Ireland Coach Eddie O'Sullivan has made just one change to the team that defeated Namibia for Ireland's second game of the Rugby World Cup against Georgia on Saturday.

Shane Horgan has been restored to Ireland's starting line-up for their second World Cup match against Georgia on Saturday.

Horgan suffered a knee ligament strain while warming up before last month's clash with Scotland and has spent the last four weeks on the sidelines.

The gifted Leinster back returns to the right wing with Ulster's Andrew Trimble dropping out of the squad altogether in the only change to the 22 selected against Namibia.

Eddie O'Sullivan stated yesterday he would not wield the axe in response to the dire 32-17 victory over the Africans and the Ireland coach has remained true to his word.

Lions centre Brian O'Driscoll was last night passed fit to lead the side after recovering from the hyper-extended elbow sustained against Namibia and continues at outside centre.

Fly-half Ronan O'Gara and prop Marcus Horan are also included in after making swift recoveries from their respective foot and rib injuries.

O'Sullivan revealed Trimble has fractured a finger and will be sidelined for a week.

The powerful Ulsterman would have displaced Geordan Murphy from the bench had he been fit but now faces a race against time to be available for the pivotal clash against France.

O'Sullivan said: "Andrew bruised his finger and we discovered he has a very small fracture. We expect him to be out for a week.

"Shane had a good session on the park this morning and is champing at the bit. He would have played regardless of Andrew's injury.

"Overall, training has been very good this week, but then it was very good last week yet we performed so badly against Namibia.''

Georgia's punishing schedule has prompted coach Malkhaz Cheishvili to make 11 changes.

Auch lock Ilia Zedginidze leads the side and is one of only four survivors from the team which troubled Argentina before succumbing to a 33-3 defeat on Tuesday night.

Zedginidze continues his second row partnership with Mamuka Gorgodze, the Montpellier forward who will be winning his 25th cap at the Stade Chaban-Delmas.

Massy's Giorgi Chkhaidze resumes his back row duties, although he has been switched from blindside flanker to number eight.

Pau fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili, who impressed against the Pumas, is the only threequarter to have retained his place in the team.

Georgia are being hampered by a fixture list that demands they face two of the world's top six teams within five days.

The Irish, who sit seven places higher in the world rankings, complete a gruelling programme that Cheishvili has confirmed shaped his team selection.

"The schedule is very uncomfortable for us and we didn't choose it,'' he said.

"But we have prepared for this by planning to use our squad as much as possible.

"It's difficult but there is nothing we can do about it, we have to face the challenge.

"We don't see it like the bigger teams get treated better than the smaller ones, it's just the way it.''

+ Georgia's nickname, The Lelos, is derived from lelo, an indigenous rugby-like sport which pre-dates William Webb Ellis's innovation by at least 200 years.

+ 2007 is Georgia's second successive appearance in the Rugby World Cup. They have yet to win a match in the tournament.

+ There are only eight rugby pitches in Georgia. Twenty-six of the World Cup squad are based in France with professional clubs.

+ Rugby is one of the most popular sports in Georgia and has been since the late 1950s.

+ Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and the national team was born. Previously Georgia's best players would represent the USSR.

+ In October 2002 45,000 people crammed into the national stadium in Tbilisi to watch Georgia qualify for the 2003 World Cup with victory over Russia.

+ Ireland and Georgia have met twice before with both matches at Lansdowne Road. Ireland won 70-0 in 1998 and 63-14 in 2002.

+ Ireland's starting line-up for this match is their most capped of all-time with 796 appearances between them.

Ireland: Girvan Dempsey (Terenure College/Leinster), Shane Horgan (Boyne/Leinster), Brian O'Driscoll (UCD/Leinster), Gordon D'Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster), Denis Hickie (St. Mary's College/Leinster), Ronan O'Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster), Peter Stringer (Shannon/Munster), Marcus Horan (Shannon/Munster), Rory Best (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster), John Hayes (Shannon/Munster), Donncha O'Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster), Paul O'Connell (Young Munster/Munster), Simon Easterby (Llanelli), David Wallace (Garryowen/Munster), Denis Leamy (Cork Constitution/Munster)

Replacements: Jerry Flannery (Shannon/Munster), Simon Best (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster), Malcolm O'Kelly (St. Mary's College/Leinster), Neil Best (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster), Isaac Boss (Ballymena/Ulster), Paddy Wallace (Ballymena/Ulster), Geordan Murphy (Leicester)

Georgia: Otar Barkalaia, Giorgi Elizbarashvili, Revaz Gigauri, Davit Kacharava, Giorgi Shkinin, Merab Kvirikashvili, Bidzina Samkharadze; Mamuka Magrakvelidze, Goderdzi Shvelidze, Avtandil Kopaliani, Ilia Zedginidze (captain), Mamuka Gorgodze, Ilia Maisuradze, Rati Urushadze, Giorgi Chkhaidze.

Replacements: Akvsenti Giorgadze, David Khinchagashvili, Levan Datunashvili, Zviad Maisuradze, Irakli Abuseridze, Malkhaz Urjukashvili, Otar Eloshvili.