The Ireland coaching group will retain a 24 man panel for the two day mini-camp on Thursday and Friday this week at the IRFU High Performance Centre at the Sport Ireland Campus. There were no additional injury concerns following the match against France and the players (Burns, Healy, Henderson) who were removed for HIAs will follow the appropriate protocols this week. Twelve players are returning to their provincial bubbles to avail of game time in the Guinness PRO14 this weekend – Bundee Aki, Ultan Dillane, Dave Heffernan (Connacht), Ryan Baird, Ross Byrne, Jack Conan (Leinster), Craig Casey, Andrew Conway, Shane Daly, Chris Farrell (Munster) and Stuart McCloskey, Tom O’Toole (Ulster). The three players who provided specialist cover at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday – Harry Byrne, John Cooney  and Eric O’Sullivan– have also returned to their respective provinces. All members of the Ireland squad and backroom team undertook routine PCR tested on Monday producing no positive results.  The group will undergo further routine testing  again this week as per our protocols.

Ireland Squad - Two Day Camp February 17/18

Backs

Billy Burns (Ulster) 5 caps Keith Earls (Munster/Young Munster) 90 caps Jamison Gibson Park (Leinster) 7 caps Robbie Henshaw (Leinster/Buccaneers) 49 caps Hugo Keenan (Leinster/UCD) 8 caps Jordan Larmour (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 26 caps James Lowe (Leinster) 4 caps Conor Murray (Munster/Garryowen) 88 caps Garry Ringrose (Leinster/UCD) 32 caps Jonathan Sexton (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 96 caps Forwards Tadhg Beirne (Munster/Lansdowne) 19 caps Ed Byrne (Leinster/UCD) 4 caps Will Connors (Leinster/UCD) 7 caps Tadhg Furlong (Leinster/Clontarf) 46 caps Cian Healy (Leinster/Clontarf) 106 caps Iain Henderson (Ulster/Academy) 60 caps Rob Herring (Ulster/Ballynahinch) 18 caps Ronan Kelleher (Leinster/Lansdowne) 8 caps Dave Kilcoyne (Munster/UL Bohemians) 40 caps Andrew Porter (Leinster/UCD) 34 caps Rhys Ruddock (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 27 caps James Ryan (Leinster/UCD) 33 caps CJ Stander (Munster/Shannon) 48 caps Josh van der Flier (Leinster/UCD) 30 caps Returning to Provinces Bundee Aki (Connacht/Galwegians) 30 caps Ryan Baird (Leinster/Dublin University) uncapped Ross Byrne (Leinster/UCD) 12 caps Craig Casey (Munster/Shannon) uncapped Andrew Conway (Munster/Garryowen) 24 caps Jack Conan (Leinster/Old Belvedere) 17 caps Shane Daly (Munster/Cork Con) 1 cap Ultan Dillane (Connacht/Corinthians) 18 caps Chris Farrell (Munster/Young Munster) 14 caps Dave Heffernan (Connacht/Buccaneers) 5 caps Stuart McCloskey (Ulster/Bangor) 4 caps Tom O’Toole (Ulster/Ballynahinch) uncapped