Niamh_Saoirse
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
Homes is certainly where the heart is for Ali hewson and Bono, which might explain why they are "seriously thinking" about splashing out $ 14.7 million for a two-bedroom apartment overlooking Central Park in New York. Ali, who confirmed the story for us, didn't explain what they will do with the $3.4 million apartment bought there in 2001. but it does make you wonder about the brouhaha over the Double Edge question to Bono concerning the apartment, at the Meteor awards press conference last month. ( Let's hope that questions will be allowed when Bono addresses the World Newspaper Congress in dublin in June.) But that's water under the bridge over troubled waters ( or whatever it is they say), and charity does begin at homes.
Last weekend, Ali and Paul kelly ( BT MD, as if he needed letters after his name) announced that January's Brown Thomas fashion show raised an incredible ? 670.000 for charity. And let's not forget ( and thankfully she doesn't) the charity that's closest to Ali's heart - next Saturday being the 17th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion.
Ali, Bono, concert promoter Denis Desmon and 2 irish dentists are running the Tooth Fairy Ball, which will be held at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, on May 23rd to raise ? 200.000 for a dental clinic in Africa.
Not surprising then, after the charity party's over, Ali and Bono need to retreat ( for Gallic a shrug or two, no doubt) to their French home, where they spend every summer. Ah Bono, forget taking Manhattan. You need only look at your wife for a lesson in the nobility of meritocracy.
2 bedrooms and 4 kids, not even practical!
Way to improve our quality of life Bono! 
... and there's a lot of trash in NYC...
I could shore put that money t'better use! If I ever hit oil on my place I'll show ye!
