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Friday, October 31, 2014

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Pet-rified

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en party inHalloween party in

Children and their Children and their Children and their a, Philippines.Manila, Philippines.

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Don’t let your fluffy ones’ Halloween turn into a nightmareAS THE undead rise from their graves and witches mount their broomsticks to celebrate Halloween tonight, some more earthly safety concerns have been raised.

Parents are being urged to take extra precautions against fire haz-ards as thousands of children pre-pare to trick-or-treat in their droves and pets are also vulnerable.

The safety warning was issued yesterday by Minister for the Envi-ronment Alan Kelly over risks such as illegal bonfires and fireworks.

Mr Kelly said: ‘Halloween can be a

fantastic time of year, especially for children, and we all have fond mem-ories of the excitement and fun at this time. I do not wish to be seen to be damp-ening all the fun, but I do wish to encour-age parents to be sen-sible and to be safe.

‘Smoke alarms should be checked as they provide life-saving early warning should a fire occur.’

Mr Kelly also high-lighted the important work done by the

emergency services, and asked peo-ple to show respect during the long, dark night ahead.

Meanwhile, a study on trick-or-treating has found that sweets (81 per

cent); chocolate (51 per cent); fruit (34 per cent); and nuts (31 per cent) will be among the most pop-ular bag fillers this

year, and people are being warned to take into account allergies when handing out treats.

Family life website mummypages.ie

revealed a rise

in allergies among children in Ire-land with one-in-five mothers now having a child suffering from some form of food allergy.

ISPCA chiefs have also asked pet owners to ‘keep your furry friends safe this Halloween’.

In a statement by the animal wel-fare charity, Michael Keane said: ‘Pets can become terrified during Halloween but steps can be taken to minimise any stress caused.’

He said animal lovers should en-sure pets are kept indoors away from loud noises and flammable items.

‘Anxiety can be reduced by alter-ing feeding regimes,’ he added.

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‘Try to minimise stress to animals’

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Say cheese: But this grinning chap was lucky not to end up saying ‘aarrgh!’ as the bear attacked him pictures: mercury press

BEARsTupiDiTyTOURISTS risk coming to a grizzly end as they take selfies just yards from dangerous wild bears.

Grabbing a picture with a bear in the background is a craze sweeping national parks in the US and Canada.

But rangers warn that visitors are exposing themselves to attack.

At Lake Tahoe, California, the problem has got so bad that staff are considering shutting it to the public.

‘We are telling people they need to stay on the trails and they need to stay away from bears,’ said Lisa Herron, who works there. ‘If a bear has a mind

to, it can run very fast.’ There have been three fatal attacks on humans by grizzlies and two by black bears in North America this year.

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Shameless Robbie uses hisbaby news to launch tour

Williams also used his big moment in the spotlight to announce his Let Me Entertain You tour. It kicks off in Madrid in March.

‘Hell is gone and heaven’s here, I’m coming out on tour next year.. RW x’ he tweeted.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS has ignored the furore over his video blogging of his wife’s labour by using social media for more hospital gags, a plug for his new tour and to reveal the name of the new arrival.

The 40-year-old brushed aside his haters and uploaded another jokey clip announcing his son, Charlton Valentine Williams, was on his way home.

‘Charlton Valentine Williams has left the building... and Daddy is doing just fine. RW x,’ he jokingly captioned the clip, which showed his tired out wife, Ayda Field, pushing her husband and their son in a wheelchair through their LA hospital.

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Dentists back fluoridationAuthOrities are riskingchildren’s teeth if they take fluoride out of the water supply, one of the country’s most senior dentists has claimed.

With councils in Dublin and Cork backing calls for itsremoval, dean of dentistry at the royal College of surgeons Dr John Walsh told a conference in Dublin all scientific evidence shows it reduces child toothdecay by 18 per cent. ireland isthe only country in the euwhich has a mandatory system of adding fluoride to tap water.

Rehab chief to get €140kthe ChArity group rehab hasdefended the €140,000 salary of its new chief Mo Flynn.

Announcing the appointment yesterday, the group said MsFlynn’s pay was well below former CeO Angela Kerins’s €240,000 and that steps were being introduced to ensure much greater transparency.

‘rehab is making significant strides in its programme oftransformation and change,’ said chairman seán egan. Montserrat Saiz models one of Sonja Landweer’s jewellery designs in the

Coach House Dublin Castle at the preview of her exhibition Picture: maxwells

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Months on, Irish Water to hire data czar

by DAvID kEARnsIRISH Water has begun the search for a data protection manager, despite having spent months collecting and processing people’s PPS numbers.

The advertisement seeks someone for the position of ‘developing and implementing a data protection poli-cy’ for the semi-state body – as well as setting up procedures to help the company comply with legislation.

The new position comes on foot of arguments earlier this week from ministers defend-ing Irish Water’s right to request PPS numbers.

‘It is needed to ensure people did not claim two allowances,’ insisted Health Minister Leo Varadkar.

‘Only a couple of weeks ago, my dentist asked me for my PPS number,’ he said, adding that ‘barely a month’ went by without someone asking him for this.

Among the requirements for the managerial role, the successful

candidate must ‘assess the risks arising from the transfer of informa-tion to and from external organisa-tions’, while also monitoring the ‘vulnerability of Irish Water systems and its infrastructure to information security threats’.

Meanwhile, senior ministers will meet today to discuss the ongoing water charges controversy.

Top of the agen-da for the politi-cians is figuring out how to better explain the water charges to mem-

bers of the public and exactly what will have to be paid.

Further demonstrations are expected to take place this weekend against water charges. Right2Water cam-paigners have said there will be protests against the charges in more than 80 locations across the country tomorrow.

‘Candidate must be able to assess risks’

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Identical twin chefs David and Stephen Flynn of The Happy Pear in Greystones smile with novelist Sinead Moriarty as authors and members of the publishing industry celebrates the launch of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards

Fabulous baker boys

Weak civil servants face sackNew rules will make it easier to sack underperforming civil servants as the Government launches an ambitious plan to overhaul the civil service, the Government claims.

Under a new three-year reform package, dubbed The Civil Service Renewal Plan, the service will see its procedures streamlined so it will be easier to establish whether someone is doing their job or not.

‘The process under which we can exit people is too burdensome,’ said

Robert watt, secretary general at the Department of Public expenditure.

Under the new measures, Mr watt said, staff who were not performing would be given an opportunity to improve – after which the ‘new structures would make it easier to “exit” them’.

Meanwhile, the Association of Higher and Civil Public Servants said the Government had ‘missed an opportunity’ by failing to appoint an overall head of the civil service.

New hate crime laws callStricter laws to tackle rising levels of hate crime are urgently needed, according to the immigrant council of ireland.

the group said they had seen an 85 per cent increase in the number of reported racist instances this year, adding that the recent anti-roma protests in Waterford city just highlighted ‘an issue facing families and individuals on a daily basis’.

‘events in recent days have placed the issue of racism back in the media spotlight,’ said integration manager Brian Killoran.

‘the reality is that many families are forced to lie awake at night

fearing a brick through their window or waking to find racist graffiti on their home. this is unacceptable and it is why we welcome the comments of Aodhán Ó ríordáin [left] that our

current laws need updating.’the junior minister

responsible for new communities said more robust legislation is needed, and that the current law, outlined in the 1989 Prohibition of incitement to Hatred Act, was no longer fit for purpose. ‘We are working

with other agencies to produce draft heads of bill by next May and will be calling on Mr Ó ríordáin to present them to Government as a matter of urgency,’ said Mr Killoran.

Ebola ‘prank’causes chaos at Dublin AirportBy DAviD KEARNs

Nurse breaks quarantineA US NURSe back from treating ebola patients in west Africa yesterday broke her ‘voluntary’ 21-day quarantine period to go for a cycle.

Kaci Hickox followed through on her promise to defy the state ruling when she and boyfriend Ted wilbur left his home in Maine on mountain bikes.

The couple were followed by state cruisers as health officials headed to court to try to get a warrant for her arrest.

She said: ‘I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me.’

A fooliSH ebola prank on an Aer lingus flight threw Dublin Airport into a security alert yesterday.

Paramedics raced to the scene after a passenger turned to another and claimed he had ebola while the plane was mak-ing its way into Dublin.

the plane was in lockdown for over 50 minutes while medical staff boarded and spoke to the man, who had alerted peo-ple to his ‘condition’ by writing ‘Be careful, ebola’ on a coffee cup.

‘following a minor security incident on board an Aer lingus flight from Milan to Dublin, passengers were held on board the aircraft after it landed at Dublin Airport just before 1pm,’ said a Dublin Airport Authority spokesperson yesterday afternoon.

‘As a precaution, the plane’s captain alerted authorities and opted not to disembark passengers pending an inves-tigation. the incident is now a matter for the gardaí and so we can’t comment any further.’

the situation is believed to have be-come public when another passenger who was on the flight contacted his daughter about the claims.

A spokesman for Aer lingus confirmed that health officials were satisfied, fol-lowing their investigation that the man did not have the virus.

‘The incident is now a matter for the gardaí’


I’m proud to be gay, it’s a gift from God – Apple boss Cook

Ribrage: La Perla axed thin dummies

Skin & moan: Primark mannequin

Topshop told: It’s time you binned these manne-thins

Good news for mortgage holders as AIB cuts rates

Thin pins: Dummy’s legs look like matchsticks next to Georgia’s

THIS photo of a size eight shopper next to a stick-thin mannequin in Topshop has sparked a wave of criticism against the retailer.

The picture has been shared thousands of times online after customer Becky Hopper accused the fashion chain of promoting a body shape that women would have to starve themselves to achieve.

The Hull university student, 23, tweeted the snap of her friend Georgia Gibby with the message: ‘The girl on the left is a size 8/10. #Topshop #poorbodyimage #irresponsible #fashion #highstreet.’

It struck a chord with other women and former Emmerdale actress Gemma Oaten, who has suffered from anorexia, tweeted: ‘How is this size zero mannequin sending a remotely safe and responsible image?’

Susan Ringwood, of eating disorder charity Beat, said: ‘One tiny size doesn’t fit all – it’s so out of touch with what customers want, and with what sells too.’

