U2′s Bono: Capitalism is only way to end poverty

 

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I actually agree with him on this one. -_-

BONO GETS IT (FINALLY)

 

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We’ve had the privilege of seeing U2 live in concert on several occasions, most recently when the band swung through the American Southland on its 360 tour three years ago (concert review here).

 

Our founding editor grew up on U2 … and has loved them ever since scooping up the band’s War album on vinyl when he was only nine years old.

 

And while we haven’t always agreed with U2′s lead singer Bono – he’s been a champion for increasing foreign aid to developing nations (which we oppose) – we have always respected the passion with which he has advanced his beliefs. A lot of U2 fans don’t like Bono’s activism, but whether you agree with him or not – his ONE foundation has emerged as one of the most potent celebrity activist organizations in the world.

 

And unlike knee-jerk lefties like George Clooney, Bono has emerged as one of the most thoughtful, credible celebrity activists in the world.

 

That’s why we were pleased to see Bono’s recent remark during a speech at Georgetown University …

 

“Aid is just a stopgap,” he said. “Commerce (and) entrepreneurial capitalism take more people out of poverty than aid.”

 

We wholeheartedly concur …

 

Obviously this is just one remark in one speech – and to our knowledge Bono hasn’t repudiated his longstanding support for foreign aid. But this underlying acknowledgment – that market forces, not government intervention, drives economic growth – is a critical recognition on his part. In fact we would argue government intervention – including foreign aid – only makes things worse.

 

Looking for some statistical evidence to back up that assertion? Check out this excellent column written on the subject last spring by Howard Rich.

 

Anyway, we’re glad Bono has at least acknowledge this immutable economic reality. Let’s hope it’s the first of many similar steps in his evolution as a thinker.

 

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"What has Mick is simply monumental"

 

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A congratulatory 70th Anniversary of the Rolling Stones singer: U2 frontman Bono reveals why he thinks his colleagues Mick Jagger for the Steven Spielberg of rock and loves each of his wrinkles. From Martin Scholz

 

 

When U2 made ​​their first appearance in 1978, the Rolling Stones were already part of the establishment of the rock . Unlike the Stones, the Irish did not talk about sex-and-drugs-stories of themselves, rather by their missionary zeal with which they hertrugen their sense of political mission ahead. With bombastic rock-'n'-roll productions but it brought both to the championship. This respect are Mick Jagger and U2 singer Bono also competitors. Above all, they are friends. Their paths have crossed many times, they held each other eulogies, met in the studio and on the stage again and again. Recently in 2009 at Madison Square Garden when Jagger U2 with the Stones classic "Gimme Shelter" and later sang in the same constellation of the U2 hit "Stuck in a Moment".

 

The World: Bono, is it true that you are asleep as a young man when visiting your first Rolling Stones concert?

 

Bono: That's right. That was at Madison Square Garden in New York. But I'm asleep, not because of the Stones, but the fact that I had arrived on the day just from the other side of the world in New York. In the evening, I had just the jet lag to its knees.

 

The World: A Rolling Stones concert is not exactly quiet, you have to be pretty exhausted to fall asleep in the background noise can.

 

Bono: Even if now might sound strange: I can basically fall asleep quickly when properly loud music. I'm already at a concert of Sonic Youth weggenickt. This has nothing to do with the music, but rather with my level of exhaustion. The Stones concert I felt at that time in any case be very exciting - up to the time when I fell asleep. I remember what I felt when I did the first time you saw the band live. I thought to myself, "Okay, Bill Wyman is the mother, the father, Charlie Watts And then there are her three unruly children Mick, Keith and Ron, as the forward run around the edge of the stage.."

 

Bono: I think that was in 1983 in a recording studio in New York. I still remember the gulf which he wore - a navy blue jacket, this elegant sailing shoes. He seemed very English to me and old-fashioned - in a good, traditional sense. Anyway, there was a very different Mick Jagger in front of me than the one he usually loose on his audience and I thought I knew. This discrepancy between appearance and reality had puzzled me at the time. This should, when we met me in the later years again and again, friends were, more often go like this.

