Ireland Schools Team to play Australia

Conor Sharpe (Blackrock College) returns from injury to lead the Ireland Schools side against Australia Schools in the Bank of Ireland Schoolboy International at Temple Hill, Cork on Saturday. (KO 2.30pm). Sharpe missed Leinster’s outing with the tourists in donnybrook on tuesday, a game the Irish province led 22-9 with ten minutes remaining before losing 30-22. Prior to that the Australians scored 25 points without reply against Ulster.

Ireland. Ross McCarron (Gonzaga College);Tomas O’Leary (CBC Cork), John Hearty (Blackrock College), Ken Copeland (Blackrock College) Robert Conway (Coleraine A.I.); Conor Sharpe capt (Blackrock College), David Connellan (Clongowes Wood College); Cillian O’Byrne (St. Mary’s College) Denis Fogarty (Rockwell College) 3 Jim Mackessy (Rockwell College); Lewis Stevenson (Ballyclare High School), Arthur Houlihan (Clongowes Wood College); Kevin McLoughlin (Gonzaga College), David O’Brien (Belvedere College), Jonathan Rockett (St. Michael’s College)

Replacements:16 David Gavin (St. Michael’s College), 17 Niall Conlon (Royal Belfast A.I.), 18 -Keith Doyle (CBC Monkstown), 19 Eoin Griffin (Crescent College), 20 Stephen Auld (Royal School Armagh), 21 Gareth Steenson (Royal School Armagh), 22 Cian McNaughton (Rockwell College), 23 Mark Jenkinson (Royal School Dungannon).