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Four carjackings in just one week A GOOD Samaritan was carjacked yesterday when he stopped to lend a hand at the scene of a road accident in Co Wicklow.

The German driver of the black Mercedes-Benz C180 stopped to help when he came upon the collision between a bus and a black Volvo at Clara Vale, Rathdrum at around 2.30pm.

However, a group of four men who were travelling in the Volvo then hijacked the German-reg Mercedes-Benz and sped off in the direction of Glendalough.

A woman passenger in the Mercedes, who was in her 70s, was slightly injured in the incident.

There are no reports of injuries among the bus occupants.

Gardaí are investigating if the Volvo was earlier involved in a burglary in Athy, Co Carlow.

The Mercedes-Benz was recovered in Tullow, Co Carlow yesterday afternoon and is being pre-

“Clinical trials helped me with my battle to combat cancer, and maybe they could help you too.”

by Joanne ahern served for technical examination.

No one has been arrested in relation to the incident and last night gardaí from Wicklow and Carlow, as well as the Garda air support unit were carrying out a search of the area.

This is the fourth carjacking in the Leinster area in a week.

Yesterday, a 15-year-old youth appeared at the Children’s Court charged in connection with the carjacking of a taxi in Terenure in the early hours of Sunday.

Meanwhile, a man is due to appear in court this morning in connection with a hijacking and robbery in Terenure on Friday. A woman and her two children were in the car at the time.

Separately, a man has been charged in connection with a carjacking near Mountjoy Square on May 12.

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‘Car stolen after stopping to help’

ROCK THE VOTE: Paddy Guiney jumps off a boat while his fellow Union of Students in Ireland members call on young people to vote in this Friday’s elections. The latest polls show 40 per cent of 458,000 people aged 18 to 25 are still undecided PICTURE: ConoR mCCabE

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Clinical trials enable patients to gain access to the newest cancer drugs and treatments.

Clinical trials around the world have contributed to the development of 32 new cancer drugs over the last 10 years

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Who needs Mount Everest when you can conquer a wall cheered by tourists?

A dam long climb

by DAniEL Binns THESE daredevils haven’t so much hit the wall as gone up and over it in the name of adventure.

They have turned the 165m high Diga di Luzzone dam in Ticino, Switzerland, into the Mount Everest of climbing walls.

Climbers even need to use a ladder to get up the first 6m of the wall.

German Ilana Marcus, from website Thrillseekers Anonymous, said: ‘The climbing was very smooth and fun ‘Topping out the climb to an audience of tourists watching your every move and perhaps anticipating the possibility of an exciting fall was memorable.’

Don’t look down: Two adventurers head to the top of the 165m dam

Endurance: A climber nears the top

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Irish artist goes a bit Brazil nuts to carve footballers for World Cup

Tough nut to crack: Can you spot the Gary Lineker?

IRISH artist Quentin Devine has gone nuts at the prospect of the World Cup and carved five faces of English football legends on a handful of Brazils.

Armed with a scalpel, a magnifying glass and a €1 bag of Brazil Nuts, the Co Tyrone man spent around four days on each portrait of Gary Lineker, Paul Gascoigne, David Beckham, Alan Shearer and current England star Wayne Rooney.

He said he used more than 50 nuts in the challenge, set by TV channel Dave to celebrate its World Cup coverage, before he got it right.

He said: ‘The nuts can be very oily and extremely brittle but I think I managed to successfully capture the essence of each these football heroes.

‘My final piece, Gary Lineker, proved to be a tough nut to crack with his large ear span reducing the already tiny surface area I had to work with.

‘After over 20 attempts, many broken ears and all hope lost, I finally perfected it. On another note, I know Dave is a comedy channel, but an Irish man carving English footballers into Brazil nuts is a real joke isn’t it?’

The dad of three works with his wife Adele making software. He had never carved nuts before but he has carved other foods. He said: ‘I knew I could sculpt and carve, so I said yes when Dave asked if I could do it.’

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Aer Lingus row over ‘extra 32days off’ claim PROPOSED new rosters for Aer Lingus cabin crew would result in an additional 32 paid days off, the company has said.

The airline has again called on members of the Impact trade union to call off a May 30 strike, calling it ‘pre-emptive, unwarranted and an extremely unfair imposition on the travelling public, tourists and businesses’.

8% Fall in annual profits at Ryanair, to €523m, the airline’s first drop in 5 years

It said the 24-hour June Bank Holiday weekend action would affect 28,000 customers.

The airline said allegations of unworkable rosters used extreme examples, were misleading and bore ‘no resemblance to the company’s actual rosters’.

Impact last night said Aer Lingus’ extra days off claims were ‘nonsense’. It said crew wanted better planned, easier to manage rosters which would not increase costs.

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Jet diverts as crew fall ill from fumes by pAT fLynn

A TRANSATLANTIC aircraft diverted to Dublin Airport on Sunday after three flight attendants were overcome by fumes and left ‘partially incapacitated.’

The US Airways flight was en route from Venice in Italy to Philadelphia in the US when the pilot contacted air traffic controllers.

It was the second time this month that flight AWE-715 was forced to divert to Dublin with the problem, however different aircraft were involved.

The Airbus A330-200 jet was about 340km west of Shannon Airport and more than 500km from Dublin when the crew made a U-turn and told controllers they wished to land.

The flight crew was offered several airport options to divert to, including Dublin, Shannon and Belfast, before the crew opted to land in Dublin.

The pilot also confirmed that three flight attendants were suffering from the affects of ‘inhaling fumes’ which

Diverted: US Airways flight were detected in the galley area. He advised air traffic controllers that as a result, the three crew members had been left ‘partially incapacitated.’ No passengers or pilots affected.

On May 10, a different Airbus A330 aircraft with the same airline on the same route diverted to Dublin after the pilot reported a number of crew members and passengers had become ill with nausea and dizziness – nine cabin crew were later taken to a hospital for treatment.

In July 2013 an US Airways flight bound for North Carolina diverted to Dublin after two flight crew fell ill shortly after take-off.

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A view to the future

Cillian Wade, five, is helping doctors identify the best way to treat leukaemia and to launch clinicaltrials.ie, which provides age-appropriate information to children in clinical trials

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Man who fell under bus had taken ‘drug cocktail’

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One-tunnel Metro North ‘unfeasible’ THE Department of Transport was forced to deny reports last night that the Metro North project is back on track with a cheaper alternative. It was reported that the plan devised by Cormac Rabbitt would revive the Metro North underground but the spokesman said the one-tunnel plan is ‘unfeasible’ at its €2billion price tag. Mr Rabbitt, who previously worked on Dart Underground, told Metro Herald his underground can feasibly be built in 35 months and for €2billion, and won’t disrupt traffic during construction.

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A MAN who was allegedly knocked under and crushed to death by a Dublin Bus had a cocktail of drugs in his system and may have been unsteady on his feet, a trial has heard.

Edward Connors, 30, of no fixed abode and formerly of Bearna Park, Sandyford, is alleged to have punched Eoghan Dudley, 28, on Dawson Street, causing him to go under the bus.

The court heard from two expert witnesses for the defence that Mr Dudley had heroin, morphine, methadone, codeine and cannabis in his system and that all of these substances are known to affect the balance of the user.

The accused, who has pleaded not guilty to unlawfully killing Mr Dudley, admits interacting with the deceased but claims that what looks like a punch on CCTV footage is actually him trying to grab Mr Dudley to stop him falling off the path.

Dr Declan Gilsenan, a former assistant state pathologist, gave evidence that the mixture of the drugs in Mr Dudley’s system would have multiplied each other’s effects and told the court the effects could include uncertainty of balance.

The trial continues tomorrow.

DEVASTATION: People standing near damaged houses after flooding in Krupanj, 150km southeast of Belgrade, Serbia. The clean-up began yesterday as cities on the river Sava were braced for a new wave of flooding, in the worst the Balkans have seen in more than a century

FLOODS are due in the west of the country today as heavy thunderstorms dump up to 40mm of rain – the equivalent of two weeks’ worth – in just a few hours.

Met Éireann has issued a severe weather warning for Munster, Connacht and Donegal. The warning said: ‘Heavy thundery downpours are likely, leading to local spot flooding. Very intense rainfall is possible over short periods of time, with totals of 25 to 40 mm possibly in places.’

Munster is set to face the heaviest rainfall.

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60 seconds Actor turned director JOHn TuRTuRRO, 57, has starred in more than 60 movies. He directed part of his latest film Fading Gigolo wearing just his underpants

In Fading Gigolo, you play a gigolo and Woody Allen is your pimp. Is it a comedy? It’s

a delicate comedy. Audiences start laughing, then stop midway, then laugh again. Woody and I share the same barber. He was always telling us we should work together. I thought we’d be an interesting team.

Was it intimidating directing Woody Allen? It’s only the third

time ever that he’s done a big role for someone else. Right at the beginning he liked the idea of us playing these characters who ended up reinventing themselves by working part-time in the sex industry but he didn’t want it to be stupid. So we decided I would write it and then he would give me his feedback – or, rather, his merciless criticism. He was harsh but at the same time encouraged me to develop the script in a nuanced way without telling me what to do.

