BRAY, Ireland: Mourners and fans gathered Tuesday in the Irish town once home to singer Sinead O’Connor to pay their last respects ahead of her burial.
The musician’s funeral cortege will pass along the seafront in the town of Bray, 20 kilometres south of Dublin, where she lived for 15 years.
The Grammy award-winning singer, best known for her cover of Nothing Compares 2 U, died last month after being found unresponsive at her London home. She was 56.
The musician, who rose to international fame in the 1990s, will be mourned at a funeral attended by family and friends before a private burial.
Her family offered the public the chance to pay their final respects by organising the cortege through Bray, saying she loved the town and its residents.
“With this procession her family would like to acknowledge the outpouring of love for her from the people of (County) Wicklow…