Retailers Primark and La

Perla both removed some shop dummies after Twitter storms earlier this year. But Ms Hopper said the ‘manne-thin’ still had pride of place yesterday at the Topshop in Hull’s St Stephen’s Shopping Centre.

A spokeswoman for the

chain said it had a history of promoting a healthy body image through its choice of models.

She added: ‘Mannequins are made from solid fibreglass, so they need to be of certain dimensions to allow clothing to be put on.’

AIB Is to cut its mortgage interest rates by up to 0.25 per cent from December.

The reductions, which will apply to standard variable and loan-to-value rate reductionmortgages, will be available to both new andexisting customers of AIB, EBs and Haven.

some 146,000 existing mortgages holders willbe affected by the change, a spokesperson said.

The change will see AIB’s variable rate drop to 4.15 per cent from December 1. The figure willdrop to 4.33 per cent and 4.35 per cent for EBsand Haven customers respectively.

Loan-to-value rates will drop 0.24 per cent at AIB and Haven and 0.25 per cent at EBs.

AIB and Haven will now charge a loan-to-valuemortgage of 80 per cent or more at a rate of 4.25 per cent – and EBs at 4.3 per cent. A mortgage ofbelow 50 per cent will incur a 3.85 per cent rate at AIB and Haven and 3.8 per cent at EBs.

The lenders’ fixed mortgage rates will also bereduced from the start of December, with theone-year rate for existing customers falling to 4.15 per cent.

Bernard Byrne, director of personal, business and corporate banking, said: ‘AIB is now in a position to reduce variable mortgage interest rates due to the bank’s underlying positive performance and funding cost reductions.’

APPLE boss Tim Cook has declared that being gay is ‘among the greatest gifts God has given me’.

The chief executive said being gay has helped him develop the ‘skin of a rhinoc-eros’. It was the first time Mr Cook has confronted rumours about his sexuality.

The 53-year-old put the reason for not coming out before down to his ‘humble roots’ and insisted he had ‘tried to maintain a basic level of privacy’.

But in a change of heart he wrote: ‘I’ve come to realise that my desire for personal privacy has been holding me back from doing something important. That’s what has led me to today.’

Mr Cook cited Martin Luther King as inspiration, saying he believes ‘deeply’ in the African-American civil rights cam-paigner’s words when he said: ‘Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”.’

However he added that ‘not everyone is so lucky’ to work for a company that ‘knows it can only flourish when you embrace peo-ple’s differences’.

LGBT rights campaigner and activist Peter Tatchell said Mr Cook’s decision was ‘great’.

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Fathers aren’t in heaven about Mercury victoryHip-hop trio take their 14-1 outsider win in stride

IT WAS with a quiet air of stud-ied nonchalance that Young Fa-thers won the coveted Barclay-card Mercury Music Prize earlier this week.

The relatively unknown Edin-burgh-based three piece – consisting of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole, and Graham ‘G’ Hastings – were the surprise winners on Wed-nesday night, but were far from overjoyed.

‘Yeh dinnae spend half your life recording music and writing songs to be like, “Oh if you win an award you can stop”. It’s just part of the in-

dustry, isn’t it?’ Hastings told Guilty Pleasures before storming to victory with their debut album, Dead.

The band also said they would turn down fellow Scot Emeli Sandé for a collaboration. ‘We’re just working

on ourselves. We’re fine doing what we’re doing,’ Hastings said.

In winning the €25,000 offered by the Mercury prize, the hip-hop trio have banked more money than they ever have from their album sales – having only shifted 2,368 copies of their record.

Despite missing out on the gong, Kate Tempest was quick to congratulate the three Scots, tweeting:

‘Young Fathers are epic and wonderful

and the right win-ners for sure.’

Victors: Massaquoi, Bankole and Hastings

Take That: Orange

is back in the bandafter the loss of Jason Orange, Howard

Donald decided it was time he turned a

little orange himself, it appears.

the 46-year-old was given a spray tan in

his skimpies for take that’s new video. He

then went through 15 outfit changes,

along with Gary Barlow, 43, and 42-year-

old Mark Owen, for these Days.

the clip, directed by Henry Schofield, is

the manband’s

first outing as a three-piece since Orange,

44, walked out last month. the single is

out on November 23.

Changes: Owen makes a call and the Changes: Owen makes a call and the Changes: Owen makes a call and the band share jokes on the set of the new band share jokes on the set of the new band share jokes on the set of the new video as a three-piecevideo as a three-piecevideo as a three-piece

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Groups treated to €12k of boozeTHERE could be a few rough vo-cals on this week’s X Factor after a rich Arab clubber wooed the groups and helped them sink more than €12,000 of booze.

Stereo Kicks certainly got their, er, kicks when they were chaperoned by Only The Young girls Parisa Tar-jomani and Betsy-Blue English for a late-night bender at Mahiki in Lon-don’s May-fair.

They were put through their paces when the loaded punter took a shine to them and kept buying them bubbly.

‘All the singers were given the full VIP treatment on their first night out together,’ said a source. ‘A big customer decid-ed to pick up the champagne tab for them. They were also showered with Mahiki Co-conut Rum all night.’

And it seemed to be the rocket fuel the hopefuls needed after they hijacked the club’s private karaoke booth, used by the likes of Prince Harry and Paris Hilton

in the past. ‘Things turned into a

cheese-fest when the guys started singing Spice Girls

tracks,’ the source added.

The singers still didn’t look ready for bed at

1am when they pranced about for cameras out-side the club.

But Stereo Kicks stars Char-

lie Jones, 14, and Reece Bibby, 16, missed out after they were left at home as they are still un-derage.

Letting off steam: Chris, Casey and Jake Picture:

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Jim Carrey is the latest paranoidstar to freak out over ebola – forcinga talkshow host to take a test forthe disease before an interview.

The 52-year-old actor playfully forced a thermometer into Late Show host David Letterman’s mouth as he took a seat.

Getting the all-clear, Letterman, 67, asked Carrey if he worried about catching diseases while flying around the world promoting films.

‘Once you’ve done a couple of press tours you welcome death!’ the Canadian actor joked.

Carrey gives host Ebola test

Carey: Health test

Kate Moss hauled herself

out for a second night on the

razz with runway chum

Naomi Campbell. the model, 40, let it all

hang out of her see-through red frock as

she and Campbell dolled

up in 1920s glamour to help

their photographer chum

Mario testino turn 60.

the star snapper was given an

extra treat when 46-year-old pop princess

Kylie Minogue popped out of his cake to

sing Happy Birthday.

other guests included Keira Knightley and

Rita ora – who slinked in like an undercover

reporter at the Chiltern Firehouse, London.

Meanwhile, Campbell, 44, tells alan Carr

how excited she was to watch television with

Kate Moss and Noel Gallagher during the

recent charity Gogglebox special on Chatty

Man tonight.‘Kate called me and she said, “Did you get

the call”? I’m like, “Yeah”. she says, “We’re

doing it! Noel’s with us” and we’re like,

“that’s it”,’ she said.

Kate Moss hauled herself

Kate’s cheeky night

out with pal Naomit on the

o help

as given an

Charlize is fine with me, says Penn’s Dylan

seaN PeNN’s daughter hasgiven her dad’s lover Charlize theron the seal of approvalafter being impressed with

the way the actress puts upwith him. Dylan, from Penn’smarriage to Robin Wright, 48,told how theron keeps the oscarwinner in check. ‘she’s the only woman since my mom who canshut my dad up. the only woman.she’s a powerhouse,’ the 23-year-old told Us Weekly.

LINDsaY LoHaN was hailed for her ‘professionalism’ after the reformed wild-child made it to work despite being ill. Lilo (pictured) appeared in both the matinee and evening speed-the-Plow shows after originally tweeting: ‘so sorry everyone but

I’m too ill to perform and down for the count.’ But later, the 28-year-old sucked it up, deleted the tweets and bowled up on stage. ★

asHtoN KUtCHeR

says being a stepdad to Demi

Moore’s children helped

prepare him for

fatherhood. the 36-year-old

(pictured) said

Rumer, 26, scout,

23, and tallulah, 20,

gave him the tools needed to

raise Wyatt Isabelle, his one-month-old

daughter with Mila Kunis, 31. But his go-

to manual for advice is the internet. ‘It’s

all on Google,’ he told Us chat show the

talk.

Kutcher credits Demi (and

Google) for parenting skills

Having fun: Kate Moss with chum Naomi Campbell help Mario testino celebrate in style Picture: exPosurePhotos

approval: Penn and theron


Licensing of Outdoor Music Events – Review of Legislative Framework

The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Mr. Alan Kelly, T.D., is currently conducting a review of the legislative framework for the licensing of outdoor music and entertainment events. As part of this process, a Review Group comprising of representatives of local authorities, Government Departments and other State Agencies has been convened to formulate recommendations to put forward to the Minister on possible changes to the legislation. Members of the public and all interested groups / parties are now invited to make written submissions for consideration. Legislative provisions in respect of outdoor events are provided for in the Planning and Development Act and Regulations, which are available on the Department’s website. Written submissions may be e-mailed or posted to:Niamh Redmond, Planning SectionDepartment of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Custom House, Dublin 1. Tel: 01 8882459 Email: [email protected] closing date for receipt of submissions is Friday 28th November, 2014.Friday 28th November, 2014.Friday 28th November, 2014.In the interests of transparency, all submissions received (including the name of the person making the submission but not their contact details) will be made fully available online on the Department’s website (www.environ.ie) and will be subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. The onus is on persons making submissions not to include material of a private nature in the body of their submission.

Pensioner questioned over McConville killing releasedby DAviD yOung

Lasting memory: A family photo A family photo

sting memorLasting memory:

from 1972, top, while daughter Helen with her husband, left, holds the image

picture: kelvin boyes

Father of missing Sarah Payne diesMichael Payne, the father of murdered schoolgirl Sarah (below), has been found deadat his home in Kent, england.

his death is notbeing treated assuspicious.

Mr Payne’sdaughter wasabducted andkilled in 2000.

