College football classic sells out

Ticke T s for the 2023 Aer Lingus college Football classic in the Aviva stadium are fully sold out, organisers say.

The American football game, between Notre Dame and Navy, is scheduled to take place in Dublin on saturday, August 26.

40,354 international fans will travel for the match, including 39,176 travelling direct from the Us – a number described as “a new world record for the largest number of Americans to travel internationally for a single sporting event”.

The demand for tickets “proves that ireland is the home of college Football outside of the Us”, said Padriac O’kane, co-founder and director of the classic.

illness, which afflicted him for the rest of his life. Mac Grianna lived in Dublin through the 40s and 50s, moving from place to place. Sometime around the early 1950s, he settled in a house on the coast road near Watermill Road.

The college Football classic is promoted and organised by irish American events Ltd, a joint venture between irish hospitality and events specialists corporate.ie and its Us partner, On Location.