{"id":148876,"date":"2025-11-19T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/148876\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:20:09","slug":"calling-it-a-corporate-day-out-is-disingenuous-irfu-chiefs-defend-aviva-stadium-ticket-prices-as-union-reports-e4-2m-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/148876\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Calling it a corporate day out is disingenuous\u2019 \u2013 IRFU chiefs defend Aviva Stadium ticket prices as union reports \u20ac4.2m loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IRFU chief executive officer Kevin Potts and chief financial officer Thelma O'Driscoll during a media conference at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/38496c7c-dd00-4693-ac3b-0c83cf41db8f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">IRFU chief executive officer Kevin Potts and chief financial officer Thelma O&#8217;Driscoll during a media conference at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">IRFU chief executive Kevin Potts and chief financial officer Thelma O\u2019Driscoll have defended the union\u2019s ticket pricing for senior men\u2019s internationals at the Aviva Stadium and rejected the idea that those games have become a corporate day out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The union has reported an operating deficit of \u20ac4.2m for the 2024\/\u201925 season, a reduction of \u20ac14.2m on the previous year which was largely driven by revenue from the Autumn Nations Series games held at Lansdowne Road in November 2024, including the additional match against Australia to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the IRFU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRFU chief executive officer Kevin Potts and chief financial officer Thelma O&#8217;Driscoll during a media conference at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,4174,43,16766,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-148876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}