Murphy aims to make history

FULL-BACK Geordan Murphy has challenged his team-mates to make Irish rugby history by claiming our first victory over New Zealand.

The sides have met on 17 occasions with the All Blacks winning all but one, a 10-10 draw in 1973, and Graham Henry’s men are heavy favourites to extend that sequence at Lansdowne Road tomorrow.

But a defiant Murphy said: “The fact Ireland have never beaten New Zealand is more of an incentive for us than a psychological stumbling block.