Acclaimed Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor dies at age 56

By Theresa Braine, New York Daily News

Acclaimed Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, known for hits such as “Nothing Compares 2 U” and for shredding a photo of the pope while hosting “Saturday Night Live,” has died.

She was 56.

A cause of death was not given. The singer had lost her son, Shane, to suicide in January 2022, after which she was briefly hospitalized.

Giorgio Armani & The Cinema Society Host A Screening Of "Albert Nobbs" - Arrivals — Singer Sinead O’Connor attends the Giorgio Armani & Cinema Society screening of “Albert Nobbs” at the Museum of Modern Art on December 13, 2011 in New York City. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Back in 1990, her famed cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” was named the number one world single at the Billboard Music Awards. During a decades-long career, the Dublin-based singer released 10 studio albums.

Earlier this year she received a standing ovation at the RTÉ Choice Music Awards in receiving the first-ever award for Classic Irish Album, according to The Irish Times, which first reported her death.

Here But I'm Gone: A 70th Birthday Tribute to Curtis Mayfield — Singer Sinead O’Connor performs at “Here But I’m Gone: A 70th Birthday Tribute to Curtis Mayfield” concert at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center on July 20, 2012 in New York City. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

She dedicated the award, for “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,” to “each and every member of Ireland’s refugee community,” The Irish Times noted.

In October 1992 O’Connor notoriously tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II during a 1992 appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” calling it a protest against widespread allegations of child abuse in the Catholic Church — presaging the public revelations by about a decade.

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