The All Blacks took to the road and the skies on Wednesday as they commemorated their legendary former captain Dave Gallaher and grabbed a bird’s eye view at Lansdowne Road.
The All Blacks took to the road and the skies on Wednesday as they commemorated their legendary former captain Dave Gallaher and grabbed a bird’s eye view at Lansdowne Road. Pictured above: New Zealand players and team manager Darren Shan line up at a reception at Letterkenny RFC to mark the renaming of the Donegal club’s ground as the “Dave Gallaher Memorial Park”
Drawings by Ramelton children to mark the visit of the All Blacks. Dave Gallaher, the captain of “The Originals”, the first New Zealand side to tour Europe and North America in 1905/06, was born in the Donegal town
Neemia Tialata, Conrad Smith, Angus Macdonald, Jerry Collins and captain Tana Umaga watch a dance presention at Letterkenny Institute of Technology
New Zealand supporters show their support for Wednesday’s visitors to Letterkenny
New Zealand captain Tana Umaga unveils a plaque at the birthplace of Dave Gallaher in the Market Square in Ramelton as the Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt, New Zealand’s Ambassador to Ireland, looks on
Tana Umaga shakes hands with Mrs Ena Corry, the current owner of the Ramelton house in which Dave Gallaher was born in back in 1873
Tana Umaga signs an autograph for a local policeman in Ramelton
Jason Eaton, Ali Williams and New Zealand’s stand-in captain Richie McCaw (left-right) pose at Castleknock Hotel after enjoying a helicopter ride over Dublin and Saturday’s match venue Lansdowne Road
Leon MacDonald and Doug Howlett discussing the helicopter’s flight path
**All photographs courtesy of Billy Stickland and Andrew Cornaga of Inpho Photography**
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