Schmidt bullish as star trio fit to face All Blacks

The doom and gloom of the Irish injury bench this week has been put to rest today with the news that Brian O’Driscoll, Rob Kearney and Johnny Sexton are all fit and will start on Sunday against New Zealand.

All three were major doubts after picking up knocks in the loss to Australia last weekend and there was a fear of what would happen without Ireland’s three fringe players.