Former U2 stylist Lola Cashman has been ordered to pay U2's legal costs following her failed court case against the band.
Her lawyer told Circuit Court President, Mr Justice Matthew Deery, today Ms Cashman is "financially impoverished" as a result of having lost the rock group's court case to recover Bono's pants and other items of wardrobe.
Martin Dully, counsel for Ms Cashman, said he could not oppose an application by the band's lawyers for their legal costs.
He said Ms Cashman had lodged a High Court appeal against Mr Justice Deery's decision to give Bono back his trousers, Stetson hat, sweater and ear rings and because of this he would not be opposing a costs order.
Mr Dully said it was Ms Cashman's intention to go ahead with her High Court appeal but he felt obliged to point out that she was already financially impoverished as a result of the decision against her.
Total legal costs for both sides are likely to have totalled €25,000 for the two-day case.
Ms Cashman has already instigated defamation proceedings against U2 in the English courts, proceedings which were stayed and which will remain stayed pending the final determination of the High Court appeal.
London based stylist Lola Cashman, who had been employed in the mid eighties to help create a new image for U2, had denied during the Circuit Civil Court trial she had "stolen" the working wardrobe items following the band's Joshua Tree world tour.
The court heard that the sweat shirt, hat, trousers and a pair of cheap costume ear-rings had been offered for sale by Cashman at a Christies rock memorabilia auction in London in 2002. She claimed in evidence that she had been "gifted " the items by Bono following the tour.
Bono in evidence claimed he had definitely never gifted the hat and trousers but possibly may have told her she could have the ear rings and sweat shirt. He felt, however, that he had not.