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Richard Phibbs
Eve Hewson’s family has a motto: “Work like a dog, live like a shih tzu.” This work hard, play hard philosophy permeates every story the actress tells me, each instance of effort balanced with an enthusiastic enjoyment of life’s pleasures. It’s very Irish – as is she, proudly so, though she has spent much of her life travelling the world. When she was small, the whole family would follow her father, the U2 frontman Bono, on tour. Then, when Hewson applied to the prestigious Tisch School to study acting, she moved to New York, which has been her base ever since.
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Penguin Ireland /Sandycove, paperback
Against his better judgement and basic instincts, Ross O Carroll-Kelly has fallen for the town of Bray, which he scorned mercilessly in previous adventures. My old man had been caught rigging a General Election. My old dear was about to become a seventy-year old mother of six. And Honor was walking around in a yellow rain mac, telling everyone that the end of the world was nigh. It was enough to drive a man to the brink.
Ross O Carroll-Kelly is still - by his own lights anyway - fondly recalled in epic annals of Southside Dublin as the captain of the Castlerock College team which won the Leinster Schools Senior Cup in 1999. Indeed, the boisterous, rambunctious and ebullient Ross likes to remind all and sundry of his legendary position as helmsman on that fateful day of memory.