks changes in the construction sector in the Republic.

Simon Barry, chief economist for the Republic of Ireland at Ulster Bank, said: ‘The February results of the Ulster Bank Construction PMI point to further rises in Irish construction activity mid-way through the first quarter of 2014.

‘The pick-up in activity is translating into a welcome rise in staffing levels, with the employment index also registering a sixth consecutive monthly expansion in February.’

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25 years since a ‘vague idea’ changed our wwway of life IMAGINE for a moment life without Google, Facebook, internet shopping, booking tickets online – or amusing videos of cats.

If you have grown up with all those things, it’s hard to believe it’s only 25 years since the world wide web was first proposed by British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The milestone of the web – not to be confused with the internet which is the massive chain of networks it uses – will be marked on Wednesday.

When Sir Tim first submitted his idea, while working at the Swiss physics laboratory Cern, his boss wrote on top of the proposal: ‘Vague, but exciting.’

The idea was so bold, it almost didn’t happen. ‘There was a tremendous amount of hubris in the project at the beginning,’ said Marc Weber, creator and curator of the internet history program at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.

‘Tim Berners-Lee proposed it out of the blue, unrequested.’

At first, said Weber, the Cern col-

by DAniEL binns leagues ‘completely ignored the proposal’. Yet he went on to develop an invention that has revolutionised the lives of billions.

Based on his earlier programme for storing information called Enquire, it was designed to meet the demand for information-sharing between physicists in universities and institutes around the world.

Crucially, it offered the ability to click on links to access files hosted on computers located elsewhere.

Sir Tim wrote the first world wide web server, httpd, and the first client WorldWideWeb, a what-you-see-iswhat-you-get hypertext browser/editor.

It launched publicly just two-and-ahalf years later, on August 6, 1991.

By late 1993, there were more than 500 known web servers, and the world wide web accounted for one per cent of internet traffic.

Two decades later, there are an estimated 630million websites.

Pioneer: Sir Tim BernersLee’s idea was for colleges and fellow scientists

PICTURE: REUTERS

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Match of the Grey

Now you see ee her...: Paloma Faith aith gets shy beforee being her usual self (left) t) after appearing ing on the BBC’s Andrew Marrr Show

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Playboys: Dornan (left) with his pal at the Aviva on Saturday and (below) with a delighted fan on the street near the stadium picture: twitter/toni farrell Jamie Dornan enjoyed a rare day off from filming sex scenes to watch Ireland thrash Italy in the Six Nations rugby on Saturday.

The Fifty Shades Of Grey hunk couldn’t take the smile off his face as he mingled with his fellow supporters at the Aviva Stadium to cheer on the boys in green, who beat Italy 46-7.

Excited fans were soon turning their attention to the 31-year-old as they posted pictures on Twitter of the actor and a pal enjoying the game.

One lucky female fan uploaded a snap of herself with the Northern Irish star, who appeared more

than happy to pose for pictures after the match. ‘well look who i found after our rugby match today @JamieDoran1 – c’mon Ireland #50ShadesOfGrey #thefall #lovehim’, fan Toni Farrell posted on the social networking site.

Dornan is back in Ireland to film the second series of hit BBC drama The Fall, alongside 45year-old actress Gillian Anderson.

He has spent the last four months in Vancouver, Canada, filming his role as Christian Grey in the hotly anticipated movie adaption of the Fifty Shades trilogy.

Will.i.am: I work, Kylie twerks and Tom flirts!

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ill.i.am has warned his fellow coaches from The Voice that it’s ‘dangerous’ to keep flirting with the fame-seekers from the show.

The wary US superstar revealed he has never mixed business with pleasure, despite having pop beauties lady Gaga and Britney alone in the studio. ‘i am not attracted to people in search of the spotlight,’ said the 38year-old in an exclusive chat with Guilty Pleasures.

‘Dating anybody famous or somebody searching for fame is dangerous and just a waste of time, for me. and if they’ve already got it, i won’t be attracted to them.’

Will, who has been linked to a string of glamour models in the past, says he is too professional to seek love in the studio.

‘Out of all the coaches, i produce and write songs for other people and the last thing you want to do is be in

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the studio flirting with Gaga or flirting with Britney,’ he said. ‘You’re not going to get work done [if you are] flirting with Fergie. Or flirting with f***ing Usher. You are never going to get work done. ‘i can’t, by nature of my craft, i can’t flirt and work,’ the Scream & Shout hitmaker said. as the third season of BBC One’s The Voice continues, viewers have seen minogue, 45, being made to blush by former singer for The Streets, leo ihenacho, and Tom Jones, 73, building up an army of mainly female singers for his team.

But Will stresses he only has one thing on his mind while lending his talents to the show. ‘are you going to flirt? Or are you going to work? Or are you going to twerk?’ he asked, adding: ‘Kylie’s going to twerk. i’m going to work. and Tom is going to flirt.’

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Shakira is happy for her man to wear the trousers in their relationship after she admitted he’s banned her from filming raunchy music videos with other guys.

The singer said partner Gerard Pique, 27, would only let her work with Rihanna for their ‘thigh grazing’ on Can’t Remember To Forget You. Shakira, 37, told Billboard magazine: ‘Since he no longer lets me do videos with men, well, I have to do them with women. I like that he protects his turf and values me.’

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IxIe LOTT TT says she’s not as Nasty as she makes out after admitting a topless segment in her comeback pop video wass just an illusion.

The 23-year-old blonde admits she likes to tease her fans but puts a limit on ever kicking off her kecks and going the Full Monty.

‘I wouldn’t go completely naked. I’m not that kind of person. I couldn’t do it. It embar would be too embar-

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rassing. especially the whole body… it would be too far,’ she blushed in an exclusive chat with Guilty Pleasures.

Reve Revealing the secret to ne pop clip where her new she seemingly sings topless while holding a handbag to cover her breasts, she admitted: ‘I

a week of extensive promo with a storming performance at London’s G-A-Y on Saturday night, wearing a fluffy bra and hot pants.

And her diary is filled to the brim ahead of the release of her eponymous album on May 12.

‘I don’t really have days off at the moment. But I like that because it means I am doing all I can,’ she explained.

‘I definitely celebrated after G-A-Y as I was on such a high.

‘I was with all my friends. We had more than a few cocktails.’

Cheeky: Pixie at G-A-Y

Bieber and Selena get up close in the dance studio

Asami: My mad night with Harry Neon Jungle singer Asami Zdrenka says dancing with her crush Harry Styles after the Brits was ‘crazy’. The pop cutie admitted she had yet to recover from the shock of meeting the 1D heartthrob and his bandmate Liam Payne, 20. ‘It was crazy! And oh my gosh, I am still feeling in awe!’ the singer told Guilty Pleasures after we revealed how she took Hazza’s eye at Sony Music’s post-Brits bash last month.

‘Liam and Harry are both so down to earth and so nice. I was talking to Liam and he was like “Let’s get a picture!” and I was like “OK”. It’s crazy.’ Zdrenka, 18, said her affection for floppy-haired Styles, 20, remained as strong as ever after meeting him. But she turned coy when asked if she wants him to ask her out. ‘I still fancy him,’ the Japanese-English performer said. ‘I don’t know if I’d want to go on a date but if it happens… I think it would be fun!’

Neon Jungle’s third single, Welcome To The Jungle, is out on April 20.

know it looks like I’m naked, but I am actually wearing something behind the bag. It just gives an illusion.’

Lott is also seen writhing around with a group of attractive music lovers in her video as well, but how does this make her long-term boyfriend, fashion model Oliver Cheshire, feel?

‘Oliver is fine with my videos. It’s the same as acting. You’re just in the role, like a character in a film,’ she says.

‘He understands as he has to do it with shoots as well.’

With Nasty out today, Lott kicked off

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez’s on-off relationship appears to be on again after they were spotted hanging out together.

The pop pair looked ‘really close and into each other’ as they spent two hours in the Action Dance Studio in McAllen, Texas, on Friday.

It came after they were spotted on

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Pharrell Williams has revealed Michael Jackson had first dibs on the hits he wrote for Justin Timberlake’s 2002 album Justified.

The Happy singer said he came up with the tunes with the king of pop in mind – but Jacko’s camp failed to pass them on.

He recalled: ‘I did eight songs for him, that never made it to him, that ended up on Justin’s record. Later he sang me all those songs and told me they should have been his – and I told him they were for him.’

