Six Nations 2011: Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards says it’s time to forget about the Irish folk-song scuffle
Shaun Edwards wants to move on from the bust-up which landed him a week-long suspension by the Wales team, and get back to work. 
Repentant: Shaun Edwards was sidelined for a week after a scuffle Photo: GETTY IMAGES
Edwards, defence coach, and Fergus Connolly, the team’s sports scientist, were banned for a week for a “scuffle” following Wales’ infamous 19-13 victory over Ireland at the Millennium Stadium.
Connolly’s impromptu rendition of an Irish folk song on the team bus back to the hotel gave rise to an argument, which turned into a fight.
Edwards has called his suspension, which expired on Monday, “a week you’d rather forget”, adding: “The matter of the scuffle following the Ireland game can, I hope, be laid to rest. I am still the Wales defence coach.”
Edwards acknowledged that, although players have been known to “knock lumps out of each other,” for members of the coaching staff to face off is a graver matter.
“An Englishman and an Irishman having a go at each other during the celebration of a Welsh victory sounds like the start of a bad joke. In fact it was a lot more serious than that,” he wrote in The Guardian.
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