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British musician (born 1965)

Caitlín O'Riordan (born 4 January 1965) is a British musician. She played bass guitar for the Irish punk/folk band the Pogues from 1983 to 1986. She later played with Elvis Costello as well as Bush Tetras and several other projects. She uses the name Rocky O'Riordan on social media and for her Sirius XM radio show, The Rocky O'Riordan Show.

Caitlín O'Riordan was born in Nigeria to Irish and Scottish parents, who moved to London when the Nigerian Civil War broke out in 1967. O'Riordan became romantically involved with Elvis Costello in 1985, while he was producing the Pogues' album Rum Sodomy & the Lash; the relationship lasted 16 years. Her former Pride of the Cross bandmate Darryl Hunt filled in for her on several shows during the Pogues' 1986 U. S. tour, and he replaced her permanently when she left later that year to join Costello on his King of America tour. She co wrote the track "Lovable" from that album, and wrote, co wrote, and appeared on songs on Costello's subsequent albums Blood & Chocolate, Spike and Mighty Like a Rose. In 2004, she joined Pogues' guitarist Phil Chevron's re united band the Radiators; that year she toured with the Pogues for the first time in 18 years. She left the Radiators and was replaced in February 2006 by Jesse Booth, and went on to form a band of divorcées named PreNup with Hothouse Flowers guitarist Fiachna Ó Braonáin. In 2012, O'Riordan completed a BA in Psychology, followed by an MPsychSc 2013 in UCD. She is currently completing a PhD in Psychology in UCD. In 2018 O'Riordan joined Pogues tin whistle player Spider Stacy to perform Pogues songs accompanied by Cajun music band Lost Bayou Ramblers under the name Poguetry. In February and March 2020 Poguetry played an eight date tour of the US. Since 2020 O'Riordan has hosted a weekly radio show, "The Rocky O'Riordan Show" on U2 X Radio, an artist branded channel which is part of SiriusXM. On 5 April 2023, it was announced that O'Riordan had joined the Bush Tetras on bass.

O'Riordan said she has suffered from severe depression all her life. She was formally diagnosed in 2002, and she initiated private clinical treatment. She said in 2008 that she was also an alcoholic, but had taken her last drink in February 2007. O'Riordan denies a formal union: "We weren't married no piece of paper with marriage on it".