U2 tickets on resale sites for over €1,000

Tickets for U2’s Joshua Tree 30th anniversary concert in Croke Park next July are appearing on resale websites at prices of more than €1,000 each, prompting fresh calls for anti-touting legislation.

Ticketmaster sold its allocation for the concert within two hours yesterday, yet tickets appeared on Seatwave — a Ticketmaster company that allows buyers to resell their tickets and decide the price — for between €330 and €1,020 by lunchtime.

The tickets were sold by Ticketmaster at face value prices of between €39 and €186.