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landlord fined €56,000 for 10 unregistered flats

A LANDLORD who was renting out ten properties on the same road, including eight flats, has been fined €55,750 for not registering them after he repeatedly ignored warning letters, and didn’t show up for court.

The Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) issued proceedings against John Maguire Jnr after he failed to respond to four separate warning letters.

The landlord, of Moneynamuck, Galmoy, Co Kilkenny, had tenancies at 21 and 23 North Circular Road, Dublin 7, as well as flats 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 at 35 North Circular Road which he hadn’t registered.

Convicting him in his absence, District Court judge John O’Neill said Maguire had been given ‘ample notice’ of his obligations and was aware of the consequences of not dealing with the matter.

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A PRTB officer told the court the tenancies have still not been registered and that the cost of registering a tenancy on time was €90 and the late registration fee was €180 per instance.

Maguire was fined €2,500 plus the same in legal costs for each tenancy, bringing the total in fines and costs to €55,750.

Landlords, if convicted under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 for failing to comply with a notice, can face a maximum fine of up to €4,000 and/or six months in jail, along with a daily fine of €250 for a continuing offence.

The case will no doubt be a warning to rogue and ‘accidental’ landlords who are renting properties ‘off the books’, and the PRTB said it would be taking similar prosecutions.

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Thursday, November 6, 2014 METRO HERALD

Brad Pitt’s abs put us off showbiz life, says Oliver

Cumberbatch is off the market BeNeDiCT CUMBeRBaTCH’S announcement that he is to marry theatre director Sophie Hunter has gone down well with his future in-laws.

His 36-year-old fiancée’s mother Katharine said: ‘We’re The happy couple: Benedict and Sophie just really happy for them. it’s a fabulous day.’

The Sherlock star, 38, made the engagement official with a newspaper notice yesterday.

However, some of his female fans were not so impressed.

‘Cumberbatch is engaged, i have nothing left to live for.

Goodbye world,’ one tweeted.

Driving force: Jamie and Jools Oliver shun the limelight Pictures: Jonty Davies/reD JAMIE OLIVER and his wife Jools were put off rubbing shoulders with A-listers after Brad Pitt flashed his abs during a dinner date.

Mother-of-four Jools said Pitt’s posing – while hubby Jamie cooked for Brad and his showbiz pals – was too much to stomach.

‘Jamie was doing the dinner, so I had to sit and socialise with Brad and Rachel and Monica [referring to Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox as their Friends characters],’ she said.

‘I was so embarrassed, I didn’t know what to say.

‘Brad had just done Troy and was taking his top off to show me his abs.

‘From that moment on I just kind of took a step back from it all, it was all

Showing ng off: Brad Pitt flaunted his muscles to the Olivers

by ANDREI HARMSWORTH too much.’ In fact the only celeb schmoozing she does these days is loitering outside Harry Styles’ house... for her daughter’s sake.

‘I don’t go to anything. I’m not interested in film premieres or parties, I just like being with my family and old friends,’ she told Red magazine.

‘Unless it’s One Direction... I once took Daisy to sit outside [Harry’s] house after school.

‘We sat there for ages in the car and got really excited when he came out.’

Despite 39-year-old chef Oliver’s hectic schedule opening restaurants and campaigning for healthy school dinners in the UK, Jools is keen to match Brad and Angelina’s king-size family with six kids.

‘Well, it would be amazing to have twins,’ said the 36-year-old, who is mum to Poppy, 12, Daisy Boo, 11, Petal Blossom, five, and four year-old Buddy Bear.

‘I’d like Jamie to work less, but I’m used to it... And to be honest, if I want to know what he’s up to I can just look at his Instagram.’

The full interview will appear in the December issue of Red, which goes on sale tomorrow

Pippa lands TV role in America

Revealing: Jamie and Jools Oliver open up about their private life in Red

PiPPa MiDDleToN is on the brink of landing a career as a TV news reporter in the US. The sister of england’s Duchess of Cambridge will become a correspondent on Today on america’s NBC network, according to reports.

Ms Middleton (pictured) has already been dispatched for a trial run of her skills with the aim of being handed a permanent gig.

‘Today has been doing a test piece with Pippa in Utah, and if it works out well – and it looks like it will – they will hire her as a correspondent,’ a source told The New York Post’s Page Six feature.

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Concern at rise in sex trafficking EighTy-ThrEE women supported by an agency working with prostitutes last year were trafficked to ireland. ruhama, which began 25 years ago offering outreach services to street-based sex workers, said the number of people illegally brought here to work as prostitutes increased by 17 per cent in 2013.

The charity said it has assisted 2,500 women from 60 countries since 1989. More than 300 were given direct support in the last year. ruhama said the number of women accessing support in 2013 increased by 18 per cent. it also said 219 women were given specific care plans.

Third day of disruption to rail users

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city cyclists demand Garda clampdown on bike theft DUBLIN Cycling Campaign is calling for an increase in secure bicycle parking throughout the city after more than 4,500 bikes were stolen in Dublin last year.

While that is the official Central Statistics Office figure, campaigners believe that the actual number is much higher as many go unreported. It is also looking for tighter controls on the online selling of second-hand bikes.

Campaign researcher David Timony

said: ‘We need a multi-pronged approach, a massive increase in secure bicycle parking throughout the city and more action by the Gardaí to detect and deter bicycle theft.

‘A tighter code of practice for buyers and sellers of second-hand bikes online is also needed, as is more responsibility by cyclists in buying better locks, not buying second-hand stolen bikes and always reporting stolen bikes to the Gardaí.’

Dublin Cycling Campaign (DCC) is also calling on the Department of Transport to set up a co-ordinating body to tackle bike theft.

It said that a ‘standard city-type bicycle costs upwards of €700 to replace’ and said that Gardaí are not taking this type of crime seriously.

Mike McMillan, from DCC, added: ‘[Gardaí] are treating it as a trivial offence. It’s not, it is a criminal offence.’

Coalition water fight as Labour senators back FF

THE Government played down any threat to the future of the Coalition after an unprecedented split between the ruling parties over the deepening water charges saga.

Fine Gael and Labour voted against each other – for the first time since the Government was formed in March 2011 – in the Seanad on a proposal to hold a right-to-water referendum.

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The schism laid bare tensions within the partnership and heaped further confusion on the public about the new utility bills. It also followed attempts

by Taoiseach Enda Kenny to dampen a declaration by Tánaiste Joan Burton that the controversial tap tax should cost a family of two parents and two

adult children less than €200 a year.

Under fire about her stance, Fine Gael leader Mr Kenny claimed his Labour counterpart Ms Burton made the remarks in a ‘personal capacity’.

Ms Burton revealed her predicted costs to an average family in the Dáil while being questioned by Socialist TD Joe Higgins. Both her own aides and Government sources attempted to

IRISH RAIL had said it was ‘hopeful’ that commuters would not be hit by another evening of rush hour disruption last night following two successive days of signalling issues, but, alas, commuters found themselves delayed around 6pm.

All Dart and rail services were stopped on the Drogheda to Greystones line following the signal faults, which struck just before 6pm. The ten-minute delay was not related to the fault of the previous two evenings, a spokesperson said.

The company yesterday launched a ‘major investigation’ but was unable to fully identify the source of the fault.

row back on the comments.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin insisted she could not have been speaking in a personal capacity, as she is the deputy leader and was answering questions in the Dáil .

Ms Burton yesterday defended her estimate for a water bill for average families. ‘My personal hope is that for some of the family types who were being described yesterday that the cost of the bill including or net of the water support payment will come in around €200 or below,’ she said.

‘And I’m very confident that the Taoiseach and I are very much on the same page on that.’

Asked if she believed the coalition is now under threat from the fall-out, she replied: ‘I don’t believe so.’

‘The Taoiseach and I are on the same page’

Irish ‘living longer due to science’ ThANKS to modern medicine, irish life-expectancy is now above the European average, say health experts. in the last ten years, the average lifespan in ireland has grown by four years. An irish person can now expect to live up to the grand old age of 80.6 years. in a recent report, the irish Pharmaceutical health Organisation outlined that ‘people in ireland live longer, healthier and more active lives’ than a decade ago. it showed that more than 70 per cent of the increase can be directly attributed to advances in the field of health science.

Lockdown: Bicycles

One for Wall Sculpt Carlo Wloch works on a life-size Trabantt 601 in Berlin, Ger Sculptor Germany. y. The sandstone car will ill be put on public display somewhere along the Berlin Wall to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall picture: epA

The upper house had to be suspended twice during heated outbursts over the Fianna Fáil motion demanding a referendum to ensure water is never privatised. The proposal was passed by 37 votes to 15 with Labour backing.

Mr Kenny again insisted the Government had not made a decision on the price of water charges yet.

The inner Cabinet of Mr Kenny, Ms Burton, Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Public Spending Minister Brendan Howlin are to meet today to debate the imminent charges.

It is expected an announcement will be made within the next two weeks.

Environment Minster Alan Kelly, who will attend today’s talks, described his party leader Ms Burton’s estimations as a ‘reasonable assessment’ of what could be expected.

Plan to stop exodus from health insurance ‘The time is right to try a new approach’: Minister Leo Varadkar

MINISTER for Health Leo Varadkar yesterday announced measures to stem the tide of people ditching their private health insurance.

The Private Health Insurance Package includes a reduction in stamp duty, special lower premiums for young adults, a reduction in the Health Insurance Authority levy and the introduction of the Lifetime Community Rating.

