The IRFU have confirmed that Tours will be Ireland's team base for the pool stages of France 2023.
Tours is one of the largest cities in the Centre-Val de Loire and will be home to Andy Farrell's squad ahead of their Pool B games against Romania, Tonga, South Africa and Scotland in September and October of next year.
World Rugby have decreed that each team has to be based in one central training location and then travel to the match day cities.
