For those of you at the back there requiring a Dolores O'Riordan update after her arrest yesterday; she reportedly spent a lot of her time in the cell singing, before being brought to see a doctor to assess her general condition. Then, according to freelance journalist Catherine Hayes, who has just been speaking on the Ray D'Arcy Show, Dolores was released into the care of her mam at 3:30pm yesterday. A file has been submitted to the DPP and questioning of the 43-year-old singer will continue "once she's well enough."
Hayes has been speaking to a number of people who were on board the flight yesterday morning when it landed in Shannon from New York. As expected, there are reports that Dolores treated her fellow passengers to a rendition of Zombie. She also uttered the immortal lines "I've sold 50 million albums, don't you know who I am?", before "jumping up and down" and subsequently stamping on the aforementioned flight attendant's foot.
What we find most interesting, however is the report that fellow passenger, Pat Carroll, clocked that O'Riordan boarded the flight sporting a mask.
So Delores 'Cranberry' O'Riordan just boarded our JFK/SNN flight wearing red & black Superhero mask ... #strange
— Pat Carroll (@PatCarrollTouch) November 9, 2014
When Hayes contacted Carroll to probe him exactly what superhero it was, he said he wasn't exactly up-to-speed on his sci-fi fantasy. We'll go for the obvious choice and guess it's SPIDER ZOMBIE!
Meanwhile, as is the norm in Ireland, Ray talked to Hayes about the fact that she was in school with Dolores (Laurel Hill Coláiste FCJ in South Circular Road, don't you know) - albeit a few years behind the singer. So, what was she like? Well, "everybody knew Dolores", she was "always singing", a "character", and everyone could tell she was destined "to be a rock star." And, therefore, her arrest on board a transatlantic flight is just par for the course. Can everyone just move along there now. Nothing to see here. It's just a rock star being a rock star...