FERGUS MCFADDEN WILL make his Leinster comeback against the Ospreys on Saturday evening.

The Ireland international has been out for eight weeks with an ankle injury but returns outside Ian Madigan in an exciting centre partnership.

Coach Matt O’Connor makes six changes to the side which drew in Treviso last week with Eoin Reddan captaining the side from scrum-half.

Richardt Strauss and Kevin McLaughlin are ruled out through injury so Brian Byrne and Dominic Ryan start at hooker and blindside respectively, while Mike McCarthy is named alongside Kane Douglas in the second row.

Kick-off in the RDS is at 5.15pm.

Leinster

15. Zane Kirchner
14. Darragh Fanning
13. Fergus McFadden
12. Ian Madigan
11. Dave Kearney
10. Jimmy Gopperth
9. Eoin Reddan (c)
1. Michael Bent
2. Bryan Byrne
3. Tadhg Furlong
4. Mike McCarthy
5. Kane Douglas
6. Dominic Ryan
7. Jordi Murphy
8. Jack Conan

Replacements:

16. James Tracy
17. Peter Dooley
18. Jamie Hagan
19. Tom Denton
20. Rhys Ruddock
21. Isaac Boss
22. Noel Reid
23. Gordon D’Arcy

Ospreys

15. Dan Evans
14. Aisea Natoga
13. Andrew Bishop
12. Hanno Dirksen
11. Tom Grabham
10. Sam Davies
9. Martin Roberts
1. Marc Thomas
2. Sam Parry
3 Dmitri Arhip
4. Lloyd Peers (c)
5. Tyler Ardron
6. Joe Bearman
7. Sam Lewis
8. Dan Baker

Replacements:

16. Scott Otten
17. Gareth Thomas
18. Cai Griffiths
19. Rynier Bernardo
20. Ieuan Jones
21. Tom Habberfield
22. Josh Matavesi
23. Dafydd Howells

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