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Show J Irish Games Are Old j t Ireland Is the only country J in the world except France that 0 lias a minister of sports. He is J J J. J. Walsh, who doubles the t 4 parts of flail minister of sports J ' and postmaster general of the t t provisional government. His J ' sports job is even bigger than t his task of taking oyer the post- ' office, for it puts on him the ' 1 responsibility of organizing the great national games to be held ' in Dublin. J ' The Irish Hailteann games ' t have a history of many hundred 1 J years. Walsh says they are t older than the Olympic games 1 J in Greece. They ended the year ' before the first British soldiers t J came to Ireland in the Twelfth ' century and their resumption is , organized for the date when the J ' last British soldier will have ' left it. J |