Healy, Ross and O’Brien named in Irish team to play Wales

Tarf’s Cian Healy, Mike Ross and Sean O’Brien have been named by Declan Kidney in the starting line-up to face Wales in the crunch RBS 6 Nations game at the Millenium stadium on Saturday afternoon.  Healy and Ross make up two thirds of the Irish front row while O’Brien lines out on the blindside flank.

IRELAND Team & Replacements (v Wales, 2011 RBS 6 Nations Championship, Millennium Stadium, Saturday, March 12, kick-off 5pm):

15 – Luke Fitzgerald (Blackrock College/Leinster)
14 – Tommy Bowe (Ospreys)
13 – Brian O’Driscoll (UCD/Leinster) (capt)
12 – Gordon D’Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster)
11 – Keith Earls (Thomond/Munster)
10 – Ronan O’Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster)
9 – Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
1 – Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)
2 – Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster)
3 – Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster)
4 – Donncha O’Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
5 – Paul O’Connell (Young Munster/Munster)
6 – Sean O’Brien (Clontarf/Leinster)
7 – David Wallace (Garryowen/Munster)
8 – Jamie Heaslip (Naas/Leinster)

Replacements:  16 – Sean Cronin (Buccaneers/Connacht), 17 – Tom Court (Malone/Ulster), 18 – Leo Cullen (Blackrock College/Leinster), 19 – Denis Leamy (Cork Constitution/Munster), 20 – Peter Stringer (Shannon/Munster), 21 – Jonathan Sexton (St. Mary’s College/Leinster), 22 – Paddy Wallace (Ballymena/Ulster)