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pressure builds to keep water public

The leader of one of the country’s biggest unions has backed calls for a referendum to prevent Irish Water ever being privatised.

In the wake of mass nationwide protests over charges for the new utility, Siptu general president Jack O’Connor called on the Government to offer an amendment to the Constitution, echoing a recent Green Party proposal.

Siptu did not support Saturday’s Right2Water demonstrations which brought at least 150,000 people on to the streets at about 100 marches around the country demanding the abolition of Irish Water and the scrapping of water charges.

Siptu has been promoting its own policy to fully offset the cost of every household’s ‘normal need for water’ ‘None of the major political parties would openly support privatisation, some because they are ideologically opposed to it, others because it would be so unpopular,’ Mr O’Connor said.

Taoiseach enda Kenny responded to the growing discontent over water charges with a stark warning that the top rate of income tax would be increased by a crippling four per cent if the new utility company is abolished.

Only 800,000 of the country’s 2million homes have returned packs to

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Irish Water detailing their registration, which includes a requirement for a valid PPS number to guarantee the correct allowances are given.

Failure to register will mean an automatic bill of €425 a year.

Mr O’Connor said non-payment only made privatisation ‘by stealth’ more likely as it would speed the Government to seek private funding.

A third day of action against the looming utility bills is being planned for Leinster house on December 10 – International human Rights Day. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin criticised Mr Kenny over his four per cent tax claim, saying: ‘he is clearly panicked following the marches and is seeking to confuse the debate.’

Yesterday, Drogheda mayor Kevin Callan quit Fine Gael, citing the handling of the introduction of water charges.

Meanwhile, a poll by the Sunday Independent revealed Sinn Féin is the most popular political party, with 26 per cent support (up 4 per cent), despite a growing sex abuse scandal.

SF is followed by Independents and others (23, +2), FG (22, -3), FF (20, 1) with Labour trailing at seven per cent, down two per cent.

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Unsullied: Nidge lookalike Liam O’Sullivan was at Krystle nightclub on Halloween picture: liSa ogilvie

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Nidge hangs on as bodies pile up

Put that in your pipe: On-the-run Fran, above and below, exacts his revenge on former best pal Dean in last night’s episode of Love/Hate – now the angry mobster is turning his attention to gang boss Nidge pictureS: rté

SO, whO’S the rat in Nidge’s gang? we just knew Elmo’s garden gnome drugs success (surplus gnomes still available on Done Deal, prices increased to €200) was too good to be true.

Last night he waved farewell to his freedom after being arrested with the last packages from the gnome shipment (at least five years in the slammer for him), leading an already paranoid Nidge to conclude that there’s a snitch.

Arthritis-in-the-knees Janet is the prime suspect, despite protestations that the garda number in her phone is just the Juvenile Liaison Officer for her troubled son, Aaron (who, incidentally, Nidge has been promising for weeks to have a chat with).

Meanwhile, on-the-run Fran is in no doubt who’s the rat in his camp – and he exacts brutal revenge on his one time pal Dean, battering him to death (unknowingly in front of an already traumatised but ‘innocent’ Siobhán).

Ian Lloyd Anderson, who played Dean, is philosophical about his character’s demise, saying that it didn’t come as a shock.

‘Of course I’d rather stay alive but you can’t be precious about it. It’s all about the story,’ he said. he added that Fran and Dean were ‘as close as friends can be in a world where “friends” doesn’t mean a whole lot’. he said: ‘Dean was loyal to Fran but when it came down to it, he looked after number one. To be honest I think it’s a shame Fran

by jOAnnE AHERn didn’t hear him out. I think he was stuck between a rock and a hard place and genuinely wanted to get Fran out of dodge.’ he described his regular role on ‘arguably the most successful Irish drama series ever’ as ‘a real honour’. he added: ‘I did of lot of standing in the background (which gave me, as an actor, a chance to learn my craft), and thankfully this year had the chance to challenge myself a bit more. I’ll miss playing Dean a lot.’

Meanwhile, John Connors, the man behind bomb-maker Patrick, has revealed that he and Thomas Collins (whose character, Packy, shot Patrick’s son in last week’s botched hit) did not speak to each other ahead of the scenes.

Speaking to the Sunday world, he described the act where he slits Packy’s throat as ‘a brilliant scene to be part of’. he said: ‘we didn’t take that long to shoot the scene. Myself and Thomas Collins decided we wouldn’t chat to each other all day long. we just wanted to get into the zone. so when it came to the time to slit his throat, I was ready.’

A settled Traveller, Connors believes that the portrayal of the Traveller community in the show is ‘as close to real life as has ever been on TV’.

One episode to go and under-fire kingpin Nidge is still standing, but with Terence ‘Big Balls’ back on the scene, Patrick, Fran and Siobhán all individually seeking revenge and Detective Moynihan and his crew closing in, who knows how long that will last?

Filming Fifty Shades scenes ‘not sexy’, says Dornan Not into it: Northern actor Jamie Dornan said he won’t be watching the film at home with his wife picture: pa

FiFty ShadeS of Grey star Jamie dornan said filming racy scenes for the film with co-star dakota Johnson was ‘not sexy’. the Northern irish actor appears as billionaire Christian Grey in the big screen adaptation of eL James’s erotic novel while Johnson plays anastasia Steele – the college student he seduces, and introduces to the dark

world of sadomasochism. dornan told the Observer Magazine of scenes in which he

‘There are hairy men standing around’ had to spank his co-star: ‘anyone who thinks actors get turned on doing sex scenes in

films is mistaken. ‘there are dozens of hairy men standing around, moving cables and lighting equipment. that’s not sexy unless you’re into being watched, which i’m not.’

When he was asked whether or not his wife was comfortable with the scenes, he said: ‘She understands that it is work. i don’t think we will be watching

it together too many times at home, though.’

Fifty Shades, which has been directed by Nowhere Boy’s Sam taylor-Johnson, is set to go on release on February 14 – Valentine’s day – of next year. dornan also stars with Gillian anderson in BBC/RtÉ drama the Fall, which is back for its second series later this month.

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All loose foods will soon require allergy warnings FROM next month, commercial outlets will have to to label common allergens on all loose foodstuffs.

Ingredients that are potentially harmful for those with allergies are to be prominently displayed on nonprepacked products, as is already the case for pre-packaged food.

Fourteen items are being specified under the law, including: nuts, cereals with gluten, eggs, fish, soybean products, milk, mustard and celery.

The new law will cover everything from self-service counters in shops to food sold in restaurants, pubs,

takeaways, food deliveries, as well as internet purchases.

The changes are part of new EU regulated requirements and Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has already signed an agreement to bring the bill into force from December 13.

Commenting on the incoming measures, Mr Varadkar said the move would lessen the risk of life-threatening allergic reactions. ‘Consumers want this information to be available, and many commercial outlets already do so, but customers with allergies cannot afford to take chances,’ he said.

Leo’s Fakebook found

HEALTH Minister Leo Varadkar has said the Facebook account he keeps under the name ‘Eric Howell’ is ‘a personal account’ and is apolitical.

According to The Sunday Times, Mr Varadkar’s alter ego was rumbled when friends tagged him on photos of him finishing the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Eric Howell – made up of

Mr Varadkar’s middle and mother’s maiden names – has checked around the world where the minister was on Government business and has also tagged the Facebook accounts of staff with him.

Mr Varadkar said: ‘Anyone who is my friend on Facebook is a personal friend.’

This gringo wears his sombrero well Lord Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke with Mexican Ambassador Carlos Garcia de Alba at the launch of A Little Taste of Mexico Gastronomic and Cultural Festival at The Mexican Embassy, Ballsbridge. The festival will run from November 18-23 at venues nationwide Picture: Brian Mcevoy PhotograPhy

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JOBSEEKERS will be required from next year to upload their CV online as part of a new Government social welfare strategy.

In an overhaul of the Government website Solas, previously Fás, unemployed people will have to outline their skills and experience on jobsireland.ie.

As with other social welfare terms, failure to do so could mean having the jobseeker’s payment reduced or even stopped.

The initiative is expected to be put in place by late 2015 and will come at the request of each individual’s social welfare case officer.

The Government is expected to

pass legislation on the idea if required.

Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection, Kevin Humphreys, New plan: Kevin said the proHumphreys posal would give further encouragement to those searching for work and provide people with the means to get back into the jobs market. He said while it would create an additional requirement, the premise was nothing new as there is already an expectation for people on unemployment benefit to ‘actively seek work’.

Mr Humphreys added: ‘It will ensure that employers visit the live register when they are looking to fill positions.

‘The whole intention is that people who find themselves in longterm unemployment are not left behind as we see an upswing in employment.’

Current penalties will apply to those who do not commit to the condition but Mr Humphreys said cutting off benefits would be a ‘last resort’ only.

In a further measure to get people back into work, the Government will also be increasing the number of case officers, who provide training assistance, from 400 to more than 1,000.

Feminist T-shirt E-cigarette link Sailor injured in sweatshop row to house fires mast accident AN iNquiry has begun after reports that T-shirts at the centre of a women’s rights campaign are made by €.80c-an-hour sweatshop workers.

The ‘this is what a feminist looks like’ shirts hit the headlines last week when uK politicians posed in them for Elle magazine.

But according to reports, the garments are made in a factory in Mauritius where women machinists live 16 to a room and earn €150 a month.

ELECTroNiC cigarettes have been linked to more than 100 fires, new figures reveal.

Fire services in the UK are now attending at least one blaze involving the devices each week, the data suggest. They have attended dozens of incidents suspected to have been sparked by e-cigarettes or related equipment in the past three years. Several took place after users connected the devices to incompatible chargers.

A SAiLOr was rescued yesterday after suffering suspected spinal injuries when he was hit by a snapped mast. The middle-aged man was hit across the back as he and the crew of a 10m yacht took part in races in Dublin Bay. The Coast Guard helicopter rescue was complicated by collapsed rigging. The accident happened at about 11am and the disabled yacht was located halfway between the West Pier and South Bull Way.

