Paris to Pau via Bordeaux. If you've never been to France, let me tell, it's a big country. The ladies were forced to take the overnight train because the coach they rented to take them to the train station in Paris got caught in the inevitable Friday traffic outside the French capital. It is laughable that the IRFU, with all its dosh, can't even charter a plane for the Irish women's team to fly to the south of France.