Bono’s wife Ali Hewson is to launch a new single today (Thursday 2/7/02)
for the Irish band The Cranberries.

The single is the work of the band’s lead singer Dolores O’Riordan
who wrote the song for their new album Wake up and Smell the
Coffee after she was inspired by Ali to write the song.

The launch of the single will take place in the U2 owned Clarence
Hotel at lunchtime.

The single Dolores wrote is called Time is ticking out and was written
after she read about Ali’s work with the sick children of Chernobyl.

Both Ali and Dolores will attend the launch ahead of the release of the
band’s new album on February 15th.

Speaking ahead of the launch Dolores said, “Chernobyl was a big issue
for a long time then it slipped away. Then I picked up a newspaper. I
remember my daughter was probably three months old and there was a
picture of Bono’s wife Ali, who raises funds for the Chernobyl project. I
looked at pictures of her with the children and it totally broke my heart
and that’s where the inspiration came from.”

ShowBiz Ireland

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