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The Ireland Under-20 team (sponsored by PwC) has been named for their third clash of the RBS 6 Nations Under-20 Championship. The side will take on their Italian counterparts on Friday evening in Dubarry Park, Athlone.<\/strong><\/p>\n Head Coach, Mike Ruddock has made a number of changes to the side that beat France 12-13 in the last round of the championship.<\/p>\n Tadgh Beirne makes his first start of the season to partner Ian Henderson in the second row with a new look back row seeing Jordan Coughlan partner Conor Gilsean and Jack Conan.<\/p>\n Changes to the backs see Foster Horan named in the wing with Kieran Marmion returning to the scrum half position.<\/p>\n Speaking ahead of Fridays Game, Ruddock said \u201cWe are looking forward to this week\u2019s test and in particular looking forward to backing up our two previous displays.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe achieved victory in our last two games because we have outworked the opposition and expect the same this week along with a quality display of skills\u201d<\/p>\n Friday’s game will be broadcast live from Dubarry Park on RTE.ie (Island of Ireland only)<\/p>\n Ireland U-20 v Italy U-20 (Dubarry Park, Athlone – Friday 3rd February 2012, Kick-off 7.05pm) Replacements Many Thanks TO Greers Of Antrim Volvo Dealership For Sponsoring This Section Click Here The Ireland Under-20 team (sponsored by PwC) has been named for their third clash of the RBS 6 Nations Under-20 Championship. The side will take on their Italian counterparts on Friday evening in Dubarry Park, Athlone. Head Coach, Mike Ruddock has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5662,4050,7216,6332,5574,2365,7617,4979,5588],"class_list":["post-22679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-here","tag-ireland","tag-italy","tag-named","tag-play","tag-pwc","tag-sponsored","tag-team","tag-under-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683309,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22679\/revisions\/683309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n15 – Shane Layden (Buccaneers – Connacht)
\n14 – Conor Finn (Buccaneers – Connacht)
\n13 – Chris Farrell (Dungannon – Ulster)
\n12 – JJ Hanrahan (UL Bohemians – Munster)
\n11 – Foster Horan (Lansdowne – Leinster)
\n10 – Paddy Jackson (Dungannon – Ulster)(Capt)
\n9 – Kieran Marmion (Corinthians – Connacht)
\n1 -Kyle McCall (QUB – Ulster)
\n2 – Niall Scannell (Dolphin – Munster)
\n3 – Peter Reilly (Lansdowne – Leinster)
\n4 – Tadgh Beirne (Lansdowne – Leinster)
\n5 – Iain Henderson (QUB – Ulster)
\n6 – Jordan Coghlan (UCD – Leinster)
\n7 – Conor Gilsenan (UCD – Leinster)
\n8 – Jack Conan (Old Belvedere – Leinster)<\/p>\n
\n16 – James Rael (Garryowen – Munster)
\n17 – Des Merrey (Clontarf – Leinster)
\n18 – Jake Cawley (Old Belvedere – Leinster)
\n19 – Daniel Qualter (Buccaneers – Connacht)
\n20 – Aaron Conneely (Corinthians – Connacht)
\n21 – Luke McGrath (UCD – Leinster)
\n22 – Cathal Marsh (Trinity – Leinster)
\n23 – Stuart Olding (Belfast Harlequins – Ulster)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"