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Related: About this forumSinead rips up the Pope's picture (1992)
Twenty years ahead of her time:
The next week, Joe Pesci would host the show and, in his monologue, would tell the audience how he would have physically assaulted her if he'd been hosting a week earlier - and he received wild applause from the audience.
That same week, she would get booed by Bob Dylan fans at a concert.
Of course, this guy was awesome enough to be one of the lone voices to stand up for her:
A track from last year's album about the Vatican and its crimes against children:
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Sinead rips up the Pope's picture (1992) (Original Post)
Adenoid_Hynkel
Feb 2013
OP
I knew at the time how incredibly hypocritical and ignorant it was for them to boo her at a DYLAN
Hissyspit
Feb 2013
#4
Singer Sinead O’Connor has revealed she was a victim of the Magdalene Laundries
Hissyspit
Feb 2013
#6
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)1. I remember that
What a fabulous protest. So gutsy
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)2. Pesci was simply defending his fellow Nostras.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)3. The best way to stop people from being a catholic adult
is to raise them as catholic children.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)4. I knew at the time how incredibly hypocritical and ignorant it was for them to boo her at a DYLAN
tribute.
I was disgusted.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)5. of course, Dylan himself wasn't much help
and refused to defend her when pressed in interviews after the show
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)7. Yup.
And it was a no-brainer.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)6. Singer Sinead O’Connor has revealed she was a victim of the Magdalene Laundries
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sinead-OConnor-reveals-her-torment-after-she-was-sent-to-a-Magdalene-Laundry-190173211.html
Sinead OConnor reveals her torment after she was sent to a Magdalene Laundry
Singer says Laundries experience is why she ripped up Pope photo on TV
By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Thursday, February 7, 2013, 7:20 AMUpdated Thursday, February 7, 2013, 9:32 AM
Singer Sinead OConnor has revealed she was a victim of the Magdalene Laundries scandal and it affected her for life.
The Nothing Compares 2U hit-maker has made the revelation in an interview with the Irish Sun newspaper.
She spoke out just 24 hours after the publication of a damning report on the Laundries which has highlighted state collusion with the Nuns who ran them.
OConnor, now 46, has told the Irish Sun how she was just 14 when she was sent to the Sisters of
Our Lady of Charity laundry in Dublin after she was labelled a problem child.
She told the paper: We were girls in there, not women, just children really. And the girls in there cried every day.
It was a prison. We didnt see our families, we were locked in, cut off from life, deprived of a normal childhood.
We were told we were there because we were bad people. Some of the girls had been raped at home and not believed.
Read more: Pressure mounts on Government to issue formal apology to Magdalene survivors
One girl was in because she had a bad hip and her family didnt know what to do with her. It was a great grief to us.
The rock star explained how her 18 months in High Park in the Drumcondra suburb of Dublin left her so angry at the injustice that it was part of the reason she caused worldwide controversy by tearing up a picture of the Pope on live television.
She added: It wasnt the only reason, but it was one of them.
Lashing out at the Churchs flaccid apology, OConnor said she was disgusted by it.
MORE
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/an-open-letter-from-sinead-oconnor-on-the-magdalene-laundries-report
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sinead-OConnor-claims-baby-boy-was-snatched-from-mothers-arms-in-Magdalene-Laundry-190582881.html
Sinead OConnor claims baby boy was snatched from mothers arms in Magdalene Laundry
Singer makes official complaint to Irish police
By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Sunday, February 10, 2013, 8:10 AM
Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sinead-OConnor-claims-baby-boy-was-snatched-from-mothers-arms-in-Magdalene-Laundry-190582881.html#ixzz2KcjyAUCK
Follow us: @IrishCentral on Twitter | IrishCentral on Facebook
Sinead OConnor has demanded that Irish police find the baby she witnessed being stolen by Magdalene Laundry nuns from a young mother.
The singer claimed in the Irish Sun newspaper that she saw a newborn baby boy being torn from a friends arms during her spell in a Dublin laundry.
The controversial rock star spent over a year in a Magdalene Laundry as a teenager.
The paper reports that she has now reported the traumatic baby incident to police in Wicklow. Officers have confirmed they have launched a criminal probe into the allegations.
OConnor told the paper that she suspects a cover-up by those involved.
Sinead OConnor reveals her torment after she was sent to a Magdalene Laundry
Singer says Laundries experience is why she ripped up Pope photo on TV
By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Thursday, February 7, 2013, 7:20 AMUpdated Thursday, February 7, 2013, 9:32 AM
Singer Sinead OConnor has revealed she was a victim of the Magdalene Laundries scandal and it affected her for life.
The Nothing Compares 2U hit-maker has made the revelation in an interview with the Irish Sun newspaper.
She spoke out just 24 hours after the publication of a damning report on the Laundries which has highlighted state collusion with the Nuns who ran them.
OConnor, now 46, has told the Irish Sun how she was just 14 when she was sent to the Sisters of
Our Lady of Charity laundry in Dublin after she was labelled a problem child.
She told the paper: We were girls in there, not women, just children really. And the girls in there cried every day.
It was a prison. We didnt see our families, we were locked in, cut off from life, deprived of a normal childhood.
We were told we were there because we were bad people. Some of the girls had been raped at home and not believed.
Read more: Pressure mounts on Government to issue formal apology to Magdalene survivors
One girl was in because she had a bad hip and her family didnt know what to do with her. It was a great grief to us.
The rock star explained how her 18 months in High Park in the Drumcondra suburb of Dublin left her so angry at the injustice that it was part of the reason she caused worldwide controversy by tearing up a picture of the Pope on live television.
She added: It wasnt the only reason, but it was one of them.
Lashing out at the Churchs flaccid apology, OConnor said she was disgusted by it.
MORE
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/an-open-letter-from-sinead-oconnor-on-the-magdalene-laundries-report
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sinead-OConnor-claims-baby-boy-was-snatched-from-mothers-arms-in-Magdalene-Laundry-190582881.html
Sinead OConnor claims baby boy was snatched from mothers arms in Magdalene Laundry
Singer makes official complaint to Irish police
By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Sunday, February 10, 2013, 8:10 AM
Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sinead-OConnor-claims-baby-boy-was-snatched-from-mothers-arms-in-Magdalene-Laundry-190582881.html#ixzz2KcjyAUCK
Follow us: @IrishCentral on Twitter | IrishCentral on Facebook
Sinead OConnor has demanded that Irish police find the baby she witnessed being stolen by Magdalene Laundry nuns from a young mother.
The singer claimed in the Irish Sun newspaper that she saw a newborn baby boy being torn from a friends arms during her spell in a Dublin laundry.
The controversial rock star spent over a year in a Magdalene Laundry as a teenager.
The paper reports that she has now reported the traumatic baby incident to police in Wicklow. Officers have confirmed they have launched a criminal probe into the allegations.
OConnor told the paper that she suspects a cover-up by those involved.
midnight
(26,624 posts)8. K&R For this courages Irish women....
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)9. different pope.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)10. Let me see if I understand this...
Sinead O'Connor was protesting the molestation of Irish boys by priests 20-21 years ago?
This scandal has been simmering for at least that long?
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dsc
(52,166 posts)12. Lord alone knows how long the abuse has been going on
but the outcries date from the early 1970's at the least. By the time Sinead ripped the photo many diocese in the US had been sued multiple times for abuse.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)11. wow! following one of the links in the story it seems that these laundries
existed in the US as well!! I did not know that. What is wrong with people!?!?