IRELAND INTERNATIONALS Brian O’Driscoll, Jonathan Sexton, Luke Fitzgerald and Jamie Heaslip are all in the Leinster team which will face Cardiff Blues at home on Donnybrook tomorrow.

O’Driscoll and Sexton both start their first competitive matches of the season. Isa Nacewa moves to the wing after playing out-half against the Glasgow Warriors last week.

Isaac Boss is retained as Jonny Sexton’s partner at half-back, while Shane Horgan completes the back three along with Fitzgerald and Nacewa.

Richardt Strauss partners Heinke Van Der Merwe and Mike Ross in the front-row. Scottish international Nathan Hines also starts alongside recently signed Ed O’Donoghue in the second row.

Shane Jennings, playing at flanker, is named captain.

LEINSTER (to play CARDIFF BLUES, RDS, Saturday 6.30pm):

Heinke Van Der Merwe, Richardt Strauss, Mike Ross, Nathan Hines, Ed O’Donoghue, Sean O’Brien, Shane Jennings (capt.), Jamie Heaslip, Isaac Boss, Jonathan Sexton, Isa Nacewa, Fergus McFadden, Brian O’Driscoll, Shane Horgan, Luke Fitzgerald

Replacements: John Fogarty, Cian Healy, Simon Shawe, Mariano Galarza, Dominic Ryan, Eoin Reddan, Ian Madigan, Eoin O’Malley