Province has likely edge with home advantage as game being played at Croke Park
Leinster head coach Leo Cullen is facing a difficult selection process as key players return from injury. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/InphoFor the first time since Ireland lost to Scotland in the 2010 Six Nations, GAA headquarters hosts a game of rugby. European semi-finals are held in neutral venues in the home country of the top seed. Leinster qualified from the pool stages ranked higher than Northampton, so they have home country advantage.
It is Leinster’s first game at Jones’s Road since 2009 when they beat Munster in another European semi-final. The crowd that day was a world record for a game of club rugby.Connacht sign Irish-qualified centre Piers O’Conor from BristolYes. RTÉ have continually shown one game per round in this year’s Champions Cup on free-to-air television. Given this game is on Irish soil, the national broadcaster is on duty once again.
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