Ireland have recieved a massive boost with 3 weeks to go until the Six Nations kicks off. Brian O’Driscoll has been cleared to resume light training this week. It appears that the damage to his hamstring from the Sale game 10 days ago wasn’t as bad as first suspected.

After last weekend’s dissapointing preformance against Leicester, Ulster have made a number of changes to their site for the game against Stade Francais in Paris on Saturday.

Connacht will have to travel to France for the first leg of their Parker Pen Challenge Cup quarter-final this Saturday.

Munster and Leinster are the big winners this week with both teams moving up 3 places in this weeks Eurotable. Ulster suffer badly because of their defeat to Leicester.

Leinster hung on at the end of another thrilling match against Sale, to win by 23 points to 16. Sale looked dangerous right up to the end but Leinster held on to deny them the draw.

Despite losing against Pau, by 10 points to 6, Connacht will go through to face Narbonne in the next round thanks to a healthy aggregate score of Connacht 35 Pau 17

This time last year when Gloucester travelled to Munster, Munster needed something special and they pulled “The Miracle Match” out of the hat. This year everybody thought it would be a tight game but it was anything but!

Leicester well and truely got their revenge for the beating they took at Ravenhill last Sunday by beating Ulster today at Welford Road by and even larger margin then they lost by last weekend.

Despite their loss lst Saturday, Alan Gaffney today named an unchanged Munster side for the match against Gloucester in Thomand Park on Saturday.

Leinster second row Ben Gissing was yesterday cleared of a stamping allegation and is allowed take his place on the Leinster starting line-up for the match against Sale on Saturday.