{"id":24816,"date":"2023-07-26T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=24816"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:41:14","slug":"sinead-oconnor-dead-at-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/07\/sinead-oconnor-dead-at-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinead O&#8217;Connor Dead At 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news this afternoon &#8211; reports say Sinead O&#8217;Connor, the legendary Irish singer,\u00a0 has died.\u00a0 She was only 56.\u00a0 Sinead publicly battled mental illness for several years, and really struggled after her son died last year at the age of 17.\u00a0 She never got over his death.<\/p>\n<p>Born Sin\u00e9ad Marie Bernadette O&#8217;Connor in Dublin, Sinead really rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra, and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a new arrangement of Prince&#8217;s song &#8220;Nothing Compares 2 U&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the singer\u2019s family said: &#8220;It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sin\u00e9ad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Irish singer is survived by three children. Her son\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/sinead-oconnor-vows-never-perform-26216890\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"Follow\">Shane passed away last year at the age of 17.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0-EF60neguk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking news this afternoon &#8211; reports say Sinead O&#8217;Connor, the legendary Irish singer,\u00a0 has died.\u00a0 She was only 56.\u00a0 Sinead publicly battled mental illness for several years, and really struggled after her son died last year at the age of 17.\u00a0 She never got over his death. Born Sin\u00e9ad Marie Bernadette O&#8217;Connor in Dublin, Sinead","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":16747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 20:02:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/07\/sinead-oconnor-dead-at-56\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24820,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24816\/revisions\/24820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}