Murphy and O’Callaghan Named in Ireland Training Squad.

Geordan Murphy and Donncha O’Callaghan and Connacht’s Darren Yapp are among the 31 players who will take part in a mini training camp in Dublin this week

The Ireland squad of 31 players taking part in a mini training camp in Dublin this week comprises the 22 players on duty against England on Saturday last, with the addition of nine others.

The reduced squad of 22 from which the Ireland team to play Italy in
the RBS
Six Nations Championship at Lansdowne Road on March 20th, will be named later this week.

The team to play Italy will be announced at City West Hotel, Banqueting Centre on Tuesday, March 16th at 12.45 pm. The Ireland squad of 31 is:

Forwards: Simon Best (Ulster – Belfast Harlequins) Shane Byrne
(Leinster –
Blackrock College), Reggie Corrigan (Leinster – Greystones), Victor
Costello
(Leinster – St. Mary’s College), Simon Easterby (Llanelli), Anthony
Foley
(Munster – Shannon), Keith Gleeson (Leinster – St. Mary’s College),
John
Hayes (Munster – Shannon), Marcus Horan (Munster – Shannon), Bernard
Jackman
(Connacht – Clontarf), Gary Longwell (Ulster – Ballymena), Donncha O’Callaghan (Munster – Cork Constitution), Paul O’Connell (Munster –
Young
Munster), Malcolm O’Kelly (Leinster – St. Mary’s College), Frank
Sheahan
(Munster – Cork Constitution), David Wallace (Garryowen – Munster).

Backs: Gordon D’Arcy (Leinster – Lansdowne), Neil Doak (Ulster –
Belfast
Harlequins), Girvan Dempsey (Leinster – Terenure College), Guy
Easterby
(Rotherham), Shane Horgan (Leinster – Lansdowne), Tyrone Howe (Ulster
–
Dungannon), David Humphreys (Ulster – Dungannon), John Kelly (Munster
– Cork
Constitution), Kevin Maggs (Bath), Geordan Murphy (Leicester), Brian
O’
Driscoll (Leinster – Blackrock College), Ronan O’Gara (Munster – Cork
Constitution), Peter Stringer (Munster – Shannon), Paddy Wallace
(Ulster –
Ballymena), Darren Yapp (Connacht – Buccaneers).