This story brought back some memories. Does anyone remember the Irish rock band, The Cranberries, from the 1990s? I only really remember their “Zombie” song, but I really dug that song. They stayed together until 2001 and got back together for a 2012 album, Roses. Dolores took some time off from the rock-star lifestyle and started a family. She married Don Burton, who once managed Duran Duran, and they have three children.
Dolores is back in the news this morning after a raucous flight from NYC to Ireland. She allegedly attacked a flight attendant. I heard on the radio that she ground her high heel into the attendant’s foot, although that could be an embellishment. TMZ says the flight attendant had either a foot or leg injury and was rushed to the hospital. Dolores also allegedly head-butted a police officer. More from the BBC:
The lead singer of Irish band The Cranberries is under arrest in hospital following an alleged attack on an air hostess and a policeman on a US flight.
Dolores O’Riordan was detained after an air hostess was reportedly attacked on an Aer Lingus flight from New York to Shannon, County Clare, on Monday.
Police boarded the aircraft at Shannon and during the course of the arrest, a policeman was also assaulted.
Ms O’Riordan has been taken to hospital in Limerick but remains under arrest.
The flight, from JFK airport, landed at Shannon at about 05:30 GMT.
The injured Aer Lingus air hostess was brought to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick shortly after the landing.
The police officer was not seriously hurt. A police spokesman said a woman in her early 40s was initially taken to Shannon garda (police) station for questioning.
Later on Monday morning, Ms O’Riordan was taken to hospital, but she remains in police custody.
[From BBC]
Dang. This sounds like one miserable transatlantic flight for everyone else involved. I’m guessing alcohol was involved in some shape or form, although that’s never an excuse for violent behavior.
Here are some more pics of Dolores playing hide-and-go seek from the paps. The blonde-haired photos were taken in 2012. She went back to brunette in 2013.
Photos courtesy of WENN
I loved The Cranberries back in the day. Sigh.
Belligerent drunks on long flights are the worst.
I don’t know about that. Anything to take your mind off the tedium is a welcome relief. I swear the continents get further and further apart each flight I take.
yes, long flights suck. i’d rather take boring, though, over being trapped in a tin can thousands of miles up with an angry drunk.
^ Perfect comment.
I actually feel sorry for her, she had a traumatic upbringing and was repeatedly sexually abused by a relative when she was young. She’s battled depression, had breakdowns, suffered from anorexia and bulimia. She and her husband actually have a cabin here in Ontario and it seems her mental/emotional problems had been banished with a happy marriage and children, but perhaps they caught up with her again. Too bad, I hope everyone involved is OK.
As I read it I wondered if she had some sort of medication problem. If she’s been battling mental health issues, that’s possible. Hope she gets it worked out whatever is going on, and hope the flight attendant is OK.
“Dreams” is the best road trip song.
And “Linger” was great. I hope whatever demons she’s battling now that she can get help for them, bless her.
LOVE “Linger”.
Linger is one of my favorite songs I hear it and I’m 18 again. This is sad news
Linger is their best song. Love it. I forgot about Zombie.
My sister had conversations with Dolores in my sister’s store in Peterborough, Ontario. She said she was the loveliest person, and my sister never even let on she knew who she was, because she thought she deserved some “incognito” interaction, and she had her baby with her.
Hope everything works out. I always loved The Cranberries too. (Although my kids dubbed Dolores “The Howler Monkey” for the song, Zombie. How rude. lol)
I wondered why you used a pic of Ginifer Goodwin in the header pic… I couldn’t even see a difference until I looked at her hands.
Ha! Me too!!!!!
is a cross between Ginnifer and Satan’s Homegirl Kris
I thought the same thing! Actually, the exact thought was “Ginnifer Goodwin looks really pretty when she smiles. She should do it more often.”
I’ve always loved her. But damn, she’s crazy.
My family is all Irish on my dad’s side. Love my culture, but damn, you don’t wanna piss one off. Especially after a few.
Okay, I call claptrap on this comment. I’m Irish, and there is nothing in my culture to support going bananas on planes or being aggressive, drink or no drink taken. That’s a super lazy stereotype. Like suggesting all Americans are bonkers because of the actions of some students during spring- break.
Of course this is a generalization but i get why chloeee said that, as stereotypical as it may sound even when i was studying in the UK they had a reputation of being fiery and short tempered.
Right, and all French people are haughty, Germans have no sense of humour, Swiss people are punctual, Scottish people are tight-fisted (but not as tight-fisted as Jewish people) and the English don’t look after their teeth, drink tea, and only eat toast done on one side. I mean if that’s the ‘reputation’ then it must be so, right?
@Loopy, what does you studying in the UK have to do with Irish people? (Is it the opinion of people in the UK about the Irish because that’s still a separate country perpetuating a stereotype? Not being rude, I’m genuinely confused about your comment)
Arlene is completely correct, Chloeee made a pretty ignorant comment that included an unfair generalization that Irish people are constantly coming up against.
@Faboo ,sorry i mentioned that because we had students from all over and that was part of the reputation they had,like Arlene mentions with her list of stereotypes, it is indeed a generilization but i can’t help what I have heard about the Irish, its not a personal opinion it is what I have heard while in Uni.
@chloeee & Loopy – see my comment above, Dolores has had a long history of mental/emotional problems stemming from some pretty horrific childhood sexual abuse. Perhaps that is the reason she lost it – no need to accuse an entire race of people of suffering from bad tempers and lack of self-control with booze.
