By Cathal Dervan

Munster and Ireland prop Marcus Horan has been ruled out until the New Year with a torn calf muscle picked up in Sunday’s win over Australia and will miss the final rugby international at Lansdowne Road against the Pacific Islands this weekend.

Coach Eddie O’Sullivan has already called up 10 players to add to the squad that won against the Aussies, with Ulster’s Bryan Young likely to retain his place at prop in the absence of Horan.

Luke Fitzgerald, Eoin Reddan, Barry Murphy and Jeremy Staunton strengthen the back division, while Matt McCullough, Jamie Heaslip, Simon Best, Stephen Ferris, Ronnie McCormack and Keith Gleeson join the forwards.

“There will be some changes. Other than Marcus Horan we have a clean bill of health. We’ll pick the 22 from the 32 that we have at the moment,” said O’Sullivan on Tuesday ahead of the Pacific Islands game.

“There is a good bit of elbow room now after winning the first two games and we’ll look at doing things differently against the Islanders. But I still want to win. I don’t want to throw away the last test at Lansdowne Road before the wrecking crew move in, so we want to leave on a good note. We have a lot of good stuff in the bank from the last two weeks and we have to analyze it and move.”