Sinead O'Connor - "I wish the Brits had never left Ireland"

dark crystal · 22-01-2013 03:40PM

Leftist wrote: »

We've come a long way since 1921.

wtf. paddywack backslap at it's most ridiculous.

Oh give over ffs.

lufties · 22-01-2013 03:45PM

Madam_X wrote: »

Shur in the 90s she was all ra-head. And as for anti church... wasn't she a priest for some obscure but nonetheless catholic sect?

Hard to take anyone that fickle seriously.

+1000 she seems extremely impulsive, and comes
Out with any auld fad that enters her head, saw her on the late late recently, it was good entertainment for most people, but I just cringe everytime I see her being interviewed..she should just get out of the limelight like she said was.

MaxSteele · 22-01-2013 03:47PM

Baldy conscience should just piss off to some remote island in the Phillipines and set up a self sustaining society like Tilda Swinton in the Beach.

Twat.

davet82 · 22-01-2013 03:49PM

she should have been sectioned years ago

4zn76tysfajdxp · 22-01-2013 03:51PM

I'm sympathetic towards her for her mental health issues, but she seriously needs to stop talking to the press.

lufties · 22-01-2013 03:51PM

opinion guy wrote: »

Honestly I just think she will say anything for attention. Kind of like Michael O Leary....without the planes

Totally agree, she craves attention..and being a so-called media darling.

davet82 · 22-01-2013 03:53PM

Russell Clean Clipboard wrote: »

I'm sympathetic towards her for her mental health issues, but she seriously needs to stop talking to the press.

the press need to stop listening or people to stop reading, idk why she gets so much attention maybe its just car crash stuff (you dont want to look but you cant help it)

Leftist · 22-01-2013 04:01PM

dark crystal wrote: »

Oh give over ffs.

that's what you said.

'ah shure we're grand'

Who hasn't come a long way since the 1920s?

4zn76tysfajdxp · 22-01-2013 04:02PM

Leftist wrote: »

Who hasn't come a long way since the 1920s?

North Koreans.

Da Shins Kelly · 22-01-2013 04:04PM

Lovely voice, but I wish she wouldn't speak.

looksee · 22-01-2013 04:05PM

She is a 'celebrity'. She is (was) good looking and she can sing. Why does this give her opinions any weight or value?

Sir Gallagher · 22-01-2013 04:08PM

Its actually not that crazy or insane, what she has said. Maybe a bit flippant if anything. She's right in saying that the church woupdnt have had such a stranglehold on the country if the Brits were still around. Each country has to learn on its own though.

Vojera · 22-01-2013 04:09PM

Every time I hear her latest statement I think "That woman really needs a minder or something". Would have saved her sexual preferences being splashed all over the place for one.

As for what she actually said, I agree that the Church has had too tight a grip for too long, but that's gradually decreasing. Compare our parents and grandparents to nowadays. Another two or three generations and people won't believe what used to go on here.

bluecode · 22-01-2013 04:09PM

She may be a bit off the wall but this time she actually makes sense, sort of.

Our problem was that the Brits marched out and left us to it. Cut us off just like that. Which after all, is what we wanted. But in common with many countries around the world. We just weren't ready for independance. If we'd had a few years of Home rule just like the original plan. There'd have been a chance of for people to get used to ruling ourselves with the safety net of money from London. Eventually we'd have become independant in our own time. Instead the money from London disappeared overnight and we were left to get on with it.

Effectively the Brits were replaced by an unholy alliance of the church and conservative crooked/incompetent former gunmen turned politicians who ran the country for their own benefit. The only thing that's changed is that the church is out of favour.

Not only that we had a ridiculously antagonistic relationship with Britain when we would have been better off being more like Australia, New Zealand or Canada.

It's no secret, this country is messed up in so many ways. But there's no point in looking back. We can only try to improve things.

flogging a dead horse · 22-01-2013 04:11PM

Sadly this woman is reminiscing of ol'Eire of yester-year. The Ireland of McQuaid, the catholics, the priests, the nuns and established upper echelons lay of Ireland 1940-2000. An Ireland of poverty, emmigration,Northern Ireland as an apartheid state, a civil war divide, a country with it's hatred, disdain and paronia towards Soviet-Bolshevism, in a country oft compared to a Soviet country, by the Daily Mail, Daily Express and Richard Nixon, as ruled by De Velera.

Secular-Pluralist Ireland is doing quite well, minus the economic activities, of Anglo, Quinns, all that property malarkey.
Oh and not to forget Morriartey and a certain Michael Lowry.

All is well and the past is indeed another country.

Cienciano · 22-01-2013 04:12PM

branie wrote: »

Remember when she tore up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live?

dark crystal wrote: »

Yeah, that pretty much ruined her career in America if I recall correctly.