Is it true you directed the Sharon Stone sex scene only wearing your underpants? As

a director you need to create an environment on set where people aren’t afraid and can relax and try things. I think being a director has a lot to do with people skills. I’ve worked with a lot of directors and writers who don’t have people skills at all – they’re good directors in their own way but I don’t necessarily enjoy working with them.

Gardaí seek missing teenage girl

GARDAÍ are seeking the public’s help in tracing a teenager missing since last Wednesday.

Kellie McCauley, 16, was last seen on May 14 in the city centre, walking towards O’Connell Street from Parnell Square.

Ms McCauley (pictured), from The

Ward in north Co Dublin, is described as 5’ 11’’ in height with long black hair. When last seen she was wearing a blue denim skirt, black tights, a white top and black jacket.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Blanchardstown Garda Station on (01) 666 7000.

Housing crisis ‘is putting thousands of children at risk’

by ED cARTy

You’ve played all kinds of weird memorable characters, including the purple-clad ‘Pederast’ who licks bowling balls in The Big Lebowski.

What role do you most get recognised for? A lot of people

are obsessed with The Big Lebowski. Some have watched it over 200 times. It’s usually for one of the Coen Brothers’ films or Did the recent historic Spike Lee’s or sometimes sex abuse those Transformers allegations from movies, which doesn’t please me, Woody’s The Transformers films really. daughter pose

a problem by affecting the audience’s perception of his character?

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are not the kind of movies I watch and I don’t want to be known for them

The allegations came after we made the movie and now it’s kind of subsided. I wouldn’t say it’s had any affect on whether people came to see the movie. Certainly not in France or Italy, where it’s opened very strongly. We have distribution in every country in the world.

Whatever was alleged to have happened was a long time ago and he’s made a lot of films since then so when I approached him that wasn’t an issue.

No offence but you don’t look much like a gigolo – particularly one Sharon Stone would pay to have sex with, as she does in the film.

If you were a gigolo, how much do you reckon you could charge? That’s up to my

manager! Probably not the thousands they charge in the movie.

I had a couple of other guys in mind for the character I ended up playing, people who were very confident with women and just very competent physically – they could do or cook or make anything. There is something very attractive about that. A man who’s not too pretty but has his own kind of sexuality.

Why not?

Are you embarrassed about being in Transformers?

I’m not embarrassed about it. But that’s like the least of what I’ve done. I know people enjoy them and that’s great but they are not the kind of movies I watch and I don’t want to be known for that.

I see you follow Dick Van Dyke on Twitter – why? He doesn’t follow you back. I do?

Well I like him a lot, I used to watch the Dick Van Dyke Show. Really, I follow Dick Van Dyke? I mainly just tweet about Fading Gigolo.

Do you think there’s a link between acting and being a sex worker? There are

similarities and there aren’t. If you look back at theatre history, once actors stopped being just men, a lot of the first famous actresses were courtesans, like Sarah Bernhardt.

And, of course, there is a level of ‘performing’ about both professions. But people act in everyday life too. You act as a bank manager, you act as the director of a company – we are all playing different roles all the time. I think performance is a big part of life.

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh Fading Gigolo is out on Friday.

And what do you do?

Britain’s Prince Charles greets men dressed as fruit and vegetables to promote healthy eating for children during a visit to a Military Family Resource Centre in Nova Scotia, Canada Picture: reuters

SeVeRAL thousand children face being homeless by the end of the year if the Government does not step in immediately, a children’s charity has said.

Barnardos said children are growing up in fear, uncertainty and isolation as rising rents, discrimination by landlords, inappropriate emergency accommodation and a serious lack of social housing combine to create a perfect homelessness storm.

The crisis has left 1,350 parents and children in Dublin without a home of their own.

Charity chief Fergus Finlay said hundreds of families are being forced into tenement-type conditions and he called for the Government to commandeer vacant hotels in Dublin and open them up for emergency accommodation. ‘I don’t believe there should be a single room left vacant,’ he said.

Activist Fr Peter McVerry told RTÉ Radio on Sunday the crisis is becoming a ‘tsunami’.

Ireland is witnessing the beginning of an explosion of homelessness, Mr Finlay said, adding that children are often witness to drug and alcohol problems and violence in emergency accommodation.

‘We should have been able to predict and prevent this, indeed plenty of people have been shouting about it for a long time,’ Mr Finlay said.

The Government committed last year to ending homelessness by 2016. Meanwhile, 127 people are sleeping rough on the streets of Dublin, the latest survey has found.

Banville concerned at rise in TV violence BOOKER Prize-winning novelist John Banville has criticised the raft of violent crime dramas on TV. The 68-year-old author, whose novels have been adapted into RTÉ crime noir series Quirke, said too many TV shows featured sexual violence.

‘One thing that worries

me about crime series these days is just how violent they all are,’ he said. ‘They nearly all start off with some young woman being raped and murdered and cut up and thrown in a dustbin.’

TV dramas The Fall, Silent Witness, Ripper Street and Scandinavian

crime series The Bridge have all been criticised for their levels of violence recently.

The author, who writes detective fiction under the pen name Benjamin Black, added: ‘Human beings are not expendable. And I think crime writers have a duty to observe this.’

Worried: Banville

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Sean Harris praised his old drama teacher for saving him from life on the docks after he picked up the prestigious best leading actor trophy at the Bafta TV Awards. ‘She’s the only teacher I can remember that taught me, nurtured me and cared about me,’ he said. ‘I could have ended up in a chicken factory or on a shipyard, which were all but disappearing but I didn’t.’

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Jeremy Piven avoids swinging past Selfridges too often – in case staff think he is a stalker. The Mr Selfridge star limits his visits because he is paranoid he might seem odd.

‘I don’t go all the time, just because it’s a little bit creepy,’ the 48-year-old US actor said at Sunday night’s awards. ‘If I walked in there all the time, it would be like I was stalking them!’

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Grieving Mick Jagger has been given something to smile about after becoming a greatgrandfather for the first time.

The Rolling Stones star’s baby joy came when his 21-year-old granddaughter, Assisi, gave birth to a girl at the weekend.

Assisi said: ‘I imagine it’s nice to be a great-grandad – although I’m not sure he likes the idea of getting old.’ The good news comes after 70year-old Jagger’s girlfriend L’Wren Scott died in March.

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nt and Dec are on a mission by JENNI MCKNIGHT to find their young Geordie reBut the pair are casting the net outside placements after revealing they tried to buy their first tV their hometown. ‘It’s not just kids in the north east of England we want to help, home – Byker Grove. the double act – who first found fame but from all over the UK and Ireland on the 1990s drama series – credited the who shouldn’t feel like they can’t get BBC show for helping launch their ca- into the industry,’ Dec added.

Ant admitted: ‘When we were growreers and told how they plan to find a talent haven in the north-east for bud- ing up we were very lucky we had Byker Grove. We didn’t know it at the ding stars.

Ant McPartlin revealed: ‘It is some- time but we were going through a really rich period.’ thing we’ve looked into.’

But it could be a while before the duo ‘A few years ago we tried to buy the building Byker Grove was made in and find younger versions of themselves.

‘Our bid for turn it into a perByker Grove forming arts cendidn’t get accepttre. ed,’ Ant said. tV partner DecAnt and Dec lan Donnelly, also were speaking at 38, added: ‘We the Arqiva Bafta were very lucky tV Awards where we got our opportheir Saturday tunity and, if we night takeaway made it, there won best entermust be other kids tainment show in the north-east and entertainment who can do it performance. too.’

Bafta winners: Ant and Dec on Sunday

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SIDE ISSUE: ISSU Kim Kardashian went for a stroll str down Rue Saint Honoré Honor in Paris yesterday, revealing quite a lot of her body reve in a low-cut and somewhat airy lo top that tha had passers-by reaching for their camera phones c Picture: Gc imaGes

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LINDSAY LOHAN has been living the high life again – as she used an app to order herself a private jet to Cannes. The 27-year-old was whisked off to the festival with a pair of friends for a cool €8,000. A champagne bar greeted the party animals. Earlier this year, Lohan denied she was in money trouble after her credit card was declined.

He may portray a serial killer but Jamie Dornan was the biggest softie in the room as he gushed about his five-month-old daughter at the Bafta TV Awards.

The 32-year-old Irish actor was bursting with pride as he showed a room full of celebs snaps of his baby girl during the after party in London on Sunday.

‘He was showing a few people pictures of his daughter on his phone,’ an insider revealed.

‘He looked so proud and happy it was really sweet to see. He even has a picture of her as his

screensaver,’ the insider told Guilty Pleasures.

‘He couldn’t stop talking about how amazing she is and his wife (Amelia Warner) was at his side the whole time just smiling and agreeing with him. They looked like very proud parents.’

But it appears the star was in no mood to talk about his defeat after losing out on the leading actor gong for his role in BBC2 thriller The Fall, as he refused to speak to any press throughout the evening.

Dornan was pipped at the post by Southcliffe’s Sean Harris.

Pattinson sweats it out over sex scene Robert Pattinson has admitted that a sex scene in a car with Julianne Moore left him in a sweat.

