Sinead O'Connor reveals what inspired her to rip up picture of pope -- VIDEO

Great voice. Damaged brain - complete nut job.

Its the meds Doc!

King William of Orange aka King Billy had the blessing and support of Rome to fight James in Ireland.

HOW THE ROMAN POPES GAVE IRELAND TO THE ENGLISH TO RULE OVER US ROME WANTED TO SUPPRESS THE CHURCH SAINT PATRICK HELP ESTABLISH. THE CELTIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. This was indeed what King Henry did and one of his first acts was to call the Council of Cashel in 1172 at which the ancient Celtic Church of Ireland was brought into submission to the yoke of Roman bondage. As for the Papal insults that the Irish were a rude, ignorant, uncivilized people, had not the missionaries of Patrick's Celtic Church brought the uncorrupted Gospel not only to the rest of the British Isles but to Europe? Was it a savage people who produced such beautifully illuminated Christian manuscripts as the Book of Kells, and who preserved the primitive Christian faith in their communities even under Viking attack, whilst Papal Rome was sunk in, the depths of vice and superstitions? The Roman Catholic writer O'Driscoll admits: "The Christian Church of Ireland was founded by St. Patrick, existed for many centuries free and unshackled ... and differed on many points from Rome. From the days of Patrick to the Council of Cashel was a bright and glorious career for Ireland. From the sitting of that Council to our own times the lot of Ireland has been unmixed evil and all her history a tale of woe." Views of Ireland, Vol. 2, Page 84.

Long after this fading exhibitionist is dead and gone, there will be a pope in Rome.

The Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church (HRC&AC) used to sell a niche market consumer durable called Plenary Indulgences. Nothing like fading rock stars selling Naricssistic Self-Indulgences to relaunch their flagging careers. People who make a career of complaining about a dysfunctional childhood are really complaining about not having had ideal parents appropriate to their very own little non-diaper pooping infancy. Sinead is more Catholic that she thinks. A master of the woe-is-me dubious art of latter day martyredom. The amount of existential angst one exxperiences in this incarnation is consistent with the size of ones ego. No ego - no pain! Adopt the lotus position Sinead, and chant your way to subjective oblivion.

"the church's slaughter of millions of innocents during the Inquisition". You really are a total ignoramus, rpbrown, aren't you? The Inquisition did NOT kill millions of peoiple, what diseased Fundamentalist web site yielded you that "information"? The numbers executed by the Inquisition in more than 300 years of its existence reached probably several thousand. This would equate with the number of Catholics killed by Henry the Eight during his reign of a few decades, and would be well behind the numbers killed by Elizabeth the First or James in England and Ireland. Indeed, Catholics were being killed in Ireland as late as the eighteenth century. So Have some sense and don't post your inanities where intelligent people can read them.

wtf Almost twenty years ago and that poor girl is still crying out for help.

When Sinead did this, most Catholics couldn't firgure out what it was all about. Sinead brought instant attention to the horrific problem of pedophilia and the Catholic Hierarchy. She did a service to all, but especially for Catholics. What she did was called Guerrilla Propaganda in the '60s and '70s. Now we call it "in your face", in the '60s it was called Up Against the Wall. In any event, Sinead forced open the debate in the Church that continues to this day. She should be put up for Sainthood.

rpbrown, ever since the day man stood up he as held the planet prisoner for his own selfish needs.

Why is this jaded item being mentioned again .Must be short of the weekly anti Catholic diatribe ! What I would do with OConnor is give her a kick up the arse ,and a free ticket to a Muslim country .However , she need not visit any of the latter ,just tear up a picture of the prophet in any European country and have a nice day !

Rpbrown - just another tired, garden variety, intellectually void anti Catholic rant. Please, spare us. We have heard all that nonsense before. You need a new gig.

I detect the athiest in rpbrown.

For two thousand years the papacy has condoned some of the works acts of humanity and today continues to be political power that does not spread love and the word of Jesus, but spreads hate, abuse, judgment and righteousness: the very things Jesus came to this Earth to teach people not to do. Sinead should have gone further and burned the picture. It's so repulsive, the Catholic church continues to hide their child abusing priests, the church continues to say women are second class, the church continues to say anyone who's not doing what they're doing is going to hell. I mean jeeze, the church's slaughter of millions of innocents during the Inquisition is enough to realize if there is a Satan as they say, he lives at the Vatican!

"Inspired" denotes some divine influence Dara, driven, as if by the devil himself, would be more appropriate