Ireland hopeful Rob Kearney will overcome shoulder injury to feature in November Tests

Ireland are hopeful that Rob Kearney will overcome the shoulder injury he suffered at the weekend in time for November’s Guinness Series of Test matches.

Kearney sustained the injury last Sunday as Leinster won at Treviso in the PRO14 and though the veteran full-back was not selected to travel in a 26-man party for this Saturday’s Test against Italy in Chicago, he has joined up with the remainder of the 42-man squad being supervised back in Carton House, Kildare by head coach Joe Schmidt ahead of sell-out home games against Argentina, New Zealand and the USA.