GAA must drop ticket prices

UNLIKE the recent election, where people turned out in their droves, people are voting with their feet in the current Allianz Hurling League, staying away in their droves.

I was at the Tipp/Waterford game in Thurles on Saturday night, a very disappointing crowd of less than 5,000 for a meeting of All-Ireland champions Tipperary and Munster champions Waterford, and I put it down to the fact that the game was played under lights, which – I still maintain – doesn’t suit hurling.

But hearing of the poor attendances all around the league yesterday, on another decent day for hurling, sets me thinking – just over 3,000 in Nowlan Park for a Kilkenny/Wexford game and just under 3,000 at Páirc Úí Chaoimh for Cork’s game against Galway? There’s something radically wrong, and it’s going to take something radical to fix it.