Rest in peace Sinéad. Your horror has ended.

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    32 years ago

    It was in protest to the Catholic Church’s treatment of women. The molestation scandal came out about fifteen years later

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      Source? According to Wikipedia it was the molestations, for which the pope apologised 9 years later, so 15 seems far fetched.

      Edit: Granted, at the time all she said was Fight the real evil, so no wonder people were confused.

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        32 years ago

        The two sources wikipedia uses to make that claim are from after the scandal broke and neither quote O’Connor.

        The first apology I can fund fir sex abuse is 2008 so 17 years later

        In 1991 people joked about priests raping kids but it was not common knowledge that the problem was widespread at the time.

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      32 years ago

      She literally added the lyric “child abuse” to her performance of “War” prior to tearing up the photo.

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        52 years ago

        Which was a reference to the abuse she suffered in the Irish Laundries. Are you aware she was in one as a teen?