U2’s charitable contributions are sometimes close to home, not far away for a big charity. They knew of a lady that was homeless after she had to leave her husband for domestic reasons. Brigid Mooney was the recipient of a home in 1993 until she died this past year in October at eighty two years old. It happened that the housewife decided to go back to work. She found a job at Windmill Lane Studios as a bookkeeper. Brigid never told anyone about her troubles but U2’s manager Paul McGuiness knew what was going on with her and told the band. They walked up to her and told that everything was going to be OK. They took her to pick out any home that she would like and they would see that she got it.

They didn’t charge her anything for the home, but she always paid them something. She was quite happy when they made it big and she never told anyone except close family what they had done for her. She was quite secretive about who she worked for and what they did for a living. U2 was not available to talk to after her death, but they certainly appreciated all the work Brigid had done for them over the years. She is listed in the credits in two of their albums: The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby.The house is said to be worth over sixteen times what they paid for it. They bought it for 35,000 pounds and will wind up selling for 775,000 pounds.