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U2: The Virtual Road, a series of four concerts broadcast
for 48 hours only.
U2: The Virtual Road also marks the first time that three of these concerts – Slane, Red Rocks and Mexico – have been made available digitally.
The first concert will broadcast on St. Patrick s Day, March
th 2021.
U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle celebrates the band s return to the legendary Irish concert site on September 1
st 2001 for their first performance on the banks of the River Boyne in over twenty years. And in an exclusive YouTube performance,
Dermot Kennedy will open the show with a solo performance recorded last week outside Los Angeles.
Bono wants a major rethink on U.S. foreign policy regarding Africa. The Dubliner and frontman for U2 feels that aid can work but only if the burden of debt is removed, and he took his argument to U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill.
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When Bob Geldof roused the Western world out of indifference about starvation in Ethiopia, much was made of the fact that he was Irish. The general wisdom suggested he understood the Ethiopian plight because he shared a folk memory of famine. The Dubliner insisted his response was purely humanitarian, but no one could deny that the Boomtown Rat was somehow following an established path between Ireland and Africa.