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Bob Geldof "I probably WOULD have run for Fianna Fáil as President"

Bob Geldof "I probably WOULD have run for Fianna Fáil as President"

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Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof on 50 years of the Rats, why the Ireland of his youth was a 'Banana Republic', moving to London, observing social change, setting up Band Aid and Live Aid, grappling with overnight becoming 'Captain Africa' and his thoughts on modern-day free speech and cancel culture.

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Bob Geldof "I probably WOULD have run for Fianna Fáil as President"

Bob Geldof "I probably WOULD have run for Fianna Fáil as President"

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