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Hundreds killed by firing squads Militants march hundreds of young men to their death in Iraq. The gunmen, from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, were also shown on a jihadist website killing the prisoners after taking control of Mosul last week. The images were captioned ‘the filthy Shias are killed in their hundreds’ PICTURE: AP

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Items of all shapes and sizes wheeled round Phoenix Park in bicycle games

Wheely dad, do we have to? It was a question of not getting too tyred for these eager entrants

Pedal pushers unite and take over

by AiLEEn DOnEgAn

Pannier pals: Anna and Harry Braine, 6 and 4, from Clontarf enjoy a cooling treat

Going the rung way: One of the 50 cargobike owners participating had a ladder on hers

HUNDREDS of bicycle enthusiasts pedalled to Phoenix Park yesterday for the Irish Cargobike Championships – the flagship event of the park’s cycling festival.

Some 50 cargobike owners took part in fun races, while the Blue Team’s Bart Zdrojowy and family were the overall winners.

Event organiser Astrid Fitzpatrick said: ‘Cargobikes are becoming more and more popular as a means of transport as it’s a safe and practical mode of travel. I use mine for grocery shopping and for ferrying the children to school, play-dates and afterschool activities.

‘It’s a really fun and healthy way to get about.

In Holland, where I am from, cargobikes are used a lot, and I hope the Irish will continue to embrace this fantastic way of travel,’ she added.

The event was jointly organised by the Dutch Bike Shop and urban transport specialists Greenaer and supported by the Office of Public Works, Phoenix Park, Bike Week 2014 and the Dublin Cycling Campaign.

For Bike Week, this Wednesday Dublin City Council is organising On Yer Bike, a 30-minute lunchtime cycle around the city beginning at 12.45pm at Grand Canal Square.

Visit www.dublincity.ie/lunchcycle.

More pictures at GoMetro.ie/ cargo-bikes Corner boys: Paul McCarthy and son Billy, 7 months, from Phibsboro take to the course

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Flamin’ nora, Ulysses fest is Barnacles!

Bloomsday is today and Dublin’s arty folk took to its streets in droves yesterday to pay homage to Joyce’s magnum opus IN FULL BLOOM: Annemarie Eviston and Colm Olwill (pictured right) take to North Great George’s Street for a dance yesterday as Happenings and Street Feast teamed up with the James Joyce Centre to host a Bizarre Bloomsday Brunch. Actors Paul Duane and Colm Kearns (below right) also joined in the proceedings, while artist Aidan Breen’s The Tower of Ulysses (centre) is on display in Dún Laoghaire at McManus Jewellers

Family fun: Emear McNally, Peter O’Brien and son Myles (15 months) from Herbert Place at the festivities

Pictures: conor Mccabe;

Framer: Ciaran Kavanagh and wife Alfreda at the 21st annual Bloomsday Messenger Bike rally

Paul sherwood; Photocall

Separate diving accidents claim lives of 2 men A MAN has died in a diving accident in Co Donegal. The Polish man in his early 40s was around 6.5km off Malin Head when he got into difficulties. A helicopter airlifted him to hospital in Derry, where he was pronounced dead. He is the second diver to die at the weekend after a man died while diving near Roches Point in Cork Harbour.

Meanwhile, a man was taken to hospital with a suspected broken ankle after an accident at Fair Head, near Ballycastle in Co Antrim yesterday morning.

Union bows out of talks with Irish Rail THE NBRU has withdrawn from cost-saving talks with Irish Rail, saying the company had made ‘no serious attempt’ to address its concerns. It was one of two unions at the rail company to reject a Labour Court recommendation last month which called for pay cuts of 1.7 per cent to 6.1 per cent for a 28-month period.

Siptu also rejected the plan.

NBRU’s chief Dermot O’Leary said: ‘Despite having engaged in the process in good faith we feel that the company made no serious attempt to address the concerns of our members.’

Taoiseach has ‘undermined’ banking inquiry – Donnelly

Making a stand: Donnelly

THE Government has been called upon to revisit an idea for an independent banking inquiry in the wake of Independent TD Stephen Donnelly’s decision to quit the committee.

Speaking on the Marian Finucane Show on RTÉ yesterday morning, Mr Donnelly said that his decision is in response to Enda Kenny’s move to add two additional Government members to the committee, following a botched Seanad election last week.

Fianna Fáil managed to have Senator Marc MacSharry nominated to the panel in the place of Labour senator Susan O’Keeffe, after she failed to turn up to the vote.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s response was to increase the size of the committee from nine to 11, and add Ms O’Keeffe and Fine Gael senator

by jOAnnE AHERn Michael D’Arcy in order to ensure a Government majority.

Mr Donnelly said that Mr Kenny had ‘completely undermined’ the inquiry and its chairman, Labour TD Ciaran Lynch.

‘Entire viability of the inquiry is in jeopardy’ He said that he doesn’t have an issue with a Government majority on every other Oireachtas committee, as it ‘reflects the will of the people in the last election’.

However, he added: ‘But when the Taoiseach overrides the will of the Oi-

Taxi driver plans to leave Ireland after a series of racist attacks A DUBLIN-based taxi driver plans to leave the country after being the subject of a number of racially-motivated attacks.

Happy Agamah, who lives in the Glenmore area of Rathfarnham, said he was lucky to be alive after a number of people set a fuel-soaked mattress alight outside his apartment and smashed his bedroom window last Sunday night.

The 63-year-old told the Sunday Independent: ‘They have banged on my door at night and shout “come out n*gger... you n*ggers come here to take our jobs.”’

Mr Agamah, who said he has experienced several attacks to his home and car and a physical assault on the quays two years ago, now plans to return to Germany, where he grew up.

A spokesman for the Immigration Council of Ireland said that it received 144 reports of racism last year, an increase of 85 per cent. He urged people to report physical abuse or threats to their home to the gardaí.

A Garda press office spokesman said a 36-year-old woman arrested in relation to the incident has been released ‘pending further inquiry’.

reachtas and subverts the democratic process, and then explicitly states he is doing so in order to control the banking inquiry, my decision taken last Friday was to say “no, I cannot be a part of this. I’m going to stand up and say I’m sorry, I don’t believe this is how politics should be done”.’

Both Fianna Fáil finance spokesman Michael McGrath and Independent TD Shane Ross have reiterated their calls for a non-political panel.

Mr McGrath said the ‘entire viability’ of the inquiry ‘is in jeopardy’.

Speaking to RTÉ’s News at One programme, Mr Ross said: ‘There is a very good case for taking people who are external to the country and who aren’t involved in the extraordinarily incestuous financial world, who would make a less partial judgement.’

Man arrested over boy, 6, shot in neck A MAN was last night arrested in connection with the shooting of a six-year-old boy in Dublin on Friday.

The child was shot in the neck at a house in Croftwood Gardens, Ballyfermot shortly after 10pm. He was taken to Crumlin children’s hospital, where his injuries were described as not life-threatening.

Gardaí do not believe the child was the intended target.

The arrested man, in his 30s, is suspected of withholding information, and not of direct involvement in the shooting.

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Smile, please!

Dentist’s drill could soon face extraction

Responsibly.

How to marry a millionaire?

Go to Sugar Daddy school

by NICOLE LE MARIE ing and re-filling as, ultimately, each “repair” fails.

‘Not only is our device kinder to the patient and better for their teeth, but it’s expected to be at least as cost-effective as current dental treatments. Along with fighting tooth decay, our device can also be used to whiten teeth.’

Reminova Ltd, based in Perth, Scotland, has been set up to commercialise the technique and is seeking private investors to take the venture forward.

Kit Malthouse, chairman of MedCity of which King’s is a part, said: ‘It’s brilliant to see the research taking place at King’s making its way out of the lab so quickly and being turned into a new device that has the potential to make a real difference.’

Picture: conor mccabe

THE days of patients leaving the dentist’s a dribbling wreck after having their teeth drilled and filled to the root could be over as scientists have developed a much less gruesome alternative.

A tooth-rebuilding treatment which dispenses with the drill has been developed by researchers at King’s College London and could be available within three years.

Instead of removing decay and ramming amalgam or composite resin in the cavity, ‘electrically accelerated and enhanced remineralisation’ speeds up the natural movement of calcium and phosphate minerals into the damaged tooth.

Professor Nigel Pitts, from King’s dental institute, said: ‘The way we treat teeth today is not ideal. When we repair a tooth by putting in a filling, that tooth enters a cycle of drill-

Slings and marrows

Ailis McBrien and rugby star Gordon D’Arcy were sporting similar injuries at the Aldi terrace at Taste Of Dublin in the Iveagh Gardens, which concluded yesterday

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IT’S a new university where the students are taught how to get someone else to pay the fees.

The Sugar Daddy University in the US is teaching would-be gold diggers how to bag the rich man of their dreams and get showered with gifts and flown around the world.

Professional sugar baby Carla Abonia and her ‘mentor’ Alan Schneider started the school after she got fed up with cheap partners, including one who left her with a KFC bucket of leftovers for dinner.

