Waterford fans are snapping up tickets

WATERFORD hurling supporters have snapped up more than two-thirds of the tickets available online from the GAA’s official website for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Clare.

Clare county secretary Pat Fitzgerald has admitted this week that the number of fans travelling to see Banner games in recent times has fallen far short of the glory years in the 1990s. It seems that they are again likely to be outnumbered by a sea of blue and white according to the GAA.ie’s project manager Niamh O’Shea.

“Waterford have snapped up about 70% of the tickets available so far,” O’Shea confirmed yesterday. “Waterford haven’t really been in Croke Park for a long time (1998 excepted) and the Munster final win seems to have generated huge interest. We’re certainly getting orders from a lot of people who we wouldn’t have dealt with before. Tickets are becoming something of a Holy Grail.”