| Best wishes to all our young competitors who qualified for the Munster Final. |
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| It was a pathetic excuse for dropping the Munster master that he would not be around for the World Cup in 2003 down under. |
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| Were the Gods contriving to do us down once more on the major stage of a Munster championship day? |
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| Admittedly their margins of victory in this Munster campaign have not been earth-shattering. |
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| Tipperary crashed out of the Munster championship at the semi-final stage because their attack was weak and they didn't have a settled backline. |
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| Ever since the inception of this great competition Munster have come into their own. |
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| A close game is expected as honours are even between Munster and Castres from their two meetings in the group stage of this year's competition. |
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| By this stage that game has gone down in history as one of the greatest Munster Finals ever played. |
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| Waterford have included five seniors who played in the Munster championship against Tipperary and four subs in their team. |
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| Munster have the happy knack of bouncing back, of taking defeat and building on it. |
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| Strongbow died in 1175, by which year Leinster and part of Munster were in Norman hands but Ulster and Connacht remained Gaelic. |
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| Best wishes are extended to young Glynn Egan when he sportily defends his Munster boxing championship title at Fermoy. |
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| Another evening Allen and Morgan sat down to watch a rare video of one Munster final, shot from behind the goals Morgan was guarding. |
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| Johns gets in ahead of Jeremy Davidson who bruised a knee in last week's victory over Munster. |
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| When he first went to Munster he was considered a journeyman by unknowing supporters, but he has become infinitely more than that. |
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| Rachel received a silver medal for second in Munster and swam very well in Dublin. |
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| As for Glasgow, they've already blasted Munster off the park in the Celtic League. |
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| There's life in Munster yet, even if we are taking it more on trust than on hard evidence. |
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| They were four players short of the team that had won the Munster crown but the replacements were also top class. |
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| But he discovered other groups who were far from being like the Baptists of the seventeenth century, such as the millenarian Munster radicals. |
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| The team now go into intensive training to prepare for Tipperary in the first round of the Munster championship. |
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| It is understood that a beef factory in Munster and another in the midlands have been inspected by customs officials. |
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| Munster hadn't played together for many weeks and there was bound to be a bit of rustiness. |
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| Should Munster lose, pity the poor man who moved the game to the capital purely for financial reasons. |
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| He was a real all-rounder, winning seven All-Ireland hop step and jump titles and numerous longjump titles at Kerry, Cork and Munster level. |
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| During his reign as manager, English helped Tipp to win one All-Ireland, one Munster championship and two National League titles. |
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| Tipp were reigning All Ireland Champions, while Waterford were looking for their first Munster crown in 39 years. |
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| The hallmark of the Munster team for example is their capacity for calm when things are going west. |
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| While no one was looking, Darth Vader has been replaced by a wizened, if still ornery, Grandpa Munster. |
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| But the Munster backroom boys don't believe it was a wasted journey. |
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| His successful move from Northern Ireland politics to representing Munster and Fine Gael in the European Parliament was quite simply a Houdini act. |
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| First we popped in on a roly-poly Alsatian farm wife and watched her brewing outrageously smelly Munster cheese to the accompaniment of tub-thumping Bavarian music. |
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| The historic achievement that they are chasing is the mantle of being the first ever Waterford club to be crowned as Munster Club football champions. |
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| Elena Hogan and Noel Clancy represented Waterford in the Munster Fleadh Ceoil in Millstreet last Sunday, the flute and the melodion being the instruments of choice. |
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| By 1998 Ulster, Munster and Leinster each had 21 full-time professionals and 10 semi-professionals but before that all of the teams were hybrid operations. |
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| They have a full-time nutritionist who has written up recipe books for all of the players and given suggested menus to the restaurants where the Munster players eat lunch. |
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| In the interest of fairness, Munster Finals should be on neutral ground but once again the Munster Council showed its downright craziness by not fixing the match for Cork. |
