Results, scores and scorers from today's Ulster Bank League ties

Clontarf 18 Lansdowne 20

Lansdowne 48 Shannon 7

Dolphin 23 Lansdowne 30

Lansdowne 17 Shannon 22

Lansdowne 55 Blackrock College 13

MUNSTER will be anxiously awaiting news of Paddy Butler’s fitness after the backrower injured his shoulder in Shannon’s Ulster Bank League loss to Blackrock on Saturday.

Lansdowne 30 Garryowen 13

Shannon 16 Lansdowne 25

Wanderers and Lansdowne captains Michael Kevany and Ross McCarron join Ulster Bank’s Joanna Fitzpatrick at the Aviva Stadium.

Buccaneers 22 Lansdowne 16

The Leinster 'A' team to face Ulster 'A' in Ravenhill on Friday evening (KO: 6.30pm) has been named.

Ireland winger Shane Horgan has been included in the Leinster squad for Saturday's Magners League clash with Cardiff.

Lansdowne 16 UCD 29

SHANE HORGAN will make history when he becomes the first player from a junior club, Boyne, to captain Leinster for tonight’s Magners League clash with Glasgow at Firhill.

WHILE his “galacticos” had been labouring at the Rugby World Cup in France, Michael Cheika’s set of replacement backs have been cutting a swathe through the first two rounds of the Magners League.

Captain Leo Cullen will have to prove his fitness for Friday night's Magners League clash against Llanelli Scarlets in the RDS (KO: 7.10pm).

Fergus McFadden has been named at outside centre for Leinster against the Cardiff Blues in Friday’s Magners League clash in The Arms Park.

CARDIFF Arms Park has been a graveyard for Leinster’s Magners League ambitions this past two seasons and coach Michael Cheika accepts that they will be up against it again when they return to the Welsh capital this Friday.

Centre Michael Berne has had to drop out of the Leinster squad to play the Cardiff Blues in the Arms Park on Friday (KO: 7.30pm).

THE Leinster squad to face Edinburgh in the opening game of the Magners League season in the RDS on Saturday (5.30pm) has been named.

There are eight Ireland internationals in the Leinster squad for a mini pre-season tour to Biarritz and Bath.

Ireland A coach Michael Bradley has made three changes for Saturday’s clash with Scotland A in the plate final of the Barclays Churchill Cup.

IRELAND A coach Michael Bradley has upped the ante ahead of tonight’s Churchill Cup clash with New Zealand Maori (8pm, Sky Sports 1) by revealing a number of his players are in the mix for World Cup selection.

Leinster have announced the signings of Argentina prop Juan Francisco Gomez, South African international front-row forward Ollie Le-Roux and Connacht's Irish-qualified tight-head prop Stephen Knoop in their squad for next season.

The Leinster squad to take part in this weekend’s ‘Bristol Tens’ competition in Clifton Rugby Club has been named.

Buccaneers 16 UCD 37

Malcolm O'Kelly will return to the Leinster squad to face Connacht in Saturday's Magners League clash at Donnybrook.

Leinster secured a 40-21 victory over Benetton Treviso in last night's friendly in Donnybrook.

Malcolm O'Kelly, Keith Gleeson and Luke Fitzgerald have all been named in an enlarged, strong-looking Leinster squad to play Benetton Treviso in a friendly at Donnybrook on Wednesday evening, kick-off at 6.30pm.

Trevor Hogan, Luke Fitzgerald, Kieran Lewis, Keith Gleeson and Jamie Heaslip have all been released back onto the Leinster side to play Llanelli Scarlets in the Magners League at Donnybrook on Friday night.

Niall Ronan has been selected in the centre for Leinster A against Ulster A at Suttonians tomorrow afternoon.

Felipe Contepomi will make his first start for Leinster since November at home to The Neath-Swansea Ospreys in the Magner's League at Donnybrook on Saturday.

Christian Warner and Stanley Wright have been included in the Leinster squad to play The Ospreys in Saturday’s Magners League clash at Donnybrook.

LEINSTER have been boosted with yesterday’s announcement that Felipe Contepomi has signed a two-year extension to his contract.

Full back Ross McCarron has been included in Leinster's 25-man squad to play Ulster in 'The Last Stand', the last game ever to be held in the old Lansdowne Road on Sunday.

Felipe Contepomi has signed a two-year extension to his contract with Leinster.

Terenure College 22 UCD 28

Jonathan Sexton has been included in the Leinster Squad to play Glasgow on Friday night at Donnybrook after impressing for the A team on Monday.

Rob Kearney, Cameron Jowitt and Brian Blaney have all been included in Leinster's squad to play Munster in the Magner's League at Lalsndowne Road on Friday night.

Brian O’Driscoll, Shane Horgan and Girvan Dempsey will make their seasonal debuts for Leinster against Connacht in the Magners League clash at The Sportsground on Friday evening (KO: 6.30pm).

The following is the Leinster 'A' team to play Connacht in Barnhall on Friday (KO: 2pm):

Trevor Hogan returns to Leinster's 25-man squad to play Llanelli Scarlets in the Magners League at Stradey Park on Saturday.

The Leinster squad to face the Cardiff Blues in the province’s opening home Magners League match of the campaign in Donnybrook on Saturday has been named.