Connacht blow URC play-offs wide open, Ireland bullish ahead of French rematch

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[rock music] Hello, and welcome along to this week's RTE Rugby podcast. Sportpodcast@rte.ie to get in touch with us. That's sportpodcast@rte.ie. The running order is absolutely packed again this week. Round three of the Guinness Women's Six Nations is coming up this weekend. Ireland away to France on Saturday night in Clermont, in what is now looking like a proper grudge match at Stade Marcel-Michelin. Hannah O'Connor will be with me to, later in the pod to discuss that. We've already recorded that chat. If you do want to skip ahead to it, I'll put the timestamp in on the episode description here. Uh, and I'll do that as well for all our little mini segments as well, so that the, the various provincial fans can hop straight to their own team. Before that, though, Bernard Jackman and Johnny Holland are with me after what was an incredible weekend in the United Rugby Championship. We'll also be touching on the All Ireland League final this Sunday, St Mary's versus Clontarf at the Aviva Stadium. So much to get through, but first the headlines and a wrap of the results. On Friday night, Leinster had a huge 29-21 bonus point win away to Ulster. Leinster now have the top seed back in their sights, and Ulster supporters will start to get a little bit nervous heading into the final three games. Munster put a bad weekend, a, a bad week of headlines behind them, with an excellent 45-15 win at Benetton and a badly needed performance. But fellas, I'm gonna start this week in Cape Town. Connacht coming from 24 points to 14