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3 unusual facts about Peter Beazley


Peter Beazley

In January 1981 he opposed a call for the Ireland national rugby union team to cancel a tour of South Africa on the grounds that multiracial Rugby was practised throughout South Africa.

The former junior Health Minister Edwina Currie was selected to follow him but lost the seat to Labour in the 1994 elections.

In his last few weeks in office, Beazley worked to stop a European Commission proposal to ban the sale of motorbikes with over 100 brake horsepower.



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