Heavy bidding in GAA auction

A collection of GAA match programmes fetched €15,775 at an auction in Cork last weekend.

As flagged last week in the Irish Examiner, a programme for the 1939 All-Ireland Hurling Final proved the star attraction, going for €500 to a collector. That famous ‘Thunder and Lightning Final’ between Kilkenny and Cork took place amid a torrential storm on the day World War II was declared.

There was also surprisingly heavy interest in bundles of programmes from Munster Championship matches, one lot selling for €2,800, wildly in excess of the estimated price of €100-200.