Search on to find locals who shared pints with All Blacks in rural Cork pub

Lyon's Bar closed last year but that hasn't stopped quest to uncover story behind an iconic picture that hung in Ceciltown pub
Search on to find locals who shared pints with All Blacks in rural Cork pub

Lyon's bar in Cecilstown, located between Mallow and Kanturk in north Cork, had a visit in the 1970s from the All Blacks. Picture: Paul Gallagher / C103's Cork Today Show

A Cork man is appealing to the public for help as he looks to uncover how a rugby team from New Zealand came to be photographed at a rural pub in Ceciltown.

Historical pursuits rarely begin behind the counter of a bar, but for Paul Gallagher, that’s exactly where it started. His goal is to put names to faces on an old photograph that hung in Lyon's Bar in Ceciltown.

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