Metro Herald, Tuesday, October 7, 2014

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IS showdown on Turkish border THE BLACK flag of Islamic State (IS) was flying over the Syrian border town of Kobane yesterday as US air strikes failed to halt the militants’ advances.

Jihadis appeared silhouetted on hilltops surrounding the besieged town, prompting Kurdish defenders to warn of an imminent massacre there.

From the border, tanks trained their guns on the extremists as stray shells landed on Turkish territory. Nato has promised to support Turkey if it is attacked – but it showed no sign of intervening as

by DOMiniC YEATMAn IS threatened to snatch its biggest prize yet.

‘If they enter Kobane, it will be a graveyard for us and for them,’ said Esmat al-Sheikh, head of the Kobane Defence Authority. ‘We either win, or we die.’

Yesterday, the RAF carried out two more air strikes on IS positions in Iraq, 430 miles to the south. But the former head of Britain’s armed forces warned troops would have to return ‘in their thousands’ to defeat IS. ‘Ultimately,

you have to seize and hold ground yourself to deny them the ability to operate,’ said David Richards. ‘Only an army, or armies, can do that.’

And he warned that withdrawing troops from Afghanistan could allow IS to join up with the Taliban to create a 2,000-mile caliphate across the Middle East.

‘We have heard very hard-line Taliban talk about the prospects of joining the caliphate,’ he added.

British prime minister David Cameron has ruled out sending combat forces to the region, saying the Iraqi army must take the fight to IS.

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Sugar: I’m no bully The Apprentice boss defends his abrasive television manner

by ANDREI HARMSWORTH HE HirEs – and fires – without mincing his words but Alan sugar has rejected claims that he bullies candidates on The Apprentice.

The 67-year-old says he merely ‘speaks his mind’ and this year’s crop of ten men and ten women should know what to expect.

‘They’ve not just arrived from the planet Mars... or been banged up in some siberian prison somewhere.

They know what they are letting themselves in for – it’s as simple as that,’ sugar told the radio Times. ‘i don’t flower my words. if someone is useless, i’ll tell them. ‘if someone has done a good job, i’ll also tell them. it is not bullying to speak your mind.’

He also had some choice words about former Apprentice candidates who have gone on to become reality stars, including ‘rent-a-gob’ Katie Hopkins and Big Brother’s Luisa Zissman.

‘They’d go to the opening of an envelope if they got an invitation,’ he said. ‘They have their Andy Warhol moment, thinking it’s going to make them famous, but very few have actually succeeded. Before long they’re of no interest to anybody.’

The tenth series of BBC1’s The Apprentice starts next Tuesday at 9pm followed by a second episode on Wednesday. The winner of the show will get €300,000 to start a business.

Twin Peaks set for 2016 reprise ALMOST two-and-a half decades since it was first broadcast, cult classic Twin Peaks is set to return for a new series, its creators have confirmed.

Just as murder victim Laura Palmer promised Special Agent Cooper in the final episode in 1991 that ‘I’ll see you again in 25 years’, both David Lynch and Mark Frost confirmed the ground-breaking detective drama would be back in 2016.

Yesterday, the pair tweeted ‘Dear Twitter Friends… it is happening again’, adding a link to a brief trailer showing Palmer clicking her fingers, as she did in The Black Lodge during the finale. TV channel Showtime later revealed Lynch and Frost would produce a ‘limited series’ of nine episodes, hashtagging Cooper’s catchphrase #damngoodcoffee.

una and Rachel in Voice squad

Ready for battle: Lord Sugar with boardroom pals Karren Brady and Nick Hewer and this year’s hopefuls PicTureS: JiM MArKS

fOuR TO WATcH Jemma Bird Age: 26 Job: Operations manager from: West Midlands fact: Role model is Simon Cowell cutting quote: ‘I’m always the girl that nearly wins, I’m hoping this time it will be different’

Roisin Hogan Age: 32 Job: Accountant from: Dublin fact: Founder of Skinny Girl Cocktails cutting quote: ‘Manipulate, persuade and conquer. I would pick off my opponents one by one’

chiles cartwright Age: 35 Job: Company director from: Shropshire fact: Karate black belt cutting quote: ‘I am one of the most credible candidates. I don’t believe that anyone has the wealth and breadth of business acumen that I have.’

Daniel Lassman Age: 27 Job: Director, pub quiz company from: Essex fact: Former Hornchurch FC player cutting quote: ‘I will outsell them, I will outclass them and I will perform the best just by being me’

SIngIng stars Rachel Stevens and Una Foden will battle it out to find new vocal talents after landing roles as Mentor: Una coaches on TV hit The Voice Of Ireland.

Former S Club 7 star Stevens and The Saturdays singer Foden will take their places in the show alongside returning judges Kian Egan and Bressie for the new season of the RTÉ show.

Stevens said: ‘I’m sure it will be great fun, but most of all I’m looking forward to listening to the great vocal talent that Ireland has to offer each week.’

Ross statue to replace Molly? Lots of Love and no Hate as a million rOYsH, listen up goys, this is very focking important.

He was recently honoured with his own ‘walk of fame’ – a series of plaques marking the locations of the youthful exploits of one ross O’Carroll-Kelly. They include such august institutions of ruggerbuggery as The irish Times, Blackrock College and Kiely’s of Donnybrook.

However, there is now a growing clamour for the literary giant to have a statue erected in his honour – with 415 people signing up to a petition so far out of a target of 500.

The petition (started by ross himself, who has a new book out) on change.org calls on Dublin City Council: ‘Please replace Molly Malone on Grafton street with an actual south Dublin hero: ross O’Carroll-Kelly.’

One fan commented: ‘i’m signing because ross O’Carroll Kelly is a legend in our time, and just like Molly a bit of a tart xo.’

tune in for return of nidgey and Co

Another wrote: ‘First step to a new national holiday.’

With just 85 signatures to go, will Dublin City Council answer ireland’s call?

RTÉ head of drama Jane Gogan said she CLOSE to a million viewers tuned in to the was ‘delighted with the audience response’ to Love/Hate season five opener on Sunday last night’s episode. night – making it the most watched ‘Stuart Carolan’s writing gets opening episode of the RTÉ drama better and better and he has the to date. backing of tremendous creative The hit show attracted an average energy and commitment from 976,400 viewers, with 1.3million cast and crew. This audience reactuning in at some point during the tion is the highest accolade.’ broadcast. RTÉ equates this to 56 per Meanwhile, speculation rages on cent of all people watching TV during as to whether we’ll be seeing the its time slot. Quite a few tuned in last of Nidge and Co over the comonline as well, with 27,500 streams on ing weeks, with the aforementhe RTÉ Player.

Popular: Nidge tioned Mr Carolan seemingly Both #LoveHate and #Nidge were putting a dampner on rumours still trending on Twitter last night. The that series five would be the last. majority of #LoveHate tweets referred to the He said: ‘We are developing a sixth series show, with the odd one a reflection on life at the moment so it’s not over, no. There’s itself. And @IrishPresident, the parody always going to be a possibility that RTÉ account, not President Michael D Higgins could turn around and say “We don’t want himself, suggested sending Nidge to Europe it” – you never know.’ to ‘renegotiate our EU bailout loans’.

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Sinn Féin denies cuts deal claims mARTIN mcGuinness has rejected as ‘nonsense’ claims sinn Féin blocked welfare cuts in Northern Ireland to enhance its electoral chances south of the border.

The stormont Assembly’s deputy first minister also denied DUP claims that he had struck a deal on implementing reform of the welfare system in the region with DUP First minister Peter Robinson only for his southernbased party leader Gerry Adams to overrule him.

The power-sharing executive is facing a financial crisis having failed to agree a plan to absorb major budget cuts.

Consumer confidence is growing CONsUmeR sentiment is at its highest level in almost eight years, according to a monthly index. Last month, consumers’ views on the economic outlook were the best since February 2006, and expectations have been boosted by talks of tax cuts in Budget 2015.

We’re still cautious about our spending, the KBC Bank Ireland/esRI Consumer sentiment Index showed, but we are slowly spending more.

The index rose last month from 87.1 in August to 92.8. The main drivers of the leap were optimism about the Irish economy and a related pick-up in the outlook for household finances in the coming year.

Job-hunters get the blues on Mondays IT seems like most of us really do get ‘a case of the mondays’ as that’s when we are most likely to look for new jobs, new research has shown.

The survey by job site Indeed showed that returning to work after the weekend leads to an increase in job hunting, with the peak time for job searches happening between 8am and 11am on a monday morning.

The research also indicated that the improving economy is making employees more willing to look out for new jobs.