The 28-year-old played out some backseat action with Moore in David Cronenberg’s new satire on Hollywood, Maps To The Stars.

And it is not the first time that Pattinson has got up close and very personal with an actress in a car all in the name of art.

He also seduced Juliette Binoche in a limo in his previous collaboration with the Canadian director, Cosmopolis.

Asked at the Cannes Film

Festival to name which of his onscreen passengers was the better passenger, he joked: ‘They’re both seven! Obviously, Julianne.

‘It was a wonderful experience.

Extremely sweaty.’

Cronenberg, 71, chipped in: ‘I don’t think I’m breaking any new territory when there’s a scene of people having sex in cars.

‘Why wouldn’t you? There’s such great cars around.’

Pattinson was doubling up while in Cannes as he was also at the film festival to promote his other movie, The Rover.

Moore of the same: Pattinson cosies up to Julianne in Cannes

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‘Frightening’ malware infected 500,000 PCs MORE than 500,000 computers in 100 countries have been infected by sophisticated malware which allows cyber criminals to remotely hijack the PC and its webcam, experts claim.

The warning was made shortly after 97 people were charged for using or selling a piece of software known as BlackShades, which enables hackers to steal personal information, monitor keystrokes and secretly record users.

Spot of sightseeing: Sitting side by side with his trainer, this cheetah’s chased away any thoughts that only dogs get to be man’s best friend.

Four-year-old Sylvester was rescued as a cub and raised by Ed Oelofse, who works at Wild Horizons Wildlife Sanctuary in Zimbabwe. Sylvester was left on his own after lions killed his mother and four siblings Pictures: caters

Yob twins are both jailed as police fail to tell them apart IDENTICAL twin brothers caught on camera taking part in a mass brawl have been given the same jail sentence – because British police could not tell them apart.

Ryan and Grant Seymour both pelted missiles at a rival gang in a Staffordshire fight – and one of them lobbed a TV set at a group of men and attacked them with a spanner.

Because the 19-year-olds were both

stripped to the waist and wearing blue shorts at the time of the attack detectives could not prove ‘who did what’, a court heard. So Judge Paul Glenn jailed them both for nine months. ‘You were not the only people to behave disgracefully,’ the judge told the pair. ‘But your conduct has been described by witnesses as mayhem, barbaric and vile.’

They both admitted affray.

by DANIEL BINNS In some cases, the criminals locked precious files on a hard drive and forced worried owners to pay a ransom for their safe return.

‘This case is a strong reminder that no one is safe using the internet,’ said investigator Koen Hermans.

A series of arrests have been made over BlackShades in recent months.

The FBI has labelled the €30 tool as a ‘frightening form of cybercrime’, with ‘sophisticated capabilities and breathtaking invasiveness’. In a past case, a Dutch teenager was arrested for using it to take pictures of girls on webcams without their knowledge.

Both developers of BlackShades have been arrested. One of them, Arizona university student Michael Hogue, 23, pleaded guilty in January.

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Big Bucks: Winter has spent €120,000 on his coffee quest PICTURE: MERCURy PREss

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Caffeine? I’ll be coffin-ated before I reach Starbucks goal WHEN ‘Winter’ set himself the challenge of visiting every Starbucks in the world, it looked to be an achievable ambition... albeit an utterly pointless one.

But after spending more than €120,000 on travelling the globe in pursuit of his goal, the computer programmer has now admitted defeat.

The comic book-collecting Texan, who changed his name from Rafael Antonio Lozano Jr, began his mission in 1997 when the company had 1,500 branches.

He has valiantly tried to keep up with its rapid expansion by drinking caffeinated coffee in 11,676 outlets – once guzzling 29 cups in a single day.

With more stores opening every week, however, he has conceded he’s unlikely to see them all before he dies.

‘I do not expect to ever complete the project, as I have every reason to think that Starbucks will outlive me,’ he said.

‘But as long as there are new stores to visit, I will try to visit them.’

Winter, from Houston, might already be said to have failed the challenge he set himself – because many Starbucks

by DAnIEL bInnS branches have opened and closed again before he had a chance to stop by.

The bachelor once learned that bosses were to shut 40 US outlets and went on a 40,000km trip to try to visit them all before it was too late.

He only ticks a shop off his list if he has sampled a caffeinated coffee there.

The Starbucks mission that has come to dominate his life evolved naturally after he developed a fondness for the brand and began seeking out its shops on trips.

A keen Scrabble player, he would combine his coffee-drinking excursions with competing in tournaments, going to concerts or sightseeing.

But the 42-year-old – who confesses to a ‘mild caffeine addiction’ – admitted the coffee had gradually taken over.

On one visit to Hawaii, he visited five Starbucks branches on three islands and never even went to the beach, staying for only 30 hours.

‘Pointless though it may be, a goal is a goal,’ he said.

Harris wanted DSK sues over to kiss girl, 11 ‘rape’ movie ROLF HARRIS told a girl of 11 he wanted to be the first person to give her a ‘tongue kiss’, a court heard yesterday.

The alleged victim was at a family friend’s home and off sick from school when she came downstairs in her pyjamas. She told the court: ‘He asked me how old I was, and he said, ‘‘Good, I want to be the first one to introduce you to a tongue kiss’’. I just stood there, I froze.’ The woman said the incident happened in Australia in 1969. She said: ‘He put his tongue in my mouth and gave me a tongue kiss. ‘It seemed like it lasted forever but it must have been very quick. I was quite repulsed by it.

Absolutely repulsed.’ The women were called as prosecution witnesses and are not among four others who accuse TV presenter Harris of 12 counts of indecent assault between 1968 and 1986. Harris denies all charges. The trial continues.

FORMER IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to sue the makers of a film about the sex scandal that ruined his life.

The 65-year-old is said to be Legal action: DSK disgusted at Welcome To New York, which stars Gérard Depardieu.

Strauss-Kahn was sacked from his post after being accused of raping a hotel maid in 2011. His lawyer, Jean Veil, said: ‘My client is disgusted and find the film’s accusations of rape intolerable.’ Charges against StraussKahn were dropped after chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo received a settlement estimated to be worth €1.8million.

Wining and dining... insect style WINE and a meal often lead to the bedroom... and the same is true for insects, it seems.

Female bush-crickets are more likely to mate if they are offered a large blob of jelly first. But males who try to be more direct get an angry response. Forceful insects often clasp

females to stop them escaping during sex. But if there’s no gift, the females will kick, bite and struggle to get away.

Males who offer a meal don’t receive that kind of resistant behaviour.

The main reason males provide food is to maximise the number of offspring, a University of Derby study showed.

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Comic criticised for ‘nuclear nosebleed’ JApAn: A weekly comic series set in the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has been accused of stoking unfounded fears. Oishinbo shows a character nursing a nosebleed after visiting the site which went into meltdown after the earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Prime minister Shinzo Abe has assured the public there is no risk and vowed to act ‘against baseless rumours’. The manga comic’s editor Hiroshi Murayama hoped it would bring ‘constructive debate’.

gold tank to be auctioned for an Aids charity. The artist has donated the piece, called Gone But Not Forgotten, to AmfAR’s annual Cinema Against Aids gala at the Cannes film festival.

The 3m piece is expected to raise millions at the star-studded event on Thursday. Past auction items have included a trip to space with Leonardo DiCaprio and a George Clooney kiss.

Bear strikes again

by ERiC TUCkER

SwiTzERLAnD: A ‘problem bear’ has killed two more sheep – taking its tally to 11 in the past week. The animal, named M25 by authorities, is preying on herds in mountainous Graubünden.

Pressure is mounting on officials to kill it but wildlife campaigners say it is down to farmers to protect their animals. Bears were extinct in the country for more than 100 years but have been crossing the border after Italy reintroduced them from Slovenia.

and finally... gERMAny: Bearded Conchita Wurst certainly sprang a surprise with her Eurovision win. So who’s to say tastebuds won’t be tickled by a new sausage-flavoured ice cream – created in the Austrian’s honour by a company in Munich.

Horticulturally, my dear Watson: Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch gets a preview of the Chelsea Flower Show, which runs in London until Saturday EPA

The United States yesterday unveiled unprecedented cyber espionage charges against five Chinese military officials accused of hacking into US companies to gain trade secrets.

The hackers targeted big-name makers of nuclear and solar technology, stealing confidential business information, sensitive trade secrets and internal communications for competitive advantage, according to a grand jury indictment. ‘Success in the international marketplace should be based solely on a company’s ability to innovate and compete, not on a sponsor government’s ability to spy and steal business secrets,’ Attorney General eric holder said.

The Obama administration has long aimed to prosecute state-sponsored cyber threats, with a recent government report stating more than 40 Pentagon weapons programs and nearly 30 other defense technologies have been compromised by cyber intrusions from China.

In a statement, China’s Foreign Ministry said the US charges were based on fabricated facts and jeopardise China-US ‘cooperation and mutual trust’.

