Munster stars ready for Ravenhill

Ronan O’Gara, Conor Murray and Keith Earls have all been made available for Munster’s trip to Ulster at Ravenhill on Friday evening.

The Irish international trio, watched by Ireland head coach Declan Kidney and assistants Les Kiss and Gert Smal during Munster’s training session in Cork yesterday, look set to make their seasonal debuts in this weekend’s RaboDirect Pro12 game as the province aims to make it three wins from three in the new campaign.

Head coach Rob Penney is set to select his matchday squad tomorrow with Test players Simon Zebo, Donnacha Ryan and Peter O’Mahony not set to return until the September 22 home game against Newport Gwent Dragons under the IRFU’s player welfare programme. Otherwise he has no fresh fitness issues arising from last Friday’s 19-6 home win over Benetton Treviso.