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Boss Bemand under pressure to make mark
Irish Daily Star
|August 19, 2025
IT'S HARD to explain #1: Just why World Rugby have decided to expand this competition from 12 to 16 nations. Previously the bottom teams just got thrashed, this time the ‘new’ bottom four are in danger of shipping 100+ points at some point.
It's hard to explain #2: The crushing financial pressure on this IRFU programme.
The Union’s investment into women's rugby amounted to a total spend of €8.3m in the year to July 2024 according to the 2025 accounts.
IRFU performance director David Humphrey, in the face of the Union losing €18m through 2023/24, has been tasked with slashing all budgets.
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