Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan has been discharged from hospital and released without charge from custody by Irish police.

She had been arrested on Monday following an alleged air rage incident on a flight from the United States.

Ms O'Riordan was detained after a stewardess was reportedly attacked on an Aer Lingus flight from New York to Shannon, County Clare.

After being examined by a doctor, she was taken to hospital in Limerick.

Police said the singer had been questioned for a period at Shannon police station where it is understood she complained of being ill.

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Police had boarded the aircraft at Shannon and during the course of the arrest, a policeman was also injured.

The incident occurred in the business section of Aer Lingus flight EI 110 from New York's JFK airport shortly before it came in to land in Shannon.

It is understood the injured Aer Lingus air hostess suffered a suspected fracture in one of her feet and was taken to hospital for X-ray and medical treatment.

The police officer was not seriously hurt and did not require hospital treatment.

A spokesman for Shannon Airport said the flight touched down before 5am.

Allegations
"I can confirm that the incident took place on board Aer Lingus' daily service from New York to Shannon. An arrest was made following arrival at 4.47am," the spokesman said.

Ms O'Riordan, 43, was detained under section four of the Criminal Justice Act and was questioned over allegations of assault.

Originally from Limerick in the west of Ireland, the distinctive singer became a multi award-winning musician after securing the role of lead singer of the Cranberries when she was just 18.

She is married with three children and has been living in Dublin.

The Cranberries went on to become one of the biggest bands of the 1990s, selling tens of millions of records.

A spokesman for Aer Lingus described the incident as a "security matter".

"An incident took place on board flight EI 110 en route from New York to Shannon today," he said.

"The matter is being investigated by An Garda Siochana [Irish police]. As this is a security matter we will not comment any further"

A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions

The 74-year-old from Holy Cross passed away at home in Ballybricken, according to his daughter Dolores.

"He battled cancer for nearly six years. His faith kept him alive, though. He waited until 6pm to die because he loved the Angelus," Dolores, lead singer of internationally successful Limerick band The Cranberries, told me yesterday.

Her father, she said, was with all his children (Terence, Brendan, Donal, PJ, Joseph, Angela and Dolores) his wife Eileen, and his lifelong friend Father McNamara "when he took his final breath".

"He was always a fighter. We'll really miss him. A great father, entertainer, accordion player, singer and gardener. We are relieved now he's not struggling any more.

"He was a farm labourer until his bike accident in 1968," Dolores told me yesterday morning, "which left him invalided with permanent brain damage. He kept a garden. That kept him alive.

"He was more popular in Limerick than myself. He married mom in 1961. She was 17 and he was 24. They had nine children. Seven survived. I was the youngest. He told me I was lucky number seven. He told me he was so proud of me. He was a lovely man."

"He looks so peaceful now," Dolores wrote in a text to me shortly after he died on Friday. "I miss him but I feel happy. I was holding his hand and a candle."

Dolores would appear to have inherited her father's faith. After meeting Pope John Paul II at the Vatican a few years ago, she remarked: "[He] 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 ...

"My father was a beautiful, kind, funny man. He was a great patient during his long, weary battle. He never complained. He was bed-ridden for the last few months.

"He lost everything. His car, his garden, his freedom. His health. But he always kept his dignity.

"My mother will always love him. He held on to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this year on November 14."

As Dolores sings herself in Linger, "If you, if you could return ... "

Sunday Independent