Sluggish ticket sales for rugby showdown

JUST 22,000 tickets have been sold to date for Saturday’s European Rug

The organisers of the competition admitted yesterday that the failure of both Leinster and Munster to reach the final represented a “double whammy” for their hopes of a sell-out match.

There is also some concern that some of the 6,000 people who bought tickets for the match in January before the identity of the finalists were known may not travel to Dublin.