Wales: Rugby in language drive

[Harold Schiffman]

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Rugby in language drive
Mar 14 2008 by Gerry Holt, South Wales Echo

A MAJOR initiative to increase the use of the Welsh language across
the game of rugby in Wales has been launched by the WRU. Three
bilingual projects involving the Millennium Stadium, the WRU website
and the forthcoming IRB Junior World Championship are being backed by
the Welsh Assembly Government and the Sports Council for Wales.
The first will see publications for the Junior World Championship,
which will be contested by the top 16 under-20 international teams
across Wales this June, made bilingual.

This will include the official tournament guide and the programme for
the championship final at Swansea's Liberty Stadium.

Match tickets for all 41 games in the tournament will also feature
Welsh language information.

The second project will involve an overhaul of the WRU website which
will offer bilingual information and statistics for anyone interested
in Welsh rugby.

The third scheme will see signage at the Millennium Stadium made fully
bilingual to ensure all visitors will be able to get in and around the
building following signs through the medium of Welsh.

Welsh Rugby Union Group chief executive, Roger Lewis, said: "This is
an important step on our route towards a Welsh Language Policy for the
WRU and that will now be published within the next few months."

Heritage Minister, Rhodri Glyn Thomas said: "It is important for
high-profile Welsh organisations like the WRU to embrace the use of
Welsh, and rugby can play a vital part in helping to encourage people
of all ages and in all parts of Wales to learn and use Welsh in their
everyday lives."

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