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Gardaí hunt two men after target escapes with his life GARDAÍ are hunting two men over an attempted shooting in which a man narrowly escaped with his life.

A red Honda Civic was crashed into a silver BMW with the intended target inside in Islandbridge on Saturday.

The 35-year-old man then fled on foot into a nearby car park and was followed by the two occupants of the

by LukE HOLOHAn Honda, which had an 08 registration.

The man was able to escape and despite a number of shots being fired no one was injured in the attack.

The incident happened around 6.55pm in a car park beside the Islandbridge Court and Bellevue apartments.

It is understood this was not the first attempt on the victim’s life.

No one has been arrested in connection with the incident and investigating gardaí are appealing for witnesses, or anyone with information, to contact them.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Joint Policing Commission, Fianna Fáil

Lamping up the excitement Martin Kennedy is one of many talented craftspeople and designers featuring at the DLR Winter Fair in Dalkey Town Hall on November 8-9 Picture: Paul sherwood

Payne tormented by child killer THE father of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne (pictured) who died last week after a long battle with alcoholism was tormented by another killer prior to his death, it has emerged.

Levi Bellfield, who was convicted of killing Milly Dowler and two other young women, befriended grieving Michael Payne in their local pub months before he was arrested by police following a two-year killing spree.

Mr Payne’s 74-year-old mother Cynthia revealed that Bellfield struck up a friendship with her son after he moved next door to the nightclub bouncer in Surrey, England, earlier that year.

But as the pair drank in the nearby Ashley Park pub, Mr Payne was unaware that his neighbour was a serial killer and was devastated when his murderous life was finally exposed.

His anguish was made worse by the revelation that police found a stash of newspaper cuttings on the murder of his eight-year-old daughter Sarah, who was abducted and killed by paedophile Roy Whiting in July 2000, when officers searched Bellfield’s flat.

‘It is sick what he did. I am sure Bellfield knew exactly who Mike was and targeted him,’ Cynthia Payne told the Sun On Sunday Newspaper.

councillor Daithí De Róiste, has called on the Government to increase Garda presence to curb violent crime.

‘There is a widespread fear now that a sinister criminal element in the country no longer fears the rule of law. We need extra Garda resources across west Dublin to allow gardaí to increase street patrols,’ he said.

shooting ‘by appointment’ A 42-yeAr-old man has been shot in one of his legs in a paramilitary punishment attack alleged to have been carried out ‘by appointment’.

The injured man suffered a bullet wound in his left leg in an estate in derry on Saturday night after being attacked by a man wearing a balaclava. Police said the shooting occurred in the Corrib Court area of Ballymagroarty on the outskirts of the city shortly before 11.40pm.

The gunman was described as being 6ft tall and had been wearing dark clothing as well as the face mask.

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60 seconds STEvE CARELL, 52, won fame for his role in the US version of The Office. He now stars in Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Your character, Ben, in Alexander… spends a lot of time running around after his kids. Are you like this? I’m a bit

better at compartmentalising. We try not to overbook because it’s easy to do – to have three sports games, a piano lesson and a play date all fall on the same day! My wife, Nancy, is quite good at preventing that. She is definitely the organiser. She has the calendar committed to memory. She knows all of the moving parts.

Was this a film you wanted to do for your kids? Oh, yeah.

people are talking about it and thinking about it in those terms.

That’s definitely a great thing. I’m happy for Bennett in particular, because it’s something he’s lived with for eight years or more.

Should comedies get more recognition at awards shows?

I find it difficult to complain, given how much success I’ve had. To moan about the fact comedies don’t get nominated for awards seems a little trivial to me. Too bad for you, big comedy star! That’s tough. Why don’t you get paid a bit more money and that will make you feel better?

They’re ten and 13, and this is right What was it like working on in their zone. They loved it. It was Anchorman and the sequel? cool enough that it didn’t feel like a Did you just spend your time kiddie movie and it had jokes in it cracking up on those movies? that were funny without being kids’ It’s almost impossible when the four jokes. It’s not based on insult of us get together to try to get humour or just being crass. And the through it. That was so much of the parents aren’t idiots, which is a big fun of doing the press tours with deal for me. I didn’t want the those guys – it was just parents to be idiots in this, unrelenting. It was part because, generally of the reason we did speaking, parents Anchorman 2 – just aren’t idiots. That’s I never want to take to get together. not how our family runs. a part to prove

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Egyptian adventure: Patrick at the Great Pyramids of Giza

Patrick Hamilton Walsh takes a selfie every day at 3pm – he’s at 1,600 and counting

The power of the selfie unleashed

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Do people ask you to impersonate your character a lot? To

anything to anybody.

There’s an amazing scene I think that’s wrong where a chef and pretentious flips shrimps impersonate Brick? into your mouth.

It’s just standing there – Was that real? Yeah, I there really is no caught the shrimps! They were going to CGI them but I was able to catch nine or ten of them. I have this uncanny eye-shrimp coordination.

We didn’t even rehearse.

Do your kids love that you voice Gru in Despicable Mes?

My son was in kindergarten when the first one came out and they both loved that. It’s probably one of the coolest things – their friends come over and it’s: ‘Dad, do the voice!’

You’re also coming up soon in heavyweight real-life drama Foxcatcher. Did you want to flex your acting muscle more?

I never want to take a part in order to prove anything to anybody, because I think that’s wrong and pretentious. That’s not about doing good work, that’s just about selfaggrandisement. I wanted to do this to work with Bennett [Miller, the director], and be a part of this world.

You’re being touted for an Oscar nod for the role. How does that feel? It’s nice that the

movie is being received as it is, that

impersonation to be done!

What about the ‘That’s what she said’ catchphrase from The Office? Do people say that to you? Oh, all the time! And I never do. I will let everyone else do them but you’ll never hear me say one of those jokes.

Were you emotional when you shot the final episode of The Office? That whole last week

was very emotional. The tough part wasn’t crying in a scene – it was pretty easy to turn it on and off. It was leaving a family – that sounds like a cliché, but that’s how it felt.

You met your wife, Nancy, at Chicago’s Second City improv troupe. Are there any more plans to work together? Well,

we’re both producing a TV show that we wrote together, called Angie Tribeca. It’s kinda like Naked Gun – a cop show. James Mottram

Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is in cinemas now

Postcards from the edge: Patrick in the Ice Hotel in Sweden; visiting the my in Terracotta Army China; a waterfall in Iceland; on Portmarnock beach with his wife; and in Ibiza PICTURES: TWITTER.COM/ @THEPHONEOGRAPHR

WHEN the clock strikes three today, what will you be doing?

Some may grab an afternoon coffee or chance a natter with their colleagues. Accountant-turned-adventurer Patrick Hamilton Walsh, on the other hand, well, he holds his smartphone aloft for a daily selfie – no matter what the situation.

In an initial camera quest to ‘take one “phoneograph” of myself at 3pm every day for a year’, the Tyrone man now has a collection of 1,600 pictures, taken in more than 50 countries.

The seemingly trivial resolution has developed into the ThisisMe@3 selfie project – to compare and contrast his ever-changing background.

Four years Patrick has been snapping away with his Lumia phone.

But why three o’clock? ‘The reason why I chose to take the phoneograph at 3pm every day was I felt that time defines my day best,’ he explains.

‘It has provided me with an insight into my soul. This project has shown me a part of my life that I did not really know existed.

‘I always feel happy and energetic but through these phoneographs I have noticed long periods of time where I had not been smiling at 3.00pm.’

Patrick’s autobiography, The Backpacker Who Sold His Supercar, is available on Amazon.com. All proceeds go to Dublin’s homeless – every month he goes into Penneys to buy clothes which he gives out himself.

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UN climate change data raises alarm

Crash site: The scene in the Mojave Desert

Lessons to learn: Virgin boss Richard Branson

Stick to selling phones, space guru tells Branson after crash VIRGIN GALACTIC should ‘give up’ on space travel and concentrate on selling mobile phones after its €400million spaceship crashed, a leading scientist said.

Richard Branson’s company faced claims that it ignored safety warnings before the crash on Friday that killed pilot Michael Alsbury, 39.

‘They should stop, give up,’ said rocket scientist Carolynne CampbellKnight, who raised concerns with Virgin and US authorities.

‘Go away and do something they might be good at, like selling mobile phones – they should stay out of the space business.’

The SpaceShipTwo disaster is almost certain to delay Branson’s plan to begin €190,000-a-head commercial space flights next spring. It followed the resignations of three senior Virgin Galactic executives, including one in charge of safety, in recent months.

Mrs Campbell-Knight first raised concerns about the nitrous oxide-propelled engine after an explosion that killed three people in 2007.

She told the Sunday Telegraph that

by pAUL kEOgH it was ‘Russian roulette’ which test flight would end in disaster.

The rocket was allegedly ‘crude’ and ‘unreliable’, said Branson biographer Tom Bower. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘Just a few weeks ago the last of many Virgin Galactic engineers walked out of the factory and said he’d never work there again.’

Investigators began scouring an 8km area of the Mojave Desert in California on Saturday to determine the cause of the crash.

The spread of the debris suggests it broke up in the air, experts said. It is claimed the pilots asked for take-off to be delayed because of fears about the temperature in fuel tanks.

Mr Alsbury’s widow Michelle Saling said: ‘I have lost the love of my life. I am living in hell right now.’

Moment of disaster: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo detaches from a support aircraft and explodes Pictures: LNP/AFP/reuters

Speaker –

Michael Harding

(Irish short-story writer, novelist and playwright).

Living with Loss: an information evening for the public about bereavement.

Co-pilot Peter Siebold, 43, was able to parachute to safety.

Branson has dismissed speculation as ‘irresponsible’.

The entrepreneur added: ‘We are going to learn from what went wrong, discover how we can improve safety and performance and then move forwards together.’

More than 700 people could have their deposits refunded, but he said nobody has asked for one.

This is a free public event organised by the Irish Hospice Foundation. It will provide information about grief and the range of supports available to bereaved people.