There was a 40 per cent yearon-year increase in job searches to August 2014, with over 600,000 unique visitors now logging on to Indeed’s Irish site.

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I’m pretty scared to die, hostage tells parents

Giving aid: Peter Kassig in Syria pictures: ap/kassig family

THE AID worker held captive by IS has said he is afraid to die, but has converted to Islam and is at peace with his beliefs.

The terrorists said in a video after the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning that Peter Kassig would be next.

Mr Kassig, 26, was captured in Syria on October 1 last year. His parents, Ed and

Paula Kassig, said their son – now known as Abdul-Rahman Kassig – wrote in the letter received in June that he was not forced to convert.

A former hostage told them he converted when he shared a cell with a devout Syrian Muslim. In the letter, Mr Kassig from Indiana, US, said he was scared, but that if

he should die, his parents should take comfort.

‘I am obviously pretty scared to die but the hardest part is not knowing, wondering, hoping, and wondering if I should even hope at all,’ Mr Kassig wrote. ‘I am very sad that all this has happened and for what all of you back home are going through.’

Emigrant son’s Nobel honour for inner ‘GPS’

by JOANNE AHERN IRELAND has already adopted Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist John O’Keeffe, with an honorary doctorate on the horizon from University College Cork.

London-based, New York-born Professor O’Keeffe, whose father is from Newmarket, Co Cork, will also be the guest speaker at a major symposium organised by UCC’s Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience on December 5.

Mr O’Keeffe, along with Norwegian married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser have just won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the ‘inner GPS’ that helps the brain navigate through the world.

Their findings in rats represent a ‘paradigm shift’ in our knowledge of how cells work together to perform cognitive functions, the Nobel Assembly said.

Research suggests humans have the same system in their brains and the trio’s work could help scientists understand the mechanisms behind Alzheimer’s disease, it added.

‘This year’s Nobel Laureates have discovered a positioning system, an “inner GPS” in the brain that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space,’ the assembly said.

n People who suffer from sleep apnoea are seven times more likely to fall asleep while driving, road safety experts have warned.

With 146 people killed on the country’s roads so far this year, motorists are being cautioned about the impact the condition can have on the risk of accidents. The Road Safety Authority revealed startling statistics on how lack of sleep can lead to deaths on the roads, with fatigue said to be a factor in one-fifth of all crashes.

Mr O’Keeffe, 75, of University College London, discovered the first component of this system in 1971 when he found that a certain type of nerve cell was always activated when a rat was at a certain place in a room.

He demonstrated that these ‘place cells’ were building up a map of the environment, not just registering visual input. Some 34 years later Mr and Mrs Moser, of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, identified another type of nerve cell – the ‘grid cell’ – that generates a coordinate system for precise positioning and path-finding.

All smiles: Joint Nobel Prize winner Professor John O’Keeffe

Delighted: Winner Edvard Moser

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Triumph: Scientist May-Britt Moser

Fears over youth drinking Firms to create 1,000 posts IRELAND’S youth has a worsening problem with alcohol, a top addiction service has warned.

The Aiséirí addiction treatment service called on the Government not to cut excise duty on alcohol in Budget 2015 as it revealed its admission figures for the first half of the year.

The first six months of 2014 saw its most significant rise in the numbers of young people and adult women being admitted to its services, a spokesperson said.

Aiséirí could be facing up to a 70 per cent increase in the number of

admissions for young people under 21 by the end of the year – in comparison to admissions for 2013.

For adult women, the increase in admissions could be as high as 64 per cent by the end of the year.

Paul Conlon, CEO of Aiséirí, urged the Government not to reduce excise duty on alcohol.

Over the full year of 2013, 119 admissions were made to Aiséirí’s specialist adolescent centre.

However, by June this year, there had already been 101 admissions to the service. One in three of these young people was aged between 15 and 17.

MORE than 1,000 jobs are to be created in a series of major investments in convenience stores and a food business.

In the largest announcement, the parent company of Spar is to invest €100million opening new shops and revamping old ones.

The BWG Group is planning to open outlets in 50 new sites around the country with the aim of taking on 1,000 full and part-time staff over the next two years.

Elsewhere, food company Ribworld is to take on 100 staff as part of an €8million investment

programme at a new facility in Fethard, Co Tipperary.

The business is part of the M&M Walshe food group and is one of Europe’s leading sous vide specialists, supplying cooked meats to customers as far afield as Finland and Thailand.

It comes after plans were unveiled by SmartInvest for a €70million transatlantic investment fund to finance and advise start-up technology companies with the potential to create 450 jobs around Ireland, north and south.

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Quinn’s pub hit by closure order

Going bonkers for conkers

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny broke his silence on the Seanad voting fiasco yesterday, saying he did not vote for his own man and calling on others to do the same.

Mr Kenny’s comments came as the controversy rumbles on over John McNulty’s brief appointment to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, just days before he was nominated to the Seanad on the culture panel.

The Donegal businessman effectively pulled out of the race last week, asking Oireachtas members not to vote for him after Fine Gael was accused of ‘stroke politics’ over the matter.

Speaking yesterday, Mr Kenny said: ‘John McNulty has made his

by jOANNE AHERN position very clear. He has requested formally that Oireachtas members do not vote for him and I respect that call.’

He added: ‘I filled my ballot paper over the weekend... I respect John McNulty’s call and I have honoured that call.’

He also said that he ‘would expect that the members who have not yet voted will respect the call made by Mr McNulty’.

While Mr Kenny apologised in the Dáil last week for the shambles, he was adamant yesterday that Mr McNulty’s appointment to the board of Imma was made by Arts Minister Heather Humphreys, on merit.

She has previously said that she appointed Mr McNulty to the board on his own merits but that he was brought to her attention by a Fine Gael official. She refuses to name that official.

Despite Mr Kenny asking members not to vote for his man, at this late stage Mr McNulty could still end up winning the seat.

The vote is by secret ballot and Jobs Minister Richard Bruton and Health Minister Leo Varadkar have both said that they have not voted for the Donegal man.

However, Minister Alan Kelly and junior ministers Kathleen Lynch and Paudie Coffey have confirmed that they have voted for the Government candidate.

Cow-milking competition ESB continues work to turns sour over doping restore power outages THE World Cow-milking Championships have been rocked by doping allegations.

The winner of this year’s world tournament at Branzi Fair, Italy, was Gianmario Ghirardi who along with her bovine companion, Mirka, produced 8.7 litres in two minutes.

However, there have been accusations of doping as this year’s top three competitors all produced over seven litres in two minutes – the previous world record was a lowly two litres.

The 2013 champ, Maurizio Paschetta, said of the great leaps in production: ‘For a competition at this level I would have expected strong antidoping checks on the cows and milkers to protect the animals and guarantee transparency.’

REPAIR crews are working to restore power to more than 6,500 homes and businesses after high winds caused blackouts at the weekend.

In Dublin, gusts were recorded at around 100kph and thousands of commuters were disrupted on their way to work yesterday because of downed trees and damage to overhead lines on railway routes into the city.

Irish Rail said the lines were cleared by about 8am yesterday, with Dart services back up before 9am but running with delays.

Today’s forecast is for cool and bright weather with moderate south-west breezes and highs of 13 degrees for Dublin. However, bring your brolly tomorrow as showers will make a return.

Ar smaoinigh tú ar obair dheonach a dhéanamh thar lear?

Freddy Flores and Seán O’Connell.

McNulty could still take a Seanad seat

Sommai Faming and Claire Galvey.

Kauthar Maxamed, 5, of Stanhope Street Primary School, at the Phoenix Park to launch Tree Day 2014 which takes place this Thursday.

More than 1,000 free alder trees will be made available for primary schools through the Tree Day website, www.treeday.ie Picture: Naoise culhaNe

QUINN’S pub on Drumcondra Road Lower was one of 12 food outlets served with closure orders last month, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland.

The popular bar, which is close to Croke Park, was also served with a prohibition order withdrawing all foodstuffs, such as bottled drinks, stored in the basement cellars.

The closure order was issued under the FSAI Act and applies ‘where it is deemed that there is or there is likely to be a grave and immediate danger to public health in the premises’.

The order was issued on September 8, the day after the All-Ireland Hurling Final.

Quinn’s reopened within two days, having complied with the order.

Commenting on the high level of closure orders served on food businesses in September, FSAI chief executive Professor Alan Reilly said that such businesses need to be vigilant.

‘The environmental health officers who inspect these food businesses continue to find unacceptable levels of non-compliance with food safety legislation.

‘Time and time again they encounter cases of food businesses that are potentially putting their customers’ health at risk by not complying with their legal obligations for food safety and hygiene,’ he said.

