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Gilmore’s way out Labour Party leader resigns after local election backlash

EAMON GILMORE’S oft-quoted ‘La- by con doherty bour’s way or Frankfurt’s way’ came back to bite him yesterday as he resigned as said, adding he will stay on as leader until party leader after a disastrous local and his successor is appointed next month.

Speaking of the necessity for renewal, European election performance.

First uttered during the 2011 general Mr Gilmore said: ‘There is work to do, election campaign that brought his party and I intend to be part of it, but I believe into coalition with Fine Gael, the mantra that the work of renewing the party is best that Irish economic affairs would not be done under new leadership.’

Labour took only 50 – seven per cent – dictated by the bailout Troika was repeatof seats in the local elections. This was in edly used as a stick to beat the Tánaiste.

Mr Gilmore said he still believes he stark contrast to Sinn Féin trebling repremade the right decision by going into sentation on local councils and which last night looked on course to coalition with Fine Gael behave four MEPs on the island cause there was a duty to act of Ireland. Labour has had no during Ireland’s worst ecoMEPs elected after returning nomic crisis. three MEPs in the 2009 poll.

‘But it was a course which Mr Gilmore said he decided carried a high political risk, to resign before a motion of and Labour has paid the price no confidence, led by Clare for that in the local and EuroTD Michael McNamara, was pean elections. I deeply regret put forward by six other TDs the loss of good public repreand a senator. sentatives and the defeat of outstanding Labour canditurn to PAGE 4 dates last Friday,’ Mr Gilmore ‘Renewal’: Mr Gilmore

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Dressed in black and armed with cameras, ‘superhero’ hunts down rogue road users

I am the law: The self-styled ‘justice seeker on a bicycle’ says his footage has resulted in hundreds of prosecutions

Drivers beware... it’s Traffic Droid

Road warrior: Lewis Dediare is equipped for his battle against traffic crime

BATMAN has a cape and the Batmobile, Superman has X-ray vision and can fly... and Traffic Droid? Well, he’s got some cameras and a bike.

He may not be the traditional superhero but you still wouldn’t want this traffic crime fighter chasing you down.

Dressed head to toe in black and armed with seven video cameras, he patrols the streets naming and shaming errant motorists.

‘Since I started, my footage has resulted in about 200 police warnings a year and four or five prosecutions,’ said the real-life action man, aka tele-

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coms officer Lewis Dediare, 39. ‘Traffic Droid is a superhero after justice.’

The keen cyclist was inspired to rid London’s streets of bad driving five years ago after a road accident left him with several broken ribs.

‘After my experiences, I was very angry. I decided action had to be taken and installed the cameras to try to humiliate bad drivers,’ he said.

‘I upload my footage on to police website Roadsafe London, and the police decide what to do.’

All bad driving angers Traffic Droid

but the cardinal sin is a ‘left-hook’– when a motorist passes a cyclist on the left and turns right into the bike’s path. ‘It can kill cyclists,’ he said.

Unsurprisingly, road users do not always welcome his interventions.

He revealed: ‘I have been threatened many times and attacked three times but I never fight back because I don’t take the law into my own hands.’

All this fighting crime has also come at a cost to his personal life. ‘It hasn’t left much time to find a girlfriend,’ he added.

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Adams says swing to left is more than a protest FroM PAgE 1 « Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he wanted to thank Mr Gilmore for his ‘courage’ in making the collective decisions that have turned Ireland back from economic collapse.

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton was tipped as the favourite to be next Labour leader.

The parliamentary party will meet tomorrow ahead of an internal vote among wider party members to select the successor.

Meanwhile, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams rejected the Taoiseach’s claims that the swing to the left was nothing more than a protest. ‘This is deep-rooted, it’s profound, it’s a sea change. The

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Bad day to be called Eamon: Brian Hayes waits for results, below; main Eamon Ryan called for a recount

landscape here politically has changed,’ he said.

Since winning 19.4 per cent of first preference votes, and 37 Dáil seats in the 2011 general election, seven members of Labour’s parliamentary party have resigned because of dissatisfaction with the actions taken by the party in Government. Among these were TD Colm Keaveney, who voted against cuts to the respite care grant, junior health minister Roisin Shortall who resigned over health cuts, and MEP Nessa Childers, who said she would no longer ‘support a Government that is actually hurting people’.

A MAN died after an altercation at an election party in the early hours of yesterday.

Liam Horan, 60, the brother of unsuccessful Galway City Council Independent candidate Jimmy Horan, suffered a heart attack at Crowe’s Bar in Galway city.

The premises are owned by the family of re-elected Fianna Fáil councillors Ollie and Michael Crowe.

Gardaí were last night questioning a man, 52.

This is the second death of the local elections. On Friday, Monaghan Fine Gael candidate Owen Brannigan, 54, died after collapsing near his home while canvassing.

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Favourite for leader: Joan Burton

2nd man dies in course of local elections

INDEPENDENT Nessa Childers, Fine Gael’s Brian Hayes and Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan are Dublin’s new MEPs. The result was confirmed last night following a recount requested by Eamon Ryan of the Green Party. He came in fourth place, just 1,149 votes

‘Humbling to get that size of the vote’ shy of Brian Hayes’ total.

Meanwhile, Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan is swapping his Dáil seat for one in the European Parliament after being elected in the Midlands North-West constituency yesterday.

He said last night that he was ‘elat-

Anderson tops poll to become first MEP in North SINN FÉIN’S Martina Anderson has become the first MEP elected in Northern Ireland in this election after she topped the poll with almost 160,000 votes.

Fellow outgoing MEP ed’ with his win. ‘Now the Government know that the people of Ireland are sick and tired of being told what to do by Europe.

‘We are sick and tired of having debt put on our shoulders that wasn’t ours. This is a marker; it isn’t just what I can do, it’s what they do to react to this, to listen to the people’.

Counting was adjourned after the third count in the Midlands NorthWest last night, where Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy looks set to be elected,

Eurosceptic parties gain in political ‘earthquake’ STUNNING victories in European Parliament elections by nationalist and Eurosceptic parties left the EU facing a giant policy dilemma.

French prime minister Manuel Valls called the breakthrough by Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front, which topped a national vote for the first time, pushing his Socialists into third place, a political ‘earthquake’.

There were also major gains for farright parties in Denmark and Hungary, while radical-left group Syriza topped the poll in recession-hit Greece.

The anti-austerity vote was amplified in many countries by a low turnout of just 43.1 per cent, but the pro-European centre ground held firm in Germany, as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc emerged as the country’s strongest party, and Italy, where centreleft prime minister Matteo Renzi also bucked the trend. Merkel called the far right and populist advances ‘remarkable and regrettable’ and said France needed to focus on competitiveness, jobs and economic growth to overcome voters’ disenchantment.

Democratic Unionist Diane Dodds received more than 131,000 first preferences. But the wife of DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds did not reach the required quota on the first round of counting and will having the second highest first preference votes, followed by sitting MEPs Fine Gael’s Mairead McGuinness and Independent Marian Harkin.

In the South constituency, sitting MEP Brian Crowley of Fianna Fáil took the first seat with more than 27 per cent of the vote. The poll-topper was elected on the first count, having exceeded the quota.

Speaking to Newstalk, he said it was ‘a very humbling experience to get that size of a vote’.

have to wait for confirmation of her success.

The third incumbent Jim Nicholson of the Ulster Unionists is currently ahead in the race to secure the third seat.

Sinn Féin’s Liadh Ní Riada was elected on the fourth count with Fine Gael’s Sean Kelly in third.

His party colleague Simon Harris polled better than running mate Deirdre Clune, putting them in fourth and fifth place respectively. The remaining seats in the two four-seat constituencies will be decided on transfers.

In the local elections, seven seats remain unfilled in Fingal County Council after a recount in Swords was called on Sunday.

Triumphant Farage targets poll surge at Westminster

Happy days: Ukip’s Farage

UKIP leader Nigel Farage pledged to take seats in Westminster after a historic win over the main parties in the European elections.

He hailed his party’s first win in a national election as an ‘earthquake’ in British politics and said: ‘Ukip is going to win seats in the elections next year.’

Ukip dominated the vote with 24 MEPs, including one in Wales and its first representative in Scotland.

The result also found Nick Clegg facing calls to step down as leader

after the Liberal Democrats were left with only one MEP. David Cameron blamed ‘deep disillusionment’ with the EU for Ukip’s victory – but again dismissed as a ‘myth’ the prospect of any electoral pact with the party.

The prime minister claimed an allout victory for the Conservatives was ‘achievable’ – despite winning just 19 seats and 23.93 per cent of the vote and the only way to guarantee an in/out referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU.

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Cashing in on the Kim and Kanye craic in Cork

by ED CARTy

TOURISM chiefs are aiming to cash in on reports of one of the world’s most famous couples honeymooning in Cork.

Celebrity television star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West reportedly flew into Ireland yesterday for a supposedly secret getaway.

Rumours spread of the glamour arrival after a private jet landed at Cork Airport and whisked a couple away in limousines, with scores of fans and inquisitive locals descending on the nearby luxury Castlemartyr Resort.

The rapper, 36, and reality TV star, 33, took off for a rural retreat after celebrating their weekend wedding in Florence.

And Tourism Ireland is now hoping to cash in on the worldwide interest in the couple’s Irish honeymoon by targeting their online fan base of more than 40million Twitter and Facebook followers.

‘We’re working hard to produce a guide for their fans about where they are, or rather where they might be,’ marketing director Mark Henry said.

The couple are reportedly expected to spend one day in Dublin but the frequent social media users have remained unusually quiet about their plans.

