Donal Lenihan: The perfect end to one of the most bizarre seasons in Munster history

You can have no regrets when you save your best performance of the season, and in this case their best performance in years, for the URC Grand Final

LEGENDARY STATUS: Keith Earls of Munster is carried by teammates Malakai Fekitoa, left, and Antoine Frisch as they celebrate with the trophy after the United Rugby Championship Final. Pic: Nic Bothma/Sportsfile

WHAT an incredible victory. If ever a team was freighted with doing things the hard way, to escape to victory against the odds, then it was this Munster team.

Whatever about having to go to Glasgow to win a quarter-final or Dublin to overturn a Leinster side in the semi-final who, up to that point, had forgotten how to lose, to travel 8,500 miles down to deepest Africa, take on the reigning URC champions in their own back yard and come away with silverware, places this achievement up there with the very best in Munster’s storied history.