Saracens could be without England back-row Billy Vunipola for the first month of the Premiership season as he recovers from shoulder surgery.

Vunipola, who has 34 international caps, had to withdraw from this summer's British & Irish Lions tour of New Zealand with the same injury.
The 24-year-old missed four months last season with a knee injury but returned to action in March.
"He's in great condition," said director of rugby Mark McCall.
"Billy's due back some time in October, but in true Billy style he'll make it back considerably before that. I'll be told by the medics when we can pick him but it won't be long."
McCall could also be without prop Mako Vunipola, hooker Jamie George, fly-half Owen Farrell, forward Maro Itoje and back Liam Williams in time for the Premiership opener against Northampton on 2 September.
"Someone like George Kruis didn't play in the last two Lions Test matches, others missed a bit of rugby," McCall continued.
"With Mako (Vunipola) and Owen (Farrell) we have some tough choices to make.
"As a club we're not looking to get our pound of flesh. We're looking at the welfare of the player.
"I'm trying to make good choices based on good reasons as to when they come back."


Tensions are high at a university in Indian-administered Kashmir following a row sparked by a cricket match.

Students and police clashed at the National Institute of Technology in the summer capital Srinagar, with police baton-charging students.
The mood had soured after India lost to West Indies in the World T20 cricket semi-final on Thursday.
Non-Kashmiris say local students cheered as India lost, stopping others from unfurling the national flag.
Campus authorities had to suspend classes amid security concerns after clashes broke out between the two sides.
Paramilitary police have now been deployed to maintain order.
Many people in the territory - especially in the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley - do not want it to be governed by India. They would prefer to be either independent or part of Pakistan.
The territory has been the spark for two of the three India-Pakistan wars: the first in 1947-8, the second in 1965.
Classes resumed this week but on Tuesday night the non-Kashmiri students attempted to march out of the campus and were stopped at the main gate by police.
"The students assaulted policemen including officers and started throwing stones," a police spokesman told BBC Hindi.
"This resulted in damage to public property. The police chased the mob and some of the students got injured."
Twelve students were injured in the police baton charge. Students accused police of confiscating the national flag they were carrying.
Classes resumed on Wednesday but many students have been boycotting classes in protest.
Some of the non-Kashmiri students have issued a letter to the university, saying they face discrimination and demanding that India's national flag be hoisted at the institution, alongside the Kashmiri state flag.
Education Minister Smriti Irani has sent government officials to the campus, and pledged to ensure a safe environment for students.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh said he had also sought assurances from the state's newly appointed chief minister Mehbooba Mufti over the issue.
The incident comes two months after the student leader of India's premier Jawaharlal Nehru University was arrested on "sedition" charges for allegedly chanting "anti-national" slogans.
The arrest sparked protests and a debate on nationalism in India.
He was freed on bail in March but the government has stuck to its stand that it will punish "anti-national elements".


A man, believed to be a pensioner, has died after he was struck by a car in west Belfast on Wednesday.

The victim was walking on the Donegall Road near the junction with the Falls Road when he was involved in the collision shortly before 19:30 GMT.
West Belfast MP Paul Maskey said: "My thoughts go to this gentleman's family.
"There's no good time of the year for anyone to be knocked down, but especially this time of year just adds that extra bit of sadness."
Mr Maskey said the man was a "well known member of the community around the greater St James's area" and was "well respected and well loved".
"We're now left with a fatality on our roads - it's unfortunate that his life has had to end in this way."
Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the collision to contact them.
The Donegall Road has reopened.
Earlier on Wednesday, another pedestrian died after he was struck by a lorry in County Down.


Leicestershire have signed Dieter Klein until the end of next season, while Richard Jones and Lewis Hill have penned deals until 2018.

South African seamer Klein, 27, was registered ahead of the One-Day Cup match against Lancashire and took two wickets in a 131-run victory.
Warwickshire paceman Jones, 29, is on loan but has signed a permanent deal.
Wicketkeeper Hill, 25, came through the academy system at the club and made his first-class debut in 2015.
He has performed well in T20 Blast in 2016, topping the club's averages with 157 runs at 39.25 and a strike rate of 150.66.
Elite performance director Andrew McDonald said: "Lewis has done extremely well for us and it will be good to have him continue his progress with the club.
"He has demonstrated that he can play in all three formats of the game and we're pleased that he's extended his stay with us."
On adding Klein, who has 154 first-class wickets at an average of 25.99, to the squad, McDonald added: "Dieter comes with a good pedigree and greatly impressed when playing in our Second XI and training with us.
"We're delighted to have him on board to bolster our bowling roster until the end of the 2017 season."
Klein holds a German passport and is therefore not considered one of Leicestershire's overseas players.


Welsh men's hockey team Cardiff and Met have had their promotion bid derailed after a club versus country row.

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They were five points clear at the top of the Conference West league with three games remaining when they lost eight players to Wales duty.
England Hockey, who run the league, denied a request to postpone the games and Cardiff lost both, much to the frustration of head coach Wallid Abdo.
"It's frustrating, I feel like the door was slammed in our face," Abdo said.
England Hockey league rules state that teams cannot postpone matches due to player unavailability, whatever the reason.
Abdo believes Cardiff are in a unique situation compared to their rivals across the border, however, as they have so many Wales internationals in their ranks.
"We've had to play two league fixtures without eight of our senior internationals and now we are second in the table after losing those two vital games," Abdo added.
"We petitioned England Hockey by email and asked if we could postpone the games but they came back and said no, stating that other clubs have had to put up with internationals being away.
"But I don't know any English clubs that have eight, nine, ten internationals playing in their first sixteen."
To win the Conference West, Cardiff and Met have to win their last match this weekend and hope Team Bath either draw or lose.
England Hockey have discussed changing the rules next season but that has come too late for Abdo's side.
He added: "All we wanted was some understanding of our special circumstances.
"We are a small nation and we are trying our best to get our hockey nation to develop and being in the Premier League is the perfect place to do that."
England Hockey's competitions manager Stephen Barlow said if club fixtures were postponed for international dates, the disruption to the domestic season would be too great.
He commented: "Not dissimilar to other sports such as rugby and cricket, domestic hockey in England continues when international matches are played.
"The league regulations, which Cardiff and all clubs sign up to, are clear that there are no postponement regulations in place for player unavailability."
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Up to 10 people have been taken to hospital after stairs collapsed at Tayto Park in County Meath on Saturday night.

The stairs collapsed in the House of Horrors attraction.
A spokesperson said the customers had been brought to hospital as a precaution and she did not know whether they had been injured.
The park, in Ashbourne, remained open after the incident.


The so-called Fake Sheikh, Mazher Mahmood, has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice, following a trial at the Old Bailey.

The former News Of The World investigations editor - who regularly dressed as a sheikh to fool his targets - became one of the UK's best known, yet most elusive, journalists.
He claims to have secured more than 100 convictions during a career spanning 20 years, but has also been criticised for his controversial methods.
Here are some of his most high-profile tabloid "stings".
In August 2010, a News of the World sting revealed Pakistan bowlers Mohammad Amir (pictured) and Mohammad Asif - together with their captain Salman Butt - were involved in a betting scam, known as spot-fixing.
The scandal came to light after Mahmood, who posed as an Indian businessman, secretly filmed the players' agent Mazhar Majeed arranging for no-balls to be deliberately bowled at specific moments in the fourth Test between England and Pakistan at Lord's.
In return, he was paid £150,000.
All three players received cricketing bans, and they and Majeed were later jailed.
How Pakistan cricket betting scam unfolded
Sven-Goran Eriksson, the then England football coach, faced embarrassment following a Fake Sheikh sting in 2006.
He was recorded telling the undercover reporter that Aston Villa Football Club was for sale and that then England captain David Beckham would return from Real Madrid to play in England if Eriksson asked him to.
He also said former England striker Michael Owen was not happy at Newcastle United.
The sting was published six months before the World Cup in Germany, and Eriksson, who had been under contract with the Football Association until 2008, left the England job after the tournament.
Eriksson caught in tabloid sting
The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, was forced to apologise in 2010 following a sting in which she appeared to offer access to her former husband Prince Andrew in exchange for £500,000.
Mahmood, who posed as a businessman, recorded the duchess saying: "Look after me and he'll look after you... you'll get it back tenfold. I can open any door you want."
The prince - a UK trade envoy - knew nothing about the alleged deal.
The duchess later said she was "devastated" and "regretful".
Duchess 'devastated' by cash-for-access claims
In November 2002, the front page of the News of the World proclaimed: "Posh kidnap - we stop £5m ransom gang."
Over several pages, Mahmood described how his reporters had infiltrated a plot to ambush Victoria Beckham, with the kidnappers intending to demand a ransom from her footballer husband David.
Five men were later charged with conspiring to kidnap Mrs Beckham. However, a subsequent trial collapsed after it emerged the paper had paid £10,000 to a convicted criminal, Florim Gashi, for his story.
The NoW defended its "thorough and legitimate investigation undertaken by one of the paper's most senior and experienced reporters".
Beckham 'kidnap' case collapses
The Countess of Wessex stepped down as chairman of a PR firm amid controversy over secretly recorded comments to Mahmood.
The 2001 sting caused embarrassment for the Royal Family after Sophie - the wife of Prince Edward -was recorded making disparaging comments about senior politicians during at a meeting with the Fake Sheikh at a London hotel.
She attended the meeting to follow up on what she believed was an opportunity to manage a £20,000-a-month public relations account for a Saudi prince.
However, the newspaper also claimed the firm, R-JH, was using Sophie's royal connections to boost its client list.
Explosive headlines for Sophie
London's Burning actor John Alford was sacked and later jailed for supplying cocaine and cannabis to Mahmood in a 1997 Fake Sheikh sting.
The News of the World expose claimed Alford had met Mahmood - who was posing as an Arabian prince - at London's Savoy Hotel.
The former Grange Hill star was offered £100,000 and the chance to join a celebrity line-up at the opening of a nightclub in Dubai.
However, Mahmood asked if Alford could also supply him with drugs.
Alford guilty on drugs charges
Two directors of Newcastle United Football Club resigned over comments they made to Mahmood - posing as a Middle East businessman - in Marbella, Spain, in 1998.
Chairman Freddie Shepherd and his deputy, Douglas Hall, were recorded apparently criticising star player Alan Shearer's clean image, calling Newcastle women "dogs" and implying the club's supporters were paying too much for replica shirts.
One dismissed former Newcastle and England manager Kevin Keegan as "Shirley Temple".
Mr Shepherd and Mr Hall claimed they were victims of "entrapment" and "gross deception" by the News of the World.
Newcastle United directors resign


Glamorgan's South African batsman Colin Ingram defended his side after Worcestershire coach Steve Rhodes criticised the influx of overseas-born players at the Welsh county.

