See Sheeran on Wiktionary
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"Ó Sírín",
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"text": "Singer Ed Sheeran is facing the biggest controversy of his career after a storm over a decision to drop support act Macklemore from his US stadium tour following the rapper's on-stage pro-Palestinian comments.",
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