Rugby: Sydney stands up to cheer Munster’s greatest story

WHEN Tom Kiernan was preparing his Munster side to play the All-Blacks 25 years ago there must have been a lot of different thoughts running through his mind.

Most of them, perhaps, involved some kind of damage limitation plan; how to ensure that his side weren’t embarrassed against the foremost rugby side of the era.

It probably cost the Cork man more than one or two sleepless nights in the run-up to the game, but it’s safe to assume that it never entered his consciousness that what he was about to plot would eventually end-up on stage in the Sydney Opera House.