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NEARLY 300 people, including 80 chil-dren, were killed yesterday when a Malay-sian Airlines flight was reportedly shot down over Ukraine by a ground-to-air missile.

Flight MH17, whose passengers included 154 Dutch, 38 Malaysians, 27 Australians, six Britons and four Germans, came down in fields less than 50km from the border with Russia.

The Boeing 777 was three hours into its

journey from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it disappeared from radar screens at 2.20pm.

An emergency services worker said he had seen more than 100 bodies among wreckage which was scattered over a 15km-wide area, while others found passports and holiday guidebooks strewn over the scene.

One witness said: ‘I was working in the field on my tractor when I heard the sound of a plane and then a bang and shots. Then I saw the plane hit the ground and break in two. There was thick black smoke.’

The crash area, near the town of Shakhtersk, has been the site of fierce fight-ing between Ukrainian troops and Russian separatists.

The Donetsk People’s Republic denied

shooting it down, insisting they did not have the weapons to do it. But DPR ally and Don-bass People’s Militia leader Igor Girkin yes-terday claimed responsibility for bringing down a Ukrainian cargo plane just hours be-fore Flight MH17 came down.

On social media site VK he wrote: ‘Near Torez, we just downed a plane, an AN-26.

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While Wednesday’s din-ner went without a bump, Aniston’s ride home did

not. The 45-year-old had her face in her hands when

her driver scraped her Mercedes.

Cox’s Cougar Town is in its fi-nal season and Aniston is about to return to the big screen in Horrible Bosses 2.

Kudrow, 50, is enjoy-ing TV success in black comedy Web Therapy,

1D Louis’ football club bid falls flatONE Direction singer LouisTomlinson’s bid to buyDoncaster Rovers is in ‘seriousdoubt’ after his plans to tap upfans for £2million (€2.5million)floundered. The 22-year-oldhad teamed up with his hometown club’s former chairmanJohn Ryan to table thetakeover. They put £500,000into the pot to start the ballrolling, but with the four-weekdeadline for donations reachedyesterday, the total pledgedstood at £750,000. A statement said: ‘The Tomlinson Ryan TrustCrowdfunder project has failedto reach the target... as a resultJohn Ryan is unable to meetthe requirements of the Football League Fit and Proper test. The consequence of this is that the deal to take over the club is now in serious doubt.’ Tomlinson and Ryan had hoped to announce the buyout today.

by SEAMUS DUFF IT’S the reunion everyone has been waiting for – the cast of Friends are back together.

Well, the girls were, even if it was just for dinner.

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow enjoyed a night out at Craig’s restaurant in Beverly Hills.

Their rendezvous has sparked fresh pleas from fans of the TV show for new episodes, or a film.

‘I wish they would! It would certainly be a box office hit,’ posted one fan.

However, Cox, 50, has said a screen return with Matt

LeBlanc, 46, Matthew Perry, 44,and David Schwimmer, 47 –

was unlikely. ‘I’ve been try-ing to put together a castdinner for ten years,’ shetold David Letterman inApril.

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Drug mule hid cocaine internallyA FATHER-of-one who was jailed in Dubai for drugspossession faces sentencing for internally transporting €21,000 of cocaine at Dublin Airport.

Lucky Osaseyi, 36, served three years of a ten-yearsentence for the drugs offence in The United Arab Emirates,but was deported back to Ireland in 2011 because of aserious medical condition.

Osaseyi, of Ashford Place,Dublin 7, pleaded guilty to possessing 304g of cocaine inplastic pellets worth €21,284 at Dublin Airport in 2013.

Judge Patricia Ryan adjourned sentencing untilOctober and remanded Osaseyi in custody.

Streaming to count in singles chartTHE Irish singles chart will now use streaming data to determine chart toppers.

The ever-increasing use ofsites like Spotify and Deezer means songs listened to onlinewill count in chart rankingsalongside purchases anddownloads.

Irish Recorded MusicAssocation chairman WillieKavanagh said: ‘Streaming isstill in its infancy, but we’reseeing people embrace it at arapid pace.’

According to GfK Chart-Tracker, which creates the Top100 singles chart, growth instreaming has trebled in thelast year with the top 50 tracks generating 1.4m streamsweekly.

Truck kills woman near Heuston LuasA WOMAN was killed yesterday evening when she was hit by atruck near Heuston Luas stopduring rush hour.

The stop was closed with the area cordoned off.

Red Line services were temporarily only running between the Blackhorse and Tallaght stops as emergency services present at the scene had to park on the Luas tracks.

Gardaí last night confirmed the pedestrian had died and forensic crash investigators were examining the scene.

Anglo clerk in €200,000 fraud to use as ‘war chest’A FORMER Anglo Irish Bank em-ployee will be sentenced next week for a €200,000 computer fraud at a Limerick branch of the bank three years ago.

Gordon O’Brien, 43, committed the fraud as Anglo was calling in its loan accounts during the nationalisation of the bank. It was later noticed during an audit by Anglo’s successor, Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC).

The former clerk committed the fraud by transferring clients’ money into several bank accounts he control-led. He would then take money from internal Anglo accounts and put it into the clients’ accounts to make them seem in order.

O’Brien of Springfield, Dooradoyle, Co Limerick, pleaded guilty to six counts of dishonestly using a compu-ter with the intention of making gain or causing loss at Anglo Irish Bank, Henry Street, Limerick.

The offences occurred between Sep-tember 2010 and June 2011.

O’Brien made full admissions when

confronted by bank officials and all the money was returned soon after.

The court heard there was a lengthy delay in IBRC making a complaint to gardaí because of what was going on in the bank at the time.

O’Brien’s fraud revolved around Anglo’s operations in Limerick which involved loaning money to clients for the leasing of plant machinery.

O’Brien had set the money aside ‘as a war chest’ because he was going to lose his job in the wind-up of the bank, the court heard. His counsel de-scribed him as ‘a decent man who made a catastrophic mistake.’

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that his wife was also going to lose her job with another bank and his son had just been diagnosed with autism and faced a cut to his education grant.

O’Brien faces a maximum sentence of ten years in prison. Judge Patricia Ryan remanded him on continuing bail until July 25 when she will final-ise the case.

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TD claims ‘heavies’ sent to evict a family‘HIRED heavies’ tried to evict a family from its home by lifting the front door off its hinges, a TD has claimed.

Socialist Party TD Ruth Coppinger intervened yesterday to prevent the eviction, saying the tactics being employed to remove the family from their home were ‘disgusting, underhand, and thuggish’.

Ms Coppinger said: ‘Three men,

hired heavies, acting on behalf of the landlord, arrived at the house when a teenage boy was at home.

‘They were refused entry, but then proceeded to let themselves into the house with a set of keys which must have been provided by the landlord, terrifying the boy. They then took the front door off the hinges and said they would be back in a few hours and the family would have to move.’

Ms Coppinger said she and a local member of the Anti-Austerity Alliance arrived at the scene.

The ‘heavies’ were unable to produce court orders saying the family had to leave, she said, adding: ‘However, we were only able to deter the men from throwing them on to the street when I said I was a TD.’

The family had no rent arrears, Ms Coppinger also said.Coppinger: Stopped eviction

Children’s Ombudsman in new human rights roleTHE Children’s Ombudsman Emily Logan is to be nominated as Chief Commissioner of the new Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.

Ms Logan will leave her ombudsman position for the new role, which she’ll start this autumn.

Speaking about her nomination, Ms Logan said: ‘I am honoured to be nominated for the position. It will be an honour to work with a commission of such

calibre, expertise and diversity.‘It has been a privilege to serve as

Ireland’s first Ombudsman for Children for the past decade. It was a remarkable experience for

me both personally and professionally, and I believe my office made an important contribution to the promotion and protection of children’s rights.’

Irish Council for Civil Liberties director Mark Kelly welcomed her appointment.

Owner of dog hurt in fight sought by ISPcATHE ISPCA is looking for a dog’s owners after he was found battered, bloodied and discarded.

Garth, named after country singer Brooks, a young English Bull Terrier

dog, was found in Finglas last Thursday by a member of the public who brought him to the nearby Irish Blue Cross mobile veterinary clinic.

A veterinary examination quickly revealed he had multiple severe wounds to his neck, throat and front legs consistent with bites from another dog.

‘It would appear that Garth was involved in some form of dog fight,’ commented the ISPCA’s chief inspector Conor Dowling. ‘We would really like to identify those responsible and hold them legally accountable for their actions.’Logan: New role


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Running for their lives, the cousins bombed on a beachby DANIEL BINNS

Seconds to live: The cousins try to flee Picture: twitter

Response to Gaza killings ‘lily-livered’TÁNAISTE Joan Burton has defended her Cabinetcolleagues againstaccusations of a ‘ limpand lily-livered’ response to the slaughter in Gaza.

Both Fianna Fáil andSinn Féin have called forthe Government to summon the Israeliambassador to Ireland,Boaz Modai over thelatest escalation ofviolence in the region.

Over the past nine days, 227 Palestinians havebeen killed by Israeli airstrikes – predominantly civilians, according to the United Nations – while one Israeli died from a rocket attack.

UNDER attack, three boys dash for cover after their beach game is inter-rupted by shelling from an Israeli navy ship which killed their cousin.

But they never made it to safety – sec-onds after this picture was taken they too were dead. The boys, all from the Bakr clan, were said to be playing ‘Arabs and Jews’, a traditional Palestinian game based on the Western cops and robbers.

The first shell took out the ‘jail’ hous-ing one of the cousins, the impact rip-ping his body to shreds. A second scored a direct hit on his fleeing rela-tives, killing three more of the family.

Witnesses believe the youngsters were targeted deliberately, a claim Israel de-nies. The new images of Wednesday’s attack in Gaza City, described as a ‘cold-blooded massacre’ by the Bakr clan, emerged hours before Israeli prime min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered ground forces to move into Gaza, mark-ing a major escalation of hostilities.

Residents said the power in the area went off last night as the ‘large force’ began the amphibious operation.

