O’Connell back as Munster call up young gun Kilcoyne

Paul O’Connell is back to boost Munster’s prospects of defeating Llanelli Scarlets in Wales tonight and keep his side ahead of the posse in the race for a RaboDirect Pro12 semi-final place.

While O’Connell’s availability is a major plus for head coach Tony McGahan, the Australian has also now invested in young loose head prop David Kilcoyne, who makes his first start at this level, although he has a degree of experience with the Munster A team.

In all, there are four changes from the team that defeated Glasgow in Cork last weekend, with O’Connell replacing Donnacha O’Callaghan, Kilcoyne in for Wian du Preez, BJ Botha for Stephen Archer and Conor Murray called back in place of London Irish bound Tomas O’Leary.