United Rugby Championship Round 17: All you need to know

TV

Munster v Cardiff (Friday 7.35pm) and Sharks v Connacht (Saturday 3.05pm) are live on TG4, while Stormers v Leinster (Saturday 5.15pm) is on RTÉ 2 and RTÉ Player. Edinburgh v Ulster (Saturday, 7.35pm) is on Premier Sports.

RADIO

Updates on Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1

ONLINE

RTE.ie/sport will have live scoring and blogs across the weekend with match reports and reaction from the grounds. All games are live on URC TV.

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WEATHER

Limerick will see cloudy conditions in about 14C this evening.

Mostly cloudy, 23C with a thunderstorm in parts of the Durban area for Connacht's match on Saturday, while Leinster are due to play in sunshine and some clouds in about 20C in Cape Town.

In Edinburgh it will be mostly cloudy with a couple of showers in 8C.

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It's tight at the top of the table and Munster are one of three teams on 51 points with two regular season games remaining, including a visit to the Aviva to face Leinster in three weeks’ time.

Johann van Graan’s side have lost just once to a Welsh opponent in their last fifteen such encounters in the United Rugby Championship: 10-18 to Ospreys in Swansea in October 2021; whilst their most recent defeat at home to a Welsh region was when Scarlets visited Limerick in February 2017.

Cardiff have slipped to three defeats in the URC since beating Glasgow at the Arms Park in March and have not lost four in a row in the Championship since November 2019, while they are yet to