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U2: 'In Ireland People Are Scared of Success...'

Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 20 October 1988

THE FULFILLMENT of any U2 project will always set tongues a-wagging in Dublin. Aside from being one of the country's major industries, the quartet are perhaps the best-known Irishmen of all time, Welshblood Edge and Englishblood Adam Clayton qualifying by residence rather than lineage.

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