Woman to be charged over rugby tour fiasco

A CHARGE of operating an illegal rugby tour is to be made against a businesswoman before Limerick District Court today.

Pamela O'Neill, aged 31, of Patrickswell, Co Limerick, is due to appear before the court for allegedly organising a trip for Munster rugby supporters to Italy last year without a proper licence.

The prosecution is understood to have resulted from an investigation by the Commission for Aviation Regulation (CAR) into complaints from travel agents in the mid-west that Ms O'Neill has been operating overseas rugby tours without being part of a bonding scheme to compensate dissatisfied customers.