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Vlad, the inhalerBy robert Kennedy asked about the incident by Marian

Finucane on her RTÉ Radio 1 show yesterday morning.

‘I’m impressed by your research,’ he told her. ‘I spent most of Saturday afternoon and evening out with the ambulance service to see how it works. It wasn’t for media consump-tion but there you go.’

A spokesman for Mr Varadkar said: ‘He had been with a paramedic in a rapid response vehicle which was tasked with the emergency response to the golf club and the minister provided assistance at the scene and carried some equipment.

‘He wasn’t involved medically. The treatment was done by the crew.’

Before he was elected TD for Dub-lin West in 2007, Mr Varadkar studied medicine at Trinity College and quali-fied as a GP after working in a number of hospitals and in the community.

Reaction to Mr Varadkar’s contribu-tion was mixed.

Bernadette Grogan, @bergro30, wrote on Twitter: ‘Fair play to @campaignforleo spending a night with our great ambulance services.’

Katie Lally, @klally6, commented: ‘Delighted to see the Health Minister @campaignforleo spent a night with the Ambulance Service to help out and see what it’s like! #soundman.’

However, Buzz O’Neill, @buzzoneill, said: ‘The Leo Varad-kar PR stunt is just pathetic.. Does he think the Irish electorate are stupid?

HEALTH Minister Leo Varadkar got a PR boost when a picture of him help-ing to treat a man who had collapsed went wide on social media.

The qualified doctor was on a hush-hush ride-along with the National Am-bulance Service when the rapid re-sponse vehicle he was travelling in was sent to a south Dublin golf club where a man had collapsed.

A witness at the club in Edmonds-town, Rathfarnham, said Mr Varadkar and another man in full paramedic gear arrived first on the scene and they be-gan working on the patient.

The witness said one of the medics who arrived before the ambulance

looked ‘familiar’. ‘The two guys got out carrying all the gear. They were both down on their knees over the pa-tient, putting on an oxygen mask and working on him,’ the witness told The Irish Times website.

‘Then I realised one of them was the Health Minister.’

A person at the scene took a photo-graph of Mr Varadkar and the ambu-lance crew in action and this later appeared widely on social media.

Mr Varadkar – sometimes unkindly referred to as ‘Vlad’ in political cir-cles – was taken by surprise when

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their dog, Lucky. thousands turned out to see the Christmas lights being their dog, Lucky. thousands turned out to see the Christmas lights being ast nigh ith their daughshame on O’Connell Street last night with their daughter Sarah, ten, and

turned on and Dubliners yesterday smashed the world record for the turned on and Dubliners yesterday smashed the world record for the their dog, Lucky. istmas lights beingtheir dog, Lucky. thousands turned out to see the Christmas lights being

most people wearing their geansaí nollaig in one place – a whopping 1,297 in aid of Make-A-Wish. Many sported their own festive jumpers and also had embellishments added by Metro Herald’s ever cheerful and also had embellishments added by Metro Herald’s ever cheerful 1, y spor e jumpers1,297 in aid of Make-A-Wish. Many sported their own festive jumpers

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them that they have to do it. But for nor-mal women to do it? If men want to

leave their wife for a 19-year-old, they’re gonna do it anyway.

‘All the facelifts and botox in the world isn’t going to change that

guy, you know.’Hall also opened up about

her relationship with ex-hubby Mick Jagger. ‘I genu-inely like him – he’s funny, he’s clever, he tries his best

and he is also a great fa-ther,’ the Texan told

Hello! magazine.‘But he’s not the

sort of person I want to spend my old age with.’

The full inter-view is pub-lished in the new edition of Hello! which is out today.

FROM A NIGHTCRAWLER

TO A bRAWNy bRAWLER

Ripped: Jake looks the part in Southpaw after a tough training regime picture: scope features

Scrawny: Jake slimmed down to play Bloom in Nightcrawler

WITH a snarling face and aripped torso, Jake Gyllenhaallooks a far cry from theweedy weirdo he played inNightcrawler.

The actor – who shed 30lbfor his role as newshoundLouis Bloom – has put it allback and gained an extra 15lb of muscle to star as aboxer in Southpaw.

‘We literally turned himinto a beast,’ director Antoine Fuqua said. ‘I hadhim training twice a day inthe boxing ring, training like a fighter. I put him in

situations where I wanted to see what he was made of.’

The movie tells the story ofBilly ‘The Great’ Hope who –in keeping with boxing flicktradition – determinedly fights his way back after hitting rock bottom.

The part was written forEminem but he dropped outand Gyllenhaal, 33, steppedinto the ring.

‘I think Jake broke up withhis girlfriend because he wasjust in the gym every day,’ Fuqua told Hollywood’s Deadline Magazine.

Hall issues cutting criticism of stars under the knife

by ANTHONy bARNEsMODEL and actress Jerry Hall has crit-icised women who go under the knife, warning that they risk becoming ‘gro-tesque caricatures’.

The 58-year-old said she sympa-thised with actresses who felt pressurised into having surgery but added: ‘It’s so idiotic when they risk their lives to have sur-gery. Every time you have anaes-thesia, you’re killing a lot of brain cells – why would you do that?

‘You could get infections, you could die. Why make yourself look a grotesque caricature of yourself? They don’t fool anyone.

‘They look like pathet-ic, insecure creatures. I loathe the whole thing.

‘I don’t mean to be critical, and I under-stand that actresses feel the pressure in Hollywood, they have to do it. I respect that and I feel sorry for

Natural: Jerry Hall hates plastic surgery

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HUGE SKI SALE NOW ON.

Ireland’s first ever compliant shipping container house has been completed, exhibited to the public in dublin, and is now being transported down to Cork.

assembled on the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern art, Kilmainham – from entirely donated materials and volunteer labour – the container home’s transport south has been funded by the auction of an original piece of art by street artist danny Wynn.

Carol Tallon and derek Trenaman have been with the

project from its genesis right up to its donation to st Vincent de Paul with a view to housing a Cork family before Christmas

Taking just three days to construct, the container home (pictured) concept is set to offer an ‘immediate solution’ to the current Irish housing crisis, according to Ms Tallon.

When asked what the idea behind the project had been, property expert Ms Tallon said: ‘It shows that if we can build this in three days on a zero budget, then the Government can do so much better’.

COnTAining ExCiTEMEnT

Mortgage aidgroup sorry for leaking namesa GrOUP which helps homeown-ers with mortgage difficulties has apologised after the names and bank details of 1,500 customers were passed to an investment firm it is working with.

ross Maguire, co-founder of new Beginning, apologised after the list of names was emailed to arizun, a Malta-based fund it is working with on a €2billion scheme to purchase thousands of distressed mortgages. It would see arizun buy non-performing mortgages from the banks and rent the homes back to families, with the option for the household-er to buy it back after seven years.

The Mail On sunday reported yesterday that an email sent from new Beginning to arizun on august 25 contained a spreadsheet called ‘Final Master list on 1,500 Mortgage sample’. This contained the names, addresses, number of children, and income and debt details of aIB, Bank of Ireland and Ulster Bank customers.

On the same day the spreadsheet was sent, a payment of €20,000 was made to new Beginning but Mr Maguire said ‘it was not the case’ new Beginning was paid for the data. He said the email had been sent in error.

Renters fear being kicked out of homesMORE than a third of Dublin renters are afraid of losing their homes, a new report has found.

