Beoga and Aaron Rowe in The Sky and The Ground pub on Tuesday night, as part of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. Brought up in Suffolk, the Galway Girl singer's dad hails from Belfast, and in June Sheeran announced that he identifies culturally as Irish.

Sheeran also made sure fans who couldn't get make inside the pub didn't miss out, as he made his way outside to perform an acoustic rendition of his hit single Perfect. Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann - the All-Ireland Fleadh - is held for a week during August and, in the past, has welcomed up to 600,000 visitors to the host town or city. The festival will be held in Belfast in 2026. Beoga have been Ed Sheeran's Irish trad band of choice over the years. Most of the members hail from County Antrim. They have been at the heart of plenty of gigs with the singer previously and have worked with Sheeran to produce some of his most famous releases including Galway Girl in 2017. Eamon Murray of Beoga described what it was like being on stage with the popstar once again.

"We've been over to Coachella with Ed and a few other places, but yesterday was by far and away the most hectic as it was in a public bar so it was a lot harder to keep a lid on it… but we've been doing a few of them now and they're good fun," he said. Murray described how performing in this setting comes naturally to the global popstar. "Both sets of his grandparents are Irish so whenever we are doing anything with him, he wants it to be very much an Irish-centric thing. "He loves that impromptu session vibe, that's why we get on so well." (BBC/ Getty Images)