49 - Reggie Corrigan - Leinster, Ireland (47 caps). Honours: Celtic League 2001.
Corrigan is one of those who had made the breakthrough during the difficult days of the 1990s and had a period out of the international picture before becoming the cornerstone of the Irish scrum around the 2003 World Cup.
A consistent performer who was rock solid at the set-piece, he captained Leinster to the Celtic League triumph in 2001 and retired in 2006.
48 - Shane Byrne - Leinster, Saracens, Ireland (41 caps). Honours: Celtic League 2001, Lions 2005 (4 Tests).
A late bloomer, Byrne had to bide his time until Keith Wood retired, but once he got his chance the Blackrock hooker made the most of it.
Updated / Saturday, 30 Jan 2021
16:42 There will be a lot of unhappy people if we don t take at least one of those big scalps at home
Former Ireland hooker Shane Byrne says that further pressure could come on Andy Farrell if his side fail to register a victory in either one of their home Six Nations games against England or France.
Farrell s second tilt at the spring tournament commences in eight days time, with Ireland opening their campaign in Cardiff against Wayne Pivac s struggling Wales outfit.
Ireland enter the season off the back of an indifferent 2020, in which they won all six home games but lost their three away games over the course of the virus interrupted calendar year.
I m one of the lucky ones, says Naas photographer born in Bessborough
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Naas woman Aishling Conway was born in September 1980 in Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork.
That December, at three months old, she arrived at her new home in Kingsfurze, Naas.
She is the youngest of three children adopted from Bessborough by a local couple, and says she is one of the ‘lucky ones’, having gone to a kind and caring family in Ireland.
Last week’s Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Report revealed that thousands of children died at those homes during the last century; while countless more were shipped abroad for adoption.