The Paynes were at the forefront of calling for ‘Sarah’s law’ whichwould involve parents beinginformed if paedophiles moved into their neighbourhood.

an iRiSh soldier has beenfound guilty of strangling hiscomrade at their UK barracks earlier this year after a night ofdrinking.

The jury at Birmingham crown court returned its verdictagainst lance corporal Richard Farrell, from Dublin, after 19hours of deliberations.

Farrell, 23, denied said he could not recall killing fellow member of the Royal irish Regiment, corporal Geoffrey Mcneill, 32, in his room at clive Barracks.

Life in prison for soldier’s murder

€130 yearly german fee for foreign driversIRISH motorists travelling in Germany may have to pay fees of up to €130 a year for the privilege of driving on the country’s Autobahn motorways.

The government proposal, introduced by German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt, is intended to help the country fund the upkeep of its transport infrastructure.

If the proposal goes through, foreign motorists will pay the toll, set to be introduced in 2016, by registering their license plates via the internet or at petrol stations.

Foreign drivers will be expected to pay a 10-day levy of €10 or a two-month one for €22, with a maximum toll of €130 a year.

However, the controversial proposal may yet face a legal

challenge in Brussels for discrimi-nating against foreign motorists.

Mr Dobrindt insisted his draft law does not discriminate against foreign motorists and would stand if challenged in court.

‘The infrastructure fee is sensible, fair and just,’ he said, adding that revenues from the toll would only be used to modernise motorways and main roads.

irA suspects decline to meet taoiseachAlleged former IRA members have refused to meet with the Taoiseach over the Mairia Cahill controversy.

Peter Madden, solicitor for the four who have been accused of carrying out a Provo investigation into the alleged rape of Ms Cahill, said he advised his clients against a meeting because of enda Kenny’s ‘highly prejudicial’ remarks on the case.

In a letter to Mr Kenny, the Belfast-based lawyer accuses the Fine gael leader of giving inaccurate briefings to the media about the row and of ignoring ongoing legal processes.

Mr Madden represents four people who were accused of membership of the IRA as a result of Ms Cahill’s allegations, but all charges against them were dropped after prosecutors offered no evidence.

Ms Cahill, 33, whose great uncle

Joe Cahill was a founder of the Provisional IRA, accused another alleged IRA member of raping her in Belfast in 1997 and claims the movement helped cover up the abuse.

The man has denied the abuse and was acquitted of all charges against him.

After heated exchanges about the resurfaced row in the dáil, Sinn Féin leader gerry Adams asked Mr Kenny to meet four people

accused by Ms Cahill of having carried out a ‘kangaroo court’ into her alleged rape.

Mr Kenny, who has already met with Ms Cahill, yesterday agreed to meet with the four. But in a letter sent yesterday, Mr Madden insisted no such meeting will happen ‘at this stage’.

Sinn Féin has accused its opponents of using the allegations to score political points against the party, as its popularity soars in the opinion polls.Mairia Cahill: Met Mr Kenny

‘No meeting will be taking place’

A PENSIONER arrested yesterday by detectives investigating the kidnap and murder of Belfast mother-of-ten Jean McConville was released with-out charge.

The 73-year-old man had been detained in Dunmurry in the greater Belfast area.

The abduction, killing and secret burial of Mrs McConville in 1972 is one of the most notorious crimes of the Northern Ireland Troubles.

The police case lay effectively dor-mant for decades until a flurry of ac-tivity this year, with a series of arrests made, the most high-profile undoubt-edly being the four-day detention of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams.

Mr Adams, who vehemently denies involvement, was released pending a report being sent to prosecutors for assessment.

The latest man arrested was ques-tioned at the Police Service of North-ern Ireland’s (PSNI) serious crime suite in Antrim. The PSNI said he had been released ‘unconditionally’.

Mrs McConville was dragged, screaming, away from her children in the Divis flats in west Belfast by a

gang of up to 12 men and women af-ter being wrongly accused of inform-ing to the security forces.

She was interrogated, shot in the back of the head and then secretly buried – becoming one of the ‘Disap-peared’ victims of the Troubles.

Her body was not found until 2003.

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Palestinian is shot dead after assassination bid on activist

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A PALESTINIAN hitman suspected of trying to kill a Jewish hardliner has been shot dead.

Islamic militant Moatez Higazi was killed by armed Israeli border police yes-terday morning when they surrounded his house in the east of the city.

He opened fire from the roof and was killed. His brother and father were arrested.

Higazi had just been released from pris-on and is thought to have carried out an attempted assassination of Yehuda Glick on Wednesday night.

Glick was shot at point-blank range three times by a man speaking in ‘heavy Arabic-accented Hebrew.’

He had been at a conference promoting Jewish access to the hilltop area known to Jews in the city as Temple Mount and to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary. The site in the Old City is holy to both religions.

American-born Glick is in hospital in a serious condition. Soon after Higazi was

killed, clashes broke out with Palestinians hurling stones at riot police, who respond-ed with rubber bullets.

Israel accuses Palestinian president Mah-moud Abbas of inciting the recent vio-lence. Mr Abbas recently called for Jews to be banned from Temple Mount and urged Palestinians to guard the compound from visiting Jews, whom he called a ‘herd of cattle’.

Israeli defence minister Moshe Yaalon said: ‘The assassination attempt of Yehuda Glick is another serious step in the Pales-tinian incitement against Jews and against the state of Israel.’

Furious Netanyahu slams US over ‘chickens***’ slur ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a sharp rebuke to the US after an anonymous official reportedly called him ‘a chickens***’.

The leader was described in The Atlantic magazine as only interested in ‘protecting himself from political

defeat... he’s got no guts’.But Mr Netanyahu said: ‘The

assault on me comes only because I defend the state of Israel.’

The White House said yesterday the slur did not reflect its view, calling it ‘inappropriate and counter-productive’.

Battle: Palestinians riot picture: ap

digest

N KOREA: If Kim Jong-un’s entourage saw the ‘mischievous’ display of toys at

an orphanage, they didn’t dare let on reX

and finally...INDIA: Checkinghow much money isin your account isoften scary enough.But Jatin Baruah, 43,feared for his life afterbeing greeted by a4ft-long cobra coiledup around a cashmachine at SBI bankin New Delhi. ‘It likedthe warmth from themachine,’ said animal welfare group Wildlife SOS.

AMERIcA: A boy of 16 has become the youngest-ever person to swim Hawaii’s Kaiwi Channel. Cameron Keith, who is blind in one eye, braved sharks and jellyfish to make it over the 26-mile stretch from Molokai to Oahu in 13hr 55min. Only 31 people have completed the challenge.

Teen makes record swim

INDIA: Proposals for universal health care will cost €20billion over four years, more than five times current health spending. The price will hit €10billion a year once the whole populationof 1.2billion is covered, the health ministry said. All citizens will get free drugs and diagnostic treatment, plus insurance, under the scheme.

Health-for-all to cost €20bn

sRI LANKA: Villagers defied police orders yesterday to search for survivors of a mudslide which they fear has buried up to 200 people. They were told by officials there was no chance of finding anyone alive. The disaster, which hit the Koslanda tea plantation in Badulla district on Wednesday, has claimed at least 100 lives.

Mudslide dead ‘up to 200’

BuRKINA FAsO: Protesters angered by president Blaise Compaoré’s bid for a fifth term stormed parliament yesterday, setting the main chamber ablaze. Demonstrators forced a vote on the 63-year-old’s extended tenure to be cancelled and also ransacked the offices of the national TV station, forcing it off the air.

Mob sets parliament ablaze

Mystery panelon island did come from Earhart planeA SLAB of aluminium could hold the key to solving one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.

The warped metal found on a Pacific island was from the plane of Amelia Earhart, it is claimed.

The US aviator disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while trying to circumnavigate the globe.

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery says the slab, found on Nikumaroro in 1991, may have been used to replace a window on the Lockheed.

‘We don’t understand how that patch got busted out of [the plane]... but we have the patch – we have a piece of Earhart’s aircraft,’ said Ric Gillespie of the US recovery group.

Flight:Amelia Earhart went missing aged 39

Is ‘massacred prisoners’ after seizing Mosul jailISLAMIC STATE militants carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi prison inmates when they seized the country’s second-largest city of Mosul in June, according to an international rights group.

Human Rights Watch said 600 male Shiite inmates from Badoosh prison outside Mosul were forced to kneel along the edge of a ravine and were shot with automatic weapons.

The New York-based watchdog said the Shiite prisoners were separated from several hundred Sunnis and a small number of Christians who were later set free.

The statement was based on interviews with survivors.

Also in June, IS claimed it had ‘executed’ about 1,700 soldiers and military personnel captured from Camp Speicher outside Tikrit city.

‘Autobahn sniper’ jailed after five years of terrorA cOURT in Germany has sentenced a trucker to over 10 years in prison for shooting at fellow drivers more than 700 times over a five-year period.

In one incident a female driver was hit in the neck by a ricochet but survived.

The case of the ‘Autobahn Sniper’ had baffled police in Wuerzburg until last year, when they placed vehicle number plate scanners along

the road and compared all vehicles that passed with the times of the shootings.

The 58-year-old man was found guilty of four counts of attempted murder, grievous bodily harm and dangerous interference with traffic, and he was jailed for 10 years.

German news agency dPA reported that he admitted the shootings but claimed he did not aim to hurt anybody.

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read about Leo Varadkar’s less-than-robust defence of Irish Water in your paper yes-terday. The minister is being deliberately obtuse. Mr Var-

adkar’s dentist needs Mr Varadkar’s PPS number to claim against his PrSI. Irish Water doesn’t need our PPS numbers for any good reason.

My electricity and gas are both delivered without providing my PPS number. There are a number of bad reasons why Irish Water wants our PPS numbers. But there aren’t any good reasons. It is as simple as that.

We are assured that Irish Water will be ‘careful’ with our informa-tion. But why are we being asked to trust them at all? It would be a lot safer for us if they just didn’t have that information.

Better for the minister to ‘fess

up’ and admit that the premise was, at best, flawed from the start. We should scrap the whole idea and start again with better intentions of not exploiting the Irish people.

Nelius Bresnan

I woke up this morning to be welcomed by another lovely letter from the Government. This time it’s the bloody property tax, aGaIN! Having not yet decided whether I am going to pay the wa-ter charges because I can’t afford them, I really don’t need this now.

