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Leinster keeping Shane in frame

Shane Horgan faces a battle to win back his place in the Ireland squad, never mind get picked for the starting XV.

Shane Horgan faces a battle to win back his place in the Ireland squad, never mind get picked for the starting XV.

By Marcus CAVAROLI

Wednesday February 03 2010

AN untimely foot injury did Shane Horgan no favours last week as he linked up with the 44-man Ireland squad for training, ahead of Saturday's RBS Six Nations Championship clash against Italy. But the Drogheda-born winger remains optimistic, in public at least, that his international exile is not a permanent one, after playing a full part in Leinster's path to this year's Heineken Cup quarter-finals.