Ireland A head coach Cullie Tucker has named a team containing 10 internationals for their Test against Spain in Legan\u00e9s on Saturday (4pm Irish time, live on Rugby Pass TV). <\/p>\n
Ulster hooker Tom Stewart will captain the side. His provincial team-mates duo Michael Lowry and Robert Baloucoune make up two of the back three alongside Connacht\u2019s Shayne Bolton, who made a try-scoring senior debut during the summer against Portugal.<\/p>\n
Former Ireland Under-20 international Dan Kelly, who won a cap for England, will partner Ulster\u2019s Jude Postlethwaite in midfield, while Leinster outhalf Harry Byrne and Connacht\u2019s Ben Murphy form the halfback pairing.<\/p>\n
In the pack, Michael Milne and Tom O\u2019Toole join Stewart in an all-Test front row, with Evan O\u2019Connell and Darragh Murray, who also made his senior debut in green during the Summer Tour, in the second row.<\/p>\n
Alex Soroka, Ruadh\u00e1n Quinn and Paul Boyle complete the starting XV in the backrow.<\/p>\n
The bench is a who\u2019s who of former Irish Under-20s. Lee Barron, Alex Usanov, Scott Wilson, Diarmuid Mangan and David McCann make-up the forward reinforcements, while Nathan Doak, Cathal Forde and one-time Sevens star Zac Ward represent the backline options.<\/p>\n
Ireland A (v Spain): M Lowry (Ulster); R Baloucoune (Ulster), J Postlethwaite (Ulster), D Kelly (Munster), S Bolton (Connacht); H Byrne (Leinster), B Murphy (Connacht); M Milne (Munster), T Stewart (Ulster, capt), T O\u2019Toole (Ulster); E O\u2019Connell (Munster), D Murray (Connacht); A Soroka (Leinster), R Quinn (Munster), P Boyle (Connacht).<\/p>\n
Replacements: L Barron (Munster), A Usanov (Leinster), S Wilson (Ulster), D Mangan (Leinster), D McCann (Ulster), N Doak (Ulster), C Forde (Connacht), Z Ward (Ulster).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland A head coach Cullie Tucker has named a team containing 10 internationals for their Test against Spain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1449,43],"class_list":["post-125185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-rugby","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}