MY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER IRELAND, LIONS, SARACENS, MUNSTER & GARRYOWEN WINGER
RICHARD WALLACE

I WAS in Moscow of all places when I finally got the call to tell me that I’d been selected for the 1993 Lions tour to New Zealand. I was working for a Limerick-based financial services company at the time and I was over there on business. I knew before I left that I’d been placed on the standby list but what that meant exactly was lost on me so I didn’t think much about it really.
Back in those days none of us had mobiles and the apartment I was staying in didn&#...