The body of the artist Salvador Dalí is due to be exhumed late on Thursday in order to settle a paternity suit brought by a woman who claims to be his daughter.

The surrealist painter, who died in 1989 at the age of 85, was buried in a crypt in a museum dedicated to his life and work in Figueres, in north-eastern Spain. Samples will be taken from his remains to see if they match the DNA of the claimant.
The process is going ahead despite the objections of the local authorities and the foundation carrying Dalí's name, both of which claimed that not enough notice had been given ahead of the exhumation.
It will require the removal of a 1.5-tonne slab covering his tomb in order to reach his body.
María Pilar Abel Martínez, a tarot card reader who was born in 1956, says her mother had an affair with Dalí during the year before her birth. Her mother, Antonia, had worked for a family that spent time in Cadaqués, near the painter's home.
Last month a Madrid judge ordered the exhumation to settle the claim. It is contested by the Dalí foundation, which manages the estate of the artist, who was not believed to have had any children.
Ms Martínez says her mother and paternal grandmother both told her at an early age that Dalí was her real father. She told El Mundo newspaper that her grandmother said to her: "I love you a lot but I know that you're not the daughter of my son. What's more, I know who your father is - he is Salvador Dalí."
One day, Ms Martínez says, she asked her mother: "Am I really Salvador Dali's daughter? Because look at how ugly he was." She says her mother replied: "Yes, but he had his charms. And yes, he is your father."
Ms Martínez's action is against the Spanish state, to which Dalí left his estate. If she is confirmed to be his daughter, she could assume his surname and be entitled to part of that estate.
But the story of the supposed affair has surprised many - not so much because Dalí was married in 1955, but because of his complex sexual tastes. And for some, this is why the thought of Dalí making a woman pregnant seems unlikely.
Ian Gibson, an Irish-born biographer of Dalí, says the idea of the Catalan artist ever having had an orthodox physical relationship with a woman is "absolutely impossible", despite five decades of marriage to Elena Ivanova Diakonova, his Russian wife more commonly known as Gala.
"Dalí always boasted: 'I'm impotent, you've got to be impotent to be a great painter'," the biographer said.
Salvador Dalí - Life of a surrealist
Photo gallery of Dalí's work
His close friendship with the gay poet Federico García Lorca has fuelled speculation that Dalí was homosexual, although Ian Gibson believes they never consummated their relationship.
Carlos Lozano, who was for a time part of the painter's inner circle, told the biographer that "Dalí was totally unable to have any sexual relations with anybody, not even, probably, with Gala... He hated being touched and when he touched you it was like being clawed by an eagle."
Dalí's sexual eccentricities appeared to feed into his work and in 1956, the year of Ms Martínez's birth, he wrote in his diary: "I feel in a state of permanent intellectual erection."
Paintings such as The Great Masturbator (1929), in which a woman's face emerges out of the side of a giant human profile, beneath which a large winged insect is resting, and nuzzles against a man's bulging groin, contributed to his reputation for bizarre erotic tastes.
Lluís Llongueras, an artist and writer who knew Dalí from the early 1960s until his death, traces much of his friend's attitude to sex back to his childhood. He says that when Dalí was a teenager his father traumatised him by constantly showing him pictures of penises mutilated by syphilis.
However, Llongueras says Dalí's preference for watching others engaging in physical contact rather than doing so himself made perfect sense for someone with his gifts.
"He was an artist and so he was a great voyeur - all of us artists have to be voyeurs, otherwise how could we work with the human body?" he said.
But Dalí's interests went beyond eroticism and the human form, straying into memory, religion and even the world of science. His 1963 painting Galacidalacidesoxiribunucleicacid is a tribute to Francis Crick and James D. Watson, the scientists who identified the structure of DNA.
"I think that Dalí would greatly enjoy being exhumed, it's a totally surrealist event," said Gibson. "He'd be thrilled, I'm quite sure, by the whole business."


It should be one of the most spectacular astronomical sights we will ever get to see - as long as the clouds stay away.

On Friday morning, people across Northern Ireland should be able to witness a deep partial eclipse of the sun, a rare phenomenon which occurs when the moon moves across the sky in front of the sun, blocking its light.
While most of us will be watching from our back gardens or as we travel to work, one local astronomer has gone in search of something more than just the bog-standard partial solar obscurity.
Eclipse-hunter Terry Moseley has made his way to the Faroe Islands where he hopes to see a total eclipse, a perfect alignment of moon and sun.
Terry travels the globe in search of what he describes as the "transformational" experience of witnessing totality, and his trip to the Faroes will be his fifth encounter with the dark side.
The current president of the Irish Astronomical Association, Terry is leading a group of astronomers to the islands in the North Atlantic, and will act as the eclipse advisor on the tour.
Despite having had an interest in astronomy for over 50 years, it wasn't until 1999 when he caught his first total eclipse, in Bulgaria. For him, it was an experience like no other.
"I have to admit that when I saw it, it blew my mind," Terry said, speaking from Torshavn, the Faroe capital.
"It is almost indescribable and no video or any words I could say can do it justice. It is literally day turning to night in the middle of the day. It looks as if an angry God has punched a hole in the sky.
"From the moment of first contact - when the moon takes that first bite of the sun - that's when you know it's actually happening and the tension really mounts.
"For the last few seconds it's indescribable. Everybody is just going crazy, some people go into a trance and can hardly believe what they're seeing, others laugh, cry, shout, dance around in glee and ecstasy - it really is almost a spiritual experience."
Terry will watch the eclipse from a school in the village of Eide on the north-west tip of Eysturoy, the second-largest of the Faroes, and will explain to the pupils there what they can expect to see.
There is no guarantee he will have a perfect view, but he is hoping for a clear day.
"Even if it is cloudy, the sky darkens dramatically and the temperature drops. It's almost scary," he explained.
"The sky will get fairly dark, it will almost be like mid-twilight. There will be a drop in temperature and some animals may react as if it is twilight - birds will go to roost and cows and sheep will lie down."
Terry has also trekked to Turkey, China and Australia in search of eclipses, and with a long wait until 2090 for the next total eclipse visible on the island of Ireland, he has already started planning the journey to the United States for his next.
"It really is an experience that you can become addicted to," he said. "Each one is different, though, and that's part of the beauty.
"But you never forget your first time. The first total eclipse makes an indelible imprint on you because you've never seen it before.
"There are some fairly accessible ones coming up over the next few years. In August 2017 there will be one that crosses the US diagonally from Oregon to South Carolina.
"I'd say to people to put that at the top of their bucket list and go and do it."


Bodybuilding guru Joe Weider, the man who launched Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hollywood career, has died aged 93.

Known for creating the Mr Olympia bodybuilding contest, Weider built a magazine empire that included publications like Muscle and Fitness, Shape and Men's Fitness.
He died in Los Angeles of heart failure, his publicist said.
The Conan the Barbarian Star paid tribute to the man he called "the godfather of fitness."
"He taught us that through hard work and training we could all be champions," said the former California governor in a statement on his website.
"When I was a young boy in Austria, his muscle magazines provided me with the inspiration and the blueprint to push myself beyond my limits and imagine a much bigger future."
The former Mr Universe and Mr Olympia said Weider had encouraged him to come to the US and helped launch his acting career, securing his first role in a television film called Hercules Goes Bananas.
Producers had asked Weider if he knew of "a muscleman who could act a little", said Mr Schwarzenegger, adding that Weider had told them: "I got the perfect guy, he's done Shakespearean plays in Germany, he's a great actor, but his English isn't too good."
In his statement, Mr Schwarzenegger said Weider had supported him throughout his career, which has included films like The Terminator, Total Recall and True Lies, and even when he made the move into politics.
"He was there for me constantly throughout my life... and I will miss him dearly."
Weider is survived by his wife, Betty.


Mayonnaise that does not get stuck in its container is being developed by a Norwegian company.

Orkla is the first food manufacturer to announce a deal with US company Liquiglide to use its non-stick coating in product packaging.
Getting the last bit of sauce out of a bottle is a common annoyance for shoppers. Many have shared their frustration on social media.
One expert told the BBC some consumers might have safety concerns.
"I'm sure consumers do, from time to time, look at the wasted dregs stuck in a bottle of mayo and wonder why suppliers haven't been able to solve the issue," said Vince Bamford, buying and supplying editor for The Grocer.
"Embracing this technology would offer a brand a unique selling point, although some degree of education would be required to reassure shoppers that this was a natural product."
Liquiglide says its coating is "completely harmless" and meets safety standards because it "can be made entirely from food".
The company was founded in 2012 to sell licences for a non-stick technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A customised version of the coating is created for each product, resulting in a "permanently wet" surface inside containers that helps the product slip out.
In March, the company reached a deal with US glue brand Elmer's to use the technology in its products.
It told the BBC it was working with 30 companies, including some of the biggest consumer brands in the US.
Orkla's food division generated more than 3bn krone (Â£246m) of sales in its last quarter.
The company said it was still deciding exactly how it would use the technology in its products.
Mr Bamford: "Non-stick packaging could look good in a TV ad, but I have my doubts that it would be enough to sway a shopper from a preferred or cheaper brand."
While reducing wasted product may benefit consumers, Liquiglide suggests it could also encourage shoppers to buy more frequently.
The company states on its website: "Liquiglide makes dispensing product so easy that consumers actually tend to use it faster... it pushes consumers to an earlier repurchase point."


Donald Trump's foreign policy speech on Wednesday leaves a few media commentators scratching their heads.