Up to my neck in Tax(payer)

I have to give out about people not paying attention when walking on the path. I know it’s news to no one, but dublin’s paths are often slim and only fit two abreast (if even that).

Yesterday I had to contend with

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people standing, blocking the en-tire width of the pavement; a girl with her face buried in her phone who wasn’t looking where she was going and gave me a filthy look af-ter I tried to avoid her wavering zig zag walk and failed; and a girl wheeling a bicycle on the pave-ment who stood and stared blankly at me until I was forced to walk on the road.

Between those eejits, kamikaze pedestrians trying to knock me into traffic and dawdling gawkers hold-ing everyone else up, I was delayed meeting a friend on a day I couldn’t afford to be delayed.

We all give out stink about irre-sponsible taxi drivers, terrible mo-torists and cyclists with a death wish, but pedestrians have a bloody lot to answer for too.

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Thanking you kind stranger for picking up my woolly hat yesterday. Nearly lost it to the bus lost and found. Anon

To the Glimmer Girls (you know who you are) who keep me company on my daily jog on the beach at Donabate – thanks for the support. It would be very hard to get up and run some mornings without you guys being there. Fast Harriet

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Documentary maker AOIfE kELLEHER is the director of One Million Dubliners, a poignant new film about the cultural and social history of Glasnevin Cemetery

I grew up Catholic, I would

love if there was an afterlife – but the jury’s out...

The film weaves together many facets of Glasnevin’s history, but the focus is as much on the living as on the dead. Was that always your intention? The one thing I was conscious of from the start was that I didn’t want the documentary to be a purely historical overview; I wanted to tell the story of the cemetery from the perspective of the people who work there and visit there. rather than being overwhelmed by the legacy of the heavyweights buried in Glasnevin, I wanted to understand the place through the eyes of the people who maintain it and the people, like the late tour guide Shane Mac Thomais, its custodians. It’s people like that who, if you’ll excuse the expression, keep the place alive.

Weren’t you worried the subject matter might be forbiddingly morbid?I always wanted it to be a film about life rather than death. In fact, the work-ing title at one point was just that: Life and death. In the end we chose a title that represents the number of people buried there to give a sense of the scale. rather than putting the focus purely on the cemetery as merely the final resting place of a Who’s Who of Irish history, arts and politics I wanted to highlight it as a place of warmth that offers consolation to people who visit.

You speak to a number of regular visitors to the cemetery, including a French lady obsessed with Michael Collins. Many people leave tiny mementoes on the graves of patriots buried in Glasnevin but one woman, Veronique, is a particularly avid admirer of Michael Collins and he’s become a huge figure in her life. although she works as an art historian in Musee d’Orsay in Paris she visits dublin six or seven times a year to pay her respects at Collins’ grave. after seeing the Neil Jordan biopic, she became fascinated by him.

In one of the most poignant moments in the film, a guide speaks about the section of the cemetery known at The Angels’ Plot. That’s such an

emotive part of the film because Bridget, a guide in the cemetery, speaks about her own child, Maria, who’s buried there. It’s hard to believe now but it was considered radical in the 19th century to have unbaptised children buried in consecrated ground. It sounds crazy and archaic but most cemeteries refused to accept stillborn children so The angels’ Plot became a very special place for anyone who’d lost a baby.

The cemetery contains the graves of such luminaries as Charles Stewart Parnell, Eamon de Valera and Brendan Behan. Was there any one plot you were particularly drawn towards?Without doubt, Maud Gonne’s. She was the first person to capture my imagination thanks to the way she’d been immortalised in WB Yeats’ po-

etry. everyone knows that Yeats is buried in drumcliff

Cemetery in Sligo but I hadn’t realised, until

I began my research, that Gonne is bur-ied here, alongside her children. Be-cause Yeats’ poetry looms so large in

Irish culture, it feels like the entire country

is in unrequited love with his muse; to see

her resting place I found quite extraordinary.

The attitudes to death conveyed by contributors are exceptionally varied. Did that surprise you? In a sense it did. What I found particularly interesting was that everyone, despite their religious beliefs, had a very personal and quirky view of death. There are so many ideas posited in the film, from a crematorium technician who believes there’s nothing beyond this world, to a woman who explains that in her native South east asia they talk about the dead in the present tense, because they never really leave us.

Did filming make you reassess your own attitude to the great hereafter?I grew up Catholic so I’m hoping to be pleasantly surprised by the after-life. I’d love if there was one – but the jury’s out...

Daragh ReddinOne Million Dubliners (PG) is in cinemas from today

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TO-DO LisTsTAYiNG iNThe Metro Life team has compiled the following sphincter-loosening DVD titles to keep you up all night...

THE ExORcisTWilliam Friedkin’s 1973 shocker, purportedly based on true events, has hardly dated. In disconcerting, jagged episodes we learn the story of an actress (Ellen Burstyn) whose daughter (Linda Blair) is possessed by the devil. The Exorcist has spawned numerous copies but still remains a peerless template. A very classy piece of work, and terrifying with it.

DaRk WateRA single mother (Hitomi Kuroki) and her five-year-old daughter make the old mistake of moving into a haunted

apartment. Soon, damp patches appear on the ceiling — and it’s not from a dodgy power shower. Director Hideo Nakata’s creeping pace, relentless menace and Kuroki’s breathless, harassed performance combine to create a truly nerve-racking experience.

THE ORpHANAGEPossibly the scariest movie since The Shining, this absorbing story sees Laura (Belén Rueda) return to her former orphanage, a spooky old Spanish pile, intending to reopen it as a home for handicapped children – only for her adopted son Simón to mysteriously vanish. Juan Antonio Bayona masterfully orchestrates a jangling sense of unease. The bonus being that, as well as scares, this boasts a maturely realised subtext about parental fears.

All (fancy)dressed up and nowhere to go? Check out some of the creepiest shindigs happening around the capital this HalloweenscARY MONsTERs & supER cREEps BALLThe only Halloween party where David Bowie-lookalikes and devilish beasts are free to rub shoulders as Satan intended — with live music from White Duke-tribute band Rebel Rebel and late-night disco with a ‘scary set of thrillers and dance-floor thrillers’Tonight, The Grand Social, 35 Lower Liffey St, D1, 8pm-2.30am, €12 (free after 11.30pm). Tel: (01) 874 0076. www.thegrandsocial.ie

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nightmaRe On sOUth William stReetExpect a ‘blood-stained sequin ball’ at Powerscourt Townhouse tonight as Mother DJs invade the usually benign Georgian building for a grisly gay hurrah, replete with cower-in-terror visuals from Synth Eastwood. Tonight, Pygmalion, Powerscourt Townhouse, South William Street, D2, 9pm, €15. www.residentadvisor.net

THE HuNTERs GATHERiNGWolf + Lamb, a combination guaranteed to end in carnage, work from their Brooklyn base, The Marcy Hotel, and host some of the best parties in Williamsburg, New York. They’re in town to scare the bejaysus out of clubbers in Smithfield’s Generator Hostel.Tonight, Generator Hostel, Smithfield Square, D7, 9pm, free but registration necessary. www.generatorhostels.com

YDs hallOWeen ball1990s covers act Smash Hits channel such terrifying pop has-beens as MC Hammer and – whisper it – Vanilla Ice. They’ll entertain the ghouls and goblins at tonight’s YDS (that’s Young Dublin Solicitors, not Satanists) Halloween Ball in bewitched Ballsbridge.Tonight, Thomas Prior Hall, Ballsbridge, D4, 7.30pm, €30. Tickets from www.entertainment.ie

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We can all agree there’s nothing scarier than uber-permed 1980s hair

– expect fright wigs aplenty at The Sugar Club’s Halloween Bash

where tribute band Shift will channel rock demons from the decade

taste forgot. With pre-show This Is Spinal Tap screening.

Tonight, The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street, D2, 9pm-Late,

€5/€10/€12. Tel: (01) 678 7188. www.thesugarclub.com

apartment. Soon, damp patches

the CáCa milis masqUeD samhain CabaRet‘Costumes, carnival, cine horror and murder ballads’ are the ghastly ingredients that make up this Halloween cabaret in the gruesome environs of Thomas Street boozer, Arthur’s. Expect hair-raising musical numbers and blood-curdling vaudevilleTomorrow, Arthur’s Live, 28 Thomas St, Dublin, 8.30pm, €8/€10. www.cacamilis.org

FOR LiTTLE MONsTERs...

sCaRefielDAirfield Dundrum gets a baleful makeover this weekend as pint-sized ghouls are invited to take part in a raft of gruesome activities. Meanwhile, Overends Restaurant will open for a special Halloween-themed family dinner.Tonight and tomorrow, Airfield, Overend Way, Dundrum, D14, 5pm to 7.30pm daily, €12. www.airfield.ie

MONsTER Music MAsHDress up the little ones in their finest blood-spattered attire and take them to the Ark today where the resident ‘undead’ DJ will be spinning the cobweb-clad decks, with face painting and bubbling refreshments.Today, The Ark, 11a Eustace Street, D2, 11am to 1.30pm, free. Tel: (01) 670 7788. www.ark.ie

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Turning 60 has Rene Russo pondering her mortality as she makes her movie comeback. She tells James Mottramhow she can relate to her character’s dubious morality

I don’t like playing the in-control,

strong, determined woman all the time. I’m done

with it!

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Working together: Russo with husband Dan Gilroy, who wrote and directed Nightcrawler

given the recent iven the recent iven the recent furore surrounding Renée Zellweger’s radical new look, i’m taken aback

when i see Rene Russo. One of Hollywood’s leading ladies in the 1990s, she’s been largely absent from our screens for the past decade. Returning in the brilliant new drama nightcrawler, playing a frazzled Tv news producer, her face caked in bad make-up, she looks, well, haggard. is this the same Rene Russo who, 15 years ago, sizzled in the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair?

