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Article: Saving Eden from a fall
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- July 11, 2009
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THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW - JAY BOURKE: A MEGALOMANIAC, moody,
weird, distracted. All descriptions of Jay Bourke by former
employees and passing acquaintances, all of whom have strongly held
opinions about the high-profile Dubliner. After all this, Jay Bourke
in person is surprisingly, or perhaps suspiciously, charming, and
part of this charm is his own frank acknowledgment of the same
shortcomings others are so quick to point out.A shameless self-
promoter? He's the one who alerts me to this particular personality
trait when he agrees to the interview, advising me that he will
likely try to leverage it to "promote his own businesses".
And sure enough, as soon as he strolls into Eden and ...