Joey Carbery will miss France game due to hamstring injury

Ireland will be without Joey Carbery and Robbie Henshaw for Sunday’s Guinness Six Nations home game with France but team management has insisted the dropped Sean Cronin still has a Test future despite his omission.

The 2018 Grand Slam winners welcome the French to Dublin this weekend looking to regain the form of last year that has deserted them in the first three rounds of this year’s championship, albeit while collecting away victories over Scotland and Italy.