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Jim Carroll: The band are the latest heritage act to make the journey to Slane, a venue they last played in 1992

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Moby’s new memoir is less about showbiz and more about clawing hs way out of poverty in the late 1980s

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Sr Julie Buckley is head chaplain at the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street in Dublin

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