Ed Sheeran adds extra tour dates as quarter of a million Irish fans look for tickets

Tickets went on sale at 8am on Saturday and due to demand, the 30-year-old star has added four new concert dates in Ireland. Picture: Matt Crossick/PA Wire

More than 250,000 people logged onto Ticketmaster on Saturday morning to buy tickets for the Irish leg of Ed Sheeran's Mathematics tour.

Such was the demand the, singer/songwriter added four additional dates in Ireland, one at each of the venues.

The popstar is heading for Croke Park on April 23 of next year, changing the start date of the EU excursion.

Cork, a city he last played in May 2018, sees a gig at Páirc Uí Chaoimh pencilled in for Friday, April 28. He'll follow with an appearance at Thomond Park in Limerick, on May 5, and then it's on to Boucher Road Playing Fields for May 12.

Tickets went on sale at 8am on Saturday and due to demand, the 30-year-old star has added four new concert dates in Ireland.

The new dates include:

• DUBLIN - Croke Park – April 24, 2022 
• CORK - Páirc Uí Chaoimh – April 29, 2022 
• LIMERICK - Thomond Park - May 6, 2022 
• BELFAST - Boucher Road Playing Fields – May 13, 2022 

Mr Keith English, Managing Director, Ticketmaster Ireland, said: "It was all about Ed Sheeran this morning in Ireland with more than a quarter of a million people on our site after tickets. 

"The phenomenal demand from his Irish fans gave us our busiest on-sale of the last two years – a big congratulations to Ed and the team."

Tickets for these additional dates are on sale now at Ticketmaster.

For the gigs in the Republic of Ireland, tickets are €81 standing & €91 seated. Service charge of €7.15 per ticket applies, according to the singer's website.

Sheeran is set to release his fifth studio album, = (pronounced equals), near the end of next month, and the subsequent series of dates around Europe has been labelled the 'Mathematics Tour'.