The Ireland squad will reassemble at the IRFU’s High Performance Centre at the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin today as preparations begin for the Guinness Series and Autumn Nations Cup fixtures.
Nine Munster players are included with Keith Earls joining the squad after missing out on the final rounds of the Guinness Six Nations Championship due to a back injury.
While Shane Daly and John Ryan were released back to train with the province this week and available for the Guinness PRO14 clash with Benetton they will return to the IRFU’s HPC earlier than planned with Sunday’s game in Treviso postponed.
That trio are joined by Andrew Conway, Chris Farrell, Conor Murray, CJ Stander, Peter O’Mahony and Tadhg Beirne.
Ireland will play Wales at home on Friday 13th November and then travel to London to play England at Twickenham on Saturday 21st November.
Ireland will play Wales at home on Friday 13th November and then travel to London to play England at Twickenham on Saturday 21st November.
The following Sunday, Ireland will host Georgia at the Aviva Stadium and will complete the series of international fixtures on Saturday 5th December against either Fiji, France, Italy or Scotland.
All games will be televised on RTE and Channel 4.
Ireland Squad Guinness Series / Autumn Nations Cup
Backs (16)
Bundee Aki (Connacht/Galwegians) 28 caps
Billy Burns (Ulster) uncapped
Ross Byrne (Leinster/UCD) 8 caps
Andrew Conway (Munster/Garryowen) 23 caps
Shane Daly (Munster/Cork Con) uncapped
Keith Earls (Munster/Young Munster) 84 caps
Chris Farrell (Munster/Young Munster) 10 caps
Jamison Gibson Park (Leinster) 2 caps
Robbie Henshaw (Leinster/Buccaneers) 45 caps
Hugo Keenan (Leinster/UCD) 2 caps
James Lowe (Leinster) uncapped
Kieran Marmion (Connacht/Corinthians) 27 caps
Stuart McCloskey (Ulster/Bangor) 3 caps
Conor Murray (Munster/Garryowen) 83 caps
Jonathan Sexton (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 93 caps CAPTAIN
Jacob Stockdale (Ulster/Lurgan) 30 caps
Forwards (18)
Finlay Bealham (Connacht/Buccaneers) 11 caps
Tadhg Beirne (Munster/Lansdowne) 15 caps
Ed Byrne (Leinster/UCD) 2 caps
Will Connors (Leinster/UCD) 2 caps
Ultan Dillane (Connacht/Corinthians) 17 caps
Caelan Doris (Leinster/UCD) 4 caps
Cian Healy (Leinster/Clontarf) 100 caps
Dave Heffernan (Connacht/Buccaneers) 3 caps
Iain Henderson (Ulster/Academy) 55 caps
Rob Herring (Ulster/Ballynahinch) 13 caps
Ronan Kelleher (Leinster/Lansdowne) 3 caps
Peter O’Mahony (Munster/Cork Constitution) 69 caps
Andrew Porter (Leinster/UCD) 28 caps
Quinn Roux (Connacht/Galwegians) 12 caps
John Ryan (Munster/Cork Constitution) 21 caps
James Ryan (Leinster/UCD) 28 caps
CJ Stander (Munster/Shannon) 43 caps
Josh van der Flier (Leinster/UCD) 26 caps
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