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Twitter reacts to Ireland's Rugby World Cup squad announcement

Find out what those on the social networking site made of the surprise omissions of Luke Fitzgerald and Tomas O’Leary.
2.23pm, 22 Aug 2011

DECLAN KIDNEY’S 30-man World Cup squad announcement raised a few eyebrows among fans and critics alike.

Announced at 1pm at a press conference today, it contained a couple of surprises, most notably the decisions to exclude Tomas O’Leary and Luke Fitzgerald.

Find out below what the good folk on Twitter thought of the afternoon’s proceedings…

Twitter reacts to Ireland's Rugby World Cup squad announcement
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  • 22dropout

  • Andy McGeady

  • Balls.ie

  • Brendan O'Brien

  • Donn O'Sullivan

  • Gavin Grace

  • Michael McCarthy

  • Micheal Nagle

  • Paul Dollery

  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

  • Ruaidhri O'Connor

  • Shane Hegarty

  • Sharon Ward

  • Tom Fox

  • Anthony Kelly

  • Ronan Lyons

Read: Fitzgerald and O’Leary miss out on World Cup places>

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