The 37-year-old New Yorker said: ‘Some of my friends think it’s prostitution, but it’s nothing like that. My family actually like it, we are Colombian and the women there are treated like princesses.’

The course focuses on promoting ‘sexuality, generosity, attraction and reciprocity’, and advice is given by plastic surgeons and relationship and financial experts.

Mr Schneider, creator of site SugarDaddyForMe.com, said the course gets ‘unhappily married people looking for new partners, students, professionals who find it hard to meet people’.

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Forced into a ditch they had dug themselves, these are the latest victims in Iraq

Marched to their deaths

By DOMINIC YEATMAN

IT WAS a very modern massacre – filmed and posted online for the whole world to see.

Hundreds of people were herded to their deaths at gunpoint.

Minutes later, they were thrown into a ditch they had been forced to dig themselves and machine gunned without mercy.

Many of the men murdered by Isis Sunni militants in northern Iraq were wearing civilian clothes – including football shirts with the names of their sporting heroes on the back.

The images of unarmed men being gunned down will be seized on by investigators already examining claims of atrocities in the conflict that has swept Iraq.

Footage of the massacre was posted on the internet via a Twitter feed used

by Isis and included hate-filled slogans such as ‘the filthy Shias are killed in their hundreds’.

UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay has warned of ‘murder of all kinds’, and of ‘summary executions and extrajudicial killings’, in the regions overrun by Isis forces.

Fighters from Isis yesterday claimed to have captured the town of Adeim, just 100km north of the capital Baghdad, as government forces began a series of air strikes on rebel-held positions.

Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki claimed to have retaken several captured towns, and fought off an attack on the country’s largest oil refinery.

Meanwhile, at least 15 people have died and more than 30 were hurt in a series of explosions in Baghdad.

A car bomb in the city centre killed ten and wounded 21. Two more people died in a blast later yesterday evening.

And a third bomb was detonated near a falafel shop in the city’s sprawling Sadr City district, killing three and wounding seven.

The price of democracy... a finger cut off for voting TALIBAN insurgents cut off the inked index fingers of 11 Afghan voters who took part in the presidential run-off poll.

They maimed voters in Herat province after pledging to punish people taking part in the election, which will decide if former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah or ex-finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai runs the country.

Both candidates have vowed to improve ties with the West and sign a delayed security pact allowing nearly 10,000

Cowering at gunpoint: This photo, posted on a militant website, shows gunmen taking aim at prisoners lying in a ditch PICTUREs: AP

Blair ‘wants Crusade’

Rounded up: Many of the captives led away were wearing civilian clothes

TONY BLAIR has been pilloried by his former allies for calling for renewed military intervention in Iraq.

The former prime minister, who led Britain into the war in 2003, said the Middle Eastern nation was in ‘mortal danger’, adding: ‘Where the extremists are fighting, they have to be countered hard, with force.’

Clare Short, who resigned

Cooks told not to wash raw chicken

Maimed: Voters whose fingers were cut off by the Taliban show off their injuries PICTURE: EPA

US troops to remain in the country for two more years.

Voting in Saturday’s poll was described as ‘relatively peaceful’ despite a series of Taliban attacks that killed 47

from his cabinet in opposition to the war, said: ‘He is consistently wrong, wrong, wrong. More bombing will just exacerbate it.’

Mr Blair’s former deputy John Prescott said the 2003 invasion was designed to topple Saddam Hussein rather than find weapons of mass destruction. He said: ‘Put on a white sheet and a red cross and we are back to the Crusades.’

people. In one attack, in Samangan province, 11 people in a minibus died when a roadside bomb was detonated.

Vote counting started

yesterday and the final result is due on July 22.

About 7million people – 60 per cent of Afghanistan’s population – cast their vote, officials say.

HeAlTH experts have urged people to stop washing chicken before they cook it to avoid food poisoning.

More than two-fifths of cooks say that they wash chicken as part of their food preparations, but officials have issued a call to the public to stop the practice, which they say can spread a type of bacteria around the kitchen through the splashing of water droplets.

Campylobacter is responsible for the majority of cases of food poisoning.

The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) said four out

of every five cases are caused by contaminated chicken.

While most cases result in people suffering from abdominal pain, severe diarrhoea and vomiting, some cases can lead to more significant long-term health problems.

The FSA has now urged cooks to stop washing chicken before they cook it, because of the crosscontamination, with campylobacter bacteria spreading on to hands, work surfaces, clothing and cooking equipment through splashed water droplets.

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Singer Taylor’s husband hunt Taylor Momsen might not strike you as the maternal type but the rock chick is adamant there will be children and a husband in her future.

The Pretty Reckless singer may be barely out of her teens but she said the idea of having a family was something she had thought about.

‘One day, I’d love to have

children and get married,’ the former Gossip Girl actress said in an exclusive chat.

‘It would have to be the perfect person, I don’t know who that will be.’

But Momsen, 20, has no plans to follow in the footsteps of her former co-star, Blake Lively, and marry young.

‘At the moment, I’m married

to my guitar and my notebook,’ she added. As for acting, the singer said she had retired from the silver screen.

‘Acting’s not something I’m pursuing,’ she said after performing at the Isle Of Wight Festival on Saturday.

‘Who knows if I’ll ever act again, but I will be making records forever.’

Pattinson reveals he lusts after ‘hot’ katy Robert Pattinson has been overheard confessing his lust for Katy Perry despite the pair insisting they are just good friends. The 28-year-old was celebrating his latest film, The Rover, at a bar in Los Angeles with Perry when he let slip his true feelings. ‘They were heavily flirting. At one point, Robert sauntered over to the bar with a pal and was heard saying, ‘She’s so hot’, nodding in Perry’s direction,’ an onlooker told Page Six. Perry, 29, has been at pains to point out that she simply offered R-Patz a shoulder to cry on following his split from Kristen Stewart, 24. ‘I fart in front of him. Properly fart. And I never, ever fart in front of a man I am dating. That’s a rule,’ the Dark Horse singer revealed last year. She has also recently been romantically linked to 35-yearold music producer Diplo amid speculation the pair went on holiday together. Londoner Pattinson, meanwhile, has reportedly been dating 22-yearold model Imogen Kerr.

Strutting her stuff: Taylor Swift shows off her pins in a tiny black playsuit while going walkabout in Chinatown in New York Picture: Ace Pictures

Wild: Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless Picture: Yui Mok/PA

Lana fans stunned by her death wish quip Lana Del Rey has sparked panic among fans who fear for her mental health after she pronounced: ‘I wish I was dead already.’

The 27-year-old was discussing her idols Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse when she made the quip to The Guardian, prompting one concerned fan to tweet: ‘She could be suffering from clinical depression, which would explain why she is thinking/talking like that. If you are clinically depressed, it doesn’t matter how rich and famous you are.’ Some followers were less understanding though, with one posting: ‘What a stupid thing 2 say! U self centred spoiled person! U have the world @ ur feet.

U wil b over in 2 min anyway.’ Another added: ‘you gotta be careful who you worship and idolize’, A spokesperson for Del Rey was unavailable for comment.

Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas are locked in a bitter battle for custody of their dogs during their divorce. The pair share a terrier cross and two rescue dogs they took in last year but 56-year-old Griffith wants them all to herself. The couple will not fight for custody of their 17-year-old daughter, Stella del Carmen Banderas, because she will turn 18 in September.

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Ladies and the Vamps?

Sorry, we’re far too busy T

he VAMPS might be one of the hottest bands in the charts but they claim to be too busy for getting involved with groupies.

Frontman Brad Simpson, 18, said he and bandmates Tristan evans, 19, James McVey, 20, and 18-year-old Connor Ball also found it odd when they were hit on by admirers.

‘We’ve been in bands since we were about ten years old, it feels like we’re just four guys in a band playing music so the female attention we get is quite weird at times,’ Simpson told me.

‘We are all single. We do struggle and find it quite hard to find the time to date.

Usually when we’re home, or have a bit of off time, we just sleep so it is hard to hold down a relationship.’

With everyone in the band playing an instrument, Simpson is keen not to be branded a boyband and to distance himself and his buddies from the likes of harry Styles and company. ‘It doesn’t

by jenni mcknight annoy us to be compared to One Direction but we are very, very different,’ he said after storming the BT Sport Big Top stage at the Isle of Wight Festival on Saturday.

‘They’re in a vocal group, a boyband, we’re in a band so there’s no comparison really.

‘They’re really successful but we just want to do our own thing.’

The Vamps also had to do the rounds to get where they are, saying they wouldn’t have achieved success had they appeared on The X Factor like 1D. ‘We did all the pub gigs and our parents would drive us to s*** shows up and down the country so we could play to one man and his dog.

‘For us, that’s the way it should be done, to graft and earn doing the gigs.

