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Thread: This day in Ireland 40 years ago

  1. 10th March 2010, 09:28 PM #11
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    This is how you protest a South Africa game

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  3. 10th March 2010, 11:14 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by nuj View Post
    Exactly what were you doing there, Catalpa? Playing, watching or demonstrating? If demonstrating, was it for or against apartheid?
    Demonstrating of course.

    You didn't think that ...I...was...inside cheering them on now do you?

    IIRC the March to the grounds was led by one Conor Cruise O'Brien....with young Catalpa just a few footsteps behind.

    Well at least our paths crossed once upon a time.

    Pity he fell by the wayside after that.
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