Bono urges crowd to dig deep for homeless

The musicians here put on a show of top quality music for over 2 hours. It's fair enough to ask the crowd to throw a tenner into the Simon boxes. It was a busk for Simon.

Joined by another hypocrite Glen Hansard.
Oh lets break into this vacant building and begin squatting here and claim we are solving the housing crisis.

sugarman wrote: »

Exactly, another non issue but a chance to have a bit of outrage and a pop at Bono and co.

In fairness Nobby is very hypocritical in his pronouncements. He gets ridiculed for reason. It's hard to find an Irish pop/rock figure as wealthy, but for example let's say the late Dolores O'Riordan, she wasn't perfect, like us all, but she wasn't a hypocrite on issues of poverty and wealth.

The annual look at us! Look at us! Won't someone please LOOK AT US (oh and help the poor people) lecture/concert. I'm really sick of them all at this point. And most of the people who watch this sh1te in Grafton Street every year are as bad. One lad I know goes in there every year specifically to catch the gig and he wouldn't give to charity if it was to aid his own mother.

Anyway I wonder how much of the money raised on Monday in the buckets will actually reach those who need it once fundraising fees, marketing, administration and wages are taken out of it. By all means give financially to charities but always make sure they are local and all the money goes to the people who actually need it not to the staff in the office of the "charity". I avoid any of those with the high profile CEOs on 6 figure salaries and/or their name over the door.

I'll never understand how U2 were ever a success. Their music is mediocre at best.

Bono seeks attention that is all he needs all the attention of everyone all the time.

Abby Lively Xerox wrote: »

Why pay more taxes than you legally have to ?

It's not like the taxes the government already take in are used to solve homelessness.

The State spends close to 150m pa on the Dublin Region Homelessness.

Folks, the music isn't the debate in this thread. Forget about that, it's irrelevant to the argument.

Bono should zip it. For every one person he encourages to give to the homeless, I'd say he turns five people off doing it. Same for Glen Whatshisname.