A 37-man training squad has been named for Ireland's Guinness Six Nations game against France in Dublin this weekend.
The squad sees Sean Cronin, who started last month's game against Italy, dropped from the group. Ulster pair Rory Best and Rob Herring, along with Munster's Niall Scannell are the hookers in the squad.
Robbie Henshaw is also absent. The Leinster centre was yesterday said to be recovering from injury slower than it had been hoped. Henshaw has been out of action since suffering a dead leg during the opening game of the tournament against England.
Leinster out-half Ross Byrne has also been named in the squad. He is one of four out-halves along with Johnny Sexton, Joey Carbery and Jack Carty.
Carbery was yesterday said to be making progress on the hamstring injury which ruled him out of the win against Italy.
Kieran Marmion has also returned from injury.
Forwards
Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster) (c)
Tadhg Beirne (Lansdowne/Munster)
Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
Ultan Dillane (Corinthians/Connacht)
Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf/Leinster)
Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)
Iain Henderson (Queens University/Ulster)
Rob Herring (Ballynahinch/Ulster)
Dave Kilcoyne (UL Bohemians/Munster)
Jack McGrath (St Marys College/Leinster)
Jordi Murphy (Lansdowne/Ulster)
Sean O’Brien (UCD/Leinster)
Peter O’Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster) (vc)
Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster)
Quinn Roux (Galwegians/Connacht)
Rhys Ruddock (Lansdowne/Leinster)
James Ryan (UCD/Leinster)
John Ryan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
Niall Scannell (Dolphin/Munster)
CJ Stander (Shannon/Munster)
Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster)
Backs
Bundee Aki (Galwegians/Connacht)
Ross Byrne (UCD/Leinster)
Joey Carbery (Clontarf/Munster)
Jack Carty (Buccaneers/Connacht)
Andrew Conway (Garryowen/Munster)
John Cooney (Terenure College/Ulster)
Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster)
Chris Farrell (Young Munster/Munster)
Tom Farrell (Coolmine/Connacht)
Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster)
Jordan Larmour (St Mary’s College/Leinster)
Kieran Marmion (Galwegians/Connacht)
Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster)
Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster)
Jonathan Sexton (St Marys College/Leinster) (vc)
Jacob Stockdale (Lurgan/Ulster)
Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile
