Cronin bids to impress Kidney

Connacht hooker Sean Cronin will have the opportunity to impress the Ireland management when he lines out for Connacht against The Ospreys in the Magner's League at Liberty Stadium on Sunday.

Coach Michael Bradley has named a 25-man squad in which Cronin will be the main man of discussion now that Jerry Flannery has been ruled out of the Six Nations for six weeks.

Connacht will hope to take advantage of the Welsh club's absence of a clutch of international players, who are concentrating on the Six Nations.

CONNACHT SQUAD (v The Ospreys): L Bibo, F Carr, K Campbell, S Cronin, G Duffy, A Flavin, J Hagan, I Keatley, K Matthews, M McCarthy, M McComish, R Morris, F Murphy, J Muldoon, G Naoupu, T Nathan, M Nikora, R Ofisa, J O’Connor, C O’Loughlin, M Swift, N Ta’auso, B Upton, B Wilkinson, A Wynne.