Caelan Doris named captain as Andy Farrell selects Ireland squad for Autumn Nations Series

Caelan Doris will captain the squad having led Ireland in the Guinness Six Nations victory over Italy.

SQUAD NAMED: Ireland senior men's team head coach Andy Farrell during an Emerging Ireland rugby squad training session. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Caelan Doris will captain Ireland in next month’s Autumn Nations Series with Andy Farrell naming a 35-player squad for the Tests on Wednesday that includes uncapped duo Cormac Izuchukwu and Sam Prendergast.

Five further uncapped players have been named as additional training panellists by head coach Farrell, who has named his last Ireland squad before taking a sabbatical from the IRFU to prepare for the British & Irish Lions tour to Australia next summer. It also is his first selection since last July’s drawn series with the world-champion Springboks in South Africa with Izuchukwu and Prendergast having been on that tour while Doris was named skipper for the series-levelling second Test victory in Durban.