{"id":378773,"date":"2026-04-02T20:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:11:14","slug":"donal-lynch-chappell-roans-security-sinead-oconnors-fire-regulations-and-a-crazy-fans-guide-to-skittish-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378773\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00f3nal Lynch: Chappell Roan\u2019s security, Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor\u2019s fire regulations and a crazy fan\u2019s guide to skittish stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Vulture<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Singer Sin\u00e9ad O'Connor preferred to keep a polite distance from zealous fans\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/93236224-90d3-451c-960a-5fd97ca3af58.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Singer Sin\u00e9ad O&#8217;Connor preferred to keep a polite distance from zealous fans<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor sat \u00adopposite me on the phone to her manager. \u201cYeah tell them it\u2019s not going to be \u00adpossible, fire regulations yada yada &#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The \u201cthem\u201d was a contingent of women with shaved heads \u2013 hardcore fans \u2013 who\u2019d pilgrimaged from Germany for a meet-and-greet with their Irish goddess. Said goddess didn\u2019t feel emotionally up to meeting this band of mini-mes, and part of me couldn\u2019t blame her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vulture Singer Sin\u00e9ad O&#8217;Connor preferred to keep a polite distance from zealous fans Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor sat \u00adopposite me&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29575,93,61,60,6992,18097],"class_list":{"0":"post-378773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donal-lynch","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine","13":"tag-sinead-oconnor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}