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04th Feb 2015

144 tickets for Ireland’s Valentine’s Day date with France are AWOL

We suspect bungling had a role to play in the misadventure

Patrick McCarry

Nothing says Valentines Day like a a black market ticket

The IRFU has swooped into action after 144 tickets for Ireland’s Six Nations date with France, on February 14, disappeared.

The union released a statement this afternoon, advising rugby fans not to purchase tickets off unofficial sellers after ‘144 tickets destined for Irish clubs were lost in transit’.

The statement continued: ‘The union will now cancel and re-issue the tickets to clubs and advised that any person arriving at the Aviva Stadium with a cancelled ticket will not gain entry to the stadium.’

A spokesperson for An Post, charged with delivering the ticket allocation, told SportsJOE it ‘is investigating the issue as a matter of urgency’.

One hopes the clubs in question get first-class delivery of their newly printed tickets and that they are not forced to make alternate plans for Valentines Day…

A full list of the A.W.O.L tickets is available here.

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