The same year The Cranberries released their sophomore attempt, the mature and masterful album No Need To Argue that brought the band to fame on the wave of such singles as piercing Zombie and Ode To My Family. In 1994, Dolores married to their tour manager Don Burton. The second single Linger became a hit in the USA after The Cranberries toured there. Nevertheless, in 1993 the collective released the first disc titled Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? with the rock single Dreams. However, all proved to be not that good - the artists had serious tension in the band and with their manager, which almost resulted in a split up, while their first single Uncertain was a real flop. The Cranberries chose Island Records and signed to it. The recording studious began a bidding war for the band. The tapes were sold out in a short time the musicians contracted their title to The Cranberries and started to look for a label to record their debut. The group made three hundred tapes with their songs and distributed them among the local shops. O'Riordan was taken into the band without any hesitation. Not only the girl's writing talent astonished the artists - she wrote lyrics for their future hit Linger for one night - but also her strong and unusual voice, surprising for her delicateness. The musicians announced the search for the new vocalist and Dolores O'Riordan answered their advertisement. Originally, they named it The Cranberry Saw Us, and took Niall Quinn - but he left the rockers for his own project.
Brothers Noel and Mike Hogan along with their friend Fergal Lawler in Limerick founded this Irish rock band in 1990.