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By Aileen DonegAn DUBLIN drivers are being advised to keep their car doors locked after the third car-jacking in the city in a week.

A taxi driver who stopped for a fare on Terenure Road North around 5.25am yes-terday was the latest victim.

A youth threatened the 36-year-old driv-er with a knife, demanded money from him and stole his taxi.

He drove off in the direction of the city centre and the car collided with another on Old Cabra Road on the northside of the city about 20 minutes later. The youth fled the scene but was arrested by gardaí a short distance away. He was being held at Rathmines Garda station last night. No one was injured in the collision.

On Friday afternoon a mother and her two children were car-jacked while wait-ing at traffic lights in Terenure. A man jumped into the back of the grey BMW estate at around 3.40pm at the junction of Zion Road and Orwell Road and forced her to drive to her house for her bank

cards, take out money from an ATM in Rathgar before dropping him off at Porto-bello. Gardaí have described the man as about 5’9”, of medium build with shaved dark hair and wearing a dark wax-type jacket and dark scarf. He was unshaven.

Meanwhile, a man has been charged over the car-jacking of a pregnant woman near Mountjoy Square last Monday. Gardaí do not think the incidents are linked.

Conor Faughan of AA Roadwatch said crimes like this are ‘exceptionally rare’ in Ireland. Reiterating Garda advice to keep doors locked, he advised car owners against leaving windows open.

Car owners should not be afraid to ‘blast the horn’ if they feel they’re in danger, he said. He also advised drivers who suspect someone is in distress to call the gardaí.

‘Be careful where you pick to park,’ he warned. He also advised to reverse into a space so you can easily drive out of it.

COOLING OFF: Daredevils jump from the Samuel Beckett Bridge into the River Liffey during the spell of warm weather over the weekend. Flood warning: Page 4 PICTURE: PA

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Voyage of discovery: Researcher Tatiana Antokhina, on a motorboat in Russia’s White Sea PIcture: rex

Nature in the roar: The lion’s mane jellyfish in Russia’s White Sea

Light fantastic: The lampshade-like Aglantha digitale, left, and the cucumber-shaped Ctenophora Radiant fish-ion: The Aurelia auritaBubble trouble: The venomous Cuspidela jellyfish

I’m at sea for a jelly long time

by AIDAn RADnEDgETHEY’RE the bobbing blobs that most of us will be hoping to avoid when we head off on our holidays this summer.

But getting up close to jellyfish is the stated aim of one group of travellers as they embark on a 56,000km (35,000-mile) world tour.

Expedition Aquatilis will see a team of experts scouring the globe to discover the secrets of the stinging water-dwell-ers and other gelatinous zooplankton.

The creatures, also known as Gelata, are difficult to study in laboratories be-cause their fragile bodies tend to fall apart when removed from the oceans.

So the researchers will spend three years on a custom-built yacht whose travels will span the Mediterranean sea and Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

‘Gelata are an entire world – vast, beautiful and barely studied,’ said team member Olga Grum-Grzhimaylo, of Moscow State University.

‘I can hardly wait to completely dive

into it, find new species and share their beauty with the entire planet.’

The team of 12 researchers, which is dominated by Russians, will set off to-day from Marmaris in Turkey.

The trip is being led by marine biolo-gist and underwater photographer Alex-ander Semenov, whose previous pictures (above) illustrate what intriguing crea-tures the team is likely to encounter.

The 21m (70ft) yacht’s route will take it to the Azores, across the Atlantic to South America and around Cape Horn for stops in California and Hawaii.

From there, the travellers will head to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, before circling Africa and finishing up in the Canary Islands.

It’s a voyage that should give them plenty to tell their grandchildren. But let’s hope there’s no sting in the tale...


Floods and thunderstorms ahead after hottest dayIRELAND faces floods as thunderstorms threaten up to 30mm of rain tomorrow – completing the misery after Saturday’s 20.4C joint hottest day for seven months became a 14C washout yesterday.

Met Éireann said Saturday peaked at 20.4C in Dublin’s Phoenix Park – as hot as Tangier in Morocco, and equalling the 20.4C at Newport, Co Mayo, on April 28 to make Saturday the joint hottest day since 21.1C was recorded at Mount Dillon, Co Dublin, on October 2, 2013.

Forecasters predict a murky, rainy day today

before tomorrow sees heavy rain with thunder-storms threatening and possible flooding.

Irish Weather Online forecast up to 30mm of rain in the South-West and 15mm elsewhere, with more rain expected during the week. Forecaster Peter O’Donnell said: ‘On Tuesday, rain is likely to be heaviest in Munster with potentially 20-30mm in the West and spot flooding could develop. Elsewhere should see amounts of generally 10-15mm.’

Met Éireann forecaster Jean Byrne said: ‘Sunday

was nothing like Saturday, with temperatures way down and rain on and off. It will stay very unsettled through the week, with thundery rain.’

Met Éireann said: ‘Monday will be cloudy with further spells of rain or heavy showers. Tuesday will see heavy, possibly thundery showers which could bring higher than average accumulations of rainfall with flooding possible. Low pressure will dominate the weather picture for the coming week with unsettled conditions bringing showers or longer spells of rain each day.’

Bishop backs gay marriage in churchesA CHURCH of Ireland bishop has supported the introduction of civil marriage for same-sex couples for the first time.

The Bishop of Cork, Dr Paul Colton, said he hoped the church would one day recognise same-sex marriages in religious ceremonies.

Last month Northern Ireland’s Assembly rejected a motion calling for the measure to be provided for

there for the third time in 18 months.Dr Colton told BBC Radio Ulster:

‘The events in society are moving very rapidly and the church is not at all up to pace with the debate.

‘I certainly support civil, same-sex marriage.

‘I also recognise that the Church of Ireland’s definition of marriage is for itself and I adhere to that … but that is not to say that everyone must be

required to take the Church of Ireland’s view of marriage.

‘Having said that, I’m also among those in the church, and perhaps we’re only a minority – albeit a significant one, that long to see the day when we can have a discussion about the nature of marriage. With a view… at least to the blessing of same-sex couples after civil unions, if not to their marriage in church.’

‘Church not up to pace’: Dr Paul Colton

A NEW proposal that could see car-free zones in the city centre one Sunday a month has come under fire for being hostile to businesses.

The plan, which was proposed by Lord May-or of Dublin Oisín Quinn, would see some of the city’s most used streets become completely pedestrianised in a bid to make it more family-friendly.

Mr Quinn said: ‘I think when they (business-es) sit down with the plan it will be well re-ceived.’

He dismissed a fear voiced by the Dublin City’s Business Improvement District the move would see a drop in city centre footfall. He said: ‘It will enhance the appeal of Dublin and it will benefit businesses.’

A trial run is expected to begin this summer, with ar-eas around Grafton Street and Wolfe Town Square off Jervis Street included.

Mr Quinn (pictured) said business owners’ fears road closures would give the perception of a ‘closed city’ were ‘shortsighted’. South William Street is the only road that will close.

Car-free Sundays are popular in cities across Europe, with the Lord Mayor identifying suc-cessful projects in Bristol and Bordeaux as his main inspiration.

BID’s chief Richard Guiney was not availa-ble for comment last night, but speaking to the Sunday Times he said: ‘If you close an artery route like O’Connell Street you find there’s a decline in footfall right across the city. ‘We’re all on the same page about the need to do more on Sundays, particularly for families. But 20 per cent of people come to the city in their cars, and they are important and will need to be able to access car parks.’

A consultation meeting between Dublin City Council and businesses takes place next week.

Plan for car-free Sundays meets business roadblock

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Costumed participants try to catch hobby runners during the Zombie Run, based on TV show The Walking Dead, at the harness racing track Karlshorst in Berlin, Germany Picture: ePA

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RTÉ has come under fire from the Green Party, which has complained over the format of tomorrow’s Prime Time European Election studio debate.

With 12 Dublin constituency candidates, the show will be divided into two panels and will see Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, who polls show is in contention for a seat, debate with Brid Smith of People Before Profit, Thomas Darcy and Raymond Whitehead of Direct Democracy, Damon Matthew Wise of Fís Nua and Independent Jim Tallon in the second debate.

Meanwhile, Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan, Independent Nessa Childers, Labour MEP Emer Costello, Fianna Fáil’s Mary Fitzpatrick, Fine Gael Junior Minister Brian Hayes, and socialist party MEP Paul Murphy will take part in the first. RTÉ denied there was a main and a secondary panel.

Contender: Eamon Ryan

RTÉ defends election show format

SINGER Daniel O’Donnell has announced the death of his mother Julia, who was aged 94.

She died in Dungloe Community Hospital, County Donegal, in the early hours of Sunday, with her family at her bedside. O’Donnell broke the news on his website, in a post entitled ‘rest in peace Mam’.

He wrote: ‘It is with great sadness that we have to announce that our dear mother Julia passed away peacefully in the loving care of the staff of Dungloe hospital surround-ed by all her family on Sunday, May 18 at 3.50am… May her gentle soul rest in peace.’

Daniel’s mother dies aged 94

A DUBLIN priest has warned that the increase in homelessness could bring down the Government.

Speaking on the Sunday with Miriam show on RTÉ Radio yesterday, social justice campaigner Fr Peter McVerry warned of a ‘tsunami of homelessness coming down the road’.

Fr McVerry, who has worked with the city’s homeless for 40 years, said the situation is ‘beyond crisis’. With up to 35,000 home repossessions expected over the next few year, home owners and renters are at risk of homelessness.

