GAA announce Mayo v Dublin clash is 'fully booked'

THE GAA has announced Mayo's All-Ireland SFC semi-final clash against Dublin at Croke Park on Saturday is 'fully booked'. 

The notice is posted on the tickets section of the GAA.ie website.

The GAA’s Director of Communications Alan Milton said it is the biggest demand for tickets for an All-Ireland semi-final since 2012, when Mayo defeated Pat Gilroy's Dublin by three points at the penultimate stage.

Speaking to RTE Radio One, he stated: "If you could sell 200,000 tickets for a fixture and you have 82,000 to sell, you will still encounter the same difficulties and that is exactly what happened.

"The problem yesterday, or challenge, was the sheer demand for tickets for a finite resource of tickets. It wasn’t just in Dublin and Mayo, it was right across the 32 counties.

"What we will do is talk to tickets.ie and see if we can review any of the issues that arose.

"The system yesterday was dealing with 82,300 tickets for Saturday, potentially 60,000 for Sunday. Within that, you had 7,000 season ticket holders for Saturday, somewhere in the region of half that for Sunday

"It was a big, big ask of the system.

"There are definitely learnings to be taken from yesterday. The key one for me, from the correspondence I have received personally, would be the queuing system online.

"People had issues with it and we need to speak to tickets.ie to find out whether or not there are issues, be that multiple browsers or people refreshing pages because it was very frustrating for people. And indeed for people in shops."