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...Irish-American network that helped bring about the 1994 I.R.A. cease-fire, said there is "no question" that the unease in America influenced the I.R.A. decision to decommission. "The deal was underway, but the events of Sept. 11 and the Colombian episode accelerated the process," he said. Ronnie Flanagan, the Ulster police chief who has spent decades combating the I.R.A., said the "attitude of the American public, even among those who would be sympathetic to Irish republicanism, changed and changed permanently...
...genuine conscience and is dealing with issues, like if you only have one life to live, can you spend that life in show business?" Flanagan says...
...feels a moral responsibility to do what he can to help people, whether by using his money or his public platform or simply his access to people," Flanagan says...
...felt that the way people were experiencing reality and fiction was becoming so intertwined that they thought it would be an interesting thing to explore," Flanagan says. "If you go to the songs, then those are very personal songs, about marriage and intimacy and temptation. [Bono] wanted to know if all this sensory overload we experience in the world gives you permission to live for your own pleasure...
...between wanting to have a stable home and the conflicting desire to go out in the world and have an adventure and never come back. To some degree, that's what he's been writing about since 'I Will Follow," the band's first hit single, released in 1980, Flanagan says...