Quinn Roux and Sean Reidy set for South Africa tour

Joe Schmidt will not be taking any passengers on Ireland’s daunting three-Test tour to South Africa having yesterday named a squad of only totally fit players.

The make-up of his 32-man touring party, which leaves for Cape Town a week on Sunday, contained a number of surprises, including call-ups for uncapped forwards Quinn Roux of Connacht and Ulster back row Sean Reidy.

However, there is no place for fit-again but unplayed Munster captain Peter O’Mahony, who must sit out the tour alongside a host of unavailable players from forwards Sean O’Brien, Cian Healy, Nathan White, and Josh van der Flier to backs Tommy Bowe and Simon Zebo.