{"id":670451,"date":"2026-09-03T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/670451\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:49:12","slug":"westlife-to-perform-at-katie-taylors-farewell-fight-in-croke-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/670451\/","title":{"rendered":"Westlife to perform at Katie Taylor\u2019s farewell fight in Croke Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WESTLIFE WILL PERFORM at Katie Taylor\u2019s final fight in Croke Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor will call time on an illustrious boxing career with a homecoming bout against Flora Pili in a sold-out Croke Park.<\/p>\n<p>The fight, organised by Eddie Hearn\u2019s Matchroom and Aiken Promotions, is for the undisputed super-lightweight world title.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788443352_286_.jpeg\"  alt=\"river (49)\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            Katie Taylor on the Croke Park pitch druing half-time of the Leinster hurling final on 8 June.\n<\/p>\n<p>Westlife were today announced that the \u201cheadline performers\u201d for the fight.<\/p>\n<p>The band have played in front of Croke Park on six previous occasions and have sold more than 55 million records worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Westlife are soon embarking on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/westlife-ed-sheeran-new-song-chariot-6854405-Oct2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">worldwide 25th anniversary tour<\/a>, including 13-nights in Dublin\u2019s 3Arena and seven nights in the 02 Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>The band said they are \u201cso honoured to be asked by Katie to perform at this historic night\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has inspired the whole country and we couldn\u2019t be prouder to perform for her at Croke Park, a stadium that also means so much to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the fight will be shown live on RT\u00c9, following negotiations with Aiken, Matchroom and broadcaster Dazn.<\/p>\n<p>It will be aired live on RT\u00c9 2 and available to stream on the RT\u00c9 Player, while 2FM will provide live radio commentary.<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9 will also cover the weigh-in and pre-fight press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTLIFE WILL PERFORM at Katie Taylor\u2019s final fight in Croke Park on Saturday. Taylor will call time on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[32544,9,10,1007,52,18,13,14,225398,6,19,17,26779,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,26553,283286],"class_list":["post-670451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-boxing","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-croke-park","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-flora-pili","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katie-taylor","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-westlife","tag-you-raise-me-up"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117207431245628753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670451","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=670451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}