By Maureen Coleman
On a sunny afternoon in June Snow Patrol rewrote the history books — with the help of more than 40,000 fans.
Prior to Saturday's home-coming show the biggest gig ever staged in Northern Ireland was U2 at Botanic Gardens in 1997.
So it was with great pride that frontman Gary Lightbody told the record-breaking crowd that they had toppled the Dublin rockers off their perch.
“U2 played to 40,000 people but today we are playing to more,” said an emotional Lightbody.
“This makes this the biggest ever concert in Northern Ireland's history”.
From early afternoon much of Bangor came to a standstill for Snow Patrol's ‘second coming'. The band's faithful followers travelled by train, bus, car and foot to welcome the five-piece back to the resort, where they played to around 30,000 people in 2007.
