newsonline.com.au: The man who stole U2 singer Bono's lyrics said he gave them back because they were not good enough to sell to anyone.
"None of them made sense," Irish bandit Gerry O'Dowd said.
Mr O'Dowd said he had tried for 23 years to pass them off as his own and had entered them in a lot of poetry awards and had never won anything.
"I thought I would become rich, you know, like Bono," Mr O'Dowd said.
But Bono said he would use them on U2's next album and thanked Mr O'Dowd for giving them back. [
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"None of them made sense," Irish bandit Gerry O'Dowd said.
Mr O'Dowd said he had tried for 23 years to pass them off as his own and had entered them in a lot of poetry awards and had never won anything.
"I thought I would become rich, you know, like Bono," Mr O'Dowd said.
But Bono said he would use them on U2's next album and thanked Mr O'Dowd for giving them back. [
more] 
