Captain Moonlight: 'Acne'

Sunday 09 October 1994 00:02 BST

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WELCOME to the Captain's romantic patriots and great Irish heroes corner. A senior figure in this teeming media world approaches me. A figure so senior, in fact, that he knew Gerry Adams before he had a beard. It was when Adams was a barman, 'most assiduous and a great listener, careful observer of last orders' at the Duke of York in Belfast. So, the beard: weak chin, heavy growth? The senior figure looks around him, and then confides: 'Acne.'

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