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...“I’d get so tense before a performance,” says Declan Conlon’s Frank Hardy early on in Faith Healer, instantly drawing a connection between Hardy’s ministry and that of his creator, Brian Friel....
...Only his father Con (Declan Conlon) seems less pleased for reasons that no one addresses directly....
...If Brian Conlon had not suffered a serious knee injury while playing Gaelic football for his native County Down, he probably would not have gone on to become one of Northern Ireland’s most successful businessmen...
...The structure is one favoured by several Irish dramatists – Brian Friel and Conor McPherson among them – in which the characters never interact but their separate monologues interlock in some way....
...But Brian Conlon believes his First Derivatives financial software company – despite its name – is well placed to expand. “Actually it’s worked in our favour....
...Brian Conlon, managing director, said the acquisition had increased US revenues from 28 to 52 per cent of the total....
...Conlon in his mother’s spare bedroom in 1996, shortly after the IRA ceasefire....
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