WATCH: Heroic Connacht pounce on Munster’s failings

Munster 12 Connacht 18: CONNACHT’S deserved victory over Munster in Saturday’s Guinness Pro 12 encounter at Thomond Park said as much about one side’s magnificent surge to the top of the league table as it did about the other’s demoralising failure to keep in step.

The Connacht Clan — as the 300 supporters who braved the atrocious weather on Saturday are called — made more than one celebratory stop on their way home, after their heroes ended a 29-year run of failure in Limerick with an emphatic 18-12 victory. That keeps them atop the Pro 12 table, after eight series of matches.

Munster fans crept quietly away to salve their wounds, and to wonder how the team they have loved for so many years could have fallen so far back in terms of performance.