Seanad debates
Wednesday, 29 January 2003
Development of Rugby: Motion.
Everyone present who is concerned about this has plenty of ways of giving support to Connacht. They do not need to discuss it here. With all due respect to Connacht, the country and the world has bigger problems than the future of professional rugby in Connacht. I say that as an enthusiast for sport and as an active participant when I was able, though I had probably retired from active sport around the time Senator Hayes was born, to judge from his announcement this afternoon. However, every morning the Leader says there are many issues to be debated and that we do not have time to reach them all. There is the possibility of war and how we have drifted into a situation where there is massive traffic in armaments and military personnel through the country under an ad hoc arrangement and without proper debate. People in the third city in the State are living almost in terror about who is in charge of their city. Those are just the current issues but I could go on forever.
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