Ireland coach Declan Kidney has made two further additions to his coaching team with the announcement that both Alan Gaffney and Mark Tainton will be joining the Ireland staff.

Coach Michael Bradley has named the Ireland team to play the Barbarians in Kingsholm, Gloucester next Tuesday in their summer tour warm up game.

THE 2008 RBS Six Nations Championship may be only two games old, but Brian O’Driscoll’s form has never come under so much scrutiny since the day he first broke onto the senior side on tour in Australia in 1999.

The Ireland squad for the 2008 RBS Six Nations championship sees a mixture of youth and experience for this season’s tournament in the extended 33-man squad named by Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan.

Ireland and Munster forward Paul O'Connell has suffered a setback during his rehabilitation from a back injury.