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Sinead O'Connor Marries

Sinead ties the knot with journalist boyfriend

August 17, 2001 12:00 AM ET

Sinead O'Connor has married her boyfriend, British Press Association reporter Nick Sommerlad. According to British reports, the couple was married three weeks ago in Ireland in a private ceremony attended by a handful of friends.

A mutual friend introduced O'Connor and Sommerlad in February when he began working in Dublin. They were engaged in June. This is O'Connor's second marriage. She has one child, thirteen-year-old Jake, from a previous marriage to writer John Reynolds. She was also involved with an Irish Times columnist John Waters, who is the father to her five-year-old daughter Roisin.

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