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Thu 09 Sep 2010Robinson denies she received €1m for memoirs

FORMER PRESIDENT Mary Robinson has said reports that she has got a €1 million deal to write her memoirs are incorrect.

Hodder Stoughton and Hachette Ireland, formerly Hodder Headline, secured the rights to Mrs Robinson’s memoirs after a bidding war involving eight other publishers.