Good memories of working with Bono

Sir — I enjoyed Brendan O’Connor’s fine tribute to Bono and U2, Ireland’s iconic, worldfamous group (LIFE, Sunday Independent, November 4). We are all proud of their great and ongoing success — long may it last.

As a senior civil servant, I worked alongside Bono as a member of the National Youth Policy Committee set up in 1983, a time of major youth unemployment, when more than half our population was under 25 years.

Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald met Bono, whose impressive enthusiasm and commitment to help young people led to the committee, chaired by Judge Declan Costello, and its influential report which followed. Bono told me some years later, that he felt this was the start of the good work that characterises his life. Sean Quinn, Blackrock, Co Dublin