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Sat 10 Oct 2009Irish tenor hits wrong note in NY with 'anti-Semitic' remark
IT WAS a verbal accident, a slip of the Irish tenor’s golden tongue, that threatened to smash Ronan Tynan’s legend into pieces.
Tynan was distraught, but eager to set the record straight. “I have never in my life been anti-Semitic,” he said repeatedly at the onset of our conversation. “The killer is . . . three members of my band are Jewish and the band is called Brothers from Another Mother.”
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