Derry's Nadine Coyle to receive Irish Post Award

Nadine Coyle is set to receive an Irish Post Award in London next month.

The Derry native shot to fame in 2002 as one fifth of chart-mauling, award-winning, expectation-shattering girl band Girls Aloud.

The group, which also featured bandmates Cheryl Tweedy, Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts and the late Sarah Harding, launched on the now defunct TV talent show Popstars: The Rivals.

Together the band enjoyed a hugely successful 10-year career, in which they racked up an incredible twenty-one UK Top Ten singles, twenty of those consecutively.

Nadine launched her solo career, with her debut album Insatiable released in 2010.

Following the band’s split in 2013 Nadine moved her family out to join her in Los Angeles, where she opened a restaurant named Irish Mist.

The mother-of-one, who continues to make music, was back in the public eye in 2019 as a contestant on I’m A Celebrity, a move she admitted was her attempt to show the world that she wasn’t “afraid of trying something new”.

Nadine will be awarded for the Irish Post Award for her achievements in music. The awards will be given on November 9 in London.