Offaly rugby star picked in Ireland squad for Autumn Nations Series at Aviva Stadium

An emerging Offaly rugby star has been picked by Andy Farrell in the Ireland squad for the Autumn Nations Series games at Aviva Stadium. 

Tullamore's Cormac Izuchukwu is one of two uncapped players in the squad along with Sam Prendergast.

Both featured for Emerging Ireland in Bloemfontein last month and were also part of Farrell’s Summer Tour squad to South Africa

Formerly a member of the Ireland 7s team, Cormac will be hoping to earn his debut cap with the 15s in November. He started playing rugby with Tullamore RFC.

Ireland play New Zealand, Argentina, Fiji and Australia on consecutive weekends in November.

The Ireland squad in full is

Forwards (19):

Ryan Baird (Dublin University/Leinster)(22)
Finlay Bealham (Buccaneers/Connacht)(42)
Tadhg Beirne (Lansdowne/Munster)(52)
Caelan Doris (St Mary’s College/Leinster)(43)(captain)
Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf/Leinster)(78)
Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)(131)
Dave Heffernan (Buccaneers/Connacht)(7)
Iain Henderson (Academy/Ulster)(81)
Rob Herring (Ballynahinch/Ulster)(40)
Cormac Izuchukwu (Ballynahinch/Ulster)*
Rónan Kelleher (Lansdowne/Leinster)(33)
Joe McCarthy (Dublin University/Leinster)(12)
Peter O’Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster)(107)
Tom O’Toole (Ballynahinch/Ulster)(13)
Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster)(66)
Cian Prendergast (UCD/Connacht)(3)
James Ryan (UCD/Leinster)(64)
Nick Timoney (Banbridge/Ulster)(3)
Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster)(64)

Backs (16):

Bundee Aki (Galwegians/Connacht)(57)
Craig Casey (Shannon/Munster)(15)
Jack Crowley (Cork Constitution/Munster)(16)
Ciaran Frawley (UCD/Leinster)(6)
Jamison Gibson-Park (Leinster)(35)
Mack Hansen (Corinthians/Connacht)(21)
Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Leinster)(74)
Hugo Keenan (UCD/Leinster)(39)
James Lowe (Leinster)(33)
Stuart McCloskey (Bangor/Ulster)(18)
Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster)(118)
Calvin Nash (Young Munster/Munster)(8)
Jamie Osborne (Naas/Leinster)(2)
Sam Prendergast (Lansdowne/Leinster)*
Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster)(60)
Jacob Stockdale (Lurgan/Ulster)(37)

Training Panellists (5):

Thomas Clarkson (Dublin University/Leinster)*
Alex Kendellen (UCC/Munster)*
Shayne Bolton (Connacht)*
Jack Boyle (UCD/Leinster)*
Gus McCarthy (UCD/Leinster)*