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| The growth and development of Munster is illustrated in a series of scale models found in the Stadt Museum, built round a tempting ice cream parlour and above shops. |
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| Munster and Leinster have got to show that they are no longer nearly men. |
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| Among his pleasant memories of the club's first sortie into Division 1 was the opening win against Young Munster, and reaching the Senior Cup final. |
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| Waterford holds the stage in the southern half of the country this weekend with the final of the Aer Rianta Cork Airport Munster Oaks tomorrow night. |
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| People travelled from all corners of Munster to see a magnificent display of vintage machinery, threshing, haymaking and old farm skills of bygone days. |
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| The game was to have been played last Sunday week but was put back due to an objection being lodged against the Cork champions by the opposing team in the Munster final. |
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| Gloucester were a distant second-best as 12,500 Munster fans roared their side on to a comprehensive victory which gives them an away quarter-final in April. |
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| Dungarvan Rugby Club's Ground at Ballyrandle looked in splendid shape last Saturday afternoon for the clash of Munster and Ulster in their interprovincial at Junior level. |
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| Kennedy has been chasing stories for over 30 years, since she first secured a cub reporter's job in the Kilkenny office of the Munster Express, the Waterford local paper. |
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| This made him one of the principal landowners in Munster, but he had limited success inducing English tenants to settle on his estates. |
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| From a Munster scrum on their own five-yard line, the ball squirted out behind number eight Anthony Foley into the in-goal area. |
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| When Lord Grey was recalled to England, Spenser stayed on in Ireland, having acquired other official posts and lands in the Munster Plantation. |
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| Leinster, Munster and Ulster combined are limited to one player at each position who is not eligible for Ireland selection. |
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| The sandstones are considered to be derived from Devonian Old Red Sandstone in the Munster basin on the Irish mainland. |
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| In Munster dialects a dative form persisted, though this has been largely discarded by younger speakers. |
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| Ireland is divided into four provinces, Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster, and 32 counties. |
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| One was the wish to make sure the settlement could not be destroyed by rebellion as the first Munster Plantation had been in the Nine Years War. |
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| Nothing daunted, the fleet put to sea, and after sailing about the island for some time, a landing was effected in the west of Munster. |
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| Amongst Raleigh's acquaintances in Munster was another Englishman who had been granted land there, poet Edmund Spenser. |
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| During a revolt in Munster led by Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, in 1582, an estimated 30,000 Irish people starved to death. |
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| Scottish and English Protestants were sent as colonists to the provinces of Munster, Ulster, and the counties of Laois and Offaly. |
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| In the 2008 final, Munster won the cup for their second time ever by beating Toulouse at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. |
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| Although located within the Munster jurisdiction, the club plays in the Leinster Senior League. |
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| However Impressive back to back wins over Harlequins were not enough to overcome Munster in the pool stages of that season's Heineken Cup. |
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| However, despite this approach, Munster finished second and Leinster third, with Munster winning the Celtic Cup. |
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| Munster had led pretty much from the start of the season with a team largely captained by Mick O'Driscoll showing Munster's squad depth. |
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| Munster lost only four games, three to the other Irish teams, including a double loss to Ulster. |
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| Glasgow had a late surge to finish 2nd overtaking Munster and Ulster in the process. |
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| Other such mythological druids were Tadg mac Nuadat of the Fenian Cycle, and Mug Ruith, a powerful blind druid of Munster. |
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| New Munster consisted of the South Island and the southern portion of the North Island, up to the mouth of the Patea River. |
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| Cork's rugby league team, the Cork Bulls, were formed in 2010 and play in the Munster Conference of the Irish Elite League. |
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| Ciaran, along with saints Auxilius, Secundinus and Iserninus, are also associated with early churches in Munster and Leinster. |
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| Munster Rugby plays half of its home matches in the Pro14 at Musgrave Park in Ballyphehane. |
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| The city's literary community centres on the Munster Literature Centre and the Triskel Arts Centre. |
