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Published 20:43 19 Apr 2017 BST
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"If you look at surprise omissions, I think the big stand-out one - well, there's probably two - is Dylan Hartley," the Irish legend said. "People talked about him as a possible Lions captain and then for him not to make the squad... "The second one is, in a very competitive second row, is Joe Launchbury. "I think the question was if he was to go, he would have had to be captain. I'm just wondering whether it's the type of environment where someone who is a leader in the way he does it for England would fit into that mould in a Lions situation. "Sam Warburton was chosen as captain - rightly so - and I just wonder did Warren Gatland feel there was a... not potential for him [Hartley] to be decisive but that he might've been too strong a character."From an Irish point of view, Garry Ringrose, Keith Earls and Donnacha Ryan perhaps felt most hard-done-by but 11 names still got the nod to make the trip to the other side of the world in the summer.

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