Key recommendations from two reports on private health insurance costs were included, and the package ‘builds on Budget 2015’, a health spokesperson said, which included a freeze on hospital bed charges.

Minister Varadkar said: ‘These measures are designed to work as a package and make private health insurance affordable again for as many people as possible. We want to

try and limit the need for increases in premiums, and even secure some reductions if possible.

‘I think the time is right to try a new approach. The economy is growing again and more people are back at work. Following a long period of rising premiums and a severe decline in health insurance cover, the number of policy holders is now showing modest growth.

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‘You’ll be shot dead, Garda told Bailey’ An EnglishmAn suing the state by ED cARTY for wrongful arrest over the murder of a French film-maker was told he lawyer told the court room. mr Bailey, who has lived in west would be shot dead if he could not be Cork for 23 years with a home at Praiframed, a court has heard. ian Bailey, 57, a former freelance rie house, liscaha, schull, was arrested for the second time journalist born in manchesover the du Plantier killing ter, was arrested twice over in January 1998. the killing of sophie Toscan The court was told the DPP du Plantier outside her holiordered mr Bailey not be day home on a remote west prosecuted after the arrests.

Cork hillside on the morning The Four Courts heard that of December 23 1996. four days after the murder, The killer of the 39-yearcertain gardaí had decided old has never been found.

Suing: Ian Bailey mr Bailey was ‘the man’ and mr Bailey was never prosecuted and 20 years later, his lawsuit set about ‘straight away, zoning in’.

The journalist is suing for wrongful has begun in the high Court for wrongful arrest and mistreatment by gardaí. arrest, false imprisonment, assault, senior Counsel Tom Creed claimed battery, trespass of the person, intenan officer made a death threat in the tional infliction of emotional and psyback of a garda car after the first ar- chological harm, harassment and intimidation, terrorising and oppressive rest in February 1997. ‘he said: “Even if we don’t pin this behaviour and a breach of his constion you, you are finished in ireland. tutional rights. The jury of eight men You will be found dead in a ditch with and four women were told the state a bullet in the back of the head,”’ the denies all claims.

Jail ‘hooch’ confiscated

More than 1,150 litres of homemade alcohol or ‘hooch’ was seized from prisoners in Irish jails last year.

The potent homebrew is made by inmates from water, sugar, fruit and bread, which is mixed in plastic bottles and hidden in cells until it ferments.

Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that 1,157.2l of the alcohol was confiscated from prisoners in the State’s 14 detention centres last year.

Worker fired over dog care

Life begins at Forty Foot

Rugby gby star Da David Wallace and Dublin ladies’ football captain aptain Siné Sinéad Goldrick launch aunch Special Spec Olympics ympics Ireland’s Ir Polar ar Plunge at a the Forty Foot, Sandycove. See specialolympics.ie/polarplunge Picture: marc o’sullivan

The ISPCA has confirmed that a member of its staff has been dismissed after ten dogs were left without food or water over a bank holiday weekend.

The staff member was dismissed for gross misconduct, chief executive Dr Andrew Kelly said.

The action followed an investigation by the society into the incident at Roscommon Dog Pound over two days of the August bank holiday period.

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smile :-) your emojis may be set to become more diverse

a PrOPOSaL to expand the skin colour options for emojis may get the thumbs up from those calling for more diversity in the icons.

The cartoon-like pictograms – such as smiley faces or hearts – have become popular in texts and online chats to express users’ emotions. Now Unicode Consortium, the non-profit organisation that sets the standards for the pictograms, is considering

Can you fEEL iT? The gang from feelit, a phone app that lets users quickly share their emotions with friends, at the summit ye yesterday. y.

The Saudi team was also collecting ting ‘feelings’ written down on scraps of paper from passersby

by cON DOHERTy adding up to five new skin colours.

The default emoji face was designed to be generic, but Unicode says users have been clamouring for changes to better reflect global diversity.

The proposal is still under review but could lead to changes for many users as many operating systems are based on Unicode standards.

Emotional: The yellow smiley face pic gr pictograms known as emojis are in line for a facelift – and up to five new colours mayy be added

‘PRODucT wiLL ONLy wORK if iT’s GOOD’

DAY two of the Web Summit saw more small ironic WiFi glitches, but nobody seemed to care as attendees milled around the RDS in Ballsbridge.

Big-name speakers included now-occasional model Lily Cole, footballer Rio Ferdinand, skateboarding god Tony Hawk and House Of Cards producer Dana Brunetti.

Cole was plugging her online gift-giving platform, impossible.com, where users can trade things with each other, from help with CVs to language lessons.

However, far from being a non-profit or charity, she said she is interested in making it into a sustainable business which will allow it to also do philanthropic work. In the course of her charity

work, Cole also recounted how she had visited Brazil and done a tour of ‘the only wild rubber condom factory in the world’, as part of a project to develop a market for wild rubber grown by forest dwellers as opposed to plantation rubber.

Asked if being a celebrity helped open doors, she said: ‘I always bristle at the word “celebrity”’, adding: ‘The product will only work if it’s a good product, the other stuff will only go so far.’

Crowd videomaking app Shotclip was at the summit asking attendees to pitch their ideas in just three seconds. Watch the compilation at GoMetro.ie/shotclip

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The Dublin Web Summit is all fine and well, says KEN ROGAN, but in the end, all this technology will turn humanity into an infantile, brainless mess

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y far the daftest thing about this Web Summit is that you have to attend it. and use your legs to get around, and your arse to sit down, and your hands to clap.

This is all very un-internet. Why not a webinar? Or a .com-ference, or a sim-posium?

But no, they went for a conventional convention that’s Davos meets the Electric Picnic. and try how they might to distract us with Bono or Eva Longoria, we all know the real reason they’re coming here: to steal our free water!

Or our thunder! Or our ideas! (But mostly our water).

The start-up deals are just a ruse – they’ve sunk a well in the rDS from which they’ll steal the nation’s moisture, and when the land is as parched as a shrivelled prune they’ll hightail it back to the desert in California, leaving us with inflated hotel prices and water debt, and the inescapable sense that ‘the future’ paid us a visit, took a dump in our toilet, had a shower, and buggered off again without buying us dinner.

Still, that’s what you get for hosting your event in what critics

are calling ‘reality’. This does have advantages though – if your internet connection dies during a webinar, the show’s over. Not so at the Web Summit, where you can still hang out on the set of Top Of The Pops and cheer middle-aged men in tight T-shirts who use phrases like ‘the meaning gap’, which is clever, because as soon as you say ‘I don’t know what that means’, well,

Big ideas: Lily Cole at summit

around until your brain develops that’s a meaning gap right there. that same, frazzled, aDD aren’t word games fun? Lookout PlayStation – and facebook, which catatonia you get from too much browsing online. once tried to sell us on ‘throwing The glaring way the Web Summit sheep’. Perhaps this inspired the does not reflect the internet is that pink sheep grazing in 40 per cent of it isn’t pornography, Simmonscourt, though it’s more so to compensate there’s a room full likely the ‘realised conception of an imagineer-curating-life-hacker’ who of kittens scrambling their way onto soft couches made out of pure love, wants to ‘crash your neural which will at least maintain a mainframe’ with positivity. and it’s the positivity credible ‘aww that’s so cute!’ quotient, which I hate the most. This isn’t america – this anything webis Ireland, where The glaring way the related cannot have. begrudgery tastes Web Summit does not butMore broadly, of black pudding, reflect the internet is however, it won’t so don’t expect have escaped me to be happy that 40 per cent of it your notice that for some bozos isn’t pornography between the half my age in massively hyped Clare who sell product launches, and cheese-craft.yum for a conventions ‘rebooted’ as gazillion bucks. anyway, when not supplying the ‘festivals of ideas’, the tech sector is actual internet, the Web Summit still very ‘hot right now’. They market like the movies, and shortly we’ll manages to resemble the internet in that there is far too much happening have a film about Steve Jobs, which follows on from The Social for you to get any coherent sense of Network, and to some extent, the whole thing. With dozens of Moneyball – films in which money speakers quasi-TED-talking across management and commercial loads of stages, one can ‘surf’

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success are the defining qualities of the modern hero – and where pathological behaviour in pursuit of business ambitions is not even remotely grounds for moralistic tut-tutting.

But there are dangers. The gizmos at the end of the rainbow will only make us more stupid and useless. Take ‘Tiles’. These exceedingly handy small squares, which attach to keys, for example, guarantee that you’ll forget how to remember, thereby ensuring your brain reverts to an infantile ‘now-eat, now-sleep, now-poop’ state that surely signals doom for the human race.

In the end, technology won’t ‘Skynet’ us into a mountain of skulls, or ‘Matrix’ us into a million batteries, but will in fact mollycoddle us into extinction, until it is we, and not the kittens, who must run the cutesy gauntlet of ribbons, yarn and cuddles until at last we become those gelatinous, barely sentient puddles of flesh with those hover chairs and super-size slurpees from Pixar’s Wall:E. although hover chairs will be awesome. @kenrogan

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The €50m bouquet... well, it is a van Gogh Blooming expensive: Van n Gogh’s Gogh Vase With Daisies And Poppies ppies sold for €50million PICTURE: aP

A MASTERPIECE painted by Vincent van Gogh weeks before his death has sold for €50million.

The 1890 painting, Still Life: Vase With Daisies And Poppies, was one of the few the Dutch artist sold during his lifetime.

Expected to fetch between €23million and €38million, it was sold to a private bidder from Asia, Sotheby’s in New York reported.

