Out of pocket Leinster clubs to be compensated

THE Leinster branch of the IRFU has told clubs that they will be recompensed for any losses incurred as a result of the ticketing fiasco surrounding the Autumn Guinness Series.

The move comes in advance of the IRFU’s own announcement regarding a solution to the problem created by thousands of unsold tickets from the four-Test international series last month.

The IRFU’s policy, for which it has promised to review ahead of the 2011 Six Nations, saw the tickets sold in two-match bundles for South Africa-Samoa and New Zealand-Argentina with only one price of ticket available, €165 for the former package, €195 for the latter pair of Tests. It was a situation that led to protests from clubs across the country which struggled to sell them.