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...When I was standing in the State Cinema in Dublin in 1977 listening to Joey sing and realizing that there was nothing else [that] mattered to him, pretty soon nothing else mattered to me. If they remind me of anything now, it's that singular idea. It travels further and deeper than the baggage of possibilities you pick up along...
...have to be a virtuoso, you just have to have great taste. You have to be able to hear it more than you have to be able to play it. Suddenly, the grasp becomes more important than the reach. Suddenly, a bunch of kids from the north side of Dublin who would never have had a chance to get on the musical merry-go-round watched it stop for just long enough to jump on. We were a band before we could play. We formed our band around an idea of friendship and shared spirit. That was a preposterous notion...
...play for Hill, who co-starred in an early version staged in Belfast in 1994. Campion was recruited later when the play was remounted at Belfast's Lyric Theater in May 1999. The two actors have been joined at the hip ever since, as the play traveled to Dublin and Edinburgh and eventually to London's West End. (During one break, they co-starred as the tramps in Waiting for Godot. What's Irish for "busman's holiday"?) Hill, 36, the pudgy, cherub-faced one, grew up in Ballycastle, on the northeast coast. Campion, 41, the angular, rugged-looking fellow...
...cows and goats at two farms near the eastern town of Olst, Dutch agriculture authorities ordered the slaughter of 20,000 animals within a 1-km radius. The source of infection was traced to cattle imported from Ireland, which confirmed its first cases in County Louth north of Dublin. In Britain dozens of cases were confirmed daily and 514 cases had been certified by week's end. Farmers' gloom deepened as the government's chief scientific adviser feared that the epidemic could spiral out of control and half of Britain's livestock may have to be slaughtered. Late...
...Robinson has spent her career setting precedents. At 25, she was a member of the Irish Senate and the youngest-ever law professor at Trinity College Dublin. By the time she was 46 she had become Ireland's first female president. She is only the second occupant of the high commissioner post, but her tireless campaigning - she has visited more than 60 countries - and unyielding outspokenness have transformed the office into an international bully pulpit. Her willingness to, as she puts it, "criticize those who are your masters - the member states" has rankled some members of the world body. Israel...