Crazy, strange and unsteady are a few of the adjectives used as pundits try to work out what a Trump foreign policy might look like, though one Israeli newspaper seems reassured.
Several German commentators admit to being flummoxed by the speech. "It's not very easy to follow him," writes Der Spiegel's Washington correspondent, Veit Medick.
The candidate's comments can "hardly be called a coherent plan", he adds.
Die Welt's Clemens Wergin sees Mr Trump as a security risk, saying his speech confirmed many experts' view that "we are dealing with an unsteady character".
France's business daily Les Echos asks whether the speech is "a return to isolationism", reporting that Mr Trump wants to point the US in "a less interventionist direction".
The speech also makes the front page of the Spanish daily, El Pais.
Washington correspondent Marc Bassets says Mr Trump's foreign policy doctrine could be summed up as a mix of "isolationism, realpolitik and militarism".
Two heavyweight US papers are unimpressed with the speech, with The New York Times headlining its scathing editorial: "Donald Trump's Strange World View."
It argues that he "did not exhibit much grasp of the complexity of the world, understanding of the balance or exercise of power, or even a careful reading of history."
In the Washington Post, Dana Milbank writes about "Trump's crazy attempt not to sound crazy".
"Trump did not offer more detail on how he would 'bring peace to the world,' but he gave strongman promises that everything would be fine", he laments.
"Perhaps the most unnerving promise Trump made was his determination to be erratic", he continues.
"On this vow, Trump has already made good - and that's just the problem."
Nahum Barnea, writing in Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth, says Mr Trump "took his foreign policy inspiration from the Westerns" and calls it "cowboy diplomacy".
Boaz Bismuth has a different view in Yisrael Hayom, calling the speech "firm, focused".
"Trump wants a decent, strong, loyal America, but he is also not a sucker. And he sees in Israel the most loyal ally of the United States," he writes.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.


Palestinians have returned to a key holy site in Jerusalem for the first time in two weeks after Israel removed controversial security apparatus.

Worshippers flocked to the compound after Muslim leaders lifted a two-week boycott following Israel's reversal.
The measures were introduced by Israel after the killing of two Israeli policemen nearby.
But the violence that has gripped the city continued, with more than 130 injured in clashes with police.
Palestinians were seen chanting and dancing in the alleyways outside the compound, before entering for afternoon prayers on Thursday.
But violence broke out shortly afterwards, according to news agency AFP, with police trying to control the crowds by firing stun grenades and tear gas.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, 136 Palestinians were hurt, both inside the Old City complex known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount, and in the immediate area.
A total of 21 people were taken to hospital, the Red Crescent said, while one officer was wounded, according to reports.
Israeli police say officers responded after stones were thrown at them at the site's gates.
Palestinians had fiercely objected to the new security set-up, seeing it as an Israeli attempt to exert control over the Old City complex known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
The last pieces were removed on Thursday after days of violence in which seven people were killed.
Last week Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he was freezing all contacts with Israel, including security co-operation, until Israel cancelled the new measures.
There have been intensive diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis, involving the US and Jordan, which is custodian of the holy site and has a large Palestinian population.
The Israeli government has not yet commented on its decision to completely dismantle the infrastructure. Observers say it is a climbdown by Prime Minister Netanyahu, which will put him at odds with more right-wing members of his cabinet.
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, a political rival to Mr Netanyahu and whose party is part of the ruling coalition, criticised the decision.
"Israel comes out weakened from this crisis," he told Israel's Army Radio. "Instead of sending a message about Israel's sovereignty on the Temple Mount, it sent a message that Israel's sovereignty can be questioned."
Tom Bateman, BBC News, Jerusalem
Aside from inflaming decades-old issues, this dispute has also been notable for the fierce criticism that leaders on either side have faced from some in their own constituencies.
As I watched Palestinian protests last Friday, people chanted not only against what they see as illegal occupation, but also against Mahmoud Abbas who they perceived as failing to represent them.
It may go some way to explain his tough stance earlier this week when his Fatah faction called for Palestinians to "intensify the popular struggle" despite Israel's removal of the metal detectors.
Meanwhile, the Israeli prime minister has seen the right-wing of his coalition government excoriate the removal of the security measures as "weakening" Israel.
A poll this week suggested 77% of Israelis felt the government had "capitulated" in the face of Palestinian pressure, while a usually vehemently pro-Netanyahu newspaper branded the PM "helpless" and "feeble".
This week's crisis may hold some important lessons about how leaders will have to ride the waves of popular pressure when it comes to any new effort to solve the wider conflict.
The issue of control in East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, is one of the most contentious areas of dispute with the Palestinians.
Israel claims sovereignty over the whole of Jerusalem, though this is not recognised by the international community. Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a sought-after state.
In a separate development, Mr Netanyahu accused the Qatar-funded, pan-Arab Al Jazeera TV channel of fuelling the crisis.
"The Al Jazeera network continues to stir violence around the Temple Mount," he posted in Hebrew on his Facebook page, vowing to "enact the required legislation to expel Al Jazeera from Israel".
Palestinians sang, danced and let off fireworks as railings and security camera gantries were removed from the Lions' Gate entrance near the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif in the early hours of Thursday morning.
"For 12 days no-one has slept, no-one has done anything except the al-Aqsa mosque," bystander Firas Abasi told AFP news agency.
He said he felt like crying over what he called a "victory".
Mass prayer gatherings had been held in the street outside the Old City walls and near-daily clashes between Israeli security forces and demonstrators have taken place since the metal detectors were introduced in the wake of the killings of the policemen near the site on 14 July.
Four Palestinians were killed and three Israeli civilians stabbed to death by a Palestinian who said he was avenging Israel actions at the site.
Israel said the security measures were necessary because the weapons used to kill the police had been smuggled on to the compound.
Earlier this week, it vowed to bolster its police presence around the site and introduce less obtrusive security measures over the next six months, including unspecified "advanced technologies".


A man accused of killing a builder on New Year's Day has pleaded guilty to his murder halfway through his trial.

Ryan Williams, 22, of Haydon Grove, St Budeaux, Plymouth, changed his plea at Plymouth Crown Court.
A second man, Donald Pemberton, 21, continues to deny murdering Tanis Bhandari.
The court heard Mr Bhandari was stabbed twice and died after he left a pub in Tamerton Foliot, in Devon.
Mr Williams also pleaded guilty to three counts of wounding with intent, and one count of assault occasioning bodily harm.
Mr Pemberton denies three counts each of wounding with intent, and one count of actual bodily harm, in relation to four other men who were injured.
Mr Williams' sentencing has been adjourned until the end of the trial.
The case continues.


Every year Christmas comes around and with it a whole bunch of new toys.

30 November 2016 Last updated at 08:06 GMT
One that has been making news because it's been hard to get hold of is the new 'Hatchimal'.
It's a furry toy which hatches out of a plastic egg just like a real bird.
But is it any good? We asked some Newsrounders to review it. Check out the video to hear their verdict!


Donald Trump is set to launch an investigation into China's trade practices later, a move which could lead to the US imposing sanctions.

The president will sign a memorandum directing US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to look into China's intellectual property practices.
US officials have accused China of stealing intellectual property from American companies.
But the China Daily newspaper said the move could "poison" China-US relations.
Mr Lighthizer will launch a section 301 investigation, which allows the president to unilaterally impose tariffs or other trade restrictions to protect US industries.
Sanctions could follow from the investigation, but there is no guarantee.
In the 1980s, tariffs were levied against Japanese motorcycles, steel and other products, but no sanctions have been imposed by the US since the World Trade Organization (WTO) was launched in 1995.
The President tweeted that he was returning to Washington DC to announce the memorandum.
End of Twitter post  by @realDonaldTrump
Donald Trump has long railed against the massive US trade deficit with China.
The total trade relationship was worth $648bn (£500bn) last year, but trade was heavily skewed in China's favour with the US amassing a $310bn deficit.
Some of that deficit, the argument goes, is because Chinese firms are copying US products and ideas and either selling them back to the US at a lower price or squeezing US imports out of the Chinese market.
The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property estimates that the annual cost to the US economy from counterfeit goods, pirated software, and theft of trade secrets is between $225bn and $600bn.
The commission says that China is the world's principal intellectual property infringer, and it accounts for 87% of counterfeit items coming into the US.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence in November 2015 put the cost of economic espionage through hacking at $400bn a year.
The European Union, Japan, Germany and Canada have all expressed concern over China's behaviour on intellectual property theft.
Some critics say President Trump's action is a dangerous move that could cause the international trade system to unravel.
While intellectual property theft and copyright infringement are major problems, pursuing them with such a blunt instrument could prompt China to take retaliatory measures, according to Deborah Elms from the Asian Trade Centre.
"There will be a lot of collateral damage along the way. I understand the impulse to get tough, but if I were a company in China, I would be very worried about this," she says.
There were hundreds of section 301 investigations in the 1970s and 1980s, but the policy tool was largely set aside after the WTO brought into effect a binding dispute system, largely at the prompting of the US.
Deborah Elms says that if the US casts aside the system it helped to develop over 30 years, other countries might be tempted to act unilaterally too.
Official media in China has criticised the investigation.
A Xinhua News Agency commentary labelled the move "outdated" and said it would hurt both countries.
In an editorial, the official China Daily urged the Trump administration to pursue a different path.
It said the move could not be seen in isolation from North Korea, and what President Trump sees as China's failure to rein in the country's nuclear ambitions and missile programme.
"Instead of advancing the United States' interests, politicising trade will only acerbate the country's economic woes, and poison the overall China-US relationship," it said.


The Irish government got the best deal for the country in agreeing the sale of its stake in Aer Lingus, the Taoiseach [Irish Prime Minister] has said.

The government agreed on Tuesday to sell its 25% stake in the airline to IAG, the owner of British Airways.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the takeover offer would be best for the Irish tourism industry and the Irish economy.
But the government has been accused by opposition leaders of trying to "ram" through the sale.
The deal will require approval by the Irish parliament, with a vote due to take place on Thursday.
Fianna Fáil's Micheál Martin, the leader of the opposition, said in a debate in the Dáil [the Irish parliament] on Wednesday that he "objected in the strongest possible manner" to the government's actions over the sale.
He said the issue should be referred to the transport committee, where witnesses should be called.
Paschal Donohoe, the minister for transport, told the Dáil the sale was a "landmark decision" and was the right one "in the interests of the country and the company".
He said the airline's head office would remain in Ireland and outlined reasons why the government believed the sale was the correct move.
He said it would strengthen the competitiveness of Aer Lingus, and would give "greater certainty to connectivity" between Ireland and Heathrow airport in London.
He added that it would bring growth to Irish airports and create employment.
Meanwhile, IAG's chief executive Willie Walsh said he understood Ireland's protection of Aer Lingus, but a deal would be a "growth story" for the airline.
Mr Walsh said Aer Lingus would "remain an Irish airline" and added that he was confident that the airline's shareholders would accept IAG's bid.
While the Irish government supports the takeover offer, Ryanair, the other big Aer Lingus shareholder, is yet to make a decision.
Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary recently said his company would consider any offer from IAG.


