Word: ballybunion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a month, throughout the Republic of Ireland, newspapers were occupied, minds preoccupied, with the bitterly divisive issue. From lyrical Killarney in the south to impoverished Ballybunion in the west, hand-lettered signs dotted street corners with a single simple message: VOTE NO. In Dublin's Parnell Square, demonstrators waved placards that mockingly read, DOES DIVORCE WORK? ASK LIZ TAYLOR. Not far away, several women, trapped in unhappy marriages, chained themselves to the railings of parliament. Bishops decried the proposal from pulpits, while the country's most influential paper, The Irish Times, defended it. Everywhere, the debate raged...
...himself. "There are more drawbacks than pluses to fame," he says. "I think so. They say fame is fleeting. I hope so." One drawback is never being allowed to be alone on a golf course. In Ireland once, he called for a dew sweeper's teetime at Ballybunion Golf Club and asked the pro to keep it quiet. When Watson arrived, 3,000 Irishmen were waiting. "I just miss the beauty of an empty golf course," says Watson, who can rhapsodize about the fragrance of Augusta when the sun goes down, or the sound at Cypress Point when...
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