There were a lot of things stacked against us,” she told
Rolling Stone in 2017. “He was on the road and had been through two marriages. I was a high risk, John Prine admitted to
Men s Journal in 2018. Nonetheless, for him, it was love at first sight.
An Irish actress introduced the pair, at a concert after-party at the Blooms Hotel. Fiona said, ‘I saw you play when I was 17. When will I hear you next? Prine recounted. And I said, ‘Right now,’ and walked up onstage with her and just started playing.
At the time, Fiona was working in Dublin as a business manager for a recording studio, and despite those less-than-favorable odds, she and Prine kept in touch. She moved to Nashville in 1993, and in 1995, the couple welcomed their sons Tommy and Jack; they re Irish twins, John Prine jokes, born 10 months apart. (Prine would also adopt Jody, Fiona s son from a previous marriage.)
Dublin Correspondent
Designer Diarmuid Gavin has drawn up a €20 million plan for Dublin s Iveagh Market to include his donation of an entry to the Chelsea Flower Show as a permanent exhibit.
The proposal which was commissioned by Lord Iveagh is entitled A Market For Everyone .
The plan comes as mediation continues between the fourth Earl who repossessed the market for the Guinness family last December, Temple Bar publican Martin Keane who claims ownership of the site, and Dublin City Council.
Martin Keane has taken High Court action against Lord Iveagh who claimed ownership from a reverter clause in the original transfer of ownership agreement with Dublin City Council.
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Fresh calls for July public holiday as pubs could stay shut until June & Covid-19 lockdown extended into February
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HOTELIERS are calling on the Government to introduce a new public holiday in the summer to help the hard hit tourism industry bounce back from Covid devastation.
Hospitality industry sources told the Irish Sun they don’t expect to be able to reopen restaurants and pubs to indoor dining until late May or June at the earliest.
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Pubs and restaurants could be closed until the summer as the Government looks set to extend the current lockdownCredit: Collins Photo Agency
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A Christmas tree presented by Lord Iveagh has been erected outside the Iveagh Markets following the building s repossession earlier this month.
Lord Iveagh Arthur Guinness arranged the event as the start of a process to restore the market for the people of Dublin, according to a group acting for him in Ireland.
Kevin McGowan, founder of Abbey Life and former partner in Goodbody Stockbrokers, is the executive chairman of the group, while Paul Smithwick of the Smithwick brewing family will be handling the legal issues.
The ceremony revives a tradition, as a Christmas tree was erected on the same spot outside the market every year up until the 1980s when the market was in operation.