Irish centres' chances 'better than 50-50'

BRIAN O'DRISCOLL and Gordon D'Arcy have a better than 50-50 chance of recovering from their respective hamstring injuries in time to take their places in the Irish midfield against Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday.

The doom and gloom of Monday has been replaced with a certain degree of confidence they will both make it and accordingly they were yesterday included in an unchanged back division for Edinburgh.

Indeed, the major talking point is that Denis Leamy has lost his place at open-side wing-forward, being dropped in favour of Jonny O'Connor.