GAA: CROKER'S HOLIDAY SELL-OUT.MONDAY'S All Ireland As an attributive, All Ireland emphasises the entire island of Ireland, as opposed to either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. In Irish Republicanism, the expression 32-county is often used instead: 32 as distinct from the 26 counties of the Republic and the remaining 6 football quarter final double header in Croke Park Croke Park (Irish: Páirc an Chrócaigh) in Dublin, Ireland is the largest sports stadium in Ireland and the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), Ireland's biggest sporting organisation. has been totally sold out. The attractions of Dublin v Donegal and Cork v Mayo has seen the precious passes snapped up in record time with thousands of fans left disappointed. Tickets were distributed through provincial councils, clubs, the GAA website and Ticketmaster. But gaa.ie crashed on Wednesday due to a colossal number of hits and frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: supporters could not gain access to on-line reservations. Despite the web disaster, the 79,000 tickets are now gone and some touts have been quoting nine times the face value of U25 stand tickets. The current estimate on sales for Sunday's double bill is 60,000 and counting. |
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