How do you get tickets for the GAA Hurling final ?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

How do you get tickets for the GAA Hurling final ?

noelindublin · Loudmouth

How do you get tickets for the GAA Hurling final replay on 28 September ?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
Theres an Irish website called Toutless which deals in all things tickets including gaa tickets. Just found this site and it deals in swaps mainly, but you never know.
http://www.toutless.com/index.php?sid=0212e4d04b2f11b757628c795a5652b6
Maybe boardsie might be able to help also.
I'm no gaa expert though I come from Kilkenny originally. Grew up more interested in 'foreign sports' ie Football, rugby , cricket
I think the replay is supposed to be a sellout. I'd find it hard to believe that they call sell another 82,000 tickets, but that's what the papers are saying.I'll see if I can think of any other ways besides paying over the odds from touts. Maybe join an obscure county's hurling forum and see if anyone has got a few tickets that they give to the counties that never win anything. Say you are from the BBC or something

From Kilkenny and not interested in hurling . Even I have been to see them win a final! (Against Galway in 1993)

Kilkenny	34	1904, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1922, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1939, 1947, 1957, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1992, 1993, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012

Clare	3	1914, 1995, 1997

I keep looking at gaa.ie, but nothing showing there. Not exactly once in a lifetime, but I'm hoping to see the fourth win!

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

So hurling is when you drink too many whiskies and guinnesses, and GAA is the sound effect?? Sounds great fun!

noelindublin · Loudmouth

ArrGee wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
Theres an Irish website called Toutless which deals in all things tickets including gaa tickets. Just found this site and it deals in swaps mainly, but you never know.
http://www.toutless.com/index.php?sid=0212e4d04b2f11b757628c795a5652b6
Maybe boardsie might be able to help also.
I'm no gaa expert though I come from Kilkenny originally. Grew up more interested in 'foreign sports' ie Football, rugby , cricket
I think the replay is supposed to be a sellout. I'd find it hard to believe that they call sell another 82,000 tickets, but that's what the papers are saying.I'll see if I can think of any other ways besides paying over the odds from touts. Maybe join an obscure county's hurling forum and see if anyone has got a few tickets that they give to the counties that never win anything. Say you are from the BBC or something

From Kilkenny and not interested in hurling . Even I have been to see them win a final! (Against Galway in 1993)

Kilkenny 34 1904, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1922, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1939, 1947, 1957, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1992, 1993, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
Clare 3 1914, 1995, 1997

I keep looking at gaa.ie, but nothing showing there. Not exactly once in a lifetime, but I'm hoping to see the fourth win!

Are you supporting Clare? Which Bob Geldof song has a reference to somewhere in County Clare? Same song has a reference to Cork, 'what are the chances' as Harry Hill might say. smile

Re Tickets I think it would be hard to get any without paying well over the odds. There is a website called Gumtree where people are asking for replay tickets openly, gumtree is a buy and sell type site:

http://www.gumtree.ie/fp-tickets/hurling/c8044

I've nothing against hurling, but when I was younger was always afraid of a ball flying at a hundred miles an hour, and the odd hurley flying in my face. We didn't use helmets back in the late seventies needless to say.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:

Are you supporting Clare? Which Bob Geldof song has a reference to somewhere in County Clare? Same song has a reference to Cork, 'what are the chances' as Harry Hill might say.

What song was that? Only taken me 10 years to ask biggrin

noelindublin · Loudmouth

RE: How do you get tickets for the GAA Hurling final ?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
ArrGee wrote:
noelindublin wrote:

Are you supporting Clare? Which Bob Geldof song has a reference to somewhere in County Clare? Same song has a reference to Cork, 'what are the chances' as Harry Hill might say.

What song was that? Only taken me 10 years to ask
Your mother in her sensible shoes and you father in his tea-cosy
Wooly hat, bright eyes and roomful of old hoarded yellowing
Newspapers and 1920's photos of the Burren and you busy in the
Kitchen half-glad to see me, half nervous with your parents around
Youd take me for a walk around the field and down the lane and
When the evening fell your father would light the peat fire and
Show me pictures of the West taken in the 20's ...

The House on the Top of the World. Must admit I have mostly expunged The Happy Club from my memory banks, though I often yearn for The Soft Soil when I am digging up the garden. Had to bury the cat the other day. (yes the cat was dead, though I would happily have done it at any time in the last 10 years biggrin ) Eventually managed a three foot deep hole, but very hard work!

PS the cat was supposed to be looked after and cared for by my daughter who very quickly ignored it leaving muggins to feed it and clean up after it. And pay all the bills. Vets are very expensive. So my advice to parents whose child wants a cat is just say NO!