With last weekend’s dissapointing events hopefully fading quickly from everyone’s memories, it’s time to return to the Celtic League where qualifying position for the Heineken Cup and for the Celtic Cup are still left to be decided. Mark McCall has named his Ulster side to take on Cardiff.

Munster’s Ronan O’Gara who picked up a leg injury last night against The Dragons has been ruled out of Munster’s Heineken Cup clash with Biaritz. The good news however is that should Munster progress to the semi-finals O’Gara will be able to play.

>Ulster finally put some daylight between themselves and Connacht when they beat the Borders by 17 points to 13 last night at Ravenhill. While they are now 3 points ahead of Connacht they’ll be very dissapointed that they weren’t able to beat bottom placed Borders by more. However Connacht have a more difficult final two matches so Ulster will be confident of claiming the final Heineken Cup spot.

• Munster have announced their team to take on The Dragons at Rodeny Parade tomorrow evening. The match will see the return of all their internationals with the exception of Paul O’Connell who will miss out due to his suspension. More confusing however is the story of Munster’s new signing Brian Lima. Lima had been scheduled to arrive last Tuesday and some reports said he had even completed his medical, but today it was announced that he is arriving tomorrow. The late arrivial will mean he will not play with Munster before the quarter-final with Biarittz

Leinster held off Connacht to complete a double over Connacht this season and open a gap between themselves and The Dragons in the race for third place in the Celtic League. Meanwhile the losing bonus point that Connacht picked up in the 21 points to 26 defeat moves them one point ahead of Ulster in the race for the third Irish Heineken Cup spot.

Munster saw off a determined Ulster side in Musgrave Park tonight to end their recent poor league form and keep the title chase on for one week more. Munster will be delighted that the experiment of trying Frank Murphy at scrum-half payed off with him being named Man of The Match.

Frank Murphy will make his first start for the province in almost a year on Friday night against Ulster. Murphy has not played a game for the province this season but following the announcement that he has been added to Munster’s Heineken Cup squad, coach Alan Gaffney has decided to give him a start.

With Munster losing last night the Ospreys were all but assured of the Celtic League title if they managed a win over Leinster. They achieved this with a 16 points to 12 win over the Leinster men. Leinster started well and even led at half-time but two tries for The Ospreys in the second half put the game beyond Leinster and most likely put the League out of the reach of Munster.

Munster’s attempt to be the first side to win the Celtic League twice took a major blow last night when they lost their second away match in succession against Cardiff Blues. The Blues ran out comfortable 33 points to 20 winners.

Last night was a good night for the Irish sides in action in the Celtic League with both Connacht and Ulster seeing off their opposition. Ulster destroyed Glasgow by 30 points to 3 in Ravenhill while an Eric Elwood penalty was the difference between Connacht and their opposition Edinburgh.