I’m not saying X Factor’s bad but it’s not for us,’ Simpson explained.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers left fans disappointed after they were hit by technical problems at the Isle Of Wight Festival. The Californication rockers were headlining on Saturday night – but their tunes could barely be heard as sound levels were so low. There was further upset after fans waited all night to hear the band’s classic, Under The Bridge – only for it to be left off the set list.

Frontman Anthony Kiedis, 51, offered a consolation prize by signing autographs backstage after the show.

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Franco: I admire my stripper bro Dave Franco says it would be nigh-on impossible to stop his older brother James endlessly posting topless selfies on social media. The 22 Jump Street actor, 29, says he learned long ago that his 36-year-old brother is very much his own man. ‘I know better than to tell him what to do with regard to anything at this point. What a lot of

people think is crazy is also what I admire about him – he does what he wants and he’s not afraid of how people are going to perceive him,’ Dave told The Daily Beast. ‘Someone in his position who will put himself out on a limb like that, I think it’s refreshing. So I’m not the one to tell him to stop posting naked pictures of himself on Instagram...’

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Unassuming house hides a Cambodian loft, Edwardian hall and much more

For sale: A place in history

Ordinary: The property, above, looks unassuming from the outside

By AiDAn RADnEDgE FROM the outside, it looks like any other modest, former council house in a quiet cul-de-sac.

But stepping through the door of John Trevillian’s three-bedroom home is like walking into a different era – or eras.

Because behind the unassuming property lies a ‘wonderland’ where each room reflects a different time and place in history.

So instead of the usual white walls and neutral decor, the 49-year-old has a 1950s New Orleans kitchen, Victorian dining room, Cambodian treehouse loft and Edwardian hall and bedroom.

More than 1,650 objects have been brought back from 27 countries to decorate the house in Dunmow, Essex, at a cost of €626,000.

But the bad news is that since Mr Trevillian lost his job on a magazine earlier this year he has struggled to pay the bills and is being forced to sell the house – which is just 18 months from being finished.

‘It’s every penny I’ve had for the last 24 years – and every weekend too,’ said the author.

‘Some people think it’s totally mad but others say it’s like being in one of

Through the keyhole: The Cambodian treehouse loft, above, a New York-style office, far left, and the ‘room of dreams’ all lie behind the front door PiCtUrE: Masons

those novels where a secret door opens up to a different world and fall in love with it.

‘I’m looking to sell it to someone who’s interested in the package – including the inventory of items.’

‘Get ’em Scoob’: voice of Shaggy dies at 82 RADIO host Casey Kasem, known to many as the voice of Shaggy from TV cartoon Scooby-Doo for 40 years, has died at age 82.

Born Kemal Amin Kasem in 1932 in Detroit, the son of Lebanese immigrants, he began his broadcasting career in the radio club at Detroit’s Northwestern High School and he became active in speaking out for greater understanding of ArabAmericans – both on political issues and on arts and media issues.

Kasem, whose ‘American Top 40’ began on July 4, 1970, in Los Angeles, stepped down from the show in 2004. As well as his radio work, his voice was heard in commercials and in TV cartoons.

Jagger row is ‘just a circus’

Icon: Casey Kasem

THE mother of Mick Jagger’s new love has compared the row over their relationship with a circus.

Sir Mick, 70, is alleged to have met ballerina Melanie Hamrick, 27, less than two weeks before the death of his longterm partner L’Wren Scott.

Miss Hamrick’s 65-year-old mother, Anne, waded into the fray yesterday.

‘Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people’s nonsense, repeat these words: not my circus, not my monkeys,’ she posted on Facebook.

She also quoted philosopher Aristotle in what appeared to be advice to her daughter.

It read: ‘There is one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, be nothing and say nothing.’

Miss Hamrick was pictured kissing and embracing Jagger little more than ten days ago on a hotel balcony in the Swiss city of Zurich, where the Rolling Stones were performing.

But sources close to the pair claim they first met backstage at another Stones gig in Tokyo on March 6 – just two weeks before Scott killed herself – when they swapped contact details.

However, sources also stress Jagger and Miss Hamrick did not start seeing each other until Zurich.

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To deny climate change ‘is like saying Moon is cheese’

DENYING global warming is like arguing that the Moon is made of cheese, Barack Obama has claimed.

In a speech to thousands of graduates, the US president said Congress was ‘full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject scientific evidence’ by claiming climate change is a hoax or fad.

Mr Obama described politicians who told him: ‘Hey, look, I’m not a scientist.’

But he explained: ‘I’ll translate that for you, what that really means is, “I know that man-made climate change really is happening – but if I admit it, I’ll be run out of town by a radical fringe that thinks climate science is a liberal plot.”

‘It’s pretty rare that you’ll encounter somebody who says the problem you’re trying to solve simply doesn’t exist.’

Mr Obama added: ‘When President Kennedy set us on a course to the Moon,

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there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn’t be worth it. But nobody ignored the science. I don’t remember anybody saying the Moon wasn’t there, or that it was made of cheese.’

He revealed the US political system is focused on ‘small things’ but stressed that Americans should do ‘big things’, such as addressing climate change.

Mr Obama told the students: ‘Consider this: since the time you graduated from high school, fewer Americans are at war.

More have health insurance. More are graduating from college. Our businesses have added more than 9million jobs. And the number of states where you’re free to marry who you love has doubled. That is some of the progress you’ve seen.’

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80 arrests in search new yorkers profit for three teenagers from ‘Hidden Cash’

WEsT BAnK: Israeli troops yesterday arrested 80 Palestinians, including 60 members of the Islamic militant group Hamas, in a series of dawn raids. The arrests follow last week’s abduction of three Israeli teenagers hitch-hiking in Hebron. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Hamas for the kidnappings but the Palestinians have rejected the claims.

AMERICA: The ‘Hidden Cash’ giveaway has rolled into New York as property investor Jason Buzi left $50 bills in Central Park and Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. The scavenger hunt was poised to move to Chicago yesterday and is heading for London, Paris and Madrid in the next fortnight. ‘Sometimes you see people who, even $100 or $200, makes a difference,’ Mr Buzi said.

CHInA: Relatives of one of the 239 passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 weep during a service in Beijing.

It is 100 days today since the disappearance of the plane Picture: ePA

Elvis shot dead as 100 die in retaliation he leaves building for attack on airport

KOsOvO: A flamboyant candidate for parliament has been shot dead leaving a restaurant. Elvis Pista was hit four times at close range in an apparent assassination in the western town of Orahovac. Police said yesterday the gunman may have used a silencer. Mr Pista, known for his spiked hair, was a member of prime minister Hashim Thaci’s party. Tensions have been high after elections on June 8.

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PAKIsTAn: Fighter jets bombed suspected militant hideouts in response to an audacious attack on the country’s busiest airport last week. Up to 100 insurgents were killed in raids in North Waziristan yesterday, say officials, but that has not been independently verified.

The strikes were ordered in the Taliban and al-Qaeda stronghold after at least 28 people were killed in an attack at Karachi airport.

GERMAny: A motorist who was hit by a car at traffic lights was surprised to find the other driver was his wife. Erik and Diana Dresdner, of Münster, had a hard time explaining the accident to their insurance company.

A degree of cynicism: Mr Obama gives the sign of the university mascot, which is an anteater. He was the main speaker at a graduation AP

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Mourning for 49 shot out of sky UKRAINE held a day of mourning yesterday after proRussian separatists shot down a military transport plane, killing 49. President Petro Poroshenko called for a ‘detailed analysis’ of the reasons behind the disaster in Luhansk. He also held talks with French president François Hollande, urging the EU to step up sanctions against Moscow if it continued to supply weapons to the militants.

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Welsh author THOMAs MORRis is editor of The Stinging Fly and Dubliners 100, an anthology of short stories inspired by Joyce’s 1914 collection

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Joyce’s Dubliners celebrates its 100th anniversary this month. Why did it prove so influential? dubliners is the book

so many authors in the 20th and 21st century have read and thought: this is how you write short stories. Joyce wrote with great economy, precision and introspection about real characters with real emotions in real situations. Here were ordinary people living ordinary lives who, through the course of a few pages, come to experience an extraordinary sense of revelation. Joyce refers to his short stories as a ‘nicely polished looking-glass’ with which dubliners could see their own reflection.

Whether it was political hypocrisy or alcoholism or emotional paralysis, he didn’t shy away from uncomfortable truths – those themes are still relevant today.

Joyce’s Dubliners? Yes, it’s

uncanny the way in which the more things change, the more they seem to stay the same. In sam Coll’s version of Grace, a group of guys go round to book launches simply so they can fill up on free booze – with one character falling down a flight of stairs in the Workman’s; and in eimear McBride’s Ivy day In the Committee room she nails a get-together fuelled by drink.

