Eight veterans in Ireland U20 squad

 

Ireland U20 head coach Nigel Carolan, has named a squad of 28 with just two players who were not involved in this year's U20 Six Nations included.

 

Munster U19 hooker Sean McNulty, who played in the 2014 U20 Six Nations, comes back into the panel having recovered from injury and is joined by the uncapped Charlie Rock.

 

Eight of the squad have previous Under20 Championship experience having played in last year's tournament in New Zealand where Ireland finished fourth overall – Ross Byrne, Billy Dardis, Ciaran Gaffney, Oisin Heffernan, Nick McCarthy, Rory Moloney, Josh Murphy and Garry Ringrose.

 

Ireland are in Pool C with Argentina, Scotland and New Zealand for June's competition. Carolan's youngsters open their tournament against Argentina in Parma on Tuesday, June 2.

 

Ireland U20 Squad:

 

Sam Arnold (Ballynahinch/Ulster)

Ross Byrne (UCD/Leinster)

Joey Carbery (UCD/Leinster)

Fergal Cleary (Lansdowne/Leinster)

Billy Dardis (UCD/Leinster)

Lorcan Dow (Queen's University Belfast/Ulster)

Jack Dwan (UCD/Leinster)

Stephen Fitzgerald (Shannon/Munster)

Ciaran Gaffney (Galwegians/Connacht)

Oisin Heffernan (Terenure College/Leinster)

Jeremy Loughman (UCD/Leinster)

Zack McCall (Queen's University Belfast/Ulster)

Nick McCarthy (UCD/Leinster)

Sean McNulty (UCD/Munster)

Stephen McVeigh (Buccaneers/Connacht)

Rory Moloney (Buccaneers/Connacht)

Josh Murphy (UCD/Leinster)

Conán O'Donnell (Sligo/NUIG/Connacht)

David O'Connor (St. Mary's College/Leinster)

Conor Oliver (St.Mary's College/Leinster)

Jack Owens (Queen's University Belfast/Ulster)

Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster)

Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster)

Charlie Rock (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 

Cian Romaine (Buccaneers/Connacht)

Jacob Stockdale (Queen's University Belfast/Ulster)

Alex Thompson (Queen's University Belfast/Ulster)

Nick Timoney (St. Mary's College/Leinster)