The first National Housing Sentiment Survey shows 38 per cent of renters in Dublin live with this fear. This com-pares with 23 per cent nationally.

Commissioned by co-operative housing provider Nabco, the survey found that one in five people is spend-ing more than 40 per cent of their net income on rent, with Dubliners in pri-vate rented accommodation spending an average of 35 per cent. Some 67 per cent of Dubliners expect their rent to increase in the next 18 months.

Nabco said price, living conditions and the running costs of accommoda-tion are the most important criteria for tenants when choosing a home.

While just over seven in ten tenants feel their current accommodation is meeting their needs, one in four re-port that they have had problems with their house that haven’t been fixed, and a further one in four said that is-sues with the property was their main reason for their last house move.

One in three of those surveyed said they do not know if they have a for-mal lease and four in ten said they do not know where to look for help.

Rental figures released last month by property website Daft.ie showed a 16.6 per cent increase in rent prices in Dublin this year.

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€280m deal will add 3,800 housesa GlOBal property group plans to build 3,800 homes ‘as quickly as possible’ at the end of the luas green line after it sealed a €280million deal for a 400-acre site in south dublin.

Hines Ireland announced yesterday that it had completed the purchase of Cherrywood Business Park and develop-ment scheme from receivers on behalf of nama and two banks.

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1 in 5 will shop for Christmas while at work

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Young man recieves serious head injuries in city attackGARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to an assault in Dublin city early yesterday which left a young man with serious head injuries.

The victim, in his early-20s, was assaulted by another young man near the junction of Camden and Har-rington streets in the south city.

According to a Garda spokesman, the injured man received serious

head injuries in the assault, which happened at around 5.05am.

The suspect, described as being in his 20s, with black hair and wearing a dark top and blue jeans, ran in the direction of Wexford Street.

Anyone with information can contact the Gardaí in Kevin Street station on 01-6669400 or the Confi-dential Line on 1800-666111.

Ambassador who exploited workers recalled to the UAETHE United Arab Emirates has re-called its ambassador to Ireland af-ter he was found to have exploited three Filipino maids who worked at the UAE’s embassy in Dublin.

An Employment Appeals Tribunal last week ordered Khalid Nasser Rashed Lootah to pay €80,000 each to the three women who gave evi-dence that they were forced to work every day for 15 hours – for just €170 per month.

Myra Calderon, Laylanie Lapanga and Jennifer Vilaranda had taken their case against Mr Lootah and his wife, Mehra Metad Alghubaisi.

The three women worked for the cou-ple in the UAE and came with them to Dublin in 2011.

In a statement, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it ‘is aware of

the decision of the Employment Ap-

peals Tribunal. The UAE takes this matter seriously and accordingly has decided to recall the ambassador to Abu Dhabi while the Ministry of For-eign Affairs investigates the issue.’

Gone home: Khalid Lootah

ONE in five workers will do their Christ-mas shopping on their employers’ time this year, shopping for gifts on their mo-bile phone during work hours.

Like other countries worldwide, today, dubbed Cyber Monday, is expected to be the busiest online shopping day of the year in Ireland, according to research.

Research indicates a 31 per cent in-crease in the number of gifts Irish shop-pers plan to buy this festive season, bring-ing the average to 22 at a cost of €266.

An additional €270 will be spent on other Christmas related items, such as food, decorations and cards, ebay said.

Meanwhile, Ireland’s beleaguered re-tail sector is expecting a strong Christ-mas this year. A rise in employment, higher disposable incomes and the re-turn of the ‘feelgood factor’ has prompt-ed predictions from a leading business body of the best Christmas in five years.

Thomas Burke of Retail Ireland said: ‘The Irish retail sector has had some very tough years, but there is now cause for cautious optimism.’

In its 2014 Retail Christmas Monitor, the group said it expected that about

€3.96billion would be spent in shops this month – a rise of 2 per cent on the sum for the same period last year.

It was also found households were likely to spend an extra €750 in Decem-ber over previous months.

Mr Burke added: ‘The next few weeks are by far the most important trading pe-riod of the year, and key indicators are pointing in the right direction.’

Retail Ireland believes an additional 35,000 more people will be in work this Christmas compared to last year. Levels of disposable income are also expected to grow by 3 per cent in 2014 on top of the 3.3 per cent during 2013.

Consumer sentiment – at its highest since 2007 – has been boosted by com-petition keeping prices at their lowest since December 2002, the report found.

However, Mr Burke said more should be done, such as making commercial rates fairer, improving services for those rates, and making town and city centres better places to visit through measures such as greater Garda presence.

Caoimhe, Ella and Ellen attend Console’s Christmas Celebration of Light to remember suicide victims in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth Picture: andres Poveda

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Ireland kills 60,000 horses for foodSOME 25,000 horses were legally slaughtered in Ireland for human consumption at the peak of the practise in 2012, but the number has fallen dramatically since.

The figures are falling as unwanted ‘Celtic tiger’ trophy horses run out, the Deparment of Agriculture told Metro Herald.

From 2007 to 2012 some 60,000 horses were slaughtered.

The figures show just 1,506 horses were killed in 2007 but this spiked to 24,362 in 2012.

Some 10,711 were killed in 2013 but the number is just half this to date this year and expected to halve again next year

as supply dries up further. Ireland exports horse meat for

human consumption to a range of European countries and to parts of Asia.

Europe was rocked in 2013 by revelations of undeclared horse meat in beef products across the continent.

Snow likely for Christmas Day?FORECASTERS believe Ireland isset for a white Christmas, witha festive snowfall most likely to occur in the north and east.

Meteorologists with Exacta Weather have warned the mildtemperatures of late autumnwill soon give way to brutalpolar winds, plummeting lowsand widespread snow.

The severest cold has beenpredicted for later this monthand into the new year, with December set to be as bitter as the ‘big freeze’ four years ago.

UCC abuzz after win

Science students celebrate after bee

project wins Smarter Planet Challenge 2014

TO Bee or not to bee, that was the question that helped a team of UCC students to victory in the Ieee/IBM Smarter Planet Challenge 2014.

UCC’s team of students had every reason to be happy as they successfully fended off competition from college heavyweights such as MIT.

The researchers have designed an energy neutral hive that monitors the activity of the bee colony and conditions within the beehive.

Team leader Fiona Murphy said the reason hon-ey-bees are so important is that they help flowers and plants to reproduce by carrying pollen.

The team’s chosen project title, (2B)OR!(2B), was inspired by both William Shakespeare and UCC’s first ever maths professor George Boole.

Dr emanuel Popovici, the co-ordinator of UCC’s competition entry, said: ‘(2B)OR!(2B) is an excep-tional project. It is a project where five very bright and enthusiastic students exchange some brilliant ideas to help humanity.’

UCC has a strong history in the IBM sponsored competition having previously won it in 2011.

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LINDSAY LOHAN bowed out of her West End debut in

style – joined by pop babe Rita Ora for an end-of-run

party. The actress and the 24-year-old Shine Ya Light

singer hit a club after Lohan’s final performance in

David Mamet’s Speed The Plow.Earlier Lohan, 28, expressed joy over completing her

run, having won rave reviews and silencing her critics

by appearing on stage for all 75 shows. She also

revealed she is to star in another Mamet play, Oleanna.

‘ONE MAMET DOWN!!! Next stop. 1 year #OLEANNA’

she wrote on Instagram.