For further information contact; Iris Murray, Irish Hospice Foundation, p: 01 679 3188 e: iris.murray@hospicefoundation.ie w: www.hospicefoundation.ie w: www.bereaved.ie

Thursday, 6th November 5.30-8.30 pm Alexander Hotel, 41-47 Fenian Street, Dublin 2 This event is kindly sponsored

by Fanagans.

The worlD faces ‘severe, widespread and irreversible’ impacts of climate change without urgent action to cut emissions, a major global report has warned. while there are solutions to climate change, experts warned there was little time before the window of opportunity to limit dangerous temperature rises closed, and that delaying action would greatly increase costs.

Significant and swift cuts to greenhouse gases are needed, along with the phasing out of fossil-fuelled power plants and a shift away from investment in oil, coal and gas towards renewables.

The UN report said global warming was ‘unequivocal’ and human influence on climate was clear.

It was ‘extremely likely’, or more than 95 per cent certain, that the majority of the warming since the 1950s was down to human activity.

Declines in Europe bird populations eUrope has an estimated 421million fewer birds today than it did 30 years ago, a study has found.

Around 90 per cent of the losses have affected common species, including sparrows, skylarks, grey partridges and starlings. Scientists believe the crash can be linked to modern farming methods and deteriorating habitats.

Dr richard Inger of University of exeter said: ‘It is becoming increasingly clear that interaction with the natural world and wildlife is central to human well-being, and significant loss of common birds could be quite detrimental to human society.’

Not all species of common birds are declining, however.

Numbers of great tits, blue tits, blackbirds and robins are all going up, the study published in the journal ecology letters revealed.

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Axed Jack blasts Mel over Bleedin’ bad song choice Teen exits X Factor in rage with Spice Girl mentor

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Factor star Jack Walton has launched a blistering attack on mentor Mel B after crashing out of the competition. the 18-year-old English singer got the chop following his performance of Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love – then blasted Scary Spice for ruining his chances with bad song choices.

‘I want everyone to know what people saw on X Factor was not anything what you would see at a gig,’ he told Guilty Pleasures. ‘I enjoyed the show, it were amazing.

But don’t expect Eye of the tiger at a

FANS of Dermot O’Leary are crushed to learn the X Factor host has been banned from performing his dance routine – by order of Simon Cowell.

‘Simon doesn’t want Dermot to dance as it would be a distraction from the contestants,’ a mole told us. ‘He won’t be doing one this year.’

One fan tweeted the presenter saying: ‘Wish you would do your Dermot dance at the start of X Factor. It’s not the same show without it.’

For three years he’s kicked off the show with his hip-shaking moves.

Voted off: Jack Walton PicTure:

gig. It’s not going to happen.’ rounding on Mel, Walton admitted he isn’t familiar with the Spice Girls – he was only when their albums were released – but felt unable to complain to Scary about her song choice.

‘I spoke to her about not feeling comfortable with some of the stuff I was doing. But I am just a lad from castleford and she is a Spice Girl. I don’t know much about her, to be honest. But apparently she is a big deal. It’s hard to pipe up in front of someone like that,’ he said.

Walton thinks that one Direction heartthrob Louis tomlinson – who had tweeted him his support throughout – would make a much better judge. ‘Louis genuinely does believe in me,’ he said.

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The 25-year-old also clashed s with mentor Mel B when he wa af atlo forced to sing the Me classic for Halloween week on the iTV show – and the fellow contestants have noticed he has a slight temper. ‘it was Mel’s choice but it’s not don’t my thing. i always say when i she but , ing eth som want to sing was adamant i did it,’ he said.

Angry: Paul Akister

Ellie: I hit the bottle before I go on stage

PHARREL’S NO.1 ON My RIS DUET LIST, SAyS DJ HAR

Williams for a duet. The scottish DJ has CALViN HArris is going after Pharrell new album Motion including Ellie worked with a host of big names on his keen to team up with the Happy is Goulding, Gwen stefani and Haim but re. star in the futu s at the Bacardi Triangle speaking exclusively to Guilty Pleasure Pharrell. He said he with k wor to like ‘i’d festival, Harris, 30, said: re but he’s very hard to get wanted to do something with me befo hold of because he’s Pharrell. k that could be a great song, ‘But i think he’s my number one. i thin you know?’

AKISTER IS MAD AS HELL WITH HER TOO

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LILY SLAMS STARS TAKING SELFIES

LiLY ALLEN has selfie love: Lily shares shown that selfposes on awareness may not instagram. be her strong suit by having a go at stars who take selfies.

Despite her own instagram account being filled with them, the 29-year-old ld said they are used to give a false image.

‘Taking selfies is not what you ou really look like, it’s what you want other people to think you look like,’ she told the Mexican edition of Marie Claire. ‘That’s what i try to apply to my music; not to take selfies.’

Allen insisted that, with her, what you see is what you get. ‘i try to be as honest with myself as i possibly can be,’ she added.

ELLIE GouLDInG says it’s time for a detox after admitting she needs a stiff drink before performing on stage. the English singer said hitting the booze helped to get the adrenaline flowing but insisted she was careful not to get hammered.

‘If I have a little bit of a drink, I just feel a bit more pumped and excited but I don’t get drunk – that would be bad,’ she revealed before hitting the stage at t h e Bacardi triangle festival in Puerto rico on Saturday. ‘I always have a drink before I perform. the only time I didn’t do that was when I thought I needed a bit of a break.

‘I was on the Bruno Mars tour and that was probably the worst time for me not to drink. they all love to party a n d have fun.

‘So I used that as my time to have a break. that was two years ago. I should probably do that again and have a detox!’

But the 27-year-old claimed she preferred staying at home when she wasn’t jetting off to play at festivals.

‘It sounds really boring but I don’t really go out in London. I like going to the pub – that’s more my thing.’

Goulding is currently dating teetotal McBusted star Dougie Poynter and it seems he probably had his work cut out getting a date with her.

She said: ‘I have to be really impressed. It depends how many drinks I’ve had but if I’m stone cold sober it would have to be pretty epic.’

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HAPPY Cheryl FernandezVe insists she no longer cares rsini ho songs chart after learning w her how to be comfortable in her ow n skin.

Speaking ahead of her performance on last night’ s Factor, the 31-year-old jud X ge said she was finally hitting her str ide marrying for a second tim after e.

‘It’s not about chart positi anymore, it’s not about an ons y insisted the I Don’t Care hit of that,’ ma ‘It’s just about putting ou ker. t music that you yo believe in and that you sen se ding out a message tha love and t you want to send out.’

Cheryl, who pre-recorded he perfo rf rmance of the track be r her showing on TV said she fore was Content: Cheryl com co fortable in her 30s. performs

Instantly Delicious Starry affair: Cara (above) looks more superhero than model; Kim and Kanye (right) are loved-up, while Jennifer (far right) dazzles in blue Pictures: getty

MILLS: STRICTLY MADE ME FEEL LIKE BEYONCÉ

walk in and Mark Wright will SCOTT MIllS has said be there in just his pants. performing on Strictly Come ‘People are putting mic Dancing made him feel ‘as packs on you in various close as I will ever get to places under your clothes. s being Beyoncé’ before he wa They take your clothes off booted off last night. you and put new ones on. It’s The BBC radio 1 presenter the closest you’ll ever get to also revealed the contestants being Beyoncé,’ he laughed. on the show frequently see The 41-year-old was the each other naked backstage. st celebrity to waltz off late ‘everyone gets changed in the dance show and thinks the wardrobe department Judy Murray is the one to because the dressing rooms beat. ‘She’s not showbiz, in are so far away from the ma she is just giving it her best studio,’ he told guilty shot and I think that Pleasures. ‘Most people have comes across on s seen other people in variou television,’ Mills added. l wil You . states of undress

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€5m for car crash victim who became Mr Angry

A UK cAr crash victim has been awarded £4million (€5.1m) because head injuries left him too aggressive and abusive to hold down a job.

Paul Vallance, 27, was given a small payout after the crash eight years ago but received no compensation for serious frontal lobe brain injuries that changed his personality.

Mr Vallance lost his job

as a trainee service station manager because he kept getting angry with customers and also was stricken by amnesia and speech impairment.

His mother Tina collins, 46, launched a legal campaign which resulted in the other driver’s insurance firm being told to pay up by the UK High

court. She said: ‘My loving son had been replaced by a much angrier, hostile young man. He would spend hours just staring at himself in a mirror, saying repeatedly: ‘‘I look like Paul, but I don’t feel like Paul’’.

My heart was in bits seeing him like this. Several retail positions

followed in quick succession but Paul just couldn’t cope. He lost his temper with customers and through no fault of his own, was unable to exercise self-control or use appropriate language.’

Mr Vallance (left) is in a specialist unit in Lancashire, England; the money will pay for care. His lawyer Huw Ponting said: ‘We’re thrilled to have secured justice for Paul.’

Sex, drugs and double murder in Hong Kong A BrITISH banker has been charged after two women believed to be sex workers were found hacked to death at his luxury home in Hong Kong. rurik Jutting was held after police discovered a Filipino woman on his floor bleeding to death from stab wounds to her neck and buttocks.

And in scenes reminiscent of the America Psycho horror movie, another woman’s body was reportedly found naked and almost decapitated in a suitcase on his balcony.

Sex toys and cocaine were also found at the €4,000-a-month flat rented by Jutting in Wan chai district.

The 29-year-old’s smartphone

contained video footage of the victims and close-up images of their wounds, according to reports.

The woman found on the balcony of the 31st-floor apartment was identified as 25-yearold Indonesian Sumarti Ningsih.

She was reportedly wrapped in carpet with her hands tied and is believed to have been dead for up to five days.

A neighbour said he had noticed a stench in the building ‘like a dead animal’.

Jutting, who worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, had been in a relationship with a woman called ‘Yanie’ – possibly Ariane Guarin – before his arrest.

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Her Facebook page displayed dozens of photos of Jutting socialising with beautiful young women at clubs and pool parties in Hong Kong and, in a message posted on his Facebook page, he boasted: ‘Money does buy happiness.’

