BOYZONE - O'CONNOR SLAMS BOYZONE'S KEATING

Irish singer SINEAD O'CONNOR has launched a vicious attack on BOYZONE frontman RONAN KEATING - insisting she wouldn't duet with an Irishman who sings in an American accent. O'Connor admits she has snubbed the When You Say Nothing At All hitmaker's requests to sing with her because she hates his music. And the only factor that would change her mind would be a pledge from Keating to lose his U.S. twang. She says, "He asked me to duet with him, but I turned him down because I could not stand Boyzone. "But I also told him that if he stopped singing in an American accent I would consider it."