Tickets for Ed Sheeran's Irish tour are expected to sell out in minutes

Demand is sky high for the English singer's seven gigs planned for next year in Cork, Galway, Dublin and Belfast

Large queues have been forming outside Ticketmaster at Merchants Quay Shopping Centre since Thursday night.

Ticketmaster has brought in anti-touting measures to stop tickets being resold online, and are limiting the amount of tickets each person can buy to four.

Irish Times' journalist Jack Power explains the new rules.

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