European Championships - France 2016

[backstothewall]

In Finishing,

Dear Belgium, Please send the available tickets to:

Football Association of Ireland,
National Sports Campus,
Abbotstown,
Dublin 15.

Are you insane? Those idiots? Send them to the GAA. That way we all have that friend of our uncle who can lay his hands on them

[Crosby87]

The Ireland Sticker collection is out! These prove great gifts for your wedding anniversary, child's birthday or Easter uprising parties. The Ireland Euro Championships sticker collection will be worth oodles of money years from now, especially if the team wins the tournament. Noted company Panini, who also make grilled sandwiches, are releasing said stickers. Many see these stickers not only as a hobby, but as an investment. Lets all get these stickers now.
http://www.licensing.biz/news/read/p...lection/043240

[gunnerbar]

Lads,

Just going to book tickets for the bro and me for the Sweden game.

Can I ask

1) Can each of us apply for 2 tickets each - We have 7 ST holders under his name.

and

2) What is the story with the Follow Your Team tickets - are they transferable if we wanted to give to other people.

Thinking of applying for 2 Sweden tickets and 2 FYT between the 2 of us.

Thanks,

Gunnerbar

[Deckydee]

275,000???

In my best Christopher Walken accent.................WOW!

http://irishpost.co.uk/hundreds-of-t...-to-euro-2016/

[colonelwest]

Bandwagoners soon to be in uproar after joe.ie posted an article saying debit cards might not work for payments for ticket applications. Good enough for them.

[tetsujin1979]

If you're getting upset by an article on joe.ie, you've got bigger problems

[Fixer82]

Great news. Am getting over to Bordeaux for the Belgium game. Will have great craic regardless but will be a bit gutted if I can't get a ticket. Will find out in February when they announce the lucky ticket winners

[DannyInvincible]

UEFA confirmed today that debit cards will be processed OK, just like credit cards: http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepa...ckets-bid.html

IRISH fans who have applied for Euro 2016 tickets using debit cards will not be excluded from the Uefa draw, the Irish Sun has learned.

Reports earlier today quoted Europe’s footballing body declaring that only applications made using credit cards were guaranteed to be accepted.

However, the Irish Sun understands that while Uefa officially only accepts credit card applications, those made using debit card details will not be treated any differently.

A Uefa source said: “Only some countries, including Ireland, actually use debit cards. They don’t exist in many other countries in Europe.

“That is why it is Uefa policy to use credit cards, as they are universal.

“However, the debit cards work as long as they have sufficient funds, so there should not be any issue.

“So there is no cause for alarm.”

The Uefa payment system accepted debit payments from an unknown number of Irish fans ahead of the January 18 deadline.

In an official statement this afternoon, Uefa told the Irish Sun: “Payment can still work with debit cards.

“However, the payment process is only guaranteed with a credit card and if the amount due can be debited, provided the card has sufficient funds on it.

“We have successfully used exactly the same principle during the general ticket sales phase in June/July 2015 without having any issues.”

[colonelwest]

If you're getting upset by an article on joe.ie, you've got bigger problems

Sure that goes hand in hand with being a bandwagoner, where else are they supposed to get their opinions from?

[tetsujin1979]

Probably balls.ie.
I've said before I despise these sites, their entire business model is built around the share buttons on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Come up with some original content and then you'll have some legitimacy.
I've actually a gnawing suspicion that there's going to be a proportion of the traveling support who are there just to get a photo/video on to these sites.

[colonelwest]

Aye, there'll be plenty of those over for that reason and the "craic", or in other words just on the lash. Most haven't and not to be seen in Landsdowne anytime soon! The buzzfeedification, (if that's a term!) of online "journalism" over the last couple of years with the clickbait, plagiarism of content and general rubbish that seems to have been written by 13 year old doing first year English creative writing is a pet peeve of mine!

[Fixer82]

Anyone see the recent post on Balls.ie about Carlsey working for the English F.A.?
Mentioned the future curtailing of recruitment of English born players like O'Leary and Houghton.
Terrible 'journalism'

[DeLorean]

Yeah it's being discussed at bit here-

[Deckydee]

OFFICIAL

Ticket winners are being announced!! - Italian friend of mine has received a mail that he has won 4 tickets to the Ireland vs Italy match. Expect delay for 275,000 fans

[BonnieShels]

Did they take the cashmoney today for his tickets?

[Deckydee]

Did they take the cashmoney today for his tickets?

Dont know to be honest. From what they said in their mails, they take the money (out of your account) straight away

[Junior]

Think they take out a few days before you even receive the emails. You'll know by your credit card balance/transactions before you hear directly from uefa. If successful of course!

[Crosby87]

Genteel Fota Island the perfect place for the team to prepare for Euros, insists many.

http://www.eveningecho.ie/sport/iris...euros/1823486/

[Stuttgart88]

No, not another bloody island.

[Deckydee]

Just came across this by accident. Apparently the Belgians think the are playing Northern Ireland. Oh dear: https://twitter.com/Fanclub1895/stat...02785793179648