The novelty of Croke Park playing host to big rugby games has moved on to the point where there is now something of a tradition about the Leinster-Munster match in the United Rugby Championship being played at Jones’s Road where, as shown by the television cameras in the tunnel as the players exited, the rather appropriate signage read: “GAA – Where We All Belong”.

There was also a Mind Your Head sign which, you’d think, had more relevance for those clad in blue and red on this occasion than for the regular hurling and Gaelic football players making their way on to the hallowed turf.

For the Premier Sports team who’d previe

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