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HOLLAnD: ExBosnian Serb army chief Gen Ratko Mladic has started his defence in his war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court. His first witness was one of his officers who insisted he never received an order from superiors to attack civilian facilities during the siege of Sarajevo from 1992-96. Mile Sladoje also told judges at The Hague that Mladic’s soldiers only acted in ‘selfdefence’. Mladic, 72, (above) denies 11 charges, including genocide.

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read somewhere that New York City, with a population of approximately 8.5 million people, has one council with 51 councillors and one mayor.

Ireland, on the other hand, has a population of approximately 4.5million people, has 70-plus councils with 1,100 councillors.

In times when we are supposed to be strapped for cash, why oh why do we need all these leeches to make poor decisions and bleed the public further?

Can’t they be replaced with dice? Then at least occasionally a decent decision will be made that benefits the Irish people.

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liant response that caused you to fling all your toys out of the pram. I agree with you on one point though – there was a clown there. Just look in the mirror and you will see him again.

Wickla Man ■ ah Metro Herald, what are you trying to do to me? Your paper should come with warnings. Thank God I was at home before I got a chance to read last Thursday’s paper, otherwise I would have been in a right state if I’d read a particular article on the train or in work. I’m talking about the heartbreaking photo of the baby elephant mourning the death of its mother. Not the best thing to be reading when you’re pregnant and very hormonal!

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■ To the ‘gentleman’ in the Munster rugby jersey at Ballyogan recycling centre last Saturday afternoon, you really embarrassed yourself and gave a lot of people a good laugh with your little hissy fit. I don’t think you will talk down to someone for a while because the guy you had a go at had a bril-

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Be proud and play for your country Taggers THe Irish Tag rugby association has been officially invited and accepted, as the 12th member nation of the International Tag Federation. Its new International status means it has now developed a pathway for national representation. See www.tagrugby.ie as well as the qualifiers during the upcoming Summer Leagues, we will be creating regional all Stars teams.

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The tenth Dublin Dance Festival is almost upon us. Seona Macreamoinn takes a look at what we can expect, apart from the unexpected

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mathematician and a neuroscientist analysing a modern dance work?

Floating plastic bags morphing into a delicate, if surreal, corps de ballet? city landmarks invaded by dance aliens? these are only a few of the imaginative and provocative performances we can expect during Dublin Dance Festival’s tenth anniversary programme which springs into life today.

Festival Director Julia carruthers (pictured right) is obviously keen to show off the diversity of modern dance, but in planning the programme she also had another agenda which reflects a pragmatic approach to the times we live in. ‘i don’t like those overused ‘a’ words – accessibility and austerity – but i have

been very conscious that with funding at a premium i needed to be creative in programming shows that would be of high merit but might also sell well. and then on top of that i also wanted to offer some events that would be free.’ making the festival as democratic and accessible as possible has been central to carruthers’ approach and this year events can be enjoyed in locations from tallaght to Dún Laoghaire, as well as the city centre. it underlines the notion that festivals should truly inhabit their towns and cities; as such the ark, the Rua Red Gallery and Wolfe tone Square join the more traditional spaces of the abbey, the Project and trinity’s Samuel Beckett theatre.

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In addition, the ferry terminal in Dún Laoghaire will be the site for a free teaser event hosted by The Pavilion Theatre; it sees dextrous UK festival favourites Gandini Juggling present their aptly-titled Smashed, in which they juggle their way through dozens of red apples and entire sideboards-worth of dinner plates. It’s testament to her hands-on approach that Carruthers was recently spotted ‘pedalling furiously and noisily along Merrion Square to the festival office, my bicycle basket piled high with ransacked and discarded crockery!’

The festival has, over the years, also brought dance into the open air and this year Willi Dorner’s Bodies In Urban Spaces will, as its name suggests, do just that. Audiences are invited to follow a city trail from the Docklands to St Patrick’s Cathedral, where 20

“It’s putting Dublin on the dance map” performers will create moving sculptures integrated into the city’s architecture.

Meanwhile, In Wolfe Tone Square, the aptlynamed Hyperactive from Irish Modern theatre will invade that space with five athletic male dancers promising to get pulses racing.

It’s all an intriguing way of mapping the city but as Carruthers points out: ‘It’s also putting

Dublin on the dance map. I think it’s important that audiences here should see what’s going on in other European cities and beyond. Having Dublin embedded in a touring schedule from Paris to Berlin or Chicago to Melbourne, that’s exactly what I am after here.’

But it’s not only attracting headlining international names, including the renowned Russell Maliphant at the Abbey next week, which preoccupies DDF directors; the festival has been equally mindful of championing homegrown dance. ‘We want to show off the hot Irish choreographers,’ say Carruthers ‘and so we are delighted to have Emma Martin’s Tundra (pictured on previous page) open this year’s anniversary festival and also be able to showcase new emerging talent in the Re-Presenting Ireland strand.’

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MMA Martin herself appeared in the Representing Ireland platform a few years ago and so this leap to festival opener is an opportunity approached with relish and awe. ‘It’s definitely a case of mixed emotions as you can imagine,’ says Martin. ‘I am honoured to have this brilliant opportunity. The work is brave and ambitious so I am very excited watching it all come together, but it’s a bit nerve-racking too.’

If Tundra conjures images of vast frozen landscapes, Dan Canham’s intriguing dance theatre work Ours Was The Fen Country takes in a terrain closer to home and hones in a moribund rural environment, at the mercy of global warming.

Dancing in the streets: Above: Gandini Juggling’s Smashed, which will serve as a tempting teaser of juggling and high-jinx at the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire; Left: Dan Canham’s intriguing homegrown dance theatre work Ours Was The Fen Country; Right: The plastic fantastic world of L’Après Midi d’Un Foehn – Version 1, which will bring joy to children and adults alike But, back to the mathematician and the neuroscientist.

It’s not Sudoku meets Beckett but Pan Pan Theatre collaborating with Irish Modern Dance Theatre on Beckett’s little-known short work Quad, which has been described as a ‘geometric mime’ and a ‘mysterious square dance’.

And as for the floating plastic bags? L’apres Midi d’Un Foehn is a playful take on the classic Nijinsky work set to a Débussy score. Although it’s actually part of the children’s programme, any adult would be encouraged to catch this delightful piece that sees the most humdrum of objects transformed into unlikely dancers.

The Dublin Dance Festival runs today until May 31. www.dublindancefestival.ie

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There’s something for every taste in Dublin…

TASTE OF DuBLin 2014 Venerated by have-a-go cooks and professionals alike, La Gavroche chef Michel Roux Junior (pictured) has become a household name thanks to his work as a judge on BBC’s MasterChef and, to a lesser extent, his series of wellreceived, no-nonsense cookbooks.

He’s but one of many internationallyrenowned chefs who’ll be fetching up in the capital next month for Taste Of Dublin 2014, a celebration of the city’s restaurant scene that also doffs its cap to major players on the international culinary stage.

As such, Roux Junior will join Michelinmeriting stars such as Simon Hulston (The

Elephant in Devon), leading Scots chef Tom Kitchin and brothers Jonray and Peter Sanchez-Iglesias for the perennially popular nosh-fest in the Iveagh Gardens. A number of familiar names from closer to home – Darina Allen, Clodagh McKenna, Kevin Dundon and Ross Lewis among them – will join these and other bigwigs for a series of demos, talks and cook-offs across the four-day event.

As ever, visitors can sample the wares from an ever-expanding roster of local restaurants with stalls from dozens of established favourites and newcomers, such as Chapter One, Diep Le Shaker, Saba and The Green Hen; there’s also a plethora of thirstquenching options in the form of Celtic Whiskey, Dublin

FOOD nEwS HONEST TO GOODNESS It’s already been open for a few months but if the new Honest To Goodness sandwich haven on Dame Court isn’t already on your radar it should be. Metro Life made a long overdue visit on Friday where we were taken with the visuals – grey and lime green walls; exposed cement floor – and the food. A Cheesy Tuna (tuna mayo, melted cheddar, raspberry vinaigrette and lettuce) was served between doorstops of grilled cheese-and-onion bread (you can choose from eight bread and 12 filling options), while the Beef It Up (roast beef, caramelised onion, tomato and horseradish mayo) on tomato bread was a gut-busting delight. With one Earl Grey and one espresso the bill came to a forgiving €17.

12 Dame Court D2. www.honesttogoodness.ie LET THEM EAT CAKE Charity events are rarely this novel or appetising: on Saturday, Yelp Dublin presents Let Them Eat Cake, a food-themed fundraiser in aid of Dublin LGBT charity BeLongTo. A host of the capital’s best leftfield musical talents, including burlesque talent Bella A-GoGo (pictured), will entertain visitors to The Black Door on Harcourt Street as they gorge on a selection of artisan foods from some of the city’s most beloved haunts, Krüst Bakery, The Birdcage, Murphy’s Ice Cream and The Natural Bakery among them. Prizes on the day include a weekend pass to Forbidden Fruit and an outfit of the winner’s choice from 9 Crow St. Sat, The Black Door, 58 Harcourt St D2, 3pm, €25. Go to www.yelp.ie/events for more details SEARCH FOR A... SCONE With the cupcake and the cronut having hogged the limelight in pastry circles for so long, it’s good to see the humble, unflashy scone once again emerge from the shadows as the nation’s favourite tea-time treat. It’s no wonder then that in the recent search for the country’s best scone, conducted

by Goodalls, there were hundreds of entries. A number of experts, or ‘sconsperts’ if you will, have whittled this list down to ten and the public can now vote for their favourite by visiting www.goodalls.ie before Jun 6.

