MUNSTER’S Celtic League clash with Llannelli, fixed for Thomond Park on September 23, will be moved to Cork as the Limerick venue has been deemed unplayable for at least a month after 3000 sods of turf were dug up by vandals.

Leinster 17 Munster 23

INTERNATIONAL trio Malcolm O’Kelly, Shane Horgan and Denis Hickie will be sprung from the bench if things go wrong for Leinster against Glasgow in the Celtic Cup quarter-final at Lansdowne Road tonight (7.30).

Ireland A 15 France A 9

IRISH coach Eddie O’Sullivan longs for the day when the A International Championship resumes.

DECLAN KIDNEY returns to the scene of some of his greatest triumphs when he brings his exciting Leinster side to Musgrave Park for Saturday’s crucial Celtic League tie against Munster (5.30).

Leinster 17 Munster 15

MUNSTER coach Alan Gaffney is indebted to Declan Kidney. When the coaches first met they got on like the proverbial house on fire.

MUNSTER will unveil latest signing Tom Bowman in tonight’s Celtic League clash with Connacht at Musgrave Park (8pm).

JOHN KELLY and Jason Holland are back in action for Munster against Connacht at Musgrave Park on Saturday night.

MUNSTER’S travel jinx struck again yesterday when the team had to endure a five hour delay en-route to Wales for a Celtic League game with Celtic Warriors this evening.

Leinster 16, Celtic Warriors 37

BRIAN O'MEARA has been excluded from the Leinster team for the Celtic League clash with the Celtic Warriors at Donnybrook this evening (7.30pm).

DECLAN Kidney is now considered "a primary target" to replace Dean Richards as director of rugby at Leicester.

MUNSTER'S Celtic League title is on the line at Musgrave Park this evening (7.30pm). Alan Gaffney's troops have to win to keep their chances of ultimate victory alive as the league moves into the second stage.

Leinster 22 Sale Sharks 23

GLOUCESTER hooker Chris Fortey will miss Saturday’s Heineken Cup Pool Five game against Munster at Kingsholm.

MUNSTER winger Anthony Horgan is likely to miss the opening Heineken Cup clash against Bourgoin on Saturday week.

ARGENTINEAN international Felipe Contepomi will make his debut for Leinster in their Celtic League tie against Neath/Swansea at the Gnoll on Saturday (5.30pm).

ULSTER apart, these are vital weeks for the Irish provinces in the Celtic League.

THE selection of the Munster team is no longer a straight forward matter. With players in World Cup action and others injured, coach Alan Gaffney said this week his job was never so difficult, and one of his star young players, Denis Leamy, endorsed that view.

GORDON D’Arcy is back in the Leinster fold after injury to help the former Celtic League champions against the Borders this weekend.

Leinster 21 Connacht 6

A SEASIDE walk on Tuesday ended in disaster for Leinster’s James Norton, when he fell and cracked his hip in Dun Laoire.

Leinster 35 Neath-Swansea Ospreys 21

NEATH-SWANSEA Ospreys don’t quite know what to expect when they take on Leinster at Donnybrook this evening in the Celtic Cup quarter-final.

Leinster make seven changes for their Celtic Cup clash with Neath-Swansea Ospreys at Donnybrook on Friday evening.

Leinster 8, Munster 15

NEW Leinster coach Gary Ella has marked out young Barnhall player Brendan Burke as a star of the future.

IRISH international Shane Horgan is back in training and could be ready for action within the next two weeks.