Inquest: Cranberries Singer O’Riordan Drowned After Drinking

Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan, center, sings in 2010 during a concert in Paris, France. Photo: Poudou99 / Wikimedia Commons
Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan, center, sings in 2010 during a concert in Paris, France. Photo: Poudou99 / Wikimedia Commons

LONDON — A British coroner says The Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan died accidentally from drowning because of alcohol intoxication.

Witnesses told a coroner’s inquest at Westminster Coroner’s Court on Thursday that O’Riordan was found submerged in her bathtub at a London hotel in January.

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The 46-year-old didn’t leave a note and there was no evidence of self-harm.

Coroner Shirley Radcliffe ruled O’Riordan’s death an accident.

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The Cranberries formed in the Irish city of Limerick at the end of the 1980s and had international hits in the ’90s with songs including “Dream,” ”Linger” and “Zombie.”