Five players born in South Africa lined up for Glamorgan in their season-opening defeat by Northamptonshire.
"Everyone's entitled to their own opinions for me personally I know my role here," said Ingram.
"I'm really keen on that and that is to come and develop young Welsh players."
Ingram was joined by Jacques Rudolph, Marchant de Lange, Chris Cooke and Craig Meschede in the defeat by Northants, although Rudolph is the only one of the quintet classed as an overseas player under England and Wales Cricket Board rules.
Australia-born bowlers Michael Hogan and Timm van der Gugten did not play, although Brisbane-born opener Nick Selman opened with captain Rudolph.
"We saw three Welsh-born players get hundreds last year, four get new contracts and two furthering their futures with the club," continued Ingram, who appears for Glamorgan as a non-overseas player under the Kolpak ruling.
"So it's tricky topic to speak on but I know my role and I know where I fit into the club for now.
"It's a really proud club, the only Welsh club in the setup and everyone is contributing towards that.
"Everyone's entitled to their opinion but we know what's happening in our club and our shed."
Ahead of Worcestershire's county championship match which starts in Cardiff on Friday, Rhodes had told the Worcester News:  "I expect a tough game from Glamorgan but I think some of their inclusions... [are] disappointing.
"Their attack could be an Australian in Michael Hogan, a South African in Marchant de Lange and Craig Meschede who was born in South Africa and raised here.
"Timm van der Gugten is playing on a Dutch passport and there is also Graham Wagg, so it could predominantly be an overseas attack."


As 2016 comes to an end, we've been looking ahead to the New Year.

22 December 2016 Last updated at 12:21 GMT
We caught up with some of our presenters to ask them how they celebrate the New Year, and what they are looking forward to in 2017...


A hospital is to apologise for leaving a mother alone to await the death of her baby who was born at 22 weeks.

Tracy Godwin, 31, thought she had been put in a special room because staff were going to take extra care of her son, who lived for 46 minutes.
Ms Godwin, of Southend, Essex, now wants an inquest into her baby's death.
Southend University Hospital NHS is to carry out an investigation and will apologise to Ms Godwin but meanwhile it has changed guidance for other mothers.
Ms Godwin said she was in a great deal of pain and had been given an anaesthetic so was not fully aware of what was happening.
This has made her feel guilty that she had not done enough to save her baby boy, whom she named Tom.
"They put me in a special room and I thought it was because my baby was so small," she said.
"I thought they were going to take extra care of us, not just give me my baby and leave me. They should have prepared me for what was going to happen.
"I want the hospital to change its outlook so this does not happen to another mother.
"Midwives should have given me more information about what would happen."
Jacqueline Trotterdale, chief executive at Southend University Hospital NHS, said an investigation was under way and an apology would be made.
The hospital has also changed its procedures so staff would communicate better with mothers of babies born under 23 weeks.
"I apologise to Ms Godwin and her family because we did not get it right. We follow national guidance not to resuscitate babies born at under 23 weeks and most trusts follow this.
"We need to talk to the mothers and families of these babies to tell them what will happen.
"This has not happened in a systematic way and this is a big gap we are reviewing.
"An investigation is under way into why it has taken so long but now we are responding and will send an apology," she said.


A man whose motorbike was in collision with a bus in Lancashire has died.

The 53-year-old man, who has not yet been named, died after the incident which happened on Doctors Bridge in Moss Delph Lane, Aughton, at 05:45 BST.
A Lancashire Police spokesman said: "Sadly [he] was pronounced dead at the scene, no-one else was injured and there were no passengers on the bus."
An investigation is under way to establish the cause of the crash, and witnesses are urged to contact police.
Sgt Adam Dawson, of the Roads Policing Unit, said: "Specialist officers are supporting the family at this difficult time and I would urge anyone with information who may have seen a black motorbike in the area prior to the incident to get in touch."


British troops will end their combat mission in Afghanistan this year.

All UK combat operations are due to finish by the end of 2014, with responsibility transferred to Afghan forces.
It's still unclear as to what they'll have achieved, but one thing is certain -  they leave much better equipped than when they first arrived.
At a British military base, just outside Kabul, Staff Sgt Nick Brown, of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, shows me the improvements made to his personal weapon.
The standard issue rifle, the SA80, has not always been a soldier's best friend.
There were problems with the early models jamming when fired or simply falling apart.
But Staff Sgt Brown says it has been "transformed".
He points to the new grips for close quarter combat, the flash eliminator on the barrel to avoid being seen by the enemy, the laser light module  to help target and fire in the dark, and even a window built into the magazine to count the rounds left.
Back in Bristol, at the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) Equipment and Support, teams have been working hard throughout the conflict to improve personal kit.
Soldiers now have a new set of multi-terrain camouflage, suitable for both desert and Helmand's "green zone".
Whereas once they may have felt they would be better off buying their own boots, now there is a wide selection.
And most importantly there is much better body armour, from the Osprey Jacket to the nappy that gives them ballistic protection round the groin.
But it's not come cheap. More than ??6bn has been spent on what is called Urgent Operations Requirements, or UORs.
That's money in addition to the MoD's annual budget of around ??34bn. And mistakes have been made.
Take armoured vehicles. It has taken the MoD the best part of a decade to equip the military with the new Foxhound patrol vehicle.
Troops went into Iraq with the totally inadequate Snatch Land Rover, dubbed the "mobile coffin".
That was then replaced with the Vector, but it too proved to be vulnerable to the roadside bomb.
Richard North, author of Ministry of Defeat, has been highly critical of the decision-making process within the MoD.
He says while soldiers have been fighting real battles, senior officers and officials have been fighting pointless ones over kit.
In then end, he says the British Army will be left "with a junkyard of different vehicles which will become a nightmare in terms of logistics and maintenance".
The experience of the US military highlights the problem.
They bought more than 25,000 mine protected vehicles (MRAPs) for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but will be keeping only about a third of that fleet.
They will also have to spend around ??1bn on modifying and maintaining the vehicles they retain.
And it is not just vehicles. One UOR during Afghanistan was for 6,000 Sig Sauer pistols.
The MoD won't say how much that cost, possibly because of the embarrassment of then ditching the Sig Sauer in favour of the Glock pistol instead.
After extensive testing, the MoD opted to replace all its ageing Browning pistols with the Glock in a contract worth ??9m.
Maj Richard Streatfield, who served in Helmand with the Rifles, says the purchase of the Sig is an example of waste.
"What we've been having," he says, "is the military equivalent of a fast-food diet".
He believes the splurge of spending through UORs has shown the British Army has been missing long-term capital investment.
After Afghanistan, he says, it needs to "get back to a more sustainable, balanced diet".
But Maj Gen Richard Semple denies that public money has been wasted.
As the head  of the Army's Logistics and Support, he insists that most of the kit bought back from Afghanistan will  be used.
"The vast majority we will keep," he said.
"Some we will not because it's worn out or because the threat may have moved on."
But he won't say, for example, how many vehicles will be scrapped.
As for the pistol, he says the Sig has already served a function in Afghanistan and at least some of the money spent "may well be recovered when they're disposed of".
David Cameron recently stated that Britain now has some of the best trained and equipped soldiers in the world.
Few would disagree. Members of the armed forces and their families now have little reason to spend their own money on equipment.
Nor do they need to beg, borrow and steal from the Americans.
But these advances have not come cheap.
And it has not just cost money. Lives have been lost because of inadequate kit.
There is a military maxim: "Train as you mean to fight".
It's taken a long time - more than a decade - to get there.


An Inverness man has been convicted of a series of serious sexual offences against children

Robert McGregor pleaded guilty to a total of 41 offences at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Police Scotland has described his actions as "abhorrent" and "unforgivable", and praised the courage shown by his victims.
McGregor is expected to appear at the High Court in Edinburgh again next month for sentencing.


It was a very disappointing day one of the third Test for England, and that morning session where four wickets fell might well cost them the match.

