Reddan the realist ready to roll

EOIN REDDAN, called up to the Irish bench for the Murrayfield clash on Saturday, is a realist.

He knows his only chance of any involvement against Scotland is an injury to Peter Stringer or a late emptying of the bench by Irish coach Eddie O’Sullivan.

However, the 26 year-old former Old Crescent, Connacht and Munster scrum-half, now starring with London Wasps, is delighted to be in the mix, though he’s hoping for more than when he received his only Irish cap so far, the five-minute cameo appearance on the wing in the mayhem in Paris twelve months ago.