O’Riordan, who has since been diagnosed as suffering with bipolar disorder, admitted four offences including assault and obstructing a Garda during the incident following a flight from New York’s JFK airport.
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Ennis District Court has previously heard the 43-year-old mother of three has been receiving medical care since her arrest and detention at Shannon garda station in 2014.
Ms O’Riordan became a household name fronting Limerick band The Cranberries who went on to sell tens of millions of albums worldwide.
O’Riordan didn’t speak during Wednesday’s court hearing in western Ireland.
Her solicitor did not contest any of the evidence and said the marriage break-up put her under huge emotional stress.
Insp Tom Kennedy said O’Riordan – dressed in black for the court sitting – told an airport police offer: “You can’t arrest me. I’m the Queen of Limerick”.
In one incident she jumped off a stationary ambulance and tried to run back towards the Aer Lingus jet while she later escaped from the back of a patrol auto before being apprehended by Airport Police and gardai.
He said she has no previous convictions, had travelled around the world with her career since she was 18 and had never had an incident on a plane before last November.
When she was restrained after a short chase, she head butted the officer and spat in his eye, the court heard.
He said a conviction would impair her ability to travel for work and to see her children.
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Judge Patrick Durcan ordered the singer to write letters of apology to those she attacked.
