Leinster releases 30 players for Saturday All-Ireland League matches

Leinster has released 30 players to their clubs for Saturday's Energia All-Ireland League matches.

Leo Cullen promised the release after Leinster beat Connacht 50-5 away last Friday. The province returned 17 members of that matchday squad, along with a mix of senior and academy players, to nine Leinster-based clubs.

The group includes two Irish internationals, Max Deegan and Gus McCarthy, as well as three Leinster centurions. A total of 21 of the released players have featured for the Leinster senior side this year.

Lansdowne received seven players, including Hugo McLaughlin, Todd Lawlor, Ciarán Mangan, Max Deegan, Cormac Foley, Peter Dooley, and Charlie Tector. Terenure College will field Caspar Gabriel, Oliver Coffey, Ben Blaney, and JJ Kenny.

Other clubs received specific players: St Mary's College gets Andrew Sparrow; Naas gets Tadhg Brophy; Dublin University gets Artur Smykovskiy; Old Belvedere gets Alex Mullan; Blackrock College gets Jack Deegan.

UCD received nine players: Max Doyle, Sami Bishti, Dylan McNeice, Charlie Molony, James Culhane, Conor O'Tighearnaigh, Gus McCarthy, Andrew Osborne, and Scott Penny. Clontarf received Alan Spicer, Conor Fahy, Harry Goslin, Brian Deeny, and Alex Soroka. Division 1A and 1B matches are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday.