Rugby: Ireland schoolboys team named

The Ireland team to play France in the Bank of Ireland schoolboy International in Galway on Saturday week has been announced.

The starting fifteen will line out as follows:

15 Gareth Hayes (Clongowes Wood)

14 Gillan Carruthers (Coleraine AI)

13 Ken Kennedy (St Michael's College)

12 Glen Telford (Royal Belfast AI)

11 Colin Murphy (CBC Cork)

10 David McAllister (Terenure College)

9 Dara Geraghty (Blackrock College)

1 James Clifford (Rockwell College)

2 Denis Fogarty (Rockwell College)

3 Jason Moran (Clongowes Wood)

4 David Gannon (Blackrock College)

5 Shane O'Connor (CBC Cork)

6 Ciaran Potts (St Mary's College)

7 Eoghan Nihill (Capt, St Munchin's College)

8 James Heaslip (Newbridge College)

Replacements: 16 - Brian Tuohy (Crescent), 17 - Conor Sharpe (Blackrock), 18 - David Connellan (Clongowes), 19 - Simon Crawford (Castleknock) 20 - Jamie Kilbane (Methodist College), 21 - Mark Whelan (Blackrock College), 22 - Conor Geoghegan (St Michael's).

The Irish Schoolboy team this season contains only four members of the squad from last season - Colin Murphy (CBC Cork), Shane O'Connor (CBC Cork), Gillan Carruthers (Coleraine AI) and James Clifford (Rockwell College).

The team will be captained by Eoghan Nihill (St

Munchin's). This is to be the only International this season as the games against England and Wales have fallen victim to foot and mouth.