After years of producing hits for stars such as Timberlake, Britney Spears, Madonna and Beyoncé, Williams, 40, has become the man of the moment as a performer.

But he said there was ‘no comparison’ between him and his idol Jackson, who died five years ago.

‘He is the king of pop, an incredible dancer, an incredible writer, incredible visionary, he changed the world in so many ways,’ Williams said.

‘I am just a fan who has been given the opportunity to make music.’

a coffee date. Bieber, 20, appeared to be supporting girlfriend Gomez again at her comeback show at the BorderFest event in Texas on Saturday.

‘Saw a great show last night :)’ he tweeted yesterday.

Gomez, 21, spoke this year about her ‘really bad break-up’ with the Canadian pop prince.

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A personality test we’re all trying to pass I

T was in about 1610 that shakespeare coined the phrase we still use today to question why we are the way we are. ‘a born devil on whose nature nurture can never stick,’ says Prospero of savage Caliban in The Tempest.

Yet while we still debate the merits of ‘nature versus nurture’ – DNa versus upbringing – some experts now argue our genetic inheritance has virtually nothing at all to do with how our personalities are formed. Oliver James, child clinical psychologist and author of How To Develop Emotional Health, says: ‘It

What makes us who we are? Do we develop our personalities with the help of outside factors or is it simply our own fault we are shy or confident, humble or arrogant? ETAN SMALLMAN investigates... is almost definitively proven by the human genome project that personality is not caused by genes.

‘It’s one of the best-kept scientific secrets at the moment. study after study after study has shown either zero effect of genes or very, very little effect. The question is: at what point will the scientists accept that the hypothesis is false?’

Oxford University neuroscientist Baroness susan Greenfield has a

The word

‘personality’ comes from the Latin ‘persona’ which means mask

slightly different take. ‘My own view is that although genes are necessary, they’re not sufficient,’ she said. ‘so the idea that trapped inside the DNa is an extrovert personality, I think, is a very misleading one.

‘Just because DNa is clearly crucial, it’s a very indirect contribution.

It’s not one you can map directly – the gene for good housekeeping, the gene for being witty and so on – it doesn’t work like that.’ she dismissed the idea you could track character traits ‘down to a sin-

news@metroherald.ie gle gene’, adding: ‘It’s like the famous butterfly flapping its wings and changing the weather on the other side of the world.

‘You can’t do it backwards. If I showed you a sparking plug, you wouldn’t be able to show me how a car works.’

Both James and Greenfield agree environmental factors should be our focus. ‘we, as human beings, are very dependent on our environments,’ said Greenfield. ‘That’s why we occupy more ecological niches than any other species on the planet – because we’re freed up from the tyranny of our genes so that we can actually benefit from experiences and adapt to our environment.’

Greenfield also warned against any effort to offer a basic explanation for a machine as sophisticated as the brain. ‘The whole point of being a human being is we’re unique, not that you’re a plus on one feature and a minus on another feature,’ she said.

‘It’s not like you’re analogue.

You’re a highly dynamic creature that interacts all the time with the environment.’

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CCOrDING to James, the key factors in childhood are the quality of the early care, how responsive parents are, your position in the family and the narrative that your parents impose on you based on what was done to them in their childhoods.

He said: ‘Traditionally, psychologists have spoken of the “big five” personality traits. But people’s “big five” traits vary enormously accord-

ing to what role they’re in. so people might be very outgoing with their romantic partner but might be very introverted when talking to their father.

‘The idea that has been discredited is that we have a single personality, which is genetically inherited and which we manifest in all contexts.’

The first six years of life are critical but not definitive in determining personality, he added.

‘It doesn’t become fixed, it’s a thermostatic setting. Our characteristic patterns of brainwaves and hormone levels are established in the first six years but it can be changed.’ and if society does collectively ditch the idea of genetics influencing our behaviour, what effect would that have? ‘a massive change,’ said James. ‘The implication would be that our whole society would have to reconsider the way it’s organised. ‘we’d need to rethink altogether how much attention we pay to children in their first six years. Not only does your childhood affect your psychology, it also affects your vulnerability to disease through your psychology.’

For Greenfield, the killer question is not about genetics either: ‘The toughest question of all, that previous generations haven’t had to answer, is what do you want out of life? what do you want to make you happy? ‘we are now in an era, unlike any other, where we have the time and the longevity and the technology to actually shape an environment where we can develop according to what we think is optimum in a way that my mother, for example, who lived through the Blitz, did not have.’

The

Psychologists often refer to the ‘big five’ character traits:

created in the 1920s, involves pictures of inkblots that have been folded over on themselves to create a mirror image. The idea is that by asking people to tell you what they see, they reveal their inner thoughts

openness

Rorschach inkblot test,

conscientiousness extraversion agreeableness and neuroticism

Psychologist Oliver James has updated this with five key elements of ‘emotional health’:

Richard Branson

In the US there are about

2,500

personality tests on the market. One of the most popular, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, comes up with 16 character types, based on the following questions:

Extrovert or introvert?

Sensing or intuitive?

Thinker or feeler?

Judger or perceiver?

Sources: How to Develop Emotional Health, Myers & Briggs Foundation, Japan Today, LinkedIn

insightfulness

says the first thing he looks for when hiring is ‘a personality that fits with your company culture’

living in the present fluid two-way relationships authenticity and vivacity

In Japan it is widely believed that character is linked to blood type:

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s are sensitive perfectionists and good team players but over-anxious

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s are curious and generous but stubborn

AB

s are creative but mysterious and unpredictable

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‘new’ gases found eating ozone layer FOUR recent man-made gases contributing to the destruction of the ozone layer have been found in the atmosphere.

About 74,000tonnes of three new chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and a new hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) have been identified by scientists.

It is thought the emissions could be from chemicals in insecticides or solvents for cleaning electronic

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components. Increases of this scale have not been seen since CFC controls were introduced in the 1990s.

Lead researcher Dr Johannes Laube, from University of East Anglia’s school of environmental sciences, described the discovery as ‘very worrying’. He said: ‘Our research suggests they are man-made.

SHInE On: Six-year-old Azusa Sato and her mother Miho light a paper lantern for a memorial service in Natori, Japan to mark the third anniversary of the March 11, 2011 tsunami which left more than 19,000 people either dead or missing Picture: ePA

Organs being sold online in UK PEOPLE in the UK are selling their kidneys on Facebook for cash, travelling abroad to undergo black market operations – often in India, Pakistan and China – and typically being paid £20,000 (€24,000).

Their willingness to go under the knife was highlighted by a reporter, who discovered a Facebook page for buying and selling organs. He posted a message – posing as the brother of a woman who needed a transplant – and within a week had received 11 offers.

World

One came from a father of three in who wanted £30,000 and began making arrangements to meet in person. A 22-year-old in England needed the cash to help him move back to his native Hungary with his fiancée. Other responses were sent by people in countries around the world, including Mexico and Tanzania.

Those caught doing it can face three years in prison. Sellers also risk death or health complications by entering the shady world of illegal surgery.

digest

Gun hidden in sock kills charity store helper AMERIcA: A charity shop worker died when a handgun, hidden inside a sock, went off. The bullet hit Carmen Dominguez, 54, in the chest when the .22-calibre weapon fell into her colleague’s hand and fired a round. Mrs Dominguez, a wife and mother of two, died at the store in Chicago’s Washington Heights neighbourhood on Saturday morning.

Time goes backwards for mayor Ford cAnADA: Disgraced Toronto mayor Rob Ford had to head off a Twitter storm of ridicule yesterday after tweeting that people should set their clocks an hour back instead of forward for daylight savings time. Ford (pictured), who last year admitted smoking crack cocaine, was mocked for his ‘inability to follow the dimensional rules of time’. He later tweeted a correction.

F1 driver Berger breaks hip in skiing accident AuSTRIA: Former Formula 1 driver Gerhard Berger has suffered a skiing accident in the Alps similar to the one that left Michael Schumacher in a coma. The Austrian, 54, was travelling at speed in poor visibility when he hit the side of the piste.

Like Schumacher, he was thrown through the air but only suffered a broken hip.

Berger was discharged from hospital in Tirol yesterday after the crash on Thursday.

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SERBIA: A flustered father collecting his wife and baby from hospital prompted police to seal off roads in a kidnap alert. Slobodan Davidovic, 24, reported the infant missing after forgetting he’d stowed him in his car boot in Leskovac.