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60 seconds How do you spot a typical Paddy?

Pop star turned astrophysicist Brian Cox, 46, is television’s go-to science boffin. In new series Human Universe, he traces our evolution from apeman to spaceman

What’s the thrust of the new series? It’s my view on how rare

intelligent constellations are. We could be the only ones: the Milky Way could be the only place where meaning exists in the universe.

So no word on whether there are aliens out there? I don’t

think so – the chances are tiny. This series is a love letter to the human race because we shouldn’t underestimate ourselves. Our rarity is what makes us special.

Did you worry you’d bitten off more than you could chew? Perhaps, but no one said it

was going to be easy. TV becomes bad when you bite off less than you can chew.

Surely that would be your dream job, though? We met

two Apollo astronauts who’d walked on the moon – and they are a very different kind of individual.

Does it give them a different perspective on life? Everybody

would like to see the Earth from space but it’s not about selfawareness, more the mental strength you need. I remember John Young, who’d walked on the moon, saying: ‘If you’ve got to go into space to find yourself, then you’ve got big problems.’

THERE are some things we all do that really set us Irish apart. And it’s very likely you not only recognise them, but are a willing participant.

Over half of Irish parents admitted they think their kids are smarter than the average child, according to a survey conducted by Irish Life. Some 73 per cent of us have asked a taxi driver ‘is it busy tonight?’ And one in five of us have packed Irish sausages when travelling abroad.

However, just one in five of us are friends with our mammy on Facebook (probably for good reason).

Among the other fascinating facts collected by Irish Life in its survey celebrating 75 years in business are: More than one in five Irish people have packed sausages in their luggage when going on holidays.

by ORnA cunninGHAM While 94 per cent of us have thanked the bus driver, just 5 per cent had their first kiss in the Gaeltacht.

And though 40 per cent of us look at someone’s social media before going on a first date with them, 34 per cent of Irish people hide others’ news feeds when they post too many pictures of their pets and babies.

Almost a quarter (24 per cent) of us have tried online dating, over half (54 per cent) of us make tea if there’s a crisis and 80 per cent of us have eaten a crisp sandwich.

Over half (55 per cent) of us can pull a pint, and more than one in ten (13 per cent) Irish people have an embarrassing middle name.

Just 39 per cent of Irish people say they have had ‘the fear’.

Kids’ hobbies cost €800 a year IRISH parents spend €840 on their children’s hobbies every year. They also spend a lot of time on their young-uns – an average of 104 hours every year transporting their children to and from their hobbies, with football the most popular. The survey of 250 parents, by high street retailer Argos, found 42 per cent of children play football each week.

It was followed by swimming, dancing and athletics.

You cover a vast amount of material in Human Universe.

What was the plan? Our team’s

ideas can come from anything – like talking about a space station In Human Universe you get monkey down the pub. With this excited when you meet some one, I wanted to film in the Rift Valley in Africa, it’s a special place. astronauts who’ve just Then an astronomical fancy landed from the turned into a look at the International size of the human. The films are about Space Station. people to How did that We met two Apollo inspiring want to know come about? astronauts who’d more.

We were trying walked on the moon – to get permission Do you worry to film – and, they were a very about because the dumbing down different kind weather was so the subject on bad we all got stuck of individual TV? You’re not trying in the snow, so the to write a lecture, you’re Russian authorities said trying to make a piece of two of us could go with the official party. This was in the middle of the entertaining TV. snowy wastes of Kazakhstan so we Does being a hardcore ended up filming it on handheld scientist make science fiction cameras. It was amazing because hard to swallow? Well… take we didn’t even think we’d get there.

Doctor Who. It’s not possible to travel into the past, that’s Did it make you science. But Doctor Who is a jealous? Did you great way of creating an interest harbour ambitions to in science. be an astronaut? For the show we went to Does reality TV make you astronaut centre at Star City question whether in Russia, and filmed humanity has the underwater evolved at all? It sequences of the way makes me question they train. That was our very existence! the most tiring But I’m not here to thing I’ve ever knock popular attempted. It’s culture, I’m taken me about trying to make TV five months to shows that make recover, I spent science popular – hours in that to try to open minds pool, so, to the things that are physically, I out there. don’t think I Keith Watson could cut it.

And now I’m Human Universe starts past it in any tonight on BBC2 on case. at 9pm

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Gran stole €500k after cancer scare

‘Sexist’ flyers make no economic sense

A CAnCER sufferer who stole €500,000 from her employers thinking she would be dead before being found out has been jailed for four years after she was given the all-clear during her crime spree.

Accounts manager Shirley Player, 61, embezzled €72,000 a year from 2007 to 2014 from the estate agents she worked for after being diagnosed with the disease.

She stole the money because her two sisters had previously died from the same illness and she presumed she would ‘not be here’ when the truth finally emerged, a court heard. But the grandmother, from Dorset, UK, was eventually given the all-clear after responding well to treatment.

FRESHERS week can get pretty rowdy, which is perhaps why London School of Economics can’t remember Bertie Ahern having studied there.

And now one of Britain’s leading universities has been caught up in a sexism row over leaflets handed out by its men’s rugby club.

The leaflets branded women ‘slags, trollops and mingers’ and joked about banning ‘homosexual debauchery’. They also refer to rival university King’s College London as ‘Strand poly’, adding: ‘Quite simply put they are scum and they will all work for us one day.’

The flyers were confiscated after a flurry of complaints and a backlash on Twitter.

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Kanye gushes over Galliano

Ellie fears she’ll be a Gone Girl...

Now that was a c**p day, Kelly...

controversial designer was named creative director for Maison Martin Margiela. The 37-year-old praised the ‘powerful creative’.

suspect when his wife vanishes – made Ellie Goulding edgy. Other half Dougie Poynter ‘keeps looking at me funny’, the star joked.

Osbourne when she was hit in the face by a full nappy... then covered in dog poo.

‘Having a s*** day,’ the 29-year-old tweeted.

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HIA LaBEOUF took method acting to new heights when he slashed his face with a knife and had a tooth pulled out for his latest movie.

The 28-year-old, who plays soldier Boyd ‘Bible’ Swan in Fury, stunned the cast and crew when he took matters into his own hands when he complained his make-up ‘cuts’ looked too fake.

Co-star Logan Lerman said: ‘They were putting cuts on Shia and I said, “It looks good”, and Shia was like, “No, it doesn’t look real”.

‘Then he walks out into the hallway and says, “Hey man, wanna see something fun? Check this out...” and he takes out

I’ll IGNORE Th E hum, wE’RE hAPPy AS IT IS JENNIFER ANISTON’S fiancé Justin Theroux insists they won’t be pulling a Brangelina any time soon by marrying.

The 43-year-old Rock Of Ages actor insists he and the Friends star, 45, are ‘both personally and professionally’ happy together.

And although he conceded there are expectations of them, he added: ‘There is this hum of pressure that, I can’t stress enough, I just don’t pay any attention to.’

a knife and cuts his face. For the whole movie he kept opening these cuts on his face. That’s all real.’

But the troubled star didn’t stop there as Lerman, 22, confirmed LaBeouf insisted on having one of his front teeth pulled out by a dentist.

‘I mean, he didn’t do it himself, he did go to a dentist and asked them to pull his tooth out but yeah, what an odd request,’ he added.

LaBeouf’s dedication to the World War II action movie has not gone unnoticed. Last week, lead star Brad Pitt, 50, praised his ‘full on commitment’ and described him as ‘one of the best actors’ he has ever seen.

LaBeouf is battling alcoholism and was arrested for disrupting a Broadway production of Cabaret in June. He recently ran around a museum in Amsterdam 144 times wearing lycra for a ‘performance art’ piece.

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She played four hits to devoted fans after tweeting: ‘London – I have a surprise for you.’

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i’m bisexual – but i didn’t kill my wife

by DAniEL binns A MILLIONAIRE businessman accused of arranging the killing of his wife on their honeymoon has admitted to gay affairs during their relationship but denied murder.

Shrien Dewani, 34, appeared in a South African court for the start of his trial yesterday in the wake of a four-year legal battle to get him extradited from his native Britain while he was treated for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Three local men – taxi driver Zola Tongo, Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni – have already been jailed for killing his wife Anni, with the prosecuting alleging Mr Dewani conspired with them.

The 28-year-old died from a gunshot wound to the neck after the couple’s taxi was ambushed while they toured a rough neighbourhood in Cape Town in November 2010.

In a statement read to the court, Mr Dewani described himself as bisexual, while also revealing the couple had frequently argued during their 18 month romance, even leading to a temporary separation at one point.

‘My sexual interactions with males were mostly physical experiences or email chats with people I met online or in clubs, including prostitutes,’ his statement said.

