Ruan Pienaar has recovered from injury and will start for Ulster against Leinster at the RDS tomorrow (2.40).
Head coach Neil Doak has made four changes and two positional switches to the team that beat Connacht last weekend.
Rory Best and Tommy Bowe, who were rested against the Westerners, also come back into the starting XV.
Stuart Olding is included in the side having been on the bench last week, as is Roger Wilson who has recovered from a knock.
ULSTER (v Leinster): P Nelson; T Bowe, D Cave, S Olding, C Gilroy; P Jackson, R Pienaar; C Black, R Best (c), W Herbst, D Tuohy, F van der Merwe, R Diack, C Ross, R Wilson. Replacements: R Herring, A Warwick, B Ross, A O’Connor, S Reidy, P Marshall, I Humphreys, L Marshall.