Homelessness ‘beyond crisis’


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Learn toSucceedSwiss voters say no to a minimum €18 hourly wage by AiLEEn DOnEgAn

VOTERS in Switzerland over-whelmingly rejected a referendum proposal yesterday to create the world’s highest minimum wage, according to Swiss TV projec-tions.

The idea of creating the world’s highest minimum wage of 22 Swiss francs (€18) per hour was criticised by government and business lead-ers as likely to drive Switzerland’s high costs even higher.

Swiss TV said that the referen-dum was rejected in 24 of 26 can-tons, with vote counting still not completed in Bern and Zurich.

The Federal Council was expect-ed to hold a news conference last

night to announce official results.The proposal would have eclipsed

the existing highest minimum wag-es in force elsewhere in Europe.

Trade unions backed it as a way of fighting poverty in a country that, by some measures, features the world’s highest prices and most

expensive cities.But opinion polls indicated that

most voters sided with government and business leaders, who argued it would cost jobs and erode econom-ic competitiveness.

Switzerland currently has no minimum wage, but the median hourly wage is about 33 francs (€27) an hour.

Voters also faced three other citi-zen-inspired referendums yester-day. If passed, these would provide the Swiss Air Force with 22 of Saab’s new Gripen fighter jets; im-pose a lifetime ban on convicted paedophiles working with children; and amend the constitution to sup-port more family doctors in rural areas.

Rejected: Voters rejected proposal to buy new fighter jets

Man charged over violent naas deathA MAN aged 42 was last night charged in connection with the death of another man, 20, in Naas.

An altercation between a number of youths and an-other man occurred at about 10.20pm on Friday at Harbour View, where a man received head injuries.

Gardaí at the scene administered first aid until an am-bulance arrived, but the man was pronounced dead at Naas Hospital a short time later.

The State Pathologist was due to carry out a post-mortem later yesterday.

THE HSE has denied a claim by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation that it is seeking an additional €80million in savings this year.

Last night the INMO said the HSE wanted to use health care assistants to fill vacancies, rather than agency nurses, and fill essential posts with interns and graduate nurses, among other measures.

INMO general secretary Liam Doran said: ‘This is about saving money at the expense of patient safety... and it has to be reversed.’

HSE denies nurses’ €80m savings claim

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A TRIATHLETE who died after crashing into a house may have suffered from ‘cyclist’s palsy’, an inquest has heard.

Rebecca Scott was training for a 160km endurance ride with her father, Alan, when she lost control as she travelled down a steep hill.

The 24-year-old, from Clyst St Mary, near Exeter, UK, careered into a wall and died on impact. After no defects were found on the bike or road, investigators suggested the palsy – which causes numbness in the hands – could have stopped her from braking.

The accident happened in August last year in Devon. Ms Scott was wearing a helmet, but had complained during the ride that her brakes were not responding properly.

Recording a verdict of accidental death, coroner Andrew Cox said cyclist’s palsy was ‘the best explanation’.

Numb hands blamed for cyclist’s death

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pAiD HOw MucH?n Rehab and CRC scandals have had a detrimen-tal impact on other charities, driving down donations by �1 per cent (The Wheel survey) n Angela Kerins (pictured) was paid €240,000 per year by the Rehab Group n Frank Flannery was paid more than €400,000 by Rehab since 2007 n Former Rehab CEOs Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery are still declining to appear before the Public Accounts Committee n Former chief executive of the CRC Paul Kiely

got a €742,025 retirement package n Rhona Mahony, master of the National Maternity Hospital, earns €23�,000 and received a €45,000 top-up, which she disputesn Aer Lingus paid its chief executive Christoph Mueller €1.5million last year n Chief executive of Bank of Ireland Richie Boucher earns €843,000 n Five former civil servants receive pensions over €118,000 (Dept Expenditure) n The Moriarty Tribunal is believed to have cost the State in excess of €42million n The Mahon Tribunal incurred total costs of €19�.3million

Time to cut out the fat

‘we are seeing all the same mistakes be-ing repeated – the property

bubble starting to expand again, housing prices on the rise and equal-ity deepening,’ says Socialist Party MeP for Dublin Paul Murphy.

‘People I meet while canvassing are extremely angry. Ordinary peo-ple are still trying to make ends meet, but they are getting messages that things have improved.

In order to break away from such inequality in society, Murphy says that he would advocate that all pub-lic sector agencies, including State-owned banks, have a pay cap of €100,000. The ‘glorifying of wealth’ such as that as the visit of Donald Trump to Ireland ‘does us and soci-ety no favours’, Murphy said, add-ing that it only shows that we con-tinue to hold up the ‘wealthy untouchables’. He said that the same is done for large corporations, the likes of Google and Microsoft.

Meanwhile, Labour Councillor Dermot Lacey, for Pembroke-Rath-mines, said he was a strong cam-paigner for local Government re-form. Arguing that power should be de-centralised, he asked ‘is it any wonder it takes forever for some-thing to get done’. He also said he was in favour of a directly-elected mayor and it should have been brought in.

Lacey said while controversies with charities such as the CRC and Rehab had damaged people’s per-ceptions, he hoped people would still appreciate the great work they do.

Speaking about State boards, he said he would prefer to see a move

back to directly-elected politicians appointing those on state boards, stating ‘at least they would be ac-countable to the people and the choices they make, instead of social partners,’ he said.

‘Promises of major change were made to the people,’ and that is not

evident, said Roderic O’Gorman, Green Party candidate running for Fingal County Council.

He said on the doorsteps two weeks after the Anglo trial there was a lot of anger with people question-ing the justice system and whether people would ever be held to ac-count for the collapse of the bank-ing system. ‘People seem more frustrated by politicians than bank-ers, whether that is because they are calling at the doors,’ said O’Gorman.

He said that instead of being bring-ing up ‘fat cat’ issues, such as cor-ruption, the pay of the wealthy and controversies in the public and pri-vate sectors, he said people were concerned about the matters that di-rectly impact on them – childcare, the housing market, tax, and pay.

When asked was he getting any

criticisms for the Green Party’s time in government with Fianna Fáil dur-ing the boom, he said no. However, he says people tell him that they are ‘a Green voter’ and ‘that is not something I have heard for a long time’.

People Before Profit candidate for Glencullen and Sandyford Nicola Curry said she felt nothing much had changed since the ‘fat cat’ Celt-ic Tiger days. ‘every day there are more scandals hitting the headlines, be it politicians, penalty points, bankers, to charities,’ said Curry.

When asked could the left hold to-gether to stand against corruption and inequality, she said she has had serious arguments with members of the left, but that this is a good thing. ‘I would be worried if a party were too much in agreement as it shows that there is a group-think and that is

when mistakes get made.’ Curry adds: ‘The average TD sal-

ary is €112,000 and that is exorbi-tant. If elected, I pledge to only take the average industrial wage.’

Deirdre Kingston, Labour candi-date for Blackrock, said historically, bad zoning has been an issue in Ire-land with many of the bad planning decisions being made to benefit wealthy developers. This is some-thing she said it is ‘absolutely im-perative’ that lessons are learned from the greed of the past stating that ‘people got burnt’ in the Celtic Tiger years and ‘we can’t let that happen again, there needs to be oversight’.

She adds: ‘Because of all the cor-rupt dealings of the past and due to the recent revelations over charities and where the money is actually go-ing, all people want is transparency.’

ELECTIONS 2014: In the run-up to the May 23 local and European elections, Christina Finn talks to Dublin candidates about key issues affecting urbanites. Here she asks what they would do about scandals in public life

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Fat cats: Nothing much has changed since the Celtic Tiger days, says People Before Profit’s Nicola Curry

uNEQuAL wORLDn The world’s wealthiest 85 people own the same amount as half the global population (Oxfam) n 232,039 children under the age of 18 living below the poverty line in Ireland (Social Justice Ireland)n 731,984 people are living in poverty in Ireland (Social Justice Ireland) n Fewer than one in five Irish companies have women on their boards (Grant Thornton) n Homelessness in Dublin is up 200 per cent (Simon Community) n Average household income is €53,000 in Ireland (Nevin Economic Research Centre)

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Charlize: It’s the real deal with lover SeanCharlize Theron gushed about the joy Sean Penn has brought to her life as she jetted off to the Cannes Film Festival. The 38-year-old South African beauty said: ‘I’m very happy. I’m not very good at talking about my private life, but we are very happy, yes!’ In Cannes, her film American Express is expected to

be bought by a studio. Last week she showed Penn off at the LA premiere of A Million Ways To Die In The West in a ‘touchy feely’ public display. Theron and her 53-year-old flame first appeared together on a beach holiday in Hawaii in January along with the actress’s adopted son, Jackson.

Harrison Ford kept fans guessing over his star Wars future when he ap-peared to conveniently

suffer momentary hearing loss dur-ing a grilling at the Cannes Film Festival.

The 71-year-old screen legend was in the Cote d’azur to promote The Expendables 3 – in which he plays action hero Max Drummer – along with his co-stars including sylvester stallone, ar-nold schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson and antonio Banderas.

But things quickly turned to his star Wars retirement plans when he was asked if he would feature in the mooted upcoming sequels.

‘i’m sorry?’ bumbled the evasive actor, who has been notoriously cagey about his reprisal of Han solo in new flick star Wars Episode Vii.

refusing to commit, Ford instead swung the focus back to his current return. ‘i’m just delighted to be in-volved. We haven’t started filming yet but we have a great script and a wonderful cast,’ he said. ‘JJ abrams

is a director at the top of his game and i’m looking forward to it. it’ll be great fun.’

Meanwhile, the Expendables gang brought Cannes’ famous Croisette to a standstill when they rode in two tanks along the street.

stallone offered his own thoughts on retirement when he insisted he’d know when it was time to bow out of action movies.

