Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has died after a long mental health struggle, just 18 months after her son died by suicide at the age of 17. She was 56 years old.

The singer, whose cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” was named the number one world single in 1990 at the Billboard Music Awards, also received the inaugural award for Classic Irish Album at the RTÉ Choice Music Awards. She released ten studio albums throughout her career.

When she accepted the award, she dedicated it to “each and every member of Ireland’s refugee community,” adding, “You’re very welcome in Ireland. I love you very much and I wish you happiness.”

The singer made waves in 1992, calling out allegations of pedophilia in the Catholic Church by tearing a photo of then Pope John Paul II during an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” – and she later converted to Islam in 2018, changing her name to Shuhada Sadaqat, according to The Irish Times.

O’Connor opened up in her 2021 memoir about her traumatic childhood — and years of abuse she said came from her mother. “My mother had this obsession with destroying my womb,” O’Connor said at the time, noting that she was beaten and kicked in the abdomen sometimes daily.

The singer said she was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder as well as complex post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder – but that she eventually was able to find peace with regard to her upbringing.

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“I manage very well because I’ve been taught brilliant skills. There was a lot of therapy. It’s about focusing on the things that bring you peace as opposed to what makes you feel unstable … I was so busy surviving [the abuse] that I didn’t have time to feel any of the feelings. You learn to live with it, but what helped me live with it was to forgive my mother,” she said.

Following her son Shane’s death in 2022 and several social media posts that frightened fans, O’Connor was briefly hospitalized. “I’ve decided to follow my son. There is no point living without him. Everything I touch, I ruin. I only stayed for him. And now he’s gone,” she allegedly wrote at the time, using an unverified Twitter account linked to hers.

She later apologized, adding, “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. I am with cops now on way to hospital. I’m sorry I upset everyone. I am lost without my kid and I hate myself. Hospital will help a while. But I’m going to find Shane. This is just a delay.”

No official cause of death has yet been reported.

O’Connor is survived by her three remaining children: Jake, Roisin, and Yeshua.

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I have been open about how I used to be more Left-leaning, which I think tends to be somewhat common in your youth. When you’re young, you don’t have a firm grasp on how the world works, and the Left is really great at selling their ideas. One that took hold of me in my liberal past was the concept of modern love. I finally woke up to the fact that “modern love” is a lie. In reality, no one is happy in this type of relationship. 

The New York Times publishes a weekly column titled Modern Love, written by readers who share their “modern love” stories about how they are bucking traditional love — because they’re doing love differently. A few recent headlines include My Spectacular Betrayal, Deeply in Love With a Polyamorous Woman, and Kissing a Fellow Janitor Amid the Trash. You get the idea. They are all written as glamorized aspirational tales with happy endings. The implied message is that modern love is freeing: “Why have the natural traditional marriage when you can have something that is different!” But what these articles are actually promoting is narcissism: “I can live my life as I want to! I should be able to give into my every impulse.” Yet readers never get an update as to how this modern love worked out. How does that work out in the long run?

Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray’s marriage answers that question. Bill de Blasio was a one-time presidential contender no one took seriously, and before that, he was busy ruining New York City as the mayor. McCray and de Blasio are a biracial couple, a factor he constantly put in everyone’s face and one that obviously helped him become mayor — because his policies certainly did not. But what’s more interesting is that McCray is a lesbian — was a lesbian. Is a lesbian. Is, was, who knows? But it did not matter to de Blasio. He married her anyway. 

So how did that work out? Well, according to a New York Times piece about them, they’re splitting. But they are not getting divorced. After all, the only way to build on your modern love failure is to add yet another layer of modern love to it. Now you can apparently split, continue living together without getting divorced, and date other people. That is what they are doing. And the article glamorizes not only their relationship but their split too. 

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What this article should have done is addressed how strange this dynamic is. It should have delved deeper into why they are not leaving their home and will continue living together. And it certainly should have mentioned their children — the children who will come home with the full understanding that their parents are living together while also seeing other people. Their daughter was arrested at a BLM protest in 2020, so perhaps they could have explained if they think part of the reason she seems to be suffering is an effect of their unhealthy, modern love relationship. 

No one should aspire to this kind of relationship. So-called modern love is the reason so many women and men are unhappy in their relationships — yet then cannot come up with reasons as to why their relationships are failing. They don’t understand because they don’t even know what it means to come together in a marriage. Marriages are not meant to be experimental. Partners are to be chosen carefully and vows are to be taken seriously. These kinds of arrangements do not work out. So maybe this is a cue to take into serious consideration what conservatives support, what Christians support, and why marriage should not be taken outside of the church in the first place. 

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