Northside Deluxe

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Attempted boy band mentioned in Roddy Doyle’s 2008 short story “The Deportees.” The Commitments manager Jimmy Rabbitte hoped to gather five good-looking young men and make them stars, only to discover that “there wasn’t one decent-looking young fella on the northside of Dublin, let alone five” (p. 32).