The official Twitter of the Israeli De-fence Forces quoted a spokesman say-

ing: ‘A large IDF force has just launched a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. A new phase of Operation Protective Edge has begun. The new phase follows ten days of Hamas attacks on Israel by land, air and sea and repeated rejections of of-fers to de-escalate the situation.’

The development seemingly scup-pered any hope of a ceasefire. Egypt had been trying to broker a deal but with little success. ‘The situation is likely to get worse because there is no clear way out of it,’ said Moussa Am-ran, 43, a money changer in Gaza City.

More than 200 Palestinians and one Israeli have died since the latest out-break of violence began last week.

Israel says it is taking ‘maximum care’ to avoid innocent deaths, but the United Nations says most of the vic-tims were civilians.


‘If the planedisappearsthis is whatit looks like’

After flight MH370, holidaymaker cracks a joke before boarding doomed plane

A tragic joke: Cor Pan’s quip accompanied this photo of the doomed plane at the gate

by wILL sTOnE

CARnAGE OnFLIGHT MH17

AN EXCITED tourist tweeted a pho-tograph of the doomed Malaysia Air-lines plane – with a reference to flight MH370.

Cor Pan, understood to be going on holiday with his partner, Neeltje Tol, joked about the aircraft which went missing in March.

‘If it disappears, this is what it looks like,’ he wrote.

Friends of the pair wrote ‘happy holidays’ on Facebook – but well-wishing soon turned to panic after a story about the crash was posted within the comments.

A loved one, Paul Wante, posted: ‘There are two flights – one at 9am,

one at 12.14pm... I hope that it isn’t the one Cor and Neeltje are on.’

As friends realised that they were on

the afternoon journey, the mood turned sombre.

‘Let’s hope it’s a mis- understanding but I fear the worst,’ Petra Kuipers wrote.

Another, Tess Evenboer, tried to reassure concerned relatives. She added: ‘Guys, we need to hope it is an emergency landing. There are people who survive this.’

Throughout yesterday afternoon,

when pictures showing the extent of the crash began to be published on Twitter, tributes were paid.

Carola Steur posted: ‘Strength for the family and rest in peace, dear people.’

Meanwhile, actor Jason Biggs sparked outrage hours after the crash,

when he tweet-

ed: ‘Anyone wanna buy my Malay-sian Airlines frequent flyer miles?’

The American Pie star, 36, refused to apologise despite hundreds of com-plaints. He later added: ‘You losers are literally trying to find s*** to get angry about.’

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VICTIMS’ relatives were driven away in buses last night as it became clear no one had survived the crash of MH17. More than 100 had gathered at Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport – where the plane took off – desperately hoping for news of loved ones. They were then taken to a private area as photos revealed the extent of the carnage. In Malaysia, news of the devastating missile blast arrived during the night. But a handful of relatives assembled at the plane’s intended destination, Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Akmar Binti Mohd Noor, whose sister was a passenger, burst into tears in front of a crowd of journalists as the 67-year-old waited outside a ‘family holding area’.

waiting for news that never arrived

Distraught: News breaks at Schipol

Leaders are left looking for answersMALAYSIA’S prime ministerNajib Razak announced animmediate investigation intothe crash. ‘We must, and we will, find out precisely what happened to this flight. Nostone will be left unturned,’ hesaid. Dutch prime ministerMark Rutte said he was ‘deeply shocked’. US president BarackObama said the ‘world waswatching’ as details emerged,and Russin leader VladimirPutin offered ‘deepestcondolences’. British leaderDavid Cameron said he was‘saddened’, adding: ‘Officialsfrom across Whitehall are meeting to establish the facts.’

Smoke: First footage of crash

‘We have issued warnings not to fly in our airspace.’ He later deleted the post.

And Kiev immediately claimed rebels had brought it down with a BUK ground-to-air missile.

Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko described the crash as a terrorist act adding: ‘We are sure those who are guilty in this tragedy will be held responsible.’

Pro-Russian rebels rejected the charges and last night made unverified claims that they had recovered the black box. The separatists have said they will have up to three days of ceasefire in eastern Ukraine to allow for recovery work at the site. The UN Security Council has called an emergency meeting on Ukraine for later today.

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A BOY of nine who became one of the world’s youngest grooms has married his 62-year-old wife for a second time.

Saneie Masilela insisted on following South African tradition by holding a follow-up ceremony one year on to confirm his union with Helen Shabangu.

The youngster kissed the bride – a friend of his mother – as they repeated their vows in front of 100 guests in Ximhungwe, Mpumalanga. Schoolboy Saneie’s family allowed his marriage after he claimed their dead

ancestors had told him to wed. But mother Patience said it changed nothing between him and Mrs Shabangu, who already has a

husband.She said: ‘People keep

asking them questions, like will they live together, sleep together, have babies. But I keep telling them that after the wedding everything went back to normal.

‘By doing this we made the ancestors happy. If we hadn’t done what my son had asked then something bad would have happened in the family.’


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and finally...bELgiuM: A ‘happy birthday’ serenade can be awkward – so spare a thought for Angela Merkel. The German chancellor had an uncomfortable 60th birthday gift when a reporter sang to her on live TV in Brussels.

PHiLiPPiNES: A resident clears debris from his village in Batangas City after it was hit by Typhoon Rammasun. At least 38 people have been killed in the storm which is now heading to China PICTURE: EPA

Fatal blow to death penalty ‘violation’?AMERicA: A judge has dealt a potentially fatal blow to California’s death penalty. Judge Cormac Carney said over the last 35 years, of the 900 people sentenced to death only 13 had been executed. He said the death penalty was an empty promise that violates the constitutional ban against ‘cruel and unusual’ punishments. Activist Gil Garcetti said it was a ‘truly historic’ ruling.

Priest brought drugsto transvestite partyiTALy: A Roman Catholic priest was caught with cocaine at a raucous party attended by transvestites, police claim. Fr Stefano Cavalletti allegedly tried to flush his stash down a toilet as he was arrested at the bash in Milan but later admitted it was his. Officers said the 45-year-old, of Carciano, told them he started using cocaine after he was convicted of a €20,000 fraud last year.

Princess owns up to staging cockfightsAMERicA: A Romanian princess has admitted making gambling profits from illegal cockfights staged at her ranch. Irina Walker, whose father King Michael I was ousted in 1947, accepted a deal that saw her and husband John, 68, cleared of cruelty charges. The 61-year-old descendant of Britain’s Queen Victoria faces a fine of €147,000 after hosting at least ten matches in Irrigon, Oregon.

Hollande’s ex costs taxpayer €600,000FRANcE: François Hollande’s jilted live-in lover cost taxpayers at least €600,000 last year, it emerged yesterday. Valerie Trierweiler, who the president ditched for actress Julie Gayet in January, ran up expenses of €480,000 – not including the wages of her four bodyguards and an array of extras. The 49-year-old, a Socialist Party member, had previously insisted she cost the taxpayer very little.

Only nine and he’s on his second marriage

Kiss: Saneie and Helen


Cryptic Cocker keeps counsel

over reunionJarvis Cocker kept fans guessing when

asked if Pulp would be get back together

again. ‘I get asked that a lot,’ said the

singer. ‘Somebody asked, “Is that a full stop

or a question mark?” I said, “It’s a comma”

and I’m going to stick with that.’

After his cryptic answer drew blank looks,

Cocker, 50, hinted the band might be

tempted to play again following the

success of their reunion tour in 2011 and

2012. ‘If it was to happen... it would have to

feel right. We’ll just have to see,’ he teased,

at the DVD release of documentary Pulp:

A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets.

Born to die Lana: I’m f****** crazy ...but not suicidalSinger dismisses her ‘wish I was dead’ commentsLana Del Rey admits she feels ‘f****** crazy’ – but she is not as suicidal as everyone thinks.

The Born To Die singer, who caused uproar in a recent interview when she said ‘I wish I was dead,’ said it’s not uncommon for people to think she

wants to take her own life.‘I find that most people I meet fig-

ure I kind of want to kill myself anyway,’ she said after blaming ‘sin-ister’ interviewers for planting leading ques-tions. ‘So, it comes up every time.’

Del Rey also claimed she doesn’t want peo-ple to hear heartfelt lyrics in her music. ‘I’m very selfish. I make everything for me, kind of,’ she told Rolling Stone magazine.

‘I mean, every little thing, down to the guitar and the drums. It’s just for me... I don’t want (listen-ers) to hear it and think about it.

It’s none of their business!’Meanwhile, Del Ray has been handed an olive branch by Court-

ney Love, 50, who invited her to watch her future son-in-law’s band The Ee-ires perform at The Viper Room in LA. Love’s daughter Frances Bean Cobain, 21, is engaged to frontman Isaiah Silva.

Cobain, whose fa-ther, Nirvana frontman Kurt, took his own life aged 27 in 1994, had hit out at Del Rey.

In tweets aimed at the newbie, she told the singer not to ‘romanticise’ dying young because it is ‘not cool’.

Will she or won’t she release a new album? Speculation

surrounding Adele’s comeback has been shot down by the star’s record label, days after the World Music Awards claimed she would be touring to support the launch of her next album, believed to be called 25. XL Recordings however, told Billboard it wasn’t

true. The 26-year-old scored hits with

19 and 21.

I drive Lewis batty whenI’m behind the wheel...Nicole Scherzinger might have some explaining to do to police after she bragged she regularly talks on her mobile and does her make-up while driving. ‘I’ve always driven like a bat out of

hell,’ she told The Hits Radio. And her antics worry boyfriend, F1 star Lewis Hamilton. ‘He’s always like “two hands on the wheel!, two hands on the wheel!”’ she said.

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emotional things he was trying

to figure out,’ she told

Good MorningAmerica.

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Married a player? I’m the coach: CherylNewlywed Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has al-ready had to squash rumours her husband is a womaniser.

The X Factor judge, 31, responded to claims partner Jean-Bernard, 33, has an ‘eye for the ladies’.

