World Rugby Chairman Bill Beaumont has hailed the Rugby World Cup 2023 bids as 'exciting and impressive' after the candidate Unions presented their vision and plans to World Rugby Council in London today.

Bob Geldof reads from the WB Yeats poem, 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree', as he talks about the Irish around the world and the impact they will have on a Rugby World Cup in Ireland.

The Ireland team bidding to host Rugby World Cup 2023 delivered a powerful presentation to the World Rugby representatives in London today and promised to deliver a 'tournament like no other'.

Ireland is in the final stage of bidding to host the Rugby World Cup in 2023. We have put a great bid together, it is a partnership between North and South, between the IRFU and the GAA, between our communities, business, diaspora and Government. Everybody is coming together, it is Ireland at its best.