The Leicester Tigers captain, who ended the domestic season by lifting the Guinness Premiership silverware for the second successive year, gained his 67th cap in the defeat by the All Blacks on Saturday.
He will be joined in the Ireland side by Welford Road team-mate Johne Murphy, one of four uncapped players in the Ireland starting line-up.
Live coverage of Friday's game will be shown on Sky Sports 1/HD1 from 8.30am.
Ireland XV:
15 Geordan Murphy (Leicester Tigers, captain)
14 Shane Horgan (Boyne/Leinster)
13 Gavin Duffy (Galwegians/Connacht)
12 Paddy Wallace (Ballymena/Ulster)
11 Johne Murphy (Leicester Tigers)
10 Jonathan Sexton (St.Mary’s College/Leinster)
9 Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
1 Marcus Horan (Shannon/Munster)
2 John Fogarty (De la Salle Palmerston/Leinster)
3 Tom Court (Malone/Ulster)
4 Ed O’Donoghue (Ballymena/Ulster)
5 Dan Tuohy (Ballymena/Ulster)
6 Rhys Ruddock (Blackrock College/Leinster)
7 Niall Ronan (Shannon/Munster)
8 Chris Henry (Ballymena/Ulster)
Replacements
16 Sean Cronin (Buccaneers/Connacht)
17 John Hayes (Shannon/Munster)
18 Donncha O’Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
19 David Wallace (Garryowen/Munster)
20 Peter Stringer (Shannon/Munster)
21 Ronan O’Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster)
22 Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster)
