An all Ireland final or Munster final without the minor final as the curtain raiser still seems a travesty to me
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The year Tipp got back into the AI for the first time in ages, 1988, that was all ticket I’m pretty sure. Tipp supporters were on the Canal End and RTE had a vox-pop with a Tipp muldoon and she tearing up her ticket as she couldn’t get onto the terrace as it was so packed. I’m going to say 1987 for paying for terrace tickets.
Was the hurling always typically a full house? Or participant dependent?
Did Antrim bring much of a crowd back in 89?
1984 in Thurles was all ticket, yes. But not sure if the following ones in Croke Park up until 1988 were. But open to correction
Kilkenny on the Hill in 1991. My first AI. There was war over us not getting our traditional place on the canal end.
I watched the 1988 and 1991 finals from the Canal End, ticket was £6 for one of them, not sure which though.
Clare owned the Canal End in 95 and much of the Hill with it.
We were in the canal for 97 too
Fairly sure it was a usual full capacity crowd. Tickets for finals were always hard got. You’d get one but would have to look for it.
I’d say it was 1988. Can’t remember what price a terrace ticket was in 1991. I didn’t pay for it in any case, the auld boy sorted it out for me.
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No it was participant dependent. 1979 was a notably bad year for attendance at the final, 53,000 for Kilkenny Galway.
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Was that not because of the strikes - was there a big bus and rail strike that year ?
There was a train strike that year that effected the attendance somewhat
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Ok then, 64,000 for Limerick and Galway in 1980, 72,000 for Offaly Galway in the following year. It was very much participant dependent
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Hard to argue with this logic
https://twitter.com/JWBlanchfield/status/1810001985615077869?t=miiEs9H410aodnsfzWO3Qw&s=19
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Fair enough.
I also remember when the official attendance would be shown on the scoreboard (not sure when the old electronic one came in) everybody would scoff and say there were way more there and that the GAA were deliberately showing a smaller number. Maybe they had all come in the blue door
My other memory from the time and travelling back from Croke Park in early 80s was the black flags flying from lampposts all over the way home in support of the IRA hunger strikers.
Nickie is a lovely fella but there’s no way Horgan gets a shot off there if he lifts it, he’s immediately swarmed by Nickie and Finn(I think)
Good chance of a penalty but for me he did the right thing.
Either way he was right to back his ground stroke and (not you now) it’s very petty to criticise him or say he ‘missed a sitter’ in hindsight
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The 84 final was definitely all ticket, my memory is that 86 was as well, of course I went in to both with ‘an adult’ as was the way back then
Spot on.
1984 I think.
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Wexford and the Stillorgan Park Hotel.