Ahead of the weekend's restart derbies in the Guinness PRO14, we run through the new arrivals and the departures at each Irish province since lockdown.
Ex-Ireland U20 hooker Zack McCall, younger brother of Kyle, was cut loose by Dan McFarland when Ulster named their squad for next season earlier this week.
Dan McFarland is keeping changes to a minimum at Ulster after an indefinitely suspended season where they qualified for the Heineken Cup quarter-finals and lie in second in their PRO14 conference.
The latest in the 'Future of Rugby' series takes a look at the fourth-ranked side in the world, Ireland, and their current U23 options.
These Irish sides served up a PRO14 match that featured 96 points and 14 tries in Dublin, Leinster starting like a runaway train before Ulster rallied late.
Follow all the action on the RugbyPass live blog from the Guinness PRO14 match between Leinster and Ulster at the RDS.
Schools level Irish athletics has been taken by storm by the record-breaking Aaron Sexton, but he will now be moving from the track to the rugby field after getting snapped up by Ulster.
Leinster will be without Ireland fly half Johnny Sexton for their Heineken Champions Cup game with Ulster because of injury.
For the second time in the Pro14 season, Ulster were beaten by Irish rivals Connacht.
Just as athletics has been scraping around trying to find a replacement for now soccer playing Usain Bolt - rugby union has still not found a true “heir to Habana”.
