IRFU chief executive Kevin Potts has defended ticket prices for internationals at the Aviva Stadium and strongly rejected claims that Ireland’s home matches have increasingly become corporate days out. Category A tickets for this Saturday’s game against South Africa (kick-off 5.40pm) were set at €160, tickets prices for Ireland home games having increased by around 80 per cent in the last dozen years. Ireland fans celebrate Mack Hansen’s try against Australia at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday. Photograph: Gary Carr/InphoHe added: “We have to charge prices that fill the stadium and deliver the revenues we need. “Our ticket distribution across Ireland has not changed since we opened the Aviva Stadium back in 2010.
