Sinéad O'Connor's father: “I still miss her”

Seán O'Connor, the father of the late Sinéad O'Connor, said he missed the singer and said he visits her grave every week.

The 87-year-old, who is also the father of the author Joseph O'Connor, appeared on Thursday in Oliver Callans Show on Rté Radio 1, where he spoke about his relationship with his children, his memories of growing up in Dublin's freedom and grief after Sinéad's death.

As the second anniversary of Sinéad's death on July 26th, Mr. O'Connor said that he cried for two weeks when she died.

“When Sinéad was over, I cried my eyes for fourteen days. I still miss them,” he said Callan. “Of course it is a consolation (the expression of grief from the public), but Sinéad had two personas.

“One was in the public arena and the other was with her family and I saw her funeral as beautiful for her fans.

“At a personal level I never had advertising for Sinéad and it did it for all of us when she died, all the more hurtful.

“I visit her every week … and we have a conversation and I do it up to date.”

When Callan said it was “very difficult as a father,” said Mr. O'Connor.

The radio presenter asked what he was doing for Sinéad, as “the famous part was cruel for her”, and he replied: “You can't do anything except being there.

“Sinéad could be outrageous in public and she could be outrageous in the family, she could be moody. In the end I always had sympathy for her, she was always marginally.

“We got on very well most of the time, sometimes she would fail with me.”

He also told the happy memory of the last time he saw Sinéad when they made a three -person vacation in Wexford, and said that it helped so much family around him during death.

“It was a sad time that helped the family around me,” he added.