Clontarf’s Niall O’Brien is the only change for Connacht ahead of the province’s second Celtic League match against Munster on Saturday.


O’Brien comes in for the injured James Downey who picked up an injury during the win last Saturday. O’Brien’s place on the bench will be taken by Justin Meagher.


Connacht will be attempting to win for the first time in 22 games against Munster but Munster coach Alan Gaffney has been speaking about the importance of a good start.

“We had a very bad start against the Ospreys. They didn’t deserve to be 20 points up at half-time and we didn’t deserve to be 20 points down. It’s important that we don’t allow Connacht or any of the other teams to get away to such a good start.”

Connacht (V Munster): D Slemen; T Robinson, M Mostyn, N O’Brien, C McPhillips; P Warwick, T Tierney; A Clarke, J Fogarty, P Bracken, C Short, A Farley (capt), J Muldoon, M Lacey, J O’Sullivan.



Replacements: H Bourke, S Knoop, M Carroll, P Neville; C O’Loughlin, E Elwood, J Meagher.

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