An Ireland squad of 36 players will reassemble on Monday morning at the IRFU High Performance Centre at the Sport Ireland Campus as they step up preparation for taking on  Franco Smith’s Italian side at the Stadio Olimpico on Saturday afternoon. There were no significant injury concerns for the players who featured for their provinces in the PRO14 over the weekend and all twelve are fit to return to national camp. The game will be aired live on VIRGIN (ROI) and ITV (NI) on Saturday with a kick off time of 14.15hrs IST.

Ireland Squad Round 3 2021 Guinness Six Nations Championship

Backs

Bundee Aki (Connacht/Galwegians) 30 caps Billy Burns (Ulster) 5 caps Ross Byrne (Leinster/UCD) 12 caps Craig Casey (Munster/Shannon) uncapped Andrew Conway (Munster/Garryowen) 24 caps Shane Daly (Munster/Cork Con) 1 cap Keith Earls (Munster/Young Munster) 90 caps Chris Farrell (Munster/Young Munster) 14 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 Stuart McCloskey (Ulster/Bangor) 4 caps Conor Murray (Munster/Garryowen) 88 caps Garry Ringrose (Leinster/UCD) 32 caps Jonathan Sexton (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 96 caps

Forwards

Ryan Baird (Leinster/Dublin University) uncapped Tadhg Beirne (Munster/Lansdowne) 19 caps Ed Byrne (Leinster/UCD) 4 caps Jack Conan (Leinster/Old Belvedere) 17 caps Will Connors (Leinster/UCD) 7 caps Ultan Dillane (Connacht/Corinthians) 18 caps Tadhg Furlong (Leinster/Clontarf) 46 caps Cian Healy (Leinster/Clontarf) 106 caps Dave Heffernan (Connacht/Buccaneers) 5 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 Tom O’Toole (Ulster/Ballynahinch) uncapped 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