'I actually knew Sinead O’Connor before she was Sinead O’Connor'
David McWilliams has opened up about his extraordinary childhood friendship with Sinead O’Connor, who tragically passed away last week, aged 56.
"The first time I met her was on St Stephen’s Day of 1979. My father had three unmarried sisters - my aunties who lived in Bray - and they were quite religious." He said: "So outside of Mass, this went on. And it came from the United States and was an extreme form of Catholicism.David continued: "This Charismatic movement was centred in Bray where my aunties lived.
"The O’Connor family turned up - Sinead was exactly the same age as me. So we were kind of stuck together -the two of us at this weird evangelical party.David explained that the renewal movement, where people were baptised by the Holy Spirit was "very corrosive stuff."
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