Madness
About 30 seconds after Joe McQuillan blew his whistle in Sunday's manic All-Ireland semi final, the collective thought of 82,000 people was 'I have to be here for the replay'.
Tickets went on sale via the GAA's own website on Sunday night, while more were due to go on sale in the GAA ticket office on Dorset St on Monday morning.
The fact that the game is on a Saturday at 5 pm and is clashing with Electric Picnic you'd imagine would have put some people off, but hundreds of people turned up looking to get their hands on the now almost mythical tickets.
https://twitter.com/ecasso/status/638287835947253760
https://twitter.com/Tedlynott/status/638313190821134336
Various reports today suggested that some fans were able to purchase between 10-20 tickets upto lunchtime, which to us sounds more than a little unfair.
Many people feel that those who ordered multiple tickets are looking to sell them online for two and three times the price and looking at various websites it looks like they were right.
https://twitter.com/lthugh/status/638356566605996032
https://twitter.com/MayoClub51/status/638373488445800450
But this afternoon it's been confirmed that DoneDeal and Adverts.ie will not allow any All-Ireland tickets for sale via their websites.
https://twitter.com/DoneDeal/status/638663651621253120
https://twitter.com/adverts_ie/status/638740383728574464
The news was immediately welcomed by the GAA too.
https://twitter.com/officialgaa/status/638710834181603329
We're always amazed how touts are able to get away with looking for anyone 'anyone buying or selling tickets' within metres of Gardai, but at least one avenue of gouging genuine supporters has been cut off to them this afternoon.
The news should mean that at least some tickets will turn up on Friday and Saturday and that hopefully no-one will get scalped by greedy touts looking to make a quick buck from GAA fans.