Cheryl replied with a smouldering Insta-gram picture accompanied with the caption: ‘I heard you’re a player. Nice to meet you. I’m the coach.’

Her public rebuke came after JB’s friend

and boxing coach Curtis Jones, 30, snitched to a tabloid: ‘I’m so happy he has found love – but I would say to Cheryl she’s got to keep a close eye on Jean.’

Jones also alleged how JB loved to be sur-rounded by women and champagne on a night out.

Cheryl, who has dropped first hubby Ash-ley Cole’s surname, had a rush Caribbean wedding ten days ago in front of just four people on the island of Mustique. Despite

fans’ surprise at Cheryl’s haste, she told her following her French lover had made her ‘very happy’.

Cheryl’s former Girls Aloud foe Nadine Coyle broke her silence to pile on the pres-sure.

The 29-year-old Northern Irish mum-of-one tweeted: ‘Aww @CherylOfficial you must be having an amazing time. I am so happy for you! Good luck with everything. Come join the baby club. Best ever.’

Former X Factor brat Cher Lloyd says she is

finally happy in her own skin now she is not

being told what to wear. Fresh from

conquering the US the Swagger Jagger

singer has shown off her glamorous

new look in some classy black and

white shots. ‘I’m much more

comfortable and confident

with my look and style now,’

she said. ‘When I was on The

X Factor I couldn’t 100 per

cent be myself. I felt

that I wasn’t good

enough and had self-

confidence issues,’ said

Lloyd who appeared on

the talent show in

2010. She told Wonderland magazine: ‘I’m 21

very soon, so I’ve

grown up at lot since I was 16!’

Cher: I’ve got my

style swagger back

Being herself: A content Cher LloydLiam warwick/wonderLand

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Call for new look at laws on racismNELSON Mandela Day should spur the Government to get tough on racism, the Immigrant Council of Ireland has said.

Today would have beenNelson Mandela’s 96th birthday and Denise Charlton, chief ofthe ICI, said we should reflect on the anti-Apartheid hero’s fight for human rights.

She said: ‘The celebration ofNelson Mandela’s 96th birthday is an opportunity for Ireland to focus on its own human rightsrecord and in particular on theincreasing levels of racismbeing reported.’

The ICI wants the NationalAction Plan on Racism to be putin place, as well a review of laws relating to discrimination.

Danish DNA is the key to happiness THEY are officially the happiestpeople on Earth and now scientists think they know why life is a dream for the Danes.

The key to their contentment appears to be Danish DNA.

Researchers at the Universityof Warwick in the UK looked at data from 131 countries andfound that the closer a nationwas genetically to the Danes,the happier its people were.

Danish birth was alsoassociated with specific versionsof a gene that influences brainlevels of serotonin.

Last year’s UN WorldHappiness Report rankedDenmark top, followed by Norway, the Netherlands,Switzerland and Sweden.

Gives you wings... or a headacheRED BULL gives you wings... butdrinking it with alcohol canleave you flying.

Revellers who mix energydrinks with vodka increase theirurge to down more booze, astudy suggests.

This in turn may leave someone vulnerable to attacks, injuries or regrettable sexual exploits, experts warn.

Researchers at the Australian National University gave 46 women and 29 men either a cocktail containing 60ml of vodka and an energy drink or the same measure mixed with soda water and found those given the energy drink had a stronger urge to drink more.

Thunder, hail, flying ants, it’s a typical Irish summerby ORNA CuNNINGHAM

WELCOME to the summer of The Plague – between thunder, lightning, flocks of raucous seagulls and the fast approach of Flying Ant Day, it’s all looking a lot less end of summer and a lot more the end of days.

In the next few days we can expect a panoply of biblical weather conditions – thunder, humidity, heat, hail, lightning and flooding in certain areas, as Met Éireann issued a yellow alert yesterday, saying temperatures of 24C, gusty winds and heavy, thundery downpours were expected for last night.

Today will be warm and sticky (perfect for those swarms of flying ants that seasonally appear at this time of year, according to Rentokil), with hazy sunshine and highs of 18 to 22 degrees, while three south Dublin beaches remained closed to bathers last night because of suspected faecal matter in the water.

A plague on the crops is a possibility too, as Met Éireann also issued a blight warning for potatoes for today and tomorrow.

But as today goes on, more heavy rain is due to hit, with a risk of hail and lightning. And the darkness won’t bring relief, with unusually high temperatures of between 14C and 17C.

Tomorrow will be hot and muggy once more, but nothing can deter a plague of ‘scavenger’ seagulls in the capital, which Senator Ned O’Sullivan said in the Seanad yesterday ‘have lost the run of themselves’.

Be careful too, to avoid a plague of rashes from a moderate pollen count and skin irritation by wearing SPF in sunny weather. Conditions will freshen on Sunday, but we’re not get-ting off that easy as scattered showers are threatened – and Rentokil told Metro Herald that it’s the pest control company’s busiest time of the year for the flying ant population, whose bites can cause an allergic reaction in some people.

No jail for cancer survivorwho grew cannabis plantsA LUNG cancer survivor who said he grew cannabis plants partly for pain relief has avoided going to jail.

Father-of-one Stephen Young, 46, pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis at Glasslynn Apartments, Howth Road, on October 15, 2012.

The court heard that Young, of Red Archers Close, Baldoyle, went to ‘elaborate lengths’ to shield his daughter from the drugs by renting a room in a different house for the purpose of growing the plants.

The court heard that nerve pain is common among lung cancer patients where the removal of a tumour causes nerves to be pushed against bone.

A number of medical reports were presented in court, including one from Young’s GP noting that Young suffers from pain in his right lung and smokes cannabis for its analgesic effects.

Judge Mary Ellen Ring suspended a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence on condition Young carries out community service.

Robber who ‘foamed at mouth’ awaits sentenceA GRANDFATHER and chronic heroin addict will be sentenced later for a robbery at a Dublin pharmacy during which he threatened staff with a scissors.

Jason Finlay, 43, was ‘foaming at the mouth’ as he pressed the blade of the scissors against a pharmacist before robbing €600 worth of Valium, a court heard. He faces sentencing for this next February at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Separately, Finlay was jailed for three-and-a-half years for a botched post office robbery during which he

produced a large kitchen knife.Finlay, of Judge Darley’s Hostel,

Parkgate Street, pleaded guilty to attempted robbery at Templeogue Post Office on January 3, 2013.

Eight months later while on bail, he robbed Janet Dillon’s Pharmacy on Manor Street in Dublin 7. He later pleaded guilty to the robbery.

Judge Mary Ellen Ring agreed to postpone sentencing on the phar-macy robbery so that Finlay could work with a clinical psychiatrist with a view to providing him with a structured sentence.

Shark chokes on a sea lion snackA SEA LION gobbled by this great white shark had the final say in their tussle – when the fearsome fish choked to death on its corpse.

It was found wedged in the throat of the predator, which washed up on a beach in Western Australia.

The 3m shark had been towed out to sea by concerned

residents after it was filmed thrashing about and then beached itself in Howatharra.

But it turned up dead two days laterwith no signs of injury. An autopsy

revealed the sealion. Theshark’s writhing mayhave been anattempt to clearthe blockage,one expertexplained.

Distress: The choking shark thrashes about in the water

Washed up: Shark on beach Pictures: sWNs

EVER wanted to step into Evelyn Cusack’s shoes? Your chance to forecast the weather is here with the Science Gallery’s latest exhibition, Strange Weather. Visitors to the show, which opens at noon today, at the Trinity College venue can present and record a forecast in front of a green screen to be uploaded to YouTube. See sciencegallery.com for more details.

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Cassidy weepsas Texas gun victims buried

Getting their Ekso suits on

TAKING its nascent steps towards revolutionising rehabilitation in Ireland, the Ekso bionic suit was unveiled at Dundrum Town Centre.

With battery-powered motors to drive movement and return a portion of neuro-muscular function to the

wearer, the exoskeleton enables those with lower extremity paralysis to walk again.

Jane Evans, director of RollingBall – the company working to bring the suit designed by Californian firm Ekso Bionics into Ireland – said: ‘I’d like to

see Ekso in rehab hospitals but also outside of these facilities.’

Adventurer Mark Pollock, the Commonwealth Games medalist left paralysed after a fall from a second story window, has pioneered the use of the robotic suit.

Bionic man: Emily Casey, 18, from Dalkey and Dale Messenger, was paralysed from the waist down after being shot while serving with the being shot while serving with the par ysparalysed from the waist down after

British Army, demonstrates British Army, demonstrates being shot while s ng wbeing shot while serving with the

the suit. See gometro.ie/ekso for video pictures: leon

Cowell? He’s gayFORMER X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos’s manager said Simon Cowell was secretly gay, a court heard yesterday.

Gareth Varey made the claim in a conversation recorded in a meeting with ‘fake sheikh’ Mazher Mahmood.

The undercover reporter, who was supplied with cocaine by a friend of the singer, asked if Mr Varey fancied Cowell.

After he replied ‘no’, Mr Mahmood asked: ‘How do you know he’s gay?’

Mr Varey responded: ‘I know people who have’. Cowell, 54, became a father for the first time in February after his girl

friend Lauren Silverman, 37, gave birth to their son, Eric. Yesterday, Cowell’s spokesman said: ‘We are bound by contempt of court rules so cannot respond to these claims in the manner we wish to.

‘We are speaking to the Attorney General’s office – and we intend to make a statement in court as soon as possible.’

Mr Mahmood, who posed as an Indian film producer during several meetings with Contostavlos, claimed she asked for £3million to star as a ‘bad girl’ in a Slum

dog Millionaretype film. Her barrister, Jeremy Dein QC, said The Sun On Sunday reporter manipulated her and spiked her drink during a meeting in May last year.

‘Absolutely outrageous,’ Mr Mahmood replied. Mr Dein said: ‘You got her to incriminate herself,’ to which the reporter replied: ‘I think that is nonsense.’

