{"id":386671,"date":"2026-01-23T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386671\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:03:08","slug":"united-rugby-championship-connacht-and-leinster-name-teams-for-irish-interpro-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386671\/","title":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship: Connacht and Leinster name teams for Irish interpro game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caelan Doris will captain Leinster as he is set to make his 100th appearence in blue during Saturday&#8217;s visit to Connacht. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Niall Smyth is set to make his debut for the province and will be joined in the front row by Gus McCarthy and Jack Boyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Lowe returns for his first appearance since last month&#8217;s win over Munster and lines out on the wing, one try shy of equalling Shane Horgan&#8217;s Leinster record of 69, with Joshua Kenny on the opposite flank and Ciaran Frawley named at full-back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South African RG Snyman and James Ryan combine in the second row, with centurion Caelan Doris joined by Will Connors and Alex Soroka. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Byrne and Fintan Gunne start in the half-backs, with Charlie Tector partnering Garry Ringrose in midfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leinster sit fifth in the URC table, Leo Cullen&#8217;s side have won nine games in a row in all competitions, their last defeat coming against Munster in October last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leinster: C Frawley; J Kenny, G Ringrose, C Tector, J Lowe; H Byrne, F Gunne; J Boyle, G McCarthy, N Smyth; RG Snyman, J Ryan; A Soroka, W Connors, C Doris (capt).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacements: R Kelleher, J Cahir, A Sparrow, B Deeny, D Mangan, S Penny, L McGrath, R Moloney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caelan Doris will captain Leinster as he is set to make his 100th appearence in blue during Saturday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-386671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}