 

The World: On 26 July Jagger is 70 years old. He was until recently several weeks on tour. What goes through your mind when you see that this man still runs more than two hours on stage, dancing without ceasing, wriggles and sings, as he has, well, makes 50 years?

 

Bono: You know, there are many things I admire about him. He looks a bit like Baryshnikov, like a ballet dancer from another time. At the same time Mick still has a very beautiful face. All the wrinkles that run through it now, have made ​​it even more beautiful. Why? Because he wears those wrinkles well. You just stand him to shame. I love his wrinkles.

 

The World: On the one hand we have become accustomed to, that once rebellious rock stars are old as the hills and keep making music. On the other hand, this is the older they are accompanied by increasingly urgent questions about how long that will continue to go or something more cynical: when is finally closing it. And at no icon to the arts section has been processed in such as to Jagger, this best-agers of rock. In his 60th Birthday there was a mixture of awe and wonder. Blues and jazz musicians , even people like Joe Cocker , may be old without a vote of the public. Jagger at each time seems to ask the question again. Why?

 

Bono: It has something to do with the fact that he is still so incredibly fit. And to achieve that, he works extremely disciplined. His father was physical education teacher that has influenced him too. But he not only keeps his body in shape, he has also managed to make his voice sounds powerful as before. Even that does not come by itself, it is connected with a lot of work. He runs the fitness and also his vocal training very seriously. And this iron discipline is also the reason that the Rolling Stones were at that phenomenon they are today times now. Mick has prevented the Stones not as many other great bands came in the 60s and 70s under the wheels. So many great musicians have been swallowed up by the time these riotous times only and then spit it out. The Rolling Stones had been through hard times, including during their disputes with their manager Allen Klein.

 

The World: ... abluchste of them including the copyrights to many important early albums.

 

Bono: Yes, the Stones have then lost a lot of money. But in this turbulent period, there was someone who brought the band back on track - and that was Mick Jagger.

 

The World: What is the biggest caricature of Mick Jagger in the public eye?

 

Bono: There will always despised that he was especially businessman, that there are only going for the money to him. Fact is: He understands the business. Why? Just because the Stones and he lost a lot of money in the beginning. And believe me, in this band now all know that Mick is the reason that they have that level of income that they have now times. Mick knows the other hand, that he is not one of those artistic heights could stand out, which attributed the Stones history without its "Compadres". This is what I so admire about him is that he combines these completely different properties: the creative and the business side. This is rarely the case in musicians. Unlike other artists, such as architects or filmmakers that bring the often under one roof.

 

The World: Steven Spielberg is someone who complains, for example, that he was suffering as a director often creative ideas surplus while he has to take over as producer exactly the opposite part when he primarily defines budgets and urges compliance.

 

Bono: Yes, Spielberg is a good example. Mick is a Spielberg kind of rock. With the difference that it is perceived differently by the public. Because he increased in recent decades and also very successfully took care of the business side, he has also destroyed by this other public image of himself as a carefree bohemian. The idea of the troubadour, who drifts only by the wind or his inspiration. But that's not Mick Jagger. Mick Jagger is rather the Lord of wind and weather.

 

The World: Sounds like a fantasy of omnipotence.

 

Bono: Let me put it this way: Some artists are shaped by the times in which they live, while others mark the times in which they live. Mick belongs to the last category. He has to describe the gift as a songwriter, in a unique way the times in which he lives and lived. Many of his early songs are very deep, very detailed descriptions of the psychological malaise of the '60s - from "Mother's Little Helper" to "Street Fighting Man", with which he was part of the '68 student revolt in Paris.

 

The World: But just "Street Fighting Man" was for a time identified with the singer - which was just one of many mythical transfiguration Mick Jagger of which he has always distanced itself vigorously in recent decades. He himself was never a street fighter and not have been their voice, then he hissed.

