Murray Kinsella joins Gavan Casey after a trip to Galway to check out the work Connacht are doing both on the ground and on their Dexcom Stadium.

The lads also discuss Steven Kitshoff's signing for Ulster which has finished abruptly due to his season-ending injury, and the galling blow to James Hume who had been enjoying a good season on the personal front.

Murray and Gav chat about both of those provinces' soon-to-be-announced recruitments of young talents from Leinster, and they also look ahead to Leinster's visit to the Stormers as well as Munster's clash with the freewheelin' Lions.

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Bernard Jackman and Murray Kinsella join Gavan Casey to look back on an eventful, sun-drenched weekend of rugby.

The lads discuss the AIL Division 1A semi-finals and the growth of the domestic game overall after a heartening play-off weekend.

Berch expands upon his Sindo column which 'energised' an online cohort of Munster fans in particular.

There's a review of the provinces' URC games, as Munster became the first European team to beat the Bulls at Loftus Versfeld and Ulster rode their luck against Cardiff.

Plus, after a dark day for the Ireland women's team, can they write off Twickenham and pick up against Scotland where they left off against Wales?

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James Tracy joins Murray and Gav to give his thoughts on Jordie Barrett's move to Leinster. The lads discuss Leinster's ability to add a world-class All Black as well as RG Snyman to their already brilliant squad while the other three provinces, with three central contracts between them at the moment, are forced to think outside the box.

James also reviews his former side's victory over La Rochelle, a team with whom he says Leinster share a mutual hatred -- but one rooted in respect. Maul defence, scrummaging, and Tadhg Furlong's return to career-best form were among the topics of conversation as Tracy ran the rule over Leinster's quarter-final success.

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Murray Kinsella and Bernard Jackman join Gavan Casey to reflect on a day on which Leinster showed their teeth and banished demons from the Aviva Stadium as they overwhelmed La Rochelle.

There are transfer rumours -- and we stress, they are just rumours -- with Berch giving a steer on Andrew Goodman's potential replacement as Leinster attack coach, and the lads discussing the eastern province's potential signing of an All Black centre.

There were annoying days for Ulster and Connacht in the Challenge Cup: Berch and Murray try to make sense of two deflating defeats as well as the provinces' diminishing returns in Europe, Leinster aside.

Plus, a year after suffering a debilitating defeat to the same opposition, Ireland women blew away Wales in Cork to change the complexion of their Six Nations campaign.

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Murray Kinsella and Gavan Casey are joined by French journalist Benjamin Deudon, who covers La Rochelle for the Sud Ouest newspaper. Benjamin gives us his impressions of a below-par and disjointed season for Les Rochelais, the view on Ronan O'Gara from within the city and outside of it, and the keys to a La Rochelle victory in Saturday's quarter-final against Leinster.

Murray then covers every blade of grass and picks a winner for Saturday's fifth instalment of the rivalry.

The lads also discuss how Munster's defeat to Northampton was due to areas of under-performance as well as the large caveats of injury and illness, but why there remains plenty of cause for optimism as the southern province attempt to defend their URC crown.

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Murray Kinsella and Bernard Jackman join Gavan Casey to discuss the provinces' fortunes in Europe over the weekend.

A sickly and injury-ravaged Munster fell to defeat in Northampton, but with such a turnover of their squad expected in this off-season, where does that leave them as they head into Year 3 of the Graham Rowntree era? Does it become Year 1 again?

After Leinster's victory over Leicester, the lads begin the big build-up to La Rochelle -- again. What will be the difference if Leinster are to end their knockout hoodoo over ROG's back-to-back European champions?

And Connacht and Ulster went away to France and kept their respective European seasons alive with victories that might change the complexion of their campaigns. The lads discuss their victories and their away quarter-finals in the Challenge Cup.

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Bernard Jackman joins Gavan Casey to look back on Leinster's top-of-the-table victory over the Bulls, Munster's labouring win over Cardiff, and tougher days at the office for Connacht and Ulster which he believed took on very different complexions.

Berch also gives his thoughts on a poor Irish defeat in the Women's Six Nations.

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Gavan Casey is joined for the final time — for the moment, anyway — by new Wallabies coach Eoin Toolan on his short visit home.

Later, Ciarán Kennedy dials in from Ireland camp ahead of their Women’s Six Nations clash with Italy on Sunday.

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Fresh off the Irish showjumping team's brilliant victory at the League of Nations, Bernard Jackman joins Gavan Casey from Florida to discuss the provinces' fortunes in the URC and Antoine Dupont's return to action -- at out-half -- for Toulouse.

Berch reckons Connacht's defeat to the 14-man Lions was the worst result in Irish rugby this season, and he's starting to wonder whether some of Ulster's players understand the significance of wearing the province's jersey.

And with Connacht set to travel to Treviso without Bundee Aki and Finlay Bealham for a pivotal game with Benetton, the lads discuss whether the IRFU's approach to player management is fit for purpose or requires a rethink under David Humphreys

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