CMAT surprised her hometown fans by playing an intimate show at her local pub in Dunboyne – watch footage below.
The singer – real name Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson – had played a show at Dublin’s 3Arena on December 5 and the following night, she followed it up by making good on a promise to play at Brady’s in her County Meath hometown.
Her vow to play the show was made on the condition that her Irish fans successfully took her third album ‘Euro-Country’ to Number One on the Irish Albums Chart, ahead of Sabrina Carpenter, and on its release in August, that duly happened.
CMAT played a full, two-hour set at Brady’s, while sipping at drinks and chatting with long-time friends in between tracks.
Jack O’Gorman, who works at Brady’s, told the Irish Mirror: “This was the pub Ciara regularly drank in once she turned 18. So to see her back here as a superstar wowing all the regulars was just incredible.”
Watch video of CMAT’s show here:
‘Euro-Country’ landed at Number Four on NME’s list of the Best Albums of 2025. “She did the butcher, she did the baker, she turned a song about vicious online trolling (‘Take A Sexy Picture Of Me’) into a global breakout moment and, with third album ‘Euro Country’, CMAT cemented herself as a generational talent – one capable of investigating deep-seated Irish trauma and concocting a capitalist metaphor about Jamie Oliver within the same 50 minutes,” NME said.
“At turns hilarious, devastating, rageful and proud, ‘Euro-Country’’s complexity and breadth showed the magic that can happen when an artist is given space to wholly be themselves. It helps, of course, when the artist in question is as smart a songwriter as Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson.”
‘Take A Sexy Picture Of Me’ also landed at Number Three on the Songs Of The Year list – check that out here.
2026 is set to be a big year for CMAT, with a run of UK and Ireland dates set to be her “biggest shows ever” when they kick off in March. See all of those dates here and find any remaining tickets here.
She will also be playing a swathe of festival shows throughout the summer, including Bilbao BBK, Mad Cool, Bearded Theory, TRNSMT, End Of The Road, Øya, LIDO, Electric Picnic and Truck Festival.
A planned UK tour for October had to be cancelled due to a tooth infection that required surgery. She told NME at the Mercury Prize that month that the rescheduled dates will feature “the best music of all time played by the best-looking people of all time”.
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