Yet when she walks into a Zurich hotel room, dressed in boots and a black mini-dress, she looks fabulous. She turned 60 this year – but this former model has kept her looks through exercise and clean living rather than cosmetic surgery. ‘if you have too much done to your face then that

doesn’t look good,’ she says. doesn’t look good,’ she says. doesn’t look good,’ she says. Getting older has been preying on her mind, though. ‘it wasn’t hard turning 40 or 50. But turning 60 was. it’s like: “Wow, how much longer do i much longer do i much longer do i have?” it sounds have?” it sounds have?” it sounds morbid.’

Russo stepped away from the industry back in 2005, after appearing in the Al Pacino movie Two For The Money. ‘i got to Money. ‘i got to Money. ‘i got to a point where i a point where i a point where i was burnt out. i was burnt out. i was burnt out. i wanted to do other things. i’d done so many movies back-to-back and i’m not an actor’s actor. i’m happy and i’m blessed to have this job. i’m blessed to have a job, period. But

i don’t think it’s something that i i don’t think it’s something that i i don’t think it’s something that i so love that i want to work no matter what.’

She was fed-up with being typecast, something that typecast, something that typecast, something that

began after playing a began after playing a began after playing a cop in 1992’s cop in 1992’s cop in 1992’s

Lethal Weapon 3. Lethal Weapon 3. Lethal Weapon 3. ‘i don’t like ‘i don’t like ‘i don’t like

playing the playing the playing the in-control, strong, determined woman all the time. i’m done with it!’ With a

teenage teenage teenage daughter, Rosie, daughter, Rosie, daughter, Rosie,

to raise, Russo to raise, Russo to raise, Russo instead found instead found instead found

happiness in the simple pleasures in life. Then came Thor, in which she played the superhero’s regal mother. ‘now i have kids saying: “Mommy, that’s Thor’s Mommy!” Young people

know who i am!’ she laughs. know who i am!’ she laughs. know who i am!’ she laughs. Still, it’s nightcrawler that sees her back on blazing form. A satire on the shady world of ambulance-chasing journalism, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a social misfit who starts filming car accidents and urban crime – and then sells them on to Russo’s morally dubious nina. ‘it took me a long time to get her,’ she says. ‘i didn’t want to play her as a bitch.’

Raised in California (by her mother, after her father left home) Russo admits that she could relate to nina and her desperate actions. ‘i’ve done things that were morally bankrupt!’ she says. ‘i’ve made moral choices that have crossed the line.’ Such as? ‘it doesn’t even have to be a big thing,’ she explains. ‘even talking behind my girlfriend’s back!’ Somehow, she seems a little too nice for that. Nightcrawler opens today. Read our review on next page.

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Role model: Rene Russo says she has kept her

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FIVE QUESTIONS FOR...Film director mike leigh, 71, tells metro life about mr Turner, his acclaimed new biopic of the iconic artist, starringTimothy Spall

What appealed to you aboutpainter JMW Turner? As acharacter, once one started reading abouthim it became palpably obvious that he ticked all the boxes as a potentialcharacter in a mike leigh film. Thegood news is there hasn’t been afeature film about it before.

It’s not exactly achocolate-box-style periodpiece, is it? i hopepeople who are usedto comfortable,chocolate-box films

are given the appropriate kick. That’s notreally the point, it’s a supplementary agenda – but it is an agenda all the same.We said, let’s make a film that’s as real as acontemporary film we might make, that has the texture, the smell, the detail andthe warts and all. So you really do feel like you got into a time machine and you were there. Which seems to be frightfully

obvious. i am disposed to challenging thekind of formulaic laziness in how peoplemake period films. But there is aformulaic laziness in the way peoplemake contemporary films as well.

Is it true that youwould only cast actorswho could paint?Absolutely. We said, well, OK, let’s round up everybody whocan paint. Quite a lot can andthe ones who are in the film

are those who can paint and are also goodactors. There are some who can paint whoare lousy actors but they didn’t make it!

You often work with the sameactors. are there many more you would like to cast?my problem is getting round to working witheveryone i want to work with. When i’m casting, i sit there going nuts not decidingwho to have but deciding who not to have. But not all actors are cut out to do what iwant. Not all actors are intelligent, for a start.Also, it’s about character acting. A lot ofpeople are motivated by narcissism and/orwanting to play themselves.

apart from your career, what are you passionate about?my children. Well, i’m passionate aboutthings all healthy-minded, liberal, left-wing people are passionate about.

Mr Turner is in cinemas today. Read ourreview on opposite page

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Jake shows off his dark sideTHE Big RELEAsEnightcrawler (16)HHHHH

A graceful look at an artist’s lifemr turner (12a)HHHH✩

Jake Gyllenhaalputs in an Oscar-

worthy performance in thisdarkly funny thriller sendingup sensational broadcasting

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Supernatural: Daniel Radcliffe puts in a committed performance as troubled Ig

‘i’m starting a TV news business,’ declares ambi-tious Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) in this dark, devious, LA-set thriller.

An unemployed petty criminal, he hits upon a morally dubious new career. Listening in to police radio communications, he races to the scene of car accidents, brutal at-

tacks and homicides, filming the victims and selling the footage to the news channels. What’s particu-larly disturbing is that he’s one of many trying to get there first. This fuels Bloom’s competitiveness and pushes him further into a dark world where dying people are mere com-modities in his business plan.

Gyllenhaal is flat-out brilliant, putting in a performance that could be the highlight of his already im-

pressive career. His character is un-like any he’s portrayed before: creepy and wiry (he lost almost 30 pounds) but well-mannered and constantly smiling. This is a man who’s devoured enough self-help books to talk his way into many a room and job. His ruthless ambition in broadcasting recalls Nicole Kidman in To Die For: he has tun-nel vision, collateral damage be damned. His character’s twisted ambition morphs from sinister to funny, giving Nightcrawler plenty of darkly comic relief.

The supporting cast keep the quality high. Rene Russo – wife of

writer-director Dan Gilroy – is the ratings-hungry news channel pro-ducer impressed by Bloom’s chut-zpah, while British actor Riz Ahmed is terrific as the down-on-his-luck American who signs up to become Bloom’s right-hand man. While equally desperate, the latter intro-duces a note of moral questioning that’s queasily absent from his enig-matic boss. Watching Bloom excit-edly enter a mansion littered with bodies, his camera never wavering, is as distressing as it is iconic. As his competitor, Joe (Bill Paxton), says cynically: ‘morning news… if it bleeds, it leads.’ Anna smith

Grunting grump: Timothy Spall’s eyes light up when he puts brush to canvas

the necessary Death of charlie countryman (15)Charlie Countryman (Shia LaBeouf) goes on an eventful road trip in this quirky comedy-drama, also starring Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert Grint.

ouija (15)Another group of teens make unwise choices – the first of which is playing with a Ouija board. Olivia Cooke and Douglas Smith are among the youngsters in this US Halloween horror produced by Michael Bay.

the guarantee (12a)The story of the 2008 bank bailout is the subject of this low-key but meticulously constructed film based on journalist Colin Murphy’s acclaimed stage play. With Love/Hate’s Gary Lydon and Peter Coonan.

horns (16) Daniel Radcliffe continues his foray into darker roles in this adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel. He plays Ig, a man reeling from the death of his murdered girlfriend, Merrin (Juno Temple), and trying to prove his innocence. Mysteriously, two horns have sprouted from his head and are having a strange effect on people: they start to spill their deepest secrets. Dark laughs follow as Ig hears more than he’d like to about the locals’ sex lives – but he also spies the chance to investigate Merrin’s murder and clear his name.

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Painter JMW Turner was many things to many people – and it’s this that fascinates writer-director Mike Leigh in this biopic set in the last quarter of the artist’s life. Turner (Timothy Spall) is a London celebrity in the 1800s, both lauded and mocked for his watercolour landscape work. At

home, he’s a gruff, abrupt man who loves his father (Paul Jesson) but refuses to acknowledge his grown children. He only notices his adoring housekeeper (Dorothy Atkinson) when he needs something, including sex. And then there’s Margate, where kindly landlady Mrs Booth (Marion Bailey) knows him only as a tourist who dabbles in pictures.

Leigh and his actors draw out the

personality quirks of complex characters with both humour and grace, and Spall is perfectly cast as the grunting grump whose eyes light up when he puts brush to canvas.

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the film is the visual one: characters stroll through landscapes with all the shading, light and delicate detail of a Turner painting itself.


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1. Halloween On iTv2ITV2, from 7pmAt least one channel is giving Halloween the full spooky treatment – how else to describe Reem Halloween (9pm), in which Joey Essex goes to Wales to learn about the paranormal? Which he’ll probs mistake for paramedic. Then there’s Emma Willis and Paddy McGuinness on Celebrity Juice Halloween Special (11pm). Truly frightening. The House Of Wax remake with Paris Hilton (11.50pm) tops things – and us – off.

2. Alan Carr: Chatty ManC4, 10pmSupermodel Naomi Campbell, who’s been making concerted efforts to soften her ferocious reputation of late, swaps saucy banter with our host. Dermot O’Leary will be sporting his trademark tight trousers, Paloma Faith will do her engagingly bonkers thing and Elijah Wood will try to look like he’s got a clue what’s going on.

3. goth At The BBCBBC4, 10pmThough it stretches the definition of goth a touch, this is the perfect soundtrack for a cool, sunglasses-indoors Halloween. Out of Auntie’s archive creep classics from Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Cure, Sisters Of Mercy, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and more.

4. The graham norton showBBC1, 11.10pmMatthew McConaughey has completed a remarkable transformation from minor romcom lightweight to major drama player in the past couple of years. He’s guesting tonight alongside Anne Hathaway, his co-star in epic space adventure Interstellar. Meanwhile, Girls writer/star Lena Dunham keeps her feet firmly on the ground.

5. LewisUTV, 9pmA working knowledge of Euripides is not in the armoury of your typical detective but it’s brought heart-heavy Hathaway (Laurence Fox) – who reminds us of Atlas, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders – close to solving a murder. But

every chalk needs a cheese and it’s the pragmatic Lewis (Kevin Whateley) who supplies the finishing touches.

6. Citizen KhanBBC1, 8.30pmThe comedy clock slips back to the 1980s or thereabouts for this retro sitcom starring Adil Ray as the perpetually flummoxed Mr Khan, a man who doesn’t understand his wife, his life or pretty much anything. Tonight’s third series opener features jokes about going into a care home. Side-splitting.

