Ronan O’Gara and Conor Murray are Declan Kidneys half back combination for Sundays World cup Pool C encounter with Italy in Dunedin while Paul O’Connell is named despite a hamstring injury.
The rest of the team doesn’t contain any real surprises with Rob Kearney full back and Tommy Bowe and Keith Earls on the wings with Brian O’Driscoll and Gordon D’Arcy in the centre.
Cian Healy, Rory Best and Mike Ross are the front row with Paul O’Connell and Donnacha O’Callaghan in the second row and Stephen Ferris, Sean O’Brien and Jamie Heaslip in the back row.
Tony Buckley misses out on the match day squad , on the bench are Sean Cronin, Tom Court , Donnacha Ryan , Denis Leamy , Eoin Reddan , Jonathan Sexton and Andrew Trimble.
Elsewhere and
There’s 3 Irish sides in the Rabo Direct Pro 12 tonight, Ulster are away to the Dragons, Edinburgh host Munster and Ospreys meet Connacht.