Bodies believed to be missing men TwO bodies have been found in the search for two men missing for more than a month. Eoin O’Connor, 32, and Anthony Keegan, 33, both from the Coolock area of north Dublin, had been reported missing by concerned family members back in late April. It was thought they disappeared after arranging to travel to Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan to meet an associate, with one suggestion they had gone to collect a debt. The bodies, which have not been formally identified, were found on the shore of Inchicup island on Lough Sheelin, on the Cavan-Meath side of the lake.

Travel agent avoids jail for holiday fraud

Kim you believe it: Twitter user @LennyLovett had some fun imagining Kimye on honeymoon in Curracloe, Co Wexford

A FORMER travel agent has avoided jail after she admitted defrauding thousands of euro from holidaymakers.

Emma Lawless, 40, took a total of €11,192 from eight victims, none of which she has repaid.

She made mistakes booking holidays for customers and was using other customers’ money to cover her tracks, her defence said.

Judge Terence O’Sullivan said the offences were on the lower end of the scale and imposed a threemonth sentence, suspended in full on condition Lawless continues to engage in mental health treatment.

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Make love, not war. That is the key to getting your message heard through the everyday brand chatter that surrounds the public, says HubSpot’s marketing director KiERAn FLAnAgAn

HubSpot is all about inbound marketing. What is inbound marketing? It’s about creating

quality content that pulls people towards your company and product, where they naturally want to be. By aligning the content you publish with your customers’ interests, you naturally attract inbound traffic that you can then convert, close and delight over time.

Having now helped more than 11,000 companies, what do you feel have been the main factors that have led to HubSpot’s growth and success? At the heart of our

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helped define who they are as a brand. They are known for worldclass customer service. This isn’t a message they pitched to their audience, it’s based on the reality that their customer service is truly an awesome experience.

Writing good content is time consuming – how can businesses develop content without it taking too much time? There is definitely an

investment of both time and resources needed when developing content. But there are also lots of creative ways that you can scale your content rapidly with very little resources. A US company that sold swimming pools became the most successful company in their market by simply taking their customers’ top 30 frequently asked questions and created a whole year’s worth of content around those subjects.

growth is the fact that our inbound marketing platform works. All data we have points towards outbound marketing tactics becoming less impactful. The consumer is now in control of the buying cycle. They are choosing when, where, and how to engage with a business.

Is not this ‘content’ What inbound just the old-school marketing helps advertorial in businesses do is disguise? The Today, consumers become part of content you what those have powerful voices create should add consumers to the and your brand is only value choose to engage people you are with. as great as they trying to reach. If it’s not valuable, say it is Today, no one is going to consumers have share it, it’s not going powerful voices to rank in Google, and and your brand is only people won’t want to engage as great as they say it is. How with it.

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does a company ensure their message is authentic and engaging when the public knows it is all about selling them a product? Businesses

should focus on creating value at each point of the buying cycle, instead of always looking for opportunities to promote themselves. Businesses that succeed over the next five years will be those that can make themselves a source of value for their customers.

How do you control the message when it’s left in the hands of the customers? With

social media, consumers have a big impact on how a business is perceived. If your message is, ‘our business truly cares about our customers’, but there are hundreds of people on Twitter complaining about your service, then that message is easily distorted. Today, your message is controlled by interactions you have with customers. A great example of this is Zappos. Their customer service has

What do you feel is the most common marketing mistake nowadays? One of the most

common mistakes I hear from businesses is that they feel it’s a choice between inbound or outbound. If they decide to adopt inbound marketing, then all their outbound activity should be turned off immediately. This scares them from trying anything new and they get left behind. Businesses should figure out what part of their current marketing strategy is working for them and keep doing that. Stop doing the parts that are not providing a positive return and reinvest that money into an inbound marketing plan.

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Paws appeal One of white tiger quintuplets is carried by an animal keeper at the White Zoo at the Kameltheater Kernhof in St Aegyg am Neuwalde, in Austria. The cubs, named Lali, Lela, Lila, Lulu and Obama, were born on April 25 PicTure: ePA

A DRUG addict who robbed a post office and tried to use a motorist as a getaway driver has been jailed for seven years.

Jonathan Duffy, 30, tried to board a Dublin Bus with €3,000 cash after failing to seize one woman’s vehicle, but was forced to run onto the dual carriageway in search of another escape route when he realised he had no change for a ticket.

Duffy, of Kilclare Crescent, Tallaght, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbing Blackrock Post Office and possessing an imitation firearm with intent to commit robbery on April 16, 2013. He also pleaded guilty to unlawfully interfering with a vehicle and attempting to seize a car by intimidation on the same date.

Duffy has 35 previous convictions including ten for robbery. He had been on temporary release while serving a seven-year sentence for similar offences just days before he entered the post office wearing a balaclava and holding the €2 toy gun.

Garda Andrew Doyle said Duffy told him in interview he got a ‘fat man idea’ to rob a post office after taking tablets in the city centre.

Gda Doyle agreed with Justin McQuade BL, defending, his client was under the influence of his €50a-day tablet habit at the time, but had entered an early guilty plea.

Mr McQuade submitted that his client is a ‘damaged young man with significant difficulties’ and a long history of drug abuse.

Judge Mary Ellen Ring said she couldn’t overlook the terror Duffy inflicted on his victims. She backdated the seven-year sentence to September last year.

Still texting at the Killer driver wishes wheel despite fines he had died instead DRIVERS are still using their mobile phones despite new penalties brought in this month.

A one-hour field study found some drivers are still using their phones to take and make calls, for texting or browsing while driving or when queuing in traffic.

Under the new rules, drivers who send a text or email or go online with their phone, even if the phone is hands-free, are liable to a court fine of up to €1,000 for a first offence or €2,000 for a subsequent offence and/or three months in jail.

One young female motorist was observed holding her phone against the steering wheel to use both hands to text while driving around a corner.

The study was carried out by AA Motor Insurance last week at the junction between St Stephen’s Green and Dawson Street.

‘This is utterly lethal carry-on under any circumstance, let alone at a central location where jaywalking is very common,’ said AA’s Conor Faughnan.

A DRUG addict who knocked down and killed a mother-of-four while she was shopping with her sister has received a three-and-a-half year sentence and a 30-year driving ban.

Philip Trimble, 35, of Oscar Traynor Road, Santry, later told gardaí he wished it was him who had died and not the victim, Coombe midwife Frances McCarthy, 56, on January 11, 2013.

The court heard Trimble had been driving at over 50mph when his car mounted a footpath and hit a roadside signpost near Marks and Spencer on Middle Abbey Street.

Ms McCarthy was run over and her sister, Mary O’Connor, and a third pedestrian, Brian Sexton, were lifted onto the bonnet, carried some yards and thrown to the ground in the same collision.

Judge Mary Ellen Ring noted that Ms McCarthy ‘seems to have been an extraordinary woman’ and heard a unit in the Coombe has been named for her.

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Hollywood superstar Jessica Alba is a fan of Little Mix. The 33-year-old actress shocked the band by waiting in line to meet them at America’s Teen Choice Awards.

‘There was a little queue of people waiting to have a picture with us and Jessica was in the queue,’ said Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 22. ‘She was like “Can I get a picture? My girls are such big fans”.

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errie eDWArDS has blamed hellish touring schedules for delaying her big day with One Direction hunk Zayn Malik.

The 20-year-old told me how she had to put the bubbly on ice after discovering her lover will be on the road again next February. ‘i’m guessing so, yes,’ she said of shelving the plans, revealing her own tour schedule is full until May 2015.

‘But after that, once it starts dying down a little bit touring-wise, we’ll be able to get into it.’

However, the Little Mix star revealed she and her bandmates prefer having their men at arm’s length. ‘it makes it a bit more exciting because you don’t get to see each other, so when you do see each other, you get butterflies. it’s nice. it would be hard if we didn’t feel like they were worth it,’ she said backstage at the group’s show at London’s O2 on Sunday.

Loved-up Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 22, is hoping footballer Jordan Kiffin will pop the question soon though, saying: ‘i can’t wait to get engaged and get married. i just want the ring and planning everything and the dress.’

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Little Mix have recalled the moment a crazed fan ‘pounced’ after getting in a lift with them during their time on The X Factor in 2011. ‘He kind of grabbed us. It was horrible. He was a grown man, as well,’ said Jade Thirlwall, 21. Perrie Edwards, also 21, added: ‘The security grabbed him. We were only little and it was scary seeing something like that for the first time.’

Traffic stops Are Madonna and Katy y when she b*tching up together? ogether? sees red…

Johnny Depp’s fiancée Amber Heard says her pals have warned the screen pirate she turns into trailer trash when she gets angry. The 28-year-old Texan said: ‘Whenever my old friends meet someone i’m involved with romantically, they immediately warn them: “She may look refined but when she’s angry, she can go trailer park really fast”.’

Despite her new A-list status with her union to Depp, 50, Heard hasn’t had people queuing up to work with her. ‘i haven’t noticed any change in my career,’ she told W magazine.

Madonna whipped fans into a frenzy yesterday by hinting she was about to stage a surprise pop comeback – with a little help from Katy Perry.

The 55-year-old offered the tease with an apparent cover for a new single titled Unapologetic Bitch.

‘You heard it! #iconic #venividivici #unapologeticbitch #rebelheart #lartforfreedom,’ the singer wrote on Instagram along with a

photograph of herself. The image sees a close up of Madge’s face with piercing blue eyes, red lips, peroxide hair and a parental advisory label.

Devoted fans leapt all over the tease with one commenting: ‘Omg, when does it drop?’ Others speculated the rumoured single may also feature Perry, 29, as the image bears a striking resemblance to images of the two singers in V Magazine last week.

