ROD REVEALS THAT HE NOW HAS A FANCY DUBLIN APARTMENT

HE WEARS it well, but if you want a pieda-terre to relax after the rugby in Dublin 4, it will certainly cost you.

Rod Stewart has said he and his wife Penny Lancaster, both pictured, can’t wait to get back to Ireland and spend more time here.

The legendary singer told Miriam O’Callaghan on RTÉ Radio 1 yesterday: ‘I can’t wait to get back to Dublin. Do you know I have an apartment there now?’

‘So I hear – near the Aviva [stadium],’ O’Callaghan replied. ‘Just up the road,’ said Stewart. ‘Would you spend more time here?’ asked O’Callaghan.

‘We intend to,’ said Stewart. ‘It’s decorated now... I think we’re coming over in the first week of May.’

Stewart previously spoke in glowing terms about the apartment he was buying in Dublin 4. ‘If I get out on my balcony I’m going to see [rugby and football] crowds on a Saturday afternoon. The oceans and beaches – it’s gorgeous,’ he said. While Stewart didn’t name the scheme, it was quickly established that he acquired a penthouse at Lansdowne Place, a luxurious new development on the site of the former Jurys and Berkeley Court hotels in Ballsbridge. Number 24 The Burbidge, in the same complex, was branded the ‘most expensive’ apartment in the country after it sold last year for an eye-watering €7million. On the seventh floor, the apartment sprawls across 5,522 square feet and has a roof terrace. Another apartment there was listed as selling for €4.3million in March, according to the Property Price Register.

Football legend Roy Keane is also believed to own an apartment in the complex.

If you can’t catch Rod in Ballsbridge, he has also been known to frequent the Gravediggers pub by Glasnevin cemetery on the northside.

And he also said he is excited about singing the ballad Grace at his Dublin show. ‘I’ll even do it twice if requested,’ he added. Stewart plays the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on Sunday, May 26.

A select number of tickets are still available from €116 to around €140.