Look out for The Cupcake Bloke, aka Graham Herterich, who’s flying the flag for Dublin – see what all the fuss is about by visiting his stall at the Coppinger Row Market.

Wine Rooms, Premier Beer and a ‘Podology’ garden where groups of six or more can enjoy vino courtesy of their own personal sommelier.

And while we can’t guarantee the kind of scantily-clad, toned bodies you might find on a Rio beach, this year’s Brazilian Carnival

theme should ensure that it feels like summer throughout the festival – even if the sun fails to shine.

Jun 12 to Jun 15. Tickets from €15 available from www.tasteofdublin.ie.

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Cook this tonight…

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Lemon for lime

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Green beans

SpicE up Add 1 lemongrass stalk

serves 2

Kulhi BoaKiBa: During a

trip to the Maldives, we discovered this coconut fishcake street-food recipe.

They soak the rice overnight and grind it, so this recipe is not authentic – but it is inspired by all those wonderful flavours.

METHOD Step 1: Place the rice

in simmering water for 10min so it’s nearly cooked but retains some bite. Drain. Let it cool a little. Grind

100g basmati rice the rice to a rough 30g grated or texture by popping it dessicated coconut in a blender quickly. 1 tin of tuna, drained Remove.

Zest and juice of 1 lemon Step 2: Pop the 2 shallots or 3 spring onions, finely chopped spices and shallots 1tbsp ginger, peeled and (and lemongrass if finely chopped using) in the Half to 1 red chilli, sliced blender with 1tbsp 1tsp curry powder or 2 fresh water. Whizz until curry leaves, finely chopped it’s finely chopped. ½tsp turmeric Mix all the ingredients on the Salt and freshly ground black pepper list together, 1 egg, beaten stirring in the 1tbsp flour beaten egg, flour 1tbsp water

and a little water to

help it congeal. Season with salt and pepper.

Now it’s ready for cooking.

Step 3: In the Maldives it was baked in the oven for 45min until golden brown but I fry them as patties. Shape into golfball-sized balls and flatten until 2cm thick.

On a low to medium heat, fry each patty in a little vegetable oil until golden. It will take about 5min. Serve them hot.

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Drama pEnny drEadful

Sky Atlantic, 9pm

A giddy mix of ingredients make up this atmospheric psychological thriller from Skyfall director Sam Mendes and writer John Logan.

Dracula, Frankenstein and Dorian Gray all feed into a Victorian London dripping with menace. Here, we meet US showman Ethan Chandler, (Josh Hartnett, above) who becomes involved with the mysterious Vanessa Ives (Eva Green), a woman who plays her cards very close to her chest.

That’s the jumping off point for an inventive twist on making a TV drama.

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History, 10pm

We’re riding pillion tonight, as this fly-on-the-wall documentary – exploring the world of night-shift workers – accompanies John Rock from Blood Bikers as he transports emergency blood samples and records from one hospital to the next. Next we meet fishmonger Margaret Buckley (pictured), who works on Moore Street. Later, the programme goes behind the scenes at The Irish Times.

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Jay-Z drafted in Oscarghghghghgh winning director Ron Howard for this behindthe-scenes look at his two-day festival Made In America. Shot in 2012, it features an eclectic lineup of artists including Kanye West, Rita Ora, Run-DMC, Janelle Monäe, Pearl Jam, The Hives, Jill Scott and, of course, Mr Jay Z Carter (right) himself, giving us his personal and musical insights.

The scene has been set – we know Viking Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) is a sensitive soul, underneath the horns and hair – so now we’re off on a rollicking adventure as Ragnar defies his tribal chief (as well as his wife, Lagertha) and sets off on a voyage for mysterious England. Suffice to say, he’s not just planning a day at the beach and a trek round the local abbey.

Braquo Fox, 9pm

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Justin Timberlake (left) in a wispy beard, Carey Mulligan in a hippie wig and a whole lot of folk music make up this latest quirky black comedy from the Coen brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowski). This ravishingly shot odyssey of one failing musician (Oscar Isaac, launching his star) was criminally overlooked at the Oscars, but that just makes it all the more cult.

David Mamet’s prize-winning play sports an unbeatable allmale cast. Four shifty estate agents (Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, above, Ed Harris and Al Pacino) have a rocket put up them by their boss when he sends in Alec Baldwin to arrange a contest where the losers will be fired.

Then one man comes up with the bright idea of an office break-in. As if there wasn’t enough actorly firepower packed in here, Kevin Spacey co-stars as the frustrated office manager.

Rumour has it the cast jokingly referred to the film as ‘Death of a F*****’ Salesman’ because of its use of profanity.

Fun garraí glas TG4, 8pm

As the Irish language gardening series continues, tonight Síle Nic Chonaonaigh heads to Co Donegal where she meets Tony McNally, who is very knowledegable about plants and their various uses.

He shows her how to collect oak galls and make ink from them. Later, Lisbeth Mulcahy shows Síle how to dye wool using heather. And Gaby Wieland talks to her about rose hips.

THE paul o’grady sHow

Comedy Central, 5pm This teatime chat show is often better value than the late-night versions, with host Paul O’Grady having a happy knack for genuine empathy with his guests. Today he’ll be having a crack with Nick Frost, whose new TV comedy drama, Mr Sloane, starts on Friday. It’s set in the 1960s, so Paul will feel right at home.

This week’s documentary takes a trip into the world of counterfeit products. While we’re all familiar with fake designer handbags, watches, and shoes, nowadays the market has grown in a global phenomenon with products including pharmaceuticals, food, toys, electronic goods, car parts, microchips and even spare parts for airplanes. The traffic in counterfeit goods is now estimated at €500billion, representing nearly ten per cent of all global trade.

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RTÉ1, 8.30pm

BBC3, 9pm

Is it time we hung up on Nev Wilshire and his Swansea call centre crew? This second series has struggled to match the impact of the first, despite wise-cracking Nev’s best efforts. As we bow out, the boss heads off to Hawaii on holiday – there’s money in those nuisance calls – leaving Phil and Twe holding the fort – and trying out a new sales tactic in Nev’s absence.

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Dave, 10pm

On tonight’s show, reporter Kathriona Devereux looks at why e-cigarettes remain unregulated – despite their huge rise in popularity. She questions if they are making smoking glamorous again.

Meanwhile, Tadhg Enright asks why Irish pubs often charge more for a soft drink than a beer and chef Kevin Dundon looks ahead to a, hopefully, sunny summer, teaming up with some Aussies to turn up the heat on three different BBQs.

imaginE... pHilip roTH unlEasHEd BBC1, 10.35pm

A recent scene in Mad Men had Don Draper lying on a couch reading Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint – and Mad Men doesn’t drop its cultural references by chance.

Brace yourselves as Alan Yentob reads out from some of Roth’s racier passages and tries to keep up with the bons mots from the veteran author, now 80.

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Jean-Hugues Anglade returns as the tough but sensitive French cop Eddy Caplan in a third series of murky vendettas and seething passions set in the Parisian demi-monde. Brutal bouts of fisticuffs overlap with nighttime car chases and moody conversations in a show that revels in the seedy underbelly of crime.

As the staff at Seattle Grace Hospital deal with a massive influx of flu patients, the firstyears have a bet on which one of them falls ill first. April treats a young boy who has ‘bubble boy disease’.

Meanwhile, as Derek prepares the speech for a presentation to 50 scientists, he starts to feel sick.

Elsewhere Jo has a tetanus patient who refuses treatment and things get a little out of hand.

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This week’s odd couple, heavyweight boxer David Haye and comedian Seann Walsh (above), are off to Cork to blow €10,000 in 24 hours, following a strict set of rules that prevents them having a blast in sex clubs and doing loads of drugs. Phew, that’s a relief. For some odd reason, Hayes and Walsh start off their spree in the middle of a field of cows, paying a tractor driver to take them into town. As you can imagine it all goes downhill from there.

mr drEw’s scHool for Boys C4, 9pm

Time is up for the 11 troubled boys that Educating Essex’s Mr Drew has taken under his wing. In four short weeks, has he transformed the effing and blinding troublemakers into little angels? Not exactly, but as teacher and pupils bid farewell, there’s a sense that lessons have been learned – not least by the parents.

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InsTAnT EXpERT NEW LOOK TWITTER The way you view Twitter online is changing. Facebookstyle profiles are being phased in and will be compulsory

by May 28, so here’s how to get to grips with the switch.

Header photo Just like a Facebook cover photo, you can choose a ‘header photo’ that runs the width of the screen to set off your profile. The image should be 1500x500 pixels but Twitter has a handy resizing tool. Your existing header photo (displayed as a background picture on the old design) won’t necessarily fit the new dimensions.

