United Rugby Championship Round 2: All you need to know

The Rugby World Cup final may grab most of the attention this weekend, but the BKT United Rugby Championship continues after the new season kicked off last week.

The Irish provinces went three from four in the opening round last week, and Leinster will be hoping they can get their campaign up and running on Saturday when they host the Sharks, in their first game at the RDS since March.

Leinster were beaten by the Glasgow Warriors last Sunday, and the Scottish side will have Irish opposition again this week when they travel to Galway to take on Connacht, who will be looking to build on their bonus-point win last week against the Ospreys.

Munster are the only Irish side who are away from home this weekend, with the defending champions in Treviso to take on Benetton on Sunday.

And on Sunday evening, Ulster will debut their new artificial surface at Kingspan Stadium, when Dan McFarland's side host the Bulls, who top the table after a 42-point win against the Scarlets last week.

ONLINE

We'll have live scoring, blogs, reports and reaction across the weekend.

TV

RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player will be showing live coverage of Leinster v Sharks (from 4.35pm) on Saturday, as well as Benetton v Munster on Sunday (from 1.30pm)

Connacht v Glasgow Warriors (Saturday, 3pm) and Ulster v Bulls (Sunday, 5pm) are both live on TG4.

All games are live on urc.tv

RADIO

Listen to live updates on Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1 from Connacht v Glasgow (3pm) and Leinster v Sharks (4.55pm).

WEATHER

Galway will see temperatures of around 12C on Saturday afternoon for Connacht v Glasgow, with a strong chance of rain early in the game, before conditions settle. There will be similar temperatures in Dublin for the meeting of Leinster and Sharks, with a good chance of