United Rugby Championship round 11: All you need to know

The second down week of the Guinness Six Nations sees the Irish provinces back in BKT United Rugby Championship action.

Round 11 is also marked as an 'origin round' with the many of the players wearing clubs socks.

After beating second-place Benetton in round 10, Leinster face a trip to Cardiff as they seek to extend their lead at the top of the table.

Ulster have their first game since the sacking of Dan McFarland as they welcome the Dragons to Belfast.

Connacht, who scraped past Cardiff last time out, host the Scarlets, while Munster kick things off with a home tie against Zebre Parma.

Find out all you need to know here.

ONLINE

We'll have live scoring, trackers, as well as reports and reaction from the games.

TV

Cardiff v Leinster (Saturday, 7.35pm) is live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.

TG4 will be showing live coverage of Munster v Zebre (Friday, 7.35pm) and Connacht v Scarlets (Saturday 5.05pm), while Ulster v Dragons (Saturday, 7.35pm) is on Premier Sports.

All games are shown live on URC.tv.

RADIO

Updates from Connacht on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport.

WEATHER

Cork may see some light rain showers in about 2C this evening. The forecast for Galway tomorrow afternoon is for light rain with temperatures up about 4C.

Cardiff is set for a clear night for Leinster's visit, temperatures around 5C, while Ulster can expect some rain showers during their game in similar temperatures.

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Graham Rowntree's side will look to build on their 42-7 win over Scarlets in round ten as they head down the final strait of the regular season.

Sitting in ninth, a win tonight could see them move as high as fourth, depending on results elsewhere.

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