Irish Examiner view: Cryptocurrency’s token gesture for sport fans

Corporations and large businesses, into which we can place many mainstream sports, tech companies, and politicians have a vested interest in nudging us all into their preferred technical solutions

A spectator gets his ticket checked as he arrives for the McGrath Cup Final at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney, last month. Picture: INPHO/Bryan Keane

Let us hope that those of us for whom “progress can pose challenges”, as GAA director general Tom Ryan elegantly described it this week, are able to purchase our Allianz Hurling League tickets without let or hindrance next time around.

Unfortunately, as we, and a number of GAA representatives warned, the full introduction of the cashless ticketing system this season, if it didn’t fall at the first hurdle, certainly staggered enough to be irritating.