As David Kilcoyne admitted, as much as anything Munster overcame “a mental barrier” when Leinster clipped their lead from 16-3 to 16-10 and came knocking in search of an improbable 14-man win. We had a home crowd, a sell-out crowd, and we really wanted to deliver for the fans. Thankfully, we did that tonight.”CompositionNor was the composition of Ireland’s 31-man World Cup squad on Kilcoyne’s agenda, or, in his opinion, on anyone else’s. “I think you lose your World Cup place when you start thinking like that.”“There’s so much rugby to be played between now and then. So the World Cup isn’t really a chat down here.”

Source: The Irish Times December 31, 2018 00:56 UTC