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18th Feb 2020

Dermot Kennedy has added a third Killarney date due to ‘phenomenal demand’

Keeley Ryan

Dermot Kennedy has added a a third – and final – date at the Gleneagle INEC Arena in Killarney this summer.

The singer is set to play sold-out shows at Malahide Castle in Dublin [May 26], Irish Independent Park in Cork [May 27] and St. Anne’s Park in Dublin [June 5].

He’s also playing the Gleneagle INEC Arena in Killarney on June 2 and June 3 – and due to phenomenal demand, he’s now added a third date at the venue: June 1.

Tickets are priced beginning at €49.90 and go on sale at 9am on February 21 from Ticketmaster and the usual outlets.

Dermot Kennedy told MCD how he thinks his debut 12-track album is “my best effort in presenting myself to the world.”.

“I wanted it to represent darkness and sorrow but also hope, and that battle between them, and the way that in life you’ll inevitably experience beautiful things and terrible things,” he says of the LP. ‘Without Fear’ dwells directly on a time when, just as he fell in love, he lost a close family friend. Writing songs has helped him deal with that rollercoaster time.

“This is the only way I know how to put feelings across,” he says. “Great people like Van Morrison, they did this too. So, you’ve got to do it.”

Thanks to the success of songs like ‘Lost’, ‘Outnumbered’ and the career-defining ‘Power Over Me,’ he has gained over 750 million streams and boasts 11.5 million listeners monthly on Spotify alone.

He has received a nod in theBBC Sound Of 2019 and was voted NPR Slingshot’s Best New Artist of 2018. He has toured Europe, America and Australia, and made his debut on US television on the Stephen Colbert show, soon followed by an incredible performance on The Ellen Show.

“I’m still pinching myself every time we put a tour on sale and it sells out,” Kennedy added