‘if you wake up in the morning and you turn around and your ass falls off, it’s time to retire,’ he joked.

‘But let me tell you something, we

are children with arthritis.’The Expendables 4 has already

been announced and it looks as if schwarzenegger is keen to keep the franchise going. He quipped: ‘i’m very happy that i’ve been involved in all three and i’m even more hap-py that i will be involved in the next three.’ stallone hit back with a grin: ‘You’d better be!’

by ANN LEE in Cannes

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Bonnie and clyde? No, it’s Bey and Jay Z

Jay Z and Beyoncé have channelled their inner Bonnie & Clyde by embarking on a violent crime spree filled with money and sex... for a video. The pair – who once released a track called 03 Bonnie & Clyde – turned bad for a fake movie trailer to promote their joint on The run Tour. Bey, 32, is seen firing guns, robbing a bank in a skimpy bra (obviously) and helping her hubby after he is shot. The clip also boasts cameos by the likes of sean Penn and rashida Jones. Meanwhile, Bey and her sister solange continued their Pr offensive by uploading a happy picture of them in new orleans on instagram. it came after solange attacked Jay Z, 44, in a new York hotel lift.

Happy families: Beyoncé and Solange

Frock stars: It was a night of glitz and glamour in TV Land last night as the 2014 Arqiva British Academy Television Awards took place at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Rochelle Humes, Tess Daly, Alex Jones and Naomi Campbell were some of the stand-out stars who dazzled on the red carpet

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Skirt prank turned myCannes a little Ugly...America Ferrera told how she thought she was trapped in ‘a crazy weird dream’ when a fan tried to crawl under her skirt on the Cannes red carpet. The 30-year-old admitted nothing could have prepared her for the shock. ‘I don’t even know what happened. I feel something behind me and there’s this guy under my dress – and then two guys drag him away,’ the former Ugly Betty actress told Vulture. ‘Of all the things I prepared myself for, that was not one of them. It felt like a crazy weird dream.’ The man responsible – journalist Vitalii Sediuk – has a long history of disrupting high-profile events. See what Dear Dolly has to say about him on Page 17.

Breaking Bad’s Aaronlongs to be Derek’s palby jEnni MCknigHT

Breaking BaD’S aaron Paul has suffered a bad break – finding him-self out of work. The US actor com-plained his phone had not been

ringing since the hit drama ended – and said he’d love to bag a role in ricky gervais’s Channel 4 comedy Derek.

‘i want to be part of Derek so bad,’ he con-fessed to me at the Baftas last night. ‘ricky and i have been joking around about it on Twitter so maybe it could happen.’

The jobseeker added he knows just what kind of character he’d like to play in the show... one who’s around all the

time and has plenty of lines in every episode. ‘i’d love to play one of Derek’s friends who comes over to his house and then just stays,’ he said. ‘anything he would write for me i would gladly do. i’m just trying to get a job man, i’m out of work!’ Paul, 34, also told me he was bracing his liver for a night of partying at the awards at Theatre royal Drury Lane in Lon-don.

‘i hate to throw us americans under the bus but i’ve got

to be honest, Brits can handle their drink more,’ he said. ‘Sometimes Brits can get pretty wild.’

Despite the hangovers, however, the star has de-veloped an affection for the way we do things in Blighty.

‘i love it out here and it’s so beautiful right now,’ he said. ‘London is my fa-

vourite city in the world!’Paul was among a slew of global stars at

the awards, including naomi Campbell, 43. Fifty Shades of grey recruit Jamie Dornan, 32, attended with wife amelia Warner, 31.

★Graham Norton admits he has pushed back his retirement plans – explaining he hasn’t started hating life in the celebrity chat show

chair... yet. Asked if he knew when the curtain will fall on The Graham

Norton Show’s seven-year run, he said he’ll go when people start hating his chat show shenanigans. Speaking about his exit plan, he said: ‘It all depends when the BBC kick me off.’

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British spy jet hunts for missing studentsBRITAIN has sent a military aircraft to help search for more than 200 teenage girls abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria last month.

A Sentinel reconnaissance plane made its way to the Ghanaian capital of Accra yesterday – west of the Nigerian forest where Boko Haram and their hostages are believed to be in hiding.

The surveillance jet, capable of flying for significant periods of time at high altitude, will join US aircraft in scouring the region.

UK defence secretary Philip Hammond said: ‘The kidnap of these girls is a reprehensible act. I am pleased our armed forces have been able to support the international search operation and provide specialist skills.’

The aircraft has a crew of five on board and is fitted with radar which can locate moving targets.

The RAF squadron has been on standby since UK prime minister David Cameron pledged Britain’s support last week. Their dispatch comes after Britain’s foreign secretary William Hague urged African nations to unite in their efforts to defeat Boko Haram. The group’s name translates as ‘Western education is forbidden’.

In Paris, Mr Hague said further support was needed in areas where the terror organisation is active.

‘More will need to be done in the north of Nigeria in terms of water, healthcare and education,’ he said.

Hundreds feared dead as23-storey block collapses

by AiDAn RADnEDgENORTH Korean officials offered a rare public apology yesterday for the collapse of an apartment building which is feared to have killed hundreds of people.

News of the disaster in Pyongyang was reported by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency, which gave no death toll but said the incident was ‘seri-ous’ and distressed leader Kim Jong-un.

The report said the apartment’s construction ‘was not done properly and officials supervised and controlled it in an irresponsible manner’.

South Korea said the 23-storey block was thought to have housed 92 families. That could mean the casualties could be in the hundreds as a typical family in the North has four members.

According to the agency, the rescue operation ended on Saturday and offi-cials apologised to bereaved families and residents in the Phyongchon dis-

trict. One official is quoted as saying Mr Kim ‘sat up all night, feeling painful after being told about the accident’.

Yesterday, people on the streets of Pyongyang expressed their outrage over the incident.

‘This happened because they broke the rules and methods of construction,’ Pak Chol told reporters.

‘We must make sure that this kind of terrible accident never happens again.’

Another resident, Hong Nam Hyok, said ‘everyone in Pyongyang is now sharing the sorrow of the victims and the bereaved families’.

North Korea’s highly controlled state media rarely report news that might be considered negative, and an admission of guilt by the government is highly unusual.

Disaster: An official apologises to families in Pyongyang where the 23-storey building fell downPictures: AP

Grief: People mourn for victims housed in the ‘badly constructed’ apartments

Rapper shot dead at Vegas partyA RAPPER was shot dead during a fight at a Las Vegas party.

Evan Plunkett, alias Hollywood Will, was hit in the chest during a dispute with three men at a suite in the Palms Casino Resort’s Fantasy Tower. Neighbour Barbara Combs said: ‘He was trying to get everybody to stop fighting.’ The 25-

year-old’s brother suffered broken bones trying to pull the rapper out of the fight on Thursday.

Police are appealing for witnesses. ‘There is no suspect at all. There were 50 people in the room and nobody knows anything?’ added friend Randi Flippin. ‘That’s insane to me.’

Sick McCartney cancels a 2nd Tokyo concertPAUL MCCARTNEY cancelled his second concert in Tokyo yesterday, apologising to fans for still being sick with a virus. The former Beatle said on his Out There Japan Tour 2014 site that he wanted to perform against doctors’ orders, but that his team wouldn’t allow it. McCartney, 71, got sick Friday, and cancelled his concert at the National Stadium in Tokyo at the last minute on Saturday. But he had promised to be well enough to perform a make-up concert on Sunday and do an additional concert Monday.

and finally...AMERicA: A dog bite victim is suing for more money than there is in the world. New Yorker Anton Purisma wants $2undecillion – a two with 36 zeroes – for his ‘priceless’ finger injury.

RUSSiA: A robot musician performs during the Robot Ball scientific exhibition in Moscow Picture: reuters

Water pollution fears for Rio 2016BRAziL: A pledge to clean up a sewage-infested waterway where the 2016 Olympic sailing events are to take place will fail. Organisers vowed to cut pollution at Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay by 80 per cent when they won the Games in 2009. But environment officials warn it will take more than a decade to clean up the waters.

Bush’s ‘beloved’ pet Beazley diesAMERicA: George W Bush’s Scottish terrier Miss Beazley has died from cancer. The former president’s office said the dog, who was ten years old, was ‘put to rest’ at the weekend. It added she was a ‘source of joy’ to Mr Bush and his wife Laura. Their pet starred in a 2005 video, A Very Beazley Christmas, a ‘dog’s eye’ view of White House life.

Landslides peril in Balkan floodsBOSniA: Landslides triggered by record-high floods have left hundreds of people homeless. Thousands more are fleeing their homes in neighbouring Croatia and Serbia as Balkan countries battle the region’s worst flooding in recorded history. Floods caused by four days of heavy rainfall last week have left 44 people dead.

Mine bosses held as deaths top 300 TURKEY: Police investigating the coal mine disaster in Soma have arrested 25 people, including company bosses. They were questioned yesterday as protests continued against the mining operator and ministers. The final death toll from Tuesday’s collapse reached 301 after the bodies of the last two miners were recovered on Saturday.

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Aer Lingus geese need same roster rights as the big ganders

As a constituent and a customer of Aer Lingus I would like you to raise the matter of the threat-ened strike of cabin crew at Aer Lingus due on this bank holi-

day weekend, Friday May 30. The row centres on rosters and this has

been a bone of contention for some time at the airline and the subject of the last industrial action taken by its cabin crew.

surely roster arrangements can be put in place at the airline that meet the needs of both the airline and its staff.

I understand that the pilots operate under a policy of five days on followed by three days of rest.