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IS extremists line up and massacre 50

ISLAMIC State fighters yesterday killed a further 50 villagers in a key battleground in Iraq.

They rounded up at least 40 men, six women and four children and shot them one by one with assault rifles.

They also took 17 members hostage in Ras al-Maa, north of Ramadi, where 150 members of the Sunni Albu Nimr tribe have been killed in recent days.

The murdered men were thought to be supporters of the Iraqi government and were helping to organise anti-IS operations in the province of Anwar.

A number of Iraq’s Sunni tribes have been fundamental in stalling the advance of IS, taking up arms and fighting alongside Iraqi security forces.

Ramadi has yet to fall in part because the Jughaifi and al-Bunimer tribes have helped protect the Haditha Dam. Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi and his new Shia-led government have

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vowed to create a community-driven national guard that would empower local tribes. However some tribal leaders have not been won over, and have allied themselves with IS in protest.

They want guarantees they will be given a serious degree of devolution for their areas and a real say in national decision-making.

Meanwhile, 19 people yesterday died in separate attacks around Baghdad.

A car bomb killed 14 Shia pilgrims who were collecting food to take to the holy city of Karbala to mark the holiday of Ashoura.

Later on, a roadside bomb killed two soldiers on patrol in the western suburb of Abu Ghraib. In the east of the capital, police said a bomb in a commercial street in the al-Ameen district killed three people and wounded four.

Woman is sent to jail for year after flouting volleyball ban

A WOMAN has been jailed for a year after trying to attend a volleyball game in Tehran, her lawyer said yesterday.

Ghoncheh Ghavami was convicted of ‘propagating against the ruling system’ by trying to attend the men’s match between Italy and Iran in June.

The 25-year-old British-Iranian was with a group of women protesting against a ban on women attending such events. UK Foreign Office officials said they ‘have concerns about the grounds for this prosecution’ and her treatment.

Protests at military coup Leader appeals for calm

BuRkINA fASO: Protesters gathered in the capital Ouagadougou yesterday to oppose a military coup. It comes two days after president Blaise Compaore was forced to resign. His bid to extend his 27-year reign was thwarted. The UN has ordered the Army to call an election or face sanctions.

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ISRAEL: Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that the status quo must be kept at the ‘most sensitive kilometre on earth’. He tried to defuse tension over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount by saying Muslims must be allowed to carry on worshipping there to avoid an ‘eruption’.

Power on after blackout Nudist beach wins grant

BANgLADESH: Power was restored to most of the country yesterday a day after a nationwide blackout. More than 10million people in the Dhaka area were left without electricity after a transmission line failed. It was the worst blackout since a cyclone knocked out the national grid in 2007.

NOVEMBER RAZZ ‘N’ RACE

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Quick pic BRING A DEER TO THE EYE: Early on Sunday morning is a fine time to be in Phoenix Park hanging out with the resident deer herd. They probably know Brendan Culleton by name at this stage, if the intimacy of this photo of his is anything to go by

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are our transport services for rail?

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feel compelled to email in regarding these transport services, especially since the announcement of fare increases.

I commute from Sallins and Naas to the IfSC every morning. In 2013, I used to take the 7.34am train but that was always late due to leaves on the track, especially this time of the year. Instead of addressing this, the time was changed to 7.38. Since then, this train is almost never on time. What’s going to happen next year? Will they improve the service or change the time again?

The trains are late and so full that there is only ever standing room for the customers getting on at this stop. Then we get to Heuston only to be squashed into the luas. The commute is ridiculously stressful.

I would like to openly challenge

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Mr Irish Rail, Mr Minister of Transport and Mr luas to do the same commute hundreds of customers do. Take the 7.38am train from Sallins and Naas to the IfSC for 8.30am, incognito and during a normal working day (no bank holiday weekend or school holiday).

And definitely not as a publicity stunt because then you and your party will just end up getting a carriage for yourself. Do this and justify asking us to pay for a lesser service. I hope other fellow commuters will agree with me and lend their voices to this. enough is enough!

Very Irate Commuter ■ Nelius Bresnan, I’m sorry Irish Water offended you by asking for your PPS number when, as you rightly say, you don’t need them for gas or electricity. Do you get a

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free gas and electricity allowance then? I don’t. Just wondering. Irish Water needs PPS numbers to ensure people don’t claim free water allowances for the 7,000 imaginary people they have living in their heads. I do not see what the big deal is, and from the way the Irish public are currently behaving about the whole thing, I’m not sure we deserve water at all!

Reasonable Irish Person ■ In parts of Asia, it’s an offence to show the soles of your shoes. On the Dart every day, there are ignoramuses who throw their foot up on their knee near other passengers, oblivious to the space invasion made by their dirty sole in others’ faces. Usually some self-important suited type. Some Asian manners would not go amiss here. N Force

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● Fair play to all the spooks, ghouls, vampires, witches and demons who lit up Dublin City on Friday and Saturday. I wish every day could be Halloween. You guys all had the fright stuff, in my professional opinion.

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● To the tropical redhead on the 8.07am Malahide train last Friday. I want to say to you that your soft green eyes took the winter chills out of my bones that morning. I sure hope the carpet matches the curtains...

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● A huge thank you to the doctor who saved me from that nasty Transylvanian man on Friday night. When I told him he sucked, he attacked me. You raised the stakes by saving my life. You bloody hero!

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The liberation of

Swift Amy Dawson talks to taylor Swift about her fun new album, on which she revisits the sounds of the 1980s

SWIFTY’S BFFs Forget boys, Swift is all about the ladies nowadays. ‘I’ve learned something from every single one of my girlfriends,’ she says.

‘It’s crazy to think that I didn’t used to have some of them in my life.’ But who are her faves?

Lena Dunham Writer, producer, director and star of HBO’s Girls, Dunham (bottom left) met Swift through Twitter. Her boyfriend is Jack Antanoff, who contributed to 1989.

Karlie Kloss Both in possession of ridiculously long limbs – and sharing a passion for baking cookies – the supermodel (bottom right) and Swift documented their US road trip together on Instagram.

Lorde The 17-year-old prodigy (bottom middle) called Swift too ‘flawless’ to be a role model, then the ever classy Swift sent her flowers when she hit No.1.

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y life is really sound big on synths, beats and layabnormal now,’ says ered vocals. Tracks such as Out Of Taylor Swift, curl- The Woods and Style (both, as far as ing herself into an we can gather, inspired by a certain armchair in a lon- One Directioner ex) are so ludicrously don hotel suite. ‘But i refuse to let catchy and boldly constructed that all this whole thing make me weird, other pop contenders should probably unapproachable and impossible to just pull the duvet over their heads and hibernate for the rest of the quarter. have a conversation with.’ ‘in late 1980s culture, there seemed Poised, self-deprecatingly funny and sweet, Swift isn’t any of those to be this air of endless potential, things – but she’s certainly racked up rebellion against the norm, risk-taking… i was really inspired by some fairly ‘abnormal’ achievethat,’ says Swift, discussments for someone who is ing the new only 24 years old. ne vibe. ‘My life has been filled A seven-time Gramwith a lot more my winner already, spontaneity and Swift’s smart songindependence writing flair has In late-1980s culture, in the past two won praise from there seemed to be years – and the likes of Neil an air of endless young and Stevie this album has those things Nicks. Her new, potential, rebellion infused into it, fifth album, 1989, against the norm, riskrather than it shot straight to taking… I was really being some kind No.1 on iTunes in inspired by that of heartbreak 80 countries and was record.’ so rabidly anticipated, record. indeed, although it’s she recently topped the become a lazy media fallCanadian charts with eight llseconds of accidentally released back to joke about the rate Swift supposedly gets through boyfriends, she white noise. featuring collaborations with Swed- claims she hasn’t even been on a ish supremo producer Max Martin, date in a year and a half. While there electronic songstress imogen Heap, are intensely personal, quasi-cryptic One Republic’s Ryan Tedder and songs about relationships on the fun’s Jack Antanoff, 1989 sees Swift album (this is a Swift record, after all) totally letting go of the country music the total anguish that ultimately with which she made her name in defined 2012’s brilliant but sonically favour of an epic late-1980s pop all-over-the-shop album um Red is gone.

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‘i just don’t think about it, i’m so busy loving everything else about my life,’ she says. ‘And it’s not some tragedy where i’ve put my heart on a shelf and i’m protecting it – i’m 24, i’m not in a rush.’ in fact – apart from idolising her cats, moving to New york on a whim and cutting her hair short – Swift seems to have spent much of the past two years learning not to give a monkey’s about what any of us might think.

‘Being willing to have a sense of humour about what people say about you, that’s a really liberating feeling,’ she says. ‘The only things i have control over are how i treat people, how hard i work, how much i challenge myself as an artist… everything else is

up for people’s interpretation. So i have to kind of let go.’ With that, my time with Swift is almost up. ‘i’m sorry i talked so much!’ she says, ‘but there is just one more thing i need to say…’ i’m intensely curious, wondering what nugget of gossip, wisdom or advice she’s about to impart. ‘Well, you sort of drew on your face,’ she continues, ‘and then you’ve somehow sort of rubbed it all over your forehead. Here, let me help you.’

Oh. Not quite what i was hoping for.

And now excuse me while i quietly die. But if there’s any global superstar it’s OK to embarrass yourself with, it’s Swift. As the girl herself sings – just Shake it Off.

Swift’s new album 1989 is out now.

Blank space is a version oF me ‘My song Blank Space is based on the sensationalised, fictionalised version of my personal life in the past couple of years – it’s been wild to watch. It used to hurt my feelings but then it started to amuse me. So many stories are written that supposedly comprise this picture of a person who’s crazy, a serial dater, over-emotional, writes songs for emotional revenge, r needy… I star started thinking: what would I write if I was w her? The joke isn’t as funny if I’ve I’ made it first.’

