This comes after the museum's original waxwork of the singer received huge backlash, which led to them pulling it from their display.
Museum boss Paddy Dunning had said that he has been received countless questions from fans who have been asking why the original waxwork has not been put on display.
“We get tourists asking to see it, every hour of every day, but we tell them it’s not for viewing”, he said. “This has become our most famous waxwork since the National Wax Museum opened in 1983 — but we won’t ever put it on display again”.
Paddy Dunning has revealed that this new waxwork of Sinead O’Connor will also involve the O’Connor family.
“We will be asking four artists to make submissions, with the likeness everyone agrees on turned into our Sinead O’Connor. It’s very important we get this right after what’s happened”.
He also added that artist PJ Heraghty, creator the original likeness, will not be involved.
“PJ is retired now so that wasn’t going to be an option. He has done some fantastic work for the National Wax Museum”, he explained. “The waxworks of John Paul II, and Liam Neeson in Star Wars, which PJ created for us are superb”.
PJ Heraghty did admit that he was concerned about this project when he was hired to do the job.
“No I didn’t want to do Sinead O’Connor. That was the gut feeling I had and I wish I listened to it”, he said. “I just knew it was going to be problematic to capture somebody as beautiful as Sinead O’Connor”.
Heraghty had also stated that he did not have much time to create this waxwork to meet a deadline of Sinead’s anniversary on July 26. Sinéad O'Connor passed away in July 2023.
John O'Connor, Sinéad's brother described this original design as "hideous", and compared it to “something between a mannequin and something out of the Thunderbirds”.