This type of patterned roster is worked by cabin crews in other airlines, including Aer Lingus Regional crews, and even Ryanair has something similar.

Having done a little bit of research, the European Aviation safety Agency – in its EU-OPs Flight Time Limitation rules – makes no distinction between pilots and

cabin crew in terms of schedules worked – so why does Aer Lingus?

What is good for the ganders should also be afforded to the geese!

Apparently, Aer Lingus has also refused to implement a Labour Court recommendation which has also led to all this mess kicking off.

so how exactly does this Government plan to help find a resolution to this situation if the Labour Court is not respected? It is not just the unions and the company who will be affected, but also the travelling public and the hospitality and tourism sectors.

Heads need to be banged together here, and soon. John Patrick

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60 secondschris Lilley, 39, is best known for Summer Heights High, which led to further adventures for posh Ja’mie and now tearaway Jonah From TongaDoes the new Jonah series reflect your own experiences of school? Not really. I didn’t like school that much but I wasn’t disruptive or attention-seeking, I’d just skip class and do my own thing. I was threatened with suspension a couple of times but I was at a very strict school – if your shoes weren’t shiny enough, you’d get a detention. I was good at things I was interested in, such as art, but I was bottom in the whole year for maths.

Is it nice to revisit Jonah and Ja’mie: Private School Girl? It’s great. A lot of work goes into getting a show off the ground and it’s exciting when you get them out there. I’ve done so much other stuff

in between and opening up the old storage bin and finding Jonah’s old clothes from summer Heights High was really cool. I create these characters and leave them behind. I’d like to bring them all back.

Who’s at the top of the list? Daniel and Nathan from Angry Boys. They’re my favourites after Jonah. They were so much fun to write and play.

Has their sneaky nuts fad died out? (A craze Lilley popularised for men to pose for pictures with their testicles exposed from their trouser zip.) It’s bigger than ever – it’s such a full-on thing. When I

bump into fans, that’s the thing they’ll always talk about. There isn’t a week that goes by I don’t get talked into doing a sneaky nuts photo. It was a really minor part of the show, but people yell it out to me on the street.

Do they tell you they’re going to do it? Yes, it’s usually talked about before it happens. It’s like ‘let’s do a sneaky nuts shot’ – so there’s nothing sneaky about it. It’s just a nuts shot.

What other impact has your work had on people? It’s been strange that the word ‘quiche’ from Ja’mie got a life of its own instantly. There was a magazine in the Us

with Lindsay Lohan on the cover and the line was Lindsay Lohan’s so quiche – without any reference to where it came from. There are hats and jumpers with quiche on.

You don’t get a cut of the money? No. The word quiche is not mine. Had I spelt quiche differently, maybe I’d have a case. And I saw that magazine cover with Brooklyn Beckham wearing the quiche badge. someone told me Victoria Beckham’s a big Ja’mie fan. That’s cool. There’s something so exciting about sitting in Australia writing the shows knowing they have that sort of reach – with Paris Hilton and Katy

Perry tweeting about my shows. That’s more important that suing people about quiche jumpers.

Will you work with any of them? Apparently Lindsay Lohan’s demanding to be in a Ja’mie show…That’s what she said on a radio interview but my shows are based around real situations and real people. I love casting non-actors in my shows. I’m more interested in that than working with celebrities, but if it would work in the story, I’d do it. The celebrity world isn’t as interesting to portray.

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Cherry back on top


I’m fine with getting olderAhead of her just-announced Electric Picnic appearance, Neneh Cherry tells Lisa Scott about her belated comeback with the Blank Project LP

Neneh Cherry’s long-awaited album is sparse, dark, sometimes joyous and often beautiful – and the recently released video to its final track, Everything, her fifth collaboration with veteran French fashion photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino, encapsulates her new direction perfectly.

Back in 1989, Mondino, who created classic pop videos including Madonna’s ultra-erotic Justify My Love, had Cherry wearing a towel turban in a surreal beach landscape for her Manchild video. In contrast, this new black-and-white video uses a single, seven-and-a-half-minute shot to slowly zoom in on Cherry as she dances frantically across an empty Parisian warehouse.

Neneh Cherry is talking trainers. I’m not taking this moment lightly: she is, after all, the first lady of street style. My

eyes are fixed firmly on her grey Adidas. her eyes are on my nikes. We lean forward in her garden chairs so we can inspect each other’s footwear properly.

‘For summer, maybe you should get some low-tops, there’s lots of cool ones out there,’ she says in her American-Swedish-London lilt. I tell her I have a penchant for high-tops. ‘It’s cool to have a thing,’ she replies, ‘but the thing will always be there. You’ve got to break the mould sometimes.’

It’s a fitting comment from 50-year-old Cherry, who has forged a career out of doing things differently. She exploded into the late 1980s in a blaze of dollar medallions and bomber jackets, with a seven-month baby bump and more attitude than Rihanna and MIA combined. She was the girl who exclaimed: ‘Who needs a purse – I put my money in my bra.’ (This hasn’t changed – just a few days ago, she says she found a lighter and a pack of chewing gum in it.)

In 1989, Cherry released the million-selling album Raw Like Sushi, which produced her biggest hit, Buffalo Stance. She followed it with the lesser-known homebrew in 1992. Four years later, just as world music hit the main stage, she released the Man

album, which featured 1994 single 7 Seconds, a collaboration with Senegalese singer Youssou n’Dour.

Then she disappeared. Aside from a brief collaboration with jazz trio The Thing, a natural union considering her stepfather was legendary jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, she remained in rural Sweden with her three children and husband and creative partner Cameron McVey.

In February, she finally released Blank Project, her first solo album in 18 years. The catalyst was the death of her mother,

Swedish artist Moki Karlsson, in 2009. After years of grieving, Cherry resurfaced, gasping for air.

Did she mean to stay away so long? ‘I didn’t, no, but I certainly needed some peace,’ she says. ‘That adventure came out of nowhere and although I could roll with it, I couldn’t keep sticking my tongue in my cheek going: “What is he like!”’, quoting her famous line from Buffalo Stance in the same mock-cockney tone. ‘What is it like? What is it actually like to keep doing the

same thing?’ She roars with laughter, puts out her cigarette and makes us a cup of tea.

Blank Project, recorded with London duo

Rocketnumbernine, is produced by

Kieran hebden (Four Tet) and features a collaboration with fellow Swede Robyn. Recorded over five days, it’s a gusty, rapid record, full of juiced basslines, banging percussion and her familiar raw vocals.

‘We wanted it to have that sense of urgency,’ she says. ‘As soon as we started finishing songs in the studio, we lost their essence. It’s like steam ironing them – they look really nice and pressed but f***ing boring.’

Cherry has a busy summer ahead. everything, her bouncy second single, is out on June 9 and she’s also doing the festival circuit, performing at London’s Field Day, Sweden’s Way Out West and, closer to home, Laois’s electric Picnic.

I saw her at the Rough Trade record store in London in February. her performance was fierce and energetic, regardless of her hangover, which she admitted to the crowd. What’s it like being thrown back into this world again?

‘Performing has never been a problem but I find the sense of responsibility to say the same thing in a different way hard,’ she says. ‘I read other people’s interviews and think: “Why couldn’t I f***ing think of that?”’

having her picture taken is also different this time. ‘I’m fine with getting older,’ she says. ‘I’m 25 years older – but it’s tougher going through the same motions in front of the camera. It takes the most energy.’

Cherry celebrated her 50th birthday with Sunday lunch in a pub and was surprised with a trip to Cuba with McVey. Good man, I say. She grins sweetly. ‘I know, right! I think everyone was really impressed.’

now she’s well and truly awake, what else would she like to accomplish? ‘There’s so much,’ says Cherry. ‘Speaking of Cuba, I’ve never travelled anywhere on my own, I’d also like to get my head around programming and I’d like to get better at giving myself more time.’

She compares being a mother, being creative and running a home to playing with a Rubik’s Cube.

‘It’s all incredibly integrated and connected but all so different. But I manage in my own way. I’ve never been very good at fitting into boxes.’

Everything is out on June 9.See www.electricpicnic.ie

Wearing black, ribbon-decked clothes and a headdress, styled by her friend Judy Blame, she struts, careers and twirls across the floor to the song’s left-field chugging beat, looking like an avant-garde, gothic rag doll or some kind of carnival crow… ultimately, like no one else on Earth.

As the tracks ends, she flails her arms and descends into manic giggles that melt into a possessed scream – before finally falling still and silent, rubbing her face as if totally exhausted (as well she might be).

Another 50-year-old artist making a comeback could have been seduced down the soft-focus arty route or into Madonna-esque desperado land, but not Cherry. Instead, she’s inviting us to gawp at her berserk, beautiful charisma. Amy Dawson

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They’ve never been cool but the derision levelled at Coldplay has always seemed unfair – perhaps, that is, until now. After three albums of surging, mid-tempo stadium soft rock, the band

went in for some mild, Brian eno-led experimentation with viva La vida, before hitting the bombastic big time with 2011’s dystopian-revolution concept album Mylo Xyloto.

So while it’s gratifying to hear that Ghost Stories sees them both stripping things back and going a bit awol, it all smells of a confused midlife crisis.

Say what you like about Chris Martin, he can knock out a tune. But here, many tracks forgo strong melody for some innocuous ambling. Opener Always In My head, which starts with an almost enya-style wash of female vocals before kicking into a lolloping rhythm, is a case in point.

At times, this approach works, as on the gently lovely Magic, with its sparse percussion and echoing guitars and falsetto ‘whoo’s. And with its vocodered vocal and subtle, almost techno burn, Midnight defies the Coldplay template while pulling off the same uplifting trick.

