A drop of Irish luck in the rise of a legend

Pavarotti credited his Dublin performance in 1963 with his international success. Jim Morahan traces the connections.

THINK Italia ’90 — the glory days of Irish soccer — and the heart soars to the strains of Pavarotti, at his peak.

Nessun Dorma, the World Cup anthem, sung by the Italian tenor can still bring a lump to the throat and a tear to the eye — and not only to lovers of soccer and opera.