Anger at Houston TV biopic

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ukraine fighter jets pepper rebels in Donetsk airport as new president offers olive branch Popular: AKB48’s Nana Okada, Rina Kawaei and Ryoka Oshima pictures: reuters

Pop stars hurt in saw attack at fans’ event by niCOLE LE MARiE

TWO members of Japanese girl band AKB48 were injured after a man attacked them with a saw as they met fans.

Anna Iriyama, 18, and Rina Kawaei, 19, suffered hand and head injuries, while a member of security staff also suffered cuts to his hand. All three had surgery but were released from hospital yesterday after the band cancelled a string of events across Japan.

‘We’ve caused you worry, but we are returning to Tokyo now,’ Ms Kawaei told reporters and fans outside the hospital. ‘Thank you very much.’

Satoru Umeta was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after Saturday’s attack in Takizawa city.

The 24-year-old was not a follower of AKB48 but ‘just wanted to commit a random murder’, police official Taka-

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Injured: Ms Kawaei and Ms Iriyama hiro Fujibayashi said. AKB48 hold the Guinness world record for being the largest pop group with a rotating cast of 90 women.

Known as ‘idols you can meet’, the band are famed for their meet-and-greet events and charity gigs.

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UKRAINE has launched air strikes against proRussia militants in a bid to drive them out of Donetsk airport.

Dense black smoke was seen coming from the airport buildings yesterday as fighter jets attacked rebel positions.

The fighting came after Ukraine president-elect Petro Poroshenko promised to negotiate an end to the crisis in the east by offering to open talks with Moscow.

Several vehicles full of armed men were seen arriving in the area next to the airport before gunfire began peppering the strongholds. Trucks of reinforcements followed shortly after. Vladislav Seleznyov, a spokesman for Kiev’s anti-terrorist operation, wrote on his Facebook account the military had given an ultimatum to the armed groups occupying the airport to lay down their arms.

Denis Pushilin, a leader of the separatists, said they had sent men to the airport to help supporters who had been detained.

After claiming victory in Sunday’s vote, Mr Poroshenko said his first step as president will be to visit the Donbass eastern industrial region, where separatists have seized government buildings and declared independence.

‘Peace in the country and peace in the east is my main priority,’ he added. But he had harsh words for the pro-Russia gunmen, comparing them yesterday to ‘Somalian pirates’.

Russia welcomed Mr Poroshenko’s offer of talks, raising hopes that his election will ease tensions between the two countries.

Jedi flight: Darth Vader, a candidate of the Internet Party of Ukraine, is turned away from voting after showing up at an election booth in Kiev. He was asked by official observers to remove his mask but refused pictures: rex

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Salvation Army officer ‘led riot camp killing’ AuSTRALiA: A Salvation Army officer led a fatal attack on an Iranian asylum seeker at a detention camp, investigators in Canberra said yesterday. The man struck 23-year-old Reza Barati on the head during a riot at the Australian-run camp in Papua New Guinea. More than 60 asylum seekers were injured in three days of violence on Manus Island in February. The officer has not been named.

El-Sissi on course to become president EGYPT: Presidential hopeful Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was cheered by supporters yesterday as he cast his ballot in the country’s elections. The retired military chief (pictured) is widely expected to win the two-day vote by a landslide. Mohammed Morsi was deposed as president last year and his Muslim Brotherhood party has told followers to boycott the election.

Cyclist hurls urine at fifth woman in a month jAPAn: A cyclist is being hunted by police after throwing a cup of urine at a fifth woman in a month. His latest victim, aged about 20, was targeted in a ‘ride-by’ attack as she was walking home in Tokyo’s Adachi district. He is thought to have previously targeted four other women in the same area. Officers are now examining CCTV footage in an attempt to identify the man.

and finally... inDiA: A jewellery thief was fed 96 bananas so police could recover a gold chain.

Damu Gupta swallowed the item on a train in Mumbai. Officers initially tried to find the jewellery through an X-ray but chose to use the natural laxative instead.

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Alibaba eyes €15billion pot

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IKE many great ideas, it all started over a beer.

In 1995, Jack Ma, an English teacher from China, was introduced to something called the internet while visiting a friend in Seattle.

‘I searched the word ‘‘beer”, b-ee-r, very simple word,’ he said in a TV interview years later. ‘I found American beer, German beer and no Chinese beer. So I was curious. I searched “China”, and all the search engines said, “No China, no data”.’

There is nothing small about what Ma has done in the past 15 years.

In 1999, he channelled that curiosity into creating a retail web service from the front room of his apartment in Hangzhou.

231m

people spent €180bn on Alibaba’s websites last year, more than eBay and Amazon combined

Chinese tech and retail giant Alibaba is preparing to launch on the US stock market. It is already a multi-billion mix of Amazon, eBay and PayPal, but is it ready to take on the world? ROSS McGUINNESS reports...

The resulting company, Alibaba, has gone on to become the world’s biggest e-commerce group, generating almost €6billion in revenue last year. Ma still has the apartment.

Alibaba isn’t merely an internet company – it’s an empire. The original site, Alibaba.com, still exists and caters for small businesses wishing to buy anything from underwear to tractors.

But the Alibaba Group’s biggest website is online shopping service Taobao (meaning ‘digging for treas-

ure’). It is a cross between Amazon and eBay that lists more than 800million products at any one time.

Another site, Tmall.com, lets shoppers buy directly from brands.

British clothing company Burberry launched a virtual storefront on the site last month.

But Alibaba’s reach goes much further – into online payments in the shape of Aliplay, a Chinese version of PayPal, and smartphone messaging app Laiwang. It has also set up

news@metroherald.ie its own cloud computing and banking services.

In addition, the group has a large investment portfolio, including stakes in microblogging site Weibo and video clip service Youku Tudou, China’s answers to Twitter and YouTube, respectively.

Alibaba is making the most of China’s 600million internet users but it could be on the verge of going global.

Earlier this month, it filed documents for an upcoming initial public offering on an American stock exchange (it hasn’t yet revealed if it will be the Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange).

The move could raise as much as €15billion, which would beat Facebook’s own IPO two years ago, which raised €11billion.

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HE group revealed more than 230million people spent more than €180billion on its websites last year, more than Amazon and eBay combined.

But while those US tech companies should be concerned in the long run, Alibaba has not yet signalled an intention to dive into the American market. With 800million web users expected in China by 2015, it doesn’t have to.

However, in his address to staff in his small apartment in 1999 (Alibaba now has 25,000 employees), Ma said: ‘Our competitors are not in China but in Silicon Valley.’

The footage is included in a 2012 documentary about Alibaba, called Crocodile In The Yangtze, which took its title from a quote by Ma

when he (correctly) predicted how the company would fight off eBay’s planned Chinese invasion in the mid-2000s. ‘eBay is a shark in the ocean; we are a crocodile in the Yangtze River,’ he said at the time. ‘If we fight in the ocean, we will lose, but if we fight in the river, we will win.’

While eBay charged sellers for listings, Taobao.com offered them for free, resulting in a war that eBay decided it could not win. It pulled out of the Chinese market.

The Alibaba IPO could be the biggest in tech history. Ma has a nine per cent stake in the group, while Yahoo! owns a quarter of the company.

In an email to staff last week, Ma said going public was a ‘pit stop’ on the road to something even bigger.

But does Alibaba need to go global to maintain success?

‘They don’t need to go to America to build a colossal business,’ said technology journalist Milo Yiannopoulos. ‘It shows that Silicon Valley isn’t the only place in the world that can build these massive businesses.

‘It shows that the Anglosphere isn’t the only market for these businesses.

‘It’s the company that has fingers in all of the pies,’ he said. ‘There is almost no area of digital business in which Alibaba isn’t doing something.

‘Rather than seeing it as a Chinese eBay or a Chinese whatever, we should really look at it as the Chinese Google.

‘We’re seeing instead the build-up of separate empires on opposite sides of the world.’

Alibaba is a Chinese group of various

online shopping sites

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of Alibaba’s 18 founding partners are women

of China’s online shopping market is done through Alibaba

It was founded by

Jack Ma in his apartment in Hangzhou in 1999

Alibaba has been valued at between It has

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Alibaba’s businesses generated

€5.8bn

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last year, a 62% increase on 2012

€100bn €180bn and The top estimate would put it behind only Apple, Google and Microsoft in tech companies

Alibaba has helped create

15m

jobs

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There are more than

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products for sale on Taobao.com, one of Alibaba’s sites, at any one time

€15bn

There are

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retailers use Alibaba to sell their goods

618m Sources: Alibaba, CNNIC, CLSA, Bloomberg

internet users in China,

predicted to rise to

850m by 2015

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Resistance is futile, Thai coup chief warns public THAILAND’S army chief has told opponents that protest against military rule was ‘useless’ and would only spark more violence.

Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha said he had seized power to restore order after seven months of unrest and political deadlock.

Speaking for the first time since Thursday’s coup, he told a news conference yesterday: ‘I’m not here to argue with anyone.

‘I want to bring everything out in the open and fix it.

Everyone must help me,’ he said, before adding: ‘Do not criticise, do not create new problems. It’s no use.’

The warning came as an aide to former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she had been released from military custody.

The junta is holding more than 200 people in custody, including most of the ousted government. Gen Prayuth

said they were being given time ‘to calm themselves down’ and none was being tortured or beaten.

He told social media users to avoid doing anything that could fan the conflict and called for an end to anti-coup demonstrations in Bangkok and other cities.

‘Do you want to go back to the old days? If you want it that way, then I will have to enforce the law,’ Gen Prayuth warned.

Elderly ‘kill themselves to beat ban on burials’

Silenced: Protestors stand in front of riot police during an anti-coup demonstration in Bangkok

Pope ends Holy Land tour urging ‘respect and love’

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POPE FRANCIS yesterday visited sacred sites for Jews and Muslims and kissed the hands of Holocaust survivors on the final day of his Holy Land tour.

