Bono urges crowd to dig deep for homeless

Logo · 26-12-2018 10:43pm #1

Speaks for itself

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bono-urges-crowd-to-dig-deep-for-the-homeless-as-he-leads-christmas-eve-busk-in-dublin-37656371.html

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/is-it-fair-to-label-bono-a-hypocrite-over-his-tax-affairs-or-is-hypocrisy-just-a-part-of-life-36305907.html

_Brian · 26-12-2018 10:45pm

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.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 26-12-2018 10:46pm

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

DrumSteve · 26-12-2018 10:46pm

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.

Rubberchikken · 26-12-2018 10:49pm

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.

jpm4 · 26-12-2018 10:49pm

_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?

q85dw7osi4lebg · 26-12-2018 10:49pm

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.

Logo · 26-12-2018 10:49pm

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

colm_mcm · 26-12-2018 10:51pm

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.

Wheeliebin30 · 26-12-2018 10:51pm

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.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 26-12-2018 10:51pm

jpm4 wrote: »

You done much to help the homeless recently?

Paid taxes.

enfant terrible · 26-12-2018 10:53pm

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

_Brian · 26-12-2018 10:53pm

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.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 26-12-2018 10:53pm

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.

odyssey06 · 26-12-2018 10:55pm

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.

_Brian · 26-12-2018 10:55pm

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

Defaulter1831 · 26-12-2018 10:55pm

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.

Logo · 26-12-2018 10:56pm

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.

jpm4 · 26-12-2018 10:57pm

_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.

26-12-2018 10:58pm

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

Yamanoto · 26-12-2018 10:59pm

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.

Defaulter1831 · 26-12-2018 11:00pm

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.

EdgeCase · 26-12-2018 11:01pm

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.

_Brian · 26-12-2018 11:01pm

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.

SEPT 23 1989 · 26-12-2018 11:04pm

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

Logo · 26-12-2018 11:05pm

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

Franz Von Peppercorn · 26-12-2018 11:07pm

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.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 26-12-2018 11:09pm

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.

Gimme A Pound · 26-12-2018 11:09pm

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.

orourkeda1977 · 26-12-2018 11:10pm

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.

P_1 · 26-12-2018 11:10pm

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

Dillosk412 · 26-12-2018 11:13pm

_Brian wrote: »

Perhaps if the super rich paid a fair share of taxes more funding could be circulated where it’s needed.

If the phenomenally generous tax free allowance of over €18,000 was reduced to €15,000 (and it would still be one of the highest tax free limits in the world) the amount of extra cash would put any potential tax from the wealthy into the hapenny place.

And if the massive amount of money spent on duplication of administration in the literally dozens of "homeless" charities was channelled into homes, the number of homeless would drop dramatically.

The homeless charities have their own agenda. Sorting out the issue is not on it.

Logo · 26-12-2018 11:13pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

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

And the goberment can only redistribute finances based on tax paying citizens paying their fair share

Arthur Daley · 26-12-2018 11:15pm

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.

Dakota Dan · 26-12-2018 11:18pm

DrumSteve wrote: »

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.

What are their families doing? A lot of homeless are that way because of their addiction to drugs.

GMSA · 26-12-2018 11:18pm

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.

Dillosk412 · 26-12-2018 11:21pm

GMSA wrote: »

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.

At least he had the balls to say it was a mistake and he regrets he got involved with that shower of political union publicity seekers who had the keys to their luxury, heated and empty office building on Fitzwilliam Square.

Gimme A Pound · 26-12-2018 11:27pm

P_1 wrote: »

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

Why didn't the working class masses do so?

ted1 · 26-12-2018 11:28pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Paid taxes.

So has Bono , the company is registered in the Netherlands he is not.

Defaulter1831 · 26-12-2018 11:31pm

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.

mikemac2 · 26-12-2018 11:31pm

Logo wrote: »

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

This seems to happen quite a bit. A Ballymun address magically turns into Glasnevin :pac:

Cedarwood Road was part of a new estate in Ballymun when Bono was born in 1960. It remains a thoroughly respectable location (now Glasnevin)

touts · 26-12-2018 11:32pm

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.

ted1 · 26-12-2018 11:32pm

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.

The article is wrong in many cases.
Can Morrison’s wife lived in Dalkey he never did. The edges house is very out of date , me moved out of that one and into another one off killiney hill years before it was written

AllForIt · 26-12-2018 11:35pm

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

nullzero · 26-12-2018 11:36pm

Simply put, until Bono gives away the majority of his enormous fortune to the charitable causes he champions, he doesn't get to guilt trip the rest of us paycheck to paycheck strugglers into giving our money away.

As for his band, they should have given up twenty years ago.

RobbingBandit · 26-12-2018 11:39pm

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

P_1 · 26-12-2018 11:45pm

Priscilla Flabby Dusk wrote: »

Why didn't the working class masses do so?

Because only the middle class "yeah I'm liberal, sure didn't I buy a repeal jumper" twats who go to these things just to be seen at them only got it.

Heaven forbid they actually cause a scene, loike omg that would be totes morto.

Gimme A Pound · 26-12-2018 11:46pm

AllForIt wrote: »

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

Bland is popular, but in their early days that weren't bland imo. They did some brilliant stuff between '79 and '87 I think.

rtron · 26-12-2018 11:47pm

Poor auld Bono, he must have missed the news. The housing minister is going to sort out the homeless(ness) crisis.
No need for him to waste his time busking about it.
Still though nice thought.

Gimme A Pound · 26-12-2018 11:48pm

P_1 wrote: »

Because only the middle class "yeah I'm liberal, sure didn't I buy a repeal jumper" twats who go to these things just to be seen at them only got it.

Heaven forbid they actually cause a scene, loike omg that would be totes morto.

Really annoying the way it's become fashionable to have a go at middle-class people. Much of the time by middle-class people.

SEPT 23 1989 · 26-12-2018 11:55pm

AllForIt wrote: »

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

If you are old enough to remember them at their peak they were one of the best

We had a load of things peak late 80's early 90's in this country

In the arts and in sport

Won't happen again

Bono urges crowd to dig deep for homeless

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