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| 2004-09-25 |
| She calls herself Ireland's "Princess Diana" and has endured an excruciating love-hate relationship with the press. But Sinead O'Connor, Ireland's misunderstood singer turned priest, has finally snapped after a joke about head lice. The singer, who has endured 20 years of abuse for shaving her head, tearing up a picture of the Pope on live TV and being ordained as Mother Bernadette Maria by a quasi-Catholic group, placed a full-page advert in an Irish broadsheet yesterday begging for mercy from Mother Ireland. In an extraordinary, 2,000-word plea she said she had lost the will to live after being "ridiculed, lashed and called mad", as part of a "national pastime" of Sinead-bashing since she started her career at 17. The final straw came this week when she said a Dublin tabloid mocked her calls for a national "delousing day" to combat the problem of nits. The paper went too far, in her view, when it got personal by comparing her with her brother, the novelist Joseph O'Connor, who recently topped the book charts with the acclaimed Star of the Sea after it was championed by the Richard and Judy show. Sinead O'Connor objected to the paper mentioning her allegations of child abuse against her mother, but the paper stood by the story. The 38-year-old, whom one journalist once called "six tracks short of an album", then placed an advert in the Irish Examiner saying she was sick of being labelled a "crazy bitch" and could no long cope. BIG CLUE: Not being able to cope with the publicity that you constantly stir up might be a sign of mental deficiency. She said: "I beg ye, I can't live with the pain of being this nation's whipping post any longer. Untie me please and ADDITIONAL BIG CLUE AT NO EXTRA CHARGE: If you want to be "left alone" |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #5 In an extraordinary, 2,000-word plea she said she had lost the will to live after being "ridiculed, lashed and called mad", as part of a "national pastime" of Sinead-bashing since she started her career at 17. The solution is a very simple one: Stop being a dumbass. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-25 8:05:23 PM |
| #4 at one time, she was a talented performer. She's quit being talented, and set her resume on "publicity by outrage". When your articles in the media don't mention any popular product, just your antics, your 15 minutes are about up....see "Madonna in the Holy Land" appearing on infomercials in the high-hundreds cable channels near you |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-25 7:04:39 PM |
| #3 Yikes I just googled the name, she's damn ugly. Was she in a band? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-25 6:55:24 PM |
| #2 Well now I feel bad about always refering to her as Skinhead O' Connor. I suggest a course of intense counciling and a course of anti-depressants. "Sinead, very wise man ( John 'Bluto' Blutarsky ) once said, and here is what you do to cope: Start drinking heavily." But badanov, I thought she alread was? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-25 4:00:31 PM |
| #1 The 38-year-old, whom one journalist once called "six tracks short of an album", then placed an advert in the Irish Examiner saying she was sick of being labelled a "crazy bitch" and could no long cope. Sinead, very wise man ( John 'Bluto' Blutarsky ) once said, and here is what you do to cope: Start drinking heavily. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-09-25 12:36:32 PM |