Rugby: Alan Quinlan returns to the Munster side for Tuesday's game against Wasps at Thomond Park. An injury in a club game last season saw him miss Munster's Heineken Cup semi-final against Stade Francais.
Munster coach Declan Kidney has opted for Jason Holland at outhalf in the absence of Ronan O'Gara, who stayed on in Australia after the Lions tour. Jeremy Staunton is selected at full back. Kidney has left a vacancy at number eight, and will delay this selection until after the weekend.
Included among the replacements are three players - Alan Hickey, Conrad O'Sullivan and Mossie Lawlor - who, along with Staunton, played with the Irish under-21 side this summer in Australia, while Frank Murphy toured Australia 12 months ago as a member of the Irish Schools side.
Munster: J Staunton; J O'Neill, C Mahony, J Kelly; A Horgan; J Holland, P Stringer; P Clohessy, F Sheehan, J O'Driscoll, D O'Callaghan, M O'Driscoll, D Bowles, A Quinlan, AN Other. Replacements: D Clohessy, J Fogarty, J Hayes, P O'Connell, C O'Sullivan, A Hickey, F Murphy, M Lawlor.
Golf: Neil Manchip took the honours in the £11,000 pro-am tournament at Cairndhu yesterday after being one of a dozen professionals who returned to the course in the morning to finish the weather-disrupted first round.
The former Irish PGA champion had to complete just two holes, and he covered them in par-birdie to shoot three-under-par 67. He then went out and fired another 67 to walk away with the honours after making six birdies and an eagle over his 20 holes yesterday.
The eagle - a rare two at the 16th hole - highlighted his second card as Manchip drove the green to six feet and slotted home the putt.
But it wasn't all plain sailing for the Royal Dublin assistant. He birdied the first hole with a drive and nine iron to six feet and then dropped strokes at the second, sixth and seventh holes before stopping the rot with another birdie three at the ninth.
After losing a shot at the 12th, Edinburgh-born Manchip rolled in a 20-footer for a two at the 13th before making four with a drive, three wood, a pitch and putt at the long 14th. After the eagle two at the 16th he polished off a splendid performance with another birdie three at the last hole where he drove just short of the green.
The best score of the competition was a 66 (four-under) by Damian Mooney, who pencilled in half-a-dozen birdies - four to the turn. Mooney shared second spot on 136 with Stephen Hamill, who also had six birdies.
"I got a chipping lesson from Peter O'Hagan before I went out and that was a great help," revealed Hamill. "I chipped in from 25 yards for a birdie at the second hole and pitched close on a few other occasions," he said.
Cycling: David McCann has broken the eight year-old national 10-mile time trial record, covering the distance at an average speed of over 30 miles an hour and registering a time of 19 minutes 51 seconds for the distance.
The national road race champion was eight seconds faster than the standard set by Tommy Evans in 1993.
The new benchmark was set on Thursday evening during an Ulster Cycling Federation league event.
Elsewhere, Mark Scanlon won the GP des Ambulances Deleyrolles race in Provence, winning the race with a strong sprint and taking the lead in the Quatre Jours des As series. He also leads the best youth, most aggressive rider and intermediate sprints classifications.
