The Munster Rugby Experience
Many people I know have no interest in rugby or its arcane laws but become positively evangelical when you mention the word “Munster” to them. Rugby was an amateur sport until 1995 and as a minority sport in Ireland it only really attracted attention when the national team sporadically did well. Most of the time it was regarded as an elitist game played by the middle classes and urban professionals. This was only ever partially true in Munster, as in the rural based junior and intermediate clubs there was always a good cross-section of farmers, labourers and young students in each team.
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