Background Your old background image is no longer

visible when you click the ‘Me’ tab at the top of the page,

The future of cycling: The teched-up Vanhawks Valour

A ride like no other

BACK in 1985, a television show called Street Hawk had just hit screens. This was followed by the Raleigh Vektar, a BMX bike featuring a speedometer, FM radio and a sound console. If you had one you were hot tamale… for the short period before it got nicked, writes James Day. This retro-hipster’s wet dream is now an ultra-rare collector’s item but fast-forward 30 years and a new gadget-laden bike is ready to knock that digital watch on two wheels off its forks.

The Vanhawks Valour is the world’s first smart bike designed for the urban commuter. Packed with sensors for tracking performance, it can connect to iOS and Android devices, or a Pebble smartwatch, to offer route navigation via LED lights on the handlebars, even suggesting a

snApsHOT If you dream of a bike that can talk to other bikes, tell you where to go and warn you of obstacles on the road ahead, then this smart-tech twowheeled superstar is The One

way to avoid steep hills.

Those handlebars also vibrate to warn you of objects in your blind spot, thanks to something called integrated haptic feedback.

The bike can even act as a realtime beacon of information for other urban commuters by communicating data on potholes, roadworks and traffic conditions. Unlike the Vektar, if your Valour is stolen, your smartphone will notify you of its last known whereabouts – but this is only

triggered if it passes another Valour, so you’d better hope we all buy one.

Finally, you can charge up all these gadgets on the go via the Valour’s front-wheel dynamo.

It doesn’t have an electric motor, so you still need to put in the pedal power, but it weighs just 7.2kg. It’s made from ultra-light carbon fibre – the same material used to make the McLaren P1 supercar – and the saddle, grips and pedals have all been designed to relieve pressure on everything from your buttocks to the back of your neck.

You can be the proud owner of one now in return for pledging a very reasonable CAN$1,049 (around €700) plus shipping; this Kickstarter crowdfunded project needed €75,000 to put it into production – and at the last count had already quadrupled that total.

gAME Of THE wEEk KIRBY TRIPLE DELUxE (3DS) When it comes to Nintendo’s class of characters, poor old Kirby is always the last to be picked in PE. This is perhaps unfair because underneath his bubblegum-ball exterior lies the ability to suck up and exhale projectiles. He can also swallow enemies and gain power by copying their abilities.

In Triple Deluxe, Kirby wakes to find his home has been raised into the clouds by a Dreamstalk. Peeved at what must be a total hassle, the pink panter takes a deep breath and sets off to find the culprit and rescue King Dedede, who has somehow got himself caught up in the whole messy affair and been taken hostage.

The platformer has been given the full cartoon treatment, which although traditionally aimed at younger gamers, has never stopped anyone playing Super Mario. And the inclusion of powers

ALsO OuT NASCAR ’14 (PS3)

including something called Hypernova, where Kirby can vacuum up huge chunks of scenery, makes this more than your usual fairy-tale adventure.

3DS gamers should note that, aside from Tomodachi Life in June, this is the only major release on the platform this year, so you’re not exactly spoilt for choice. jD

Nascar ’14 is a racing sim based on the US stock car series that’s always proved a tough sell here. Features include improved AI and career modes, online leagues and updated teams – although sadly for South Park fans, without Vagisil-sponsored cars. jD

although it still appears as wallpaper under the other tabs such as Notifications. You now get to pick a theme colour that will be used for key text such as your tweet counter.

Profile photo This is now a higher resolution, so aim for

an image of at least 400x400 pixels. If you’re unsure, an online photo editor such as Pixlr can help with resizing.

Best tweets Any tweets with a high level of interaction – such as retweets, replies and favourites – will be furnished with larger text to make them more prominent.

Pinned tweets If you’re well chuffed with one of your own tweets, you can pin it to the top of your timeline. Click on the three-dot icon below your tweet to bring up a menu for sharing, embedding or pinning. Pinned tweets remain at the top until unpinned or replaced with a new pinned tweet.

Filtered tweets Filtering options now sit below your

header photo and let you choose the tweets displayed on your profile, or the one you’re viewing. You can choose between tweets, tweets and replies, or those including photos or video. jD

App hAppy MySleepButton (iOS, free)

Scientists advise us to turn off our phones at night because the screen’s blue light makes us think it’s morning and keeps us awake. Now a boffin at Canada’s Simon Fraser University has turned this thinking on its head. Tap the ‘Put Me To Sleep’ button, close your eyes and listen to audio prompts for things to think of to help you drift off rather than keep you distracted – think reindeers and rowing boats rather than Beyoncé and Brad Pitt.

Pointless (iOS/Android, €1.79)

When Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? transferred to mobile gaming without much Tarrant, nobody seemed to mind. Pointless, on the other hand, really doesn’t work without Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman, so it’s pleasing to see them play a large part in the Pointless app, now on Android. They guide you through being a single player or playing with friends and you can even challenge other fans via Facebook.

Adobe Voice (iOS, free)

Want to tell a story but have the artistic ability of a three-toed sloth? Adobe Voice makes creating animated videos easy. Whether a children’s story or work presentation, record what you want to say and Voice will suggest a soundtrack and pictures to bring it to life. Sounds odd, but basically you just pick the type of presentation you’re making, record it and then select images to go with it. And if you hate the sound of your own voice, an analyser will polish it for you. It’s iPad-only for now but, if successful, expect a roll-out across other platforms. jD

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lochs, scots and beach hot spots with a summer break in Scotland – there’s lots to keep you and your family entertained, writes Patricia Nicol

YOung fAMiLiEs the FiFe coast

unDER-15s perthshire Perthshire’s Crieff Hydro hotel is a national institution. Generations of Scots have grown up with it: I have cherished memories of pony-trekking through its forests and enjoying the family ceilidhs and quizzes. Accommodation is offered in the hotel itself or in self-catering chalets. Book directly and two three-hour sessions in the Big Country childcare facility for two-to-12-year-olds are included in your room rate. And

there is a crèche for under-twos, costing abotu €18 for a 90-minute session. When it’s raining, there’s soft play, a couple of pools and a cinema. While the kids are busy, retreat to the original Victorian spa or gym. At least 60 other activities can be paid for, such as horse riding, quad biking, zip wiring and superhero training.

From €200 per room. www.crieffhydro.com

The sheltered beaches and charming fishing villages of Fife’s East Neuk, a 90-minute drive from Edinburgh across the Forth Road Bridge, make an ideal spot for a gently paced mini-break or week’s holiday. Foodies love it: fêted seafood eateries range from Crail’s harbourside Lobster Store shack to award-winning chippies such as Anstruther Fish Bar and the Michelin-starred Sangster’s.

Elie has the most celebrated blueflagged beach (above): a broad, child-friendly sweep of sand

GETTING THERE Flights to Scotland from Dublin with Aer Lingus start at €29.99 (Glasgow and Edinburgh) and €34.99 (Aberdeen) Visit www. aerlingus.ie.

where cricket is played on a Sunday morning and lunch can be enjoyed at the Ship Inn. Meanwhile, Pittenweem has a picturesque harbour and an art festival from August 2 to 10 (www.pittenweemartsfestival.co. uk) where many homes become galleries. There’s attractive, easy walking and cycling to enjoy on the Fife Coastal Path, birdspotting boat trips to the Isle of May and history to enjoy at Kellie Castle.

It’s also worth checking out Scotland’s Secret Bunker, a Cold

War relic. If bunkers are generally your thing, then this is a golfer’s paradise, not least because it is so near St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university town and the sport’s birthplace.

Self-catering options include Elie cottage (€615 to €1,600 per week. www.elie-cottage.co.uk) and Treescape (€1,840 to €2,760 per week. www.treescapeelie.com).

Doubles at Kilconquhar Castle start at €74 per night. www.kilconquharcastle.co.uk

fAMiLY fEsTivAL BannockBurn live

TEEnAgERs the wild west coast Give your teens the freedom, space and adventure they crave.

Wilderness Scotland offers guided and tailor-made trips, including a four-day family sea kayaking adventure from Arisaig on the west coast, with views back to Ben Nevis and out to the magical smaller isles of Canna, Eigg, Muck and Rum (€670 per person. www. wildernessscotland.com).

It also provides private yacht charters (€615 per day) along the west coast and out to the Hebrides, plus guided bike trips (€736 per person for five days)

across the Great Glen. Or rent a VW (above) from Scooby Campers (€730 per week. www. scoobycampers.com) and set off on a camping or wild camping adventure (it’s legal in

Scotland). Mountain biking and island-hopping are also good options for the hardy.

For ferry schedules, go to www.calmac.co.uk

This year The Battle Of Bannockburn, in which a canny Robert The Bruce outsmarted an English Army and became an icon, celebrates its 700th anniversary.

Bannockburn Live is a two-day, multi-faceted festival celebrating this decisive battle with recourse to historical reenactments, ancestry workshops, storytelling events and a foodie village.

Meanwhile, there’s live music from

folk legends Dougie ‘Caledonia’ Maclean and the Hebridean singer and multi-instrumentalist Julie Fowlis, who is internationally renowned for her captivating take on traditional Irish and Scots Gaelic music.

