Varley says fired-up Munster have score to settle against Ulster

It may be a dead rubber in the eyes of some but for Munster’s Damien Varley, Saturday’s clash with Ulster holds plenty of reasons to put on a show at Thomond Park.

With both provinces assured of semi-final berths heading into the last round of the RaboDirect Pro12 regular season this weekend, there might be the temptation to approach this contest with a degree of conservatism ahead of the following week’s knockout ties.

Yet this is an interprovincial derby and for Munster there is plenty of unfinished business from this season’s turn of the year league defeat to Ulster at Ravenhill to feed into the hurt still running raw from their Heineken Cup semi-final loss to Toulon in Marseille 11 days ago.