Rugby Festival Ships in the Ladies to Hebridean Island
A remote Scottish Island's rugby festival has caused an upset in the balance of the sexes. With the invited male players being double the number of female islanders at the festival finale dance, drastic action has been required.
(PRWEB) June 12, 2009 -- A Hebridean island rugby festival has an unusually large number of females taking part.
The Islay Beach Rugby festival attracts teams from England, Ireland and mainland Scotland, with players traveling to the remote island by RIB, helicopter, ferry and plane.
This year 32 teams compete on seashore sand pitches in a frenetic, exhausting and physical game of full contact rugby - followed by a highly convivial evening ceilidh.
"When we started it was all local teams," said Islay Rugby Club president Simon Coughlin, a director of the island's Bruichladdich single malt whisky Distillery, "now they come from all over the UK."
"Bringing 350 fit young men to the island creates an imbalance of the sexes at the dance: there are only 323 Islay girls aged between 15 and 35 - and over half of them are married. There would be twice as many mena s girls at the festival dance which clearly was going to cause problems."
Coughlin realised the event, renown for its great craic, would be one-sided with such an influx of masculinity to the small island - so invited a third of the teams to be all female.
"So this year there will be 10 ladies' teams taking part in their own competition. It's a rough game so they will not be playing with the men - well, at least not until after the game."
The highly competitive festival, supported by Bruichladdich Distillery, takes place on Saturday at Port Ellen, Isle of Islay.
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