Ireland names team in U18 Scotland clash

Michael Kelliher and David McSharry will form a new centre partnership for the Ireland U18 Schools team that takes on Scotland tomorrow and are two of six changes, two of which are in personnel, to the side that lost to Wales in their opening game of the U18 Six Nations Festival.

The other changes see both centres from the Wales game, Diarmuid McCarthy and Michael Allen, move out to the right and left wings in place of Craig O'Hanlon and Mark Atkinson. The Ireland pack have also seen some changes to the front five, with Brian Cagney coming in at loosehead prop in place of Denis Buckley and Patrick Butler is promoted to start in the secondrow instead of Brian Hayes. The changes are part of a rotational policy as all players will play under the festival rules.