The Irish Times' Gerry Thornley reflects on a dramatic Heineken Cup weekend for the Ireland's provinces.
"After landing a match-winning drop goal in overtime for the second successive game, against Castres in Toulouse, Ronan O’Gara could probably have floated home to Cork on Saturday night. In the event, fog in Cork obliged the squad’s charter flight to circle the city before being diverted to Dublin, though as Denis Fogarty suggested on board: “Let Rog land it. He can land anything.”
"So much for the theory that the weekend’s Heineken Cup activity couldn’t come close to matching the drama of the opening weekend. Not when O’Gara and Munster are around, and following on from the Scarlets’ irreverent bonus-point win at Northampton on Friday night, it sets up the first of the two back-to-back meetings between the Scarlets and Munster in Llanelli on Saturday, December 10th nicely indeed."
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