As all five original members of Oasis were born to Irish parents, Ireland has always been the Manchester band's home from home. So the atmosphere in Dublin on August 16 and 17 for the reunited group's first shows in the country since 2008 - two sold-out gigs at the city's 82,300-capacity Croke Park stadium - was utterly electric, as footage posted online testifies.
Rather sweetly, on Saturday night, frontman Liam Gallagher dedicated the band's performance of Stand By Me, the second single taken from their third album, Be Here Now, to his County Mayo-born mother Peggy, who was in attendance to watch her boys.
But while Oasis (or their mum) were never, ever in danger of being upstaged in Dublin, fans around the world have also been singing the praises of an unexpected new star, specifically one of the Irish Sign Language interpreters working at the stadium, a lady who exhibits the kind of rock 'n' roll swagger that Liam Gallagher would undoubtedly respect.
