IRFU rejects French officials' claims of poor treatment at Aviva Stadium

“It’s like us hosting other unions at the snack bars under the stands at the Stade de France.”

The IRFU has expressed surprise at reports that their counterparts in the French union had been left fuming by last Saturday’s post-match function at the Aviva Stadium, writes Brendan O’Brien.

The ‘Midi Olympique’ newspaper claimed that the traditional get together was a “fiasco” and that the French delegation had been seated in a large room filled with 500 ‘ordinary’ guests while the Irish committee convened in a separate, presidential suite after the Six Nations meeting of the nations.