Listen: Family friend pays touching tribute to Dolores O'Riordan in funeral homily

Latest: Retired parish priest and Canon Liam McNamara paid tribute to Dolores O'Riordan at her Funeral Mass today by recalled his first meeting with her in 1989.

Latest: Retired parish priest and Canon Liam McNamara paid tribute to Dolores O'Riordan at her Funeral Mass today by recalled his first meeting with her in 1989.

The traditional, religious service in a modest, pebble-dashed church in the heart of the Irish countryside - only a few miles from where O'Riordan dreamed of stardom as a child - was without the trappings normally associated with celebrity lifestyles and farewells.