Ireland Selection As Predicted

Other than the front row where Cian Healy is preferred to Marcus Horan and Sean Cronin gets the nod over the more experienced John Fogarty the Ireland team to play the All Blacks is along predicted lines

Ireland XV:
15 – Robert Kearney (UCD/Leinster)
14 – Tommy Bowe (Ospreys)
13 – Brian O’Driscoll (UCD/Leinster) Captain
12 – Gordon D’Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster)
11 – Andrew Trimble (Ballymena/Ulster)
10 – Ronan O'Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster)
9 – Tomas O’Leary (Dolphin/Munster)
1 – Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)
2 – Sean Cronin (Buccaneers/Connacht)
3 – John Hayes (Buff/Munster)
4 – Donncha O’Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
5 – Mick O’Driscoll (Cork Constitution/Munster)
6 – John Muldoon (Galwegians/Connacht)
7 – David Wallace (Garryowen/Munster)
8 – Jamie Heaslip (Naas/Leinster)

Replacements:
16 – John Fogarty (De la Salle Palmerston/Leinster)*
17 – Tony Buckley (Shannon/Munster)
18 – Dan Tuohy (Ballymena/Ulster)*
19 – Shane Jennings (St.Mary’s College/Leinster)
20 – Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
21 – Jonathan Sexton (St.Mary’s College/Leinster)
22 – Geordan Murphy (Leicester)