The Ireland U20 squad for the 2019 Six Nations Championship was announced yesterday morning at their sponsors headquarters in Dublin by Head Coach Noel McNamara.
The 40-man squad features five players who were capped across last season’s U20 Six Nations and World Rugby U20 World Championships.
In the forwards hooker Dylan Tierney-Martin and second-row Charlie Ryan both featured last season, as did out-half Harry Byrne and wingers Angus Kernohan and James McCarthy.
Clontarf’s David Hawkshaw is named as captain, with Ryan and scrum-half Craig Casey named as vice-captains.
McNamara will be looking for a substantial improvement on last season’s performance’s in both the Six Nations and the U20 World Championship. In the Six Nations Ireland U20 only recorded two narrow wins, against Italy and Scotland, and they had a disaster in the U20 World Championship recording only one . . .
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