Celtic Cracker in Thomond

It’s going to be a full house in Thomond Park tonight for the meeting of Munster and Ulster in the semi-final of the Celtic League, a game that will go right down to the wire. Ulster have made no secret of the fact that this is the particular piece of silverware they want with coach Alan Solomon’s New Year wish a simple “To beat Munster” aspiration.

Ulster arrived in Limerick yesterday and took up staion in what used be the Limerick Inn, – Munster’s old stomping ground while Alan Gaffney had his side billetted in the Clarion Hotel on the banks of the Shannon.