D Wednesday, November 25, 2009 METRO 11 HEINEKEN GREEN SPHERES PRESENTS FOR YOUR CHANCE TO GET FREE TICKETS VISIT WWW.HEINEKENMUSIC.IE OBriensbridge, Clonlara, Westbury and Shannon Banks at risk. The river is expected to continue to swell over the next week with more heavy rain and storm force gales in the north and west coasts forecast. Authorities in Galway were working to reopen 65 roads in the county. Irish Farmers Association president Padraig Walshe welcomed 2million to help flood-hit farms and the pay- ment in December of 140m in other farm payments due in January. Mr Gilmore said the priorities were to provide drinking water in Cork, emergency shelter and help to repair flood-damaged homes. He also urged the Government to lean on insurance companies to make sure compensation payments were processed as quickly as possible. SocialAffairs Minister Mary Hanafin earlier suggested EU funding might be made available, after calls for an ap- plication to the EU Solidarity Fund. Celebrity, an exhibition by famous photographer Terry ONeill, was unveiled at the Kildare Village yesterday. It will include portraits of icons Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn and Clint Eastwood ONeill iN THe FRAMe Twitter to make money in 2010 TWITTER is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, co-founder Biz Stone said. Twitter will start making money in 2010 as it unveils a plan early next year on how it will produce revenue through non-traditional advertising, he added. The micro- blogging site, which bought search engine Summize in 2008, lets people send, or tweet, 140-character text messages to groups of followers. It is one of the worlds fastest-growing social online networks with 44.5million visitors in June, up 15- fold in a year. New investor funding in September put its theoretical value at $1billion (670m). Kong skeleton is sold for 133,000 A METAL skeleton used to make King Kong come to life in a 1933 film was sold for more than 133,000 yesterday. The armature was the base for a 56cm (22in) model of the gorilla used in the movies climax at the top of the Empire State Building. It was bought by an anonymous bidder at Christies auction house in London. A first edition of Charles Darwins On The Origin Of Species was also sold for 111,000 on the 150th anniversary of its publication, after it was found in an Oxford familys bathroom. 12m not enough for flood costsAN EMERGENCY 12million fund for flood victims was last night dis- missed as too little to cope with the devastation. With the lower Shannon threatening to burst its banks for a second day and Co Clare under a severe flood warn- ing, the Opposition said the package would not cover the clean-up bill which is expected to top 100m. Labour leader Eamon Gilmore said the so-called humanitarian assistance would not meet the needs of thousands forced out of their homes and left without drinking water. Twelve million [euro], it seems to me, wont go very far with the scale of the devastation that weve seen over the last number of days, he said. But the Taoiseach insisted the money was not the Governments full re- sponse to the crisis. Co Clare bore the brunt of the latest band of bad weather with repeat flood- ing threatened. A flood warning remained on the lower River Shannon last night with By BrIAN HuTTON index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html28.html29.html30.html31.html