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Ireland – Faroe Islands Preview: Boys in Green look to keep qualification hopes alive

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Forde Coleman, O'Shea, St Ledger, Wilson Cox, Whelan, Hoolahan, McGeady Walters, Keane

FAROE ISLANDSNielsen Naes, Davidsen, Baldvinsson, Justinussen Danielsen, Olsen Vatnsdal, Holst, S Samuelsen Edmundsson

Ireland are without the services of West Bromwich Albion striker Shane Long and Wigan Athletic's James McCarthy, with both players serving a one-game suspension. Veteran defender Richard Dunne is not risked by Trapattoni, despite featuring in Sunday's 4-0 friendly win over Georgia.

Captain Robbie Keane looks set to become Ireland's most capped player, as he leads the side out on his 126th international appearance, moving ahead of goalkeeper Shay Given,

Lars Olsen's Faroe Islands have lost all four of their World Cup qualifiers to date, including a 4-1 defeat to Trapattoni's side in October. Arnbjorn Hansen scored the hosts' consolation goal in Torshavn, but the 27-year-old striker will not feature due to injury.

The Islanders have Frodi Benjaminsen and Hallur Hansson suspended, while Hjalgrim Elttor withdrew from Olsen's squad to sit exams. With the Faroe Islands short of midfield cover, Heini Vatnsdal could be in line to win his first cap after impressing for the country's under-21 side, helping them to a 1-1 draw with rivals Denmark.

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Ireland 3-0 Faroe Islands: Keane the hat trick hero on record-breaking night

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Robbie Keane marked his record-breaking 126th international appearance with a hat trick as Republic of Ireland eased past Faroe Islands 3-0 in their World Cup Qualifier at the Aviva Stadium.

The 32-year-old took just four minutes to breach the visitors defense before taking his international tally to 59 goals with a second-half brace and in the process earning the Boys in Green three crucial points as the race for second in Group C intensifies.

Wes Hoolahan was handed his first competitive start by Giovanni Trapattoni in the absence of the suspended James McCarthy, and it didnt take long for the Norwich playmaker to justify his inclusion.

A neat one-two with Jonathan Walters on the edge of the area created a pocket of space for the 33-year-old to feed Aiden McGeady on the left and his low cross was swept home by Keane.

Moments later, the LA Galaxy front man very nearly turned provider but defender Jonhard Frederiksberg did brilliantly to get across and block Jonathan Walters goal bound effort after Keanes clever ball down the side of the visitors defense.

The early goal was exactly what Trapattoni and the home fans had wished for but instead of kicking on and creating daylight between themselves and their inferior opponents, the hosts seemed to rest on their laurels and struggled to find the cutting edge in the final third.

Both Walters and Keane were dropping off and finding acres of space and a move straight from the training ground almost doubled the home sides advantage. Simon Coxs quick thinking from a free kick caught the Faroes defense unaware but Keane couldnt poke past the onrushing Gunnar Nielsen.

The Faroe Islands goalkeeper then pulled off an equally impressive save from the Irish captains fierce strike after a poor defensive clearance. The Boys in Green stepped up the intensity as the halftime whistle approached as McGeady continued to cause Frederiksberg problems every time he got forward.

In a rare moment of reprieve from defensive duties, Lars Olsens side had appeals for a penalty waved away moments into the second period. Christian Holst went down under the clumsy challenge of Sean St Ledger but the Finnish official was quick to silence the calls for a spot kick.

It wasnt long until Irelands domination paid off and once again it was incisive play from Hoolahan which led to the goal. For the first time in the match Seamus Coleman got away from his marker and needed no second invitation to fire the ball across the box where Keane was there to slot home.

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Best-Kept Secret Islands of Indonesia

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Ken Kochey

I went in search of dragons and found sapphire-blue starfish instead. It wasn't just a few, mind you, but a constellation nesting in a translucent bay within Indonesia's Komodo National Park. There's an obvious metaphor or two in thatthe futility of expectations, the power of beauty over the beastbut I'm easily distracted, and at the time, while snorkeling just a few strokes off tiny Kanawa island, I'd become too preoccupied by the parade of neon fish gliding past my mask to give those frightful dragons (overfed lizards, really) any thought at all. In between swims, I'd sit under the bamboo roof of Kanawa's only restaurant, facing an empty beach of sparkling golden sands, play chess on a battered wooden board with one of the local guides, and seriously consider not writing about this island. Why not keep it to myself a little while longer.

By that point in the trip, having already hop-scotched around six Indonesian islands, I was feeling quite pleased with myself. Years earlier, I had fallen hard for Bali but later discovered I wasn't the only woman in its life. I remember reading, with a sinking heart, that Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat, Pray, Lovedoubled the number of visitors to the island, and that was before Julia Roberts arrived on the scene. Granted, even Hollywood couldn't spoil a place as enchanting as Bali, but still, I was ready to move on. And I knew just the person to help. As luck would have it, my brother's wife, Sumena, is both Indonesian (born in Sumatra) and an ardent traveler. "You do know," she pointed out, in her eminently sensible way, "that Indonesia has thousands of other islandsthousandsthat hardly anyone visits. Or at least hardly any Americans." It took some timeyears, in factbefore Sumena finally agreed to travel with me to the other Indonesia.

