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NME - REPUBLIC INCONVENIENCE NEW ORDER DUBLIN POINT DEPOT THERE WERE no lucky breaks for this show. With fewer than 2,000 of the 8,000 tickets sold in advance, the Peace Together organisers were hoping for a large walk-up on the night. But with a city-wide bus strike, a sunny bank holiday weekend, poor local publicity and Sinéad O’Connor's dramatic 11th hour withdrawal, the omens were not good. O’Connor had said at the outset that she would crawl over broken glass to be there. A last minute fax to the Peace Together office indicated a rethink, though: “i have to pull out of the show," explained Sinéad. “Personal problems too large to overcome at the moment.” Maybe she was tired or had a sore throat: she had, after all, sung with Peter Gabriel here a week before, and was ligging with An Emotional Fish last night. Inside the venue, a vox pop reveals that nine out of ten punters are here for New Order and know very little about the cause. They’re also waiting for the