United Rugby Championship Round 11: All you need to know

With the Guinness Six Nations on a down week, the provinces return to BKT United Rugby Championship action.

League leaders Leinster are first up with a trip to face Ospreys on Friday evening, while Ulster are in Treviso on Saturday afternoon.

Munster host Scarlets in Limerick at the same time with Connacht's home tie with Cardiff wrapping up the action.

It's also Origin Round in the championship with the league celebrating the players' mother clubs.

Find out all you need to know here.

TV

Munster v Scarlets (Saturday, 5.15pm) is live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.

TG4 and Premier Sports will show live coverage of Ospreys v Leinster (Friday, 7.35pm) and Connacht v Cardiff (Saturday, 7.35pm). Benetton v Ulster (Saturday 5.15pm) is on Premier Sports, while all games are shown live on URC.tv.

ONLINE

We'll have live scores updates, reports and reaction from from all four games.

WEATHER

Leinster's game in Swansea is set to be played in light rain and a moderate breeze with temperature around 4C.

Limerick will see light clouds in a gentle breeze with temperatures around 11C for Munster's game, with similar conditions for Galway later in the evening and a drop of around three degrees.

Ulster are set for better conditions, sunny with light winds in 9C in Treviso.

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Leinster have not been defeated since they visited Pretoria to face the Bulls in last season's semi-final, while Leo Cullen's side have not lost to a Welsh region since their trip to Cardiff in January 2022.

They have lost just one of their last eight encounters with Ospreys: 24-19 behind closed
doors at the RDS Arena in March 2021.

The visitors welcome back a number of Ireland squad members,