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RBS Six Nations – Ireland Side Announced Tomorrow.

RBS Six Nations – Ireland Side Announced Tomorrow.

The Ireland team to play Scotland in the RBS Six Nations championship at Lansdowne Road on Saturday next, March 27th, will be announced tomorrow.

The Ireland team to play Scotland in the RBS Six Nations championship at Lansdowne Road on Saturday next, March 27th, will be announced at City West
Hotel, Banqueting Centre tomorrow, (Tuesday March 23rd) at 12.45 pm.

The Ireland management have invited 11 players to join the 22 strong
squad
which was on duty against Italy yesterday, with the exception of
flanker
Keith Gleeson who fractured an arm and will undergo surgery this week.

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The additional players are: Simon Best, Bernard Jackman,
Neil
McMillan, Paul O’Connell, David Wallace, Roger Wilson, Gavin
Duffy, Tyrone Howe, Anthony Horgan, John Kelly
and Paddy Wallace.

The Ireland squad of 32 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), John Hayes (Munster – Shannon), Marcus Horan
(Munster –
Shannon), Bernard Jackman (Connacht – Clontarf), Gary Longwell
(Ulster –
Ballymena), Neil McMillan (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 (Munster – Garryowen), Roger Wilson
(Ulster – Belfast Harlequins).
Backs: Gordon D’Arcy (Leinster – Lansdowne), Girvan Dempsey (Leinster

Terenure College), Gavin Duffy (Harlequins), Guy Easterby
(Rotherham), Shane
Horgan (Leinster – Lansdowne), Anthony Horgan (Munster – Cork
Constitution),
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).

Not considered due to injury:
Justin Fitzpatrick (Castres), Denis
Hickie
(Leinster – St. Mary’s College), Rob Henderson (Munster – Garryowen),
Eric
Miller (Leinster – Terenure College), Mike Mullins (Munster – Old
Crescent),
Alan Quinlan (Munster – Shannon), David Quinlan (Leinster – Blackrock
College).