Word: dubliners
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Known for his plentiful female conquests, COLIN FARRELL is now playing the role of a fabled land grabber. The mischiefmaking Dublin-born star is Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's untitled tale of the Macedonian warrior-King currently filming in Morocco with Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins. Historians debate Alexander's true appearance, but Farrell's normally dark locks are now blond to accommodate the "sun-bleached golden-boy" theory, he says. "Do blonds have more fun?" ponders Farrell from the Marrakech set. "Nah, the Irish...
...investigative reporter who in 1994 joined the Sunday Independent, Ireland's top newspaper, Guerin made headlines with stories about Dublin's underworld. Within months of her first scoops, assailants fired gunshots into the cottage she shared with her husband and their son. In 1995 she confronted drug lord John Gilligan, who smashed her face in. The next day he told her, "If you write a word about me, I will find your boy and kidnap him and rape him. I am going to kill you if you write a word about me." (Of course, she published the threat.) Guerin...
...Dublin, Ireland was a haven for drug traffickers. Pushers were everywhere, from schools to residential neighborhoods. Playgrounds were littered with used syringes and dirty spoons. Every day there were reports of kids as young as fifteen overdosing on heroin, while the drug lords responsible for these tragedies remained beyond the reach...
Director Joel Schumacher’s latest movie, Veronica Guerin, is based upon on the life of the Sunday Independent reporter of the same name, a journalist whose investigations proved vital in the war against drugs in Dublin...
...Celtic collection is one of the best in the world,” Ford says. “Scholars come from Dublin, Edinburgh or universities in Wales, and they just drool. It’s an astonishing collection...