We were up in the wildish Scottish yonder last Saturday when this kerfuffle at Saracens broke out.

“What a game! What a spectacle! Is Irish club rugby alive? Yes, yes, and yes again.”

Peter Bracken, the former Munster, Connacht and Wasps prop, tells a great story about one of his first encounters playing alongside John Muldoon for Galwegians.

I reckon our constitution is only built to take so much grief and sadness, writes Ronan O'Gara.

Ronan O'Gara has revealed how Munster players old and new laughed through the tears as they came to terms with the loss last week of Anthony Foley.

RONAN O'Gara has revealed how Munster players old and new laughed through the tears as they came to terms with the loss last week of Anthony Foley.

Ronan O’Gara believes that Simon Zebo needs to stop taking “the soft option” if he is to fulfil his potential with Munster and Ireland.

Ronan O’Gara explains that Patrick ’Rala’ O’Reilly has been his precious friend and confidante over the past 21 years and he will be a huge loss for the Irish rugby internationals

The Kerry midfielder combines a potent centre-field cocktail of brain and brawn — the latter turning him into a genuine engine-room force, writes Mike Quirke

Anthony Foley believes Paul O’Connell’s selfless nature will be the key factor in the Ireland captain’s decision on his rugby-playing future.

The appointment of Anthony Foley as Munster’s next head coach was great, the timing was right, and I think there is so much more to come from him that we haven’t yet seen.

Some day he’ll enter those turnstiles in Thomond Park.

WARREN Gatland put the Wellington boot into Ireland’s World Cup dreams here today as green dreams of the Webb Ellis Trophy went up in smoke.

JASON HOLLAND says Munster have drawn on the example of the late Moss Keane, who died during the week, ahead of their Heineken Cup clash with London Irish tomorrow.

Munster’s rugby Academy isn’t just a window to the future — it’s a key ingredient for ongoing success for the province. In the last of a four-part series on the up-and-comers vying for Munster’s Academy player of the year award, back-row Eoghan Grace spoke with Alan Good.

ONE of Munster’s heroes from an unforgettable night at Thomond Park has revealed the Heineken Cup champions considered performing a Haka in Irish.

THE ULTIMATE challenge. That’s the way Paul O’Connell reads the major task awaiting Ireland when the All Blacks come to Croke Park on Saturday for the second of the three Guinness November internationals.

DONNCHA O’CALLAGHAN is issuing a call to arms to Munster supporters this week as his side bids for a win that would see them head for another Cardiff final, scene of their great triumph of 2006.

IT’S BEEN a while since he announced his retirement, and there’s still a lot of rugby to be played before Munster’s outstanding number eight Anthony Foley finally hangs up his boots, sails into the sunset, but already the tributes have started.

THERE was a time, not long ago, when Marcus Horan must have wondered why he bothered to pursue a rugby career with Munster.

IT all began for Ian Dowling on a lovely spring afternoon in 2004.

MAKE no mistake about it, even though his replacement, Mick O’Driscoll, is a hell of a player, the loss of Paul O’Connell to the Irish second-row against Italy on Saturday is colossal.

THEY may lie marooned at the bottom of Pool Four, without so much as a point to their name, but the Bourgoin threat should not be underestimated on Sunday, according to former Munster captain Mick Galwey.

It may take years to grasp the enormity of what has been achieved, but those closest to the Munster rugby phenomenon are determined that this is only the beginning. Munster’s John Kelly reflects on their Heineken Cup high and the journey of discovery that brought them there.

RUGBY legend Mick Galwey is helping spread the message according to the gospel of Munster.

THE BROAD beam on Anthony Foley’s face told the full story.

YOUR columnist Ryle Dwyer (Irish Examiner, November 19) is right to point to the danger of corruption in the awarding of honorary degrees, and here in Trinity College Dublin we do not award them until they have been carefully scrutinised.

Reggie Corrigan has gone from amateur to professional, from club player to international, but the rivalry between Munster and Leinster is as intense as ever, he tells Charlie Mulqueen.

SATURDAY night, a Munster supporter in San Sebastian for the Heineken Cup quarter-final game was giving directions to one of his mates.

GENUINELY world-class with ball in hand and hugely effective throughout the pitch, David Wallace faces into his 34th Heineken European Cup game at Thomond Park this evening intent on helping Munster into the quarter-finals for the sixth successive year.

Star lock Mick Galwey has opted not to take up a full-time rugby contract with Munster for next season.

MUNSTER coach Alan Gaffney says he hopes to know within the next seven days whether New Zealand’s record-breaking try scorer Christian Cullen will be joining the Celtic League champions.

SHANNON kept alive their slim hopes of retaining the AIB League when they recovered from a bad start to outplay Blackrock College by 31-10 at Stradbrook on Saturday.

CANCEL that obituary. Reports of Munster’s demise are, to borrow from Mark Twain, greatly exaggerated.

THOMOND PARK'S public address system yesterday boomed out sound effects from the Perpignan ground as the Munster players wound up their preparations for Saturday's crucial Heineken Cup tie at Stade Aime Giral.

Munster have recalled Mick O’Driscoll to the second row for Saturday’s Heineken Cup clash in France against Perpignan.

MUNSTER coach Alan Gaffney expressed his frustration and sympathy for Paul O’Connell and Anthony Horgan, who will miss the upcoming Heineken Cup games against Perpignan and Gloucester.