Dolores O'Riordan - Personal Life

Personal Life

On 18 July 1994, O'Riordan married Don Burton, the former tour manager of Duran Duran. Their first child, Taylor Baxter, was born on 23 November. Molly Leigh was born on 27 January 2001, and Dakota Rain on 10 April 2005.

In 1998, she bought a 61 hectares (150 acres) stud farm, called Riversfield Stud, located in Kilmallock, County Limerick. She lived there for six years before selling it in 2004.

In 2006, O'Riordan was listed among the ten richest women in Ireland.

O'Riordan lived in Howth, County Dublin with her husband and their three children. The family once divided their time between homes in Dublin and a log cabin located in Buckhorn, Ontario, Canada that was bought in 1994. In 2009, her family moved full time to their home in Buckhorn. The same year, The Cranberries met together again at the christening of her son Taylor.

Dolores was raised as a Roman Catholic. Her mother was a devout catholic who choose her name in reference to the Lady of the Seven Dolours. O'Riordan identifies as an unconventional (but still religious) Christian catholic.. She is also an admirer of the late Pope John Paul II. After meeting him inside Vatican City, O'Riordan remarked: " was lovely, very saintly. I was mad about him. I thought he really cared for the poor and he loved to meet the people. I saw him when he came to Limerick, when I was a kid. So it was pretty mindblowing to take my mum out to meet him." She has also been invited by Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican’s annual Christmas concerts, and has performed there several times, in 2001, 2002 and 2005.