 

Bono: Well, he may have outgrown this attitude and the pose. But that's not me: If you now try to get a feel for the spirit of this time, then you have to listen to these songs. They are like little Polaroid photographs. But that is only one facet of his artistic expression. There are also quite different, timeless songs like "Gimme Shelter", whose true meaning is hard to fathom, even today, not yet.

 

The World: With U2 you have tried it when you "Gimme Shelter" in 2009 together with Mick Jagger played at Madison Square Garden - where you once were asleep at the Stones ...

 

Bono: We are there encountered with him on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Not only with him, even with other artists that we admired for a long time, with Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen, for example. I think we have found a new expression for "Gimme Shelter" on the night, it almost sounded a bit Moroccan. I was very relieved that we have got it right. I was again totally exhausted in the samples. We had recently completed the first part of our world tour and not slept in days. We were really incredibly tired ...

 

The World: fatigue often seems to put you in the bones, if you are in a hall with Mick Jagger.

 

Bono: The fatigue was quickly faded when he came to us on the stage. But this is actually an understatement: we had already started with the song, then I turned around and saw him zuwirbelte from the darkness of the stage background on me - like a tornado.

 

The World: What went through your mind at the moment? "Now I have to hand hold and do something spectacular?"

 

Bono: No. I was stunned at first. Then I immediately instinctively squashed me on the other side of the stage and it is signaled: You can have the space, the floor is yours.

 

The World: An appearance as a large predator number in the circus, when you watch lions and tigers in the ring gathered and banned, who extends the claws first.

 

Bono: I just tried to stay out of the way. I looked on the night not really as his duet partner, rather than a kind of buddy who put themselves at the service of others. I wanted the evening works well for him. But who knows, if I had had more sleep, I would have ventured a bit further myself in his presence at the edge of the stage. There are basically only one thing you should never do is, in no case, if you're ever in common with Mick Jagger on stage: dance.

 

The World: What should you do instead?

 

Bono: Just stand there quietly and do not move great - best not to. It was very strange to stand up there, his song to sing with him and watch him so close to this in his element.

 

The World: You talk like a mixture of fan and anthropologist. You are even a stage Zampano, with tens of thousands of beats smallest gestures into its spell. Is blown away at once if Jagger is standing next to you?

 

Bono: I have at the moment actually forgot to perform themselves. I just stood there and sang and looked at him. Mick Jagger loves to dance so. And not just on stage. I am often out with him in clubs. We are hardly in it, he has been dancing with whomever he meets there. It is then completely at ease, completely detached. I met him in moments just before he went on stage. Since then he danced with his daughter. Before he goes on this huge stage and starts singing every time he has to put yourself in the other person, go into this fictional character that happens to have the same names as Mick Jagger. But this is not another person like him. It is like a time, an alter ego. And he must slip into the skin, into wind in this alter ego. The apparently succeeds by dancing. He dances away into another state at that other place.

 

The World: How a shaman?

 

Bono: Yes, that is very shamanic way - and it is very powerful.

 

The World: What is Mick Jagger for you - a friend, an uncle figure or a kind of Yoda, the aged Jedi Master from the "Star Wars" movies, which is more powerful despite his age as his young students?

 

Bono: I have evolved to a friend and back to the fan from the fan. I am glad that I am both today: Become a fan and friend. What he has achieved as a songwriter and showman, is simply monumental. And when I say showman, I do not mean just the front man who sweeps the audience, but also the architect and designer of the show - that's Mick Jagger namely also. What he has achieved, let me kneel reverently. What I like about him as a person, is that he always speaks his mind openly and that he never talks much about himself. He's not a narcissistic person.

 

The World: Really?

 

Bono: I can imagine that surprises you. But Mick Jagger is not a narcissist, not at all. Which we call professional vanity, which he needs as a performer to entertain his audience, has nothing to do with private people. Privately, he is not vain. If I am talking with him, he is more interested in me, what's happening in my life. He is a very attentive listener. The better I got to know him, the more my admiration grew for him, for this profundity that characterizes him. On his last solo album, there was this one song, as was his name? Something with "God gave me everything I want ..."

