'Every provincial game is a step up in intensity': O'Mahony looks ahead to Pro14 clash with Leinster

Peter O'Mahony is relishing the prospect of Munster's first interprovincial derby this weekend as his team prepares to enter the Aviva Stadium and a Saturday afternoon Guinness PRO14 showdown with Leinster, writes Simon Lewis

With Champions Cup pool games against French opposition looming in the following fortnight, in Castres and then at home to Racing 92, the Munster skipper sees the inevitable ratcheting up in physicality and intensity that comes when local rivals clash as an ideal springboard to European rugby.