But True Love, which even plumbs the depths with a mournful electric guitar solo, must be the most turgid song the band have ever written. The drifting Oceans, which actually includes bell chimes and wave noises, is almost as insipid.

The newly ‘consciously uncoupled’ Martin is clearly baring his soul more than ever but with lyrics such as ‘all I know is that I love you so

much it hurts’ (Ink), that poetic innovation prize is still never going to be his.

With a pounding piano riff and eDM synths courtesy of Avicii, A Sky Full Of Stars may be ultra cheesy (and sound fairly at odds with the rest of the tracks) but it’s a comparative triumph in an album that, frankly, needs to grow some balls. Amy Dawson

Big septemBer Ballroom addicts Hello Vinyl HHHIIYou fear the worst upon clapping eyes on the debut album from Wicklow’s Big September. The cover ‘shoot’ of a lady in a frock and a sweaty man possibly dressed as Hitler comes off like a sorry pastiche of a 1970s prog rock sleeve, the sort of thing Storm Thorgerson’s less talented twin might have cooked up. Adding to your unease is that fact that, in their previous incarnation as Peakin’ Trippers, the Bray quartet were an iffy Mumford and Sons affair. However, such misgivings are neutralised once you’ve binned the slip-case and slapped the record on. A quite unsubtle homage to the early 1980s school of stadium indie – Simple Minds, U2 back when they had tunes – Ballroom Addicts is shockingly unoriginal but competently assembled, with lots of agreeable overemoting from singer Scotty O’Neil and enthusiastically zinging guitars courtesy of Dave Butler and Cillian Duane. There’s absolutely no reason for this album to exist – not when Simple Minds ‘Greatest Hits’ is a quick Spotify search away. But, assuming Big September set out to create a musical time capsule, Ballroom Addicts must be judged an outstanding success.

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If Michael Jackson’s life had been less deeply troubled and the circumstances of his death less grimly sensational, Xscape might seem more like a celebration than another mercenary exhumation.

But the harsh truth is that if any unreleased material exists, then no megastar’s coffin lid will ever really close. These eight new songs

‘contemporised’ by Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins, Stargate and others may be unremarkable and at times slightly messy, but at least they don’t trample over Jackson’s distinctively sweet, disco-pop style, as did the cack-handed first posthumous album (2010’s Michael). And, wisely, they put his voice up front on what reflects a spread of LPs over two decades from 1979.

It’s still unsettling to hear that whooping

‘wee hee’ again or hear him ‘joined’ by Justin Timberlake for Love Never Felt So Good, which swishes in on a cloud of Disney strings and moves to a finger-click swing.

Dedicated fans will be delighted but for most, dusting off Jackson’s

peerless trilogy – Off The Wall, Thriller and Bad – is a better bet. sharon O’Connell

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EXHibiTiONFat: it’s DeliciousAn inquisitive mind and a strong stomach are prerequisites for visiting Fat, a fascinating new show at Trinity College’s Science Gallery that separates myth from fact when it comes to the subject of flab. With recourse to nine research experiments and 11 art installations the show examines the good, the bad and the ugly side of oils, fat, lipids and blubber. Exhibits include a tank of fat removed from a tummy-tuck patient; soap – which visitors are invited to use – made from the body fat of artist Orestes De La Paz; and a large-scale sculptural representation of adenosine triphosphate, the ‘powerhouse of human cells’Until Jun 29, Science Gallery, Trinity College, Pearse Street D2, Tue to Fri noon to 8pm, Sat & Sun noon to 6pm, free. Tel: (01) 896 4091. www.sciencegallery.ie

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Jeff beckSince leaving influential 1960s group The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck has released a string of critically acclaimed albums – two records with The Jeff Beck Group, Truth and Beck-Ola, are believed to have influenced Led Zeppelin’s sound. Away from hard rock, he’s also dipped his toes into the world of blues, jazz and soul, collaborating with Cyndi Lauper, Imogen Heap and on most recent album, 2010’s Emotion & Commotion, our own Imelda MayWed, Olympia Theatre, 72 Dame Street D2, 8pm, from €36.50. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.jeffbeckofficial.com

blind boys Of AlabamaTheir gospel singing predates rock‘n’roll, soul and funk, yet it’s only within the last two decades that Grammy Awards and global acclaim have been showered upon The Blind Boys Of Alabama (pictured below). In the beginning, both parts of the name were factually correct. The group formed in 1939 at The Alabama Institute For The Negro Blind in Talladega. Religious belief is not a prerequisite of worshipping The Blind Boys Of Alabama. The joy and conviction in their singing alone is enough to raise you upWed, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace D2, 8pm, from €19.80. Tel: (01) 417 0000. www.nch.ie

Ricardo Herz TrioThe weather may or may not provide a suitably tropical backdrop on Wednesday evening when Brazilian fiddle maven Ricardo Herz brings the feisty sounds – think bossa, samba and baile funk – of his native Rio to Dublin 8Wed, The Bello Bar (basement Lower Deck) Portobello Harbour D8, €10 to €15. www.

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Burn noticeFox, 9pm

He’s been taken hostage but spy-turned-investigator Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) feels a sense of electricity with the shady Sonia. So, when they’re alone together, he warms up with a spot of verbal sparring that ends with a moment of shocking intimacy. Sparks are flying between those two and no mistake.

x-menFilm4, 7pm

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Counting down the minutes till X-Men: Days Of Future Past is released? Fill the hole by working through the Marvel mutant superheroes’ back catalogue. This blockbuster introduces us to peace-loving Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart, above) and his X-Men, who deploy their special skills in a face-off against dastardly Magneto (Ian McKellen) and the murky government forces out to eradicate mutants. Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and Anna Paquin number among the series’ ensemble cast.

hinterland BBC4, 9pm

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revenge E4, 9pm

It seems Emily is fighting a losing battle in her ongoing struggle against the gruesome Graysons so, in a desperate throw of the dice, she decides to adopt another new identity. Quite how that’s going to work is anyone’s guess but logic is not usually something that troubles this high camp melodrama. Just go with the flow.

game of thronesSky Atlantic, 9pm

While the embattled Tyrion seeks assistance from an unlikely ally and Daenarys struggles to keep Daario on a tight rein – a pout and a smouldering stare should do it – Jon Snow is concerned that his views about The Wall are going unheeded. Sorry, Jon, no way is it as good as Dark Side Of The Moon.

the Battle to Beat polio

BBC2, 9pmJournalist Stephanie Flanders brings personal insight to this story of the crippling virus that stalked childhoods in the 20th century until scientists developed a vaccine: her dad, entertainer Michael Flanders, contracted it while serving in the Navy. It’s a story of big egos, illustrated with haunting images of suffering.

the island with Bear grylls

C4, 9pmSurviving on 300 calories a day is no joke – two days on the maple syrup diet was enough for us – so it’s no wonder things go a little Lord Of The Flies in the survival challenge. When one of the group heads off alone on a foraging mission, the rest turn on him like crazed reality show beasts.

the shawshank redemption

ITV2, 10pmThree proved the charm for this DreamWorks franchise as the adventures of the zoo escapees take them across Europe with a travelling circus, hotly pursued by Frances McDormand’s crazed French animal controller, Chantel DuBois. The whole film buzzes with energy and humour.

reservoir dogsTG4, 9.30pm

It’s hard to believe that it’s more than 20 years since the release of this crime thriller by a virtual unknown filmmaker called Quentin Tarantino. The movie revolves around a jewelery heist that goes badly wrong. Each of the surviving gang members begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. The ensemble cast includes Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, and Michael Madsen. Be prepared for extreme violence and a lot of swearing.

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the wolf of wall street Maybe it was due to the censure it roused for glorifying crime that this hedonistic cocktail, based on corrupt stockbroker Jordan Belfort’s memoirs and directed by Martin Scorsese, won no Oscars. There are hilarious moments but it still uncomfortably reflects the wolf in all of us as Leonardo DiCaprio (right) gets stuck into crazy office antics such as orgies, cocaine-snorting and midget tossing.

assault on wall streetGreed is not good in this week’s second wander up Wall Street. Dominic Purcell (Dracula in Blade: Trinity) stars as a widowed security guard who wreaks revenge on those who lost him money in the credit crunch – money that could have been used to save his poorly wife’s life. Written and directed by Uwe Boll (House Of The Dead), it’s probably one for obsessives only.

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This series of intense Welsh murder mysteries signs off with DCI Tom Mathias (Richard Harrington, above) investigating the murder of classics student Alice, her corpse placed serene and statue-like, in blood-red ball gown, amid reeds waving in the wind. It’s a striking image in a show that pays a debt to Inspector Morse with its fondness for symbolic allusions – in this case a token inscribed with the telling phrase ‘I hate and I love’. Another series of this quiet moodiness would not go amiss.

coldplay: ghost stories

the filmSky Arts 1, 9.30pm

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Chris Martin (above) must be relieved to get back to the music after all the Gwynnie ‘conscious uncoupling’ nonsense. Celebrating the release of new album Ghost Stories – which is littered with break-up references – this Coldplay night kicks off with three old gig films from around the world followed by a ‘making-of’ Ghost Stories interview, then the real deal – the band playing new tracks and classic hits in an intimate setting for 800 fans in Los Angeles.

Drama

cork mega portTV3, 9pm

It’s business as usual at the Mega Port as the series comes to a close. Staff are getting ready for the arrival of the first cruise ship of the year. But the weather has taken a turn for the worse and the passengers have been sailing the Atlantic in a massive storm. At the port, pilots Tony Kingston and Kevin O’Callaghan board the launch, and head out into the turbulent seas to meet up with the cruise ship and guide her safely back into Cork harbour.

