Irish trad song row sparked Edwards ban

SHAUN EDWARDS was suspended from Wales’ Six Nations clash with France after a heated bust-up over the singing of an Irish folk song on the team bus.

Warren Gatland’s number two missed the 28-9 defeat in Paris after he and another member of the Wales back-room staff, sports scientist and Monaghan native Fergus Connolly, were each disciplined through the team’s code of conduct procedure.

But Welsh newspaper The Western Mail yesterday revealed that the two men exchanged words over the song as the Welsh team were travelling back to their Vale of Glamorgan HQ after the thrilling 19-13 triumph over Brian O’Driscoll’s Ireland at the Millennium Stadium the previous Saturday.