It's the season of peace and good will, so let us all quit bashing Bono and Bob

Singer Bono of U2 speaks at the European People's Party (EPP) Elections Congress in Dublin March 7, 2014. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

Barbara McCarthy

'Well tonight, thank God it's him, instead of you," critics said this week, after Bono suffered a terrible fall from his bike in New York and had to undergo five hours of facial re-constructive surgery.

It wasn't enough that he cheated death a few days previously, when the door of the Lear jet he was travelling on came off at 8,000 feet and his luggage was splattered across the German countryside on a flight to Berlin. From the reactions I read and heard, it appears that many people would have been happier had someone died in the incident.