Foreign ticket printing for security, says GAA

GAA chiefs have defended their decision to print the tickets for All-Ireland senior championship games abroad and insisted that the tender from an Irish company “is not competitive enough”.

A motion to next April’s annual Congress in Portlaoise from leading Kerry club Dr Crokes is calling on the GAA to make every effort to ensure the tickets are printed in Ireland. Finals tickets are currently printed in the US while tickets for other championship games are printed in Italy.

But GAA communications manager Alan Milton said that 90% of the GAA’s printing was carried out in Ireland and that security issues were the reason for awarding the contract to a foreign company.