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Paul McGuinness is the main shareholder and founder of Principle Management Limited: an artist management company based in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
, Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, which has managed U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
 from the start of their successful career. He is the manager of U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
, PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician and songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, England, Harvey formed an eponymous band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan....
, Art of Noise, Paddy Casey
Paddy Casey

Patrick "Paddy" Casey is an Ireland singer-songwriter from Dublin. From an early age he spent a great deal of his time learning his craft by busking on the streets of Dublin and Galway....
 and The Rapture.

Born in June 1951 in Rinteln
Rinteln

Rinteln is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the banks of the Weser river above the Porta Westfalica. Population: 28,500....
 near Hanover
Hanover

Hanover or Hannover#Definitions , on the river Leine, is the capital city of the Federal states of Germany of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the House of Hanover, in their dignities as the dukes of Brunswick-L?neburg ....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, in an army hospital, his father being placed with the RAF there. Paul then was sent to boarding school in Ireland in 1961: the Clongowes Wood College
Clongowes Wood College

Clongowes Wood College is a private secondary boarding school for boys, located near Clane in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1814, it is one of Ireland's oldest Catholic schools, and featured prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man....
, run by the Jesuits.






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Paul McGuinness is the main shareholder and founder of Principle Management Limited: an artist management company based in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
, Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, which has managed U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
 from the start of their successful career. He is the manager of U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
, PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician and songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, England, Harvey formed an eponymous band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan....
, Art of Noise, Paddy Casey
Paddy Casey

Patrick "Paddy" Casey is an Ireland singer-songwriter from Dublin. From an early age he spent a great deal of his time learning his craft by busking on the streets of Dublin and Galway....
 and The Rapture.

Born in June 1951 in Rinteln
Rinteln

Rinteln is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the banks of the Weser river above the Porta Westfalica. Population: 28,500....
 near Hanover
Hanover

Hanover or Hannover#Definitions , on the river Leine, is the capital city of the Federal states of Germany of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the House of Hanover, in their dignities as the dukes of Brunswick-L?neburg ....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, in an army hospital, his father being placed with the RAF there. Paul then was sent to boarding school in Ireland in 1961: the Clongowes Wood College
Clongowes Wood College

Clongowes Wood College is a private secondary boarding school for boys, located near Clane in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1814, it is one of Ireland's oldest Catholic schools, and featured prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man....
, run by the Jesuits. He then went on to Trinity College
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
 in Dublin but was unable to take the exams as he hadn't attended lectures. After his parents unsuccessful attempt to get him enrolled at University of Southampton
University of Southampton

The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley....
, he returned to Trinity to finish the third year.

His career has been spent working in the entertainment industry and he is well known throughout the world in both the film and music business.

McGuinness holds numerous directorships including TV3
TV3 Ireland

TV3 Ireland is a television channel in Republic of Ireland, and was the country's first commercial broadcaster. TV3, along with other properties are a part of the TV3 Group - which also owns TV3's sister channel 3e....
 and Ardmore Studios
Ardmore Studios

Ardmore Studios is a film studio in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland which was opened by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Se?n Lemass on May 12, 1958....
. He is a board member of Digital Hub Development Agency and of the School of Film and Drama at University College Dublin. He is also a member of the Phantom FM
Phantom FM

Phantom 105.2 is a Dublin based radio station, originally founded in 1996 as a pirate radio station. Phantom broadcasts under a sound broadcasting contract from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland....
 consortium that in November 2004 secured a broadcasting licence for alternative rock music radio station in the Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
 area.

He has previously been a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, serving on three successive Arts Councils, from 1989 until 2000. He was also a member of The Millennium Committee and the Content Advisory Group of the Information Society Commission (the Commission, an independent advisory body to the Irish Government, was disbanded at the end of 2004).

On January 28, 2008, in a speech at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes, McGuinness called on governments to compel ISPs to introduce mandatory "three strike" service disconnections to end unauthorized downloading, and specifically accused companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook of building "multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it", and of being "makers of burglary kits" who have made "a thieve's charter" to steal money from the music industry.

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