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8th August 2023
03:05pm BST
U2's The Edge and Sinéad O'Connor in 2005. (Getty Images)[/caption]
The hearse was led by a Volkswagen Transporter which played Bob Marley’s 'Natural Mystic' on loudspeakers.
The Irish Mirror reported that Geldof, Sinead’s ex-husband Frank Bonadio and her father travelled in the car behind.
The Boomtown Rats frontman told the audience at Cavan Calling festival last week that he had been in contact with Sinéad in very recent times, and in light of the tragic news “to just keep on in the face of such tragedies.”
He added that Sinéad was a good friend of his, but acknowledged that “some of her texts were laden with desperation and despair and sorrow and some were ecstatically happy,” lamenting that this was in her nature.
Thousands line the streets of Bray as Sinéad O'Connor makes her final journey (Rolling News)[/caption]
Before the procession drove past, fans broke into heartfelt renditions of the singer's biggest hits, 'Nothing Compares 2 U' and 'Mandinka', while laying flowers around her old house, which now lays uninhabited.
Also in attendance at the funeral was Irish President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina. In a statement released this morning, President Higgins said:
"The outpouring of grief and appreciation of the life and work of Sinead O'Connor demonstrates the profound impact which she had on the Irish people.
"The unique contribution of Sinead involved the experience of a great vulnerability combined with a superb, exceptional level of creativity that she chose to deliver through her voice, her music and her songs.
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Mourners on Bray seafront this morning paying respects to Sinéad O'Connor (Rolling News)[/caption]
"The expression of both, without making any attempt to reduce the one for the sake of the other, made her contribution unique - phenomenal in music terms, but of immense heroism.
"However, achieving this came from the one heart and the one body and the one life, which extracted an incredible pain, perhaps one too much to bear."
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