The Irish and U2: Why ‘The Guardian’ got it wrong

WHY, OH why did The Guardian have to do it? Why did it have to resort to the type of clichéd hatchet-job it would shake its head at in a less lofty publication?

“Where the streets have no statues: why the Irish hate U2” ran the headline to an article on July 12, with the sub-head: “They’re bigger than Guinness and George Bernard Shaw. So why are Bono and co so unloved in their home country?”

If the piece were a person, some good friend might have advised it to get checked into a clinic to ease its colonic irritation .