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1989 (BIG MachInE rEcordS/ VIrGIn EMI) ★★★★★

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ntil 2012’s critically vaunted Red – crammed with megahits but veering everywhere from banjo to piano ballad to dubstep – Swift was known mostly as a smart nashville cookie with a knack for writing catchy, confessional tunes. named after the year of her birth, this fifth album sees her embedding her trademark pithy couplets and ultra-personal narrative details into a bold new sonic framework of epic, late1980s-influenced synth pop.

Swift has teamed up once more with Swedish pop supremo Max Martin as executive producer and the record bears all the (welcome) signs of his polish but her ultimate creative control is obvious. lead single Shake it Off, with its jazzy brass stabs and empowering message, is a fun earworm but not hugely indicative of the rest of the album,

which tends towards deftly done but emotionally fraught, almost frenzied power-pop. the inconceivably catchy Blank Space sees Swift brilliantly inhabiting her media caricature – ‘got a long list of ex-lovers/they’ll tell you i’m insane’ – while Out Of the Woods is a feverish slice of synth-pop that looks at a relationship from a

Phoenix rises from the Ashes with aplomb Tim Wheeler: Lost Domain (Sony)

★★★✩✩ Solo outings are usually reserved for musicians wishing to try new things or simply to fill time between tours and releases. But this debut offering from Ash frontman Tim Wheeler was inspired by personal tragedy. Having tempered his solo ambitions in lieu of a 20-year career with the Northern Irish trio, it was his father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease and his eventual death that prompted Wheeler to finally go it alone.

Unsurprisingly then, Lost Domain represents a complete departure. The punchy punk-pop tunes of yore are gone, replaced with weighty atmospherics and a deep sense of

introspection as Wheeler grapples with the implications of such a tumultuous event. The first half sees him as the conductor of the orchestra, presiding over reflective moments which surge into gushing, string-laden crescendos.

It’s surprisingly accomplished and deeply autobiographical. It also packs an emotional wallop and on Hospital – the album’s poignant highpoint – it’s hard not to be moved by the sincerity of the delivery. With a weaker second half and a few bum notes it’s by no means perfect. But Wheeler hits more than he misses and ultimately delivers an album that feels both measured and cathartic.

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refreshingly unusual angle for a chart hit. Wildest Dreams is a wry lana Del Rayesque swoon, while Style is timelessly slick and sexy – and has an audacious giggle about its boy band celebrity subject matter (the clue’s in the title). the album ends in a restrained, complex and beautifully odd fashion with the imogen Heap collaboration Clean – which, although it mangles its metaphors something rotten, returns to one of the album’s main themes, of having come through something anguished with new strength.

Sharp, weird, earnest, droll, glossy and ambitious all at once – but, above all else, so undeniably catchy that temporary addiction would seem a real and present danger – Swifty’s fifth album surely crowns her the new Queen of the pop universe.

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THEOPHILUS LONDON

VIBES! (WarnEr BroS) ★★★★✩

Trinidad-born US rapper Theophilus London has certainly pulled some big names into his orbit of cool – his 2011 debut EP featured Solange Knowles and David Sitek, who was one of the producers on his first album. For his second, mentor Kanye West is executive producer, with Karl Lagerfeld responsible for the cover artwork. Mostly, London’s labeldodging approach justifies the hype, whether he’s tapping electro hip hop, Michael Jacksonindebted disco, contemporary R&B, synth-pop, dancehall/calypso or Diplo-styled electro house. It’s a feel-good fusion – not radical, but stylish and refreshing. Sharon O’Connell

ANNIE LENNOX

noSTaLGIa (ISLand) ★★★✩✩ It’s a brave artist who covers Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit, a song with a deeply terrible beauty that has passed into the revered canon of American blues. But Annie Lennox clearly doesn’t believe in sacred cows. Nostalgia draws mainly from the Great American Songbook of the 1930s-40s and also features Summertime and Georgia On My Mind, alongside the less familiar I Can Dream, Can’t I? It’s a classy and respectful set, the arrangements are sensitive and Lennox’s voice – muscular and soulfully resonant – is more than up to the job, but the exercise feels rather redundant. Those originals are hardly shabby. SO’C

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1 Micky Flanagan’s Detour De France The comedian saddles up

2 Modern Family Sophia Vergara is back in action

1. Micky Flanagan’s Detour De France

Sky 1, 9pm To be fair to comedian Micky Flanagan, he’s making no secret that this four-part comedy pedal through France is anything more than a jolly jolly. But his backside sends up distress signals when he and mate Noel hit the Paris to Roubaix road race – they quickly realise it’s a load of cobbles.

2. Modern Family

Sky1, 8pm Six seasons in and there are signs that this once fresh take on the unravelling nuclear family is chasing its own tail. There are still some sharp laughs, but with Cam and Mitchell married – the joke is that Cam is, three months on, still in loved-up honeymoon mode – the kids grown up and Phil and Claire in a marital rut, there’s a sense of déjà vu about this season opener

3. Trollied

Sky1, 8.30pm

It’s all change on the Valco shop floor as a trolley-load of new faces join the supermarket sitcom. Stephen Tompkinson is parked behind the pharmacy counter, Miriam Margolyes looks a picture in green overalls, while wise-cracking Jack Carroll from Britain’s Got Talent is stationed behind the tills. But, as ever, it’s sauce-box Colin (Carl Rice) who steals the show.

4. gareth’s All star Choir

BBC1, 9pm If you’ve ever nurtured a strange desire to hear Craig Revel Horwood, Jo Brand or Mel Giedroyc burst into song, then your dream has come true.

They are three of the ragbag dozen celebs being whipped into tuneful shape by eternally boyish choirmaster Gareth Malone to record this year’s Children In Need single.

The Auto-Tune will be earning its money, that’s all we’re saying.

5. Make Leicester British

Channel 4, 9pm Situated right in the heart of England, Leicester boasts one of the UK’s most ethnically diverse populations. So it’s the perfect choice for this follow-up to Make

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5 Make Leicester British Bringing ethnically diverse residents together

Gareth’s All Star Choir Mel Giedroyc tunes up for Children In Need

3 Trollied Colin (Carl Rice) gets a new lease of shelf life

YOUR gUiDE TO THis EvEning’s EssEnTiAL viEWing Bradford British, the show that brought British residents face to face with recent migrants in a bid to find common ground. Not surprisingly, UKIP’s Nigel Farage will not be appearing.

6. glue

E4, 10pm Writer Jack Thorne has set himself a daring challenge for the finale of this intriguing drama – it was set up as a murder mystery, but we (no spoilers!) found out who the killer was last week. Which means Thorne is more interested in the loose ends dangling around the close-knit group of young

characters caught up in the mystery. It’s a really sharp portrait of a generation adrift on a sea of broken promises.

7. The Fear

RTE2, 10.30pm The fabulous Jennifer Maguire and her gang of comedians – including Hilary Rose and Chris Tordoff – take on their usual variety of comedy characters to terrorise members of the public for the last time this series. Tonight they run amok at the National Ploughing Championships – much to the chagrin of the practitioners of the agricultural arts.

8. Tony O’Reilly: The Real Deal RTÉ1, 9.35pm

Now supplanted by one Denis O’Brien as the dominant figure in Irish media, this documentary charts the rise and fall of former Independent Group and Waterford Wedgwood boss Tony O’Reilly.

9. The irish Asylum seeker scandal TV3, 10pm

Coming over here, living in our manmade hell…. With the realisation slowly dawning that the direct provision system is a modern-day Magdalene Laundries in the making, another documentary pulls together

the evidence that asylum seekers living on €20 a week while they wait up to 12 years for a decision on their status is simply not humane.

10. Today’s Film: The Debt

Film4, 9pm A solid 2010 spy drama told in two time frames, 30 years apart, this tale of a botched undercover Israeli Nazi-hunting mission in 1960s Berlin offers the chance to imagine who you would cast as the young Helen Mirren. Step forward, Jessica Chastain. It’s not a bad fit.

With Sam Worthington and Tom Wilkinson.

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HEAR pAOLO nuTini HEAR MARTHA wAinwRigHT

The talented and irreverent Canadian-American folk-rock singer/songwriter – from the Wainwright and McGarrigle musical dynasty – promises a broad range of material, including tracks from 2012 album Come Home To Mama and covers from her late mum Kate’s stunning back catalogue. Support comes from Miriam Donohue.

Tonight & tomorrow, Whelan’s, 25 Wexford Street, D2, 8pm, €25.

Tel: 1890 200 078. www.whelanslive.com

The Paisley singer/songwriter, whose third album, Caustic Love, won rapturous reviews earlier this year, brings his slow-burning soul and jangly pop schtick to Dublin tonight. There will be screams.

Tonight, 3Arena, East Link Bridge, North Wall Quay, D1, 7.30pm, €44. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.paolonutini.com

SEE FRAnk BROwnE: A LiFE THROugH THE LEns

One of the most esteemed Irish photographers of the 20th Century, Fr Frank Browne is best known for the images he took of the Titanic prior to its doomed voyage across the Atlantic (he travelled on the first leg of its journey from Southampton to Cobh). To coincide with the publication of a new book on the Iconic: Robert Douglas Spedden priest from the Yale Univerplays aboard the Titanic sity Press, the Phoenix Park’s Farmleigh Gallery is hosting an exhibition of his work, featuring not only his celebrated Titanic shots, but images from his time in Ireland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Spain and Egypt.

Until Dec 23, Farmleigh Gallery, Farmleigh, Castleknock, D15, Tue to Sun, 10am to 5pm, free. www.farmleighgallery.ie

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TO-DO LisT HEAR cARiBOu

Combining musical nous with a PhD education, Ontario-born Dan Snaith’s early life in music was not without its bumps. Forced to abandon his original moniker, Manitoba, in 2004 thanks to l some resoundingly preposterous lega ed wranglings, Snaith regroup

ks impressively as Caribou. He’ll play trac LP, Love Our llent exce ’s from this year which includes single Can’t Do Without You, surely one of the most dizzyingly life-affirming, dangerously infectious electronic dance tracks of 2014.

