Comments on: Isn’t Sinead O’Connor overdue a massive, grovelling apology from absolutely everybody?

By: Derrick Kardos

Derrick Kardos — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:41:25 +0000

God yes.

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By: Billy

Billy — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:30:36 +0000

Mannix Flynn an actor and politican in Ireland who went to the hell hole that was the Letterfrack industrial school in Galway in Ireland was also laughed at when he made the same allegations 20 years back. The catholic church is a corrupt and out moded organisation that is more concerned with clinging on to its land and power and giving to s**ts about the people.

The catholic churches obsession with guilt and its retarded idea of sexuality basically manifested itself in the abuse and rape of children. The worst insult ever was the last Irish government of corrupt me-feiners making the Irish taxpayer help pay the victims of church sponsored rape. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH should have sold some of its millions of acres of land to do this.

its great the catholic church in Ireland has finally lost its grip on the populace but a deep shame it has taken the exposure of systematic child rape to do so.

oh yeah and Joe Pesci, what an annoying little pip squeak.

Good on ya Sinead. Go girl.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:05:50 +0000

Thank you everybody here. My heart has swelled with emotion every time i see or hear her, from the first time onward. She’s always come across so genuine and courageous, she has been a great inspiration to me in my life and still is. From early childhood on i have both sensed and experienced the evil in the C. priesthood and went through a lot of frustration with the brainless reactions to my speaking up about it. As a musician, i have found it very depressing how bandmates always seemed to want to just bend over and let the enslaved money bosses wield our band as a cultural influence tool, promoting degeneracy. They’d call me naive and sign it away and I’d quit the band and go on. I’d have felt much more alone and discouraged if not for her presence in my life, helping me stand out from my own center, regardless of outside approval.

Several times I have turned a toubled, violent, woman fearing/hating male friend on to her music, and began seeing a healing in my friend !!! Her songs also have a healing effect on women who have a victim psychology and have been falling into nasty abusive relationships.

Saw her at Lollapolooza 95 with tears streaming down my face.
Saw her in dreams and she kissed me or hugged me or told me something meaningful.

I just saw her on a stage at a free show in a dream a couple nights ago and she said something unexpected-compassionate-controversial about people with cancer.

My memory of her always helps me not to become intimidated by police when I have to inform them that they have no jurisdiction over me. Just keeping that feeling of loving, honest, self-respect and mutual respect. With all of their training and flashy gimmicks they fail to intimidate me into bending over and contracting into their bogus no-victim “authority.”

I can’t think of a more praise-worthy artist in the world!
WHAT A GREAT FUCKING HUMAN BEING !!!!
And who in the world can sing like she did up thru the early 2000’s ? !!!

I must say i am VERY worried about her using the antidepressant drugs. They mess up one’s natural emotional processes and have very dangerous side-effects!! see for example “drugawareness.org” There are better alternatives, such as quitting cigarettes and practicing excellent health habits and getting lots of excercise, rest, water, quality air, and detoxifying with raw food diet, etc. It brings me sorrow to hear the damage from the cigarettes in your voice Sinead !!.

However i also must say her voice also sounds gorgeous the way it is now. I think i hear deep vivid colors in it! Dark green and purple especially. Each new album I fall in love.

LOVE YOU PEOPLE !!!
LOVE YOU SINEAD !!

By: AllForTruth

AllForTruth — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:11:55 +0000

Thanks for the post and all the thought-provoking comments. One thing that I think many people miss is how amazingly consistent Sinead has been over the years. Yes, amazingly so! Even in her very earliest interviews, she was exploring how honesty and truth-telling are the artist’s primary – if not only – job. Yes, she has been angry, adversarial, and (gasp) tactless at times. Umm. She IS human, ya know. Also, her fame hit while she was working through her own very abusive childhood, all while in the public eye. BTW, there IS a NOVEMBER 1992 interview from Time/CNN (writer is Janice Simpson) in which Sinead very clearly states that priests in Ireland “have been beating the shit out of the children for years AND sexually abusing them.” Yup. 1992. The writer, for some unfathomable reason, did not pick up on this and run with it. Nor did any other media outlet, apparently. The press and media failed us on that one, not Sinead. Let’s hope that they (and we) don’t let this issue lie anymore. Children deserve absolute protection and artists who commit to truth deserve our respect and attention.

By: Mal

Mal — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:42:40 +0000

Eoin – great work. Ms O’Connor is indeed owed an apology especially from the likes of Madonna and Pesci. Revelations of systematic child abuse were starting to surface in Australia back then. I’m sure that they were also breaking in other parts of the world. In reply to people such as Ted – the systematic cover up of great crime by the current Pope and his coworkers in the Church does not warrant forgetfulness or forgiveness. It really is time that the Catholic Church faced up to its responsibilities to its followers and reformed in such a way that these terrible crimes do not happen again. Sinead – you are an inspiration and a hero.

By: Steve Regan

Steve Regan — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:04:09 +0000

To Ted Fagan, plenty of people knew, why do you think there was such a massive cover up?
Sinead is a brilliant and brave warrior for her truth which is not constrained by conventional allegiances to the gangs that call themselves organized religion, media networks, governments, and corporations.

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