D Wednesday, September 23, 2009 METRO IN CINEMAS FRIDAY downey JR and FoXX Raise the baR with two oF the yeaRs best peRFoRmancesPeter travers, rolling stone a moving, inspiRational stoRyrex reed, new York observer Actress Holly White and RTs Baz Ashmawy help launch reveal a very special message submitted as part of the Wispa Gold Messages Campaign. The nationwide initiative will see the chocolate bar give all its advertising space to the Irish public as a thank-you for all the love theyve shown to Wispa after a six-year absence. Go to wispagoldmessages.com to submit a message Picture: Marc OSullivan SometimeS a wiSpa iS louder than a Shout phobia makes me unplucky in love IT IS pretty normal for men to get nervous before asking a woman out but for one poor 27-year-old it is a case of sheer terror. Neil Dando has never kissed a girl because he has what one expert has called chronic love shyness. It means he cannot even approach a girl without suffering extreme anxiety attacks and a range of emotions, from depression to sheer anger. There have even been cases when I have pretended to like somebody just to see if I can get over it, said Mr Dando, of Worthing, in the UK. But the more I talk, the more I start thinking and the same anxiety halts me mid-sentence, he added. Love shyness is not a registered condition but was coined by US professor Brian Gilmartin in a 1987 book. Neil Dando: Kiss phobia Internet searches leave ill confused and worriedONE in four patients who research common surgery on the internet is left worried and confused by the information they receive, a new report reveals. The study, published in the Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, found that of the patients who searched the internet for information, 58 per cent used a search engine. Previous studies have shown that most people who look for health-related data through search engines use short, often misspelt words and seldom go beyond the first page of search results. Report author Anand Tamhankar said: Over a quarter of those who sought such information were left confused or worried. By sARAH sTACK Garda foil 300,000 tiger raidDeTecTIveS foiled a 300,000 tiger- kidnapping yesterday after a threatened bank worker dumped a bag of cash on railway lines. A suspected gang member was arrested near tracks by the Royal canal in north Dublin after a woman dropped off a ransom to free her hostage boyfriend. The Permanent tsb worker had been or- dered to collect the cash from the Phib- sboro branch at 11am and throw it over a bridge near Broombridge station, cabra. Two officers arrested the suspect after a bag was dropped on the rail line. The womans boyfriend was later freed in Ashbourne, co Meath. Just 11 days earlier another couple escaped unharmed after being taken hos- tage by a gang in a similar kidnap raid. In the latest heist the woman left home to travel to work. After abducting her boyfriend, the kidnappers contacted her, demanding she withdraw the money. The suspect, who is in his early 20s, was arrested and all the cash recovered. earlier this month, a woman who works at a north city Bank of Ireland branch was abducted with her husband from their home in Lusk, co Dublin, and the woman ordered to drive to the coolock branch to carry out a heist as her husband was driven in a van to Tallaght. She dropped off 130,000 for the gang, but it was several hours before her hus- band freed himself and raised the alarm. Ireland saw a surge in the so-called ti- ger kidnappings named because of the predatory nature of the criminals in- volved in late 2007 and 2008. In February an armed gang forced a worker from Bank of Irelands college Green to take more than 7million after holding his five-year-old daughter, girl- friend and her mother at gunpoint. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html