10 News Wednesday, January 27, 2010 D8 Making a dent in our health Bookies favourite Tibn loses out IRISH writer Colm Tibn was pipped to the post again for a major literary award last night. Tibns book Brooklyn was the bookies favourite to win the Costa Book of the Year Award in London, but A Scattering by British poet Christopher Reid scooped it. The collection was written in tribute to Reids wife, former Grange Hill actress Lucinda Gane, following her death in 2005 from cancer. Tibn, who has a history of narrowly missing out on major literary awards, had beaten Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantels Wolf Hall among others to be shortlisted for Book of the Year. The final judging panel was chaired by Irish novelist Josephine Hart and included Spandau Ballet star Gary Kemp, actresses Dervla Kirwan and Caroline Quentin and writer and model Marie Helvin. Tibns sixth novel, about a young Irish girl who travels to the US in the 1950s to find work before tragic news summons her home, was the 6-4 bookies favourite, putting A Scattering at 5-2. Announcing the award, Hart described Reids collection as a master work. She harked back to Irish poet WB Yeats, saying a poets greatest work emerged from the tragedy of his private life. Reid took a personal tragedy and made the emotion and the situation universal, she said. Tibn: Disappointed Men are guilty... of not feeling guilty AS chick flicks often point out, men are not as sensitive as women. But that lack of sensitivity has a knock- on effect blokes feel much less guilt than girls do, new research suggests. Researchers asked what situations most often caused guilty feelings and what caused feelings of empathy. The most common forms of guilt were related to situations where people caused harm to others. The difference was particularly stark among people aged between 40 and 50, said the reports author. The research was carried out in Spain on 156 teenagers, 96 young people and 108 adults aged between 40 and 50. Roly-poly coaster shamed me to slim A SELF-CONFESSED pizza addict has shed half her body weight after being told she was too fat for a funfair ride. Clair Dodd who would feast on takeaway pizzas every other night went from 152kg (24st) to 70kg (11st) after being humiliated at a theme park. I sat in a ride and they couldnt close the harness, said the 31-year-old mother of two from Halifax, in the UK. A seat from the airliner floats near a Beirut beach yesterday Picture: Reuters Doomed jet may have been sold by Ryanair By Con Doherty RYANAIR chief Michael OLeary said yes- terday he believed the Ethiopian Airlines Boe- ing 737-800 that crashed off Lebanon on Monday was operated by his airline untilApril last year. He said Ryanair sold the plane inApril 2009, without specifying the buyer. I think they had it in maintenance, they did some work on it, between April and May. I think they leased it to Ethiopian Airlines in September, and something happened to it. We are not sure yet, but it may have been that air- craft that was involved in the accident yester- day. What happened we dont know. Its a bit like you selling your car and 11 months later the new person driving it has a crash. It had nothing to do with us, he said after a news conference in Rome. The plane crashed into the sea with 90 people on board minutes after taking off from Beirut in stormy weather. There are no reports of any survivors. Ethiopian Airlines says the eight-year-old plane was leased from a division of US financing company CIT Group and had its last routine maintenance on December 25. Meanwhile, a Lebanese minister has said the pilot flew in the opposite direction from the path recommended by the control tower after taking off from Beirut. Transportation Minis- ter Ghazi Aridi said yesterday the pilot ini- tially followed the towers guidance, but then abruptly changed course and went in the op- posite direction. They asked him to correct his path but he did a very fast and strange turn before disap- pearing completely from the radar, he said. Nobody is saying the pilot is to blame for not heeding orders, Mr Aridi added. There could have been many reasons for what hap- pened... Only the black box can tell. Like most airliners, the Boeing 737 is equipped with its own onboard weather radar, which the pilot may have used to avoid flying into thunderheads rather than following the flight towers recommendation. Ethiopian Airlines boss Girma Wake said the ministers comments were premature. Lebanese officials have said there is no indi- cation of terrorism or sabotage. An official involved in the crash inquiry said the black box would provide more answers, but he said other factors including weather Dentist Dr Freda Guiney was awarded the 2009 Sensodyne Sensitive Dentist of the Year in Dublins College of Surgeons. Patients from across the country came forward to nominate their local dentists for the awards Picture: Tracey Kelly index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html