Every team in the URC has been busy sorting transfers ahead of the upcoming summer break. The Irish provinces have been using their academies...
Former Ireland and Lions prop Jack McGrath is the headline name in the five-strong list of players that are leaving Ulster at the end of the current season. Fellow international Sean Reidy has also been released.
Ulster have signed former Leinster veteran, Michael Kearney, who joins the province from United Rugby Championship rivals Zebre.
Here are the Leinster and Munster player ratings from the Rainbow Cup opener where the result from the recent PRO14 final was reversed.
It has been a hectic week for PRO14 Leinster regarding player contracts and coach Leo Cullen has now summed up all the wheeling and dealing.
Zebre pulled level with Edinburgh early in the second half in Parma on Saturday but they didn't have the nous to secure a PRO14 win.
Follow all the action on the RugbyPass live blog from the Heineken Champions Cup match between Lyon and Leinster at Matmut Stade de Gerland.
Zebre have named a 45-man strong squad for the 2019/20 and includes both Irish and English players.
Jamie George believes Saracens’ latest Premiership title triumph was the deepest they have had to dig for success.
It can't be easy with a limited budget to find robust recruitments, but Zebre's Michael Bradley has raided surplus resources in his native Ireland for the second time in a week.
