Woodward names six Irish Lions to face Pumas

SIX Irish players are in the Lions team for a Tour warm-up game against Argentina next Monday at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.

Though skipper Brian O’Driscoll is rested, four of Leinster’s Lions call-ups, Denis Hickie, Gordon D’Arcy, Shane Byrne and Malcolm O’Kelly, who toured Australia in 2001, will start (7.45pm, Sky Sports 1).

D’Arcy, whose Six Nations campaign was ravaged by a hamstring injury, will form a centre partnership with Leicester and England youngster Ollie Smith. Smith’s Tigers teammate Geordan Murphy starts in a back three completed by Hickie and Wales flyer Shane Williams.