GAA fans unable to source tickets through clubs and county boards for the All-Ireland hurling final on Sunday week can expect to pay €500 to get into the match.

A website selling tickets is getting bids of around €500 a ticket, with prices set to rise over the coming week as the ticket frenzy intensifies in Galway and Cork.

At present, there are 10 tickets on sale on ebay, with bids of €810 for a pair of Cusack Stand lower tier tickets being received, while bids of €1,020 have been placed for a pair of premium seats.

In Galway, a corporate dinner to raise funds for the side has sold out. The event, which will be held tonight at the Radisson SAS hotel, sold tables of 10 at €2,500 each.

Each table gets 10 match tickets and such has been the demand for one of the 70 tables that a businessman who bought a table was approached on Monday and offered €5,000 for it.

Just a few hundred fans bothered to turn up for Galway's early-round games against Laois, Antrim and Limerick but now thousands are battling to get final tickets.

Galway Hurling Board have been trying to reward fans who went to the matches throughout the season.

They held a draw for the 2,800 who bought tickets for the quarter-final win over Tipperary and six fans were treated to a day out at the semi-final against Kilkenny with meals and accommodation provided.

Now they are going to reward those who travelled to the semi-final win against Kilkenny. Fans have been asked to forward their ticket stubs from that game to hurling board secretary John Fahey at Pearse Stadium in Salthill.

Thirty All-Ireland tickets have been set aside and will be sold to those drawn from the returned ticket stubs.