7. Agents Of sHiELDC4, 8pmKyle MacLachlan brings an other-worldly presence to any role he tackles – he was even a bit weird in Desperate Housewives – so the Shield crew need to be on their guard when he turns up in a guest role. Because it turns out he’s got some serious dirt on a key team member.

8. QiBBC2, 10pmLenses, lungs and legs – a good starting point for any self-respecting robot – are among a lexicon of l-

words lingusitically luxuriated over by Stephen Fry and the louche line-up he’s lassoed into giving it some lip. Jo Brand, Josh Widdicombe and Phill Jupitus are the guest trio.

9. Féile na samhnaTG4, 9.50pmAs ghouls, ghosts and goblins – and perhaps more earthly creatures – make make mischief tonight, this documentary explores the origins of and traditions surrounding Samhain, the festival that signifies the end of the harvest season and the beginning of – winter. A two-parter, this is

another fascinating documentary from TG4.

10. Today’s Film: van HelsingFilm4, 9pmSo often reduced to being just ‘the other guy’ in Dracula movies, Van Helsing steps up to the mark as the centre of the piece in this 2004 romp. Hugh Jackman fits the action hero role perfectly as VH dashes to the aid of Princess Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), a plucky gypsy determined not to let the dastardly Count D have his evil way.

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My brightest DiamondHaving turned her back on a career in opera to perform as head cheerleader with SufjanStevens’ band, it’s fair to say that Shara Wordenis not your average singer-songwriter. Aclassically-trained performer, she wrote her firstsong at the age of three, and went on to garnercritical attention with indie band Awry. She’s inDublin this week to showcase lush art pop fromnew album This Is My Hand.Tonight, The Workman’s Club, 10 WellingtonQuay, D2, 8pm, €17. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.theworkmansclub.com

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EthEr Productions specialise in aer-ial circus theatre and, on paper, the Locked room – a one-hour perform-ance that combines acrobatics, come-dy, dance and mime – sounds like a wonderful smorgasbord of kinetic en-ergy. regrettably, and despite the ob-vious skills of the two performers, Niamh Creely and Jonathan Walsh, it’s a production that seems strangely lacking in dynamism, which is hard to

credit for a show that combines so many forms of physical expression.

Part of this could be a result of the play’s quite static set-up: two circus performers wake up to find them-selves, for reasons never quite ex-plained, in a locked room. they take some time to realise their situation, make a few attempts to escape, and then pass the time with various combi-nations of the following activities: moving white boxes around the stage, bouncing up and down on medicine balls, turning a radio on and off, hang-ing clothes on a clothes line. there’s a brief dance. Somebody eats an apple.

You find yourself wondering for much of the first half when the acrobat-ics are going to start. the publicity ma-terial for the Locked room unwisely likens it to Waiting for Godot. It cer-tainly has Beckett’s sense of hope de-ferred, but the comparison should re-ally end there. Kreely and Walsh (who also co-direct) are very talented – when they do eventually get up on the ropes and the trapeze, you can’t but be im-pressed by the physicality of it. Sadly, this is not a show that is going to make you want to run away with the circus.

sheena DavittUntil tomorrow, Project Arts Centre, 39 Essex Street East, D2, 8pm, (mat tomorrow 3pm), €10 to €16. Tel: (01) 8819613/4. www.projectartscentre.ieLacking dynamism: Scenes from The Locked Room (left and right) featuring Niamh Creely and Jonathan Walsh picture: emmylie cruz

The 2 BeARSJoy o GRoove ARMAdAWhen Joe Goddard isn’t performing and recording as part of Hot Chip, he can be found making house tracks as The 2 Bears with Raf Rundell. The project isn’t a conventional, faceless studio partnership and the duo have been known to dress up in bear costumes and invite members of the audience onstage for a singalong. The 2 Bears’ music is just as playful and over the course of two albums for Southern Fried, they have brought an irreverent, leftfield sensibility to bear (sorry) on their dance floor grooves. The duo perform live this weekend and are sure to air music from their recent – and excellent – long player, The Night Is Young.Tomorrow, Hidden Agenda, Opium Rooms, Liberty Lane, D2, 11pm, €12.

In recent years, Joy O has been one of the most regular DJ visitors to Dublin and this weekend he appears at Twisted Pepper, his home from home in Dublin. Joy O’s real name, Peter O’Grady, goes some way to explaining his affinity with Irish crowds, but it would mean little if he

didn’t make crossover tunes like Hyph Mngo or Ellipsis.Tonight, Mud/Bedlam, The Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street, D1, 10.30pm, €15.

Most 1990s dance acts have either faded into obscurity or have got real jobs – but not Groove Armada. Andy Cato and Tom Findlay have sold millions of records and toured the globe, but their hearts still belong in the basements and sweatboxes of the warehouse scene where they originated from. This is no idle claim and in recent years they have put out a series of EPs for the underground label Hypercolour. Tonight they help Abstract celebrate its third birthday.Tonight, Abstract 3rd Birthday, Opium Rooms, Liberty Lane, D2, 11pm, €20 to €30.

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n Some 130 jobs are to be created across the country in the coming months. Teleflex Incorporated is to create 100 jobs with the expansion of its Athlone base. The medical devices company, which makes products for critical care and surgery, is to take on high-skilled staff over the next three years. The announcement was confirmed after Jobs Minster Richard Bruton met executives at Teleflex’s headquarters on an IDA Ireland mission to the US.

IF YOU read my column last week you might recall I was a long way from being convinced about our Government’s Job Path initiativefor the long-term unemployed for quite a number of reasons.

This week, however, I am happy to report that there is one Govern-ment programme which appears to be working better. Momentum is part of the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs Programme.

Momentum funds free education and training projects to allow 6,500 jobseekers who are unemployed for 12 months or more to gain skills in growing sectors.

One training programme for jobseekers funded through Momentum that I believe appears to be meeting its targets is Web Activate, a digital skills training programme.

We know our digital economy is growing at a huge rate – in fact, it is set to soar over the next decade. Research by Amárach earlier this year found the value of this sector could double by 2020.

The research also said our digital economy could add up to 79,000 jobs in the coming years, with a total of 150,000 direct and indirect posts created by 2020.

Web Activate, delivered by Digital Skills Academy in Dublin, Cork and Limerick is a programme which caters to a wide range of ages, including the over 50s. Dublin Institute of Technology is the awarding body. Ultimately re-

skilling up to 285 partici-pants across

the three centres – the programme particularly targets people who have been unemployed for 12 months or longer and supports them to start new digital careers.

Here are some interesting figures demonstrating tangible success as an outcome of one such pro-gramme: Of the 2013 Web Activate graduates, 73 per cent of those who started the programme achieved successful outcomes. This includes nearly 50 per cent who have re-joined the workforce.

This is an eight-month intensiveprogramme and is free of charge for jobseekers coming from any sector which has been badly affected by the downturn, and who meet the requirements.

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industry in demand and one that is growing –

otherwise, entry opportunity, progression and scope may be limited. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work that out.

I believe the Web Activate programme may just be one of those good horses to back.

If you wish to participate in this exciting opportunity, you should sign up soon. This year’s course commences again in November and I believe there are still some free a few places available.

My one criticism, if I wanted to be marginally critical of the Momentum scheme, would be that more needs to be done on policing the career arm of all of these programmes to ensure the career support piece is being given the air time and energy it needs.

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

Barclays has set aside £500million (€634million) over the alleged rigging of foreign exchange (forex) markets which are being investigated by regulators around the world. In the UK, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have both launched investigations into the alleged manipulation of the €3.8trillion-a-day forex market. Barclays announced the provision as it published results showing a 15 per cent fall in pre-tax profits to £620million (€786million) for the third quarter. It said a £500million provision had been recognised ‘relating to ongoing investigations into foreign exchange with certain regulatory authorities’.

Cash set aside for forex probe

IT SeeMS austerity alone did not bring Ireland out of the recession, as U2 frontman Bono has revealed he worked with the Industrial De-velopment Authority to get the country back on its feet.

The singer said the band saw their work with the IDA as a way of re-paying the country that ‘has been so good to us and that we love’, adding that he felt the Irish people had been ‘badly treated’ by bailing out ‘private sector wrongdoing’.

The revelation was made during an interview in Hot Press this week, in which Bono was asked about what he had done ‘behind the scenes’ to help the people of Ire-land during the recession.

He said he had misgivings about

what he could do because, for him-self and U2, ‘philanthropy is a per-sonal and private matter’. Despite their misgivings, though, the group decided they ‘could be useful with trying to get more companies to come to Ireland’.

Speaking to the Metro Herald, an IDA spokesman confirmed Bono had worked on behalf of the organi-sation.

‘Bono has worked with IDA Ire-land on a number of specific projects and used his influence very

positively on those occasions,’ the spokesman said.

‘Bono’s main work is to tell the Irish story through his own connec-tions in the investment world, something he does very well.

‘He is among a range of people who’ve helped sell the Ireland story over the last few years and IDA be-lieves his contribution will remain very important in that context.’

The singer was yesterday unveiled as a last-minute surprise speaker at next week’s Web Summit in Dub-lin. He will join the likes of Bill McGlashan of venture capitalists TPG, eric Wahlforss of Sound-

Cloud and film producer and social networking entrepreneur Dana Bru-netti, as well as hundreds of other leaders and trendsetters, has he dis-cusses ‘the future of music and the future of content’.

In the interview with long-time Hot Press contributor Olaf Tyaransen, Bono also defended U2’s controversial tax arrange-ments, insisting it was ‘intellectu-ally absurd’ for Irish people to at-tack the band for moving their tax affairs abroad to countries such as The Netherlands when Ireland had benefited so much from its own highly crticised tax regime.

‘Contribution will remain important’

Woo-ropa: Bono and the lads have ‘sold the Ireland story’ to investors from around the world

n The value of African-Irish trade is expected to reach €24billion by 2020, the Minister for Trade has said. Seán Sherlock was speaking at the launch of the Irish Exporters Association’s African Business Forum at UCD. The forum was established to boost trade, investment and business connec-tions between Ireland and Africa, and coincided with the fourth annual Africa Ireland Economic Forum yesterday. Mr. Sherlock said: ‘In the last three years we have seen an increase of 25 per cent in Irish goods exports to sub-Saharan Africa.’


