O’Driscoll and D’Arcy will be fit to face French

IRELAND captain Brian O’Driscoll and centre partner Gordon D’Arcy will both be fit and available for the Six Nations match against France at Lansdowne Road on Saturday week.

Fri, 04 Mar, 2005 - 00:00

Barry Coughlan

O’Driscoll is out of the IRB tsunami fundraiser at Twickenham tomorrow with an elbow injury, but insisted: “it’s not too serious.”

And Irish coach Eddie O’Sullivan also expressed his confidence yesterday that D’Arcy will recover from the hamstring injury which has restricted him to 20 minutes’ action in this season’s championship for the French game.

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