Con sponsor joins IRFU critics

ONE of the top individual club sponsors of the Ulster Bank League has joined in the criticism of the Irish Rugby Football Union for their treatment of the domestic game.

Smarting from what he terms as “a lack of respect”, Shay Livingstone, General Manager of Cork’s Rochestown Park Hotel, sponsors of Cork Constitution, said it was time for the Union to take note of the huge financial contribution of dozens of club sponsors, and of their concerns.

Mr Livingstone expressed particular annoyance that a letter he wrote on headed paper to the IRFU head office on April 2, copies of which were addressed to particular members of the committee and marketing arms of the Union, was not responded to.