Sinéad O'Connor: Very good friend and the 'Maud Gonne of our time' says Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof pays tribute to his friend Sinéad O'Connor on stage at the Cavan Calling festival on Saturday night. Picture: Adrian Donohoe.

"Relentless", a "pure voice", and the "Maud Gonne of our time", Bob Geldof said in a tribute to the late Sinéad O'Connor on Saturday night. 

The late singer was a very good friend and childhood neighbour to Geldof — O'Connor had only lived about 75 yards from Geldof's house and used to share the same bus stop going to school.