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    Jun 17, 2021 3 minutes
    JIM WIRTH

    SINÉAD O’Connor suggests she may have been channelling The Boomtown Rats when she decided to tear up a photo of the Pope in a high-profile  appearance in 1992, her fellow Dubliners having shredded pictures of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on a 1978 edition of . In more deferential times, her bid to highlight clerical child abuse in Ireland seemed like an act of career suicide, but the way she puts it in her loose-slung memoir , it was actually the moment when

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