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We don’t know where the new gases are being emitted from and this should be investigated.’

The study, published yesterday in Nature Geoscience journal, uses a comparison of current atmospheric samples with century-old air trapped in polar snow. Dr Laube added: ‘A total ban on CFCs came into force in 2010, but loopholes still allow some usage for exempted purposes.’

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Mysterious helicopter is annoying for business phone calls

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t was quite hard to work last Friday afternoon when a low flying helicopter hovered over our office. It wasn’t the Garda EC135 protecting the good citizens because we could see that protecting the leaders meeting in the city.

It looked like a Eurocopter ‘squirrel’. Oddly, it has got two white booms sticking out of either side with ‘discs’ on each end. Not normal on any private helicopter, but funnier still is its deliberate ‘grid’ flight pattern as if mapping something. this also flew the same pattern last year over the west/northwest side of the city and some were concerned it was spraying something, (possibly because the booms look like a crop-sprayers).

I can’t wait for it to finish because I can’t hear the clients on the phone. Any clues as to the purpose of the hovering pest?

Propellor Head, D2 ■ Regarding Ciaran Simms’ letter, it is wrong, wrong, wrong for an 11-month old baby to be on the back of a bicycle with her parent and another child. I nearly got sick when I read about the accident. the back of a bicycle is no place for a vulnerable baby.

When you’re a cyclist, you’re taking your life in your hands anyway. there must be a better way to transport your children, Mr

Simms. I hope you find it before something worse happens, God forbid.

Susan, D2 ■ A passenger on the Dart crosses her legs into the floorspace of the seat in front of her and then is too ignorant to remove them when another passenger sits on that seat. they then have to sit with their legs in the aisle. In fairness, though, she’s probably blind to her ignorance as she concentrating on applying her warpaint...

Ted ■ So Simon Cowell thinks it would be ‘cool to have two or three’ kids, does he?

You can’t just order them from a catalogue, you know, Simon. Maybe if it was your vagina they were coming out of, you wouldn’t be quite so blasé about it. Yours in feminist outrage.

SH, D2 ■ Bob, please think before you type. As a victim of childhood sexual abuse your statement that such children are ‘forever messed up’ is deeply offensive and hurtful.

I was a victim but I am not messed up. I live a very happy and fulfilling life despite what happened to me. the little girls in Athlone will survive they will thrive under the care of their families and the HSE. their innocence is not lost, nor are their lives ruined!

Sweet Dee, Dublin

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● To the kind women that found my newly topped-up Leap card on the streets of Ballyfermot after I dropped it getting off the No.76 bus. Thank you so much, Barbara, for handing it into college and getting it back to me. Also thanks to the driver who stalled the bus to ring the bus depot for my card. Nice to know there are still so many nice people in the world.

Savannah, Ballyfermot college student

● To the blonde who dropped her money in Insomnia, Barrow Street. I helped you pick it up, maybe I could pick you up for a coffee?

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● To the hunky rugby dude I saw a few times on Saturday. You always put a smile on my face when I’m feeling down.

Nobody has softer hands than yours – I’m going to miss your tackles...

Erin

#BOD/#thirteen

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● Let’s make BOD king of Ireland. Nobody would ever invade us then. @emmatinietempah

superstitions surrounding one number. #thirteen Broadcaster @MaiaDunphy

● BOD the best I’ve ever seen in green.

What a wonderful send off from Ireland fans.

Now that’s a legend TV presenter @craigadoyle

● That standing ovation I got coming off the bench yesterday was amazing #Thanks

● One man single-handedly reverses the centuries-old negative associations and

● Now let’s go to Paris and finish the story in style! #nofear Ex-Ireland player @shanebyrneoffic

BOD’s bench replacement @fergmcfadden

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See THAT’S MY BUSINESS p19

THREE ALBUMS IN, THE METRONOMY SINGER IS ONLY NOW GETTING USED TO FRONTING THE NEW WAVE POP BAND

JOSEPH MOUNT

Independent College Dublin, 60-63 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

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ahead of their Dublin date this ➔ week, Metronomy’s JOSEPH

MOUNT tells Arwa Haider why he’s braced for the big time with fourth album Love Letters

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oseph Mount, the main man behind British new wave pop quartet Metronomy, is waiting for a photo shoot to happen, and pondering the effects of recognition. ‘I think what things like the Mercury prize nomination [for Metronomy’s 2011 album, The english Riviera] do is confuse me more,’ he decides, goodnaturedly. ‘If you think that what you do is relatively under the radar, as soon as you have a newspaper feature in Metro, say, everything becomes elevated. For this new record, that was an invitation to be excited rather than worried.’

At 32, Devon-born Mount is wide-eyed with a wry smile, and definitely seems upbeat about delivering Metronomy’s fourth album, Love Letters. This latest collection comes eight years after the lo-fi debut Lp, pip paine (pay The £5000 You owe), and while his productions have grown more sophisticated, the songs have remained refreshingly candid. Does Mount feel like he can chart his life through his albums so far?

‘Because the first album was such a DIY project, I can remember the room that I made

“I started out as a drummer … I had no desire to be a songwriter it in, the relationships I was in; it’s all quite vivid,’ he replies. ‘The same goes for Nights out [Metronomy’s acclaimed 2008 second album]; at that point, I’d just moved to London, and I was very excited to be there. each song is very evocative and easy to place. Maybe I’ve lost some of that from going into a proper studio for the last two albums. Though what’s taken over is the songwriting.’

Mount also started recording Love Letters as an expectant father. ‘I purposely didn’t go soppy,’ he insists. ‘The themes of this record are to do with travelling, missing people…’ he demurs: ‘If the next record becomes a

Keeping time: Mount (far right), with the rest of the Metronomy line-up, arriving at the NME Awards in London last month picture: pa soppy mess, at least I’ve got to this point.’ even Metronomy’s gooier sentiments tend to have spiky ingredients; on Love Letters, Mount’s romantic declarations come with a dysfunctional twist, whether on the ‘spoiler’ single I’m Aquarius, or the insistent title track (which Metronomy recently performed live with MKs at the NMe Awards). There’s also a quintessential englishness to many of the track titles, including Boy Racers and The Most Immaculate haircut. ‘I’m not thoughtful enough to always be aware of what’s going on,’ he laughs. ‘But I’m beginning to embrace the fact that there’s a way I do stuff. I am quite bloody-minded, but I’m also pragmatic.’ he points out that he never intended to be in the glare of the spotlight, after all; this seems to have fuelled a carefree approach. ‘I started out as a drummer. I really wanted to be the backbone of a band, but I had no desire to be a songwriter. I’m still trying to cultivate the idea that I’m a frontman, and see what that does to the writing. so if people are critical, I’m like: “Yeah, well, this isn’t how I imagined this would turn out – but here we are!”’

At that point, the photographer peeps around the doorway and asks if Mount has

brought any clothes for his shoot. ‘I’ve got a few bits and bobs,’ replies the singer, chirpily. ‘They’re different shades of dark.’

Given that he’d never originally fixated on cover star status, does Mount have a favourite pose to strike? ‘I’m fine to stare and look a bit glum. That usually works for me.

Being asked to “relax” is the worst thing someone can say to me.’

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veR the years, Mount has developed Metronomy from a solo statement to a collective comprising talented musicians Gbenga Adelekan (bass), oscar Cash (guitars, synths and sax) and Anna prior. ‘It is hard to shake the idea that this is my baby,’ admits Mount. ‘But the day-to-day life of the band is the four of us. sometimes our tastes are so different that it seems insane; part of the reason that it works so well is that we genuinely enjoy each other’s company.’

The band do look like they’re having fun in French director Michel Gondry’s sweetly kitsch video for the single Love Letters. It recalls classic Tv performances such as The ed sullivan show, and reflects the song’s old-fashioned touches (including 1960s-style

vocal harmonies and lyrics about ‘a book of stamps’). ‘“Love Letters” is a phrase that seems really familiar to me,’ says Mount. ‘It sounds retro, because no-one really writes letters anymore.’ The album definitely sends out broader messages than throwback effects, however.

‘I’m totally pro-digital music,’ explains Mount. ‘But I deliberately went into an analogue recording studio [Toe Rag, in east London] for these songs, so I’d be forced to approach them differently; they wouldn’t sound the same if they were played in a modern way.’

