Dermot McEvoy, the music producer of Irish broadcaster RTE’s TV programme The Late Late Show, which had O’Connor on as a guest many times, told the PA news agency that she was meek and a perfectionist. When he first took up the role in 2007, he was apprehensive about what to expect from O’Connor. “In a weird kind of a way, it was sort of a safe place for her,” he said, adding that she had a good relationship with former Late Late hosts Gay Byrne and Ryan Tubridy. Broadcaster Philip Boucher Hayes, who was in school with Sinead O’Connor, said in the 1980s, a teacher organised for her to perform in front of the Co Waterford school. “If you watch that, you see her vocal performance she’s almost lifting off the ground when she does it.

Source: The Times July 27, 2023 17:00 UTC