Connect with us

Columnists

Tongans backtrack over girls’ rugby ban

A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points

BRENDAN GALLAGHER

TONGA, with their incredible players worldwide, hold a special place in the hearts of many in rugby so it was with some dismay we heard news earlier this week that the Pacific Island nation appeared to have banned schoolgirls from playing rugby.
Happily, that decision, which provoked outrage far and wide, now seems to have been rescinded by the Prime Minister but it was a curious episode.
It began at the start of the week when the Tongan education minister Penisimani Fifita wrote to all Tongan high schools bann...

Continue reading...

Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per day!

SUBSCRIBE

Already a subscriber to our website? Login

Related Topics
 

Tackle the News

- Sign Up for our weekly Rugby Newsletter
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Your subscription has been successful.

The Rugby Paper

The best betting sites

Globusbet

the best minimum deposit £5 casinos casinobonusesfinder

Full list of UK betting sites at BookiesBonuses.com kasyna akceptujące paypal

online casinoFill Your Boots

free bets

online bookmakerFull list of UK betting sites at BookiesBonuses.com

GGBetBanner Depicting Therealefl.co.uk an affiliate site for Licensed UKGC Football bookmakers.

More in Columnists