Van Gogh painted the wildflowers at the French home of his physician, Dr Paul Gachet. The high price, however, is a long way short of the record fee paid for a van Gogh at auction. That stands at €66million for his Portrait Of Dr Gachet, which was sold in 1990.

The still life was acquired by one of the founders of the Museum of Modern Art, Conger Goodyear, in

1928. It remained in his family until 1990, when it was sold to its last owner.

The painting was not the only item at Tuesday’s auction in Manhattan to excite art collectors.

A buyer paid €80.7million for Chariot, a 1951 bronze sculpture of a goddess-like figure perched atop a wheeled chariot, by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

Thursday the worstday for job accidents

BE on your guard today because Thursday is the most common day to have an accident in work.

Forget Friday the 13th, the Injuries Board – the independent government injuries body – have released their annual figures, and most people were hurt on a Thursday during 2013.

According to the report, the total amount awarded to injury victims last year was €24million. Some 826 reported workplace accidents occurred – up by 19 from 2012. Payments recorded

‘Men are twice as likely to fall into harm’ by the Board were covered by accident insurance and liable employers.

The highest payout for 2013 was €432,000, which concerned the death of a mechanic. A spokesperson for the claims agency said that the quantity reflected the family’s loss of income.

Meanwhile, the average compensation for men was €29,523, slightly higher than the €27,441 sum typically received by women. For a man living in Dublin, the job risks are more pronounced. Men are twice as likely to

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fall into harm while at work and the Capital ranks top of the liability pile.

Patricia Byron, Injuries Board chief executive, noted the increase in accident figures coincided with decreasing unemployment levels.

‘As the economy starts to grow again, and as businesses around the country begin to expand, it is important that a renewed focus on health and safety is cultivated,’ she said.

‘The onus is on us all – business owners, sole traders, and employees – to promote and adhere to the highest levels of health and safety.’

She warned those commuting long distances and workers who drive for a living to ‘heed the advice of agencies such as the Road Safety Authority’.

The construction industry, a spokesperson added, was a particularly risky business. However, farming is largely absent from the report as, in the main, farmers are self-employed.

Slips, trips and falls were the most frequent accidents, accounting for more than 30 per cent of all awards.

Unsurprisingly, Sunday was the safest day of the week.

Joining in the reindeer games

Santa’s helpers Amanda Scobie and Sonia Kelly joined reindeer Scuffy on O’Connell Street to launch the festive programme of events for the Christmas season from DublinatChristmas.ie – an initiative that brings together the council, transport firms and businesses PICTURE: PhoToCall

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THE average household will spend up to €1,463 this Christmas – but this is no more than last year according to research carried out

by Aviva Home Insurance.

The findings show that, despite the economic recovery, many of those surveyed said they intended to cut down on what they spend this year.

One in five people surveyed said they intended to spend less on

presents while 27 per cent said they would cut back on the cost of house decorations. Only 18 per cent of those surveyed said they would cut down on food and drink.

Households around the country will have gifts to the value of between €350 and €500 under their Christmas trees this festive season and the average household spend on gifts is around €620, the research found.

Spoilerific trailers are a turn-off CiNema-goers are fed up with trailers that give away a movie’s plot-line or are better than the film itself, researchers have said. a new study, based on responses to a 2013 trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of smaug, found that audiences want trailers which excite, tease and leave them emotionally engaged, without revealing excessive narrative.

The research by the University of east anglia’s (Uea) school of art, media and american studies, found that more than 80 per cent of people were left disappointed with a film after seeing its trailer at the cinema. in some cases the promos create expectations that feature films are unable to deliver on and are often considered better than the full film, the researchers added. and many viewers were frustrated at spoilers contained within the trailers that ruined the plot line.

400 new jobs at tech firms some 400 jobs are to be created with the expansion of eight separate technology companies in ireland, it has been announced. Bosses are looking to fill the software development, telecoms, internet and digital media roles in Dublin, Cork and galway.

However, more than 370,000 people remain on the dole despite a slight drop in the jobless rate, new figures reveal.

The Cso said 3,500 fewer people signed on last month.

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DREW BaRRYMORE is not too alist to take public transport, after she was spotted painting her nails on the New York subway.

The 39-year-old actress was on her way to a meeting to plug her Flower beauty products. ‘#commuterbeauty @flowerbeauty #nailedit,’ she posted on Instagram.

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Ford: Rihanna is perfect nude

RIHaNNa thanked Tom Ford after he said the pop vixen is so beautiful she owes it to the world to take her clothes off in public.

The singer, 26, tweeted: ‘I.heart.Tom. Ford,’ after the 53-year-old designer (pictured) said: ‘Rihanna was one of the most beautiful women ED that I have ever SHEERaN beheld.’ He was was almost caught short referring to a when he got locked in his revealing adam tour bus – but at least he had Selman fishnet some cartoons for company. frock the star ‘Broke the door handle off of wore at an the back lounge of the bus,’ the awards 23-year-old tweeted. ‘I have the show this Simpsons but I also need to pee.’ summer.

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Hunger Games’ Josh ‘craves’ human flesh

Star on cannibalism and why J-Law leaves him cold HUNGER Games star Josh Hutcherson has confessed he has a dark secret – he wants to taste human flesh.

Revealing his cannibalistic craving the 22-year-old said he would have no qualms about eating another human – but he has got some standards.

‘I don’t want somebody to die for me to eat them,’ the star explained.

‘However, if someone happened to die from natural causes and it was not

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JUSTIN TIMBERLakE and Jessica Biel’s first baby is due in april. ‘Right now, they are enjoying the news for themselves. They want a happy baby,’ a source told Us Weekly.

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so taboo... I’m curious.’ The would-be man eater told GQ magazine: ‘I want to know what it tastes like. Like you want to know what a pigeon tastes like, you know, except it’s a human.

We’re all animals.’

While his bizarre craving may make blockbuster co-star Jennifer Lawrence retch, Hutcherson has no problem with that – as he revealed the screen siren leaves him cold. ‘From the mo-

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ment we met, we hit it off,’ he said of the Oscar-winning actress, 24.

‘If we were at all sexually attracted to each other, it would be the most intense relationship in the world.

‘But there’s never been an ounce of that between us.

‘It’s been brother and sister from the beginning.’

Frightful taste: Josh Hutcherson could be a cannibal Picture: getty

Beyonce accusd of ripping off song

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BeYONcÉ is being sued by a singer-songwriter ahmad Javon lane after he claimed she ripped off his track XOXO for her hit song XO after he shared it with a singer who works for Bey.

Take That will get the bells ringing

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TakE THaT are planning to bring the house down at Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball with Morrisons. They’ll be joined

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BRITNEY SPEARS is seeing producer Charlie Ebersol after the pair met through pals. ‘He is the sweetest guy ever and they are very much enjoying getting to know one another,’ a source said.

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KELLY ROWLAND feels ‘blessed’ after giving birth to a baby boy. The 33-year-old welcomed Titan Jewell, her first child with husband Tim Witherspoon, on Tuesday. ‘We are blessed to report everyone is healthy and happy!’ she said.

Fitness is like an oil change for your body Fighting fit: Hunnam is a boxing fanatic

CHARLIE HUNNAM says his beefedup muscles aren’t just for Sons Of Anarchy fans but to keep his mental health in check.

The British actor, 34, who passed on 50 Shades Of Grey, grapples with depression.

‘I get more out of fitness mentally than I do physically. It’s like an oil change,’ he explained. ‘Your body is mostly water and it gets dirty.

‘You have to clear the dirty water otherwise it’ll corrupt everything; your thoughts, emotional process and body. I get addicted to the endorphin release of working out – my whole physiology relies on that.

‘If I get injured or I don’t have time, I’ll start to feel cloudy, then depressed.’

The star – who has a love of boxing – says he’s under pressure from fans of the hit US biker Biker look: Sons drama to look the Of Anarchy star

part both on and off camera.

‘I can’t take my shirt off and just be skinny.

‘When you see a guy beating up people and being a general badass, you assume he’s going to look pretty formidable,’ he tells Men’s Health.

Read the full Hunnam interview in the December issue which is out now.

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KaTy Perry has found the purrfect way to unwind – by snuggling into a litter of kittens. The 30-year-old pop beauty looked blissful as she shared a snap of herself with four furry friends – who appeared to be wearing denim jackets. ‘Heaven is a place on earth,’ the Dark Horse singer wrote.

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THERE could still be hope for Chris Martin and Jennifer Lawrence’s romance despite claims the pair have called it a day. Lawrence, 24, was spotted leaving 37-year-old Martin’s home – promoting a friend of the stars to reveal they are still together.

‘He’s very much into her and they’re still seeing each other,’ the source told People magazine.

Close: Lawrence paid Martin a visit

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sarko spat dumbs down... Gamer plays for 141 hours fRAncE: Nicolas Sarkozy believes ex-first lady Valérie Trierweiler is ‘dumb and pretentious’, a book has revealed. The former president (pictured) mocked her in a political ‘hate’ list which has emerged as their respective sons continued a vicious tweet war.

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pOLAnD: A video game fan has set a world record for the longest playing session. Hubert Blejch played Sniper Elite 3 for 141hrs and 41mins before being forced to give up. He was allowed an hourly break of 10 minutes, which he used for lavatory visits and medical checkups at the event in the city of Poznan.

