A chara, – The cost of going to club GAA matches has gone beyond the reach of the ordinary working family. For myself, my wife and my two teenage children (one of whom is a college student) to attend last Saturday evening’s Waterford County senior hurling semi-final between Fourmilewater and Ballygunner in Dungarvan last Saturday was €70.
I contacted all county board officers and only two had the grace to reply.
One agrees with my view; the other replied that the running costs of the county teams will be over a million this year.
The season ticket is good value but not everyone has €200 to spend on such a luxury or the money for fuel, etc, to attend matches across the county.
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The GAA is a truly wonderful organisation but they are driving people away from attending matches. Added to the whole debacle about GAAGo, it is one area where the GAA needs to have a root and branch restructuring of their pricing strategy.
Well done, by the way, to Fourmilewater on a fantastic year. – Is mise,
MUIRIS WALSH,
Ballymacarbry,
Co Waterford.