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Event: RWC 2019

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Why this is more important than Mandela and ‘95

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Why this is more important than Mandela and ‘95

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Springboks have made ‘winning ugly’ beautiful

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Springboks have made ‘winning ugly’ beautiful
Munster stint the making of South Africa boss Erasmus

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Munster stint the making of South Africa boss Erasmus
Eye on South Africa: What's not to like in a 46 point hammering? Quite a lot actually.

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Eye on South Africa: What's not to like in a 46 point hammering? Quite a lot actually.
The business of rugby looks to kick on as World Cup looms

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The business of rugby looks to kick on as World Cup looms
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Kearney targets RWC 2019 berth
Decades of neglect left World Cup bid with too much ground to make up
Decades of neglect left World Cup bid with too much ground to make up

Well, we got our backsides handed to us, and then some.

Sat, 04 Nov, 2017

Here's where Ireland's Rugby World Cup bid fell down
Here's where Ireland's Rugby World Cup bid fell down

Yesterday’s report by World Rugby’s Technical Review Group was fulsome in its praise for three “outstanding candidate submissions” and the IRFU was particularly keen to cling on to the remark that all of them could host a “successful” tournament.

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