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Westlife Declared The Best Pop Act For The Tenth Time

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Westlife
Irish pop band Westlife has been declared the Best Pop Act honour at the annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards for a record tenth time.

The boy band, who have charmed music inthuasist with a career spanning more than a decade, were honoured at Dublin"s RDS venue.

Following Westlife were, The coronas for the Best Band, 'The Script' for the Best Irish Live Performance of the Year for their set at the Oxygen festival in the city last year.

U2"s - No Line on the Horizon stand defeated to the Best Album award by The Coronas" record. Tony, An Ex-Con, leaving the group stunned to be handed the top honour.

“I know people say this all the time, but we really, really didn"t expect this. We just assumed like everyone else that U2 would win. We hadn"t a clue," said the lead singer Danny O"Reilly.

Florence and the Machine bagged the Best International Band award, and Brian Kennedy received this year"s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Story first published: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 14:12 [IST]
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