Championship crowds on course to pass 1.5m mark

The GAA is well on course to bypass the 1.5 million mark for championship attendances this year as the news comes that Saturday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final double-bill is a sell-out, the first of the summer.

If it hasn’t already, the 1m figure for football will be bypassed with the Tyrone-Armagh and Dublin-Monaghan games in Croke Park with over 60,000 expected to attend the following day’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final between Galway and Tipperary.

Roscommon and Mayo made up most of the 65,746 crowd at GAA HQ last Sunday and a 30,000-plus attendance is anticipated for Monday’s SFC quarter-final replay.