Team News:Guy Easterby starts for Leinster and will partner captain Felipe Contepomi at halfback when they take on Llanelli Scarlets in the Magners League at Donnybrook on Friday night.
Coach Michael Chieka has also named Trevor Hogan, Luke Fitzgerald, Keiran Lewis, Keith Gleeson and Jamie Heaslip in the starting line-up after they were involved with Ireland Six Nations training in Bray this week.
Cameron Jowitt will partner Hogan in second row, with Mick Berne partnering Lewis at centre after a string of impressive performances for the Leinster 'A' side in recent weeks. Two vacancies have been left on the replacements bench and both will be confirmed closer to kick off which is 7.40pm.
Michael Bradley has also named his Connacht team to face Edinburgh at Murrayfield on Friday night (7.30pm).
The starting XV shows four changes to the one which lost to Harlequins last weekend. There is one further positional change as John Hearty switches from outside centre to right wing in place of the injured Ted Robinson, while his place in midfield is taken by Gavin Williams.
Andrew Farley and David Gannon partner each other in the second row for the 16th time this season in place of Michael Swift and Ryan Strudwick. Colm Rigney is recalled to the starting line up at number eight in place of Brendan O'Connor who is named among the replacements.
Ray Hogan is also named among the replacements, having recovered from a hamstring injury he picked up against Munster in December.
Leinster team: Ross McCarron, Gary Brown, Kieran Lewis, Mick Berne, Luke Fitzgerald, Felipe Contepomi (C), Guy Easterby, Stanley Wright, Bernard Jackman, Will Green, Trevor Hogan, Cameron Jowitt, Stephen Keogh, Keith Gleeson, Jamie Heaslip
Replacements: Reggie Corrigan, Brian Blaney, Owen Finegan, Devin Toner / Kevin McLaughlin, Chris Whitaker, Christian Warner / Jonathan Sexton, Niall Ronan
Connacht team:D Riordan; J Hearty, G Williams, M McHugh, C McPhillips; P Warwick, C O'Loughlin; B Wilkinson, J Fogarty (C), S Knoop; D Gannon, A Farley; M Lacey, R Ofisa, C Rigney.
Replacements:A Flavin, R Hogan, M Swift, B O'Connor, C Keane, P Durcan, D Slemen.