It proves that winning the toss is only part of the deal. You don't get 400 runs in your back pocket, you have to get out there and bat well too.
We can excuse Haseeb Hameed from criticism because he got one that bounced but England lost three heavyweight wickets to poor shots.
Joe Root seemed to have a lapse of concentration while facing the first ball after drinks, Alastair Cook cut at the first ball that Ravichandran Ashwin bowled and Moeen Ali went for a hook shot with two men out in the deep.
When you're batting first on a pitch that is likely to deteriorate, you've got to work hard and get runs. I'm afraid the application from those three was lacking.
Look down the order and even Jos Buttler, who had played really well, and Ben Stokes played poor shots. If you sat down and watched the wickets in succession, you'd shake your head and say "what on earth is going on?" Far too many gave their wickets away and, closing on 268-8, it will probably cost them.
Jonny Bairstow is playing magnificently at the moment - his bat is coming down beautifully straight and you can see that by the number of times he hits to mid-off and mid-on.
It's a real shame he did not get his hundred but I don't think there is anything he could have done about his dismissal for 89.
He was well forward and was given out lbw - correctly, as it turned out - but it's the sort of decision that six years ago would never have been given before the DRS system was brought in.
Bairstow and Stokes bat well together and encourage each other. Once again their partnership, worth 57, was the start of a bit of a recovery. England only lost one wicket in the afternoon, which showed that the pitch is playing perfectly.
People who say they should take the wicketkeeping gloves off Bairstow should consider what a damaging impact that would have on his confidence. That would be like telling an all-rounder who bowls that he's not going to bowl anymore.
He views himself as being the all-round England package. He has worked very hard and both his batting and wicketkeeping have come on in leaps and bounds.
Lancashire's Buttler had played only one first-class match in 13 months before replacing Ben Duckett for this Test but often it doesn't matter, you can just walk out and bat.
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When you're playing at this level, you can go out with a blank sheet of paper, you haven't got any past in this series and the bowlers haven't got you out before. You can go out there and play quite positively.
I thought Buttler played really well, some lovely clean shots, and he was really angry at the way he got out for 43 with a tame drive to cover. All that hard work was gone. However, there is a mental toughness you only get through playing.
It could have been a lot worse for England because the fast outfield has probably added 20 runs to their score, while India's fielding was dreadful.
The hosts have got a lot of work to do in that department - they dropped far too many catches and their ground fielding is poor. Cook was dropped twice and Bairstow gave a couple of chances. If India click in the field, England are really going to suffer.
It is a very, very big day for England tomorrow. They have got to get what they can from these last two wickets and bowl India out. They need to bowl their boots off, take every half chance that comes their way and hope for some luck.
Three of India's batsmen are in good form - Murali Vijay, Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara - and if India post 350-400 then I suspect the writing is on the wall.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Alan Jewell


Scotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney took the helm of a raucous FMQs at Holyrood.

9 March 2017 Last updated at 15:32 GMT
He tackled opposition questions on the prospects of a second Scottish independence referendum and the state of the oil and gas industry.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was not available for her weekly Q&A because she was in London at the launch of a memorial dedicated to those who served in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.


Football Association chairman Greg Clarke says he has spoken to gay footballers and suggested they come out collectively rather than on their own.

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Clarke said in October that Premier League players may suffer "significant abuse" if they said they were gay.
A BBC Radio 5 live survey in October found 8% of fans would stop watching their team if they signed a gay player.
Clarke told The Times: "If a number of top-level pros want to come out, why don't we synchronise it?"
I don't want to be part of a process that says, 'You've got to come out.' That's not right. People are cautious. Once you're out of the closet, you're out
Clarke added any announcements could be made when the fans were in a more positive mood.
"The Premier League, the English Football League and FA could do it at the start of the season," he continued. "At the start, everybody thinks it's their season, the crowds are happy, the sun is shining.
"I was asked if football is ready for top-level pros to come out and I said I'm not sure we were.
"There was a survey which said people would support gay people in their own team, but I'm worried about what they would say about gay people in the other team."
Ed Connell, from the Gay Football Supporters' Network, believes elements of the game still need to be addressed to create a "safe environment" in which players can come out as gay.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "Only a matter of months ago, Greg Clarke said the game wasn't ready yet for a player to come out. I think he was right.
"The sentiment is good, coming out as a group would be a lot easier. Until we eliminate gay banter among players or gay chanting on terraces it will not happen."
In 1990, Justin Fashanu became the first player in England to come out as gay. He took his own life in 1998, aged 37. No male professional player has since come out while playing in England.
Clarke said he did not want to persuade any players to reveal their sexuality.
"It is very difficult to get a representative set of gay top-level footballers because some of them are happy with their sexuality and don't want anyone to know," he added.
"I don't want to be part of a process that says: 'You've got to come out.' That's not right. People are cautious. Once you're out of the closet, you're out."


Matt Damon has confirmed that he and director Paul Greengrass will be returning to make another Bourne film.

The Hollywood actor was speaking at an event promoting his docu-series, Project Greenlight, in Los Angeles.
"It'll be in 2016 when the movie will actually come out," he told E! News. "Paul Greengrass is going to do another one and that's all I ever said. I just needed him to say yes."
There have been three Bourne films starring Matt Damon.
The first, Bourne Identity, was released in 2002 and follows CIA assassin Jason Bourne as he tries to remember who he is and what he's done in the past.
Two more films, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, came out in 2004 and 2007.
Jeremy Renner appeared in the fourth film in the franchise, The Bourne Legacy, which follows another agent Aaron Cross.
Paul Greengrass directed The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Supremacy.
The news about a new film was initially revealed by Ben Affleck as he was being asked about having to work out to get in shape.
He said: "[Damon's] going to be doing a Bourne movie next fall when I've just completely lost any semblance of physical fitness."
Jason Bourne is based on a character in a series of novels by Robert Ludlum.
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England were pushed further towards defeat on day three of the second Test against India in Visakhapatnam.

Ravichandran Ashwin took 5-67 as the tourists were bowled out for 255 to give up a first-innings deficit of 200.
Ben Stokes made 70 and Jonny Bairstow 53 in a sixth-wicket partnership of 110 before England lost their last four wickets for 30 runs.
India were reduced to 40-3, but Virat Kohli's unbeaten 56 took his side to 98-3 and a lead of 298.
At some point on Sunday, probably soon after lunch, England will begin the task of batting for a day and a half to save the game.
It will require a remarkable effort on a surface that is showing variable bounce and is likely to offer more than its current modest turn.
"If England had got 350 and taken more time out of the game, I could see a way out for them," said former England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special.
"But they allowed India to be too far ahead. England will have to bat four and a half sessions to avoid going 1-0 down in the series - on a pitch that won't get any better."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott
I thought that if England didn't play very well it could have been over very quickly, even today.
If today was a boxing match, England actually won it on points. But it really knocked the stuffing out of England yesterday.
Ex-England spinner Vic Marks
The damage was done yesterday - in one session. England have fought hard today, but if they get out of this it will be a monumental achievement.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan
Realistically, England will be thinking they need to bat 140 overs in the second innings to get away with a draw. I can't see how they can win. The draw is a possibility but it's very, very minute.
England's predicament was the result of a collapse of 4-29 on the second evening, a slump in which the tourists contributed to each wicket that fell.
On the third morning, the watchful and skilful combination of Stokes and Bairstow showed their team-mates the way, as well continuing their prolific 2016, both individually and as a partnership.
Bairstow, the leading Test run scorer of 2016, and Stokes, who averages 60, have added 772 as a partnership, more than any other pair in the world.
Wicketkeeper Bairstow overcame a knee injury sustained as he limbered up on the way to the middle before play and some early indecisive footwork to sweep and nudge his way to a 137-ball half-century, his slowest in Tests.
By the time he was bowled off his pads playing across a searing inswinger from Umesh Yadav, the aggregate number of runs added by England's sixth wicket in 2016 stood at 1,759, an England record for any wicket in Tests.
"The way Bairstow and Stokes played was terrific," said Boycott. "To intersperse defence and attack in the situation England were in means they deserve full marks."
Stokes also made his slowest Test half-century, from 108 deliveries, but was more assured than Bairstow, bar one sharp stumping chance to Wriddhiman Saha when he was on 21.
Reining in his attacking instincts, he patiently waited to cut the spinners and only showed aggression after Bairstow departed and the second new ball was taken, driving sweetly on the leg side.
While all-rounder Stokes offers so much to England with his bowling and fielding, his batting average in 2016 is behind only Bairstow and his 227 runs is the most for the tourists so far in this series.
"If he ever gets a niggle and can't bowl, he has to stay in the side as a batsman," said Vaughan.
After Stokes was given out lbw to Ashwin - he looked have got an inside edge but the ball was caught at silly point anyway - India ran through the tail.
Zafar Ansari inexplicably missed a Ravi Jadeja half-volley to be leg before and the unerringly accurate Ashwin pinned Stuart Broad and James Anderson with successive balls - Broad unable to review a delivery heading down the leg side.
India turned down the option of enforcing the follow-on in favour of condemning England to a demoralising evening in the field.
With the tourists requiring a special effort with the ball to have even the slightest chance of getting back into the match, hopes were raised when India were reduced to 40-3.
Broad, who has strained a tendon in his foot, had Murali Vijay held at gully off an inside edge via the thigh pad and then induced a nick behind from KL Rahul - both decisions the result of England reviews - before Anderson produced a beautiful inswinger to bowl Cheteshwar Pujara.
But India captain Kohli, on the back of 167 in the first innings, stalled the momentum of a valiant England bowling effort with batting more fluent than anyone else in the match.
Driving through the covers and down the ground, he added an unbroken 58 with Ajinkya Rahane and remains to lead India's charge on the fourth morning.
"Kohli is playing a different game," said Vaughan. "The pitch has done plenty - there's spin, bounce, reverse swing. This is where he shows his class - he stands out a mile. He has made it look very easy indeed."
'Virat has shown it can be done'
England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow on Sky Sports: "At the start of the day, getting within 200 having been five down was a reasonable effort from us. Tomorrow morning, we come back and hopefully we can get something out of the pitch early on.
"It will take a couple of special knocks but the way Virat has gone tonight shows that it can be done."
India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin: "I haven't had a five-wicket haul against England before. It was at the back of my mind but I wasn't concerned because I knew it would come if I kept doing what I have been doing.
"I thought Virat batted beautifully in what could have been a tricky situation. We are well-placed to push on tomorrow."


