Word: dubliner
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...York Times recently reported that Irish immigrants to the U.S. who had decided to return home were discovering that their dollar savings didn't go far. The cash that you get from selling a house in Woodlawn in the Bronx won't buy you much of anything in boomtown Dublin, where the euro rules...
...never enjoyed making records, largely because the force and diversity of the band members' personalities, combined with their politeness and respect for one another, turns the process into something slow, sloppy and complicated--like democracy. There was hope, though, in October 2003, when the group gathered in Dublin to give a close listen to songs that Bono, 44, and the Edge, 43, believed were ready for release. "All we needed was the assent of the politburo and the record would have been out for Christmas," says Bono. Clayton, 44, and Mullen Jr., 43, focused on each track and then voted...
Knowing that a strong first single was U2's greatest concern, Lillywhite, 49, who has produced the band on and off since 1980, decided to re-record a promising track called Native Son. He set the group up in a Dublin warehouse to get a martial drum sound reminiscent of its early days and persuaded the Edge to "stop worrying about the fine line between White Stripes and Whitesnake"--or between art rock and arena rock--and just let loose. When the music started to smolder, Bono grabbed a microphone. "He was awful," says Lillywhite. "The song was all about...
...experience of France suggests that spending pays, Ireland - where the fertility rate was 1.98 last year, the E.U.'s highest - shows it might not be that simple. "Ireland is not a child-friendly place," says John FitzGerald, an economics professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. "Child care is underdeveloped and expensive. And if women take time out from the labor force to have children, they are discriminated against in the workplace." If it wasn't for the high level of births to unmarried mothers, Ireland's fertility rate would be in trouble, says sociologist Tony Fahey...
...Born in Dublin, Hassan is married to an Iraqi, holds British, Irish and Iraqi citizenship and has lived in Iraq for more than 30 years. She has been a critic of sanctions over the years and a stalwart leader, before and during the war, of efforts to improve the country's faltering water, health and education systems. A few months before the war began, Hassan told TIME the sanctions against Iraq had helped create "a dependent society with little or no ability to improve its situation." Says Richard Downes, a reporter for Irish television station RTE who knows Hassan well...