IRELAND’S rugby heroes had one of their greatest ever moments in 1982 when they beat England, Scotland and Wales to win the Triple Crown. They hadn’t won it in over the 30 years and it would be one of ...

Abe Williams, the team manager of the 1981 Springbok rugby tour to New Zealand, reflects on the challenges and controversies of the tour, known for protests and flour-bomb incidents. Williams, who was ...

Wynand Claasen recalls fearing a lynching when anti-apartheid protesters upturned a trailer and pounded on their dressing room window in Hamilton. Naas Botha remembers nearly being run over by a ...

The late Bill Robson was a member of a Waikato Times team that covered the protest marches and invasion of Rugby Park on Saturday, July 25, 1981 by radio-telephone. What follows is his vivid ...

Wellington (AFP) – All Blacks fans will gather to watch the World Cup final against the Springboks on Saturday, but there was a time when their rugby team's links to apartheid-era South Africa ...

Noel Glass wonders whether the South Canterbury team he captained could have toppled the Springboks had they been given the opportunity 40 years ago on August 19, 1981.chris tobin / Stuff Forty years ...

Police clash with 1981 Springbok anti-tour protestors as they invade Hamilton's Rugby Park, leading to the cancellation of the scheduled clash with Waikato. Photograph / NZME A "serious" - and ...