{"id":527986,"date":"2026-07-01T17:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527986\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:56:15","slug":"all-ireland-football-semi-finals-sell-out-in-minutes-amid-phenomenal-demand-from-fans-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527986\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland football semi-finals sell out in minutes amid \u2018phenomenal\u2019 demand from fans \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tickets for both All-Ireland senior football<\/a> semi-finals sold out within minutes on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Mayo\u2019s<\/a> semi-final clash against Louth<\/a> at Croke Park on Saturday, July 11th and Dublin\u2019s<\/a> meeting with Kerry<\/a> in the last four on Sunday, July 12th will both be full houses after a surge in demand from supporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the Mayo-Louth game went on sale via Ticketmaster at 12pm but were instantly snapped up by fans, with none available online long before tickets went live at 2pm for the Dublin-Kerry clash. <\/p>\n

Surprisingly, it took a little longer to shift all the tickets for that encounter, but by 5pm there were only a handful of single tickets remaining for the fixture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe response has been phenomenal and it is probably the greatest demand for tickets we have had in any given year for two semi-finals on the same weekend,\u201d said GAA spokesman Alan Milton.<\/p>\n

Ticket allocations to all counties involved have been distributed and Croke Park officials are not expecting any to return for general sale. <\/p>\n

Andy Moran<\/a> has guided Mayo back to an All-Ireland semi-final for the first time since 2021, while Louth are at this stage of the championship for the first time since 1957.<\/p>\n

The counties have met twice previously in the championship \u2013 Mayo winning the 1950 All-Ireland final and also a 2023 group stage match \u2013 but this is the first time they will have played each other in an All-Ireland semi-final.<\/p>\n

The curtain-raiser to Saturday\u2019s 6pm throw-in will be the Tailteann Cup final between Down and Wicklow at 3.30pm.<\/p>\n

\"FansFans look on as Kerry\u2019s Se\u00e1n O\u2019Shea prepares to kick the winning point in the 2022 All-Ireland SFC semi-final at Croke park. Photograph: James Crombie\/Inpho <\/p>\n

Dublin and Kerry is one of the GAA\u2019s most storied rivalries. Jack O\u2019Connor\u2019s<\/a> reigning champions are favourites to win the All-Ireland but Dublin have hit an unexpected run of form in recent weeks, during which they have beaten Donegal and Galway.<\/p>\n

The Dublin-Kerry game will throw-in at 4pm and will be preceded by the All-Ireland junior football final.<\/p>\n

Adult stand tickets for the semi-finals are priced at \u20ac60 with terrace tickets costing \u20ac40. Concessions were available for juveniles (\u20ac10) and students\/OAPs (\u20ac55).<\/p>\n

The huge demand for tickets ensures almost 165,000 spectators will pass through the turnstiles over the football semi-final weekend, bigger numbers than attended last year\u2019s two games at the same stage of the competition.<\/p>\n

The Saturday evening clash between Kerry and Tyrone last July attracted a crowd of 62,434, while the Sunday showdown between Donegal and Meath reached 82,000.<\/p>\n

This weekend will see the two All-Ireland senior hurling semi-finals take place at GAA headquarters.<\/p>\n

There are currently still tickets for both days but the Cork v Galway is expected to push towards capacity by the time it throws-in at 3.30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tickets for both All-Ireland senior football semi-finals sold out within minutes on Wednesday afternoon. Mayo\u2019s semi-final clash against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[764,110979,61,60,100935,4185,43],"class_list":["post-527986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-croke-park","tag-football-championship","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-louth-gaa","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}