A number of players in the Ireland camp are currently nursing injuries, most notably team captain Brian O’Driscoll who has hurt his knee.
O’Driscoll has returned to training after sitting out Tuesday’s run-out, as did prop John Hayes, but hooker Bernard Jackman (knee strain) and scrum-half Tomas O’Leary (foot strain) are also nursing knocks.
“In rugby, guys will always have different bangs and knocks. But they’ve all been involved in training (this week), some more physically active than others,” Ireland coach Declan Kidney said.
“The training camp is made up of several meetings which sometimes go on for half or the same length of time of the training sessions, so everyone’s been involved in one way or the other.
“Brian had a big involvement this morning, probably even better than we would have hoped for maybe last week. We’ll see how things are on Monday.
“You don’t put pressure on it. If it’s good on Monday, that’s the world of professionalism – if it’s right to go, it will be brilliant.
“If it’s not, thankfully now we have a squad where there’ll be other people to step in.”
