{"id":352316,"date":"2026-03-18T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/352316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:15:12","slug":"boyzone-remember-stephen-gately-on-his-50th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/352316\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyzone remember Stephen Gately on his 50th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of people are celebrating St Patrick&#8217;s Day across the world, but for Boyzone, the day is tinged with poignancy.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly this year, as March 17, 2026 would have been Stephen Gately&#8217;s 50th birthday. Sadly, he <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/10\/10\/entertainment\/celebrity\/stephen-gately-cause-of-death\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed away<\/a> on October 10, 2009, at the young age of 33.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DV_jPTpCA_c\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a sweet video<\/a> shared on Tuesday, Keith Duffy is seen raising a glass with his wife, Lisa Smith, and their daughter, Mia, in celebration of St Patrick&#8217;s Day and of Stephen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SnapInsta-Ai_3854954789561962460_41e089.jpg\" alt=\"Keith Duffy of Boyzone celebrates what would have been Stephen Gately's 50th birthday. Pic: Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2121694\"  \/>Keith Duffy of Boyzone celebrates what would have been Stephen Gately&#8217;s 50th birthday. Pic: Instagram<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;On a day like today, especially today, it&#8217;s very important we as a family remember our brother Stephen Gately. He would&#8217;ve been 50 today. 17 years an angel,&#8217; Keith began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So today, we didn&#8217;t know what to do, to be honest, but we wanted to make sure he was part of our day,&#8217; he continued, before the camera pans to a birthday set-up in honour of Stephen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So we set up a little &#8220;Steo&#8217;s 50th&#8221;. His favourite colour was red, his favourite chocolates [are here], and obviously, Steo, we wouldn&#8217;t let you down on your 50th birthday without a magnum of Cristal.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-17-200454.jpg\" alt=\"Keith Duffy of Boyzone celebrates what would have been Stephen Gately's 50th birthday. Pic: Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2121695\"  \/>Keith Duffy of Boyzone celebrates what would have been Stephen Gately&#8217;s 50th birthday. Pic: Instagram<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So ladies and gentlemen, whatever you remember Stephen [from], whether it was from Boyzone, whether it was from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, whether it was from the Child Snatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Steo would&#8217;ve been 50 today,&#8217; Keith said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And happy heavenly birthday, brother, we miss you. If everyone out there can remember their fondest memories of him, and cheers to Steo today.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Keith, Lisa, and Mia are then seen raising their glasses once more, as they say: &#8216;Cheers, Steo. We love you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-17-201019.jpg\" alt=\"Ronan Keating of Boyzone celebrates what would have been Stephen Gately's 50th birthday. Pic: Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2121696\"  \/>Ronan Keating of Boyzone celebrates what would have been Stephen Gately&#8217;s 50th birthday. Pic: Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Ronan Keating marked the day by raising a pint of Guinness to his late friend in a Sydney pub. &#8216;Happy 50th Steo and Happy Paddy&#8217;s Day, world,&#8217; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>One Instagram user wrote: &#8216;This is so beautiful! Missed everyday by those who knew and loved him. I\u2019ll keep all the memories safe in my heart.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another penned: &#8216;Aw, that was magic. Good man, Keith and Happy Heavenly Birthday, Steo.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of thousands of people are celebrating St Patrick&#8217;s Day across the world, but for Boyzone, the day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-352316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352316","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=352316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}