Elizabeth Platt ([email protected])
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:01:02 -0800 (PST)
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Boyzone Star Joins Ireland's Millennium Team
PA 12/10/98 12:35
Copyright 1998 PA News
By Ruth O'Reilly, PA News
Boyzone heartthrob Ronan Keating today took a seat on
Ireland's Millennium Committee and said he looked forward to
contributing the voice of Irish youth to the debate on the
year 2000 celebrations.
The 21-year-old frontman of the top-selling boy band, who
last week expressed aspirations for the Irish presidency, was
delighted to be asked onto the team headed by government chief
whip, Seamus Brennan.
Emerging from a 90-minute meeting in Government Buildings -
at the heart of Dublin's political establishment he said:
"It's just fantastic, I couldn't ask for anything better."
He joins a team which includes U2 manager Paul McGuinness,
former government ministers, members of the Irish parliament
and Northern Ireland Women's Coalition leader, Monica
McWilliams.
They are considering thousands of ideas to mark the arrival
of the year 2000 in Ireland.
Ronan said: "It will be a celebration.
"We don't want to look in the past, all the terrible events
and the bloodshed.
"It is about what Ireland can be in the next 1,000 years.
It's all there."
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