HEINEKEN Cup winner Anthony Horgan and hooker Denis Fogarty struck for two tries apiece in the Munster reserve side’s resounding win over their Leinster equivalents at Donnybrook yesterday.

TWO valued members of Munster’s extended Heineken Cup squad will miss the May 24 final at the Millennium Stadium because of injury.

Barry Murphy is the only member of the Heineken Cup semi-final match day squad excluded from the Munster squad for the Magners League trip to Llanelli Scarlets on Saturday.

Legendary number eight Anthony Foley will break through the 200-cap barrier for Munster at Ulster in the Magner's League at Ravenhill tomorrow.

WELSH referee Nigel Owens will handle Munster’s Heineken Cup quarter-final against Gloucester in 15 days’ time (ko 5.30pm).

Denis Leamy and David Wallace have been omitted from an extended Munster squad for their Magner's League clash with Ulster at Musgrave Park on Saturday.

Ireland internationals Paul O'Connell, Alan Quinlan, Tony Buckley and Peter Stringer have been released for duty with Munster for Saturday's Magners League clash with Cardiff Blues at the Arms Park (5.30).

MUNSTER coach Declan Kidney gets a chance to utilise some of his lesser known squad members when the A team take on Ulster A in Temple Hill today, seeking a second victory over their Northern rivals (2pm).

PAUL O’CONNELL is hoping for game time in Munster’s crucial Magners League game away to Edinburgh (Murrayfield, 7.30pm).

Paul O'Connell has been listed in the full Munster squad for the Magners League game against Edinburgh on Friday (7.30pm).

ALAN QUINLAN could make dramatic return for Munster in the province’s penultimate Heineken Cup pool game against Clermont Auvergne on Sunday week.

Anthony Foley will make a dramatic return to the Munster side for Saturday's round three Heineken Cup clash with Llanelli Scarlets at Stradey Park

Centre Barry Murphy has been included in the initial 25-man Munster squad for the first this season at home to Leinster in the Magners League on Friday.

Munster coach Declan Kidney has made nine changes to his side for tomorrow evening's Magners League clash with Newport-Gwent Dragons at Musgrave Park.

FIVE tries, four of them deliciously created, produced the all-important bonus point for Munster in the somewhat surreal surroundings of Thomond Park yesterday.

Ian Dowling will come in for Anthony Horgan as the only frontline change for Munster at home to Clermont-Auvergne in the Heineken Cup at Thomond Park on Sunday.

Captain Paul O'Connell is still not fit enough to join a 26-strong Munster squad for the weekend Heineken Cup clash with Clermont Auvergne.

Full back Shaun Payne, wing Anthony Horgan, centre Rua Tipoki and prop Marcus Horan return to Munster's starting line-up for their Saturday's opening Heineken Cup game against London Wasps in Coventry's Ricoh Arena , kick-off at 5.30pm.

Ronan O'Gara will captain Munster in their opening Heineken Cup match against London Wasps on Saturday.

MUNSTER captain Paul O’Connell will be pushed to make the opening Heineken Cup fixture against Wasps next week as he struggles with a disc injury in his back.

MUNSTER rugby chiefs have released 250 additional ten-year-tickets for their new ground in Limerick.

RTÉ could win back the rights to broadcast live Heineken Cup matches when the television contracts come up for negotiation in 2010, according to European Rugby Cup (ERC) chief Derek McGrath.

Ireland out-half Ronan O'Gara and second row Paul O'Connell have been named in Munster's 27-strong squad for the Magner's League game against Edinburgh in Cork on Saturday.

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Ireland World Cup players John Hayes, Donncha O'Callaghan and David Wallace will start with Jerry Flannery, Marcus Horan and Denis Leamy on the bench for Munster's Magner's League trip to Glasgow.

Paul O'Connell has bowed out of the Munster squad this week to a back strain and Ronan O'Gara to a knee problem.

IRISH internationals Paul O’Connell and Ronan O’Gara have been omitted from the 26-man Munster squad for Friday’s Magners League game away to Glasgow (Firhill, 7.30pm).

DECLAN KIDNEY insists his Munster side failed to grab their opportunities in yesterday’s dismal 16-3 defeat to the Ospreys.

BRIAN CARNEY will at last get some game time following his exclusion from successive Irish squads in the World Cup.

Ireland World Cup squaddies Brian Carney and Alan Quinlan have been named in the Munster starting line-up for Sunday's Magners League clash with The Ospreys at the Liberty Stadium (4.10pm).

PETER STRINGER hopes to put a personally disappointing World Cup behind him by playing for Munster against the Ospreys on Sunday.

Ireland Rugby World Cup members Peter Stringer and Brian Carney return to the Munster squad ahead of their Magner's League away date with The Ospreys on Sunday.

Ireland Coach Eddie O'Sullivan has made two changes to the starting Ireland team to play Italy this Friday in Belfast in what will be the last warm up game for Ireland before the Rugby World Cup.

Shane Horgan has been included in Ireland’s World Cup squad and will be given until the Georgia match on September 15 to prove his fitness.

Ireland rugby coach Eddie O'Sullivan has announced the team to face Scotland in a warm-up clash this Saturday.

MUNSTER have appointed recently retiring full-back Shaun Payne as their new team manager.

A GOOD start, maintain the tempo, control the football, be accurate and disciplined and don’t be intimidated by a partisan crowd – these will be some of Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan orders to his team as the first of two “trials” ahead of Rugby World Cup 2007 kicks off at the Estadio Brigadier Estanislao Lopez del Barrio Centenario in Santa Fe later today (kick off 8:10pm Irish time).

Ireland's Paul O'Connell will play for Munster for the first time since mid-January against Edinburgh in the Magner's League on Friday night.

Ireland vice-captain Paul O'Connell has returned to the Munster squad after being out since mid-January.

IN THE fall-out from Munster’s Heineken Cup defeat to Llanelli Scarlets, it was felt coach Declan Kidney would begin the process of rebuilding for next season by fielding emerging talent from the provincial academy in the remaining Magners Celtic League games.

IT APPEARS Christian Cullen’s days as a Munster player are over.

TOP Munster players, captain Paul O’Connell, Peter Stringer, David Wallace, Shaun Payne and Alan Quinlan are all ruled out of Saturday’s Magner’s League clash with Llanelli at Musgrave Park (7.30).

Declan Kidney will look to his experienced players like Donncha O'Callaghan, Denis Leamy and Anthony Foley to set the tone at home to Llanelli Scarlets in the Magner's League on Saturday.

BRIAN CARNEY gave another glimpse of his rugby union promise with a second try-scoring appearance though it was too late to save Munster’s season from freefall.