Three uncapped players included as Ireland squad named for summer tour of South Africa

Ireland will play two tests against the Springboks. 

SQUAD ANNOUNCEMENT: Ireland Head Coach Andy Farrell has named his squad for the upcoming summer series tour to South Africa.

Peter O’Mahony will lead a 35-man Ireland squad to South Africa for a two-Test series with the Springboks but Andy Farrell has been forced to omit scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park and Jack Conan.

Already missing first-choice full-back Hugo Keenan, selected for next month’s Olympic Games in the Ireland Men’s Sevens squad, the Six Nations champions will also go head to head with the 2019 and 2023 World Cup winners without their number one scrum-half after Gibson-Park was ruled out with a hamstring injury following Leinster’s URC semi-final exit to the Bulls in Pretoria last Saturday.