IRFU may come to troubled Munster’s aid with cash bailout

Munster look set to receive a significant cash injection from the IRFU to help kick-start a much-needed improvement on the pitch, Donal Lenihan writes in today’s Irish Examiner.

The IRFU have already sanctioned this week’s appointment of Johan Erasmus on a three-year contract starting this July as Munster’s first director of rugby.

Yet the IRFU is prepared to give the two-time former European champions a further boost when the budgets for the four provinces are finalised this week.