Peter O’Mahony included as Sam Prendergast and Cormac Izuchukwu are in line for first caps
Both players featured for Emerging Ireland in Bloemfontein last month and were also part of Farrell’s summer tour squad to South Africa, which has largely been retained en bloc save for the injured Dan Sheehan, Oli Jager and Jimmy O’Brien, while the unlucky Jack Conan has again not been named after picking up a hamstring injury in Leinster’s win over Munster.
Ronan Kelleher, also a doubt for the opening game against New Zealand, is one of three hookers named along with Rob Herring, who has yet to play for Ulster this season, and the in-form Connacht hooker Dave Heffernan, who was called up in South Africa as a replacement for Sheehan. Ireland will then host Argentina at Aviva Stadium on Friday, November 15th and go head-to-head with Fiji on Saturday, November 23rd , before concluding the campaign against Australia for Irish Rugby’s 150th anniversary test on Saturday, November 30th .
“While some of the players have been sidelined of late, collectively they are making positive strides on the injury front and we are hopeful that they will come into the selection frame over the course of the coming weeks as they ramp up their respective rehab programmes.
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