Seanad debates

Wednesday, 29 January 2003

Development of Rugby: Motion.

 

We marched to the headquarters of the IRFU last Thursday. I was privileged to speak at the meeting along with Deputy Kenny and Bobby Molloy, a former Deputy and Minister. I was delighted to put forward our point of view. We have four provinces – four green fields – in this country and who is to say that one province is to be wiped away at the behest of a group of people sitting in a privileged street in the centre of Dublin? What an elitist decision for the IRFU to make and what a note of preferment has been introduced to its debates. It wants to impose that decision on the poor people of Connacht. However, they are no longer poor and are no longer going to sit down and take it. Cromwell told us 400 years ago to go to hell or to Connacht and we went because there was nowhere else to go. The people of Connacht want to keep their game of rugby at the highest level. They have shown that they can do it. They have shown spunk and determination.

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