Job sacrificed for S.A. tour
NZPA-Reuter Dublin A third member of the Irish rugby squad, which will leave today for a controversial month-long tour of South Africa, said yesterday that he had quit his job to go. Gerry McLoughlin, a teacher, said that he had resigned from a school in Limerick after being told he could not have time off. Last month two other members of the 26-strong
party, John Robbie and Jerry Holland, also left their jobs for similar reasons. The Irish Rugby Football Union has rejected pleas from the Government, churchmen, and trade-union leaders to call off the tour because of South Africa’s apartheid policies. The Prime Minister (Mr Charles Haughey) unsuccessfully expressed his objections when he met rugby union officials last Friday.
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Press, 9 May 1981, Page 64
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