Sinéad O’Connor sent texts ‘laden with despair’ to Bob Geldof weeks before death

“Some of the texts were laden with desperation and despair and sorrow and some were ecstatically happy. And she was like that.”

Sinéad O’Connor sent Bob Geldof text messages ‘laden with desperation, despair and sorrow’ before her death, the Boomtown Rats frontman told a festival crowd in Ireland(Niall Carson/PA)

Bob Geldof told a festival crowd that late singer Sinéad O’Connor had sent him text messages weeks before her death which were “laden with desperation, despair and sorrow”.

The Boomtown Rats frontman dedicated the band’s performance at Cavan Calling in Ireland to O’Connor, who died at her home in south-east London last week at the age of 56.