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Ireland Ticket Information

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,979 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Few singles up for Scotland

    https://www.ticketmaster.ie/guinness-mens-six-nations-ireland-v-dublin-14-03-2026/event/180064288E1466AD

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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,476 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Raging I missed the Scotland ones, hopefully some more pop up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 Alipali85


    Good few on sale now for Wales match



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,080 ✭✭✭✭The Iron Giant


    It's funny how a few years ago I would be jumping at these tickets but a pair of tickets for €360 is outrageous.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,979 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Likewise. I still get a pang of excitement when I see tickets available for 6N games but I can't afford to go to more than one, hoping some of the cheapest tickets for Scotland come up again



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭tonyfillony


    Its extortionist the prices , my young fella really wants to go to an international game but with ticket prices being so high and it being a late kick off as well it just isn't affordable



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 5,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lost Ormond


    Wouldnt say extortiinist and while its rare that i go to games as a punter thesedays and when i do go its usually a free ticket i dont see cost as an issue in the main as the international games especially home games funds rest of game in thr country



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭bingobango12


    It's obviously no guarantee but if your local to the area, it may be worth heading down to the pubs in Ballsbridge on matchday.

    Picked up a spare ticket for England last year from a group of English lads in Slatterys who had a spare. They didn't want the money for the ticket and I just bought a round of pints for them, which they seemed delighted with.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭PMC83


    If you only go when someone hands you a free ticket then of course you won't see price as a deterrent.

    Funding the game or not, 160 quid is crazy money for a medium range ticket. As mentioned above if your looking to bring 1 kid that day could easily become 400+. There's obviously plenty that can and do pay, but lets not pretend these aren't crazy prices. The price of 2 tickets to the Scotland game is equivalent to what I paid for my Leinster season ticket this year.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭50HX


    Do you not see the contradiction in your post?😁

    Its not "extortiinist" but in the same breath its " rare" you go & when you do its a " free" ticket.

    Nice one if you get a free ticket & I get your point in re it funding the irfu but 150 -€180 a ticket is at the high end of screwing the supporter.

    I rarely go now as they young lads here would be all looking to go.

    We go to the URC & CC games & a pair of Ire tickets quoted above would nearly cover us for the club season for what we can get to...not comparable in rugby terms but some comparison financially has to be made as well.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,080 ✭✭✭✭The Iron Giant


    That's a fairly ridiculous take that its justified because it funds the rest of games - the IRFU are not hard-up. Their last financial statements posted an income of €98m, up €18.8m from the year before. They have no debt, cash investments of €62m and net assets of €81m.

    It seems that the cost doesn't bother you because other people are paying it, not you which pretty much invalidates everything you're saying.

    They are absolutely fleecing the public for international games. It would be a tiny bit more palatable if the atmosphere was decent but its muck.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭Fatnacho


    The fans are paying the cost for the stadium redevelopment being too small.
    The new stadium should’ve been built in Abbotstown with a capacity of 80,000.

    They can charge those prices because they know they will sell out. They’re pricing a whole generation out of going to games.

    For the price of one 6N ticket you could get an FAI season ticket which covers 6 games.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭PMC83


    Being honest I couldn't see tickets being any cheaper even if the Aviva had 80,000 seats. The IRFU have come out and said they feel the pricing is fair. As long as the stadium sells out they don't care, they don't take into account the generation of fans priced out as long as someones buying. It stinks of greed, but I guess that's business.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 27,314 ✭✭✭✭phog


    This is mad, when you can't put yourself in the position of a rugby fan.

    Tis easy to dismiss the cost of tickets when you're (a) being paid to work at the event or (b) getting a free one.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 5,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lost Ormond


    I dont only go when given a free ticket but im usually working there anyway so cant go to many games. It is a lot of money but when it does fund the game i dont see a problem with it compared to if it wasnt going into the game. The price is nuts but think if its funding the game overall then it isnt as bad.

