The Ireland World Cup squad will be officially announced by Andy Farrell and the IRFU from The Shelbourne Hotel, in Dublin, on Sunday afternoon.
A squad of 33 players will then have a couple of down days before reassembling for final preparations before flying out to France, in early September.will be keep track of all the big Ireland squad announcement news, rumours, reactions and that all important and official news from the man himself, Andy Farrell.
Farrell's first-choice XV could be picked by most of us right now, at a push, and we would confidently get 13 or 14 of the calls right. He also has a stack of players he prefers to use on the replacements bench, although players like Jack Crowley and Cian Prendergast have shown he is not too set in his ways.
Ireland are one of the last nations to officially name their 33-man squad. The allocation is up from 31 players, which had been the cut-off for the 2015 and 2019 World Cups. Previously, from 1999 to 2011 the squads had been 30 players. From 1987 to 1995, the squads were made up of just 27 players.
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