Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan assaults flight attendant, head-butts cop: authorities

New York Daily News ^ | November 10, 2014 | David Boroff

[Gay State Conservative]

I understand their music tends to ‘bog down’ after a while.

Agreed.One of their two songs that I like,"Dreams",is great for the first 3 minutes but the last minute is painful.I think it might be a European punk,or new wave,thing.

[Gay State Conservative]

No sense repeating the story of the Irishman that drowned in the Vat of Whiskey then is there???

Woman admonishing WC Fields for his drinking: "Someday you'll *drown* in a vat of whiskey!"

Fields: "Drown in a vat of whiskey? Death,where is thy sting!"

[Organic Panic]

One hit wonders definately. I couldn’t stand hearing the song over and over.

[wardaddy]

I am heavily Ulster Irish descended and still have kin there....some moved back actually....in Mayo too

My experience with Irish women....both Green(oddly Ireland associated color was blue till recent history) and Orange is:

Great skin....often alabaster
Gorgeous blue or green eyes
Great accents...its like living in a cool novel with them
Thick lush hair and pointy noses... usually nice cheekbones
Passionate...yes in that way
Usually delicate featured but boobs...not like Ukrainians or Baltic states but nice

Now downside:

Curse worse than Australian women...that’s saying something
Confrontational and loud but not bossy or chinny...still feminine oddly
Drink a lot....pub life....but not like men

That certain cloudy climate angst and darkness...sometimes augmented by Catholic shame/guilt
They can polish a grudge

Irish women are not malleable or easy to manage

Just being honest......but they are great in civil wars but over there and in the American South.....they got grit

[ArcadeQuarters]

It’s always the tiny dogs that bite.

[Gene Eric]

A wee bit shy of being poetic there, me FRiend.

[9YearLurker]

It was the cranberry juice cocktail.

[Caipirabob]

She lives in a castle I think, right ? Is it her or Enya. Maybe it’s Enya.

She may not live in a castle, but she's gonna end up in the dungeon...

[Oratam]

Pure anecdotal but I’ve noticed in English speaking countries other than the U.S., those of Irish descent are overly represented in fields like medicine, law, business, arts. I find that curious.

[PGalt]

Zombie apocalypse ALERT!

[SamAdams76]

Mid 1990s, I used to crank up The Cranberries on the home stereo. This was before MP3s so I had them on "compact disc". I remember one of their compact discs had "multimedia" on it so when I stuck it in my Windows 95 computer, the whole computer got taken over by Cranberries. I had to hit CTR-ALT-DEL about eight times to get it to stop. It was pretty awesome at the time.

[Bigg Red]

Classy!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Joining Sinead O’Connor in giving the Irish a bad name.

[dfwgator]

Nothing wrong with the Corrs Sisters.

[wardaddy]

Butler Yeats I ain’t admittedly...not much on libations..
Polemic more than poetic...sadly

I’m tender hearted though...generous to a fault

[xrmusn]

Agreed.
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Uh, I wasn’t really critiquing the music etc (don’t think I have ever KNOWINGLY heard of it or the entertainer), I was using a play on words to incorporate ‘Cranberries’ and ‘bog’.

OOPS...
Well, like ‘they’ say, if you have to splain a joke maybe the ‘joke’ wasn’t as funny as the relater may think.... <: <: <:

[Gay State Conservative]

Well, like ‘they’ say, if you have to splain a joke maybe the ‘joke’ wasn’t as funny as the relater may think....

Yup,I did get the joke but only after I posted my reply.In future I should engage brain before moving typing fingers! ;-)

[xrmusn]

In future I should engage brain before moving typing fingers! ;-)
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No problem, BUT I should maybe NOT try my ‘dry’ sense of humor when talking of bogs and cranberries.....

UGH.......

[EvilCapitalist]

If you’re talking about the song I’m thinking of (Icicle Melts) it’s not an anti abortion song. That song is about the James Bulger murder case. It happened near Liverpool.