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music · Saturday 4 July 2026 · 5:30pm 
Ed Sheeran at Croke Park
At Croke Park · Jones Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 3
At Croke Park · Jones Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 3
One man, one guitar, one loop pedal, and 80,000 people singing back every word. Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour comes to Croke Park on 4 July 2026, and if you have never seen him live at a stadium, this is the show that makes the format make sense. There are no backing bands, no elaborate set pieces hiding the music - just Sheeran building each song live from scratch, layering vocals and instruments in real time before the crowd locks in and takes over. It suits all ages, and the ratio of songs people actually know is unusually high for a stadium act.
The Loop Tour setlist runs to around 30 songs and draws from across Sheeran’s full catalogue - Castle on the Hill, The A Team, Lego House, Photograph, Galway Girl, Thinking Out Loud, Perfect, Shape of You, Bad Habits - alongside tracks from his 2025 album Play and a medley segment covering songs he has written for other artists. One of the more distinctive features of the tour is a live fan-request section where the crowd votes on songs via text in real time, so no two nights are identical. The show runs close to three hours and includes a B-stage section that brings Sheeran closer to different parts of the crowd. Gates open at 4pm, with support acts from 5:30pm. Croke Park holds over 82,000 for concerts, so even the upper tiers feel included in the atmosphere rather than excluded from it.
Croke Park sits on Jones Road in Drumcondra, Dublin 3, about 2.5km north of the city centre. The easiest approach without a car is Drumcondra commuter rail station, which is roughly a five-minute walk from the ground - trains run regularly from Connolly and Pearse. Dublin Bus routes 1, 3, 11, 16, 41 and others serve the Drumcondra Road area. The Luas Red Line to Connolly or the Green Line to Parnell are also practical, with a 15-minute walk from either stop. Parking near the stadium on event nights is extremely limited - Transport for Ireland strongly recommends public transport for Croke Park concerts, and driving in is genuinely not worth the post-show wait.
The area around Croke Park is a proper north Dublin neighbourhood rather than a tourist quarter, which means good chippers, reliable pubs, and a lot of fellow concert-goers in pre-show good form on Drumcondra Road and Clonliffe Road. There is more to see in Drumcondra and across Co. Dublin.
Heading to Croke Park in Drumcondra? Dublin has plenty more to see. Read the Drumcondra area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.