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SINEAD O’CONNOR’S ESTATE has said she would have been “disgusted, hurt, and insulted” at her version of Nothing Compares 2 U being used at Donald Trump’s political rallies.
A joint statement from the late Irish singer’s estate and record label Chrysalis Records demanded the former US president “desist from using her music immediately”.
It said O’Connor, who died last July aged 56, lived by a “fierce moral code” and had previously referred to Trump as a “biblical devil”.
The statement said: “Throughout her life, it is well known that Sinead O’Connor lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, fairness, and decency towards her fellow human beings.
“It was with outrage therefore that we learned that Donald Trump has been using her iconic performance of Nothing Compares 2 U at his political rallies.
“It is no exaggeration to say that Sinead would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted to have her work misrepresented in this way by someone who she herself referred to as a ‘biblical devil’.
“As the guardians of her legacy, we demand that Donald Trump and his associates desist from using her music immediately.”
O’Connor’s version of Nothing Compares 2 U spent weeks at number one in the UK in 1990 and propelled her to stardom.
The Dublin-born singer was also known for being outspoken on her struggles with her mental health and was said to have helped change Ireland because of her criticism of the Catholic Church.
A coroner ruled she died from natural causes in her south-east London home on July 26 2023.
Trump, who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, is running for a second term after he was ousted by current US President Joe Biden.
He is currently campaigning to be the Republican nominee for the upcoming 2024 election.
O’Connor follows on from a long list of artists who have demanded Trump desist from using their music for his political campaigns including The Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Rihanna, Neil Young, Linkin Park, the late Tom Petty and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
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Another day another case of the HSE treating Joe & Mary public like dirt
Still I’m sure lessons will be learnt going forwards etc etc
Also maybe a pay rise might help
I’m going through this at the moment I tried North of lreland first and found out I will get caught for over 3 thousand, so I went through the Spain idea and was in final moment of going and pulled out I had a gut feeling the dublin company something felt wrong so I’m back now with North of lreland process, I thought the whole affair was stressful and still is at moment
I would be very interested lads if any of ye have got stuff done in North of lreland as in knee replacement and how much ye had to pay how did it go etc
@Tim Herlihy: Mum got her hip done in 2018. She paid, if I recall correctly, GBP 7,000.
She has told me she received the full payment from the HSE. I don’t know how it was all set up but it was a private hospital in Ballykelly called North West – Kingsbridge Private Hospital.
As she lives in Donegal it wasn’t difficult to travel for the appointments.
@Tricia G: YEP that’s the hospital, few weeks ago they gave me 6 days notice I said I had to think about it I’m down in cork,wouldn’t make appointment on train and most of my gang where away for Easter, I was told for knee 12thousand and few hundred and the hse would give over 9 thousand there’s about,thanks for information
@Tricia G: sorry same name hospital but in Belfast
@Tim Herlihy: Try to get your surgery done in NI so there is no language barrier. I went to Germany for a procedure that is not available in Ireland. It was almost half of what it would have been in Ireland (estimated and approved for a procedure available in Ireland closest to the one I had to have done) BUT once I submitted my claim they tried everything not to reimburse me. In Germany they don’t issue receipts, they send invoices with the bank details where and by when to make the payment to. It took me a year until they were accepted. They also wanted every single detail translated to English, but as the official language is German the hospital would not provide those in English. I sent them translations, but havn’t been able to recover all my expanses two years later.
@Tricia G: my father had a procedure carried out there in 2017. Organised by his GP in Donegal as well. HSE refused payment on the grounds that he wasn’t on a waiting list. This was untrue and backed up by his GP
Never, to this day was the cost reimbursed. On a side note, Ballykelly was absolutely excellent
@Inno Items: still waiting, almost 6 years ago
@Inno Items: that’s terrible
@Pat Rafferty: I’m so sorry for you! I might follow the same way. I contracted Covid in hospital and am now suffering from long Covid. I just don’t have the energy to do all the translations, follow ups and administration over and over again. Every time they put a new case manager in charge I need to start from scratch.
@Tim Herlihy: I hope, now as the issue has been highlighted they won’t do this to you! I don’t know if there is any appeal if they don’t reimburse the approved amount.
Of course they did. Have to be as incompetent as every other department.
@Mike Magan: Revenue, funnily enough, aren’t incompetent.
Another example of HSE management and administrative incompetence and intransigence, unable to do their jobs while patients and nursing staff suffer under their uselessness.
@Richard Starling: Well please remember that when Minister Donnelly and his cronies come knocking for votes next time around.
@Richard Starling: Not forgetting GPs.
Overpayed bureocratic and heartless clown’s
The higher echelon’s of HSE are behind reproach. They badly need a new approach. This will only happen when their is a new mindset, and get rid of the dragons etc, who lack any with anyone outside their circle. This starts with GPs who are being thrown from pillar to post. The life veins for the people. The HSE are not nice.
@Martin O’Reilly: Sorry The higher echelon’s are “beyond reproach” etc, etc.
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