Limited supply of final tickets on sale today

Munster final ticket fever has been alleviated, if only a little, by news that a limited number of terrace tickets will be on sale today.

€20 admissions to the Blackrock and City Ends of Páirc Uí Chaoimh will be released at 9am by the Munster Council via gaa.tickets.ie and selected Centra and Super Valu stores. A Munster Council source last night said it had always been their intention to make a number of tickets available closer to the game. However, the tickets barely satisfy the intense demand to see the game, a rematch of last year’s decider in what is the stadium’s last inter-county game before reconstruction work begins.

Both Cork and Limerick are understood to be disappointed with their ticket allocations. For example, in the Uncovered Stand the host county are believed to have been given 26% of the total number of seats under the revised total capacity of 32,168.

A final capacity is expected to be confirmed today with the possibility of further tickets being made available to the public if health and safety experts give the go-ahead.

However, there is great consternation in both counties with the lack of family tickets and reduced number of disability admissions.

Meanwhile, Limerick City Council are in the process of organising a big screen to show the match live in the city.

TJ Ryan is expected to name an unchanged side for the decider although there is speculation Niall Moran will be named on the bench.

While Cork are currently reporting a clean bill of health, there are concerns about the fitness of Damien Cahalane (heel) and Mark Ellis (knee/rib).