belfasttelegraph.co.uk: TIM Attwood, brother of the west Belfast SDLP politician Alex Attwood, knew Bono of U2 and suggested that he appear alongside Hume to drum up support for the deal.
But Bono - whose father was an Irish Labour-supporting Catholic trade unionist from Dublin's north side and whose mother was Church of Ireland - had an instinctive feeling for how difficult the political situation was. He believed that the Unionists were feeling estranged from the fanfare of the peace process and that people in the south had more sympathy for them than they realised - and he wanted them to know it.
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But Bono - whose father was an Irish Labour-supporting Catholic trade unionist from Dublin's north side and whose mother was Church of Ireland - had an instinctive feeling for how difficult the political situation was. He believed that the Unionists were feeling estranged from the fanfare of the peace process and that people in the south had more sympathy for them than they realised - and he wanted them to know it.
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