Weaker-than-expected retail sales figures weighed on Wall Street on Friday, pushing two of three major indexes lower.

Commerce Department figures showed US retail sales up 0.4% in April, but economists had predicted a rise of 0.6%.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index climbed 5.27 points to 6,121.23.
But the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.81 points to 20,896.61 and the S&P 500 slid 3.57 points to 2,390.69.
Shares in JC Penney sank 14% after it became the latest department store chain to report disappointing results. In the first three months of the year, the retailer's net sales dropped 3.7% to $2.71bn - the third quarter in a row they have fallen.
Stock at Nordstrom, which reported after the bell on Thursday, also saw a steep fall of nearly 11%.
The sector is struggling to adapt to changing trends, with consumers increasingly shopping online instead of visiting malls.
As well as retail sales data, investors were also digesting the latest US inflation figures.
The Labor Department said that US consumer prices increased by 0.2% in April, following a 0.3% fall in the previous month, taking the annual rate to 2.2%.
Core consumer prices, which strip out the cost of food and energy, rose 0.1% last month, and were up 1.9% from a year earlier.


The historian, World War Two veteran and chief of Montana's Crow tribe Joe Medicine Crow has died aged 102.

His grandfather was a scout for US military commander George Custer, who lost his life in the Battle of Little Big Horn fighting Native Americans.
Medicine Crow earned the title of war chief in his tribe through stealing horses and other exploits during World War Two.
He later worked as his tribe's historian, lecturing into his nineties.
"When you spoke with Joe Medicine Crow, it was impossible not to be inspired," Montana senator Jon Tester tweeted.
Medicine Crow was raised on the Crow Reservation in the state of Montana where he spent much of his life.
He was the first of his tribe to get a master's degree in 1939, later helping catalogue his people's history through oral testimony.
To become a war chief he successfully performed four daring deeds, including wrestling a weapon from an enemy warrior - in his case a Nazi soldier.
"I never got a scratch," he said decades on, the Billings Gazette reported.
In 2009. President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"His contributions to the preservation of the culture and history of the First Americans are matched only by his importance as a role model to young Native Americans across the country," the White House said at the time.


Controversial plans for an Anglesey zorbing centre have been refused.

The activity lets people roll down a hill in a large plastic ball.
Proposals for the centre, situated on Holyhead Road next to the Menai Strait, attracted 365 letters of objection, compared to 85 in support.
Anglesey council's planning committee met on Wednesday and was advised to refuse permission as it would have "a detrimental impact on the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty".
Members also agreed the impact on nearby listed buildings outweighed the economic and tourism benefits.
Plans included a zorbing run which would have been 640ft (195m) long and 39ft (12m) wide, the construction of a lodge and the demolition and rebuilding of a 590ft (180m) long stone wall.
Among the reasons given for refusal included the demolition of the stone wall, which would "result in the loss of a feature which contributes significantly to the appearance and character of this important sensitive location".
Zorb Snowdonia said it chose the site because "people want to visit beautiful areas".
Before the meeting, Anna Matthews from the company said plans fitted well for developments in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.


Ireland coach Joe Schmidt was content as his side broke out of their Six Nations shackles to notch nine tries in a 58-15 hammering of Italy in Dublin.

The holders' title hopes were already over after a draw against Wales and defeats by France and England.
But the Irish bounced back to crush a poor Italian side with a display of running rugby.
"It was great to get the win on the board and to do it with a little bit of room to spare," said the Ireland coach.
"We were probably afforded a bit more space than we had in recent weeks and that allowed us to open the game up."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Ireland's enterprising display was best exemplified by Jamie Heaslip's try just before the break after a delightful sweeping move, with Simon Zebo, Jared Payne, Johnny Sexton, Andrew Trimble and Fergus McFadden all involved.
"It's great to see that when you're afford the opportunity to play like that," said Schmidt of the Heaslip score, which extended Ireland's half-time lead to 25-3.
"That's exactly how you want to play. We've been squeezed for time and space by the teams we've faced so far and no doubt Scotland will squeeze us next week.
"We'll try to deliver the very best we can next week. And hopefully it will contain a little bit of open rugby, as there was today - and even as there was in the second half against England and the last time we were here against Wales.
"Today showed we haven't been that far away in the last few games and when the pressure valve broke, it was great to see some good scores coming out."
Skipper Rory Best said the Irish had cut out "a lot of the silly things we have been doing to date in the Championship".
"From the off, you could see the intensity and pace that we wanted to play at," said the Ulsterman.
"We know it's all about doing the simple things well. There's no secret to it.
"We just were better at keeping the ball and clearing the rucks and, ultimately, we were better in their 22, which is something we've been working hard at."
A downcast Italy captain Sergio Parisse described his team's display as "terrible" after their fourth straight defeat in this year's Championship.
"The score is really, really hard but we deserved this score," said the number eight.
"We played a really, really poor match. Ireland played at a good level. We let them play with a lot of speed and that's hard to defend against."
The Italians now face the difficult task of attempting to regroup for a trip to Cardiff next Saturday as the wooden spoon looms.
"At this level, we have a lot of things to do to become competitive," acknowledged the Stade Francais star.


The European Parliament has approved a package of major reforms to the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), designed to cut waste and stop overfishing in European waters.

Under the plan, the existing system of fishing quotas - which often leads to tonnes of perfectly good fish being dumped at sea - will be reformed.
For the first time MEPs have legislative power in this policy area. They are proposing amendments to a European Commission reform plan for the CFP. But there will be more negotiations with the 27 fisheries ministers this year before the changes become EU law.
What is wrong with the existing system?
The European Commission says the current policy is wasteful - 75% of stocks are still overfished and catches are only a fraction of what they were 15-20 years ago. Catches of cod for example have declined by 70% in the last 10 years.
The Commission believes that the "top down" system of micro-managing fisheries from Brussels is failing and that decision-making needs to be decentralised.
The method of allocating fishing quotas EU-wide has contributed to the serious depletion of stocks, the Commission says. Crews that haul in more than the agreed quota often throw large quantities of dead fish back into the sea - the much-criticised "discards".
The system is not meeting the European market's needs. Fish imported from non-EU countries now accounts for two-thirds of the fish sold in the EU.
What was the current policy designed to do?
The idea of agreed quotas was to make Europe's fishing stable and sustainable and prevent conflicts arising where foreign trawlers fish in a country's waters.
The quota system - called Total Allowable Catches (TACs) for each fish stock - is at the heart of the CFP, launched in 1983. The TACs are based on a country's previous catches.
Over time Europe's fishing fleets have grown too large for the dwindling fish stocks, but fisheries ministers are often reluctant to see their national TACs reduced. The Commission says the CFP has been plagued by short-term decision-making.
How does the EU plan to protect fish stocks now?
The practice of discards must be phased out, the Commission says. In future trawlers will have to land their entire catch - and that means member states will have to ensure that better technology is installed to monitor compliance.
The Commission says fisheries should be managed on an "ecosystem" basis - there needs to be more flexibility in the system and more scientific data needs to be collected on a larger number of fish species.
The parliament's lead negotiator, German Social Democrat Ulrike Rodust, says the EU should scrap the annual bargaining over quotas, replacing that with an eco-friendly system based on "maximum sustainable yield" (MSY).
Under MSY, there would be a limit to the catch for each species based on its reproduction rate - in other words, the rate at which the stock is replenished. Ms Rodust accepts that for MSY to become the benchmark in 2015, as outlined in her legislative report, more scientific data will be needed.
A new funding mechanism will be set up for 2014-2020 called the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), with a budget of 6.7bn euros (Â£6bn).
Part of that fund will help support small-scale coastal fleets. Member states will be able to restrict fishing in a zone within 12 nautical miles of the coast, up to the year 2022.
But Ms Rodust's report objects to some Commission proposals to make fishing more market-driven.
The Commission said large fleets should be allocated transferable catch shares, called "concessions", which they would be able to trade, in response to local conditions.
Ms Rodust argues that such choices should remain in the hands of national authorities, not the EU.
She does not want "an allocation system being imposed at European level", and instead "member states will remain free to establish - or not to establish - a system of transferable fishing concessions".
What is the time frame for the changes?
Originally the Commission wanted the new CFP to be in place by 1 January this year, but the timetable has slipped.
MEPs now hope to reach a final deal on the reforms with the Council (EU governments) in June.
The plan is to start adopting the MSY approach to fisheries management in 2015, and from 2014 discards are to be phased out.
What has been the response so far to the plan?
The UK government is enthusiastic. UK Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon said more work must be done to encourage consumers to buy a wider range of fish.
That message was echoed by Sainsbury's, which said "it is imperative that supermarkets such as Sainsbury's help create the consumer demand for lesser known species by promoting them to our customers".
Scottish Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead said the EU reforms "need to be a lot more radical".
He praised the Commission's emphasis on conservation of stocks, but said more carefully targeted measures would be needed to stop discards.
The environmental group Oceana called for proper management plans for a much larger number of fish stocks.
It voiced concern that the Commission plan "doesn't establish any mechanisms to deal with landed by-catch". There is a risk that the surplus fish landed - instead of being discarded at sea - will simply be sold and that could incentivise overfishing, Oceana says.


Accusations the operators of a website likened to being an "online brothel" had engaged in pimping have been dismissed by a judge.

