1,700 bravely line out to set haka record

THE last time former rugby star Gerry “Ginger” McLoughlin faced the haka, there were 15 All Black warriors taunting him at Thomond Park on October 31, 1978.

And we all know what Gerry and the gallant men of Munster did that day.

The haka posed an even more daunting task for the former Irish and Munster prop yesterday at the University of Limerick Arena.