Video/pics: J1 students go on the lash with Ed Sheeran

After meeting Ed Sheeran in a pub in Philadelphia a group of Irish J1 students managed to have a couple of shots with the singer/song-writer before bagging front row seats to one of his concerts. They also have the evidence to prove it…

Some J1’s are better than others, and it doesn’t get much better than meeting a chart topper who’s up for the craic. Recently, Pádraic Cunningham & Trevor English - along with a group of their mates – decided to head out on the lash in the old city of Philadelphia. They tried getting into one bar in particular but they had to leave as one of the lads was refused thanks to his Irish driver’s license. Instead of giving up on the night the lads went into “a fairly quiet looking bar”, according to Pádraic, and straight away they started ordering shots. “After the first round, one the lads walks out of the toilet and goes, ‘Lads, I just took a piss with Ed Sheeran,’ in pure shock." “We didn’t have a clue what he was on about until we looked over at the pool table and Ed Sheeran was there playing pool with a bird and another lad, with literally no one in the bar having a clue who he was,” Pádraic told JOE. So one of the lads went over to Ed to ask him if he was up for a few shots. “That's when shit started going down,” Pádraic said. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWiFsiVwO-c The lads bought the first round, but Ed, being the sound bloke that he is, went on to pay ‘for a load of rounds’, keeping in mind that there were nine rowdy Irish lads surrounding him, so rounds weren’t cheap. As the night drew to a close, Ed exchanged email addresses with the lads and told them to get in touch as he could sort them out with some tickets to his and Taylor Swift’s show, which was on July 20th just gone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xao7t6YiiI So the lads got in touch with Ed, who sorted out front row tickets to the show in the Lincoln Financial Field. According to Pádraic, “The concert was unreal, wall to wall full of women so us boys were in our element.” In case you’re wondering about the signs that the lads are holding (because we certainly were), Pádraic said, “Just to verify we robbed the signs off a bunch of MILF’s at the concert.” The lads then went on to see if Ed was up for 'round two', “We emailed Ed again during the concert asking him if he was up for an after sesh, but we think purely down to the multiple miss-spellings and drunkenness of the email he shot down the offer saying that because the concert got delayed so much due to the bad weather and the fact he was traveling again in the morning he said he couldn't in the soundest way possible. “Morale of the story is that Ed Sheeran is a complete hero and down to earth celebrity. It was like drinking with one of our mates we all knew for years.” It’s certainly a story for the grandkids. Pádraic and Trevor’s story is JOE’s Eye story of the week, in association with Magnet. They’re now in with a shot of winning €250 by the end of the month. Big thanks to Pádraic Cunningham, Trevor English, Cian Connolly, Conor Meaney, Matty Heskin, Eoin Walsh, John Mc Manus, Shane Farren, Peadar McMullan.