Sinead O’Connor has met Ian Bailey and talked to him about turning his poetry into songs, he has claimed.
We obtained this picture of Bailey, who was a prime suspect in the 1996 murder of French film maker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, having lunch with the Nothing Compares 2 U singer earlier in the week in a restaurant in Glengarriff in West Cork.
And speaking exclusively last night, Bailey, who has always denied any involvement in Sophie’s death, said they spoke about each other’s work.
“She has become aware of my poetry and she was interested in my poetry with a view to turn one or two of them into songs — and that’s really what it was about,” Bailey said.
“Also Sinead is now a journalist working for the Sunday Independent … Ms O’Connor approached me as a professional working journalist and expressed interest in talking to me about her new column in the Sindo.”
Bailey previously told The Star he’d got a lot of attention from “big bosomed” female admirers online following his split from long-term partner Jules Thomas.
“I was a social media virgin until recently and then I put up posts and went from zero to 100 in 60 seconds.
“I put up a Twitter account, Facebook account and Instagram and I noticed I am getting quiet a lot of contact from members of the female sex through my Facebook page,” he said.
“I just happened to notice that I’ve had a lot of contact through Facebook and the majority of the contact is from ladies and a lot of the ladies have big bosoms. But you have a lot of women out there who are not real and are actually men.
“All of this is completely novel and new to me.”
In 2019 Bailey was convicted in absentia in a French court of the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier.
Recently the murder has hit headlines again thanks to two documentaries, one on Netflix and the other, directed by Oscar-winning director Jim Sheridan, on Sky.
