Former Munster CEO Garrett Fitzgerald passes away, aged 65

Garrett Fitzgerald, the straight-talking Munster-to-the-core rugby man, who oversaw the province’s greatest days as coach and CEO, has passed away. He was 65.

The driving force behind Munster’s emergence as a European powerhouse had been battling an illness for some time, but in the same pragmatic and even-handed way he dealt with most things.