Bantry Bay RFC blast 'hashtags and hollow words' of Irish rugby chiefs

Bantry Bay RFC has taken to social media to accuse the Munster Rugby Women’s Committee and the IRFU of putting too much effort into “hashtags and hollow words” rather than “putting real policies in place to support girls playing rugby”
Bantry Bay RFC blast 'hashtags and hollow words' of Irish rugby chiefs

Bantry Bay RFC has taken to social media to accuse the Munster Rugby Women’s Committee and the IRFU of putting too much effort into “hashtags and hollow words” rather than “putting real policies in place to support girls playing rugby”. 

The West Cork rugby club on Monday used its Twitter account @Bantry_Rugby to criticise a change in regulations by the Women’s Committee of the Munster Branch that will require girls' teams to field 15-a-side teams with no exceptions while underage boys teams are permitted to field smaller teams if they are unable to put out a full-strength XV.

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