Shane breaks hearts with new Westwife

WESTLIFE star Shane Filan broke innumerable teenage hearts yesterday when he signed up for the wedding band.

Among the 380 guests attending the lavish reception bash at Ashford Castle was Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his wife Miriam. Last year, the couple's daughter Georgina married Nicky Byrne in a French chateau with a celebrity magazine paying €850,000 for the photo rights.

"They are a lovely couple," Byrne said of Shane and Gillian Walsh. "I'm really looking forward to having a great party."