Beggar wins lottery jackpot Jail for ferry cash fraudster

DEnMARK: A beggar is returning home for Christmas a rich man – after winning €450,000 on the lottery. Nicolai Steffensen, 37, said it was a ‘dream come true’ after spending six months living on the streets of Korsor. His first purchase will be a ticket to Greenland, the country he left to seek his fortune abroad.

s KOREA: The eldest son of the late tycoon who owned a doomed ferry was yesterday jailed for three years. Yoo Dae-gyun (pictured) embezzled funds which could have improved safety on the MV Sewol, the court ruled. It sank in April, killing more than 300.

isRAEL: Firefighters move a van rammed on to a train platform in a Hamas attack. The Palestinian driver injured 13 with an iron bar before being shot dead in east Jerusalem picture: reuters

israel accused of Gaza ‘war crimes’ Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes during the war in the Gaza strip this summer, saying it displayed ‘callous indifference’ in attacks on family homes in the densely populated coastal area. the Gaza war left more than 2,100 Palestinians dead, including civilians, according to Palestinian and Un officials.

Israel said the number of militants killed was much higher and accused Hamas of using civilians as human shields.

On the Israeli side, 66 soldiers and six civilians were killed.

Amnesty said in a report that ‘Israeli forces killed scores of Palestinian civilians in attacks targeting houses full of families, which in some cases

have amounted to war crimes’.

Israel’s foreign ministry rejected the report’s findings, saying the London-based rights group ‘ignores documented war crimes perpetrated by Hamas’. the ministry added: ‘the report does not mention the word terror in relation to Hamas, nor mentions tunnels built by Hamas to infiltrate Israel.’

Glass act Higgins takes in the wonders of Africa on tour

iTALy: Beset with nerves, Ferdinando Beneventi botched his proposal when he dropped an engagement ring in a Venice canal. But girlfriend Cettina Romano spared his blushes by calling the city’s fire brigade to retrieve it. She then accepted the hopeless romantic’s late proposal.

Banker ‘posed for selfie with corpse of one of his victims’

President Michael D Higgins views a stained-glass window entitled Total Liberation of Africa at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Vatican: Assisted suicide ‘reprehensible’ THe Vatican’s bioethics chief has called the assisted suicide of an American woman with terminal brain cancer ‘reprehensible’.

Brittany Maynard’s death in Oregon on Saturday, following a public declaration of her motives aimed at sparking political action on the issue, has sparked fierce debate over assisted suicide for the terminally ill.

Ms Maynard, 29, stated she wanted to die with dignity, but Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told ANSA news agency that ‘dignity is something other than putting an end to one’s own life. Brittany Maynard’s act is in itself reprehensible, but what happened in the consciousness we do not know’.

He warned that he was not judging individuals ‘but the gesture in and of itself should be condemned’.

Rev Dr Ignacio Castuera, a board member of Oregon-based advocacy group Compassion & Choices, said Ms Maynard was not Catholic and it would be wrong to impose a set of religious beliefs on people who did not share them.

Gruesome image: Rurik Jutting

Killed: Sumarti Ningsih pictures: enterprise

A BRITISH banker accused of murdering two sex workers in Hong Kong posed for a grisly selfie with one of the bodies, it has been claimed.

The photo of Rurik Jutting is said to be among 2,000 found on his phone following his arrest on Sunday.

It reportedly shows the 29-year-old with Sumarti Ningsih, 25, whose decomposing body was later found almost decapitated and stuffed into a suitcase on Jutting’s apartment balcony.

Police also found Indonesian-born Jesse Lorena Ruri, 32, dying with her throat slashed and buttocks stabbed.

It was later revealed that one of Jutting’s trading licences was revoked on October 28 – the day it is alleged he

by sHAROn MARRis killed his first victim. Investigators are now looking at whether he attacked the women after losing his permit.

He has yet to enter a plea to the two murder charges he faces. But a source told the Daily Mail he was ‘frank and honest’ the women died in his flat, adding: ‘But he is adamant he is not mad.’

Fellow drinkers in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district said Jutting could be ‘aggressive and confrontational’.

One, an ex-British policeman, said he regularly saw the Cambridge graduate ‘in a very bad state’, adding: ‘I have absolutely no doubt his zombie-like appearance was a result of drug abuse.’

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Republicans make huge gains as party swoops to take control of the US Senate

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REPUBLICANS have seized control of the US Senate and put increased pressure on Barack Obama in the final two years of his presidency.

They also tightened their grip on the House of Representatives as yesterday’s mid-term elections saw a thumping defeat for the Democrats.

Victory: Kansas governor, Republican Sam Brownback, is re-elected PictURe: AP

by sTEvEn R HuRsT New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie said after his party’s victory: ‘This result is a reflection of the president’s lack of leadership both here and abroad.’

The result means the Republicans now control both chambers of Congress for the first time since 2006 – giving them momentum heading into the presidential elections in 2016.

Nearly two thirds of voters interviewed after the elections said the US was on the wrong track. According to exit polls for TV networks, more than four in ten voters disapproved of both Mr Obama and Congress.

Republicans had made Mr Obama’s

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Emotional: Republican Mia Love celebrates winning in Utah PictURe: AP presidency the core issue of their campaigns, even though he wasn’t on the ballot.

They tapped into a well of despondency at a time when many Americans are upset with a sluggish economic recovery and troubled by the spread

MARIJUANA was yesterday legalised in Washington DC and Oregon with Alaska set to follow suit.

Smoking pot in public is still banned but possession of a small amount of the drug for recreational use is now lawful. The

of ebola and the rise of Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

House Speaker and Republican John Boehner said: ‘We are humbled by the responsibility the American people have placed with us but this is not a time for celebration.’

only major loss for drug law reformers in state ballots came in Florida where they narrowly failed to get marijuana legalised for medical purposes.

Legalisation opponent Kevin Sabet called the votes ‘a bit of a wake-up call’.

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m&s sales rise on catwalk fashions Women’s clothes help send profits up to €340million

Autograph Pleated skirt €77 We love the fashion-forward hemline and it’ll look great with both court shoes and boots

by Graeme evans A RANGE of fashionable clothes for women helped Marks & Spencer defy expectations by announcing a rise in profits yesterday.

The clothing range was cited by chief executive Marc Bolland as one of the reasons half-year earnings were up 2.3 per cent to €340million.

‘Womenswear performance continues to improve with growth in full-price sales and increasingly positive feedback from our customers,’ he said.

‘However, the recent market conditions remain challenging, with unseasonal weather resulting in high levels of promotional activity across the market.’

The British-based retailer is still fighting to turnaround clothing sales overall after the division has seen more than three years of decline. Across the group, sales rose by 1 per cent to €6.2billion in the six months to September 27.

Food was in line with the rise but warm weather in September contributed to a 4 per cent fall in general merchandise.

M&S, which has been overtaken by rival Next in the UK, is hoping profits will total €845million this year, up from €798million in the previous 12 months.

Shares were up 10 per cent after the update.

Neil Saunders, of retail consultancy Conlumino, said: ‘Overall, M&S’s school report for this term reads “showing signs of improvement”.’

After years in the sartorial desert things are once again looking up

Jewel embellished pencil skirt €59 A pencil skirt with serious va-va-voom

Limited Edition Spot Embellished Shell Top €53 This is so luxe, it looks designer

Upbeat: M&S boss Marc Bolland Picture: imageWise/Pa

M&S Collection sequin top €27 Throw it on over a pair of jeans for instant glam

M&S has finally found its fashion feet again.

Autograph Lace Shift Dress €125 After a few years in the Chic but eminently wearable, this sartorial desert, the brand’s clothing sales are once again frock is ideal for all of those Christmas on the up. parties and it comes in longer and It’s no doubt in large part shorter lengths so you can choose the thanks to the experienced hem length that suits you. hand of style director Belinda Earl, who joined at the end of 2012, and is just hitting her design stride.

Earl has streamlined the offering down to five key trends across all of M&S’s internal brands.

This means the store is easier to navigate and is back to doing what it does best – wearable, classic takes on key catwalk grandmother can all find great looks in quality fabrics at an buys in. affordable price.

After all, that’s why we’re so fond Sleeves are back for older ladies, of good old Marks – we’ve grown the young lines are no longer too up with it and we trust it. And long young and trends are tackled may that continue. tastefully.

Here’s my five top buys from the It’s once again the shop that you, new collection... your mother and your tracey blake

Drug ‘grows eyelashes’ Irish among Hay fever misery on way big polluters

EyE ExpERTS have discovered a drug used to treat glaucoma can also boost the growth and prominence of eyelashes.

In a year-long trial, researchers at Southampton General Hospital and Saint Louis University in the US analysed the effects of a daily application of bimatoprost to the upper eyelid of patients with poor eyelash growth, known as idiopathic hypotrichosis, or eyelash loss, as a result of recent chemotherapy.

Conventionally, under the brand name Lumigan, the drug has been used in eye-drop form to decrease the amount of fluid in the eye and reduce eye pressure, treating both glaucoma and ocular hypertension.

The study, published online by the British Journal of Dermatology, offers the first long-term investigation of the drug’s safety and effectiveness as a treatment for lengthening, thickening and darkening eyelashes using direct application to the eyelid. parwez Hossain, a consultant ophthalmologist at Southampton General, said: ‘This study shows bimatoprost is a safe and effective treatment for eyelash growth over a sustained period of time for anyone affected by poor eyelash length, thickness and darkness. It also offers a viable, rapid treatment option for patients who have suffered eyelash loss as a result of chemotherapy.’

IRELAND is among the highest carbon emitters in the world, a new report has revealed.