It’s all part of his ongoing vision for Metronomy. ‘everything exists online for a really long time,’ he adds. ‘There’s this lingering data, and the idea that you’re going to die before any of this stuff does. You just hope you’ll leave behind more than just embarrassing pictures of yourself on the internet.’

Mount laughs again as he heads towards the main studio. Metronomy’s main man is ready for his close-up.

Love Letters (Because Music) is out today.

Metronomy play The Olympia on Wed. www.metronomy.co.uk

On My PLAyLIST KEVIN BARNES from Of Montreal wInDOwS by angeL oLsen

I’ve recently become obsessed with Angel Olsen’s new album. This is one of the most beautiful, powerful and intimate songs I’ve heard in a long time.

MAkE IT knOwn by foxygen

Foxygen are one of my favourite new bands. This song is very fragmented,

unpredictable and strangely catchy. We did a tour together about a year ago and it was great to watch them perform every night.

fRIEnD cRuSH by frienDs

We played a festival with Friends a while back and I fell in love with their singer. She has a really cool raspy and sexy voice. This song seems to be bouncing around in my head every day. I catch myself singing it involuntarily all of the time.

SO GOOD AT BEInG In TROuBLE

by unknown MortaL orchestra

I love the guitar work on this one and the understated soulful vocals. They are definitely a very underrated band.

fAT MAMA kIck by the waLker brothers

This song feels very mysterious and artsy.

Scott Walker’s voice feels penetrating and detached at the same time. I read that Bowie was very inspired by this record

when he was making his amazing Berlin-era albums.

Inn Of THE SEvEnTH RAy by eLeanor frieDberger

Friedberger is one of my favourite contemporary song writers. Her lyrics always feel very personal and imaginative.

I love her sort of stone-faced vocal delivery.

Of Montreal’s new album, Lousy With Sylvianbriar (Polyvinyl), is out now.

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music pharrell williams G I R L RCA HHIII Pharrell Williams is enjoying one of the most unexpected commercial renaissances of recent times. It’s telling, though, that this has been predicated not on the game-changing beats with which he made his name 15 years ago as half of the Neptunes, but on nostalgiapandering retro exercises. G I R L confirms him as this year’s CeeLo: an artist content to make conservatively tasteful decisions befitting a backwards-looking pop climate. We’ve heard every stop-start rhythm, handclap and funk bassline here before, and adding a veneer of cruise ship cheesiness (as on the ubiquitous Happy) doesn’t help. G I R L ranges from forgettable radio fodder (Gust Of Wind, Brand New) to tracks that sound like demos he’s been sitting on for a decade (Hunter). Meanwhile, his lightweight falsetto is nowhere near enough to prevent his chat-up lines from curling in on themselves in sheer embarrassment.

Alex Macpherson

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Of late there’s been no shortage of skinny-jeaned bands who sound a bit like Gang Of Four or Talking Heads. What sets Brooklyn’s Ava Luna apart is that they don’t just ape the gestures and sonic tics of these outfits but follow their adventurous, unpredictable post-punk methodology. Second LP Electric Balloon overflows with postpunk references – a bit of herkyjerky Pere Ubu guitar here, a stab of No Wave skronk there, some nods to early Scritti Politti – but there’s nothing glib or formulaic in how it’s Lego’d together. Prince-style slow jams, crooned in Carlos Hernandez’s falsetto, are sabotaged by discordant guitar stabs. Squelchy mutant disco bangers are spiked by the shouty, off-key vocals of Becca Kauffman and Felicia Douglass. It’s all over the place, in the best possible way, leaving you with a thrilling sense of unpredictability. Terrific. John Lewis

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lbow have steadily inched their way to a place in our hearts via songs that are not only populist but resoundingly honest, warmly direct and demonstrate perfect emotional pitch.

They’ve managed this without a single relationship fracture – the line-up is the same as it was even before they took the name Elbow, more than 20 years ago. In that time, they’ve moved from a cultish quintet playing darkly intense, artrock songs to brit Award-winning pop stars performing at the 2012 olympics closing ceremony.

It’s this anthemic and communal aspect of their music that’s grown alongside Elbow’s success and big, blowsy single one Day like This was both their fortuneschanging peak and maybe a singalong bridge too far. Judging from their sixth studio album, the band might agree.

There are plenty of irresistible hooks and great grooves but in its moodiness and melancholic sweetness, The Take off And landing of Everything echoes their debut album, while mixing singer Guy Garvey’s touchingly poetic, downto-earth personal expression with some of the barbed political comment that featured on 2003’s Cast of Thousands.

The average length of songs is more than five minutes but there’s a bare-boned intimacy and subtle detailing we haven’t heard for some time, especially in opener

not soul music as such but Elbow’s is very much music of the soul – a big cheer, then, for the return to a smaller scale.

This blue world, Colour Fields and Honey Sun, although by contrast, Fly boy blue/lunette delivers its anger via a filthy guitar riff and shrieking saxophone. It’s

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about and have worked hard at their box of tricks: the vocals are a jittery snarl, the guitars deploy turbo-powered salvos of jangled riffs and reverb. But the formula shows through again and again, lacking the originality of the groups they so evidently wish to

emulate. By all accounts, the band have started to pick up airplay in the Uk – in the long run, however, it’s hard to imagine the Raglans as anything other than a minor-key affair, a Menswear to foals’ Blur.

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The multi-talented, mind bending performer – illusionist, mentalist and hypnotist – arrives in Dublin this week with his new Infamous tour. Though he likes to keep audiences in the dark, there’s lots that will be familiar to Brown devotees: audience interaction, frisbee throwing, enthralling ‘guess’ work, plus a relaxed playfulness that reflects the fact he’s ‘more himself’ on stage than he is on his more stuntfocused TV shows. Infamous is also more personal, with a short monologue on his long-hidden homosexuality (he came out publicly in 2007) setting the tone Until Sat, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Grand Canal Square, Docklands D2, 7.30pm, from €35. Tel: 0818 719 377. www.bordgaisenergytheatre.ie

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Expect glorious pop/soft rock ditties with a Wilson Phillips feel from this West Coast sister trio as they play tracks from debut album, Days Are Gone Tonight, Olympia Theatre, 72 Dame Street D2, 8pm, €22 (sold out). Tel: 0818 719 300. www.haimtheband.com

Back in 1989, Tim Burton transferred the caped crusader’s comic-book adventures to the big screen, starring a show-stealing Jack Nicholson as the mischievous Joker. With Michael Keaton’s charming Bruce Wayne and Kim Basinger’s pouting Vicki Vale, accompanied by Prince’s stonking soundtrack, Gotham City was never cooler than at the end of the 1980s Wed, The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street D2, 8pm, €8. Tel: (01) 678 7188. www.thesugarclub.com

sMARTEn up fOR… Carmina burana

The University Of Dublin Choral Society presents Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, a cantata written, and lauded, in Nazi Germany which has never fallen out of favour. Perhaps best known today for soundtracking an Old Spice advertisement, it remains a seminal and startling piece of music Tonight, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace D2, 8pm, from €15.

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mooNe Boy SKY1, 9pm Chris o’Dowd’s funny and sweet take on his childhood in rural Ireland continues to bring a smile to our faces. In this episode, money’s too tight to mention in the Moone household, which means Martin (David rawle, pictured) has to get a job if he’s ever going to own a Sega Mega Drive, ‘the single greatest thing my little eyes have ever witnessed’. So he heads to the golf club, where a decades-long greeneyed rivalry between Martin’s dad Liam (Peter McDonald) and his nemesis, the devious local bank manager, continues. Cue flashbacks with very tight shorts.

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a SeaRCh foR JUStiCe: death iN BRay TV3, 9pm On August 16, 2009, 22-year-old Shane Clancy bought a block of kitchen knives before going to a house in Bray where he stabbed his exgirlfriend Jennifer Hannigan, her boyfriend Seb Creane (pictured), who died from his injuries, and Seb’s brother Dylan, before killing himself.

The survivors here tell their story and how they have coped since the horrific crime.

the miChael mCiNtyRe Chat Show BBC1, 10.35pm

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Does the world really need another chat show? Decide for yourself as perky comedian Michael McIntyre tries to remind himself to shut up long enough to let his guests get a word in edgeways. Graham Norton and Jonathan ross will scarcely be quaking in their boots at McIntyre’s opening guest list: Lily Allen, Alan Sugar and terry Wogan. McIntyre will need something a little edgier if he’s going to stand out in a crowded marketplace.

film of the day Never Let Me Go, Film4, 9pm this harrowing, deliberately low key adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s introspective sci-fi novel features some of the best in young acting talent.

