Nokia have announced the immediate availability of the Nokia Music Store in Ireland (Nokia Press Release) As with the UK store, you're going to need to have Internet Explorer to make full use of the service. To entice you in Nokia are offering a number of vouchers, some 24,000 of them giving up to 10 Euros of music. And everyone gets a free Tom Baxter track.

It's nice to see Nokia's Music Store to continue to roll out around the territories, but it does feel a touch like an army just moving around the barracks before the big guns decide to come out. Comes with Music is on its way, Nokia are talking to the remaining major music labels to get them on board, and Apple are making noises about replicating the music subscription service on the iPhone.

In all of this, the Music Stores is preparing the ground, rolling out software to the hardware, keeping Nokia's hand alive, and you have to assume showing a nice return to the labels at the discussion table - which must be a great negotiating tool. And of curse the users of the music service mus be enjoying it as well.

Our Irish readers can find more at http://music.nokia.ie/