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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.

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

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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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