{"id":576987,"date":"2026-07-31T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:40:09","slug":"are-you-a-westlife-fan-wed-like-to-hear-from-you-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576987\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Westlife fan? We\u2019d like to hear from you \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/music\/2025\/10\/17\/westlife-to-play-five-nights-in-dublins-3arena\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/music\/2025\/10\/17\/westlife-to-play-five-nights-in-dublins-3arena\/\" target=\"_blank\">Westlife<\/a> will play 13 nights at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/3arena\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/3arena\/\" target=\"_blank\">3Arena<\/a> in Dublin this September as part their 25th anniversary tour. The group are also set to play five nights at Belfast\u2019s SSE Arena in October and shows across Europe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ireland\u2019s pop princes, whose members include Shane Filan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nicky-byrne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nicky-byrne\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicky Byrne<\/a> and Kian Egan, will have played an unprecedented 82 shows at the 3Arena by the end of their anniversary tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">In the run up to their concerts, we\u2019re hoping to talk to a group of long-time Westlife fans who are going to one of these gigs together. We\u2019d like to hear about their changing lives, friendships and being fans of Westlife over the duration of the group\u2019s existence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">If you are going to the gig with your Westlife-loving friends and would be happy to talk about your lives with an Irish Times journalist, we\u2019d like to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Using the form below, tell us about yourself and your love for Westlife in 300 words or less. Please include a phone number for verification purposes only. We will keep your contact details confidential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">We may curate a selection of submissions for an article, or contact you for a follow-up interview. Please note we may not publish every submission we receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westlife will play 13 nights at the 3Arena in Dublin this September as part their 25th anniversary tour.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3265,615,93,61,60,278,55459,14217],"class_list":["post-576987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-3arena","tag-dublin","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-nicky-byrne","tag-westlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576987","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=576987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}