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...Graham Stuart avers that broadcasters do need stars. He co-founded So Television with Graham Norton, an Irish-born comedian who fronts BBC chat shows and game shows. Norton "is paid a lot of money by the BBC," says Stuart, but "what we're doing here is show business and everything relies on a small number of talented people who are stars. They're the reason people will switch on." He adds: "If Lord Reith, a cranky old Presbyterian, could use the entertainment word, then other people should be able...
...some clearly feel Ireland may be changing a little too quickly. In 2004, nearly 80% of voters approved a constitutional change that allowed for new laws to prevent foreigners' Irish-born children from getting automatic citizenship; a controversial exit poll after the vote showed that more than a third of supporters felt Ireland was being "exploited by immigrants...
...understand soldiers," he says. And his understanding has come about as much through pen, pencil and brush, as his new show of drawings at Sydney's Australian Galleries makes startlingly clear. Of his four trips to Baghdad, no event confounded Gittoes as much as the 2004 abduction of Irish-born CARE International worker Margaret Hassan. "She was a very smart woman, but she was also a lady in the old-fashioned sense," he recalls. "So that you'd arrive and she'd have a cup of tea for you in a beautiful porcelain cup." There is nothing beautiful about...
...DIED. BEST MATE, 10, champion Irish-born steeplechase racehorse; in Exeter, England. A three-time winner of the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup and beloved by racegoers, the legendary gelding collapsed from a heart attack just before the last jump on the Exeter course as his trainer, Henrietta Knight, looked on. Known to millions of fans as "Matey," he had just returned to form after recuperating from a burst blood vessel. "He died doing what he loved, which was to race," said Knight, of the graceful, gutsy and reliable jumper...
...MARGARET HASSAN, 59, director of the relief group Care International in Iraq; apparently by gunmen who abducted her in Baghdad on Oct. 19; as reported by her family and Arabic news network al-Jazeera, which received a video that appeared to show her being shot in the head. The Irish-born aid worker fell in love with Iraq after moving there with her Iraqi-born husband in 1972. Through Saddam Hussein's rule and Gulf War bombings she stayed, learning Arabic and converting to Islam. She became a spokeswoman for Iraqi children suffering in the wake of the Gulf...