Munster in Cork fog flight scare

MUNSTER were, for once, on the wrong end of a last-minute decision on Saturday when the plane carrying them home from their dramatic win over Castres was forced to divert to Dublin.

The charter flight from Toulouse carrying the team, officials, media and supporters was met with heavy fog on its approach to Cork, forcing the flight crew to abandon the landing within metres of the runway.

Shannon was similarly affected so the flight was immediately sent to Dublin, leaving the players with overnight bus journeys back to Cork and Limerick while the majority of the travelling supporters were put up in a Dublin airport hotel for the night before being bussed down to the Munster cities yesterday morning.