Carey Mulligan is superb as the sweet and timid narrator Kathy, who looks back on her childhood days at boarding school. Along with her best friends ruth (Keira Knightley) and tommy (Andrew ‘SpiderMan’ Garfield), she has a very special, and very chilling, destiny she’s being groomed for – one that they only slowly understand, along with us. Prepare to get weepy, and disturbed, in equal measure.

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Dear Self-Service Checkout, why do you thwart me so? I’m a busy office drone who just wants to get home, microwave my polystyrene ready-meal and sit, trance-like, before The Kardashians omnibus on E!, before the hamster wheel of urban life begins to rotate once again. But you are intent on delaying me with your erratic behaviour, your refusal to read the barcode on my marked-down yoghurts and your use of highly objectionable language: how dare you insist on telling me I have ‘an unexpected item in my baggage area’?

It’s food - – what did you expect? And anyway, I hardly know you! Take this

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I’m usually the one that gets dumped but this time it’s me wanting to break up with my girlfriend of eight months. Is there a way of doing it nicely? From personal experience, the usual excuses (‘it’s not you, it’s me’, etc.), are cop-outs, but then tough love (‘you’re a total ride – but you just don’t fulfil me outside the bedroom’) seems mean. Gentle Ben

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Those stock phrases you mentioned get a bad rap but there’s a lot to be said for letting someone down generically gently.

That said, your ex’s exit gambit was an ingenious backhanded compliment – I can’t quite decide if you should be insanely proud or less smug (it’s easier to learn how to be a better lover than it is to acquire a personality). So, follow your ex’s lead, eg ‘you’re the best lover I’ve ever had, but we have little in common otherwise’, and you’ll leave her with, yes, tears rolling down her cheeks but also a spring in her step.

My other half wants me to dress up as a leprechaun for our anniversary on March 17.

Do you think she has a fetish, or is

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she just being patriotic?

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Pervert alert! I’m all for sexual liberation through the medium of fancy dress, but getting your rocks off from a fake ginger beard, green polyester and talking dirty begorrah is just creepy. If, however, the costume is to wear to the pub/parade, then clearly it’s patriotism. Although, the last time I checked, real Irish people don’t dress up for St Patrick’s Day (excluding expats, who, in a confusion of homesickness and solidarity, will always reach for the nearest emerald hat) – so you might want to doublecheck her nationality. She may not be the woman you thought she was.

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Self-service checkouts advice: first you need to attend computer-charm school (like that nice Scarlett Johansson girl) and then sign up for a speed-reading class so you won’t find yourself staring blankly ahead for minutes on end the next time someone runs the barcode on a head of broccoli past your eyes. And if you don’t, well, the next time you ask if I’ve used a plastic bag, don’t be surprised If I respond less than truthfully...

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I noticed that my wagon of an aunt has a marijuana plant next to her oxalis. She has absolutely no clue what it is, and my mind is running riot as I’ve never liked the woman. Should I shop her to the Gardaí… or steal it for myself? I’ve an awful pain in my Dennis thumb.

YOU SAiD: Don’t be a grass.

John Wootton Team Aunt Mary every time! Take the plant for your, eh, medicinal use and this opportunity to blackmail Wagon Aunt out of her illicit stash of prime catnip while you’re at it.

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My husband has become a slave to electronic devices.

Most evenings the telly will be on while he has one eye on his iPad (sport/games) and the other on his smartphone (car ads). When I try to engage him in conversation he just grunts and pretends to listen to me.

It’s like living with a vegetable or, worse, a teenager. How can I pull him out of his e-torpor? Luddite Lily OvER TO YOU: What do you think? Lend your words of wisdom to deardolly@ metroherald.ie. Best replies published in the next installment of Dear Dolly on March 24…

Out and about in Dublin

Seiz the day: Tracey Clifford and Caroline Grace Seize Cassidy were w at the TV3 Midday Show’s International Women’s Day party at Buck’s Bar In

Rise to the occasion: Roisín O Sullivan and Kamal Ibrahim were at the Irish premiere of 300: Rise Of An Empire at Cineworld Strictly business: Strictly Come Dancing stars Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace limbered up at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre for the opening of their new show Dance Til Dawn

Morning glory: Courtney tney Smith was up early for the Irish Tatler Academy ademy Breakfast Club at The Marker Pictures: BriaN McevOy/Peter Oy/Peter HOuliHaN/lOrraiNe O’sullivaN/cHristiaN MÜller

Wo Woman’s world: Institute of Advertising Pr Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) Doyenne Award wi winner Estelle Gorby and Chloe Murphy were at a special IAPI Award breakfast at Fallon & Byrne

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Access, variety and cost are all reasons for studying abroad

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TUDYING abroad is becoming a more appealing and more accessible for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

According to the European University Central Application Support Service (Eunicas), more Irish students are looking at this option as they can study a full range of subjects in English, places are available and universities are actively seeking Irish students.

While Irish students have to adhere to the points system here, Eunicas said entry requirements for European colleges are ‘realistic and significantly lower’ but this is not a reflection on quality.

And while administration fees in Ireland increase, many colleges in Europe often have a much lower price tag.

‘There are no fees for UK and Irish students studying in the four Scandinavian countries. In universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, fees are below €1,500 per year and, in the Netherlands, fees are just over €1,900 per year,’ it said. There are also the options of loans, scholarships and Irish students who are qualified for maintenance grants can take them with them to public programmes in continental Europe.

Malcolm Byrne from the Higher Education Authority (HEA) said education is getting more internationalised. ‘More courses are offered in English and students are thinking if they can do their course in their mother tongue in another country then why not,’ said Byrne.

He said students interested in medicine, dentistry and veterinary, which

study abroad: More Irish students are seeking college places oversees. Christina Finn examines why are all very competitive here, with limited places available, are looking to countries like Hungary to study. ‘They have excellent colleges, available places and the courses are in English, so it is that extra option for students interested in those fields,’ said Byrne.

In terms of whether to study in Europe or the USA, the European options are a lot more accessible and less costly. Colleges in the US can cost upwards of €30,000 per year, while European options are often around €7,000.

However, options such as academic and sports scholarships in US colleges can be an accessible way to gain entry.

Byrne said the reputations of many US colleges are outstanding and it can be the best investment you ever make.

‘Students should contact the individual university in the States and see what funding options and scholarships are available. There are generally lots of information and supports for international students,’ he said.

Byrne added that any student looking to study abroad should try and talk to someone who has done the course. ‘It is the best way to get feedback on the

college and course that you are perhaps unfamiliar with.’

In terms of the application, most require academic transcripts or a copy of your degree, a CV and a personal statement or letter about why you want to study there. Deadlines can vary.

In Ireland, maintenance grants under the student grants schemes are available for undergraduate courses of at least two years’ duration in a publiclyfunded third-level institution in another EU member state. Further details can be found at studentfinance.ie.

The HEA is involved with European education links and acts as the national agency for the Lifelong Learning Programme: Erasmus; National Contact Point for the Tempus Programme and National Structure for Erasmus Mundus. For more information on all these options you can visit eurireland.ie.

International Education Financial Aid (iefa.org) is also a good source to research funding options. It gives a breakdown of international scholarships available as well as loan options.

For an Erasmus programme, students registered in a participating higher edu- Foreign affair: Oversees study has a number of advantages cation institution can apply for financial support to spend three to u Dara WarD from Coláiste Éanna, developed for shops and public places.

12 months studying or top right, took top prize in the junior The school also took the title of most working in another category of the South Dublin County enterprising school for the third year participating country.

Student Enterprise awards for in a row. The next generation of The eligible countries Ballyroan Bakers Cookery Book, a entrepreneurs showed off their skills are the 27 member book of recipes which were shared by at the student enterprise county final states of the EU. people within the community. at the Institute of Technology Tallaght.

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accessoknit’s reversible handmade bags and purses took the title in the intermediate category for creators Cara Ní ronain and Grace Ní hIci, below, of Coláiste de hÍde, Tallaght.

