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Replying To WanPintWin:  "Walk around Galway town and you'll do well to notice we're playing in Leinster final this weekend. Go out the country to the villages and small towns and you'll see plenty flags."
Rural Ireland remains "based." Majority of people in Dublin now will have no idea there is such a thing as a Leinster Hurling final. Nor the remotest interest if they did.

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4387 - 05/06/2026 15:46:16    2678184

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Cosmopolitan.....

Probably get more interest in a drill "music" concert."
I was being sarcastic Barney…!
;o)

Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 5030 - 05/06/2026 16:06:59    2678187

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Rural Ireland remains "based." Majority of people in Dublin now will have no idea there is such a thing as a Leinster Hurling final. Nor the remotest interest if they did."
Nail on the head…!
100%

Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 5030 - 05/06/2026 16:09:06    2678188

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "A thing about billboard advertising is that spaces are normally sold for blocks of one month or three months.

A month out from the Leinster Final, you wouldn't even know who'd be in it, so difficult to utilise it for maximum effect.

Or if your booking slot started say two weeks before the Final, you could advertise it properly then all right, but it would remain in place - pointlessly and uselessly - for two weeks after the Final itself.

You could probably sell some tickets off the back of billboards all right. I remember being in Rome myself about 20 years ago and buying a ticket for a Grand Prix athletics meet in the Olympic Stadium there, purely because I saw billboards for it, I'd never been to athletics, and was curious to see the stadium anyway.

But I seriously doubt you'd sell 10,000. And I don't know what billboard space costs in prime locations in Dublin City Centre, but you'd be into serious cost/benefit analysis of it anyway."
But even months in advance they knew it was on.
Only risk would be that it is moved out of HQ.
Well you could probably get someone handing out leaflets for minimum wage. Or get Tourism Ireland to post about it. Or flyers in hotels.
Anything. Be creative. I know one thing for certain if people don't know it's on they won't go.

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 2102 - 05/06/2026 22:21:09    2678251

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I just googled "where to watch hurling in Dublin this weekend" and the first 5 results were pubs. Croke Park was way down the list and not a sign of the match.

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 2102 - 05/06/2026 22:24:32    2678252

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Replying To StoreysTash:  "I was talking to my father earlier. He was in Dublin yesterday and was on O'Connell Street, Temple Bar, over to Grafton Street. He said you would not know there was two big hurling matches on in Croke Park on Saturday.
So we have how many thousand tourists walking through Temple Bar and Dublin City this weekend, and not even on one billboard is there a sign that there is a match on.
People will be sitting in a pub in Temple Bar on Saturday evening and then will realise a hurling match is on a mile up the road.
The Leinster Council could have sold 10k extra tickets with some promotion of the game, even a billboard in Temple Bar.
Shocking promotion of the game really. Or maybe its not shocking."
An extra 10,000 tickets sold at what cost? Any tourist who is interested in sport will be there. There comes a point where spending money on promotion does not actually yield any extra revenue. However what would be great is if the GAA would let people buy premium level tickets for these games and which might encourage more 'day trippers'. It's certainly something I would be interested in anyhow. There's no way these seats will be fully occupied tomorrow. People who buy the 5 year tickets should be forced to use them on a 'use or loose' basis. Don't use it, your seat is sold to someone else for that game only.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 2060 - 05/06/2026 22:26:03    2678253

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Replying To Square_B:  "An extra 10,000 tickets sold at what cost? Any tourist who is interested in sport will be there. There comes a point where spending money on promotion does not actually yield any extra revenue. However what would be great is if the GAA would let people buy premium level tickets for these games and which might encourage more 'day trippers'. It's certainly something I would be interested in anyhow. There's no way these seats will be fully occupied tomorrow. People who buy the 5 year tickets should be forced to use them on a 'use or loose' basis. Don't use it, your seat is sold to someone else for that game only."
Face value sure, €40 is comparably good value when compared to AFL, baseball, NFL, basketball, football, and so on.
How much will an empty seat earn?
Look there is no way of knowing but sure even 3,000 extra tickets is €120k. Not bad for a billboard or a bit of promotion.

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 2102 - 06/06/2026 11:20:53    2678281

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Replying To StoreysTash:  "I just googled "where to watch hurling in Dublin this weekend" and the first 5 results were pubs. Croke Park was way down the list and not a sign of the match."
Be lucky to find a pub showing it outside a club and a few good GAA spots.

