John Kelly will finally return from injury for Munster on Sunday against Glasgow in Thomond Park. Kelly who picked up an injury while training last October with the Ireland squad has been unable to shake it since then.

Connacht will return to Celtic League action on Friday night when they take on Llanelli. This will be the players first match in 3 weeks since none of the side were involved in the Six Nations.

Ulster will have all their players at their disposal for the Celtic League match away to the Dragons on Friday night. Kevin Maggs who started last weekend against Scotland will return to the side along with David Humphreys and Tommy Bowe who were also involved with the Irish squad.

Biarritz Olympique have received agreement from the relevant authorities in San Sebastian to site their Heineken Cup quarter-final with Munster at the Anoesta Stadium. Both the ERC and the French Rugby Union have to sanction the decision but this is expected to be a formality.

Injured Ireland centre’s Brian O’Driscoll and Gordon D’Arcy have flown to Poland today to begin treatment on their injured hamstrings at a specialist facility. The two players who picked hamstring injuries in the first round of the Six Nations against Italy were the source of a great deal of speculation last week as to the severity of the injuries.

Thanks to France’s victory over England today, Ireland will overtake England and move into fifth place in tomorrow’s IRB World Rankings.

Ireland won their second match of this years Six Nations by a comfortable 40 points to 13. Ireland started very badly but were comfortable victors once the forwards got rolling after about 20 minutes.

Springbok Coach Jake White watched from the Ravenhill stand as tries from Warren Brosnihan, Danie Rossouw, Ettienne Botha and Pedrie Wannenburg gave The Bulls 24 – 9 at Ravenhill.

Biarritz have been given more time to work on their proposal to move their Heineken Cup quarter-final against Munster to Spanish soccer club Real Sociedad’s ground the ERC announced today. A decision on the location of the match was supposed to be issued today with the ERC setting today as the deadline but they’ve extended this to allow Biarritz to get an increased capacity ground so as to accomodate the expected thousands of Munster fans who will travel for the match.

Gordon D’Arcy failed a fitness test on his injured hamstring this morning and has been ruled out of tomorrow’s match with Scotland. D’Arcy had initially been doubtful along with Brian O’Driscoll when named in the squad but after scans on Monday both were named in the team.