Sinead O’Connor’s last texts ‘laden with despair and desperation’, Bob Geldof says in heartbreaking tribute

This is the moment Bob Geldof paid a special tribute to his friend Sinead O’Connor as he revealed some of the last texts the late singer sent him.

Geldof said O’Connor, who died at her home in London on 26 July, was a “very good friend of mine”. He added: “We were talking up to a couple of weeks ago. Some of the texts were laden with despair and desperation and some were ecstatically happy, and she was like that.”

The special tribute was paid at the Cavan Calling festival in Ireland with Geldof dedicating two songs to his friend.