Irish company joins Fulham in online ticket purchase venture

AN Irish company has joined forces with Fulham to provide a state-of-the-art ticketing service for Premier League fans.

Ticket Text, a Dublin-based firm, will sell tickets to top flight games online and transmit them as a barcoded text message to mobile phones which can be scanned in at designated turnstiles at Craven Cottage. Fulham becomes the first side in England to use the technology on a full-time basis when the system becomes operational against Derby on Saturday.

Similar technology was used by the GAA for a number of high profile games at Croke Park this year.