Munster mull O’Connell appeal

MUNSTER appear set to appeal Paul O’Connell’s four-week ban handed out by Heineken Cup chiefs yesterday.

On a day when Leinster’s Jonathan Sexton and O’Connell’s Munster team-mate Paul Warwick edged closer to joining French giants Stade Francais, Munster management were pre-occupied with the immediate availability of their captain.

Both they and O’Connell are understood to be hugely disappointed by the suspension that followed an ERC disciplinary hearing in Dublin into the incident that led to his sending off against Ospreys last Sunday.