Donal Lenihan: From Ellis Park to Croke Park... with a bit of Cork Con stirred in for good measure

While Munster’s squad is still short of the international depth available to the top three European sides in Toulouse, La Rochelle and Leinster, when everyone is fit and healthy, they are seriously competitive.

LEGENDS: Donal Lenihan at Ellis Park (now called Emirates Airline Park) in Johannesburg for last weekend's URC game between the Lions and Munster.

An eventful week that started out in Ellis Park, Johannesburg is set to finish on Jones Road, Dublin in front of a packed rugby audience in Croke Park on Saturday.

From a dated arena that hosted the greatest occasion in Rugby World Cup history, where new South African president Nelson Mandela emerged from the Ellis Park tunnel wearing the No 6 Springbok shirt of the nation’s captain Francois Pienaar, to the headquarters of the GAA for a Leinster rugby match marks some journey - not just in a week but over the last 29 years.