Wed, Vicar Street, 58-59 Thomas Street, D8, 8pm, €26. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.vicarstreet.ie

BOOK siMpLy RED SEE OMiD DjALiLi

Following a successful foray into acting (he took the Best Actor gong for his performance in The Infidel at the Turin Film Festival), satirical British-Iranian stand-up Omid Djalili is back on the road with his catchily-titled Iranalamadingdong tour.

Tomorrow, Olympia Theatre, 72 Dame Street, D2, 8pm, €27.

Tel: 0818 719 300. www.mcd.ie

To mark their 30th anniversary, Mick Hucknall and Co bring their

evergreen pop hits to the 3Arena next month – Holding Back The Years and Money’s Too Tight To Mention chief among them.

SEE OF MicE AnD MEn

John Steinbeck’s novella, about the migration of two Depression-era farmers, is this month’s presentation in National Theatre Live, the IFI’s series of screenings of plays from the world’s most prestigious theatres. In this Broadway revival, Lennie – the lumbering Goliath with the mind of a child – is played by Chris O’Dowd and his acerbic guardian George by James Franco. But it’s Steinbeck’s shocking climax that really lingers in the memory.

Thu, IFI, 6 Eustace Street, D2, 7.15pm, €15.

Tel: (01) 679 3477. www.ifi.ie

Dec 01, 3Arena, East Link Bridge, North Wall Quay, D1, 7.30pm, €54.65/€65.50. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.simplyred.com

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Best of enemies: Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Andrew Scott as Moriarty

Jobs Jobs&Courses Don’t let job Employment stress is an unfortunate way of life for many workers today. Metro Herald takes a look at how best to combat it We All experience stress now and again. Short bursts of stress can lead to an adrenaline rush, and actually improve performance. But prolonged stress can have negative effects, both physical and mental, on wellbeing.

A constant state of stress can lead to emotional, mental and physical exhaustion, or, in other words, burnout.

Incidents of workplace stress and

Moriarty grips the imagination

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he big reveal of Anthony horowitz’s new Sherlock holmes novel, Moriarty, is such a game-changer that it’s almost impossible to talk about the book without giving it all away. ‘ha!’ says horowitz gleefully. ‘You could perhaps describe it as… no, that’s not going to work. Or… no, better not say that either. Oh dear.’ horowitz, creator of Foyle’s War and the Alex Rider YA espionage series, is no stranger to the murderous world of Sherlock holmes. he wrote the first officially sanctioned new holmes novel, The house Of Silk, in 2011.

Yet when the Conan Doyle estate suggested he write a second one, he decided to change tack a little bit.

‘No fun in repeating myself,’ he says. ‘So i hit on the idea of writing about Moriarty. We know so little about him – he appears in just one story and is mentioned in only a few more. And yet he really has such a grip on the public imagination.’

Moriarty the novel opens with the sentence: ‘Does anyone really believe what happened at the Reichenbach Falls?’ An increasingly lethal game of cat and mouse follows, culminating in a great showdown in the lost vaults located down in the depths of Smithfield meat market. ‘i do play fair with the reader,’ says horowitz, defending the cloakand-dagger machinations of his fearsomely clever – and at times rather violent plot.

‘The trick is to stay as faithful as possible to D o y l e ’s original Art of intrigue: Anthony Horowitz vision

Anthony Horowitz shifts focus from Sherlock to his nemesis in his latest tome. By Claire Allfree of a character. i couldn’t go round suggesting that holmes is gay, for example. That’s not playing by the rules.’

Moriarty is just the latest addition to the trend for modern authors revisiting wholly classic novels. As well as Sophie hannah’s hercule Poirot mystery, The Monogram Murders, there have also been new takes on Jane Austen by Alexander McCall Smith and Val McDermid.

Sherlock’s particular cultural mythology, however, is a special case in point: benedict Cumberbatch has revitalised him for a new generation for the bbC, while the Museum of London has even opened a new exhibition devoted to the iconic detective and Conan Doyle’s London.

‘Doyle didn’t just write detective novels, his stories are full of horror and madness,’ adds horowitz. ‘They are more like hallucinations.

Much of what we think about Victorian London we actually get from Doyle.’ horowitz has always been drawn to the macabre and the sensational in his fiction. As well as Doyle, he admires John buchan and ian Fleming.

The latter was a huge influence on the Alex Rider novels and horowitz is the latest writer signed up to produce the new James bond novel, about which he’s tight-lipped.

Such is his obsession with intrigue and espionage, he has built a secret room into his Clerkenwell flat.

‘The constant in my life has been a love for magic, illusion and surprise,’ he says. ‘i grew up in Stanmore and thought it was London’s most boring suburb. Reading Conan Doyle made me realise it didn’t have to be.’

Moriarty (Orion) is out on Thursday.

WORk LifE BLEnD

ThE naTurE of employment has changed in recent years. advances in technology mean we are always tuned in to work, and, more so than ever, work and personal lives blend.

We answer emails in the evening, read reports during our commute, and take work calls on holidays.

While the 24/7 nature of business may contribute to some people’s stress, it is not the sole cause of increased stress levels. according to Linda Davis, managing director of next Generation recruitment, there are many, varied stressors, including heavy workload, long hours, bad management practices, conflict with colleagues or management, and the threat of job loss or redundancy, to identify just a few.

burnout are increasing worldwide. In fact, a leading doctor in the UK has recommended that a four-day working week be introduced to combat stress.

He claims that working too many hours can cause excess anxiety, drive people to alcohol, and cause relationship problems. A four-day week would allow people to spend time with their families, enjoy their lives, and be able to exercise more.

A ground-breaking trade union agreement in France, introduced earlier this year, means workers in the technology and consultancy sectors, including the French arms of Google, Facebook and Deloitte, no longer have to check work emails after 6pm.

‘Work-related stress arises where a person feels they cannot cope with the demands placed on them, and it appears more common these days.

In the last five years, with added financial worries, and fears for job security, both employees and employers are more vulnerable to issues around prolonged stress,’ Davis says.

Some of the more common indicators of stress are anxiety, depression, lack of concentration, disinterest, and feelings of anger and frustration. Physical symptoms include headaches, fatigue, and sleeping difficulties.

For those suffering from constant stress, or feeling they may be at risk of burnout, there are steps that can be taken, career experts at next Generation recruitment say.

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stress get you down: take action Organise & PriOritise When people are burnt out, they often worry that they will forget to do something, and feel they will never get on top of everything. Make a list of tasks, and prioritise according to importance. Crossing items off a to-do list generates a feeling of control, and reduces stress.

The most important message, according to recruitment experts next Meltdown: Work stress can hit health

switch Off ALThouGh there are great advantages to communications technology, it can mean that work stress follows us home, and impinges on ‘down-time’. If necessary, designate a brief time period to check email, but stick to it. Constantly checking email is stressful and counter-productive.

Generation, is that individuals need to acknowledge that they are stressed and may not be coping, and that they need to seek out help and support.

‘Most large organisations have policies and practices in place to make it easier for someone dealing with constant stress to get the help they need. Many hold group workshops, teaching staff how to identify and manage stress. Confidential counselling services can also be available for those who feel they need to talk to someone who is impartial, and, obviously, a visit to the GP also makes great sense for anyone under pressure,’ says next Generation’s Linda Davis.

Workplace stress is a regular occurrence these days, but provision of services is also more common too.

Suffering in silence is not a solution, so whether it is friends or family, or the local GP, those concerned about work and their ability to cope must speak up.

GET ExERcisE

it may sound like a cliché, but exercise is great to reduce stress levels. Physical activity releases endorphins, which are

a natural feel-good hormone that helps improve mood. exercise also helps minimise sleep disruption, which is both a symptom and a cause of stress.

Next Generation Recruitment is a Dublinbased consultancy specialising in IT, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain and Procurement roles, with national and international recruitment divisions. For more information on jobs, workplace advice, or to register with Next Generation Recruitment, see www.nextgeneration.ie or follow @NextGenRecruit

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NEMI by Lise

Aries Mar 21 – Apr 20

Today and tomorrow can see you benefit from the ongoing benefits of Mercury’s tie-up with Jupiter. This may have already started to permeate its way into your life, and it can be a partnership which you are set to thrive upon.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 70

Taurus Apr 21 – May 21

With the focus these days very much on consumerism, today gives you a great opportunity to buck this trend and do something thoughtful. In itself this may not be a big deal, but you’re saying something important about your approach to life.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 71

METROKU Easy, Moderate and Challenging

Gemini May 22 – Jun 21

You may be lucky enough to work in a job that enables you to demonstrate flair. If so, do try to use your imagination. If not, commit to doing something in your spare time later.

Even a simple hobby could give you a great deal of satisfaction.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 72

cancer Jun 22 – Jul 23

The sun’s angle to Pluto which runs on until Thursday, creates a time that can see you feel very much more in control of your own destiny. This may find you delving deep down inside of yourself or linking up with someone.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 73

Leo Jul 24 – Aug 23

If there is any area of your life which is not running as smoothly as you’d like, this would be a fine time to address this. You may also think more about your health, and look to make some key changes.

PEARLs BEFORE swINE

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Virgo Aug 24 – Sep 23

You’re set to become much more conscious of the need to find outlets for the things you believe. Elements of life, which seem more superficial, can lose their sparkle as you search for greater meaning.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 75

Libra Sep 24 – Oct 23

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Stage furnishings (5) Artist (7) Praise insincerely (7) Bewitch (5) Large jug (4) Rider (8) Merit (4) Impure (4) Hand over (8) Joy (4) Semi-precious stone (5) Colossal (7) Builder (7) Squeeze (5)

DOWN 1 Discriminate (13) 2 Pursue (5) 3 Roster (4) 4 Rector (6) 5 Cut (8) 6 Obstruct (7) 7 Recollections (13) 12 Expectation (8) 13 Issue (7) 15 Epistle (6) 18 Spear (5) 19 Halt (4)

Solutions to previous puzzle: Across: 3 Spectator; 8 Norm; 9 Accoutred; 10 Intact; 11 Penal; 14 Niche; 15 Lame; 16 Deter; 18 Thor; 20 Eager; 21 Reach; 24 Decant; 25 Bilateral; 26 Slur; 27 Blandness. Down: 1 Indignity; 2 Protector; 4 Pact; 5 Close; 6 Astral; 7 Over; 9 Acted; 11 Patch; 12 Laughable; 13 Territory; 17 Repel; 19 Remain; 22 Clean; 23 Bill; 24 Dais.

scorpio Oct 24 – Nov 22

The most passionate side of your nature is aroused in a way which can enable you to enthuse and motivate those around you. While it’s true that you do need to avoid being too evangelical, don’t hold back from linking dynamically with those you interact with.

