{"id":678562,"date":"2026-11-08T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T11:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/678562\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T11:40:20","slug":"grateful-westlife-end-uk-and-ireland-tour-on-a-historic-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/678562\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Westlife end UK and Ireland tour on a historic note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westlife are clocking milestones like hits on tour, and after writing themselves into the history books in Dublin, they&#8217;ve done the same in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lads, Kian Egan, Shane Filan and Nicky Byrne, are currently on their 25th Anniversary Tour, with stops still to come in Paris, Hamburg and Copenhagen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharing an update on Saturday, the band marked the end of the UK and Ireland leg by announcing that they&#8217;ve hit a huge milestone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/est.jpg\" alt=\"Westlife performing in Belfast. Pic: Westlife \/ Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2220265\"  \/>Westlife performing in Belfast. Pic: Westlife \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Last night was our 76th show in Belfast, the most by any artist in history, WOW,&#8217; they said alongside a video of the final show on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They added: &#8216;What a perfect way to end the UK and Ireland leg of the tour. Feeling very grateful! Next stop, Paris.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westlife kicked off the 25th Anniversary world tour in Dublin, performing a record-breaking 13-date run at the 3Arena.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/westlife.jpg\" alt=\"Westlife performing in Belfast. Pic: Westlife \/ Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2220267\"  \/>Westlife performing in Belfast. Pic: Westlife \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end of the shows, the band had performed a whopping 82 times at the venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/05\/01\/entertainment\/celebrity\/westlife-spectacular-residency\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/05\/01\/entertainment\/celebrity\/westlife-spectacular-residency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chatting about the residency and tour in May<\/a>, Shane said: &#8216;It&#8217;s always special coming back to Ireland, back to Dublin. We&#8217;re Irish, we&#8217;re very proud Irish lads, so it&#8217;s always special.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/SEI295384261.jpg\" alt=\"Westlife band members Nicky Byrne, Shane Filan, and Kian Egan at a press briefing at the 3Arena Dublin this afternoon. Pic: Stephen Collins\/Collins Photos\" class=\"wp-image-2138826\"  \/>Westlife at a press briefing at the 3Arena Dublin in May. Pic: Stephen Collins\/Collins Photos<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;That&#8217;s why we wanted to kick off the world tour with the residency. This tour is going to go on for about two years, but we&#8217;re starting in Dublin, getting off to a good start with the Irish crowds.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kian added: &#8216;It&#8217;s just an honour; the whole thing feels like an honour. 25 years touring and 82 shows in this building, the fans around the country just continuously showing us support and love.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Westlife&#8217;s video from Belfast below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westlife are clocking milestones like hits on tour, and after writing themselves into the history books in Dublin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-678562","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\/678562","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=678562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}