It will be his first Magners start of the season although he has come off the bench on three occasions to date and was on the match day squad for the game against Leinster and the two recent Heineken Cup games.

Other than that Munster name a largely unchanged squad from the one that saw off Toulon last week, the noticeable exception being, Marcus Horan who's ruled out through injury sustained in the gym, captain Denis Leamy who has earned a break having played in six of Munster seven games to date and Niall Ronan who has been equally as busy.

Leamy's place at number 8 goes to James Coughlan, try scorer when he came on as a replacement against Toulon and the side will be led by Ronan O'Gara.

Munster: S Deasy; D Howlett, K Earls, J Murphy, D Hurley; R O'Gara (Capt.), P Stringer; W du Preez, D Varley, J Hayes; M O'Driscoll, D Ryan; A Quinlan, D Wallace, J Coughlan. Replacements: M Sherry, Darragh Hurley, T Buckley, D O'Callaghan, P O'Mahony, D Williams, P Warwick, I Dineen 

Show your support for Munster in the Magners League - Tickets are on sale for this fixture online here and will be available to buy on the night from the Ticketmaster outlet at the Green gate/Hassett's Cross corner of Thomond Park.