Jun 28 and Jun 29, Glasgow Road, Whins Of Milton, Stirling, UK. Tickets from €25 from www. bannockburnlive.com

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A downtown hipster’s paradise LA’s new Ace Hotel is at the centre of an urban takeover, writes Oliver Stallwood

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mblazoned above a public car park opposite the new ace hotel in downtown la is a mural of a girl on a swing. She is suspended from the word ‘parking’, which has been altered to say ‘park’.

‘That’s a banksy,’ says the elderly parking attendant. When checking into The ace, la’s most hyped new boutique hotel, the journey clearly begins way before you enter its doors.

The ace is an establishment that put its towel on the real estate sun lounger before anyone else arrived at the pool. The building, originally built in 1927 for maverick film studio United artists as an edgy temple to the arts, sits just a couple of blocks from the notorious Skid Row, said to house the highest concentration of homeless people in the US. or at least it did. Its cardboard and tarpaulin streets have long been in the crosshairs of property developers and since 2006, the police have been steadily clearing the area.

The one-time crumbling wasteland of art deco facades and half-empty buildings is now one of the city’s most exciting new areas. The wholesale jewellers and taco shacks remain but it’s impossible to watch la news reports without hearing of new multi-milliondollar developments and rejuvenation projects.

Stockholm-based fashion powerhouse acne Studios recently opened its largest store in the world in the blue art deco eastern Columbia building, with a giant mushroom sculpture by belgian Carsten Höller as its centrepiece. back to The ace. like the rest of the chain, driven by the eccentric vision of alex Calderwood, the Seattle-born hotelier found dead in the Shoreditch, london hotel six weeks after its opening, the ace has immersed itself in the location. It believes in resurrection, not just renovation, which is why the iconic Jesus Saves sign, by televangelist Rev Gene Scott, still sits on the back of the downtown building.

Rebirth of cool: Ace Hotels’ rooms fit its home in United Artists studio my room, complete with a guitar and turntables, is also full of small placards of people, events, ideas and facts from 1927, all created

by Californian artist mike mills. There is a fastidious attention to detail, such as a Pendleton blanket. It’s just a shame I couldn’t get hot water in the shower.

The strict 2am alcohol curfew in la means people go out early and, while the less fortunate side of downtown is more evident after dark, it doesn’t feel unsafe.

First stop on our mini-crawl is Seven Grand (sevengrandbars.com), which serves great

fOLLOwing THE TRAiL

by Deirdre Davys

In the wake of the Giro d’Italia, the entire country seems to have gone bike mad. If you’re dreaming of donning that famous pink jersey someday, then Barnett Demesne, just outside Belfast, is a great place to start, and with bikes, helmets – and even an instructor – provided, the park with its dedicated trails and jumps area for mountain bikers is a must.

I start with the green trail which runs alongside the River Lagan and, with its gentle inclines, is perfect for beginners and those with young children.

Moving up a level to a blue trail, the tracks become windy and narrower, with rocks and bits of fallen branches to watch out for.

Criss-crossing the blue trails are three red trails which will suit more experienced riders. Bikers who want a

drinks but feels like it’s trying too hard. I wander to the next bar and on my way meet a street hustler who writes a poem for me on a subject of my choice, quickly followed by a woman who thinks australia is in europe.

The next morning we rise bleary-eyed looking for breakfast, declining the ace’s swanky offer in place of somewhere more old-school. a security guard directs us to an old mexican workers’ café ‘if we want real downtown street food’. a hole-in-the-wall place two blocks from the hotel has a sign stating: ‘baja Style mexican

real whiteknuckle ride should opt for ‘berms’ – banked curves, drop offs – where you begin cycling down a sheer rockface while trying to stay attached to your bike. Double rollers, log rides, elevated boardwalks and rock gardens keep the adrenalin pumping. The local council has built a Jumps Park which is all about riding up, down and around huge banks of earth, testing braking and acceleration skills.

Visit www.discovernorthernireland.com/adventure

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Food. all natural. no lard’ and is full of locals eating budget burritos and tacos on plastic trays. It’s run by a mother-and-son team and is hidden in a sea of internet cafés and coffee shops.

It’s proof old downtown is still hanging on by its grubby fingernails. Whether it can survive further over-sanitisation and a thirst for frothy coffees takes hold is anyone’s guess.

Getting there: Aer Lingus fly Dublin to LA via New York. Doubles at the Ace Hotel start at €175, www. acehotel.com. www.discoverlosangeles.com

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Ian MaDIGan has been left out of Ireland’s summer tour to argentina as head coach Joe Schmidt selected four uncapped stars in a 30man squad.

Leinster playmaker Madigan has missed out, with Schmidt instead opting to take just two specialist fly-halves – Racing Metro’s Johnny Sexton and Ulster’s Paddy Jackson.

Former Leinster boss Schmidt said Madigan will tour Romania with the Emerging Ireland squad, along with Munster’s fast-improving outside-half Ian Keatley.

Robbie Diack, Rob Herring, James Cronin and Kieran Marmion are the four uncapped tourists heading to argentina next month.

Cian Healy, Gordon D’arcy, Sean O’Brien and Tommy Bowe have been handed a break in the summer, with Schmidt conscious of an arduous build-up to Rugby World Cup 2015.

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make international debuts this summer.

Prop Cronin and half-back Marmion have also been handed chances to shine, while Darren Cave and Robbie Henshaw will battle it out to succeed retired Brian O’Driscoll at outside centre.

Schmidt admitted it would be vital to hand a number of senior stars a rest this summer, with the World Cup next autumn already hurtling into view. Sean Cronin and Dan Tuohy are two more left at home after battling injury for much of the campaign.

‘It’s really just player management,’ Schmidt said. ‘There are guys who have had continuous niggly injuries that are going to be given a good amount of time in the pre-season to recover from those.

‘Obviously Sean (O’Brien) has come back (after shoulder surgery) and played very few minutes. It was a discussion I had with both players (O’Brien and Bowe), and there are a number of others who we would feel are better served by getting a window to fully recover.’

Carr sees no opposition to Dublin’s dominance Dublin legend Tommy Carr believes the All-ireland champions will ‘mow down’ every team in leinster – including laois, writes Paul Keane.

Slow starting laois eventually burned off Wicklow in Sunday’s first-round to secure a June 8 leinster quarter-final showdown with holders Dublin. but Carr isn’t optimistic about the O’Moore County’s chances, suggesting they may only be competitive until half-time.

The ex-Dublin manager and captain is adamant that ‘there’s nothing to touch Dublin in leinster’ and laois are no exception. ‘let’s call a spade a spade – Dublin are going to absolutely mow down anything in leinster,’ said Carr. ‘The only way Dublin are going to get caught by laois

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spORT DigEsT Brilliant Bevin top after solo victory cycLing Patrick Bevin of the New Zealand National Team soloed to a superb victory on stage two of An Post Rás yesterday, putting him top of the general classification. The Kiwi rider (pictured) crossed the line in Lisdoonvarna almost two minutes ahead of a chasing group of four which included Alessandro Pettiti (Italy Team Idea), Fankhauser Clemens (Austria Tirol Cycling Team), Marcus Eibegger (Azerbaijan Synergy Baku) and David Chopin (France Bretagne Velotec). The New Zealander takes a significant time lead in the general classification and was thrilled with the result. ‘It’s a great result for me. I’m really delighted to get the stage win. There was a bit of a lull in the race so I attacked and I just felt like I had the legs to keep going over the climbs. Thankfully I did and it worked out for me in the end,’ he said.

Stewart tribute to champion Brabham

‘The thing is Ian hasn’t had a lot of game time recently’ would be very, very difficult, so we have gone for three scrum-halves,’ said Schmidt, explaining Madigan’s omission.

‘To go with six halves would have been a real tightening of numbers. The thing for Ian is he hasn’t had a lot of game time recently.

‘I have had a really good discussion with him.

He is going to come in and train with us, but he will go on the emerging tour and that will give him and the likes of Ian Keatley time to get game time over there. We will still be keeping a close eye on that group.’

Ireland face the Pumas in Resistencia on June 7 before a second Test in Tucuman on June 15.

Leinster wing Dave Kearney’s knee injury suffered against Ulster on Saturday has ruled him out of the tour, with fit-again Munster flyer Simon Zebo slotting in after missing the entire Six nations.

South africa-born Ulster duo Diack and Herring have qualified through residency and could

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Carr: Optimistic about Dublin or anyone else in leinster is if they can’t raise themselves to the level they should be at.

‘All things being equal, i don’t

see any team around with the pace and the power and the mobility of Dublin. That’s not me being biased towards Dublin, that’s being frank and factual.’

Carr says laois’s best chance of troubling the back-to-back league champions is by employing a defensive game plan.

‘The only way laois could do it is if they play like Donegal,’ he continued. ‘because if you can’t attack very efficiently and be absolutely deadly at it, then the only other option is to try and stop the other team scoring. ‘i think they’ll be competitive for the first ten or 15 minutes, even until half-time perhaps, because Dublin can be a little bit jumpy at times, a bit erratic. ‘but on their day, there’s nothing to touch Dublin in leinster.’

