Music store HMV is making a comeback to Ireland. Four HMV stores will reopen in September.

The stores are re-opening in the next two weeks - three in Dublin and one in Limerick.

Around 120 new staff members have already been recruited. Around 70 of them have been given to original employees of the chain which went into administration in January.

Units at the Crescent Shopping Centre in Limerick and at Dundrum and Liffey Valley Shopping Centres in Dublin - as well as the store on Henry Street in the city centre - should now re-open by the end of the first week in September.

Hilco bought and restructured the Irish stores and will reopen an initial 4 of the 16 original stores within the next fortnight.

Excel Recruitment are behind the re-launch. Their managing director Barry Whelan says they were delighted to see ex-HMV staff coming back.