On this very day 55 years ago – April 18, 1959 – an Ireland team containing the likes of Syd Millar, Noel Murphy, Ronnie Dawson and Tony O’Reilly lined out for Ireland against France at a packed Lansdowne Road.
For a veritable treasure trove of rugby clips of rugby across the British Isles & Ireland follow this link https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe/search?query=rugby
And thanks to newsreel archive British Pathé, who has uploaded its entire collection of 85,000 historic films, in high resolution, to its YouTube channel, you can watch footage of that very game from 1959……… for full story and youtube link :- >> http://www.irishrugby.ie/news/31604.php#.U1FltlVdX5s
