LANSDOWNE ROAD will be a strange place on May 24. Irish fans had been primed all week, all season, for an All-Ireland Heineken Cup final.

A BITTERLY cold wind swept through the Stade Aime Giral yesterday when the Munster squad visited the venue for today’s crunch Heineken Cup Pool 2 game against Perpignan (2pm).

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