There will be 3,000 tickets released by the European Rugby Cup tomorrow for the 2011 Heineken Cup final.

Heineken Cup champions Leinster will start their bid to retain their title against London Irish on the evening of Friday 9, October 2009 at the RDS in Dublin, it has been announced.

Ireland full-back Girvan Dempsey is excited about Leinster's prosects against London Wasps in what has been billed as “The Battle of the Capitals”.