Name ban on team
NZPA-Reuter Dublin The Irish rugby team, due to tour South Africa next week, should not use the name of Ireland nor any emblems suggesting that it , represents the country, the I Irish Government said yes- ' terday. A strongly-worded statement expressed ‘surprise and dismay* that the Irish Rugby Football Union had rejected pleas to cancel the tour from the Prime Minister, Mr Charles Haughey.
■ The government has opposed the tour because of its opposition to South Africa’s apartheid policies. Mr Haughey met eight leaders of the rugby union last Friday and urged them to abandon the tour, stressing that it could cause economic and political damage to Irish interests. / The group is due to leave Dublin on Saturday on the first leg of its month-long tour. It will be the first Irish team to visit South Africa since 1962.
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Press, 6 May 1981, Page 46
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