Conan O’Brien spends night in famous Dublin pub ahead of Late Late Show appearance tonight

The 60-year-old Massachusetts-born former talk show host has been touring Ireland for his latest travel show Conan O’Brien Must Go, as he looks to trace his Irish ancestry and map his family tree.

His latest exploit on the emerald isle saw him spending the night in a well-known Dublin pub.

“Tonight I sang with The Irish Tenors in Whelan's Pub. We did "Cowboys From Hell" by Pantera,” he wrote on social media site X.

The famous pub, located in Portobello said it was a “privilege” to welcome the US star, who was seen taking part in a rendition of Danny Boy with The Irish Tenors, a singing trio started out in 1998.

Patrick Kielty teases Conan O'Brien as guest on the late late show

Conan is set to join Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty tonight following his travels across Ireland, which have seen him visit Limerick, Galway, Tipperary, Offaly and Dublin so far.

He visited the east Limerick village of Galbally where his great-grandfather Daniel O’Brien left for the United States in the late 1870s.

He spoke with local man Jim Fitzgerald, who showed him the O’Brien ancestral family home in the village.

The former Simpsons and Saturday Night Live writer also stopped off in Cashel in Tipperary to speak to a top genealogist who laid out his family tree.

Continuing his west of Ireland tour, he visited a butcher shop in Loughrea in Co Galway, and had a pint in the famous pub Tig Chóilí in the city, where he interviewed a Galway woman for his show.

He then stopped off in the Barack Obama Plaza in Offaly, where he met Supermacs owner Pat McDonagh who presented him with a Moneygall GAA jersey, before heading back to Dublin.

The four-episode series, which is scheduled to air on television later this year, tracks O’Brien as he chats with people who featured in his video call podcast series Conan O’Brien Needs a Fan. He traded talk show TV for podcasts following the end of his chat show Conan in 2021.

While he spoke to former Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy on his new Virgin UK radio slot last Friday about his “100pc Irish” DNA test, excitement is already building at Montrose this Friday as he meets Tubridy’s successor tonight.

In a teaser video released by RTÉ, Patrick Kielty jokingly takes a telephone call, saying: “He’s in Ireland. No, no, he’s not coming on our show. I mean absolutely not.”

This is followed by a shot of Conan O’Brien’s nametag over one of the guest’s make up rooms.