Calvin Nash starts on his 100th appearance for the province. The Ireland winger signed a two-year contract extension earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shane Daly, Nash and Andrew Smith start in the back three for the Thomond Park clash (5.30pm).<\/p>\n Last week’s player of the match Alex Nankivell and Tom Farrell are paired in midfield with Craig Casey and Jack Crowley starting at 9 and 10.<\/p>\n Jeremy Loughman, Diarmuid Barron and Jager pack down in the front row with Jean Kleyn and captain Tadhg Beirne in the second row.<\/p>\n A back row of Tom Ahern, John Hodnett and Gavin Coombes completes the side.<\/p>\n Lee Barron, Michael Milne and Michael Ala\u2019alatoa are the front row replacements with Edwin Edogbo, Gleeson and Alex Kendellen completing the forward cover.<\/p>\n Academy scrum-half Ben O\u2019Donovan and Dan Kelly are the backline replacements with O\u2019Donovan set for his first appearance at Thomond Park.<\/p>\n The hosts are just one point behind Ulster in the standings with three rounds remaining in the regular season. <\/p>\n Munster: Shane Daly; Calvin Nash, Tom Farrell, Alex Nankivell, Andrew Smith; Jack Crowley, Craig Casey; Jeremy Loughman, Diarmuid Barron, Oli Jager; Jean Kleyn, Tadhg Beirne (capt); Tom Ahern, John Hodnett, Gavin Coombes.<\/p>\n Replacements: Lee Barron, Michael Milne, Michael Ala\u2019alatoa, Edwin Edogbo, Brian Gleeson, Ben O\u2019Donovan, Dan Kelly, Alex Kendellen.<\/p>\n Listen to the RT\u00c9 Rugby podcast on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>, and email us at sportpodcasts@rte.ie<\/p>\n \n Follow our live blog on Munster v Ulster in the URC on Saturday from 5.30pm on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app and listen to Saturday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n Follow our live blog on France v Ireland in the Women’s Six Nations on Saturday from 8.10pm on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app and listen to Saturday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oli Jager makes his first start since January as Munster’s only change in their side to take on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-413661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"URC](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/002442e5-614.jpg\"\/)
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