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David Wallace and Paul O’Connell return to the Ireland team to play
Scotland
in the Triple Crown deciding RBS Six Nations Championship match in
Lansdowne
Road on Saturday next (Kick off 4.00pm).

Wallace, who won the last of his 18 caps in the pre World Cup warm up
game
against Scotland last September, replaces the injured Keith Gleeson
at open
side flanker while, O’Connell, who withdrew from the Ireland team to
play
Italy with bruised ribs, returns in place of his deputy Donncha
O’Callaghan.

O’Callaghan reverts to the replacements bench instead of Gary
Longwell.

The Ireland team to play Scotland in the RBS Six Nations Championship
in
Lansdowne Road on Saturday, March 27th 2004 at 16.00hrs is as follows:
15 – Girvan Dempsey (Leinster – Terenure College)
14 – Shane Horgan (Leinster – Lansdowne)
13 – Gordon D’Arcy (Leinster – Lansdowne)
12 – Brian O’Driscoll (Leinster – Blackrock College) capt
11 – Geordan Murphy (Leicester)
10 – Ronan O’Gara (Munster – Cork Constitution)
9 – Peter Stringer (Munster – Shannon)
1 – Reggie Corrigan (Leinster – Greystones)
2 – Shane Byrne (Leinster – Blackrock College)
3 – John Hayes (Munster – Shannon)
4 – Malcolm O’Kelly (Leinster – St. Mary’s College)
5 – Paul O’Connell (Munster – Young Munster)
6 – Simon Easterby (Llanelli)
7 – David Wallace (Munster – Garryowen)
8 – Anthony Foley (Munster – Shannon)
Replacements:
16 – Frank Sheahan (Munster – Cork Constitution)
17 –
Marcus
Horan (Munster – Shannon)
18 – Donncha O’Callaghan (Munster – Cork
Constitution)
19 – Victor Costello (Leinster – St. Mary’s College)
20 –
Guy Easterby (Rotherham)
21 – David Humphreys (Ulster – Dungannon)
22 –
Kevin Maggs (Bath).

Not considered due to injury:
Keith Gleeson (Leinster – St. Mary’s
College),
Rob Henderson (Munster – Young Munster), Denis Hickie (Leinster – St.
Mary’s
College), Anthony Horgan (Munster – Cork Constitution), Eric Miller
(Leinster – Terenure College), Mike Mullins (Munster – Old Crescent),
Alan
Quinlan (Munster – Shannon).