United Rugby Championship Round 13: All You Need to Know

With a third of the regular season left to go in the BKT United Rugby Championship, the race for the play-off places, and Champions Cup qualification, is starting to heat up.

The URC return was a mixed one for the Irish provinces last week, with Leinster and Munster both picking up valuable bonus-point wins away from home, while Ulster came up short against the Sharks in South Africa, before Connacht suffered a comprehensive 38-14 defeat to the 14-man Lions.

This week, the western province will hope for a big response away to a Benetton side who are in a poor run of form on Saturday afternoon.

Ulster face a difficult challenge as they complete their South African tour away to the Stormers, while Munster will be going for a fourth win in a row as they host Cardiff on Friday night.

The pick of the weekend's games comes on Good Friday at the RDS, as Leinster host the Bulls, in a meeting of the league's top two sides.

ONLINE

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

TV

You can see live coverage of Munster v Cardiff on Saturday from 7pm (kick-off 7.35pm) on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.

Leinster v Bulls (Friday 7.35pm) and Benetton v Connacht (Saturday 1pm) are both live on TG4, while Stormers v Ulster (Saturday 5.15pm) will be shown on Premier Sports.

All games are shown live on URC.tv.

RADIO

Score updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport.

WEATHER

Friday will see reasonable conditions for Leinster v Bulls, with temperature of around 8C and moderate winds. While there may be scattered showers, the rain is expected to clear before the 7.35pm kick-off.

Connacht will have to deal with difficult conditions in Treviso, with a humid 17C afternoon likely to see some thunderstorms as the afternoon progresses.

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