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Sat 03 Mar 2003Sex, grog and ruck 'n' maul
Dublin is gearing up for the mother of all rugby weekends. Róisín Ingle hears what will be going on in the social scrum
Just after breakfast is served tomorrow morning, a large truck will pull up outside the Lansdowne Hotel on Pembroke Road in the heart of Dublin 4. Every bar stool, every table, every stick of moveable furniture will be packed up and driven away. The old carpet, kept back for this very purpose when the bar and restaurant were refurbished, will be laid over the new one.
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