Itâs a fact glas. The world wonât miss her any more than you or I or Christy Duignam. Twitter will move on, and people will slowly forget. Itâs the way of things.
Does anyone give any thought to such as Whitney Houston these days? Not really
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Jesus but youâre a callous bastard
People with a passing interest in music would remember Bach, Mozart and Beethoven and they all died over 200 years ago.
Music lovers would remember Hildegard von Bingen and she died in 1179.
If youâre comparing Sinead to Whitney my dog has better taste than you.
I still miss Uaneen Fitzsimons
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Unpopular opinion alert,
I think people react to celebrity deaths in different ways, itâs obvious here from the appropriate threads,
Personally they donât really have an effect on me bar the initial shock, I was a fan of Sineadâs music and saw her play four times, I felt terrible for her troubles but there was nothing I could do to help, so Iâll read the obits, nod along and move on. I didnât actually know her.
My wife is a huge fan of hers and has been for over thirty years, she always feared this event, sheâs been crying while listening and watching the memorial stuff, sheâll remember this forever, and Sineadâs legacy etc, so I understand both arguments here,
Will she be remembered? Of course, she was an international superstar for a while, she was Irish, she was a fragile soul with a voice that hasnât been matched by many.
But weâll move on, is that possibly what @flattythehurdler is saying here?
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Weâll all move on. Itâs sad but some people act like theyâve lost a loved one. Next week itâll be another celebrity. Then another.
Thereâs a few people on my social feeds that seem to be perpetually in grief due to some celebrity or other passing away. Itâs so fake.
I felt sad for a bit yesterday cos Sinead died, particularly as she suffers from an illness that runs through my family and I know how it can make life dam near impossible but, at the end of the day, life goes on. I didnât know her, I rarely listen to her music.
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I donât have social media, other than here, so donât base my standards off that or how other people react.
Talent will always be missed. Not on a personal level, like a loved one.
Sinead was widely recognised the World over for her voice and her activism, she meant more than music to some people, especially women. I have a close friend who is genuinely upset by it and it isnt for show
Bringing twitter or social media into it is fairly callous and a pretty low way to try and belittle people who are actually saddened
Iâm not trying to belittle anyone and I know grief is a personal thing. But there is a cohort on social media who seem to treat every celebrity death like a personal loss. It literally canât affect them that bad every time.
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That world is alien to me.
I would recommend anybody with half a brain to avoid it like the plague. Its not real
Long time before we see the likes of herself or Dolores OâRiordan again coming out of Ireland.
World class singer, incredible + unique look and a real intensity as a performer.
Very special talent, if she had any interest at all in the commercial side of it, she couldâve had her whole career at the very top.
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Itâs not. Far from it. At the end of the day, Twitter and the likes donât matter a jot.
Even on the news though. Loads and loads of people coming out saying how much she meant to them. Fair enough but Iâd love to know how many of them lifted a finger to help her whilst she was still alive. It was obvious she was deeply unwell.
Thank god the Internet and social media is here to capture the sadness.
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How much can a stranger help someone in that situation? Realistically.
Theres callousness in using someones death to virtue signal as well. No doubt about it.
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Sinéad helped make us feel we were a proper country. The years 1985 to 1995 were filled with incredibly formidable characters in Irish society that contributed to a golden period of change and creativity and possibility in our culture, it was a time when things happened. Sinéad was an integral part of this.
She could talk crap with the best of them and often did but as an artist and a public figure she was totemic.
As were Bono and Geldof.
People who are bold and fearless in their art and their convictions, who challenge embedded power and try to change the world for the better through their art are to be cherished.
Itâs very hard to think of any equivalent figures in Ireland today to those sort of figures who bestrode Ireland like collossi between 1985 and 1995.
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Thats it exactly, you look at people in their totality, their impact. If she came around again now, sheâd be the biggest star in the country by a gillion miles.
Who is the biggest Irish star at the moment? Maybe Cillian Murphy. A big deal sure but nowhere near as charasmatic or impactful as Sinead OâConnor.
Roy Curtis
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We turned from a real country into rubby country overnight
Conor McGregor, sadly.
We used to be a proper country.
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There you go, a marble mouthed, shaved gorilla no one wants to hear from.
I respect his achievements though.