Sinead O’ Connor open up on Saturday morning that her 17-year-old son Shane has passed away by suicide days after he went missing from an Irish hospital’s suicide watch ward.
According to her:
“My lovely son, Nevi’im Nesta Ali Shane O’Connor, the very bright of my life, absolute to finish his conceivable brawl today and is now with God,” the singer tweeted. “May he rest in peace and may no one follow his example. My baby. I love you so much. Please be at peace.”
Key Highlights
- The police department confirmed Shane O’Connor’s demise on Friday, the Guardian reported.
- “Subsequent the recovery of a body in the Bray area of Wicklow on Friday 7 January 2022, a missing person appeal in respect of Shane O’Connor, 17 years, has been stood down,” Irish authorities said in a statement; Bray, Ireland is around 15 miles away from Dublin, where the Tallaght University Hospital is located.
- Shane’s death derived two days after a missing person’s report was filed after he left an Irish hospital where he was on suicide watch. On social media, his mother petitioned for her son’s harmless arrival and criticized the hospital for permitting Shane to depart.
- “Alike, how has a seventeen-year-old distressed young person who was on suicide watch in Tallaght Hospital’s Lynn Ward been able to go missing??? The hospital of course so far declined to take any accountability. Does anything occur to my son on their watch? Lawsuits,” O’Connor tweeted Friday. “I want to know why Lynn Ward at Taillight hospital who were hypothetical to have HCA’s supervise my child 24/7 have managed to let him out of their clasp this morning when 7 days ago he made two severe suicide attempts.”
Past to her son’s demise, O’Connor intreated:
“This is a message for my son, Shane. Shane, it’s not humorous anymore all this going missing. You are frightening the crap out of me. Could you please do the right thing and present yourself at a police station. If you are with Shane, please call the police for his safety.” Shane was one of O’Connor’s four children; his father was Irish musician Donal Lunny.
In a sequence of continuation tweets Saturday, O’Connor criticized Tusla Ireland’s Child and Family Agency both for their management of Shane’s case and their reply following his death. “26 hours after my son passed away in the so-called care of the Irish State in the form of Tusla, I have yet to accept any contact from Tusla or their representatives. No contact from Tusla is intolerable,” O’Connor firstly tweeted Saturday before subsequent that later in the day, “Now Tusla want to converse with me ‘a media release’ no doubt desiring to have me join in their efforts to make this demise of my child seem like it wasn’t at the hands of the Irish State.”
She further added on Saturday afternoon, “I have now officially recognized the leftovers of my son, Shane. May God excuse the Irish State for me at no time will.” Over the past decade, Sinead O’Connor has been open about her own fights with psychological illness and feelings of suicide, with the singer intimidating to take her own life on several occasions, as well as in a May 2016 occurrence where she was found harmless after being considered “missing and suicidal” in a Chicago suburb. The subsequent year, O’Connor posted a concerning video on social media that referred to suicide.
In November 2020, O’Connor declared she was delaying all of her shows till 2022 in order to go in a “one year shock and compulsion treatment program,” the singer alleged, “because I had a very disturbing six years and this year was the end of it but now retrieval starts.”
