Ireland says Brexit will not upset all-island 2023 World Cup bid


  • Rugby
  • Thursday, 23 Mar 2017

DUBLIN (Reuters) - The prospect of Britain's exit from the European Union leading to a hard border between the Irish republic and Northern Ireland will not be an issue for an all-island bid to host the 2023 rugby World Cup, the bid's chairman said on Wednesday.

Ireland, competing with France and South Africa to hold the event on its own for the first time, completed a two-day review of what it has pitched as a politically symbolic proposal to play games on both sides of a border once beset by violence.

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