Pienaar set for Ulster return

Having returned from international duty with South Africa in the Rugby Championship, scrum-half Ruan Pienaar is included in the Ulster squad for the first time this season, as Mark Anscombe’s team prepare for their Heineken Cup Pool 4 match against Castres Olympique at Ravenhill on Friday (8:00pm).

Lock Neil McComb and hooker Nigel Brady also make a return and are named in Anscombe’s 27-man squad.