Big names in danger of cut as Farrell set to announce sqaud 

Head coach Farrell’s 37 chosen players will depart for a pre-championship warm-weather training camp on Portugal’s Algarve at the tail end of next week in advance of the opening fixture against Wales in Cardiff on February 4. 

IN DANGER? Keith Earls, left, and Conor Murray of Munster and Ireland. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Andy Farrell is set to unveil his squad for the opening rounds of Ireland’s 2023 Guinness Six Nations campaign on Thursday morning (9am) with plenty of previously established players among those waiting anxiously for news of whether or not they made the cut.

Poor form, both individual and collectively with their provinces, has left several experienced Ireland internationals on tenterhooks for the first squad announcement of this World Cup year.