Crowds, chaos, and controversy: The last time the ‘new’ Páirc hosted a Munster final

Tonight’s Munster final echoes the same game back in 1976, when Cork and Kerry also met in the provincial decider for the opening of what was then a brand new stadium.

That 1976 game lives on in the folk memory not just for what happened on the field - a titanic struggle between two of the best three teams in the country at the time - but for what happened just outside the playing area.

Thousands of spectators got in for free as the stewarding broke down, and hundreds of them took up vantage points along the sideline.