18-02-2023, 10:22 AM
They are up for renewal now, the contract was only two years. Of course, this being a World Cup year there are no Autumn Internationals and instead World Cup warm up games in August. TV coverage of these have traditionally been patchy - the old adage “there are no friendlies in rugby” seems to get forgotten for a few weeks, and there have been occasions when the IRFU has failed to sell the Irish rights to games, even where they have been picked up in the opposing country. The Six Nations are now selling these rights centrally, and seemingly no one has picked them up yet.