Leinster have rung the changes for tomorrow’s BKT United Rugby Championship clash with Ospreys at Aviva Stadium (5.15pm), with just two starters remaining from last week’s victory over Lions.<\/p>\n
Jimmy O’Brien and James Culhane hold their places, while Rabah Slimani and Diarmuid Mangan, who both got game time off the bench last week, have been promoted to the starting XV.<\/p>\n
Jack Conan will skipper the side from blindside flanker with Josh van der Flier and Culhane joining him in the back row.<\/p>\n
Harry Byrne will start at 10, and Jamison Gibson-Park is at scrum-half. O’Brien retains his place at full-back. Robbie Henshaw and Garry Ringrose partner up at centre.<\/p>\n
Tadhg Furlong, who most recently played in the defeat to Treviso last month, is on the bench alongside Alex Usanov, who was included in the province’s Champions Cup squad<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n Leinster are set to face Bordeaux-Begles in that European final on Saturday week in Bilbao.<\/p>\n Leinster: Jimmy O’Brien; Tommy O’Brien, Garry Ringrose, Robbie Henshaw, Jordan Larmour; Harry Byrne, Jamison Gibson-Park; Jerry Cahir, Gus McCarthy, Rabah Slimani; Joe McCarthy, Diarmuid Mangan; Jack Conan, Josh van der Flier, James Culhane.<\/p>\n Replacements: R\u00f3nan Kelleher, Alex Usanov, Tadhg Furlong, Max Deegan, Caelan Doris, Fintan Gunne, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley, James Lowe.<\/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 Ireland v Scotland in the Guinness Women’s Six Nations on Sunday from 2.30pm and listen to Sunday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1. Watch Wales v Italy (12.15pm) and France v England (4.45pm) on RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster have rung the changes for tomorrow’s BKT United Rugby Championship clash with Ospreys at Aviva Stadium (5.15pm),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-450353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450353","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=450353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}