The first interpro of the URC season takes place this weekend with Munster making the trip to GAA HQ to take on Leinster.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leinster got their first win of the season in the Aviva against the Sharks last weekend while Munster are sitting second in the table after three hard fought wins from their opening three games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leinster have come out on top in their last four clashes but Clayton McMillan’s side will be hopeing to put a stop to that run and maintain their perfect winning start to the new URC campaign.<\/p>\n
Here’s all you need to know ahead of the game.<\/p>\n
The game will take place in Croke Park.<\/p>\n
The match kicks off at 5.15pm on Saturday October 18.<\/p>\n
Take your pick. TG4 and Premier Sports 1 will show the match.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Gianluca Gnecchi is the man in the middle for the clash.<\/p>\n
Munster have fresh concerns over tighthead prop Oli Jager, who was withdrawn following a head knock in the first half of last Friday\u2019s 20-19 round-three win over Edinburgh in Cork while McMillan is set to issue updates on the availability for Saturday of scrum-half Craig Casey (hamstring), Niall Scannell (hand), Shane Daly (head) and Tom Ahern when he faces the media on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of the Munster coaches\u2019 selection meeting on Monday evening, Leamy said club captain Tadhg Beirne was available for his seasonal debut after a Player of the Series set of performances for the Lions against Australia.\u00a0Simon Lewis\n <\/p>\n
Jamie Osborne is available for selection after coming through last weekend’s clash without any issues following his return from injury. Robbie Henshaw was withdrawn early in the second half against the Sharks as a precautionary measure and will be assessed further later in the week before a decision on his availability. Jordan Larmour is entering the final stages of his rehabilitation and a final decision on his availability will be made later in the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first interpro of the URC season takes place this weekend with Munster making the trip to GAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,12861,15,16,12311,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-122610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-leinster-rugby","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-munster-rugby","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}