Which themes or topics in this collection dovetail most with those in Joyce’s original? What struck me most is

the theme of addiction, that’s so prevalent in Joyce’s stories, has been tackled in various ways in dubliners 100. Although we have alcohol addiction here, we also have porn and internet addiction. In Belinda McKeon’s take on How did Dubliners 100 Counterparts, set in New York, the protagonist come to fruition? As works for a Pr firm someone who loves and is trying to write short fiction, I was You definitely a press release, but wondering how to her addiction to make the short get the pulse of a twitter is getting story more relevant nation from sifting in the way and, as to people and, at the same time, I through the slush days go by and she still hasn’t finished, was vaguely aware pile her boss becomes that the dubliners irate. In Oona Frawley’s centenary was coming the Boarding House, a up. One day I was walking guy’s addiction to internet porn is down Grafton street when I heard uncovered by his step-mother. someone covering Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah, which itself You’ve recently taken the is a cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah; it got me thinking of reins as editor of The cover versions and how it’s so Stinging Fly, which common in music but less so with specialises in publishing stories and books. I thought that contemporary Irish fiction. rather than ask writers for a modern Do you enjoy sifting through adaptation of each story, I’d ask for the slush pile? reading through a cover version so they could submissions is like a long birthday respond in any way they saw fit.

– you have all these packages Were contributors waiting to be opened and you’re encouraged to take liberties just hoping for something that you with the original stories in want, but you didn’t know you wanted. It’s like tapping into the terms of content? there were nation’s unconscious when you’re really no parameters. I hoped each opening all those envelopes and writer would isolate the bits that you see the collective concerns of a interested them – character, mood, country. A few years ago we were style – and take it from there. some of these stories don’t even take place getting angry poetry about bankers and the recession, so you definitely in dublin and in others the sex of get the pulse of a nation from the characters has been changed; in sifting through the slush pile. My donal ryan’s version of evelyn, for first issue as editor comes out at the instance, the central character end of this month, so it’s very becomes a boy. It was really about exciting. finding a way in to the story. I wanted contributors to put aside any Daragh Reddin hang-ups about Joyce and have fun.

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Is alcohol as much of an issue in this collection as it was for

Dubliners 100 (€15) is published by Tramp Press. www.tramp.ie

LADIES IN BLOOM: Reader Brendan Culleton sent us this picture of some Joycean fans in period dress taking a cycle down Capel Street last Friday Send your photos to pictures@ metroherald.ie with ‘Quick pic’ as the subject and we will print the best each day in the paper

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deserted wife and her family – friends of mine – are about to be evicted for being behind with rent. I have offered them a roof over their heads to stop them being homeless.

As we would be wrongly under suspicion of being married or cohabiting, it cannot be accepted by them as she’ll lose her single mother allowance. Both our houses have been watched. the proof is too long for this letter.

I cannot support them, being on the state pension myself, and social Welfare has nowhere for her to live.

How can it be wrong in a supposedly Christian country to be a Good samaritan? I would love for someone in social Welfare to explain why she should be deprived

if I do what they can’t, or won’t, Samaritan do.

■ Fresh from Alan shatter’s contempt for the law scandal, enda Kenny’s contempt for the law – by forcing a Government majority in the banking enquiry – shows Fine Gael is irredeemable. the question is, does Labour have the same integrity the Green Party had when they withdrew support for the previous government? Or is the perception of Labour being Fine Gael Kevin lapdogs justified?

■ As a high-profile politician, John McGuinness is quick to call for the resignation of current staff members of the Hse. He was a member of the government which set up the Hse and determined its pay levels, terms and conditions. In the same way, he is also a member

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● Many thanks to the lovely gentleman who saw me struggle one-handedly at Grand Canal Dock and stopped to help me put the buggy in the car boot last Friday.

Karen ● Thanks to the security guard at VHI Swiftcare in Dundrum who brought me a seat when I arrived last Thursday with a foot injury while I waited for the clinic to open and offered to call me a taxi on my way out– unlike other patients who pushed to the front of the queue.

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of a former government, the decisions of which contributed to the bankrupting of the country. It would be better if he just got on with his job and stopped blaming staff members of the current public service for the conditions of austerity which he himself had a hand in creating.

A Leavy ■ It took someone fainting at Lansdowne road last thursday for Irish rail to realise most of its carriages (Irish rail, these are ‘tokyu’ type carriages) don’t have the ventilation working. the result is that it feels like a sauna, but it sure isn’t as nice. On Friday, the air con was on for the first time this year. A big round of applause to Irish rail. It probably goes to show how often they get on their own trains to carry out spot checks.

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yEH big RiDE ● Magda, serving coffee on the Dublin-Sligo train yesterday, I could make you tea :) Nice guy ● Girl with the scorpion tattoo at Donabate station last Thursday at 18:05, I’d be happy to show you my sting!

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Who, exactly, is Banks?

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A goddess you can bank on Singer/songwriter Banks has gone from family break-up to next big thing. ‘Music is about healing my mind,’ she tells Amy Dawson

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alifornia’s hottest new export couldn’t be more different than the stereotype of an la Valley girl. in fact, it’s hard to believe singer/songwriter Jillian Banks grew up in the Valley at all.

Known simply as Banks, the darkhaired, elfin 25-year-old emerged via soundCloud just last year. as she talks earnestly and seriously about her music in the booth of an east london restaurant, there is something natalie Portman-esque about her.

‘Everything i do is about feelings, about emotion,’ she tells me as she sips a cup of hot water. ‘i loon out in all of my songs, do you know what i mean?’

To be honest, i’m not sure. ‘it’s like when your most animal side comes out and you have no inhibitions,’ she explains. ‘for me, music is all about emotion, it’s about healing my own mind – it’s not about anything else.’

Gushing, unstoppered emotion needs to be handled very carefully in a musical sense. Banks matches her raw, expressive melodies with sparse, atmospheric electronic production, cutting to the quick on tracks such as the feverishly sexy Brain or new single Drowning.

The combination is a popular one right now but she does it well. it’s easy to see why she cites fiona apple and Brandy as major influences and British bedroom dubstep artists such as Burial and new-wave american r’n’b acts like The Weeknd as inspirations.

Banks’s girlish, high-pitched tone is very much at odds with her low, smoky singing voice. and while in person she’s slightly gawky, pulling her sleeves down over her hands and giggling, on stage she has all the dramatic poise of a sexy, doomful goddess.

Banks started making music as a teenager when a friend gave her a keyboard to help her work through the depression brought on by the collapse of her parents’ marriage. for years, she kept her music private. it was while writing a university psychology thesis about the children of divorce that she decided to let other people hear her songs and uploaded a few tracks to soundCloud. one of them, Before i Ever Met You, was streamed 250,000 times and played on radio. all this without having had any

and you sing it with a growl, it feels good.’

Banks may be happy to put her music out there but resists being drawn on the circumstances behind her songs. ‘i’m comfortable talking about my life in music,’ she says. ‘i’m not so comfortable talking about it anywhere else. i will be maybe… later on.’

Despite a long, slow, expertly paced drip-feed of hype, Banks’s debut album, Goddess, is not out until september. But she has already worked with huge names including sohn, TEED, lil silva and Jamie Woon, and last week played a sold-out gig at Washington, DC’s U street Music Hall. she ‘justified’ the buzz around her, said the Washington Post, ‘with an impressive set that morphed her moody, subdued songs into a visually and sonically arresting rock show’.

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Emotional investment: Banks at Coachella Festival in April. Performing was like reading out diary entries, she says formal musical training. ‘it was almost like a subconscious thing,’ Banks explains. ‘i started messing around, my hands moving around on top of the keys. i never actively thought i wanted to learn how to write music, it was just that i naturally started expressing myself that way in private.

‘it was like a drug and the most liberating feeling. after i discovered music, i could breathe easier, like these bricks were lifted off my back. now, if i don’t write for a while, i get really fidgety. i need it, it’s my way of feeling centred.’ is it difficult, though, to put such personal, anguished songs out into

the public domain? ‘it was hard, almost like reading diary entries out loud,’ she confides. ‘But that fear has changed into just feeling free. sometimes it feels good to write about my most raw, vulnerable things because i can put it in my music when i’m feeling weak – but with a growl. once you own it,

alWaYs have an idea of the atmosphere that i want to create,’ Banks says. ‘i want the production to feel as heavy as the lyrical content.’ if it all sounds a bit unremittingly woebegone, Banks promises sunnier moments on the album proper: ‘There’s definitely some stuff on there that’s a lighter mood.’

While she mans her own instagram account and her manager-run facebook and Twitter feeds have a personal-enough feel, Banks famously doesn’t ‘do’ social media. last year, she posted her phone number on the web, asking fans to call her so she can make ‘connections outside of a computer screen’. it sounds like a gimmick to me, however kindly intentioned. i can’t imagine she has any time to answer anyone any more but she tells me i’m wrong. ‘i get some really emotional calls,’ she says, ‘telling me that my music is helping them feel less lonely or stuff like that. often i get silly ones… but most are deep and personal. it’s great because it’s made me realise most people are good. They are amazing and beautiful.’ later that day, i text her and never get a response. But with the way her career is taking off, i don’t blame her for a second.

Banks’s new single, Drowning, is available to download now. Her debut album Goddess is out on Sep 8.

