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Bono urges crowd to dig deep for homeless

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  • #2
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,617 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    And yet isn’t their company registered elsewhere to avoid paying tax here that go towards helping out.

    He needs a hot poker stuck right into his eye, possibly more than once.


  • #3
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The guy has some neck but that's hardly news as he was always the same.


  • #4
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    It’s a good idea to help homeless people especially at this time of year. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

    Well done bono.


  • #5
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    god probably the most boring person on the planet. glen hansard would be second.
    they bang on about homelessness to the point where i couldnt give a flying fig any longer.


  • #6
    jpm4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭jpm4


    _Brian wrote: »
    And yet isn’t their company registered elsewhere to avoid paying tax here that go towards helping out.

    He needs a hot poker stuck right into his eye, possibly more than once.

    You done much to help the homeless recently?


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  • #7
    q85dw7osi4lebg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    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.


  • #8
    Logo
    Registered Users Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Logo


    Why be a hypocrite though
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/bono-brings-it-all-back-home-to-cedarwood-road-1.1933452


  • #9
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    He allegedly has personal wealth of €600 million.

    He could dig deep, give away half his wealth and buy 100 houses.

    He doesn’t have to of course, it’s easier to do this ****e.


  • #10
    Wheeliebin30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30


    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.

    They are actually.


  • #11
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    jpm4 wrote: »
    You done much to help the homeless recently?

    Paid taxes.


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  • #12
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,592 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Which charity gets most of the money to the poor and the least to the bosses of the charities?


  • #13
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,617 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    jpm4 wrote: »
    You done much to help the homeless recently?

    Work with a support group that provides counceling and run a drop in centre, all volunteer ran and supported by fundraising.
    Perhaps if the super rich paid a fair share of taxes more funding could be circulated where it’s needed.


  • #14
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    jpm4 wrote: »
    You done much to help the homeless recently?


    I'd imagine, between taxes and private contributions, many of us pay more as a percentage of our income to relieve the plight of the homeless than Bono.


  • #15
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,116 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    He did a great job helping out the people of Burma, god help the homeless cos Bono sure isn't gonna help anyone with this virtue signalling hypocrisy.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #16
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,617 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    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.

    But only this level of super rich get to choose to register out of the country while the ordinary pleb is like a fish in a barrel


  • #17
    Defaulter1831
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Defaulter1831


    Nobby tells the proletariat what to do whilst not paying tax in his country of birth where said problem is.

    Just fcuk off Nobby, you're just a mouthpiece.


  • #18
    Logo
    Registered Users Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Logo


    https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/property/homes-stars-dublins-celebrities-live-10956129
    Killiney is something of a celebrity hotspot, and just down the road from Enya is
    another obscenely rich Irish musician - good old Bono.

    His family home is in Ballymun on the Northside, but the U2 star lives in a plush Vico Road mansion with his family.


  • #19
    jpm4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭jpm4


    _Brian wrote: »
    Work with a support group that provides counceling and run a drop in centre, all volunteer ran and supported by fundraising.
    Perhaps if the super rich paid a fair share of taxes more funding could be circulated where it’s needed.

    So you'd be happier then if bono did absolutely nothing? Wouldn't help anyone at all then but would make you less angry? And you seem very angry.


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sainthood is imminent, amass considerable wealth and never shell out a penny à la Vatican.


  • #21
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    Logo wrote: »
    https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/property/homes-stars-dublins-celebrities-live-10956129
    Killiney is something of a celebrity hotspot, and just down the road from Enya is
    another obscenely rich Irish musician - good old Bono.

    His family home is in Ballymun on the Northside, but the U2 star lives in a plush Vico Road mansion with his family.

    And?

    FFS.


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  • #22
    Defaulter1831
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Defaulter1831


    Anything to stay relevant with Nobby as U2 age and produce less material and are pretty much out of the limelight at present... despite past, accepted, achievement.

    Nobby, 58, moves into later stages of middle age, any attempt to stay in the limelight.


  • #23
    EdgeCase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭EdgeCase


    The issue is down to very badly broken public policy. The only way you'll sort homelessness here is if politicians start to think it's an election issue.

    Asking people to 'dig deep' won't solve an issue that's being driven by an echo of a failed public policy going all the way back to before the previous housing bubble.


  • #24
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,617 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    jpm4 wrote: »
    So you'd be happier then if bono did absolutely nothing? Wouldn't help anyone at all then but would make you less angry? And you seem very angry.

    I’d be happier if say he or JP McManus paid the same % of their income to the state say as a family earning €80k, maybe that would help allot of people.

    I think it’s hypocritical to tell people alread paying way higher % of their income to “dig deep” to help out.


  • #25
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    He could actually buy houses for all the actual rough sleepers within a five mile radius of that gig and still have a fortune in the bank


  • #26
    Logo
    Registered Users Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Logo


    Honestly can't deny Bono or U2 their fame and fortune. It is well deserved. But it's a bit rich of him to urge crowd to dig deep for the homeless


  • #27
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Logo wrote: »
    https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/property/homes-stars-dublins-celebrities-live-10956129
    Killiney is something of a celebrity hotspot, and just down the road from Enya is
    another obscenely rich Irish musician - good old Bono.

    His family home is in Ballymun on the Northside, but the U2 star lives in a plush Vico Road mansion with his family.

    I don’t like him but his family home is now in killiney. He grew up in ballymun but left.


  • #28
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    jpm4 wrote: »
    So you'd be happier then if bono did absolutely nothing? Wouldn't help anyone at all then but would make you less angry? And you seem very angry.


    He isnf doing anything. He’s asking other people to. Homelessness can only be solved by the government.


  • #29
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    It's his money - he can do what he likes with it... until he starts preaching at others to cough up. He probably has made a donation himself but should leave it at that.


  • #30
    orourkeda1977
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭orourkeda1977


    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.

    Thats an indictment of Government.

    It's not an excuse or justification for tax avoidance and hypocrisy.


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  • #31
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Why didn't the fawning middle class masses not boo the prick when he started busking?


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