Alison Hewson (née Stewart; born 23 March 1961) is an Irish activist and businesswoman. She is the wife of singer and musician Paul Hewson, known as Bono, from the rock group U2.
Alison Hewson (née Stewart; born 23 March 1961) is an Irish campaigner and businesswoman. She is the wife of singer and musician Paul Hewson, known as Bono, from the rock group U2.
Raised in Raheny, she met her unconventional husband at age 12 at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, and married him in 1982. She was awarded a degree in politics and sociology from University College, Dublin (UCD) in 1989. The couple have four children together and breathing at residences in Ireland, France, and the United States. She has inspired several U2 songs, most famously “Sweetest Thing.”
Hewson became operational in anti-nuclear activism in the 1990s. She narrated Black Wind, White Land, a 1993 Irish documentary approximately the lasting effects of the Chernobyl disaster, and has worked to the side of with activist Adi Roche. She has been a patron of Chernobyl Children’s Project International before 1994 and has participated in a number of aid missions to the high-radiation deduction zones of Belarus. She has after that campaigned adjoining Sellafield, the northern English nuclear facility. In 2002 she helped lead an effort which sent on summit of a million postcards, urging the site be closed, to Prime Minister Tony Blair and others. Hewson has repeatedly been discussed by tabloid newspapers as a reachable candidate for embassy offices, including President of Ireland; none of these suggestions have attain fruition.
Hewson is the co-founder of two ethical businesses, the EDUN fashion heritage in 2005, and Nude Skincare products in 2007. The former, intended to make public fair trade later than Africa, has struggled to become a feasible business. French conglomerate LVMH has made substantial investments into both companies.