Cork GAA fans are being asked to stop sending cheques to the organisation in the hope of getting tickets for the All-Ireland Final.
The appeal was made on Tuesday after the Cork club was inundated with cash and cheques sent from those hoping to score tickets for next Sunday's game.
Cork GAA PRO, Joseph Blake, told Newstalk Breakfast there is a tradition there.
"In a way, I suppose, going back years upon years ago it was a tradition where people would send in a self-addressed envelope usually with a letter and a cheque made out to Cork GAA.
"Yesterday morning I got a phone call from the financial manager inside in Cork GAA: the postman had arrived and there was lots of letters, lots of envelopes and lots of cheques coming in.
"I suppose with governance and transparency and all that, I put out a tweet yesterday - and a few of the papers picked it up - that we don't want anybody to be sending in cheques or anything like that into Cork GAA.
"That all payments for tickets will be done online".
NO postal applications are to be made to the Cork GAA office for tickets for the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final. Members of the public are asked to refrain from sending cheques and cash payments to the Cork GAA office. Any payments will be processed online.
— Cork GAA (@OfficialCorkGAA) August 10, 2021
He says the capacity for the final on Sunday week will likely be 40,000 people.
"We're told that the capacity is 40,000 - the way the tickets, traditionally for an All-Ireland Final, that would be 82,000.
"Participating counties would obviously get tickets, but tickets would also distributed throughout all the units of the association... all the clubs in the country would get tickets".
But Mr Blake says they are awaiting clarity from Croke Park.
"Now with a 40,000 capacity, it remains to be seen whether does this practice continue - or possibly on a reduced basis?
"Or is it a case of that all the tickets will be divided between Cork and Limerick, that I do not know.
"We're just waiting on Croke Park to confirm the way things will be distributed".
And he says all cheques are being sent back in the self-addressed envelopes.
