Irish team named for All Blacks challenge

The Irish team to play the All Blacks in the Carisbrook Stadium, Dunedin on Saturday June 15, in the first of two Tests on their tour to New Zealand is as follows:

15 Girvan Dempsey (Leinster/Terenure College)

14 Geordan Murphy (Leicester)

13 Brian O’Driscoll (Leinster/Blackrock College)

12 John Kelly Munster/Cork Constitution)

11 Justin Bishop (London Irish)

10 Ronan O’Gara (Munster/Cork Constitution)

9 Peter Stringer (Munster/Shannon)

1 Reggie Corrigan (Leinster/Lansdowne)

2 Keith Wood (Harlequins) Captain

3 John Hayes (Munster/Shannon)

4 Gary Longwell (Ulster/Ballymena)

5 Paul O’Connell (Munster/Young Munster)

6 Simon Esterby (Llanelli)

7 Keith Gleeson (Leinster/St. Mary’s College)

8 Anthony Foley (Munster/Shannon)