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☆ Sinéad O'Connor tribute appears on Irish hillside ahead of funeral
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —An installation paying tribute to Sinéad O’Connor has appeared on an Irish hillside in Bray, the town where her funeral will be held on Tuesday. The tribute to the singer, who died last month at age 56, features white letters, reading “ÉIRE SINÉAD,” with a heart emoji between the two words. The tribute, unveiled Sunday, was conceived by Dublin-based creative agency The Tenth Man, in conjunction with signwriting and mural specialists Mack Signs. It is located directly above a World War II “ÉIRE” navigational landmark that was rediscovered in 2018 after a wildfire. O’Connor “loved living in Bray and the people in it,” the statement added.

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☆ Listen: Celebrating Sinead O’Connor, a Parisian Soccer Tournament, ‘The Retrievals’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( New York Times Audio | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Audiophiles,Get ready for an exciting week of captivating listens. Immerse yourself in a one-of-a-kind Parisian soccer tournament, gain insight into the misconceptions surrounding menopause and tune in to the final episode of Serial’s chilling series “The Retrievals.” Explore the question: Can California be fixed? Join us in celebrating Sinead O’Connor with six of her essential songs, and much more. Enjoy the week!

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☆ Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette pay tribute to Sinéad O’Connor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The Foo Fighters brought out a special guest over the weekend to pay tribute to Sinéad O’Connor. No cause of death has been released, but London police have said it was not being treated as suspicious. At the festival, Foo Fighter’s frontman Dave Grohl announced, “We’re singing this song for a reason tonight.”“Yes, for a beautiful woman with high intelligence and deep empathy, way ahead of her time, who is no longer with us,” Morissette added. “This is for her.”It’s just one of many expressions of grief and tribute to O’Connor. Singers Pink and Brandi Carlile performed a cover of O’Connor’s hit “Nothing Compares 2 You,” (which was written and composed by Prince) during Pink’s concert in Cincinnati after O’Connor’s death was announced.

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☆ Opinion: The Donald Trump and Hunter Biden surprises
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

So it was remarkable Wednesday when the deal for Hunter Biden to plead guilty to two misdemeanors for his failure to pay taxes on time fell apart in a federal courtroom after the judge raised questions about it. Special counsel Jack Smith unexpectedly added a major allegation to the indictment charging former President Donald Trump with mishandling classified documents. The Trump and Hunter Biden developments underlined how America’s political climate is being shaped by what happens in the courts. This addition, an alleged surveillance tape conspiracy, almost reads like a spy novel.”“It features Trump employee and co-defendant Walt Nauta’s surprise clandestine trip to Florida. To W. James Antle III, it was the Hunter Biden plea deal snafu that brought to the forefront the “powerful split screen that drives” how Republican voters see the emerging 2024 presidential race.

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☆ Sinead O’Connor, Prince and the Thrill of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Christopher Kuo | More About Christopher Kuo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sinead O’Connor and Prince, passionate singer-songwriters who both died in their mid-50s, were tied together by the plaintive song “Nothing Compares 2 U,” which catapulted O’Connor to fame when she recorded it for her sophomore album. Prince had composed the song in 1984, deciding to give it to the Family, a side project featuring the singers Susannah Melvoin and Paul Peterson. But the track never gained much recognition when the band released its self-titled album in 1985. 1 hit in 17 countries, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four straight weeks and helped win O’Connor a Grammy (which she later refused to accept). The track’s popular music video, featuring a close-up of O’Connor’s shaved head and piercing gaze, was itself nominated for a Grammy.

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☆ Sinéad O’Connor told her kids what to do if she was found dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Sinéad O’Connor knew the value of her music legacy. In a 2021 interview with People magazine to promote her memoir “Rememberings,” O’Connor said she had explained to her children the importance of protecting her music and finances. To that end, she said she told them to call her accountant before they telephoned 911 should she ever be found dead. “See, when the artists are dead, they’re much more valuable than when they’re alive,” she told the publication. No cause of death has been released, but London police said Thursday it was not being treated as suspicious.

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☆ What Sinead O’Connor Meant to Ireland - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Susan Mckay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I was singing, fired up by the thrilling energy of “Mandinka,” when I became aware of flashing blue lights. On Wednesday, Ms. O’Connor’s body was found in a London apartment. Auden wrote of Yeats, “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.” Cruel Ireland hurt Ms. O’Connor into song. She was furious that in a country that had supposedly fought for and won its freedom, women and children were so silenced and disempowered. She understood and had experienced pain, neglect and injustice and sang for those who also knew these things.