 

The World: "... I'll give it all to you"

 

Bono: Yeah, I thought it was a very remarkable song because it says a lot about him. We have also recorded together a song on the album, "Joy," he said. I was just on tour with U2, Jagger traveled to me, to Cologne, to be exact, where we took the song in his beautiful castle-like hotel in the forest.

 

The World: Have you learned anything from Mick Jagger?

 

Bono: Yeah, he showed me how to overcome the force of gravity (laughs) and that it is important to always uphold the nose of the aircraft at the start.

 

The World: You were a good student, especially with regard to the business end: The last tour of U2 was loud billboard with a turnover of 793 million dollars and 7.1 million viewers, the most successful rock tours of all time. You have now set the previous record of the Rolling Stones in the shadows with their last tour had 558 million U.S. dollars in sales. How has this rivalry, which claim to want to offer again and again the greatest show on earth, shaped your friendship with him?

 

Bono: We carry this rivalry only on a humorous level. If you're staging big shows for stadiums, people now understand even better than before, that you invest the cost of production in the audience because you want to offer them something.

 

The World: Many came of it like a kind of arms race between U2 and the Rolling Stones. The Stones had a huge, fire-breathing steel Cobra on stage, U2 lodged with the next tour with a steel spaceship in the form of lemon, which acted as a mini-stage for the band. Does rock 'n' roll for the masses such elements Las Vegas show?

 

Bono: I've been back at festivals often enough where I only saw a little bit and heard nothing. This is not good enough to go on an open-air concert for me. Great shows, as we and the Stones they raise, cost a bloody fortune. This also means: You go home with less money and are bidding for it more for the fans.

 

The World: What do you say to the debate about the much too high ticket prices at the current Stones tour? Prices of up to $ 600 and more have deterred so that some of them some seats remained empty and the band was forced to reduce prices in order not to play in front of half-empty halls even die-hard fans.

 

Bono: That's what I, frankly, did not notice.

 

The World: The are we to believe?

 

Bono: It is so. With U2, I'm currently in a deep black hole, because we are about to finish our new album. Since I do not get much with the outside world. We do not even know at the moment when it will appear. It could be as much in the next few weeks, maybe until the end of the year. We just totally go on in these recordings. We do not want from this process does not wake up, at least until the dream is finished. But to come again to talk to the competition with the Stones: Mick times come to one of our Popmart shows in the 90s, in which the question you lemons spacecraft was used. For me, this is still one of my favorite U2 touring productions. After the concert, Jagger said, then our manager Paul MacGuiness (imitate Jagger's English accent): "Well, that's a bit like Star Wars, right?"

 

The World: Was that a compliment?

 

Bono: How you look at it. He did not mean about the science-fiction movie, but Reagan's vision of missile defense in space, with which he wanted to against the Soviet Union the evil empire, shield.

 

The World: Are you nervous when you know Mick Jagger is at the edge of the stage and looks to?

 

Bono: You bet. I am always very excited when I know that he is watching at our concerts. I want to always be at his best when he is there, and I do not allow any mistake.

 

The World: When he a price for your political commitment handed to you at an MTV award, he joked, he sometimes wonder whether you could walk on water like Jesus. Something annoys you?

 

Bono: Oh where. I know that he takes my political work in the fight against extreme poverty very seriously. He understands what I want and he knows that it's not around my posing. He also knows that we initiate and boxing things with our organization, "One" and in cooperation with other NGOs. And he knows very well that a caricature of me has emerged in the public eye through this work. But since he himself was also often made ​​out to be a cartoon, he knows how misleading may be those cartoons.

 

The World: The photographer Anton Corbijn Jagger how often staged - and enables unusual ways of looking at both of you. So he showed you and him once in women's clothes. What he wanted us to say: Even Rampensäue have a feminine side?

