{"id":162861,"date":"2025-06-06T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162861\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:55:08","slug":"dan-sheehan-among-three-changes-to-starting-xv-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162861\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Sheehan among three changes to starting XV \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dan Sheehan, Tommy O\u2019Brien and Scott Penny have all come into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\">Leinster<\/a> starting XV to face the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/glasgow-warriors\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/glasgow-warriors\">Glasgow Warriors<\/a> in the semi-finals of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-rugby-championship\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-rugby-championship\">BKT URC<\/a> on Saturday at the Aviva Stadium (kick-off 2.45pm, live on RT\u00c92 and Premier Sports 1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">They are the only changes to Leinster\u2019s starting XV from last weekend\u2019s 33-21 win over Scarlets in the quarter-finals while Jimmy O\u2019Brien shifts to fullback in the absence of Hugo Keenan, who joins fellow Lions Garry Ringrose, Josh van der Flier and Tadhg Furlong on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">R\u00f3nan Kelleher moves to the bench where is joined by Jack Boyle and Rabah Slimani. It is a strong-looking replacements unit, with Max Deegan and RG Snyman also named as Leo Cullen reverts to a 5-3 split. Luke McGrath, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley and the restored Ross Byrne are the backs named, with Byrne making his final appearance at Aviva Stadium for Leinster ahead of his move to Gloucester this summer after a decade of service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">Fin Richardson and Adam Hastings have been called into the Glasgow Warriors starting XV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\"><b>LEINSTER:<\/b> Jimmy O\u2019Brien; Tommy O\u2019Brien, Jamie Osborne, Jordie Barrett, James Lowe; Sam Prendergast, Jamison Gibson-Park; Andrew Porter, Dan Sheehan, Thomas Clarkson; Joe McCarthy, James Ryan; Ryan Baird, Scott Penny, Jack Conan (capt).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\"><b>Replacements:<\/b> R\u00f3nan Kelleher, Jack Boyle, Rabah Slimani, RG Snyman, Max Deegan, Luke McGrath, Ross Byrne, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\"><b>GLASGOW WARRIORS:<\/b> Josh McKay; Kyle Steyn (capt), Sione Tuipulotu, Tom Jordan, Kyle Rowe; Adam Hastings, George Horne; Jamie Bhatti, Gregor Hiddleston, Fin Richardson; Alex Samuel, Scott Cummings; Euan Ferrie, Rory Darge, Henco Venter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\"><b>Replacements: <\/b>Johnny Matthews, Rory Sutherland, Sam Talakai, Max Williamson, Jack Mann, Macenzzie Duncan, Stafford McDowall, Jamie Dobie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Sheehan, Tommy O\u2019Brien and Scott Penny have all come into the Leinster starting XV to face the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,8979,4884,30724,712,16,15,4510],"class_list":{"0":"post-162861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-glasgow-warriors","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leinster-rugby","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-united-rugby-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114636293785849758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}