Bono and The Edge on the Late Late Show Busk for Simon special on RTÉ 1 last Friday night
kevin Higgins writes:
I am rededicating this poem to the crawlers and sycophants who (without so much as a critical whisper) joined tax avoiding multimillionaire (and supporter of the political and economic status quo) Bono on last Friday’s Late Late Show Busk for Simon. Shane MacGowan is given special dispensation as he probably thought Bono was Engelbert Humperdinck.
My Wishes For You
That your son at Trinity College
may graduate
to become a rogue gynaecologist.
That his brother, the paediatrician,
be suspended without pay.
That your husband be caught
selling wheelchairs that don’t work
live on national radio. And the day
you discover all of the above, may
the traffic wardens, every one of them,
be East Galway Gestapo. May you lose
your winning ticket,
and the gun not go off
when it’s supposed to.
May your reflux be acid
and your bowel be cranky.
May your water forever be cloudy
and the pharmacy be shut.
May the funeral parlour
refuse you,
and the lies you told haunt you
long after the cat
has made a litter tray of your ashes.
Pic: RTÉ
Bono could put his hand in his pocket and sort the Irish homeless problem in a split second if he wanted to.
Still, keeps him busy I suppose- now that Davos 2021 has been postponed.
So you give all you disposal income to charity ?
I’ll say it again
And get used to it lads
This Celebrity Volunteerism undervalues the 1000s of Volunteer hours given up
Daily
In Ireland alone
Time to call it the insult it is and stop pandering to Celebrities and their entourages
It’s enough that our Government and State Agencies
From the Department of Ed to the HSE do every waking minute
Without RTÉ charging us a licence for them to platform even more Celebrity Volunteers
btw pretty derivative poem
It must be said
How many hours a week do you give to homeless people?
Since you’re asking
An average of 20 hours a week to the Credit Union Movement
Probably 10 more a month to Cooperatives and same charities/ local initiatives (mainly on Governance)
And until 2 and a bit years ago over half my case files were pro-bono housing cases
And yourself?
The credit union has nothing to do with homelessness.
I work on a volunteer (pro-bono) basis for a housing body providing housing for all people on the housing lists, right across the country.
Awful bang of a pissing contest off this thread.
Put it away, lads.
Sorry, I forgot, you can’t call out V.
There’s a pair of yis in it.
No there’s not Mil
I made the point about all Volunteers
ALL Mill
Thinking of Meals and Wheels, Carers, GAA people, Tidy Towns, Charities big and small, School Breakfast Clubs, different Parents Association, and Build New Schools, Food Banks
whatever you’re have yerselves
It was this AnitBo lad that dragged me on by own into it
Who does that remind you off
And btw, I am also involved in a Number of VHAs Bot
GFY
There is a reason I gave up all my housing cases
and you fit the picture Bot
Thanks a lot Broadsheet
…this…although I quite liked the poem/curse…
It eases their quilty conscience .
If you’ve nothing nice duvet….
The all still live here , pay personal tax to do so. They employ a large amount of Irish creatives on the tours , recording , art work !
You are all typical begrudging idiots , they moved their publishing rights to the Netherlands for tax purposes , if companies stopped doing that and moving here we be dirt poor again like the 70’s & 80’s having to leave to get any sort of work.
He’s a touch annoying but from the sound of that poem so’s the mickey who wrote it !
Soft auld targets Bono and his ilk. I say they’ve given plenty to society which isn’t necessarily a pre-requisite though in truth, morally speaking, anyone with an amount of money that exceeds their needs should be ethical in their use and distribution of it.
The merest mention of Bono’s name and there’s a pile-on. How boring and predictable.
U2 are rightly regarded as a superb creative force – though that force waned around about the mid-1990s.
They generated huge interest in Irish artists and performers and in my mind were a catalyst for shaking a lot of people out of the old mentality that we weren’t good enough to compete on the world stage and to the same level as other international notables.
There’s nothing illegal about any of their activities. I don’t care that their publishing arm is in the Netherlands. Why should I? And as for Bono dipping his hand in his pocket and sorting out the homelessness crisis, how trite and poorly considered a comment.. If it was a matter of money it would’ve been sorted out by now.
If it was a matter of money it would’ve been sorted out by now
Pretty sure Peter McVerry would disagree with you on that one..
Bono is starting to look like me ol’ Nana
yeah saw that interview, bit shocked
I’m ageing very well in comparison
The purple sunglasses don’t help.
Imagine if you will a plectrum that fell off Edge’s mic stand 20 years ago and has lain inert in the mud ever since, this redundant plastic nothingness has contributed more to ”the arts” than the entire output of Kevin Higgins and his perma-student mindset.
The only pox here is that poxbottle poem….
Oh, and while I’m at it, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your crotch…
Have you all been inspired by the Mayo curse? Personally, I like the one from The Untouchables (I think) – May you die roaring like a stuck pig.