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4387 - 06/06/2026 14:03:25    2678303

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Be lucky to find a pub showing it outside a club and a few good GAA spots."
What? Most pubs can show at least 2 or 3 different sports these days. I can't see anything else major, sportwise, on this evening.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2903 - 06/06/2026 15:37:10    2678318

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Rural Ireland remains "based." Majority of people in Dublin now will have no idea there is such a thing as a Leinster Hurling final. Nor the remotest interest if they did."
You're absolutely right. I have great time for the clubs in Dublin who continue to put in a huge effort to promote the game, especially the very large ones. It's easy for people to throw digs at 'super clubs', but without them, even greater areas of Dublin would be GAA wastelands.
With the country becoming more urban, it's going to be harder and harder to keep the GAA strong. Rural Ireland is incredibly important.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2873 - 06/06/2026 15:51:24    2678324

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Replying To StoreysTash:  "Face value sure, €40 is comparably good value when compared to AFL, baseball, NFL, basketball, football, and so on.
How much will an empty seat earn?
Look there is no way of knowing but sure even 3,000 extra tickets is €120k. Not bad for a billboard or a bit of promotion."
As someone has already told you, billboards are booked well in advance, and a campaign to increase sales for a hurling match, the opponents of which are only known a few weeks in advance, would be difficult. And where would you put it anyhow? There isn't one billboard site in Temple Bar, for example. Dublin Airport might be an option but in my opinion, a more concerted effort would be needed to increase awareness of Gaelic Games overall. Any decent campaign would cost hundreds of thousands of euro and certainly would need to concentrate on social media channels like TikTok over a multi year period to succeed. Not sure that would be the best use of resources. As I've said, any tourist who wants to take in a game will be there. On any given week / month, one can see what events are on via Ticketmaster and choose accordingly.

To be honest, I think you over estimate the interest that tourists and people living Dublin have in Gaelic games.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 2060 - 06/06/2026 17:09:29    2678332

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You expect Galway to win this with a bit to spare. Goals in them and more natural hurling team.

hlynch12 (Limerick) - Posts: 73 - 06/06/2026 17:40:28    2678340

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Galway have won it already. Dubs haven't shown up

hlynch12 (Limerick) - Posts: 73 - 06/06/2026 18:47:11    2678350

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Replying To hlynch12:  "Galway have won it already. Dubs haven't shown up"
It was an awful watch. Galway have serious scoring power though. They will have to stop leaking goals but did what they had to do well today. Im not sure what was going on with Dublin in that 2nd half.

Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 549 - 06/06/2026 19:42:26    2678359

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Cork and Limerick will hammer Galway out the gap.

hlynch12 (Limerick) - Posts: 73 - 06/06/2026 20:00:23    2678363

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Hard to know how good Galway are cos Dublin apart from 10 -15 minutes mid first half were so poor
The amount of aimless high ball in the second half was inexcusable- sure they had Heterthon in there but guys had time to pick out attackers or maybe it was simply that forwards were not making runs
Desperately disappointing, it's going to be tough to pick it up for Clare
Galway a bit like Tipp last year- much improved from previous year, nice blend of youth and some veterans, already in bonus territory, at a stage in their development that they are not expected to win an AI but you just never know
I don't know who got MOTM but Monaghan is some player to just quietly go about his business and stick the ball over the bar with no fuss

Yadse (Limerick) - Posts: 264 - 06/06/2026 20:11:56    2678364

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Replying To hlynch12:  "Galway have won it already. Dubs haven't shown up"
What's going on here, it's always Galway don't show up, flakey inconsistency blah blah blah.......

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4788 - 06/06/2026 20:26:54    2678368

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Real setback for Dublin after beating Galway in Salthill & knocking the Cats out of Championship.

Up against Clare next, should be a good game.

M Lyster (Antrim) - Posts: 487 - 06/06/2026 20:33:49    2678369

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Replying To hlynch12:  "Galway have won it already. Dubs haven't shown up"
Have to say very poor match leinster hurling in big trouble.

Tiger1 (Wexford) - Posts: 452 - 06/06/2026 20:44:48    2678374

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Replying To M Lyster:  "Real setback for Dublin after beating Galway in Salthill & knocking the Cats out of Championship.

Up against Clare next, should be a good game."
Dublin will have to produce something that they haven't produced all season if they want to beat Clare. They picked up a few injuries too and some of their subs dont look up to standard.

Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 549 - 06/06/2026 21:41:33    2678387

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