High Court action against late The Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan and her estate has reportedly been settled five years after her death.
O’Riordan, who died in January 2018 aged 46 from accidental drowning in a bath after alcohol intoxication, allegedly stamped on the foot of Aer Lingus flight attendant Carmel Coyne during a flight back in November 2014.
According to BNN Network, the settlement “did not involve any payment concerning Coyne’s claim for loss of earnings” and “did not include any admission of liability from the defendants”.
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Coyne reportedly took legal action and launched a lawsuit against the singer in 2017, a year before her shock death.
The case was then altered against her estate after her death.
BNN reports Coyne was “seeking damages for assault, battery, false imprisonment, and breach of privacy and earning rights”.
The flight was from New York to Shannon, Ireland.
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According to The Irish Times, O’Riordan denied the claims before her death.
The musician accidentally drowned in a bathtub after drinking. A police officer told the inquest at Westminster Coroner’s Court a pajama-clad O’Riordan was found submerged in her bathtub at a London hotel on the morning of January 15, 2018.
The 46-year-old singer didn’t leave a note and there was no evidence of self-harm.
Five miniature alcohol bottles and a bottle of champagne were found in the room, and toxicology tests revealed a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit for driving. “Therapeutic” amounts of prescription medication were also found, the inquest heard.
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.’
O’Riordan had suffered physical and mental health problems over the years. The Cranberries cut short a world tour in 2017 because of the singer’s back problems.
She had also spoken in interviews about being sexually abused as a child, her battles with depression and a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
At the time of her death she was in London for a recording session, and was planning a tour. After her death, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said that “for anyone who grew up in Ireland in the 1990s, Dolores O’Riordan was the voice of a generation”.
The other members of The Cranberries previously said in a statement that they “continue to struggle to come to terms with what happened”.
“Dolores will live on eternally in her music,” they said.
“To see how much of a positive impact she had on people’s lives has been a source of great comfort to us.”
– Additional reporting by AP.
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