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t’s frankly baffling why the debut album from Detroit native and University of Houston graduate (in classical flute) Melissa Jefferson (aka Lizzo) didn’t blow up bigger than Krakatoa when it was ‘soft released’ late last year. It drew praise as it bubbled through the underground, due partly to the Minneapolis-based MC’s previous membership of buzzy, all-gal rap trio the Chalice, but LizzoBangers really didn’t give her the wider attention she deserved. If there’s any justice, this fresh push should fix that for good. she might share their ‘bad’ attitude but what sets Lizzo apart from her galaxy-conquering rap sisters like Azealia Banks and Iggy Azalea is her vocal style, which is often decidedly old-school, along KRs-One, Missy Elliott or even salt-N-Pepa lines. Meanwhile the punched-up musical production (the work of hip Minneapolis operators Lazerbeak and Ryan Olson) nods toward Pete Rock, the Bomb squad and Prince Paul, rather than just following the Kanye-replicating pack.

Huge hooks, humour, straighttalking truths and dark drama are

Old school: Detroit native Lizzo’s vocal style recalls the likes of Missy Elliot and Salt-N-Pepa here by the skipload, along with contributions from hypeman Cliff Rhymes, and there are a handful of immediate highlights. the superfast flow of Faded, which addresses youthful complacency and the need for change, suggests an irate

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There are few bands who enjoy bending the space-time continuum more than Klaxons, so let’s mentally transport ourselves back to 2007. Back then, the streets were awash with cheap neon nylon, after the London-based trio blithely ushered in a whole youth sub-culture (nu-rave) with their surprise Mercury-winning rock’n’rave debut Myths Of The Near Future. Understandably keen to distance themselves from a scene that had become a joke, their poorly received follow-up was something closer to claustrophobic nu-metal – so it’s safe to say that few except the most loyal fans were eagerly bracing themselves for this to arrive.

However, produced as it is with the help of The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands, Erol Alkan and James Murphy, this is not only a return to the dance floor but a brighter, bolder and more enjoyably experimental record than they have made before. Lead single There Is No Other Time,

and über-tough Neneh Cherry, while the irresistibly upbeat Go taps boom-bap for its energy, but Bloodlines takes a more soulful, socio-political tack. Last year’s breakout track, Batches & Cookies is a loose and cheeky jam featuring

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made with Gorgon City, is an uncomplicated but totally successful stab at a summer hit but the record is best when it wanders into more esoteric territories, such as with the proggy space stomper Children Of The Sun or the warm instrumental psychout Liquid Light.

One of the most endearing things about Klaxons, even at the apex of their scenester-dom, has always been their obvious delight in making music – and a certain knowingly old-school hippie grooviness. Both are apparent here in abundance on an album brim-full with euphoria.

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With his third LP, the Dutch producer has made a swerve from the compacted hybrid of house, dubstep and bassline that was 2011’s Ghost People. Four Tet and copeland guest on what is a less dense, (mostly) bright and seductively light-footed trip through recent electronic music history. Glassbeadgames and the African highlife-toned Lullaby are particularly sweet and groovy.

ALEXIS TAYLOR AWAIT BARBARIANS Domino HHHHI The second solo LP from the Hot Chip chap is another serving of tender, intimate ballads and more exploratory folk-pop pieces – entirely written, played (strings aside) and recorded by him – that echo the songs of Bill Fay, Talk Talk and Robert Wyatt. His reedy voice is the perfect foil for the simple flickering synth on Closer To The Elderly, a reflection on Taylor’s own age.

sophie Eris from the Chalice. ‘I wasn’t put on this earth to sing backup for you,’ Lizzo spits at some badly behaved acquaintance.

‘How you like me now? Cos I’m real.’ No arguing with that.

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The debut (on Paul Epworth’s label) from med student turned singer, songwriter and producer Dave Bayley and his mates charms with its unforced otherworldliness and deceptively gentle take on rhythmbased electronic pop with a contemporary r’n’b twist. Watery grooves, darkly throbbing beats and fine detailing are part of the package and although Can, Wild Beasts and Yeasayer are kindred spirits, Zaba casts its own shadow.

You wonder if Daithí Ó Drónaí regrets participating in RTÉ’s clunking 2009 riff on X Factor, The All Ireland Talent Show. An accomplished fiddle player, he finished sixth, so there was little possibility of the exposure helping his career.

However, it cemented in the public imagination the idea that he was a purveyor of trad-dance ‘crossover’, surely the most heinous genre ever created (be grateful you’re not old enough to remember Kerry’s 4th Dimension). Four years later, the Clare native is a straight-up popelectronica artist whose brisk, bleepy sound isn’t terribly far removed from Dubliners Le Galaxie (they share a collaborator, Galway vocalist Elaine Mai). The whiff of novelty has thoroughly dissipated – and yet you wonder if the halo of naff that has followed him since the All Ireland Talent Show endures.

Hopefully not because, on its merits, Take Flight is wonderful: an upbeat dance record brimming with melodies and hooks and elevated by Daithí’s sunny production style. Several of the tracks feature vocalists: Mai pops up on Look Right At Me; Cork’s Young Wonder help out on the r’n b-steeped Ribcage.

Surprisingly the most affecting guest is The Coronas’ Danny O’Reilly, not a man you usually associate with ethereal escapism.

Anyone with a long-time fondness for (slightly) twee electropop will discern many of the influences here: clearly Daithí has studied such obscurities as I Am The World Trade Centre, Figurine and Vitesse. But since when was originality any use in pop music?

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No one tells Californian experi-rap/ avant-noise crew Death Grips what to do – least of all their record company. Uploaded without notice a few days ago, this album is the first instalment of double LP The Powers That B and features Björk on every track – although identifying her isn’t easy. You can’t help wondering if this path is a bit of a creative cul-de-sac but there’s no denying its visceral thrills. sO’C

Droner: Daithí is now a purveyor of straight-up pop-electronica

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Drama game of thrones

Sky Atlantic, 9pm

tigers about the house BBC2, 8PM There’s no getting away from the cute factor as we meet Spot and Stripe, two adorable Sumatran tiger cubs being raised at home by zookeeper Giles Clark and his family in Australia. But behind the picture postcard moments and the strokes and cuddles, there’s a serious message: Sumatran tigers are on the brink of extinction and the risk from poachers in the wild is so great that Spot and Stripe would almost certainly perish if they’d been born in the wild. Action needs to be taken.

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Amanda Seyfried plays porn actress Linda Lovelace in this biopic, which contrasts the liberated facade of the swinging 1970s adult movie scene with the grim realities of abuse Lovelace endured behind the camera. Seyfried turns in her most dramatic performance to date while Peter Sarsgaard (above with Seyfried) portrays her sinister husband/manager Chuck Traynor.

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Gordon (Richard Lumsden) reunites a group of schoolfriends by taking them on a coast-to-coast walk of the UK. As physical exhaustion sets in, the group’s mental faculties start to unravel. Another shaky-camera Britcom (left, but one that attracted positive reviews on its cinema release due to its bleak examination of middle-aged disappointment.

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julie & julia

Series based on Nick Hornby’s bestseller and the ensuing Hugh Grant movie.

Will gets commitment phobia when Sam moves in while she looks for a new place. And Andy’s tales about living with Laurie only make things worse. Later, in an attempt to take his mind off things, Will embarks on a project – building a treehouse with Marcus.

Nora Ephron directs this culinary comedy about two women in different times living parallel lives, based on chef author Julie Powell’s autobiography. Amy Adams plays amateur chef Powell, who sets out to cook every recipe in a cookbook from 1960s celebrity chef Julia Child (Meryl Streep) in one year and record her experience on her blog.

off their rockers us Golden Girl Betty White heads up a team of pensioners to play pranks on unsuspecting members of the public on the streets of American cities. This week, there’s a sleepy scooter rider, a senior tangling with a street performer and a patient in an ambulance attempting a daring escape, and more. At age 92, White is at her comedic best in this hidden camera blue-rinse brigade take on Punk’d.

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Time to mist over with nostalgia, Flashdance fans – yes, that really is Jennifer Beals playing the protective mother of a drug-addicted son in this Canadian crime drama. The deal here is flashbacks, not flashdance: we know the killer at the beginning and feisty Detective Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) has to fill in all the gaps.

Cam and Mitchell are an opposites-attract kind of couple and pre-wedding has seen them locked in a taste clash. Like any loving couple.

It’s a credit to how far gay equality has moved forward that man-to-man vows can play out on a mainstream sitcom with scarcely the blink of an eye. Well, except in the Bible Belt.

RTÉ2, 3.30pm, 4.30pm, 7.45pm & 10.30pm

Day-long coverage kicks off with yesterday’s highlights from Tony o’Donoghue. Then Germany, who have recently come close to glory in big tournaments, take on Portugal. Could this be their year? Manager Joachim ‘Jogi’ Löw (above) has a strong squad, with Özil, Müller and Podolski leading the race for places. Presenter Bill o’Herlihy is joined by Dietmar Hamann and Eamon Dunphy. Later on, Darragh Maloney presents coverage of Iran v Nigeria and, much later from the Estádio das Dunas in Natal, Ghana v USA.

