Cranberries singer, Dolores O’Riordan was preparing new version of ‘Zombie’

In a statement posted on Instagram, the members of U2 said they were “floored” by O’Riordan’s death.

Reflecting on the song today, Mr Parry told the BBC: ‘Only yesterday did I discover that her group, or she herself, had composed the song in memory of the event in Warrington.

A shocked Stephen Street, who produced a string of the Cranberries most famous records, comments: “I have just heard the news regarding Dolores“.

“The seasons are so dramatic here – from the snow in the winter to the beauty of the autumn, the colours of the leaves falling – so I have a piano outside my window and sometimes I start off there with ideas, just using nature as a backdrop”. She headed to Canada, where she gave birth to her third child, but The Cranberries reformed in 2009 after getting together for a one-off show.

O’Rierdon was found dead at a hotel in central London on Monday morning.

Polish couple Sebastian and Michalina Buczkowski came to pay tribute to the star by signing their names. They remembered growing up in Poland listening to the Cranberries.

“Of course she was a superstar and an inspiration to so many people, not least from Limerick“. O’Riordon said a 2012 interview that “we were stuck in a rut”. The song had transported us.

Catherine Sexton described O’Riordan as “a real limerick lady, a true Limerick lady, and a attractive soul”. So when Dan Waite called me suggesting a collaboration with Dolores and Bad Wolves” on “Zombie, ‘ I was excited to once again be a part of the magic she was able to create. It was hard not to be affected by her instrument; whether you loved it or hated it, it undoubtedly incited a reaction of some sort.

President Michael D Higgins said: “It is with great sadness that I have learned of the death of Dolores O’Riordan, musician, singer and song writer”. She said, I played harmonium in my church for 10 years, spent eight years with classical piano.

“So we thought that we’d take a lot of the songs out of our setlist and take our hits and re-record them with a [string] quartet. She didn’t think like that at all”. After her court hearing O’Riordan urged other people suffering mental illness to seek help. She had come into the restaurant where I was a chef.

The Cranberries are best known for the song “Zombie“. Her publicist said the singer’s family is “devastated”.

“We are very proud of her as a past pupil and also because she was a Limerick woman who never forgot she was a Limerick woman”. She grew up in Ballybricken, which is actually in the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, but Limerick city, all of Limerick, held her very dear in its heart. “Our thoughts go out to her family at this awful time“, the band writes in a statement.