Neil Treacy is joined by Bernard Jackman and Johne Murphy to look ahead to this weekend’s Investec Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup finals in Bilbao, while Hannah O’Connor recaps Ireland’s big finish to the Guinness Women’s Six Nations.<\/p>\n
The panel break down the key talking points ahead of Leinster’s latest shot at winning the Champions Cup (02:50), with Leo Cullen’s side taking on defending champions Bordeaux-Begles on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
We look at how Ulster face a season-defining Challenge Cup decider against Montpellier on Friday night, while Bernard also brings us up to speed on the province’s new forwards coach, Clarke Dermody (21:45).<\/p>\n
The podcast goes back over Munster’s vital win against the Lions last Saturday (37:50), which has secured Clayton McMillan’s side a play-off spot and Champions Cup qualification.<\/p>\n
Connacht, meanwhile, will have to wait to see if their top-half finish is enough for Champions Cup rugby next season (49:15), although Stuart Lancaster’s side did secure their play-off spot, as they continue their impressive form.<\/p>\n
Later, Hannah O’Connor joins Neil to discuss Ireland’s comprehensive 54-5 win against Scotland to mark an impressive finish to their Women’s Six Nations campaign (56:45).<\/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 We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences<\/a><\/p>\n Follow a live blog of Ulster v Montpellier in the Challenge Cup final (Friday, 8pm) and Leinster v Bordeaux-Begles in the Champions Cup final (Saturday, 2.45pm) on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app.<\/p>\n Listen to live commentary of the Champions Cup final on Sunday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Treacy is joined by Bernard Jackman and Johne Murphy to look ahead to this weekend’s Investec Champions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-458421","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\/458421","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=458421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}