Limerick leaders in sporting generosity

YOU didn’t have to be at Stradey Park on Saturday for Munster’s latest Heineken Cup heroics to appreciate just how bad the conditions were.

The sight of Ronan O’Gara shivering in the face of a ferocious icy storm that went from bad to worse as the game progressed, said it all.

Despite the hardship, like the rest of his Munster team-mates, O’Gara was still utterly focused on winning this game. In the circumstances it was as fine a performance as we’ve ever seen from Munster. Without question, this is a team of teams, these are players among players. Not for the first time, they gave us reason to cheer last Saturday. I don’t give a damn about the conditions, the lack of fancy play — this was sport at its finest.