Munster can hold heads high

THE same end result for the two Irish provinces in the semi-finals of the European Cup, but a remarkable contrast in the manner in which they bowed out of the competition.

Munster lived fully up to their reputation as a team that plays with heart and head, Leinster (and it gives me absolutely no pleasure to say this) lived fully down to theirs, a side that had neither of the above.

True they had individuals that would make any club team in the world, even Munster, but in this game you live as a group, fall the same way. But my, what a fall suffered by that collective.