Ireland have named two uncapped players in a 44-man training squad for their upcoming internationals.
The squad, which will feature in a pre-season period taking in camps in Galway and Limerick as well as their usual Maynooth base, sees Mike Haley and Jean Kleyn take their place for the first time.
Elsewhere, Ireland forward Sean O’Brien, who featured in four of his country’s Guinness Six Nations fixtures earlier this year, misses out as he is due to have hip surgery in the coming weeks and faces six months on the sidelines.
Ireland have a busy summer calendar where they will contest two summer internationals away from home with Guinness Six Nations rematches against England at Twickenham Stadium and Wales at the Principality Stadium where they will look to avenge 20-32 and 25-7 defeats to both respectively in this year’s competition.
Ireland are also set to host Guinness Six Nations rivals Italy and Wales at the Aviva Stadium in home summer internationals.
Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt said: “There were some very close calls in selection and it’s always a challenging process because the coaching group are very conscious of how hard the players work.
“It’s ideal that they get a good opportunity to relax for a few weeks before getting stuck into pre-season training and the busy Guinness Series in the lead up to the World Cup.
“Some players have missed out through injury and there are one or two guys that may be added into the squad at a later stage.”
Ireland training squad:
Forwards
Finlay Bealham (Connacht) 9 caps
Rory Best (Ulster) 117 caps
Tadhg Beirne (Munster) 5 caps
Jack Conan (Leinster) 14 caps
Sean Cronin (Leinster) 68 caps
Ultan Dillane (Connacht) 14 caps
Tadhg Furlong (Leinster) 33 caps
Cian Healy (Leinster) 88 caps
Iain Henderson (Ulster) 44 caps
Rob Herring (Ulster) 7 caps
Dave Kilcoyne (Munster) 29 caps
Jean Kleyn (Munster) 0 caps
Jack McGrath (Leinster) 54 caps
Jordi Murphy (Ulster) 27 caps
Tommy O’Donnell (Munster) 12 caps
Peter O’Mahony (Munster) 57 caps
Andrew Porter (Leinster) 14 caps
Rhys Ruddock (Leinster) 21 caps
James Ryan (Leinster) 17 caps
John Ryan (Munster) 18 caps
Niall Scannell (Munster) 14 caps
CJ Stander (Munster) 31 caps
Devin Toner (Leinster) 64 caps
Josh van der Flier (Leinster) 17 caps
Backs
Bundee Aki (Connacht) 17 caps
Ross Byrne (Leinster) 2 caps
Joey Carbery (Munster) 18 caps
Jack Carty (Connacht) 3 caps
Andrew Conway (Munster) 12 caps
John Cooney (Ulster) 8 caps
Keith Earls (Munster) 77 caps
Chris Farrell (Munster) 5 caps
Mike Haley (Munster) 0 caps
Robbie Henshaw (Leinster) 37 caps
Dave Kearney (Leinster) 17 caps
Rob Kearney (Leinster) 90 caps
Jordan Larmour (Leinster) 13 caps
Kieran Marmion (Connacht) 25 caps
Luke McGrath (Leinster) 10 caps
Conor Murray (Munster) 72 caps
Garry Ringrose (Leinster) 20 caps
Rory Scannell (Munster) 3 caps
Jonathan Sexton (Leinster) 83 caps
Jacob Stockdale (Ulster) 19 caps
