GAA announce new ticket deal

Trampas

New offer from GAA

The GAA has launched a new range of ticket packages to cover the latter stages of the GAA Football and Hurling championships.

A total of six deals - five of which are new - will be on offer in the coming weeks allowing followers of football and hurling to combine quarter-final and semi-final games.

The 'Hurling Heaven' package priced at €90 includes tickets for one hurling quarter-final and two semi-finals.

The 'Football Feast' deal offers supporters tickets for two football quarter-final days and both semi-finals and costs €99, meaning matches cost less than €25 each.

On last year's ticket prices these packages offer savings of €35 and €60 respectively.

Other offers include a quarter and semi-final package covering one quarter-final and a semi-final costing €65 and a Dual Deal for the quarter-final and semi-final stages of both the football and hurling championships priced at €175.

There are also Club Pass and Group Pass offers.

The GAA has also finalised admission prices for this weekend's GAA All-Ireland Football Championship qualifier games. Entry to stands will cost €20 and admission to terraces has been reduced by €5 to €10.

yop

Hats off to GAA for this. 10 squids to the terrace if very good.

Tristram

Read about this in the Times earlier. Fantastic deal imo. Wish I was at home to take advantage of it!

The_Banker

I would never have been a big supporter of the Admin side of the GAA but hats off to them. This is a great deal and one that should be applauded.
€10 for terrace entry to the Cork V Offaly game is great value.

Good to see a sporting organisation realising that there is a recession on.

Zenga

Most ridiculous deals ever.

The only ones that anyone will be taking them up on are the reduction for the qualifiers.

If they really knew there was a recession on they would have slashed their entry fee's into all games for the rest of the championship

The entry for the Leinster Hurling Final is €35 for adults...why not slash it to €20 and fill croke park!!!

Trampas

You can't please all of the people all of the time

pajoguy

I think 35 euro for any provincial final is a disgrace. €25 max. The Gaa is a voluntary organisation so its not like their labour costs are spiralling...

Good package deals but when you are from limerick its hard to envisage us getting to a semi or even a quarter at this stage although the footballers have in them to give the rebels a fright but only a fright.

Mossyman

Its good to see them reducing them with the amount of people that cant afford to go to many matches during the year, including myself. With them reducing the cost of the tickets for the Championship they should perhaps reduce the price of the League matches. €15 to sit in the freezing cold for an hour and a half in January and February is still a bit steep. I know they did it for the final so heres to hoping they do it for the league stages!!

Zenga

pajoguy wrote: »

I think 35 euro for any provincial final is a disgrace. €25 max. The Gaa is a voluntary organisation so its not like their labour costs are spiralling...

Good package deals but when you are from limerick its hard to envisage us getting to a semi or even a quarter at this stage although the footballers have in them to give the rebels a fright but only a fright.

Well in fairness its hard for most people to be sure that their county will get to a all ireland semi final. The Hurling Feast, The Football Feast and the Dual Deal are actually attempts to make money, as they actually are to attract in people with a passing interest from what i can see.

Why not have a simple "County Pride" Card, you can buy it from the county board at say €150 and it gets you access to all league games to semi final stage and all provincial championships of both codes?? It would fill up empty stadiums in Winter and also provide better value for the most loyal supporters.

Or a simple slash of ticket prices for the rest of the year, would be easier to do, they wont do it because they are out to make as much dough as possible

Tristram

Zenga wrote: »

The Hurling Feast, The Football Feast and the Dual Deal are actually attempts to make money, as they actually are to attract in people with a passing interest from what i can see.

It's an attempt to give GAA fans reduced price access to more games. For years now me and most of the family have been heading to qualifiers/quarters/semis that didn't feature our own county. I don't know how that qualifies as "a passing interest". :rolleyes:

Zenga

Tristram wrote: »

It's an attempt to give GAA fans reduced price access to more games. For years now me and most of the family have been heading to qualifiers/quarters/semis that didn't feature our own county. I don't know how that qualifies as "a passing interest". :rolleyes:

Really you head up to the qualifiers/quarters & semis when they feature other counties?? I would imagine you are in a very small group of people that do that but i may be proven wrong. This deal will probably save you a great deal of money.

And passing interest, as in youre a neutral dont see the need to roll youre eyes at that one!

Flukey

Zenga wrote: »

Really you head up to the qualifiers/quarters & semis when they feature other counties?? I would imagine you are in a very small group of people that do that but i may be proven wrong.

There are a lot of us that have an interest in any match that happens. If you want to find me on a Sunday afternoon in the summer months, then look in Croke Park. No matter who is playing, that is where I will be. To properly follow a sport you have to have an interest that goes beyond your own team. You may meet some of those other teams and even just going to a match is a great thing. Sure, you could watch them on television, but there is nothing like being there. I will be looking into the Dual Deal, as I intend to be at all of those matches, no matter who is playing in them.

Funnily enough, when I was in getting my ticket for this Sunday's Leinster Hurling Final in the ticket office, Christy Cooney and a photographer walked in, so it must have been around then that they did the publicity shot that is on the GAA website. The person at the next hatch to me was complaining about the price for juveniles to the person serving them, and asked if there was anyone more senior that he could talk to. Overhearing this, I pointed out to him that the president of the GAA was there.

Tristram

Flukey wrote: »

There are a lot of us that have an interest in any match that happens. If you want to find me on a Sunday afternoon in the summer months, then look in Croke Park. No matter who is playing, that is where I will be. To properly follow a sport you have to have an interest that goes beyond your own team. You may meet some of those other teams and even just going to a match is a great thing. Sure, you could watch them on television, but there is nothing like being there. I will be looking into the Dual Deal, as I intend to be at all of those matches, no matter who is playing in them.

+1

romah

The Gaa have finally realised this year that their prices are to expensive

The large empty spaces at championship matches are a result of this

Shock : Dublin Footballers did not fill Croke Park for a semi Final ??
Clare vs Tipp only attracted 20, 000 to Limerick for a Munster Championship Game

The GAA have to realise that the day out to a Championship game is an expensive one and becoming very much a luxury item.

Simple Economics here folks ...Bring down prices this will result in bigger attendances. Croke Park is paid for ...no need for these high prices any more