Sinead O`Connor ends 4th marriage after 16 days

New York - Irish singer Sinead O`Connor has ended her fourth marriage after just 16 days, blaming pressure and disapproval from the family and friends of her new husband Barry Herridge.

O`Connor, 46, said on her blog that the marriage went wrong three hours after the Dec 8. ceremony in Las Vegas and that the pair had lived together for only seven days before splitting on Christmas Eve.

"Within 3 hours of the ceremony being over the marriage was kyboshed (ruined) by the behaviour of certain people in my husband`s life. And also by a bit of a wild ride I took us on looking for a bit of a smoke of weed for me wedding night as I don`t drink," the controversial singer wrote.

O`Connor, who found fame in the late 1980s with her shaved head and original voice on songs like "Nothing Compares 2 U", said that Herridge was "enormously wounded and very badly affected by that experience and also by the attitude of those close to him toward our marriage. It became apparent to me that if he were to stay with me he would be losing too much to bear."

She added that she had decided to end the marriage, and said the couple had made a mistake "rushing into getting married" without being prepared for the consequences on his life.

"The marriage was 16 days. We lived together for 7 days only. Until Xmas eve. And we haven`t been awful to each other," she wrote.

O`Connor has been married three times previously. Her most recent union to musician Steve Cooney ended earlier this year after about one year.

She courted controversy in the 1990s by tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II on live television in a protest over priestly sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, by declaring herself to be a lesbian and then retracting her assertion, and by being ordained as a priest in a breakaway Catholic Church sect.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, editing by Christine Kearney) (Uu.G003/H-AK) 

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Solo - Contingents from countries to participate in the 6th ASEAN Paralympic Games (APG) to be held here December 15-20 have already arrived at Wisma Atlet in Donohudan, Boyolali, Central Java.

The last APG contingents to arrive at the Athletes` Guest House here on Tuesday were from Thailand and Singapore. Their planes landed at Solo`s Adi Soemarmo airport at 1.30 pm and 11.50 am respectively.

The guest house coordinator, Tur Marganingsih, said the 11 APG contingents that had arrived at Wisma Atlet were from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, East Timor and host Indonesia.

She said some members of the contingent from Brunei Darussalam stayed at Arini Syariah Hotel in Solo which is located close to the arena.

She said the Thai contingent had 285 members who had come in groups with the last batch of 100 athletes arriving on Tuesday.

The Philippine contingent totals 65 consisting of athletes and officials, the Malaysian 163, the Cambodian 26, the Laotian 11, the Myanmarese 57, the Singaporean 65, the Vietnamese 179, the Timor Lestese 21 and the Indonesian 368.

"The total number of athletes and officials who have arrived at Donohudan is 1,262," she said.

Buses meanwhile have been made available to meet the transportation needs of the athletes and officials. As of Tuesday athletes and officials started testing the arena to be used for the multi-event for the physically disabled.

"The committee has provided 40 buses for the opening of the games on December 10," she said. (Uu.H-YH/HAJM/S012)

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