Best laid plans Movie Mix, 11.10pm

Screwed out of his inheritance, Nick (Alessandro Nivola) signs up as driver in a robbery that should net him $10,000. Instead, he ends up owing it to a Big Boss and hatches even more twisted ways of getting some dough with the help of his girl (Reese Witherspoon). Josh Brolin co-stars as their patsy in this stylish neo-noir.

motogp highlights

ITV4, 8pmSpain’s reigning champion Marc Marquez has been impressive in the opening rounds of 2014, with compatriot Dani Pedrosa and Italy’s Valentino Rossi his closest rivals. It will be a surprise if those three weren’t on the podium at yesterday’s double-header in Le Mans in France.

live international u-21s footBallSky Sports 1 ,7pm

With Luke Shaw and Raheem Sterling fast-tracked into the full England squad for the World Cup in Rio, Under-21s boss Gareth Southgate will be casting his net wider for tonight’s Euro 2015 qualifying clash with Wales at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea. After seven matches, England are unbeaten in the campaign to make it to the finals in the Czech Republic, but only just edged the Welsh 1-0 in the home encounter in March.

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It all gets too much for grief-stricken Ian Beale tonight – that man can weep for England – as the preparations for daughter Lucy’s funeral bring home the full horror of what has happened. In the words of the mighty R Dean Taylor, he’s Gotta See Jane, so he decides to high-tail it up to his ex-wife in Birmingham. A familiar face returns to the Square, which might leaven the misery – Christian Clarke is back, which can only mean actor John Partridge is between West End runs.

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Do we ever learn? As For Sale signs are replaced with Sale Agreed within a week of going up, and prospective buyers engage in bidding wars over homes in popular areas, it appears that Dublin’s property market is on the way to Celtic Tiger-like fever. However, it’s a completely different story down the country, as estate agents are lumbered with unfinished ghost estates and home owners are stuck in negative equity. In this documentary estate agents, including Dublin-based agent Owen Reilly (pictured), and potential buyers share their stories.

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Q I met a colleague three years ago and we hit it off

instantly. He was single at the time and I gave him my number when he asked. Sadly for me, he got back with his ex and is now married but still thinks it’s OK to text/flirt with me all the time. I’d love for something to happen, but he is taken and I don’t agree with cheating. He is one of my closest friends but my mates think how unfair I’m being to his wife. Is it wrong to flirt with a married man? Ms Confused

A If you thought it was acceptable, would you really

be writing to me? You are explicit in your (contradictory) aims: ‘I’d love for something to happen/but I don’t agree with cheating.’ The good old, ‘you can’t help who you fall in love with’ is all well and good, but whether we act on it or not is what matters – and you admit you’re longing for some hanky-panky. You don’t mention why the romance ended in the first place, but three years later, you really should’ve moved on (as he has). True friendships aren’t those muddied by sexual chemistry; if you don’t believe in adultery, or that being led on like

this is cool, you will sever ties at once. He’s exploiting your feelings for his own vanity. Also, by indulging this cad under the deluded banner of friendship, you’re missing out on meeting genuinely decent men. Just as his wife deserves better than an egotistical, philandering husband, you deserve better than to be the ever-doomed Other Woman.

Q My boyfriend and I opened a joint bank account as we’re

expecting our first child. Problem is, he keeps coming home with new gadgets – Bluetooth speakers, Apple TV – without consulting me. Can I confront him without sounding like a hormonal nag? A Non

A This has nothing to do with hormones, this is theft.

Transfer the remaining money into an account in your name and tell your boyfriend the baby’s not his.

That’ll teach him.

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Q My husband and I are atheists but sent our child to

a religious school because it was the best in our area. She’d made friends with what we thought was a ‘normal’ family, but I overheard the little girl’s mum evangelically banging on about God to our daughter. I told my husband, calling her a Christian fundamentalist, before realising Bible Mum had overheard everything. Do I apologise for our daughter’s sake, or stick to our principles?

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the concept of humility as endorsed by Jesus Christ in the Bible. The responsibility is on you to educate your child about matters pertaining to Faith. Not others. John Dwyer

I wouldn’t apologise for what you said, but if the way you said it was offensive, apologise, and politely explain your position. Then maybe consider not compromising your beliefs in your choice of school!

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Dear Vitalii. You are ‘famous’ for ‘pranking’ celebrities by way of non-consensual snogging (Will Smith) and crotch-nestling (Bradley Cooper, Leo DiCaprio). Last week you disappeared up poor America Ferrera’s skirt at Cannes. Just as football hooligans are banned from stadiums, you should be barred from red carpet events. You are a sex pest. Sadly, Bradley and Leo made light of it by playing along. It’s not funny, it’s just creepy. Stop it.

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Canny lass: Amber actress Lauryn Canny was ready for a monster night out at the Irish premiere of Godzilla at the Savoy

Animal magnetism: Natasha Eames looked far from a dog’s dinner at the Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (DSPCA) inaugural Claws & Paws Ball at the Shelbourne Hotel

iety for the Ponytail club: Sarah Kennedy and Eve Grant got up close and personal at the Design Centre’s Irish Fashion Exposure Spring/Summer 2014 fashion extravaganza in the Hibernia Club, St Stephen’s Green, in aid of the Order of St Lazarus

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Summer time, Summer work: Listen up students. Now’s the time to snag a summer job for yourself writes Jane Downes

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n A scholarship worth €5,000 to achieve a postgraduate diploma in digital marketing is now up for grabs.

The Digital Marketing Institute is making the fund available for its upcoming three-month summer course, which starts on June 14.

The award will cover 100 per cent of the fees for the full-time course and is worth €4,970. It is aimed at graduates and business professionals looking to reskill or upgrade skills.

To apply, candidates should hold a recognised, third level honours degree or have suitable work experience in a marketing, or associated, role. Non-native English speakers must hold an IELTS (level 6.0 or higher) and other applicants will be considered based on experience, attitude and skills.

Candidates should submit a CV and 300 words outlining why they want to be considered. The closing date is May 26. See, www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com/scholarship for more information.

summer jobs can be great story-builders for the future

i do believe there is a disconnect between when employers start looking for sum-mer recruits and when students com-mence their summer job hunt.

Most organised employers plan on having their summer recruits in place by the end of May or early June, which means they are already looking. So don’t wait until sum-mer actually starts. Get applying today. don’t wait until your exams are finished.

Have you given enough thought to what type of job you are going to look for? A summer job that pays the most, or one which gives you the most experience and will impress an em-ployer down the line?

We know money is important. But we also know that summer jobs can be great ‘story builders’ for future interviews and for those graduate application forms you’ll be filling out when you are ready to enter the world of work in a full-time capacity.

Getting a role which will stand out on your CV must be a priority. You need to take the long view. So try if possible to land a job which takes you out of your comfort zone and demonstrates a willingness to try out new ex-periences and add to your skills repertoire.

Let’s do a quick audit of the kind of skills and attributes employers actually do pick up

on from summer jobs undertaken by students. They like to see that you adapted, learnt the ropes quickly, worked to systems and proce-dures, operated as a team player, used your cop on and were resourceful in solving prob-lems and handling deadlines and managing customers’ needs.

They like evidence that you worked cross-functionally and cross-culturally with other people inside and outside the organisation, that you handled figures and cash, that you thought on your feet and were liked as an em-ployee and had a position of responsibility. They will like to hear from you at interview

that you learned something about yourself, got more informed about how you operate and weren’t afraid to get your hands dirty.

So don’t panic if you don’t land a dream job this summer. You can still pick up crucial skills from unglamorous summer jobs like bar work, working in an office, managing a recep-tion, working in a shop or waitressing in America. over to you. Make Summer 2014 count beyond Summer 2014, ok?

Career coach Jane Downes is the author of The Career Book (thecareerbook.ie) and prin-cipal coach of Clearview Coaching Group, clearviewcoachgroup.com

Don’t panic: You can pick up crucial skills working in a bar or a shop

n KAY McCarthy has been announced as the only Irish speaker to talk at the prestigious Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

The MCCP media planning agency founder is part of a twinkling panel of speakers including celebrities and industry professionals, reflecting over the week on the creative world.

Ms McCarthy will join Facebook chief and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg, director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, actors Ralph Fiennes, Patrick Stewart and Jared Leto among others, to deliver her message.

MCCP’s business development director Jill Byrne (pictured) said: ‘Kay’s topic is a bold one and having such a platform is indicative of how seriously the industry insiders consider it.’

Ms McCarthy will speak on June 17 on ‘the death of planning as we know it’.

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What is Lycamobile? It’s Ireland’s newest pay-as-you-go SIM card offering good quality, low-cost calls for your mobile phone.

Who are your users? Cost-conscious consumers who want to control their mobile phone bill and who enjoy low cost calls in Ireland and also abroad.

How many customers do you have here? 170,000 active users.

Can you use Lycamobile like a normal Irish mobile phone? Yes it’s just like a regular mobile SIM card but smarter and cheaper with the same choices you have with any other network, from keeping your regular number, recommending friends for credit, to viewing call history and having automatic top ups.

It sounds like your users would traditionally have used an internet café/call shop – how difficult is it to get them to sign up to the Lycamobile service instead? Not difficult at all. Once people become aware of our low-cost calls and the fact they can call from their mobile phone from the comfort of their own homes, switching is easy.

You use the O2 network, how can you provide a service cheaper than the service provider? We strip out all the overheads, we have no retail outlets, we don’t do bill pay and currently have no handsets, so all the value is in the call rates. We are also buying minutes in 16 other countries at the lowest price possible.

How profitable is Lycamobile Ireland? As our customer base grows, so will our profits.

