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The Admission Prices At Croke Park Are To Expensive

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Ticket prices always cause debate and controversy. I would pay a lot of.money to see Carlow playing at headquarters in either hurling or football. Yes, if you bring a lot of kids and herself then it can be expensive, but isn't it great to have your kids there watching your county playing? What effect.will it have on your kids to have them watching their county? Compared with other sports it can be more or less.expensive depending on which sport you are talking about and where the matches are on. I just think that for the big games like All Ireland semis and finals , it's well worth it. If my county get that far , I would pay double! carlowman (Carlow) - Posts: 1821 - 17/04/2023 18:21:05 2471440 Link
Replying To totalrecall: "It's far too expensive, and then you get your pants pulled down if you go to the shop....but were told its comparitable with soccer and rugby....professional sport's" In fairness, GAA championship tickets, even at €25 or €30 a head, are cheap as chips when compared to soccer and rugby tickets. Price of a ticket for an international soccer match - even a friendly - is typically €50 upwards per adult, and €15 per child. Compare that to €25 and €5 for a GAA match. In rugby, as the poster above points out, cheapest tickets for the World Cup warm-up match v England in August are €110. No discounts for children. And for the far less glamourous match v Italy, it's €40 upwards for an adult ticket, and €10 per child. Meanwhile, Six Nations tickets started at roughly €120 a head for the season just gone by. No child discounts. Even at club/provincial level, for the recent European Cup round of 16 match between Leinster and Ulster, you could buy a family ticket (2 adults and 2 children) for €90. But for the upcoming semi-final, prices have jumped to minimum €55 per head for a bad seat, and €75 per head for a middling one. Again, no discounts for children. I brought my own crowd (2 adults and 2 children) to that match v Ulster for €90. To go again and sit in the same section for the semi-final would cost €300. Anyone telling you that GAA prices are comparable with soccer/rugby prices is talking through their backsides. Reality is that GAA tickets are great value compared to the price of tickets for those other sports. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2251 - 17/04/2023 21:07:44 2471463 Link
Replying To A Another: "It's over 100 quid to watch Ireland play a friendly in the rugby v England in August with no children tickets available. So the prices certainly aren't comparable with rugby." Yep its the times we live in. 50 euro minmum for any kind of gig/concert these days. You go the US and they can charge a couple of hundred for any kind of game. I think if the GAA were more transparent with whats coming in and what costs are covered and where the rest of the money goes then people might understand. In everything these days there's some many hidden costs that none of us know about. tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 18/04/2023 08:37:58 2471486 Link
Replying To A Another: "It's over 100 quid to watch Ireland play a friendly in the rugby v England in August with no children tickets available. So the prices certainly aren't comparable with rugby." Rugby is a professional international sport. The GAA is a voluntary organisation!!!! But some individuals get extremely well paid for their volunteering. Thejampot (Leitrim) - Posts: 255 - 18/04/2023 09:34:20 2471492 Link
They should also upgrade from Carlsberg to Heineken. At least get some bang for our buck. OGarmaile (Tyrone) - Posts: 248 - 18/04/2023 10:18:45 2471500 Link
Replying To Pikeman96: "In fairness, GAA championship tickets, even at €25 or €30 a head, are cheap as chips when compared to soccer and rugby tickets. Price of a ticket for an international soccer match - even a friendly - is typically €50 upwards per adult, and €15 per child. Compare that to €25 and €5 for a GAA match. In rugby, as the poster above points out, cheapest tickets for the World Cup warm-up match v England in August are €110. No discounts for children. And for the far less glamourous match v Italy, it's €40 upwards for an adult ticket, and €10 per child. Meanwhile, Six Nations tickets started at roughly €120 a head for the season just gone by. No child discounts. Even at club/provincial level, for the recent European Cup round of 16 match between Leinster and Ulster, you could buy a family ticket (2 adults and 2 children) for €90. But for the upcoming semi-final, prices have jumped to minimum €55 per head for a bad seat, and €75 per head for a middling one. Again, no discounts for children. I brought my own crowd (2 adults and 2 children) to that match v Ulster for €90. To go again and sit in the same section for the semi-final would cost €300. Anyone telling you that GAA prices are comparable with soccer/rugby prices is talking through their backsides. Reality is that GAA tickets are great value compared to the price of tickets for those other sports." Hats a lie. Some tickets for world cup warm up are €110 but there is tickets as cheap as €35 for that game and kids tickets are going for €15 https://www.blackrockcollegerfc.ie/post/pre-sale-tickets-world-cup-warm-up KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3512 - 18/04/2023 12:33:35 2471547 Link
Replying To OGarmaile: "They should also upgrade from Carlsberg to Heineken. At least get some bang for our buck." Won't do that they've a contract which diageo and Heineken don't generally look for exclusivity in any venues here. Only time Heineken sold in any grounds is if they're involved in sponsoring a tournament like Heineken Cup rugby KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3512 - 18/04/2023 12:46:16 2471550 Link
