Ed Sheeran review: Fireworks and happy fans for fantastic first night in Cork

Ed Sheeran on stage at Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork on Thursday night. Picture: Eddie O'Hare
Where do you go for a measuring stick when the best gets better? Ed Sheeran’s show at Páirc Ui Chaoimh on Thursday night left his barnstorming 2018 tour in the ha’penny place.
“Some of you may know my story,” Sheeran told his Cork fans. “When I started out, I couldn’t get a record company to sign me, so I wrote songs for other people instead. The first ‘cut’ that I was a song for Olly Murs [‘Love Shine Down’].