The mother of the late Cranberries singer, Dolores O’ Riordan, has spoken out at the ‘Love Both Vote No’ rally in Dublin on Saturday where tens of thousands gathered in Merrion Square to speak up for unborn children and call for a ‘no’ vote in the upcoming abortion referendum.

Among the people talking at the rally was Eileen O’Riordan who travelled up from Limerick to attend the event. Addressing the crowd, she said: “My daughter Dolores . . . She was completely opposed to abortion. All our family will be voting no on the 25th of May.”

Dolores’ pro-life convictions were well known. Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine in 1995, she said: “I’m in no position to judge other women, you know? But, I mean, . . . It’s not good for women to go through the procedure and have something living sucked out of your bodies. It belittles women — even though some women say, ‘Oh, I don’t mind to have one.’ Every time a woman has an abortion, it just crushes her self-esteem, smaller and smaller and smaller.”