The pontiff started the day at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the third-holiest spot in Islam and known to Jews as the Temple Mount.

It is central to the territorial and religious disputes between Israel and its Arab neighbours. There Francis said: ‘May we respect and love one another as brothers and sisters.’

The Argentinian also prayed at the city’s Western Wall and left a note with the text of the Our Father prayer written in his native Spanish in a crack between the stones.

At the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, the Pope prayed before a crypt containing victims’ ashes and laid a wreath of yellow and white flowers in the Hall of Remembrance.

He also kissed the hands of Holocaust survivors as he heard of atrocities committed during World War II. Joseph Gottdenker told the Pope how he was saved by Roman Catho-

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DOZENS of elderly Chinese people have committed suicide in order to beat an upcoming ban on burials.

Anxious not to be cremated under new rules coming into force in central Anhui province, they have taken matters into their own hands.

They include 97-year-old Wu Lixiu, who refused to eat and Zhang Wenying, 81, who hanged herself.

Burials will be made illegal on Sunday – just two months after authorities announced the changes to save on cemetery space.

One village elder said: ‘It’s hard for the old people to accept that they will have to consign their bodies for cremation.

‘The government should not carry out the policy at such short notice.’

Council officials have reportedly smashed up coffins at funeral parlours to ensure fewer are available for burials.

Forty die as express train hits freight

Papal prayer: Pope Francis pushes an envelope through the cracks of the Western Wall in Jerusalem Picture: AP lics who hid him from the Nazis. The 72-year-old, who now lives in Canada, added: ‘The Catholic people who saved me and risked the lives of their

whole families to save me, they are looking down today and proud to see me meet the leader of their faith.’

Pope Francis offered a surprise invi-

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AT LEAST 40 passengers were killed yesterday as a highspeed service crashed into a stationary freight train.

A further 100 commuters on the Gorakhdham Express were injured in the collision near Sant Kabir Nagar railway station in Uttar Pradesh.

Police are searching for the station master who disappeared after the smash.

The driver and his assistant were left critically injured, officials said.

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No hope for generations as battered voters crawl back to FF

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an I express my utter apathy at media reports of so called unprecedented election results.

To anyone who’s been voting for the past 30-odd years, it must surely come as no surprise to see the Irish voter tease their old flame Fianna Fáil by flirting with arch rivals Fine Gael-Labour for a term or two before realising their hearts really belong to Fianna Fáil after all.

‘Sure I know deep down FF really loves me, and despite their drinking and abuse, I’m sure they’ve learned their lesson this time.’ I doubt we’ll ever see any significant change in the Irish voter’s attitude to bring about real change, or at least not within my, great great, great, grandchildren’s time. Jim ■ Listening to the election results reminds me that the media is complicit in bankrupting the country and keeping it so. It cheerled the decisions which bankrupted the country during the boom and failed to tell the rest of us yobs the country was in danger of going bankrupt. The result was aus-

terity. The Irish media then cheer-led the anti-austerity campaign, and are now gloating at the success of their campaign in which the rest of us yobs are being hoodwinked again. The election winners want to spend more, despite the government spending billions more than it gets in taxes. Yet no warning from media. Hypocrisy and irresponsibility come to mind.

A Leavy ■ Doc, I agree with you 100 per cent about throwing people off Dublin Bus/Luas for being smelly. If someone was being rude and offensive to the driver and other passengers, they would be asked to leave. as a paying customer, I find sitting in the company of people who stink of urine, BO, feet and dirty, unwashed clothes even more offensive. There is no excuse for an adult to stink this way. Go to the shop and buy a bar of soap, some pit spray and a toothbrush.

Have some self respect, yiz mingers. I wish I could afford to park my car in town so I wouldn’t have to start my day wanting to puke into my Metro Herald.

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Taste Of Dublin director Avril Bannerton tells Metro Life about the events she is particularly looking forward at this year’s event

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you can fit six people in each pod, I’d take full advantage and invite Michel Roux Jr, Ross Lewis, Derry Clarke, Kevin Thornton, Clodagh McKenna and Monica Galetti to join me for a tipple.

the new features this year really are something to whet the taste buds. can you elaborate on what guests can look forward to?

This year it is our mission to embrace all things fun, family and food, with a Brazilian Carnival festival theme, and new offerings including The Bite Project, Salt Of The Earth Test Kitchen, The Fire Pit BBQ and the Icing On The Cake feature. I will also be making sure to stop by our official wine partner O’Briens. It is a testament to their commitment that they have been involved since the first year; I will be enjoying a nice glass of white wine at the end of a long day at the festival.

international chefs on this year’s lineup include Michel Roux Jr and Simon Hulstone.

Who are you particularly keen on watching cook up a storm?

We are excited to see Michel Roux Jr this year, as he is guaranteed to wow guests as he showcases his inspired French talents with live cooking demonstrations. There’s a real sense of excitement around his visit to Taste Of Dublin. Tom Kitchin is attending this year, which I think will be a real treat for the dedicated foodies of Dublin.

icket prices for this year’s taste Of Dublin, which start at €15, are down considerably on last year’s event. How do you see that impacting on visitor numbers?

This year the focus is very much on value for money, so it means visitors have the opportunity to tailor the festival around a day and time that suits their budget. This year also sees a host of gourmet experiences, interactive demonstrations, entertainment, and many other ways of making your money stretch that little bit further.

Which restaurants are coming on board for the first time?

This year we are delighted to welcome Brioche, one of the most innovative openings in Dublin this year, also Jerusalem Restaurant, the big brother of Little Jerusalem, and Marcels. We will be welcoming back Taste favourites Chapter One, Clodagh’s Kitchen, Rock Lobster, The Green Hen, The Chop House and many more. There really is something for everyone.

“It will be a real treat for the foodies of Dublin”

For a sophisticated get-together, visitors can take advantage of rotating garden pods with waiter service, courtesy of Podology. Which chefs at taste Of Dublin would you most like to share a pod with?

We are really excited about the Podology experience where punters can sample a selection of wines from Rioja – it adds something really unique to the festival. As

As ever, visitors can trade cash for ‘florins’ at this year’s event in order to buy food. if you were down to your last five florins, at which restaurant would you spend it?

There really is such an incredible line-up of restaurants this year – Rock Lobster, Il Primo, Chapter One, it’s too hard to choose. But I am really looking forward to the first time ever dessert bar by Chapter One’s Ross Lewis.

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Clodagh McKenna of Clodagh’s Restaurant will appear at the Electrolux Taste Theatre, Electrolux Chef Secrets and the Food & Wine Magazine’s chef skillery showcase in association with Applegreen Dream meal...

Oh, most definitely my summer lamb cutlets marinated in fennel seeds and rosemary, served with honey-roasted nectarines. It’s on my dinner menu in Clodagh’s Kitchen, Blackrock...

Culinary Blind Spot...

Filo pastry, I just don’t have the patience.

Secret ingredient?

I don’t have any because when I find a great ingredient I can’t wait to share it on Twitter. My latest find is Highbank Orchard apple syrup, we use it in the restaurant instead of maple syrup – it’s made in County Kilkenny.

Derry Clarke of L’Ecrivain will appear at the Electrolux Taste Theatre Dream meal...

Fresh Cod in crispy beer batter, chips tossed in sea salt and malt vinegar.

Culinary blind spot...

Howth!

Secret ingredient...

Smoked paprika.

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O’Briens Fine Wines is the official sponsor for this year’s Taste Of Dublin. Marketing director Cora Jane Wynne tells Metro Life about this year’s offerings

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’Briens have been Taste Of Dublin’s wine partners since the festival began. What have been your personal highlights over the years?

There are so many, but what is a consistent highlight is all the fun we have with the visitors at the event. Rain, hail or shine they are always in great form and super-enthusiastic to try the wines and enjoy themselves. Our team love the buzz at Taste and the opportunity to interact with customers outside of our store environment.

At this year’s event you’ll be hosting a ‘Champagne Taittinger’ bar. What can visitors expect and are deep pockets a pre-requisite?

We are hosting the O’Briens Wine bar as well as the Champagne Taittinger bar. This is the only bar in Ireland where the limited edition 2014 FIFA World Cup Taittinger Brut Réserve can be purchased. Deep pockets are absolutely not a pre-requisite as we will be charging €50 to consume a bottle of this wine at the event, and for those on a tighter budget we will also have our favourite prosecco as well as a super selection of white and red wines.

Which recent additions to the O’Briens Wine range have you found yourself particularly taken with?

Our range is constantly evolving but at this time of year we release our rosé selection, that’s when I know summer has officially started in O’Briens. The one I’ll be drinking this weekend is L’Ostal Cazes Rosé – this Lynch-Bages owned beauty is from the Languedoc and is just brilliant, especially as it is buy one get the second half price at the moment.

With BBQ season in full swing, which affordable, easy-drinking wines would you recommend for the occasion?

My go-to BBQ wine is usually a Spanish red: Protocolo which is a perennial customer favourite for under €10. But a new range called Bellows Rock from South Africa whose Shiraz is €9.99 – down from €14.99 – for June is just fantastic and a must try for this summer.

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“What did the grape say when it got stepped on?

Nothing, it just let out a little wine... ...I’ll get my coat” basics of wine appreciation, what advice would you give and is there a particular wine guide you’d recommend?

I’d advise their first port of call be their local specialist wine shop, as you’ll find staff who are really passionate about wine, with incredible knowledge, who are well-paced to advise you on where to start.

Most O’Briens stores do free tastings, especially at the weekends, so it’s a brilliant opportunity to try before you buy.

Then taste, taste, taste at every opportunity.

You won’t like everything you try but you will find out the styles and varieties you do like. Events like Taste of Dublin offer a fantastic opportunity to do lots of sampling too.

