Ryan relishing reunion with old friend and rival Molony

Leinster take on Bath in Dublin on Saturday. 

James Ryan at Leinster training this week. Pic: INPHO/Andrew Conan

After several years of playing alongside him in the province’s second row, James Ryan will find himself in direct competition with Ross Molony when Leinster take on Bath in the European Champions Cup at the Aviva Stadium this evening (kick-off 5.30pm).

Following a nine-year stint as a Leinster senior player that saw him accumulating an impressive appearance tally of 184, Molony made a switch across the water to the English Premiership outfit on a three-year contract last summer. Despite not always being a guaranteed starter thus far at the Somerset-based club, the Dubliner is named in the first 15 for the visitors today along with former Leinster, Connacht and Ireland lock Quinn Roux.