The Ireland squad enter their first match week and have returned to their usual Maynooth training base after completing five tough weeks of pre-season training. https://twitter.com/IrishRugby/status/1158370187474866178?s=20 The squad started with two training weeks at Carton House followed by a week at Connacht Rugby’s base in Galway and a week in UL at Munster's training base. Two Open Training sessions, in Galway and Limerick, gave supporters a chance to see first hand the hard work being done by the players. There have been two regeneration weeks included in the schedule while last week was spent at the IRFU’s new High Performance Centre in west Dublin. Ultan Dillane and Rory Scannell have returned to their provincial bases. Ireland play the first of their two Guinness Summer Series Test matches against Conor O’Shea’s Italy at the Aviva Stadium this coming Saturday at 2.00pm - tap here for tickets

Ireland Squad (v Italy, Guinness Series 2019, Saturday, August 10, Aviva Stadium, 2pm)

Forwards (23) Finlay Bealham (Buccaneers/Connacht) 9 caps Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster) 117 caps Tadhg Beirne (Lansdowne/Munster) 5 caps Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 14 caps Sean Cronin (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 68 caps Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf/Leinster) 33 caps Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster) 88 caps Iain Henderson (Queens University/Ulster) 44 caps Rob Herring (Ballynahinch/Ulster) 7 caps Dave Kilcoyne (UL Bohemians/Munster) 29 caps Jean Kleyn (Munster) 0 caps Jack McGrath (St Marys College/Leinster) 54 caps Jordi Murphy (Lansdowne/Ulster) 27 caps Tommy O’Donnell (UL Bohemians/Munster) 12 caps Peter O’Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster) 57 caps Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster) 14 caps Rhys Ruddock (Lansdowne/Leinster) 21 caps James Ryan (UCD/Leinster) 17 caps John Ryan (Cork Constitution/Munster) 18 caps Niall Scannell (Dolphin/Munster) 14 caps CJ Stander (Shannon/Munster) 31 caps Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster) 64 caps Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster) 17 caps Backs (20) Will Addison (Enniskillen/Ulster) 3 caps Bundee Aki (Galwegians/Connacht) 17 caps Ross Byrne (UCD/Leinster) 2 caps Joey Carbery (Clontarf/Munster) 18 caps Jack Carty (Buccaneers/Connacht) 3 caps Andrew Conway (Garryowen/Munster) 12 caps John Cooney (Terenure College/Ulster) 8 caps Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) 77 caps Chris Farrell (Young Munster/Munster) 5 caps Mike Haley (Munster) 0 caps Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Leinster) 37 caps Dave Kearney (Lansdowne/Leinster) 17 caps Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster) 90 caps Jordan Larmour (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 13 caps Kieran Marmion (Galwegians/Connacht) 25 caps Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster) 10 caps Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster) 72 caps Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster) 20 caps Jonathan Sexton (St Marys College/Leinster) 83 caps Jacob Stockdale (Lurgan/Ulster) 19 caps