• Keith Earls and Donnacha Ryan back for first Test in two years
• Jamie Heaslip will captain Ireland from No8 in CardiffIreland hold followed Wales in choosing a largely reserve team for Saturdays encounter at the Millennium Stadium,the first of four warm-up matches before their World Cup campaign which starts next month against Canada in Cardiff.
Jamie Heaslip will captain the side from No8, one of two players along with the prop Mike Ross who appeared in the final match of the Six Nations, and in Scotland last March. Heaslip will be winning his 73rd cap,beating David Wallace’s record for an Irish back-row.
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Source: theguardian.com