TICKETS.IE, THE official distributors of tickets for this weekend’s All-Ireland senior football championship semi-final, have released a statement explaining why customers may have experienced difficulties.

Many fans were left extremely frustrated last night and this afternoon as they were unable to log onto the website and purchase tickets for Sunday’s match between Dublin and Mayo at Croke Park as the site crashed.

General public tickets quickly sold out and, according to the company, the problem was due to the high volume of people attempting to buy them at the same time.

“Following Sunday’s dramatic draw in the All Ireland Semi Final between Dublin and Mayo tickets for the replay (which takes place on Saturday 5th September in Croke Park) went on sale last night to the competing counties and general public,” the statement reads.

“The initial allocation of tickets sold out quickly on Sunday night. A further allocation of tickets went on sale in the afternoon of Monday 31/08/15 and sold out in fifty minutes.

There was an unprecedented demand for tickets for this fixture. The demand was so high that some users experienced difficulty accessing tickets online and many fans were unfortunately left disappointed as demand for tickets far exceed supply.

“Over 73,240 fans tried to purchase tickets online via the GAA’s official ticketing partner, Tickets.ie. 72% of these fans were located in the Dublin region, 25% were based around Ireland and almost 3% of fans were situated in the London (UK) area.”

Public tickets for the All-Ireland semi-final replay have sold out

It’s official – No Croke Park outing for Dublin’s ladies footballers on Saturday