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Sinead O Connor RIP

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    #242
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,499 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904305#Comment_120904305

    She'll get the type of funeral her family chooses to organise for her.

    Same as anyone else.

    I don't know why you're getting your knickers in a twist about it.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #243
    Long Sean Silver
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    the rawness of her emotions and her honesty was something only great artists can display with such courage, & also vulnerability. RIP Sineád.



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    #244
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 25,308 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    8pm on Thursday 10th would be a very appropriate time for a tribute gig.



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    #245
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Even this close to the tragedy, I didn't truly appreciate her talent until now. Strange how someones death can jolt you into reavaluating them. Obviously there was a lot more than a poxy photo of the pope and a hit single.

    🙈🙉🙊



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    #246
    Beechwoodspark
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904627#Comment_120904627

    Leave me out of it.

    Think of Sinead/Shuhada’s wishes and beliefs and proceed accordingly.

    Post edited by Beechwoodspark on


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    #247
    mazdamiatamx5
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120903453#Comment_120903453

    The positions she adopted over her life were often inconsistent. But to be fair there were very few in the public eye prepared to criticise the RCC at that time.



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    #248
    Wanderer78
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    deeply upsetting, but could be sadly seen coming, this should be another reminder about the tragedy of mental health problems, rip and thank you



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    #249
    HazeDoll
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭HazeDoll


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904651#Comment_120904651

    I hate myself for getting involved in your ridiculous little spat, but if you're going to be so ostentatiously pious about respecting her wishes you should have called her Shuhada.



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    #250
    nonsheep7
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    Books of condolences ??? are you serious ??? the media really going to town on her sad passing with away over the top reporting ,deflecting from other issues as usual , a fantastic singer without a doubt with a fabulous voice ,may she Rest In Peace.



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    #251
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904805#Comment_120904805

    Yeah the media will be cringey for sure. Especially Ireland's one.



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    #252
    Deregos.
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Deregos.


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904570#Comment_120904570

    Seven hours and 15 days after her passing.

    Clever.



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    #253
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,698 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Screenshot_2023-07-27-20-02-43-725-edit_com.android.chrome.jpg

    Very sloppy headline from The Irish Times. I count 4 mistakes.



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    #254
    briany
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120902196#Comment_120902196

    It may have been that Sinead placed too much faith in the intelligence and critical thinking of the US viewing audience and their news media when she tore up that picture. It may also have just been that she didn't really care what anyone thought but was determined to use her platform to make a statement in any case (she has probably spoken at length in subsequent interviews on what her exact thought process was). Nevertheless, the US news media merrily used the lack of context given to viewers at the time in order to portray her as crazy and rile up the god botherers.

    For some reason, I found this celebrity death particularly shocking, even though I was never someone who really listened to her music. Sinead O'Connor and Dolores O'Riordan both gone way too young, while Linda Martin hangs on. This is the world we live in...



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    #255
    glenfieldman
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    I put money on every station on the island to play Nothing compares to you at the exact same time this week or on day of her funeral

    They done that for Dolores



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    #256
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904805#Comment_120904805

    You got it in one…RTE (and the rest) just can’t control themselves….



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    #257
    newmember2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭newmember2


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904609#Comment_120904609

    I didn't truly appreciate her talent until now it started trending.

    FYP :pac:



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    #258
    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Allinall


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904804#Comment_120904804

    Poster has a habit of misnaming people.

    Check out the women’s World Cup thread.



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    #259
    Brief_Lives
    Registered Users Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    this is a nice few words from RUssell Crowe


    https://twitter.com/russellcrowe/status/1684340208706224129?s=46&t=SUCQgwx2F3zDZjE8VaFFyA




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    #260
    Jack Daw
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    People are really going overboard about her, just looking on twitter since she's died it's seems she was a hero in the eyes of the Irish public when lets be honest most people in Ireland found her a bit of a dose (as the episode of father ted where they take the piss out of her proves).

    Also she wasn't the only person to criticize the catholic church in this country , but based on the past 24 hours you'd think she was a lone crusader in the fight against the church.

    Competitive concern/grief really is one of the scourges of the social media age.



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    #261
    Annasopra
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120905051#Comment_120905051

    I can see three spelling mistakes.

    Post edited by Annasopra on

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #262
    Magic Midget
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭Magic Midget


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120905209#Comment_120905209

    There's an element of that alright. But I think we felt we knew her from Mandinka in 1988 to her son Shane passing. Almost 35 years for many of us. We often have a family member we don't agree with on many things, and at times may have fell out with them, yet the grief is real when they pass.

    Our knowledge of mental illness has come a long way from when Fr. Ted was made in the 90s. We'd lable someone odd or a crank 30 - 40 years ago. A bit of a joke, touched. That's changed.

    The big thing for me is how Sinead's death is top headlines around the world. So it's not really just us this time.



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    #263
    Beechwoodspark
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904804#Comment_120904804

    Fair point. She literally changed her name so I’ve amended the post to reflect that. Thanks.



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    #264
    Sephiroth_dude
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    Mod

    dublincc2 threadbanned.



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    #265
    anplaya27
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120904329#Comment_120904329

    The abuses in the institutions for the Deaf never seem to get a mention yet they're there in the Ryan report alongside the industrial schools / Magdalene laundries. And the report itself doesnt even tell the full and true story.

    Abuse is abuse no matter who the victims were.

    Well done to Sinèad for highlighting these things. RIP.



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    #266
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120905209#Comment_120905209

    She tore up a photo of JP2 and said

    “We have confidence in the victory of good over evil.”

    Did she elaborate more on that after? The problem in Ireland wasn’t the vatican, they were all home grown and it was at nearly every level in society. There’s no point trying to punt the blame somewhere else.



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    #267
    Northernlily
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    She left a mark that's for sure judging by the outpouring. Legacy intact. Remembered for the beautiful voice and being ahead of time with her campaigning. I guess she was one of them people who bore the weight of the world. Didn't shirk from calling out the injustices and was ridiculed from corners for it.

    I guess with her passing there's a sense of guilt aswell, maybe we could have been kinder to her in the past few years. It's incredibly exerting managing people who are mentally ill. A lot of us who have that within our families know that and find it hard to find the energy to share our compassion. It's extremely common in Ireland.

    A troubled soul however a great legacy sealed forever. RIP Sinead.



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    #268
    Jeff2
    Registered Users Posts: 7,051 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120905618#Comment_120905618

    The point was it was the church he represented not the pope himself. As it turned out it was happening in many countries by priest.



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    #269
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,698 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120905349#Comment_120905349

    I'm counting more mistakes in your post. 😉

    "I can count 4 spelling mistakes."

    Fixed your post.

    Regards to The Irish Times. The 4 mistakes are:

    1. Feirce
    2. turnb
    3. tribvute
    4. Sinead

    The 4th mistake is a bit pedantic, missing a fada on é.



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    #270
    Kermit.de.frog
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120905349#Comment_120905349

    The fada on Sinèad too



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    #271
    Magic Midget
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭Magic Midget


    People with real moral courage who say what they feel, regardless of being ostracised by contemporaries, are rare.

    It's no coincidence that Kris Kristofferson tried to protect and stand with Sinead in 1992. While Pesci and Sinatra, men of lesser calibre jumped in for the kill in 1992.

    Kris spoke passionately against the Gulf War in 1990\91. He's a man a values. Johnny Cash was another on the country scene. Sinead always did what she felt was right at the time. Her stances changed and seemed contradictory but I think some of her more volatile behaviour were the result of episodes of poor mental health.



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