Leinster came through the weekend’s bonus point victory over Treviso unscathed and look set to welcome back a number of players ahead of Saturday’s Rabo PRO12 meeting with Scarlets at the RDS (7.45pm).

Leinster 40 Treviso 5

Leinster 40 Benetton Treviso 5

Rhys Ruddock will captain Leinster on his 50th provincial appearance in tomorrow night’s RaboDirect PRO12 showdown against Treviso at the RDS (5pm).

RaboDirect PRO12: Cardiff Blues v Leinster

With so many players wrapped up in international duty, Leo Cullen will skipper a new-look Leinster team as they take on Cardiff Blues in tomorrow night's RaboDirect PRO12 clash in Cardiff Arms Park (7.30pm).

Leinster are scouring the world for a replacement for departing out-half Jonny Sexton, according to their skills and kicking coach Richie Murphy.

Leinster 17 Connacht 0

Shane Jennings will skipper Leinster against Connacht with head coach Joe Schmidt relegating regular captain Leo Cullen to the bench for tomorrow's RaboDirect PRO12 clash in the RDS (7.45pm).

Ireland and Leinster winger Luke Fitzgerald is set to return full training with the province this week bringing an end to eight months of rehabilitation after the flyer had surgery to correct a neck problem.

Ulster 27 Leinster 19

It is just over six months since Leinster dealt so ruthlessly with an emerging Ulster side at Twickenham but the shift in the axis of power has been leaning ever further up the M1 this season.

Joe Schmidt has made eight personnel changes from the starting XV that lost to Clermont Auvergne at the Aviva Stadium last weekend for Friday's RaboDirect PRO12 derby meeting against Ulster at Ravenhill (7.05pm).

Leinster 21 Clermont Auvergne 28

The decision to start Heinke van der Merwe over Cian Healy represents one of four changes Joe Schmidt has made to his team for the return Heineken Cup game against Clermont Auvergne at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday (3.40pm).

No-one knows better than Joe Schmidt how hard it is to chisel out a win at the Marcel Michelin.

FOR the third season in-a-row, the best two sides in the Heineken Cup meet outside the decider itself.

Clermont Auvergne 15 Leinster 12

Recent Leinster signing Andrew Goodman will make his Heineken Cup debut when he lines out at inside centre against Clermont in Sunday’s crucial Pool 5 meeting at the Stade Marcel Michelin (3pm Irish time).

Leinster 37 Zebre 7

Leinster welcome back a number of players from international duty as the face Zebre in Saturday evening's RaboDirect PRO12 clash in the RDS (6pm).

Ospreys 19 Leinster 10

Joe Schmidt has had to ring the changes for Leinster as they go in search of their first victory at the Liberty Stadium since September 2009.

With several of his senior players involved in Ireland’s training camp and others on the injury list, Joe Schmidt has named a youthful Leinster side to face the Ospreys in Sunday's RaboDirect PRO12 clash in the Liberty Stadium (4pm).

The Leinster squad trained in UCD todayahead of their final RaboDirect PRO12 game before the November break away to the Ospreys in the Liberty Stadium on Sunday afternoon (KO: 4pm).

Joe Schmidt would be “flattered” if offered a coaching role for the British and Irish Lions tour to Australia but the Leinster chief doesn’t expect such a call from his Kiwi compatriot Warren Gatland.

Joe Schmidt gets his first chance today to run the rule over the Leinster fringe players who will steer him through the early stages of the RaboDirect Pro12 campaign when they meet Gloucester in a friendly at Tallaght Stadium (5pm).

Luke Fitzgerald has finally signed a deal to keep him at Heineken Cup champions Leinster despite not having his contract with the Irish Rugby Football Union renewed.

Leinster Rugby has today announced the signings of South African second row Quinn Roux and New Zealand-born utility back Andrew Goodman on one-year deals.

Mob witness’s evidence against ex-FBI agent collapsed following an extraordinary and lengthy investigation in a bid to convict Lindley DeVecchio, report Tom Hays and Larry McShane

The brother of a former Ku Klux Klan leader convicted in connection with the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers, threatened to kill the judge presiding over his recent trial, it has been claimed.

ONE-TIME Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison yesterday for masterminding the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers.

One-time Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison today for masterminding the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers.

An 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of manslaughter Tuesday in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers – exactly 41 years after they disappeared.

ACCUSED Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was implicated in the killing of a civil rights worker in testimony from a now-deceased Klansman read in court yesterday.

ONE-TIME Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was removed from court on a stretcher and treated for high blood pressure yesterday on the opening day of testimony.

Testimony begins today in the murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen, a one-time Ku Klux Klansman charged with killing three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.

A jury of four blacks and 13 whites has been sworn in to hear the murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen – a one-time Ku Klux Klansman charged with killing three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.

REPUTED Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen watched from a wheelchair yesterday as jury selection began in his murder trial in one of most shocking crimes of the US civil rights era — the 1964 slayings of three voter-registration volunteers.

Reputed Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen watched from a wheelchair today as jury selection began in his murder trial in one of most shocking crimes of the civil rights era – the 1964 slayings of three voter-registration volunteers that was later depicted in the movie “Mississippi Burning.”

An 80-year-old reputed Ku Klux Klansman will stand trial in Mississippi as scheduled next week in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers despite injuries that are causing him discomfort, a judge ruled today.

Reputed Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen responded loudly with “not guilty” three times today as he was arraigned on murder charges in relation to the notorious "Mississippi Burning" case.

More than 40 years after one of the most notorious crimes of the US civil rights era – the “Freedom Summer” killings of three young civil rights workers - a reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested on murder charges in the case.