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☆ Tributes Pour In for Sinéad O’Connor, Defiant Irish Singer Dead at 56
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Neil Shah | Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Sinéad O’Connor paid dearly for criticizing the Catholic church. History proved her right
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Following the announcement of Sinéad O’Connor’s death aged 56 Wednesday, her life and music with all their complexities and convulsions have been put back into the spotlight. At first, the act drew widespread condemnation, but in subsequent years this eventually gave way to admiration as the Catholic Church acknowledged and apologized for the sexual abuse perpetrated by members of the clergy, often toward children. Ripping up that photo of the pope defined her career in a “beautiful f**king way,” she told the Guardian in 2021. Joe Pesci hosted the show the following week and in his opening monologue said that O’Connor “was very lucky it wasn’t my show. As the years passed, however, the public’s stance toward O’Connor softened as sexual abuse by members of the clergy became a matter of record.

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☆ Sinead O’Connor’s Death Is Not Suspicious, Police Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Alex Marshall | More About Alex Marshall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sinead O’Connor was found dead in a private home in London, the city’s police said on Thursday, a day after the provocative Irish singer’s death was announced. While few details have been released about the death, the police said that it was not being treated as suspicious. Ms. O’Connor, best known for her rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” was 56. Her family confirmed Ms. O’Connor’s death in a short statement. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinead,” the statement said.

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☆ Sinead O’Connor Was Ireland’s Alternative Moral Compass
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Una Mullally | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On March 9, Sinead O’Connor stood onstage at the Vicar Street concert venue in Dublin. O’Connor was at the RTE Choice Music Prize, an evening celebrating the best Irish albums of the past year. Untethered by this life landmark, I felt strangely grounded by her presence: Sinéad is here, all is well in the world. Soaking in the noise of the audience cheering her on, she smiled, almost bashful, before dedicating the award to refugees in Ireland. O’Connor had a tendency to show up at necessary moments.

Persons: Sinead O’Connor, O’Connor, Shane Organizations: Vicar, RTE Locations: Dublin, Ireland

☆ The Tiny Irish Village Where Sinéad O’Connor Escaped the World
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Megan Specia | More About Megan Specia | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Few people come to Knockananna without good reason, the journey requiring a long, serpentine drive up the country roads that wind through Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. Cellphone service is patchy, adding to the world-apart feeling. But some people do find their way to Knockananna, among them Sinéad O’Connor, who enjoyed a sanctuary of sorts in the village during some of the final years of her life. “Down the mountain, as I call it, nobody can forget about Sinéad O’Connor,” the musician said in a 2021 interview. In the village, she said, nobody much cared — “which is beautiful for me.”

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☆ Sinead O’Connor Condemned Church Abuse Early. America Didn’t Listen.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Liam Stack | More About Liam Stack | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Americans began to grapple with a nationwide epidemic of child abuse in Catholic parishes and other religious organizations in 2002, after a landmark Boston Globe investigation revealed a pattern of misdeeds and cover-ups in Boston that went back decades. Ten years earlier, Sinead O’Connor became a pop culture pariah in the United States for an on-air protest intended to raise awareness of the same problem. The backlash to her actions — tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live” and then shouting “Fight the real enemy!” — was swift. Prominent Americans, including celebrities like Madonna and Joe Pesci, denounced her. Catholic leaders were outraged, including some who were forced to resign years later for their roles in covering up abuse.

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☆ Sinéad O'Connor: Irish singer's death not treated as suspicious, London police say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor was found unresponsive by police and pronounced dead at a residential address in Southeast London on Wednesday, London’s Metropolitan Police said, who added they are not treating the death as suspicious. “Police were called at 11:18hrs on Wednesday, 26 July to reports of an unresponsive woman at a residential address in the SE24 area,” the police statement read. A 56-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Next of kin have been notified. The death is not being treated as suspicious.”This is a developing story, more to follow.

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☆ Sinéad O’Connor Was Found Unresponsive at London Residence
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

McSpaghetti? Inside McDonald’s International Menu StrategyWhile McDonald’s is well known for its burgers across the world, it has menu items in other countries that you won’t find anywhere else. Here’s how the fast-food chain crafts its unique global menus and why localizing them is key to its success. Illustration: Annie Zhao

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☆ Tesla’s secret team, what Africa wants from Russia - and Meloni woos Washington
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

The Wagner mercenary group and food supplies top the agenda as African leaders meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Joe Biden try to find common ground at the White House. Plus, a coup in Niger and the the world mourns Sinead O’Connor. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ 10 Essential Songs by Sinead O’Connor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Jon Pareles | More About Jon Pareles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sinead O’Connor did not hold back. From the moment her debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” appeared in 1987, O’Connor — whose death was announced on Wednesday — flaunted raw passion and raw nerve. Yet her songs also offered comfort, nurturing and righteousness; she was an idealist, not a provocateur. She produced her own debut album when she was only 20, drawing already on punk, dance music, electronics and seething orchestral arrangements. They were charged with youthful turbulence and unbridled ambition, as O’Connor sang about love, death, power and making her own place in the world.

