The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan laid to rest in Ireland

The Cranberries’ lead singer Dolores O’Riordan was laid to rest in County Limerick, Ireland, on Tuesday, 23 January, after her sudden death last week.

The 46-year-old singer’s children Taylor, 20, Molly, 16, and Dakota, 12 were joined by their father and Dolores’ ex-husband, Don Burton, as former bandmates Noel Hogan, Mike Hogan, and Fergal Lawler attended the sombre gathering at the Church of Saint Ailbe.

‘She is singing in heavenly choirs,’ Canon Liam McNamara said to the mourners, as some procession cars played Cranberries songs as they followed the hearse to a private burial site.

‘Her kind personality and beautiful singing voice earned for her numerous admirers,’ he went on to say.

‘It must be added that the numbers she rescued from the darkness of depression are impossible to count,’ he added.

She’d previously opened up about her mental health to Metro, saying: ‘There are two ends of the spectrum — you can get extremely depressed and dark and lose interest in the things you love to do, then you can get super manic.’

‘I was at the hypomanic side of the spectrum on and off for a long period but generally you can only last at that end for around three months before you hit rock bottom and go down into depression.’

Crowds of fans mourning the star’s death lined the streets, as a local Limerick radio station broadcast the funeral mass. And as a sign of respect, radio broadcasters from around the world played When You’re Gone just after the midday service.

People lit the streets on Monday night with tea light candles, as Dolores’ remains travelled from her hometown of Ballyneety the church.

Since Dolores’ passing, both her solo efforts and work with her band The Cranberries have skyrocketed up the charts. Some sales have even increased by almost one million percent.

While in London, Dolores was found dead in her hotel room of the Hilton, Park Road. She was in town to record music with rockers Bad Wolves, who subsequently released their version on Zombie and vowed to give all the profits to her three surviving children.

According to the Mirror, Dolores had been working on new material with her Cranberries bandmates just months before her passing.

The cause of her death is still undetermined.