The Californian authorities had claimed Backpage.com's boss and two of its former owners had generated millions of dollars by hosting sex trade ads, some of which involved under-age children.
Prosecutors told the judge Backpage.com had screened the ads on its site.
But the judge ruled they could not be held liable for third parties' actions.
"This court finds it difficult to see any illegal behaviour outside of the reliance upon the content of speech created by others," said Judge Michael Bowman.
His decision was based on 1996's Communications Decency Act, which says publishers should not be held responsible for content created solely by their users.
The case against Backpage.com had alleged that it should not qualify for protection because it "helps pimps and traffickers develop the ads they post".
The site had previously stated it used both an automated system searching for key words and human review to check the contents of every post to its adult section.
But the judge said he needed further evidence that the site was actually involved in the notices' creation.
Charges of pimping a minor, pimping and conspiracy to commit pimping have now been dropped against the site's chief executive, Carl Ferrer, while charges of conspiracy to commit pimping have also been dropped against its ex-owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin.
A spokesman for the business described the attempted prosecution of the men as an "abuse of power".
But California's attorney general, Kamala Harris, who will shortly become a senator for the Democrat Party, said she intended to find other means to hold the men to account.
"We will not turn a blind eye to the defendants' exploitative behaviour simply because they conducted their criminal enterprise online rather than on a street corner," she said.


The app-based taxi service Uber is reported to have been ordered by a French court to pay â‚¬1.2m (Â£911,000) to a rival taxi group after a complaint that drivers were breaking the rules.

The court ruled that Uber drivers were unlawfully collecting fares waiting in the street, the AFP news agency said.
This can only be done by taxi drivers who pay more for their licences.
The ruling comes on a second consecutive day of protests by taxi drivers angry over the impact of Uber.
Uber has argued that the goal of rival taxi companies is to put pressure on the government to limit competition.
It has warned that any effort to limit app-based car services would cost passengers more, put drivers out of work and take France back to an era before apps and smartphones.
But the National Union of Taxis (UNT) argues that unlicensed cab firms are unfairly competing against professional drivers who pay taxes and respect the rules.
It has accused Uber of being "ambiguous" in its communications with its drivers about the rules for private hire cars. Under French law they are expected to return to their garages after each fare rather than tout for more customers by parking up or by looking for passengers while driving up and down roads.
Uber has strenuously denied the UNT's charges, insisting it "regularly informs" its drivers of the  need to return to their garages after each journey.
On Tuesday many UNT drivers joined a nationwide public sector strike along with millions of teachers, health workers and air traffic controllers who are angered by labour reforms.
At least 20 taxi drivers were arrested for "violence, carrying weapons and starting a fire", police said. Some had set bonfires on the road before dawn.


Goalkeeper Fraser Forster says Southampton have enough experience to cope with the demands of the Europa League next season.

Saints have qualified for the group stages of the competition, meaning at least six additional matches from mid-September until early December.
"We've got players who've played in the Champions League," said 28-year-old Forster.
"We're in great shape. We want to have a real go at it next season."
Forster, who signed a new contract this month, is currently training with England before Euro 2016 starting on 10 June.
The former Celtic keeper pointed to players such as central defender Virgil van Dyke as being important to Southampton's European ambitions.
"Maybe a couple of players will come in and a couple will go in the summer," said Forster.
"I don't think we need a lot to add to the quality that we've got."
Meanwhile, Southampton have confirmed the departure of keeper Kelvin Davis, midfielder Gaston Ramirez and Will Brit, another keeper, after their contracts expired.
Davis, 39, has retired following 10 years at the club, while Uruguay midfielder Ramirez, 25, leaves after a four-year stay, which included a loan spell at promoted Championship club Middlesbrough this season.


MPs should be given a dress code - to stop standards slipping in the Commons chamber, says a Labour MP.

Thomas Docherty, new MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, raised a point of order suggesting several MPs had been spotted wearing denim in the House.
Later he told the BBC the point had been "semi-serious" but some women MPs had been "rocking up in a mixture of denim and knee length boots".
Deputy Speaker Dawn Primarolo said all MPs knew they should dress smartly.
MPs laughed as she suggested Mr Docherty speak to those concerned directly, adding "I'm sure they would welcome it".
Mr Docherty had raised the point that some MPs were wearing "such items as denim in the House of Commons and catching the Speaker's Eye" and, as a new MP, asked for guidance "as to what is an appropriate dress code for the mother of Parliaments?"
Ms Primarolo said it wasn't for the deputy Speaker to comment on MPs' "sartorial elegance" - but all MPs knew they should dress smartly. Mr Docherty suggested the dress code be circulated "so all members on both sides of the House so that we don't have dress down Thursday in future".
Later he said he had noticed a "handful" of female MPs on the Tory and Lib Dem benches - who sit opposite Labour MPs - wearing black denim, knee length boots and leather jackets.
He said MPs taking part in debates should dress in "what most people would regard as business attire" - although he added that those in the division lobbies sometimes turned up in gym kits, due to the short notice given for votes.
He said he was not looking for a "return to coat and tails" but had raised it as a "semi serious point about dress codes" as he had noticed more MPs were going "smart casual".
"If the Speaker allowed, for argument's sake, women to wear dark denims and then gentlemen rocked up in, as the Americans now often do, chinos and a sports jacket - would the Speaker pull them up?," he said.
"If we don't have a standard it will continue to gently drift," he said.
In 2002 Labour MP Kevin Brennan officially called for "dress down" Thursdays and took off his tie in the Commons chamber - only to be ticked off by then Speaker Michael Martin after Tory MP Michael Fabricant raised it in a own point of order.
A House of Commons spokesman said the dress rules for the Commons were actually quite vague.
The 2004 edition of Erskine May, the official parliamentary rule book, states: "Members are not permitted to wear decorations in the House. The wearing of military insignia or uniforms inside the chamber is not in accordance with the long-established custom of the House.
"The Speaker has also stated that it is the custom for gentlemen members to wear jackets and ties."
Parliament's own guidelines point out that the Speaker has "on a number of occasions, taken exception to informal clothing, including the non-wearing of jackets and ties by men".
Men are also not allowed to speak in the chamber while wearing a hat however, until 1998, MPs wishing to raise a point of order during a vote had to wear a hat - a collapsible top hat was kept in the chamber in case it was needed.


A footbridge over a motorway which partially collapsed when it was struck by a lorry will be removed at the weekend.

The bridge over the M20 near Maidstone in Kent was hit by a lorry carrying a digger on Saturday.
A motorcyclist suffered broken ribs and a lorry driver was treated for shock.
The M20 will be closed between junctions 1 and 4 coast-bound and junctions 4 and 2 London-bound from 20:00 BST on Friday until 06:00 Monday.
The collapsed section of the pedestrian bridge, near the village of Addington, was removed from the scene last weekend, and the road was reopened a day later.
Highways England said the remaining structure was being constantly monitored and was structurally sound and safe for traffic to pass underneath with a temporary 50mph speed limit in place.
Chief highway engineer Catherine Brookes said: "We naturally need to remove it under safe controlled conditions this weekend.
"We will use the closures to carry out as much work as possible, including barrier repairs, resurfacing and litter picking.
"We will start planning the replacement in due course."
The coast-bound M26 will also be closed from the M25 junction 5.
Diversions will be in place via the A229 and M2/A2 to join the M25 at junction 2.
Local traffic will be able to use the A20.
Access to the A21 from the anti-clockwise M25 will also be closed with a diversion via junction 4.
The M20 is the main route to the Channel Tunnel and Port of Dover.


A murder inquiry has been launched after a man's body was found in a burned-out car on a housing estate.

Police called to Pincey Mead, near Pitsea Road, Basildon, shortly before 17:00 GMT on Saturday found the body in a grey Audi A4.
He has been named locally as 30-year-old Vilson Meshi. A post-mortem examination found the cause of death was smoke inhalation.
Det Insp Steve Ellis of Essex Police said he wanted to hear from witnesses.
"This happened in a residential neighbourhood so I am hopeful someone will have seen or heard something.
"I'm keen to speak to anyone who might have seen the vehicle or spotted anyone acting suspiciously in the area."
Anyone with information should contact police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
More on this and other stories from Essex


Britain's Dave Ryding finished 11th in the slalom at the Alpine World Ski Championships as Austrian Marcel Hirscher retained his title.

Media playback is not supported on this device
The 30-year-old was fourth after the first run in St Moritz in 46.96 seconds and was hoping to become the first British man to win a world medal.
But he returned 49.22 for one minute 36.18 seconds overall.
Hirscher claimed his sixth world championship medal with 1:34.75, ahead of compatriot Manuel Feller.
Hirscher, 27, who also won the world slalom title on home snow in Schladming in 2013, led after the first run and went on to finish 0.68 seconds ahead of Feller.
It added to the giant slalom he secured on Friday and silver in the combined event, taking Austria to the top of the medals table with three gold, four silver and two bronze, ahead of host nation Switzerland.
Felix Neureuther, winner of 10 World Cup slaloms and a former silver and bronze-medal winner at the past two worlds, claimed bronze, at 0.93 seconds, for Germany's first medal of the championships.
Ryding matched Britain's best ever alpine World Cup result when he finished second to Hirscher in the Kitzbuhel slalom in Austria last month.
He was leading after the first run but recorded the first podium of his career.
Britain's last world championship medal came from Evie Pinching in 1936.


Hearts head coach Ian Cathro admits Sam Nicholson was "foolish" to spit in the direction of an assistant referee in the defeat at St Johnstone.

