Sinead O’Connor’s worrying message after losing custody of her child

SINGER Sinead O’Connor has posted a worrying social media message to an Irish child agency, threatening suicide if she doesn’t get her child back.

Sinead O'Connor has sparked concern after a lengthy Facebook post that threatens suicide. Picture: Stephen Lovekin

IRISH singer Sinead O’Connor has lashed out at Ireland’s Child and Family Agency, Tusla, after she lost custody of her 13-year-old boy, warning them they will “have a dead celebrity on their hands” if they don’t alter their decision.

In a lengthy Facebook post, the singer has threatened to commit suicide “if matters are not corrected” and if she isn’t “unconditionally apologised to by the State for what Tusla have most illegally, and with gross unconstitutional discrimination, put me through as a parent who suffers mental illness”.

Singer Sinead O’Connor has posted a worrying message on Facebook. Picture: Frazer Harrison.

O’Connor has four children from four different fathers and recently lost custody of her 13-year-old boy Shane after she expressed suicidal thoughts last year.

“You have left me with nothing to lose. I CANNOT be what ANYONE, including my employers, my children, my family or friends, needs me to be if I am not restored to my child,” O’Connor wrote.

After promising the agency she will become “the first Irish citizen to take their life in protest against Tusla on behalf of all mentally-illl parents” she fumed “I would never have become so unwell if I had not been kept from my child. I would not have remained unwell for so long had I been restored to him.”

The singer has been fighting the agency for 18 months after she lost custody of Shane for threatening suicide.

“Please be fully aware I have after 18 months in seventh hell, neither fear of death nor of the State,” she wrote.

O’Connor is also mother to Jake, 29, Roisin, 22, and Yeshua, 10.

In May last year, the singer sparked a police investigation after she disappeared while out on a bike ride. Those close to her feared she had disappeared to commit suicidal.

The 50-year-old singer was later found alive but it was a string of concerning Facebook posts that led to a stint in hospital.

O’Connor slammed her hospitalisation in another Facebook post claiming she was being “detained against my will” and was “ready to smash the f**king place to pieces”.

Sinead O'Connor's Facebook post about her hospitalisation.

O’Connor later hit out at Shane’s father, musician Donal Lunny, and her eldest son Jake.

“I will still never return to you or any of my four children, because of you. So f***ing live with that. Explain to Shane and Yeshua why Mum vanished. You unchristian, ungrateful, lying, criminal,” she wrote.

In November of last year, after she was released from hospital, the singer again posted a rant about being suicidal.

“There is only so much any woman can be expected to bear. I have taken an overdose,” she wrote.

“If I wasn’t posting this, my kids and family wouldn’t even find out. I could have been dead here for weeks already and they’d never have known.”

O’Connor has struggled with mental illness for years telling The Oprah Winfrey Showin 2007 she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2003.

The singer was also forced to sell her Irish home in January, 2017 after she reportedly owed $A240,000 in unpaid taxes.

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