Having narrowly defeated Scottish side Borders last weekend, Connacht coach Michael Bradley has made six changes to his side ahead of their match this weekend away to Llanelli.

Munster coach Alan Gaffney has made four changes to the side that beat Llanelli last weekend ahead of this Saturday’s clash with Glasgow. Gaffney was forced to bring in Tom Bowman for the injured Paul O’Connell and James Storey starts in the place of Rob Henderson who is also injured.

Leinster coach Declan Kidney has wasted no time in naming new signing David Holwell in his line-up for Sunday’s home tie with Edinburgh. Holwell who comes to Leinster from New Zealand Super 12 side - Wellington Hurricanes - will start the game at out-half, with Brian O’Meara partnering him at scrum-half.

Irish U-21 player Jamie Heaslip and full Ireland international Gordon D’Arcy have been both short-listed for the IRB World Players of the Year awards which take place at the end of Novemeber.

Former Irish international Gary Longwell will make his first start of the season for Ulster on Friday against the Newport-Gwent Dragons. Longwell had been out with a long-term injury but returns to an Ulster side that sees five changes from their last match.

The conditions were less than perfect, some of the players looked a bit rusty, but in the end Munster will be happy to have claimed their first win of the season. Seeing off a late challenge for Llanelli Scarlets to win by 19 points to 13.

A few weeks ago, a Munster penalty kick in injury time, robbed Connacht of their first win against Munster in 22 games, tonight Connacht were the team who got out of jail with an Eric Elwood kick at the death, preventing The Borders from recording their first win away from home in the Celtic League.

Leinster last night travelled to Wales to face Newport-Gwent Dragons, but despite the presense of their full compliment of Irish players for the first time this season, they were unable to come away with a win as The Dragons picked up thier third win in a row with the 34-13 bonus point victory over Leinster.