voici les 39 joueurs retenus par Declan Kidney pour les Test-Matchs d'Automne.

Ordre alphabétique:
Tommy Bowe (Ospreys) Neil Best (Northampton) Tony Buckley (Shannon/Munster) Darren Cave (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster) Tom Court (Malone/Ulster) *Sean Cronin (Buccaneers/Connacht) Leo Cullen (Blackrock College/Leinster) Gordon D'Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster) Gavin Duffy (Galwegians/Connacht) Keith Earls (Shannon/Munster) Stephen Ferris (Dungannon/Ulster) Luke Fitzgerald (Blackrock College/Leinster) Jerry Flannery (Shannon/Munster) *John Fogarty (DLSP/Leinster) John Hayes (Bruff/Munster) *Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster) Jamie Heaslip (Naas/Leinster) *Chris Henry (Ballymena/Ulster) Marcus Horan (Shannon/Munster) Shane Horgan (Boyne/Leinster) Robert Kearney (UCD/Leinster) Denis Leamy (Cork Constitution/Munster) Fergus McFadden (UCD/Leinster) Donncha O'Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster) Paul O'Connell (Young Munster/Munster) Brian ODriscoll (UCD/Leinster) Ronan O'Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster) Tomas O'Leary (Dolphin/Munster) *Sean O'Brien (Clontarf/Leinster) Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne/Leinster) Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster) Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster) *Jonathan Sexton (Saint Mary's College/Leinster) Peter Stringer (Shannon/Munster) *Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster) Andrew Trimble (Ballymena/Ulster) David Wallace (Garryowen/Munster) Paddy Wallace (Ballymena/Ulster) *Brett Wilkinson (Galwegians/Connacht)

* Non ecore 'capé'
Soit 15 du Leinster, 13 du Munster, 6 de l'Ulster, 3 du Connacht + 2 'exilés'. On note la montée en puissance du Leinster (arrivée de Sexton, grand rival de Ronan O'Gara ... ) par rapport au Munster.