{"id":136213,"date":"2025-10-21T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/136213\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:24:08","slug":"westlife-extend-3arena-residency-to-ten-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/136213\/","title":{"rendered":"Westlife extend 3Arena residency to ten shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westlife have added extra shows to their 25th anniversary tour next year, including five additional nights at Dublin&#8217;s 3Arena and an extra date at Belfast&#8217;s SSE Arena.<\/p>\n<p>They will play 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 at the 3Arena, in addition to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2025\/1017\/1539029-westlife-to-play-five-nights-at-dublins-arena-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previously announced dates<\/a> from Tuesday, 22 to Saturday, 26 September 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a post to Instagram, the Irish boyband said: &#8220;DUBLIN, you&#8217;ve absolutely blown us away! Due to phenomenal demand, we\u2019re adding 5 more shows to our 3Arena residency! Thank you for celebrating 25 years with us and we can\u2019t wait to see you next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tpe\" data-embed=\"instagram\" data-id=\"DQEmCLOClTF\">\n<p>They will also play a fifth date at the SSE Arena on 31 October, having been confirmed to play the venue on 27, 28, 29 and 30 October, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The band will perform their greatest hits, including Swear It Again, Flying Without Wings, and You Raise Me Up, alongside popular hits from across their career.<\/p>\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Due to phenomenal demand, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/westlifemusic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@westlifemusic<\/a> have added a fifth date at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SSEBelfastArena\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SSEBelfastArena<\/a> on 31 October 2026 \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfab Tickets for the 25th anniversary tour go on sale this Thursday at 9am <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N5LuUjJhK8\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/N5LuUjJhK8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pywKZLPhcS\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pywKZLPhcS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ticketmaster Ireland (@TicketmasterIre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TicketmasterIre\/status\/1980604744189047023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the years, Westlife has proven hugely popular with fans, with 16 Irish No. 1 singles, 14 UK No. 1 singles and over 55 million records sold.<\/p>\n<p>The band has toured extensively and has sold more than 6 million concert tickets around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Westlife have also headlined multiple sold-out nights at Irish venues including Croke Park Stadium and the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Cork&#8217;s P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh and Markievicz Park in Sligo.<\/p>\n<p>Since their reunion in 2019, the band has performed over 200 shows across 30 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all shows will go on sale on Thursday 23 October at 9am via Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">For more music news click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westlife have added extra shows to their 25th anniversary tour next year, including five additional nights at Dublin&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-136213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136213","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=136213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}