 

Bono: If you want to see it that way. Even more important than these images, however, are my mask photos that Anton made ​​by us and the Stones. I love these photos of the masked Stones - although he has made ​​with us a few years ago. But I did not care, it did not bother me at all nothing that resembled the pictures.

 

The World: Aside from the turnovers and the pleasure of megalomania - which connects you with Mick Jagger, U2 with the Stones?

 

Bono: Robert Hilburn, the great music critic of the "Los Angeles Times" has come up with exactly this question also busy times and came to the following conclusion. The Rolling Stones, he wrote, give you a sense of who you really are. And if you see U2 live, they trigger in you a good feeling of the people, which is just next to you (laughs). That was a fun time typing. The Stones and we, we both have a soft spot for the big carnival for shows in which the goal is nothing less than death and resurrection. Jagger and I are both shamans, we show men.

 

The World: Even an idea for a gift for his 70th Birthday?

 

Bono: I'd like to see him on the day and hope that it works. And then I would like to carry his guitar case. I was once one of his birthday parties. Which is still remembered me. Since he has to be 50 or 55 become, I do not remember it exactly. The ceremony took place in the south of France, at the home of Johnny Pigozzi.

 

The World: The French businessman and art collector.

 

Bono: Yes. Since playing a group of traveling musicians. I was stupid enough to join them for a moment and sing along. I do not remember exactly who still disagreed with, anyway, I was singing a kind of slow-motion version of "Satisfaction". So slowly did the song no one has ever sung in front of me (starts singing): I. ..... caaaaaannnnn't geeeeeet nooooooooo ...... "

 

The World: So you sing the song with perhaps 90

 

Bono: I thought it was funny to roar. Sometime a certain Mick with me, sang as slow as I am. That was an unforgettable celebration - for many reasons.

 

The World: What happened to?

 

Bono: When I had the opportunity once again realized how old-fashioned and traditional Michael Philip Jagger is. I overheard a heated debate between him and Jerry Hall. It was about whether the friend of her daughters that night could stay with her. I thought that was just great. The two stood there, like all the other parents in moments like these - the best parents in the world flat. When it comes to important things like his family, his children, then Mick Jagger is old school, very old school. Very strict, very English. Just lovely.

 

The World: There are many Stones songs that deal with the progress of time: "What a drag it is getting old", Jagger sang "Mother's Little Helper" and later "Time Is On My Side", and finally "Time Waits For No One ". Which song best fits the almost 70-year-olds, as you know him?

 

Bono: I would say, "Time Is On My Side" has nevertheless turned out to be very prophetic line. No one would ever have guessed that one would be so much time on his side. He himself least of all. Quite funny: The heroes of the Rolling Stones were almost exclusively old black blues musicians. What was an interesting anachronism, because they themselves were young white musicians at that time. Meanwhile, a circle appears to have closed: Every scar, every bruise, every wrinkle on their faces, every gray hair makes them better. As I see it. I am very grateful that "time on his side" is that he is still there, we should all be grateful.

 

The World: Did Mick Jagger ever tell you that you are asleep during one of his concerts?

 

Bono: No, what are you thinking! I try not to tie it possible colleagues on the nose, when I fell asleep during one of her concerts.

 

 

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.Bono with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia.

 

Bono interrupted his vacation to travel to Monrovia, capital of Liberia, as co-founder of ONE.

 

On Monday, with the delegation of U.S. senators, businessmen and artists met with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

 

The president said the important role that USA and Bono (ONE Campaign) had been in debt relief for Liberia. He said he had received support Liberia U.S. Congress had allowed the country to celebrate ten consecutive years of peace and a great progress in rebuilding the economy, and trying to ensure basic services provided to the population .

 

Senator Graham thanked Bono that he would speak of Liberia at the time, so the United States could support the country.

