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Mayo GAA Treasurer Valerie Murphy
THE Treasurer of Mayo GAA has said there will be return to cash being accepted at gates for club championship games in 2024.
A motion was passed at the last two Mayo GAA conventions calling for a review of the current ticketing regime to allow patrons to pay for tickets with cash.
The most recent motion was reviewed by the county board’s Coiste Bainstí, who have decided against allowing cash transactions for tickets at games.
Defending the decision, Mayo GAA Treasurer Valerie Murphy described last year’s cashless regime as ‘a great system’ and thanked the clubs for their work in implementing it.
Murphy told the most recent Mayo GAA convention that nobody had been turned away from a game because they could not purchase tickets online.
Clubs were permitted purchase a certain number of tickets from Mayo GAA that could be sold in exchange for cash at championship games last year.
“We won’t be going back to cash,” Murphy told delegates at the most recent county board meeting.
The Charlestown clubwoman added that Croke Park and The Revenue Commission were also not in favour of the GAA having cash transactions at games.
John Farragher, the Garrymore delegate, supported Murphy’s comments.
“I’m doing this for the last 30 years, and it has sped up people entering the grounds…cash does slow down people and it takes an awful lot of risk away from people at gates who have to bring this money to a central point.”
Mayo GAA’s gate receipts for senior, intermediate and junior championship games fell from €511,105 in 2022 to €439,186 in 2023.
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