Coronas stretch the Olympia Christmas run to six nights

The Coronas have added two further nights at Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre for their annual Christmas shows, taking the December 2026 run to six dates. The extra gigs fall on 15 and 16 December and go on sale immediately through Ticketmaster, with tickets from €44.40 to €49.40, plus charges.

The original four nights, running from 10 to 13 December, sold out quickly in pre-sale. Lead singer Danny O’Reilly described the 3Olympia as "more than just a special venue to us — it’s now part of what The Coronas are all about", and said the Christmas shows have settled into a tradition that draws families and old friends back.

Beyond the Dublin residency the band will play The Telegraph Building in Belfast on 19 December and the INEC in Killarney on 28 December. Those Christmas dates follow a sold-out series of intimate seated autumn shows across Ireland. No further live dates or news of a new album were announced.

A Dublin band and a home stage

The Coronas formed in Dublin and have long operated their own independent label, 3ú Records, while basing themselves between Dublin and London. Their studio catalogue now runs to eight albums: Heroes or Ghosts (2007), Tony Was an Ex-Con (2009), Closer to You (2011), The Long Way (2014), Trust the Wire (2017), True Love Waits (2020), Time Stopped (2022) and Thoughts & Observations (2024). Along the way came the Reprise EP in 2018, the live set True Love Live (Black Mountain Studios) in 2020, The Best Of The Early Days in 2023, and recent singles including Speak Up and The Lakes Of Pontchartrain in 2024.

That stretch of records has kept them on Irish stages for nearly two decades, and the 3Olympia Christmas run has become one of the fixed points of the calendar. O’Reilly’s remark that the room is now part of what the band are about lands less as promotional colour than as a plain description of how the residency has grown. Six nights in a single theatre is a substantial block of December for any Irish act; the speed with which the first four dates disappeared in pre-sale explains why the extra pair was added without delay.

What the December dates mean

For audiences the practical detail is simple. The new 15 and 16 December tickets are available now. The Belfast and Killarney shows remain the only other confirmed December stops. The autumn seated run has already sold out, so the Christmas stretch is the next chance to catch the band in Ireland before the year ends.

What has not been announced matters as much as what has. There is no new studio record attached to these gigs, and no wider tour beyond the dates named. The band’s most recent full album, Thoughts & Observations, arrived in 2024; whether a follow-up is in progress has not been said. For now the story is the stage itself: a Dublin group treating a familiar theatre as home ground, extending a Christmas tradition that has clearly outgrown the original plan, and leaving the rest of the diary open.

The six Olympia nights, the Belfast date and the Killarney date bring a year already marked by sold-out intimate shows to a close. For a band that has built its catalogue slowly on its own label since 2007, the scale of the December run is the clearest measure of where they stand with Irish audiences right now.