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Following his debut, the IRFU posted a photograph of Edogbo to celebrate his achievement, but had to turn comments off the post due to racial abuse.<\/p>\n
“We’re aware of some targeted abuse online in recent days and continue to work with Signify and the relevant authorities to report it,” the IRFU said in a statement, as reported by the BBC.<\/p>\n
“We will also continue to fully support all affected by the cowardly actions of a minority and investigations are under way alongside our partners Signify.<\/p>\n
“It is clear that racist abuse has no place in Irish society and the IRFU has a zero tolerance policy towards racism of any form.”<\/p>\n
Edogbo made an impact off the bench as Ireland claimed the nervy win, their first of this year’s Six Nations.<\/p>\n
His contribution was acknowledged post-match by head coach Andy Farrell, who described the 23-year-old’s journey to the Irish team as “phenomenal”.<\/p>\n
“Well, we need to celebrate Edwin’s first cap, that is for sure because it’s one amazing story,” Farrell said.<\/p>\n
“I am so pleased that we were able to get a win and show some fight to be able to get a win for him because his story is a phenomenal one, so we will celebrate that with him.”<\/p>\n
Ireland head to London to face England in the third round of the Six Nations this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Rugby Football Union says it will launch an investigation after turning comments off a social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[5844,64,63,245280,26779,104053,760,103300,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-484357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-abc-sport","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-edwin-edogbo","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-irfu","14":"tag-rugby","15":"tag-six-nations","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}