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Ireland make 11 changes for clash with Samoa

Kidney names team for Samoa clash this weekend.

DECLAN KIDNEY HAS rung the changes for the clash with Samoa at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday.

The Ireland head coach has made 10 personnel switches and one positional change to the team for the second Test of the November Series.

Devin Toner is in line to win his first cap in the second row where he will be partnered by the experienced Donncha O’Callaghan.

The new-look front row consists of Tom Court, Sean Cronin and John Hayes.

Luke Fitzgerald is the one positional switch in the team, he moves from wing to full back, with Andrew Trimble coming into the vacant left-wing position.

After a game-changing introduction against the Springboks last weekend, Ronan O’Gara and Peter Stringer start side as the new half-back combination.

IRELAND (v Samoa): L Fitzgerald; T Bowe, B O’Driscoll (capt), P Wallace, A Trimble; R O’Gara, P Stringer; T Court, S Cronin, J Hayes, D O’Callaghan, D Toner, D Leamy, S O’Brien, J Heaslip.

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