Replying To KillingFields: "Hats a lie. Some tickets for world cup warm up are €110 but there is tickets as cheap as €35 for that game and kids tickets are going for €15 https://www.blackrockcollegerfc.ie/post/pre-sale-tickets-world-cup-warm-up" Okay. I was going by what's currently available on Ticketmaster, where the only tickets left start at €110 each. It does seem cheaper tickets were available at one stage. But the €35 you refer to is for Category 4 and restricted view. Category 4 is the couple of narrow yellow bands on this seating map - https://gulliverstravel.co.uk/sites/default/files/aviva_stadium_map_0.png i.e. not great seats to begin with, and restricted view making them even worse. Cheapest unrestricted view tickets for that match were €70, and again for Category 4. A jump then to €90 for Category 3. And for Categories 2 and 1 (the majority of seats in the ground), it's €110 and €120. So, €35 per adult and €15 per child for a restricted view from the worst seats in the Aviva Stadium, or €20 per adult and €5 per child for any seat in Croke Park when Wexford and Galway play Dublin there in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship? Have to say the hurling still seems like great value to me..... Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2251 - 18/04/2023 12:58:12 2471560 Link
Replying To Pikeman96: "Okay. I was going by what's currently available on Ticketmaster, where the only tickets left start at €110 each. It does seem cheaper tickets were available at one stage. But the €35 you refer to is for Category 4 and restricted view. Category 4 is the couple of narrow yellow bands on this seating map - https://gulliverstravel.co.uk/sites/default/files/aviva_stadium_map_0.png i.e. not great seats to begin with, and restricted view making them even worse. Cheapest unrestricted view tickets for that match were €70, and again for Category 4. A jump then to €90 for Category 3. And for Categories 2 and 1 (the majority of seats in the ground), it's €110 and €120. So, €35 per adult and €15 per child for a restricted view from the worst seats in the Aviva Stadium, or €20 per adult and €5 per child for any seat in Croke Park when Wexford and Galway play Dublin there in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship? Have to say the hurling still seems like great value to me....." when you see people saying they paid X amount for a concert ticket so the GAA matches are fair price, you are seeing two different sets of people/supporters. Some seem to have it (money) to burn..they will come back and attack probaby for saying that, but its a fact, if you can afford and attend music concerts where tickets are €100 plus AND attend GAA matches at half that price or a bit less, no point coming on here "advising" those who think the GAA matches are expensive, those who can attend both are in a different sphere so to speak..we all see it every match we go to, not only attend the match but back in their locals that night and not a bother on them...fair dues I suppose if they can, but not us all can afford even the match, let alone the night out of the match, and maybe a concert some other weekend..I dont know how people do it.. Fairplayalways (Offaly) - Posts: 1034 - 18/04/2023 13:23:05 2471568 Link
Replying To Thejampot: "Rugby is a professional international sport. The GAA is a voluntary organisation!!!! But some individuals get extremely well paid for their volunteering." Yes and the rugby tickets are much dearer than the gaa tickets backing up my point that gaa tickets aren't comparable to rugby tickets (they're much cheaper). A Another (None) - Posts: 193 - 18/04/2023 14:04:30 2471577 Link
Replying To Fairplayalways: "when you see people saying they paid X amount for a concert ticket so the GAA matches are fair price, you are seeing two different sets of people/supporters. Some seem to have it (money) to burn..they will come back and attack probaby for saying that, but its a fact, if you can afford and attend music concerts where tickets are €100 plus AND attend GAA matches at half that price or a bit less, no point coming on here "advising" those who think the GAA matches are expensive, those who can attend both are in a different sphere so to speak..we all see it every match we go to, not only attend the match but back in their locals that night and not a bother on them...fair dues I suppose if they can, but not us all can afford even the match, let alone the night out of the match, and maybe a concert some other weekend..I dont know how people do it.." I think the prices of concert tickets and so on are gone to a crazy price too - but people pay it. The price of Rugby international tickets are also crazy - but people pay it. I guess if you want to see some big international act or the world's #1 rugby team - they're not in town that often. Whats rare is expensive. The price of a GAA match is not quite as crazy but people don't pay it - until we get to the latter stages of the championship when the prices go up and everyone wants to be there. What we're seeing though is the GAA setting ticket prices for Croke Park in a slightly off-hand way. They don't open HIll 16 (unless its for the dubs) - there by making everyone pay a seated ticket rather than terrace ticket price. Often it's a double header - so an extra 5 on top for that. The suddenly what was a 20 euro ticket becomes a 30 euro ticket. Add in all the ancillaries around a trip to Dublin (parking / transport etc) and its becoming a more and more expensive day. I suggest that the GAA look at that and charge the terrace ticket prices for all bar the most central seats in Croke Park and stop the nonsense of asking supportors to pay extra for a double header. I love a packed Croke Park - there is nowhere better on earth. But a 1/4 full Croke Park for a big intercounty game would be much better played at a packed out provincial venue (we'll have a few examples of this in the months ahead). brianb (Kildare) - Posts: 292 - 18/04/2023 14:11:08 2471580 Link