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sagittarius Nov 23 – Dec 21

Jupiter continues to forge that sparkling alliance with Mercury, and it’s true this has probably been filling you with lots of positivity about expanding various parts of your social life. Yet, who with, might surprise.

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capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 20

Your application to projects over the long-term are key attributes. Of course, like everyone, when results don’t come so easily, at times you become frustrated. But the next few days give you a real opportunity to savour breakthroughs, and see how far you’ve come.

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Aquarius Jan 21 – Feb 19

We all know that we are on a journey in life, but sometimes we have different companions along the way.

Pleasingly for you, currently one person seems to be the perfect foil for your talents and skills.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 80

Pisces Feb 20 – Mar 20

The week begins with the moon in your zodiac sign giving you an added intuitive edge. Yet, it’s also going to be important to retain objectivity, and not get swept off course by wishful thinking or become overwhelmed by too many possibilities.

For your forecast, call 15609 114 81

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ENIGMA Long of snout and tail and ears, Here’s a beast that each ant fears.

Its name is Afrikaans, I’ve heard, For ‘earth pig’ – what’s the English word?

WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN?

WHO AM I? A footballer, I was born in 1981. I joined Chelsea from West Ham in 2003. I scored both England’s goals in the 2010 World Cup qualifier against Andorra.

WHERE... is the African republic that was known as Nyasaland?

WHO... was the first Christian martyr?

WHAT... economic phenomenon may be cost-push or demandpull?

WHEN... in World War II did Donald Bailey invent the Bailey Bridge?

QUIZ ANSWERS: ENIGMA: Aardvark. WHO AM I? Joe Cole. WHO, WHAT, WHERE & WHEN? St Stephen; Inflation; Malawi; 1941..

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Finally, after seemingly months of struggle, the stars conspire positively

to help you around property, family and emotional issues. Ok, you might not get everything you want, because few of us do, but the chances are you can feel better.

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Point advantage for Hamilton over Rosberg in the driver’s standings with two races to go

Big bad Dom: Dominic Ryan touched down twice against Edinburgh Texas hold-em: Hamilton beat Rosberg yet again

Lewis proves he’s an Austin maestro by jOn HARvEy

LEWIS HAMILTON won his fifth consecutive race as he overtook Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg to win the United States Grand Prix and extend his championship lead.

Rosberg had qualified on pole but Hamilton bided his time and on lap 24, he nipped into the German’s slipstream and used his DRS to pull alongChain reaction: Hamilton side and

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‘The contract expired and I’m going to be doing something different. I don’t know what yet, but I’ll decide at the end of the year.’

Lewis Hamilton confirms he will part company with Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment management company at the end of the current season.

pass. The 29-year-old dominated the rest of the race to finish four seconds ahead of Rosberg, while Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo was a distant third.

Hamilton’s 32nd career victory not only saw him go 24 points ahead of Rosberg, with just two grands prix left in the season, but he now also

holds the outright record for most wins by a British driver.

Williams pair Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas finished fourth and fifth, respectively, while Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was sixth.

McLaren’s Jenson Button failed to finish in the points, ending 12th, after some late technical issues.

Kellock wary of six nations future state WORLD rugby chiefs have been warned by former Scotland captain Alastair Kellock not to abandon the traditions of Six Nations rugby as they look to stage more matches in the USA. The Glasgow lock (pictured) – overlooked for his country’s autumn campaign – in a thrilling 40-36 Twickenham defeat to Australia on Saturday.

Having showed his class as the Baa-Baas pushed the

Wallabies to the limit, Kellock offered words of caution to International Rugby Board chief executive Brett Gosper. After Saturday’s Chicago sell-out saw New Zealand beat the USA, Gosper claimed having Six Nations action staged in America would be ‘terrific’ for the sport.

Kellock said: ‘The game is becoming more commercial and getting more viewers in from all over the world,

which is great.

‘The history and the tradition of playing Six Nations matches at the Millennium Stadium or Murrayfield, to give just two examples, is also very strong.

‘We need to remember the history and tradition of our game, and that’s what we showed against Australia.

‘It’s brilliant the All Blacks went to America but we can’t get ahead of ourselves with this.’

RyAnO’s cHARgE bRings pOwER AnD ATTAcking THREAT bAck TO LEinsTER

WITH the first semester in the bag, it’s time to review where Leinster are headed for the rest of the campaign, and despite the arrival of twomarquee foreign signings it’s been a home-grown talent who has stolen the spotlight.

Dominic Ryan burst on to the senior stage for Leinster at the age of 20 and it seems like he has been waiting forever to cash in on that first impression made during Joe Schmidt’s first season. Injuries have stuttered his development but now at the age of 24 he has been Leinster’s player of the season so far.

Only Jimmy Gopperth and Ian Madigan have played more minutes than Ryan, who has started eight of Leinster’s nine games and carried on developing as a leader after captaining Emerging Ireland during the summer.

Stationed at openside thanks to an injury to Shane Jennings, the Dubliner has been able to stamp his authority in a back row that is finally getting the best out of Ryan and his good friend Rhys Ruddock. Ryan’s physicality in the tackle has been obvious since his schooldays with Gonzaga and continuing to do that at the professional level has required a bit of adaptation, but he is fast becoming Leinster’s enforcer.

He’s also rediscovered his knack for scoring tries. Ryan

610 minutes in eight games played by Dominic Ryan this season. crossed over twice against Edinburgh last Friday night where much of the focus was on Ben Te’o (the ex-NRL star signing is out for six weeks after surgery on a broken arm) and it invokes memories of his breakthrough year in 2010/11 when he found the tryline five times.

Alongside him in the back row, Jack Conan is quietly starting to fit in as a regular member of the first-team squad and he also found his way to the tryline against Edinburgh.

Conan is a born No.8, and in terms of having a true understudy to Jamie Heaslip the 22-year-old looks like the real deal. Powerfully built at 6ft 4in, Conan has played five times so far this season. With Sean O’Brien still on the mend, we expect him to hit double figures by Christmas.

As for Leinster themselves, a return of six wins from nine is highlighted by two tough wins in the Champions Cup. We’re still no wiser as to who will be the long-term future for the province in midfield, particularly at outside centre, while Madigan remains highly regarded despite his role still being an ambiguous one.

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JAMes ToMKIns admits it was important for West ham to back up their impressive win over Manchester city by avoiding defeat at stoke on saturday.

The hammers underlined their fine start to the season by beating the champions at home last week, but that victory looked set to be quickly forgotten as they went 2-0 down at the Britannia stadium. however, goals from enner Valencia and stewart downing (pictured) earned a point, much to the delight of defender Tomkins. ‘like the gaffer said before the

Long wait over: Fagan kisses the FAI Ford Cup pictures: inpho

Delight: St Pat’s Christy Fagan celebrates at the final whistle

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by PAuL buTTnER A second-hAlf double from christy fagan ended a lifetime of heartache for st Patrick’s Athletic as the Inchicore side finally lifted the fAI cup again after a wait of 53 years.

Before a crowd of 17,038 at the Aviva stadium, st Pat’s were the better side throughout as they deservedly won the Blue Riband in their eighth final since last doing so in 1961. st Pat’s victory was also good news for dublin rivals shamrock Rovers as it means their fourth-place league finish gives the Tallaght side a europa league spot.

Reflecting a corner count of four to nil, st. Pat’s dominated possession in what was generally a poor spectacle of a first half. derry’s Ger doherty was the busier keeper making the stop of the half from fagan on eight minutes. The candystripes failed to clear a Killian Brennan free kick into their area with fagan’s first effort parried by doherty before the striker drove the rebound wide.

In perhaps the chance of the half on 39 minutes, fagan was inches wide of the far upright with a low left-foot shot as derry didn’t defend a Brennan corner.

All that was forgotten within

six minutes of the second half when fagan put st Pat’s deservedly ahead.

Brennan and conan Byrne combined to put Keith fahey away on the right. fagan controlled the pullback before spinning and shooting in off the post, with the help of a slight deflection.

In response, derry striker Rory Patterson blazed a volley over the top six minutes later.

But it should have been 2-0 on 63 minutes in a swift st Pat’s counter. fahey ran some 40 yards, picking out fagan with a sublime diagonal ball, only for the st Pat’s number 9 to side-foot tamely wide. chasing the game, derry carved out their best chance on 71 minutes. stephen dooley’s run and cross found Philip lowry in the area to set up substitute Barry Mcnamee whose weak shot was easy for Brendan clarke.

Patterson was then just over the bar with a header from Michael duffy’s cross as st Pat’s were having to defend well.

That was as good as it got for derry, though, as they were caught with a sucker punch in the third minute of stoppage time. Barry Molloy looked set to tidy up sean hoare’s clearing header from the other end. But the derry skipper miss-kicked to allow fagan in to shoot past doherty for his 27th goal of the season to send the saints’ faithful behind the goal delirious.

Derry City: Doherty, Ventre, Barry, McBride (B McNamee, 65), Jarvis, Dooley, Lowry, Molloy, Duffy, P McEleney (Houston, 90+2), Patterson.

St. Patrick’s Athletic: Clarke, O’Brien (McCormack, 80), Hoare, Browne, Bermingham, Bolger; Byrne, Fahey (Chambers 90+4), Brennan, Forrester (Fitzgerald, 90+2), Fagan.