Which essential kit should any selfrespecting wine lover have?

A fantastic glass, a good cork screw and someone to enjoy it with.

Which food/wine pairing is your idea of heaven?

You cannot beat cured Italian and Spanish meat, a selection of cheese, some great bread and red wine. This is my death row meal.

If you could crack open a magnum of Taittinger with the celebrity of your choice who would you plump for?

Graham Norton, for lots of gossip and all of the laughs.

What’s your favourite industry joke?

What did the grape say when it got stepped on?

Nothing – it just let out a little wine.

I’ll get my coat…

Stuart O’Keeffe will appear at the Food & Wine Magazine’s Chef Skillery Showcase Dream meal...

Steak Frites at Bouchon, a restaurant by Thomas Keller in Napa Valley. The ambience and the entire restaurant, in my opinion, is truly perfect. Thomas Keller has mastered the art of making incredible French cuisine in an unpretentious manner.

Culinary blind spot...

Of course, I’d like to think I can do everything but sushi is just not my area of expertise. I remember taking a class on it in culinary school but, honestly, I just leave it up to the experts. I really enjoy going out to eat it, so I kind of don’t want to know how to make it.

Secret ingredient...

It’s nothing too crazy, but I use Maldon Sea Salt to finish almost all of my dishes. It really enhances almost any flavour, and they also have a smoked version which is brilliant on chicken or fish.

Edward Hayden is a chef, food writer and lecturer and will demonstrate his skills at the Electrolux Taste Theatre Dream meal...

I have to say I love the full Christmas dinner of oven-roasted turkey, sugarcrusted ham and all the trimming: sprouts, crispy roast potatoes and some delicious roast gravy juices.

Culinary blind spot...

I am not a fan of Chinese food but really love the classic Indian favourites.

Secret ingredient:...

I use a lot of my homemade sweet chilli jam in lots of my recipes.

Whether I am making a marinade, some homemade burgers, a salad dressing or a stir-fry, I use it to add some extra oomph.

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★ Must see ★

Drama haPPy valley

BBC1, 9pm

The bloody end to last week’s nerve-shredding instalment of Sally Wainwright’s dip into Yorkshire’s dark underworld provoked fierce reactions.

Has TV drama become too violent? Are women too often portrayed as victims?

Let’s be straight: this is violent. But there’s nothing exploitative about this emotional tale of a kidnap gone wrong and characters in way over their heads with little hope of getting out. It has tension and truth – and Sarah Lancashire (above) as policewoman Catherine Cawood is giving the performance of her career.

welcome to rio BBC2, 9PM It’s no small irony that Rio de Janeiro will be the temporary home for dozens of mega-rich World Cup footballers. Because any visitor to Brazil’s vibrant city can’t miss the favelas – an exotic name for poverty-riddled shanty towns – that snake their way through the hills, looking down at the riches below. This three-part series offers a snapshot of favela life, where locals such as Rocky (pictured with grandson Kaue) and graffiti artist Acme scratch a living as best they can – Rocky’s best earner is carrying kitchen gear up his favela’s precipitous steps.

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Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline (all below) form a latter-day Rat Pack as former childhood buddies on a stag trip to Vegas. The cast is better than their material, though brace yourself for a lot of gags about ageing – think The Hangover for pensioners.

Soaps eastenDers RTÉ1, 7.30pm

Weddings are coming thick and fast in the world of soaps at the moment and tonight sees the register office nuptials of Carol Jackson (Lindsey Coulson) and David Wicks. And heaven knows she could do with something to put a smile on her face. So it feels a touch unfair to put her through the agony of the bridegroom going missing at the last minute on a mystery errand. Cue Bianca shouting the odds about she always knew he was a wrong ’un and so on. And on.

coronation street TV3, 9pm

tim’s vermeer

Magicians Penn and Teller went on a mission to reveal the secret behind Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece The Music Lesson in this documentary. The titular Tim is US inventor Tim Jenison, who learnt to speak Dutch, make his own furniture and glaze his own lenses and windows from scratch as part of his quest.

We’re in Weatherfield at 9pm every night this week as the Who Killed Tina? story straddles Britain’s Got Talent.

Maybe they’re trying to throw Simon Cowell into the suspect mix. Anyhow, tonight’s the night the deed is done but they’ll have to go some to match that spooky Lana Del Rey-soundtracked trailer on EastEnders.

Penny DreaDful Sky Atlantic, 9pm

Factual

★ the consumer show

RTÉ1, 8.30pm

Keelin Shanley presents the show which champions the causes of consumers and puts products to the test. Tonight, reporter Kathriona Devereux investigates a case where customers of an online retailer have had difficulties getting refunds for undelivered Christmas presents. Meanwhile, Tadhg Enright (above with Devereux) asks if parents are being taken for a ride by the boomerang generation (where grown-up children move back in). Plus, three own-brand washing-up liquids are put through their paces at a Scout camp.

As if the line-up of characters in this imaginative mix of vampires and monsters wasn’t rich enough, tonight sees the arrival of Billie Piper as Brona, a whiskey-swilling consumptive, along with Reeve Carney as a suitably floppy-haired Dorian Gray.

But the show is stolen by Eva Green in an eye-popping séance sequence.

vikings

History, 10pm Intrepid adventurer Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) is jubilant after his sacking of Lindisfarne’s monks and returns home with his booty.

But the joy is short-lived as clan chief Earl Haraldson (Gabriel Byrne) lays claim to the riches. Ragnar is left with just one memento – a monk called Athelstan – for his efforts. Hardly seems fair.

grey’s anatomy RTÉ2, 9pm

There’s a case of a greeneyed monster as we make our weekly trip to Seattle Grace Hospital, when Bailey gets more than a little bit peeved as former underling Cristina is nominated for a prestigious award and Meredith prepares for a kidney transplant. Elsewhere, Derek’s work with a emotionrecognition machine gives revealing results for Jo and Callie, while Richard revels in his new role as he gives the residents a pep talk.

Fun

Film

survivor

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New series where ten ultimate Survivor fans are dropped on the exotic – and remote – Caramoan Islands, to take on ten of their favourite players from past shows. The 20 castaways are divided into two tribes – the Bikal group, made up of former players, and the Gota contenders, comprised of the fans. This should be interesting.

An all-star cast – Michelle Pfeiffer, Alison Lohman, Renée Zellweger, Robin Wright and Billy Connolly – head up this adaptation of Janet Fitch’s bestseller centring on Astrid, a teenage girl, whose life is turned upside-down when her mother is sentenced to life in prison for murdering her lover. Drifting from one foster home to another, her mother remains a constant influence in her life.

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A treat for fans of tunedriven indie rock as Canadian supergroup Arcade Fire prepare for the summer of festivals by topping the bill in the last in this current series.

Rockabilly style from Dubliner Imelda May, singer-songwriting from Damien Jurado, Sharon van Etten and Glasgow’s Amazing Snakeheads round the show out.

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the comPlainers Channel 4, 9pm

Complaining might not be a traditional idea of fun but there’s something therapeutic about giving bad service the full two barrels.

This three-part series meets those who have turned complaining into an art form, with Twitter a vital tool in their arsenal. First, we’re inside the complaints department at Transport for London. Now that sure does sound like a fun job.

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Quentin Tarantino’s controversial US slavery epic takes the form of a revisionist Spaghetti Western liberally splattered with his trademark gore. Christoph Waltz puts in another Oscar-winning turn as a bounty hunter who teams up with a freed slave called Django (Jamie Foxx, above) to find the latter’s wife. They locate her on a plantation ruled by Leonardo DiCaprio’s effete sadist and his evil head butler (Samuel L Jackson). The sole duff note is Tarantino’s own indulgent cameo – best stick to behind the camera, mate.

starDust E4, 8pm

As we steam through the week of live semi-finals – every night including Saturday – it’s anyone’s guess as to who will take this year’s BGT crown in a wide open field. Junior rappers Bars and Melody and semi-operatic boy band Collabro are among the bookies’ favourites but we’ve got our fingers crossed that classy magician Darcy Oake (where does he keep those doves?) and well-heeled French hip swivellers Yanis, Arnaud and Mehdi make it all the way to the final showdown.

Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) delivers a glittery adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic book fantasy.

A humble village lad (Charlie Cox) sets off to capture a falling star to impress his lady (Sienna Miller) and encounters Robert De Niro, Claire Danes and Michelle Pfeiffer en route. One for fans of The Princess Bride.

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Film4, 10.50pm However often you watch Ridley Scott’s iconic sci-fi horror, the tension never fails to grip you like one of its titular face-huggers. Set in space (‘where no one can hear you scream’), a commercial ship manned by Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt et al picks up a distress call – and more – on its way back to Earth.

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The uneasy truth is the majority of your SNAPSHOT If you care about where tech is made in the Far east. products come from While this keeps costs low, it’s raised and how they’ve been made, a serious questions about unethical smartphone made with a social manufacturing. So a smartphone designed conscience could be for you. to create minimal harm to people and the planet sounds like a humane way to keep ‘Mobile phones hold a fascinating in contact. paradox,’ says Fairphone’s Roos van der Social enterprise Fairphone claims to have done that, putting ethics at the top of Weerd. ‘It’s the hyper symbol of connectivity but we’ve lost any connection the bill. This includes using conflict-free with how it is made and the social minerals from the Democratic Republic consequences attached to it. every pixel of Congo that support workers’ families you see and every byte you send has a instead of armed militia, and reclaiming whole world of minerals, factories, e-waste from Ghana and shipping it to recycling and distribution behind it.

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‘At Fairphone, we feel it’s time to start The handset is still built in China but closing the gap between the connected the company is establishing a ‘Worker world of our communication systems and Welfare Fund’ to improve working the disconnected ancient world of our conditions, work/life balance and worker production systems.’ representation.

