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Fri 04 Apr 2007Waxing lyrical at a ghost in an empty skyDisplaced in Mullingar:From romance, to feelings of longing and loneliness, the moon stirs passion and pain, writes Michael HardingIn 1980s Dublin, heroin addicts with faces as blank as the moon regularly used the toilets of the Ilac Centre, shooting up inside locked cubicles.