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Event: RWC 2019

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Decades of neglect left World Cup bid with too much ground to make up

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Here's where Ireland's Rugby World Cup bid fell down
Here's where Ireland's Rugby World Cup bid fell down

Yesterday’s report by World Rugby’s Technical Review Group was fulsome in its praise for three “outstanding candidate submissions” and the IRFU was particularly keen to cling on to the remark that all of them could host a “successful” tournament.

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