Anthony Horgan and Frankie Sheahan will make their final appearance on the night Munster will be presented with the Magner's League trophy at the end of their final match of the season against The Ospreys at Thomond Park on Friday night.

ROB KEARNEY makes a timely comeback from illness for Saturday’s Magners League clash against Newport Gwent Dragons at Rodney Parade (5.30pm), but will be under pressure to produce a top-class display to win his place in the Leinster Heineken Cup final team.

Paul O'Connell will lead Munster into the final game of the season in the Magners League clash with The Ospreys on Friday night in Thomond Park, after which they will receive the trophy that marks them out as champions.

MUNSTER failed to shrug offtheir Heineken Cup hangoverafter crashing to defeat at Cardiff Blues.

Munster will be without captain Paul O'Connell for the penultimate Manger's League match of the season due to a back problem.

PAUL O’CONNELL will captain Munster’s final away game of the season against the Cardiff Blues, in the Arms Park this Sunday at 4.35pm.

ALL of Munster’s eight British and Irish Lions stars are likely to be pressed into service as the Heineken Cup champions bid to edge closer to the Magners League crown at Musgrave Park tomorrow night (7.35pm).

Rua Tipoki is the only notable omission from the 26-man extended Munster Squad to play The Ospreys in the Heineken Cup quarter-final at Thomond Park on Sunday.

THE war of words between Munster and London Irish will end today when the two clubs will resolve their differences on the Paul Warwick affair.

All of Munster's Grand Slam winning heroes - including Paul O'Connell and Ronan O'Gara - return to the squad for this weekend's clash with Leinster at Thomond Park.

GRAND Slam winners, Tomás O’Leary and Jerry Flannery, who both started for Ireland in last weekend’s Six Nations decider in Cardiff, are included in an extended Munster squad for tomorrow’s Magners League clash with Glasgow Warriors at Firhill (7:45pm).

Grand Slam winning Ireland scrum-half rivals Tomas O'Leary and Peter Stringer have both been included in a 26-man Munster squad ahead of Friday's away Magners League match against Glasgow.

MUNSTER tyro Ciaran O’Boyle is facing eight weeks on the sidelines with a torn hamstring.

GORDON D’ARCY will again audition for a Six Nations starting berth this Friday when Leinster go to the Ospreys’ Liberty Stadium in search of a second successive Magners League win in Wales.

RUA TIPOKI looks certain to return to Magners League action when Munster take on Edinburgh at Musgrave Park on Saturday (7.30).

Munster talisman Ronan O'Gara has been included in the extended squad to prepare for a crunch Heineken Cup clash with Sale Sharks at Thomond Park on Friday evening.

Munster have been boosted by the return from injury for captain Paul O'Connell, Denis Leamy and Tomas O'Leary in a 28-strong Munster squad for the Magners League game against Ospreys in Swansea on Friday night.

FOR several weeks it’s been apparent all is not well with Munster.

Centre Rua Tipoki returns to the Munster side for the first time since mid-November to play Ulster in their Magners League clash with Ulster at Thomond Park on Saturday (7.30pm).

RUA TIPOKI has recovered from a knee injury to make an earlier than anticipated return for Munster in Saturday night’s sell-out Magners League game against Ulster at Thomond Park (Setanta Ireland, 7.30pm).

Former Auckland Blue Nick Williams joins the Munster senior squad for the first time for their trip to Connacht in the Magner's League on Sunday.

NEW ZEALAND signing Nick Williams made a low key debut while Duncan Williams, Munster’s scrum half in waiting, had a satisfactory outing in a rather lack-lustre A provincial game at Donnybrook yesterday.

ON the day Nick Williams is set to be introduced from the bench for his first representative fixture with Munster, Stephen Keogh has been chosen to lead Leinster against his former side in today’s A clash at Donnybrook (2.30pm).

Munster have made a single change to their side to face Clermont Auvergne in the Heineken Cup tomorrow from the one that started in Clermont last Sunday.

MICK O’DRISCOLL will captain Munster when they take on Harlequins A in London on Monday in a warm-up game for their historic clash with New Zealand on November 18.

Denis Leamy will return to rugby as number eight on the Munster side to play Harlequins A at The Stoop next Monday (5pm).

Munster coach Tony McGahan has made 11 changes to his side to play Ulster on Saturday evening when they kick-start their Magners League campaign in Ravenhill.

IN A TIME of necessity, you do what has to be done to survive.

In-form utility back Paul Warwick has been ushered into the Munster side after Rua Tipoki failed a fitness test for Sunday's Heineken Cup tie at Sale Sharks.

Rua Tipoki and Ian Dowling will to travel for Munster's Heineken Cup clash with Sale Sharks in Edgeley Park on Sunday.

MOTIVATION won’t be lacking when Munster clash with Glasgow Warriors on Saturday night (7pm) in a Magners League clash that marks the re-opening of Thomond Park.

Tony McGahan makes several changes to his Munster squad with six for the Magner's League match against Glasgow Warriors at newly developed Thomond Park next Saturday.

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.

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Heineken Cup winners Denis Hurley and Tomas O’Leary have been named in the Ireland A team for Wednesday’s Churchill Cup clash with the United States.

Forrest Little's Eoin Arthurs took advantage of perfect early morning conditions to scorch to a six-under par 66 and a two stroke lead in the East of Ireland Amateur Championship at County Louth.

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.

Prop Marcus Horan and scrum-half Tomas O’Leary have both been passed fit to play for Munster against Saracens in the Heineken Cup semi-final at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on Sunday.

Ronan O'Gara will lead Munster against Leinster in the Magners League clash at The RDS (6.30pm) as Paul O'Connell has been demoted to the bench.

Declan Kidney has made the stunning decision to drop Peter Stringer in favour of Tomas O'Leary for Munster's Heineken Cup quarter-final at Kingsholm tomorrow.

Evergreen Anthony Foley is set to win his 195th competitive Munster cap in tomorrow's Magners League clash with Ulster at Musgrave Park on Saturday.

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