Pop Artist said:
He does have two! Cos when you are Bono, you need two to keep up with you. I think Lucy is his assistant on his DATA/political stuff and Catriona on his rock star stuff. Either that or Lucy is his US-based asst. and Catriona Ireland-based, but I think it's by kind of stuff.
Catriona is Bono's Personal Assistant, definitely when he is on tour, but also when he is on speaking engagements like the one that was just held in Washington DC on 3 February 2006.
Going to speaking engagements of Bono's now for over three years, I have seen Bono go through a few different people as Personal Assistants. This is probably because the PA becomes too overwhelmed in fulfilling their professional obligations to one of the world's most famous (and desirable) people or the job doesn't turn out to be what they thought it would be.
From what I have seen of Catriona, she is probably the best PA for Bono that he has had in many years. She seems genuinely concerned about him and his welfare without getting overwhelmed as described above.
Her respect and platonic affection for Bono is obvious, but she seems to know how to contain it so that it doesn't cause problems for her or anyone else.
Lucy Mathew has been the London based director of DATA since DATA's inception in 2002 (with jaime Drummond being the U.S. based director of DATA). Both Lucy and Jaime met Bono around 1998 when they were all working on the Jubilee (Drop the Debt) campaign.
LUCY HAS NEVER BEEN BONO'S PERSONAL ASSISTANT - she has always held a co-equal position within the ranks of DATA along with Jaime and Bono.
Currently, she is taking a lower profile within DATA due to her pregnancy.
I am sure that she will resume her very active position in DATA when she feels ready to.
I hope this helps to clarify things.
I definitely hope that this doesn't lead to more inuuendoes and harmful speculations.
All three of these people (Bono, Catriona and Lucy) are MAGNIFICENT and LOVELY HUMAN BEINGS and they are all very lucky to have each other as friends and professional associates.
I have met all three of them (however briefly) and know what I am speaking about.