Gael Saol, below right, from Coláiste de hÍde took first place in the senior category with their innovative approach to building the profile of the Irish language through signage they

Some 850 secondary school students have been attending workshops and running their own student enterprises, as part of the South Dublin County Enterprise Board initiative. Finalists from 16 South Dublin schools were competing for a prize fund worth more than €2,500 and a chance to represent the county at the national finals on next month.

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that’smybusiness JAck TEELing, 37, is a founder and managing director of the Teeling Whiskey Company. He holds an MSc in International Business (TCD), an MBS in Finance (Smurfit Business School) and a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from UCD. What is your typical day?

Normally it is an early start due to having three daughters under the age of five. I aim to get into the office for 8am with the first hour dedicated to clearing overnight emails from our international customers and setting a to-do list for the day. A normal day would involve a mixture of calls and meetings on sales and marketing, operations and finance, but with our new distillery plans a lot of my time is spent on planning around this. I would usually try to get out or even home for lunch, given our offices are around the corner from my house, and would try to leave by 6.30pm most nights. Then it’s the battle of getting the girls to bed, fit in some rugby training on a Monday and Wednesday if I can before I catch up on a few more emails before hitting the hay.

You were previously the MD of Cooley Distillery, how did that prepare you for your current role? Cooley gave me my start in

Irish whiskey and instilled my own passion for the industry. From my ten years with them I received a well-rounded experience as I worked myself up from a commercial role to sales and marketing director to eventually managing director. This gave me both a very good understanding of the commercial side of the operation and the distilling side, in particular re-enforcing the

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focusing on our own family and Dublin distilling heritage so as such I don’t think we are competing with anyone else but ourselves at this stage.

How profitable is Teeling Whiskey Company? Anything we

importance of product but also how it is presented. I have tried to apply these learnings to the new venture to avoid many of the mistakes we made and to build on what worked during our Cooley days.

How much did you make from the sale of Cooley Distillery?

make at this stage is being pumped back into the business. Payback within the whiskey industry tends to take ten years but we are hoping it will be a bit earlier than that but we are in it for the long haul.

What’s your five-year plan for the business? We are ambitious

and have very aggressive sales targets for the business over the next five years. We feel we have a unique proposition and are well placed to drive the increasing segmentation of the Irish whiskey market. Key to this is building our own Did you find it hard to distillery which gives us let go from the a brand home and family business guaranteed supply emotionally?

Many people don’t for the long term.

Definitely, I think I appreciate that good was in mourning You’re going to for the first six whiskeys can be easily invest a permonths after the paired with foods such centage of the deal happened but profits from the like anything else as good cheeses or visitor centre you learn to move chocolates into local commuon and we now have other babies to worry nity projects in the about.

Liberties, why did you Enough to not have to worry (too much anyway) about taking the risks involved with setting up a new Irish whiskey company.

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Is Teeling essentially now going head-to-head with Cooley? No, we are definitely a

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different proposition to Cooley, or the Kilbeggan Distilling Company as it is now known. We are focusing on handcrafted small batch unique bottlings of Irish whiskey and trying to bring some breadth and choice to the category. In particular we are

decide to do that? The Liberties

is a part of Dublin that has been starved of investment for many years and has many worthwhile charity organisations doing great work.

Besides from investing in our new distillery we wanted to make the people of the Liberties feel that as our distillery grows and develops we are giving something back to the local community to help it develop as well.

Company: Teeling Whiskey Company Business: Whiskey distillery estaBlished: 2012 employees: 10

Why whiskey? Why Irish whiskey, I presume you mean? Firstly, Irish whiskey has been in our family for generations and has been all I have been involved in for over ten years.

Secondly, Irish whiskey has been the fastest growing spirit for the past 20 years, however, I feel we are still at the start of a longer term trend for a new generation of spirit drinkers to discover and enjoy Irish whiskey. I feel we have something significant to offer and want to be at the forefront.

What’s your favourite whiskey?

That is a hard question as I like different whiskeys at different times.

Also, there are now so many good Irish whiskeys it is hard to pick but, unsurprisingly I suppose, my present favourite is our Teeling Small Batch, which consists of hand-selected casks of grain and malt Irish whiskey married in ex-rum casks and bottled at 46 per cent, which gives it a beautiful Moorish sweet taste that suits my sweet tooth.

Neat, with water or a soft drink? My personal preference is to

take whiskey neat with a drop of water to ‘break the seal’ as I was once told.

Irish whiskey has a great reputation worldwide, what makes Teeling better than the

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rest? Irish whiskey has always had a reputation for quality, mainly due to its smooth and sweet taste. This taste profile is perfect for modern palates and has led to a whole new generation of whiskey drinkers discovering and enjoying Irish whiskey. What makes Teeling different is our handcrafted small-batch approach which involves different types of maturation and unique bottlings that are not currently available. I will leave it to others to judge if we are better than the rest we just strive to do our best with what we have available.

What do you enjoy most about your job? The fact I wake

up every day and look forward to going to work as it brings new challenges and opportunities. Also the autonomy of being your own boss is not such a bad thing.

What do you find most difficult? Time management and balanc-

ing quality family time with the fact it is nearly impossible to switch off.

If you were a kangaroo, what would you keep in your pouch? It would have to be my

three daughters, even though if possible I might squeeze in a bottle of the Teeling Small Batch whiskey as well.

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The Moon goes face-to-face with your co-ruler Pluto. This can trigger some intense conversations. Yet, achieving harmony in your closest ties can be particularly attractive at this time.

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The little issues other people miss are what you’re so astute at spotting. And this can definitely give you an edge this week, when blending this sharp eyed approach with the determination to better your lot could see you find a way to make further savings.

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ENIGMA Aurore Dudevant adored Fred Chopin sat at his keyboard, But when pursuing writing fame, She used this English-sounding name.

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Mayo overcome wobble to beat Westmeath as Kerry beat Tyrone

Dublin ............................................1-22 kilDare ............................................1-12 by pAuL kEAnE Jim Gavin insists Kevin mcmanamon can shake his super sub tag after watching him heap more misery on Kildare. mcmanamon killed off Kildare with eight points on Saturday and was so dangerous that boss Gavin simply couldn’t take him off. it was a rarity for mcmanamon to start and finish a game, something he’s only done once in a Championship match in four years.

The 27-year old’s last sustained run of games was a year ago when he started three league games in a row.

But he was frozen out again in the knock-out stages and didn’t start a single Championship match.

‘I’m delighted for Kevin. He put a big shift in there’ The St Jude’s man will fancy his chances of starting against Derry next weekend with Dublin now on the verge of a semi-final place. asked if mcmanamon is a serial bench warmer, Gavin said: ‘no, we don’t see him like that. He’s one of a group of forwards we have at our disposal and depending on the games we play, we try to use who we need.

‘That’s the job of management, to use your players, your assets, as best you can. We try to get the formations right and it worked for us against Kildare.

‘Kevin is an example of the diligence and how the players apply themselves. They’re always trying to improve. i’m sure it’s the same for every player in every county.

‘But i’m delighted for Kevin, he put a big shift in there and got some great scores.’

Kildare manager Jason Ryan admitted mcmanamon was unstoppable as Dublin built on a 1-10 to 1-6 half-time lead to win by ten.

‘We struggled with his speed and his strength and his finishing was clinical. We didn’t have a great deal of answers for him whatever we tried,’ said Ryan. it was a third heavy defeat for Kildare against Dublin at Croke Park in 12 months. and it was a strong Dublin performance after defeat to Cork a week earlier. now they’re closing in on the semi-finals. ‘at the moment we haven’t even mentioned semi-finals in the squad,’ insisted Gavin.

We need to talk about Kevin: McManamon is shrugging off his super sub name after starting against Kildare and proving too good to be taken off

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JAMES HORAN blasted his Mayo side for ‘showboating’ after coughing up a nine-point lead before eventually beating Westmeath 2-17 to 3-9 in Mullingar.

Mayo’s second win from four keeps them in the hunt for a knockout place, though it looked as if they may fall to a near incredible defeat.

They allowed a 2-4 to 0-1 lead after ten minutes slip away and trailed rock bottom Westmeath by one at half-time, 2-8 to 2-7.

James Dolan, moved from Westmeath’s defence to attack, pinched a goal while Kieran Martin fisted another home in front of 6,600 in Mullingar.

The hosts moved two clear early in the second-half when John Heslin converted his fifth free of the afternoon.

