Overview
- Munster announced on Wednesday that Avan Lee will serve as interim CEO and is due to take up the role towards the end of October.
- Current chief executive Ian Flanagan confirmed last week that he will step down at the end of October after seven years running the province.
- Lee spent a decade as chief executive of the Hurricanes in New Zealand and has prior ties to Irish rugby from nearly a decade living in Dublin and playing for Clontarf.
- The appointment is explicitly temporary while Munster conducts an independent governance and organisational review that followed a cancelled coaching appointment and several resignations.
- The board expects to run a formal recruitment for a permanent successor and Lee’s stewardship, together with IRFU involvement, could shape Munster’s stability, staff decisions, and on-field planning over the next year.