Listening to Joey Carbery talk of Munster’s limitless potential would cheer even the most pessimistic member of its Red Army of supporters, never mind the joy to be derived from the former Leinster fly-half’s love of life at his new province.

Conor Murray admits that there was a touch of the theatrical to Tadhg Beirne in Edinburgh last weekend.

No Jonathan Sexton, Rob Kearney on the bench and Jack McGrath given the weekend off.

JJ Hanrahan knows there’s an opportunity to stake a claim for a European quarter-final start when Munster face Zebre in Limerick tomorrow night but since a lightbulb moment with Alby Mathewson earlier this season, the fly-half will not waste energy worrying about it.