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Horgan back for Ireland

Green Giant: Shane Horgan is fit

Ireland coach Eddie O'Sullivan has named fit-again wing Shane Horgan in his XV for Saturday's clash with Georgia at Stade Chaban-Delmas in Bordeaux.

The big Leinster flyer suffered a knee ligament strain while warming up before last month's clash with Scotland and has spent the last four weeks on the sidelines.

Horgan takes his place on the the right wing with Ulster's Andrew Trimble dropping out of the squad altogether in the only change to the 22 selected against Namibia.

Eddie O'Sullivan stated earlier this week that he would not wield the axe in response to the dire 32-17 victory over the Africans and the Ireland coach has remained true to his word.

Ireland captain Brian O'Driscoll was passed fit to lead the side on Monday night after recovering from the hyper-extended elbow sustained against Namibia and continues at outside centre.

Fly-half Ronan O'Gara and prop Marcus Horan are also included in after making swift recoveries from their respective foot and rib injuries.

O'Sullivan revealed Trimble has fractured a finger and will be sidelined for a week.

The gifted Ulsterman would have displaced Geordan Murphy from the bench had he been fit but now faces a race against time to be available for the pivotal clash against France.

"Andrew bruised his finger and we discovered he has a very small fracture. We expect him to be out for a week," said O'Sullivan.

"Shane had a good session on the park this morning and is champing at the bit. He would have played regardless of Andrew's injury.

"Overall, training has been very good this week, but then it was very good last week yet we performed so badly against Namibia.''

Ireland: 15 Girvan Dempsey, 14 Shane Horgan, 13 Brian O'Driscoll, 12 Gordon D'Arcy, 11 Denis Hickie, 10 Ronan O'Gara, 9 Peter Stringer, 8 Denis Leamy, 7 David Wallace, 6 Simon Easterby, 5 Paul O'Connell, 4 Donnacha O'Callaghan, 3 John Hayes, 2 Rory Best, 1 Marcus Horan.
Replacements: 16 Jerry Flannery, 17 Simon Best, 18 Malcolm O'Kelly, 19 Neil Best, 20 Isaac Boss, 21 Paddy Wallace, 22 Geordan Murphy.

Date: Saturday, September 15
Kick-off: 21:00 (19:00 GMT)
Venue: Stade Chaban-Delmas, Bordeaux
Referee: Wayne Barnes
Touch judges: Malcolm Changleng, Paul Marks
Television match official: Federico Cuesta
Assessor: Tappe Henning