England forward Sam Burgess has been released from hospital after being cleared of serious injury during South Sydney's loss to St George Illawarra.

Burgess, 27, spent two nights in hospital after Sunday's clash of heads with fellow Englishman Mike Cooper.
He lay prone on the pitch for several minutes, while receiving medical care, before being taken off on a stretcher.
MRI and CT scans showed no damage to the vertebrae or spinal cord and Burgess is expected to recover fully.
The Rabbitohs say they will continue to monitor the former Bradford prop for any muscle or neurological issues but he will miss Good Friday's NRL game against Canterbury Bulldogs.
Burgess returned to Australia in November after nine months with rugby union Premiership side Bath.


Airbnb has sparked mild controversy in Paris after offering curious travellers the chance to spend a night in the "world's largest grave".

The accommodation rental website says the winners of a Halloween-themed competition will become the first people to wake up alive in the catacombs underneath the city that hold the remains of more than six million people.
Opposition politicians on the Paris city council, meanwhile, have urged Mayor Anne Hidalgo not to forget a French law saying "respect due to the human body does not cease with death."
But what exactly will the overnight guests encounter during their stay in the Paris catacombs?
Well, firstly, millions of bones arranged in what has been described as a "tableau of death" in high Romantic style.
Only a small part of the labyrinthine tunnels below Paris are open to the public, and visitors descend 20m (nearly 66ft) below ground to tour a 2km (1.2-mile) section of dark tunnels where the bones are kept.
They are greeted with the verse: "Halt, this is the realm of death."
It is the first of a number of inscriptions in the catacombs meant to give "pause for thought" to visitors.
The remains of more than six million people were gradually moved below ground in the late 18th and mid-19th Century as overcrowded graveyards in Paris were closed because of public health concerns. This included the belief that wine and milk was going bad because of the decomposition of bodies in the city.
The first graveyard to be closed was the Cimetiere des Innocents in 1786.
The catacombs are part of a huge network of tunnels in the bowels of the city. Limestone and gypsum from these quarries were mined beginning in Roman times to provide the stone from which Paris was built.
In 1774, the collapse of a chamber saw King Louis XVI order the reinforcement and mapping of the network, the vast majority of which has been closed to the public since 1955.
But the more than 250km of passageways officially off-limits are accessible through various hidden entrances around the city to those in the know - including through sewers, basements and metro tunnels.
They are home to an array of subterranean secrets. In 2004, police stumbled across a secret cinema complete with an electric-powered screen, bar and seating carved into the rock.
The underground network has also been known to host clandestine art shows, theatre performances, university hazing rituals and parties hosted by so-called "cataphiles"
This is the name given to Parisian explorers who secretly descend into the tunnels for fun.
AFP has reported that Airbnb paid up to 350,000 euros (Â£258,000) to rent the catacombs normally accessible to the public for a night.
The company says its two guests will be treated to a private underground concert and bedtime storytelling.
The house rules include not to "follow ghosts through the galleries".


Subdued wage growth has contributed to the Bank of England lowering its growth forecast for 2017.

The bank edged its growth forecast down to 1.7% from its previous forecast of 1.9% made in May. It also cut its forecast for 2018 from 1.7% to 1.6%.
It is also now gloomier on prospects for wage growth and thinks wages will grow by 3% in 2018 down from the 3.5% estimate it made in May.
The bank voted 6-2 to keep interest rates on hold at 0.25%.
They have been at that level since August last year.
Weak wage growth combined with rising inflation has been weighing on the spending power of households.
There has not been a rise since July 2007.
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Many economists think the UK could see a move this year and recent speeches by bank officials have raised that expectation.
Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Andrew Haldane recently said an increase might be "prudent" in the second half of this year.
The bank highlighted that the 18% fall in the pound since November 2015 has been raising the price of imports for the UK, which in turn has been making life more expensive for consumers.
Shoppers may have noticed significant increases in the prices of items like butter, meat and computer software.
The bank also said there had been evidence that spending on cars, home wares and electrical goods had been falling.
It also noted weakness in the housing market and a fall in consumer confidence, which it thinks could indicate that households will curb their spending in the months to come.
The bank expects wage growth of just 2% this year, which is well below price inflation currently running at 2.6%.
To help bridge the gap between weak wage growth and inflation, consumers have been borrowing more, aided by low rates.
In its report the bank said that interest rates on a £10,000 personal loan are close to record lows.
Bank officials have been expressing concern about household debt. Last week, Alex Brazier, the financial stability director, warned that High Street banks risked entering a "spiral of complacency" over mounting consumer debt.
Members of the MPC also voted in favour of extending a credit facility to British banks from £100bn to £115bn.
The so-called Term Funding Scheme (TFS) runs until February 2018 and has already lent £78bn to banks at close to the bank's base rate of 0.25%.
The TFS is backed by the Treasury.


Chinese vehicle maker Ninebot has bought iconic US rival Segway, the company announced on Wednesday.

The Beijing-based firm did not disclose the amount of the acquisition, but did say that it received $80m (Â£54m) in funding from smartphone maker Xiaomi and investment firm Sequoia Capital.
Ninebot also makes two-wheeled electric vehicles, designed for standing riders, that resemble Segways.
Segway had sought an import ban against Ninebot in the US in September.
The Chinese company was one of several that Segway had accused of infringing on its patents.
In a statement, the companies said that both brands would continue to operate under their existing names.
"It [the acquisition] creates a development opportunity for the short-distance transportation industry, which the combined company will lead by widely applying a series of technologies, such as electric driving, mobile internet and human-computer interaction on future products," said Ninebot chief executive Lufeng Gao.
Segway was founded by Dean Kamen in 2001 with much fanfare, but struggled to become profitable.
It was bought by Summit Strategic Investments for an undisclosed amount in 2013.


A specialist children's hospital has become the first of its kind to receive a rating of "outstanding" from healthcare inspectors in England.

Birmingham Children's Hospital was criticised eight years ago for having insufficient numbers of beds, operating theatres and trained staff.
But now the Care Quality Commission has praised the NHS trust for "working effectively to provide the best care".
The head of the hospital has paid tribute to her 3,700 staff.
I spent a day there to hear from patients, families and staff.
Seven-month-old Connor McCue was diagnosed with a rare liver condition at the age of 12 weeks.
He is recovering from his second transplant and sleeping peacefully on a large intensive care bed.
Connor's mother, Jess, turned 28 recently - and the children's hospital staff put up balloons and cards for her.
She told me: "We've nearly lost Connor several times in the last six weeks of being here - without them, we wouldn't have a child lying in this bed.
"While he is still quite poorly, we have every faith we'll get to take him home. That's the only thing you ask as the parent of a sick child."
Supporting the whole family, and helping young patients feel relaxed in a busy and daunting environment, are extra challenges for specialist children's hospitals.
In the busy outpatients clinic, Macey Hardcastle, five, who has a genetic condition called Stickler syndrome, has just had her hearing and sight checked.
She said: "I play so I don't get bored. I feel OK about coming here because I know it's going to be OK."
Another patient, Nyadhiel Nyoat, 12, told me: "I was with a doctor here a couple of weeks ago. It was very relaxed - he wasn't scary or anything.
"He actually helped me, and I felt confident to talk about some issues."
The emotional support given to bereaved parents has also been praised in Tuesday's report.
And families facing the worst of times, when a child needs end of life care, will now be able to use a new Â£1m unit within the hospital grounds, called Magnolia House.
Rachel Ollerenshaw, whose daughter Molly died from kidney cancer at the age of eight in 2011, has helped raise thousands of pounds for soft furnishings in the rooms, which have a show-home feel and some outdoor space.
She said: "When your child has a terminal illness and you're being given news about that, you feel you can't breathe sometimes and you need fresh air.
"You need a place where you can absorb the information. There wasn't anywhere like this in the existing building in Birmingham at that time - where you could just be together as a family."
Fiona Reynolds is the hospital's most senior doctor - and has spent 16 years at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
She says listening to the views of patients and staff, and acting on their ideas, has helped turn the trust around.
Dr Reynolds said: "It was a difficult time. Some of our specialist teams didn't have the right training and we weren't pulling together as a team.
"Since then we've used our beds more wisely, and co-ordinated our care in a more logical fashion, so we can look after more patients in around the same number of beds."
The inspectors say improvement is still needed in two significant areas, neonatal care and community mental health services.
The trusts's chief executive, Sarah-Jane Marsh, said: "For the last five years we have been all about building and developing one giant healthcare team with 3,700 members - and it is wonderful to see this shining through in the report."


Lord Heseltine has told Theresa May she did not need to sack him for rebelling over Brexit.

