ED Sheeran has said that his recent Irish tour gave him the chance to see Ireland properly for the first time.

The singer was still enjoying the afterglow of his nine concerts in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Belfast at his fundraising show for the London Irish Centre earlier this week.

3 Ed Sheeran performing at Dublin's Croke Park Credit: Getty - Contributor

Speaking to RTE Entertainment, he said: "It was really nice to get 'round and see the country properly."

Sheeran said he was "honoured" to help the London Irish Centre by playing a fundraising show at the iconic Camden building on Tuesday night.

Thousands of fans donated £10 to enter a raffle to be in with a chance to win a ticket to see Sheeran perform at the centre's Camden base.

The money raised will go towards a new capital campaign to set out a new vision for the centre.

3 Ed Sheeran wowed crowds when he performed at the London Irish Centre Credit: Eulogy

He added: "It's brilliant, not just 'pure Irish', but people from all sorts of different heritage and lineage to be proud of their roots and support places like this because it does such good work.

"I'm honoured to be here today, and I'm glad it's raised a lot of money."

3 Ed created his own head sculpture out of Lego which he then donated to his local charity shop

This comes after Ed got bored and created a life-sized version of his own head from Lego on tour which he then donated to a charity shop.

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The creative superstar pieced the brick bust together between live shows and has now handed it to a good cause with a string of other memorabilia.

The talented singer stunned workers at the St Elizabeth Hospice shop, in his hometown of Framlingham, Suffolk, when he turned donated the haul of personal goods.

He also handed over his first record player, a skateboard, clothes, shoes, his school music books and guitar stands from his bedroom.