Tp think Sinead O'Connor should learn some manners?

[breadyegg]

Just saw her on the BBC. How rude was she to that interviewer? She needs a slap...

I like her as an artist. Have ever so slightly gone off her...

Oh my, absolutely YANBU! I just said what an obnoxious person she is. So so rude. Poor guy, it was his first time presenting and she was vile.

she's really horrible - great singer but totally unpleasant human being.

I didn't see the interview - what did she say/do?

What she on?

I didn't see it. I heard her interviewed by Jo Whiley on radio recently, and it was a great interview, she came across reasonably well.

She won't do herself any favours by treating people badly, she's already highly controversial.

Downright rude.

she needs a slap

yeah, that's right - for years she was called all manner of nasty things because of the things she stood up and out for.

turns out now she was right all along

i didn't see the interview btw, but i think your choice of words, OP, are ironic

The guy was interviewing her and asking how she was, inspiration for the album etc and she kept raising her eyebrows, turning to a band member rolling her eyes. At the end sarcastically said well that was the best interview (or words to that effect). She wasn't standing up for what she believes in, just being incredibly rude. If someone asks you a question, you answer.

She was beyond rude, IMO!

are the references to her past and beliefs not being an excuse for her behaviour today directed at my comment?

i never said they were - i said it was ironic she was being recommended a slap..

Ive always thought she was a bit of a twat.

Didn't she have her children taken away from her by irish social services?

I always just thought she was bonkers.

I would have thought she was a perfect MN icon; snippy, rude, aggressive, always bleating on about something...

She has serious mental health issues does she not?

@marmaladetwatkins

But he was so dull, asking crappy questions. I think she's great.

MrsD the Magdalene laundries carried on until 1996 - I had not idea (saw it linked on a thread here last week).

I know she is a rude fucker but I have a soft spot for Sinead for some reason. Probably because she is so arsey.

She suffers from Bipolar disorder. I am not saying that's an excuse and I didn't see the interview but she's admitted before that she gets very ill at times and really regrets her public outpourings while ill.

Her children have definitely not been taken by Irish SS.

I think it was the interviewer's fault.

I think she has little confidence and reads things the wrong way because of that. I like Eddie Mair, but he is an experienced interviewer and should have realised that and dealt with her better.

He aksed her how she was and she said "great, the greatest" etc.
and he then said something like "are you trying to convince me or yourself?"

That was a bad initial question and a terrible followup. It embarrassed her and got her back up which is why she reacted as she did.

He then compounded his error by saying something like the "one optimistic" song on the album, which got her back uop again and she said she thinks there is more than one optimistic thing on the album.

He then compounded his errors even further by saying "so what are we going to hear?" which she read as a sort of order and she reacted again.

He is a great interviewer, but he handled her wrong and should have understood her and phrased things in a different manner.

He walked right into it by the way he dealt with her.

She behaved like an utter twat. Eddie was graciousness itself, having to accommodate for a whinning teenager on a strop.