The band which Dolores O’Riordan was due to record with on the day she died is a quarter of the way to raising $1m (€860,000) for her four children.

Words can often fail when trying to pay tribute to your heroes so what better way to pay tribute to a musical hero than in song.

I can’t remember the first time I heard Bob Dylan or Van Morrison or even Lightnin’ Hopkins, but I remember the first time I heard Dolores O’Riordan, writes Michael Clifford.

Unknown in 1991, Dolores O’Riordan was soon fronting one of the biggest band in the world, writes Joyce Fegan