The Android handset costs €310, features a 4.3in display, 8MP camera, 16GB internal storage, quad-core processor and houses two sim cards. Rather than buying one off the shelf, you pre-pay before it’s made. This way, Fairphone says you’re helping to keep the company independent by funding its production. You can view a cost breakdown of the Fairphone to find out where your money is going, even though Van der Weerd admits the first version isn’t ethically perfect.

‘The first Fairphone is far from “fair”,’ he says. ‘It’s a starting point on a step-bystep journey. We want to change the relationship people have with their products. As a consequence, we think people will seek out an economy based on different values. Our phone is just one result of that.’ James Day

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hen is a game about battling a nazi regime not about battling a nazi regime?

When creators have to remove all references to the Third Reich.

Players of Wolfenstein: The new Order in Germany – it’s the first time a console instalment from the shooter series has been released in that country – are facing a faceless enemy because video games are classed as toys there and nazi symbols are forbidden.

There are no such censorship dramas for those outside Germany, though – and bashing the Boche isn’t the only thing on offer. The new Order takes on some serious storytelling, tackling racism, eugenics and homophobia to make sure we understand just why the nazis must be defeated, rather than simply painting swastikas and telling you to shoot.

The game begins in an alternative 1960: hitler and co have won the war and the nazis rule the world. A small group of resistance fighters remain, in Berlin, of all places, and are seemingly the only remaining hope for toppling the regime.

There’s a definite sci-fi theme aided by some Bmovie-style imagery, comic book villains and a creative director who has cited Quentin Tarantino as an influence. In short, you’ll still be grinning at how great it feels when a nazi head explodes.

The new Order has been lauded as the best shooter in the series by far but it’s good to know the developers haven’t forgotten its roots by including references to 1992 classic Wolfenstein 3D. James Day

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with some accuracy, that this is a great money-spinner for manufacturers and music labels as they push out old material in a glitzy new format – like replacing a DVD with a shiny new Blu-ray.

how much will it cost me? an album download

from somewhere such as 7Digital costs a few quid more, with streaming subscriptions seeing a similar price rise. and you’ll pay more initially for new stereo equipment – a large wireless speaker such as sony’s srsX9 is €739. JD

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Keepy-up the World Cup spirit Salvador, Bahia: enjoy football, culture and, erm, bottoms in Brazil’s original capital, writes David J Constable

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ngland may have century – albeit by accident after an invented football and given expedition was blown off course it to the world, but once it while trying to sail around africa. arrived in Brazil in 1894, This is where the slaves were the nation could be said to brought in their millions to work the have taken ownership of its soul and sugar industry and make the never gave it back. They quite Portuguese rich. The blend of the literally took the ball and ran. indigenous with Portuguese settlers Football is so intertwined with and african slaves created Brazil, Brazilian national identity that and it’s why today, more this year’s World Cup is than 80 per cent of likely to be the greatest Salvador is black national party since and mixed-race.

1950, when the The state of country last hosted Bahia has the the tournament. largest african almost the foremost community accolade we can give outside africa any country is of and, as such, is ‘everyone’s second the focal point favourite team’, once for afro-Brazilian Casa de Tereza your own boys are out they culture. become everyone’s de facto The city is built upon an nationality. To know football in incongruous juxtaposition between Brazil is to go a long way to colonial and african, from music to understanding the country. For it is architecture, the most striking of football, parties and bottoms. which is often religious, such as the In Salvador, they do bottoms Igreja e Convento de São Francisco tremendously well, each church on Praça Padre anchieta rhythmically swinging to an with its gilded walls and more bling inherent inner samba. So when I am than you’ll find in rapper Rick invited to a domestic football Ross’s jewellery box. Even the match, I know it’s not to be passed colourful Pelourinho Square – made up. What’s more, the game is a famous by Michael Jackson in his derby between Bahia and Vitória.

They don’t Care about Us video – The last time these teams met at the is steeped in a dark past. The word inauguration in the newly renovated ‘pelourinho’ means ‘whipping post’ Itaipava arena Fonte nova, first and marks the place where slaves blood went to Vitória, 5-1. were bought, sold and beaten. It’s Salvador is the only city in Brazil also where you’ll find Jorge to claim original colonial capital amado’s former house, now a status. Portuguese settlers made it museum dedicated in his honour. the country’s first city in 1549, The Brazilian writer died in having arrived in the early 16th Salvador in 2001 and was famed for

his vivid portrayals of his fellow countrymen and women.

The first thing that strikes me about Salvador is that it’s huge – not walkable at all. Many of the buses are crowded and unreliable and there are difficulties with the Metro system. as one of the chosen cities to host the World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, an urban mobility responsibility was agreed to upgrade the transport system but, as it stands, line 1 and line 2 are unconnected and routes from the airport to downtown Salvador and the Fonte nova stadium remain difficult. and the clock is ticking. Soon it’ll be party time. The city will celebrate with free street parties and parades, although timetables aren’t yet available. new restaurants and hotels have opened, such as Casa de Tereza (mains around €25, www. casadetereza.com.br), the Zank Boutique Hotel (doubles from €150, www.zankbrasil.com.br) and the Sheraton da Bahia (doubles from €118, www.starwoodhotels.com).

Tereza Paim of Casa de Tereza is already the owner of two restaurants in Bahia and her food is a true reflection of the city, largely sourced from the ocean and entrenched in african mythology.

Back on the pitch, the action is not up to the standard I was expecting but it’s a neutral’s gift: a 7-3 victory to Vitória. Some good goals, a penalty, a sending off, some moments of magic, but shambolic defending. around the stadium almost everyone is wearing team colours. Those who are not don’t wear a shirt at all. There are drum bands and whistles, tambourines, bells and other noisy percussion.

Women move those famous bottoms. The noise is electrifying.

Pelourinho Square

Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova

a week after I left, part of the stadium roof collapsed under heavy rain. That architectural mishap adds to Fifa’s growing list of Brazilian stadium setbacks. You’d never tell in the streets of Salvador, though, where the sunshine yellow

of the Brazilian jersey continually flashed before my eyes. The city may not be quite ready but the people cannot wait.

Getting there: Fly from Dublin to Salvador via Lisbon and Porto with various operators

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Cuiabá

About as far away from those Girl-From-Ipanema stereotypes as it gets in Brazil, Cuiabá (Coo-ya-bá) sits in the middle of South America, a gold-rush town 2,000km from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It’s the smallest of the 12 host cities and that’s no bad thing.

If Brazil’s frenetic metropolises aren’t your thing, you will enjoy ambling around this overgrown cowboy town, while being perfectly positioned to explore the Chapada dos Guimarães National Park, the southern Amazon and the Pantanal – the world’s largest floodplain. The latter is more accessible than the Amazon, cheaper to visit and it’s easier to see the likes of anacondas, giant river otters (right) and howler monkeys. If you’ve come for the wildlife, it’s worth a visit.

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Belo Horizonte (bello hoh-riz-on-chi) – or BH (Bay-agáh), as locals call it – the capital of Minas Gerais state, might lack Rio’s setting or São Paulo’s cultural clout but, set against the Curral mountains, it trumps its flashier neighbours when it comes to quality of life.

England play Costa Rica in Belo Horizonte on June 24. After the match, head to the bars and clubs of the Savassi area and end your evening with a bag of pão de queijos (cheesebreads), a local Mineiro speciality.

The next day, head to one of South America’s most impressive art collections, Inhotim (www.inhotim.org. br), an hour away. This 110-acre openair gallery features work from Anish Kapoor and Rio superstar Hélio Oiticica.

There’s more to see than football reCife

On Brazil’s east coast, Recife (heh-seefee) takes its name from the reef that flanks the city’s beaches. Brazilians will tell you this is the shark attack capital of the country (47 attacks in the area between 1992 and 2006). If you’re big on splashing around, you might want to head down the coast to the mini resort of Porto de Galinhas (below) with its spectacular blue lagoons.

Not fussed about the beach? Venture north to the beautiful colonial Unesco world heritage town of Olinda, or stay put and check out Recife’s forró scene at Sala De Roboco (www.saladereboco. com.br). A local folk dance gone mainstream, forró is danced to the beat of the zabumba drum, which, while sounding like the next buzzy class at your gym, is testament to the region’s African heritage.

Patrick Welch visits four of brazil’s World Cup cities to dance forró, see wildlife and learn how to pronounce some pesky Portuguese phrases…

Curitiba Curitiba (cu-rit-chiba), in the south of the country, seems to have taken its cue from the Brazilian flag’s slogan of ‘Order and Progress’, with cycle lanes, a pedestrianised centre and the lowest urban air pollution rate in the country.

Curitiba is one of Brazil’s most liveable cities and one that feels European on account of its fair-haired citizens and

their imported cuisines. It’s also cool in winter, so you’ll need a decent coat in July.

If there’s one must-see, it has to be the Oscar Niemeyer museum (museuoscarniemeyer. org.br). You’ll find the late Brazilian architect’s buildings all over the country, but here, in addition to a changing programme of international art, the permanent show is the best way of getting to grips with the father of Brazilian architecture.

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METROSCOPE

NEMI by Lise

by Patrick Arundell Aries Mar 21 – Apr 20

High energy and an interest in progress makes this a promising time when you can go far. Watch out for a communication blip that could delay proceedings, as a blasé Sun Neptune connection might coincide with mixed messages.

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Taurus Apr 21 – May 21

METROKU Easy, Moderate and Challenging. For solutions, visit Metro.co.uk/metroku

Current alignments suggest taking an inventory of any abilities that could be used to earn extra cash, or boost your finances in bigger ways. Should you get an intuitive hint, inspired by today’s Mercury Venus link, listen-up as it might make a difference.