Sky Living, 8pm

Booth investigates a possible link between a young lupus patient’s job at a drug dispensary and her murder.

Meanwhile, he’s all geared up for an FBI competency test, but has he given priority to the physical aspect of the exam over the intellectual side? Elsewhere, Wendell talks to the team on his cancer treatment, but later fears his job could be on the line after he lets out some sensitive information.

criminal minds Sky Living, 9pm

In the second of a two-part series finale, Blake and Garcia deal with the aftermath of the shooting at the restaurant in Texas, while painful memories are brought to the surface for Alex. As the rest of the team get to work to find out what happened, they discover a key witness has gone missing and they begin to suspect someone at the local sheriff’s office is hiding something.

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Sky1, 9pm

Guessing what will happen in a Game of Thrones episode is a game in itself and the stakes are raised as we reach the season four finale. Last week’s epic Battle of Castle Black meant there was no word regarding Tyrion Lannister, his fate hanging in the balance. He’s on King’s Landing’s version of Death Row, but will the dagger fall?

And what of Daenerys, Bran, Arya and all the other characters roaming the GoT universe? Expect the mother of cliffhangers -– that’s a good thing.

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Sky Arts 1, 9pm

Director Davis Guggenheim delves into the history of the electric guitar in this documentary, with insights from Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, U2’s The Edge (pictured) and Jack White from The White Stripes. Each discusses their influences and revisits their guitaring roots – with Page holding forth on the 1950s skiffle scene and The Edge reminiscing over the original demo for Where The Streets Have No Name, before all three get together for a jam session.

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What do you get when you put five funny people together and let them loose on any subject that tickles their fancy? Welcome to Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, on every night this week, in which QI’s court jester (above) keeps order as the hilarious anecdotes fly. Guests Noel Fielding, Kerry Godliman, Andrew Maxwell and Jon Ronson supply merry chatter as they search for the show’s punchline: a title that sums up the night’s cheery banter.

In which Kate Beckinsale reinvents herself as a guntoting PVC-clad action heroine. She’s Selene, a vampire hit woman tasked with knocking off her werewolf foes. Director Len Wiseman delivers a stylish action thriller while a cast including Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy distract from the occasionally uninspiring plot.

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RTÉ1, 12.55am If you haven’t already had enough of all things Joycean after today’s Bloomsday celebrations, this adaptation of one of the stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners is well worth staying up for.

John Huston directs daughter Anjelica and Donal McCann, who play a couple attending a dinner party at the turn of the 20th century.

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going out Out and about in Dublin Check it out: JR Doyle at the Galaxy Style Exchange at Siopaella, Temple Bar

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Even viewed today, Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s silent 1927 film – in which automaton-like civilians are in thrall to a hi-tech totalitarian regime – remains a chillingly evocative vision, with groundbreaking art deco and modernist-inspired visuals which still feel ahead of their time. Life in Metropolis is anything but a romp: above ground, affluent bourgeois administrators swan around in nightclubs and gardens while depersonalised uniformed workers toil in the depths below. To celebrate their tenth anniversary, acclaimed Dublin art rockers and cinephiles 3epkano will provide a suitably brooding original live score when this sci-fi classic is screened at the National Concert Hall next month July 17, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace D2, 8pm, €15. Tel: (01) 417 0000. www.nch.ie

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The inimitable Beatles songbook is celebrated in this West End jukebox musical or ‘media-rich theatrical concert’ which sees a Fab Four act doing a quick dash through the band’s back catalogue, intercut with period visuals flashed up on screens either side of the stage. There’s no storyline to link the songs; in so far as there’s a narrative, it’s provided by the musicians’ changing hairstyles and clothes, and archival footage – cheesy TV ads, anti-war protests – evoking the souring 1960s zeitgeist Until Sat, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Grand Canal Square, Docklands D2, 7.30pm €18 to €49. Tel: 0818 719 377. www.bordgaisenergytheatre.ie

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What does your job involve? I sell commercial investment properties for our high-end Private Treaty Department, which was launched in September 2013. This private treaty service ties in with our highly effective auction model. The property is widely marketed by Private Treaty for a period agreed with the vendor, typically three months, with a sale to be negotiated by a pre-defined date. If a sale has not transpired with a binding contract in place, the property is entered into the next available auction, and sold to the highest bidder with unconditional contracts exchanged on the day at open market value.

What’s the commercial occupancy rate for Dublin at the moment? Nine per cent vacancy rate for city centre offices.

Is Ireland getting back on its feet? Yes, but it is mainly confined

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11am as well as an office building in Beacon Court at 12. I am negotiating new leases for some of the Blackrock properties before we can bring the properties to the market for sale. I have also started new negotiations with a current tenant and another two purchasers. We are preparing sales details for a development site and ten investment properties that we are looking to bring to the market. I try to leave the office by 7.30pm but this is not always the case. I bring our dogs for a walk when I get home. I try to get to bed before 12.

The Irish residential market has undergone a well publicised crash, how has the commercial market fared? The

to the cities and large commuter towns. Dublin city centre has seen a significant improvement, followed by well-serviced suburbs like Ranelagh, Dundrum, Sandyford.

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City fashion grads eye up scholarship FOUR Dublin fashion graduates are among six finalists in the running for a scholarship worth €8,995 at a top tailoring college.

In its second year, the competition is run by Louis Copeland & Sons and the National Tailoring Academy and will be awarded by Dublin Institute of Technology.

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RObERT COLLERAn, 38, is the Commercial and Investment Director at estate agents Allsop Space What’s the outlook for the smaller premises? As the general

What’s the biggest sale you’ve handled? We are in the process of

economy picks up, so will the smaller office. We have already seen a strong increase in demand for older Georgian properties in Dublin 2 and 4. Small self-contained offices are selling well as there are reduced service charge costs

selling Park House for €6.25million.

This is a 114,000 sq.ft. office block overlooking the new DIT Grangegorman Campus. I rented out the Google offices on Barrow Street, the Project Ulyssess portfolio and Cherrywood Business Park

Where’s the most up-andcoming commercial area in Dublin? Secondary locations are

What do you enjoy most about your job? Selling commer-

starting to take off, such as Docklands and Dublin 1, Smithfield and Irishtown/Ringsend. Prices in Dublin 2 and 4 are already getting pricy, with buyers being outbid.

What benefits will the new Docklands SDZ bring? A fast-

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What kind of sales do you handle? All commercial property

and development land sales. We do not sell any repossessed family homes or properties that are in active legal dispute.

cial properties to owner occupiers.

Watching a business that I have rented or sold to grow and succeed.

What task do you frequently put off? Filing What’s on your desk? A notepad

and some active files, I try to keep a paperless desk

Digital or paper diary? Digital diary as I can have it with me always.

If you weren’t in your current role, what area would you like to work in? I would like to get

involved with marketing of some sort or even some small property refurbishment. I am already involved in the Docklands Business Forum.

What do you do to relax? I used to play rugby but now like to sail or walk my dogs.

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sEMi-finAL WExFORD......................1-14 DUBLIN.........................0-22 by pAuL kEAnE Captain John McCaffrey claimed energy overcame idleness when it came to getting Dublin’s Leinster hurling title defence under way. the holders overcame Wexford on Saturday evening with a storming second-half and star turns from Conal Keaney and alan McCrabbe who contributed 0-14 between them. it was impressive stuff from anthony Daly’s side considering they hadn’t played a competitive fixture since the end of March. and that was a relegation tie against Waterford which they won to remain in the top flight of the allianz League.

But after a slow start they bounced back to lead at half-time and showed all their enthusiasm in the second-half, securing a final clash with Kilkenny or Galway.

spORT DigEsT Best Barr none as Irish hurdler is #1 ATHLETics

Thomas Barr moved to Number One in the European rankings list and sixth in the World rankings list when setting a new Irish 400m Hurdles Record of 48.90 at the EAP meet in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday. Barr won the race, with reigning Europe champ Rhys Williams of the UK second in 48.95. This world class display by the Ferrybank AC athlete improves on the Irish record of 49.61 he set two weeks ago at the IFAM International Flanders Meet in Oordegem Belgium. At the same meet, Sarah Lavin of UCD AC took a personal best of 13.23 in 100m Hurdles to finish third and qualify for the European Track and Field Championships in August.

cycLing As Ian Richardson of UCD

kept the Noel and Kieran Hammond Memorial Trophies silverware within the boundaries of UCD cycling club yesterday, defending champion Eoin Morton lost his chance to hold onto the title he won last season completing the undulating course in Roundwood, Co Wicklow. Richardson’s win bettered Morton’s time by a huge three minutesplus, with runner-up, Greg Swinand, also a member of the UCD squad. Event favourite Swinand failed to scorch the course after Richardson threw down the gauntlet early on in the time test.

