starsgoblue
Blue Crack Addict
Well ladies...you have already heard my empassioned cries for justice over "The Rip Heard 'Round The World" from the TOTP performance....I was inclined to blame the entire incident on the bedazzled jacket but now I'm not so sure....I found this news article:
Bono to autograph Clairin’s most prized possession
By Marion O’Mara
October 15th, 2004
THE tattered remains of a shirt ripped off U2’s Bono as the band played to a frenzied audience at Waterford Regional College (WIT) in 1980, was sent to Dublin yesterday to be autographed by the international superstar himself.
The two sleeves are missing from the shirt, so are a couple of buttons and while its turquoise and maroon colours are a bit faded it is the most prized possession of Clairin Jackman from Knockboy village, on the outskirts of the city.
The remains of the shirt have been carefully folded in brown paper for the past twenty-four years and, like Clairin, have moved house a couple of times. Now, her happiness would be complete if she could get her idol to autograph the shirt for her. Recently Clairin, who is a member of the pop duo called Cloud Nine, enlisted the help of 2Fm’s Gerry Ryan to secure the autograph and yesterday the shirt was in double bubble wrap waiting to be sent to Dublin by registered post for the prized signature. Clairin explained that twenty four years ago she was asked by a friend to go to the Regional College to hear the band who were playing their first Waterford gig.
“I had heard about the band but had not heard them play live and naturally I jumped at the chance to see them,” she said. During the concert the over enthusiastic crowd literally tore the shirt off Bono’s back. Clairin ended up with the body of the shirt and her friend got the two sleeves. “The roadies took the shirt off me but when Bono saw what happened he took it off them and gave it back to me,” she told the Waterford News & Star. “He then let us watch the rest of the gig from the back of the stage,” she added.
A number of years later, she met Bono again at a bikers’ rally in Waterford and when she told him about the shirt he said he would autograph it but one thing led to another and the promise was never fulfilled.
With the help of Gerry Ryan that’s about to change and, who knows, the man himself might even find the time for a personal delivery of the prized possession for the fan who counts One among her all time favourite U2 songs.
http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=15951
I think there is more to the coincidences of Bono and shirt-ripping than meets the eye....
(I wish I was there to see Bono's shirt get ripped off him by rabid future PLEBAns.... what a sight that must have been
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Bono to autograph Clairin’s most prized possession
By Marion O’Mara
October 15th, 2004
THE tattered remains of a shirt ripped off U2’s Bono as the band played to a frenzied audience at Waterford Regional College (WIT) in 1980, was sent to Dublin yesterday to be autographed by the international superstar himself.
The two sleeves are missing from the shirt, so are a couple of buttons and while its turquoise and maroon colours are a bit faded it is the most prized possession of Clairin Jackman from Knockboy village, on the outskirts of the city.
The remains of the shirt have been carefully folded in brown paper for the past twenty-four years and, like Clairin, have moved house a couple of times. Now, her happiness would be complete if she could get her idol to autograph the shirt for her. Recently Clairin, who is a member of the pop duo called Cloud Nine, enlisted the help of 2Fm’s Gerry Ryan to secure the autograph and yesterday the shirt was in double bubble wrap waiting to be sent to Dublin by registered post for the prized signature. Clairin explained that twenty four years ago she was asked by a friend to go to the Regional College to hear the band who were playing their first Waterford gig.
“I had heard about the band but had not heard them play live and naturally I jumped at the chance to see them,” she said. During the concert the over enthusiastic crowd literally tore the shirt off Bono’s back. Clairin ended up with the body of the shirt and her friend got the two sleeves. “The roadies took the shirt off me but when Bono saw what happened he took it off them and gave it back to me,” she told the Waterford News & Star. “He then let us watch the rest of the gig from the back of the stage,” she added.
A number of years later, she met Bono again at a bikers’ rally in Waterford and when she told him about the shirt he said he would autograph it but one thing led to another and the promise was never fulfilled.
With the help of Gerry Ryan that’s about to change and, who knows, the man himself might even find the time for a personal delivery of the prized possession for the fan who counts One among her all time favourite U2 songs.
http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=15951
I think there is more to the coincidences of Bono and shirt-ripping than meets the eye....
(I wish I was there to see Bono's shirt get ripped off him by rabid future PLEBAns.... what a sight that must have been
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That said pic was far too graphic to post...
See, if I did end up getting one of Edge's shirts I would make sure he wasn't sweaty! YUCK! PIT SWEAT 
oublepost:
COS is a very serious and dibilitating disorder. I might need to witness an "outburst" firsthand to confirm what my premlinary diagnostics are indicating....purely for scientific purposes. 
didnt even realize!
(thoughts drifting to Bono skin...)