    Look i very much see the complete contradiction in my post. I dont see it as extortion as i see it as lot of money being invested back into the game. I realise im very priveliged to be able to access a ticket for nothing(and its not for nothing its usually thanks for reffing a few games as favours for some groups…)

    Tickets definitely wouldnt be cheaper even if stadium was much bigger as for lot of games we'd definitely sell out 80000 and it is in part greed but it also is recoginising that these sell outs fund the development of the game, development officers, coaches into schools and funding for clubs etc etc



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,425 ✭✭✭OldRio


    I very much doubt we would sell out 80000 stadiums but the stadium is what it is. Absolutely agree that they are generations of supporters being priced out.

    I always had a hope of 3 generations of my family could attend together. It's never happened before and now I'm absolutely certain it never will. The reason, greed by the IRFU.

    Leaves a bitter taste.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,799 ✭✭✭COH


    The demand for home games is insane - they are selling out the 52k Aviva without there even being a general sale.

    They would sell out an 80k stadium easily.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    There are always plenty of tickets available together for the lower ranked games in the autumn internationals.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,080 ✭✭✭✭The Iron Giant


    You say games but its one single game every year that you can tickets for somewhat easily. They're still not cheap, they usually don't play the first team and its generally quite predictable.

    They would easily sell out an 80,000 seater stadium. The public have been starved of the ability to attend home games and if Leinster can put 50,000 in Croke Park regularly, you'd be crazy to think Ireland couldn't fill 80,000 for internationals.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    I can't even get two generations there!

    For a nice few years up to around Covid time, my wife and I generally attended one 6N match and one Autumn International per year, when I could get tickets through the Supporters Club membership. Fairly sure that towards the end of that spell, typical price was around €80 to €90 a pop.

    Now our young lad is 12 years old. We take him to see Leinster play a couple of times a year - can buy a family ticket for around €160 that allows all three of us to go, and bring one of his friends along as well.

    All three of us in the house would love to go to an international again, but simply can't justify paying that much. I did look when somebody posted here earlier this week that 'lots of Wales tickets up now' - simply couldn't bring myself to pay €156 and some odd cent per ticket, for three tickets. Wouldn't be far off €500 just to get there, when you add in the cost of travelling up from Wexford.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,979 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Just checked old emails. In 2017 I went to the Fiji match with the supporters club event. Amazing seats in the 400 tier, few players up to chat to us afterwards, was absolute class. €55 a ticket



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,425 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Tickets for sale for Scotland and Wales this last week.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,425 ✭✭✭OldRio


    I'm not paying the prices they want for in your words 'lower ranked games' Like mentioned above it's one game.

    Away games is the way to go. Use it as a holiday. I've done Scotland before. England when I was younger. Italy will be next. But it will only be the wife and me. The IRFU have priced a generation or two out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,799 ✭✭✭COH


    A handful of corporate returns hardly proves your point dude



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    It’s one game every year you have the opportunity to bring your three generations to a match which was your complaint. You said it would never happen, when it easily could happen. I just didn’t realise you were choosey and talking about top tests only.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,425 ✭✭✭OldRio




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    It’s one game EVERY year ergo Games. I could have said “the game” but then that wouldn’t make sense.

    I agree with you re capacity. That wasn’t the point I was making.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,425 ✭✭✭OldRio


    I'm doing non of the above. I'm priced out of the market. I can't justify the price. The average bloke on the street can't.

    Also you have no idea of my finances therefore don't say I could easily make it happen. I can't.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,799 ✭✭✭COH


    A friedly / casual term for a male peer.

    I made the assumption of gender based on your comment about the wife. I know thats a dangerous game to play in this day and age ... I hope the big bad word hasn't effected you too deeply.

    In my defence it is increasingly used in a gender-neutral capacity in modern slang.

    Well if you can go to the Ireland game in Rome as you mentioned above its hardly a stretch for someone to suggest you could go to one of the Autumn internationals.

    But by all means carry on flying off the handle for no reason 🫠



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,080 ✭✭✭✭The Iron Giant


    A handful of corporate returns is irrelevant.

    It's a bit like saying Taylor Swift gigs didn't sell out because they release a hundred or so unsold production tickets the week of the gig.



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