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Sinead O'Connor 'Missing' in the US After Bike Ride
BBC News ^ | 5/16/2016 | BBC News

Posted on 05/16/2016 10:49:10 AM PDT by usafa92

Wilmette Police "are seeking to check the well-being" of the 49-year-old, they said in a brief press release. Police were called after O'Connor "left the Wilmette area" for a bicycle ride at 0600 local time on Sunday, and had not returned after more than a day. No more information is currently available, police say.

O'Connor became a global star in 1990 with the worldwide hit Nothing Compares 2 U, a song written by Prince. She has recorded 10 solo albums but has also made headlines with controversial outbursts throughout her career. In 1992, she ripped apart a photo of Pope John Paul II during a live television broadcast and has been a strong critic of the Catholic Church over its handling of the child abuse scandal.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bicycle; bicycling; bike; cycling; missing; sineadoconnor
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To: Hot Tabasco

Alive


61 posted on 05/16/2016 12:35:27 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: dfwgator

Jan Hooks and Phil Hartmann at their best.


62 posted on 05/16/2016 12:39:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: usafa92
An eventful life spent time in a Magdalene Laundry in Dublin aged 14 when labelled a "problem child", she said

sang Mandinka on Late Night with David Letterman in 1988, a year after debut album released

Nothing Compares 2 U was number one in Ireland for 11 weeks

wrote her own Irish national anthem

has been outspoken about singer Miley Cyrus, music mogul Simon Cowell and actress Kim Kardashian

performed a tribute to David Bowie at a benefit concert in Chicago in March

WHOA! I did not know she was in a Magdalene laundry! I thought they were all closed down by the time she was born!

No wonder she's got problems!

63 posted on 05/16/2016 12:39:41 PM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: usafa92

Is she really missing if no one’s looking?


64 posted on 05/16/2016 12:56:32 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: CGASMIA68

LOL of course I am. Even 20 years ago she did nothing for me. It’s a line from a SNL skit where Sinatra was asked about her and that was his reply. I think it was Joe Piscopo as Sinatra.


65 posted on 05/16/2016 12:58:32 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: PGR88

You phrased it the way I do...perfectly.


66 posted on 05/16/2016 12:59:02 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: usafa92
A woman with extensive mental issues. Once quite beautiful but has neglected and abused herself to the point where she is near unrecognizable.

One from the past:


67 posted on 05/16/2016 1:04:00 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: babble-on
permitting homosexuals to enter and stay the priesthood led to the rape of a lot of young boys

When priests rape little girls then, I guess you’re fine with that.

I think you've settled on a different aspect of the antecedent from the one intended by the poster. Homosexuality is a mental illness that was specifically tolerated by some unwise seminary directors and bishops in the 1970s and 1980s, leading to men being admitted to the priesthood who would have been excluded in previous centuries. This was at a time when homosexuality was being promoted in institutions throughout the Western world as harmless or even uniquely beneficial.

Only the mentally ill prey on children. Virtually alone among institutions in recent years, the Catholic church has cracked down on sexual deviants in admittance to seminaries and in parishes around the world. It's worth bearing in mind that per capita, the risk to children from homosexual males has continuously been considerably lower at Catholic parishes than at Protestant ones, or in public schools, throughout the period for which detailed statistics are available, which is since 1950.

Now, as always, the vast majority of priests are normal men who grew up playing sports and liking girls. Their "abnormality" is their willingness to consecrate their entire lives and persons to God.

68 posted on 05/16/2016 1:16:37 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: poinq

CRAP!
I hate it when I make that kind of a mistake.


69 posted on 05/16/2016 1:19:51 PM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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To: cld51860

Sorry,Don’t get around much any more


70 posted on 05/16/2016 1:20:15 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Hot Tabasco

From AP: “Wilmette police spokesman Eric Peterson said O’Connor had been located, “is safe and no longer considered a missing or endangered person,” though he wouldn’t say where she was found or release details about her condition.”


71 posted on 05/16/2016 1:31:48 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Vote Trump 2016~~ Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. 👍)
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To: usafa92

Who is Snead?


72 posted on 05/16/2016 1:34:19 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: mainestategop

Actually, O’Connor was the daughter of well-heeled parents. She was a truant (shoplifting, I believe) and was sent to a Magdeline Asylum training center. I do not believe she was made to do laundry (I’m not even sure that was in operation by then) but instead was taught music where she was encouraged to develop her musical talents. I’m sure it was traumatic for her but nothing more than anyone who was sent to juvenile hall in the past and emerged whole or fragmented depending on their inner core of strength.


73 posted on 05/16/2016 1:46:58 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: dennisw

That’s a riot!


74 posted on 05/16/2016 1:55:56 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Pither, P-I-T-H-E-R ...as in Brotherhood, but with PI instead of the BRO and no HOOD.”


75 posted on 05/16/2016 2:00:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

Two goofs. Who cares?


76 posted on 05/16/2016 2:04:01 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: usafa92

She’s been found safe, no details.

Told ya it was a trap.


77 posted on 05/16/2016 2:08:16 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
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To: usafa92

They found her - apparently alive.

Now maybe she’ll still have time to learn to overcome the hatred that makes he so miserable


78 posted on 05/16/2016 2:17:11 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That old-school bicycle looks very nice and fenders are a nice option on a proper touring rig.
Wonder why kind of bicycle Sinead was pedaling around when she very briefly went missing?


79 posted on 05/16/2016 2:34:02 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: BenLurkin

Looks like Charles Manson.


80 posted on 05/16/2016 2:38:11 PM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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