One of Ireland’s most successful entertainers, singer-songwriter Niall Horan, last year paid himself €2.2m on the back on a sell out worldwide tour.
New accounts filed by the Mullingar man’s Jaredon Ltd show that pay at the firm increased by 20% from €1.85m to €2.23m in the 12 months to the end of March 2025.
Horan enjoyed the €2.2m pay bonanza after a gruelling tour schedule in 2024 which commenced on February 20, 2024 in Belfast and concluded on October 9 last in Bogota, Colombia.
One of the tour venues included New York City’s Madison Square Garden where the concert was filmed.
Underling how lucrative The Show tour was for the 31 year old, figures from trade industry journal Pollstar show that Horan generated €2.65m at the box office from three shows at the 3Arena in Dublin in 2024.
Box office receipts are shared between artist, venue, promoter and ticket seller.
Horan – who has amassed 39.3 million followers on X and Instagram and best known for songs like Slow Hands and Nice to Meet Ya – is a regular on Irish Rich List surveys after a career that was launched after securing a place on One Direction in 2010 from his appearance on UK TV show X Factor.
In the year under review, Horan’s Slow Hands and This Town each passed 1 billion streams on Spotify.
Jaredon employs three people including fellow directors and accountants to the stars, Alan McEvoy and Barry Downes from the Limerick-based Livewire Business Management, which specialises in representing well known figures in the music, entertainment and sports industries.
Pay to the three totalled €2.32m and included directors’ emoluments in respect of qualifying services last year totalling €30,000.
Cash funds at the company declined from €1.85m to €106,944.
Arising from the €2.32m staff costs, the company recorded a modest loss of €39,863 last year.
Accumulated profits at the end of March this year totalled €93,000.
Away from the music studio, Horan has been busy investing in the likes of the expanding athleisure Gym+Coffee brand.
Horan is also the founder of Modest! Golf Management that counts Ireland’s leading female golfer Leona Maguire amongst the growing roster of golfers that it represents.
Leona and her sister Lisa Maguire are both on the Modest! Golf Management roster which also includes three time Ryder Cup player, Tyrrell Hatton and young golfing stars including European Tour player Connor Syme, former Walker Cup player Jack Singh Brar, South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout and former Italian number one amateur Guido Migliozzi.
Reporting by Gordon Deegan
