Indo Sport Bits & Bobs podcast: All-Ireland final mailbag Mayo's McStay statement
Joe is joined by Conan and Will for a Friday edition of Bits & Bobs that covers the magic of All-Ireland final day, Keith Andrews' Brentford appointment and the way Mayo treated Kevin McStay.
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Irish Times
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- Irish Times
Jurassic Park adviser unimpressed with Steven Spielberg's dinosaurs: ‘What didn't he get wrong?'
The latest Jurassic Park film comes out next week – but the man who served as a consultant on the original film decades ago is not impressed by it. 'Dino' Don Lessem was employed by director Steven Spielberg on the title, Jurassic Park, which came out in 1993 and was responsible for a surge in interest in dinosaurs that never really dissipated. Lessem is in Dublin this weekend to take in his Zoorassic Park life-size dinosaur exhibition , which runs at Dublin Zoo until September, and to give a series of sold-out talks to children on the subject. Lessem credits the original Jurassic Park outing with reviving interest in the extinct creatures, but that is about all. As a consultant, he felt his advice was ignored. READ MORE 'I know all the wrong ways to present dinosaurs. If you told the real story of dinosaurs, it would be a very boring movie. They mostly ate, went to the bathroom and then slept,' he says. 'Dino' Don Lessem behind a brontosaurus which he designed as part of the Zoorassic Trail in Dublin Zoo. 'In Jurassic Park, I would tell them all the time that this is not what they look like, and they told me, 'enjoy the shrimp and try and be quiet'.' What does he think Spielberg got wrong? 'What didn't he get wrong?,' quips Lessem. However, the dinosaur expert got on very well with the film director, which he attributes to his being the 'only one on set who didn't want something from [Spielberg]'. 'Everyone on a movie set is angling for the next job.' Lessem says he does not think much of Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh film in the franchise. He objects to the depiction of dinosaurs as man-eating monsters as, in reality, a human could have outrun and easily outsmarted a Tyrannosaurus Rex. [ The dinosaur-obsessed boy from Belfast who actually grew up to be a palaeontologist Opens in new window ] Still, he's not po-faced about the matter, because dinosaurs are a gateway to science for young children, and he regularly meets scientists whose childhood interest in the natural world started with the mostly outsize, long-extinct beasts. Lessem had studied to be a gorilla scientist, but he found it too hard to make a living. He got a job at the Boston Globe as a journalist, and after being sent on assignment to report on dinosaur hunters, he was hooked. Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern and Sam Neill star in the 1993 film Jurassic Park, watching dinosaur eggs hatch. Photograph: Universal This is a golden age for dinosaur discovery, he says, with new species being discovered every couple of weeks or so. The latest is called Enigmacursor Mollyborthwickae and was recently discovered in the US and is about the size of a large dog. In 1999, a dinosaur found in Argentina was named after him – the Lessemsaurus. This beast was nine metres long and weighed an average of seven tonnes. It was a tiddler, however, compared to the Argentinosaurus, the largest-ever living creature, which weighed between 65 and 80 tonnes, roughly the weight of 50 elephants. Most dinosaurs are only identified by a single tooth or bone. 'There's a lot of big mistakes made. Half of the dinosaurs that are named turn out to be wrong,' Lessem says. How these land animals got to be so large is one of the questions that paleontologists are still trying to answer. Lessem believes there are not enough paleontologists at work, and that there is little funding for research despite the enduring fascination with dinosaurs. [ Name that birdsong: How to tell the flying dinosaurs from their chirps Opens in new window ] Universities, he says, see no way of monetising dinosaur research, so they leave it to the amateurs. 'You could make a case that dinosaurs inspire children, but there is no practical benefit from it,' he adds with a hint of resignation. There are no dinosaur fossils in Ireland because there was no such place during the time they were on Earth, between 245 million and 66 million years ago. What is now Ireland was then under water. Nevertheless, a man from Co Cork called Lessem to tell him he had discovered a dinosaur footprint. Lessem says he is sceptical, but intends to check it out during his tour around the country.
