REM have confirmed live dates at Belfast's Odyssey Arena and Dublin's Point Theatre and on February 25 and 26 respectively.

With their new album Around The Sun due for release early October, the band embark on a full European tour in the new year, hitting Irish soil for the first time since their Marlay Park gig in summer 2003.

Tickets for both dates, priced from £38 and €55, go on sale Friday, September 17 at 9am from the usual outlets nationwide.