But he said he was deeply in love with his bride and his ‘whole world came crashing down’ when he was informed of her death.

There were gasps from the court when graphic police footage of the crime scene and the blood-stained body of Mrs Dewani was played.

A loving letter from Mr Dewani to Anni before their marriage was also read out, in which he said ‘I want to be with you forever’.

The care home entrepreneur, from Bristol, described in his statement how the couple’s taxi suddenly turned off the motorway into a township. ‘The next thing I remember was banging noises on the car. There was a lot of shouting in a language I did not understand.’

According to his statement, the armed attackers ordered the couple to lie down and demanded they be quiet after Anni started screaming.

The case, which is expected to last until December, was adjourned until tomorrow.

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Presidential race to Children injured by go to second round deflating dinosaur

bRAziL: President Dilma Rousseff will face a second round of voting after she failed to gain a majority over Aecio Neves. The Worker’s Party leader took 41 per cent of the votes, while her Social Democrat rival scored 34 per cent. A run-off poll on October 26 will decide whether Ms Rouseff will retain the presidency, with Mr Neves calling for the supporters of one-time favourite Marina Silva to plump for him as he offered ‘hope for change’.

CHinA: Thirteen children were injured when a giant dinosaurshaped bouncy castle was ripped from its air pumps in high winds.

Most of the youngsters were scattered on to a concrete floor when the ride deflated, but a two-year-old girl was caught when a metal railing flew through the air, striking her buggy. She is recovering in hospital. Police may charge the ride operators in Shanghai with negligence over Sunday’s incident.

JAPAn: Giant waves driven by typhoon Phanfone smash over a port in Kihou, Mie prefecture.

Three American servicemen are presumed dead after being swept away in Okinawa by 120mph gusts picture: getty

napoleonic fortress Exploding e-cig is yours for €9.5million blamed for death

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iTALy: A private island that comes with its own Napoleonic fort is up for grabs for €9.5million. The picturesque spot is close to Sant’Erasmo island overlooking the Venetian Lagoon. It became part of Italy in 1866 before being sold to private owners, who restored the fort into a four-bedroom villa with a caretaker’s apartment. Vladi Private Islands, which is handling the sale, said: ‘It is breathtaking.’

bORnEO: A van driver who died at a market was killed when his e-cigarette exploded, it has been claimed. The 53-year-old – named only as Lau – had burn marks on his chest after the device’s battery blew up, witnesses said. He had been waiting to get hired at the market in Bintulu when he fell to the ground. His body will be examined to establish whether the e-cig actually caused the death.

and finally... bOsniA: Husein Karadzic was puzzled to find he had an air gun pellet in his head – until he recalled shooting himself 30 years ago. The 41-yearold from Sanski Most only found out when he had a dental X-ray.

Ebola diagnosed in Spain Chef ‘cuts up and cooks’ his partner EBOLA has reached Spain, as the worsening epidemic that has now claimed more than 3,400 lives.

Last night, it emerged that a nurse had tested positive for ebola in Spain after caring for Fr Manuel Garcia Viejo, who died last month in Madrid having been infected in Sierra Leone.

The 44-year-old is the first person to contract ebola outside of Africa.

Thirty other Madrid hospital staff who came into contact with

Fr Viejo and Fr Miguel Pajares – another missionary who died of the virus – are being monitored.

Meanwhile, Ashoka Mukpo, the fifth American to be infected, arrived yesterday for treatment in Nebraska. The 33-year-old had been working in Liberia as an NBC News cameraman.

Liberian Thomas Duncan, who began showing symptoms during a visit to Texas, was said to have ‘taken a turn for the worse’.

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fter the murder of another hostage by radical Islamic State militants in Syria, I’m beginning to wonder when the socalled international coalition is going to do something constructive.

Despite several weeks worth of air strikes, nothing has been done on the ground.

Surely the one lesson learned with Saddam Hussein in Iraq is that you cannot remove tyrants without troops on the ground. Yet there seems to be a marked reluctance to do this. the War on terror will be brutal and lengthy – but it won’t be won from a distance. the only thing that will bring IS to its knees is full-scale military intervention with ground troops. And it’s up to the international community to ensure this is done.

Martin, Kimmage ■ It’s utterly incredible to read on Dublin County Council signs that Dublin has the safest roads in europe given the number of

idiotic jaywalkers and moronic blackclothed unlit cyclists around!

Brian ■ It was amazing to see the great turnout in the Phoenix Park on Sunday to raise money for Crumlin Children’s Hospital. All the parents and children dressed up as superheroes was a sight to behold. It’s good to see that people are willing to do their bit for such a good cause – and who says we can’t all have a bit of fun along the way?

Brian, Malahide ■ With the sudden and brutal arrival of winter, I fear not enough has been done around the country to deal with the problem of flooding. towns and cities have been through hell in recent years and if we see much more rain like last weekend then flood defences will be overwhelmed again.

I would urge people to contact their local councils to keep up the pressure on officials to act on this urgent problem.

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ADIE FROST’S new book, written with her friends Holly Davidson and Amber Rose – the latter a chef whose creations are beloved by everyone from Gwyneth Paltrow to Kate Moss – is full of mouth-watering, nutrient-dense recipes that will fill you up without making you put on weight.

With recipes ranging from a mood-enhancing hot chocolate to a lemon and poppy-seed sweet omelette to spring courgetti with rocket flowers, here Rose shows us how to eat so we are truly nourished…

Lemon and sumac chicken This is easy to throw together but it’s still full of flavour and colour – my favourite kind of meal.

Kids and adults both love this and it’s a firm favourite in my household.

180C/gas mark 4. Wash and cherry tomatoes and lemon INGREDIENTS serves 4-6 dry the chicken pieces and slices then cook for a further 4 free-range whole chicken place in a roasting dish. Scatter 20 to 30min – you want the legs n Handful of black olives the black olives on top and tomatoes bursting, the lemons n Olive oil n 2tsp sumac drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle a little charred and the meat n Large handful of sweet ripe with the sumac and some salt falling off the bone. cherry tomatoes n 1 preserved and black pepper.

Serve while hot and fresh lemon, sliced into thin rounds Transfer the dish to the from the oven. I love to eat this n Sea salt and freshly cracked middle rack of the oven and chicken dish with a beautiful or ground black pepper cook for 30min. Top with the bitter raddichio salad.

METHOD Preheat the oven to

Spiced chocolate and sweet potato brownies These gluten-free brownies can be eaten just as they are for a delicious afternoon tea or snack – or they can be plated for a special dessert.

INGREDIENTS makes 16 potatoes, put them into a steamer 3 medium sweet potatoes n 12 for 18 to 20min or until completely fresh medjool dates, pitted n 70g soft. Remove from the steamer and ground almonds n 75g buckwheat transfer to a food processor along flour n 3tbsp raw cacao nibs n with the pitted dates and blend.

4tbsp raw cacao n 3tbsp honey n Mix the remaining ingredients in Zest of 1 orange n ½tsp ground a large bowl, add the sweet potato cinnamon. To serve: A dusting of and date mixture, fold it all raw cacao powder together and spoon it into the lined METHOD Preheat the oven to tin. Cook for about 20min. Let it 180C/gas mark 4 and line a 10 x cool a little before dusting with raw 20cm baking dish. Peel your sweet cacao powder, cutting and serving.

Coconut and banana pancakes

Great topped with fresh fruit and yoghurt for breakfast or brunch, or served as an afternoon tea with cream and jam.

INGREDIENTS serves 2-3 2 ripe bananas, roughly chopped n 4 eggs n 2tbsp honey n 70g desiccated coconut n 100g almond meal n ½tsp glutenfree baking powder n Ghee or coconut oil To serve: A few spoonfuls of yoghurt and seasonal fruit n Toasted coconut or cacao nibs METHOD Put the bananas, eggs and honey in a food processor and purée until light and fluffy.

Add the coconut, almond meal and baking powder and beat to

combine. Heat a tiny amount of coconut oil or ghee in a frying pan over a low to medium heat.

Cook in batches, allowing a biggish spoonful of mix per pancake – too big and they are hard to flip, so keep them dropscone size. They should take about 1½min each side. Flip them when little bubbles appear on the surface. Keep them warm and cook the rest of the batter, adding a little more oil to the pan between batches. Serve hot with your favourite toppings.

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The place is thronged, every table dominated by gaggles of banqueting buddies and, despite having a booking for 3pm, we aren’t seated until 3.15pm. However, the place with ‘the best brunch in Dublin’ isn’t just about great food. It’s about a busy but unobtrusive atmosphere, fantastic service and staff eager to help.