Media playback is not supported on this device
The winger, 22, was dismissed after appearing to react to Stephen Mitchell's award of a foul throw.
Cathro had said after the game he would review the incident.
"We see and Sam accepts he has been foolish, acted stupidly inside his own frustrations, and has since apologised to his team-mates," Cathro said.
Immediately after the match Cathro appeared to back his player but the Tynecastle outfit decided not to appeal against the red card shown to Nicholson.
And the head coach now accepts his player was guilty of a "stupid, rash action" that made the game more difficult for the Hearts players left on the pitch.
"He has apologised to myself for that," Cathro added. "That situation is completely unacceptable to me because it impacts on the strength of the team.
"That is the responsibility of every player: to make sure they are always adding to the strength of the team and never getting caught in any frustration or moments that lead to us being weaker.  That is something we will deal with privately."
Nicholson is banned for the visit of Dundee on Saturday and the trip to Kilmarnock.
And Cathro hopes that the player is now able to put the incident behind him.
"I would also like to add that Sam is a young, talented Scottish player who in this case has been guilty of a foolish, stupid action, but I don't consider he is guilty of any more than that," he added.
"Now, that's bad enough as it is and I would say it's completely unacceptable to himself, to me, to the team, and to the club. However I urge us to not push that any further than what it is."
Media playback is not supported on this device


Martin Allen has joined National League side Eastleigh as manager after being granted permission to leave Barnet.

Allen was released from his deal with the Bees after Eastleigh chairman Stewart Donald requested permission to speak to the 51-year-old.
His appointment follows Ronnie Moore's departure for "personal reasons" on Wednesday after three months in charge.
Allen's first match in charge will be Sunday's home FA Cup second-round tie against FC Halifax Town.
He guided Barnet back into the EFL from the National League in 2015 in his fourth spell in charge of the London club, who are eighth in League Two.
The Bees have placed development team coach Rossi Eames in caretaker charge, with academy manager Henry Newman assisting him.
Eastleigh, ninth in the National League and eight points off the play-off places, have appointed their third different manager of the season after sacking Chris Todd in August.
"The approach came out of the blue," Barnet chairman Tony Kleanthous said.
"It was quite clear that Martin had decided he wanted to take the opportunity Eastleigh were offering to him.
"He leaves with our best wishes having done a great job helping to rebuild the football club after our relegation into the National League."


The estranged mother of a homeless man who helped victims of the Manchester bomb attack has urged him to contact her.

Twenty-two people were killed in the explosion at the end of a concert at Manchester Arena on Monday night.
Chris Parker, 33, said he comforted a seriously-injured eight-year-old girl and a woman who died in his arms.
Jessica Parker said she saw her son on the news and had last seen him in person at a funeral five years ago.
She said she had believed her son was living with his girlfriend.
Manchester attack: What we know so far
Three more arrests in arena bomb probe
Who were the victims?
"I had no idea he was homeless," said Ms Parker.
"I just want to get back in contact now, to help and support him. He's had a troubled life but underneath he's got a good heart and he's very brave.
"The explosion knocked him [off] his feet but he ran back in because he realised that people needed help."
Ms Parker, from Sprowston, Norfolk, said she hoped to travel to Manchester on Thursday to look for her son.
"I am extremely worried about him. I want him to contact me but if he doesn't want me there then fine," she said.
Mr Parker had been begging in the arena foyer when the bomb went off.
He comforted a seriously injured little girl and helped a woman in her 60s who was badly hurt.
He told the media on Tuesday: "She passed away in my arms.  I haven't stopped crying."
A fundraising page set up to help Mr Parker has raised more than Â£34,000.


Two-time world champion Elliot Willis has been diagnosed with bowel cancer.

Willis, 32, was one of the first British athletes to be chosen for next year's Rio Olympics but will take time out from training to have treatment.
Sevenoaks-born Willis teamed up with London 2012 silver medallist Luke Patience in a bid to become Britain's first 470-class Olympic champions.
Willis said: "It's shocking news. It's still my dream to win Olympic gold but my health is my number one concern."
The longer-term impact on his and Patience's 470 campaign for Rio will be determined by how he responds to treatment.
"Elliot needs to do what's best for him," said Patience. "I will support him in whatever way I can."


Telecoms company Vodafone has pulled out of a £20m deal to sponsor West Ham's London Stadium home.

It had been in talks with stadium operators the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) for six months over a naming-rights deal.
But a Vodafone spokesman confirmed the company has "no plans to sponsor the London Stadium".
A stadium spokesperson said they were still "actively seeking a naming rights partner".
"Interest remains high within the market and we are confident we will find the right partner," they said.
Vodafone has reported an annual loss of £5.2bn but denied this was a factor in its decision.
A raid by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officials on West Ham's offices last month was also ruled out as a reason for the company to pull out, sources at the club and Vodafone have said.
It is understood talks ceased because Vodafone did not think the range of events at the stadium where the 2012 Olympic Games was held was attractive enough for marketing purposes.
The venue can only host a limited number of events because of its use as a football ground, although the World Athletics Championships and several concerts will be staged there this summer.
This is the second time a sponsorship deal at the £750m stadium has faltered.
Indian conglomerate Mahindra had been in talks with the LLDC last year.
West Ham are unlikely to see any direct benefits from a sponsorship deal as under the tenancy arrangement, the LLDC take the first £4m a year from any naming-rights contract.


A man who slept with a woman two days before footballer Ched Evans allegedly raped her has told a court he was "shocked" by her sexual behaviour.

He said she told him to "go harder," a phrase similar to what Mr Evans claims she used with him in a hotel room.
The Chesterfield striker denies raping a 19-year-old at a Premier Inn in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, on 30 May 2011.
Mr Evans, 27, was found guilty of rape at Caernarfon Crown Court in 2012, but his conviction was quashed in April.
The former Manchester City and Sheffield United player denies having sex with the woman while she was too drunk to consent.
He insists she agreed to let him "join in" while she was having consensual sex with fellow footballer Clayton McDonald, 27, after a night out in Rhyl.
A man who said he slept with the complainant multiple times in the months leading up to the alleged offence said he picked her up after a night out on 28 May 2011 and described her as being drunk when he took her home.
The man - who cannot be named - said she "came on to" him in bed, saying: "Are you not even going to rip my clothes off?"
"I was quite shocked," he said. "At the beginning I was a little bit nervous. The relationship we had was purely based on sex.
"I was very shocked with the words - she was expecting sex to happen as soon as we got into the house."
He said the complainant "dictated" how the sex occurred and told him to "go harder".
"She was a lot more confident. There had been a break between that time and the previous that I had slept with her, so I was a bit shocked to how much more confident she was," he added.
Prosecutor Simon Medland QC asked why he never mentioned the phrase "go harder" in his initial statement in September 2011 but did in a statement in December 2015.
He said he was not asked for details in the first interview and did not feel comfortable discussing it in that way over the phone.
The second interview was in person, and he was "made to feel at ease" and asked for more details, he added.
Mr Medland asked the witness if he was aware of a Â£50,000 reward offered for any information that might lead to Mr Evans' acquittal before he gave evidence at the footballer's appeal.
"No," he replied, saying he would have a "lot more to lose than to gain" if he had given evidence for money as he would most likely lose his well-paid job.
"The money I could get paid in the next 20 years outweighs a small lump sum," he said.
The trial continues.


A grandad from East Yorkshire has won $2.6m (£2m) by finishing fourth in the world's most prestigious poker tournament.

John Hesp, 64, of Bridlington, made it to the final table of the main event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP).
The grandfather of seven swapped his local casino in Hull for Las Vegas to take part in the 7,221-player contest.
Mr Hesp's progress captivated the poker world, with many of the game's biggest names rooting for him to win.
The semi-retired businessman, who paid $10,000 (£7,000) to enter the tournament, won admirers for his colourful dress sense and cheerful demeanour at the table.
Speaking to the BBC, he said: "It's been quite awesome, I've been living the dream, I've loved every minute of it and I've had so much fun and entertainment.
"I've wanted to do this tournament for a couple of years now, it was one of the things on my bucket list."
The final at the Rio casino is due to conclude on Saturday, with the winner earning $8,150,000 (£6.3m).
Mr Hesp, who said he wasn't going to turn professional, continued: "I got in the top 500, then 100, then 50 and so on and it got to the point where it was indescribable, nobody could believe I could do it as an amateur.
"As I dropped below 100 it seemed quite a number of the world's media got on board and started to want to talk to me."
The amateur, who runs a caravan centre in Bridlington, said: "I've just wanted to play some poker with some professionals.
"First of all I'd like to spoil the family a bit, my wife isn't that bothered about going away on holiday but we're quite happy to go to our humble, static caravan in the Yorkshire Dales at Pateley Bridge."
Professional poker player Danielle Anderson tweeted: "What a pleasure it was to see John Hesp bring fun back to poker's biggest stage. Hope players follow his example. Let's grow the game."
Poker journalist Remko Rinkema posted: "John Hesp's 4th-place for $2.6 million is the second biggest cash ever by a British player."


Cardiff City manager Russell Slade says he will do "everything he can" to improve the Bluebirds' away form.

The Championship side have failed to score or win in any of their matches on the road since Slade took charge in October.
At home though, Cardiff have won all four matches under Slade, Friday's 2-1 win against Reading the latest.
"We'll work, look at the game plan, personnel and do everything we can," said Slade.
"Because if we can get that right we know that we will be a threat."
The victory over 10-man Reading moved Cardiff to within three points of the Championship play-off places.
Royals defender Alex Pearce's own goal gave the home side the lead.
The 26-year-old was then sent off for a trip on Adam Le Fondre in the box, that allowed Peter Whittingham to double City's advantage from the penalty spot.
Michael Hector's late strike gave the 10 men of Reading hope of a point, but Cardiff held on for the victory.
"We are doing particularly well at home at the minute. We seem to be able to score goals," said Slade.
"We made it hard work against the 10-men. I don't think we started the game too well if I'm honest, but then I thought we gradually got into the game and got on top.
"The goal just before half-time was very important to us, but against the 10-men, fair play to Reading they stayed in the game, but I think we should have converted a few more chances."
Cardiff, who moved up to 11th in the table on Friday, are next in action away to sixth-placed Watford on Saturday 29 November.


Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has attended a state funeral for victims of an attack at Cairo's Coptic Christian cathedral, naming the suicide bomber he said was responsible.

