Team News: Long-term absentee Barry Murphy has been returned to the Munster squad ahead of Friday's Magner's League clash with Leinster at Musgrave Park.
Murphy has not featured for Declan Kidney's side since the 38-20 win over Glasgow in the final game of the league in May last year.
The centre has featured for his club UL Bohemians over the last few weeks and scored two tries for Munster in an 'A' interprovincial against Leinster last week.
Alan Quinlan is absent from the 25-man squad after undergoing surgery on a thumb injury.
Connacht coach Michael Bradley will wait for John Fogarty and David Gannon to undergo fitness tests before picking his team to face Glasgow from a 24-man squad.
Meanwhile Edinburgh coach Andy Robinson welcomes back centre Matt Dey and outhalf Phil Godman into the starting line-up for their trip to Belfast to take on Ulster at Ravenhill on Friday night (7.30pm).
Dey made his first appearance for the club since September as an impact replacement during Edinburgh's win over Llanelli Scarlets, while Scotland international Godman has been out for five games.
In bringing in Dey (26) and Godman (25) Robinson has opted for experience. Godman switches with David Blair (22) on the bench, while Dey comes in for 24-year-old John Houston, who is ruled out for the match with a dead leg.
"The two players have worked really hard and therefore now when they are handed opportunities they have to take them," said Robinson. "The key to getting into the team is when you are performing that you play well
"Now they are in the side though it is not about them switching off, but instead pushing up some more gears in order to stay there."
Houston's withdrawal is one of four changes to the line-up that defeated the Scarlets in Robinson's first win in charge of the club with Hugo Southwell (sprained ankle) replaced by Ben Cairns at full-back and Scotland prop Gavin Kerr reclaiming the number three shirt.
Scotland winger Simon Webster is unavailable because of a back injury, so former Ulster favourite Andrew Maxwell continues in the number 11 shirt.
Alistair Warnock, who has been playing for club side Currie, and Craig Hamilton are named amongst the replacements.
Robinson revealed he was pleased to be able to freshen up the squad, although acknowledged that injuries always create selection dilemmas.
He said: "It is disappointing when you get injuries, but that is part of the ferocity of the games we have played in the Magners League and the Heineken Cup. Now it is a case of players, who have been waiting for opportunities, to take them.
"When we played at Leicester we rested Ross Rennie and he responded well to that. There will be times when we will be resting players and there will be times when we have to make difficult decisions when it comes to managing our players."
Munster Squad: S Payne, D Hurley, B Carney, I Dowling, K Lewis, L Mafi, R Tipoki, B Murphy, G Hurley, P Stringer, P Warwick, R O'Gara, M Horan, J Hayes, T Buckley, J Flannery, F Sheahan, D O'Callaghan, M O'Driscoll, D Ryan, D Leamy, D Wallace, N Ronan, J Coughlan, A Foley.
Connacht Squad: A Browne, M Deane, T Donnelly, G Duffy, A Dunne, A Farley, A Flavin, J Fogarty, D Gannon, R Loughney, M McCarthy, C McPhillips, J Merrigan, R Morris, J Muldoon, J O'Connor, R Ofisa, C O'Loughlin, D Riordan, M Swift, O Treviranus, B Wilkinson, A Wynne, D Yapp.
Edinburgh Team(v Ulster): Ben Cairns, Andrew Turnbull, Nick De Luca, Matt Dey, Andrew Maxwell, Phil Godman, Mike Blair (captain), Allan Jacobsen, Ross Ford, Gavin Kerr, Matt Mustchin, Ben Gissing, Roland Reid, Ross Rennie, David Callam Replacements: Andrew Kelly, Augusto Allori, Craig Hamilton, Simon Cross, Ben Meyer, David Blair, Alistair Warnock.
