Bono has used U2's first concert since the Paris attacks to call for a Europe of mercy to refugees.
The Irish rock stars were among the acts to cancel high-profile gigs in the French capital after 129 people were killed and hundreds more injured on Friday night.
Bono asked Belfast concertgoers whether they wanted "a Europe with its heart open or its borders closed to mercy".
The bloodiest attack came at the Bataclan theatre, where American rockers Eagles Of Death Metal were performing when gunmen stormed the venue.
On Wednesday, the band said they are "horrified and still trying to come to terms with what happened in France".
In their first full statement since the attacks, the US band said their "thoughts and hearts" went out "first and foremost" to those like Briton Nick Alexander, who they described as "our brother", who was selling EODM merchandise in the Bataclan concert hall where 89 people died.
The Greek authorities have said at least one of the Paris attackers may have passed through the island of Leros with a group of refugees.
The man apparently registered in Greece and had his fingerprints taken.
Tighter restrictions have been imposed on travellers entering parts of Germany.
At the SSE Arena a characteristically evangelistic Bono urged: "We refuse to hate because love will do a better job."
Islamic State jihadists claimed a series of co-ordinated attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris that killed 129 people in scenes of carnage at the Bataclan as well as restaurants and the national stadium
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