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Recovered Richie back behind micCRiCKET Richie Benaud is set to return to broadcasting a year after a serious car crash. The revered 84-year-old former Australia captain sustained shoulder and chest injuries when he lost control of his vehicle in October last year. He is now set for a tentative comeback on Australian network Channel Nine, voicing a teaser for the Aussie’s first Twenty20 against South Africa in Adelaide next week. Nine’s head of sport Steve Crawley said: ‘Richie is good. In his words, he is moving along slowly but happily.’

gOLf France’s Alexander Levy made the ideal start to his bid for a third European Tour title of the season – and second in China – in the BMW Masters. Levy, who won the Volvo China Open in April and the rain-shortened Portugal Masters three weeks ago, carded an opening 65 at a damp Lake Malaren to finish seven under par, one shot ahead of compatriot Romain Wattel, Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts and Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo. ‘I think this country likes me,’ joked the 24-year-old (pictured).

Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell was two shots behind Levy, while his Ryder Cup team-mates Thomas Bjorn and Jamie Donaldson were part of a six-strong group on four under par.

Ronnie sunk by WilliamssNOOKER Welshman Mark Williams claimed his first ranking event victory over Ronnie O’Sullivan since 2002 at the International Championship in China yesterday. Despite losing the first three frames, Williams, 39, rallied to win 6-5 in their quarter-final clash. O’Sullivan potted only two reds in the deciding frame and managed a best break of just 72. Northern Irishman Mark Allen and English duo Robert Milkins and Ricky Walden make up the semi-final line-up. Long wait: Williams

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Murray storms past Dimitrov to clinch place at O2 Arena

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ANDY MURRAY finally clinched his place at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, and then sent a message to those who had sug-gested 2014 had been a letdown.

The 27-year-old also secured a measure of revenge over the man who knocked him out of Wimble-don as he thrashed Grigor Dim-itrov 6-3, 6-3 in the third round of the Paris Masters to claim the points needed to book his place in the field at the O2 next month.

Murray will head to London for his seventh straight appearance in the end-of-season showpiece on the back of an incredible late charge which has included three titles and now 11 wins in a row.

The British No.1 signed the tel-evision camera with ‘Bad Year!’ after the match in an apparent dig at his detractors.

He later insisted: ‘It [signing the camera] wasn’t a jibe [at critics], it’s a bit of fun. I mean, people are going to ask me all the time why I’ve had such a poor year.

‘You’re allowed to say some-thing in response to that. I don’t tend to do that often, but, look, it’s been a hard year, a tough year, but it hasn’t been a bad year.’ The Scot

admitted he was glad to be head-ing to London after taking on a whirlwind run of matches and tournaments in a bid to qualify.

‘It’s a great event to be involved in. It’s a fun way to finish the year – they put on a great event. I’m happy to have qualified,’ he added.

After back surgery last year, Murray had dropped down the rankings but he could now end the season as high as fourth in the world and insisted: ‘Around the French Open, I felt like I started playing well.

‘I’m pleased with the way I’m playing and I just hope it sets me up well for next season.’

London calling: Murray has

qualified for the Barclays

ATP World Tour finals

after beating Dimitrov

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JeNSON BUTTON has become a wanted man who may yet find himself in a position to make up his own mind on his future.

That is the view of Button’s manager Richard Goddard as he and the 34-year-old patiently wait on an answer from McLaren as to whether he will still be with the team next season or not.

Goddard is adamant McLaren Group CeO Ron Dennis is still mulling over his options for 2015, with an answer expected ahead of the final race of the campaign in Abu Dhabi on November 23.

Button has admitted to feeling under enormous pressure a few weeks ago as Dennis deliberated, but a change in mindset earlier this month has resulted in a calmer, more relaxed approach.

Button even had time to fit in a two-week holiday in between the last race in Russia and this weekend’s event in the United States, taking in Maui, California and Nevada.

As far as Goddard is concerned, an offer could present itself from another motorsport series that Button may find irresistible.

Lewis HamiLton is determined not to let the spectre of double points on offer in the final grand prix impact on his mindset over the final few weeks of the season.

Hamilton heads into this weekend’s race in the Us with a 17-point cushion over mercedes team-mate nico Rosberg.

But despite all of Hamilton’s hard work it could be undone in one fell swoop next month. with 50 points to the winner in abu Dhabi, Hamilton could spearhead one-two finishes at the next two races to take a lead of 31 points, yet still lose out.

‘this is the rule they have brought in. Do i really agree with it? i don’t know. But it is the way it is and you just have to deal with it and hope for the best,’ he said.

Button has lots of options for future

Double points don’t faze Lewis

Feeling no pressure: Jenson Button is mulling his next move

ConnaCht prop nathan White will miss Ireland’s autumn test series after rupturing a tendon in his upper arm while training with Joe Schmidt’s squad.

the new Zealand-born tighthead, 33, faces surgery next week and could now be sidelined for as long as four months. he had been lined up for his international debut against South africa next weekend. his absence further drains Ireland’s already stretched front-row resources.

the former Leinster front-rower had been expected to understudy Mike Ross across the autumn series, with Marty Moore already out for three

months after shoulder surgery.now head coach Schmidt and Ire-

land will be pinning hopes on Lein-ster’s experienced front-rower Ross recovering from groin trouble – as ex-pected – to shore up Ireland’s scrum.

Leinster’s 34-year-old scrum cor-nerstone Ross is expected to return to full training next week. With White the latest star to lengthen Ireland’s injury glut, his return takes on even greater importance.

the big-scrummaging Springboks would have looked to take on Ire-land’s set-piece even if the aviva Sta-dium hosts were at full strength up front next weekend.

White’s absence, allied to Moore’s shoulder surgery, leaves Ireland short of experience at tighthead for the South africa clash.

Schmidt had admitted he promoted White into the squad for his potential debut on the strength of his lengthy top-level club career, expecting the


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New beginning: Ben Te’o is to line out against Edinburgh tonight

by DAnny HOgAn

47 tries scored by Te’o in seven NRL seasons

rugby autumn series

Another blow for schmidt as white out of Test series

TONIGHT you will get to feast your eyes on the beast that is Ben Te’o and he will be a Halloween fright for certain – the only question is whether it is for Leinster or their opponents.

Hard hitting, hard running, hard man. That’s the reputation that Te’o has in rugby league and if Leinster coach Matt O’Connor, a former rugby league player himself, can help the 27-year-old make the transition to union he could be a resounding success.

The question some people will be asking is can Te’o have the same kind of impact on the 15-man code as Sonny Bill Williams? Even if he is a success, it’s asking a lot because Williams is one of the most complete rugby players in terms of skills and physical tools and Te’o’s hands appear hewn from steel and not silk.

The potential is exciting, no doubt. Te’o now brings a physicality (6ft 2in & 16st) to the wider channels of the Leinster attack and that is an element which the province have never possessed. During the Joe Schmidt era the emphasis on big ball carriers and strike runners was to expose weak links in the central areas using inside balls and set-plays.

This then allowed the likes of Gordon D’Arcy and Brian O’Driscoll to exploit defences

in the second level and gavethe impression that Leinster were a team always playing in free flow.

Without Cian Healy and Sean O’Brien there is an explosive element missing from Leinster’s attack and that is slowing things down, depending on how quickly Te’o adapts he will givethem a power runner on the fringes and inside corridors

of midfield.The challenge for Leinster is that his team-mates need to

adapt to him and right now he’ll spend a month doing that without the

internationals either side of him.

Opposing coaches will seek to exploit Te’o in

defence and expose him at the ruck — referees might not givehim much leeway at the breakdown either.

For Te’o to be an instant success will be very, very difficult and the bulk of his rugby in the next five months will come with Leinster’s second-string due to the Guinness Series and the Six Nations.

As for tonight, we expect a slog given that Edinburgh won’t be as disrupted through international call-ups and their South African corps will be well used to chopping down big trees like Te’o.

ODDbALLsSquat’s the problem, Milos?

Strange stories from the world of sport It’s Louis

van Ghoul

MiLoS RaoNic came up against anunexpected dilemma when he wasforced to answer a call of nature during his Paris Masters victory over american Jack Sock.

Ranonic, who beat Spain’s RobertoBautista agut 7-5, 7-6 (9-7) yesterday,had just dropped the second set whenhe had to nip to the little boys’ room.

However, much to Raonic’s horror

the toilet had nowhere to sit. Thecanadian said: ‘The escort who tookme, took me into a bathroom that had no seats on the toilet. So i didn’twant to squat, so i kept saying, “let’sgo to another one”, and we ended upgoing to the locker room.’

Unaware of the 23-year-old’s toilettrauma, fans duly booed Raonic forhis late return onto court.

ireland will be pinning hopes on Mike Ross

33-year-old to handle test intensity better than several promising but young and raw prospects.

now the former Leinster coach must draw on Connacht’s versatile front-rower Rodney ah You and Munster’s Stephen archer as potential under-studies to Ross.

Schmidt should at least be able to

call on Jack McGrath at loosehead prop as he aims to step up his return from injury, offsetting somewhat Cian healy’s long-term absence.

Ireland will still be shorn of at least 15 stars for the visit of heyneke Mey-er’s Springboks, however, before en-tertaining Georgia and then australia across the three-test Guinness series.

War horse:Nathan White receivesmedicalattention whilein action forconnacht

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Manchester United fansimon McMinnis hascreated a halloweenderby-day tribute by carving the faces of bossesLouis van Gaal and ManuelPellegrini into pumpkins.

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Citizen pain: Pellegrini is enduring a rare rough patch at City picture: Bpi

Times City have lost back-to-back games

under Pellegrini. They went on to beat

Hull 2-0 last time

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Result of last season’s

Manchester derby at the Etihad

4-1

Andrew Cole expects wayne rooney to take out his pent-up frustration on Manchester City this weekend.