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Schutte from the hip: Dublin manager Anthony Daly celebrates with injured Paul Schutte after the game in Wexford Park Guiney and Conor McDonald put them two up. and podge Doran’s ninth minute goal after McDonald’s shot was only blocked by alan nolan put them in a good position at 1-3 to 0-4 ahead.

But four points in a row from Dublin at one stage late in the half handed the visitors a 0-11 to 1-6 interval lead. the sides were level again after 42 minutes at 0-11 to 1-8.

But six Dublin points in a row in-

cluding three from the excellent Keaney put Dublin on the front foot. they held a 0-17 to 1-8 lead and set the seal on victory with another three-in-a-row late on. two of those came from Michael Carton from inside Dublin’s own half.

Big gamble with McManus pays off for Monaghan Monaghan’s big gamble paid off in Clones where Conor McManus staged a remarkable recovery to inspire their 1-12 to 0-14 Ulster quarter-final win over Tyrone.

The all-star forward stated just days before the game that he had little chance of playing following ankle and knee ligament damage.

But he made a miraculous recovery and shot six points, including the winner, as the holders booked a semi-final place alongside armagh next sunday week.

But it was far from convincing, and at the end of a controversy ridden game Monaghan relied on a missed free-kick by Tyrone keeper niall Morgan to progress.

Monaghan were motivated by revenge having lost last year’s

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‘We were really raring to go before game’ ‘We were hungry to go,’ said McCaffrey. ‘We were really raring to go. We were looking at the other teams playing the last few weeks in the Championship and we were totally raring to go. thankfully the 11-week gap didn’t affect us too much.

‘We’re delighted with the result. We knew coming down to Wexford park how hard it was going to be. Wexford have been preparing for this all year.

We knew the battle that was there – a full house at Wexford park. So we’re delighted to come out with the win.’

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all-Ireland quarter-final tie to Tyrone.

They sprung McManus into their team and he shot four points as they led 0-8 to 0-7 at halftime.

Dermot Malone’s 42nd minute put them five up and they looked all set to cruise to a comprehensive win. But black cards for Malone and Darren hughes

undermined them and Tyrone fought back to within one late on.

Meanwhile, Mickey newman shot 3-2 for Meath who overcame Carlow 7-13 to 0-6 to claim a Leinster semifinal place.

Rivalry: Dermot Malone confronts Tyrone’s Peter Harte

The Royals led by just a point after 20 minutes before newman netted from the penalty spot.

It opened the flood gates and they were 3-6 to 0-2 up at halftime.

They didn’t take their foot off the gas either with newman netting twice in the second-half and strikes also from andrew Tormey and Dalton McDonagh.

In hurling, Cork gained revenge on Clare with a 2-23 to 2-18 Munster semi-final win in Thurles. Pat horgan helped himself to 2-11, all from placed balls, as the Rebels booked a provincial final spot with Limerick. horgan nailed 1-8 in the firsthalf to help Cork lead 1-13 to 1-10 at the break in front of a crowd of almost 29,000 fans.

gOLf Carton House, has recently made some exciting changes to its magnificent O’Meara Golf Course with the relocation of the 1st and 18th holes. The O’Meara course, designed by 1998 Open Champion and US Masters Champion Mark O’Meara, is now changed to a Par 73, starting and finishing at the 18th century Carton House. Conor Mallaghan, Managing Partner at Carton House, said: ‘We are really excited about the changes to the O’Meara golf course, and I think the finishing stretch from the 12th all the way through to the new 18th is as good as you will find anywhere.’

English finishes 2nd ATHLETics Mark English has finished second in a world class 800m at the New York Diamond League in a season’s best of 1.45.03. The race was won by current 800m Olympic champion and World record holder David Rudisha of Kenya in 1.44.63. America’s Duane Solomon, who was fourth in the London Olympics, came third at 1.45.13. This time puts the 21-year-old fourth in the European rankings list and it is his third fastest run of all time.

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GERMANY midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger is fit to face Portugal tonight despite being airlifted to hospital on Saturday.

The Bayern Munich star flew by helicopter to hospital for a scan on a knee injury picked up at last month’s training camp in South Tyrol.

The hospital visit was just an obligatory checkup required by Fifa for insurance purposes.

Schweinsteiger then travelled with the rest of the squad to Salvador ahead of tonight’s game, but his place in the team is not guaranteed.

Coach Joachim Low confirmed Philipp Lahm will play as a central midfielder, while Sami Khedira is widely expected to be the other.

Blues target: Costa

Jose: The coast is clear for Costa to seal Chelsea move JOse MOUrInHO is confident of striking a deal to sign Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa. Chelsea have long been linked with a £32million move for Costa, who scored 36 goals last season to help Atletico win la liga and reach the Champions league final. no switch was confirmed before the World Cup, where the 25-year-old is part of the spain squad, but Mourinho said: ‘Costa is a player I want in my team. I’ve asked my club for him and I have total confidence he will end up signing for Chelsea.’ The Blues boss also confirmed Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois would return to Chelsea after the World Cup having spent three seasons on loan at Atletico. Chelsea last week announced the signing of Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona as well as selling David luiz to Paris saintGermain, but Mourinho insists midfielder ramires, who has been linked with real Madrid, will not be leaving london. u ArsenAl want everton’s seamus Coleman (pictured) as a replacement for Bacary sagna at right-back. u EVERTON are lining up a move for Braga’s Portugal international midfielder Rafa Silva, 21. u TOTTenHAM hope to swipe Adam lallana from under liverpool’s noses, while the reds have enquired about sunderland’s Adam Johnson as an alternative to the southampton star.

A Blinding deal for United fans DAleY BlInD could be set to follow his Holland coach louis van Gaal to Manchester United. The left-back was one of the stand-out performers in the Oranje’s 5-1 World Cup walloping of spain on Friday. The son of legendary Holland sweeper Danny, Blind also starred for Ajax last season. It is believed an offer of £12million may be enough to persuade the Amsterdam club to part with the 23year-old Dutch footballer of the year.

Bastian’s clean bill of health

by DAVE FILMER ALL eyes will be on Cristiano Ronaldo – and more specifically his left knee – when the world player of the year faces Germany in the much-anticipated Group G opener in Salvador today.

Ronaldo has been nursed through a knee injury both by his club Real Madrid and his country Portugal in the build-up to Brazil 2014.

The messages emanating from the Portuguese camp are positive

‘We’re sure he’ll be 100 per cent’

Portugal expect Ronaldo to race out of the straps

however – Ronaldo plays.

The 29-year-old has been taking part in training but his knee has been strapped and he was tentative in some of the jumping drills.

Portugal coach Paulo Bento admitted Ronaldo’s participation was vital to his country.

‘A player like Ronaldo is important for any team. It’s good

he is back,’ Bento said. ‘Group G has a team in Germany who may be considered favourites, but it is a very balanced group.

‘USA and Ghana are well organised and have good values, but we have the ambition

to grab the most points we can and reach the last 16.’

Portugal keeper Eduardo was more bullish about their captain, saying he was certain Ronaldo, will be in top physical shape.

‘Cristiano is training well and we are sure he’s going to be 100 per cent,’ he said ‘He’s healthy and can’t wait to start this tournament.

You are talking about the best player in the world. We are a

group, a lot of good players and nobody wins alone. But of course with Cristiano it’s better for us.’

Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer says playing a team of Portugal’s calibre gives the game an elevated status.

‘After that match, we will know where we stand. It’s almost like a final,’ said Neuer before adding of Ronaldo: ‘If he is fit, he will be the top danger for our team.’

Big-match briefing: Germany v Portugal KEY BATTLE: Miroslav

Klose v Cristiano Ronaldo Klose will not be a popular figure with Brazilian fans as he starts Germany’s opening game on 14 World Cup finals goals – just one behind the all-time record held by home favourite Ronaldo.

The 35-year-old (pictured) scored seven goals for Lazio in Serie A this season. By contrast, Portugal’s Ronaldo, who has been suffering with a knee injury in the build-up to Brazil 2014, has only scored twice in ten previous matches in the finals. He hit 48 goals for Real Madrid in all competitions during the 2013-14 campaign.

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Most famous for Being the scourge of england – from Gerd Muller in 1970, via semifinal penalties in 1990 to the 4-1 win in 2010.

Overcoming a 3-0 deficit to beat north Korea 5-3 in 1966 and knocking out england on penalties in the 2006 quarter-finals.

Who’s in charge?

Joachim low wants to go one better after reaching the final of euro 2008, coming third at the 2010 World Cup and making the euro 2012 semi-finals.

Paulo Bento was banned for five months as a player for protesting a penalty but Cristiano ronaldo has flourished under his management.

LUIS SUAREZ is set to spearhead Uruguay’s attempts to knock England out of the World Cup on Thursday.

Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez says the Liverpool striker’s fitness is no longer an issue ahead of the Sao Paulo showdown, which neither side can afford to lose.

