Resolute Ulster weather Munster storm

Ulster 29 Munster 19

It was a game framed by talk of the two forthcoming rounds of Heineken Cup action and possible selections for the Six Nations to follow but it stood on its own as a top-class advertisement for the poor old Rabo.

A Munster victory after a first-half where anything that could go wrong did go wrong would, under the circumstances, have matched almost any of the legendary against-the-odds successes they have made their birthright in Europe.