In the quiet hours before the announcement that Westlife would be performing a momentous concert in the Aviva Stadium next Summer, Shane Filan was feeling the heartache of grief, wishing he could call up his dad to share in such a happy day.
Shane tragically lost both his parents in a very short space of each other, with his father, Peter, passing away last October, and his mother Mae, the previous December.
The Sligo native revealed to The Sunday World that as he made his way to Dublin, where a big reveal took place to announce the gig, Shane was overtaken with the urge to call up his dad, who he called ‘my hero,’ to share in the excitement. ‘Yesterday I found it very difficult coming up in the car.
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