Scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park and back-rower Jack Conan will miss Eire’s two-Take a look at sequence towards world champions South Africa.
First-choice quantity 9 Gibson-Park is dominated out by a hamstring damage, whereas Leinster team-mate Conan is unavailable as a result of private causes.
Andy Farrell has handed a primary senior name as much as Ulster lock Cormac Izuchukwu and included uncapped Leinster pair Jamie Osborne and Sam Prendergast in a 35-man squad captained by Peter O’Mahony.
Eire tackle the Springboks on Saturday, July 6 at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria and 7 days later at Hollywoodbets Kings Park Stadium in Durban.
With full-back Hugo Keenan absent for the tour as a result of his participation in his nation’s rugby sevens squad on the Paris Olympics, Jimmy O’Brien makes a well timed return from damage having sat out as Eire retained the Guinness Six Nations earlier this 12 months.
Hooker Rob Herring can also be again after lacking the championship triumph however Connacht wing Mack Hansen stays sidelined, whereas Ulster lock Iain Henderson is out after present process toe surgical procedure.
Connacht scrum-half Caolin Blade, who has two worldwide caps, advantages from the absence of the influential Gibson-Park.
Eire have received the final three conferences between the nations, together with a 13-8 success in the course of the pool stage ultimately 12 months’s World Cup in France.
But the Springboks went on to retain the Webb Ellis Cup by beating New Zealand, who eradicated the Irish on the quarter-final stage, within the last.
Head coach Farrell mentioned: “Travelling to South Africa to play a Take a look at sequence towards the defending world champions offers no larger check for us, and it’s one other beneficial alternative for us to additional develop and develop from the Guinness Six Nations.
“The group understands the necessity to hit the bottom operating, making certain we’re the most effective model of ourselves for the problem forward.”
Eire’s squad will meet in Dublin on Thursday to organize for the tour earlier than departing for Johannesburg subsequent Tuesday.
Skipper O’Mahony mentioned: “I’m proud to be requested to guide Eire in South Africa, a rustic which offers one of many hardest challenges in world rugby.
“As reigning world champions, South Africa will present the sternest of assessments and we all know that we should carry out at a excessive stage to get the outcomes we wish.
“There’s a whole lot of respect and familiarity between each international locations in recent times at worldwide and membership ranges, since they have been invited to hitch the URC (United Rugby Championship) and European Cup competitions, and we all know the problem that awaits.”
