Website ticket sales to remain, say GAA

DESPITE the difficulties experienced by some of the public in purchasing tickets for this weekend's double-headers, the GAA remains committed to selling a limited number, thought to be around 3,000, for the All-Ireland hurling semi-finals on their website.

There was a great deal of anger expressed by those who failed to buy tickets for Monday’s matches on the web because the site was not working. It was originally thought to have crashed due to the amount of traffic. However, that was not the case.

“We had to carry out some vital maintainence work on the server,” said Niamh O’Shea of Setanta.com, who manage the website for the GAA.