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Insulting Quotes on Irish Rugby

One of the most popular sports in Ireland, but not always the most respected:

A denationalising plague carrying on through winter the work of ruin that cricket was doing throughout the summer.
Michael Cusack, 1864, on Rugby

Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
"...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."
Gemma Hussey,Ireland Today1994

extract from the Appletree Press title
Never Throw Stones At Your Mother
– Irish Insults and Curses by David Ross.

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