Bono, Imelda May and Oscar winner Glen Hansard have taken part in a Christmas Eve charity busking session in Dublin city centre.<\/p>\n
Hansard opened the annual event on Wednesday night, telling the large crowd that more than 30 artists were waiting to perform.<\/p>\n
Among them were the band The Riptide Movement and singer-songwriter Shobsy.<\/p>\n
Danny O\u2019Donoghue from The Script and Danny O\u2019Reilly from The Coronas also made an appearance together.<\/p>\n
U2 frontman Bono was one of the last to take to the stage, performing a rendition of Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) with singer May.<\/p>\n
The event came to an end with a rousing performance of the Pogues classic Fairytale Of New York, during which May wished the late Shane MacGowan a \u201chappy birthday for tomorrow\u201d.<\/p>\n
The traditional gig marks its 15th anniversary this year and raises funds for the Dublin Simon Community, a charity which provides services to people in seven counties who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.<\/p>\n
The event started in 2010 as an impromptu sing-song on Grafton Street, one of the capital\u2019s main shopping thoroughfares.<\/p>\n
It has now become a more official and organised event outside The Gaiety Theatre nearby.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people sang along to a mix of Christmas tunes and Irish hits, with viewers tuning into the livestream from Berlin, London and New York.<\/p>\n
In the crowd were Dubliners returning from abroad.<\/p>\n
Jason Hanaway, who lives between New York and Poland, said the event was \u201cbrilliant\u201d, adding \u201conly in Dublin\u201d.<\/p>\n
Maria Campani, from Italy, has made the city her home and says she comes every year, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s a great event that brings everyone together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bono, Imelda May and Oscar winner Glen Hansard have taken part in a Christmas Eve charity busking session…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,4022],"class_list":["post-210837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-place-republic-of-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}