Having picked their combined Welsh-Irish team during the week, Wales Online have now picked their all-time Irish XV. We can leave the indignation at the door here. There's no claims about it how could hardly compete with an all-time Welsh team
The team is adorned with the usual heroes of the amateur era - a Belfast based solicitor, a consultant surgeon who spent years in Africa and a certain ex-newspaper baron are all included - while there are just four players whose careers traversed the professional era included.
Here are the fifteen...
Full back - Tom Kiernan
Wing - Tommy Bowe
Centre - Brian O'Driscoll
Centre - Mike Gibson
Wing - Tony O'Reilly
Fly Half - Jack Kyle
Scrum Half - Roger Young
Ulster scrum-half in the 1960s and 70s, Young was the first choice no.9 on two Lions tours.
Prop - Ray McLoughlin
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Hooker - Keith Wood
Prop - Syd Millar
Second row - Willie John McBride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-URAClLpiM
Second row - Paul O'Connell
Flanker - John O'Driscoll
Openside Flanker - Fergus Slattery
Number Eight - Willie Duggan
