Overview
- Hooker Diarmuid Barron captains a reshaped team that starts JJ Hanrahan at fly-half with Mike Haley, Paddy Patterson and Jack O’Donoghue also included.
- Lock Edwin Edogbo, 22, is named on the bench for his first matchday involvement since a December 2023 Achilles injury.
- Scrum-half Craig Casey is expected to miss another one to three weeks as several others remain out through concussion protocols and injuries, including Shane Daly, Tom Ahern, Niall Scannell, Diarmuid Kilgallen, John Hodnett, Alex Kendellen and Conor Bartley.
- Edinburgh start former Munster fly-half Ben Healy, hand a debut to openside Dylan Richardson and include wingers Darcy Graham and Duhan van der Merwe.
- Kickoff is 19:45 BST on Friday in Cork with live coverage on TG4, Premier Sports and URC TV.