Helpfully, the management has placed the word ‘brunch’ before every alcoholic drink on the menu – it’s not wine, it’s ‘brunch wine’.

‘Brunch without booze is just a sad, late breakfast,’ as the saying goes. Whitefriar understands this implicitly.

When we are eventually seated, by a charming and apologetic manager, we are presented with a complimentary and very much shame-free elderflower bellini.

Immediate forgiveness, thy name is yummy free booze. Whitefriar’s hashtag is #mucholove, and we’re feeling it. Thankfully, service is efficient, and we aren’t long waiting for our food.

The eggs Benedict description reads like a standard instructional – english muffin, ham, baby spinach, hollandaise – and panicked, I order a sausage on the side. Foolish.

‘Check out the size of this,’ I text my boyfriend and fellow fine sausage aficionado, inserting a finger into the quickly-snapped picture for scale. enormous, gleaming, perfectly fried, it’s delicious, herby and totally unnecessary beside the feast heaped on my plate.

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fin (worth noting: Whitefriar is very coeliacfriendly) and my more worldly companion orders the ‘lobster hash’ with crispy potatoes, poached eggs, baby spinach, avocado and caviar hollandaise. Another orders marrow and poached eggs. A fifth opts for barbecue ribs

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and poachies. Stick the word ‘brunch’ on wine and morning boozing is fine, and stick poached eggs with a meal and it’s brunch apparently. It’s a philosophy I can certainly get on board with. everything is divine. The fries are slabs of potato, skins intact, fried and salted, every poached egg magmatic and oozing, meat melting off bone. The lobster is thick, buttery and moreish; the ham shredded, salty and a pleasure atop the smooth glaze of english muffin.

We try a variety of cocktails. The bloody Mary is luminous red, light on the Tabasco but zingy. The ‘apology’ bellini wins hearts and fuzzes head, leading to more bellinis, watermelon and elderflower both.

I opt for a ‘fruity kick in the nuts’, a worrying purple cocktail, full of fruit with a wonderful tang of coffee in the aftertaste.

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Coffees, black and syrupy to aid the digestion and then it’s time for the bill – €33 a head.

Stunned and delighted, we stumble out past the sandwich board advertising ‘the best brunch in Dublin’.

The website advertises the same, but it’s a claim shouted loudly by a number of Dublin restaurants. It also doesn’t seem to be ‘officially’ substantiated, apart from the obvious quality of the food, but if Whitefriar is strong on two things, it seems to be brunch and attendant self-belief. Orna Cunningham

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BBC1, 9pm Combining a story about a taxi driver’s fall into a life of crime with a soul-searching quest to rescue his son – who’s joined a cult – is a tough ask for a three-parter. But this tautly told tale, led by David Morrissey as the haunted Vince, pulls it off with elegant economy. Tonight Vince reaches the end of his short road.

4 Later Live… With Jools Holland Ben Howard is on the bill

2. Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners

C4, 8pm Just as well this isn’t a dating show as you’d put good money on Linda, a hairdresser who spends more than three hours a day cleaning her tiny flat, not hitting it off with exbinman Charlie, a man without a clean teaspoon to his name. Then again, maybe opposites will attract on this intervention show where rubber gloves are de rigueur.

1 The Driver David Morrissey stars as the taxi driver of the title

3. Homeland

RTÉ Two, 9.30pm The new fourth series of the US drama opens with Carrie making a crucial decision in her new role as CIA station chief in Kabul. When intelligence comes through from her counterpart in Islamabad, she has to make a difficult decision about a target who has been sighted. At the same time, Saul is finding it difficult to adjust to civilian life.

4. Later Live… With Jools Holland

BBC2, 11.50pm Singer-songwriter Ben Howard is short on cool cred but his tuneful and soul-searching debut album bypassed critical acclaim and turned into a massive seller. He’s previewing tracks from follow-up I Forgot Where We Were in a line-up that also includes Manic Street Preachers and Jessie Ware.

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RTÉ One, 8.30pm In the final episode of the current series, Aisli Madden and Cat Lawlor are busy trying to help Liam, a single man from Co Mayo, who wants to get fit and learn all about making vegeterian dishes in order to find the

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BBC2, 9pm There’s no shortage of scope to Professor Cox’s latest series, which only just stops short of trying to settle the old Hitchhiker’s Guide favourite, ‘the ultimate question to life, the universe and everything’.

There are some cosmic leaps in the way Cox bounces from arrowheads to Kazakh cosmonauts – the first part is called Apeman Spaceman – but it’s an exciting ride.

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BBC1, 11.05pm No, the word ‘Gypsy’ hasn’t dropped out of this title, but we are in Essex so TV’s second most overexposed tribe is getting yet more coverage. It peeks at a bridal shop for plus-sized brides run by Jo and Alison, who set up shop when they suffered at the hands of traditional outfitters.

8. The Revolution Will Be Televised

BBC3, 10.30pm Beware the perils of topical comedy – one of the exposés on Heydon

Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein’s refreshingly angry comedy, back for a third series of banker bashing, is on Wonga. No worries, the duo can rightly claim they were ahead of the game – and plenty of the targets on this scabrous sketch romp feel right on the money.

9. Cat Watch 2014: The New Horizon Experiment

BBC2, 8pm Many of us share our homes with a pet cat but their behaviour is often aloof and enigmatic. So this threepart report (more tomorrow and Thursday) digs deeper into the

mysteries of our moggies. It’s not a new idea for a TV show but there’s plenty here for those with an interest in all things feline.

10. Today’s Film: For Those In Peril Film4, 12.40am Fast rising young star George MacKay, currently making waves in Pride, stars in this intense indie drama from 2013 about a young fisherman who is shunned by his local community when he’s the only survivor of a tragic accident. It’s directed by Paul Wright, another name to watch.

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power With almost as many mobile phones as people and the highest IQ average on the planet, South Korea is the most tech-savvy country in the Far East. We sent Seoul sister Lucy Hedges to find out more Virtual Shopping

Situated inside Seoul’s Seolleung station sits the world’s first virtual supermarket. Tesco-owned Homeplus is a digital storefront designed to help time-pressed commuters shop on the go. These virtual supermarket shelves – available in both static and interactive display form – exist on a series of pillars and platform screen doors, each plastered with realistic, life-size images of products ranging from chocolate and toiletries to electronics.

Each item carries a corresponding QR code which, when scanned with a dedicated app, drops into your shopping basket. Once a delivery time and location have been set, shoppers receive their goods within 24 hours. Trials are now taking place to bring it over here.

Park it: Lucy tries out the X-shape Axis folding car

No-go zone: A sentry robot spots a potential intruder during a test

recommendations on popular While Japan is leading obstacles so it can escort tours The Man Machines vending-machine tourist attractions and landmarks. unaided. Tiro has even be called on Science fiction fuses with everyday culture, demand for Other features include maps with to officiate at weddings. life in South Korea. Robots act as instant gratification Google Street View-like prison guards, English teachers and has led to iKorea’s features, news headlines, Invisible Skyscrapers actors, while robot baseball weather updates and movie next-gen South Korea plans to construct a spectators fill in for absent fans. trailers. You can even buy automated vendors 450m-high glass tower using Armed sentry bots guard the DMZ cinema tickets but most popping up across optical trickery to render it (Korean Demilitarised Zone) and impressive of all is the the country too, virtually invisible. Known as Tower the Korean government has even ability to make a phone call dispersing Infinity, the skyscraper will be pledged to put a robot in every to anywhere in Korea free everything located in Cheongna, close to household by 2020. of charge. from books, Incheon International Airport, and Tiro the robot and his peers have alcohol, socks, will use the same tech adopted been acting as tour guides at the cosmetics and Tech Factor by the military to create Cheongwadae Sarangchae pizza to bananas, Every year, car manufacturers adaptive camouflage. presidential museum, since 2010. umbrellas, lobsters, Kia and Hyundai host the Co-developed by underwear and even Tour guide: Tiro will Idea Festival – a hi-tech Hanool Robotics sex toys. show you the sites version of The X Factor – to Corp and the encourage its engineers to country’s top Getting build working prototypes of their university www.dorset-college.ie Around craziest flights of fancy. There are research institutes, Part-time Courses Forget the ‘Home Safe’ selfie, no boundaries to how far boffins can the multilingual taxi passengers can swipe NFCtake it. This year’s standout designs robots are fitted Computing & Multimedia enabled smartphones on a include luggage that transforms into with ultrasonic CompTIA A+ / IT Essentials-PC Hardware & Software contactless reader located in the cab a motorised kickboard or seated sensors and a laser CISCO – CCNA Computer Network Associate to share its vehicle registration, scooter and an intelligent batteryscanner to MCSA: Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate-Server 2012 destination address, current location powered wheelchair that JAVA Programmer 1 & 2 ( Professional ) detect Game Analysis Design Level 5 and the taxi company’s details with transforms into crutches to get up ECDL-European Computer Driving Licence up to ten people via text. Since stairs. Previous entries include Manual & Computerised Accounts Level 5 January, more than 35,000 cabs the electric E4U Egg Car – an have joined the service. Best of all, Business & Management 18mph machine controlled using if passengers find themselves in the a tilting foot pedal – while the CIPD Certificate in HR Practice face-palming predicament of X-shaped Axis car folds Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt) leaving valuables on the back seat, ACCA Diploma in Accounting & Business itself to tackle tight they’ve got all the necessary parking spots. Other Childcare & Montessori Studies information to track it down. technologies include ECCE & MONTESSORI Level 6 Seoul’s subway system, a camera that identifies Special Needs Assisting Level 5 & 6 meanwhile, is littered with when a driver becomes multilingual Digital View Healthcare Education (Major Awards Level 5) drowsy and wakes booths to help clueless them up and a Smart Nursing Studies (Pre-Nursing Course) tourists. The interactive 46in Trunk that Healthcare Support touchscreens include a Maternity Care Support (Minor Award Level 5) automatically opens Get lost? Not with this Counselling & Psychotherapy comprehensive journey planner, when the driver stands detailed information and info robot’s handy map in front of it. www.dorset-college.ie Tel: 01 830 9677

