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Irish band Beoga hit the Glastonbury stage with Ed Sheeran for part of his headline set on Sunday night - and it sounds like they made the most of their time at the popular festival.

Bodhrán player Eamon Murray confessed he was "dying" after the band "took a good run at it" during the five day festival.

He told Al Porter on Today FM: "We took a couple of days over there.

"We took a good run at it and made pigs of ourselves for the couple of days."

The Co Antrim band joined the A Team singer on stage for his hit Galway Girl, which they co-wrote, and Nancy Mulligan, which Ed penned for his grandmother.

Eamon added: "His grandfather was there - it was a good buzz. They were loving it.

"The Sheerans were there in droves, it was great."

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He told how the band were "delighted" after joining Sheeran on stage, as the flame-haired crooner closed the popular festival with a 90 minute acoustic set.

Eamon said: "He's doing it his way and he's given us a bit of a foot up so fair play. It's all good. We're delighted.

"For sure it's the biggest thing we've ever done, by a country mile.

"It's a long way from playing to 15 people in Dingle or 24 people in Mullingar. 80 or 90,000 people in Glastonbury is alright!"

Ed closed Glastonbury with an epic 90-minute set filled with his chart topping tracks including Castle On The Hill and his breakthrough song The A Team.

He told the crowd: "For those of you who haven't seen one of my shows before or haven't heard one of my songs, please pretend that you know them.

"For those of you who have, please sing all of the words. The aim of tonight is to lose our voices. I'm going to lose mine as well."

Ed's headlining slot at Glasto came just six years after he made his debut at the festival, performing to just 500 people on a much smaller stage.

He followed on from previous nights' headliners Radiohead and Foo Fighters.