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KEN WARDROP is getting used to the interview circuit. Billeted in a posh Dublin hotel, the poor man has had to find different ways of saying the same thing to a dozen journalists. Now he greets a 13th, writes DONALD CLARKE

“God, this all so new to me,” he says with a nervy shuffle. “I mean I’ve done interviews before, but not one of these big days.”