Live music - Sinead O’Connor

National Concert Hall, Dublin

There’s a sense of returning hero as Sinead O’Connor bounds into the imposing National Concert Hall.

Launching her 10th album I’m Not Bossy I’m The Boss, the inimitable O’Connor, shaven-headed, barefoot, and in white long-sleeved top and leather pants, instantly seems galvanised. Opening proceedings, she spits her apt cover of John Grant’s intense ‘Queen of Denmark’ — “I don’t know what to want from this world“; “I don’t know what it is you want to want from me” — before trying to get the seated crowd in the party mood with ‘4th & Vine’.