In an environmental impact study conducted by Trócaire, Ireland is ranked as the 35th highest producer of the pollutant.

On a European emissions scale, we are in eighth place.

In fact, according to the charity, our emissions are currently so high that our island – with a population of more than 4.5million – emits as much carbon as more than 400million of the world’s poorest people.

HAy FEvER sufferers could reach new heights of misery over the next century as pollen levels soar, new research suggests.

Scientists predict that higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere will lead to a significant boost in the amount of air-borne grass pollen.

Despite increases in ozone, which suppresses plant growth, pollen production is expected to more than treble in the next 100 years.

US lead scientist Dr Christine Rogers, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said: ‘The implications of increasing CO2 for human health are clear. Stimulation of grass pollen production by

elevated CO2 will increase airborne concentrations and increase exposure and suffering in grass pollen-allergic individuals.”

For the study, grass plants grown in special reactor chambers were exposed to different atmospheric gas concentrations.

Different ratios of carbon dioxide and ozone were tested to show their effects on grass and pollen production.

The scientists found that an atmospheric CO2 concentrations of 800 parts per million – possible by the end of the century according to some forecasts – raised pollen production per grass flower by 53 per cent.

’T n O D E L P O E P T n A R O Ign E M A n W E n Y M E S U EVEn X FACTOR judge Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has branded people ‘ignorant’ for not using her new married name.

She changed her surname from Cole when she wed Jean Bernard in a secret ceremony in the summer and said getting use to her new name

‘has come quite naturally’. The singer, 31, added: ‘People are so ignorant about it, they just start calling us Cheryl but I’ll take that.’

Her X Factor boss Simon Cowell had joked Cheryl married a man with a long surname so she could be a

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The star also told Marie Claire magazine she is not ready for babies but added: ‘You can never say never.’

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Interview: Cheryl appears in the latest issue of Marie Claire Pictures: marie claire/Pa

Swift’s Spotify snub makes her a record breaker

by AnDREI HARMSWORTH TAYLOR SWIFT’S ploy to boost sales of her new album has proved a soar-away success – after she sold nearly 1.3million copies in one week.

The singer’s latest offering, entitled 1989, is the fastest-selling album in the US for 12 years – thanks to Swift removing her body of work from the music-sharing service Spotify.

The purge included new hit Shake It Off which meant fans had to buy her album to hear the single – and they did – sending 1989 to No.1 in the charts.

Sales tracking service Nielsen SoundScan said 1989 earned the largest weekly album sales since Eminem’s The Eminem Show sold 1.322million copies in 2002.

Having sold 1.287million copies of 1989 last

Fastest selling US albums First week sales since 1991 1 NSYNC – No Strings Attached (2000) 2,415,859 2 NSYNC – Celebrity (2001) 1,879,955 3 Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) 1,760,049 4 Backstreet Boys – Black & Blue (2000) 1,591,191 5 Eminem – The Eminem Show (2002) 1,321,799 6 Britney Spears – Oops! I Did it Again (2000) 1,319,193 7 Taylor Swift – 1989 (2014) 1,287,000 8 Taylor Swift – Red (2012) 1,208,000

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week, Swift is the only artist to have three albums post over 1million sales in their debut week.

Red sold 1.208million in 2012. Speak Now shifted 1.047million in 2010.

Swift, 24, will launch a world tour in 2015.

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60 seconds Mailbox Presenter and naturalist chris Packham, 53, talks about Winterwatch, frisky badgers, collecting chairs and why he can’t hear birdsong anymore Who will be the stars of the BBC’s Winterwatch? I suspect it

will be the badger family we’re following in Brighton – we’ve discovered that 50 per cent of the offspring in a badger group are not from the dominant male as you’d expect, but from ‘sneaky shaggers’ – males that secretly have sex with the females when the top male isn’t around. But it’s all about reproductive success, trying to ensure your genes are passed on.

So animals never have sex for pleasure? My view has always

These days you have two poodles. That’s not quite as macho as a snake… I wouldn’t have any other breed. Itchy and Scratchy are right at

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THE GULLTURES ARE CIRCLING: Serial snapper Garry Greene strikes again with this shot of a gull in mid air – possibly losing the run of himself – at Bray Harbour

collector and enjoy ordering and reordering things. I still have animal skulls from when I was eight. I now collect modern chairs, which upsets my partner and stepdaughter, Meg, as they’re not allowed to sit on them.

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You’re looking good for 53.

Any anti-ageing tips? Not

of man and dog every You do suffer Springwatch from hearing and day. It’s brilliant problems these Autumnwatch are days.

Is that hugely popular – anything to do with could you cover the rest of ageing?

I suffer from hearing loss the year? Well, we’ve added in one ear because of a condition

are ideal because they’re clean and don’t produce heaps of stinky mess – unlike rabbits and hamsters. My parents had a very simple rule that if I had an animal I was entirely responsible for it, so if it suffered or died it was my fault.

But parents must choose pets children are capable of looking after, and they need to be tactile and hands-on – don’t get a kid a parrot for goodness sake.

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the centre of my life and sleep on my bed – I wake up to a pile of man and dog every day. It’s brilliant.

Poodles are quite anarchic but they learn commands quickly.

been a firm ‘no’, as there has to be really! I drank heavily for a long an evolutionary purpose to any time, now I don’t drink at all animal behaviour.

– but I’m not sure it’s However, there are made a difference. I some good scientific never use soap on my arguments coming Itchy and Scratchy face, but always out of ape and moisturise after my are right at the centre of dolphin studies Maybe my life and sleep on my shave. to suggest that’s it. otherwise. bed – I wake up to a pile

Winterwatch for the past couple of years and now plan to add easterwatch and Summerwatch as one-episode shows between the longer series. Having an annual presence will mean we can address unanswered questions about what happens to the animals that viewers have been following.

It’ll be a bit like a soap.

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called Ménière’s disease, which I developed at 37, possibly as a result of bursting an eardrum diving. The most severe symptoms – extreme vertigo and nausea – have thankfully passed, but the affected ear has lost its ability to hear high-frequency sounds. For me the most upsetting thing is that I can’t hear birdsong properly any more when I’m birdwatching.

Is that why you got involved with the Sound Seekers charity? Yes, it has

given me an affinity with anyone suffering from deafness. I was keen to get involved with its Hear In Malawi project especially, which is raising funds to treat hearing there.

Are there animals you dislike? Only one, and you can probably guess – humans. actually most of them are OK, but it’s just we play outside the rules and have been doing it for too long. We put ourselves above everything else, which is a mistake.

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ear Metro Herald, I would like to vent my anger at the ridiculous change in temperature over the last number of days. I was quite happy with the unseasonably warm weather and now I am not pleased at all with this latest cold spell.

I blame the Government – it has to be their fault. everything else is.

Who is the Minister for Weather?

What is the Government going to do about it? Grinding My Gears ■ To all who didn’t bother marching against the water charges over the last few months, to all who said ‘we’re going to have to pay it in the end anyway’ and to all who were going to take this water tax lying down (as we Irish tend to do), I say this: No need to thank me and my

150,000 amigos who helped change the Government’s stance on this issue, but in future please get up off your arses and give us poor peasants a dig out.

Tongue In Cheek ■ Good to see our City Council has its priorities correct in discussing banning the buskers of Temple Bar. I presume a discussion on antisocial behaviour, drug dealing and petty crime are due shortly as well?

While we’re at it, how about a discussion on the legions of dangerous cyclists breaking lights and going the wrong way up one-way streets as well?

Gerry The (Still) Exasperated Tour Guide ■ I had to laugh at Taoiseach enda Kenny calling Gerry adams a ‘law-abiding citizen’ in the Dáil on

yeh big riDe ● To the guy in the brown jacket and jeans who was upstairs with me on the No.41 to Swords yesterday. You kept staring at me and we both got off at the Omniplex. Get in touch.

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● To the nice man who moved the bins out of the way of my car earlier. How could I refuse you? Don’t let this go to waste. Call me.

Dee ● Jessica Chastain – yeh big ride, yeh.

Tuesday. although I’m certainly no fan of enda these days, it was a great example of killing with kindness.

JJ ■ a Leavy, very well said. It is beyond a joke how easily the same old puppeteers have plugged into Agreed that reflex.

■ really have to laugh – if you don’t, you’ll cry – at the story about the WiFi going down at europe’s biggest tech summit on Tuesday. Can you actually get more Irish than that?

What Are We Like ■ Floyd and Zeppelin in one issue? You are spoiling us! However, Sharon O’Connell failed to mention Pink Floyd’s early – and arguably more influential – era with Syd Barret.

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● Big thanks to the very kind gentleman by the name of Kevin who got me a scone and tea at Heuston Station last Wednesday. May god reward you for your kind deed. It was Martin appreciated.

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he sartorial staple in any woman’s wardrobe has to be stripes. Until now, this meant Breton jumpers, Tshirts and the occasional dress, but this season calls for a whole new way to wear them.

Gone are the classic navy and white nautical styles, and in their place comes a far more directional, modern offering. Marni and Isabel Marant lead the way on the AW14 catwalks, leading to plenty of affordable options coming to the high street. Think tailored pinstripe coats, updated as the new off-duty hero. Or knitwear, which also plays a starring role, coming in a new wave of bold clashing colours. And if that’s all a bit too much, why not tap into this linear trend and amp up your look with some stylish accessories? A faux fur clutch (try ASOS’ version) or stole (Shrimps), perhaps.