United captain rooney is available for selection for the first time in five weeks following his three-match ban for a kick on west Ham’s Stewart downing.

during his absence rooney has cut a rather frustrated figure as he has watched on from the stands and Cole expects the 29-year-old will be fired up and desperate to make an impression at the etihad

It’s going to be a massiveboost to have a player of his

quality back.‘Hopefully we can go to

Man City and get a positive result.’Boss louis van Gaal

defended his captain in the wake of his dismissal, which

he received for kicking downing from behind while in full flow.

But former red devils skipper Bryan robson has warned rooney he must not make a habit of getting sent off because of the responsibility on him as skipper of club and country. ‘The one thing

wayne has to take on board is that he’s under even more scrutiny now. we saw him get sent off recently and, as a captain, you can’t be doing that,’ said robson.

‘But wayne knows that – I spoke with him at the training ground after the incident and he’s well aware of it.

‘I think he [made] that [chal-lenge] because he’s keen to im-press, desperate to show he cares. I don’t think it’ll happen again.’

rooney is expected to overcome a minor foot injury and could start against City alongside robin van Persie and radamel Falcao.

kEAnE Tv Dig AT ‘LAzy’ scHOLEsRoy KEanE claims his old Manchester United team-mate Paul Scholes was too lazy to do interviews.

Portrayed as shy, Scholes rarely spoke to the media as a player but the 39-year-old now works regularly as a TV pundit.

Keane told Shortlist magazine: ‘Scholesy could have done [TV appearances] at

United but he couldn’t be a***d. People thought he was camera-shy.

‘none of us liked doing interviews but you shared the load. “Scholesy’s too humble to do it.” Well, he’s f****** doing it now, isn’t he? Maybe there’s more money involved now. and I’d tell him this if he was sat here in front of me.’

WaynE RoonEy is expected to become the second greatest goalscorer in Premier League history by the end of the season.

Rooney is just 11 behind andrew Cole, who scored 187 top flight goals – a feat only surpassed by alan Shearer.

‘If Wayne breaks my tally, it’s been broken by a fantastic player,’ admitted Cole.

‘He has played at the highest level for ten years now.’

by MATTHEW nAsH

cole: Rooney so fired up for derby

Stadium on Sunday.‘He has got to be raring

to go,’ the former United striker said. ‘He is a professional football-er. when you miss games through injury or illness or suspension, you are going to be disappointed.

‘I have no doubt he will be chomping at the bit now and ready to go having missed three games.

Raring to go: Rooney looks set to return in

the Manchester derby

Ger O’Brien recalls all too painfully that watching Derry City presented with the trophy after they’d beaten St. Patrick’s Athletic in the 2012 final was hard to take, writes Paul Buttner.

But no added incentive will be needed for St. Pat’s skipper O’Brien and his team-mates to win on Sunday when the sides clash again in the FAI Ford Cup final at the Aviva Stadium. The club has waited just far too long for its third cup success.

‘I wouldn’t say it’s added motivation,’ said O’Brien of wanting revenge for their defeat two years ago as he hopes to finally bring the Blue Riband back to Inchicore following what will be St.

Pat’s’ eighth final appearance since last winning it in 1961.

‘You are in a cup final and you want to win the game. I remember standing looking at Derry lifting the trophy and it’s not a nice feeling.

‘You just don’t know how many cup finals you are going to get to. If you play for 17 years you’ve 17 cracks at it and they go by very quickly.

‘We’re now in a position whereby we can rewrite two years ago. We’re focused on the game and the way we’re going to play.

‘We look at our strengths and look at Derry’s strengths and weaknesses and we prepare properly,’ he added. ‘Once

we cross that white line you switch on and try to play football.’

And O’Brien feels the big Aviva Stadium pitch will complement Saints’ expansive game.

‘It suits us. We like to play with a lot of width, move the ball and try to make teams work. If it all falls into place on Sunday, it will suit us down to the ground.

‘Liam (Buckley, manager) will have us well drilled, as I’m sure Peter (Hutton) will have Derry. And it’s going to be a cracking game, hopefully.”

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Game on: St. Patrick’s skipper Ger o’Brien

Barry Molloy: Leading the Candy stripes


rn Both teams need to win Sunday’s Manchester derby.City come into this off the back of three very disappointing results and while United put in a much better performance against Chelsea, I still think there is a problem at the back. That really tees this game up.n City seem to have fallen to pieces recently. They will be massively disappointed the way the last week and a half has gone. Chelsea are running away

with the league after City’s defeat at West Ham, their Champions League prospects look pretty grim and they are out of the Capital One Cup. They need to put things right and this is a perfect opportunity.n Sergio Aguero

(pictured) should enjoy playing against that defence.He can feast on any back four on any given day if he is in the mood, his four-goal performance against Tottenham was exceptional. But he’s been a bit patchy, hitting the crossbar with a chance at Upton Park, which by his high standards he would have expected to score. A derby is a great way to get back on track.n United look stronger going forward.They have plenty of options in Falcao, Rooney and Van Persie but they may still need an exceptional passer to

hit the frontman and get him in on goal – even though they have Angel Di Maria, who is very good with the ball. They are also still short of a top

central defender.n What’s happening to

Tottenham in the league?I think they have gone backwards. It is hard to know just how they are going to turn it around

because I think they are short in too many areas. I still believe Roberto Soldado can score goals for them

but he needs to build his confidence. If you

could pick a game to get you back on track,

though, it would be against Aston Villa at the moment.

withpAuL wALsH

Paul Walsh enjoyed afine career as a strikerwith Liverpool, Spurs andManchester City and isnow an analyst with Sky Sports. Sky is showingmore of the games that matter from the BarclaysPremier League as part of an autumn of sport.

interview by Danny Griffiths

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unitedshaken City stars stand

Hart insists champions are backing Pellegrini ahead of Manchester derby Joe Hart says Manchester City’s players remain right behind manager Manuel Pellegrini despite a dismal week for the league champions.

Pellegrini’s men relinquished their grip on the Capital one Cup on Wednesday, a 2-0 de-feat at home to Newcastle com-ing after a 2-1 reverse at West Ham in the Premier League.

the faltering form comes at a worrying time for City, with Manchester United at the eti-had Stadium on Sunday before a must-win Champions League tie with CSKa Moscow.

Boss Pellegrini goes into those fixtures following back-to-back losses for just the third time in his City career but Hart says

the Chilean retains the squad’s faith in his methods.

‘He’s got his standards we try to live up to, and if we don’t we’re just as disap-

pointed as he is. He knows his methods and we’ve proved in the past playing his way works,’ said the england goalkeeper.

Pellegrini said after the Newcastle defeat he was wor-ried about a ‘lack of trust and confidence’ in his squad but Hart played down the meaning

of the phrase.‘those are keywords he uses,’

he added. ‘I don’t think they’re anything to be built on too much. Not everyone is exactly at their peak just now. We just need a few players, myself included, to step up.

‘this is one of those difficult patches we’ve gone through

by gAvin bROwn

unitedHart insists champions are backing Pellegrini ahead of Manchester derby

many a time and as he pointed out, last season we had less points [at this stage] and we won the league. We’ve got to look to things like that but the main thing is to get it right on Sunday.’

Pellegrini has remained calm and Hart says the former Malaga manager’s approach is welcomed by the players.

‘He’s not an actor. that’s who he is,’ Hart told Sky Sports.

‘It’s how he portrays himself in the media but he doesn’t change when he speaks to us.

‘It’s a good thing to have a constant – we know what kind of a guy he is and what he ex-pects.

‘Someone doesn’t have to smash the room up to show you they’re disappointed.’

‘We need to be more determined and we need to score goals because we are a team that scores more goals than everybody andwhen we don’t score we have problems.’

‘We need to forget about Newcastle and only think about United.It’s always a really, really big match. When I have watched these games from my house you can tell how big it is. We need a bestperformance from every player to win this game.’

Stevan Jovetic

City duo Jovetic and Caballero turn their sights to Sunday’s derby with Manchester United

Willy caballero

The tough gets Joe-ing:

Keeper Hart is confident City

will bounce back from

their recent slump

‘We just need a few players to step up’

Fed’s Liverpool red is overturned by FASWANSEA defender Federico Fernandez has had his red card against Liverpool in midweek rescinded.The centre-back was shown a straight red card by referee Keith Stroud for a tackle on Philippe Coutinho during stoppage-time in the 2-1 Capital One Cup defeat at Anfield.The tackle was deemed as serious foul play and Fernandez (pictured) faced a three-match ban, starting with the trip to Everton tomorrow. ‘It clearly wasn’t a sending off,’ said Swansea boss Garry Monk, who will meet with referees’ boss Mike Riley today to discuss decisions he says have consistently gone against his side this season.

Redfearn admits: Leeds job is closeNEIL REDFEARN insists he is ‘very close’ to becoming Leeds’ third permanent manager of the season after talks with controversial owner Massimo Cellino. United academy boss Redfearn, who had a brief spell as caretaker boss after Dave Hockaday’s sacking in August, looks set to succeed Slovenian Darko Milanic, who was axed by Cellino after just six games. ‘It’s very close,’ said Redfearn ahead of tomorrow’s game at Cardiff in the Championship. ‘I had a good chat with Massimo and wanted some assurances. It’s not that far away.’

fOOTbALL DigEsT

7 Match ban for Celtic’s Ale-ksandar Tonev, found guilty of racially abusing Aberdeen’s Shay Logan. The winger will appeal.

Redknapp has no issue with ‘top-class’ RioHARRy REDKNAPP has launched a staunch defence of Rio Ferdinand, labelling the QPR defender a ‘top-class person’ despite his three-match Football Association ban. The former Manchester United and England star was banned and fined £25,000 on Wednesday for comments he made on Twitter. Ferdinand, 35, was ‘severely warned as to his future conduct’ by the FA over an alleged sexist tweet. The message included the term ‘sket’, taken to mean a promiscuous woman, in response to a tweet he received about his performances. While Rangers boss Redknapp said the club are weighing up whether to appeal, he believes there is no need to talk to Ferdinand about his conduct. ‘We’ve not seen the FA report yet so we really can’t comment,’ said Redknapp. ‘We’re not sure exactly what he’s done and what the charge is and what the reasons are behind it.’

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