THE U20 Ireland team to face the France U20s in the U20 Six Nations Summer Series opener at the Payanini Centre in Verona is out.
The game can be watched live on the Six Nations YouTube channel, and kicks off at 7pm Irish time,
14 players who were part of the Grand Slam winning side earlier in the year are part of the Ireland squad for tonight's game.
When the full squad was announced for the tour of Italy last week Murphy said: "We have some formidable opposition in the shape of France, South Africa and England with tight turnarounds between matches and it will be a tough test for us, but the group are really excited about the challenge.”
Here is the Ireland U20s team to face France in the opening game of the #U20SummerSeries on Friday night - good luck boys! 💪#FutureIsGreen | @PwCIreland — Irish Rugby (@IrishRugby) June 23, 2022
The team for tonight's looks like this this
Front Row: Oisin Michel, James McCormick, Darragh McSweeney
Second Row: Conor O’Tighearnaigh Adam McNamee.
Backrow: Reuben Crothers (capt) James McNabney, Lorcan McLoughlin
Half backs: Ethan Coughlan (scrumhalf) Tony Butler (out half)
Centers: Fionn Gibbons, Daniel Hawkshaw
Wingers: Shay McCarthy, Aitzol King
Fullback: Dylan O’Grady
Replacements:16. Josh Hanlon 17. George Hadden 18. Kieran Ryan (19. Charlie Irvine 20. Diarmuid Mangan 21. Michael Moloney 22. Sam Prendergast 23. George Coomber 24. Reece Malone 25. George Shaw 26. Ronan O’Sullivan