Contostavlos, 25, of Friern Barnet, denies being concerned in brokering the drug deal. The trial at Southwark crown court continues.

Shock claim in Tulisa caseby GRAHAM kEnT

Recording: Simon Cowell‘Families are for ever’: The Stays, with Cassidy far left and above right

THE lone survivor of a family shooting wept as six white caskets carrying the bodies of her parents and younger siblings were held aloft at their funeral.

Cassidy Stay, who survived a gunshot wound by pretending to be dead, put on a brave face, waving to supporters as she arrived at the 1,000-strong service.

But the 15-year-old broke down as the bodies of her parents – Stephen Stay, 39, and Katie, 34 – were carried out of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Houston, Texas.

Poster-size photos of her siblings – Bryan, 13, Emily, nine, Rebecca, six, and Zach, four – smiled down on her.

‘Families are for ever,’ said her uncle, Jeff, his voice halting. ‘We know we will meet them again.’

Cassidy was hailed for her bravery last week after she called police and identified her aunt’s ex-husband, Ronald Lee Haskell, 33, as the gunman.

Haskell, who tied up the family before killing them execution-style, faces multiple charges of murder.


You’ve been doing well in the US lately…? Yes, it’s been fun – and it’s been a f***ing surprise. It all started from last year’s Edinburgh Fringe show which was, in my opinion at least, the best show I’ve ever done. A producer for Conan O’Brien’s TV show saw me and invited me to perform with them, and it was amazing. I’ve never had so many people wishing me well. They’ve been doing the show for years – one a day, four days a week – and they’re just so relaxed.

What about this sitcom pilot you have in the works? I’ve agreed to come up with an idea for O’Brien’s production company and so at the moment I’m meeting with writers. It’s going to be centred on a Scottish person who doesn’t do an American accent. That is, unless I want to grossly offend millions of Americans with my p***-poor attempt.

Do they under-stand your accent?Surprisingly, yes. I don’t know how, I don’t know why – though my Scottish accent isn’t particularly thick. I think that’s very much helped my success over there.

Do you have any celebrity friends? I’ve met people. When I was over there I did a gig in a club and Miley Cyrus was in the crowd. I didn’t want to speak to her, though apparently she liked my jokes. But then if Miley Cyrus laughs at your jokes, I don’t know whether to take that as a compli-ment or not. Maybe I need to up the intelligence of my jokes.

You were the youngest person to do a solo season in the West End and you did a BBC pilot at 19 – that’s a lot of pressure on young shoul-ders? I didn’t really feel any pressure because I never expected any of that stuff. It wasn’t like: ‘Oh my God, if I don’t do this, I’ve failed.’ No, who gives a s***? I don’t fear failure – if you fail, that’s just how this industry works. You learn. I think I was too stupid and oblivious to understand how much pressure there might have been.

Do you feel less defined by

your youth in the US than in Britain? Yes. Over here, when I started, I was young – 18 or 19 – so the ‘young’ thing always followed me around. Whereas the first time Americans had ever heard of me was when I was 23. So, over there, it’s given me a chance to be myself rather than be my age.

Who has taught you the most? Comedy-wise, watching a lot of US comedians like Louis CK and Pete Holmes. I learned from them how to do the raw comedy, the honest comedy that I want to do, stripping down things layer by layer. Also, the Canadian comic Tom Stade. We’ve done some writing together. He’s been able to bring out a side of me that I didn’t know was there. He’s fearless.

Who can you do a great impression of? No one – my

voice is deep and it carries, it’s not one for impressions.

Though I can do a great impression of

my Dad. He is a lovely man, but sometimes he’s incapable of emotion. His reaction to ‘your

first-born son is doing really well

in his career’ would be very similar to

‘Daniel has just died in a horrific car accident’.

What will you be chatting about during your shows at this year’s Vodafone Comedy Festival? Loads of incidents in the US. Like when I did a gig in Indianapolis and 40 people got up and walked out after a certain joke I said about the existence, or lack thereof, of God. It wasn’t an offensive joke. Well, it was offensive because it was clever – and that was what they didn’t like.

Where do you want to be in ten years’ time? Stand-up comedy is my favourite thing in the world, so in ten years’ time I want to be ten times a better comedian than I am now. I don’t necessarily want to be the most famous comedian in the world, but I do want to be one of the greatest. They are two very different things.

Sharon LougherDaniel Sloss Live airs tomorrow at 11.50pm on Comedy Central. He performs at the Vodafone Comedy Festival in The Iveagh Gardens, July 24-27. vodafonecomedy.com

Scottish stand-up DAniEL SLOSS, 23, is earning a whole lot of love in the US, where his fans include Miley Cyrus. He performs in Dublin later this month at the Vodafone Comedy Festival

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FTEr reading the arti-cle about the battle for the cheapest school uniforms that super-markets are running

[MH, Thurs], I wonder how many people have been working in mis-erable conditions and how the en-vironment of the countries in which the factories are settled has been polluted, so it is possible to get a whole uniform for that price.

I have always found school uni-forms very expensive, but now we know that between black and white there are at least 50 shades of grey. Who is really paying those uni-forms?

What lies beneath

To the woman on the 27 on Thursday morning who gave the bus driver a tongue-lashing as she alighted, because there were ‘too many people on the bus’ – I gather

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Grateful commuter

Your front page headline [Thurs] got me thinking. Are men with erectile dysfunction just playing hard to get? Sniffer

Summer is here. Clear blue skies. Warm summer breezes. Play-ful birdsong from all directions and let’s not forget the omnipresent and deadly stench of cigarette smoke at the bus stop.

Is there anything more gratifying on a warm summer’s day than hav-ing the air you breathe polluted and your life shortened? Thank you smokers.

Coughing Cal

I have one cat who claws my furniture and another who leaves

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muddy pawprints on my duvet, and both steal my food when I’m not looking. When they are in at the same time fur flies.

It wouldn’t be so bad, but neither of them is mine: they climb in through my windows. I’ve come to the conclusion that cats are just people without morals and inhibi-tions, really.

Furball Frank

Oh for heaven’s sake MH, think of those of us who are a bit fragile in the mornings before you publish a story about foods we haven’t tried btw I’ve had all of them), above a story – with a picture – of a cockroach in someone’s salad.

Next time put a warning on the front page or something. You do that with TV spoilers and believe me this is a much worse spoiler for me? Queasy Kate

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AS WHITE AS A, ERM, CROW: This snap of an albino crow was taken outside Citywest Shopping Centre by Barry Hughes. Apparently a small Apparently a small

ry Hughes.Barry Hughes.

percentage of crows can have some white markings, but it is rare to see one which is almost completely white like this one

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Well done to the young man in jeans and a hoodie who kindly helped a elderly man onto the Luas near Jervis Street yesterday. You’re a credit to your generation. Middle-aged fogey

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gOOD On yATo the large alpha male in the tuxedo who

was on the 22.45 Luas to Dundrum, I am currently in a fertile stage. Why don’t we just cut the pretentious dating bullcrap? I do have a species to keep alive, and I need to play strange, subtle, manipulative games with your man mind and life. Btw I’m the red-head wearing tight black and golden boots.

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Wed in a cold snapBrrrr-ide and groom chill out on their big day with pictures in Alaskan ice cave

by DAniEL binnsWHEN mountain rescue volunteer Torsten Ernst met Sarah Morin in Alaska’s Menden-hall Glacier, he felt a warm glow all over.

That was in 2009 and now the US couple have returned to have their wedding photos taken at the 20km long glacier. To get there

they had to kayak and trek to the opening of the ice cave. Photographer Chris Beck said: ‘As both Torsten and Sarah are active I wanted to capture the essence of them as a couple.’

Don’t pan this idea – it’s selfie toastYESTERDAY GoMetro.ie brought you the selfie stick, now feast your eyes on the selfie toaster.

Yes, that’s right, you can butter up your cheeks and wash yourself down with your morning cuppa – all for around $75 (€55)…

The very real product from the US, dubbed Burnt Impressions, can burn your face on to a slice of toast, as well as some famous favourites – yumtacular. But careful now, it comes with a disclaimer: ‘We are good but remember: fine detail is darn near impossible to achieve with heat and toast. If we squint and can’t see your face we will cancel order and refund your purchase.’

Check out Guy Fawkes, poet Edgar Allan Poe and Jesus toast.Best thing since sliced bread: A toasted selfie, and Jesus, Poe and Fawkes

‘Out of it’ McEnroe Jnr faces 25yrs over cocaine

Father: McEnroe with son Kevin

JOHN McENROE has said he is ‘extremely upset’ after his eldest son was arrested for allegedly buying cocaine and dozens of pills.

The former tennis champion yesterday said his family was rallying around Kevin, 27, as he ‘works through his issues’.

McEnroe’s comments came after his son, who faces up to 25 years in jail, was arrested in Manhattan on Tuesday.

He was caught with six small bags of cocaine, ten morphine pills and

20 painkillers, say police. Prosecutors want to pursue

McEnroe Jnr for dealing but his lawyer said there was ‘nothing remarkable’ about the amount of

drugs found on her client.

The barman’s actress mother Tatum O’Neal, 50, who has battled drug addiction, looked close to tears at Manhattan criminal court on Wednesday.

McEnroe Jnr, whose neighbours in Brooklyn said he often looks ‘out of it’, was released on bail.

