Wales Online Have Picked Their Greatest Ever Irish Rugby XV... It's A Formidable Side

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

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