Munster may yet draw comfort from Ulster draw

Ulster 23 Munster 23: It may not have felt like it at the time, as Paddy Jackson’s excellent conversion sent a sold-out Ravenhill into raptures, but it may well be Munster rather than Ulster who finish the season with more to celebrate.

The visitors from the south had, after all, just blown a seven-point lead they had methodically, cleverly engineered over an enthralling 80 minutes and saw a first victory at Ulster in five seasons snatched from their grasp.

That it had been denied them by a team reduced to 14 men by the red card issued by Nigel Owens to Iain Henderson eight minutes previously, and which then proceeded to advance upfield and remarkably create an overlap out wide for replacement scrum-half-turned-wing Paul Marshall to scamper over in the corner will only add to the sense of disappointment.