Sam Prendergast returns to No 10 shirt after Emerging Ireland tour and Ryan Baird makes first start of the season
Hugh Cooney will make his first start for Leinster in the URC game against the Lions at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday. Photograph: Tom Maher/InphoHugh Cooney will make his first start for Leinster alongside the returning Robbie Henshaw in a strong Leinster line-up to take on the Lions at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday .
Henshaw will be making his first appearance of the season after recovering from injury in one of 10 changes to the starting line-up from the game in Galway. McCarthy is joined in the frontrow by Michael Milne and Rabah Slimani, while Ryan Baird returns for his first start of the season alongside last week’s player of the match, RG Snyman.
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