What’s the five-year plan for the Irish arm? To maintain and grow our customer base, to be the global brand synonymous with connecting customers with their loved ones across oceans, borders and networks at the cheapest possible price, which all in turn leads to creating employment .

What is your typical day? Up between 6 and 6.30am, lunches made,

if on the school run, kids up and out the door to school and in the office by 9.30. If not on school run office for 8am, breakfast on the run, emails checked, phone calls to sales reps, meet with telesales staff, get on with the business of the day, leave the office for 6, home, dinner, homework and fall into bed between 10.00 to 11.00. Phew, I am tired even thinking of my day, LOL.

Your background is in sales, how do you think the recession has affected this field? Companies have realised how important sales is to survive and also how important their sales staff are. In the boom, it was easy to sell, the recession has separated the men from the boys, or in my case the women from the girls.

You have a degree in languages – which languages do you speak and how important do you think a second language is for business? I studied German major with a Spanish minor, but unfortunately as I’ve not used it over the last number

of years, I seem to be losing it.

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve

been given? Look after the little things, the big things will look after themselves. And more importantly treat people how you

would like to be treated yourself.

How many people do you employ? We

currently have over 120 staff nationwide.

What do you enjoy most about your job? It’s not very often a chance comes along to be part of building a genuinely new brand, I have that with Lycamobile.

Paper or digital diary? Paper, I am an old-fashioned girl at heart.

How is your work/life balance? I work to live...

What do you do to relax? Relaxing is all about family time – and the odd glass of wine helps.

If you were a kangaroo, what would you keep in your pouch? My family and my Lycamobile SIM of course.

The recession has separated the men from the boys, or in my

case the women from the girls

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Djokovic gets the better of NadalTEnnis NOVAK Djokovic handed world number one Rafael Nadal a rare defeat on clay, a week ahead of the French Open, as he won the men’s singles title at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. He had to come from a set down to do so, but produced two sets of high-quality tennis to secure a 4-6 6-3 6-3 win in two hours, 19 minutes. Serena Williams earlier won the women’s title in a final ruined by injury to her opponent Sara Errani. Nadal drew first blood in the men’s final when he broke in game three and, after consolidating advantage, extended it to 4-1 in Djokovic’s next service game. It was Djokovic’s 19th ATP Masters title and his fifth in the last six such events.

Ireland’s Reid takes 22nd place in Japan TRiATHLOn There was fierce competition at the opening race of the Rio 2016 Olympic qualification period in Yokohama, Japan. Aileen Reid got off to a super start in the 3rd round of the World Triathlon Series as she came out of the water in 5th position, ideally placed for transition onto the bike. The field behind were still in contention though and by the end of the 40km bike race some 40 athletes were in the lead pack. American Gwen Jorgenson out front clocked the fastest run of the day in 33:43 claiming her first World Series win of the season. Reid finished in 22nd place.

Weening takes stage nine at GiroGiRO Orica GreenEdge’s love affair with the 2014 Giro d’Italia continued as Pieter Weening (pictured) won stage nine for the Australian team from Italian Davide Malacarne. The pair were the last survivors of a long breakaway as they scaled the final climb to Sestola, with Weening out-sprinting the Europcar rider over the last 200 metres. Behind, AG2R Mondiale’s Italian rider Domenico Pozzovivo attacked the peloton on the final climb and came home third, taking almost 30 seconds out of his general classification rivals to move up to fourth in the overall standings, one minute 20 seconds behind maglia rosa Cadel Evans.

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Marquez’ Le MansMOTO Reigning champion Marc Marquez continued his dominance of this year’s MotoGP as he claimed his fifth win from five this season with victory at Le Mans to take a 42-point lead at the top of the table. The 21-year-old Spaniard, who started in pole position, moved through the field after dropping to 10th after a mistake on the 1st lap and eventually passed Valentino Rossi on his Yamaha with 15 laps left and held on for maximum points with a time of 44:03.

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Laois overcome tame Wicklow to face Dubs

THE AN POST Chain Reaction Sean Kelly team put in a dominant performance yesterday to claim a magnificent first and second place finish on the opening stage of the 2014 An Post Rás.

Irish-born Robert Jon McCarthy and Kiwi rider Shane Archbold jumped to the front of the bunch, coming in to the last corner with McCarthy first across the line to take the victory. Third place went to Daniel Klemme of the Azerbaijan Synergy Baku team who finished just ahead of Patrick Bevin (New Zealand National Team) in fourth.

In all, 159 riders made the starting list for this year’s race with the peloton setting off from Dunboyne, Meath and travelling 149 kilometres into Roscommon for the first stage finish.

The relatively flat opening stage route made for a fierce and frantic pace with three time bonus sprints adding an extra incentive for aggressive racing.

At the 30km mark, going through Trim, Rás debutant Jack Wilson (An Post Chain Reaction Sean Kelly) broke to the front of the peloton alongside Bryan McCrystal (Cork Aquablue) and forged a 20-second gap. The duo fought hard to extend their lead but were reeled in shortly before the first prime in Athboy, won by last year’s Rás winner Marcin Bialoblocki (Britain Velosure Giordana).

The peloton were setting a ferocious pace, covering 47.4km in the first hour and it was at this stage where the first

significant breakaway was formed. A group of ten, including Irish riders Sean Downey (An Post Chain Reaction Sean Kelly), Fraser Duncan (Dunboyne DID), Eoin Morton (UCD Arrow), McCrystal and Peter Hawkins (Britain Madison Genesis) broke clear, building a lead of 3 minutes 10 seconds as they approached the 100km mark.

The chasing peloton rode hard to bridge the gap and eventually succeeded, reeling

in the breakaway with only 10km to go. With the main field back together, it all came down to a frantic bunch sprint to the line with Australian rider McCarthy proving fastest.

McCarthy leads the general classification, claiming the first yellow jersey of the week as well as the points classification and Under-23 jersey. Irish amateur Duncan won both the King of the Mountains and County Rider jersey.

Leaders: Robert Jon McCarthy (right) celebrates getting the yellow jersey with Shane Archbold

With just tWo yellow cards dished out, there was never any dan-ger of a reprise of the infamous ‘Bat-tle of Aughrim’ yesterday.

Rather, Laois emerged at the end of a benign Leinster championship af-fair with their eyes firmly fixed on a far bigger prize, the scalp of Dublin, and intent on leaving blood on the Championship floor at a later date, june 8.

A storming second-half perform-ance inspired by veteran Leinster medallist Ross Munnelly who shot 0-9 secured the 2003 winners’ passage to a quarter-final showdown with holders Dublin.

Laois trailed by two points with half an hour to go against a Wicklow side keen to take another big scalp at for-tress Aughrim.

But when o Flatharta’s side moved up a gear after a tense opening 40 minutes, they cruised to a comforta-ble and anticipated victory, register-

ing 13 points in that late period. they shot six points without reply

at one stage during a seven-minute passage of second-half play that put them well in the clear.

Whether they have enough to over-come holders and All-ireland cham-pions Dublin is debatable.

‘i suppose looking at Dublin, sure what can i say about them? they’re the All-ireland champions, the league champions and every team they come up against they seemed to be able to do very well against them,’ said o Flatharta.

‘We’re up against them in two weeks’ time and our job is to prepare as best we can so that we can perform to the best of our ability.’

star defender Colm Begley will be back after an internal suspension for playing in a club game with Parnells. Asked if the issue has soured the Championship experience so far, o Flatharta shook his head.

‘Absolutely not. We’re heading for Croke Park in two or three weeks’ time and it’s all systems go. What has happened, has happened, it’s the end of that now and we just move on.’

Meanwhile, seanie McCormack shot seven points as Longford over-came offaly 0-19 to 0-15 to book a quarter-final clash with Wexford.

But Down couldn’t quite pull off a famous win over tyrone, drawing 3-8 to 2-11 in the ulster championship.

‘Our job is to prepare as best we can’

Veteran: Ross Munnelly had an inspirational game

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HAD Brian O’Driscoll not been forced off with injury on Saturday night, would Ian Madigan have been on the pitch to score the match-winning try?

It’s a fair enough question to ask and assuming he would have replaced Jimmy Gopperth for the final quarter is just that – an assumption. Within minutes of his arrival Madigan was already making line breaks and the scything line he took towards the try line instantly brought us back to one year ago when the young out-half’s play was even attracting the eye of Lions coach Warren Gatland.

It’s also worth pointing out that Madigan was forced to finish last season at inside centre (where he played on Saturday) after Johnny Sexton returned from injury just as Gordon D’Arcy’s campaign ended in the sick bay.

If O’Driscoll isn’t fit enough to face Glasgow in two weeks — we imagine it will take quite something to stop him playing the final game of his career — it’s likely Madigan will be stationed in midfield and we’d argue Leinster will be all the more dangerous for it.

But the question worth asking is why does Madigan have to rely on the lameness of

others to get his place? Or will his weekend spark sway coach Matt O’Connor into once again switching his choice in the No. 10 jersey?

Regardless of who plays in the playmaker position, Leinster, as a squad, proved against Ulster that even if some of their attacking brio has been dimmed in the past nine months, this is a group of winners who will not buckle when they have the scent of silverware in their nostrils.

It spoke to Ulster’s early dominance and the hosts’ lack of accuracy that Leinster didn’t score their first points

for nearly an hour, but when the game was in the balance, players like Leo

Cullen, Sean O’Brien, Jamie Heaslip, Rob

Kearney and Shane Jennings

knew exactly how to navigate the tension-

filled final quarter to safety.It’s that know-how, no

matter what strategy it is packaged in, that has served Leinster well this season and it stretches from the starting XV right down to the academy and fringe players who will contest their second straight B&I Cup final this Friday.

