London,
(ANI):
Irish
pop
band
Westlife
has
landed
the
Best
Pop
Act
honour
at
the
annual
Meteor
Ireland
Music
Awards
for
a
record
tenth
time.
The
boy
band,
who
have
enjoyed
a
career
spanning
more
than
a
decade,
were
honoured
at
Dublin"s
RDS
venue
on
February
19.
Other
winners
included,
Snow
Patrol
for
the
Best
Band,
The
Script
for
the
Best
Irish
Live
Performance
of
the
Year
for
their
set
at
the
Oxygen
festival
in
the
city
last
year.
U2"s
No
Line
on
the
Horizon
was
beaten
to
the
Best
Album
award
by
The
Coronas" record
Tony
Was
An
Ex-Con,
leaving
the
group
stunned
to
be
handed
the
top
honour.
“I
know
people
say
this
all
the
time,
but
we
really,
really
didn"t
expect
this.
We
just
assumed
like
everyone
else
that
U2
would
win.
We
hadn"t
a
clue,"
the
Daily
Star
quoted
lead
singer
Danny
O"Reilly
as
saying.
Florence
and
the
Machine
took
home
the
Best
International
Band
award,
and
Brian
Kennedy
received
this
year"s
Lifetime
Achievement
Award.