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Updated Ireland Under-20 clash live on RTÉ Player and RTÉ News on Saturday

Ireland face England at 7.15pm
Ireland face England at 7.15pm

Richie Murphy has named his team for Ireland's crunch game against England in the Under-20s Six Nations, which will be live on RTÉ Player and the RTÉ News Channel on Saturday night.

Fiona Coghlan will be alongside Des Curran on commentary from 7.05pm with the game kicking-off at 7.15pm as Ireland look to keep their Grand Slam challenge alive with a win away against England.

Murphy has made two changes to the side that beat Italy in Round 3 at Musgrave Park, with Ben Carson coming into the Ireland backline and Lorcan McLoughlin promoted to a starting position in the back row.

Carson featured for Ireland U20s during last year's Six Nations in Cardiff and joins Jude Postlethwaite in midfield for the showdown against England in Barnet, after Ben Brownlee was ruled out through injury.

Murphy has selected an unchanged back three with Patrick Campbell, Chay Mullins and Fionn Gibbons retained, while Charlie Tector and Matthew Devine continue their half-back partnership.

Ulster's Reuben Crothers once again captains Murphy’s youngsters from the back row, where McLoughlin comes in at blindside and James Culhane continues at number eight.

Murphy said: "We've had another good window of preparation for this game, including last week's session against the senior team at Aviva Stadium. We identified areas where we needed to improve on from Italy and recognise the requirement to hit another level of performance on Saturday night."

Earlier on Saturday, RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player will have live coverage of the men's senior game between England and Ireland from Twickenham.

Jacqui Hurley will be joined from 4pm by Eddie O'Sullivan, Jamie Heaslip and Jerry Flannery with commentary from Hugh Cahill and Donal Lenihan and with Clare MacNamara reporting.

There will also be radio commentary on RTE Radio 1.

The RTÉ News Channel is available on Saorview channel 21, Virgin Media channel 200, Sky channel 521 and Eir channel 517.

Ireland U20s: 15. Patrick Campbell (Young Munster RFC/Munster); 14. Chay Mullins (Bristol Bears/IQ Rugby), 13. Jude Postlethwaite (Banbridge RFC/Ulster), 12. Ben Carson (Banbridge RFC/Ulster), 11. Fionn Gibbons (UCD RFC/Leinster); 10. Charlie Tector (Lansdowne FC/Leinster), 9. Matthew Devine (Galway Corinthians RFC/Connacht); 1. Jack Boyle (UCD RFC/Leinster), 2. James McCormick (Ballymena RFC/Ulster), 3. Rory McGuire (UCD RFC/Leinster); 4. Conor O'Tighearnaigh (UCD RFC/Leinster), 5. Mark Morrissey (UCD RFC/Leinster); 6. Lorcan McLoughlin (Queen's University Belfast RFC/Ulster), 7. Reuben Crothers (Ballynahinch RFC/Ulster) (capt), 8. James Culhane (UCD RFC/Leinster).

Replacements: 16. Josh Hanlon (Ballynahinch RFC/Ulster); 17. Oisin Michel (Lansdowne FC/Leinster), 18. Scott Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast/Ulster), 19. James McNabney (Ballymena RFC/Ulster), 20. Diarmuid Mangan (UCD RFC/Leinster), 21. Ethan Coughlan (Shannon RFC/Munster), 22. Tony Butler (Garryowen FC/Munster), 23. Aitzol King (Clontarf FC/Leinster).

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