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Bono urges crowd to dig deep for homeless

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  • 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.


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


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


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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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  • 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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Logo




  • 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.


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


    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.


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


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

    Paid taxes.


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  • 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?


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,127 ✭✭✭✭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)



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


    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


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • 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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  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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


  • 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


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


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


    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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  • 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?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 42 Dillosk412


    _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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 711 ✭✭✭Logo


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,771 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 281 ✭✭GMSA


    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.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 42 Dillosk412


    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.


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


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,649 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Paid taxes.

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Defaulter1831


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Logo wrote: »

    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)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,649 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,477 ✭✭✭AllForIt


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    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.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


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


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


    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.


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


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭rtron


    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.


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


    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.


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


    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


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