IRISH music icon Sinead O’Connor died of natural causes, it’s been confirmed.
The Nothing Compares 2 U legend was found “unresponsive” at a flat in south-east London aged 56 in July.
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Sinead was found unresponsive at London flat in JulyCredit: Getty
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Sinead in video message to fans in days before her death
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Sinead with beloved son Shane, who died in January 2022
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Huge crowds turned out to pay their final respects as Sinead’s cortege passed her former home in BrayCredit: PA
Southwark Coroners Court, which had been investigating Sinead’s death since she was discovered in an apartment just off Coldharbour Lane, said it has “ceased involvement” in her death.
An autopsy had been carried out after no medical cause was given for her tragic death in July.
And a public inquest will not be opened after her cause of death was confirmed as “natural causes”.
A spokesman for Southwark Coroners Court said: “This is to confirm that Ms O’Connor died of natural causes.
“The coroner has therefore ceased their involvement in her death. No further comment will be made.”
O’Connor had only just moved to London weeks before her tragic death, which came 18 months after she lost her beloved son Shane to suicide.
And Met Police at the time confirmed her death was not being treated as suspicious.
Cops said: “Police were called at 11:18hrs on Wednesday, 26 July to reports of an unresponsive woman at a residential address in the SE24 area.
“Officers attended. A 56-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
“Next of kin have been notified. The death is not being treated as suspicious. A file will be prepared for the Coroner.”
Emotional Sinead told how “losing a kid isn’t good for the soul” in a heartbreaking final video to fans posted days before her death.
Sinead posted a clip to her Twitter account on July 9 – her final video message to fans – after some of her followers questioned if the page belonged to the star.
The star showed fans her apartment and said she planned to write more songs with her new guitar.
STAR’S HEARTACHE
She also told how she was struggling with the loss of her son Shane, 17, who died in January 2022.
She added: “I think we’re in HD, I look like s*** either way, which is why I didn’t want to make a video but you know the way your kid unfortunately passing away isn’t good for one’s body or soul to be fair.
“But anyway look, let’s not dwell on bad. Anyway, hi guys. Let’s see can I flip the camera around there, there’s a bunch of flowers my friend gave me today in my nice flat.
“There’s my new Martin Johnny f*****g Cash guitar I am going to write some tunes on and yeah that’s all I can show you because the place is a shit hole but there you go, it’s this crazy witch.”
Neighbours living close to her London pad told how they saw her in good spirits in the days before her death.
Neighbour Farath Moragammanage said: “I last saw her about two weeks ago. She seemed happy and was smiling and waved.
“She was with a friend and she said she was going to Brixton with a friend from Ireland.
“She told me she was a famous singer and she must have moved in about weeks six weeks or so ago. She was living there on her own.”
Sinead, who was born in Glenageary in Dublin, shot to international fame in 1990 when she covered Prince song Nothing Compares 2 U.
Deeply troubled by childhood trauma, Sinead was sent to a reformatory school when she was 14.
And her tears in the video for her breakout hit Nothing Compares were for her mother, with whom she had a tortured relationship.
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Sinead shot to fame with her iconic cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 UCredit: Getty
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The block of flats in Brixton where Sinead was found unresponsiveCredit: Splash
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Floral tributes in Dublin city centre after news of the star’s death emergedCredit: PA
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Flowers left outside London apartments where Sinead had only moved weeks before her deathCredit: Splash
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Sinead had struggled after the death of her teen son ShaneCredit: PA:Press Association
The star’s huge funeral procession saw crowds of fans line the seafront in front of her former home in Bray, Co Wicklow.
Heartbroken fans burst into song and placed flowers on the hearse carrying the remains of the tragic singer on her “last goodbye”.
U2 stars Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton were among those who attended her private funeral service.
Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof, who was also in attendance, later followed Sinead’s funeral procession in a taxi.
The stars knew each other since childhood, with Bob revealing how Sinead had sent him texts “laden with despair” in the weeks before her death.
Sinead was remembered as a “beloved daughter of Ireland” with “a poet’s heart” whose “voice moved a generation of young people” during the service.
CHILDREN’S GRIEF
And her family thanked the “countless kind people” who offered condolences since her tragic death in a public message in August.
Her three surviving children – Roisín, Jake and Yeshua – along with her extended family, said the support helped them through.
The post said: “The children of Sinead together with Sinead’s extended family wish to thank the countless kind people who sympathised and offered condolences on Sinead’s recent passing.
“Their helpful support for the family is much appreciated.
“We thank the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, and his wife Sabina and An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD for their attendance at the funeral service on the morning of 8th August 2023.
“Our thanks also to Dingle Druid Juli Ní Mhaoileóin for her leading of the funeral service and later, the interment ceremonies in the lovely Garden in Deansgrange Cemetery.
“Further thanks to Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri and his colleagues for the Muslim prayers and blessing of Sinéad at both these ceremonies.”
Sinead had been in talks for a major biopic about her life – and was also planning the release of new music when she tragically died.
Just weeks before her death, she revealed plans to release her 11th album No Veterans Die Alone early in 2024.
And Sinead had more “wonderful plans” in the works as she plotted 2024 tour dates in the weeks before her death, her management said.
Music management company 67 Management said: “As tribute to those who were part of Sinead’s team over our tenure it has to be mentioned that Sinead was completing her new album, reviewing new tour dates for 2024 and considering opportunities in relation to a movie of her book.
“Wonderful plans were afoot at this time. Testament and tribute to those who have put their hearts first for Sinead, to whom we are forever grateful.”
LONDON RETURN
Sinead herself had told of her excitement at being based back in London before her death – having moved there first in in 1985 when she signed her own record deal with Ensign Records.
Soon after she landed her first high profile job, vocals and co-writing duties on the song Heroine with U2’s the Edge for the soundtrack to the film, Captive.
In 1986, Sinead began work on her own debut, The Lion and the Cobra but everything came to a screeching halt when she became pregnant by her drummer, John Reynolds.
She had son Jake and enjoyed a series of hits with her debut album.
In the mid 80s, when she first took a razor to her head, she so feared what people would say, she locked herself in her flat and would only let friends see her through the letterbox.
Sinead later commented: “I wasn’t going to have any man telling me what to do, or who to be. I came from a patriarchal country where I am being told what I can and can’t do cause I am a girl, and I figured, if I didn’t take it from the system in Ireland I ain’t taking it from anybody else.
“Looking back, by 1985 I was making a living as a woman independent of men which was unheard of in Ireland at the time.”
CAREER MOVE
Many believed Sinead sabotaged her own career when she ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on TV show Saturday Night Live in the US in 1992 at the height of her success.
Sinead’s former publicist Elaine Schock recalled the panic on the set of the show moments after Sinead ripped up the Pope’s picture live on US TV.
Elaine said: “Nobody knew what to do. My blood ran cold blood. She (Sinead) goes off stage, goes into her dressing room and she was happy that she had pulled this off.
“I had gone into the dressing room afterwards and said to her ‘I cannot get you out of this’ and she said ‘Do you know what? I don’t want you to.”
Explaining her actions 30 years later, Sinead said: “There were things going on in my own life.
“Things I was discovering that my mother had done I didn’t know about. And I had come across an article about families who had been trying to lodge complaints against the Church for sexual abuse and were being silenced, basically f***ing everything I had been brought up to believe was a lie.”
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Sinead planned to tour again in 2024, devastated pals revealedCredit: Getty
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The music world was left stunned at her untimely deathCredit: PA
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