U2 star should lend A-list clout to Kneecap stance on Gaza genocide

FROM her early days managing her rocker husband Ozzy, Sharon Osborne has made her name by riding on the coattails of other people's talents.

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Simon Cowell made her a judge on his reality TV shows where her niche was "calling it as she saw it" on wannabes with stars in their eyes. She once labelled Susan Boyle a "hairy arsehole".

Her favourite response to bad press was to send bags of faeces to journalists.

But she's managed to locate a new basement level to her mudslinging barrel.

She is campaigning to stop a group of working-class musicians earning a living by demanding their work visas for the US be revoked.

Sharon was outraged that Belfast rappers Kneecap used their appearance at California's Coachella music festival to call out the Israeli government's genocide in Gaza.

It compromised the "moral and spiritual integrity" of the festival apparently.

Right, Ted. Unlike, say, the moral and spiritual integrity of deporting two million people so you can build beach-front casinos on their children's graves.

TRADITION

Kneecap's brand of 'children of the Good Friday Agreement angst' may not be everyone's cup of tea.

But when it comes to Gaza they are part of an honourable Irish artistic tradition of speaking out in defence of human rights.