Tomas O'Leary missed the win over Scotland because of a back injury

Tomas O'Leary, Andrew Trimble and Fergus McFadden are among 12 additions to the Ireland squad for Saturday's Six Nations game against Wales.

Scrum-half O'Leary missed the win over Scotland because of injury but will hope to displace Eoin Reddan.

Backs Gavin Duffy, Johne Murphy are also added to the Irish squad.

Forwards Rhys Ruddock, Tony Buckley, Kevin McLaughlin, Donnacha Ryan, Mick O'Driscoll, Devin Toner and Mike McCarthy are also called up.

There are said to be no injury worries among the 22-man squad selected for the win in Scotland but Stephen Ferris has been ruled out of the remainder of this year's Six Nations.

Ferris has been troubled by a knee injury since January.

Ireland squad: L Fitzgerald, T Bowe, B O'Driscoll (cpt), G D'Arcy, K Earls, R O'Gara, E Reddan; C Healy, R Best, M Ross, D O'Callaghan, P O'Connell, S O'Brien, D Wallace, J Heaslip, S Cronin, T Court, L Cullen, D Leamy, P Stringer, J Sexton, P Wallace, Rhys Ruddock, F McFadden, T Buckley, K McLaughlin, M O'Driscoll, D Ryan, G Duffy, A Trimble, J Murphy, T O'Leary, D Toner, M McCarthy

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