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Idyllic: Yangshuo by the Li River, soon to be home to a luxury resort

into Rice view: terraced paddy fields built the hillside around Longji near Guilin

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Despite the rain, i’m standing on deck, umbrella flapping in the wind as we bump along the Li River in the far south of China. through a tinny speaker, the captain announces the ‘painted hill of nine horses’. there is a surge forward to take photos. gorges and peaks). this region has Camera flashes light up the misty air all the trappings of what Chinese and we squint at the nine limestone holidaymakers love: it’s picturepeaks shaped like horse heads. postcard pretty, with scenery long steward, my guide, holds up a 20eulogised by poets and yuan banknote, which displays the painters. it looks like lik horse heads. ‘see – present tolkien’s Middle en on a bank note,’ he even earth. amous.’ the says. ‘Very famous.’ the boat cruises bank note also shows a 84 kilometres solitary fisherman in a downriver from downri conical bamboo hat humid Guilin ver. punting downriver. to Yangshuo, a Ya today, we are backpacker backpack squeezed into a stronghold that three-storey will soon be cruise boat, home to chugging along Banyan tree in a queue. it’s Yangshuo, a fair to say new luxury things have resort. And changed. that’s not the We are in Guilin, in only karst country (karst – development. as found in the Guilin now no Burren in Co Clare – finds itself refers to the connected to landscape formed Locks: The Yao women cut their Beijing by when acidic one of ater dissolves rainwater hair just once in their lifetime China’s China’ ving stunning soluble rocks leaving

China’s new high-speed trains make Guilin’s otherworldly scenery and minority villages easier than ever to visit, says Caroline Eden

high-speed trains. the 1,956km journey used to take 26 hours; now it takes just over ten. A second-class ticket costs €99.

After disembarking at Yangshuo, i continue my journey on land with a drive to ping’an – 95km and an earpopping climb away.

‘Here, we will meet the long-haired women,’ my new guide Ricky says.

Further up a muddy path, Ricky points to a woman dressed in a pink and black cardigan who belongs to the Yao minority. she is one of 120 ‘long-haired women’ who now earn a living with their tresses. ‘they only cut their hair once during their lifetime,’ says Ricky.

‘When they look for a husband.’

Working horses pass by, loaded down with bricks, while women squat by the side of the path roasting sweet potatoes over fire pits. it feels a million miles from China’s booming cities and the ultra-modern bullet trains. there is no doubt change is afoot in and around Guilin, a place described as ‘the most scenic place under heaven’. i only hope it doesn’t change too much.

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Fortify body and soul in a Connemara castle From woodland walks to mountain hikes and fly-fishing, the 450-acre Ballynahinch Castle estate is a perfect weekend getaway from the city, writes Aileen Donegan

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T’S not often you find a hotel without a spa or gym, but Ballynahinch Castle Hotel in Connemara is proud of the fact. The 17th-century castle, which opened its doors as a hotel in 1946, delivers an ‘authentic’ experience – one where the gym is the great outdoors and a calming oasis is a seat by the grand lake – and therein lies its appeal, a getaway from the hustle and bustle of the city.

The 40-room hotel sits at the base of Ben Lettery mountain. Our first port of call is a walk through the woodlands – this is a naturetrail weekend after all. We head to the site of Ballynahinch station, on the old Clifden to Galway railway line which closed in 1936. Its tracks are cleared, but the platform is still intact under the overgrowth of trees, weeds and flowers that mark our route.

We stroll by Ballynahinch Lake where many famous writers and artists are purported to have found inspiration. Edna O’Brien wrote

Hooked: Fishing is one of the many pursuits on offer at the hotel some of her memoirs on the estate, while Seamus Heaney was a regular guest and friend to the general manager Patrick O’Flaherty, who takes us on the grand tour.

Billionaire Denis O’Brien and wife Catherine, who are regular guests, recently bought the vast estate. Asked whether big money would impact or influence the old, traditional, rustic feel of the place, O’Flaherty said it was great to find owners of the castle with the ‘means, acumen and sensitivity’ – it won’t be a Donald Trump/Doonbeg affair then. Ballynahinch will remain as untouched as the day it was turned into a hotel, bar their ten-room expansion that begins next year.

Back at the castle, we head to the Fisherman’s Pub for lunch for sea-inspired salads and meat dishes. Afterwards, we meet John Sullivan, skipper of the Nancy Lee, who teaches us how to catch seawater creatures like trout and crab – but not before a huge storm hits Roundstone and leaves us waiting in the closest pub, O’Dowd’s, drinking until the heavy showers pass. Such is Ireland.

This is where O’Flaherty tells us of the castle’s ghost – a nameless, unknown gardener

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who can sometimes be heard thumping in the halls by Room 17. He’s harmless, we’re assured. Then the electricity goes out and the always-prepared bar staff set out candles.

Post-storm sunshine soon illuminates the road, however, and we’re back on track to head out to sea. ‘You’ll never catch anything after a thunderstorm,’ Sullivan says, while teaching us how to use a rod and what to do if a fish tugs on it.

Dinner is served at 8pm in The Owenmore, the hotel’s lush drawing room. The set menu is also inspired by the sea, naturally, and I order a seafood plate with pan-seared scallops, soused Cleggan mackerel, poached Killary Bay langoustine and a light tomato consommé – it’s a light, tasty bite that whets the appetite for the mains. After my duck breast with spring cabbage, bacon and rhubarb jus, the evening is spent listening to trad music in the

pub at the other side of the castle.

The next morning’s fly-fishing tutorial by instructor Cyril Biggins is the last item on the weekend’s agenda. We practise casting over the grounds and then we’re taken out by the Killeen Lake to fish for trout. The grounds have 72 casting piers along the river.

Biggins has been with the hotel for much of his life, having been a staffer for years and the fly-fishing instructor since 2006. He whips us into shape and I’m catching on quick.

‘Ladies usually pick up fly-fishing better than men,’ he says, as he watches me lash the rod à la Brad Pitt in A River Runs Through It. ‘Women are more genteel.’

Ballynahinch Castle, Recess, Connemara, Co Galway. www.ballynahinch-castle.com Getting there: Best by car. Non-drivers can take the bus to Clifden and the hotel will organise a taxi pick-up

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f1 DEBRiEf Bianchi’s crash left all in suzuka feeling flat Adam Hay-Nicholls reports

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here was no champagne sprayed on the podium in Suzuka as word filtered down the pitlane of Jules Bianchi’s condition.

It was a freak accident that went unnoticed by the TV commentators, Bianchi’s Marussia aquaplaning off the track at the same spot where Adrian Sutil crashed a lap earlier. Bianchi’s car hit and went under the back of a tractor crane that had been brought into the gravel trap to remove Sutil’s stricken Sauber. The Marussia was decimated.

Official footage of the crash exists but has yet to be released for obvious reasons. however, fan footage was published online yesterday and the speed of the impact is breathtaking. What’s more, although the FIA claimed the yellow flags were out, the film shows green flags being waved before the scene of the accident, signalling it was safe to race.

The Frenchman suffered a severe head injury and, following surgery to relieve a subdural haematoma, is reported to be in a critical but stable condition.

