| Description | The big sheet has four sections cut from it comprising information about both teams' players and New Zealand's replacements. It is accompanied by:
- Programme signed by Bill McLaren.
- Notes, including an introduction to the match.
- Match itinerary.
- Tariff for the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire.
- Letter from Eric Dunlop to Mr Starmer Smith sending a newspaper cutting of an article by Dunlop entitled 'A hundred years of Lansdowne Road,' published in the Irish Times on 22 September 1972. The letter is dated 17 January 1987.
- Cuttings and photocopies from the Irish Times, The Times and other unidentified newspapers
regarding this match and Munster v. New Zealand, as well as the earlier Combined Provinces v. The Rest on 5 March 1987
This match was part of New Zealand's tour. The score was Ireland 6 - 23 New Zealand. The big sheet records:
Ireland
Team: Philip Rainey, Michael Kiernan, Brendan Mullin, David Irwin, Keith Crossan, Brian Smith, Fergus Ahearne [Aherne], Nick Popplewell, Steve Smith, Jim McCoy, Donal Lenihan, Willie Anderson, Philip Matthews, Noel Mannion and Pat O'Hara.
Replacements: Philip Danaher, Ralph Keyes, Michael Bradley, Des Fitzgerald, Terry Kingston and Paul Collins.
President: A. R. Dawson.
Chairman: Tony Twomey.
Coach: Jim Davidson.
Medical officer: Dr Mick Molloy.
New Zealand
Team: John Gallagher, Craig Innes, Joe Stanley, John Schuster, Terry Wright, Grant Fox, Graeme Bachop, Steve McDowall, Sean Fitzpatrick, Richard Loe, Murray Pierce, Gary Whetton, Andy Earl, Wayne Shelford and Mike Brewer.
Replacements (names cut from the big sheet): [Bruce Deans, Walter Little, Matthew Ridge, Warren Gatland, Graham Purvis and Zinzan Brooke.]
President: John Sturgeon.
Coach: Alex Wyllie.
Referee: Sandy MacNeill.
Assistant referees / touch judges: Ray Megson and Jim Fleming.
Also listed: Ken Hooks. |