It’s also time to rethink the way we wear them. Silk shirts will update your workwear in an instant (elizabeth And James is a great choice), or try teaming a horizontal stripe knit with a vertical-style pencil skirt for extra cool points.

Or why not keep it classic and go for Seasalt’s chic chunky knit? After all, there’s always room for another stripe in our wardrobes, so give your current wares a muchneeded pick-me-up for autumn and invest in a new-season style.

Shrimps, €225 Faux-fur stole Throw this over your current coat and watch it transform in an instant.

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Dressed for success: Juudit Siibak wearing a check coat, €125, and a yellow dress, €56 pictures: photocaLL ireLand

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On OuR RADAR wiTh orNa cuNNiNgham Stonechat

Stonechat Jewellers has been located in the Westbury Mall since 2012, but they’ve recently made the hop across the hall to number 3-4, a beautiful, bright and bigger space. Owner Ann launched an extensive autumn/winter collection last month and, best of all, a stroll through this relaxed, friendly shop affords you a look at just how these modern, imaginative and altogether personal pieces are made as jewellers and goldsmiths like Jemma and Maria work away. If you’re in the market for a Christmas engagement ring, check out some of our favourites from Stockholm-based Michael O’Dwyer’s stunning collection.

Salon Pro

With Christmas rapidly approaching, we’re dreaming of all things red. This week we trialled two shades from the Rimmel Kate Moss Salon PRO range with Lycra. We loved Venus, a plummy colour very suited to bluer skin tones and Rock N Roll is a truer red, a vampy pillarbox tone suited to pairing with a set of killer heels and a slick of crimson lipstick. Chip-resistant with a salon gel finish, the varnish promises ten days of wear. Seems a bit optimistic to us, but it is hard-wearing.

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La Roche Posay Cream

The mercury’s dropping and it’s wreaking havoc with our skin. La Roche Posay’s innovation Lipikar Baume AP+ is a lifesaver. It’s a really thick balm intended for eczematics and those with irritated skin complaints – and delivers on its promise of anti-scratching and immediate soothing – but it’s also brilliant for skin that needs an extra boost of moisture as dry chill winds take their toll. It’s an all-over balm and super concentrated, so don’t overdo it or it’ll take a while to sink in. Suitable for all ages and available countrywide, RRP €19.00 400ml.

Vintage fair

The Vintage Fashion and Décor Fair is happening this Sunday in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire. It’s a great event for a wander, combining fashion, furniture, memorabilia and beauty.

Attendees are as enthusiastic about vintage dress as stallholders and it’s a pleasure just to stroll and have a gawk at victory rolls, corsetry and skirts as far as the eye can see. More than 50 dealers in vintage style and décor will be there and it’s the kind of event where everyone leaves with a little gem. Doors open at 11.30am and close at 6.30pm. Admission is €7. More details on vintageireland.eu.

Simply styled: Juudit Siibak wearing w ng check jumper, jumper €50; PU leather skirt, €70; Satchel, €42; and grey court shoes, €119

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ecades of real fur abstinence paved the way in recent years for a resurgence in its

popularity.

Vintage fur coats, previously confined to the recesses of our grandmothers’ closets, were suddenly being dusted off as a younger generation realised just how warm fur is. Last year saw a decline in its popularity; was it a just a milder winter, was there still an ethical dilema, or was it simply a trend issue?

This season big fashion names – armani, Hermés, elie saab, chloe, Fendi, saint Laurent... the list goes on – gave us a controversialfree way to wear fur – by making it faux. From short pile bomber jackets at Marc Jacobs to multi-coloured shearling at Marni it is faux all the way for a/W14.

What’s more, this season’s faux fur comes in fantastical colours you’ll never see in nature; from pastel shades and silver to bold primary multi-colours. Just browse the boutiques and you’ll find not just coats but clutches, collars, shoe detailing and hood linings too.

If you can’t (or won’t) spend thousands on a fulllength navy blue faux fur coat from Bottega Veneta or a pastel pink cropped jacket from elie saab then simply take inspiration and choose one of these high street offerings. This patchwork coat from asOs (pictured €142)

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stole (pictured €45) comes in the chicest shade of pastel pink.

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Choose clothing that suits your shape – don’t try to beat yourself into a dress is a complete faux fur statement, while M&s have gone for rich red (pictured €210) as part of their autograph range. Topshop have embraced silver short pile with this zip-through skirt (pictured €55) and black for this roll top clutch (pictured €42). If you prefer to make a more subtle trend statement, the easiest way to embrace faux fur is by wearing a collar or tippet; the Monsoon Olivia

Living colours: Faux fur is making a comeback and is a great addition to any wardrobe

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The Great Fire Andrew Buchan faces up to the devious Denton in the finale of this historical romp

3 Detectorists Becky (Rachel Stirling) and Andy bid farewell in tonight’s finale

1. The great Fire

UTV, 9pm Despite viewing figures having rather gone the way of Thomas Farriner’s Pudding Lane bakery, Tom Bradby’s historical romp has been great fun and a pyrotechnics spectacular. In tonight’s finale, Thomas and Sarah face up to the devious Denton, while Charles II mans-up when the crowds turn mutinous.

2. Beyond Magic With DMC

National Geographic, 8pm The post-Dynamo boom in televisual conjuring shows continues with the elaborately named Drummond Money Coutts, the latest egotist magician to wow Joe Public with card tricks, stunts and illusions. This new show is pretty standard fare until the finale, when DMC walks through a wall.

3. Detectorists

BBC4, 10pm Metal-detecting duo Andy (Mackenzie Crook) and Lance (Toby Jones) meet their low-key, carefully wrought destinies tonight as the excavation begins, Larry’s dogs go walkies and, we hope, BBC4 bigwigs agree to another series of this lovely show that also features Rachel Stirling as Becky. Listen out for music from Johnny Flynn.

4. peaky Blinders

BBC2, 9pm Dong! There will be blood and a Nick Cave meets PJ Harvey soundtrack as the bell tolls for Tommy Shelby (Cork bhay Cillian Murphy, a stunning exercise in control of everything but his accent), planning a major coup at the Epsom Derby as his enemies mass against him. Unquestionably the most stylish drama of the year.

5. Angela scanlon: Full Frontal

RTÉ2, 9.30pm Angela Scanlon has taken to television like a well-groomed duck to water, and this latest series –

5 Angela Scanlon: Full Frontal The Scan-dalous stylist looks at the era of the dating app

4 Peaky Blinders The bell tolls for Cillian Murphy in the most stylish drama of the year

YOUR gUiDE TO THis EvEning’s EssEnTiAL viEWing which concludes tonight – should cement her as part of the TV landscape in this country. Tonight, she’s looking at dating apps that are based on visual attraction and nostrings interaction.

6. Ear To The ground

RTÉ1, 8.30pm

The earthy tones of Darragh McCullough, Ella McSweeney and Helen Carroll are a soothing balm after a day’s dashing around this city.

Tonight, it’s off to Lambay Island to visit a wallaby farm (the meat is delicious, apparently) and then we

fly down to the Galtee Mountains to meet scientists cultivating mushrooms there. Muddy boots, here we come.

7. Life story

BBC1, 9pm Perhaps only David Attenborough’s own career can match the epic sweep of his latest wildlife series. This week, the theme is home, from supremely scraggy African hunting dogs protecting their young to chimpanzees finding refuge in the unexpected environs of the Sahara.

Stunning, as usual.

8. A parting gift

RTÉ1, 10.15pm If you’ve ever scoffed at the idea of donating your body to science and research after you’re gone, have a gander at the concluding part of this two-part documentary that looks at how Trinity’s body donation scheme has helped surgeons.

9. 24 Hours in A&E

C4, 9pm Cycling in this city is hazardous at the best of times, and this week’s stories are enough to make you squeeze onto a crammed bus or Luas

instead. The staff of London’s St George’s hospital treat one man potentially paralysed in a race and another who rode into a car.

10. Today’s Film: Killer Joe Film4, 10.55pm

William Friedkin makes one of his rare forays into the mainstream with this blackly funny thriller starring born-again Matthew McConaughey as a corrupt cop/assassin embroiled in a trailer-trash family dispute.

Warning; includes a scene with Gina Gershon and a chicken drumstick that may put you off your tea.

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Oh bOy, it’s a girl thing From new lad to metrosexual dad, Nick Hornby has got in touch with his feminine side, writes Claire Allfree

ALSO OUT CrOOkEd HEArT by liSSa EvaNS Most characters in lissa Evans’ World War ii novel sit slightly askew in the world around them. ten-year-old Noel plays with ancient fossils instead of toys, thinks the war is a capitalist conspiracy and likes to quote latin at his elders. His elderly guardian is Mattie, a former suffragette who doesn’t believe in conventional education and with whom Noel lives in crooked contentment – until Mattie dies.

Having dodged evacuation once, Noel is shipped off to St albans, where he falls in with vera, a single mum coping with her invalid mother and taciturn son Donald. vera is desperate for money – as Evans points out, everyone is on the make in the midst of war. Evans’ plot sags a bit in the middle but she subtly debunks the enduring mythology of the british blitz spirit while invoking great sympathy for her outsider characters.

Claire Allfree Crooked Heart (Transworld) is out now

THE GAME OF Our LivES

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this account of modern English football touches on familiar arguments: bland stadiums, foreign owners, ticket prices. yet Goldblatt skates too lightly and includes a few errors – Delia Smith has never been Norwich City’s chairman. Not without intrigue but also a bit of a slog. Ben East The Game Of Our Lives (Viking) is out now

THE HiLLTOP by aSSaf GavroN

two Jewish brothers live in a West bank settlement.