Carr, currently in charge of the Westmeath minors, believes that Colm begley will line out for laois against Dublin.

The former Aussie Rules player was axed for the Wicklow match after playing for Parnell’s in the Dublin club championship last Wednesday evening.

O Flatharta admitted that begley was in an ‘awkward position’ because he’s employed as a coach at the club. but Carr pulled no punches and blamed begley for leaving O Flatharta with no choice. ‘i’ve heard everyone saying, “it’s unfortunate for Colm” but he played for his club within five days of a Championship match that laois were preparing nine months for. For me, Tomas O Flatharta was totally correct,’ said Carr.

fORMuLA-1 PJackie Stewart has paid tribute to his on-track rival and friend Jack Brabham, the three-time Formula One world champion who has died aged 88. Australian Brabham passed away at his home on the Gold Coast in Australia yesterday. ‘Jack was a fierce competitor. I am very fortunate to have lived in the era of Jack Brabham,’ Stewart said.

Wilkinson to hang up his lethal boots Rugby Jonny

Wilkinson has announced he will retire at the end of the season. The flyhalf, most famous for winning the 2003 World Cup for England with a dramatic drop goal against Australia, made the announcement on the website of his club, Toulon. The 34-year-old, who will turn 35 the day after Toulon’s Heineken Cup final against Saracens on Saturday, has long been expected to call time on his playing days. Wilkinson (pictured) retires as one of just five men to score 1,000 points in international rugby, with his 1,246 second only to New Zealand great Dan Carter.

Heffernan for 50k ATHLETics Reigning World

Champion Rob Heffernan (Togher AC) has been selected to compete in the 50km Race Walk at the European Track and Field Championships in Zurich on August 15. Heffernan will be joined by training partner Brendan Boyce (Letterkenny AC). The full Irish Team for the European Track and Field Championships in Zurich will be announced after the National Track and Field Championships on July 21.

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City get a Silva lining with David happy to stay put DaviD Silva has distanced himself from rumours he could leave Manchester City this summer. The Spain playmaker is believed to be interesting Barca as they look to regain the la liga title next season but after four years at the Etihad Stadium, it appears Silva, 28, is more than happy in Manchester – for now, anyway – with a contract which runs until the summer of 2017. Since the midfielder’s £26million transfer from valencia in 2010, he has now won two Premier league titles and is hungry for more success. Silva said: ‘i think i’m in a good moment. i’m happy here [in Manchester] too. These four years i’ve been here, i feel good and i think things have come out well.’ u ThiBauT CourToiS will resolve his Chelsea future after atletico Madrid’s Champions league final with real Madrid on Saturday. u Feyenoord playmaker Jordy Clasie (pictured) could be fellow dutchman Louis van Gaal’s first Manchester United signing. u KaSPEr SChMEiChEl has agreed a new four-year contract with leicester.

Schmeichel was set to be out of contract in the summer but is now expected to sign this week. aC Milan, arsenal and Southampton have all been linked with moves for the former Manchester City trainee.

Barca clear-out as Enrique takes over CESC FaBrEgaS, Javier Mascherano, Dani alves and alexis Sanchez are all to be shopped around as Barcelona consider a clear-out under new manager luis Enrique (pictured). The 44-yearold, who led Celta vigo this season, has agreed a two-year deal to take over from gerardo Martino, who left after just one year in charge. Meanwhile, Barca say gerard Deulofeu will be in their first-team squad next term after a season on loan at Everton.

Ryan Giggs has finally hung up his boots to become louis van gaal’s assistant at old Trafford. here we look at some of the amazing stats that have helped make the 40-year-old the English game’s most decorated player 963 record number of appearances for

United, starting 802 times 34 Major trophies, including two Champions League crowns, 13 Premier League titles and four FA Cups 168 Goals for his club, the last at QPr in 2013 1 PFA Player of the year award, in 2009; he made the team of the year six times 0 red cards for United but one in 64 Wales caps

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giggs’ original surname was Wilson but he adopted his mum’s maiden name after his parents split

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of oldest outfield PL players – behind Gordon Strachan, Kevin Phillips and, the eldest, Teddy Sheringham

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THEy SAiD iT football reacts to the Van Gaal and Giggs news ‘ryan knows what Manchester United are all about and Louis has been very clever in appointing him. He has learned off the very, very best [Sir Alex Ferguson].’

One-time United midfielder Ray Wilkins reckons Van Gaal has made a wise choice over Giggs

‘He has an outstanding pedigree as a coach, both as a man who motivates his teams and as someone who gives young players a chance to prove their worth.’

United owner Joel Glazer on his family’s choice

‘What a fantastic career – the number of games you have played, trophies you have won, the help you have given young people and help you’ve given me and all the coaching staff.’

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Giggs and Louis

Legend quits playing to be Van Gaal’s No.2

VAnGAAL bynUMbERs 1 Champions League

crown – Ajax, 1995 7 League titles in three countries 2 Spells as Holland boss – the first a failure when they missed out on 2002 World Cup finals

by DAnny GRiffiTHs LOUIS VAN GAAL pledged to ‘make history’ after being confirmed as Manchester United boss, with Ryan Giggs hanging up his boots to become the Dutchman’s assistant.

As the much-decorated Holland coach ushers in a new era at Old Trafford, a man who played such a big part in Sir Alex Ferguson’s glory years will offer some continuity.

Van Gaal’s appointment to steer United back on track following a miserable season under the command of David Moyes was one of the worst-kept secrets in football.

Giggs is excited by the opportunity to work alongside the 62-year-old, who will begin his new job after he leads his country at the World Cup finals.

‘I am thrilled to have the chance to serve as assistant manager,’ said Giggs, who filled in as caretaker boss when Moyes was sacked.

‘Louis van Gaal is a world-class coach

world cup diary ‘I saw what Ronaldo did. If he were one of my team-mates I’d be absolutely disgusted.

After Wayne was sent off he winked at his bench.

That just about sums him up as a person.’

WITh england off to Portugal, we thought it only fair to revisit the infamous 2006 meeting between the two countries, when Wayne Rooney was sent off, and Steven Gerrard blamed a winking Cristiano Ronaldo.

cOUnTDOwn 23 DAys TO GO Sao Paulo venue ‘will be ready’ for kick off in spite of problems

‘I know I will learn a lot by observing Louis’ and I know I will learn a lot about coaching from being able to observe and contribute at such close quarters.

‘United has been a huge part of my life and I’m delighted to be able to continue that relationship in such a key role.’

Van Gaal has enjoyed great success with PICTURe: aP Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich and he National service: Van Gaal will take over at United after the World Cup said: ‘It was always a wish for me to work in Tw the Premier League. @tipstermetro ‘To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena it is and how passionate and NEW boss Louis van Gaal arrives at Old Trafford recruit as Van Gaal knows all about his abilities knowledgeable the fans are. with a reputation for being an eccentric firebrand having coached him as Holland manager. It ‘This club has big ambitions. I, too, have who commands respect while getting the best makes the 6/1 put up by Ladbrokes that LVG signs big ambitions. Together I’m sure we will out of his players. Well, the ex-Bayern Munich the midfielder a decent shout. The trouble is make history.’ and Barcelona boss had better live up to the Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal Van Gaal has installed Marcel Bout as ophype. He has a massive job on his hands as will only get better and United need time to find position coach while Frans Hoek replaces United’s back four has to be completely rebuilt their feet. William Hill quote 11/8 they again miss Chris Woods as goalkeeper coach. United while their engine-room also requires extensive out on a top-four finish which is tempting as it will retain Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt but surgery. Roma’s Kevin Strootman would be a fine will take time for van Gaal to work his magic. have not decided what their roles will be.

THE TipsTER LVG has his work cut out at shambolic United

‘Good luck to Louis Van Gaal as the new manager of @ManUtd also to Giggsy as no.2. Hope they get #mufc back to the top where we belong.’

Rio Ferdinand, who has just played his 12th and final season the club, tweets his support for the new management team

‘He is a great football manager and I am happy he joins me in the same country and the Premier League.

But more important he’s a great guy.’

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho on the man he worked under at Barcelona early in his career

WORLD Cup organisers insist an incomplete roof at Sao Paulo’s Itaquerao Stadium will not affect it hosting matches when the tournament begins next month.

Constructors completing the project have admitted they will not finish the intended design until after the tournament, but the event’s local organising committee has stressed this will not be a problem. The Itaquerao Stadium will host the opening match between Brazil and Croatia on June 12. On Sunday it underwent its final test by staging a Brazilian league match which was affected by rain and hail storms forcing those among the restricted crowd of 40,000 not under cover of the roof to seek shelter elsewhere. ‘The only aspect of the roof which will be unfinished is the inner liner, not impacting the effective protection of the stands,’ the local organising committee said.

The stadium, which will have a capacity of nearly 70,000, has been dogged by problems since construction, the cost of which has rocketed from €117million to some €393m, began in 2011.

Earlier this year a worker died while installing some of the 20,000 temporary seats required for the opening game, prompting officials to briefly halt construction after two previous fatalities at the venue late last year when a crane collapsed.

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