Tag Archives: Sinead O’Connor

“Throughout her life, it is well known that Sinéad O’Connor lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, fairness and decency towards her fellow human beings. “It was with outrage therefore that we learned that Donald Trump has been using her iconic performance of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ at his political rallies. “It is no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have …

Billboard Magazine reports: The 2024 Rock Hall nominees are: Queen of Hip-Hop Soul Mary J. Blige; powerhouse singer-songwriter Mariah Carey; half-century-plus pop icon Cher; roots rock jam band Dave Matthews Band; hip-hop pioneers Eric B. & Rakim; stadium rock hitmakers Foreigner; arena-filling guitar (and talk box) pro Peter Frampton; alt hard rockers Jane’s Addiction; funky R&B legends Kool & the …

The New York Times reports: Sinéad O’Connor lived her life poised between tradition and rebellion. Ireland’s farewell to her embraced both. In keeping with an old custom, her coffin was first carried past her last family home in Ireland, in Bray, County Wicklow. But many of those who gathered, or who left her tributes, brought a spirit more in keeping …

The Daily Mail reports: Sinead O’Connor has died at the age of 56, it was reported last night. The Irish singer shot to stardom across the world in 1990 by her heartrending cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U.  It comes a year after the mother-of-four’s son Shane, 17, took his own life in January 2022 after escaping hospital while …

Sinead O’Connor has been hospitalized under a suicide watch after posting a rambling Facebook message this afternoon in which she claimed to have overdosed because her husband and children have abandoned her. Irish news outlets have tweeted that O’Connor was found “safe and sound and is getting medical assistance.” O’Connor has apparently lost custody of her children, which appears to …

The third remake of the 1984 charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas debuted on British television last night. Via the Guardian: The more cynical might suggest that in the age of twitchforkings and twitterstorms, when it sometimes seems that no pop cultural event can pass without someone somewhere forensically examining it in the hope of find something they can …

That’s a different look for her. From her coming tenth album, I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss. From the chorus: “Take to me church / I’ve done so many bad things that hurt /  Get me to church / But not the ones that hurt / Cause that ain’t the truth / And that’s not what it’s worth.” I dig …

“I’ve been repeatedly asked will I ‘do anal sex’. Let me make it very clear. Any man I contemplate has to be into anal sex. It was a family paper so they wudnt have printed it but let me now take time to make VERY clear that yes I ‘do anal’ and in fact I would be deeply unhappy if …

JMG reader Andrew sends us the below moving clip of a man angrily recounting his abuse at the hands of an Irish priest. The clip is being publicized by a group demanding a public apology to Sinead O’Connor, who has suffered 20 years of ostracizing after denouncing the abuses of the Catholic Church.

Last night Larry King hosted Sinead O’Connor and the Catholic League’s Bill Dohohue to discuss the Vatican’s lack of action on the global pedophilia scandal. Openly gay former CNN anchor Thomas Roberts also appeared to talk about his own molestation by a Catholic priest. Donohue: “Al Qaeda suspects are presumed innocent more than the Pope.” In the third of the …

“A true Christian is someone who, in any given situation, is supposed to ask themselves what would Jesus do, then try to do that. How an organisation which has acted, decade after decade, only to protect its business interests above the interests of children can feel it has the right to dictate to us what Christians should do is beyond …