Bono issues website tribute to Ronnie Drew

“Weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs... that's what I loved about Ronnie Drew's voice and spirit,” he enthuses. “Music to inspire, to console... an optimism that was contagious... that's what U2 took from The Dubliners.
"Ronnie has left his earthly tour for one of the heavens... they need him up there... it's a little too quiet and pious. God is lonely for a voice louder than His own... then the bad weather will break...”
As well as contributing to Drew’s Dirty Rotten Shame solo album in the mid-'90s, Bono masterminded this year’s ‘The Ballad Of Ronnie Drew’ tribute single, which is still on sale and raising funds for the Irish Cancer Society.