Cameron Hill

As Slattery spoke to Nathan Murphy on Off the Ball ahead of the Lions Tour of 2017 and about his memories of being a tourist back in the early 1970s, in particular he recalls how different tours were back then compared to the more recent expeditions such as their trip to Australia last summer.

In fact, let's go through the team in full.

So it's an unchanged back three of wingers James Lowe, Jimmy O'Brien and full-back Hugo Keenan.

Jamie Osborne and Rico Ioane are retained as the two centres, while Sam Prendergast is Gibson-Park's half-back partner.

Up front then, Kelleher packs down between Andrew Porter and Thomas Clarkson.

The engine room consists of Joe McCarthy and James Ryan.

Alongside Van der Vlier in the back row are Max Deegan and Caelan Darius.

Cullen has resisted the temptation to go 6-2 against South African opposition, so joining McCarthy among the forwards are Alex Ussinov, Rabat Slimani, Dermot Mangan and Jack Conin, while Luc McGrath, Harry Byrne and Gary Ringrose provide the back-up for the backs.

Now Lowe will hope to push further ahead as Leinster's record try scorer before he leaves the province at the end of the season.

He surpassed Shane Horgan on the all-time list last weekend with his two tries against the Lions bringing him up to 71 scored across his nine seasons in blue.

Now, Hugo Keenan spoke to Dara Smith in Ogden earlier this week, and he says the players were delighted to see Lowe seal his place in the Leinster history books.

Now, yesterday, Leo Cullen came to the defence of his senior coach, Jacques Nienaber, following recent criticism of his contribution over the past few seasons.

At a pretty tetchy press conference on Monday, the former Springboks coach suggested he may not fulfil the final season of his contract with Leinster because he doesn't feel valued.

Stormers head coach John Dobson has told critics of Leinster senior coach Jacques Nienaber to appreciate what you've got.

The South African franchise are in Dublin ahead of this weekend's URC semi-final against Leo Cullen's side this Saturday.

They'll be without star out-half Sasha Feinberg-Mgamazulu, who suffered a high ankle sprain in their quarter-final win over Cardiff last weekend.

Now, on Monday, Nian Aber had a tetchy exchange with journalists during a reporter huddle out in UCD.

The former Springboks coach suggested he may not fulfil the final season of his contract with Leinster because he doesn't feel valued.

Now, Dobson joined in a call and Dara Smith knocked in on this morning's off-the-ball breakfast.

He and Nian Aber worked together at both the Western Province and the Stormers and Dobson explains that the fiery comments were very out of character for Nian Aber.