Corporate appointment for Potts

THE IRFU has appointed Kevin Potts as its new director of corporate affairs.

The role gives him overall responsibility for all operations and corporate services for the IRFU, including all match arrangements, stadium liaison management, all Ireland representative team and visiting team logistics and general operations for the organisation.

Potts is a former Ireland A international and represented Leinster at senior level, in addition to being capped for both Ireland and Leinster at schools level. In his professional career he has held several senior management positions in the financial services industry in Ireland and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.

Potts joined the IRFU in May 2005 when he was appointed the first domestic rugby manager with responsibility for planning, development and organisation of the game in clubs and schools across Ireland.

Said IRFU chief Philip Browne: “In addition to the staging of games in Croke Park, other growth areas of responsibility in this section have included the integration of the Irish women’s team, the support of the AIB Club internationals and in the future, the move back to the new stadium.”