225:, other Irish sports boycotting in solidarity with the NACA exclusion. In 1937, some clubs in the Irish Free State left NACA and formed an Irish Amateur Athletic Union (IAAU, the same name as the abortive 1932 proposal) whose remit excluded Northern Ireland. The IAAU applied to join the IAAF, but due to
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After many failed attempts at unification, Bord
Luthchleas na hÉireann (BLÉ) was formed in 1967 by the merger of the AAUE and most clubs of the NACA. However, some NACA clubs refused to join BLÉ, though in 1987 the rump NACA reached agreement with BLÉ allowing joint international representation. The
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In 1934, the IAAF amended its constitution to require member associations to be delimited by international political boundaries. After a year's delay, the NACA council voted 24 to 27 to reject the IAAF decision and was suspended the following month. There was no Irish team at the
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had recently been separated politically, and the GAA was prepared to surrender its authority to ensure national unity in athletics and cycling and avoid a division which would reinforce the reality of partition. The GAA after 1923 thus restricted itself to
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Cycling Tripartite Committee (ICTC) was formed to link the NCA, NICF, and ICF (Irish Cycling Federation, the successor to the CRE). In 1987 all three merged into the Federation of Irish Cyclists (FIC), now operating as
253:. The AAUE, whose Secretary Louis Vandendries was on holiday, reported him to the IAAF, which suspended him; upon Vandendries' return he defused the controversy by informing the IAAF that O'Riordan was now in good standing with the AAUE.
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Already by 1925 there was a split, with the
Northern Ireland Amateur Athletic, Cycling and Cross Country Association (NIAAA) formed over a dispute concerning an Easter Monday sports meeting in Belfast, which as well as athletics featured
209:. In the meantime O'Duffy tried to resolve the matter by proposing an Irish Amateur Athletic Union (IAAU) in negotiations between NACA and the NIAAA, to have an agreed flag containing the arms of the four provinces on a background of
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was president of the NACA, and raised at the IAAF the dispute with the
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233:(AAUE). AAUE affiliation in 1938 meant the NACA was definitively expelled from the IAAF. Most Irish athletics clubs remained in NACA, and it was NACA that was affiliated to the
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or both. It existed from 1922 to 2000, though for most of the period it was not the sole governing body in
Ireland for either sport. Its refusal to recognise
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was extended to ban those competing in athletics and cycling events not authorised by the NACA. The NACA retained some international links, through the
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fanbase, the NACA alienated nationalists as well as unionists in
Belfast. The NIAAA affiliated to the English AAA in 1930, with its unionist president
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National Athletic Association of Ireland and Irish Athletics, 1922–1937: steps on the road to athletic isolation".
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rather than the IAAU flag. The IAAF decided in 1932 not to intervene in the
Northern jurisdiction dispute.
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in Canada. In each case, the team was claimed to represent "Ireland" rather than the Irish Free State.
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National Athletic and Cycling Association of Ireland
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303:physical force republican
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