Paper jibe forces IRFU to build bridges
Comments in a Dublin-based paper that the host venue was worse than ‘a one-horse town given that the horse has long since bolted’ sparked a massive backlash from residents and the town’s mayor Peter Tennent.
With the Irish squad set to return to the Taranaki region for next year’s World Cup, IRFU president John Callaghan has distanced the union from the comments and heaped praised on New Plymouth and its residents.
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