That story was told by Bono's dad while talking with Bill Flannagan, the author of "U2 At The End Of The World" also known by many U2 fanatics as the U2 bible.

 

He also told another story, about Bono's mom before they had their children (Bono and his older brother Norman).  The family had use of a vacation cottage.  At one point Bono's mom and an aunt went to a fortune teller who told his mom that she would have two sons.  One would have a name that began with a P.  That son would be very successful in life. 

 

Bono mentioned once that at age 13 he had a dream where he was standing on a stage in front of thousands of people.  He had no idea what it was he was doing, but the people were all paying attention to HIM.  Guess he now knows what he was doing on that stage huh?

 

The question was,