TULISA CONTOSTAVLOS made a sexy,

spectacular comeback at London’s

G-A-Y on Saturday night.

The 26-year-old, who last year was

accused of brokering a drugs deal but

saw the case collapse in court, took to

the stage for her first stage

performance in 18 months.

Showing off her newly toned body

in a jewelled bra, micro shorts and

glitzy boots, the former X Factor

judge surrounded herself with male

dancers. At one point they lifted her

up as she belted out her new single,

Living Without You. ‘OMG G-A-Y that

was Insane!!! Thank you,’ she

tweeted after her performance.

TULISA PUTS THE

SEX FACTOR INTO

POP COMEBACK

My mates are terrible dates, reveals Jaymi U

nion J’s latest tune You Got it All might be about finding the perfect other half – but one member of the

band, Jaymi Hensley, says they make abysmal dates.

Admitting he often tells his band-mates – happily partnered dad-of-one JJ Hamblett, 26, and single-tons Josh Cuthbert, 22, and George Shelley, 21, – that they find better dates than they deserve, Hensley dishes out why they go wrong.

‘JJ’s taken, but if he were single and providing he didn’t get drunk, would be a good date,’ a chuckling Hensley, 24, told Guilty Pleasures. ‘if he got drunk it would get quite

embarrassing. Josh would look like he was interested, but if there was a football match on a screen, or if a fitter girl walked past, he would look.

‘For George, if they uttered the

word “gadget” it would be a match made in heaven. But if they weren’t as much of a geek as him, he would let himself down.’

Hensley – who has been in a relationship for six years – confesses he has had plenty of awkward dates.

‘i went to dinner with an ex-boy-friend once, and my dad turned up because it was near his house,’ he laughed. ‘it was like a weird double date... i hadn’t told my dad i was gay.’

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SONGWRITER LEAVES BOYS LOST FOR WORDS

THE band were shocked to discover legendary Americansongwriter Diane Warren loves using bad language.

‘You expect a demure woman,but she came in saying: “What’s up mother f***ers?! Let’s make a f***ing tune!”’ said Jaymi.

Six-time Oscar nominated Warren has penned tunes forBeyonce, J Lo and Mariah Careyamong many others.

Josh was also gobsmackedwhen Warren, 58, demandedhe create a design for her

lady garden.He said: ‘She had

this thing on herwall, like an

Etch A Sketchof a vagina,calledDesignerBeaver. ‘She said

“if youdesign it, I’ll

grow it like that!” So I did.’

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PERFORMING

their new tune You

Got It All on X Factor was

the ‘highlight’ of their lives.

Jaymi Hensley said Simon Cowell

was the only judge he wanted to

impress because he wasn’t on the

panel when the band were

contestants on the show two

years ago. ‘I was literally like,

“I’m coming for you”,’

Jaymi, 24, said.

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PRINZE JR ‘can

walk fine’ after spinal

surgery last week. The 38-

year-old Scooby Doo star, hubby

of Sarah Michelle Gellar, has yet to

reveal why he underwent the

operation, but is keeping fans

updated on Twitter after posting

snaps of himself wearing a

neck brace and in physical

therapy.

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Rihanna has set tongues wagging after stepping out for dinner with a mystery man. Rumours were sparked when the popstar, 26, and her tall and athletic-looking companion were spotted wearing

baseball caps at Nobu in New York. Riri has been mostly single since splitting with singer Chris Brown last year.★

We Linkedup to help Chester in drug fightMike reveals band’s strong bond

Despite a battle with drug addiction, Linkin park say they have their heads screwed on straight.

the Numb hitmakers credit their ‘life experience’ for help-ing co-lead singer Chester Bennington, 38, fight his longtime dependency on drugs and alcohol.

‘When Chester had some problems everybody jumped up to help him and tell him how supportive we wanted to be and how much it meant to us that he was doing something posi-tive,’ fellow lead singer Mike shi-noda told Guilty pleasures.

‘We’re lucky to have a band full of guys who have their heads screwed on straight – a lot of life experience goes into that,

but

we just support each other; we have each other’s back. At the end of the day we love what we do. We’re not willing to throw that away

on anything.’ since finding fame in 2000 with their debut album Hybrid

theory, shinoda, 37, admits he has ‘never been that excited’ about being a part of celebrity culture.

‘the band got so big so fast it was obvious to us

when people were trying to take ad-vantage,’ he went

on to say. ‘We knew we

couldn’t trust some of these people but we could

trust each other.’Linkin park’s new album,

the Hunting party, and the single Rebellion are out now.

Brand name: Alexa with her Edie Parker clutch

THERE’S not much risk of Alexa

Chung losing her expensive

handbag...her name’s emblazoned

across the designer clutch.

The 30-year-old socialite touted a

bespoke Edie Parker snap-fastening

evening bag, with gold lettering on

a background of marble silver, at a

dinner for the British Fashion Awards

nominees. It was hosted by Grey

Goose at the Soho House pop-up in

London on Saturday night.

Chung kept the rest of her

ensemble simple, teaming an off-

white embroidered full skirt with a

Peter Pan-collared shirt.

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HER ‘NAME’ BAG

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HONG KONG: Police fire pepper spray at activists as the pro-democracy protests turned ugly near the chief executive office yesterday picture: reuters

digestand finally...AMERICA: A new species of frog hasbeen found that coughs instead ofcroaks. The AtlanticCoast leopard frog,which also groans,has been discoverednot in the rainforests,as you might think, but along New Jersey’s Delaware River, the coastline and New York’s Staten Island.

IRAN: A doctor had acid thrown in his face – the latest in a string of attacks. Siamand Anvari was targeted by a motorcyclist in Tehran yesterday. Last month, four women in Isfahan were attacked in the same way. Police dismissed claims they were targeted for not following Iran’s strict dress code.

Acid attacker strikes again

AMERICA: Darren Wilson, the policeman who shot dead unarmed teenager Michael Brown, has resigned, after last week learning he would not face trial, sparking anger. This weekend, members of local NFL team the St Louis Rams symbolically emerged onto the field with their hands up.

IsRAEL: Jewish extremists are thought to have set fire to a school and scrawled ‘death to Arabs’ on the playground wall. The attackers torched Hand In Hand school in Jerusalem – where Palestinian and Israeli children study together – while it was empty on Saturday night.

‘Extremists’ torch school

QATAR: A US couple sentenced to jail after their African adopted daughter was found dead won their appeal yesterday and were heading home. Matthew and Grace Huang had been accused of locking Gloria, eight, in a hotel room with no food. They said she refused to eat because of a disorder.

Parents freed after death

My mother’s jujucurse has stoppedme from scoring

by TOM MARsHALL

Tottenham Football Club striker Adebayor’s amazing claim...

Goal woe: Left, Adebayor and Alice in 2007, and after another miss pictures: reuters

MISFIRING Tottenham star Em-manuel Adebayor has accused his own mum of putting a curse on his scoring exploits.

The striker, who has netted just two Premier League goals this season, said his mother, Alice, has been ‘plotting juju’ – or witchcraft – against him.

The Togo international says the 62-year-old is using black magic to stop him scoring as the result of a family rift, reports Ghana’s Peace FM radio station.

Alice claims her 30-year-old son has left her penniless after throwing her out of the family home.

Now the ex-Arsenal and Manches-ter City star has hit back saying: ‘I never sacked my mum from the house – she decided to leave. But how am I going to be in touch with my mum if she is the one telling eve-ryone my work will not go forward.

