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They've got love and they've got awards for their soundtrack and performances in Once. And they've got strong views about how Ireland is changing. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová talk to Róisín Inglefrom the Czech Republic, where they are spending Christmas with Irglová's family

A love story at Christmas: once upon a time a musician guy meets a much younger musician girl. Neither are actors but a few years later they star in a small film with a tiny budget which proceeds, against all expectations, to wow the world. While promoting the movie the guy and the girl fall in love, or it could be they started falling when they were filming. Or maybe they were "falling slowly" for years, just like one of the songs from the film, which, as everybody knows by now, is a quiet gem of a modern-day musical about a Dublin busker and a piano player from Czech Republic called Once.