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CNN —Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, who became as well known for her remarkable music as her personal struggles, has died, according to RTE, Ireland’s public broadcaster. 1 in 1990, buoyed by the music video which featured O’Connor, with close-cropped hair and a dark turtleneck. In recent years, O’Connor was open about her struggle with addiction and mental health, and detailed her experience in her 2021 memoir “Rememberings.”Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor performing in Dublin in 2003. Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor at her home in County Wicklow, Republic Of Ireland in 2012. “Really sorry to hear of the passing of Sinéad O’Connor,” Varadkar wrote on Twitter.

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☆ The Night Sinead O’Connor Took on the Pope on ‘S.N.L.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

She was something grander than a simple pop star — she became a stand-in for a sociopolitical discomfort that was beginning to take hold in the early 1990s, a rejection of the enthusiastic sheen and power-at-all-costs culture of the 1980s. And so, in an era where late-night television performances could still prompt monocultural mood shifts, her gesture was a volcanic eruption. And she was a savvy radical — reportedly she had done something slightly different in rehearsal, and saved the pope photo for the actual show. (The photo itself had hung on the bedroom wall of O’Connor’s mother, who O’Connor later said had physically and sexually abused her as a child.) Also, she was on live television, holding court for three minutes on the miseries of discrimination and abuses of power, under the guise of being a pop star performing a song.

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☆ The Bald Power of Sinead O’Connor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | More About Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was the bald head that became the avatar of a million dreamy rebellions; the shaved pate that bridged the gap between the angry and the sublime. It is almost impossible to think about Sinead O’Connor, the Irish singer whose death was reported on July 26, or her work, without thinking about her hair. Or lack of it. Even in the few periods when she grew her hair back, she was often referred to as the “formerly bald” Sinead O’Connor. And as such, she was an integral part of the renegotiation of old stereotypes of gender, sexuality, rebellion and liberation that is still going on today.

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☆ Sinead O’Connor, Evocative and Outspoken Singer, Is Dead at 56
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Joe Coscarelli | More About Joe Coscarelli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sinead O’Connor, the outspoken Irish singer-songwriter best known for her strong, evocative voice, as showcased on her biggest hit, a breathy rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” as well as for her political provocations onstage and off, has died. Her family announced the death in a statement, according to the BBC and the Irish public broadcaster RTE. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinead,” the statement said. Recognizable by her wide eyes and shaved head, Ms. O’Connor released 10 studio albums, beginning with the alternative hit “The Lion and the Cobra” in 1987. 1 hit and MTV staple, won a Grammy Award for best alternative music performance — although Ms. O’Connor boycotted the ceremony, in 1991, citing what she called the show’s excessive commercialism.

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☆ Sinead O’Connor’s Life in Pictures
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

With her short hair and wide eyes, the Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, who has died at the age of 56, cast a powerful silhouette onstage during her music career. The height of her power came in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including a divisive 1992 appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in which she ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II to protest sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. O’Connor told Rolling Stone in 1991 that her record company, Ensign, wanted her to wear high-heel boots and tight jeans and grow her hair out. “I decided that they were so pathetic,” she said, “that I shaved my head.”

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☆ Napoli’s Serie A title win: From Maradona and financial bankruptcy to Scudetto
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

Diego Maradona battles dribbles against Ruud Gullit of AC Milan in the Serie A in 1988. With Maradona’s arrival came a level of success Napoli had previously never seen, culminating in a 1987 title victory; the club’s first ever Scudetto. When Napoli won its first Serie A title in 1987, the Gentleman Ultra website notes: “In the city, mock funerals were held for Juventus. The dark yearsA year after the 1990 title success, the Napoli team began to unwind with players departing, leading to a drop in performances. Napoli fans celebrate the team's Serie A title victory on the streets of Naples.

☆ Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-18 | by ( Amanda Hess | More About Amanda Hess | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sinead O’Connor is alone, which is how she prefers to be. She has been riding out the pandemic in a tiny village on an Irish mountaintop, watching murder shows, buying fairy-garden trinkets online and mainlining American news on CNN. Bubble-gum roses lined the windows, and the Hindu goddess Durga stretched her eight arms across a blanket on a cozy cherry couch. “Deliberately, I bought uncomfortable chairs, because I don’t like people staying long,” she said. “I like being on my own.” But she disclosed this with such an impish giggle that it sounded almost like an invitation.

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