‘They should stop doing juju on me

– they should leave me alone,’ he said.The star’s brother Kola, who works

as a lorry driver in Germany, hit back, saying: ‘Every day my mother is crying. She told me, “Emmanuel has accused me of being a witch.”’

He claims Adebayor has been ‘brain-washed’ by Muslim spiritual healers.

‘He has left our family in poverty,’ the 42-year-old said.

Adebayor was dropped for Tot-tenham’s game against Everton yesterday.

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This Government is trying (quite rightly) to expand the tax base, but it hasn’t done it in a fair and equi-table manner. The recent

budget saw those on €70,000 (con-veniently, roughly the salary of a TD) getting a €14 tax break a week, while those on €16,000 get around €1.78. No opposition party has come up with a viable alternative (some are stating they’ll narrow the tax band if elected, which is part of the reason the country went bust in the first place).

saying you pay for what you use is not true. For example, my em-ployer has showers and full kitchen facilities. Anyone who works here will be able to drink and be hygi-enic at his expense. i could fill a water bottle and bring it home for my coffee. Meanwhile, my retired

parents – who paid 60 per cent tax when they worked – will have to pay for every glass of water to swallow their medication or warm bath to ease their arthritis.

if we wind up irish Water, it’ll cost the taxpayer, but there is a so-lution – merge the National Roads Authority with irish Water, and fund it with Motor Tax. Motor Tax is the least fair tax – a new Mer-cedes is taxed at half a 2007 Toyota Yaris, despite weighing more and causing more road damage. When the new authority upgrades roads, new water network pipes can be placed. (The Newlands Cross in-terchange is open but it will be closed again in a few years when irish Water have to re-lay pipes).

This merger takes two costs off government expenditure and only removes motor tax from its income.

And as you’ll only have one crew digging up the roads for both jobs, it’ll cost less. Bruce Newman

Well done to Montrose for play-ing a blinder with The Late Late Toy show on Friday night. For us, it’s always the official start of the festive season and a real family tra-dition by this stage.

i can’t say i’m always satisfied with the quality of programming on our state broadcaster, but with The Late Late Toy show, RTÉ always seems to strike just the right balance between sweet, cheeky and entertaining. Ryan Tubridy is mainly to thank for this. if only he could be as good with politicians and celebrities as he is with children. Decco

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Julie WalTers, 64, shot to fame in the 1983 film Educating Rita. Now she’s playing the housekeeper to the Brown family in new release Paddington

Paddington’s about understanding people and living in harmony. There’s something lovely

about that

How would you describe your character in Paddington, Mrs Bird? she’s domineering but lovely and funny. she’s scottish and a distant relation to the Brown family. she runs everything like a ship with lots of nautical terms and there’s a whistle when she wants attention.

What kind of housekeeper would you be in real life?Fairly chaotic, probably… maybe a bit like Mrs Bird, strict in some ways and then not in others. she’s quite an eccentric person, especially in the hands of [director] Paul King.

How was it acting opposite an invisible co-star?harry Potter was full of it because the children were small when we first started so they couldn’t work the hours we did. so they’d shoot them, then they’d shoot us talking to them when they couldn’t be there. so i was kind of used to that.

Is there a message to Paddington? it’s about humanity, that elusive thing. it’s about not just going: ‘You’re different and you don’t fit in.’ it’s about understanding people and living in harmony, and i think there’s something lovely about that.

Paddington is a big fan of marmalade. Are you?[Paddington author] Michael Bond’s wife made us these jars of marmalade and everyone was saying: ‘We must keep these,’ but i took mine home and i ate them all over the weekend! On bread with butter. it should be white bread but that’s so terrible. it’s heavenly marmalade and it’s all gone now.

What do you think appeals to us about toy bears?They’re cuddly, they’re the first thing you can hold on to, they give you security and

they’re warm, unlike a doll. They have an innocence. i’ve still got a little bear given to me when i was born. his arms are all completely shrivelled. My mother said i was sick on him or something.

What books did you love growing up? i just loved The Borrowers. i still can’t pass a hole in the floor without thinking ‘are they down there?’ i thought i’d discovered The Borrowers – i found it when i was in the library so i thought no one else had read it.

What was your childhood like? it had its problems,

like everyone’s. i wasn’t happy in my first

school. it was a private school and i came from a working-class background. When i went to secondary school,

it was heaven – there weren’t any

nuns there. There were normal women, not these

people locked up in this building going through the menopause, taking it out on small girls!

When did you discover your talent for acting? Well, funnily enough there was this one nun who

was about 6ft 1in, or that’s what she seemed to me. i remember saying to my friends: ‘she’s as tall as the door!’ and them laughing. she used to have

this miming thing you did every Friday afternoon. And

the children had to guess what it was. The first time i did it, this nun – she was awful – but she roared with laughter! The world changed in that moment. The power of that. she said: ‘You should go

on the stage.’ i will never forget how suddenly beautiful the classroom

looked.

Are you working as hard as ever? i’ve just come back from Penang and i was offered something. in my youth, i would have come straight back and gone

into it but no, i don’t want to do that any more. i can’t do it – i’m too tired!

anna smith

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Missing boy found hiddenbehind wall in dad’s house

by DOMINIC YEATMAN

Fowl-mouthed speech by MP was ‘navy dare’A BRITISH MP delivered aCommons speech laced withinnuendo after a dare fromfriends in the royal navy, it hasbeen reported.

Penny Mordaunt (pictured,below), who is also a navyreservist, used the word ‘cock’six times and ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times during a speech last year on poultry welfare.

But during an awards dinnerlast week, the PortsmouthNorth Tory MP reportedly revealed she had been dared to make the address after a forfeitissued during a dinner in theofficers’ mess, according to theMail On Sunday.

‘The fine was to say aparticular word, an abbreviationof cockerel, several times duringa speech on the floor of theCommons, and mention all the

names of the officerspresent,’ she was

quoted as saying.Ms Mordaunt was accused by

Labour’sKate Hoeyof trivial-ising par-liament.

Reunited: The missing boy is embraced by his mother PICTURE: WXIA

Discovery: The home where the teenager was found hidden PICTURE: REUTERS

A BOY who disappeared four years ago has been found hidden behind a false wall in his father’s house.

The 13-year-old was rescued by US police when he texted his mother ask-ing for help.

His father, Gregory Jean, 37, and a woman believed to be his girlfriend, Samantha Joy Davis, were arrested at the house in Jonesboro, Georgia, on charges including false imprisonment and cruelty to children.

The boy went missing in 2010 while visiting his father in Florida.

Officers were called to the house on Friday to look for the teenager but were told he did not live there.

However, they returned hours later

when the boy was able to telephone his mother and tell her he was hidden behind the panel of a linen closet in the garage.

The boy was initially ‘frozen with fear’ but ‘overjoyed’ to be rescued, a police spokesman said.

Neighbours in the quiet suburb said the family had moved in about six months ago and kept to themselves.

The 13-year-old always seemed to be home tending the ‘immaculate’ garden and did not appear to be enrolled in school, they said.

Three other children living at the house were held for obstructing police.

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1. Posh People: Inside TatlerBBC2, 9pmThe second of three shameless puff pieces for the posh/rich people’s glossy mag takes us behind the scenes at a ball for teenage socialites, gives us the rundown on how the mag compiles its pick-a-public-school guide and wets itself over stupendously expensive advertising bling. Need one say more?