Mr Sisi, who has declared three days of national mourning, named Shafik Mahmoud Mohamed Mostafa, 22, as the attacker.
The bombing on Sunday killed 24 people, many of them women and children.
Mr Sisi said that three men and a woman had been arrested in connection with the attack.
Dozens more were injured in the blast in a chapel adjoining St Mark's cathedral during a Sunday service, which Mr Sisi said caused "pain to all Egyptians".
He used his address to urge the government to amend the country's terrorism laws, which he said were "restricting the judicial system" in its battle to prevent such attacks in Egypt.
Mourners earlier packed the Virgin Mary and St Athanasius Church for a service led by the spiritual head of Egypt's Orthodox Christians, Pope Tawadros II.
However, hundreds of mourners were angry at being denied entry, the Reuters news agency reports, with a number of youths detained.
Inside the church, banners bearing the names of the dead were hung on the walls. Pope Tawadros II prayed over the victims' coffins and called them martyrs.
After the service, the victims' coffins were taken by ambulance to Nasr City for the state funeral.
The Christian minority in Egypt has often been targeted by Islamist militants. There has so far not been any claim for responsibility for the attack.
Egypt has seen a wave of attacks by militants since 2013 when the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi, an elected leader who hailed from the Muslim Brotherhood, and launched a crackdown against Islamists.
Some of Mr Morsi's supporters blamed Christians for supporting the overthrow.
Sunday's explosion happened at about 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT). Video footage carried by regional media showed the interior of a chapel adjoining St Mark's Cathedral littered with broken and scattered furniture, along with blood and clothing on the floor.
"I found bodies, many of them women, lying on the pews. It was a horrible scene," said cathedral worker Attiya Mahrous.
"There were children. What have they done to deserve this? I wish I had died with them instead of seeing these scenes,'' another witness told the Associated Press news agency.
Coptic Christians make up about 10% of Egypt's population.
St Mark's Cathedral is the headquarters of the Coptic Orthodox church, and the home of Pope Tawadros II.
The Coptic Orthodox Church is the main Christian Church in Egypt. While most Copts live in Egypt, the Church has about a million members outside the country.
Copts believe that their Church dates back to around 50 AD, when the Apostle Mark is said to have visited Egypt. Mark is regarded as the first Pope of Alexandria - the head of their Church.
This makes it one of the earliest Christian groups outside the Holy Land.
The Church separated from other Christian denominations at the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) in a dispute over the human and divine nature of Jesus Christ.
The early Church suffered persecution under the Roman Empire, and there were intermittent persecutions after Egypt became a Muslim country. Many believe that continues to this day.


Three people have been charged in California with impersonating law enforcement officers after claiming to operate a police department with jurisdiction in 33 states.

They said they belonged to a group called the Masonic Fraternal Police Department, which they claimed dated back to the Knights Templar.
One of the trio is a junior aide to California's attorney general.
Uniforms, weapons and vehicles were found in premises linked to the group.
Brandon Kiel - an aide to state Attorney General Kamala Harris - David Henry and Tonette Hayes were arrested on 30 April and released later that day.
"When asked what is the difference between the Masonic Fraternal Police Department and other Police Departments the answer is simple for us. We were here first!" the group's website page reads. "We are born into this Organization, our bloodlines go deeper than an application."
According their website, the Masonic Fraternal Police Department was created by the Knights Templar in 1100 BC - although the crusader order was set up more than 2,000 years later.
Authorities began investigating the group after police chiefs in southern California received a letter in late January that announced Mr Kiel would be serving as "chief deputy director" of the group.
The letter claimed there were 5,686 lodges and that the department "will be able to acquire intel that is not accessible to non-fraternal entities".
Los Angeles County sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida told the Associated Press news agency that there were no indications that the group had carried out any law enforcement activities.


When you lose a Wimbledon semi-final it's tough to put that out of your mind after just a few days, but the Davis Cup means I can start to look forward.

I needed to take a few days off after Wimbledon, which eats into preparation for the quarter-final against France, but I started practising again on Tuesday, had a slightly longer and more intense practice on Wednesday, and on Thursday I might try to hit a couple of times to get my timing and rhythm back.
This time of year is tricky with so many events in a short space of time, and it can be difficult to get everything right.
I played a lot of tennis during the clay-court season, then Queen's and Wimbledon, and I need to analyse it as a whole.
I'm obviously still disappointed at losing to Roger Federer last Friday and I haven't watched the match yet, but I hope it's something I will learn from.
It's the second year running that Britain have made the World Group quarter-finals in the Davis Cup, so I think we've proved we belong at this level.
We've developed a really good spirit and I thought I'd tell you a bit about my team-mates James Ward, my brother Jamie and Dom Inglot.
James on court: He obviously likes playing in the big arenas. His results over the last couple of years would suggest that. He's played some of his best tennis in the Davis Cup and the big competitions, with decent results at Queen's, in Cincinnati and this year at Wimbledon. When he has to raise his level he has the ability to do that.
James off court: I'd say Wardy is pretty quiet when he's in the team room, unless you're talking about football. It's more when Arsenal get brought up, and if anyone says anything negative about them. I never understand how as a supporter it's OK to say a certain player is playing so badly, but if someone who supports another team says the same thing they will respond with: 'What are you talking about? He's a great player!' Wardy's like that.
Jamie on court: He plays with feel and finesse on the court. He doesn't serve unbelievably hard or hit the ball that powerfully but he has great hands, great feel and great instincts on the doubles court. When he's partnered with somebody who serves big and has a contrasting style to his, he does very well.
Jamie off court: Jamie is pretty laid back. When we're around each other we don't wind each other up, to be honest. He's not quiet but he's certainly not loud. He's pretty relaxed away from the court. I'd say he hasn't changed since we were kids.
Dom on court: His game is based on power and he's a big guy, strong, more of an intimidating presence on the court. He and Jamie have contrasting styles and maybe that's why, when they played together in the Davis Cup, they did pretty well. It would be tough to break Dom with the combination of his serve and Jamie's volleys. When Jamie's serving, Dom is such a big guy that he can be intimidating at the net.
Dom off court: He's a really nice guy, quite quiet. Dom is pretty intelligent, more so than the rest of us, I'd say. Jamie and Dom are a lot more intelligent than me and Wardy. I think if we were to do a team general knowledge quiz, it would be Wardy in last place, me second to last and then Jamie and Dom would be up the top.
France have a depth in singles that we can't match but that doesn't mean we can't win this weekend.
In Gilles Simon, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Richard Gasquet and Nicolas Mahut they have four top grass-court players. Simon reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon and semis at Queen's, Gasquet has reached the semis at Wimbledon a couple of times and Jo is a Slam finalist.
Mahut is their number four and probably won't play singles but he won an ATP tournament on grass last month.
I've played them all many times but I probably know Jo the best as I've practised and played against him a lot. You get to know people's personalities a little bit by playing against them, the things they like and their tendencies.
I also played a lot in the juniors with him, while Jamie played Gasquet for the first time when they were 11, so there won't be too many surprises out there.
They're all quality players and it will be extremely tough to beat them - everybody has to play at the top of their game if we're going to win.


Russian athletes who say they are not drug cheats could find out if they can compete at this summer's Rio Olympics just 15 days before the Games start.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it has reached an agreement with the athletes and athletics' governing body, the IAAF, to end their dispute quickly.
The IAAF has banned Russia's athletics federation from the Olympics because of widespread doping in the country.
But 68 clean athletes are arguing they should be allowed to compete.
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) says any Russian athlete who is not banned for doping and has met qualification standards should be allowed to compete in Rio.
Cas said it would rule on the matter by 21 July "at the latest" after agreeing to "an expedited procedure".


Notts County chairman Ray Trew has approached local businessman Alan Hardy over a potential takeover.

Trew put the League Two club up for sale in February after his family were subjected to "foul and mindless abuse".
Hardy, chief executive of the Paragon group and owner of the Nottinghamshire Golf and Country Club, has previously made two offers to buy the Magpies.
Trew, who also met potential buyers from the United States and China in March, has not yet concluded a deal.
He bought Notts County from Peter Trembling in 2010, taking on debts of more than £1.5m, which were built up during five months under the ownership of Middle Eastern consortium Munto Finance.
The club are 12th in League Two, one point outside the play-off places.
BBC Radio Nottingham's Notts County correspondent Colin Slater:
"The approach to Alan Hardy in the last few days was made by one of Ray Trew's advisors and came out of the blue.
"After Trew put Notts up for sale in February, Hardy unsuccessfully made two written cash offers to become the Magpies' owner and it was assumed, wrongly as it turns out, that any possible deal between them was not going to happen.
"Hardy has yet to respond to Trew's latest overtures but I understand he will first be seeking opportunities to establish Notts' latest financial position.
"Hardy was at Meadow Lane on Saturday to see Notts draw with Crewe while Trew was away on other business."


World number eight Tomas Berdych has pulled out of next month's Olympic Games in Rio because of concerns about the Zika virus.

Berdych, 30, lost in the Wimbledon semi-final to eventual winner Andy Murray earlier this month.
"It was a hard decision for me to take after a long and painstaking discussion with my dearest," said Berdych.
The Czech is the third tennis player after Simona Halep and Milos Raonic to withdraw from the Olympics.
More than 20 male players have withdrawn from the golf competition at Rio 2016, with many concerned about the mosquito-borne virus Zika, which is linked to brain deformities in newborn babies.
Berdych said on Twitter: "It is purely my personal decision but I still feel a need to give at least one of the serious reasons leading to this step to my supporters and fans.
"It is because of the Zika virus spread in the country of the Olympics. As I have founded a family recently, to limit health risks towards my nearest is the utmost priority.
"I apologise to all of you who are disappointed by my decision. I do believe that if you take a deeper account of my reasons you will understand that I have done it out of the responsibility for my family."
The United States' John Isner has pulled out to focus on his preparations for tour events, while Nick Kyrgios will not be involved because of a dispute with the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC).


The funeral for Michael McGibbon, who was murdered in Ardoyne in north Belfast last Friday, has taken place.

