Munster saved at death

A brilliant injury-time try gave Munster victory in their A Interprovincial clash with Leinster at Musgrave Park on Saturday

A brilliant injury-time try gave Munster victory in their A Interprovincial clash with Leinster at Musgrave Park on Saturday. Conor Burke came to Munster's rescue when he grabbed his second try right at the death to leave him with a personal tally of 24 points (two tries, two penalties and four conversions). Alan Quinlan, Noel Healy and Mike Kenworthy were Munster's other try scorers but Leinster, after trailing 13-31 at the break, played superbly in the second half.

They had a first half try from Peter Coyle, two penalties and a conversion from Richard Governey and then led 35-34 going into injury time but it was not enough to sustain them against Munster's late rally.

Munster: M Kenworthy (Sunday's Well); D O'Brien (Cork Constitution), J Kelly (Cork Constitution), A McGrath (Shannon), J Lacey (Sunday's Well); C Burke (Sunday's Well), T Tierney (Garryowen); A McSweeney (UCC), M McDermott (Shannon) capt, N Healy (Shannon), K Murphy (Cork Constitution), S Dreves (Sunday's Well), U O'Callaghan (Cork Constitution), G Tuohy (Sunday's Well), A Quinlan (Shannon). Replacements: S McIvor (Garryowen) and C Mahony (Dolphin) for Tierney and O'Brien (half-time), E Knowles (Dolphin) for Healy (55 mins), J Fitzgerald (UCC) for Dreves (62nd mins).

Leinster: K Nowlan (St Mary's); J McWeeney (St Mary's), S Horgan (Boyne), G Gannon (St Mary's), D Coleman (Terenure); R Governey (Lansdowne), A Rolland (Wanderers), capt; R Corrigan (Greystones), J Blayney (Terenure), P Coyle (St Mary's), P Ryan (UCD), H Kos (Blackrock), D O'Brien (DLSP), D O'Sullivan (Blackrock), L Cullen (Blackrock). Replacement: P Bruce (Terenure) for Coyle (54 mins).

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Referee: P Eakin (Ulster).