IT'S back to the domestic scene after the recent Welsh rugby traumas and Newport Gwent Dragons have received a major boost ahead of Saturday's Celtic League game against high-flying Ulster at Ravenhill.

Wales captain Michael Owen and Welsh teammates Hal Luscombe and Ian Gough will be available after playing in all five Six Nations games, the three of them outstanding against France last Saturday.

And they will be joined by Ceri Sweeney and Luke Charteris, neither of whom played any part in the Six Nations because of injury.

Sweeney has been plagued by groin trouble for a fair part of the season and it flared up again training with the Welsh squad just before the start of the Six Nations.

But a combination of rest and treatment in the Welsh camp has eased the problem and he's fit again, though possibly restricted in a kicking role.

But that is likely to go to Craig Warlow anyway, with Sweeney forming a potent centre partnership alongside Luscombe.

Charteris has been out with a shoulder injury which he suffered prior to the Six Nations and hasn't played for the Dragons since the game against Cardiff Blues on December 27.

He did return last Friday night when he put in an appearance for Pontypool against Glamorgan Wanderers.

Still on the sidelines and out for the rest of the season are full back Kevin Morgan and scrum half Gareth Cooper, Morgan still on crutches and in plaster after dislocating a foot and Cooper having had an operation on the shoulder he damaged at Twickenham.

There is also some doubt about wing Gareth Wyatt, who was forced to withdraw from Wales' sevens squad in the Commonwealth Games with a stress fracture of the foot.

But a further boost is the return to training of Wales under-21 scrum half James Ireland who has been out all season with a knee injury which even put his career in some jeopardy.

Dragons coach Paul Turner will be glad to see many of his Welsh players back when training resumes tomorrow.

"Michael (Owen) was Michael again in the France match, Hal enjoyed his best game for Wales and Ian played very well," said Turner.

"The next two games (Ulster and Munster at Rodney Parade on April 7) will be very big for us, especially after Ireland's win against England last Saturday.

"We need to front up and play like we did against Leinster," he added, referring to the Dragons' last game when they gained their best win of the season, beating the Irish province 31-18.