The pair also scored a coup by securing All Black Legend Buck Shelford as a founding IRC member, along with former All Blacks including Bruce Robertson, Northlander Ian Jones, Stu Wilson and Ian Kirkpatrick.
Shelford is also fronting an IRC "Bring Back Billeting" campaign encouraging local rugby clubs and fans to host Lions supporters.
Shelford said some of his greatest memories were created staying with host families on rugby trips.
"They welcomed us into their homes, fed us and we quite often became friends," he said. "It was just good old Kiwi hospitality, or manaakitanga."
Bring Back Billeting will allow rugby club members, and their affiliates, to register their available beds during the tour, and the IRC will match them with travelling rugby fans who have requested beds to put their heads on.
Nominated rugby clubs will be the happy beneficiaries of the agreed accommodation donation.
But it was not just about the fundraising, said Molloy.
"While fundraising for local rugby clubs is core to everything we do, we also want to bring together like-minded, aka rugby mad people, and create some memorable experiences and hopefully long-lasting mateships" he said.
Tuckey said getting Shelford on board happened in the formative days of the IRC.
"Buck was one of the founding members," Tuckey said.
A big part of the IRC's plan is to direct IRC members towards local rugby clubs, who can then organise events to host visiting fans.
"Buck said he'd support anything that gives back to club rugby and it is great to see him have a bit of fun and involved."
The IRC grew from Tuckey's involvement with Kamo Rugby Club in helping organise golden oldies games.
"Being involved in a rugby club up here and running golden oldies tournaments, you could see that everyone loved being back in the social side [of things] but not necessarily the playing side," Tuckey said.
"We always joked that it would be more fun if we didn't have to play, so we organised the IRC and it is going from strength to strength."
