Irish Lions humbled by orphanage visit highlight

RONAN O’GARA and David Wallace yesterday spoke emotionally of their visit to a Cape Town orphanage, describing it as a highlight of the tour to South Africa.

On the playing front, O’Gara is bitterly disappointed that he hasn’t nailed down a place on the Test side; Wallace has been more fortunate and was yesterday named to play in tomorrow’s Test against the Springboks in Pretoria.

But the pair left rugby behind and accompanied Paul Wallace, the Lions prop in 1997, and former Ireland A back-rower, Barry O’Mahony, to a township to view facilities at an orphanage which has been part-funded by the Irish registered charity JDI (Just Do It).