NO Brian O’Driscoll, no Rob Kearney, no Luke Fitzgerald and — thanks to the weather — not a proper training session in two weeks.

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Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan has kept faith with the starting XV that beat England on their last outing in the Six Nations Championship for the trip to Murrayfield to play Scotland.

HE HASN’T read the Australian newspapers online, and he’s tip-toed around the praise that’s come his way since stepping into the scrum half position for the two tests against Wales and Italy.

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