Hard to see mum on her deathbed
Sun’s out, buns out... BONO RECALLS TRAGIC STORY IN NEW BOOK
NICOLE Scherzinger shows off her toned bum in a skimpy bikini.
The telly star posted the snap on Instagram and wrote: “Sunday. Bun-day. Fun-day.”
The Pussycat Dolls singer was enjoying the sunshine on a beach in Portugal.
Nic also pouted in a pair of sunglasses.
U2’S Bono recalls the heartrending scene of being called into a Dublin hospital room aged 14 to say goodbye to his mother, Iris.
In an excerpt from his new memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story that is published in this week’s New Yorker magazine, Bono recalls entering his mother’s Dublin hospital room with older brother Norman.
He writes: “I enter the room at war with the universe, but Iris looks peaceful. “It’s hard to figure that a large part of her has already left.
“We hold her hand. “There’s a clicking sound, but we don’t hear it.” Before going into the hospital room Bono notices that Iris’s younger sister, Ruth is outside the room, “wailing, with my father [Bob], whose eyes have less life in them than my mother’s”. Three days previous, Iris had collapsed at the funeral of her own father, “Gags” Rankin. Bono recalls at the funeral: “I spot my father carrying my mother in his arms through a crowd, like a white snooker ball scattering a triangle of colour.
“He’s rushing to get her to the hospital. She has collapsed at the side of the grave as her own father is being lowered into the ground. “Iris has fainted. Iris has fainted.”
“The voices of my aunts and cousins blow around like a breeze through leaves.
“She’ll be O.K. She’s just fainted. “Before I, or anyone else, can think, my father has Iris in the back of the Hillman Avenger, with my brother Norman at the wheel.”
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He further writes: “I stay with my cousins to say goodbye to my grandfather, and then we all shuffle back to my grandmother’s tiny red brick house, 8 Cowper Street. “Even though it’s Grandda’s funeral, and even though Iris has fainted, we’re kids, cousins, running around and laughing. “Until Ruth, my mother’s younger sister, bursts through the door. “Iris is dying. She’s had a stroke.”
Bono says that his mother was a Rankin and “of the five Rankin sisters, three died from an aneurysm. Including Iris”.
Surrender which will contain 40 chapters, each named after a U2 song, is due out November 1.