Sinead O Connor
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Damien Dempsey: Union review – Darkness on the edge of Damo Town
- Music
- November 30, 2018, 05:30
Is there any other contemporary Irish solo singer who manages to distil as much identity and heritage into their work as Damien Dempsey? The ones who (...)

Sinéad O’Connor releases song inspired by Irish teenager killed in first World War
- Music
- November 2, 2018, 17:30
The words of an Irish teenager who was killed in the first World War have been put to music and turned into a song sung by Sinéad O’Connor. Michael W(...)

Ed Sheeran: ‘My Irish heritage is something I’ve always been proud of’
- Abroad
- June 19, 2018, 11:55
London’s Irish community get chance to see what Ed Sheeran is made of when he takes to the stage at the London Irish Centre in Camden on Tuesday. “My(...)

Alexander McQueen film asks no awkward questions
- Film
- June 6, 2018
On the night that fashion designer Alexander McQueen took his own life in 2010, his long-time collaborator and friend Mira Chai Hyde felt a presence i(...)

King Lear Monday, BBC Two, 9.30pm A mad king rules over a totalitarian military dictatorship in England, and pretty soon everything descends into chao(...)

My daily routine living with . . . chronic fatigue syndrome
- Health & Family
- May 11, 2018, 06:01
Imagine: you slip gently into the Land of Nod as a high-drive, progressive, active, healthy person only to awaken to an unexpected, uninvited invader.(...)

Grease at 40: I can no longer hate the film I despised in 1978
- Film
- April 23, 2018, 12:50
In October of 1978, Bob Geldof yawned and tore up a photograph of John Travolta on Top of the Pops. A decade and a bit later, his mate Sinead O’Connor(...)

Nothing Compares 2 U: What Prince thought of Sinéad O’Connor’s smash hit
- Music
- April 19, 2018, 17:21
Thirty four years ago, when Paul “St Paul” Peterson was the singer in The Family, a band Prince had assembled, he was sitting in his mother’s house in(...)

Criminal assets: Six Irish houses with dark pasts
- Homes & Property
- April 16, 2018, 17:35
Jessbrook, the former home of convicted criminal John Gilligan has been declared “sale agreed”, eight months after it went up for sale with what was s(...)

Would you buy a house someone had been murdered in?
- Homes & Property
- April 11, 2018, 06:00
Every old house has its secrets. As a new owner, you will probably never find out what went on within those four walls, and in many cases, there’s pro(...)