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‘She was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ – Sinéad O’Connor’s life less ordinary

Throughout her tumultuous life, the resolutely outspoken protest singer remained very much her own person – begrudgers be damned

Sinéad O’Connor. By turns passionate and delicate, she stood determined as someone who desperately cared for people – and she knew deceit when she encountered it. “Everyone wants to be a pop star,” she said in her memoir, “but I am a protest singer” Picture: Barry McCall