@ Jaded Thank you, I was not aiming to cause offense.
Thank you Jaded, and you also Faboo. Loopy, I’m not offended per se, but I hope you understand why I called shenanigans. I dislike stereotypes and do not find them at all helpful in nature. I hope you had a fine old time in the Uk when you were there.
Let’s take it back to 1995 shall we? It was a gentler time, Clinton was president, music was good and my brother, cousin and I spent $25 to see the Cranberries. Long story short, it was a good show except for Dolores. She kept on freaking out on the sound guy for whatever issue she was having.
From that brief time on a nice summer evening, I witnessed some I admired freak out, so yes, I believe this story.
She is not known for being nice. She was horrible to people in interviews back in the nineties.
I saw the Cranberries opening for Duran Duran in Atlanta in the ’90s. Love them. But what a terrible messy situation for all involved.
I loved ‘Linger’
And also, she looks like an older version of Ginnifer Goodwin. Never saw that before.
Ahhh, the cranberries takes me back. My so called life and being 15 years old.
I hope she gets some help.
Linger!!!!!
Whenever that song plays on the radio I call my best friend…brings back so many happy memories…
On the subject, I don’t think alcohol had anything to do with this mess 🙁 Hope she get’s better.
Maybe she really needed a cigarette? Long flights are torture for smokers. By about the ninth hour you’re weighing up the options, like, could I do a couple of years in a Hong Kong prison? Just keep my head down and bribe the guards. Or a $250000 fine, yeah I’d pay that, just pick up some extra shifts. I actually considered eating one of my cigarettes after about 12 hours
There’s always an ecig. It just blows out steam and you can still get you nicotine fix. Can you bring those on a plane?
I think it was Laura Flynn Boyle who once talked about how to smoke one (1) puff of a cigarette in an airplane toilet without setting off the smoke detector.
She said you had to face the toilet, ignite your ciggie while inhaling steadily (that one puff is all you’re getting), then flush the toilet, throw your lit cigarette in fast, and exhale into the toilet while it power-slurps your ciggie and smoke away.
If you’re on the edge of being arrested for losing your mind, hey, give it a shot. If you do it wrong, the fine was the lesser evil anyway.
Poor thing. I remember when the Cranberries were at the height of their fame that she would perform while pacing back and forth. She had some sort of anxiety issue where she could only bear to face the audience for so long, so she’d turn and pace away from them.
No excuse for injuring someone, but its obvious she’s been struggling with her own issues for ages.
It’s inexcusable. Abuse does not justify violent behaviour.
Oh yes it does – statistics prove that children who have had violent and abusive upbringings often turn out to be plagued with mental issues including uncontrollable rage, depression, anxiety and eating disorders. Please do a bit of research before you make such an unfounded blanket statement.
http://www.ehow.com/info_8592040_kind-go-through-grow-up.html
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/matter-personality/201111/the-family-dynamics-severe-child-abuse
I believe what Gobo is saying is that being abused does not make it okay to be violent towards others. Not that there isn’t a connection between being abused and being violent.
Linger…brings me back to my first day of school, first grade. The first time I heard it was as the school bus pulled up in front of the school to unload us. I was wearing a magenta floral print…what were those things called in the 90’s? Those button up dresses that were shorts? Not a skort, just a dress that ends in shorts. Anyway, my memory from that time is relatively blurry so to have such a vivid memory due to that song just illustrates the power of music and the power of her music in particular.
I can’t believe no one else has said this yet but damn, she head butted a police officer, supposedly? Not to condone her actions but that’s pretty bad ass for a woman who is beginning to look like a sweet little Irish librarian.
A guy in college thought Dolores was so hot and he said I looked like her with my pixie cut….brings back memories. I am listening to Salvation right now.
Hope she works through her troubles
Poor lady. Linger is one of my all time faves.
Dreams. Now that takes me back. Driving has never been the same.
You know what? I didn’t even read this story and automatically decided that Dolores is 1000% innocent of wrong-going and to confess my never-ending love for for her.
Call me extremely biased but I was born in ’83 so The Cranberries were with me and figuratively held my hand throughout all of those insanely tough and turbulent middle school years; I’ll love her-and the rest of the band-forever for that. *The Rebels was the background music to my awesome friendship and after school antics with my then lifelong best friend. We would listen to the entire ‘To the Faithful Departed’ and ‘No Need to Argue’ albums while staring at Brad Renfro (RIP) and JTT posters while painting our nails with glittery Hard Candy and flipping through her older high school sister’s discarded Seventeens ☺️ ❤️❤️ *Sigh* In fact, to this day I cannot see a pair of high black Doc Martins or hear the song ‘Linger’ without immediately being transported back to my middle school’s hallways and the moment of my first, 6th grade heartache. God, I miss the early/mid 90’s SO much!!
This woman is a leotard:
“A fellow passenger on board the flight tweeted that the singer boarded the aircraft in JFK wearing a red and black coloured superhero mask. Pat Carroll posted on his Twitter page at 11.14pm from New York: “So Deloras [sic] ‘Cranberry’ O’Riordan just boarded our JFK/SNN flight wearing red and black Superhero mask . . . #strange”
One passenger described in a tweet how Ms O’Riordan boarded the flight at JFK wearing a superhero mask. Another claimed the singer shouted about how she has sold 50 million albums and started singing one of her band’s biggest hits – Zombie – at the top of her voice as passengers were waiting to disembark.
I know someone who was there tour bus driver at the height of The Cranberries fame. Unfortunately she loved her heroin a bit too much.