After recording a verdict of suicide, an inquest jury has recommended better supervision and care for vulnerable young people, following the death of Shane O'Connor, 17, son of singer Sinead O'Connor. Shane was found dead less than a day after he went missing from a hospital where he should have been under 24/7 care.
An inquest jury has made a series of recommendations for the improved supervision and care of vulnerable young people after recording a verdict of suicide in the death of a son of singer, Sinead O’Connor.
A senior social worker with Tusla, Joyce Connolly, told the second day of the inquest on Tuesday that Shane and his mother had a “complex and turbulent” relationship but were also very close and “in some way dependent on each other throughout their lives.” Asked about rules on what Shane could do when he had chosen not to engage in education, Ms Connolly said a “delicate balance” had to be struck but they had power to stop him leaving to do what he wished.
However, the inquest heard the teenager seemed to deteriorate from July 2021, although Ms Scanlon said she could identify no particular trigger for it. “He struggled with being in care for a good while but he knew he needed a level of support,” she added. Mr O’Connor outlined how the singer was also suffering mental health issues around the same time of her son’s death.A psychiatrist who had treated Shane at the Linn Dara in-patient psychiatric unit at Cherry Orchard Hospital in Ballyfermot, Dublin, Tara Rudd, said the teenager’s substance misuse had caused his mental health problems.
She told the coroner that she believed the development of a specialist young adult mental health service to assist those aged 16-25 years to transition from CAMHS to adult mental services would be useful.
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