Up for the match: Irish rugby fans make it to Rome for Six Nations clash

UP to 300 Rome-bound Irish rugby fans breathed a sigh of relief late last night after facing the risk of being abandoned at Shannon Airport for today’s start of the Six Nations.

Up for the match: Irish rugby fans make it to Rome for Six Nations clash

Worried fans included parents and relatives of three of the Irish team.

They had an agonising day-long airport wait when a flight was cancelled because money was allegedly not paid over for the use of a plane by the organiser of a charter group.

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