Crystal wedding: Torsten and Sarah Ernst kiss beneath the pure blue ice sheet as water cascades around them in the depths of the Mendenhall glacier in Alaska Pictures: cHris BecK/cAters NeWs


television ★Must see

dirty harry ITV4, 9pm

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The first in the Dirty Harryseries now synonymous withits star Clint Eastwood –although the role wasoriginally intended for FrankSinatra. Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan is on the trailof deranged psychopathScorpio. When legaltechnicalities stand betweenthe murderer and justice,Harry takes the law into hisown hands, assisted by his.44 Magnum. Critics foundthe film controversial, sayingit glorified a fascist police force, but it proved to be anenduring classic of thehard-bitten cop genre.

transatlantic sessions RTÉ1, 7.30pm

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john lennon live in new york Sky Arts 1, 9pm

Friday nights are full of music treats at the moment and this one is a gem. It’s Lennon performing a charity concert at Madison Square Garden in 1972, the year after the release of his classic album Imagine – with the bitter bust-up of the Beatles behind him – a singalong Give Peace A Chance the epitome of optimism.

sound city BBC4, 11pm

Dave Grohl directs this documentary about the history of the legendary Sound City recording studio in California from the 1960s to its closure in 2011. Nirvana recorded their Nevermind album here and Grohl is joined by the likes of Trent Reznor, Paul McCartney and Fleetwood Mac for this illuminating trip down musical memory lane.

what happens in vegas

C4, 12.05amCameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher star as strangers who wake up after a wild night together in Las Vegas to discover they’re married. However, since they’ve won $3million on a slot machine, they must stay together for the sake of the money. Breezy, if overly contrived, romcom that relies heavily on the charm of its leads.

proof of life RTÉ1, 10.05pm

Famous for the on-set romance between stars Russell Crowe and Hollywood sweetheart Meg Ryan – while she was still married to Dennis Quaid – this kidnap drama deals with the fall-out after an engineer is abducted in a fictional Latin American nation and his wife falls for the negotiator who is tasked with bringing back her husband alive.

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EMAnD▲D▲NEW oNhorrible bossesDark comedy in whichthree men (led by JasonBateman) worn down by the soul-destroying grindof capitalism hatch adrunken plan to kill eachother’s bosses. ColinFarrell is brilliant as abalding coke-headnepotistic business owner, and Jennifer Aniston issurprisingly convincing asa nymphomaniac dentist.

the stagIrish comedy in whichmiddle-class men goon a camping trip to celebrate theimpending wedding ofFionnan (HughO’Conor). However, theexpedition spins out ofcontrol when thebride’s overbearingbrother takes charge ofthe stags.

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Film

Strumming and jammingfrom the banks of LochLomond, this acousticshowcase, featuring the bestof folk musicians fromIreland, Scotland andNashville, continues withCo Clare native and Grammy nominee Maura o’Connelljoining Mary ChapinCarpenter and Scot JulieFowlis to rehearse and play with no audience exceptthemselves and a houseband, while Tim o’Brien addsbittersweet Appalachianbluegrass to the mix.

Music

the joy of theguitar riff

BBC4, 9pmHear the phrase ‘guitar riff’ and what’s the first worm that wriggles in your ear? Led Zep’s Whole Lotta Love? The Stones’ Satisfaction? Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit? There’s nothing like an electric guitar to get the rock juices flowing and this rhythmic groove through the art of the riff features a who’s who of guitar greats, from Chuck Berry to Johnny Marr, in a show that’s bound to get you making a Best Riff Ever playlist.

the kingdom UTV, 11.10pm

FBI agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) and his team of counter terrorism operatives are given five days to investigate a deadly attack on American forces in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, hostile local officials are not too keen on this intrusion by a westerner. Mediocre thriller directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) and also starring Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, and Jason Bateman.

tour de france beo 2014 TG4, 1.10pm

Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali retained the yellow jersey as Norwegian Alexander Kristoff raced to victory in a sprint finish to Saint-Etienne in the south-east yesterday. Today’s 13th stage takes the peloton to the Alps with a mountain-top finish in Chamrousse.

thank gaa it’s friday RTÉ2, 8.30pm

on this weekly edition of news, views and interviews of all things GAA, recently retired athlete David Gillick talks about his return to his first love as he plays football with Ballinteer St John’s. We catch up with Meath’s Paddy o’Rourke ahead of this Sunday’s Leinster football final against old rivals Dublin, while Waterford hurler Stephen Molumphy chats about his other field manoeuvres with the Irish Defence Forces.

the villagethat’s fallinginto the sea

BBC1, 7.30pm

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FactualSport

All along Britain’s east coastthere was a collective holdingof breath on December 5 lastyear as the biggest tidalsurge in 60 years gatheredout at sea. The seaside villageof Hemsby in Norfolk wasamong the worst hit, withhomes lost to the sea on landravaged by erosion. Afterthat, many would havepacked up and moved on.But, as reporter DavidWhiteley discovers, Hemsby locals are made of stern stuff– and are fighting back.

the walking dead RTÉ2, 10.50PMAfter last week’s transformation of the Governor from mass murderer to hero, he’s back at the centre of tonight’s episode of the post-apocalyptic drama, but this time the bad Governor (David Morrissey) is to the fore. So it’s probably not a good idea for Caesar Martinez (Jose Pablo Cantillo, pictured with Morrissey) to go golfing with him then?


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Evolution revolution

All the latest film releases – P17


out of town bRAy AiR DispLAyIreland’s largest air show hits Bray this weekend as part of thetown’s annual Summerfest. Following record crowds – some80,000-plus – at last year’s event, organisers are expecting aneven bigger turn-out with ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ aplenty asvisitors gaze aloft at daredevildisplays from the likes offormer aerobatics

champion Eddie Goggins,with such aircraft as TheHunter, The Sabre, andthe Vampires making theirIrish aerial debutSun, from 3pm, free.www.brayairdisplay.com

HEAR THE NATiONALMatt Berninger’s brooding Ohio indie rockers, whose 2005 breakthrough album Alligator was a volatile Bukowskian night of wine, women and self-loathing, play two Dublin shows this week, showcasing tracks from latest LP, Trouble Will Find Me – a gorgeously brooding affair that unfurls a little more with each listen. Support from Owen Pallett who also performs solo in Whelan’s on Sunday Tonight & tomorrow, The Iveagh Gardens, Harcourt Street D2, 7pm (sold out). Tel: 0818 719 300. www.americanmary.com

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon get dolled up in drag and stow away with an all-girl band, that includes a flighty ukulele player called Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), after they’re witnesses to the St Valentine’s Day Massacre. Billy Wilder’s 1959 screwball classic, named the funniest movie of all time by the American Film Institute, has lost none of its charm Until Jul 24, IFI, 6 Eustace Street D2, various times prices. Tel: (01) 679 3477. www.ifi.ie

sEE LOw LEvEL pANicGalway’s Anam Theatre Company presentsClare McIntyre’s sharp, comic three-handerwhich was first performed in 1988 to criticalacclaim; with a script that explores itsfemale characters’ fraught relationshipswith their own desires, their body imageand each other, it remains as topical as everTonight & tomorrow, The New Theatre, 43 East Essex St, Temple Bar D8, 7.30pm, €15. Tel: (01) 670 3361. www.anamtheatre.com

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Last year’s Longitude was one of the summer’s festival highlights not just because of its stellar line-up – a mix of seminal veteran acts (Kraftwerk) and cracking newcomers (Vampire Weekend) – but because the weather was also a triumph. While we can’t guarantee unbroken sunshine at Marlay Park this weekend, we can certainly vouch for its august and eclectic itinerary. Reliable dance pop rabble-rousers (Bastille, Disclosure), buzzy newcomers (Banks and Bonobo), indie folk heroes (Ben Howard, James Vincent McMorrow) and alt-pop darlings (Haim, right, First Aid Kit) will cheer the crowd across the three-day event, with Bristol trip-hop mavericks Massive Attack bringing the weekend to a rousing closeToday until Sun, Marlay Park, Dundrum D14, from €59.50 day ticket (Sat sold out). Tel: 0818 719 300. www.longitude.ie

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VIsItHOTTER THAN JuLy After almost three decades as an official marketing category, world music’s bubbling stewpot is now gurgling up an increasingly subtle blend of styles. This weekend the free Hotter Than July festival will see a joyous cacophony of sounds emanating from Temple Bar’s Meeting House Square. The National Concert Hall’s new gamelan choir will celebrate that storied Indonesian instrument (an array of tuned bronze metallophones and gongs, played in the seated position), with support from trad outfit Ensemble Eriu, seven-piece Irish-Nigerian ensemble Tig Linn, Dublin’s North Strand Kontra Band (pictured) and a host of acts celebrating the music of Brazil, West Africa, The Balkans, Asia and North AmericaSun, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar D2, 2pm to 7pm, free. www.improvisedmusic.ie

tRY THE LiviNg ROOMThe Irish premiere of Shane Meadows’ (This Is England) new film, a short documentary about the director’s friendship and collaborations with the musician Gavin Clark, takes place in The Button Factory this evening. Clark, vocalist with rustic folk/electronica outfit Clayhill, will be joined by Nick Hemming and Helen Whitaker of The Leisure Society for a post-screening live performance Tonight, Button Factory, Curved Street D2, 7pm, €20. Tel: (01) 670 9202. www.buttonfactory.ie

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Brawn matched by brainTHE Big RELEAsEDawn Of The PlaneT Of The aPes (12A)HHHH✩

Evolving: Jason Clarke plays human hero Malcolm in the latest instalment of the ‘Apes’ franchise, which balances action with thought

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This documentary about outrageous American drag performer Divine was always going to be a hoot – how could it not be? Born Harris Glenn Milstead, the bullied fat kid in school become one of the most famous female impersonators in the world, sporting a huge wig, crazy make-up, a filthy mouth and a counter-cultural streak that endeared him to the LGBT community in particular.

Thanks to his friendship with director John Waters, he/she also became a film star, appearing in

1988’s musical comedy Hairspray as larger-than-life mother Edna Turnblad. Waters is on hand to remember his late friend, as are many talking heads including co-star Ricki Lake and numerous friends and family, most notably his mother.