2. Today’s Film: End Of WatchFilm4, 9pmIf you’re missing Southland, then this 2012 cop drama set in the same South Central Los Angeles streets should ease the pain. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña co-star as two cops patrolling this tricky beat, the story focusing as much on their partnership and personal lives as it does on the daily round of drugs busts.

3. Text SantaUTV, 10.30am & ITV3, 11amPhillip Schofield will be looking bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as This Morning kicks off today. But let’s see how our perky presenter is faring around 3am on ITV3… If you’ve got the stamina you can keep our intrepid Schofe company as he embarks on a 24-hour charity Text Santa marathon. He’s even helping out on Loose Women and the weather.

4. Wild Weather With Richard HammondBBC1, 9pm If Richard Hammond suffering a severe case of wind is your idea of a fun night in, then this look at massive gusts and hurricanes will be right up your twister. It’s breezy science-lite, with Hammond venturing into the middle of a man-made tornado and facing down the wild winds on Mount Washington in the US.

5. Nuts In MayBBC4, 10pmThis Mike Leigh treat from 1976 will strike a painful chord with anyone who’s ever gone camping and found themselves pitched next to the neighbours from hell. Yes, you’ll feel for Keith and Candice-Marie

(brilliantly played by Roger Sloman and Alison Steadman) as their idyll in Dorset is rudely shattered. Then again, you might think they deserve all they get…

6. Some GirlsBBC3, 10pmRocky (Jassa Ahluwalia) has taken to his new career as a nanny like a duck to water but Viva (Adelayo Adedayo) is far from convinced that she wants to marry a man who looks after babies. In between the broad humour, there are some neat points being made here about

hopes and expectations, and how we might be more hung up on social snobbery than we care to acknowledge.

7. RóisínTG4, 8pmAward-winning presenter and journalist Róisín Ní Eadhra returns with another instalment of lively, topical and relevant discussion on Ireland today. This show has been consistently excellent at highlighting the challenges and issues facing ordinary people across the country.

8. EastEndersRTÉ1 & BBC1, 8pmLet’s sing the praises of the text message, a plot device surely sent from heaven to help out soap scriptwriters struggling with how to move a story along. Tonight Ian Beale, prompted by Jane, finds himself scrolling through Lucy’s old texts – and what he finds turns out to be something of a shocker.

9. Modern FamilySky1, 8pmIt might not have the whipcrack lines of the early series but Modern

Family can still be relied on for some smart laughs – not least tonight from Cagney & Lacey legend Tyne Daly, guest starring as Mrs Plank, Lily’s intimidating teacher. Come on, no one intimidates Lily.

10. The Science SquadRTÉ1, 8.30pmIn the last episode of the current series of the science and technology magazine, Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin looks at what is being done to stop the global decline of bees, and Jonathan McCrea investigates a genetic disorder.

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SEE HOcknEy You don’t have to be a fan of painter David Hockney’s work to enjoy this lively documentary about his life – although if you are, it’s a special treat. With contributions from friends, fellow artists and the 77-year-old Hockney himself, it tells how an eccentric young man from England went to art school, moved to California and became one of the biggest names in the Pop Art scene. On limited release

BOOK sHE sTOOPs TO cOnquERAnybody familiar with 18th-century theatre will recognise the mood of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer: a farcical dig at social pretension with huge helpings of ribaldry and slapstick. Expect a scintillating, suitably festive take on this classic as director Conall Morrison takes the reins for a new production at The Abbey, with an all-star cast including Caroline Morohan and Jon Kenny Previews from Thu, Abbey Theatre, 26 Abbey Street Lower D1, 7.30pm, from €13. Tel: (01) 878 7222. www.abbeytheatre.ie

MARY J BLIGETHE LONDON SESSIONS (CapITOL) ★★★✩✩Respect is due to Ms Blige for taking a risk with her 13th studio album. She could have played it safe and, like so many others, taken the Great American Songbook route but Blige instead decamped to London for a month, immersing herself in the contemporary music scene and working with some of its most successful stars. Gospel-edged opening track Therapy is an obvious echo of Amy Winehouse’s Rehab, but Right Now throws down rolling beats beneath jagged synths, while Long Hard Look is the kind of anthem Girls Aloud would have killed for. But while its sound is familiar, it’s also creatively integrated – an album where its leading lady is happy to play a different role. SO’C

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‘There ain’t nothin’ about Miss Azalea average,’ snarls the Australian rapper on opening cut We In This Bitch. It’s a fair claim: few artists – not even the Billboard chart-smashing, Nicki Minaj-challenging kind – re-release seven tracks from their debut LP just seven months after it first dropped. But it’s a measure of Azalea’s chutzpah and productivity that she’s added five fresh cuts to The New Classic, including Beg For It (featuring the sweet-voiced MØ), Trouble (with Jennifer Hudson) and Heavy Crown (featuring home-grown electro-pop warbler Ellie Goulding). All fine, but surely only those nursing the deepest Iggy love will be shelling out again. SO’C

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The French superstar DJ’s relentlessly upbeat brand of EDM crossover pop has always been a cheesy guilty treat. Composed not on the computer but on acoustic instruments, this is supposedly Guetta’s most experimental and personal work – and packed with collaborators as diverse as Birdy and Nicki Minaj. Dangerous, with newcomer Sam Martin, melds a Police-style riff with strings – while grimier dancehall deal No Money No Love features Ms Dynamite and the hotly tipped Elliphant. Much else still feels like the same old Guetta – but on bangers like Lovers On The Sun, that doesn’t matter. Amy Dawson

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GARY NUMANIn our Lady Gaga-attuned world, it’s hard to imagine how a bloke wearing thick pancake make-up and black eyeliner could have seemed in any way strange. But when Gary Numan performed Are ‘Friends’ Electric? on Top Of The Pops in 1979 with his band Tubeway Army, he was cool, remote and decidedly odd.

That driving new-wave hit, with its chilly synthesiser motifs, was one of many for the London-born musician, whose impact on electro-pop extended well beyond his initial novelty appeal. He’s won props from the likes of Afrika Bambaataa, Prince, Bowie and Detroit techno don Juan Atkins, while his songs have been covered and sampled by everyone from Basement Jaxx to Nine Inch Nails.

Numan’s third album, 1979’s The Pleasure Principle, featured no guitars at all and established his trademark dark, robotic, isolationist sound via Moogs and heavily treated synths. It went to No.1 and its influence can still be heard today in legions of

new bands in love with their analog gear.

Sharon O’Connell Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) is out now on Mortal Records.

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NEVER THE SAME by LAL & mikE WAtERSoNpossibly the most haunting piece of music I’ve ever heard. an eerie, stark folk ballad seemingly about a young girl being left out in the rain in a meadow. It’s mysterious and Lal’s vocal is unique.

SpIEGEL IM SpIEGEL by ARvo PARt a beautiful lesson in simplicity. One of my favourite pieces of music of all time, it’s one that I

listen to a lot at home. Hell, there’s no party like an arvo party!

WHERE ARE YOU TONIGHT, I WONDER by JuNE tAboRa real tearjerker this – if you’ve recently become heartbroken I’d approach with caution. I’ve been listening to loads of June Tabor recently, having discovered her album aQaBa which in my mind is a real folk masterpiece.

