Bonus Pro14 start for Munster

Munster 34 Benetton Rugby 3: New league, new season, same old Italians.

Munster got their Guinness Pro14 campaign up and running with a bonus-point victory over the artists formerly known as Treviso but will have learned little about their ability to occupy centre stage over the coming months.

There was much for the 7,851 crowd to enjoy from a bright home performance at a near sell-out Musgrave Park on a perfect night for rugby in Cork, not least a sparkling performance from man of the match and try-scorer Andrew Conway in this six tries to nil rout. Yet the feeble nature of the challenge posed by the opposition means nobody in the Munster camp will be getting too carried away by the scoreline.