Rain fails to stop Madonna in her tracks

She may have underperformed at the ticket kiosk, but Madonna delivered — and then some — at the Aviva in Dublin last night.

The first of Madonna’s two Dublin concerts on her MDNA world tour was hardly a sellout but, with 300 million album sales to her credit, the Queen of Pop did not seem at all bothered.

The show opened with bell-ringing, Gregorian chant and a giant incense burner swinging back and forth across, the stage before Madonna arrived to perform a perfectly rambunctious Girl Gone Wild.