A HARD week.

MUNSTER backs coach Jason Holland yesterday said the squad’s long-term injury casualties would not be back in action until at least the end of January.

LAST night’s New Year’s Eve bash at the Anthony Horgan household was due to double as a leaving do.

IN the pantheon of wingers Munster have unveiled during the professional age, Ian Dowling slots easily into John Kelly and Anthony Horgan mould: an unsung hero, safe pair of hands when the big occasion demands; not flash, just solid and with an ability to do the basics right.