Schmidt Includes 9 Munster Players For Summer Tour
16th May 2017 By The Editor
Rory Scannell and Jack O'Donoghue are both named in the Ireland squad. ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan
Ireland Head Coach Joe Schmidt has named his squad for the Summer Tour to USA & Japan and has included the uncapped Rory Scannell as one of nine Munster players in a 31-man travelling party.
A nailed on starter with the province for the best part of two seasons and a former Ireland U20 and Emerging Ireland representative, Scannell has been a key figure in Munster’s resurgent Champions Cup and PRO12 campaigns of late and was included in this season’s PRO12 Dream Team alongside fellow tourist Dave Kilcoyne.
Joining Scannell on the Tour will be his older brother Niall, who, along with Andrew Conway, Jack O’Donoghue and John Ryan, will look to make further inroads on the international scene having all made their Irish debuts this season.
Tommy O’Donnell, Keith Earls and Simon Zebo complete the Munster representation.
Meanwhile, former Munster stalwart and current Racing 92 Assistant Coach Ronan O’Gara will accompany the team for the New Jersey leg of the tour with Munster Technical Coach Felix Jones working with the side for the final week of the tour in Tokyo.
Ireland Squad Summer Tour 2017 – USA & Japan
| Finlay Bealham | (Buccaneers/Connacht) | 6 caps |
| Joey Carbery | (Clontarf/Leinster) | 3 caps |
| Jack Conan | (Old Belvedere/Leinster) | 1 cap |
| Andrew Conway | (Garryowen/Munster) | 1 cap |
| John Cooney | (Connacht) | uncapped |
| Keith Earls | (Young Munster/Munster) | 59 caps |
| Cian Healy | (Clontarf/Leinster) | 67 caps |
| Dave Heffernan | (Connacht/Buccaneers) | uncapped |
| Paddy Jackson | (Dungannon/Ulster) | 23 caps |
| Dave Kilcoyne | (UL Bohemians/Munster) | 17 caps |
| Dan Leavy | (UCD/Leinster) | 2 caps |
| Kieran Marmion | (Corinthians/Connacht) | 13 caps |
| Luke Marshall | (Ballymena/Ulster) | 9 caps |
| Luke McGrath | (UCD/Leinster) | 1 cap |
| Tommy O’Donnell | (UL Bohemians/Munster) | 12 caps |
| Jack O’Donoghue | (UL Bohemians/Munster) | 1 cap |
| Tiernan O’Halloran | (Buccaneers/Connacht) | 3 caps |
| Rory O’Loughlin | (Old Belvedere/Leinster) | uncapped |
| Andrew Porter | (UCD/Leinster) | uncapped |
| Garry Ringrose | (UCD/Leinster) | 8 caps |
| Rhys Ruddock | (St Mary’s College/Leinster) | 13 caps |
| James Ryan | (UCD/Leinster) | uncapped |
| John Ryan | (Cork Constitution/Munster) | 6 caps |
| Niall Scannell | (Dolphin/Munster) | 4 caps |
| Rory Scannell | (Dolphin/Munster) | uncapped |
| Jacob Stockdale | (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster) | uncapped |
| Devin Toner | (Lansdowne/Leinster) | 47 caps |
| James Tracey | (UCD/Leinster) | 2 caps |
| Kieran Treadwell | (Ballymena/Ulster) | uncapped |
| Josh van der Flier | (UCD/Leinster) | 7 caps |
| Simon Zebo | (Cork Constitution/Munster) | 33 caps |
Ireland Squad Summer Tour 2017 – USA & Japan Fixtures
USA v IRELAND
Saturday 10th June, 2017, KO 17:00 (GMT 22:00)
Red Bull Arena, New Jersey, USA
Japan v IRELAND
Saturday 17th June, 2017 KO 14:00 (GMT 06:00)
Ecopa Stadium, Shizuoka, Japan
Japan v IRELAND
Saturday 24th June, 2017 KO 14:40 (GMT 06:40)
Ajinomoto Stadium, Tokyo, Japan