Munster resigned to departure of Dian Bleuler

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Munster’s Dian Bleuler scores a try in the Champions Cup against Saracens. Picture: ©INPHO/Billy Stickland

Munster are resigned to losing Dian Bleuler back to parent club the Sharks when the loosehead prop’s short-term contract expires at the end of the month.

The South African joined the province as emergency injury cover in November with a quartet of Munster looseheads injured. Dave Kilcoyne, Jeremy Loughman, Josh Wycherley and Mark Donnelly remain sidelined but having gained special dispensation to sign Bleuler from IRFU performance director David Humphreys despite his moratorium on the provinces signing non-Irish qualified (NIQ) front rowers, the Sharks are now insisting on his return.