United Rugby Championship Round 12: All you need to know

After Ireland claimed a second successive Six Nations title, attention turns to the United Rugby Championship and we enter the final third of the regular season.

There are two BKT URC rounds to be played before the Irish sides return to European action with Munster taking on Ospreys on Friday night.

Richie Murphy begins his tenure at Ulster with a visit to take on the Sharks in Durban on Saturday afternoon.

Connacht welcome the Lions to Galway and Leinster are at Zebre Parma, both games also on Saturday.

Here's all you need to know about the games.

ONLINE

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

TV

Connacht v Lions (Saturday 5.15pm) and Zebre v Leinster (Saturday, 7.35pm) are live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.

TG4 will be showing live coverage of Ospreys v Munster (Friday, 7.35pm), while Sharks v Ulster (Saturday, 1pm) is on Premier Sports.

All games are shown live on URC.tv.

France v Ireland (Saturday 2.15pm) in the opening round of the Women's Six Nations is live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.

RADIO

Updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport.

Listen to the RTÉ Rugby podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Munster head to Swansea looking to build on wins over Scarlets and Zebre that lifted them back into the play-off places.

Graham Rowntree's side were without a victory in their first five away games in all tournaments this season but have now won their last two on the road, at Toulon and at Scarlets.

They have won their last four fixtures against Welsh regions and lost just once to Ospreys since 2016, an away fixture in October 2021.

Ospreys' five-game winning run in all tournaments ended with their 15-19 loss at Edinburgh in Round 11.

Toby Booth’s men beat Ulster 19-17