Monday tickets still available

There are still plenty of tickets available for the Bank Holiday Monday All-Ireland football quarter-final double header at Croke Park.

Galway face Donegal at 2 p.m. followed by Kerry and Roscommon at 3.45 p.m. They go on sale at headquarters today from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will also be available tomorrow.

Roscommon took up their full allocation of 10,000 tickets and they go on general sale today at 12 different locations across the county, ranging from clubhouses to local businesses.

County Board secretary Tom Mullaney estimates a full uptake for their clash with the Kingdom. "We got what we asked for (10,000 tickets) but we may well come back and get more, our peak is usually 14,000, that's 30 per cent of the county," he said.

"Not many counties can shift a third of their bodies for a match. We had 9,500 men, women and children down in Portlaoise."

Meanwhile, Sunday's Northern invasion of Croke Park, for the opening quarter-finals, is expected to be a sell-out as the allotment of tickets has been taken up by the relative counties.

Unless there is a return from the counties, the matches between Armagh and Laois and Tyrone and Fermanagh will be full houses.