 

Bono declared fan of President Sirleaf, and said she felt as if she had been working for a while: " I'm starting to understand this success that develops here .. This success is not just the president, but also the Cabinet members, who are very intelligent and committed. In Liberia there is this sense of optimism that we can. Others have adopted a more autocratic approach to post-conflict situation .. In Liberia it is a true democracy, it's a beautiful thing to see and very difficult to achieve, and everyone has to believe in it .. and I'll keep working for you. "

 

 

 

Bono at 7 minutes

 

 

 

 

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Seamus Heaney:1939-2013 Bono's tribute

 

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Bono yesterday said he is “absolutely broken- hearted” following the death of his friend and poet Seamus Heaney.

 

The U2 frontman said he was shocked to hear about the 74-year-old’s passing in hospital on Friday.

 

Mr Heaney, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, suffered a short illness.

 

Bono described him as “the quietest storm that ever blew into town” and a “great, great poet” who changed my life”.

 

The star also said he’ll always carry the poet’s words in his heart.

 

He added: “He had kindness in abundance. He has been a companion of mine for many years. I’m absolutely broken- hearted.

 

“He’s not with us physically anymore but I will hold on to his words even more now.

 

“It was very shocking to have him taken away from us so

suddenly.”

 

Bono often gives the works of Mr Heaney to dignitaries when he meets them.

 

He saied: “When I go asking people for things, the great and the good, the presidents and the Pope, I always bring his poetry with me to give them.

 

“His work had that kind of reach. As an activist he was the quietest storm that ever blew into town.

 

“I was involved with him with Amnesty International.

 

“His revolution was not an operatic one but two people sitting at a iamspamamispamwhoamspam table. Kindness is at the heart of it.

 

“In fact, in so many things he was a gentle genius, whose words challenged us with the grit and beauty of life as much as they gave us solace.”

 

Meanwhile, Hollywood star Liam Neeson said Ireland has lost a part of its soul with the death of Mr Heaney.

 

The Co Antrim actor added: “He crafted, through his poetry, who we are as a species and the living soil we toiled in.

 

“By doing so he defined our place in the universe. May he rest in peace”.

 

The funeral of Mr Heaney, who is survived by his wife Marie and his children Christopher, Michael and Catherine Ann, will take place tomorrow.

 

The Mass is to be held at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Donnybrook, South Dublin.

 

The poet will be buried in his native village of Bellaghy, Co Derry.

 

Books of condolence are also due to be opened in Derry and Belfast as well as Mansion House in Dublin tomorrow.

 

A celebration of Mr Heaney’s life and works last night sold out within hours.

 

There was a full house at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre for the hour-long free event.

 

It included tributes, readings and musical performances.

 

Meanwhile, Martin McGuinness was among people who gathered in Derry yesterday to sign a book of condolence for Mr Heaney.

 

The North’s Deputy First Minister paid tribute at the Guildhall by penning a quote from the writer’s poem ‘The Cure of Troy’.

 

Speaking afterwards, the Sinn Fein chief said: “This is an emotional time for the city, county and whole country.

 

“Ireland is mourning probably its greatest star and there is a deep sense of sadness at the death of a national treasure. There is a great sense of loss about the death of a man who rose from humble beginnings in Bellaghy to someone

who contributed to global literature.”

 

 

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Post one of his most famous poems, Tess . ^_^

:angel:

 

Tanaiste invites Bono for chat about tax

 

 

 

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TANAISTE Eamon Gilmore has invited Bono to drop into his constituency office if he wants to discuss the Government's tax policy.

 

 

The U2 frontman has given his most comprehensive defence of the band's controversial decision to move their business overseas to legitimately avoid paying tax.

 

Labour Party rebel TDs yesterday called on U2 to pay all their taxes in Ireland.

 

But Bono says the band's stance is in line with the government policy on "tax competitiveness". He dismissed the critics of the band's policy as "the cranky left".

 

Backed up by her Labour colleagues Patrick Nulty and Tommy Broughan, Roisin Shortall said she welcomed the involvement of Bono and U2 on development aid.

 

"But, you know, I think it's only fair that they should pay their taxes in the country that they are living and where they are from," she said.