ROADIO ROSE by Ed ASkEWOne of New York’s best kept secrets, askew is as talented as he is eccentric. I became obse-ssed with him a few years ago. He started out in the mid-’60s and is still going strong. So many great songs but Roadio Rose is a good place to start.

I FELL IN LOVE ONE DAYby ARNALdo bAPtiStALike listening to one of the most honest diary entries – close your eyes and be swept away. Heartbreaking moment from Os Mutante’s arnaldo who after being hospitalised for psychiatric disorders returned with this song at a solo show.

BORED IN THE USA by FAtHER JoHN miStyThis could be the best thing I’ve heard all year – his performance on Letterman made me so envious. It’s lyrically spot on, tragic yet comedic without being annoying. Especially love the canned laughter addition.

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From top gun to top of the charts

Kiesza was once a navy sharpshooter – but now the Hideaway singer has pop stardom in her sights, writes Amy Dawson

Flooring it: Kiesza’s guest appearance in Milan on the Italian version of The X Factor earlier this month

With her acid-wash jeans, red trainers and flaming lip-stick to match, 25-year-old Canadian

singer-songwriter Kiesza burst on to the scene last February. the video for her massive club smash hideaway did the trick, a single take of her dancing with an implausible mixture of street-style funk and bal-letic grace through the backstreets of Brooklyn.

the 1990s dance-flavoured track, which hit No.1 on the itunes chart in at least 30 countries, may chime perfectly with the soulful retro house vibes that currently dominate the charts but Kiesza’s debut album,

Sound Of A Woman, proves her to be much more than a one-trick disco pony. Possessed of a belting voice and multi-instrumental talent, she melds everything from hip hop and garage to break-beat and balladry.

‘i think people see me as a dance diva,’ says the Berklee Col-lege of Music graduate, also an in-demand songwriter who should have a track appearing on the forth-coming Rihanna album. ‘But the album has quite a variety about it – though it’s all from the same world. And all the songs belong to the same love story.’

indeed, the album is a deeply personal evocation of one entire

relationship. ‘i feel if people are really going to connect with me, i have to be totally open, vulnerable as that may leave me,’ she says. ‘And while hideaway is such a fun record, people sometimes say tracks

like Giant in My heart got them through really hard situations,

which is so nice to hear.’Sipping on a super- virtuous decaf soya latte, Kiesza is so gentle and down-to-earth that it’s easy to forget she’s also a total badass – there’s no sign in the hideaway video, for example, that she broke a rib during

filming and afterwards couldn’t move for a month.

She’s also a self- professed thrill-seeker and has a gazillion

strings to her bow. She took classical

ballet lessons from the age of three, joined the Royal Canadian Navy reserves while still in high school and was such a good shot the army considered training her as a sniper – all before pick-ing up a guitar at the age of 17, and writing her first song that very same day. She’s also into the Brazilian martial art of capoeira and is working on ‘like, four side projects’ on top of her music career.

‘i don’t ask myself “how?” too much, i just start doing it,’ she laughs. ‘i shouldn’t even think about days off because i don’t take them! the only thing that overwhelms me is when i feel i don’t have the time to take my craft to the

quality that i want to because i’m a perfectionist.’

Ultimately, it sounds as if Kiesza has finally found all the excitement she needs in the music game.

‘i’ve always had thou-sands of melodies con-stantly running through my head,’ she says, ‘to the extent that my brothers would beg my mum to stop me hum-ming the whole time. then when i started writing music, for the first time i felt like i had something to give. Peo-

ple connect with it so deeply, some-times it even heals them. And i got that same adrenaline thrill just from writing a song.’

Kiesza’s new single, No Enemiesz, is out now. Her album Sound Of A Woman (above) is out today.

Kiesza explains – part 2 How to make a worldwide no.1 in just 90 minutes

‘Hideaway was written, recorded,mixed and mastered by me and

my producer/songwritingpartner Rami Samir Afuni in90 minutes. I don’t evenknow how it happened,it’s crazy!The initial demo ended up

being the song. I wrote it soquickly because I had to get to the

airport. I wrote the first melody that came

into my head, filled in the lyrics andsaid: “I gotta go, we’ll figure the rest outlater.” But Rami finished the production in30 minutes and sent it to me as I was justarriving and I was like: “Wait, this is really good!” My flight was delayed, and that’s the only reason I made it on the plane.

Sometimes I think if you over-think ityou’ll go in the wrong direction. Whatever is the most instinctive is usually thestrongest thing.’

Kiesza explains – part 11990s nostalgia‘The 1990s sound lived on in my house way after the decade was over – my mum was the instigator of that. She was really into Chicago house andthere are still so many songs she would play when Iwas a baby that I hear now and suddenly recognise – that happened to me just the other day withLoleatta Holloway. But I went through a wholeprocess of getting back to that sound, after Iactually started as a folk singer – more throughnecessity, though, because it was all I could doat the time when I first picked up a guitar.’

charts but Kiesza’s debut album, charts but Kiesza’s debut album, personal evocation of one entire personal evocation of one entire havehave to be totally open, vulnerable as ‘And ‘And while hideaway is such a fun record, record, people sometimes say tracks

Dancing in the street: Kiesza’s infectious dance video for her Dancing in the street: Kiesza’s infectious dance video for her Dancing in the street: Kiesza’s infectious dance video for her chart-topping hit Hideaway was shot in one take in Brooklyn

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Sky Ireland, headquartered in Dublin 4 but with roles nationwide,continues to expand its operations and is taking on a number ofnew staff across a number of positions.

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Don’t let your job get you downi

reckon we are in the midst of ‘melan-choly season’; I can always judge when it hits by the level of queries we receive at clearview from those wanting career coaching – and fast.

I think it is definitely something to do with winter. So how about using the depths of winter to do some deep career thinking and use these colder days and dark nights to re-charge and revisit your career game plan be-fore the christmas jolly season arrives and gives most of us a temporary lift and deludes some of us into thinking that our job is actually great.

So if you figure you are one of the dissatis-fied or what I often refer to in my book as the ‘career disappointed’, what can you do about this?

First off, you need to get clear on where precisely your job

dissatisfaction is coming from. Did you know there are also different kinds of job

satisfaction? We call this intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction.

When we consider our roles as a whole and everything that makes up our job then it actu-ally becomes a combination of both intrinsic and extrinsic

job satisfaction. So just to be really clear:

l Intrinsic job satisfaction is when we allow ourselves only to bear in

mind the kind of work we do – the actual day to day tasks that make up our job, or what I call the work content and process. l extrinsic job satisfaction is when we allow ourselves to look at the bigger picture of our work, like the conditions of work, our man-ager, the people we work alongside and our take-home pay.

These two types of satisfaction are differ-ent. In my experience, it really helps us greatly to examine and dissect our current

job from both points of view. When I work with a client to uncover reasons for job dis-satisfaction, I try to uncover to what extent is the dissatisfaction due to the kind of work he or she is doing? or to what extent it is due to the conditions of work? Big difference here, and, more to the point, the answer to this will determine what needs to be done as there will be a different solution needed if your dissat-isfaction is extrinsic in nature.

So to start the ball rolling – and to use deep winter to do some deep thinking to recharge your career game plan – I ask you to treat separately the kind of work you are doing versus the conditions of work (pay, manager, colleagues, company culture, working condi-tions and environment). If you are becoming increasingly unhappy with the kind of work you are doing then you will likely need to consider a career change. If you are dissatis-fied with the conditions of work, you might be able get back on the happiness track by negotiating with your manager or by making a pact with yourself to change companies in 2015 into a better fit environment.

either way, there will be some food here for deep-winter thought (and possibly deep-win-ter action) as opposed to moaning about the wet days and dark nights.

