# Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan dies at 46 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703 "2018-01-15T17:32:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/21 "2018-01-15T21:26:25Z")
Dang, that is too young. I read she was working on a project when she died. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/22 "2018-01-16T02:05:50Z")
So young. What a loss. RIP Dolores. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/23 "2018-01-16T02:52:15Z")
Yep, very sad. Great singer. From the news I read about her life, I suspect we will find one of two causes - suicide, or an accidental opiod overdose. She was suffering from both depression and back pain. ---
**Author:** ![Nadnerb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@Nadnerb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nadnerb)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/24 "2018-01-16T05:06:23Z")
And I was just thinking about her two days ago. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/25 "2018-01-16T05:08:39Z")
☹ rip. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/26 "2018-01-16T06:53:27Z")
I just was going to post this …I haven’t heard anything of thtm since the mtv days … but wow… she had a rough life it seems … ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/27 "2018-01-16T13:55:49Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Very sad and unexpected. > > And yet somehow Shane McGowan is still alive. I literally said these very words to a coworker not ten minutes ago (not that I wish harm to Mr McGowan. ) The Cranberries were a big part of the soundtrack of a segment of my life, possibly the last really happy time for me. Thanks, Delores, for being with me for the good times. ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/28 "2018-01-16T17:44:27Z")
I remember waking up to “Linger” everyday in the spring and summer of '93 on my local top 40 radio station. Sorry to hear that beautiful voice is gone. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/29 "2018-01-16T18:06:12Z")
Reports are already sneaking out that it was fetanyl. So, very likely an accidental overdose. I guess it could be suicide but fetanyl kills so many people by accident, that’s the safe bet. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/30 "2018-01-16T19:34:04Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Such very sad news to wake to. My kids are huge fans of Zombie, young as they are, because the 90s never ended on my playlist. Fantastic song, and a great, distinctive voice. RIP. My kids are going to be pretty upset when I tell them, as well. As I am ☹ ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/31 "2018-01-16T19:43:04Z")
I remember in the late 90s early 00s they one of the the entertainment shows looked the cranberries up after they had fallen off the map and she said they didn’t have a contract with anyone and was selling their new records on their website/page (for pretty much the same reasons the smashing pumpkins broke up for a few years – their fans grew up and moved on and the boy bands and girl groups were back in style …) I guess that didn’t go well ?.. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/32 "2018-01-16T20:59:35Z")
I was going to make a maudlin observation that if I had heard that a female Irish singer had died, I would’ve assumed it would be **Sinead O’Connor**. But over on a guitar forum, someone linked to this article on O’Riordan from 2014 in the Belfast Telegraph: [Dolores O'Riordan: The demons that linger in her life | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk](https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/dolores-oriordan-the-demons-that-linger-in-her-life-30758766.html) It sounds like she had a traumatic life, too - abuse for years, substance abuse issues, diagnosed bipolar. So much to deal with. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/33 "2018-01-16T22:16:10Z")
Speaking of McGowan, O’Connor, etc. The night Delores died turned out to be the same night as a [concert](http://diffuser.fm/bono-nick-cave-sinead-oconnor-shane-macgowans-60th-birthday/) in honor of Shane McGowan. Among the performers was Sinéad O’Connor. Which is surprising since she had nothing nice to say about him after their record company enforced duet on a remake of _Haunted_. Speaking of the original Pogues _Haunted_. The singer was Cait O’Riordan. No relation. That night must have had some downer moments given who was there and the recent news. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/34 "2018-01-17T05:25:58Z")
One of the highlights of my youth (includes college years) was attending a Cranberries show in Berkeley in April 1995. First row and backstage passes, one of the few benefits working at a Tower Records shop. “Dreams” is one of my all-time favorite songs. RIP Dolores. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/35 "2018-09-06T15:56:17Z")
> **[Cranberries singer O'Riordan died by drowning](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45434898)** > > Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan died by drowning due to alcohol intoxication, inquest told she accidentally drowned while drunk , 4 times the legal limit for driving in the UK ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/36 "2018-09-06T19:20:44Z")
Good God another one? Do celebrities not take showers or something? Dolores, Whitney, Whitney jr…all bathtubs. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/37 "2018-09-06T20:11:25Z")
My ex was a big fan. I liked The Cranberries, but only in small doses. It still kinda hits, though. Another piece of my youth (early 20s, anyway) gone. I would not have guessed she was younger than me. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703/38 "2018-09-07T13:53:20Z")
a nice hotel is probably going to have big bathtubs that are used more than small home bathtubs. Most home tubs are not very usable if you are over the age of 12. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46/806703.md?page=1)