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Gemini May 22 – Jun 21

Be on the lookout for ways to improve your efficiency. If you feel in a bit of a flap, it may be because so much is changing. But a Taurus Moon can help soothe if you take time out to relax and recharge. Doing your own thing can be good for you.

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Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23

The idea of exploring avenues for growth may be boosted by today’s Moon Jupiter connection. So, if something feels right, it may contribute to your success. There may be a tendency to doubt an inspired thought but get feedback first.

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Libra Sep 24 – Oct 23

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sagittarius Nov 23 – Dec 21

Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20

As the Moon moves into your social zone, it could spotlight a relationship and bring previously hidden emotions into your awareness.

Mulling over your connection, you may understand why you get a strange feeling about a friend or love interest.

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Aquarius Jan 21 – Feb 19

Double check facts, whether associated with an important project or a purchase, as the Sun and Neptune continue to spotlight the potential for error. Attention could be easily diverted today, leading to a slip-up.

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Give your creative faculties a workout, as it might help you relax, yet paradoxically feel more alive.

Expressing a talent that gives you pleasure could act as a counterpoint to pressures of life. You might want to beautify your home.

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WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? WHO… won his first best actor Oscar for Kramer Vs Kramer?

WHAT… type of creature is a razor-fish?

WHERE… in South America was the composer Heitor VillaLobos born?

WHEN… did the Battle of Worcester take place?

QUIZ ANSWERS: ENIGMA: Bovine. WHO AM I? Ron Howard. WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? Dustin Hoffman; A mollusc; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 1651.

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Yesterday’s Solutions Across: 1 Prostrate; 8 Let; 9 Storm-signal; 11 Builder; 12 Baste; 13 Idiocy; 15 Repose; 17 Knave; 18 Patriot; 20 Intercepted; 22 Set; 23 Respected. Down: 2 Rat; 3 Timid; 4 Aviary; 5 Ennoble; 6 Illusionist; 7 Statement; 10 Originality; 11 Briskness; 14 Creator; 16 Sports; 19 Theme; 21 Ere..

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Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23

DOWN 1 Book-keeper (10) 2 Join (5) 3 Door handle (4) 4 Famish (6) 5 Expectation (8) 6 Indefinite (7) 11 Huge (10) 13 Ominous (8) 14 Shriek (7) 16 Harsh (6) 17 Coach (5) 20 Tidy (4)

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It might be easier to go with the flow as the unexpected can rear its head, causing you to have to compromise or hope for the best. Yet, it helps to trust your judgment as your intuition can guide you towards a smarter decision.

ACROSS 7 Precept (5) 8 Flood (7) 9 A month (7) 10 Sugary (5) 12 Affirm (10) 15 Emphasise (10) 18 Lock (5) 19 Relations (7) 21 Dirty (7) 22 Goodbye (5)

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strengthening, otherwise you could be at the mercy of others’ suggestions. Even if you have a plan, it could be derailed by someone with a persuasive personality who won’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

The lighter side of life can show up, as social occasions put a delightful spin on the day. But the Taurus Moon might act as a reminder to keep one eye on more practical matters, particularly if you have a hefty to-do list.

You might feel more content at home doing homely things, or simply relaxing with family members, pals or even a pet. Though going out is one option, you may prefer to invite folk back to your place for a meal and a chat.

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Fancy a Tag? H

ey Taggers! Spring League Finals have all now ended – in victory for some and tears for others – but the ultimate result was in newfound friendships, relationships, workmates bonding and Aprés Tag proving to be the most popular sport.

Our tagline, ‘Fancy a Tag’ has truly taken on new meaning as Spring 2014 saw so many of you join as individuals (where we found you a Team), and within your nine-week league you became two, or teammates who met for the first time on the first night became sworn buddies by the last match.

Maybe Tag is the new dating game? Or maybe all of you Taggers are just a great mix of sporting and social.

Whatever your reasons for taking up Tag, just do it. It’s a world of fun and fitness, and now summer’s here, let’s all get outside and Tag along to the Beach Fest Series of mad

weekends with Beach tag and Beach parties. Check out www.tagrugby.ie for details.

I’m sure those of you who were in The Yacht, Clontarf last week had a rip roaring night as ‘One of the great Venue Managers of all time’, Liam Cahill, had help in celebrating his ‘retirement’ after many years of service – even when he and his family moved to Cavan, Liam religiously trooped down to Dublin every week to manage you all.

Cheers Liam –ITRA salutes you.

Our Most Valuable Player points are mounting as the chance to represent your country beckons. Limerick were off to a great start with their regional squads being announced. Four squads of 20 will fight for their position to play Great Britain and Australia in July.

To tease you, here is the kit you could be wearing if you qualify. The regional finals are in UCD on June 21.

It’s up to you to secure your place.

Power play: Niall Farrell of Boney M

Up for grabs: Eva Mazurola of Notorious gets a hold of the ball

Leader of the pack: Ellie Woulfe of Boney M prepares to go into full flight

Thank you: Tag icon Liam Cahill has his cake and eats it

Account for that: Kyle Murphy of KPMG Extreme Banter

TAg TALk Today’s winners from the @ucddublin Saturday Spring League. Congrats folks!

@tagrugby taginators cup winners in Irishtown Stadium

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Out on his own: McIlroy after his victory

mcIlroy’s now pInIng to land another major RoRy McIlRoy believes his surprise PGA championship triumph proves he can win next month’s US open – even though it takes place on a course he has never visited.

The 25-year-old is in high spirits after securing his first professional victory on European soil at Wentworth on Sunday thanks to a closing round of 66.

McIlroy’s triumph was a remarkable climax to a week that started with him announcing he had called off his wedding to caroline Wozniacki.

After turning off his phone and giving away his laptop, McIlroy sought sanctuary inside the ropes despite having missed the cut in his previous two appearances at the event.

6th McIlroy’s world ranking – up from tenth – after his Wentworth win ‘The win at the end of last year in Australia stopped all the questions about equipment and about struggling and a slump and all this stuff,’ said the former world No.1.

‘This victory, against a great field, one of the best fields of the year, cements that and shows I’m on the right track again.

Hopefully it won’t be long before I’m contending in majors and having a chance to win those again.’ McIlroy will head to Pinehurst from June 12-15 having finished eighth in his last two majors, without really threatening to win either the 2013 US PGA championship or April’s Masters.

The Northern Irishman admits he is in the dark about the course, having been a 16year-old amateur when New Zealand’s Michael campbell won the last US open staged there in 2005.

‘I can only go on what I’ve read and what I’ve heard because I’ve never been there,’ said McIlroy.

‘No rough for a US open is going to be very different. I hear it’s going to be a long golf course which I’m looking forward to.

Getting a driver in the hand and a long golf course would suit me.’

u Shane Lowry, runner-up to Rory McIlroy at the PGA Championship, capped a great 48 hours by qualifying for next month’s US Open at Pinehurst.

Rounds of 69 and 67 saw the Offaly man finish eight-under in the regional qualifier at Walton Heath.

Long-term plan: Rodgers has signed a four-year deal to stay at Anfield PICTURE: ANDY HOOPER

Brendan plots title tilt after signing new deal

BRENDAN RODGERS has set his sights on winning the Premier League title next year after signing a deal aimed at keeping him at Anfield until 2018.

The Liverpool boss is believed to have penned a four-year contract.

‘We are into the Champions League,’ said 41-year-old Rodgers. ‘Our dream and goal is to win the Premier League. That is what we want to do.’

The Reds came up just short in the title race as Manchester City

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triumphed but the Northern Irishman believes this is just the start.

‘We’ve shown this season that we can compete for that,’ he added. ‘With some new additions in the summer we believe that we can fight again.

‘The objective for me was to try to get Liverpool established again as one of the leading clubs in European and domestic football and we’re on course for that. We

will now look to move forward again next season and over the coming seasons.’

Rodgers had one year remaining

‘Our dream is to win the Premier League’ on his current deal, with the option for a further 12-month extension, but developments this season guaranteed him new and improved

world cup round-up torres targets Brazil ‘I was wrong that day.

CHELSEA striker Fernando Torres is determined to seal a place in Spain’s World Cup squad after earning a surprise call-up to the provisional 30-man group.

Boss Vicente del Bosque retained Torres (pictured) for their upcoming friendly with Bolivia after a year out. ‘I’m grateful for the words of Vicente, who valued my performances in the final phases. Now to fight during these days to be in the final list for Brazil,’ he said.

I always had much respect for him. There was no insult but I went berserk when I saw that red card.’

Holland’s Frank Rijkaard (above) on the unseemly moment he spat at Rudi Voller after both were sent off in West Germany’s last-16, 2-1 win at Italia 90.

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terms. He put these on hold while his team played a main role in the most exciting Premier League title race for years.

He said: ‘I wanted to just make sure we could focus entirely on what we were doing and on the job in hand. Any contract talk we would speak on afterwards.

‘There’s still a lot of development in the club for me and it was always going to be straightforward once the season was finished because I love being at Liverpool.’

Italy hail cesare with new deal CESARE PRANDELLI will plot Italy’s bid to qualify for the European Championships in 2016 in France after signing a two-year contract extension. The Azzurri coach’s contract was due to end after the World Cup but speaking at the Italy training camp in Florence, he said: ‘I’m late for the press conference due to the fact that we were signing the contract.’

