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Ireland Team for Wales.

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John McMurtry

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The Ireland team to play Wales in the RBS 6 Nations Championship game at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday, March 12th has been named.

Ireland coach Declan Kidney has named an unchanged starting XV and replacements bench for Ireland’s fourth game of the Championship.
Ireland flanker David Wallace will win his 70th cap when he lines out alongside Jamie Heaslip and Sean O’Brien in the back row. It will also be his 40th appearance in the Championship.

IRELAND Team & Replacements (v Wales, 2011 RBS 6 Nations Championship, Millennium Stadium, Sunday, March 12, kick-off 5.00pm):

15 – Luke Fitzgerald (Blackrock College/Leinster)
14 – Tommy Bowe (Ospreys)
13 – Brian O’Driscoll (UCD/Leinster) (capt)
12 – Gordon D’Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster)
11 – Keith Earls (Thomond/Munster)
10 – Ronan O’Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster)
9 – Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
1 – Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)
2 – Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster)
3 – Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster)
4 – Donncha O’Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
5 – Paul O’Connell (Young Munster/Munster)
6 – Sean O’Brien (Clontarf/Leinster)
7 – David Wallace (Garryowen/Munster)
8 – Jamie Heaslip (Naas/Leinster)

Replacements:
16 – Sean Cronin (Buccaneers/Connacht)
17 – Tom Court (Malone/Ulster)
18 – Leo Cullen (Blackrock College . . .

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3 responses to “Ireland Team for Wales.”

  1. Paddy Fitzgerald

    Sirs,

    I would like to clarify that the person indicated as Mr Ronan O’Gara in the above picture could not have played for Ireland at that time as the said O’Gara had been banished to the independant colonies in the USA for ungentlemanly actions in front of Queen Victoria at a palace reception the previous year.

    Yours

    Cap’n Patrick Fitzgerald (Ret.)

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  2. johnny king

    Fairly obvious that Kidney sees this starting line-up as being his choice for the WC perhaps with Kearney and Ferris slotting in when available. The treatment of McFadden is disgraceful: he’s an inside centre and should be there in place of D’Arcy. I imagine that Kidney sees this as the swansong of the “Golden Era” and after RWC 2011 we’ll see the international retirements of O’Connell, O’Callaghan, D. Wallace, Stringer, P. Wallace, O’Gara, D’Arcy, O’Driscoll, Horgan, Murphy etc. Four years to build a new team around the likes of (hopefully) Spence, Jackson, Marshall and Gilroy.

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  3. CC

    Well said John,,,,!!!!!!!!

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