Given that the Indonesian archipelago consists of more than four hundred volcanoes, many of them still twitchy, its messy topography is easily explained. The exact number of islands ebbs and flows with each tectonic rumbling, but these days the country's tourism office counts 17,508, all shapes and sizes, spattered around the equator. Only 6,000 are inhabited. From east to west, the island chain stretches across an area as wide as the continental United States.

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Indonesia does not lack variety. Don't take my word for it: The nineteenth-century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's more modest peer, rhapsodized about its astonishing biodiversity in his seminal work The Malay Archipelago. Wallace wrote that the wildlife on Bali differs as much from that of the neighboring island of Lombok, a mere fifteen miles away, as America's animals differ from Europe's. The contrast between the critters on Java (the most populous island) or Borneo (the wildest) and Sulawesi (the most mountainous) is still more striking, he noted. Orangutans, man's smartest relative, live on Sumatra (the largest island) and Borneoand nowhere else in the world. Likewise, Komodo dragons are found only on a few small islands in the southeast. On Sulawesi alone are a bunch of endemic animals so quirky that they warrant their own Pixar film, starring, say, the feisty dwarf buffalo, the timid tailless monkey, and the nightlife-loving civet. But Indonesia's diversity is hardly limited to wildlife.

Here, a horse-cart driver at Hotel Tugu Lombok, on Balis less-touristedand slower-pacedneighbor. Photographer: Ken Kochey

Each of the country's roughly three hundred ethnic groups has its own language, customs, and food. Though Islam is the dominant religion (Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population), the Balinese are mostly Hindu. Other islands have a majority Christian population, courtesy of the Portuguese spice traders and the Dutch missionaries, while Buddhism is widely practiced among the seven-million-strong Chinese community (which includes my sister-in-law's family). Animism, with its high-maintenance spirit gods, is alive and well in the rural areas, though some of its more notorious practicesheadhunting, cannibalismhave gone out of fashion. Violent ethnic conflicts flare up every so often, and the country grapples with its own homegrown terrorist groups, which carried out devastating bombings in Bali in 2002 and 2005 and in Jakarta in 2003 and 2009. But Indonesia's complex geography and long history as a cultural crossroads, not to mention the government's vigorous counter-terrorism efforts, have mostly helped to keep the peace.

Over dinner in northern Sumatra one night, my new friend Imam isn't interested in discussing his country's cultural diversity, nor my country's. "Have you seen Toy Story 2? What about A Bug's Life?" He interrogates me tenaciously, as only a ten-year-old could. We are in his family's modest, cheerfully decorated home in the town of Bukit Lawang, the gateway to Gunung Leuser (Mount Leuser) National Park, where I have spent the morning stalking orangutans. Imam's father, Masno, is the chef at the Bukit Lawang Ecolodge, a colony of tidy bungalows and carefully tended gardens just outside the park. He and his wife also run their own place, Masno Caf and Cake, out of their home. The restaurant was closed that night, but Masno has invited me to join his family for dinner, preceded by a lesson in Indonesian home cooking. I sit with him, his bubbly wife, Misnawati, and Imam on a mat in their living room, weighing peanuts and palm sugar on a small scale and measuring the rest of the ingredients for the gado-gado: star anise, tamarind, chili, ginger, garlicall collected from the backyard garden. Aceh province, where police raided a jihadist training camp last year and where some villages have recently adopted sharia law, is just a mountain range away. But here in this Muslim home, where Misnawati lowers her voice and wrinkles her nose when she frets about Sumatran-born terrorists, where Imam's DVD collection rivals my niece's and nephew's in Los Angeles, and where Masno vacuum-seals the gado-gado for me to take home to New York, it might as well be in a different galaxy.

I am already reaping the rewards of being one of the few foreigners in a place that is genuinely happy to see them andrather poignantly, I thinkeager to welcome many more. Admittedly, Gunung Leuser is one of the most popular tourist attractions on Sumatra, and giant tour buses do occasionally barrel down the main roads. But considering that Sumatra (twice the size of Great Britain) welcomes about 1.6 million foreign visitors a year while Bali, about the size of Delaware, gets more than two million, you can see how Bukit Lawang might feel somewhat lonely. Sumena has opted to meet me on the next leg of the trip, so I travel on my own to Bukit Lawangbut never stay that way for long. I arrive on a Sunday afternoon, just as the local families are settling into picnics on the rocky banks of the Bohorok River, which fronts my hotel. Several of the chattering, head-scarved women invite me to join them.

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