 

Ms Shortall said it did undermine Bono's authority "to some extent" on campaigning issues, particularly when the country is going through such difficulties.

 

"Everybody needs to put their shoulder to the wheel in terms of bringing Ireland back to recovery and it would be great to see U2 and Bono playing their full part in that," she added.

 

As he lives in Killiney, Bono is a constituent of Mr Gilmore's in Dun Laoghaire.

 

When asked if he agreed with his constituent's views on where his company pays its tax, Mr Gilmore ducked the question.

 

But he did appear to invite Bono in to talk about tax policy, if he wanted to discuss the issue.

 

"No constituent has come into my constituency clinic to express the views or to put on my table the issue that you have just raised with me.

 

"And if they did I wouldn't talk about it in public anyway because it has always been my practice not to talk about the individual tax matters of individual taxpayers and I think that is the view of the Revenue Commissioners.

 

"If any of my constituents want to talk to me about their tax matters or tax matters relating to their company, my constituency address is 47a Patrick Street, Dun Laoghaire, and I don't believe it's too far from any of the constituents you might be thinking about," he said.

 

Bono's mansion, Temple Hill, on Vico Road in Killiney is just five kilometres away from Mr Gilmore's constituency office.

 

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton refused to comment on U2's tax affairs.

 

"Suffice it to say Ireland has a transparent tax code that applies universally and it is kosher in terms of the way it's structured," he said.

 

"I am not going to comment on individual companies or their tax affairs."

 

 

irishindependent

The cranky left? :lol:

 

Ms Shortall? :unsure:

See Bono's spot-on impression of his old pal Bill Clinton that brought the house down

 

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Link has a video :P http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-24...conference.html

 

 

 

Bono used the knowledge gleaned from his years spent around President Clinton to have a laugh at the Democrat's expense today when the rocker did an impression of the politician.

The U2 frontman was one of the invited guests to speak on a panel at the Clinton Global Initiative event in New York City on Tuesday and when the former President was late to the stage, Bono took over.

The two men have worked together for more than a decade on issues like debt relief and African AIDS medication campaigns, so Bono has had plenty of time to observe the politician's ticks.

 

 

When the former President was late to start a panel discussion at his foundation's annual meeting on Tuesday, Bono took over and did an impression of his Southern drawl

 

All in good fun: Bono joked that Clinton must have mistaken him for a member of his road crew because he was not properly dressed to be in the Oval Office when they first met

 

The Irishman traded in his brogue for a croaky Arkansas drawl and took over the Clinton persona for a minute while the crowd waited for the headliner to arrive and lead the panel and even mimicked the aging President's shaky hands.

'When I first met Bono, he walked into the Oval Office and I actually thought it was a member of his own road crew, [He] wasn’t really dressed right,' Bono said with a thick Southern accent.

 

 

 

 

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U2′s Bono succumbs to Porta Potty while at Venice Beach street festival

 

 

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When nature calls even rock stars have to make do with what’s available.

 

And legendary rocker and humanitarian Bono was no different as he was spotted braving a public Porta Potty on Sunday.

 

The 53-year-old, who’s net worth is estimated at over $600million, was forced to use the less than ideal facilities as he attended the Abbot Kinney Street Festival in the vibrant hipster neighbourhood of Venice Beach, California.

 

 

The iconic U2 frontman was surely in a desperate condition as he appeared to inspect one of the plastic portable toilets with caution.

 

 

 

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My goodness. The shame of it :drama: :drama: :drama:

 

 

 

 

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U2's Bono Asked the Question 'Who is Jesus?' His Answer May Surprise You

 

 

March 27, 2014|11:52 am

 

 

While you can never know what's truly in someone's heart, you can always ask them. In this interview, Bono of legendary Irish act U2 talks about his faith.

 

The interviewer asks the Hall of Fame rocker whether he prays and whom he prays to, and Bono shares about his family's prayer routine.

 

Then comes the kicker: Who is Jesus? Some may be surprised by what he says.