We were due to out Irelands official World cup squad at lunchtime.
Coach Joe Schmidt can bring 31 players to the tournament and submitted his file to organisers
last night hopefully they were able to open it.
Joe played cat and mouse with the meeja because its been released this morning.
A 31 player panel for the Rugby World Cup 2015 in England.
17 Forwards and 14 Backs will be captained by Paul O'Connell who is the most capped player in the Ireland group with 103 caps.
Seventeen players will make their tournament debuts.
Ireland are in Pool D alongside Canada, Romania, Italy and France. Ireland's first game of the tournament comes against the Canadians at the Millennium Stadium Cardiff on Saturday 19th September.
Here it is:
Despite an injury scare Cian Healy is included.
17 Forwards in total.
Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster) 84
Sean Cronin (St. Mary's College/Leinster) 45
Wexfords Tadhg Furlong who only made his
international Debut against Wales at the weekend
Jamie Heaslip (Dublin University/Leinster) 74
Iain Henderson (Ballynahinch/Ulster) 19
Chris Henry (Malone/Ulster) 18
Jack McGrath (St. Mary's College/Leinster) 19
Jordi Murphy (Lansdowne/Leinster) 12
Sean O'Brien (UCD/Leinster) 36
Paul O'Connell (Young Munster) 103 captain
Peter O'Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster) 31
Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster) 51
Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster) 30
Richardt Strauss (Old Wesley/Leinster) 9
Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster) 26
Nathan White (Connacht) 2
Backs (14)
Tommy Bowe (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster) 62
Darren Cave (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster) 9
Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) 41
Luke Fitzgerald (Blackrock College/Leinster) 30
Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Connacht) 11
Paddy Jackson (Dungannon/Ulster) 12
David Kearney (Lansdowne/Leinster) 9
Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster) 63
Ian Madigan (Blackrock College/Leinster) 20
Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster) 36
Jared Payne (Ulster) 7
Eoin Reddan (Old Crescent/Leinster) 63
Jonathan Sexton (St Mary's College/Leinster) 52
Simon Zebo (Cork Constitution/Munster) 17
So confirmation that Michael Bent, Marty Moore, Andrew Trimble, Felix Jones and Fergus Mc Fadden have been left out.
Joy and disappointment in prospect for several Ireland stars. Go get em lads!
And good advice from ROG for those who didn't make the cut!
Looking fwd to watching the response of McFadden,Felix +Trimble.3 guys who have overcome adversity before and driven their province. #headup
— Ronan O Gara (@RonanOGara10) September 1, 2015