The star’s relationship with his mother forms this film’s emotional backbone but while there’s archive footage of Milstead talking about his life, we don’t get to know every side of him – it is surprisingly coy when it comes to exploring his love life. Still, it’s an intriguing look at cultural change and how an underdog can become a cult figure thanks to a mixture of charm, confidence and sheer cheek. As

A picture of an eccentric

Larger than life: Divine in drag

suPermensch: The legenD Of sheP gOrDOn (15)Austin Powers star Mike Myers goes behind the camera to direct this affectionate portrait of Hollywood insider Shep Gordon, who managed musicians including Pink Floyd, Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass and Alice Cooper. Contributors include Michael Douglas, Sylvester Stallone and Gordon himself. Expect amusing anecdotes aplenty.

granD cenTral (12A)Love blossoms in the unlikely setting of a nuclear power plant in this French romantic drama. Léa Seydoux (Blue Is The Warmest Colour) and Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) star in the story of forbidden passion.

PuDsey The DOg: The mOvIe (U)The canine Britain’s Got Talent winner gets his own movie, playing a stray mutt in a hackneyed story about a family who move to the country. David Walliams provides Pudsey’s internal voice, while Jessica Hynes plays Mum and John Sessions puts in an OTT turn as a greedy developer. Only Pudsey emerges with dignity intact. As

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There’s an increasing trend forbig-screen documentaries that explore a mysterious character,gradually peeling back the layersas if investigating a cold case –just think of 2012’s Searching ForSugar Man or the more chillingThe Imposter.

Finding Vivian Maier followsa similar format. Writer-director John Maloof explains how hestumbled upon a remarkable box of vintage street photographs at an auction and vowed to find thephotographer. Upon discoveringmore of Maier’s work, he alsofound out she was a nanny whonever sought the fame that wasnow calling. And so the story

unfolds as he tracks down those who knew her.

It’s a fascinating posthumousportrait of an undoubtedeccentric. Not unlike an episodeof Who Do You Think You Are?,it’s a calculated but effective slow reveal. But the film is mostremarkable for the photographsit features: Maier captured slight,characterful moments on thestreets of Chicago astonishingly vividly. It’s enough to make anyone have another thinkabout how they use their camera phone. As

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BlockBusters needn’t be brainless, as 2011’s franchise reboot rise of the Planet of the Apes showed. so hurrah for this sequel, which combines warmth and wit with a gripping plot and thrilling effects.

Picking up ten years after rise, we revisit highly developed ape caesar (Andy serkis via motion capture). He’s the leader of a large group of apes dwelling peacefully in the hills above san Francisco. they are gradually evolving: several can talk, while others use sign language.

A virus has drastically reduced the human

population, so the apes are both shocked and scared when a small group come call-ing, looking for a generator to power their city of survivors. they must decide fast: are apes and humans friends or foe?

With his inherent wisdom and experience of living with humans, caesar is inclined to offer a cautious olive branch but there are rebellious rumblings in the ranks.

on the human side, Malcolm (Zero Dark thirty’s Jason clarke) is our hero: brave, broad-minded, peace-loving and deter-mined to help his community.

He must contend with a trigger-happy sidekick (kirk Acevedo) and a well-mean-

ing but less ape-friendly leader at base camp (Gary oldman).

It’s an engaging set-up, exploring tribal interaction, military tactics, ecological concerns and moral dilemmas. the film isn’t a them-and-us situation: the story jumps between the two sides. this also explores relationships, from caesar and his sons to Malcolm and his partner, ellie (keri russell).

characterisation is efficient but relatively swift: the film spends just as much time on action, most of which is exciting – just a few scenes outstay their welcome. And the effects are excellent: think armies of cG apes riding horses, and spectacular 3D col-lisions and tumbles.

It’s a man’s world on both sides, however. Maybe that’s part of the evolution in the next film. Anna smith


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Leftfield DJ setWith Massive Attack headlining the Longitudefestival, you’d be forgiven for thinking there was aplan to relive the golden decade of 1990s UK dance acts in Dublin this weekend. Leftfield, like the Bristolgroup, were one of the era-defining artists. NeilBarnes and Paul Daley’s Leftism album created atimeless fusion of house, dub and ethereal electronics, while their collaboration with JohnLydon saw them storm the charts. Barnes (picturedbelow) departed Leftfield a few years ago, but he isnow back in the fold and takes to the decks for thisshow. Expect him to drop dub house and technodance floor bombs at the relaunched Village – now called Opium Rooms.Tomorrow, Abstract & Subject, The Opium Rooms,Liberty Lane D2, 10.30pm, €15.

Ed DavenportEd Davenport is one of the new breed of Berlin’shouse and techno artists. With releases to his crediton Mosaic, Figure and NRK, and regular slots at thePanorama Bar, Davenport’s biggest project thus farhas been to help Dave Sumner relaunch theInfrastructure label. Working with Sumner under theFunction/Inland collaborative project, the firstrelease on the resurgent label has yielded the ice cool techno release, Odeon.Tomorrow, Archetype/Pogo, Twisted Pepper, MiddleAbbey Street D1, 10.30pm, €14.

DustForza Italo morphs into its Wave variant thisweekend for its latest party. Dust is a four-strongcollective from New York who make and perform anuntamed amalgam of acid house, analog techno andangular new wave. They have documented theirunusual approach on EPs for Italian label Mannequin– the most recent being Feel It – but the best way to experience their sound is live, in an intimate settinglike the Odessa Club. Support comes from Manne-quin label owner Alessandro Adriani.Tonight, Wave Forza, The Odessa Club D2, 10.30pm,€10/€12. Richard Brophy

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Propositions includes a selection of Oiticica’s ‘spectator-activated’ installations and paintings, with visitors invited to don one of the artist’s colour-saturated capes and become a walking sculpture (Oitisika was one of the pioneer-champions of participation art).

To celebrate tonight’s launch, Thisispopbaby has curated a special edition of its club night Werk, bringing together ‘underground heroes, phabulous phreaks, drama queens and performance giants’ for an evening of leftfield live art and disco (from 8.30pm, €20).

Saturday’s events are a more kiddie-oriented affair and include an ‘edible canvas’ workshop and dance performance from Up And Over It. The festival comes to a close on July 26 with a series of free musical performances throughout the

day in Imma’s formal gardens, with Seán Mac Erlaine, The BQ Trio, Roland Gomez and rock and pop covers choir The Line Up. For full schedule see www.imma.ie

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As a career coach, I am in awe ofJoan Burton. Do I agree with all ofher policies? No. But if Joan were one of my clients, I would beecstatically proud of her. Many political observers thought she was abusted flush a couple of years agowhen then Labour leader EamonGilmore humiliated her by demotingher from Finance to the Department of Social Protection.

It was a disgraceful thing to do andJoan could easily have indulged in amassive sulk. Many suggested at thetime that she resign from Cabinet onprinciple. It must have been atemptation for someone whose longslow climb back to politicalcontention began in 1997 when shelost her Dáil seat. ‘Was it for this that Iput in all that work?’ Joan must havebeen asking herself when Gilmore gave her the bad news upon theformation of the current government.

However Joan made the kind ofdecision only very resilient individuals are capable of: to turn asetback into an opportunity. At atime of deep fiscal austerity, sherepresented her department withgreat vigour at the Cabinet table andmade the very most of her portfolio.

Result? Gilmore gone, Burton in.So for those of us ‘Joans’ out there

who may recently have experiencedthe kick in the teeth of a promotionalsetback, all is not lost. Dig deep anddecide on your long-term careerplan. If you burn bridges, you’ll justget burnt yourself. Nobody else will. There’s no law written in the cosmosthat career paths are meant to bestraight or easy. So be brilliant,dignified and, unlike Garth Brooks,better than your non-promoters.Career coach Jane Downes is the author of The Career Book (thecareerbook.ie) and principal coach of Clearview Coaching Group, clearviewcoachgroup.com.

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WINDOWS developer Mi-crosoft is set to cut up to 18,000 jobs in the next year, with more than half of those coming from the Nokia arm of the business which was purchased earlier this year.

Chief executive officer Satya Nadella, who took over in February, said the company, founded by Bill Gates 39 years ago, needed to ‘evolve our organisation and culture’.

‘The first step to building the right organisation for our ambitions is to realign our workforce. With this in mind, we will begin to reduce the size of our overall workforce by up to 18,000 jobs in the next year,’ Mr Nadella said.

Microsoft gained 32,000 Nokia employees, of whom 12,500 will lose their jobs.

‘We are moving to start re-

ducing the first 13,000 posi-tions, and the majority of employees whose jobs will be eliminated will be notified over the next six months.’

This is the biggest cut of staff in the company’s histo-ry, with the last significant reshuffle coming in 2009, when former chief Steve Ballmer cut 5,800 staff.

Microsoft has been making efforts to re-brand in a bid to keep up with Apple and Sam-sung, with more emphasis on software and apps.

However, after launching the Nokia X, which ran Google’s Android OS skinned with Windows, it yesterday announced it would instead bring out more lower priced Lumia phones running on Windows.

Nissan boss: 30% female target is too ambitiousNISSAN’S chief executive, who has long made a point of promoting women to management positions, said Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to boost female bosses to 30 per cent by 2020 is too ambitious.

Women make up only 2.9 per cent of manager-level positions at companies employing 5,000 or more.

Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said he didn’t want a negative effect by having women fail as a result of being promoted too quickly and with insufficient experience, which would be a step backward.

‘I’m being conservative, I’m being prudent,’ Ghosn told the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo.

It was for days like sunday that tomas Brady turned his back on hurling and gave foot-ball his 100 per cent focus.

But for a while there, it wasn’t entirely certain he’d make it. Jim Gavin showed plenty of heart early last year when Brady first left the hurling panel for football and the Na fianna man was a regular fixture in defence.

But a second cruciate knee ligament injury of his career set Brady back significantly and, pri-vately, some questioned if he’d be able to over-come that, as well as the quality of players in his way, to make it as a footballer.

If there were any critics, they were won over by the sight of him kicking back-to-back points in the semi-final win over wexford, placing himself in the shop window for a starting spot against Meath.

for Brady himself, he knew he was going to be okay as far back as January when he got through his first contact session since the knee injury.

‘I was just so anxious that the knee would hold up,’ said Brady. ‘But once you planted that foot down and you got through a few gears then you know it’s solid and it’s good to go.

