Could it be true.

[Jakubclaret]

https://www.irishpost.com/news/jon-bon- ... ild-194681
Thoughts?

[SammyBoy]

I think the real question is "does anybody really care?".

[Jakubclaret]

Some people might I certainly do, would explain why he was out of control back in the day if he had anger issues.

[GodIsADeeJay81]

Apparently where Bono grew up was nowhere near any aggro.

[jojomk1]

John Bon Jovi, Bono and Orangemen

Think someone's been at the waccy baccy

Worse still - he's been Tango'd

[Jakubclaret]

Apparently where Bono grew up was nowhere near any aggro.

True, but is it a possibility they strayed onto Bono’s patch targeting the catholic’s stirring up trouble, both sides hated each other in every shape & form the 1s involved with the violence.

[jojomk1]

FFS !!!!!!

I thought we had signed someone

[GandalfsBeard]

Bono has the biggest collection of hatchbacks in the country

[GodIsADeeJay81]

True, but is it a possibility they strayed onto Bono’s patch targeting the catholic’s stirring up trouble, both sides hated each other in every shape & form the 1s involved with the violence.

It's possible but he was raised in Dublin so I couldn't tell you the likelihood of the Orange men beating up Catholic kids there.

[Quickenthetempo]

Is there a kid alive that hasn't been beaten up at some stage?

[Jakubclaret]

Is there a kid alive that hasn't been beaten up at some stage?

I wasn't questioning that as a playground spat as we all have, it was more to do with armed militia causing violence over sectarian belief's, not kids chasing each other with catapults I'm talking AK47s or whatever rifles they used.

[TheFamilyCat]

Bono has the biggest collection of hatchbacks in the country

I heard it was hunchbacks

[claretonthecoast1882]

Deserved it for that bag of shite album that was sneaked into peoples account without being asked

[TVC15]

Sounds like he was close to The Edge

[fidelcastro]

He still hasn't found what he's looking for.

[FactualFrank]

FFS !!!!!!

I thought we had signed someone

I sense that was the idea.

[4:20]

Another time, another place, I think.

[Woonderbah]

Bono has the biggest collection of hatchbacks in the country

And he singlehandedly saved the stapler industry from the brink with his catchy 'Use 2' slogan

[HahaYeah]

Can't stand Bongo, his breathy vocals ruined a good band!

[Rowls]

There's a nice little example of understatement in the article, if you enjoy that kind of thing.

[Rowls]

Having worked in an Irish pub for well over 3 years it's not uncommon for North Americans to make these kind of faux pas.

[JohnMac]

Orangemen parading in the ROI?

[Jakubclaret]

Orangemen parading in the ROI?

This is far later than the alleged bono assault, a love ulster parade marked with trouble.

https://youtu.be/nkqX87tK1Hg

[criminalclaret]

It's laughable nonsense

I live not far away from where he grew up (Clontarf) it
is and always has been a very well-to-do area.

More chance of finding Rovers fans in Padiham than Orange order protestants in Dublin.

Either he's talking shite or Bon Jovi is getting confused between Belfast and Dublin.

Or maybe he meant Rory Gallagher but thought it was Bono.

Either ways, it's total shite

[kritichris]

He was probably tangoed and didn't realise it.

[Bosscat]

Sounds like he was close to The Edge

Well you would be ... fancy being named after a bleeding dog biscuit

[rdp2eps]

It's laughable nonsense

I live not far away from where he grew up (Clontarf) it
is and always has been a very well-to-do area.

More chance of finding Rovers fans in Padiham than Orange order protestants in Dublin.

Either he's talking shite or Bon Jovi is getting confused between Belfast and Dublin.

Or maybe he meant Rory Gallagher but thought it was Bono.

Either ways, it's total shite

There is an active Dublin and Wicklow Orange Lodge .. I do agree that there is almost no chance that they menaced young Mr Hewson in Clontarf

[elwaclaret]

Bono is the product of old style Sectarian histories... where there was good guys and bad guys, like all of us of that generation. Post modernised histories concentrate less on “the truth” and explains there are always more than one truth and usually several often contradictory truths to any political or sectarian Argument. Only dates are set in stone.

It will make Ireland a much more understanding place, given time.

[rdp2eps]

Bono is the product of old style Sectarian histories... where there was good guys and bad guys, like all of us of that generation. Post modernised histories concentrate less on “the truth” and explains there are always more than one truth and usually several often contradictory truths to any political or sectarian Argument. Only dates are set in stone.

It will make Ireland a much more understanding place, given time.

Indeed it does and advanced study has always considered competing themes ... differing perspectives ... change and continuity but we are all about decolonising the curriculum just now

[elwaclaret]

Indeed it does and advanced study has always considered competing themes ... differing perspectives ... change and continuity but we are all about decolonising the curriculum just now

Have to say I’ve found my course at Preston very much based on Empire, just looking at it from every angle.

[rdp2eps]

Yes and there is nothing wrong with that to be fair ... people assume we are trying to deny or downplay our past but I don’t see it that way ... more a case of giving a voice to those we haven’t always listened to ...

As well as ,much more so than instead of, our traditional view ...

Mind you I specialise in 20th century history particularly The Cold War in Europe ... Empires of the mind etc

Are you studying a degree course ?

[elwaclaret]

Yes and there is nothing wrong with that to be fair ... people assume we are trying to deny or downplay our past but I don’t see it that way ... more a case of giving a voice to those we haven’t always listened to ...

As well as much rather than instead of our traditional view ...

Mind you I specialise in 20th century history particularly The Cold War in Europe ... Empires of the mind etc

Are you studying a degree course ?

Yes, History /Lit combined majoring in History.
You would have been useful for the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis Slechinger segment lol

[rdp2eps]

I had to read page after page on the Hungarian communist party during my study ... boring beyond belief and largely unpronounceable to non-Hungarians ... post-war Germany is my main interest these days

[elwaclaret]

I had to read page after page on the Hungarian communist party during my study ... boring beyond belief and largely unpronounceable to non-Hungarians ... post-war Germany is my main interest these days

I’m very lucky I’m currently doing Riots and Rebellions, with Peterloo expert Robert Poole.

[rdp2eps]

Sounds good , always a good thing when you’ve got access to the author ... when I did my A levels back in the early 1980s my History teacher had written the text book .. I remain suitably impressed . One of my second year degree modules covered the long- nineteenth century I enjoyed that period I must admit ... I taught an Industrial Revolution online session recently on Teams that began with a brief overview of Peterloo ... chartism ... cotton riots etc only touched on that period quite briefly though as background to what came next

Enjoy