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<!-- -- Do not use this source in the article: <ref name="oc-jacobs">{{cite news | url=http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=178c7268-5283-4534-bac7-976e24546bc0 | title=Not just Bono's wife | first=Donna | last=Jacobs | newspaper=[[Ottawa Citizen]] | date=14 April 2008}}</ref> Also shows up on web as "Not Just Mrs Bono! Ali Hewson" by Rafaella Gomez – Brazil". It contains no original reporting, but does introduce a number of errors unsupported by other sources, such as Ali leading the 1992 U2 Sellafield raid; Ali narrating the 2003 Chernobyl Heart film; and Ali giving birth two weeks after exams instead of two weeks before. – -->Alison Stewart was born on 23 March 1961,<!-- could use a cite on this --> the daughter of Terry and Joy Stewart.<ref name="ii-wonder">{{cite news | url=http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/ali-hewson-its-a-wonderful-life-being-mrs-bono-26765970.html | title=Ali Hewson: It's a wonderful life being Mrs Bono | first=Chrissie | last=Russell | newspaper=[[Irish Independent]] | location=Dublin | date=27 August 2011}}</ref> She has an older brother, Ian, and nephew, Ross Stewart, who both live in Australia.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/has-bono-slipped-into-australia-incognito-again/story-e6freq7o-1225697153336 |title=Could U2 frontman Bono have sneaked into Australia without anyone noticing ... again? |date=15 April 2009 | newspaper=[[The Courier-Mail]] | location=Brisbane}}</ref><ref name="ii-eden"/> The Stewart family, who resided in the suburb of [[Raheny]] on Dublin's [[Northside (Dublin)|Northside]],<ref name=MoreMagazine/> raised their children as [[Protestants]].<ref name="dt-eth"/><ref name="koot-8"/> Her father was a self-educated electrical worker who, according to Hewson, was "constantly questioning" things.<ref name="dt-eth"/><ref name="it-mag"/> Her mother, who was a housewife, had a secretarial career in mind for her daughter.<ref name="dt-eth"/><ref name="es-jones">{{cite news | url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-129561404/sit-back-and-enjoy-a-nice-life-no-we-can-t-do-that <!-- can see source here but don't show url in article http://www.atu2.com/news/sit-back-and-relax-bonos-wife-cant.html -->| title=Sit Back and Enjoy a Nice Life? No, We Can't Do That | first=Liz | last=Jones | newspaper=[[Evening Standard]] | location=London | date=2 March 2005}}</ref>
Alison studied at Mount Temple Comprehensive School.<ref>Dunphy, ''Unforgettable Fire'', p. 72.</ref> At the age of twelve, she met [[Bono|Paul Hewson]], who was in the year above at the school.<ref name="es-jones"/> He pursued her immediately, but she initially kept her distance,
At one point, the pair split up, but soon reunited.<ref>Stokes, ''Into the Heart'', p. 12.</ref> The relationship became more serious as she accompanied him in his efforts to break through in the music industry, and by 1979 they were discussing marriage, conditional upon his career becoming established.<ref>Kootnikoff, ''Bono'', p. 28.</ref> In the meantime she worked in a motor insurance company and in her father's electrical business.<ref name="it-mag"/>
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== Activism ==
In late 1985, following U2's participation in [[Live Aid]], Bono and Hewson spent five weeks as aid volunteers in [[Ajibar]] during the [[1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia]].<ref>Kootnikoff, ''Bono'', p. xviii.</ref><ref>Stokes, ''Into the Heart'', p. 64.</ref> She saw children with no possessions and at risk of death; despite this, to her they appeared more spiritually alive than those in Ireland who had material comforts but seemed spoiled and spiritually unaware, like her own children <ref name="it-mag"/> In 1986, the couple
[[File:Svc3.jpg|thumb|View west of Sellafield, with the Irish Sea in the background]]
In 1992, Hewson participated in [[Greenpeace]] protests against the [[Sellafield]] plant for [[nuclear reprocessing]], located across the [[Irish Sea]] in Cumbria, England.<ref name=MoreMagazine /> She was especially set against the under-construction [[Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant]] component being opened.<ref name="hotpress"/> She was aboard Greenpeace's [[MV Solo|MV ''Solo'']] when it staged a publicity-oriented "raid" wherein the band members landed on the beach at the plant in rubber dinghies,<ref>Flanagan, ''U2: At the End of the World'', p. 68.</ref> but she said she had not been responsible for that particular protest.<ref name=MoreMagazine />
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[[File:Martello Tower in Bray.jpg|thumb|right|The Martello Tower in Bray, adapted as a private residence, where Bono and Ali lived during the 1980s]]
Hewson has served as at least partial inspiration for many Bono-authored U2 songs, going back to the track "Another Time, Another Place" from their 1980
The U2 song "[[Sweetest Thing]]" was written for Hewson as a gift because Bono forgot her birthday whilst recording with the band during ''[[The Joshua Tree]]'' sessions.<ref name="sia">{{cite news | last=McIntosh | first= Elise | date=3 October 2006 | title=In music and love, U2 has staying power | newspaper=[[Staten Island Advance]] <!-- | can see source here but don't show url in article http://www.atu2.com/news/in-music-and-love-u2-has-staying-power.html -->}}</ref> Originally released as a B-side in 1987, it was later re-recorded and released as a single from the compilation album ''[[The Best of 1980–1990]]'' in 1998.<ref name="st-back">{{cite web | publisher=[[U2.com]] | title=Sweetest Thing (1 Oct, 1998): Backgrounder | url= http://www.u2.com/discography/index/album/albumId/4051/tagName/singles | access-date=22 November 2012}}</ref> Hewson agreed to appear in the single's music video as long as all proceeds from it went to Chernobyl Children's Project.<ref name="st-back"/>
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[[File:Bono at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Hewson has been the main subject of several songs written by Bono ''(pictured)''.]]
Hewson and her family live in [[Killiney]], in south [[County Dublin]], in a mansion and grounds that overlook the [[Irish Sea]] and that have been expanded by purchasing the adjoining property.<ref name="ii-wonder"/><ref name="es-jones"/><ref name="rin-k">{{cite news | url=http://randomirishnews.com/2009/06/28/u2-star-bono-finally-moves-out-of-killiney/ | title=U2 star Bono finally moves out of Killiney | publisher=[[Random Irish News]] | date=28 June 2009 | access-date=23 November 2012 | archive-date=10 April 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410214656/https://randomirishnews.com/2009/06/28/u2-star-bono-finally-moves-out-of-killiney/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Bill Clinton]] and [[Salman Rushdie]] are among those who have stayed at the guest house there.<ref name="es-jones"/> With U2
Bono and Hewson also own a $14.5 million penthouse apartment at [[The San Remo]] on the [[Upper West Side]] of [[Manhattan]], which they purchased from [[Steve Jobs]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/nyregion/16bono.html?_r=0 | title=Among the Rich, a New Dispute Over Air Rights | first=Allen | last=Salkin | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=16 May 2007 }}</ref> By 2011, the couple's fortune was placed at €572 million.<ref name="ii-wonder"/>
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