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    ‘She looked like a punk angel’: readers share their tributes and memories of Sinéad O’Connor

    ‘If she were starting out now, she’d still be ahead of her time’ I am full of tears this morning, like so many others in Ireland.
    Jul 31, 2023 4 minutes

    ‘If she were starting out now, she’d still be ahead of her time’

    I am full of tears this morning, like so many others in Ireland. As a young Irish male musician in the 80s, I was awed by her personality, talent, of course her beauty and her voice of the oracle. She changed what a female artist could talk about and look like in the Ireland of the 80s and 90s. If she were starting out now, she would still be ahead of her time. It filled me with hope back then that out of a conservative country could still come one of the most talented, stylish, defiant women in the world.

    I recorded Sinéad in the early 00s for a TV series and was so in awe of her in the studio,

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