Irish fans start to receive Euro 2016 tickets

There was joy for some yesterday but the anxious wait goes on for others, after Uefa began its France 2016 ticket allocation to Irish supporters.

Uefa started taking payments from credit and debit card accounts on Friday and it is anticipated that the process could continue over the weekend and perhaps even into early next week.

It was also announced yesterday that the FAI had sourced a further 832 tickets for Irish fans, bringing the current total allocation for the group games against Sweden, Belgium, and Italy in June to 33,334.