Van Graan philosophical about Ireland’s call

Ireland’s call is likely to gain preference over Munster’s needs when it comes to choosing respective XVs for next weekends’s games against Italy and Ospreys.

Joe Schmidt yesterday recalled Tadhg Beirne, Chris Farrell, Andrew Conway, and Niall Scannell to join Joey Carbery, Conor Murray, Dave Kilcoyne, John Ryan, and Peter O’Mahony at national camp to prepare for Sunday’s Six Nations visit to Rome.