But they didn’t score again until injury-time when Dolan notched his second goal of the afternoon.

In the meantime, nine Mayo points without reply including one from fit again forward Cillian O’Connor secured their win.

Cork had to cling on at Pairc Uí Rinn to record a 2-18 to 3-14 win over high-flying Derry.

Derry trailed by five at half-time but a second goal from Enda Lynn brought them within touching distance of the Rebels.

Relegation threatened Kerry were far more convincing in Killarney where All-Star attacker James O’Donoghue fired 3-3 in a 3-15 to 0-9 win over Tyrone.

Meanwhile, in Division 2, Michael Murphy kicked a last gasp free to rescue a 1-12 to 1-12 draw for Donegal against Meath in Ballybofey.

Defeat to the Deise leaves Dublin’s league title dreams in disarray Foot of the table: Dublin manager Anthony Daly and selector Richie Stakelum reflect on the loss that leaves them bottom

Waterford proved an unhappy hunting ground yet again for dublin whose allianz Hurling League title ambitions were dealt a blow.

Pauric Mahony equalled his 11-point haul against Galway by shooting 1-8 to secure Waterford’s second win from three.

But a second defeat for dublin to match their opening round loss to Galway does little for their chances of making the knock-out stages.

Both teams lost players to red cards with Michael ‘Brick’ Walsh walking for

WaTerFOrD.......1-13 Dublin.......1-10 Waterford while Conor McCormack was dismissed late on for the dubs. dublin did at least claw back some of their five-point half-time arrears in the second-half having trailed 1-10 to 0-8 at the interval. that was mostly down to a strong finish as Waterford were in a commanding position with a seven-point lead entering the closing stages. dublin were boosted by a goal from Conal

Keaney but going without a score in the second-half until the 62nd minute cost them dearly.

Waterford led 1-13 to 0-9 and dublin were reduced to 14 when McCormack was sent off with four minutes to go.

Keaney’s goal at least gave them some cheer late on though they’re now bottom of the table along with tipperary and Galway.

Galway went down by 2-16 to 1-16 to old rivals Kilkenny while Clare bounced back from their round 2 defeat in dublin with a 4-15 to 0-20 win over tipperary.

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Incredibly creative: Schmidt (left) feels O’Driscoll (right) is the final bastion of smaller, dynamic centres who create plays

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ScHMiDT HAiLS ‘MAgiciAn’ O’DRiScOLL AS iRELAnD LAy wASTE TO iTALy AnD gEAR up fOR pARiS TiTLE DEciDER ‘tHE MAGICIAn’ Brian O’Driscoll is the ‘final bastion’ of creative centre play, according to Ireland boss Joe Schmidt.

O’Driscoll conjured three of Ireland’s seven tries in the thumping 46-7 RBS 6 nations victory over Italy, a glorious farewell from international duty in Dublin for the 35-year-old.

Ireland go to their final clash with France in Paris this Saturday with a credible chance of claiming their first title since 2009. there, O’Driscoll will make his last-ever Ireland bow, when he extends his all-time test caps record to 141, as head coach Schmidt’s side chase just their second Paris win in 42 years. the former Leinster boss hailed O’Driscoll’s Dublin departure, admitting the British and Irish Lions stalwart warranted every shred of adulation.

‘It was from a set play that the magician managed to get the ball out nicely, perfectly-timed and set up for Johnny (Sexton) to get the space for seven-nil,’ said new Zealander Schmidt.

‘I think it was an incredibly special day, he made it special because he had a hand in three tires. His ability to get into space, and get the right pass away, even if he creates a pass that’s probably not out of the textbook.

‘He’s an incredibly creative man, he’s courageous and he’s got class about him.

‘In the days of the big direct running, he might be the final bastion along with Gordon (D’Arcy) for the smaller centre who is a creator of play rather than a direct

runner. I thought the crowd were phenomenal. I guess it’s partly he wanted to acknowledge the support he’s had, and the crowd gave that back in return. ‘I didn’t see anyone leave after the final whistle, it was fantastic.’ this time last season Schmidt helped convince O’Driscoll not to retire, with the evergreen centre committing to one more year. now Ireland stand primed to fight for silverware in Paris, the scene of O’Driscoll’s 2000 hattrick, and Schmidt admitted relief at helping the midfielder extend his glittering career.

I’m delighted he stayed on. I think even for guys like Darren Cave and Robbie Henshaw who have been in camp, he’s worked really well with those two, so whoever does take over, he’s shared a lot of his knowledge.

‘He’s given a feedback on the line they’re running at training, or their timing of pass, type of pass or quality of it.

‘So even in that context he’s been generous, and I think he was generous today.’

Admitting the weight of history will sit against Ireland in Paris next weekend, Schmidt vowed his squad will not allow it to become a distraction.

‘I guess you know it exists, it’s a bit like the milestone Brian O’Driscoll achieved today,’ he said.

‘It’s there, it sits in the ether, but it’s not the focus of what you do.

‘We just build a game plan and a structure that we think can be successful.’

Fond farewell: BOD waves to fans as he leaves the Lansdowne Road pitch

Late late show: Ciaran Kilduff levelled in stoppage time to earn a point

Ciaran Kilduff got Shamrock rovers out of jail with a stoppage time equaliser as roddy Collins’ derry City frustrated the Hoops in a dour encounter at Tallaght Stadium.

Trailing to Mark Stewart’s 48 minute lead, a disjointed rovers’ desperate late surge reaped its reward on 93 minutes when ryan Brennan’s hooked cross was headed home by Kilduff.

The only real chance of note in a dreadfully poor first half fell to derry’s lone striker Enda Curran on nine minutes when the 21-year-old drilled wide after latching onto a complete miss-kick by rovers’ defender david O’Connor. rovers only came alive in the final minute of the half when robert Bayly put robert Cornwall away on the right with the fullback’s dangerous cross to the near post being bravely headed out by derry skipper Cliff Byrne under pressure from Eamon Zayed.

The game got the goal it so desperately needed three minutes into the second half. and it’s one rovers’ keeper Barry Murphy won’t want to see again as he allowed winger Stewart’s cross to dip in over his head at the far post. rovers could have been level within three minutes but for a fine stop by ‘keeper Ger doherty from Brennan after derry midfielder Shane McEleney inexplicably set him up. doherty was worked again before the hour, batting away Gary McCabe’s stinging shot from distance.

Pressing hard in the latter stages, rovers were almost caught out twice by substitute rory Patterson on the counterattack, before Kilduff’s saving grace at the death.

St Pat’s ‘up and running’ with draw

St Patrick’s Athletic began the defence of their SEE Airtricity League title with a hard-fought 1-1 draw at Cork City on Friday, writes Ryan Bailey.

Christy Fagan’s second-half header cancelled out Garry Buckley’s earlier effort but the Saints were unable to make their numerical advantage count in the final half hour after John Dunleavy was given his marching orders for a second booking. Although disappointed his side couldn’t find a winner, Liam Buckley was content with a point from the opening fixture.

‘Delighted to get up and running and on the board but disappointed we didn’t come away with the win, bearing in mind they were down to ten. that said, I thought Cork merited a point as they defended quite well,’ Buckley said.

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‘We took a while to get going but started to knock it around better after the break but that’s understandable given we had a couple of new faces in there.’

In a fiery Louth derby, nine-man Drogheda United stunned last

season’s runners up Dundalk as they ran out 4-1 winners at Hunky Dorys Park. Eric Foley’s precise free-kick gave the hosts a slender half-time advantage before Drogheda’s Phillip Hughes and Simon Kelly of Dundalk – both substitutes – were shown red cards as the players headed for the dressing rooms. Gavin Brennan and Declan O’Brien struck in quick succession before the latter netted his second after Pat Hoban had pulled one back for the Lilywhites. Brennan then saw red for a wild lunge in the closing moments.

Elsewhere, Bohemians ran out comfortable 3-0 winners over UCD, Limerick and Bray Wanderers settled for a point apiece after a stalemate and Evan McMillan’s late goal helped Sligo Rovers beat newly-promoted Athlone town.

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Giant-killer Uwe does it Roberto’s way Curtis keen to prove Hull can go all the way Uwe RosleR revealed how he replicated the FA Cup blueprint which helped Roberto Martinez shock Manchester City at wembley last year as lightning struck twice in this year’s quarter-final at the etihad stadium. wigan produced one of the competition’s great upsets last May when Ben watson headed them to

Master tactician: Rosler

cup glory under Martinez. Despite both clubs having different managers, latics boss Rosler was astute enough to take a leaf out of his predecessor’s book as his men stunned City 2-1 yesterday.