Newly religious Gabi is hoping to find a sense of home in the hilltop town; roni has left his Wall Street job to set up a business. Gavron treads delicately and lets readers draw their own conclusions. Ben Felsenburg The Hilltop (Oneworld) is out now

AMnESiA by PEtEr CarEy

Peter Carey is a bit like the James Ellroy of the southern hemisphere. a down-on-his-luck journo has the exclusive on a computer hacker in hiding; the story he writes takes in personal narratives and neglected moments in australia’s post-colonial history. Carey writes with verve but you’ll need stamina to keep up. CA Amnesia (Faber) is out now

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From book to film…

Class: Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard in An Education (2009)

Making music: John Cusack in 2000’s High Fidelity

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or a chap who pretty much invented lad-lit in the 1990s, Nick Hornby has recently spent a lot of time writing about women.

‘There was the film an Education, then there are forthcoming films Wild, based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, and Brooklyn, an adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel about a Wexford girl in 1950s New York,’ he says, counting them off. ‘Then there’s my new novel, Funny Girl, about a TV actress in the 1960s.’ He stops, a bit sheepish. ‘Because my first book was about football, some people think I’ve become a bit of a weirdo.’

Thanks to the massmarket popularity of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and about a Boy, for a while the name Nick Hornby was synonymous with a particular type of bloke. at the height of the boozed-up, football-mad, emotionally arrested 1990s, chaps who balked at the challenge of committing to a woman for more than four weeks found easy refuge in a new social trope: the blithely unattached new lad whose most meaningful relationship was with his record collection. It’s hard to

know whether Hornby created new laddism or new laddism created him. Either way, Hornby has always felt uncomfortable with the lad-lit label.

‘I can see now that Fever Pitch and High Fidelity were the sort of books that could sink you, because they were both a case of the book and the world matching up at the right moment,’ he says, sucking furiously on an e-cigarette. ‘But the books became much more than they were ever intended to represent. I found myself a spokesman for something I never signed up to’ Fast forward a decade or two and new lad has become metrosexual dad; and Hornby has become a sensitive chronicler of the lives of young women.

‘Women’s lives are so much more moving: they nearly always have some sort of obstacle to overcome,’ he says. ‘Whereas for men, usually the only obstacle they have to overcome is themselves.’

Funny Girl isn’t just the story of a working-class actress from Blackpool, it’s a love letter to the TV cultural explosion of the

HORNBY ON ADApTiNg WiLD ‘Collaborating on a film appeals to me because you don’t get the chance as a writer to work with other people very often but, to be honest, it’s still a matter of sitting on your own in a room, writing.

We were on a ferocious timetable: 13 months from the first conversation to the last day of the shoot.

I only met Reese [Witherspoon,

pictured, who plays Cheryl Strayed] once before filming.

‘Adapting is a real holiday from writing. However good a writer you are, when you write a novel you are still stuck with the limits of your imagination. But adapting someone else’s work is very liberating. You get the chance to get inside someone else’s head.’

Wild is in cinemas from January 16

Lad-lit: Colin Firth in the Fever Pitch adaptation (1997) 1960s and to some of Hornby’s favourite writers: ray Galton and alan Simpson of Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe & Son fame, and The Likely Lads’ Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

‘Galton and Simpson had as much influence on me as any novelist,’ he says, pointing to a childhood filled with the new Saturday teatime pleasure of watching TV. ‘These writers weren’t oxbridge educated but they were very bright. and they were passionately committed to the idea of popular entertainment.’ as is Hornby. He regularly takes issue with the elitist pretensions of highbrow culture. His books are deliberately middle of the road: there to be enjoyed by everyone and he is a passionate advocate of the joys of reading. ‘Noel Gallagher said he didn’t see the point of reading because novels are made up,’ he says. ‘That sort of comment drives me a bit nuts.’

Funny Girl is also Hornby’s sunniest novel. He puts his contented disposition down to years of therapy. He is not ashamed to say he has suffered depression, or to admit periods of his life have been difficult. ‘Part of it was because when you are younger you assume every rejection is definitive,’ he says.

‘But it was also partly because of my eldest son [who has severe autism]. Dealing with that has been a hard, long road for us all.’

Today his career is flourishing and family life is easier. ‘I am much happier in my work,’ he says. ‘I have a much better sense of security in who I am and what I do.’

Funny Girl (Penguin Viking) is out today

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by DAnny HOgAn South AfricA coach heyneke Meyer has remained loyal to the players who beat New Zealand last month by naming an unchanged lineup for the opening match of their northern hemisphere tour against ireland on Saturday. the only change to the matchday squad is at replacement prop, where coenie oosthuizen comes in for injured Marcel van der Merwe. ‘it’s only the fifth time in what will be the 34th test since i was appointed as Springbok coach that we’ve been able to select an unchanged starting lineup,’ Meyer said in a press release from SAru yesterday. ‘in this day and age, not making changes to teams is pretty much unheard of, but this is a great position we’re in. however, we need to make it count against a very tough irish side on Saturday.

‘Although we won our last test, the challenge this week is to make another step up. it’s im-

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Harrington will continue his bid to stop his slide down the world rankings in the Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi this week.

While 40 of the world’s top 50 players are contesting the WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai, world number 340 Harrington is one of nine former major champions in the field at Jackson Country Club. Harrington, who reached a career-high third in the world six months after winning his third major title in the 2008 US PGA Championship, will partner fellow major winners Lucas Glover and David Toms in the opening two rounds of the $4million (€3.2million) event.

fORMuLA1 Lewis Hamilton can still

‘Great shape’: Coenie Oosthuizen at South Africa’s training session at Blackrock College RFC picture: getty

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15-Willie le Roux; 14-Cornal Hendricks, 13-Jan Serfontein, 12-Jean de Villiers (captain), 11-Bryan Habana, 10-Handre Pollard, 9-Francois Hougaard, 8-Duane Vermeulen, 7-Teboho Mohoje, 6-Marcell Coetzee, 5-Victor Matfield, 4-Eben Etzebeth, 3-Jannie du Plessis, 2-Bismarck

du Plessis, 1-Tendai Mtawarira Replacements: 16-Adriaan Strauss, 17-Trevor Nyakane, 18-Coenie Oosthuizen, 19-Bakkies Botha, 20-Schalk Burger, 21-Cobus Reinach, 22Pat Lambie, 23-JP Pietersen

‘Nothing will Savea come Saturday,’ carter hints...

New ZealaNd fly-half dan Carter has warned england that prolific wing Julian Savea is in ‘red hot’ form.

Savea has plundered 29 tries in 30 outings for the all Blacks, but it is against the Red Rose he has been most lethal, touching down eight times in four games.

The 24-year-old has been described as better than Jonah lomu by all Blacks head coach Steve Hansen and will be the world champions’ main strike weapon in Saturday’s QBe Series opener at Twickenham.

‘Julian has really grown. He’s such a huge threat and a great player to have on your side,’ Carter told Sky Sports News.

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F1 title memories give Hamilton lift

‘The challenge this week is to make another step up’ perative that we improve in all facets of our play.’

Meyer said he had thought of giving uncapped Lions prop Julian redelinghuys a spot on the bench in the place of Van der Merwe, but opted for the greater experience of oosthuizen.

‘Although Julian redelinghuys was also considered, he’s still new in the team and not familiar with our patterns of play and especially the line-out calls, while coenie knows the way we play well,’ said Meyer. ‘coenie is also in great shape and we know what he can do, especially if he has to make an impact off the bench. it’s good to have him back.’ the selection of 20-year-old rookie flyhalf handre Pollard over the more precise boot of Morne Steyn suggests the Boks will look to run the ball more, as they did in defeating the All Blacks 27-25 in their last test on oct. 4.

After ireland, South Africa have tour matches against England (Nov 15), italy (Nov 22) and Wales (Nov 29).

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‘Huge threat’: All Blacks winger Julian Savea

‘He’s strong, he’s powerful, he’s fast, he can break tackles and he loves scoring tries.

‘He has a great strike rate against england and every time he pulls on the all Blacks jersey.

He’s in pretty red hot form and is a great player to play alongside.’

Savea will collide with Semesa Rokoduguni, the serving British army soldier who is set to make his debut. ‘every player who pulls on the england jersey performs out of their skin, even more so in the early stages of their career,’ Carter said. ‘For Rokoduguni to come into an environment like this... he’s got nothing to lose

and will make the most of the opportunity.’

Carter won his 101st cap in Saturday’s 74-6 thrashing of the United States, but Hansen hinted afterwards he is unlikely to start against england.

The last 12 months have seen the 32-year-old complete a sixmonth sabbatical and rehabilitate a broken leg and troublesome calf. However, his seven starts at Twickenham have left him with a clear understanding of the occasion.

‘The all Blacks love playing there and it’s never an easy match. It’s going to be a huge occasion and we’ll be up against a strong england side,’ he said.

recall with clarity the day he ‘lost’ and won his only Formula One world title. It was six years ago Hamilton was crowned world champion in Brazil. With title rival Felipe Massa in his Ferrari crossing the line 40 seconds up the road, many people in Ferrari assumed they had won.

At that stage, Hamilton was running in sixth position, but required fifth or better to snatch the title away from Massa. On the last corner he passed Toyota’s Timo Glock to claim victory.

Ahead of his return, he said: ‘Brazil is a very, very special place for me.’

