Bringing Children to the Premium Level in Croke Park

[The Claw]

The reason would be because of insurance I would imagine. If there was an injury to the child the insurance company could say - that child did not have a ticket, we only insure patrons with tickets.

[SidelineKick]

Bit of a concern lads, hopefully some of you can help:

I am going along with another 3 or 4 people, however out tickets won't be beside each other, most likely they'll be for the same section though.

Do you think we'll be able to move to wherever we want to sit beside each other?  I'm hoping so as I can picture there being a good few empty seats!

[The Claw]

If you can find a spot that is free i'd say work away but there is nothing much you can do otherwise. Before, you could swap the tickets that were not together for tickets that were together but this doesnt happen anymore.

[SidelineKick]

Aye think I'm just relying on the crowd not being that big. Ah well.

[donelli]

The reason would be because of insurance I would imagine. If there was an injury to the child the insurance company could say - that child did not have a ticket, we only insure patrons with tickets.

so what is the situation if a child gets injured while at a normal club match??

i fail to see the difference

[The Claw]

I'd see a pretty big difference. With Croke Park, you have to insure over 80,000 people including workers at the ground. An insurance company is going to put much more stringent conditions on health and safety in order to minimize quite a large liability that they may be exposed to if there is a large scale accident. Not much large scale accidents can happen at club matches compared to massive stadiums.
I would imagine these requirements are not the GAA's decision at all but do so out of necessity as they would be faced with a huge bill if their insurance policy did not cover a claim.

[cornafean]

If there was an injury to the child the insurance company could say - that child did not have a ticket, we only insure patrons with tickets.

They could of course say that, they could say anything, but its debatable whether they would be within their rights to restrict cover in this way. What do they do for the large number of matches that are not all-ticket?

And even then, if this is really a problem why can't the GAA get around this by issuing a free ticket to every under 1/3/? passing through the turnstiles?

[GrandMasterFlash]

If there was an injury to the child the insurance company could say - that child did not have a ticket, we only insure patrons with tickets.

They could of course say that, they could say anything, but its debatable whether they would be within their rights to restrict cover in this way. What do they do for the large number of matches that are not all-ticket?

And even then, if this is really a problem why can't the GAA get around this by issuing a free ticket to every under 1/3/? passing through the turnstiles?

  Good point - I really don't see the logic. I suppose having a stub of some sort is needed for insurance reasons but I don't see how other types of venues permit children under a certain age with no receipt of purchase and Croke Park can't. Bureaucracy gone mad...

[ardmhachaabu]

If there was an injury to the child the insurance company could say - that child did not have a ticket, we only insure patrons with tickets.

They could of course say that, they could say anything, but its debatable whether they would be within their rights to restrict cover in this way. What do they do for the large number of matches that are not all-ticket?

And even then, if this is really a problem why can't the GAA get around this by issuing a free ticket to every under 1/3/? passing through the turnstiles?

  Good point - I really don't see the logic. I suppose having a stub of some sort is needed for insurance reasons but I don't see how other types of venues permit children under a certain age with no receipt of purchase and Croke Park can't. Bureaucracy gone mad...

It's just the GAA doing what they know best and grabbing money