Wexford have devised a novel way to militate against the ticket shortage for Sunday's All-Ireland quarter-final.

Demand for stand tickets for the double-bill in Thurles - which pairs the Slaneysiders with Limerick and also features Dublin against Tipperary - has far outweighed supply in the Model County. Their plea to have the fixtures switched to Croke Park fell on deaf ears, so the County Board has instigated a ticket swap plan to ensure that those most in need of seating in Semple Stadium get it.

"We've put a swap plan in place in the county and appealed to young and able-bodied people, or single people who are capable of standing for the game, to swap with families or elderly people who only have terrace tickets," chairman Diarmuid Devereux explains in The Irish Examiner.

"I'm happy to say that it's going really well. We're openly promoting it on local radio and it's got a great response. I imagine there's hundreds that are going to benefit from this and hopefully that figure will grow as word gets around.

"It just shows the solidarity that's there among GAA supporters, it's a credit to them. I'll give you an example from my own club; we had two young couples that were going to go and sit and they handed the tickets back to the club chairmen and he gave them out to a family with two young boys.

"It's not something you want people to have to do but fair play to them. We've no option in the circumstances. We'll get the maximum number of people possible there that we can." Tweet

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