Ulster Championship ticket prices

[Maguire01]

You're reading a different version to me.

The people on the this Board are pretty interested in the GAA and involved in it, if we don't have a good understanding of the situation then it indicates that the GAA isn't getting a clear message out. People talk about the Grab All Association etc because the availability of things like family tickets is often confused.

Or maybe it indicates that no matter how interested they are in the GAA, they can misread a newspaper article that clearly related to a different game.

The GAA has already announced that there will be family tickets for the Tyrone / Armagh game:

In a statement, the Ulster Council justified the decision to move the play the Tyrone-Armagh game at Clones on a number of grounds.

"The anticipated attendance is significantly in excess of the 18,500 all ticket capacity of Healy Park," said the statement.

"St Tiernach's Park, Clones provides an all ticket capacity of 33,000.

"There will be up to 10,000 seated family tickets available for this fixture at St Tiernach's Park."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7989224.stm

[Pangurban]

£6 pound per adult, £2 per child with children under 5 free would be the ball park figures for fair admission prices, agree these figures are rock bottom but every pound above those figures should have to be publicly explained and justified. We are still an amateur association staffed largely by volunteers

[Maguire01]

£6 pound per adult, £2 per child with children under 5 free would be the ball park figures for fair admission prices, agree these figures are rock bottom but every pound above those figures should have to be publicly explained and justified. We are still an amateur association staffed largely by volunteers

That's ridiculous. The Championship is the GAA's cash cow - it generates money to distribute throughout the Association. If Championship matches are well attended, they generate a surplus, not a profit. There's no shareholders - it's all going back into the GAA. How do you think Brewster Park was redeveloped? By volunteers?

[Tyrone Dreamer]

£6 pound per adult, £2 per child with children under 5 free would be the ball park figures for fair admission prices, agree these figures are rock bottom but every pound above those figures should have to be publicly explained and justified. We are still an amateur association staffed largely by volunteers

I would like to see a greater effort to attract even more people to the games but them prizes would be crazy. The gaa needs a certain level of finance to fund its game. Think of insurance costs, external security required for insurance, development and maintenance of grounds, investment in coaches etc.

[Onion Bag]

£6 pound per adult, £2 per child with children under 5 free would be the ball park figures for fair admission prices, agree these figures are rock bottom but every pound above those figures should have to be publicly explained and justified. We are still an amateur association staffed largely by volunteers

You from Cavan by any chance?

[cornafean]

£6 pound per adult, £2 per child with children under 5 free would be the ball park figures for fair admission prices, agree these figures are rock bottom but every pound above those figures should have to be publicly explained and justified. We are still an amateur association staffed largely by volunteers

Every pound is indeed explained and justified in the GAA's annual accounts.

[Gnevin]

£6 pound per adult, £2 per child with children under 5 free would be the ball park figures for fair admission prices, agree these figures are rock bottom but every pound above those figures should have to be publicly explained and justified. We are still an amateur association staffed largely by volunteers

£6 pound and how do we fund everything else?

[Lazer]

I see a piece in todays paper claiming that Monaghan supporters will have to pay more than Derry fans for the game in Celtic park on Sunday week.  Monaghan fans will pay €25 to the seated stand whereas Derry fans pay £20 which works out about €22.50. There is a small difference too in the terraced area but its very small. 

Or the Monaghan people could just change their money into Sterling!

[Maguire01]

I see a piece in todays paper claiming that Monaghan supporters will have to pay more than Derry fans for the game in Celtic park on Sunday week.  Monaghan fans will pay €25 to the seated stand whereas Derry fans pay £20 which works out about €22.50. There is a small difference too in the terraced area but its very small. 

Or the Monaghan people could just change their money into Sterling!

If it was 'pay on the gate' the obvious solution would be to go to a bank machine in Derry. As this is all-ticket and most people will be buying through clubs, it's not really a viable option.