Irish Independent
5 hours ago
- Irish Independent
Ryan Tubridy's fiancée shows off engagement ring at Joe Duffy's retirement party
The pair turned up to Joe's party in Dublin city centre pub The Duke on Friday night. A beaming Ryan called over photographers to where the couple were and said with a smile: 'I presume you want a picture of the ring?!'. Dr Kambamettu then proudly showed off the engagement ring, with the couple being congratulated by well-wishers. The former Liveline host, who left his show on Friday after nearly 27 years, was congratulated at the bash in The Duke by a collection of well-known faces and friends. Among those at the party were Miriam O'Callaghan, Aonghus McAnally, Brush Shields, Syl Fox, John McColgan, Mike Murphy, Marty Morrisey, Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick, Brenda Donohue, Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Gay Byrne's daughter Suzy and her daughter Sive, and Charlie Bird's widow Claire Mould. Joe was earlier in the day joined on his final show by his wife June and their triplets, who are now aged 30. Former RTÉ Radio and Late Late Show presenter Tubridy recently confirmed his good news on his Virgin Radio show after 'miscommunication' between him and a Co Galway jeweller. O'Dalaigh Jewellers in Clifden said Tubridy had bought the ring for a 'very special lady' and the post, which was subsequently deleted, was accompanied by a photo of the jeweller Jonty Daly and the couple posing together outside the store. Tubridy proposed to Clare by the Atlantic shore, and the couple later celebrated in local hotels. Revealing the news on his radio show at the time, Tubridy told listeners: 'I have a little bit of news that I've been keeping to myself, to ourselves.' "I'm very, very, very happy to confirm I did get engaged to my partner Clare in the west of Ireland.' Tubridy thanked a number of listeners for sending in their well-wishes following the announcement and said 'it's a very beautiful feeling' and 'a very exciting time to be alive'. "We were surrounded by gorgeous people who we didn't know, strangers in the hotel, and people who were working around the place and got a beautiful ring organised, and the weather was gorgeous,' he said of the couple's time last week. "And it's just the accumulation of a lot of lovely things happening, and I just decided now is the time. More to follow in terms of details and all the rest of it. And by the more to follow, I mean I'll tell my family first. "It's a very exciting time to be alive. I'm a very, very lucky man, and I think it's one of those beautiful moments where the world feels lighter.'
The Irish Sun
6 hours ago
- The Irish Sun
‘It's been awful' – Dan Evans breaks down in tears during Wimbledon press conference and feared letting people down
DAN EVANS broke down in tears as he recalled the long and winding roads he has taken to reach Wimbledon. 4 Dan Evans says he wonders what long-term partner Aleah Evans thinks Credit: Alamy 4 Evans is set to play Novak Djokovic if he beats Jay Clarke in round one Credit: Getty This has meant playing several Challenger-level events in front of just a few fans to ensure he did not slump too low and into obscurity. Wildcard But he became emotional when he talked about his fear of potentially letting down his close family and friends and if he was no longer good enough to compete on a tennis court. Wiping away the tears, Evans said: 'It's not the matches. It's when you feel like you've let people down, that's the tougher thing about it. READ MORE IN TENNIS 'You're not used to losing, that's probably more of the thing. 'I don't worry about retirement but it's just different isn't it? "To start losing, it's scary at the end of the day, to know sometimes you're not good enough. 'It's not an easy thing in sport to not be good enough. I don't know why I'm so emotional about it. Most read in Sport 4 Aleah Evans will be watching Dan at Wimbledon Credit: Getty BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK 'I guess I'm pretty proud of the last four or five months and how they've been. 'They've been difficult and I'm happy to have come through the other side. Novak Djokovic gatecrashes Aryna Sabalenka's pre-Wimbledon press conference and awkwardly criticises her 'I don't ever struggle to go and play tennis. But I did wonder, 'Why are you doing this?' 'That's when you need good people around you. It's been awful basically, I played poor, but it's going in a better direction. 'I'm not scared of hard work. I'm more than happy to play the Challengers. 'It's just when you shut the door at night and you wonder what other people are thinking? What's your wife's thinking? 'Is she thinking, 'Come on, mate, give this up?' Or your dad, your parents? It's not a conversation you have very often. 'Is this the right thing?' 'The last few weeks have been good to see that I've still got it because it's easy to say you believe it. But it's got to happen otherwise you drop down the rankings.' In round one, Evans is up against Derby-born Jay Clarke on Tuesday in one of two all-British ties and the winner will likely play Novak Djokovic next. It is hard to ignore the shadow of the Serbian but Evans can draw on memories of losing in three sets to The former British No.1 said: 'About 9,000 people have messaged me about it. 'Do you think we don't have phones? It's a bit like when a boxer's got a big fight in front of them and he can't overlook it. 'Jay Clarke will be looking at it and I'll be looking at it. There's a nice match in the second round on a very big court. 'I want to win that match not just to play 'I'm really looking forward to Tuesday first but to get a chance to walk out probably on Centre against a guy who's hardly lost here. 'I've done it against Roger Federer. It would be a good little prize at the end of a good grass-court season.' 4 Evans, 35, insists he is not yet thinking of retiring Credit: PA
