‘Real’ Tribe fans set for ticket reward

GAA officials in Galway have introduced a by-law confining the sale of All-Ireland final tickets to fully paid-up and registered members of clubs only.

The move is an effort to prevent casual supporters getting All-Ireland final tickets ahead of genuine GAA fans.

Galway chairman Noel Treacy said they had introduced the new law to ensure that GAA members did not lose out.

He said that with 27,600 registered members of the GAA in Galway, they were only able to cater for one-third of these with the allocation received.

“We have a duty to cater for our real supporters. We only get an amount of tickets and that would not satisfy one-third of our official membership.

“We want to ensure that only currently paid-up and annually registered GAA club members will qualify to be considered for All-Ireland final tickets,” he said.

Treacy encouraged clubs to recruit the so called supporters as members if they wanted tickets.