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| Carmarthen is a stop on the Eurolines bus route 890, which links a number of cities and towns in Munster and South Leinster in Ireland to London. |
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| The names of Connacht, Ulster, Leinster and Munster are still in use, now applied to the four modern provinces of Ireland. |
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| If you present Munster with line-out ball like that in your own 22 they will hurt you. |
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| The Big Screen was first erected in Limerick for the Heineken Cup Final last May when the Munster Rugby team had a sensational win over Biarritz. |
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| The Torontoborn hooker tested positive for the drug Salbutamol after a Heineken Cup semi-final for Munster against Toulouse in April. |
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| Raleigh acquired other nearby Munster estates confiscated in the Second Desmond Rebellion. |
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| Munster are currently in the process of construing a new stand at their secondary home of Musgrave Park. |
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| Tobin fractured a metatarsal in the Munster final win over Cork, with the added complication of tearing ligaments attached to it as well. |
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| In May 2006 and again in May 2008 Munster became the Heineken Cup champions, with many players hailing from Cork city and county. |
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| The key was that I have a friend on my bag, Gareth Lord, who's a pro out here at Munster Tinnen. |
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| We are extremely pleased with CJ's progress, it's great that he has recommitted to Munster and that he believes this is the best place for his development. |
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| Later during his tenure at Rockwell College, he joined the school's rugby team where he played fullback on the first team, which reached the final of the Munster Senior Cup. |
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| The IRFU was formed in 1879 as an amalgamation of these two organisations and branches of the new IRFU were formed in Leinster, Munster and Ulster. |
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| The competition was decided with a final between Munster and Northampton, with Northampton coming out on top by a single point to claim their first major honour. |
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| Those two games are the third round qualifier between Dublin and Armagh at Croker and the Munster SHC final replay between Cork and Waterford at Semple Stadium. |
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| Further collisions caused the Variscan orogeny in the Devonian and Carboniferous periods, forming the hills of Munster, southwest England, and southern Wales. |
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| In 1821 and 1822, the potato crop failed in Munster and Connaught. |
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| The name New Munster was given by the Governor of New Zealand, Captain William Hobson, in honour of Munster, the Irish province in which he was born. |
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| Munster talisman O'Connell said no amount of love-ins will detract from the brutal task facing Joe Schmidt's Ireland side in the Aviva Stadium Test. |
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| Llanelli have struggled to see off Border Reivers and a Heineken Cup final-distracted Munster in their two home games since being beaten by Wasps in the Powergen Cup final. |
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| The top four were Leinster, Ospreys, Munster and Warriors in that order. |
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| They played their last game at Stradey Park on 24 October 2008 against Bristol, and their first game at Parc y Scarlets on 28 November 2008 against Munster. |
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| The Provincial Council of New Munster had only one legislative session, in 1849, before it succumbed to the virulent attacks of settlers from Wellington. |
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| Fly-half Colin Gregor inspired Glasgow Warriors to a famous double over Munster as the Irish province slumped to only their second defeat in 26 home games. |
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| Despite winning all their home pool games in the Heineken Cup, a failure to win on the road proved costly, with Munster and Toulon progressing instead. |
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| A severe weather warning was made yesterday by the Met Eireann who warned that Munster and Leinster were most at risk from structural damage caused by the gusting winds. |
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| The Munster fanatics seem to have been Antipaedobaptist Anabaptists, but their baptism must have begun with themselves, as the followers of De Bruis's opinion on the subjects. |
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| This act dissolved these provinces in 1853, after only seven years' existence, and New Munster was divided into the provinces of Canterbury, Nelson, and Otago. |
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| Initially, the Heremonians dominated the High Kingship of Ireland from their stronghold of Mide, the Heberians were given Munster and the Irians were given Ulster. |
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| Those known to have taken part in the siege include the poet Sir Edmund Spenser and the explorer, coloniser, pirate and Munster plantation owner, Sir Walter Raleigh. |
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| Historically, Leinster, Munster and Ulster competed in the Heineken Cup. |
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| Irish physicians, such as the O'Briens in Munster or the MacCailim Mor in the Western Isles, were renowned in the courts of England, Spain, Portugal and the Low Countries. |
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