Where the streets have no people, thanks to U2 shoot

DUBLIN city council has confirmed that the Samuel Beckett bridge was closed to the public last weekend for a U2 video shoot.

A senior official at the council said the bridge was inaccessible for almost all of last Sunday to enable filming on a “U2 project” but members of the rock group were not present.

The confirmation follows a week of speculation over the nature of secretive filming on the Liffey bridge last weekend which caused traffic delays. Trucks and black sheets were strategically placed to obscure what was happening from public view. The council refused to divulge the reason for the closure and there were rumours of a project linked to U2’s long-anticipated 13th studio album, an advertisement for Guinness or a video for an unkown band.