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her family.” The 46-year-old Cranberries star’s massive musical legacy is routinely celebrated in class and her hugely successful career is a constant inspiration for students.
Ms Ni Bhriain added: “I think it’s nice for the girls who study music at the school to see that there is a great career path if you follow your star.
“Dolores was the living embodiment of it, so they can see that it is possible to do that if that is what they want to do with their lives.
“They would all be aware of her legacy,”
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Principal & pupils from Laurel Hill sign book Cert music students Sophie O’callaghan, Christina O’brien, and Ciara Deegan were also keen to sign the book of condolence.
Sophie explained: “We’re just here to express our deepest sympathy to the O’riordan family and to show how proud we are of Dolores and her being a past pupil and all she has done and achieved.
“We all study music and we would listen to her songs and watch her performances.
“There’s pictures of her in the music room and our teacher Ms Colgan always reminds us that she is a past pupil.”
Sophie added the superstar is “definitely” a role model for her and fellow music students, adding, “we all strive to accomplish what she has”.
Christina O’brien described O’riordan as “a great woman”,
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adding: “As Sophie said, our music teacher always reminds us Dolores went to our school.
“She’s very proud of it, and so are we all, that she is from a place we are.”
Ciara Deegan, whose family have been involved in bands in Limerick for decades, said: “I look up to Dolores, because in the future I want to carry on with music, so she’s a real inspiration, especially in school, as we always watch her performances and listen to her music.”
Mayor of Limerick Stephen Keary, who opened the book of condolence, added: “It’s a day of mourning and a day of sadness for Limerick.
“Dolores was an iconic figure in the music world. You didn’t have to be a rock fan to listen to Dolores O’riordan. It was the richness of her voice that meant so much.” Tim and Jonathan THE father of a young IRA bomb victim said he was “completely unaware” the tragic story of his son inspired the Cranberries’ hit song Zombie.
Colin Parry appeared on BBC Good Morning Ulster yesterday to pay tribute to Dolores O’riordan and said he was touched by the lyrics after finding out they were about his 12-year-old son Tim.
Tim was killed alongside three-year-old Jonathan Ball in an IRA bombing in Warrington, England, in 1993.
Mr Parry said he didn’t know the hit song, released in 1994, was inspired by the deaths of the two boys.
He said: “Only yesterday did I discover that her group,
Colin Parry or she herself, had composed the song in memory of the event in Warrington.
“My wife came home from the police centre where she worked yesterday and told me the news.
“I got the song up on my laptop, watched the band singing, saw Dolores and listened to the words. The words are both majestic and also very real.”
And he added that people in both Ireland and the UK were affected by the tragedy.
He explained: “Many people have become immune to the pain and suffering so many people experienced during that armed campaign.
“To read the words written by an Irish band in such a compelling way was very, very powerful.
“I likened it to the enormous amount of mail expressing huge sympathy that we received in the days, weeks and months following our loss.
“Proportionately a very high total of that came from the island of Ireland.”
It’s nice for girls to see there is a career path if you follow your star
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