High standards have been set at Leinster over the past six years, but never place style over substance.

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Think the fuss over Samir nasri’s exclusion from the France squad is something new? Think again. Back in South Africa in 2010, then Les Bleus boss Raymond Domenech also had his hands full keeping certain Gallic egos in check.

‘They must forget their ego to realise the only thing that matters is the team, not them. If they don’t un-derstand that, I will need a gun.’

u STeve Mandanda will miss the World Cup after France’s second-choice keeper suffered a cracked neck vertebra during Marseille’s final Ligue 1 game of the season on Saturday. Club president vincent Labrune said: ‘I feel a great disappointment for the player, who is going to miss an important competition.’

Have a cigar: Miguel angel Jimenez enjoys a celebratory smoke after winning the Spanish Open at the 27th attempt to become the oldest ever winner on the european Tour

Miguel Angel JiMenez finally won the Spanish Open at the 27th at-tempt to extend his own record as the oldest winner in european Tour his-tory yesterday.

Jimenez let slip an early two-shot lead before defeating Richard green and Thomas Pieters on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off after the trio had finished tied on four under par following an attritional final round at PgA Catalunya.

The players returned to the 18th for the play-off and all three failed to find the fairway or green in regulation, but Jimenez almost holed his chip from the back of the green for a birdie and a par proved good enough.

green failed to get up and down from over the green and overnight leader Pieters, whose approach had come up short, saw his par putt catch the lip of the hole and stay out.

Jimenez has now won 21 european Tour titles, 14 since he turned 40, and yesterday’s hard-fought victory con-tinues a remarkable season.

The 50-year-old was in contention to become the oldest major champion

in history before finishing fourth in the Masters last month, and seven days later won on his Champions Tour debut.

‘There’s no words to describe what it means to me, you need to be into my skin but i’m not going to let you!’ Jimenez said. ‘it’s amazing. it’s my 21st victory on the european Tour

and 27 times i played the Spanish Open. i have been close a couple of times. Today it was very tough out there but i got it in the end.

‘All the victories are special, all are unique, some of them give you more money, some less, but all of them are important. You play to win and when you make it you have to ap-preciate it.

‘i don’t know if i felt nerves, but you do feel tension, you feel the pres-sure. For instance on hole 17, when i

saw the approach roll down the slope, those things cut my mind and take away the freedom from my hands. i don’t know if that counts as nerves, but as tension, yes.’

Asked the secret of his longevity, Jimenez added: ‘There is no secret. good food, good wine, good cigars and some exercise!’

Jimenez’s win leaves him just out-side the automatic Ryder Cup quali-

fying places and boosts his ambition of becoming europe’s oldest ever player at gleneagles in September; Ted Ray was 50 years, two months and five days old at the inaugural con-test in 1927.

‘i would love to make the Ryder Cup team, i would break all the records at 50,’ added Jimenez, whose last appearance was at Celtic Manor in 2010. ‘i hope i can make the team and defend the european colours in Scotland.’

‘I would love to make the Ryder Cup team, I would break all the records at 50’

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fOOTbALL DigEsTTim regrets 9 Year absence from

the Football League for Cambridge United, who returned after beating Gateshead 2-1 in the Skrill Premier play-off final yesterday. It was a second win in less than two months at Wem-bley after they beat Gosport 4-0 in March to lift the FA Trophy.

TiM SherwooD says he regrets taking the Tottenham job. The 45-year-old was promoted from the club’s head of football development to manager when Andre Villas-Boas was sacked in December before himself being relieved of his duties last week. Sherwood (left) said: ‘i love the development phase of football and if i knew it was a five-month job stepping up

i wouldn’t have done it.’ he continued: ‘i didn’t anticipate it would be as short as it was. i thought that if i had 18 months i’d definitely take the club forward.’ Sherwood has been touted as a successor to oscar Garcia at Brighton, and added: ‘i would like to have an honest conversation with the owners or the chairman of any club that might be of interest and see what the expectations are.’

Ton-up Juventus wrap up ScudettoChAMpionS Juventus eased their way through the 100-point barrier, ending the Serie A season with a league- record 102 thanks to a 3-0 win over Cagliari. The victory rubber-stamped a third straight Scudetto for Antonio Conte’s (pictured) men.

football fa cup final

Spurs stint

THEy sAiD iT

Matchwinner @aaronramsey is relieved to find out it wasn’t all a dream

‘Woke up and it turns out it really did happen. Thanks for all the tweets, see you later at the parade!!’

‘In love with the cup !!! Thanks gunners for today’s welcome at the Emirates !!!’

@JackWilshere was planning to celebrate on Saturday night

‘Words cannot de-scribe!! Thank you to all you amazing fans this is for you! Enjoy your night we will!!!!!! X’

Germany international Per Mertesacker (@mertesacker) understands the romance

of the FA Cup

‘We had some diffi-cult years and it took a while to build this team and this spirit but I think yesterday was the best exam-ple of what it means for us and how much we want it.’

Mikel Arteta, who captained Arsenal on Saturday, reflected on some difficult times

ahead of yesterday’s parade

Big lift:Arteta

On the up: Cambridge’s Ian Miller

by jAck fOx

Fabianski admits to feeling the pressureARSENAL’S Polish goal-keeper Lukasz Fabianski admitted ending the club’s nine-year wait for silverware was a ‘massive relief’.

Fabianski was between the posts on Saturday as boss Ar-sene Wenger plumped for the FA Cup ever-present instead of regular No.1 Wojciech Szczesny at Wembley.

It was a decision the French-man may well have been cursing as Hull scored twice early on, although it was all smiles in the end as Aaron Ramsey struck in stop-page time to secure a 3-2 ex-tra-time win.

‘It is a massive relief be-cause it has been a long time without a trophy, especially after that kind of game when we were 2-0 down in the cup final,’ said Fabianski, who is set to leave the Emirates over the summer.

‘No one was expecting us to be two goals down after ten

minutes and to produce that great comeback was a mas-sive, massive relief.

‘Hopefully the club can now kick on. This gives us or gives Arsenal the idea those players can win trophies, that they are able to.’

Lukas Podolski has been a key member of the squad this season and knows just how important the victory against Hull was.

‘You win nothing for nine years so it is special for us,’ the German said. ‘We have to

come and celebrate now.‘It is a lot of pressure but in

the end it is a cup game and, in the end, it can happen.

‘We have a great spirit in the team. Everybody is a part of this and you see in the last matches we did well, getting fourth place and now winning the FA Cup.’

‘You win nothing for nine years so this victory is very special for us’

Moving on: Fabianski with Per Mertesacker

Relief and joy as gunners end their trophy drought


Now Gunners urged to addmore trophiesby gAvin bROwn

ARSENAL have been challenged to make their FA Cup triumph the first piece of silver-ware of a new era.

The Gunners ended a nine-year trophy drought with a dramatic 3-2 win over Hull at Wembley on Saturday, and chief executive Ivan Gazidis has urged the squad to build on their achievement.

‘Today’s a great day for us to celebrate and we should do that as the Arsenal family,’ he said before the squad enjoyed an open-top bus tour through north London.

‘But tomorrow we start work again and we’ve got to use this to progress the club. To get over the line whatever it took is a big step and now we need to take the next step.’

Key to that will be the future of manager Arsene Wenger, who has yet to sign an extension to his soon-to-expire contract.

Wenger (pictured) refused to comment on his future but told the huge crowds: ‘Our players are great but our fans are even better – they show it again today.’

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Jimenez reigns in Spain and is hopeful of Ryder Cup place

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Dawn of the Reds

Top Gun-ner: Arsene Wenger celebrates after his team won the English FA Cup

O Flatharta tells players to plan for long summer

In the frame: Colm Begley

Return ofthe Mac

Boss Tomas o Flatharta told his Laois players to plan for a long summer after booking a glamour Championship date with Dublin.

The Laois chief stopped short of an issuing a ‘Bring on the Dubs’ cry after overcoming Wicklow to set up a June 8 Leinster quarter-final showdown.

But he sounded an optimistic note in the dressing-room after the 0-21 to 1-11 win by telling the players they have lots more to give.

Asked if Laois have more in the tank ahead of their Croke Park

clash, o Flatharta responded: “Well, that’s just what I’ve told them in there, that there’s an awful lot of football to be played by these lads this summer.”

The no-nonsense boss axed star man Colm Begley from his team for yesterday’s trip to Aughrim.

He revealed that it was because Begley played for his club, Parnells, in the Dublin championship during the week.

But he insisted the matter is over now and Begley is in the frame for a recall against the Dubs.

“Myself and Colm had a discussion during the week about it,” said o Flatharta. “He understood where we were coming from. And I fully understood the awkward situation that he was in.

“He plays his club football with Parnells but he’s also a coach there so he found himself in a very awkward situation. Look, it’s gone now. He’s a vital part of our panel and he’s going to be fully involved from now on.”

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The An Post Chain Reaction sean Kelly team got off to the perfect start to this year’s Rás by taking

top honours on the first stage between Dunboyne and

Roscommon, writes Liam Costello.

Irish born Robert Jon McCarthy was first over the finish line and claimed stage one. He was quickly followed by his Kiwi team mate shane Archbold for second place.

A delighted McCarthy was thrilled with the victory after such a frantic finish.

‘I’m over the moon. It was a real team effort. sean Downey was in the break for most of the stage and which allowed us to have the armchair in the bunch and then Jack taking me and shane to the front in the last kilometre. As we turned the corner on the final stretch myself and shane were out in front and all I had to do was sprint for 150 metres. I’m delighted.’

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