Posted on 01/08/2022 9:49:17 PM PST by aquila48
Sinead O'Connor's 17-year-old son, Shane O'Connor, died after he went missing earlier in the week, the Irish singer announced on Twitter Friday.
"My beautiful son, Nevi’im Nesta Ali Shane O’Connor, the very light of my life, decided to end his earthly struggle today and is now with God," she tweeted. "May he rest in peace and may no one follow his example. My baby. I love you so much. Please be at peace."
The death was confirmed by O'Connor's management company.
"Regrettably, we can confirm that Sinead’s son Shane has indeed passed. We would politely ask that the utmost respect and compassion be observed at this most difficult time for Sinead and family," 67 Management said in a statement on Saturday.
Shane had apparently been on suicide watch at a hospital in Dublin, according to tweets posted on Sinead O'Connor's personal Twitter account.
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Ok so it says was at a hospital on watch but then it says she was trying to locate him to get him to a hospital for suicide watch
I know one song that was overplayed decades ago and her infamous ripping up the photo of the Pope. Think it was still John Paul II
She was one of my favorite vocalists. Such a troubled soul.
https://youtu.be/7SdIJimk-w8
Yeah, and they said later it was because of the pedophile priest problem, but she was never quoted as saying that. Once she claimed that the Catholic Church was “responsible for all the evil we see in the world today”. That sounds like one of the crazy things that atheists say, but has since converted to Islam. So who can say.
Phil Hartmann was so great on snl
That’s one of my favorite clips
Beautiful voice and such a great interpretation of many songs. Traditional Irish songs.
The Singing Bird, Parting Glass
So sad
Yes his Frank Sinatra was great and he looked exactly like him.
Ugh. So. Funny.
Poor woman.
I feel sorry for her, but, man, what a dysfunctional and disaster of a life she has led. I feel even sorrier for her kids.
Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia on her personal life.
“Personal and public image
While her shaved head was initially an assertion against traditional views of women, years later, O’Connor said she had begun to grow her hair back, but that after being asked if she was Enya, O’Connor shaved it off again. “I don’t feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I’m an old lady, I’m going to have it.”[79]
Marriages and children
O’Connor has four children and has been married four times.
She had her first son, Jake, with her first husband, music producer John Reynolds,[80] who co-produced several of her albums, including Universal Mother. Reynolds and O’Connor married in 1987.[81] Soon after the birth of her daughter Roisin in 1995,[81] O’Connor and the girl’s father, Irish journalist John Waters, began a long custody battle that ended with O’Connor agreeing to let Roisin live in Dublin with Waters.[80] In 1991, O’Connor had an abortion after things did not work out with the father. She later wrote the song “My Special Child” about the experience.[82]
In mid-2001, O’Connor married British journalist Nick Sommerlad; the marriage ended in 2004.[80] She had her third child, son Shane, in 2004 with musician Donal Lunny.[80][81] In 2006, she had her fourth child, Yeshua Francis Neil Bonadio, whose father is Frank Bonadio.[83][84]
O’Connor was married a third time on 22 July 2010, to longtime friend and collaborator Steve Cooney,[85][86] and in late March 2011, made the decision to separate.[87]
Her fourth marriage was to Irish therapist Barry Herridge. They wed on 9 December 2011, in Las Vegas, but their marriage ended after having “lived together for 7 days only”.[88] The following week, on 3 January 2012, O’Connor issued a further string of internet comments to the effect that the couple had re-united.[89]
On 18 July 2015, her first grandson was born to her son Jake Reynolds and his girlfriend Lia.[90]
In January 2022, two days after her 17-year-old son Shane was reported missing, and after a sighting at Tallaght, he was found dead at Bray, County Wicklow, by Irish police after a search. O’Connor stated he “ended his earthly struggle”, implying that he took his own life.[91][92]
Sexuality
In a 2000 interview in Curve, O’Connor commented, “I’m a dyke... although I haven’t been very open about that and throughout most of my life I’ve gone out with blokes because I haven’t necessarily been terribly comfortable about being a big lesbian mule. But I actually am a dyke.”[93] However, soon after in an interview in The Independent, she stated, “I believe it was overcompensating of me to declare myself a lesbian. It was not a publicity stunt. I was trying to make someone else feel better. And have subsequently caused pain for myself. I am not in a box of any description.” In a magazine article and in a programme on RTÉ (Ryan Confidential, broadcast on RTÉ on 29 May 2003), she stated that while most of her sexual relationships had been with men, she has had three relationships with women.”
Agree, this is the most garbled so called news article yet.
My God she’s morphed into a blanket.
You either really liked her voice or you couldn’t stand it.
I was in the latter camp.
RIP
I didn’t know she became muzzie.
The sexual identity issues probably had something to do with horrific abuse from a mother who apparently didn’t have much use for a girl and began stripping her naked and beating her private parts as an infant. Sinead talks in the book about nerve wracking episodes in kindergarten so the 10% bipolar, 40% PTSD and the rest personality disorder is only partially a joke.
Wasn't that during her appearance on the "Red Skelton Show" - or was it the "Ed Sullivan Show?" And wasn't it a picture of Pope Paul VI? The director panicked, and had the cameras quickly switch to a plate-spinning act.
(Heh-heh!)
Regards,
In 1991, O’Connor had an abortion after things did not work out with the father. She later wrote the song “My Special Child” about the experience.
Charming! At least she had a really good reason, and was able to make a few bucks from the experience!
Regards,
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