Just 17 players were selected to travel for the 11 matches in Canada and predictably enough for such a small party, Ireland were forced to play a number of games with just 14 men because of injuries. Playing in such varied towns as Halifax, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto and Ottawa, Ireland won 10 of their 11 fixtures, their only defeat coming against Nova Scotia early on in the tour. All costs were covered by Duke Collins, a Dublin native who lived in Toronto, but the IRFU didn't crow too loudly about that.