‘from that moment, from the time you’re out on the pitch the trust is there and it’s gone from your mind. I can safely say that.’

the challenge he’s been fighting since then has been to earn himself a jersey. It’s a thankless task and, at times, you’d wonder if he shouldn’t have stuck with hurling where he’d probably be a guaranteed starter.

‘obviously if you’re playing at this level, you have belief in your own ability,’ said Brady. ‘My-self or anyone wouldn’t be here if you didn’t have that belief. the talent around you is second to none, yes, but guys know that if they do per-form they will get their chance.’

If it is a bench role for Brady again this week-end, he will just try and be ready for action. He reckons he knows what to expect from the royals.

‘I was on the Hill as a kid with my dad and friends watching Meath/dublin games,’ said Brady. ‘there was one particular final where ol-lie Murphy did very well, in the late 1990s (1999) that I remember. Graham Geraghty too, he used to torture dublin defences. Meath are a proud footballing county, so to get one over on them would be really special.’


Fifa tells Rosberg ‘no Cup helmet’fORMuLA OnEThe party continues for German sports fans as Formula One visits Hockenheim this weekend and Mercedes’ golden boy Nico Rosberg looks to extend his championship lead. However, Fifa put a dampener on it. Rosberg hoped to honour his home side by wearing a special tribute helmet with the World Cup printed on the top. However, Fifa told him unauthorised use of trademarks is not allowed and ‘puts the interests of the worldwide football community at stake’. ‘It was a pity as it looked really cool, with the trophy on top,’ said Rosberg. ‘Anyways, I replaced it now with a big star and no one can take that away. The star is ours.’

Tiernan-Locke out over dope charges

ADvEnTuRE RAcE Now in its fourth year, the Helly Hansen Killarney Adventure Race 2014 takes place on Saturday, October 4 in Killarney National Park. The multi-sport event, comprising running through the mountains, cycling and kayaking, has three route options, 70km, 60km, or 30km, to suit all levels of fitness. To find out more come along to an information night at the Great Outdoors, Chatham Street next Thursday, July 24, at 6.30pm.

Kristoff wins stage, as Nibali keeps leadTOuR DE fRAncE Vincenzo Nibali will head into the Alps with his hold on the yellow jersey intact, after keeping his two minutes 23 seconds lead over stage 12 to St Etienne yesterday. Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) held off Peter Sagan (Cannondale) to clinch stage victory in a sprint finish, after the peloton hauled back breakaway pair Simon Clarke (Orica Greenedge) and Cyril Gautier (Europcar) with 5km to spare. Nibali was safely tucked in the peloton along with his nearest challengers Richie Porte (Team Sky) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), second and third places respectively overall.

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cycLing Team Sky have terminated the contract of Jonathan Tiernan-Locke with immediate effect following confirmation of an International Cycling Union anti-doping violation. The 29-year-old, who denies the charges, has not raced since being withdrawn from competition by his team last September following the discovery of discrepancies in his biological passport. The management company of Tiernan-Locke, who won the 2012 Tour of Britain, had said he intended to contest the charges when the discrepancies were made public last December.

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Brady confident Blueswill not bow to Royals

Burke looks for silverware from improving MeathExpEriEncEd Meath defender Mickey Burke says they’re not happy with moral victories any more.

The royals were credited with good displays against dublin in the last two Leinster finals when they ran them to three and seven-point defeats.

But man mountain Burke, 28, is banking on third time lucky this weekend and a piece of silverware to show for their efforts.

‘At this stage we want to start getting a few medals,’ said Burke. ‘Obviously we got one from 2010 though some might question that one a little bit. We

definitely want to start getting wins under our belt in these big games.

‘We had a reasonable league and came within a kick of a ball of getting promoted. i think a lot of young lads that came through have that experience and the experience of last

year too so i’d like to think we’re in a stronger place now.

‘We beat a good Kildare side who were in division 1 so that

was a pretty good test coming into a

Leinster final. But, look,

dublin at this point in

time are a very good team.

They are

dominating football a little bit at the moment so we

know what’s ahead of us.’Burke admitted he shuddered

when he heard that dublin’s subs have contributed 1-18 in their last two games alone.

‘They are just a great team and i read that stat somewhere,’ said the dual player. ‘But if you spent the whole time worrying about it, you’d be at nothing.

‘You have to try and match them physically and to win every ball because if you kick the ball away or they turn over possession, they just go on the counter and can score at will. There’s a lot to keep on top of but that’s what we’re aiming for.’

“At this level you have belief in your ability”

Ready for action: DubsTomas Brady hasrecovered from kneeinjury in time for thisSunday’s Leinster football final againstMeath picture: inpho


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Noth-Ings changed for DannyBurnley striker Danny Ings insists he is committed to the club despite only having a year left on his contract.The 21-year-old (pictured) netted 26

goals last season to help the Clarets to an unexpected promotion and was voted Championship Player of the year.

Ings also won his first caps for england

under-21s and has been consistently linked with a move away from Burnley this summer but said: ‘As far as I am concerned, Burnley and the Premier league is where I am, 100 per cent.

‘everybody knows I enjoy playing for Burnley. It’s a fantastic family club and I am not looking to leave.’

Former Manchester United and England captain Rio Ferdinand has signed for QPR on a one-year deal

after his Old Trafford contract ended

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u STeVen CAulKer andFraizer Campbell have beenexcused from Cardiff’spre-season tour to Austria,fuelling speculation the duowill leave south Wales.u wEsT ham have steppedup their interest in £4mBoca Juniors full-backEmanuel Insua,younger brotherof formerLiverpooldefenderEmiliano.uJACK CorK isbeing tracked by QPr, Crystal Palace

and West Brom as hisSouthampton deal isentering its final year andthe midfielder has yet to agree an extension.u XABI ALONsO’s agent hasruled out a Napoli reunionwith Rafael Benitez,

insisting his player(pictured) is not

leaving Real Madrid.u gerArDDeuloFeuplans to fight for a Barcelona

place after a loanspell at everton.

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1 Year loan deal confirmed by Napoli yesterday for swansea’s spanish forward Michu

LIVERPOOL boss Brendan Rodgers has denied claims he is looking to offload defender Daniel Agger (pictured). There have been reports the Dane was surplus to requirements at Anfield but Rodgers said: ‘Daniel is one of a number of excellent players we have playing at the back. The big issue for Dan

has been his availability. he has been out injured for a number of games.’

French Riviere dreamEMMANUEL RIVIERE is hoping Newcastle can help him force his way into the France squad.The 24-year-old striker, who completed his move from Monaco this week, has represented his country at Under-21 level, but is determined to follow new clubmates Moussa sissoko and Remy Cabella into the senior Les Bleus ranks.Riviere (pictured) said: ‘For that too, I signed here. I want to get into the France team.‘I want to adapt quickly to the Premier League because the Premier League is not Ligue 1. Ligue 1 is different. I want to work hard to adapt fast to the Premier League.’

Mat’s happy returnMATHIeu DeBuCHy completed his move to Arsenal yesterday admitting he was delighted to be back in the Champions league.

The right-back, who impressed for France during the World Cup, is believed to have cost the gunners around £12million after leaving newcastle.

Debuchy, 28, presents boss Arsene Wenger with a ready-made replacement for Bacary

Sagna, who left earlier this summer for Manchester City.

Debuchy (pictured) – Arsenal’s second signing this summer after Alexis Sanchez – said: ‘Playing again in the Champions league is a big excitement and I’ll do my best to help Arsenal compete for trophies.’

The Magpies moved quickly to replace Debuchy by landing Holland defender Daryl Janmaat.

Around half the money for Debuchy will be spent on his replacement from Feyenoord.u WeST HAM have completed the signing of ecuador World Cup star enner Valencia for a fee close to £15m.

The 25-year-old, who scored all three of ecuador’s goals in Brazil, will arrive from Mexican club Pachuca on a five-year deal pending a work permit.

toni Kroos is greeted by his new manager Carlo Ancelotti after completing a £20million move from Bayern Munich to real Madrid yesterday.

Kroos, 24, who starred during Germany’s World Cup tri-umph, has signed a six-year deal with real and his arrival could pave the way for Arsenal target sami Khedira to leave the Bernabeu.

Kroos (far left) won three Bundesliga titles and the Champions League at Bayern after moving from Hansa rostock aged just 16.

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Rodgers: Agger will do

Drive pays dividends for LowryAN AGGRESSIVE approach paid off for Ireland’s Shane Lowry in the first round of the Open Championship at Royal Liver-pool.

Lowry was one over par after nine holes played in the tougher afternoon conditions yesterday, but birdied five holes on the back nine to complete an opening 68 and claim a share of third place, two shots behind leader Rory McIlroy.

‘If you lay back you leave yourself a long way into these greens and it’s tough to get it anywhere close,’ said Lowry, who won the Irish Open while still an amateur in 2009. ‘If you lay back you’re sort of playing for par so I took on the back nine.

‘I hit driver on 10, 17 and 18, as well. When you hit a good driver, it kills the hole. On 17, I was between eight and nine iron for my second shot. And down 18 it was just a nice 5-wood on to the green. Over the course of the week, you might hit it in the bunkers once or twice, but I’m confident with the way I hit my driver.’

Asked about the changing conditions, Lowry added: ‘Yeah, it was even a different golf course than the one I was watching back at the house on TV. I couldn’t believehow firm the greens were playing. The par-three sixth hole was tough to stop the ball.’

golf the open

Green day: Lowry confidence pays off

by DEREK DENT

Box-office bogeyman Tiger still the only show in townwhat does golf do after Tiger woods? You can see on days like this why that questionis bubbling under the surface in the sport,writes Nick Metcalfe. The 38-year-old icon,winner of 14 major titles, simply sets thepulses racing like no other. It has the feel

of a pilgrimage whenwoods goes out early.The cheer at the first teewas a genuinely warm and heartening one. Thelocals haven’t forgotten that emotional weekhere eight years agowhen he claimed the

third of his Open titles. A first birdie at thelong fifth put him on track. Then came aglorious purple patch on the back nine –successive birdies at the 11th, 12th and13th, with two more at 15 and 16. Thepacked galleries loved it.


fOOTbALL DigEsTCity are driven in fresh direction by car giantMANCHESTER City have signed a five-year sponsorship deal with Nissan. The contract comes two months after City bought a stake in Japanese team Yokohama F Marinos, owned by the car giant. Their name will not only be linked to Manuel Pellegrini’s side but also other teams owned by City Football Group, the Abu Dhabi firm behind the Etihad Stadium, namely New York City and Melbourne City. The car-maker’s CEO Carlos Ghosn said the move ‘enhances Nissan’s investment in soccer’.

