BARCELONA were “really surprised” by what the club described as the “unbelievable situation” arising out of the FAI’s decision not to permit the proposed Thomond Park friendly against Limerick to go ahead.

Munster prop Marcus Horan has been exonerated and vindicated in the tit-for-tat citing exchange that followed the Heineken Cup meeting of Munster and Neath-Swansea Ospreys at The Gnoll last Sunday week.