Summer tour spot prize dangling for Ireland A squad

Mike Prendergast, Ireland A head coach for Sunday's game against England in Bristol, may have further reinforcements once Simon Easterby names his side to face Wales in the Six Nations. 

Munster's Fineen Wycherley is one of six players in the Ireland A squad to have been capped at Test level. Pic: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

The carrot of summer tour places is dangling in front of the Ireland A squad set to meet their England counterparts in Bristol on Sunday but head coach Mike Prendergast believes it will need a collective rather than individual effort to book seats on the plane to Georgia and Portugal.

Prendergast, the Munster attack coach, has just six days to get a cohesive tune out of Ireland’s next in line players when they audition for further advancement at Ashton Gate this weekend.