Replying To brianb: "I think the prices of concert tickets and so on are gone to a crazy price too - but people pay it. The price of Rugby international tickets are also crazy - but people pay it. I guess if you want to see some big international act or the world's #1 rugby team - they're not in town that often. Whats rare is expensive. The price of a GAA match is not quite as crazy but people don't pay it - until we get to the latter stages of the championship when the prices go up and everyone wants to be there. What we're seeing though is the GAA setting ticket prices for Croke Park in a slightly off-hand way. They don't open HIll 16 (unless its for the dubs) - there by making everyone pay a seated ticket rather than terrace ticket price. Often it's a double header - so an extra 5 on top for that. The suddenly what was a 20 euro ticket becomes a 30 euro ticket. Add in all the ancillaries around a trip to Dublin (parking / transport etc) and its becoming a more and more expensive day. I suggest that the GAA look at that and charge the terrace ticket prices for all bar the most central seats in Croke Park and stop the nonsense of asking supportors to pay extra for a double header. I love a packed Croke Park - there is nowhere better on earth. But a 1/4 full Croke Park for a big intercounty game would be much better played at a packed out provincial venue (we'll have a few examples of this in the months ahead)." well said Brianb...at least you didnt attack:)...I see it now in last 20 years or so, you cetainly need a spare few pound now to be a regular GAA supporter..a chap I know was called up to the intercounty senior team a few years back, and the father broke his back getting him to GAA training and matches, the chap told me after he withdrew as his father couldnt afford that type of commitment financially etc. and then going to watch him play, they kept it very low key that why he left the panel but I know them well, two very sound ordinary people who just said the cost and expense regardless of player getting expenses was way too much for them to carry..fair dues to those that can support their son/daughter at intercounty level but not everyone can despite people saying parents will do everything to facilitate them, you cannot spend what you do not have...its almost professional now...great for those who commit and can afford it..many many more cannot... Fairplayalways (Offaly) - Posts: 1034 - 18/04/2023 14:30:01 2471584 Link
Replying To Pikeman96: "Okay. I was going by what's currently available on Ticketmaster, where the only tickets left start at €110 each. It does seem cheaper tickets were available at one stage. But the €35 you refer to is for Category 4 and restricted view. Category 4 is the couple of narrow yellow bands on this seating map - https://gulliverstravel.co.uk/sites/default/files/aviva_stadium_map_0.png i.e. not great seats to begin with, and restricted view making them even worse. Cheapest unrestricted view tickets for that match were €70, and again for Category 4. A jump then to €90 for Category 3. And for Categories 2 and 1 (the majority of seats in the ground), it's €110 and €120. So, €35 per adult and €15 per child for a restricted view from the worst seats in the Aviva Stadium, or €20 per adult and €5 per child for any seat in Croke Park when Wexford and Galway play Dublin there in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship? Have to say the hurling still seems like great value to me....." Restricted view tickets arent always poor views though. I was in a front row seat for when ireland beat new zealand in aviva and they were great seats even if we couldnt see a tiny part of pitch because of a location of a camera for tv.... the rugby is still good value for a lot of the seats for a very strong irish team on way to a world cup where they justifiably are one of the favourites. KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3512 - 18/04/2023 19:47:24 2471667 Link
Replying To Pikeman96: "Okay. I was going by what's currently available on Ticketmaster, where the only tickets left start at €110 each. It does seem cheaper tickets were available at one stage. But the €35 you refer to is for Category 4 and restricted view. Category 4 is the couple of narrow yellow bands on this seating map - https://gulliverstravel.co.uk/sites/default/files/aviva_stadium_map_0.png i.e. not great seats to begin with, and restricted view making them even worse. Cheapest unrestricted view tickets for that match were €70, and again for Category 4. A jump then to €90 for Category 3. And for Categories 2 and 1 (the majority of seats in the ground), it's €110 and €120. So, €35 per adult and €15 per child for a restricted view from the worst seats in the Aviva Stadium, or €20 per adult and €5 per child for any seat in Croke Park when Wexford and Galway play Dublin there in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship? Have to say the hurling still seems like great value to me....." Restricted view tickets arent always poor views though. I was in a front row seat for when ireland beat new zealand in aviva and they were great seats even if we couldnt see a tiny part of pitch because of a location of a camera for tv.... the rugby is still good value for a lot of the seats for a very strong irish team on way to a world cup where they justifiably are one of the favourites. KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3512 - 18/04/2023 19:47:32 2471668 Link
