Leinster and Ulster are Bilbaound, Ireland's W6N home run

Neil Treacy· Host0:00

[rock music] Hello, and welcome along to the RTE Rugby podcast. We are deep into the business end of the season now. Champions and Challenge Cup finals are confirmed. Leinster and Bordeaux in the Champions Cup decider in Bilbao. Ulster and Montpellier to face off in the Challenge Cup final, and Ireland versus France weekend to come at the Saint-Amand stadium in a couple of weeks' time. URC is back in focus for a couple of weeks, though, but so much on the line with playoff spots up for grabs and two rounds to go. Connacht against Munster, the pick of them this weekend. Must, must win for Connacht. Also into the final couple of weeks of the Guinness Women's Six Nations. Hannah O'Connor will be joining me a little bit later on to look ahead at Ireland against Wales this Saturday. Before that, no Bernard Jackman with me this week. Brett Eigo will be in studio a little bit, uh, a little bit later on. Johnny Holland is also on the line, and Johnny, it's just the two of us for the, the next few minutes. But as I said, Leinster into the Champions Cup final for the ninth time. 29-25 winners against Toulon. A nervy ending to a game that probably shouldn't have been nervy with the way it was going. Bordeaux Bègles will be their opposition. 38-26 winners against Bath [notification sound] on Sunday. All the talk after that has been about TV directors. Let's start with Leinster, though. I feel like it was a game that nearly sums [notification sound] up their entire season. Closer than it should've been. Cards were an