‘I started with Roberto’s tactic from last season,’ said the German.

‘He won the FA Cup by putting out a very brave game-plan and I saw

City stunned as Pellegrini is left to rue ‘worst’ start

MANCHESTER City boss Manuel Pellegrini blamed the worst first-half performance he has seen from his team this season for their shock FA Cup exit to Wigan yesterday.

Jordi Gomez and James Perch struck as the Championship club stunned City again to keep the defence of their trophy alive, having beaten them to win last year’s final.

Gomez converted a penalty after the erratic Martin Demichelis was caught napping and Perch tapped in early in

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the second half as the holders booked a semi-final with Arsenal.

Samir Nasri did pull one back as City produced a strong finish but they were unable to prevent a repeat of the Latics’ 2013 final triumph.

The result was a tactical triumph for former City striker Uwe Rosler, who has revived Wigan’s fortunes since taking over as manager in December.

the league game here [against wigan last April] where City won in the last five minutes 1-0 and Roberto’s team played periods to perfection.

‘I tried to replicate parts of it but bringing our own intensity in pressing, counter-attacking and willingness to attack with wing-backs at the far post, like for the second goal.’

CURTIs DAVIes insisted the job was not done after Hull booked their semi-finals place with a 3-0 win.

Davies, David Meyler and Matt Fryatt were all on target as the Tigers set up a last-four meeting against sheffield United at wembley next month.

‘The club has never been to this level in the FA Cup and personally I’ve not been this far, so it’s going to be a good day out to go to wembley,’ he said. ‘we’re delighted that we’re going to wembley but you win nothing for semi-finals. You want to get to the final and win it. so why not?’

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For rival Pellegrini, the decision to leave out Vincent Kompany, David Silva and Fernandinho, with one eye on Wednesday’s Champions League trip to Barcelona, backfired.

He said: ‘I think it’s the worst first half we’ve had in the year because we didn’t have the pace to play against a team that is in a good moment.

‘They won five games in a row so we knew before the match we are going to play a difficult team.

‘Maybe we thought that was not going to be so difficult and when we react, it was too late.’

Pellegrini, though, insisted his men were not caught out by the visitors’ bank of four in front of the defence, adding: ‘We knew exactly how Wigan play. It’s not a tactical problem, it was a pace problem, a tempo problem.’

shEffIElD UTD .................... 2 ChARlTon.............................0

Hull v Sheffield United Wigan v Arsenal Cup kings: Wigan goalscorer Perch is mobbed after his goal

sPORT DigEsT Greg Swinand marked his move from England ignoring the uncontrollable sUsher Irish Road Club to UCD CC with a

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insists England will concentrate only on their own game after their 29-18 win over wales set up a three-way tussle for the RBs 6 nations title. England secured their first triple crown in 11 years and it leaves them level on six points with Ireland and france

Man United.......3 Fulham .............. 1 Southampton.... 1 Stoke.................. 1 Tottenham........ 0

Clough: Win was for fans and players

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going into the final weekend, when they face Italy in Rome.

Ireland have a healthy points difference lead, but the coach has urged England to ignore this. ‘Ireland are a quality side,’ he said. ‘But france on their day at home, with something to play for – who knows?’

win in the Newbridge Grand Prix in Co Kildare yesterday. The ex-national vets’ champion was flanked by teammates Anthony Walsh and Sean McKenna after all three made the initial escape and dropped the two riders who started with them. The five-man group pulled clear with the UCD CC men joined by Shane Baker (Usher Irish Road Club) and Michael Fitzgerald (VeloRevolution).

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NIGel CloUGH deflected all attention from himself after Ryan Flynn and John Brayford struck second-half goals to put sheffield United in the FA Cup semi-finals.

‘There’s not an awful lot of satisfaction for me personally,’ said Clough, a losing finalist at wembley in the 1991 FA Cup with Nottingham Forest.

‘I don’t have a chart at home where you rank games. It’s about the players and supporters, especially celebrating together.’

CyCLing former An Post/sean Kelly team member Matt Brammeier (now with the synergy Baku team) earned his stripes in his new colours at the le Tour de langkawi in Malaysia over the last ten days, writes David Thomas.

Brammeier won outright in the King of the Mountains Classification after taking a day one lead. he was perilously close to relinquishing the jersey on the climb up to genting Win: Brammeier highlands, but kept his composure.

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O’Driscoll bids farewell to Aviva with a man-ofthe-match performance – but Paris awaits...

by DAnny HOgAn Ireland must deliver the rBS 6 nations title to pay due homage to Brian O’driscoll’s record-breaking career, according to eoin reddan.

Iconic centre O’driscoll will retire from international rugby after his 141st Test cap against France on Saturday.

Ireland’s seven-try, 46-7 hammering of Italy leaves Joe Schmidt’s side in pole position to take the Six nations title with victory in Paris.

O’driscoll has set a new Test appearance world record, and will extend his record Six nations caps tally to 65 to boot.

The 35-year-old leinster centre is Ireland’s leading try-scorer with 46, and tops the Six nations all-time scoring charts with 26. despite 15 years at the top of the world game, though, O’driscoll only has one Six nations crown, the 2009 Grand Slam.

His stunning hat-trick dragged Ireland to their only win in Paris in 42 years, back in 2000. now his leinster and Ireland team-mate reddan believes the only way to do that track record justice is to pull off a rare victory on French soil.

‘This win over Italy won’t mean much if we don’t back it up next

Hats the way: O’Driscoll dons his record-breaking 140th cap at the IRFU dinner after the Italy win

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week,’ said reddan. ‘We already spoke about that in the dressing room after the game.

‘It was a great occasion, but the players have to pay their respects in terms of delivering in Paris for him.

‘It was right to have it: these moments can pass you by if you don’t emphasise them. ‘now we as players have to deliver, and give him a pat on the back in a different way, and produce a huge performance in France to give him a proper and well-deserved send-off.

‘The temptations are there for people outside the group to go over the top on a polished performance, but there’s no way we’re seeing ourselves as favourites over there.’ leinster prop Jack McGrath was just ten years old when O’driscoll ran in that breathless Paris hattrick.

The 24-year-old front-rower admitted he had never seen anything like the adulation of O’driscoll’s great dublin farewell against Italy on Saturday.

‘I watched that hat-trick game at home on the TV,’ said McGrath.

‘I don’t think there has ever been anything like this in Irish sport, so it’s definitely something to remember and something that will go down in history.’

Scans confirm cruciate injury and an end to Kilkenny’s season Ciaran KilKenny will miss Dublin’s defence of the all-ireland football title after confirmation of a season ending cruciate knee injury.

The talented centre-forward underwent scans yesterday which confirmed anterior cruciate knee ligament damage. The injury came just minutes into Saturday night’s 10-point allianz Football league win over Kildare at Croke Park. The Castleknock man underwent scans at a Dublin clinic yesterday which revealed the bad news.

He’s the second Dublin player to suffer the injury in the space of weeks following defender Kevin O’Brien’s setback. it comes shortly after Colm Cooper’s

Gutted: Ciaran Kilkenny leaves the playing field with a cruciate knee injury early in Saturday’s Dublin vs Kildare game Picture:inPhO

cruciate heartache and robs the Championship of two talented attackers.

‘On a personal level this is very frustrating for Ciaran who has played a vital role in the recent successes in both football and hurling for his county and club at all grades,’ said boss Jim Gavin.

‘Protocols have been activated to ensure that Ciaran will receive the best of medical care and the Dublin football coaching staff will actively assist Ciaran in his recovery over the weeks and months ahead.’

Kilkenny had emerged as one of Dublin’s key performers since an impressive first full season in 2013.

He added an all-ireland senior winners’

medal to his previous U-21 success while he previously competed in all-ireland minor finals in both codes.

Dublin hurling manager anthony Daly approached Kilkenny about a dual role last winter though it’s understood he planned to stick with football this season. it’s a blow to Dublin’s hopes of allireland U-21 football success also.

Kilkenny scored five points in their big win over Carlow last Wednesday evening.

Senior boss Gavin initially held out hope of a lesser injury following Saturday’s win, stating that he wouldn’t pre-empt scans.

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