Ireland's 2023 Rugby World Cup campaign cost IRFU €10m

“With this team it was important that whatever was required to enable them to be at their best for this tournament, no stone was going to be left unturned,” IRFU chief executive Kevin Potts said. 

IRFU CEO Kevin Potts and CFO Thelma O’Driscoll. Picture: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

IRFU chief executive Kevin Potts has revealed that Ireland’s 2023 World Cup bid, which ended at the quarter-final stage with defeat to the All Blacks in France, cost the union in the region of €10million.

Andy Farrell’s side first came together for pre-season in mid-June for an event that didn’t begin until the start of September and it made for the union’s most expensive tournament ever.