United Rugby Championship Round 7: All You Need to Know

While Ireland are taking on Australia in the final game of the Autumn Nations Series, the BKT United Rugby Championship returns for round seven.

Leinster lead the way with six wins from six, and they take on Ulster, who won both of last season's league meetings before Leo Cullen's side won their quarter-final clash.

Connacht, fifth in the standings, welcome the Bulls to Galway on Saturday, while Munster, who are still on the look-out for a head coach, host the Lions in Limerick.

Find out all you need to know here.

ONLINE

We'll have live updates, live scoring, reports and reaction from all three games on rte.ie/sport.

TV

You can watch live coverage of Ulster v Leinster (Friday 7.35pm) on RTÉ Player, Premier Sports and BBC NI.

Connacht v Lions (Saturday 5.30pm) is live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player, while Munster v Lions (Saturday 7.35pm) is on TG4 and Premier Sports. All games are shown live on URC.tv.

WEATHER

Belfast is set for light rain showers on Friday evening with a moderate breeze from the south in temperatures of about 12C.

There will be a moderate breeze in Galway and Limerick and a good chance of rain during the Saturday games in the west of Ireland with temperature around 13C.

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Ulster are back in action having had to stew over an agonising 21-19 defeat to Cardiff in round six after they blew a 19-0 lead.

Richie Murphy's side have won their last four home games against Irish provinces but take on a Leinster team who have won all games this season, only once failing to pick up a bonus point.

Number 8 Nick Timoney returns from Ireland camp to start for the hosts but Iain Henderson, Tom O'Toole, Stuart McCloskey and Cormac Izuchukwu all