Mr McGibbon, 33, was shot in the legs in an alleyway at Butler Place.
He later died from his injuries in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.
Police said his killing bore the hallmarks of a paramilitary murder.
A funeral mass for Mr McGibbon was held at Holy Cross Church, close to where he lived on the Crumlin Road.
He was married with a young family.
Police have said Mr McGibbon had contacted them to say two masked men had arrived at his house on the evening of Thursday 14 April.
The men ordered him to come out of the house but he refused, and they told him they would return.
Mr McGibbon's murder has been referred to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.


Rory McIlroy is in a strong position to be crowned European number one for the third time in four years after two rounds of the World Tour Championship.

The Northern Irishman shot a four-under-par 68 at Jumeirah Golf Estates to lie eight under, four shots behind the halfway leader, Andy Sullivan.
The Englishman carded a 66 to lead by one from Argentina's Emiliano Grillo.
McIlroy leads Race to Dubai rivals Justin Rose and Danny Willett by one and two shots respectively.
World number three McIlroy has a lead of only 1,613 points over Englishman Willett, with compatriot Rose more than 600,000 points further back and needing to finish second or better to have any chance of taking the end-of-season crown.
Even victory on Sunday in the £5.2m finale to the season would not be enough for Rose if McIlroy was outright second.
Sullivan, who shared the overnight lead with Ian Poulter, is the only player to win three times on the European Tour this season and could take his earnings for the year to almost £2m with the first prize of £875,000.
"It's absolutely awesome to be leading after halfway in such a massive event," the 28-year-old said.
"I'm just happy I'm doing it in front of my fans to keep them happy for the weekend anyway," said Sullivan, who is being cheered on by 30 supporters from his club in Nuneaton.
"They have followed me about six or seven times this year and every time they have been there, I've done pretty well.
"I think I am going to have to start paying for them to come out every week now."
McIlroy said he was "not quite performing at the highest levels" despite closing in on the European title.
"I still missed a few chances but I scrambled well today," he said.
"All facets of my game are pretty much there. It's just a matter of being a little more efficient, taking advantage of the par fives a bit better.
"I saw first hand how well Emiliano is playing but I just have to try and put another solid round in tomorrow and give myself a chance on Sunday."
Playing alongside McIlroy, Grillo carded eight birdies in his 64 - the lowest round of the week - to maintain the form which saw him win two titles in two weeks in October.
"It gives you a lot of confidence," said the 23-year-old, who almost hit McIlroy with a tee shot on his way to winning the Frys.com Open, his first PGA Tour title.
"Here it's pretty much like a major. You've got the best players in the world and you've got to play really well to keep it up."
Rose is five shots off the lead after adding a 66 to his opening 71 to move to seven under par.
Former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel and Thongchai Jaidee are alongside McIlroy on eight under, with American Ryder Cup star Patrick Reed a shot further back.


In our series of letters from African journalists, Sola Odunfa looks at the challenges ahead for Nigeria's incoming President Muhammadu Buhari.

This is the one Nigerian president who will assume office on Friday with unprecedented goodwill across the country - even from people who did not vote for him in the presidential election held two months ago.
His pre-election albatross of being a stern disciplinarian during his first time as as military head of state in 1983 has suddenly transformed to a quality which Nigerians are yearning for in the face of the excruciating pains of mass poverty and social insecurity pervading the land.
With his inauguration, he will have achieved his long-cherished dream of becoming a democratically elected leader - having made history as the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election in Nigeria.
But he will need prayers to have the courage and wisdom to confront the huge tasks he will inherit immediately after he is sworn in.
Muhammadu Buhari profile
President Buhari's to-do list is indeed a long one.
Earlier this month, his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, said that 110 million out of Nigeria's population of 170 million were living in "extreme poverty" while the largest chunk of the nation's wealth was going into the pockets of a small percentage of the population.
This situation has been brought about by the mindless corruption of the past six years, mainly fuelled by a cabal in the oil and gas industry.
When I walk through the streets of the commercial capital, Lagos, in the morning I pass endless groups of young men and women idling in front of houses and shops, most of them without any idea of when or if breakfast will come and what to do with themselves for the day.
They easily snap and lurch at one another in senseless fights.
You dare not try to make peace if you are not of their neighbourhood. Otherwise, they transfer the aggression to you.
Teenage prostitution and pregnancy are commonplace because the young have nothing else to do and also because the girls easily fall prey to the lure of a decent meal and gifts by men old enough to be their grandfathers.
Sola Odunfa:
"Was he not the same man who 32 years ago corralled scores of corrupt politicians into prison and forced Nigerians to imbibe the queue culture in public places, Nigerians ask?"
Naturally, the crime rate is very high.
All these are the first born of, again, corruption in high places.
Of the 110 million Nigerians suffering extreme poverty, many are young college graduates of the past seven years but who have no hope of gaining employment.
Several thousands more will join them when new sets graduate in a few months' time.
In the mainly Muslim north, many of the unemployed end up in the ranks of militant Islamist group Boko Haram which has been behind the six-year insurgency in the north-east.
Factories and other businesses are closing down at a rate which the government Office of Statistics cannot publish.
Social services hardly exist anymore in my country.
Public hospitals are short of everything - beds, drugs, nurses and doctors.
I have not had electric power in my residence in the past 10 days, like everyone else in my lucky economic situation I rely on a power generator - and I pay through the nose to fuel it.
Talking of fuel, transportation has been crippled in this Opec-member country this month because of a recent row between the government and petroleum importers over fuel subsidies.
The fuel business in Nigeria is a huge scam in which importers demand payment for cargoes which the government is convinced are never delivered - and the amount they are talking about is millions of US dollars.
Where does Mr Buhari begin to tackle Nigeria's problems?
Unfortunately my country people believe that he has the magic wand to command instant solutions and give us a better life within a few months.
He has had to come out to appeal for patience and confess that he does not have such magical powers.
Was he not the same man who 32 years ago corralled scores of corrupt politicians into prison and forced Nigerians to imbibe the queue culture in public places, Nigerians ask?
They want him to do it again - but without the horse whip.


A paedophile has been jailed for 12 months after sending explicit messages to vigilantes posing as a 13-year-old girl.

Paul Platten, 38, of Wincanton, Somerset, sent messages and naked pictures of himself after contacting a fake profile on social media.
He was tracked down and confronted by the vigilante group after he arranged to meet the girl in London.
He was sentenced at Taunton Crown Court earlier having admitted the charges.
Platten admitted three charges of attempting to incite a child in sexual activity and one charge of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.
Judge James Patrick said: "You sent to someone you thought was a 13-year-old girl a number of photographs of you naked.
"In my judgment these offences are so serious that they warrant an immediate custodial sentence."
Prosecuting, Caroline Bolt said members of a vigilante group set up a fake profile on social media of a 13-year-old girl called Sarah Rose.
Although he arranged to meet the girl in London, he later called it off. But the vigilantes tracked him down with the information he gave in his messages.
Representing Platten, Rebecca Bradberry said: "He has lost his home, he has lost his job.
"Given the confrontation that has taken place and that this has been plastered on social media he is not able to go back to Wincanton and his job."
He was ordered to register as a sex offender and was made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order - both of which will last for 10 years.


A sign stolen by a student has been returned anonymously more than a decade after it was taken.

The University of Bath's "Derhill Terrace" accommodation sign went missing in 2005.
A note sent with it thanked the university "for the loan", said it had been well looked after, and was signed by "A sorry former sign thief".
The 3ft-long sign will now be replaced on the wall of the accommodation block.
The note stated that the thief had "grown up a lot since graduating from Bath" and added they "now work in management for a very well-known multinational brand and no longer steal signs".
Andrew Monk from the university said: "Our students take away lots from the university - impressive qualifications and experiences which prepare them for a variety of top jobs across all sectors - as well as occasionally, it seems, the odd sign too.
"As the university prepares for its 50th anniversary in 2016 we're delighted to hear from our alumni wherever they are in the world and of course we're always very grateful whenever they choose to give back - including when it's parts of our fixtures and fittings."


Li Chuncheng, an ally of China's former security chief Zhou Yongkang, has gone on trial for corruption, say officials.

Mr Li is the former deputy party boss of Sichuan province, and is charged with bribery and abuse of power.
He is among several men linked to Mr Zhou who have been arrested in an ongoing anti-corruption campaign.
Mr Zhou himself has been charged with bribery, and is so far the most senior official in China caught since the crackdown was launched in 2012.
Mr Li did not raise objections to any of the charges laid out in court on Thursday, according to the Xianning city court's statements on its Weibo account.
It gave no details on his alleged crimes.
The investigation into Mr Li's case began in 2012 - last year he was stripped of his post and party membership.
From 1998 onwards, Mr Li had overseen the development of Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province which served as Mr Zhou's powerbase.
Mr Li quickly rose through the ranks under Mr Zhou, who was at that time the party boss for Sichuan.
China's President Xi Jinping launched a corruption crackdown in 2012, vowing to catch both "tigers" and "flies", in a reference to top and low-ranking officials.
It has investigated thousands of individuals in government and the private sector, including those who have fled the country. It caught 680 fugitives between July and December 2014 under its extradition programme Operation Fox Hunt.
On Wednesday, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection released a list of names of 100 fugitives sought under a new programme codenamed Sky Net, which was launched earlier this month. The names have been given to Interpol.
Nearly half of the people used to be heads of government departments, enterprises and public institutions. Others include former police officers and accountants, reported Xinhua.
The state news agency said that 40 of the people on the list had fled to the US, 26 to Canada, and the rest had travelled to other countries including New Zealand, Australia, Thailand and Singapore.


Ayshah recently went to Liverpool to find out if she's got what it takes to become a wrestling superstar.

