Beirne’s red alert as Ryan returns to old stomping ground

If Tadhg Beirne is any guide, there is no danger of Munster failing to pay full attention to the variety of threats Racing 92 will bring to Thomond Park tomorrow evening, not least from the man he succeeded in the province’s second row.

When Beirne arrived in Limerick from Scarlets in the summer of 2018, he was filling the void left by Donnacha Ryan, who 12 months earlier had departed for France and a fresh adventure with Racing’s galacticos in Paris.