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Long wait: U2 haven’t played live in Ireland since 2018. Photo: Getty
It has been almost two years since U2’s last live performance. It was March 2, 2024, and the occasion was the 40th and final show of their residency at the newly opened Las Vegas Sphere.
As the band walked off-stage, having just finished 40 – the final song on their 1983 album, War – the roar of the crowd ringing in their ears, they must have felt that they had achieved yet another milestone: delivering an audio-visual spectacular in the world’s most hi-tech concert venue.