This is just bonkers.
All-Ireland football final tickets are like gold dust Gold dust is like All-Ireland final tickets.
You won’t be able to swing a cat – if you like swinging cats – for the next 12 days without running into a Mayo or Dublin native stalking you, looking at you like a piece of meat, seeing you as one giant, talking All-Ireland football final ticket.
The search for an entry into Croke Park on September 18 has gotten so far out of hand now though that buyers and sellers can’t tell where the madness ends and the real madness begins.
Mayo and Dublin fans are frantically hounding down any remnant of a ticket and huge prices are being touted around.
One seller in Wexford put his tickets on Ebay. Within four days, the demand for two of them had jumped from a €160 starting price to €61,620.
A 38,412.5% increase.
When you put your All-Ireland tickets on Ebayhttps://t.co/JVd7ISWVeu #GAA
— Conán Doherty (@ConanDoherty) September 6, 2016
The bidding has gotten so far out of hand that someone is willing to give up 6,162 goes through Dublin’s port tunnel at peak hours just to make it in for a 70-minute game. And a minor match.
This is the real beauty of the GAA, isn’t it? Equality. Inclusiveness. Free.
But the sellers are victims too. Sort of.
Obviously not all the bids are genuine on Ebay and SportsJOE contacted the man with the tickets who reckons the highest genuine offered he received was €800, the poor f**ker. But he had to take his business away from Ebay.
That’s just another seller’s party though.
The GAA Hour Hurling Show relives Tipperary’s sensational All-Ireland victory with Paidí Maher. Listen below or subscribe on iTunes.
