Former U2 stylist Lola Cashman is "financially impoverished" having lost the court case to recover Bono's trousers and other items of wardrobe.
Martin Dully, counsel for Ms Cashman, told Circuit Court president Mr Justice Matthew Deery yesterday that 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 earrings and because of this he would not be opposing a costs order.
The application for costs was made by Paul Sreenan SC, who appeared with Eileen Barrington, counsel for U2. Mr Dully said Ms Cashman was going ahead with her High Court appeal, but she was already financially impoverished as a result of the decision against her.
Senior and junior counsel were engaged in the two-day trial by both parties and total legal costs for both sides are likely to have totalled €25,000. Ms Cashman has already instigated defamation proceedings against U2 in the English courts.