p2pnet news view | Music:- Dublin’s $253,055,636 (and 98 cents) U2 Tower has become yet another victim of the George W. Bush world economic recession.

That’ll be a serious disappointment to locals.

“The site is in the South Docklands (SODO) campshires, at the corner of Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and Britain Quay, by the confluence of the River Liffey, the River Dodder, and the Grand Canal,” says the Wikipedia.

Construction of the tower, a self-tribute to His Magnificence, was slated to be completed by 2011. But it’s now been shelved.

The Dublin Docklands Development Authority said Friday it has suspended plans for the tower but remains committed to building it, says the CBC, adding:

“An egg-shaped pod housing a studio for Irish supergroup U2 would have been installed on the upper floor and apartments in the building would have sold for more than $1 million. Lead singer Bono, guitarist the Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen were partial owners of a development consortium awarded the construction contract last year.

“The tower project was not universally popular in Dublin, despite its association with U2. Conservationists decried the height of the tower and some Dubliners said it would spoil the character of the city.”

It’s a, “blow to Bono, who has spent six years trying to win approval for the edifice, which has been unkindly dismissed by Dubliners as a ‘monument to a monumental ego’,” says the First Post, adding the development, “was also going to provide his band with a recording studio, with an egg-shaped studio ‘pod’ at the top of a 120-metre column”.

“This is my country,” said Bono a little more than a year ago.

What? Ireland?

Nope.

America.

CBC – U2 tower falls victim to Irish recession, October 31, 2008
First Post – Bono’s skyscraper dreams on hold, November 3, 2008
my country – Bono’s Philadelphia Liberty Medal, September 28, 2008

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