Son of Sinéad O'Connor was meant to be under 24/7 care, death inquest hears
Sinéad O'Connor with her son Shane. The singer formally identified her son’s body to gardaí at the mortuary in St Colmcille’s Hospital in Loughlinstown on January 8, 2022
The son of singer Sinéad O’Connor absconded from Tallaght University Hospital while he was meant to be under 24/7 supervised care as a high-risk patient less than 24 hours before his body was discovered in a secluded area just outside Bray, Co Wicklow.
An inquest into the death of Shane O’Connor, 17, heard the teenager had gone missing on the morning of January 6, 2022, from the hospital where he was being treated for a drug overdose following a number of suicide attempts.
