Sabrina Carpenter kicked off her European leg of her Short n Sweet tour on Monday night in her ex-boyfriend Barry Keoghan’s homeland of Dublin. 

The singer, 25, took to the stage in Ireland, just months after splitting from the actor, 32, and couldn’t help but make a subtle dig at him.

Following performing her hits Espresso, Feather, and Taste, Sabrina broke out into Please, Please, Please – a song she wrote about the Saltburn star.

Barry even starred in the music video which saw the former Disney star beg him to not let her down. 

However, in reality the pair have split and Sabrina has since released a new video starring Dolly Parton, as she references the death of her relationship.

Speaking to the packed crowd in Dublin’s 3Arena, Sabrina joked that Irish boys were ‘hard work’ before breaking out into the track. 

Sabrina Carpenter kicked off her European leg of her Short n Sweet tour on Monday night in her ex-boyfriend Barry Keoghan ‘s homeland of Dublin

The singer, 25, took to the stage in Ireland, just months after splitting from the actor, 32, and couldn’t help but make a subtle dig at him

According to The Mirror, she said: ‘Dublin, it’s so lovely to be here. You all look and sound amazing. But my goodness, these Irish boys are hard work’. 

Sabrina and Barry were an item for about one year before their breakup was revealed in early December, with rumours quickly swirling that the actor had cheated with influencer Breckie Hill.

Barry broke his silence on the breakup after deactivating his Instagram in the wake of the speculation.

Taking to social media app X, he hit back at the ‘lies, hatred’ and ‘disgusting commentary’ and explained why he quit Instagram.

‘I can only sit and take so much. My name has been dragged across the internet in ways I usually don’t respond to,’ he wrote in a lengthy statement.

‘I have to respond now because it’s getting to a place where there are too many lines being crossed,’ Keoghan ᴀsserted.

‘I deactivated my account because I can no longer let this stuff distract from my family and my work. The messages I have received — no person should ever have to read them.

‘Absolute lies, hatred, disgusting commentary about my appearance, character, how I am as a parent and every other inhumane thing you can imagine,’ he wrote.

Barry lamented that people on the internet have been ‘dragging my character and everything I worked extremely hard for and stand for.’

Barry even starred in the music video which saw the former Disney star beg him to not let her down, prior to their split in real life  

Following performing her hits Espresso, Feather, and Taste, Sabrina broke out into Please, Please, Please – a song she wrote about the Saltburn star

Speaking to the packed crowd in Dublin’s 3Arena, Sabrina joked that Irish boys were ‘hard work’ before breaking out into the track

Sabrina and Barry were an item for about one year before their breakup was revealed in early December, with rumors quickly swirling that the actor had cheated with influencer Breckie Hill – which he denied 

The message continued: ‘Talking about how I was a heroine baby and how I grew up and dragging my dear mother into it also. Knocking on my granny’s door.’

‘It’s been challenging for their relationship since she started going on tour and has been gone a lot,” a source told Us Weekly.

‘Their schedules were not aligning. All the time spent apart it was hard to maintain a relationship amid her career exploding,’ it was added.

Barry shared that he is focused on fatherhood, and added that he wants his two-year-old son Brando, from his prior relationship with Alyson Sandro Kierans, to be able to look up to him. 

It comes after Sabrina left BRIT Awards viewers outraged on Saturday night with her very raunchy performance which opened the star-studded ceremony at the O2 Arena in London.

And MailOnline had VIP seats to watch the American singer’s jaw-dropping performance, including the moment she got down on her knees in front of a ‘King’s Guard’.

The set’s finale was so saucy it had to be edited for the ITV broascast, with the camera focusing on the soldier winking, instead of Sabrina’s suggestive position, which shocked the crowd inside the arena. 

MailOnline also caught the moment Sabrina sprinted off stage to make a very speedy costume change halfway through her controversial set.

Sabrina had to dash backstage to strip off her red sparkly military-style blazer dress, which was in homage to Britain.

She belted out her hit Espresso in the dazzling number which was complete with Sєxy stockings and towering heels before running backstage between songs to slip into racy lingerie.

It comes day after Sabrina left BRIT Awards viewers outraged on Saturday night with her very raunchy performance opening the star-studded ceremony at the O2 Arena in London

MailOnline had VIP seats to watch the American singer’s jaw-dropping performance, including the moment got down on her knees in front of a ‘King’s Guard’ 

Read MoreEXCLUSIVE Behind the scenes of Sabrina Carpenter’s raunchy Brits performance

Turning up the heat for her performance, Sabrina was seen stripping off her blazer dress while a crew member helped her unzip the number and slip into her next costume before breaking out into Bed Chem.

The former Disney star was raised up through a platform on the stage as she sang the hit on her knees surrounded by lingerie-clad dancers. 

The performance went down a storm inside the arena, with MailOnline spotting the star-studded crowd, which included the likes of Jade Thirlwall and Maya Jama, up from their seats and dancing along to the anticipated set. 

But after being aired by ITV pre-watershed, there was an outraged reaction from viewers at home. Some vowed to immediately contact ITV and Ofcom. 

The jaw dropping performance appeared to come close to breaking the Broadcasting Code’s 9pm watershed rules and left some viewers in shock with one father saying he was ‘fuming’. 

‘Unsuitable material’ should not be shown before 9pm and ‘can include everything from Sєxual content to violence, graphic or distressing imagery and swearing’, according to Ofcom.  

One mother said her 11-year-old daughter is ‘obsessed’ with Carpenter ‘and I explained to her whilst watching this performance that this is why I’m not taking her to the concert’. 

‘Sorry not a good idea to open up with before 9pm! It’s still family time, very inappropriate,’ one viewer wrote on X.

Meanwhile, others warned that not everyone may be a fan of the pre-watershed performance. 

‘This performance before the 9pm watershed? oh Sabrina, I love you x some parents will end up complaining though let’s face it #BRITs.’

‘Ofcom after Sabrina’s Brits performance #BRITs #sabrinacapenter’;

‘Me cheering on Sabrina to be even more filthy and promiscuous to make all the Facebook mums complain more #BRITs’;

Ofcom did not confirm to MailOnline whether it has received any complaints about the performance, instead saying it would be in its published report on Wednesday if there were more than 50. 

ITV has also been contacted for comment.

Carpenter has previously defended her Sєxy stage persona telling The Sun: ‘My message has always been clear — if you can’t handle a girl who is confident in her own Sєxuality, then don’t come to my shows.’ 

Elsewhere during the night, Sabrina took home the Global Success award which was presented to her by actress Millie Bobby Brown.