How opportunity 'Knocked' for TV talent show star Susan Boyle

Daughter of Irish immigrants makes annual pilgrimage to Knock

Father Clark said the local peiple were  "enormously proud of her and wish her the best.”

However, he said, "people are slightly worried about what might happen after this bout of fame.”

"I am quite worried for her," he said. "I think it's great at one level. It might just be the thing that will make her, but she is a very vulnerable person and it could be quite difficult.

"It is a great opportunity for her and as far as I am concerned she should make the best of it, and if it lasts, it lasts, and if it doesn't, then it's still more than almost any one of us will ever achieve," he added. "It is important in sustaining her and making sure this is all a very, very beneficial experience."

He said Boyle was "a woman of great faith" who was often "very gentle and very caring" though she could also be "needy and demanding."

The devout Catholic has often paid tribute to her late mother Bridget. "I knew it was something I had to do," she said. "I had to get on with it.  That's where the courage came from, my mother."

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