Former Kilkenny College player makes Leinster squad for tour of South Africa

Former Kilkenny College player Charlie Tector has been included in Leinster Rugby squad that will depart Dublin for Johannesburg for the final two games in the regular season of the BKT United Rugby Championship.

Leinster Rugby will play Emirates Lions on Saturday in Emirates Airline Park and a week later will play the Vodacom Bulls in Loftus Versfeld (both games will be live on TG4 and URC TV).

The squad of 30 named by Leo Cullen has four uncapped players included who were all part of the recent Ireland U-20s Grand Slam winning squad.

Sam Prendergast is already in the Leinster Academy, while Conor O’Tighearnaigh, Liam Molony and Fintan Gunne have all been training in the Ken Wall Centre of Excellence down in Energia Park as part of the age grade programme at Leinster Rugby.

The full squad is as follows:

Forwards: 

Jack Boyle
Ed Byrne
Michael Milne
Lee Barron
Tadgh McElroy
Vakhtang Abdaladze
Thomas Clarkson
Temi Lasisi
Brian Deeny
Alex Soroka
Jason Jenkins
Conor O’Tighearnaigh*
Liam Molony*
Rhys Ruddock
Will Connors
James Culhane
Max Deegan
 

Backs:

Fintan Gunne*
Nick McCarthy
Ben Murphy
Sam Prendergast*
Charlie Tector
Dave Kearney
Aitzol King
Ben Brownlee
Liam Turner
Tommy O’Brien
Rob Russell
Chris Cosgrave
Max O’Reilly
* Denotes uncapped player