DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will consider launching a bid for the 2023 rugby World Cup this week, the country's sports minister said on Monday, hoping a politically-symbolic proposal will win it the right to host the event for the first time.
The ambitious effort would see games played on both sides of the Irish border as unlike football, the national team is an all-Ireland selection, and would represent another major step since a 1998 peace agreement mostly ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland.
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