Irish Team to play France announced

The Irish team to play France in the RBS Six Nations Championship at Lansdowne Road, Dublin on Saturday, March 8 at 2pm is as follows:

15 – Girvan Dempsey (Leinster/Terenure College)

14 – Geordan Murphy (Leicester)

13 – Brian O’Driscoll (Leinster/Blackrock College) Captain

12 – Kevin Maggs (Bath)

11 – Denis Hickie (Leinster/St. Mary’s College)

10 – David Humphreys (Ulster/Dungannon)

9 – Peter Stringer (Munster/Shannon)

1 – Marcus Horan (Munster/Shannon)

2 – Shane Byrne (Leinster/Blackrock College)

3 – John Hayes (Munster/Shannon)

4 – Gary Longwell (Ulster/Ballymena)

5 – Malcolm O’Kelly (Leinster/St. Mary’s College)

6 – Victor Costello (Leinster/St. Mary’s College)

7 – Keith Gleeson (Leinster/St. Mary’s College)

8 – Anthony Foley (Munster/Shannon)

Replacements: 16 – Frank Sheahan (Munster/Cork Constitution), 17 – Justin Fitzpatrick (Ulster/Dungannon), 18 – Leo Cullen (Leinster/Blackrock College), 19 – Alan Quinlan (Munster/Shannon), 20 – Guy Easterby (Llanelli), 21 – Ronan O’Gara (Munster/Cork Constitution),

22 – A.N. Other

Not considered because of injury: Jonathon Bell (Ulster/Dungannon), Justin Bishop (London Irish), Emmet Byrne (Leinster/St. Mary’s College), Reggie Corrigan (Leinster/Lansdowne), Shane Horgan (Leinster/Lansdowne), Tyrone Howe (Ulster/Dungannon), Paul O’Connell (Munster/Young Munster), David Wallace (Munster/Garryowen), Paul Wallace (Leinster/Blackrock College),

Keith Wood (Harlequins).