Final fever as Cork and Waterford fans scramble for tickets

WATERFORD and Cork have been gripped by a massive scramble for tickets ahead of Sunday’s Guinness Munster SHC final in Thurles.

Final fever as Cork and Waterford fans scramble for tickets
Tue, 24 Jun, 2003 - 01:00
Brendan Larkin and John Murphy

Queues half a mile long formed outside Walsh Park and Pairc Uí Rinn yesterday as tickets went on sale for Sunday’s Semple Stadium 53,000 sellout. “It’s incredible,” said Waterford PRO Paddy Dunphy. “The whole county seems to be going to Thurles on Sunday.”

It was a similar situation in Cork, where the queue stretched from the selling point back as far as the Silver Key pub.

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CourtsGaaHurlingPlace: WaterfordPlace: ThurlesPlace: Walsh ParkPlace: Páirc Uí RinnPlace: CorkPlace: Silver Key pubPlace: Páirc Uí ChaoimhPlace: Semple StadiumPerson: PROPerson: Paddy DunphyPerson: Jim ForbesPerson: Seamus GrantPerson: GrantPerson: Justin McCarthyPerson: Tony BrownePerson: McCarthyPerson: TonyPerson: BrownePerson: D. Og CusackPerson: W. SherlockPerson: P. MulcahyPerson: D. O’SullivanPerson: T. KennyPerson: R. CurranPerson: S. Og O hAilpinPerson: M. O’ConnellPerson: J. GardinerPerson: B. O’ConnorPerson: N. McCarthyPerson: T. McCarthyPerson: S. Ó hAilpinPerson: J. DeanePerson: A. BrowneEvent: Guinness Munster SHC finalEvent: MunsterOrganisation: CorkOrganisation: WaterfordOrganisation: Cork GAAOrganisation: ClareOrganisation: TipperaryOrganisation: Munster U21 FC
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