English-born David Evans, 63, is conferred with ‘long overdue’ Irish citizenship
After decades of finely balanced procrastination, the U2 guitarist The Edge has officially become Irish.
The 63-year-old British subject was conferred with Irish citizenship on Monday, 62 years after moving to Ireland in a step he said was “long overdue”.
U2 may be a symbol of Ireland, and The Edge’s woolly caps may verge on national treasure status, but David Howell Evans had not been a citizen until now.
“I’m a little tardy with the paperwork,” he told reporters after a conferring ceremony in Killarney, County Kerry. “I’ve been living in Ireland now since I was one year old. But the time is right. And I couldn’t be more proud of my country for all that it represents and all that it is doing.”