He was fired from five government advisory roles after backing a House of Lords demand for a "meaningful" parliamentary vote on the Brexit deal.
In a letter to the Mrs May, The former deputy prime minister said that unlike her, he had not changed his mind having backed Remain before the referendum.
The Brexit bill has since received Royal Assent.
Lord Heseltine thanked the PM for the "kind remarks" in her letter to him, saying his role had been to offer advice that ministers were "free to accept, reject or ignore".
He added: "You say in your letter that I will understand the necessity to end that relationship. Here we disagree.
"In the referendum campaign it was recognised that so deeply held and so divided were the views on both sides that members of the cabinet and other ministers were free to argue and vote against the government's European policy without sanction."
He said his vote against the government could not have delayed or denied Mrs May's ability to trigger withdrawal talks under Article 50 of the EU treaties.
He added: "I have repeatedly said you have every right to end my relationship with the government.
"The simple fact remains that you have changed your mind since the excellent speech you made in the referendum campaign arguing that we should remain in the European Union. I have not."
In a statement released at the time of Lord Heseltine's sacking, the government said it had "a clearly stated and consistent position" that the Brexit bill should be passed without amendment.
The chief whip in the Lords asked Lord Heseltine to stand down because he voted against the government's official position, it said, adding: "The government would like to warmly thank Lord Heseltine for his service."


England are capable of completing a 3-0 whitewash over Australia this summer, says the Wallabies' record points scorer Michael Lynagh.

Australia beat England 33-13 at Twickenham in last year's World Cup.
But England regrouped under new head coach Eddie Jones and completed a Six Nations Grand Slam in March.
"Eddie's going down there to win the series 3-0 and why not? It's realistic. It's a good squad," former fly-half Lynagh told BBC Sport.
"The only thing is, it's the end of the season and a lot of the England players will be involved in Premiership and European finals.
"It's going to be a fascinating series."
England and Australia face each other in a three-Test series for the first time when they meet in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney in June.
Australia's victory in October saw England exit the World Cup at the pool stage and preceded the exit of head coach Stuart Lancaster.
Australian Jones, who led Japan to a famous victory over South Africa in the same tournament, replaced Lancaster in November and won all five games as England won their first Six Nations Grand Slam since 2003.
Former Saracens playmaker Lynagh, who won 72 caps for the Wallabies and scored 911 points, believes Jones has brought a swagger back to England's performances.
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"He's come in and said 'we are going to be arrogant, we have to be like that to win'," said Lynagh.
"I think Eddie looks at the culture of English rugby and there is a perception that arrogance is part of it - so he's said we'll go and do that.
"He's not trying to 'Australianise' England. It would be wrong to do that, you have to come in and work on what culturally works within the country."
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Plymouth ended their three-match losing run and returned to the top of League Two with victory over Doncaster.

The hosts took a 33rd-minute lead when playmaker Graham Carey pounced to whisk the ball away from Rovers left back Niall Mason as he tried to control a pass from keeper Marko Marosi.
Carey swept forward from the right and fired home from a central position just outside the penalty area, curling the ball into the corner past the outstretched Marosi.
Argyle doubled their lead from the spot in the 63rd minute after Doncaster's Andy Butler fouled the recalled Ryan Donaldson just inside the penalty area.
Jake Jervis hammered the spot-kick in off the underside of the crossbar.
Liam Mandeville smashed a 90th-minute penalty off the post following a foul on Matty Blair and in the melee following the miss, Rovers midfielder James Coppinger was dismissed.
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Match ends, Plymouth Argyle 2, Doncaster Rovers 0.
Second Half ends, Plymouth Argyle 2, Doncaster Rovers 0.
Foul by Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle).
Tommy Rowe (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Matty Blair (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle).
Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
James Coppinger (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Penalty missed! Still  Plymouth Argyle 2, Doncaster Rovers 0. Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers) hits the right post with a right footed shot.
Penalty conceded by David Fox (Plymouth Argyle) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Doncaster Rovers. Matty Blair draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt saved. Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card.
Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle).
Craig Alcock (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers).
Attempt saved. Tommy Rowe (Doncaster Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by David Fox.
Corner,  Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Gary Miller.
Hand ball by Riccardo Calder (Doncaster Rovers).
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Riccardo Calder replaces Andy Butler.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Andy Williams replaces Niall Mason.
Goal!  Plymouth Argyle 2, Doncaster Rovers 0. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty conceded by Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Plymouth Argyle. Ryan Donaldson draws a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Tommy Rowe (Doncaster Rovers).
Sonny Bradley (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Jake Jervis.
Attempt missed. James Coppinger (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth Argyle).
Corner,  Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Yann Songo'o.
Attempt blocked. Craig Alcock (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers).
Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
(Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle).
Foul by Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers).
Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.


An inquest into the death of a Sinn Féin official and republican informer has been adjourned for two years.

Denis Donaldson was murdered in County Donegal in April 2006, months after being exposed as an agent who worked for the police and MI5 for 20 years.
He was once a key figure in Sinn Féin's rise in Northern Ireland politics.
The coroner adjourned the inquest until a separate criminal investigation is concluded. The inquest has previously been adjourned at least 19 times.
Gardai Superintendent (Supt) Michael Finan told the coroner on Wednesday that a "continuing, active, significant investigation" was ongoing.
He said an individual who had already appeared before the courts was due back in the Special Criminal Court in October and three arrests had been made in the last four months.
Supt Finan said there was a "continuing fruitful liaison" with an external police force.
The coroner said he believed there had never been so many adjournments in a coroner's court.
"Hopefully, the investigation will have a result and we will get justice for the family", he added.
A barrister said he echoed the coroner's sentiments and added that the family's quest for justice had never been forgotten.
No one from the Donaldson family was present, nor was the family's legal representation there.
Last month a 74-year-old man appeared in court in Dublin accused of withholding information about Mr Donaldson's murder.
Mr Donaldson, 55, was shot dead at an isolated cottage near Glenties.
Three years after he was killed, the dissident republican Real IRA said they were responsible.
Mr Donaldson's family have alleged that police officers who knew about his secret role may have exposed him as an agent and contributed to his death.


Gatwick Airport has released new images showing how the airport could look if expansion plans are approved.

Architect Sir Terry Farrell said his designs will eliminate queues and speed up passenger transit at the West Sussex airport.
The plan for a new runway at Gatwick is one of three options being considered by the Airports Commission.
It is expected to report within days on whether Gatwick or one of two scheme at Heathrow should be approved.
Sir Terry said a second runway at Gatwick would "turbocharge" economic growth in the South East in the same way the 2012 Olympics had benefited east London.
He said: "Our proposals for Gatwick are not just for another runway but an entirely new world-class airport for London and the UK."


Catfish and the Bottlemen have hit number one in the album chart with their second record The Ride.

It topped the rundown with combined chart sales of 38,000, according to the Official Charts Company.
The achievement comes after the group were named best British newcomer at the Brit Awards earlier this year.
"It's class to be number one with the new album. We're made up with that. Thank you!" the band told the Official Charts Company.
Drake's Views held firm at two in the chart, while Beyonce's Lemonade climbed one place to number three.
Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams jumped four places to four in anticipation of their Wembley Arena dates later this month, and ABC entered the chart at five with The Lexicon of Love II, their first top 10 in 26 years.
Fifth Harmony were another new entry at six with their second album 7/27, while last week's number one - Ariana Grande's Dangerous Woman - tumbled to number eight.
In the singles chart, Drake notched up his eighth week at the top with his single One Dance.
The track is now the longest-running UK chart-topper since Rihanna's Umbrella, which racked up an unbroken 10-week run at the summit in 2007.
One Dance sold just shy of 85,000 combined chart sales, made up of 23,000 sales and 6.15 million streams.
This week's highest new entry goes to Clean Bandit and Louisa Johnson's new single Tears, which dropped in at number six.
The track gives last year's X Factor winner a second top 10, following her number nine peak with the winner's single Forever Young.
US singer-songwriter Gnash enters the top 10 for the first time with I Hate You, I Love You, up four spots to number eight.
There are two more big climbers: Cheat Codes and Kris Kross Amsterdam's Sex - a reworking of Salt-N-Pepa's Let's Talk About Sex - which lifts six places to number 14; and Pink's Just Like Fire jumped 14 spots to 22.


Out there in the January gloaming, Lurigethan stands sentinel.

