Westlife's Shane Filan says he will be sticking to singing from now on.

The singer / songwriter was declared bankrupt by the UK courts after he ran up a debt of £23 million (€27.41 million) with his Shafin property development company.

He has now been discharged from bankruptcy, but says it wasn't easy, and he's older and wiser now.

Singer Shane Filan is currently promoting his first solo album "You And Me". He says he was always aware that Westlife would come to an end and tried to invest wisely: