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INTERVIEW:Morleigh Steinberg has devised a dance homage to Louis le Brocquy. Róisín Inglemet her at a break in rehearsals

HALFWAY THROUGH INTERVIEWING dancer Morleigh Steinberg, a U2 song comes on the stereo, a barely audible elephant in the back room of the Dún Laoghaire pub where we meet to discuss her latest project, a dance interpretation of Louis le Brocquy’s paintings. When I point out the musical “coincidence”, dark haired, dark eyed Steinberg, who also happens to be Mrs The Edge of U2, doesn’t miss a beat. “Yes, I heard that when it came on,” she says in her soft voice. Of course she did. You imagine that it’s no longer much of a novel marital hazard for U2 songs to find their way on to the stereo when she or her husband venture out for business or pleasure.