O’Mahony: ‘It’s going to have to be the performance of the year’

The echoes of Munster’s European semi-final defeat to Saracens two years ago may still be ringing in newspaper columns and the minds of supporters but Peter O’Mahony spoke for his squad and management yesterday when he declared his team have long since moved on, and for the better.

Munster and Saracens meet at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena on Saturday for a Heineken Champions Cup semi-final, their first meeting since the Englishmen produced a second-half dismantling of their Irish rivals in Dublin that produced a 26-10 scoreline O’Mahony admitted yesterday flattered Rassie Erasmus’s side that afternoon.