Experienced Leinster and Ireland centre Garry Ringrose faces a disciplinary hearing on Thursday morning after his red card offence in Cardiff last weekend
Brian O'Driscoll insists that Grand Slam chasing Ireland will survive France's midfield onslaught in the absence of the red carded Garry Ringrose .
However O'Driscoll is comforted by the depth that Ireland possess in the centre position with Bundee Aki set to return to the midfield after his brilliant cameo off the bench in Cardiff and with Robbie Henshaw in such good form. Jamie Osborne could come into the reckoning off the bench as cover after he started at full-back at the Principality Stadium.
“OK, we lose creativity with Garry and he had a great game against France two years ago when he scored the all-important try at the end. But we’ll survive and that is the strength of this team. "He has a great propensity to read plays. It's his first red card at 30-years-of age, he got one wrong and in the modern age lots of players are going to get one wrong.
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