A DALY BASIS..

Leinster Southern Kings Tonight, 7.55pm

v BARRY DALY hopes the hard lessons of last week will help Leinster to flourish in the bigger challenges to come.

The Blues made tough work of earning their bonus point at Zebre last Saturday and Daly, who replaces Dave Kearney at full-back against Southern Kings at the RDS tonight, wants to see an improvement.

“You have to look at your own performance and at the mistakes we made to let them into the game.

“I definitely missed a tackle off the kick-off.

“It’s all just individual mistakes like that that add up.

“We probably got a little bit complacent. We were 21-0 up after some nice easy, flowing tries and probably thought we could phone it in or keep cruising along.

“It took a lot to get control back. You have got to take those learnings as a positive because we did a lot of things that opposition teams will probably try to do to us.

“It’s better that we learn them now, tough them out and still get the wins.”

Rónan Kelleher – younger brother of Connacht winger Cian – will become the 54th Leinster cap this season.

The 21-year-old, in his second year in the province’s academy, makes his debut at hooker.

Kelleher is joined in the front row by Andrew Porter, who is excused from Six Nations duty after appearances off the bench against England and Scotland.

Fergus Mcfadden returns on the wing having been absent through injury since October.