Referee: Padraigh Sutton (Clare).

game, you can’t beat Manchester city then go to stoke city, no disrespect to them, and leave with a bad taste in the mouth,’ he said.

‘It was important to come here and get a result. That’s our bread and butter, so to come here and do that is great.’ centre-half Tomkins was an early replacement for Winston Reid and was delighted to play his part in another positive result.

‘It’s nice to come away from here not losing,’ added Tomkins. ‘We’re on a good run at the moment and it’s important not to lose games.’

All square: Downing after equaliser

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by Richard Hookham SUPER-SUB Harry Kane fired an injury-time winner as Tottenham came from behind to sink ten-man Villa.

Kane’s deflected free-kick secured all three points after Nacer Chadli had equalised in the 84th minute of an ill-tempered clash at Villa Park.

Tottenham cashed in after Christian Benteke was sent off in the second half for clashing with Ryan Mason.

Andreas Weimann had opened the scoring when he bagged Villa’s first goal in 547 minutes. But the hosts were unable to hold on and slumped to a sixth-straight league defeat.

And victory eased the pressure on Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino whose side had only won once in

Flashpoint: Benteke was red-carded after clashing with Tottenham players their previous seven league games.

Villa broke their drought in the 16th minute when Charles N’Zogbia’s cross was steered in by Weimann.

Emmanuel Adebayor missed a golden chance for Spurs on 27 minutes when put clean through by Roberto Soldado, but his low effort was turned wide by Brad Guzan.

Pochettino replaced Adebayor with Kane as Spurs sought a leveller. Jan Vertonghen was booked for a two-

footed challenge on Ashley Westwood before Benteke clashed with Erik Lamela and Mason, shoving the latter in the face to earn him a straight red.

Tottenham took advantge by equalising with six minutes left when Chadli ghosted in to force home Lamela’s corner at the far post.

And they snatched a dramatic victory in the 90th minute when Kane’s 20-yard free kick deflected off Nathan Baker to wrong-foot Guzan.

Lucky break: Kane wheels away in delight after his late free-kick sinks Villa

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League goal for Harry Kane, adding to seven in the Europa League and League Cup.

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smalling gives City a Chris of life CHRIS SMALLING was branded ‘stupid’ by Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal after his red card helped rivals City put a miserable week behind them to claim derby-day bragging rights again.

Sergio Aguero scored the only goal in the 63rd minute but by then City’s task had been made easier

by Smalling’s two yellow cards in eight minutes before half-time.

Referee Michael Oliver showed the first for blocking Joe Hart’s attempt to kick the ball downfield from his hands. And, when Smalling slid in on James Milner (below), the second was inevitable.

Van Gaal had stressed the importance of keeping 11 players on the pitch before the game against a side beaten in their last two games.

And the Dutchman didn’t hold back in criticising the England defender after City’s sixth win in the last seven Manchester derbies in the Premier League.

‘In a derby you have to be careful,’ he said. ‘The second yellow card is a stupid yellow card.

‘As a player you have to control your aggression. I didn’t see the first but with the second, you know you already have a yellow, so have to handle it differently.

‘What he has done with the second,’ added Van Gaal, who last week called Robin van Persie ‘stupid,’ ‘that is not very smart.’

The hosts had three penalty

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by john payne shouts turned down for challenges on Aguero and the red card led to wave after wave of City attacks.

The visitors’ resistance was finally broken when Aguero turned home Gael Clichy’s cross.

But City looked nervous towards the end and were relieved when Wayne Rooney passed after he had broken through, while Marouane Fellaini and Van Persie missed good chances to level.

However, to add to United’s defensive woes, Marcos Rojo will join Phil Jones and Jonny Evans in the treatment room this week after he dislocated his shoulder in the second half.

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The FA will study referee’s report bethe fo deciding wheth re Marouane Fellainier will face action for spitting.

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Clinical: Aguero slots home the winner at the Etihad yesterday

we are very close [to the top teams in the league].

We were very close against Chelsea and we were today, but we have to make steps to improve.’

and for a minute the league and everything else doesn’t matter.

Winning this game gives us an edge in our city, again, and the rest is a boost for us.’

Pound of silence as Chelsea urged to cut prices TICKET prices have been blamed for the lack of atmosphere Jose Mourinho complained about at Chelsea on Saturday, according to a Blues fans’ representative.

The Chelsea boss (pictured) said his team’s 2-1 win over QPR felt like ‘playing in an empty stadium’.

Chelsea Supporters’ Trust chair Tim Rolls said: ‘We have got a situation at Chelsea and at other grounds where the atmosphere

Tough call: Irvine

isn’t as good as it used to be. But there are clear reasons for that around the age of the supporter base. It’s £50-plus to go, and young people – who are the most likely to sing and make noise – have been priced out of the game.’

The cheapest general-sale adult tickets for the QPR game were £46, going up to a top price of £75, with the cheapest general sale tickets for under-18s priced at £18. Rolls

alaN irviNe believes West Brom’s 1-0 victory at leicester vindicated his decision to rest ten players for the Baggies’ capital one cup defeat to Bournemouth in midweek.

West Brom were beaten 2-1 by the championship side last Tuesday but bounced back to claim a valuable three points at the King power Stadium thanks to esteban cambiasso’s secondhalf own-goal. irvine underlined his priority is the club’s top-flight status, rather than cup success. ‘i’m not satisfied with what happened on Tuesday, i’m still hurting about that,’ he said. ‘But the fact is if we had played the same team at Bournemouth [and] perhaps [gone to] extra-time, we would have been risking problems against leicester. Had we lost here i still would have felt it was the right decision.’

THEy sAiD iT ‘There were a few cheers – I think it’s the draw everyone wanted. I think everyone misses the rivalry.’

van gaal...on claims ...on united’s progress vincent kompany ‘A derby win is massive ‘In spite of all the injuries fellaini spat at aguero ‘The TV has shown he is shouting and sometimes when you shout there’s a little bit of saliva [that comes out] with it. I don’t think that he’s a spitting figure.’

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Premier League red cards for United in as many matches against City.

The only team they have had more sendings off against are Liverpool, with nine.

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added: ‘It would be good to have a 16-25 section with reduced prices where people are actively encouraged to sing.’

Rolls also felt the introduction of safe standing might help.

‘We did a survey of our members, 96 per cent thought that safe standing should be introduced to Stamford Bridge but it’s a wider issue than just Chelsea, it’s not going to happen overnight,’ he said.

Celtic striker Anthony Stokes after the Hoops were drawn against Old Firm rivals Rangers in the Scottish League Cup – they have not played since April 2012, just months before Rangers went into liquidation

Bale on the circuit

GareTH Bale returned to training with his real Madrid teammates yesterday ahead of tomorrow’s champions league tie with liverpool. Bale (pictured) has missed all five of Madrid’s matches since the international break with a glute muscle injury. However, Madrid said he completed ‘demanding dribbling, passing and shooting circuits’ in a training session yesterday.

Lippi calls it quits Marcello lippi has retired from management after leading Guangzhou evergrande to a third successive chinese league title. ‘i’m too old,’ said the italian, 66, who will become the club’s technical director. lippi won the 2006 World cup with italy and the champions league with Juventus.

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pADDy’s DAy COMEs EARLy As sAinTs fEAsT On Cup win ST PATrICK’S ATHlETIC boss liam Buckley said he simply knew that the club’s 53-year FAI Cup hoodoo would end at the Aviva Stadium yesterday.

Christy Fagan scored twice in the second half to give St Pat’s a 2-0 win over derry City and see the Inchicore club finally lift the Blue riband again for the first time since 1961.

‘We believed we were going to win,’ said Buckley. ‘Before the game we spoke about our performance last week in Sligo and playing particularly well up there.

‘If we repeated anything near that I felt we were going to have a real chance of winning. We were just below that, but I still felt we did enough to win.’

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n Aguero strike n Ten-man United enough for fourth slump to worst straight derby win start since 1986 CITy uNdErlINEd their status as kings of Manchester after united’s Chris Smalling handed them three points on a plate with two moments of madness.

Sergio Aguero scored his 12th goal of the season to hand Manchester City a 1-0 victory over their bitter rivals, but their task was made a lot easier thanks to Smalling’s dismissal (below) for two silly first-half fouls at the Etihad Stadium.

The victory means City have now won four Manchester derbies on the bounce – something they had not achieved for 44 years.

It had been suggested the hosts’ recent poor form meant they no longer boast-

Fagan put St Pat’s deservedly ahead on 51 minutes before punishing a mistake by derry captain Barry Molloy to add the second goal three minutes into added time.

‘We spoke about Christy getting chances and, in fairness to him, he’s got plenty this season and he’s got his just rewards. He was topscorer in the league and to get a couple of goals in the cup final is what dreams are made of.’

The game itself wasn’t the greatest spectacle. But that didn’t bother matchwinner Fagan. ‘We would have taken any kind of win as long as we got our hands on the cup,’ said Fagan.

Serging forward: Aguero celebrates scoring City’s winner against United

by gAvin bROwn ed the same level of supremacy over united they had enjoyed since owner Sheikh Mansour started pumping cash into the club.

But this result, which puts the champions seven points ahead of their cross-city rivals in the table, and condemned louis van Gaal’s united to their worst start to a league campaign since the end of ron Atkinson’s reign in 1986, suggests otherwise.

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Poch hails super-sub Kane as Spurs rise TOTTENHAM boss Mauricio Pochettino praised match-winner Harry Kane after he earned Spurs a late 2-1 win at Aston Villa.

Kane was named on the bench despite his seven goals in cup competitions. And, after entering the fray with just over half an hour left, the 21-year-

old (above) scored with a deflected last-minute free-kick to lift Spurs to within three points of the top four.

Pochettino said: ‘We are really happy with him because in every competition he has scored, his display was good and the three points are very important for us.

‘In football it’s all about the emotional state and Harry had confidence and took the ball [for the freekick] and scored.’