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Ireland confirm replacement for hooker Dan Sheehan
By PA
Uncapped hooker Diarmuid Barron has travelled with the Ireland squad in the absence of the injured Dan Sheehan ahead of Saturday’s match against Samoa in Bayonne.
Sheehan has remained in Dublin to rehabilitate the foot problem he sustained in the first half of Saturday’s 29-10 win over England.
Head coach Andy Farrell, who will name his final 33-man World Cup selection next Monday, is still waiting to discover the full extent of Sheehan’s issue.
Barron has been part of his country’s training camp this summer and joins fellow number twos Rob Herring, Ronan Kelleher and Tom Stewart in Farrell’s squad for the weekend.
The 25-year-old Munster player came on as a replacement for Ireland A in a 47-19 loss to an All Blacks XV in November.
Ireland flew to south-west France on Sunday in preparation for their final warm-up match and trained at Stade Jean-Dauger in Bayonne on Monday morning.
Back-rower Jack Conan, who suffered a foot injury against Italy on August 5, and prop Dave Kilcoyne, who has a hamstring issue, also remained in Dublin.
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I reckon it may be Jordan at 10 and Nohamba at 9, both players have played together alot and both have been on the Radar for a long time. After Pollard got injured in 2022 with Elton sidelined on a path of self destruction Erasmus and Nienaber indicated that the other options in the country at the time were thin but that Jordan and Manie were the 2 they were looking at. In the end Frans steyn played flyhalf, Willemse slotted in there on the end of year with Libbok as back up. Jordan was right there in the thinking back then so expect him to take the Jersey either as the starter.
Go to commentsHaha did he also* say it in a sarcastic teacher sort of manor or was it the petulant English snob sort of wail?
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