Munster close down fans’ forum

THE official Munster rugby website has closed its supporters’ forum due to a minority of posters using the facility “to ridicule and deride” Munster officials, players and moderators of the website. A statement posted on the site yesterday added that the forum had been closed at the urging of those three groups.

The statement reads: “The website management have decided, after long and careful consideration, to discontinue the Messageboard Forum of www.munsterrugby.ie.

“Various efforts have been made over the past number of years to moderate/monitor the forum in order that those who have engaged in reasonable robust debate could continue to do so. Regretfully, we have not managed to eliminate the minority element who use the cloak of anonymity to ridicule and deride.