Baird

Coaches, general managers, team owners — even the league’s former Commissioner Lisa Baird — were either fired or resigned.

Herring, Healy, Clarkson, Conan, James Ryan and Ryan Baird provide the forwards cover with Murray and Jack Crowley named as the two replacement backs.

On Sunday, when Tadhg Beirne and his replacement Ryan Baird both went off for head injury assessments in the space of five minutes, the Irish coaches must have felt a sense of nightmarish deja vu.

The 35-year-old did not start any of Ireland's November games having gone into that campaign with a hamstring issue but returns to replace Ryan Baird in the back row.

And while that trio offers speed, mobility and breakdown menace, the selection may give Ireland - for whom the 6ft 6in Ryan Baird is a surprise inclusion - the edge at the line-out.