Does Sinéad O Connor have a daughter? Throughout her life, Sinéad had been married four times and has had four children. The singer sadly shared that her third child Shane had died by suicide at age 17 in a January 17 tweet. “My beautiful son, Nevi’im Nesta Ali Shane O’Connor, the very light of my life, decided to end his earthly struggle today and is now with God,” she wrote. Find out everything about Sinéad and her children here. Roison Waters After Jake was born, Sinéad opened up about having an abortion in a 1991 interview with Spin. She admitted that the song “My Special Child” was about the experience. She admitted that even though she wanted a second child, the baby’s father seemed absent. “We were fighting. I was on tour, and I was feeling sick all the time. I didn’t know what to do, and he wasn’t really interested in the child. So I was left with the decision of whether or not to have the child, knowing that the father wasn’t going to be around,” she told Spin. “I decided that it was better not to and that I would have a child at a later stage when his father would be around and involved. I didn’t feel that I could handle it by myself.” After her marriage to her first husband ended, Sinéad started seeing Irish journalist John Waters, and the pair had a daughter Roison, 25, in March 1995. Sinéad and John had a long custody battle over their daughter, which led to the singer attempting to commit suicide in 1999, according to Biography Shane Lunny After a brief marriage to writer Nick Sommerlad from 2001 to 2004, Sinéad had her third child Shane with Irish folk singer Donal Lunny. Shane was found dead at age 17 two days after he had gone missing on January 6, 2022, via The Guardian. The singer mourns her son’s death in a series of now-deleted tweets. After the troubling tweets, the “The Emperor’s New Clothes” singer apologized to fans for the shocking tweets, and she continued to mourn her son’s death. “I’m very upset. My son was the love of my life. I am sorry I’ve upset Tusla and just about every other human being on Earth also. I am ruined without my son. I am sorry I’ve upset anyone,” she wrote. Yeshua Bonadio Sinéad had her youngest son Yeshua, 15, with Frank Bonadio in 2006. Not much is known about her youngest child, but the singer is clearly a doting mother. She posted a photo of the boy congratulating him for coming in first place in a Halloween cake-decorating competition in October 2019, per Mirror