The hulking table-topped mountain is immune to the gathering squall which shrieks in off the North channel. The coastal village of Cushendall isn't.
In Páirc Mhuire, storm Gertrude has made a huddle of the hurlers. A human knot woven so tightly that, like the sticks in their hands, they too might have been hewn from some giant swathe of ash.
They are steeling themselves against the night and stealing what warmth they can from one another. This is hurling country.
John "Smokey" McKillop surveys his squad like a North Antrim hill farmer might his sheep. Sarsfields of Galway await in Navan on the first Saturday of February.
"Smokey" doesn't say much, but when pushed ventures: "The only soft thing that ever came out of the west was rain. But hurling is hurling, in these parts it's as old as the hills and in many a man's opinion more important."
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One such man is Leonard McKeegan. Still lithe and willowy, a veteran of Antrim's run all the way to the All-Ireland final in 1989, Leonard has long since removed himself from the thicket of players. A call from "Smokey" prompted the lone wolf to return to the pack, as a mentor.
Leonard views a "press man"  like he might a policeman, with suspicion. Leonard doesn't say much,
"This storm will blow itself out but our boys won't, they have it in the lungs and the have it in the legs, they're an unbelievable bunch."
To watch Terence "Sambo" McNaughton hurl for club and county was a quite an experience. An All Star from another generation, he was a force of nature.
He pushes the Ruairi Og players at a frenzied pace, urging them to grasp a place in GAA history.
"History boys, history. No-one from this club has ever played in an All-Ireland club final, no one. You boys can make history, but sport does not guarantee you a second chance."
Surgery and medical science have given Shane McNaughton, Sambo's son, a second chance. Still a few years shy of 30, his career has been blighted by serious injury. Shane is what students of the game might call a " stickman" - wristy and lightning sharp and on his day unerringly accurate.
During  a recent lengthy rehabilitation, he decided to try acting. It came naturally and he has since strutted his stuff at Belfast's MAC theatre and will soon appear in a production at the Lyric.
He will make his TV debut shortly in the next series of the popular BBC drama The Fall.
"It is only a small part but Jamie Dornan, Gillian Anderson, it's all a little surreal," he said.
"So then, hurling or Hollywood" ? I ask
"Not sure how long the body will let me go on, but right now its hurling. I love it."
A pillow of cloud is massing over Cushendall bay, the trees are forty shades of green and the sky fifty shades of grey
Neil Mc Manus and Aaron Graffin are two of the last men to leave the field, one a captain, but both leaders.
Graffin, plagued by a chronic knee injury, recently came through a good workout against Cork. He would go through a wall for Cushendall and his "big mate" would be right behind him.
Neil McManus' first senior outing for the Ruairi Og's came before his first shave. This evening he is wearing such an abundant beard he could comfortably double as Leonardo Di Caprio in the Revenant.
Both men will shortly take six months away from the game to travel the world, but for now it's the short trip the changing rooms
In the club house kitchen, the Kearney boys are sweating more profusely than any of the players.
Brian, the chairman, has rocked up with a bumper basket of bread-rolls and a steel pot as big as a fishing trawlers belly. Niall, his cousin,  is stirrer-in-chief.
"Steamed Dover sole tonight?" enquires one of the squad.
"Chicken and pasta," says Niall, wielding a huge wooden spoon.
"It was chicken last night," comes the retort.
"And it will be tomorrow," replies the makeshift chef.
Elliott, the BBC cameraman, and I are invited to dinner.
The servings are generous, as are the people of Cushendall. The Ruairi Ogs, just one win away from hurling's top table. Here's hoping we all get to pull up a seat one last time.


Another 16 people have starved to death in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya since UN aid convoys reached it earlier this month, according to charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.

The charity says there are also 33 people in danger of dying.
Brice de la Vingne, MSF operations director, said the situation was "totally unacceptable" when people "should have been evacuated weeks ago".
MSF previously said 30 people died of starvation in the town late last year.
Earlier in January, two emergency convoys of food and aid supplies were delivered to Madaya, where up to 40,000 people are believed to be trapped in appalling conditions.
Syria's civilians under siege
Lyse Doucet: People living a 'life worse than death'
Syria: The story of the conflict
The report comes as talks on ending the Syrian conflict take place in Geneva.
Negotiators representing Syria's main opposition groups are expected to arrive later on Saturday, after earlier boycotting the launch of the peace talks. Aid deliveries to besieged towns is a key demand from opposition groups.
The UN says some 400,000 people are trapped and in need of emergency assistance in 15 locations in Syria as as part of sieges imposed by the Syrian government-led coalition, as well as by opposition groups.
Madaya, in the mountains 25km (15 miles) north-west of Damascus, has been besieged for six months by government forces and their allies in Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
Humanitarian agencies have called for hundreds of people to be evacuated immediately for medical treatment.
However, MSF said residents were continuing to die as government coalition forces prevented sick people leaving, and supplies of food and medical supplies getting in.
March 2015: Foah and Kefraya in Idlib province are besieged by rebel groups and the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, with an estimated 12,500 trapped.
July 2015: Madaya, near Damascus, is besieged by government forces and their allies in Lebanon's Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement.
September 2015:  The situation in Foah and Kefraya worsens after the fall of a nearby government air base, where helicopters had been able to land with food supplies. Reports emerge of people eating grass to survive.
October 2015: UN delivers one month's supply of food rations for 20,000 people in Madaya.
December 2015: Dozens of wounded civilians and fighters evacuated from Foah, Kefraya, Zabadani and Madaya. Reports begin to emerge of people starving in Madaya.
January 2016: UN says it has received credible reports of people dying of starvation in Madaya
"It is totally unacceptable that people continue to die from starvation, and that critical medical cases remain in the town when they should have been evacuated weeks ago," said MSF's director of operations.
The 16 recent deaths were reported by health workers supported by MSF in the town. No doctors are present to help, the organisation said.
Previously MSF said almost 30 people had died of starvation at a clinic in Madaya between 1 December and early January.
However, Hezbollah denies there have been any deaths in the town and accuses rebel leaders of preventing people leaving.
More than 40 lorries delivered aid to Madaya earlier this month - including rice, vegetable oil, flour, sugar and salt - for the first time since October.
The UN hopes to deliver further aid to Madaya as well as two northern towns besieged by Sunni rebels, Foah and Kefraya.
What's happening in Syria?
More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in almost five years of conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a brutal civil war. More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and rebels opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from Islamic State.
Why are civilians under siege?
All parties to the conflict are using siege warfare, encircling populated areas, preventing civilians from leaving and blocking humanitarian access in an attempt to force opponents to surrender. Shortages of food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel have led to malnutrition and deaths among vulnerable groups.
Where are the sieges?
Government forces are besieging various locations in the eastern Ghouta area, outside Damascus, as well as the capital's western suburb of Darayya and the nearby mountain towns of Zabadani and Madaya. Rebel forces have encircled the villages of Foah and Kefraya in the northern province of Idlib, while IS militants are besieging government-held areas in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour.


Kosovo had six of their squad cleared to play by Fifa on the day of the country's first competitive match.

The Balkan territory, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, became a Fifa member in May, promoting some Kosovans, who have played for other nations, to ask to change teams.
Kosovo start their World Cup 2018 qualification campaign with a game in Finland on Monday.
The qualifying group also includes Croatia, Iceland, Turkey and Ukraine.
The six players cleared are:
Kosovo's complicated political status has seen several players born there play for different countries, including Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka (Switzerland), Shefki Kuqi (Finland) and Lorik Cana (Albania).
When Kosovo's Fifa membership was secured, football's world governing body indicated it would deal with players wanting to switch nations on a case-by-case basis.
Arsenal midfielder Xhaka published an open letter on Tuesday in which he said he would continue to play for Switzerland.
In it, he claimed Fifa had said players who featured at Euro 2016 would not be allowed to switch nations. Xhaka played in all of Switzerland's matches - including their opening game against Albania, for whom his older brother Taulant plays.
Fifa has already allowed Alberto Bunjaku, who appeared for Switzerland at the 2010 World Cup, to play for Kosovo.
The Swiss football federation (SFV) has complained about "a lack of clarity in regulations".
"The SFV regrets the priority of the Kosovar directors has been in trying to recruit players for the next World Cup qualifiers instead of consolidating the foundations of their federation," a statement added.


AkzoNobel, the company that makes Dulux and Hammerite paint, is investing €12.6m (£10.7m) in a new research facility in north-eastern England.

The firm, known for its Old English sheepdog mascot, is putting the money into its R&D site in Felling, Gateshead.
As well as household paint, the firm produces specialist coatings for the mining and energy industries.
AkzoNobel said Felling was the "logical spot" for this investment.
The new facility will be able to simulate extreme environments, similar to the North Pole or a fire on an oil rig, to test new products.
"We are creating a kind of a campus of different research and development activities and strengths that we can then use for products that can be sold in the rest of the world," Ton Buchner, AkzoNobel's chief executive, told the BBC.
The company already employs 270 people at its site in Felling. The investment in a UK hub, rather than expanding research facilities elsewhere, would safeguard those jobs.
Research will focus on protection to make hydroelectric dams last longer, coatings to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants and innovations in fire protection.
A €110m Dulux paint factory in nearby Ashington, Northumbria, is also about to begin production, the firm said.
AkzoNobel's chief executive, Ton Buchner, told the BBC that the vote for Brexit was not an obstacle to further investment in the UK.
The fall in the value of the pound since the EU referendum had "actually made it easier for some of the exporting of the products that are there", he said.
AkzoNobel is based in Amsterdam, and reports its financial results in euros. The fall in the pound, therefore, reduces the amount AkzoNobel earns from the UK.
But if the pound remains weak, then money invested into the UK will go further than in its other major research sites in Singapore and the Netherlands.
However, Mr Buchner said prices could rise for some products in the UK as a result of the devaluation of the pound.
"There is a possibility prices are going up in some of the areas where we sell into the market," he said.
The company's most recent accounts show decorative paints revenue was down 4% in 2016, "mainly due to unfavourable currency effects, in particular the pound sterling and currencies in Latin America".


Thousands of Cambodians are protesting, for the second weekend in a row, against the ruling party's narrow election win in July.

