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Can you name the Ireland XV that beat the All Blacks for the first time in 2016?

21st October 2025

12:25pm BST

Once again, on November 1, Ireland will travel to Solider Field in Chicago, the site of their famous first victory over the All Blacks, back in 2016.

The score that day was 40-29, as Ireland utterly dominated New Zealand.

But can you name the starting XV from that day?

It's harder than you might think.....

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