Sinead O'Connor's family release funeral details as fans invited to pay respects

Sinead O’Connor’s funeral will be held next week with fans being invited to line the seafront where she used to live in order to give the singer a ‘last goodbye’.

The Nothing Compares 2 U singer, who shot to fame in 1990 with her biggest hit, died at the age of 56 in July after being found unresponsive by police at her south-east London home.

The Grammy-winning singer, originally from Dublin, had a career which spanned 10 studio albums. She has three surviving children but her 17-year-old son Shane passed away last year.

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Her funeral will take place on Tuesday in County Wicklow, Ireland. It will pass by Sinead's former home on the Strand Road, Montebello, where she lived for 15 years and where people have been leaving flowers since her death, reports The Mirror.

A statement issued on Sunday on behalf of O'Connor's family encouraged people to line Bray's seafront from 10.30am for a "last goodbye" to the singer.

"The Gardai have asked that people gather, if they would like to say a last goodbye to the singer, from 10.30am on Tuesday along the Bray seafront."

O'Connor was also known for taking fierce stances on social and political issues such as the child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.

One notable moment in her career came in 1992 when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II during a music performance on Saturday Night Live in America. In her 2021 memoir, Rememberings, O'Connor wrote that she did not regret the protest.

Following her death, her music management company, 67 Management, revealed she had been finishing a new album, reviewing tour dates for next year and was also considering "opportunities"