Munster out-half Charlie O’Shea has been handed the number ten shirt for the Ireland Under-20s Junior World Cup opener with England on Saturday.<\/p>\n
O’Shea, who was a replacement for all five of Ireland’s U20 Six Nations games back in the spring, gets the nod ahead of Munster colleague Tom Wood, who offers a versatile bench option.<\/p>\n
There’s an all-Cork midfield axis with Christopher Barrett at scrum-half alongside his former schools team-mate O’Shea, while James O’Leary is at inside centre alongside Rob Carney.<\/p>\n
A back three of Daniel Ryan, the returning Charlie Moloney and Noah Byrne rounds out the backline.<\/p>\n
The squad is captained by tighthead prop Sami Bishti of Leinster who packs down with Max Doyle and Rian Handley in the front-row.<\/p>\n
Donnacha McGuire and Dylan McNeice retain their starting shirts in the engine room while Josh Neill, Ben Blaney and Connacht’s Diarmaid O’Connell are the back-row trio.<\/p>\n
Head coach Andrew Browne has opted for a 5:3 bench split which features the aforementioned Wood as well as fit again Jack Deegan and scrum-half James O’Dwyer as the backline replacements.<\/p>\n
Adam Cooper and Jamie Conway partner Duinn Maguire as the replacement front-rows, while Ulster’s Paddy Woods and Munster’s Alex Lautsou complete the matchday squad.<\/p>\n
Ireland: Noah Byrne; Charlie Molony, Rob Carney, James O’Leary, Daniel Ryan; Charlie O\u2019Shea, Christopher Barrett; Max Doyle, Rian Handley, Sami Bishti (capt); Donnacha McGuire, Dylan McNeice; Josh Neill, Ben Blaney, Diarmaid O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Duinn Maguire, Adam Cooper, Jamie Conway, Paddy Woods, Alex Lautsou, James O\u2019Dwyer, Tom Wood, Jack Deegan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster out-half Charlie O’Shea has been handed the number ten shirt for the Ireland Under-20s Junior World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-517730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517730","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=517730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}