Munster staying focused, says Mark Chisholm

Munster players were ready and willing to travel to Paris for this weekend’s Rugby Champions Cup fixture despite the terrorist attack that shocked the city and the world last Friday, according to the province’s Australian lock Mark Chisholm.

In the event, the decision was made on Tuesday to postpone the game in order to lessen the load on security services that found themselves engaged in further life-threatening operations in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis yesterday where two suspected terrorists were killed.

Stade Jean-Bouin, where Stade Francais and Munster had been scheduled to meet late on Sunday afternoon, lies an hour away by public transport to the south-west, but the province’s players had been approaching the tie as routinely as possible.