Spain still Bosque-d inVICENTE DEL Bosque will continue as Spain boss despite his dethroned champions’ disastrous World Cup. The 63-year-old said: ‘The federation have decided that the last six years say more than two bad games [the Holland and Chile defeats]. We will continue our work in the same way we always have.’

Germany’s Christoph Kramerwas so disorientated by a clash of headsin the World Cupfinal that he didn’tknow what game hewas playing in. Themidfielder was left concussed by theincident but carriedon for 14 minutes.match referee nicola rizzoli said: ‘shortly after the blow, hecame to me asking,“Is this the final?”’

Kramer’s one final question

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football premier league

van gaal feels heatof Manchester hopes

Carrick loss ‘a blow’ for new Utd bossManchester United midfielder Michael carrick will miss up to the first three months of manager Louis van Gaal’s reign with an ankle problem.

the 32-year-old (pictured) had surgery on the ligament injury, which he suffered in training, yesterday.

carrick tweeted: ‘Well I’ve had better days. Very frustrating but my race to get fit has started.’

Van Gaal admitted he was disappointed to lose one of his key players ahead of the new season.

‘Michael was injured a day or two ago so that’s a blow, as he’s experienced,’ Van Gaal said.

Louis van Gaal called Manchester united ‘the biggest club in the world’ yesterday but refused to say what he feels he can achieve as their new man-ager.

The Dutchman faced the media for the first time on his second day in charge at old Trafford and though he has already realised the magnitude of the team he now leads, suggested united’s vast com-mercial interests could affect his job.

‘it’s the biggest club in the world. Within two days, i know already how important Manchester united is but also how important the sponsors are,’ he said.

‘i’ve met a lot of people, and when you see that kind of people loving the club they expect a lot of me.

‘Can i fulfil that expectation? i think i can, but because of the greatness of this club it is much more difficult.

‘This club is also guided in a commer-

cial way and we have to fulfil that also, but it is not always possible to fulfil both.

‘i will do my utmost best. That’s what i can give. i cannot give predictions.

‘i have to adapt to this big club. it won’t be easy but you can see what i’ve won.’

van Gaal’s early reference to unit-ed’s sponsorship imperatives will

intrigue supporters. The club has £350million in long-term debt while the void created by a lack of Cham-pions League football in the new season may be filled by some money-spinning friendlies.

united’s new manager – widely ex-pected to make significant squad ad-ditions –insisted he will take time to assess the players currently at his

disposal before moving into the transfer market.

‘i want to see the players perform-ing my philosophy,’ he said. ‘Then, i will think about signing players. i know the players but i have not trained and coached them. it will take three or four weeks to see what they can do before we buy other players.’

‘I have to adapt to a great club. It won’t be

Old and new: United legend

Bobby Charlton greets new boss

Van Gaal ahead of his first press

conference yesterday‘I always pick

one who knows the club and culture. I cannot come to england and authorise the Dutch cul-ture here, that’s not good. He can teach me the culture and show me the best players in the youth set-up, and will help a lot.’

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Sligo savour stunning Europa giantkilling

Goals:alan Keane and Danny north celebrate after the game PiCtUrE: inPho

FoLLoWInG on from st Patrick’s athletic’s champions League heroics in Warsaw on Wednesday night, goals from alan Keane and Danny north saw sligo rovers cap that with a sensational 2-1 win away to norwegian giants rosenborg in their europa second qualifying round, first leg clash last night.

after a tight first-half at the Lerkendal stadium in trondheim, right-back Keane struck to drive home the rebound, after his initial shot was parried by home ’keeper alexander hansen, to give sligo a 56th minute lead.

striker Danny north doubled the lead 14 minutes later, when he swept home David cawley’s low cross. rosenborg got a goal back on 81 minutes, when sligo ‘keeper Gary rogers punched a corner from Morten Gamst Pedersen against Mikkel Diskerud for the ball to end up in the net.

While sligo would now appear to have a very good chance of going

through with their home leg to come next week, both Dundalk and Derry city face difficult away trips to eastern europe.

Dundalk lost 2-0 at home to croatian side hajduk split, while Derry were beaten at home, 1-0 by shakhtyor soligorsk of Belarus.

Dundalk lost a goal after just nine minutes before a crowd of over 3,000 at oriel Park when Mijo caktas headed home a cross

from nikola Vlasic. Midfielder Vlasic added hajduk’s second goal on the night on 74 minutes.

a dreadful defensive error cost Derry as shakhtyor took their chance at the Brandywell.

the only goal of the game came on 28 minutes. shane Mceleney failed to notice the lurking nikolai Yanush who easily intercepted the Derry defender’s blind back pass to round Ger Doherty and score.

Dublin in 2010. But that seems like a long time ago now as Dublin chase bigger prizes and back-to-back All-Irelands.

‘Oh it’s still a very real rivalry,’ insisted Brady. ‘Just look at last

year, Meath probably thought they should have won that game. They had goal chances right up until mid-way through the second-half.


Real Royals rivalry has Brady looking forward to making his mark

Utility man: Brady

‘We’re expecting a very physical battle’

DuBlIn footballer Tomás Brady insists there’s nothing bogus about their rivalry with Meath.

The neighbours meet in Sunday’s leinster final for the third season running, though dominant Dublin are favourites to maintain a 100 per cent win rate.

In fact, Meath have beaten Dublin just once in eight games since overcoming the Sky Blues way back in 2001.

The only escape Meath have had from the blue wave has been the five goal mauling they inflicted on

‘And this year they’re probably one of the form sides in the country. They have excellent leaders in defence. And the two games they’ve had up until now, they’ve shown great form, scoring nine goals.

‘up front they’re very potent, they have great pace and excellent high fielders. We’re expecting a very physical battle played at high pace, exactly the sort of game we always get off Meath.’

utility man Brady is fighting hard for a first team place after scoring two points as a sub

against Wexford.He only switched from hurling to

football last year and missed the 2013 final through injury, so playing some part this weekend would be special.

‘A leinster medal would be great but especially when it’s a Meath/Dublin final,’ said the na Fianna man. ‘Growing up, I used to watch those Meath/Dublin finals all the time so it would be very special, yeah.’

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McIlroy hoping not toget that Friday feeling

THE Open Championship enjoyed a case of déja vu yesterday with glori-ous weather at Royal Liverpool and a certain Tiger Woods high on the lead-erboard in the opening round.

But it was a man not present the last time the event was staged here in 2006 who shone the brightest, Rory McIlroy carding a flawless 66 to set the clubhouse target.

McIlroy continued his trend of get-ting off to flying starts in tournaments in 2014, firing birdies at the second, fifth and sixth to be out in 32 and add-ing more on the tenth, 12th and 16th.

At six under par he held a one-shot lead over Italian Matteo Manassero, whose compatriots Edoardo and Francesco Molinari were a shot fur-ther back alongside Sergio Garcia and American duo Jim Furyk and Brooks Koepka.

Woods, playing his first major of the year after undergoing back sur-gery, was lurking ominously on three under par, the 38-year-old only using his driver once, on the par-five 16th, as he did in 2006. On that occasion the driver was never used again on the rock-hard links.

The course was much greener this time around, but the ball was still bounding along the fairways and McIlroy was de-lighted to take advantage.

‘Any time you shoot 66 at the Open

Championship, you’re going to be pleased,’ the 25-year-old said. ‘We had perfect scoring conditions out there this morning. There wasn’t much wind and there were plenty of opportunities to make birdies and I was able to take a few of them.

‘It’s another great start and, yeah, looking forward to getting back out there tomorrow.’

That was a reference to his unfortu-nate habit of following good rounds on Thursday with bad ones on Friday, the latest being scores of 64 and 78 in the Scottish Open last week.

‘Whenever I go out and play on Thursdays there’re not really many expectations,’ added McIlroy, who also led the 2010 Open after an open-ing 63 at St Andrews, but followed it with an 80 in atrocious conditions.

‘You’re going out there and you’re trying to find a rhythm and you’re just trying to play your way into the round,’ he added.

‘When you go back out on Friday after a good score you know what you can do, so you’re going out

with some expectations. I think I’ve just got to approach it like that, start off trying to hit solid shots the first few holes and play my way into the round.’

Woods dropped shots on his first two holes but picked up six

birdies to finish on 69.‘I’m getting stronger,

I’m getting faster, I’m getting more ex-

plosive. Those are all positive t h i n g s , ’ Woods said.

McIlroy: Set an opening round target of 66

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SIMOn Easterby has been confirmed as Ireland’s new forwards coach.

The former Ireland captain will replace John Plumtree in head coach Joe Schmidt’s back-room set-up, with the new Zealander returning home for family reasons.

Easterby will assume his new role in October, in time for Ireland’s autumn international Guinness Series of Tests against South Africa, Georgia and Australia.

Easterby will leave the Scarlets after two years as head coach of the club where he

plied his back-row trade for seven years.‘Simon has tremendous Test match

experience combined with an in-depth knowledge of the current national squad players,’ said Ireland boss Schmidt.

Easterby won 65 Ireland caps between 2000 and 2008, touring new Zealand with the British and Irish lions in 2005.

‘It’s an exciting time to be involved in Irish rugby and I am looking forward to helping the team continue to be as competitive as possible,’ the 38-year-old said.

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