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said demonstrations would continue until vote irregularities were investigated.
Police used water cannons to disperse protesters who tore down barricades near the Royal Palace.
On Saturday, talks between Mr Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen failed to resolve the political deadlock.
Analysts say Hun Sen, 61, faces one of the biggest tests of his 28-year rule.
The prime minister has repeatedly vowed to stay in power until he is in his seventies.
In the July vote, his People's Party (CPP) won 68 seats, compared with 55 for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP).
The national election committee confirmed the results earlier this month.
But Mr Rainsy and his followers accuse Prime Minister Hun Sen of rigging the vote.
With all state institutions - including the election commission - under the thumb of Hun Sen, protests are the only way opposition supporters can challenge the result, correspondents say.
Up to 20,000 activists, workers and monks gathered in a public park in Phnom Penh under the watchful eye of riot police on Sunday.
Rural protesters were transported to the capital in large convoys of buses and trucks.
Marchers carried signs reading "Where is my vote?" and "Long live democracy".
Many also held lotus flowers symbolising peace in what organisers described as a protest based on Buddhist prayer.
The rally was planned to last three days, and Mr Rainsy warned more would follow until election irregularities were properly investigated.
"The demonstrations will continue if our demands are not met," he said.
"[People's] ballots were stolen and they are asking for justice."
The Ministry of Interior said Sunday's rally had to end by early evening, local media reports.
But many protesters defied the order and stayed in the streets, raising the prospect of a possible forced removal.
Around 200 demonstrators clashed with police near the Royal Palace, which had been sectioned off with barbed wire barricades and roadblocks.
Security forces used water cannons and smoke grenades to disperse the protesters, who threw rocks and shoes.
But most of the rally was peaceful, correspondents say.
On Saturday, Hun Sen and Mr Rainsy failed to reach an accord in talks brokered by King Norodom Sihamoni. Both sides are due to meet again on Monday.


One person has died and another has been injured after a crash on the A470 near Dolgellau in Gwynedd.

The incident happened outside the Coed y Brenin mountain bike centre at about 14:00 GMT.
Emergency services attended the scene, and the road has now been reopened in both directions.
Anybody who may have information is asked to contact officers at the Roads Policing Unit.
North Wales Police said next of kin have been informed.


Promotion and relegation has been introduced to British speedway's top two divisions in a revamp of the sport.

The bottom side in the Premiership will race the Championship play-off champions in an end-of-season race, to decide who rides in the following season's top tier.
The divisions will no longer be known as the Elite League and Premier League.
Somerset, Rye House, Leicester and Belle Vue are among the sides to race in the 2017 top flight.
Coventry, King's Lynn, Poole, Swindon and reigning champions Wolverhampton will make up the rest of the top tier.
British Speedway Promoters Association (BSPA) chairman Buster Chapman told BBC Radio Norfolk: "We were going stale, we weren't moving forward.
"Everyone has decided we need to bring some drastic changes and bring some life back into it.
"This next three, four or five years are all about the future of speedway in England."
Despite confirmation that Belle Vue Aces will race in the top tier next season, BSPA announced they have had their speedway promotion licence and their licence to race at the National Speedway Stadium revoked because of their financial situation.
The Manchester club moved to their new home at the start of the 2016 season but they had to cancel their opening meeting because of safety concerns.
They first raced there 54 days after the venue was due to open.
Manchester City Council said the Aces had paid no rent costs towards the £8m facility since they moved in and Eastlands Trust would run the stadium in the short term.
"It has come to light that the group companies have significant debt, not only with the council but also other parties," said Sir Richard Leese, the leader of Manchester City Council, in a statement.
"The BSPA and the city council have been in regular dialogue over the situation and both parties remain absolutely committed to speedway in Manchester, but this must be a long-term and sustainable solution for the club to ensure that Belle Vue Aces continue as the city's speedway team."


Beleaguered French politician Francois Fillon has declared "no one can stop" his bid for the presidency after a mass rally attended by thousands in Paris.

The centre-right candidate insisted he would not be standing down during an interview on French television, despite growing calls for him to quit the race.
He faces a criminal investigation over payments made to family members.
Meanwhile, Alain Juppe, who is widely tipped to replace him, has announced he will be making a statement on Monday.
Mr Fillon had earlier told tens of thousands of supporters, many waving tricolour flags, he would be cleared over allegations he had paid his family for work they did not do.
These allegations have resulted in Mr Fillon's popularity slipping in opinion polls, and Sunday's rally was seen as a crucial test, with senior figures in his party said to be eyeing up a replacement.
Just before the rally Christian Estrosi, a close ally of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, told BFMTV that senior Republicans would propose an alternative candidate in the coming hours.
However, he said it was important "not to humiliate" Mr Fillon and allow him a "dignified" way out.
The Republican party will hold crisis talks on the candidacy on Monday.
But Mr Fillon was in a defiant mood during in an interview on French television network France 2 on Sunday evening.
"No one today can stop me being a candidate," he said.
Using a phrase that was condemned by many on social media, he said he was "not autistic" and was able to listen to criticism and understand the difficulties his campaign faced.
However, he rejected the idea of being replaced by Mr Juppe, his rival in the primaries last year.
"If they had wanted Alain Juppe's project, then they would have voted for Alain Juppe in that election," Mr Fillon said.
Mr Fillon will no doubt have been buoyed by the thousands of people who turned out in the driving rain to hear him talk.
Referring to his opponents, he told the crowd: "They think I'm alone, they want me to be alone. Are we alone? Thank you for your presence."
He said he would be exonerated when an impending criminal investigation got under way, and it would be the turn of his accusers to feel ashamed.
Francois Fillon is engaged in a trial of strength at the top of his Republicans party.  He knows he is increasingly isolated and that moves are afoot to get him replaced by Alain Juppe. But he also thinks the presidential prize is worth the fight, and that he still has plenty of reserves.
Fillon's central argument is that he was chosen as candidate by an overwhelming majority of voters in the November primary. These people - he repeated it in his address - chose me because of my manifesto. And that manifesto remains the best way of saving France from decline.
By holding the rally, Mr Fillon has now thrown down the gauntlet. To the party he is saying:  Drop me if you will.  But if you do,  know that you may also lose  millions of voters who - like the people who have turned out here in Paris - chose me because of my ideas.
These voters are not obliged to follow Alain Juppe. They may choose someone else - maybe Marine Le Pen.
"The problem is that by then it will be too late, the election will have  been skewed," he said.
But he admitted that he had made a mistake in employing his wife, Penelope Fillon, who accompanied him at the rally.
A counter-demonstration, billed as a pot-banging rally against corruption by officials, was also being held in the Place de la Republique.
Mr Fillon's wife has said she did carry out parliamentary work for him.
In an interview for French magazine Journal du Dimanche (in French), Penelope Fillon said everything was "legal and declared" and he would have paid someone else to do it if she had not.
The latest opinion polls suggest that Mr Fillon would be eliminated in the first round of presidential election voting on 23 April, with far-right leader Marine Le Pen and liberal Emmanuel Macron likely to progress to contest the election run-off on 7 May.
A survey published in Journal du Dimanche (in French) suggests that 71% of those polled want Mr Fillon to step down.
In another blow to Mr Fillon's campaign, his spokesman Thierry Solere became the latest member of the campaign team to announce his departure on Friday.
Mr Fillon's woes have raised speculation that Mr Juppe, another former prime minister whom he overwhelmingly defeated in November's Republicans' primary, could return to the race if he were to pull out.


A statue to commemorate the birthplace of a Pembrokeshire town's most famous son has been installed after years of campaigning and fundraising.

Henry VII - born Henry Tudor - was born at Pembroke Castle in 1457, the son of Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor.
He went on to become the first Welshman to sit on the English throne.
The 8ft-high (2.4m) £45,000 bronze statue was unveiled on the town's Mill Bridge during a ceremony on Saturday.
Unveiling the statue, Sara Edwards, Lord Lieutenant of Dyfed, said: "It seems only fitting that the birthplace of one of our great kings should be recognised here and will be here as a permanent home in the shadow of Pembroke Castle."
The people of Pembroke have been trying for many years for the town to gain recognition as the birthplace of the founder of the Tudor dynasty and the site of the statue was chosen to have his birthplace as a backdrop.
The statue was modelled in clay by sculptor Harriet Addyman before being cast in bronze.
The unveiling of the sculpture, paid for by local people, a donation from oil refinery firm Valero and the council, was marked with a community party.
A feasibility study will now look into the possibility of creating a Henry VII visitor centre, which could tell the story of his past and how he went on to defeat Richard III at the battle of Bosworth Field to become king.


Liverpool goalkeeper Danny Ward has signed a five-year contract extension and joined Championship side Huddersfield on a season-long loan.

Ward joined Liverpool from Wrexham in January 2012 and played his first two games for the club last season.
The 23-year-old joined Aberdeen on loan in July 2015, making 29 appearances before being recalled in January.
He made his Wales debut in March and started in their opening game of Euro 2016 against Slovakia.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has signed off a record defence budget in the face of territorial disputes with China and North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.

Spending on fighter jets and submarines are partly behind the increase to 5.13 trillion yen (Â£35.2bn, $43.6bn).
A separate coastguard budget will also be raised sharply.
The plans are part of a 97.5tn yen budget for the financial year starting 1 April 2017.
Japan's parliament must still approve the budget, but if approved it would be the fifth consecutive rise in the defence budget.
A rising social security bill to fund the cost of services for an ageing population is already putting increasing pressure on the country's economy, and the extra defence and coastguard spending will add to Japan's debt.
Rising tension with China over disputed islands in the East China Sea has led to Japan's coastguard budget being raised to 210bn yen ($1.8bn) next year - up from 187.7bn yen.
Coastguard vessels from both countries routinely shadow each other near the uninhabited islands which are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China.
Five new large patrol ships, and 200 more maritime law enforcement staff are among the spending plans.
Meanwhile, the country's ballistic missile defence system will also be upgraded in response to advances in North Korea's programme.


