The Irish musician announced
this week that she was going to take a step back from touring and “working in the record business .
“I’ve gotten older and I’m tired,” she wrote, also saying that
No Veteran Dies Alone, due to be released in 2022, will be her final album.
“This is not sad news. It’s staggeringly beautiful news. A warrior knows when he or she should retreat. It’s been a 40-year journey. Time to put the feet up and make other dreams come true.” Sinead O Connor converted to Islam in 2018, adopting the name Shuhada’ Sadaqat. YouTube / The Late Late Show
Coel paid particular tribute to Ita O Brien, the show s intimacy director .
She said O Brien was crucial to making the space safe for creating physical, emotional, and professional boundaries so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power, without being exploited or abused in the process .
The intimacy director role is essential for every production company that wants to make work exploring themes of consent , Coel said
.
The Crown empty-handed.
The fictionalised account of the modern British royal family, which swept the board at the Golden Globes earlier this year, had been nominated for four categories, including Helena Bonham Carter for best supporting actress as Princess Margaret.