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The Reds know they must stay disciplined as Northampton will be pumped up for revenge at Thomond Park

With Six Nations squad selection looming, the veteran scrum-half has lost out to Craig Casey and Paddy Patterson for the Thomond Park clash

Connacht attack coach Mossy Lawler will join Munster as skills coach ahead of next season.

The first thing Nick Cave says in Faith, Hope and Carnage is that he hates interviews. You could see that as a dispiriting start to a book that’s basically a 304-page interview — by Observer journalist Seán O’Hagan — but it’s hardly news. In the 1980s, Cave’s relationship with journalists…

Graham Rowntree hailed the growing belief of his Munster squad as they maintained their resurgent URC winning streak, their only loss in the last five the narrow reverse against Leinster on St Stephen’s Day.

In a city renowned for its caustic humour, irony inflicts a punch to the solar plexus in Musgrave Park tonight, as they warmly welcome back a Munster player who will so soon leave them for good.

Munster welcome South African visitors in the United Rugby Championship this weekend with Lions arriving on tour. Here’s all you need to know about the game.

Contrasting emotions at the end, magnified given the alarming swing of fortunes in the final act of a drama, where, so suddenly, the roles of victor and defeated were violently switched.

The 22-year-old new Ireland cap is restored to out-half for a big clash with Ulster in Belfast as time is running out for the Reds. "We’d love to be winning every game, we don’t want to be where we are now, but it’s the reality," said Crowley

MALAKAI FEKITOA has returned to the Munster team for the first time since November as Graham Rowntree shuffles his pack for the New Year's Day trip to Belfast to face Ulster (5.15).

Slowly, an imperceptible stretch of an evening while, ever so gradually, Munster are emerging from their recent retreat into the dark ages.