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Ward ready to take on ireland’s top-level test by pARAic MORgAn

Stephen Ward is relishing the chance to test himself against World Cup opposition as he targets qualification for euro 2016. the 28-year-old defender, who has spent the last season on loan at Sky Bet Championship Brighton from Wolves, has returned to the Ireland squad under new manager Martin O’neill this season after being discarded by predecessor Giovanni trapattoni. he started Sunday night’s 2-1 home defeat by turkey and will hope to retain his place as the degree of difficulty increases markedly over the next fortnight with friendlies against Italy, Costa Rica and portugal, all of whom are using the games as part of their preparations for the World Cup finals in Brazil. however, that is a challenge Ward insists he and his team-mates welcome as they look towards September’s opener qualifier in Georgia.

Rugby Ireland lock Donncha O’Callaghan is one of four players added to the Barbarians’ 24-man squad to face England on June 1. France flyhalf Francois TrinhDuc, South Africa second row Juandre Kruger and Argentina full-back Juan Martin Hernandez are among the other international heavyweights named in head coach Dean Ryan’s side at Twickenham. Nine nations are represented, with New Zealand boasting six players in the squad, while 19 men are set to wear the famous black and white hooped shirt for the first time in an experienced group that boasts a combined 730 international caps.

bOxing Carl Froch cannot wait to get

his hands on rival George Groves again as the WBA and IBF super-middleweight champion cut a mean and moody figure ahead of their rematch. The Nottingham veteran says he is already sick of the hyperbole around the blockbuster allBritish scrap at Wembley on Saturday.

The fight has broken records as 80,000 are set to witness the two go toe-to-toe six months after their nine-round cracker in Manchester last year. Froch, 36, beat his rival, 26, then but had to drag himself up from a first-round knockdown before stopping the Londoner in the ninth.

Bring it on: Defender Stephen Ward says the next two weeks’ friendlies against Italy, Costa Rica and Portugal will test mettle of Ireland’s players in preparation for the Euro 2016 qualifier in Georgia he said: ‘I feel we are getting very close. I think these next couple of weeks will be really vital for us in terms of getting to know how he wants us to play and getting the philosophy on board.

‘At the minute, we are playing a really attractive style of football. We are keeping the ball well and we are not just keeping it without purpose.

‘We are creating chances, getting the ball wide and getting the ball into the box.’

One of the main beneficiaries of O’neill’s approach is playmaker Wes hoolahan, a man whose treatment by trapattoni baffled his admirers.

the norwich man has started three of the four games of the Ulsterman’s reign to date and is revelling in the opportunity afforded him, even if results have not necessarily gone his side’s way. hoolahan said: ‘It’s lovely. It’s great to get on the pitch and hopefully show what I can do.

‘We are playing well. We are passing the ball well, we are creating a lot of chances. It’s not like we are not playing well – then you have something to worry about. But you are playing against a world-class team in turkey, they are welldrilled, so there were positives.’

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‘You want to test yourself going into a tough group’ he said: ‘You want to test yourself and especially for us going into a tough qualifying group, you want to play against these teams. ‘people will look at it and say it might be tougher to get results, but sometimes you learn a lot more about yourself and the squad when you play against these top teams, and that’s what the management will think, especially going into a tough qualifying campaign. ‘the more they know about us, the better. You could maybe have chosen easier fixtures, but they want us to go in against these teams and they will definitely learn a lot about us in these next three weeks.’

Ward was part of the Ireland team which fared so poorly in the euro 2012 finals in poland and Ukraine as they slipped to successive defeats by Croatia, Spain and Italy, and a disappointing showing in the World Cup qualifying campaign subsequently cost trapattoni his job.

Replacement O’neill is tying to put his stamp on the squad, and while a more expansive style is yet to pay dividends in terms of results, Ward believes significant progress is being made.

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UrUgUay remains cautiously optimistic about Luis Suarez’s participation in the World Cup as the Liverpool striker continues his rehabilitation from a minor knee operation.

The 27-year-old underwent keyhole surgery on Thursday to repair damage to the meniscus in his left knee, which immediately put his participation in Brazil in doubt.

Uruguay would not rule-out the country’s all-time leading scorer of the tournament immediately after the procedure, and team doctor alberto Pan said there was nothing since to suggest they should change their opinion.

‘The core of the concept of his return was expressed in the

initial statement made in the immediate post-operative period and we can happily say that Luis’ participation in the World Cup is not ruled-out,’ Pan said.

‘It is very risky to give exact dates. We cannot have absolute certainty or clear numbers, but the post-operative period has been very good. Luis is not ruled out of the World (Cup), but you cannot talk about specific times.

Luis is very positive, I never heard a negative expression, and he says it is better every day.

Today (Suarez) is painless (and) is working on fitness and supporting essentials.’

Suarez will continue his rehabilitation away from the main squad, and national coach

Oscar Washington Tabarez said they would not rush him back.

Uruguay plays Costa rica on June 15 before they face England in Sao Paolo four days later.

‘What happens with Luis will depend on the evolution of his knee,’ Tabarez said.

In a statement last week the Uruguay Football association hinted that Suarez’s injury could have had its origin in a clash with Newcastle defender Paul Dummett in the final Premier League match of the season.

That resulted in the defender receiving abuse from South america on social media, but Dr Pan said there was no definitive opinion on what had caused the problem.

Legend Lauda calls out ‘spoilt’ F1 duo F1 Niki Lauda has warned feuding Mercedes team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg to again start behaving like ‘grown-up’ sportsmen, rather than spoilt children. Hamilton and Rosberg are currently not speaking to one another in the wake of a series of incidents that have led to a rapid disintegration in their relationship as they scrap for the Formula One world title. There was undeniable tension on the podium between the duo following Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix, with neither man acknowledging the other despite a record-equalling fifth successive one-two for the team, spearheaded by Rosberg.

Briatore backs Baku F1 Flavio Briatore has no doubt Formula

One’s latest adventure into new territory will prove a success. Former Benetton and Renault team principal Briatore was the man who helped broker a deal that will see the sport take to the streets of Azerbaijan capital Baku some time next year. F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed a contract is in place. The Italian was involved in the Singapore Grand Prix race-fixing scandal of 2008 that saw his exit from F1 a year later.

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Mean, green, fighting machines for O’Shea by pARAic MORgAn

John o’Shea has urged Ireland to be more ruthless at both ends of the pitch if they are to qualify for the finals of Euro 2016.

Martin o’neill’s men slipped to their second successive defeat at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday evening when Turkey emerged as 2-1 winners, just as Serbia had done in March. however, Ireland created more than enough chances to win the game, but ultimately paid for a combination of missed opportunities and defensive errors.

Both o’neill and his captain for the night were able to take plenty of positives from the display, but know the failings in both attack and defence must be ironed out if they are to prosper when the competitive action starts in September. o’Shea said: ‘At the time they got their first goal, we had total control of the game and that’s something we are going to have to learn very quickly, especially taking the chances because at international level, I struggle to remember a game where we have had as many chances and we have and only come out with one goal, so that’s frustrating.

‘Look, I’d be more worried if we weren’t creating chances, that’s the big thing. When you are playing against teams like Serbia and Turkey and we have created as many chances as we have, there’s something going right.

‘Whether we need a bit of luck to fall our way, a decision to go our way… But we are creating the chances, and that’s the main thing.

‘We have to make sure our concentration levels are up and when we are in control of the game that we are shutting teams out as well and not giving them a sniff to counter-attack and score goals against us.’

Ireland were dominating the game when they were hit out of the blue by Ahmet Ilhan ozek’s fine 17thminute header, and had regained control once again when substitute osman Tarik Camdal extended the visitors’ lead with 14 minutes remaining.

Jon Walters’ strike two minutes later gave Ireland hope, but it was all too little too late to leave he and his team-mates hugely frustrated.

But there will be little time for o’neill’s players to dwell on that frustration as they turn their attention to a series of arguably even tougher tests with Italy waiting in the wings at Craven Cottage on Saturday and fellow World Cup finalists Costa Rica and Portugal to come in the United States early next month.

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Asset: Boss is ‘fan’ of his ability

O’Neill says McGeady can improve

Frustrated: O’Shea says concentration is key for Ireland to capitalise on chances

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martIn o’nEILL is convinced aiden mcGeady can become a major asset on the international stage. the 28-year-old Everton winger turned in an impressive first-half display in Sunday’s 2-1 friendly defeat by turkey at the aviva Stadium. mcGeady, who has not played much football since his January switch from Spartak moscow, was withdrawn halfway through the second half as his influence waned, but o’neill is confident there is more to come from a player he knows well from Celtic. he said: ‘aiden has not played much football in the last six months. I don’t want to be an apologist for him… I am a big fan of his ability. ‘he created some beautiful moments for us, but can go for a ten or 15-minute spell not in the game.

‘I think if he can iron that out, he will be an asset to us in all aspects of the game.’

Saints’ Pochettino talk of London town as Spurs rumours heat up

Serious business: Pochettino

Southampton boss mauricio pochettino is in advanced talks with tottenham to become the north London club’s next manager. pochettino has been linked with the role at Spurs for some time and it appears the wheels are now in motion for the argentinian to succeed tim Sherwood.

Sherwood, appointed to replace andre Villas-Boas in December on

an 18-month contract, was sacked earlier this month after guiding tottenham to a sixth-place finish in the Barclays premier League. pochettino’s Southampton side ended up two places below tottenham in eighth. When he took over in January 2013, they had already made impressive progress in a short space of time. and that has continued under the

42-year-old, whose own reputation has grown considerably.

Coming in as a relative unknown to English football, in what were widely regarded as controversial circumstances with regard to the dismissal of his predecessor nigel adkins, pochettino was soon making a name for himself as his team defeated manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea towards the

end of the 2012/13 season.

Southampton – only promoted to the premier League the previous summer – finished 14th that term and have bettered that in 2013/14 with a side full of English talent that has drawn plenty of plaudits.

It has seen pochettino’s list of admirers increase and talk of tottenham among them has only intensified as time has gone on.

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