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Tue sday, Januar y16, 20 1 8 LIMERICK CHRONICLE 3 N EWS GETTHE TRIBUTES: C R A N B E R R I ES ’FRONTWOMAN DIES Shock following BEST Dolore s’ sudden death in London CASH PRICFOR YOURE OLD GOLDTHISWEEK Dolores ringing in the New Year in 2014 for the opening of City of Culture. She passed away suddenly in London on Monday, it has been confirmed. She was 46 PICTURE: KEN COLEMAN AINE FI TZG E RA L D & ALAN OW E NS wedding to tourmanager of the early 1990s as front- e-mail: n ews @ l i m e r i c k l ead e r. i e rock band DuranDuran, womanof The Cranberries. Twitter: @ L i m e r i c k _ Lead e r Don Burton in Holycross She auditioned for the band Abbey in County Tipperary after the departure of its TRIBUTES have been paid in 1994 and alsoofficiatedat previous lead singer and following the sudden death the funeral Mass of Dolores' they would go onto sell over father Terry in Ballybricken Whenyou recycle your old of rock star and Limerick 40 million records world- in 2011, said: “My heart goes wide during a stellar career. woman Dolores O’R i o rd a n . outto thefamily.Dolores Last year,the group can- wantedgoldAtlimerick’sThreeLevel Je The Cranberries front- was their pride and joy. We celledtheir European and woman passed away sud- all US tours due to illness after ellery Store denly on Monday. She was Dolores cited back issues. 4 6. She had an immense President Michael D Hig- While the circumstances influence on rock gins said: “It is with great of her death areas yetun- sadness that I have learned Up to € pergram known, it has been con- and pop music in of the deathof Dolores O’Ri - 33 firmed that the Ballybricken I re l a n d ordan, musician, singer and native died suddenly at a song writer. Highest Cash &Insore CreditPrices Paid hotel in London. President Higgins “Dolores and The Cran- A spokesperson who rep- berries had an immense in- resented the singer con- fluence on rock and pop firmed to the Chronicle: loved her very, very much. music in Ireland and inter- “Irish and international “She goton well all the n at io n a l l y. singer Dolores O’R i o rd a n way through her life. I was “I recall withfondness has died suddenly in London very disappointed to hear the late Limerick TD Jim today (Monday).She was46- today that she has leftus so Ke m my ’ s introduction of years-old. The lead singer early in life. Her family did so her and The Cranberries to with the Irish band The muchfor her and supported me, and the pride he and so Cranberries, was in London her all the way through.” many others took in their for ashort recording ses- Fr James Walton, priest suc c e s s e s . sion. No further details are in Dolores’home parish of “To all those whofollow available at this time.” Ballybricken, also ex- and support Irish music, Family friend Canon pressed his deepest sym- Irish musicians and theper- Liam McNamara who wasa pathies to the family. forming arts, her death will co-celebrant at Dolores' Dolores shot to fame in be a big loss,”he added. 8O’Connell Street, Limerick. T: 415583 4LIMERICK CHRONICLE Tue sday, Januar y 16, 20 1 8 N EWS TROLLEY CRISIS: CALLS TO RE-OPEN CLOSED HOSPITAL BEDS IN LIMERICK CITY F UNDING Heritage Council call out for scheme THE Heritage Council has issued a call for funding applications from Lim- HSE management ‘must be erick under its Com- munity Heritage Grant Scheme. See www.herit- agecouncil.ie for more. taken from political arena’ E D U CAT I O N NICK RA B B I T TS AT CITY HALL Talk on bird names e-mail: n i c k @ l i m e r i c k l ead e r. i e Twitter: @ n i c k 4 68 o f f i c i a l and trad music MANAGEMENT of the Bird Watch Ireland Lim- erick branch will give a public health service in Ire- presentation on bird land must be taken out of names, tunes and tradi- the political arena and tional music tomorrow handed over to experts. evening 7.45pm in T h at’s according to Fine room 3B05 at the Limerick Gael councillor Daniel Institute of Technology. Butler, whowas speaking as thetrolley crisis con- P OLITICS tinuestospiral outofcon- trol this winter. People waiting in emer- Gavan wants May gency departments for referendum date treatment climbed toa re- cord high of 677 over the New SINN Fein Senator Paul Year period, and at this Gavan has called on gov- we e k ’s metropolitan ernment to ensure a date council meeting,members for the referendum to re- called for change. peal the eighth amend- Locally, thatmeans re- ment of the constitution opening the emergency unit happens in May this year, at St John’s Hospital, pro- rather than the autumn. posed by Cllr Kieran O’Hanlon, while Cllr Cian COUNCIL Prendiville lodgeda formal notice of motion urging beds Management at University Hospital Limerick are being called upon to attend the next council meeting axed over the last decade to Horses seized near be brought back into use. railway tracks “Our health service has fewer beds then in the 1980s, University Hospital Lim- chael Hourigan pointedout Sinn Fein councillor Séi- basis. I am fed up to the back LIMERICK City and even thoughthe population erick on theclosure of beds a spend of €14bn on the ghin ÓCeallaigh calledon teeth of hearing stories of County Council says two has gone up hugely in that in St John’s Hospital, plus health service. members to invite new Uni- peoplewaiting ontrolleys. female horses which were time. It’s an emergency, it’sa Ennis and Nenagh. “No-one likes to see versity of Limerick chan- I t’s unfathomable what’s seized near railway tracks crisis, but it’s no accident,” “Nomatterwho is in gov- people on trolleys, butthere cellor, and former Health going on.” at the rear of Glasgow he said, “One-third of people ernment, we will have this needs to be arecognition Minister Mary Harney to Councillor Elenora Park, Galvone last week who go to A&E wait more crisis. It’snot going to be that quite a lot is being done. ask her why, when she pre- Hogancalled on bossesat will be disposed of if they than six hours.