23 Comments

• Smyrnian | Sep 24, 2012, 06:18 PM EDT

  Great voice. Damaged brain - complete nut job.

• RedBranch | Sep 24, 2012, 03:36 PM EDT

  Its the meds Doc!

• Irishphotograph | Sep 24, 2012, 12:16 PM EDT

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

• Irishphotograph | Sep 24, 2012, 12:15 PM EDT

  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.

• oldboreen | Sep 24, 2012, 11:14 AM EDT

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

• IrelandNorth | Sep 24, 2012, 07:10 AM EDT

  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.

• WoundedKnee | Sep 24, 2012, 03:12 AM EDT

  "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.

• irishpjk | Sep 24, 2012, 12:18 AM EDT

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

• pilib04 | Sep 23, 2012, 09:35 PM EDT

  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.

• TayandCake | Sep 23, 2012, 07:59 PM EDT

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

• misneac | Sep 23, 2012, 07:26 PM EDT

  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 !

• Smyrnian | Sep 23, 2012, 06:27 PM EDT

  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.

• Tom Mo | Sep 23, 2012, 04:52 PM EDT

  I detect the athiest in rpbrown.

• rpbrown | Sep 23, 2012, 04:31 PM EDT

  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!

• Tom Mo | Sep 23, 2012, 04:05 PM EDT

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

• Woodman | Sep 23, 2012, 03:29 PM EDT

  She never mention child abuse in the Catholic Church when she tore up the photo, and she did not change the lyrics of Bob Marley's 'War' when she sang it on Saturday Night Live. She is a liar.

• WoundedKnee | Sep 23, 2012, 02:47 PM EDT

  hermitTalker: Not too witty, are you? Read what I wrote, not what you carelessly think I wrote.

• sidhemajik | Sep 23, 2012, 02:38 PM EDT

  I remember the controversy. She took a lot of lack for her actions, but now that things have been uncovered, I applaud her for doing it. There is a lot of evil there and it needs to exposed.

• Searlit | Sep 23, 2012, 01:44 PM EDT

  She was trying to get the world's attention to focus on the hidden problem of child abuse by Catholic clergy. She took so much criticism and hatred aimed at her for that. At the time, I wasn't aware of the pedophile problem in the preisthood or the Magdalene Laundries. She did the right thing, although it schocked the world. The world needed to be shocked, from it's unconsciousness.

• Happyhippo | Sep 23, 2012, 01:34 PM EDT

  Aw god, Miss o Conner we know is a headbanger who joined some sort of Catholic reject sect,last time i heard her sing she was religious wearing clerical garb,but what a singer

• hermitTalker | Sep 23, 2012, 11:30 AM EDT

  You two posters never miss a chance to blast the Catholic Church, presume you intended him if not, apologies WK. Sinead is a very troubled CHILD OF GOD and I know Blessed John Paul 11 is praying for her soul's salvation,

• Portia777 | Sep 23, 2012, 10:26 AM EDT

  Sinead was years ahead of most Irish people. She was free from the control of Roma even then.

• WoundedKnee | Sep 23, 2012, 09:59 AM EDT

  I can understand how she felt. I'd happily rip up a picture of her too.