The Australian-born tighthead prop is one of nine Ravenhill representatives in the panel for that match but four of them will not be going on the subsequent tour to New Zealand and Australia and Andrew Trimble misses out altogether due to injury.

As all the Munster contingent are unavailable for the Kingsholm fixture thanks to the southern province's Heineken Cup final against Toulouse three days earlier, caretaker coach Michael Bradley has named a panel of 37 which will be cut back to 30 for the tour.

The Ulster quartet to miss out on the two-Test tour are Court, Northampton-bound flanker Neil Best, promising lock Ryan Caldwell and young loose forward Stephen Ferris.

Harlequins tighthead prop Mike Ross, recalled London Irish captain Bob Casey and Leinster lad Jonathan Sexton also miss that cut but one uncapped player – Munster winger Ian Dowling – will make the trip.

New Ospreys signing Tommy Bowe, midfield man Paddy Wallace, prop Bryan Young, scrumhalf Isaac Boss and Ulster captain Rory Best are all bound for the southern hemisphere.

Boss, one of three scrumhalves listed, has held off the challenge of Tomas O'Leary while Wallace is preferred to young pretender Sexton as back-up flyhalf.

Brian O'Driscoll has been named as captain but will need a new centre partner as both Trimble – due to a leg problem – and Gordon D'Arcy are sidelined by injury issues along with Leinster lock Leo Cullen.

It is a conservative selection as acting coach Bradley – holding the fort until Declan Kidney takes up his post as Ireland supremo before next season – has included all the familiar faces from the Eddie O'Sullivan era including veteran Lions lock Malcolm O'Kelly.

Ferris misses out to accommodate the inclusion of a third hooker, Bernard Jackman, and instead will travel to the Churchill Cup in North America with Neil Best, Caldwell, Court, Ross, Casey and Sexton as part of an Ireland A squad to be coached by former Ulster assistant Allen Clarke.

There are eight Ulstermen in the shadow squad with rising stars Mark McCrea, David Pollock and Mark McCrea joined by Roger Wilson in spite of his impending move to English Premiership side Northampton this summer.

Ulster's new signing Ian Humphreys has got the nod ahead of next season's outhalf rival at Ravenhill, Niall O'Connor, while prop Declan Fitzpatrick – along with Niall Ronan and Barry Murphy – wasn't considered due to injury.

There are eight full caps included, among them the Leinster lock Trevor Hogan, Connacht openside Johnny O'Connor and Munster three-quarter Kieran Lewis.

IRELAND squad: G Dempsey, L Fitzgerald, G Duffy, G Murphy, R Kearney, T Bowe, S Horgan, B O'Driscoll, P Wallace, J Sexton, I Boss, E Reddan; (forwards): B Young, M Ross, T Court, R Best, B Jackman, R Casey, M O'Kelly, R Caldwell, N Best, S Ferris, J Heaslip, S Jennings.