Friendly: Gilroy sparkles in Ireland defeat.

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Barbarians 29 Ireland 28

Ulster’s Craig Gilroy was one of the few Irish players to sparkle in a 28 – 29 defeat to the Barbarians last night in Kingsholm.

The irony of the situation is that Gilroy is one of the few players not already pencilled in for the upcoming tour to New Zealand, and despite, yet again, outplaying Munster counterpart Simon Zebo by some considerable distance it is unlikely that Kidney will have a change of heart and officially include the Ulsterman later today when he announces the final tour squad. However it wouldn’t surprise me if the Dungannon flyer did travel on the quiet to be slotted into the squad at the first sign of a knock to any of the back three.

Gilroy opened the scoring for Ireland with a well taken try, converted by O’Gara to level the scores in the opening quarter following a Balshaw try and Contepomi conversion for the Barbarians and when the Barbarians went back into the lead through an unconverted Van Zyl try it was the Ulster youngster who produced a scintillating burst to set up Keith Earls for Ireland’s second.

However the Barbarians took a five . . .

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