Bono the busker as crowds flock to Dublin street to hear U2 star- VIDEO

I don’t think either ciaradexy nor I said anywhere that the term is used in the US. You should also remember that you are as much of a foreigner here to us as a recently arrived Nigerian regardless of the passport you travel on. Americans seem to becoming Anglophiles too what with Sharon Osbourne, Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan, Eddie Izzard, Russell Brand etc having practically a monopoly on your tvs over there. Id rather we became Anglicised than Americanised to be honest as youve given the world nothing but McDonalds and war.

GeorgeDillon-tab•loid (tbloid) n. A newspaper of small format giving the news in condensed form, usually with illustrated, often sensational material. adj. 1. In summary form; condensed. 2. Lurid or sensational. Heres a story from IC-Note the term TABLOID. ‘’An Irish university has moved to ban a prominent tabloid from its campus after it deliberately published a story falsely claiming that a search subject had been found dead. Although Caolan Mulrooney, a 19 year old teenager, tragically was found dead just two days after the story's publication, it was clear within hours of it going to press, while the search was still ongoing, that the body had not yet been found, and that the story had been deliberately invented.’’ You really should try and get your info from a reputable paper rather than a tabloid. Shop St in Galway is a High St, Cruise and O’Connell st in Limerick are High Streets. Patrick St in Cork City is also a High St which I am well aqainted with as Im from there. It is simply a term used to describe a type of street and the function of the Street so stop making a big deal out of it. The name ‘High St’ is just that, a NAME given to a street like any other street.

Laoiseryan: "there are plenty of High Streets in major cities in Ireland." Before we write you off as an utter fantasist or liar, here's a challenge. How about you give us FIVE High Streets in Ireland which are important retail streets? Just five. That should be easy, given that there are hundreds of towns and cities in Ireland. Maybe start with Cork, Galway, Limerick... According to you, they all have High Streets. But the Dublin High Street won't do, because it's not at all the big shopping street which you define as a High Street. Go on, prove me wrong...

ciaradexy: If you are asking whether I believe you or the respected newspaper the Irish Daily Mail, then you're really in cuckoo land. Why would I believe a liar and a fool like you?

laoiseryan: The term "High Street" ia a generic term to describe shopping streets IN ENGLAND. You will NEVER hear the term High Street in the US. Why do some of you Irish so witlessly ape the English, even to stealing words from their language that have no application in Ireland? If you want to steal English terms to describe a country whose towns and cities almost invariably have no High Streets, that's your own slavishness and lack of cultural autonomy, I can't help you.

Must agree with Ciaradexy here. The term 'High St' is a generic term to describe a shopping street, thats it. Which means there are plenty of High Streets in major cities in Ireland.

The Irish Daily Mail is a tabloid you idiot! Its the job of its ''reporters'' to make things up which is probably why its your source of information! My sister was there for nearly 2 hours, I'll believe her rather than a news paper which didnt even have a reporter there on the night!

brennanirish: Posting in upper case makes you look like a fool. Oh, on second thoughts, keep using upper case.

Either ciaradexy is a liar, or her sister is a liar, or the web site of the Irish Daily Mail is a liar, since that site is the source of my information that Bono stayed less than 15 minutes. I incline to the first of the alternatives, since ciaradexy has been shown to lie on other matters. For example, on another thread she says that most Irish towns have a "High Street". That is a demonstrable lie.

Bono is one of the greedy One-percenters.

CIARADEXY! DONT WASTE BREATHE RESPONDING TO OL' GEORGEDILLON...HE MAKES IT UP AS HE GOES ALONG...........

Just your standard Christmas Eve in Dublin. The front man for the world's biggest rock band mingles with great unwashed. Book your flights for next year folks...

Ciara is quite correct.

Bono was on Grafton St busking with the lads for nearly 2 hours not 10 minutes.

What a load of Bono baloney from columnist Buzz Brady. He neglects to mention that Bono stayed just ten minutes before leaping back into his chauffeured Mercedes. Just long enough to be seen and photographed, before he hightailed it to visit with his filthy rich buddies. Buzz off Brady, stop doing PR for a fraud.