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Published 12:36 20 Sept 2018 BST
Updated 13:07 20 Sept 2018 BST
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Meanwhile Joey Carbery has retained his spot at fly-half and will once again line up alongside Duncan Williams in the halves while JJ Hanrahan has moved to full-back in place of Mike Haley who drops out of the matchday squad entirely.
Elsewhere in the backline Rory Scannell returns to the starting side where he will form a new look centre partnership alongside Jaco Taute who makes his first start of the season since returning from a knee injury.
Winger Keith Earls and hooker Rhys Marshall were both unavailable for selection after apparently picking up knocks during training.
Munster: JJ Hanrahan; Andrew Conway, Jaco Taute, Rory Scannell, Darren Sweetnam; Joey Carbery, Duncan Williams; James Cronin, Mike Sherry, Stephen Archer; Jean Kleyn, Tadhg Beirne; Peter O’Mahony (C), Chris Cloete, CJ Stander.
Replacements: Diarmuid Barron, Dave Kilcoyne, Brian Scott, Darren O’Shea, Tommy O’Donnell, Jack Stafford, Bill Johnston, Shane Daly.
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