Consortium to buy Exiles

London Irish are set to announce a takeover of the club by a group of Irish businessmen today.

The club have called a news conference at their training ground in Sunbury for 10:30am where they will announce further details of the takeover. Three members of the consortium will be present at the news conference, along with director of rugby Brian Smith.

The Premiership side have been owned by hundreds of individual shareholders for several years.