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Sat 10 Oct 2007Busby, backhanders, brio and barbsInterview/Eamon Dunphy: Michael Walkertalks to Eamon Dunphy, and finds him, well, not as he - and, perhaps, you - expectedThere were reasons to think otherwise - around the corner Bertie Ahern was squeaking his way through the Mahon mangle, while the Garda shot on North Strand was said to be stable. But up on St Stephen's Green, where the sun-dappled tranquillity was beguiling, it was possible to see why Dublin charms still. Even the resident dissident said so.