She got tips from wrestlers Finn Balor, Enzo Amore, Big Cass and Bayley!
She also found out, that to become a wrestler you need a great name.
From Dwayne 'The rock' Johnson to Undertaker, Roman Reigns, Gran Metalik and Goldust, wresting has some pretty great character names.
So we wanted to know, what would your wrestling name be?
This chat is now closed, thanks for taking part!
I would be called JESSATRON because my name is Jess and I think I'd be very good!
Jess, 13, St Ives
If I was a wrestler my name would be the Green Anaconda
Kaidan, 9, Slough
I would love to be called the Flying Scotsman
David, 10, Renfrew
My wrestler name would be : Mike the Mizanin. I would pick this name because a real wrestler called The Miz inspired me to choose this.
Jude, 8, Peterborough
My wrestler name would be fireball
Edoardo, 11 Treviso (Italy)
Bootleg Bob
Alex, 12, Bedford
Chickenman Solo
Gabriel, 13, Luton
Here are some of our wrestler names: Des the destroyer, Khizy Kaz, Doctor Savage, Dab Master, Professor Wrecked, The Riz
Year 5, Randal Cremer Primary School
Taylor the terrible, Criminal Connor, Tyrific Tornado, Anamatronic destroyer, Caden 'catastrophic' Cooper,
Mercury Class, Littledown School, Slough.
Rampage-Ribcage and Wagwanius
Year 7 Spen Valley High School
If i were a wrestler my name would be "Rebecca the Wrecker "!!
Rebecca, 7, Rotherham , South Yorkshire
If I were a WWE wrestler my name would be Nightshade!!
Elona, 11, Wallington
Baron Blade
Adam, 8, Birmingham
If I had a wrestler name it would be BouBou!
Polly, 8,  Swindon


A group of football fans who claim they were "falsely imprisoned" before a match last year are to sue West Midlands Police.

Championship club Bristol City and its supporters club claim 51 fans were prevented from watching their team play at Birmingham City last September.
They say they were marched back to New Street railway station and put back on trains to Bristol.
The police force said it was aware a compensation claim was being made.
Bristol City Supporters Club and Trust said fans were rounded up and issued a section 35 dispersal notice, and claimed their treatment breached the European Convention on Human Rights.
The official supporters' organisation and the club itself have appealed for fans who were affected to get in touch if they want to join the group action.
Supporters club chairman Stu Rogers said: "I was at the game and there was a high police presence.
"What is now very clear is that a number of innocent fans were rounded up, branded as hooligans and forced into a 90-minute march back to the train station."
A Bristol City spokesman said the action was being brought "to ensure that future use of these dispersal powers is not abused and to secure compensation for those affected".
"We are interested in hearing from any fans who were innocently caught up in this, particularly any that were drinking in and around the Square Peg Weatherspoon's pub and then made their way on foot towards St Andrews from 2.30pm that day," he added.
A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said: "We are aware a claim is being made for compensation in relation to the Birmingham City and Bristol City Football match last year."
Birmingham City won the match 4-2.


Paul Grayson believes England will look to "bully" Scotland in the Six Nations opener at Murrayfield on Saturday.

The former England fly-half says despite suggestions of a change in style, the English will play to their traditional strengths.
"Parity in the scrum for Scotland should see England have to play away from the scrum a little bit."
"But ultimately, despite all the talk about change, England will try to bully Scotland," Grayson said.
The Scots have not beaten England since 2008, and have won only one opening fixture in 16 seasons of Six Nations rugby.
They did show signs of improvement at last year's World Cup, however, where they fell agonisingly short of a momentous quarter-final upset against Australia.
Grayson, who won 32 caps between 1995 and 2004, says England will be expecting a tougher test than they have received against Scotland for several years.
"Scotland have shown in the World Cup and the work they've done under Vern Cotter it's not smoke and mirrors," the former Northampton Saints man told BBC Scotland.
"They've got a very good squad. They've got young players that are playing together and winning together with Glasgow's success in the Pro12.
"So it is a credible threat from Scotland, it's not just a war of words. England will be nervous."


Treatment of some people with learning disabilities in hospitals and care homes is "intolerable", a review of the sector in England has found.

Sir Stephen Bubb had recommended moving people to community care and a charter of rights, after the abuse scandal at Winterbourne View care home in 2011.
In his final report, he criticised lack of progress and said a commissioner should be appointed to drive reform.
The government is understood to be looking at all the recommendations.
In 2011, the BBC's Panorama uncovered serious patient abuse and neglect at the Winterbourne View private hospital, near Bristol.
Sir Stephen - who is chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations - was then asked by NHS England to examine how to address "serious shortcomings" in the support for those with learning disabilities.
In November 2014, Sir Stephen published his report - Winterbourne View - Time for Change - that said many people were being kept in hospitals far from home for far too long.
He made 10 recommendations, including closing large "inappropriate in-patient facilities" in favour of care services for people in their own community and the introduction of a legal charter of rights for them and their families.
But he later reported an "absence of any tangible progress".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, as he published his final report on Monday, Sir Stephen said: "I have been really shocked by what I have heard about seclusion, around over-medication, around the use of physical restraint.
"It's an intolerable way to treat people with learning disabilities.
"The right place for people is with their families and in the community, supported properly."
But Sir Stephen said that what needed to be addressed was "not just around closing institutions", it was also about how society treated people in the education and health systems.
"That's why my major recommendation today is for the establishment of a commissioner for learning disabilities - someone who will drive and act as an advocate for change and for making more progress," he said.
The latest report, titled Time For Change - The Challenge Ahead, says some 3,500 vulnerable disabled people are still in institutions - 30%, or 900, more than had been thought.
It suggests that supporting people in their own community will require 10,000 extra staff, who will need to be trained to an established standard.
With at least 1,300 people expected to move out of hospital care by 2019, the report also says there is a "critical need" to develop housing for vulnerable people who, Sir Stephen says, should be exempt from proposed housing benefit caps.
The Department of Health is understood to be looking at all of Sir Stephen's recommendations, including the establishment of a commissioner.
Health minister Alistair Burt said: "It was only recently that NHS England announced a major programme to move people with learning disabilities out of hospital and into their communities...
"This, combined with the increase in specialist staff including nurses, will transform care.
"We are not complacent and will work with the NHS, local government and others to make sure their plan is delivered."
Luciana Berger, Labour's shadow minister for mental health, said there had been "too little progress" since the Winterbourne scandal.
"Tory ministers must avoid repeating their mistakes, accept these proposals and deliver the transformation in our learning disability services that is urgently required," she said.


With the assembly election now upon us, BBC News NI 's multi-platform coverage will be bringing you all the results as soon as they come in.

BBC News NI  will provide audiences with its most extensive election coverage to date on our news website.
Users will be able to follow live feeds of what is happening in their own constituencies, with stage by stage results for every seat. Live streams across all 18 battlegrounds will deliver the latest audio, video and news updates from the count centres.
Also on our news website we'll have Northern Ireland-wide results, infographics and analysis from BBC News NI's team of political correspondents; social media updates from every count; and we will stream audio and video feeds of our television and radio output to ensure no election action is missed.
As well as our website coverage, special live programming will start on BBC One NI at 14:30 BST on Friday, 6 May and continue throughout the day as results start to come in.
Coverage will move to BBC Two NI from 19:00 to 22:00 BST, before returning to BBC One NI from 22:35 BST. The election results breakdown coverage will continue on Saturday, 7 May from 10:30 BST.
From 14:00-22:00 BST on Friday, May 6 and 10:00 to 13:00 BST on Saturday, 7 May, BBC Radio Ulster will bring listeners news and analysis on all the latest election results and hear the action from the constituency count centres.
On Friday, 6 May, Radio Foyle will feature an election special from 16:00-22:00 BST, co-presented by Enda McClafferty at the count centre in Londonderry and Elaine McGee in the BBC Radio Foyle studio.
On 8 May, an hour-long special Sunday News at 13:00 BST, will bring listeners all the latest election news.
"BBC News NI reporters will be at every count to bring you the results as they come in and, for the first time, you will be able to follow the stages of every count on BBC News NI Online," Kathleen Carragher, head of BBC News NI, said.
"We'll also have political reaction and analysis from the politicians themselves and from commentators. And the audience can, of course, join the debate through texting and social media."


Chancellor George Osborne has moved to block any attempt to use British taxpayers' money as part of the Greek bailout, Treasury sources have said.

Mr Osborne is said to have told other ministers that using EU-wide cash for a bridging loan was a "non-starter".
Doing so would breach an agreement that an EU-wide emergency fund would not be used to underwrite bailouts, he is expected to tell eurozone colleagues.
Finance ministers from 28 EU countries are due to meet in Brussels later.
Prime Minister David Cameron said in 2010 he had won a "clear and unanimous agreement" that the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM) would not be used for further eurozone bailouts, after it was used to assist Ireland and Portugal.
Instead, responsibility was meant to fall on member states using the single currency.
The Financial Times reported EU officials as saying that Martin Selmayr, chief of staff to European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, had urged the use of the EFSM - a fund covering all EU members - to access bridge financing.
It reported that France was understood to be "particularly keen" to use the EFSM.
"Our eurozone colleagues have received the message loud and clear that it would not be acceptable for this issue of British support for eurozone bailouts to be revisited," the Press Association news agency quoted a Treasury source as saying.
"The idea that British taxpayers' money is going to be on the line in this latest Greek deal is a non-starter."
A Number 10 spokesman said: "Leaders from across the EU agreed in 2010 that the EFSM would not be used again for those in the euro area, and that remains the Prime Minister's view.
"We have not received a proposal and one is not on the table."


A rare black lemur, which is classed as an endangered species, has been born at an East Sussex zoo.

The baby, which is yet to be named, was born at Drusillas Park in Alfriston to parents Lotfi and Clementine.
The pair have been at the zoo since  2009 as part of the European Endangered Species Programme.
Black lemurs are native to Madagascar and are vulnerable due to hunting and deforestation.
Clementine and Lotfi came to Drusillas from zoos in Portugal and Tunisia.
A Drusillas spokeswoman said they could not tell yet if the baby was male or female but that it would become clear when their markings and colourings appeared.
She said: "Males are all black with striking orange eyes, whereas females are brown with long white ear tufts.
"Once this has been established, the zoo team will get on with the very important business of naming their beautiful little lemur."