New faces included in Ireland’s final Six Nations squad for England game

The players that shipped the biggest blows against Scotland will miss out on the finalé.

The Ireland squad for the final round of the 2023 Six Nations has been named, ahead of Saturday's clash against England. There is a Grand Slam on the line and fresh bodies in the squad for the championship leaders. Ireland overcame injuries to five key players but rallied well to defeat Scotland 22-7 at Murrayfield.

"It was immense, the character," Andy Farrell said in the post-match press briefing. "Obviously it wasn't champagne rugby all round but as far as character and fight and want for each other, that's the best game I've ever been involved in. "If you'd have seen us at half-time you'd have laughed. The whole team was laughing because it was organised chaos."

There will not be as much organised chaos this week as the squad will only train at full-tilt once, on Thursday morning, before the match-day 23 is named. That squad has been named, with some ins and outs.

Changes made to Ireland squad

Andy Farrell has been forced into making changes to his Ireland squad for the game against England. Ross Molony, Tom Stewart and Cian Prendergast are the new faces, along with prop Roman Salanoa. A release from the IRFU on the round five squad reads:

IRELAND SQUAD

Bundee Aki (Connacht/Galwegians) 45 caps Ryan Baird (Leinster/Dublin University) 10 caps Ross Byrne (Leinster/UCD) 18 caps Craig Casey (Munster/Shannon) 10 caps Jack Conan (Leinster/Old Belvedere) 37 caps Gavin Coombes (Munster/Young Munster) 2 caps Jack Crowley (Munster/Cork Constitution) 3 caps Ciaran Frawley (Leinster/UCD) * Tadhg Furlong (Leinster/Clontarf) 64 caps Caelan Doris (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 27 caps Jamison Gibson Park (Leinster) 24 caps Mack Hansen (Connacht/Corinthians) 13 caps Cian Healy (Leinster/Clontarf) 122 caps Robbie Henshaw (Leinster/Buccaneers) 61 caps Rob Herring (Ulster/Ballynahinch) 33 caps Hugo Keenan (Leinster/UCD) 29 caps Ronan Kelleher (Leinster/Lansdowne) 21 caps Dave Kilcoyne (Munster/UL Bohemians) 51 caps Jordan Larmour (Leinster/St Marys College) 30 caps James Lowe (Leinster) 19 caps Stuart McCloskey (Ulster/Bangor) 12 caps Ross Molony (Leinster/UCD) * Conor Murray (Munster/Garryowen) 104 caps Jimmy O’Brien (Leinster/Naas) 4 caps Peter O’Mahony (Munster/Cork Constitution) 93 caps Tom O’Toole (Ulster/Ballynahinch) 8 caps Andrew Porter (Leinster/UCD) 52 caps Cian Prendergast (Connacht/Corinthians) 1 cap James Ryan (Leinster/UCD) 52 caps Roman Salanoa (Munster/Shannon) * Johnny Sexton (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 112 caps (c) Dan Sheehan (Leinster/Lansdowne) 16 caps Tom Stewart (Ulster/Ballynahinch) * Jacob Stockdale (Ulster/Lurgan) 35 caps Nick Timoney (Ulster/Banbridge) 3 caps Kieran Treadwell (Ulster/Ballymena) 10 caps Josh van der Flier (Leinster/UCD) 49 caps

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