IRB releases more World Cup tickets

The International Rugby Board this morning released 210,000 tickets across all pool games in the Rugby World Cup in France in September.

Tickets are currently available for Ireland's games against Namibia and Georgia in Bordeaux if one follows the official route online, but they are harder to come by for the meetings with the hosts and Argentina in Paris.

An IRB spokesman assured

this afternoon that there were tickets available for those games this morning but such is the demand for the Paris venues that they may have been snapped up already.

This does not mean that they are entirely sold out as more may become available at a later date.

There are also tickets available for the quarter-finals, one of which is in Cardiff, and for the bronze medal final in Parc des Princes.

The tickets are in addition to the 100,000 that were put on sale two weeks ago.

More than 1,750,000 tickets have already been sold for the tournament and the IRB expects that figure to rise to over two million.

To locate tickets visit the World Cup website, www.rugbyworldcup.com, follow the links depending on your location.

The IRB has also announced that 100,000 ticket-inclusive official corporate hospitality products have been sold.

This figure equates an increase of 96 per cent on the amount of corporate tickets sold for Australia 2003 and 18 per cent more than the last World Cups combined.