Robshaw issues All Black rallying cry Rugby Chris Robshaw will send England into battle against New Zealand with the warning there is ‘no hiding place’ if they are to overcome the world champions. England are hoping to end a sequence of four successive defeats to the All Blacks at Twickenham on Saturday, in the process serving notice they are credible challengers for the Webb Ellis Cup next year. Robshaw was at the helm in 2012 when Richie McCaw’s New Zealand were crushed 3821 and outlined what it would take to repeat the feat. ‘There’s no hiding place.

We’re not going into this game to come out second best,’ Robshaw said.

Ball’s cricket past Rugby It is not stretching the

boundaries of sporting fantasy to suggest that Wales lock Jake Ball might have played cricket for Australia. But Australia’s loss is Wales’ gain, and Ball will run out against the Wallabies on Saturday for a rugby union Test match that he admits ‘means a lot to me’.

During a previous sporting life, the bearded Scarlets forward struck fear into opposition batsmen on the cricket fields of Western Australia.

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EVERTON should enjoy a straightforward victory when they entertain Lille in tonight’s Europa League action at Goodison Park.

The French strugglers have won only one of their last ten matches, scoring just five times in that run.

The Toffees, on the other hand, have worked hard to correct the defensive woes which hindered them at the start of the season as their rearguard has been breached just once in their four last outings.

Everton will be good enough to

City see red as Euro campaign falls apart NINE-man Manchester City were left gROup E in disarray as they were sunk by an illdisciplined display and two goals from manchester city .1 CSKA Moscow star Seydou Doumbia.

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by Danny griffiths slipped to a defeat which leaves them at the bottom of their group.

Doumbia struck twice in the first half, kick inside the near post after Stevan taking advantage of appalling lapses Jovetic was fouled. from City’s back four.

But City did not learn their from their The Ivory Coast striker was left un- earlier errors and Doumbia scored his marked to open the scoring, headsecond in the 34th minute, firing a ing in a free-kick from seven low shot past Joe Hart after yards when Toure failed to horrific defending from track his run.

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That was in just the secCSKA’s defence held of seydou Doumbia’s ond minute of the game ten career champions strong and goalkeeper and set the tone for the Igor Akinfeev denied League goals have night for the hosts. come against city – two both James Milner and The Etihad Stadium was last season and three substitute Edin Dzeko. plunged into silence as the City then lost their heads this term Russian club’s fans are when half-time substitute banned by Uefa from travelling Fernandinho was sent off for as punishment for racist behaviour. two bookings in eight minutes before The lead lasted just six minutes as Toure was dismissed for needlessly Toure curled a beautiful 25-yard free- shoving Roman Eremenko in the head.

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win this at 5/6 with William Hill, Betfred and Sky Bet, while Romelu Lukaku (pictured) is 4/1 with Ladbrokes, Hills and plenty more firms to score first.

Tottenham have suddenly won three out of their last four games and should improve that tally at Asteras Tripolis this evening.

They beat the same side 5-1 at White Hart Lane and are easy to find at 4/5 to win again. Betfair TunE in Sportsbook TO TOny go 13/8 Tony Finau is worth Harry an each-way punt Kane is at 28/1 with again on William hill for the Spurs golf’s sanderson scoresheet.

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by John payne EDEN HAZARD missed a late penalty as Chelsea’s trip to Slovenia proved anything but straightforward for Jose Mourinho.

Although Nemanja Matic’s second-half goal spared his side’s blushes, the Blues manager’s face looked like thunder for much of the night, despite a sporting hug for Maribor coach Ante Simundza at the end.

Thrashed 6-0 at Stamford Bridge just a fortnight ago, Maribor posed an attacking threat all night and

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Chelsea then began to turn the screw and Matic’s 75th-minute equaliser Minutes Chelsea was the reward for a sushad gone without tained spell of increasing conceding an pressure, poking home away goal in after John Terry had Europe headed down a corner.

As they went in search of a winner, Hazard’s shot was saved

by Jasmin Handanovic after he was brilliantly fed in by Oscar, the keeper made a flying save as Costa’s shot looked destined for the top corner and the striker had a goal ruled out for offside.

Crunch: Maribor’s Ales Mertelj sends Cesc Fabregas flying last night Hazard should have won it for Chelsea from the spot five minutes took a stunning 50th-minute lead gobbling up earlier in the season, from time after he danced into the when Agim Ibraimi curled home the hosts should have made it 2-0 box and was brought down. from the edge of the box. when Mitja Viler crossed from the However, his penalty was After Diego Costa had squan- left but teenage striker Luka hopelessly tame and the heroic dered the kind of opening he was Zahovic blazed over an open goal. Handanovic made an easy save.

Warnock pays price for outburst Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock has been fined €10,000 by the Football association for post-match comments about referee Craig Pawson after the 2-1 Premier league home defeat by Chelsea on October 18. the Eagles boss, 65, had said Pawson was ‘influenced’ by

complaining Blues players as he sent off Palace defender Damien Delaney for a second yellow card.

Warnock denied the charge and had requested a personal hearing, held yesterday. an Fa statement read: ‘Following an independent regulatory commission hearing,

Warnock has been find £9,000 for misconduct in relation to post-match media comments.

‘Warnock was charged following media comments he made after the game which the Fa alleged implied the referee was motivated by bias and/or brought the game into disrepute.’

RIO FERDINAND has been told he ‘should have known better’ than to become involved in a Twitter row which led to a three-match ban. The 35-yearold QPR defender was also handed a €32,000 fine by the Football Association for using the term ‘sket’, slang for a promiscuous girl or woman, in reply to a tweet suggesting Ferdinand’s team needed a new centre-half. A statement by the FA’s independent regulatory commission read: ‘With nearly 6million followers, Mr Ferdinand is clearly an experienced Twitter user and he should know better than to respond in the way that he did. Unfortunately there is no formal or direct admission and certainly no sign of remorse.’ Ferdinand has until Monday to appeal.

60 Minutes injury-plagued West Ham striker Andy Carroll managed to get through in a behind-closed-doors match against Southend yesterday – he could be in contention for Saturday’s Premier League visit of Aston Villa to Upton Park Ollie’s counting to five in referee rant IAN HOLLOWAY insists video technology must be introduced after this week’s refereeing controversies. The boss of Millwall (pictured), sent to the stands on Tuesday after a bustup with Blackburn manager Gary Bowyer, was angered by referee Darren Deadman’s performance in the 2-2 draw. ‘We are sick of mistakes,’ he said. ‘It’s human error, the eyes aren’t quicker than the ball. Get the fourth official in the stand and the decisions right with a camera. What’s happening at the moment cannot be right. It’d take five seconds, that’s all.’

Gala fans arrested

Outburst: Warnock

GERMAN police have arrested 21 Galatasaray fans and opened an attempted manslaughter probe after firecrackers, smoke bombs and flares were thrown at Borussia Dortmund supporters on Tuesday. The Champions League match, won 4-1 by Dortmund, was interrupted twice and police, who reported no injuries, prevented a clash between rival fans after the game.

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RoRy Best has been ruled out of Ireland’s autumn Test opener against South Africa in Dublin on Saturday.

The Ulster hooker, who has won 77 caps, is sidelined due to a calf muscle strain.

Leinster forward Sean Cronin is now likely to start against the Springboks after 32-yearold Best became Ireland’s latest front-row injury casualty following props Cian Healy, Marty Moore and Nathan White.

Tighthead prop Mike Ross, meanwhile, is battling to be fit after a month out with groin trouble, although he returned to training on Tuesday.

‘Following a medical review yesterday evening, Rory has been ruled out of

Replacement: Leinster hooker Sean Cronin is likely to fill in for injured Rory Best (inset) picture: inpho

selection for the game against South Africa,’ the Irish Rugby Football Union said in a statement.

‘His calf strain has been slower to heal than expected.

‘He is partaking in modified training, but a decision has been made not to risk him this weekend, and his progress will continue to be monitored.’

Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt is due to announce his starting line-up for the South Africa clash on Thursday.

After the Springboks, Ireland continue their autumn campaign against Georgia on November 16 before hosting Australia the following weekend.

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CHELSEA were held to a 1-1 draw by a battling Maribor side after Eden Hazard saw a late penalty saved, but Manchester City suffered an even more embarrassing fate.

Jose Mourinho’s men found themselves 1-0 down to a 50thminute Agim Ibraimi strike before Nemanja Matic equalised with 17 minutes left in a thrilling clash in Slovenia.

And, despite Hazard’s profligacy from the spot, the Londoners remain on top of Group G and on course to qualify.

Nine-man City, though, have a mountain to climb to emerge from Group E after they slumped to a 2-1 loss at home to CSKA Moscow.

Fernandinho and goalscorer yaya Toure were both sent off to complete a miserable night for City and a dismal two days of European action for English clubs in general following Arsenal and Liverpool’s poor results on Tuesday.

Relief: Matic celebrates with his Chelsea team-mates after netting the equaliser

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tosh: title hangover is hurting Liverpool JoHN ToSHACK says failing to win last season’s Premier League left a ‘dark cloud’ over Liverpool.

The Reds have won just six of their 16 games this term and their former striker told the BBC: ‘There’s a bit of a hangover there. They went so close after being so long without winning

that championship. I think there’s a dark cloud still hanging over Anfield.’

Boss Brendan Rodgers (pictured) was criticised for making seven changes for Tuesday’s 1-0 defeat to Real Madrid and Toshack, who managed the Spanish giants twice, said: ‘It looked a bit of a damage limitation job.’

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