Gilroy dreaming of Lions debut

IT is not just the senior players who had Australia on their minds when British & Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland visited the Ireland training camp this week.

As Declan Kidney’s men focused in on their final RBS 6 Nations game of the 2013 campaign, this Saturday in Rome against Italy, Rob Kearney admitted there might have been an extra spring in every player’s step as Gatland watched them train at Carton House on Tuesday and flying Ulster wing Craig Gilroy was no exception.

Gilroy’s rapid rise to Test rugby at the age of 21 since his try-scoring debut against Argentina last November has only been halted by a groin strain that kept him out of Saturday’s draw with France but he looks set to regain his green jersey when Kidney names his starting XV today ahead of the Stadio Olimpico clash.