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BROAD SMILES and blue skies accompanied Archbishop Desmond Tutu on a visit to Ballymun, Dublin, yesterday as children sang like “beautiful butterflies”. Some 800 guests at a civic reception stood up from their seats and – on the archbishop’s bidding – swayed their hands in the air as they agreed that, yes, they were “very special people”.