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

Moan: Pick up the phone and look for a new job intead of moaning at this time of year

Separate theconditions ofwork and the

job itself

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Instead of bad-mouthingyour boss and belly-achingabout your career arc, take action over winter months

Melancholy: Job dissatisfaction can give you the blues around Christmas

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Leinster dig deep to see off Ospreys

Two closing penalties from Jimmy Gopperth guided Leinster to an 18-12 victory in a cagey Guinness Pro12 clash with the under-strength ospreys.

The province extended their winning record at the RDS to 18 matches but were made to fight all the way by the visitors, who have topped the table for seven rounds this season.

The first half failed to catch fire with both sides guilty of kicking possession away aimlessly. Three penalties apiece from Ian Madi-gan and Sam Davies produced a half-time scoreline of 9-9.

Gopperth and Davies swapped kicks in the third quarter, before the Leinster forwards seized con-trol in the closing stages – and Gopperth’s boot gave them a timely boost ahead of their Euro-pean Champions Cup double-header against Harlequins.

Space was at a premium during a defence-dominated first quarter – but runs from Tom Grabham and Dave Kearney lifted the tem-po before Madigan clipped over penalty number three.

Although ospreys failed to capitalise on a jinking run from

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Barbarian rampage: Man of the match Leinster’s Jack Conan is tackled by Hanno Dirksen of Ospreys PICTURE: InPho

Hanno Dirksen, they continued to probe with ball in hand outside the Leinster 22 and Davies’s second pen-alty was their reward.

Dominic Ryan did well when coming through the middle to foil a dangerous ospreys maul – but further pressure yielded a 37th-minute penalty, from which Davies equalised.

Number eight and man-of-the-match Jack Conan got the hosts on the front foot with a bulldozing run into the 22, however possession was lost after Kear-ney wriggled up close to the posts.

Gordon D’Arcy, who replaced Madi-gan at centre, was tackled without the

ball and Leinster went back in front thanks to Gopperth’s first penalty on the night. As the pace quickened, Sam Lewis threatened on the right wing and loose kicking from Zane Kirchner and Darragh Fanning invited the ospreys forward. Davies duly tied things up with his fourth place-kick on the hour mark.

Crucially, Gopperth managed to edge Leinster ahead in the 72nd minute, split-ting the posts after a Ben Marshall line-out steal. with Conan and replacements Marshall and Rhys Ruddock to the fore, the home pack dominated the final few minutes and Gopperth sealed the result following a scrum penalty in the 22.

leinster

IT wasn’T pretty against theOspreys but a similarly uglydisplay might be just what getsLeinster over the line thisweekend, because there’s precious little time to set upthe fireworks.

Bedding back in hisinternational players will benothing new to Leinster coachMatt O’Connor, but a taperedback game-plan will not be theworst option for the province.

Realistically, O’Connor islikely to make as many as eightchanges to last weekend’s teamwhich ground out an 18-12 winover Ospreys and the majorityof those will come in the pack.

we can see six Irish

internationals being re-installed into the Leinster sideand it will be up to them tocarry their momentum fromIreland’s november cleansweep into the stoop.

Harlequins are vulnerable here having already losttwice at home thisseason in thePremiership, andalthough Leinsterhave outscored themdomestically, we’d stilllook for a squeeze and kickapproach and leave the fancystuff until the following week.

There shouldn’t be as manychanges to the backline which

Jimmy Gopperth is still notgetting the most out of, butwith Dave Kearney and FergusMcFadden looking very sharp and the tantalising prospect of

Luke Fitzgeraldbecoming available,that should change.

It’s easier to focuson a brutally physical

style of play up frontfor this weekend and

carry that through untilthe end of the Pool stages.

Hopefully, that will proveeasier to pick up after the sixnations, but Leinster will onlyget to worry about that if theycan get a minimum of eightpoints from this double-header.

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Soldado finds his scoring touch just in time for Spurs

ODDbALLS Strange stories from the world of sport

Poker choker earns Riera his cardsFormer manchester City and Liverpool winger Albert riera has fallen foul of Italian paymasters Udinese after skipping a league game for a poker tournament.

riera teamed up with the Serie A outfit earlier this year after a spell with Galatasaray.

However, it seems the Spain

international’s stay has been less than fulfilling for either party and they have now gone their separate ways.

reports in Italy suggest the final nail hammered into the 32-year-old’s Italian coffin came after he missed a game with Chievo to play in a poker tournament in Slovenia –

where, incidentally, he finished second and picked up a healthy €3,800.

Not a man who could be accused of doing things by half, the ex-Anfield star then put his cards on the table by announcing on Twitter that Udinese were ‘the worse club I’ve ever played for’.

Bayern Munich star Mario Gotze hasdecided to donate the football boot he waswearing when he hit Germany’s winner inthe World Cup final to charity.

Gotze scored the only goal of the game inextra time to see off argentina in Brazil.

The forward will now auction off the leftboot for a German children’s charity.

Gotze said: ‘I have never washed the shoe.It’s still in the same condition as it was inrio, when I left the stadium. There is stillgrass on it. I kept it safe at my house.’

World Cup star Gotze gives charity the boot

Little bit of star quality: mini-me actor Verne Troyer was in the crowd at Leeds Verne Troyer was in the crowd at Leeds

le bit of star quality: mini-Little bit of star quality: mini-me actor

on Saturday for their win over Derby

Jan Vertonghen hailed a complete team display after tottenham came from behind to beat everton 2-1.

Christian eriksen and roberto Soldado struck to cancel out Kevin Mirallas’ opener and ensure Spurs ended their post europa League hoodoo at White hart Lane, which has seen them lose four times after thursday fixtures.

‘I think we can do better in possession but we showed character,’ said Vertonghen. ‘We had a very good defensive line, the

midfield and strikers as well were very good. It was a team performance today.’

harry Kane had a hand in both goals and was reward-ed by being named man of the match.

‘It feels good to get the win because it was tough out there,’ said the england Under-21 man.

‘everton are a great side and it was a good battle.

‘We’ve been working on pressing higher up the pitch and creating opportunities. So, it’s good to see what the boss has been working on working out on the pitch.’

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Hoodoo’s broken asJan credits character

Team game: Vertonghen

‘It was a team performance’

RobeRto Soldado’S barren run came to a timely end as tottenham rallied to secure a much-needed come-back win against everton.

Four defeats in six Premier league games at White Hart lane had left Spurs at loggerheads with their own fans, with emmanuel adebayor claim-ing the side prefer to play away.

but thursday’s 1-0 europa league victory over Partizan belgrade bred confidence and Mauricio Pochettino’s men put in a vastly improved display to see off the toffees.

that looked some way off when Kevin Mirallas’ beautiful curled effort gave the visitors the lead but Christian eriksen, and then Soldado, responded to hand Pochettino a crucial three points. For the argentine, it was possi-

bly the most complete per-formance of his reign so far and now sets his side up nicely for Wednesday’s trip to leaders Chelsea.

Spurs looked set to fall foul of another europa league hangover when Mirallas beat Hugo lloris

with an exquisite strike after 15 minutes following Vlad Chiriches’ weak backpass.

