MY LIFE IN RUGBY
THE FORMER BRITISH & IRISH LIONS, IRELAND AND OXFORD UNIVERSITY FULL-BACK
HUGO MACNEILL

EVEN though I played for the British and Irish Lions in 1983, won two Five Nations Championships outright, 37 caps for Ireland and was an Oxford Blue, my proudest moment in rugby was not actually on the pitch but in 1996 when myself and Trevor Ringland organised the Peace International.
When Canary Wharf was blown up by the IRA, there were a lot of protests from people here saying, ‘not in our name’. Trevor and I had a lot of North-South discussions in our time tog...