IRFU rethink ticket scheme

THE Irish Rugby Football Union is considering abandoning plans to offer a renewal of its first tranche of 10-year tickets next year.

Around 2,000 of the 10,600 10-year ticket holders guaranteed premium-level seats at all of Ireland’s home Six Nations and Autumn Internationals at the Aviva Stadium are due for renewal in the spring of 2013, with another section up in 2015.

The national economic crisis has led the IRFU to believe, however, there would be a low take-up of renewals among those who initially committed to the 10-year scheme during better times in 2003.