The strength of the pound has resulted in a surge in the number of Britons buying foreign currencies ahead of the summer holidays, say foreign currency brokers.

Thomas Cook reported both a jump in the number of customers and the amount they are spending.
It said the number of euro transactions it completed between the end of February and early March was up by over a third on the same time last year.
Its sales by value were up 65%.
In the past fortnight alone, Thomas Cook - which has more than 800 High Street branches - says it has sold Â£22.8m (â‚¬31m) worth of euros.
Fraser Millar, its head of foreign exchange, told BBC Radio 5 live: "Some customers are forward buying for holidays they have already booked, while others are buying now before they have even booked their holiday."
The Post Office has also revealed that online sales of euros are up by more than a half on this time last year and adds that in one week in late January, when the pound hit 1.34 to the euro, sales rose 363%.
Saga Travel, which specialises in the retirement market, says that between February and April, euro sales were double that seen in 2014. Asda Money says they were up by 20%.
Online currency brokers, specialising in the expat and business markets, are also reporting a similar flood of transactions.
Slough-based brokerage HiFX says it saw new client numbers rise by 64% in the first few months of the year. It says most are Britons buying properties in the eurozone or topping up foreign bank accounts.
Caxton FX says that between February and April, sales of euros rose 286% on the same period in 2014.
Market analysts say that while sterling remains weak against the dollar, in Europe the pound is benefiting both from the relative strength of the UK economy and the continuing problems in the eurozone.
The European Central Bank recently introduced negative interest rates to try to boost growth, while questions remain over the future of Greece.
The pound is also gaining ground around the world, especially against popular holiday currencies such as the Turkish lira and the Thai baht.
Andrew Brown of Post Office Money says customers are increasingly choosing their holiday destination based on where they can get the best return.
"[Sterling's] biggest gains have been against the Scandinavian and Eastern European currencies," he says.
"People seem aware of this and are picking places like Mexico and Mauritius, where they know they can get more for their money."
Post Office says its sales of the Croatian kuna in April were up 91% on the same month in 2014.
There is evidence that an uncertain general election result in the UK is affecting the way people are buying currency, according to some brokers.
Volatile trading on Friday saw sterling fall 1.3% to the dollar.
HiFx says the number of clients using so-called "forward contracts" to lock into the current market rate is up by more than a third.
These contracts allow buyers to book a large amount of foreign currency ahead of time by putting down a small deposit in advance. They are often used to fund property purchases.
Economists, however, say that despite recent nervousness, they expect the pound to continue to strengthen later in the year.
Chief economist with brokers World First, Jeremy Cook, told Radio 5 live: "I think if we see a quick and relatively painless resolution to what goes on in Greece, we may see a little bit of euro strength.  In the longer term, however, I am looking to see sterling... come back up to the 1.45 level over the rest of the year."


A commemoration will take place in Belfast later ahead of the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, when World War II ended after Japan's surrender.

VJ Day - 15 August 1945 - followed the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs.
Nobuko Pollock, 83, who now lives in Belfast, survived the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, but her brother, who was closer to the blast, was killed.
She has spoken of the horror of the attack.
"I was 13 when the bomb dropped," she said.
"I didn't know much about it. My brother didn't come home that night. We didn't know if he was dead, and they went to search for him.
"He was just lying dead on the road, like he was sleeping.
"There were so many dead people and we had to cremate him on the road."
Mrs Pollock has lived in north Belfast for more than 50 years, having married a man from the city.
Seventy years on from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she said: "I still want to know why they dropped the bomb.
"I saw so many injured people coming back from Nagasaki, and you saw the suffering of the women and children - some people have never forgiven them."
A series of events to mark VJ Day will be held this weekend to commemorate the sacrifices of UK soldiers who fought and died defeating Japan.
The Japanese surrendered on 14 August 1945 and the next day was celebrated as Victory over Japan (VJ) Day.
Its formal surrender was signed on 2 September 1945 at a ceremony in Tokyo Bay aboard the American battleship, USS Missouri.


Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has sparked anger by attacking the military record of Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war.

The billionaire and reality TV star said Mr McCain was only considered a hero because he was a prisoner of war.
He then added: "I like people who weren't captured."
The comments prompted strong criticism across the party. Rival contender Rick Perry said the remarks were a "new low" in US politics.
Mr Trump later sought to clarify his remarks, although he did not apologise.
"If a person is captured, they're a hero as far as I'm concerned," he said. "I don't like the job John McCain is doing in the Senate because he is not taking care of our veterans.''
The two have clashed before, with Mr McCain accusing Mr Trump of having "fired up the crazies" with his attacks on Mexican immigrants.
Mr McCain was held for five-and-a-half years after his plane was shot down in the Vietnam war. Mr Trump avoided service through student and medical deferments.
The 2008 presidential candidate is yet to respond to Mr Trump's remarks, although his daughter Meghan tweeted she was "disgusted".
Many of Mr Trump's rivals for the nomination lined up to attack him.
There are currently 15 people running to be the Republican presidential candidate.
Mr Trump has led in some early polls, although analysts have predicted his appeal is likely to wane as the contest develops.


Almost 350 students will turn Dundee University into Scotland's largest art exhibition space for this year's Duncan of Jordanstone degree show.

Themes range from jewellery inspired by urban graffiti to laser etchings illustrating the progress of dementia.
Thousands of visitors are expected at the 10-day degree show, which opens to the public on Saturday following its traditional preview evening.
The university said the event generated more than Â£1.5m for the local economy.
The show takes place throughout the college of art and design's two buildings and 14 floors.
One of the students exhibiting is Amy Crawford, who is unveiling her work six weeks after she almost died from sepsis.
The college's previous alumni include fashion designer Hayley Scanlan, illustrator Johanna Basford and Star Wars animator Matt Cameron.
College Dean, Prof Paul Harris, said: "It is hard to describe how exciting and vibrant a time this is for everyone involved.
"The buzz has been building for months and the students who have poured their heart and soul into their work over several years are reaching the end of their undergraduate careers."
Despite representing the culmination of years of work, Prof Harris said the show was "far from the end" of the students' journey into art and design.
He said: "They may become practising artists or they may go on to work in film, games and animation studios.
"They might find themselves working with some of the world's largest tech companies or leading the next big start-ups.
"They may go on to do something completely different but we are confident that what they have learned in their years here will stand them in good stead, regardless of which field they choose to work in."


Former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Elis-Thomas has told BBC Wales that he will be supporting the Welsh Government during this assembly term.

He sits as an independent AM after resigning from Plaid Cymru in October, claiming the party was not serious about supporting stable government.
The move gives Labour a working majority in the Senedd.
On Thursday, First Minister Carwyn Jones denied discussing any offer of a ministerial job with Lord Elis-Thomas.
"Following my recent discussions with the first minister I can confirm my positive intention to support the current Welsh Government for the duration of the fifth assembly," the Dwyfor Meirionnydd AM told BBC Wales on Monday.
"This provides the stable majority a government needs to continue to develop devolution opportunities and negotiate a continuing relationship with mainland Europe, both key issues for the area I am proud to represent."
Responding to Lord Elis-Thomas' announcement, a Plaid Cymru spokesman said: "Tomorrow [Tuesday], the finalised version of the budget agreed by Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Government will be published.
"Constructive working has produced the best budget seen in Wales for many years. Lord Elis-Thomas chose not to participate in that work.
"We have kept the compact with the Welsh Government under constant review and are scheduled to discuss it at our next group meeting in the New Year.
"We look forward to the fruits of the compact being published in tomorrow's finalised budget."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood had warned that the party would end its co-operation deal with Labour in the Senedd if the first minister appointed another AM from outside the party to be a minister.
A spokesman for the first minister said: "We said from the outset of this assembly that no one party has all the answers and we would seek to work with people across the chamber to deliver for Wales.
"This is all the more important given the deep divisions within the country following the vote to leave the European Union.
"We will continue to seek to work together with others to deliver for the businesses and communities of Wales."


Ryan Farquhar will provide a Supertwins machine for Lee Johnston to race at this year's North West 200 in May.

Farquhar unveiled his team's new ER6 Kawasaki painted in the colours of the Northern Ireland Air Ambulance service at the launch of this year's event.
Farquhar, who was airlifted to hospital after crashing in 2016, will debut the bike at the NW, with Johnston on board.
The Superbike race will now move to the penultimate slot on Saturday ahead of the second Superstock race of the week.
The reshuffle of the programme for the main day of racing follows the abandonment of the feature event of the meeting on several occasions in recent years.
Meanwhile, record 17-times winner Alastair Seeley has confirmed that he will ride for the Tyco BMW team in the Superbike and Superstock classes at the Triangle circuit this year.
The Carrickfergus rider last rode for the Moneymore-based TAS outfit run by Hector and Philip Neill in 2015.
Seeley has 27 podiums at the meeting and will also campaign Gearlink Kawasakis in the Supersport class as he targets Phillip McCallen's all-time record of 28 rostrum finishes.
Farquhar is recovering from injuries sustained in the first Supertwins race at the North West last year and hinted in a recent interview with the BBC that he may retire from competing in the sport.
Fermanagh rider Johnston, who will compete for Jackson Racing Honda this season, was a double winner in the Supertwins class in 2014.