Fair play to her, she was dead right.

Buzz84 · 22-01-2013 04:14PM

Yeah it would of been great having the Blackwatch and The Parachute Regiment patrolling our streets. She's a head banger.

dark crystal · 22-01-2013 04:17PM

Leftist wrote: »

that's what you said.

'ah shure we're grand'

No I didn't.

Who hasn't come a long way since the 1920s?

Oh I don't know..... Eritrea, Mali, Swaziland, Yemen, Zimbabwe, El Salvador, Somalia are all ranked as some of the worst places to live on earth in ranks of peace, economy, health, education, gender equality and human rights, so I'd say there's a fair chance the people living in those countries don't feel they've come a long way, but don't let that get in the way of you trying to find offensive subtext in a completely innocuous post.

Happyman42 · 22-01-2013 04:17PM

sigh...how much is the new album Sinead? :rolleyes:

edit, I don't know if she has a new album or not but I'll wager a 20 euros (thats 16.20 sterling Sinead) that she has.

donvito99 · 22-01-2013 04:21PM

The church in Ireland secretly had lots of potatoes during the famine, and they hid the potatoes in pillows and sold them abroad in potato fairs. And the Pope closed down a lot of the factories that were makin' the potatoes and turned them into prisons for children.

Niamh Connolly/Sinéad O'Connor

Iang87 · 22-01-2013 04:25PM

Lux23 wrote: »

I would agree with her too, I think Irish people need someone to tell them what to think. The British, Catholic Church and now IMF/EU.

an awful lot of people died being told what to think by the british. If that statement was true surely we'd still be ruled by the british.
That statement is one of those that angers me for no real reason I just thinkl its untrue and wish people would stop saying it.

Lollipops23 wrote: »

Sorry, but stuff like that is why mental health problems are so stigmatised in Ireland. She's not well, she's been on a cocktail of treatment for years and has been quite vocal about her problems before.

"Crazy bitch" is so unsympathetic.

So what should we say here oh that poor mentally unstable lady. Thats not how it works if she's going to put herself in the firing line talkin like this she will be attacked as such. When you come spouting absolute crap people will call you crazy, regardless of mental health problems you may or may not have. You want to attack the mental health stigma, attack the journalist that interviewed her knowing what he/she knows, attack her manager or PR person. They know she's not well. Dont attack the consumer at the end of the chain for making a judgement on what they're reading. That is after all the point.

bullpost · 22-01-2013 04:28PM

I wish the Vikings had never left meself.

Would've spared us 800 years of Brit misery and sure they had great feckin boats and loads of fun pillaging of a weekend. Not to mention the oil............

Buzz84 · 22-01-2013 04:33PM

bullpost wrote: »

I wish the Vikings had never left meself.

Would've spared us 800 years of Brit misery and sure they had great feckin boats and loads of fun pillaging of a weekend. Not to mention the oil............

Cool hats as well

Noffles · 22-01-2013 04:35PM

Always with 'The Brits'... to be fair you should be happy we're so close and you dislike us so much.. we give you healthy competition...

As all I see in these threads and news articles is how Ireland did versus how the Brits did... You're always in competition with us and thus always improving... tch'... stop complaining about us.

bullpost · 22-01-2013 04:38PM

I see - whats this thing with you lot and the yanks? French?

Noffles wrote: »

Always with 'The Brits'... to be fair you should be happy we're so close and you dislike us so much.. we give you healthy competition...

As all I see in these threads and news articles is how Ireland did versus how the Brits did... You're always in competition with us and thus always improving... tch'... stop complaining about us.

flogging a dead horse · 22-01-2013 04:41PM

Yea well fighting oppression for the oppressed and then oppressing said oppressed is not exactly new.
Look at Sinn Fein's old pals the ANC in South Africa. A black female justice minister shoots 50 odd miners asking for a pay raise.

maddragon · 22-01-2013 04:44PM

Say what you like about her but She was probably the best hooker to ever play rugby for Ireland. Who can forget her try from the lineout against England in 2001.

SolarFlash · 22-01-2013 04:44PM

The Irish republic was founded by two British spies, Erskine Childers and Eamon De Valera who turned Ireland into a clerical republic which was Britain's intention the British did the same thing to another colony Iran.

Iang87 · 22-01-2013 04:48PM

SolarFlash wrote: »

The Irish republic was founded by two British spies, Erskine Childers and Eamon De Valera who turned Ireland into a clerical republic which was Britain's intention the British did the same thing to another colony Iran.

Oh this should go down a treat

Sugarlumps · 22-01-2013 04:50PM

She mentioned her fondness of anal, she okay in my book. I wonder if she mantains her bush like her head.

Sinead O'Connor - "I wish the Brits had never left Ireland"

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