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Tp think Sinead O'Connor should learn some manners?

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breadyegg · 17/02/2013 10:00

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...

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supergirl123 · 17/02/2013 16:20

Check out 'War @ Dylan concert' by her on youtube. She sings it after being heckled on stage. What a woman. I get shivers down my spine when I hear it.

Toughasoldboots · 17/02/2013 16:30

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Cornycabernet · 17/02/2013 16:32

She wasn't rude at all. That guy was though - rude and patronising.

I've just watched the Graham Norton interview mentioned on here - the song she sings is amazing.

I had her first album in the 80's - I have always liked her.

Sunnywithshowers · 17/02/2013 16:39

I've got lots of time for Sinead O'C too. Why shouldn't she be angry? Why is it that women in the public eye have to be so damn nice all time?

bloggingvirgin · 17/02/2013 16:39

Eddie Mair is a complete pro- and he dealt with her superbly- by simply ignoring her rudeness. I felt embarrassed watching her. What an idot she is. Her latest ( 4th) marriage has evidently lasted 17 days.

bloggingvirgin · 17/02/2013 16:42

How is asking someone how they are, the wrong kind of question? SHE asked him the same question first for those of you who missed it! And her response "fine, fine, , yes really fine...." was just so stupid.

MechanicalTheatre · 17/02/2013 16:44

Asking how she was isn't a problem. Saying "are you trying to convince yourself or me?" is, especially when the person is known to have mh problems.

bloggingvirgin · 17/02/2013 16:49

When asked how she was, all she had to say was "I'm fine thanks," in a polite, gracious manner which is how 99% of people who were asked that question would have replied. Her actual reply was attention-seeking and completely OTT.

She made an idot of heself by trying to be funny, sarcastic, patronising,- whatever was going on in her head at the time.

I think Eddie thought she was taking the piss- which is why he came back with his retort- are you trying to convince me or yourself.

edam · 17/02/2013 16:49

Oh dear, Eddie Mair's usually great but he really mis-handled that one.

bloggingvirgin · 17/02/2013 16:51

I thought he was very self-controlled considering what he COULD have said. On radio anyone behaving like she did would have been savaged by him or Humphries- she got off lightly.

Velve · 17/02/2013 16:54

Urgh, the interviewer was a total arse.
I would go on the defensive too and be "rude" if I was interviewed in such fashion. Human reaction, totally understandable.

MechanicalTheatre · 17/02/2013 16:58

blogging why is it ok in your mind for Humphries to savage someone, but it's not ok for O'Connor to savage the interviewer?

goingmadinthecountry · 17/02/2013 17:06

I could never stand her - thought the tuning was off on her only hit.

The music's never a proper interview bit anyway. I so wish he'd said oh fuck off we don't want to hear your music anyway and returned to chat to Helena Kennedy or someone more interesting then gone to the titles.

If she's really that mentally unstable, TV's definitely not going to be a good place for her to be. I go with the belief that she's just rude.

flow4 · 17/02/2013 17:09

Personally, I didn't think she was rude; I thought she was admirably tolerant of Mair's own crass rudeness.

I am also shocked by posters suggesting or agreeing that she 'needs a slap'. I assume those saying it are ignorant of SO'C's past: she was physically abused as a child, by her mother. Then at the age of 15, sent to one of Ireland's infamous Magdalene Laundries for shoplifting and truancy (truancy FFS), where she was again abused. She has said of her time there, and some of the 'discipline' "I have never?and probably will never?experience such panic and terror and agony over anything."

Anyone who has followed the news about the Magdalene Laundries over the last couple of days will know that the Irish government looks set to issue a state apology for what happened to women imprisoned in these institutions.

The news is very likely to have sparked some awful memories for SO'C. Her renowned 'mental health issues' are likely to be linked to her personal experiences of abuse. Eddie Mair is an experienced interviewer, and if he wasn't aware of the crassness of his questioning, particularly this weekend, then he bloody well should have been.

gordyslovesheep · 17/02/2013 17:09

I love that a woman who doesn't play ball is mentally ill at worst or rude at best - he was sloppy - she was fine

I love her - always have

GinAndT0nic · 17/02/2013 17:13

Wow. I didn't know that. she is only about 45, did she go to a laundry? I thought she went to Glengara Park.

Toughasoldboots · 17/02/2013 17:18

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whiteandyelloworchid · 17/02/2013 17:18

Eddie Mair is a total arse, what a prick

whiteandyelloworchid · 17/02/2013 17:19

noone wonder people with mh problems dont speak out, for fear of forever being asked, how are you...... it that strange tone
its all in the way its asked, the tone,

it was a bright and breezy so how are you

it was a low concerned voice sayign how are you

flow4 · 17/02/2013 17:22

Yes, she did, Gin.
Wiki info and
Washington Post article written by O'Connor herself in 2010

Mitchy1nge · 17/02/2013 17:24

what sort of manners does a slap teach?

flow4 · 17/02/2013 17:24

The last Magdalene laundry closed in 1996. O'Connor was in An Grianán for 18 months around 1981.

MarmaladeTwatkins · 17/02/2013 17:26

I've just watched it and she wasn't as rude as she should have been. She just looked a bit bewildered to me. She doesn't suffer fools gladly. Nowt wrong wi' that!

claig · 17/02/2013 17:28

www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/news/4782843/We-were-girls-in-there-not-women-the-girls-in-there-cried-every-day.html#ixzz2KCzf1U00

www.irishcentral.com/news/Sinead-OConnor-reveals-her-torment-after-she-was-sent-to-a-Magdalene-Laundry-190173211.html

Apologies are not enough. Lots of people should be in the dock for this and that includes bigwigs, politicians and judges etc. who turned a blind eye while all this was going on.

SigmundFraude · 17/02/2013 17:33

I have never understood the Sinead hype. She's rude and annoying, always has been, despite the odd good song. I don't understand why being rude and annoying should be lauded as being a 'strong woman'. Plenty of people experience difficulties in life and are 'strong' without behaving like petulant children.