The crash is reminiscent of Maria de Villota’s, who was piloting a Marussia herself during a straight-line test in 2012 when she hit a stationary truck, causing her to lose an eye and suffer brain injuries which led to her tragic death a year later.

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Fearless: Fragapane

No signs of stage fright for Claudia on her world bow gyMnAsTics Great Britain’s fourtime Commonwealth gold medallist Claudia Fragapane qualified for four finals at her first World Artistic Championships yesterday. The 16-yearold, along with Becky Downie, Ruby Harrold, Gabby Jubb, Kelly Simm, Hannah Whelan, made it through to the team final. She also qualified for the individual all-round final and the vault and floor finals. Fragapane’s Glasgow exploits meant all eyes were on her in Nanning, China, and she said: ‘It definitely felt different, more pressure. I can think about individuals later. It was amazing to perform with the girls and we can’t wait for the final.’ Britain’s men have their team final today.

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‘Green flags being waved showed it was safe to race’ Watching the race from their home in the south of France, Bianchi’s parents were soon on a plane to Japan. racing is a family business. They own a gokart track. Jules’ grandfather, Mauro, was a world champion sports car driver, while his great uncle Lucien was killed testing at Le Mans in 1969. everyone is hoping for a full and speedy recovery for Bianchi, who is a leading light in Ferrari’s young driver academy. The 25-year-old is expected to join the Scuderia in 2015 alongside the soon-to-be-announced Sebastian Vettel.

Jules’ crash came nine laps from the end of the race and soon triggered the red flags, bringing it to an early close. The accident overshadowed Lewis hamilton’s victory, which stretches his lead in the championship to ten points.

The Briton pulled off a brilliantly ballsy move on his team-mate for the lead on Lap 29. Nico rosberg is now under pressure. Despite showing consistency and ruthlessness, he has yet to prove he can beat Lewis in a straight wheel-to-wheel fight.

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Tough times: Lotus’ Pastor Maldonado leaves the hospital where Bianchi is being treated

f1 loses nomadic Andrea

IN OTHeR sad news, Andrea de Cesaris was killed in a motorcycle accident in Rome on Sunday. De Cesaris, 55, was considered the quintessential ‘journeyman’ driver who, for a long time, held the record for

the most grand prix starts – 208 of them between 1980 and 1994. He remains the record- holder for the most races without a win. He was Michael Schumacher’s first team-mate in F1 at Jordan.

O’Connor warns players of Euro challenge LeINSTeR head coach Matt O’Connor has warned his players they will have to be at their very best if they are to have any hope of advancing beyond the pool stage of the new european Rugby Champions Cup. ‘When it comes to playing matches in europe every minute is important and every action is vitally important not only to the outcome of that game but also what goes on in the pool.’

And he said that the english sides will pose a significant challenge this year.

‘We’ve got two Aviva Premiership sides

in our pool and by its very nature the competition takes its toll on teams because it is attritional.

Sometimes english clubs have been criticised for not being able to raise their games coming into europe but I don’t see that being a problem for Wasps or Quins.

‘Dai Young has some of the best finishers around in his back three and has put together a strong squad at Wasps, while Quins have a lot of quality, international players in their side, the likes of Mike Brown, Danny Care, Nick easter and Chris Robshaw.

No.1 Heather Watson ended her run of first-round defeats after beating Jovana Jaksic at the Japan Women’s Open. The 22-year-old, who won the title in 2012, recovered from losing the opening set to her Serbian opponent to triumph 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 at the Utsubo Tennis Center. World No.46 Watson (pictured) had lost in the first round of her previous four tournaments but will next face Kazakh teenager Yulia Putintseva following her 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 victory over local hopeful Risa Ozaki.

Early exit for Ward TEnnis James Ward made a first-

round exit to Kevin Anderson at the Shanghai Masters. The British No.2 – ranked 119th in the world – took the first set but his South African opponent hit back to close out a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win.

Harting award snub ATHLETics Discus champion Robert Harting has asked to be removed from the short list for the athlete of the year because it also contains American sprinter Justin Gatlin, who has been convicted of doping. ‘It’s insulting to be on the same list with Gatlin,’ he said.

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Brown frustrated at another dismal Celtic performance Skipper Scott Brown has accused Celtic’s players of hiding during the shock 1-0 defeat by Hamilton at parkhead. An Ali Crawford strike in the second half saw Accies win at Celtic park for the first time in 76 years to go top of the premiership.

The boos rang round the stadium at full-time as the home side sloped off after missing a barrow load of chances.

Celtic sit in sixth place in the table having lost 10 points already this season and an angry Brown was in no mood to go easy on his team-mates, while taking a share of the blame himself. The Scotland international (right) said: ‘We missed a few chances but at the end we didn’t deserve anything to be perfectly honest.

‘We didn’t play as well as we should have. We didn’t have enough movement and there weren’t enough people wanting the ball. ‘people were just hiding and it was disappointing to see and play in. We tried to play but Hamilton pressed us high up the pitch and teams don’t do that at Celtic park.

‘We should be pressing teams high up the park and it hasn’t happened. ‘i don’t do getting beat. i came to Celtic to win games and we are not winning games and performing just now and i don’t know why that is.

‘We are just not doing it as a team and as individuals. i take

my share of the blame as well in there. i am not laying the blame at everybody else because we are all in this together as a team.

‘We are just waiting for somebody like kris (Commons) to score a wonder goal from 30 yards and then we are all happy but that doesn’t happen every week. At the end of the day, we weren’t good enough.’ it was Celtic’s first home league defeat since November 2012, when they lost to inverness but the supporters, many losing patience with new boss ronny Deila, were furious.

Asked about the fans’ reaction, the former Hibernian player said: ‘it is not just the fans; frustrations there are my own frustrations as well.’

Deila, however, insists he has no concerns about the haphazard start to the league campaign.

He said: ‘i’m not worried at all. i think we’re progressing. When you have 10 to 15 chances, you have played quite well. We got the full-backs more into the attack, we got more set-plays and more crosses. With so many chances, you should win the game, no question.’

Newly promoted Accies’ remarkable start to the season continues – they have lost only one league game – and playermanager Alex Neil is hoping the fans are enjoying it. He said: ‘if you are a Hamilton Accies fan and not top of the world at the moment, you never will be. if you’re an Accies fan this is the pinnacle.’

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Night to Fair-get for tenor ROM’s in gOv

ForMer Brazil striker romario has been elected to the senate in his home country after winning 63.4 per cent of the vote for the rio seat.

Marcelo Zelada is a household name down Under after butchering the australian national anthem.

The argentine tenor (left) made up words to advance australia Fair before his country’s 21-17 rugby championship win over the Wallabies in Mendoza on Saturday.

Some of the australia team couldn’t even keep a straight face during the performance.

Fox Sports noted down some of his lyrics, with the correct line ‘our land abounds in nature’s gifts’ changed to ‘our land-a-bunnies naychell giff.’

Touting to get rid of the shouting DALLAS Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is set to buy tickets worth up to

€190 each to stop noisy visiting fans from drowning out his instructions. Asked if

he would buy tickets to stop them going to travelling supporters, he said: ‘If I have to.’

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arsenal boss arsene Wenger will not face punishment from the Fa for his touchline shove on chelsea manager Jose Mourinho during Sunday’s clash at Stamford Bridge

chelsea can’t afford to ease up, says Terry by jAck fOx

All-clear head for Thibaut

John Terry is delighted with Chelsea’s fine start to the season but insists it is vital they maintain their brilliant form after the current international break.

The Blues hold a five-point lead over Manchester City after Sunday’s 2-0 win over Arsenal.

With Jose Mourinho’s history of claiming titles from the front, some

ThiBaUT coUrToiS was due to join up with Belgium tomorrow despite suffering a head injury in Sunday’s win over arsenal.

The goalkeeper (left) has been given the allclear after tests. however chelsea have been criticised for initially allowing him to continue. he was replaced 14 minutes after his collision when his ear started bleeding. Peter Mccabe from braininjury charity headway says he should have been straight off. courtois tweeted: ‘i’m already feeling better. Now i’m resting to be recovered and back on the pitch soon.’

‘every team is out to shoot you down’ are suggesting Chelsea’s position is ominous for the rest of the division, but 31 games still remain.

‘Clearly it [the title race] is not over,’ captain Terry said. ‘other teams have been in this position. It’s nice to have the lead but when you’re at the top everyone wants to shoot you down.

‘The international break is here

and we need to maintain our form after that as well. It’s very important we do that.’

Chelsea are chasing a first title since 2010 and in Diego Costa now have the ‘killer’ striker Mourinho has craved.

