Sinead O’Connor Posted About Her Son Shane’s 2022 Suicide Just Days Before Her Death

Following the phenomenal success of Elvis, Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, the late Irish superstar Sinead O'Connor was planning her very own big-screen biopic based on the 2021 memoir Rememberings. Almost a week on from the Nothing Compares 2 U singer's funeral, which unfolded in County Wicklow, The Sun now reports that Indecent Proposal's Demi Moore, Raised by Wolves actress Niamh Algar and The Grand Budapest Hotel's Saoirse Ronan had all been attached to play Sinead - 56 years old at the time of her passing - across different periods of her life.

The tearjerking moment Sinead O'Connor fans broke out into a rendition of her biggest hit as they waited for her funeral cortege to pass her Irish home was captured on video.

Swarms of fans lined an Irish coastal road to bid farewell to Sinéad O'Connor ahead of her funeral this afternoon.The acclaimed singer's family asked people who wish to say a “last goodbye” to stand along Bray seafront in Co Wicklow as the cortege passes by before a private burial.The procession was due to begin at 10.30am at the Harbour Bar end of the Strand Road, where it's to continue past her former home, Montebello, where she lived for 15 years. Hoards of fans were packed on the street as Sinéad's hits blasted out.

More details are coming to light about Angus Cloud‘s final days, and it sounds like he was having a super tough time mourning the loss of his father.

Just days before his shocking death, Angus Cloud reportedly “seemed to be doing okay.”

died at the young age of 25 on Monday.Just days before his untimely death, he was photographed with friends at an event and appeared to be in good spirits, his pals said.On Friday, he was seen hanging out at an album launch party for the rap band MacArthur Maze, smiling with his friends and the group’s photographer, Josh Kennedy.Cloud’s pals told the Sun that he attended the party “for a few hours and did not show any sign of a personal struggle.”“We grew up together. It’s been tough today.

Angus Cloud shared a heartbreaking tribute to his late father just days before his death aged 25.

Bob Geldof has recalled speaking with Sinead O’Connor just weeks before her death, at a recent show.The singer-songwriter and activist recalled his longtime friendship with the musician while on stage during the Cavan Calling festival in Ireland. Here, he reflected on growing up on the same road as her and her family, as well as his admiration for her courage while in the public eye.“She meant a lot to everyone. She meant a lot to us,” The Boomtown Rats singer began.

Singer and songwriter Bob Geldof is speaking out about his friend Sinéad O’Connor, who passed away at the age of 56 last week.

Sinéad O’Connor told fans that she was being harassed by a “violent” stalker just two weeks before her death.The iconic Irish musician and activist died at the age of 56 last week (July 26), after being found unresponsive in her London home. She was pronounced dead at the scene, and her death is not being treated as suspicious.In a tweet dated July 15, O’Connor wrote: “Also there is one stalker. Female.

Sinéad O’Connor fans gathered in Dublin this weekend and sang her song ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ in memory of the late singer.The iconic Irish singer and activist died at the age of 56 last week, after being found unresponsive in her London home. She was pronounced dead at the scene.The news of her passing came a year after her 17-year-old son Shane took his own life in January 2022.Tributes quickly poured in from across the music industry from Garbage, Billy Corgan, Michael Stipe, Ice-T and many more.On Sunday afternoon (July 30), around 100 people gathered at Dublin’s City Hall to pay tribute to O’Connor, organised by socialist feminist group Rosa (via PA Media).Dozens of people gathered at City Hall in Dublin on Sunday afternoon to celebrate the life, work and activism of Sinead O'Connor and an event which culminated with an emotion-packed singing of Nothing Compares 2 U.

Sinéad O’Connor aired on TV this weekend (July 29) as planned despite the singer’s death.Kathryn Ferguson’s film Nothing Compares was originally set for release on Saturday on Sky Documentaries and the Now streaming service.After O’Connor passed away earlier this week (July 26) at the age of 56, Ferguson said that after much deliberation she decided to proceed with the release of the film as planned.“We had been scheduled to release Nothing Compares today on Sky / Now for a very long time and after lots of thought we are going to go ahead with that plan,” Ferguson tweeted on Saturday.“The reaction to the film and love for Sinead has been palpable and we feel screening it this weekend is the right thing to do, so that people can see her in all her glory and hear her tell her side of the story.”She added: “An option she was rarely granted by some facets of the media who spent so much of their time being reductive of all she had to say.”Ferguson went on: “Nothing Compares is a love letter to Sinead. She meant the absolute world to me and I know she did to many of you.“Watch the film, feel the rage, have a good cry and let’s remember the woman for her radical, magical ways and all she has done for us.

Sinead O’Connor documentary Nothing Compares will still be broadcast on Saturday to allow people to “hear her tell her side of the story”, the filmmaker has said.

Sinead O’Connor was finishing a new album, reviewing tour dates for next year and was also considering “opportunities” around a movie of her book, a message from her management company has said. “Wonderful plans were afoot at this time,” they added of the Grammy-winning singer and songwriter who was found unresponsive by police at a home in south London on Wednesday.The death of the Irish star at the age of 56 is not being treated as suspicious and was confirmed by her family in a statement given to Irish media.

Sinéad O'Connor's children had instructions to follow in case the Irish singer-songwriter ever suddenly passed away. O'Connor wanted to make sure her music and her finances were protected and had one request for her kids in the event that she died. "See, when the artists are dead, they're much more valuable than when they're alive," O'Connor told People magazine in 2021.

Russell Crowe is thankful he got to meet a hero of his.

Sinead O'Connor. The Irish-born musician, who became an international star in 1990 with her cover of Prince’s «Nothing Compares 2 U,» died at the age of 56. No cause of death has yet been reported.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Sinéad O’Connor made a truly heart-wrenching promise that she would stop performing, following the devastating death of her 17 year old son Shane in January 2022. She told her fans that there would "never be anything to sing about again". The iconic Irish singer, who crooned a version of one of the most famous 90s songs in the world, Nothing Compares 2 U, was sadly confirmed dead yesterday, July 26, at the age of 56.

Sinead O'Connor said in an interview years before she died that she couldn't wait to get to heaven and see her mother again.The Irish singing icon passed away on Wednesday, 26 July, aged just 56 with her family breaking the news as millions mourned across the world. But an interview she did with American psychologist and TV host, Dr Phil, has resurfaced where the Nothing Compares 2 U singer admitted that she was excited at the prospect of seeing her mother again on the other side. The singer lost her mum, Marie, at the tender age of 18 after being in a car crash, but the relationship the two shared had always been difficult.

Sinéad O’Connor‘s last TV interview, in which she discussed whether she was “the first ever cancelled person”.The acclaimed Irish singer and activist died yesterday (July 26) at the age of 56, her family announced.“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time,” read a statement by the singer’s family reported by The Guardian.While tributes pour in from the music industry and beyond in the wake of her death, fans are also lauding her activism and the criticism she faced for speaking her mind.In 2021, O’Connor held her last TV interview on the Today chat show, with host Carson Daly suggesting that the singer was the “first cancelled person”.“That’s a good question, I never thought of that,” O’Connor replied, saying she considered herself a “protest singer”.“Sinéad O’Connor was never meant to be a pop star,” she said.Watch the interview below.Since O’Connor’s death, Morrissey has written a scathing critique of the music industry’s response to the news.In a new blog post titled ‘You Know I Couldn’t Last’, Morrissey criticised the wider industry’s response to her death, arguing that it was hypocritical when they “hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you”.“She had only so much ‘self’ to give,” the former Smiths frontman began.