Six minutes later, though, Harry Kane saw a shot parried by tim Howard and eriksen delicately

dinked in an equaliser.the stage was set for Solda-

do to win it in first-half stoppage time. aaron lennon put him in and the Span-iard’s cool finish ended a goal drought that stretched back to September.

late on both sides had penalty ap-peals, Romelu lukaku’s effort seem-ingly brushing Spurs defender Federico Fazio’s arm, while Muhamed besic appeared to bring down Kane.

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The wait is over: Soldado celebrates his long-awaited strike with Kane, much to the relief of manager Pochettino, inset PICTURE: REUTERs

minutes Soldado had gone since his last goal for Spurs

in September

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Deportivo fan dies after Madrid rowONE man died after a fight broke out between fans of Atletico Madrid and Deportivo La Coruna in the Spanish capital. The man, who died of injuries sustained in the clash, has been identified only as a 43-year-old Deportivo fan. Eleven other people suffered minor injuries and police made several arrests. ‘We are very sad, and condemn this completely,’ said Atletico coach Diego Simeone. ‘We hope this doesn’t happen again.’ The Spanish league said it tried to suspend the match, but that was not possible.

JEFFREY SCHLUPP has backed manager Nigel Pearson to turn Leicester’s fortunes around and believes the Foxes should take plenty of positives from their narrow defeat at QPR. City are

bottom of the league after losing 3-2 at Loftus Road and former Crystal Palace boss Tony Pulis is being linked to Pearson’s job. But winger Schlupp

(pictured) said: ‘We’ve all been in a run of form when things aren’t going your way. We know how to get out of it.’

Klopp not tip-top as Borussia flopJURGEN KLOPP’S Borussia Dortmund went from bad to worse as they slipped to the bottom of Germany’s Bundesliga yesterday. Last season’s runners-up, beaten in midweek by Arsenal in the Champ-ions League, lost 2-0 at Eintracht Frankfurt. Henrikh Mkhitaryan missed their best chance while Kevin Grosskreutz hit a post.

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Clich to score his first Premier League

goal for City

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Impressive win closes gap on leaders Chelsea

manuel pellegrini‘The penalty on Kun is unbelievable, it was a clear penalty and another yellow card. Sergio does not dive – I know him and he never tries to cheat the referee’

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Ten-man City roar back into the title race

MANCHESTER City breathed fresh life into the title race as they moved up to second in the Premier League table and handed Southampton an ominous start to a daunting run of festive fixtures.

Yaya Toure, Frank Lampard and Gael Clichy sent City to a convincing win even though they were reduced to ten men for the last 16 minutes after central defender Eliaquim Mangala was sent off.

The defending champions are now just six points behind leaders Chelsea after leapfrogging Saints in the standings.

City felt Sergio Aguero was denied a clear penalty in the first half when he was clearly up-ended by Saints defender Jose Fonte, but instead the striker was booked by referee Mike Jones.

City, however, were determined to make the most of Chelsea’s 0-0 draw at Sunderland and they inflicted a first Sunderland and they inflicted a first Sunderland and they inflicted a first home defeat at the St Mary’s Stadium on a Southampton side which boasts the best defensive record in the country.

The South Coast club now face a tough run of matches at Arsenal on Wednesday and at home to Manchester United next and at home to Manchester United next and at home to Manchester United next Monday before facing Chelsea later this month which will test their ambition to show their flying start is no fluke.

City took the lead in the 51st minute when Fernandinho gained possession and teed up Toure to score with a low drive from the edge of the area.

Mangala’s dismissal handed Ronald Koeman’s team the chance to make a big impact but Lampard put City in control with ten minutes to play, coolly driving home after sloppy Saints play.

Clichy then capped another fine raid, blasting high into Fraser Forster’s net for his first Premier League goal for City.

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It’s substance over style as Blues shoot down Ospreys

CRiCkeT AUSTRALiA has amended the scorecard from Phillip Hughes’s final innings in the wake of his tragic death.

Hughes, who would have been 26 yester-day, passed away last week after being hit in the neck by a ball at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Batting for South Australia, the 26-cap Test interna-tional was on 63 when the accident hap-pened, with the scorecard saying he had retired hurt.

Social media soon turned to declaring Hughes as being ‘63 not out forever’ and Cricket Australia has

Hughes to stay ‘on 63 not out’

now moved to reflect that in its records.

‘it might seem like a little thing, but it’s an important distinction,’ said Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland. ‘Phillip will forever remain 63 not out.’ The gesture came in the wake of Australia captain Michael Clarke paying a heartfelt tribute to his ‘little brother’ and close personal friend Hughes.

in a moving column in the Australian Daily Telegraph yesterday, Mr Clarke said: ‘His cricketing achieve-ments – of which there were many– really play second fiddle to the human qualities that he exhibited.’

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injury puts question mark over de Villiers’ World cup

Carried away: South Africa captain Jean de Villiers is taken from the pitch on Saturday

SOUTH AfRiCA captain Jean de Villiers will see an orthopaedic surgeon in Cape Town this week to assess the full extent of an injury that could have major World Cup ramifications.

The Springboks centre was carried off midway through the second-half as South Africa slipped to a first defeat against Wales for 15 years at the Millennium Stadium.

early indications are that the 33-year-old faces a long recovery process after twisting his left knee and suffering a dislocated knee cap.

De Villiers, who has 106 caps, had scans after the match which team doctor Craig Roberts said ‘revealed significant ligament damage to the inside of his knee and the supporting muscles’.

‘He has had previous surgery on this knee, and the further management of the injury is

dependent upon the specialist’s recommendations.’

South Africa’s World Cup campaign kicks off in just under ten months’ time, and there will be major concern in the Springboks camp about the prospects for such an influential player.

fly-half Pat Lambie added: ‘Jean is a huge part of this team.

‘He is an outstanding leader, he makes great decisions out there, and it is just his presence. everyone feeds off that.

‘it was a huge loss to see him being carried off. We wish him all the very best with his recovery.’

South Africa’s 12-6 defeat ended an erratic european tour that also

saw them beaten by ireland, but in between, they toppled england at Twickenham and also saw off a resilient italy side.

‘We are very disappointed,’ Lambie said. ‘Obviously, it is not the way we wanted to finish off the year and the season. We made some basic mistakes.

‘i don’t think you can fault the effort or commitment. The boys were really up for this game, and we really wanted to finish off with a positive performance.

‘i think we have gained a lot out of this tour. We have learnt some hard lessons, but rather now than in a year’s time.’

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In with a shout: Pochettino saw his Spurs team

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pochettino finally starts to feel at home at tottenham

Mauricio Pochettino praised tottenham’s players and fans after a much-needed 2-1 home win over everton brought his side level on points with arsenal, and within touch-ing distance of the top four.

the tension caused by four defeats at White hart Lane this season was lifted by goals from christian eriksen and roberto Soldado, weeks after emmanuel adebayor said Spurs felt more relaxed in away games.

‘i understand our supporters were angry because if you lose four games

at home, it is impossible to be happy,’ said Spurs boss Pochettino.

‘today the team sent a different sig-nal to our supporters and it is impor-tant to keep this feeling for the rest of the season. our mentality and our spirit were fantastic.

‘For us it is not only three points, it is a little bit more than three points.’

elsewhere, Manchester city moved into second place with an impressive 3-0 win at Southampton.

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