Ireland call-ups won’t affect Leinster pick for Ospreys clash

Leinster backs coach Girvan Dempsey confirmed yesterday that the province wouldn’t be losing any players to international duty for this Friday’s Guinness Pro12 encounter against the Ospreys in the Liberty Stadium.

A large Leinster contingent was present in Carton House for an Ireland training camp, but even though this caused a disruption to their review of last Friday evening’s victory over Connacht, Dempsey revealed that they would return to Leinster HQ tomorrow.

“We’re not going to miss Ireland players for Friday, but it does slightly disrupt the review of the Connacht week with those guys out. It just condenses the week. We have to try and make sure that we up-skill them pretty quickly when they come back in on Wednesday, because Tuesday is a day off,” Dempsey remarked in UCD yesterday.