All the young dudes will be out in force for Ian Hunter's Irish tour, encompassing The Square Pint in Kenmare (June 2nd), Galway's Roisin Dubh (June 3rd), Whelan's in Dublin (June 4th) and The Old Oak in Cork (June 5th). The former Mott The Hoople singer and author of Diary Of A Rock n'Roll Star, will perform tracks from solo albums like All American Alien Boy and You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic, along with some - old Mott favourites.

An extra 4,000 tickets for Celine Dion's concert in Lansdowne Road go on sale this morning at 9 a.m., adding to the 30,000 which were already snapped up by fans of the French Canadian chanteuse.