Sinead O Connor Controversy

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Thesis: When one sees the Sinead O’Connor’s controversial performance where she rips the Pope’s picture, one sees her as a non-religious person full of anger towards the Church. However, while being disappointed and angry with the way the Church works, she is indeed a religious person.

• Sinead was sent to Sisters of our Lady Charity laundry in Dublin when she was only 14. She was considered to be a problem child. She was a part of Magdalene Laundries scandal. She recalls child abuse at her teenage years of childhood and this has caused her anger with the Catholic Church and its ways.
• She was also abused as a child and talks about how this has been going on for generations in Ireland. In an interview, she even openly connects the issue

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