Squad News: The Ireland Under-20 squad arrived in Cardiff today ahead of the IRB Junior World Championships.
Ireland will take on Argentina in their opening game in Cardiff Arms Park this Friday with kick-off at 7pm.
Coach Eric Elwood has made one change to with Ciaran Ruddock called into the side to replace the injured David Nolan.
Ruddock, son of former Leinster and Wales coach, Mike, has featured for the Ireland Under-19s earlier in the season.
Ireland Under-20 squad: Stephen Archer, Ben
Barclay, Stephen Douglas, Michael Entwistle, Kieran Essex, Jason
Harris Wright, Conor Higgins, Paul Karayiannis, David Kearney,
Patrick Mallon, Ian Nagle, Ciaran Ruddock, Paul Ryan, James
Sandford, Eoin Sheriff, Eoin O'Malley, Conor Cleary, Chris
Cochrane, Martin Dufficy, Ian Madigan, David Moore, Niall Morris,
Ian Porter, Sean Scanlon, Eamonn Sheridan, Jamie Smith
IRB Junior World Championship Fixtures
Friday, June 6th
Argentina U20 v Ireland U20 (Cardiff Arms Park
7pm)
Tuesday, June 10th
Ireland U20 v New Zealand U20 (Cardiff Arms Park 9.10pm)
Saturday, June 14th
Tonga U20 v Ireland U20, (Cardiff Arms Park 3.00pm)
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