Lord Mayor of Dublin supports calls for statue to be erected of Sinéad O'Connor

Dublin’s Lord mayor has supported calls for a statue of Sinéad O’Connor to be erected in Dublin, in memory of the artist.

Current Dublin City Council laws dictate that somebody must be dead for at least 20 years before a statue can be commissioned.

However, Lord Mayor James Geoghegan said in a statement that the current rules are too inflexible and that he supports the idea.

Sinn Féin councillor Daithí Doolan has also voiced his support for the statue in an interview with Newstalk Breakfast.

He said that O’Connor was “was never one to play strictly by the rules”, suggesting that it would be fitting for the council to follow her example.

He added that “if there was ever a case of needing to break the rules, it’s for a statue for Sinéad O’Connor.”

The calls come in the aftermath of the unveiling of a waxwork figure of O’Connor, which was subsequently pulled amid backlash.

The figure was revealed last Friday, on the 1-year anniversary of the singer’s death.