Madonna vs. Ireland - on a Sunday!

Is the Emerald Isle ready for Madonna? Maybe not. An upcoming concert date in Ireland is “causin’ a commotion.”

Pop diva Madonna came under fire from Christians in Ireland on Friday after it was confirmed she would play her first ever Irish concert on a Sunday.

Madonna is due to play Slane Castle, 30 miles north of Dublin, on Sunday, August 29, the castle’s owner Lord Henry Mount Charles confirmed.

He denied that Madonna, who has developed an interest in Jewish mysticism recently, had refused to play on Saturday because it is the Jewish Sabbath.

“It is the only date and day feasible,” he said.

But Joe Deegan, Slane’s parish priest, said the decision was insensitive in a country where 90 percent of the population is Roman Catholic.

“The Lord’s Day for a lot of people around this part of the world is Sunday and it seems a bit inconsiderate and insensitive that our religious beliefs are not taken into account,” he told RTE state radio on Friday.

Deegan said he was also concerned about the content of Madonna’s notoriously raunchy stage show.

“It’s very sexually provocative,” he said, adding, however, that he would probably go to concert, whenever it was staged, because he enjoyed Madonna’s music.

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