Semple Stadium
- Food
- A pub in Thurles
- Sports
- Hurling at Semple Stadium
Crowd level: Mixed. Go early, or pick a weekday
Best season The championship runs in summer and into autumn. There is no match every week. Check the county site. Do not travel on a rumor.
The ground where Tipperary plays hurling, in a market town. Club championships and county matches, not a tourist exhibition. Fixtures move. The county board sells the ticket.
Worth knowing
Tickets
Tipperary GAA has told supporters to buy ahead and has said some gates are cashless. That is a county notice, not a universal GAA rule. Read the fixture.
The short version
FBD Semple Stadium is in Thurles, long the hurling town of the county. Tipperary GAA publishes fixtures and says tickets for its games are scanned, and that cash has not been taken at some venues. There is no single national price for a club match. Read tipperary.gaa.ie for the week you are there.
Food nearby
A pub in Thurles
Eat in town around the ground. The match is the reason to be there.
A game nearby
Hurling at Semple Stadium
Hurling is the local game. A club or county match here is the affordable version of Irish sport that visitors miss. All-Ireland final day in Dublin is a different product and often has no public sale.