Close to 60,000 tickets sold in four hours for football quarter-finals

“We never had the volume of public sales that we had today between 12pm and 2pm,” said GAA director of communications Alan Milton

The GAA are experiencing unprecedented demand for tickets for the forthcoming All-Ireland senior football and hurling quarter-finals.

The GAA are experiencing unprecedented demand for tickets for the forthcoming All-Ireland senior football and hurling quarter-finals.

The public sale of 17,000 tickets for Saturday’s Cork-Galway and Clare-Wexford hurling games in FBD Semple Stadium has sold out with little or no tickets from the four counties’ allocations expected to be returned. The Thurles venue has a capacity of slightly below 46,000.