Abstract
The interplay between politics and Irish sport is seldom far from the surface and has often been detrimental to its development. Athletics exhibit this characteristic more than any other sport. A unity of sorts was achieved in 1924 with the final metamorphosis of the National Athletic and Cycling Association of Ireland (NACAI). This unity was not to survive as a range of political interests produced a tripartite institutional split by 1938 that inflicted near terminal damage on the sport and established a type of athletic apartheid as the practitioners of the sport in rural Ireland were deprived of international competition due to their membership of the unrecognized NACAI.
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