{"id":127945,"date":"2025-10-17T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127945\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:05:08","slug":"westlife-to-play-five-nights-in-dublins-3arena-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127945\/","title":{"rendered":"Westlife to play five nights in Dublin\u2019s 3Arena \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/westlife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/westlife\/\">Westlife<\/a> have announced a \u201chomecoming residency\u201d with five concerts in Dublin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/3arena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/3arena\/\">3Arena<\/a> next year as part of their 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The group, whose members include Shane Filan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nicky-byrne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nicky-byrne\/\">Nicky Byrne<\/a> and Kian Egan, will play the gigs at the venue from September 22nd \u2013 26th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The announcement comes after the group sold-out two shows in London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall which will kick off their 25th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Tickets for the Dublin dates will go on sale through Ticketmaster on Thursday, October 23rd, at 9am, and are priced from \u20ac80 to \u20ac369, including booking fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Presale for the gigs starts on Monday, October 20th, at 9am and fans can register for that <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.sonymusicfans.com\/campaign\/commercial_westlife_presale_signup_10_2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/forms.sonymusicfans.com\/campaign\/commercial_westlife_presale_signup_10_2025\/\">here<\/a> before 11am on Sunday, October 19th. People who get a presale link will receive it at 7am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThere\u2019s no better feeling than coming home to Dublin,\u201d the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis city has been at the heart of our story from the very beginning&#8230; five nights at the 3Arena feels incredibly special. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cEvery time we play here, the crowd\u2019s energy is electric, we can\u2019t wait to celebrate with you all and make more amazing memories together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2025\/09\/11\/erase-me-up-an-post-omits-brian-mcfadden-from-westlife-stamp\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erase me up: An Post omits Brian McFadden from Westlife stampOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The five concerts will bring Westlife\u2019s total number of performances at the 3Arena to 74 shows, which is the highest number played by any act at the venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Westlife are also set to play three nights at Belfast\u2019s SSE Arena next year on October 27th, 28th and 29th. Like the Dublin dates, tickets for those gigs will go on sale on Thursday, October 23rd, at 9am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westlife have announced a \u201chomecoming residency\u201d with five concerts in Dublin\u2019s 3Arena next year as part of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[26778,18,117,19,17,77250,26553],"class_list":{"0":"post-127945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-3arena","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-nicky-byrne","14":"tag-westlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}