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Wed 03 Mar 2009Ireland to face South Africa in Thomond Park
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND FRIENDLY FIXTURE: GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI is unlikely to give the event too much thought until the flight home from Cyprus a couple of days earlier, but the FAI yesterday filled the last remaining vacant date in his Republic of Ireland team’s schedule for 2009 by pencilling in a friendly game against South Africa to be played at Thomond Park on Tuesday, September 8th.
The game will take place three days after the World Cup qualifier in Nicosia and will give the players a run-out together ahead of the potentially critical games against Italy and Montenegro at Croke Park the following month.
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