Big welcome for Irish
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg The Irish rugby team arrived in Johannesburg yesterday for a controversial seven-match tour of South Africa which has been bitterly opposed by its own government. A crowd of about 1000 people, singing and waving banners, welcomed the tour-
ing party at Jan Smuts Airport. The depleted Irish squad, dogged by injuries and defections because of personal objections to apartheid, will play four matches against multi-racial sides and two tests against the Springboks. It opens its programme in Pretoria on Saturday against the national under-24 side, the Gazelles.
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Press, 13 May 1981, Page 44
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