Boost for Ireland as Garry Ringrose trains fully

Garry Ringrose looks on course to be fit for next week's Guinness Six Nations meeting with England at Twickenham, with the centre taking a full part in this morning's open training session at the Aviva Stadium.

Ringrose is yet to feature in the championship, missing the first three games due to a shoulder injury, but now looks set to be available after stepping up to a full training load.

Hugo Keenan also appears to making good progress on his knee injury, which kept him out of last weekend's win against Wales.

The full-back trained separately to the team as he continued his rehab work, but was given an extensive workout by the IRFU's rehab specialist Einar Einarsson.

"Hopefully by Tuesday or Wednesday he'll be training fully and give us that opportunity," attack coach Mike Catt said of Keenan's progress.

Elsewhere Ryan Baird sat out training after a back spasm this morning, but doesn't appear to be a major doubt, while Oli Jager wasn't present at the session due to a knee injury.

With no game this weekend, Ireland will travel to Twickenham on Saturday 9 March looking to continue their push for back to back Grand Slams, something that has never been done in the Six Nations era.

The defending champions continued their perfect start to the championship with a third bonus-point win from three against Wales on Saturday, but it was a game in which they were left frustrated at times by an aggressive Welsh defence.

In the aftermath of the game, head coach Andy Farrell described some of their attack as "passive", and assistant coach Catt says it's been an area of focus this week.

"We've had a review of the Wales game and it wasn't perfect by any means, so I think we've really realised what we need to do now over the next 10 days to