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Thu 02 Feb 2007IRB ask French to suspend BrennanThe International Rugby Board (IRB) have become involved in the disciplinary case involving Ireland and Toulouse secondrow Trevor Brennan and the ERC, in which it is alleged the player entered the crowd during a European Cup match between his club and Ulster and became involved in a fracas with a spectator.The IRB yesterday confirmed they had written to the president of the French rugby federation, Bernard Lapasset, asking that they (the federation) provisionally suspend Brennan pending the final outcome of the ERC disciplinary hearing.