After their shock 3-1 defeat to Costa Rica, the reigning South American champions are hoping the return of talisman Suarez, who was an unused substitute on Saturday, will make the difference against the Three Lions.

‘He is no longer injured,’ said Tabarez of Uruguay’s all-time record scorer. ‘He has gone through the stages we had programmed for his recovery and he has trained with the team.

‘We have four days left before the game against England and if he proves that he is in good form, we will consider the possibility of him playing.

Late show: Seferovic celebrates his winner

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For us Suarez is a crucial player and everyone in football knows that.’

Veteran striker Diego Forlan insists Uruguay will bounce back from their disastrous start in Group D. ‘We’ve been in situations like this before and there is no reason why we

‘Everyone knows how crucial Suarez is for us’ cannot overcome this,’ said the former Manchester United man. ‘This is football and everything is possible.

‘But this is not over, absolutely not.

There are two more games left in the group and we will try to win both.

‘We have to improve but we still have chances to progress.’

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sWitZerland substitute Haris seferovic snatched a dramatic late winner with 23 seconds left of added time in the opening game of group e. the real sociedad striker got on the end of a late counter-attack to convert ricardo rodriguez’s low cross at the near post and shatter ecuador. the south americans had taken the lead when enner Valencia, who scored against england in

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Hulk desperate to face Mexico

BRAZIL striker Hulk expects to be fit to face Mexico in Fortaleza tomorrow, despite limping out of training yesterday morning. The 27-year-old looked downcast as he came off just after scoring a goal in the practice game. ‘I felt a niggle and came off as a precaution,’ he said. ‘I am happy and I hope to be 100 per cent for the next game. I hope it wasn’t anything serious.’ Hulk, speaking just before the team’s 1,350-mile flight north for the match, added: ‘I am from the north east and my family will be there. It is a game I don’t want to miss. I am going to be ready, God willing.’

Precaution: Hulk

THEY SAiD iT ‘I was disappointed [not to start] but I have to show my respect for those that did. When I went in I just wanted to help the team win.’

Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba insists victory over Japan was all that mattered after he had to make do with 28 minutes from the bench in his team’s 2-1 opening victory

World Cup Group H Belgium v Algeria .................... (5pm) Russia v South Korea .............. (11pm) Wednesday World Cup Group A Cameroon v Croatia ................ (11pm) World Cup Group B Spain v Chile ............................(8pm) Australia v Holland .................. (5pm) thursday World Cup Group C Colombia v Ivory Coast ............ (5pm)

Japan v Greece ........................ (11pm) World Cup Group D Uruguay v England ..................(8pm) Women’s World Cup Qualifier Ukraine v England ...................(4pm) Friday World Cup Group D Italy v Costa Rica ...................... (5pm) World Cup Group E Switzerland v France................(8pm) Honduras v Ecuador................ (11pm)

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Azzured Daniel is staying positive on teams chances daniel sturridge claims england will not change their approach despite saturday’s 2-1 defeat to italy. sturridge opened his World Cup account with a half-volley against the azzurri as england’s attacking football provided cause for optimism in Manaus. the setback raises the stakes for thursday’s clash with uruguay – surprisingly beaten 3-1 by Costa rica – but sturridge insists england’s goals remain the same.

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‘it’s a big game but these are the games everyone looks forward to,’ said the 24-year-old. ‘regardless of whether we won or not, we’d have still gone into it with a positive mentality and positive attitude, looking to win the match. ‘the fact uruguay also lost earlier doesn’t really change anything.’ sturridge believes there were plenty of positives to take, despite losing to Mario Balotelli’s decisive second-half header. ‘it’s important we continue playing as we did against italy,’ he added. ‘there were two very good sides out there, but they got the breaks and we didn’t. We played good football and worked very hard as a team and created a lot of chances. We just lost the game.

Cups in which Greece have conceded in the first ten minutes when Colombia netted after five minutes in a 3-0 Group C victory.

saturday World Cup Group F Argentina v Iran ....................... (5pm) Nigeria v Bosnia-Herzegovina (11pm) World Cup Group G Germany v Ghana ....................(8pm) sunday World Cup Group G USA v Portugal ........................ (11pm) World Cup Group H Belgium v Russia ...................... (5pm) South Korea v Algeria ..............(8pm)

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their World Cup warm-up in Miami, headed home. admir Mehmedi nodded in a corner just two minutes after his half-time introduction to equalise before fellow replacement seferovic won it.

COLOMBIA coach Jose Pekerman has told his players they must stay focused after their 3-0 opening victory over Greece. ‘We are very happy to have taken this win but this is just the first game and we haven’t achieved anything yet,’ the 64-year-old said. Colombia next play on Thursday against Ivory Coast, who beat Japan 2-1.

‘They have players with a lot of experience,’ Pekerman said. ‘That gives them that necessary calmness to know what is at stake.’

fixTuRES today World Cup Group F Iran v Nigeria ......................(8pm) TV BBC1 World Cup Group G Germany v Portugal............(5pm) TV ITV1 Ghana v USA ...................... (11pm) TV ITV1 tuesday World Cup Group A Brazil v Mexico .........................(8pm)

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O’Connell disappointed despite Argentina triumph

by DAnny HOgAn Ireland captain Paul O’Connell was happy to come out on top in both Tests against argentina – even if neither of the performances were particularly pleasing to him.

Ireland had never won in argentina prior to last weekend’s 29-17 triumph, but while they sealed another 23-17 success in Tucuman on Saturday night, O’Connell felt a sense of disappointment about the performances.

‘It’s a big learning curve under Schmidt’ ‘Since last november we’ve been marginally improving all the time and when we have taken a step back we have learned from it very quickly and pressed-on so, to have two weeks and not performed and not been as accurate as we would have liked to have been, is disappointing,’ he said.

‘I suppose we didn’t get a lot of time

together, but I think for a lot of the guys for whom it’s their first experience of working under (coach) Joe (Schmidt), hopefully this will be of big benefit to them.

‘You do get asked to do a lot of things very, very different to what you do back in your home province certainly for the Munster, the Ulster, the Connacht guys. So, it’s a big learning curve.’

O’Connell believes the key now is to regroup next season and push on with Ireland, while he is looking forward to getting back into action for the new season after a break.

‘Hopefully now I will get a very good, strong pre-season in now, build on what we’ve done this year under Joe with Ireland and get another preseason into the World Cup and hopefully go there and achieve something special,’ he added.

‘I haven’t had a pre-season since the World Cup so that’s when you really make the big gains, so from now on in it’s all about getting ready for that.’

FRAncE TEcH ROugH wiTH THE sMOOTH FRAnCE were the first World Cup beneficiaries of the new goal-line technology as they overcame Honduran bully boy tactics last night.

The historic moment came four minutes into the second half with Didier Deschamps’ men leading through Karim benzema’s first-half penalty and los Catrachos already reduced to ten men.

The video proved benzema didn’t score – his shot coming back off the inside of the post and back into play. but the ball then cannoned off goalkeeper noel Valladares and crossed the line although, even when faced with the overwhelming evidence, the Hondurans were reluctant to accept the decision.

The game was full-blooded from the start but

boiled over after 27 minutes when Frenchman Paul Pogba was twice trampled on by Wilson Palacios.

Former Manchester united midfielder Pogba then lashed out with his foot in similar fashion to David beckham at the 1998 World Cup, and both men were fortunate to escape with a yellow card.

However, despite the general leniency of brazilan referee Sandro Ricci, Palacios didn’t make it to the break, seeing red for barging into Pogba in the box. After a lengthy delay, benzema coolly converted from the spot.

Although the film proved the second goal wasn’t his, there was no doubt about the third 20 minutes from time, as the Real Madrid hitman fired an unstoppable shot into the roof of the net.

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Dubs hit with more injuries ahead of Leinster final

Out of action: Mark Schutte

Dublin may have won Saturday night’s leinster hurling championship battle with Wexford – but the war ahead has been hampered by further casualties.

A thrilling second-half performance lit up by the majesty of Conal Keaney secured the Dubs a 0-22 to 1-14 win over Wexford.

The semi-final success booked the holders a leinster final clash with Kilkenny or Galway on July 6.

but boss Anthony Daly watched his injury list grow after Mark Schutte suffered a collar bone injury.

The corner-forward was replaced

by Paul Ryan just minutes into the contest.

The Cuala club man joins goalkeeper Gary Maguire and AllStar forward Danny Sutcliffe on the treatment table.

Ryan O’Dwyer was also taken off

at Wexford Park, having come into the game with an eye infection and taken a heavy blow to the face during the game.

‘We knew it was Championship hurling and it was never going to be easy and Wexford threw everything at us,’ said Dubs captain John McCaffrey. ‘They got the goal to go ahead early, but in fairness to our lads, they bought into what we were doing. We kept

hurling away and thankfully the result worked out.’

Kilkenny play Galway in the second semi-final next Sunday with Dublin facing the winners.

‘Our job is done in terms of getting to the final,’ said McCaffrey. ‘We’ve got there, so we’ll just move on and see how we get on.’

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