Costa netted his ninth goal of the season on Sunday, despite Mour-

inho insisting he is barely training as a result of a hamstring problem.

Terry, however, has played down fears about the Spaniard’s fitness.

‘I’m not sure where that’s coming from,’ he said.

‘Diego has been a nightmare for defenders. he popped up with another great finish.’

Spain duty won’t Cost Blues, insists Diego Diego CoSTA has reassured Chelsea he will not play in Spain’s upcoming euro 2016 qualifiers against Slovakia and Luxembourg if he is not fully fit.

The striker (pictured) has been struggling with a hamstring injury since last season and Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho revealed recently the 25-year-old was barely training.

Costa, nevertheless, was called up by

Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque for the double-header but insists he will not take any risks with his fitness. ‘i don’t want to be in the middle [of Spain and Chelsea]. Mourinho has not told me anything,’ Costa said. ‘i have the confidence of the coach, the technical team, and if there is a problem i tell them. if i’m injured then i don’t play because it would be worse.’

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Roy’s fight club: beer, butts and black eyes picture: empics

Red mist: schmeichel, left, and Keane clash on the field in 1995

THE TipsTER

Title charge: Chelsea’s Eden Hazard

Blues can be backed to emulate the ‘Invincibles’ IT WILL take a team of the highest quality, or an outrageous slice of bad luck, to stop Premier League leaders Chelsea winning the title.

Five points clear, will they go unbeaten through the season like Arsenal’s Invincibles in 2003/04?

Ladbrokes offer 12/1 Chelsea will emulate that feat and the Blues are a best price of just 8/15 with Paddy Power to be champions.

The west Londoners are 15/2 with Ladbrokes to suffer their first defeat of the campaign at Crystal Palace on Saturday week after losing 1-0 at Selhurst Park last term.

The same firm go 15/8 Mourinho’s men’s first loss is at Manchester United, 22/1 it is at home to QPR and 5/1 there is a reversal away to Liverpool.

Roy Keane left former Manchester United team-mate Peter Schmeichel with a black eye after head-butting the Dane during a drunken fight. notorious hard man Keane claims years of simmering on-field tension between he and the goalkeeper reached boiling point in 1998, with the scrap ‘refereed’ by midfielder nicky Butt.

‘I had a bust-up with Peter on a pre-season tour of asia. I think we were in Hong Kong. There was drink involved,’ Keane wrote in his new autobiography, The Second Half.

‘He said: “I’ve had enough of you, it’s time we sorted this out.” So I said: “oK”, and we had a fight. There was a lot of noise – Peter’s a big lad.

[The next morning] my hand was really sore and one of my fingers was bent back. nicky Butt fill-

€40,000

Uefa fine for Partizan Belgrade, who must play their next Europa League home tie with a partly closed stadium, after an antisemitic banner was displayed when they hosted Tottenham.

by jAMEs bOyLAn ing me in on what had happened... Butty had refereed the fight. anyway, Peter had grabbed me, I’d head-butted him. We’d fought for ages.’

Keane, now assistant manager for aston Villa and Ireland, was grateful when Schmeichel told the press his shiner was an innocent trainingground scar. However, he wasn’t so happy with United legend Bobby Charlton.

‘He [manager alex Ferguson] told us that we were a disgrace to the club, and that we’d woken Bobby Charlton up, that Bobby saw us.

‘Peter took responsibility for the fight, which was good. I admired him for it. But Sir Bobby could have tried to break it up.’

keane on... pundItry

‘TV’s an easy gig. When I heard: “I liked your commentary last night”, I knew I was only talking bulls*** like the rest of them’

hIs managers

‘I worked under two great managers and I put Brian Clough ahead of alex Ferguson’

Bottom three dropping hints QPR are rock bottom after defeat at West Ham and are 8/11 with Paddy Power to go down. There seems little hope too for Burnley, who are 4/11 for the drop with Ladbrokes and Bet365.

Newcastle look likely to DIEGO COsTa is just 17/20 to finish join them at 10/3 with as the Premier Coral and League’s top Paddy Power. scorer.

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fOOTbALL DigEsT Lamps delivering on City goal THEy sAiD iT

FRAnk LAMPARD believes his recent displays for Manchester City have started to win over the club’s fans. The 36-year-old, who joined City on a short-term deal from new York City, did not feature at the start of the season because of a lack of matchsharpness. However, four goals in the past three weeks have helped Lampard (pictured) show his commitment to the City cause. ‘I have scored a few goals and I hope the fans can see my desire,’

‘Tournament experience is vital for or any young player and something that needs to be built up before you get into the senior team.’

Manchester United defender Luke Shaw, 19, insists he will be happy to play for England Under-21s at next year’s European Championship, if they beat Croatia in Friday’s play-off to o qualify

he said. ‘I haven’t come here just to train and make up numbers.

People might have thought that was the case but it is not.’

600 The number of senior players in Gibraltar – the national side take on Ireland this saturday

Bluebirds name slade new boss CARDIFF have named Russell Slade as their new manager.

Slade, who left League One Leyton Orient last month, has been touted for the role following Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s exit last month and the Championship club confirmed his appointment last night. Slade takes over with Cardiff in 15th position with just one win in nine league games.

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The cup that cheers: Peter O’Mahony and Jamie Heaslip were looking forward to the start of the European Rugby Champions Cup yesterday, at the first of three launches of the tournament. The others will take place in London and Paris

New book: Keane re-opens some old wounds

Keane regrets saying sorry to Ferguson

HEAsLIp sAys LEInsTER MusT LEARn fROM ERRORs JAMIE Heaslip has called on his teammates to learn from their mistakes against Munster as the new European Rugby Champions Cup draws closer.

The Leinster captain was speaking at the launch of the inaugural European Rugby Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup tournaments at the Aviva Stadium. Leinster face Wasps

at home in their first match on October 19 but first they face a trip to Zebre in the Guinness PRO12.

‘We just need to cut out the kind of defensive errors we made against Munster and take as many lessons out of the defeat as we can,’ said Heaslip. ‘We have to quickly get over it and it’s good that we have got a tough away game

against Zebre before we head into the Champions Cup. ‘We didn’t play to the standards we have set ourselves against Munster and we need to rectify that. We have lost games before and still had success at the end of the season.’

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ROY KEANE has reopened old wounds by claiming he regrets apologising to former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson.

The ex-United captain had a spectacular falling out with Ferguson in 2005 which ended his time at the club.

Keane later said sorry for the comments about teammates, made in a TV interview, which so infuriated Ferguson, but now admits he wishes he hadn’t.

‘I was apologising for what had happened – that it had happened,’ he said. ‘But I wasn’t apologising for my behaviour. I had nothing to apologise for.’

Keane was writing in his new book, out on Thursday.

Supermarket Tesco made their own apology last night when copies were sold in error in Manchester.

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Leinster and Ireland’s injury woes worsen

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Fergus McFadden is a major doubt for Ireland’s autumn Test series after being ruled out of action for six weeks with an ankle injury.

The wing suffered a ‘pretty significant’ ankle strain in Leinster’s 34-23 Pro12 defeat to Munster on saturday, boss Matt O’connor confirmed.

McFadden’s Leinster team-mate Luke Fitzgerald is also facing a race against time to return from long-term groin trouble for Ireland’s november Tests, against south africa, georgia and australia.

Leinster coach O’connor believes McFadden’s injury is not as bad as first feared, but the 28-year-old still

swells Ireland’s list of likely autumn absentees. sean O’Brien was ruled out for six months with shoulder trouble last week, while cian Healy is sidelined for five months with hamstring problems.

Ireland boss Joe schmidt will also be forced to go without long-term ul-

‘He’s better than we’d hoped post-game’ ster absentees Iain Henderson and dan Tuohy, while fly-half Johnny sexton is expected to be fit despite still recuperating from a broken jaw.

‘Ferg obviously was a pretty highprofile departure, he’s reported sig-

nificantly better than we had hoped post-game,’ said O’connor. ‘and it looks like a pretty significant ankle strain which will tie him

Out of action: The Leinster ng is wing out for at least six weeks down for about six weeks, but no surgery or other intervention which is really positive.

‘He didn’t look in a great place and

you always fear the worst when guys are stretchered off the field with a lower leg injury.

‘He’s recovered quite well and the scan results were positive, so it’s crack on now with the rehab and try and get him back out on the park as quickly as possible.’

Fitzgerald has not played since suffering groin trouble in March and O’connor admitted the 27-year-old will still require a fortnight of reintegration once back to full fitness.

‘How long is a piece of string?!’ added O’connor about how long it would take before he can return to action. ‘Jokes aside Luke’s progressing really well, he’s putting in some positive strides; he’s not very far away.