Replying To KillingFields: "Restricted view tickets arent always poor views though. I was in a front row seat for when ireland beat new zealand in aviva and they were great seats even if we couldnt see a tiny part of pitch because of a location of a camera for tv.... the rugby is still good value for a lot of the seats for a very strong irish team on way to a world cup where they justifiably are one of the favourites." Kinlling Fields.. The next thing you will be posting in Capital letters.. Two of the same posts 8 seconds apart Hu Hu. But back to the salient point and that is the admittion price for people who live ouside County Dublin, I say it again, cost of Diesel ( If not going green) and I mean an electric car rather than green Diesel. Parking, Lock hards feed ( He would look at you with disgust if you handed him 2 Euros) small eats, Tolls all makes it that Country fold probally pay at least four times what it costs a Dublin person to see a game. I say reduce the Country persons admission price a little and increase a Dubs fees tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 3861 - 21/04/2023 18:24:02 2472268 Link
Replying To tiobraid: "Yep its the times we live in. 50 euro minmum for any kind of gig/concert these days. You go the US and they can charge a couple of hundred for any kind of game. I think if the GAA were more transparent with whats coming in and what costs are covered and where the rest of the money goes then people might understand. In everything these days there's some many hidden costs that none of us know about." More transparency? Here you go, full annual report plus accounts can be downloaded in link at bottom https://www.gaa.ie/news/gaa-report-healthy-financial-year. Happy reading Sindar (Roscommon) - Posts: 348 - 22/04/2023 10:17:23 2472333 Link
Replying To tomsmith: "Kinlling Fields.. The next thing you will be posting in Capital letters.. Two of the same posts 8 seconds apart Hu Hu. But back to the salient point and that is the admittion price for people who live ouside County Dublin, I say it again, cost of Diesel ( If not going green) and I mean an electric car rather than green Diesel. Parking, Lock hards feed ( He would look at you with disgust if you handed him 2 Euros) small eats, Tolls all makes it that Country fold probally pay at least four times what it costs a Dublin person to see a game. I say reduce the Country persons admission price a little and increase a Dubs fees" Jaysis look at you Tom with your electric car....is it a Tesla? I would say they look at you sideways in Cavan when you pull in to mass every Sunday with your electric car. ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1136 - 22/04/2023 10:57:18 2472340 Link
Exiled in WExford Tomsmith here. Indeed I try to Visit Mass and I alternate between Ballyhaise ( serion generally 8 M ins) Butlerbridge known a s the Bridge Chapel ( sermon around 10 mins) and sometimes the Cathedral agh sure some of them young Pastors loose the run of themselves with a good 12 to 15 Mins of pure agong. All this is expensive as the great Mrs T still insists on an envelope into the local Chapel whether we go elsewhere or not. But back to Croke Park prices I still think that Country teams, other than , Kildare, Meath and Dublin could get cheaper admission prices tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 3861 - 22/04/2023 14:33:24 2472397 Link
TomSmith Pikeman96 here. This is obviously quite a bugbear of yours. But why confine it to Croke Park? For example, you Cavan boys might have to travel all the way down to Cork in the League next year. That would put even more of a strain on any Cavan wallet. Maybe just a fiver a ticket or even a free ticket for any Cavan folks travelling to PUC that day, but charge the home Cork fans €30? Then again, would have to work the other way if Cork were travelling up to you, and that might give you palpitations altogether. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2251 - 22/04/2023 14:59:39 2472408 Link
Replying To Pikeman96: "TomSmith Pikeman96 here. This is obviously quite a bugbear of yours. But why confine it to Croke Park? For example, you Cavan boys might have to travel all the way down to Cork in the League next year. That would put even more of a strain on any Cavan wallet. Maybe just a fiver a ticket or even a free ticket for any Cavan folks travelling to PUC that day, but charge the home Cork fans €30? Then again, would have to work the other way if Cork were travelling up to you, and that might give you palpitations altogether." Pikeman County WExford of 13960 Posts Tomsmith here You are right in relation to Travel and indeed County Cork is far away for Cavan people to go and support the County Team. It definately would require the auld Camper Van to be revved up and the bed linen aired. In conversation at the top corner of the Imerial (as the great Mrs T says a great font of wisdom ) your post was discussed and it was felt that Cavan people could benefit from Corkoians vising as we could provided B & B and make afew Euros out of them If the E5 admission fee was introduced , and say distributed via the Cork County Board sure the Cork people could take a some of these cheaper tickets up here to us. all it would take is for Cavan supporters if challenged to develop a thick Cork accent at the turnstile and sure everyone is a winner tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 3861 - 23/04/2023 11:56:45 2472670 Link