High Court dismisses man's €12m claim over song on U2 album

The court heard Maurice Kiely had asked U2's lawyers to stop harassing him, and only to contact him if they wished to pay him money

Maurice Kiely (pictured) had sued U2 Ltd, a limited liability company linked to the band, alleging the song ‘A Man and A Woman’ was written by him in 1998. File picture: Collins Courts

A €12m damages claim brought by a man who claimed to have written a song on one of U2's albums has been dismissed by the High Court.

Maurice Kiely had sued U2 Ltd, a limited liability company linked to the band, alleging the song ‘A Man and A Woman’ was written by him in 1998. He claimed he performed it for US model Cindy Crawford, and it was included on U2’s album ‘How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb’.