Angry Con chief challenges IRFU

A LEADING rugby official has called on the top Irish clubs to unite and challenge the Irish Rugby Football Union to prove they have the grassroots of the game at heart.

Annoyed at a succession of blows suffered by the clubs, Cork Constitution’s outgoing President Der O’Riordan believes it’s time to stand up and be counted before there is any further dilution of the game at club level.

He accused the Domestic Games committee of making decisions without taking account of circumstances on the ground and said the union no longer treated club rugby as the third tier of the Irish game.